Even after a few minutes, Natalie did not reply.
Gale was not surprised by this.
The other party had tools that could be smelted into pure iron, and now she had tools that could forge equipment.
Natalie could make a huge profit herself.
Moreover, the profits would be very high and would last for a long time.
At least before any other blacksmith shops appeared, she would be able to monopolize the market.
It would be natural if she would not cooperate with him.
After all, Gale was only responsible for providing the common monster materials.
Gale was about to send over another message when Natalie replied.
[Sorry, Gale, I didn’t reply to your message in time.]
[We’ll do as you say regarding the cooperation!]
[We were attacked by a few zombies just now, it was not easy to kill these zombies.]
[Unfortunately, no blueprints dropped this time.]
Natalie didn’t consider the thoughts Gale had in mind.
After all, she was just a twelve-year-old girl.
She was not an old antique who had been in the business field for decades, so why would she think so much about benefits and losses?
For her, she only wanted to gain a sense of security by working with Gale.
As for long-term cooperation, Natalie had never considered it.
She just needed a sense of security in this early stage.
In this world, Gale’s power made her feel like she, a lone ship, had met a harbor.
It was also because she wanted to work with Gale that she started to let the soldiers work through day and night.
Sometimes, she even joined the mining team.
Now, this dream was completely exposed.
Gale, who was standing in front of the virtual panel, smiled bitterly at the message from Natalie.
He realized that the other party did not consider so much, and were merely more concerned with killing the invading monsters.
After a short pause, Gale replied, [Happy collaboration then. How much pure iron have you refined so far?]
[Including this batch that’s about to be done, there are already 800 units!]
Natalie replied instantly.
Now she was back to her status quo.
Whenever Gale sent a message, she would reply almost instantly.
“That much?”
Gale was surprised.
From the looks of it, Natalie’s soldiers were very efficient.
In less than a day, they had actually refined 800 units of pure iron.
This was enough to show that Natalie’s location had a huge amount of iron ore.
[That’s right. I can summon nine dwarves every day. There are different professions among them. With more people, the efficiency will naturally increase.]
Natalie also attached a selfie.
The pictures showed the dwarves, who were working hard, and Natalie herself.
Her face was covered in mud and even her clothes were stained.
However, she was indeed a pretty child.
“Nine…”
Gale took in a deep breath.
The military buildings of all the Castle Lords had a common characteristic.
The stronger the battle units were, the fewer they could summon every day.
Those who had pinnacle battle units could summon no more than four in a day.
This remained so until they upgraded the military building.
Gale was different. The number he could summon every day was completely random.
It all depended on luck.
Perhaps, if he was lucky, he could summon an extremely powerful army one day.
At the same time, Gale could roughly estimate the overall strength of Natalie’s Castle.
If it was nine a day, it would be 36 units in four days.
Although there were many of them, their combat abilities were definitely very weak.
If Gale was willing, he could send any of his battle units to kill them all.
But Gale would naturally not do that.
He was not someone who would snatch resources wantonly.
[Well, I’ll put food up on the trading channel and designate you as the recipient, so we’ll go by the ratio we agreed on.]
[Also, I’ll pack up the materials needed to forge equipment for you.]
[You can put the forged equipment into the trading channel and sell it.]
[After selling it, just transfer 60% to me.]
[Happy cooperation.]
Gale wrote out a few messages and sent it across.
Natalie replied, [I know, Big Boss Gale!]
After closing the [Friends] list, Gale opened the [Trading Channel].
He immediately uploaded all the materials and food that he had agreed on, and appointed Natalie as the trader.
He was not worried that these materials would be scammed from him.
Gale could roughly tell from their conversation before that Natalie was not trying to hide anything.
Therefore, this would not happen.
15 minutes passed, and a message was sent over.
Gale clicked on it and found out it was from Natalie.
[Big Boss Gale, can you chat with me when you’re free? We don’t have to chat for too long each time, just for a short while. Is that okay?]
From her words, Gale felt a hint of fear, even begging.
Gale inadvertently glanced back at the picture the little girl had just sent.
He estimated that Natalie was probably only 12 or 13 years old.
She was so young, yet involved in this dispute of territory building.
Even Gale was starting to feel sorry for her.
After a while, he replied, [Sure, I’ll chat with you when I’m free.]
In the depths of the mine.
Natalie froze when she read the message.
Warm tears fell and then turned into happiness.
No one knew how a little girl like her managed to survive.
Natalie was probably the only one who knew how difficult it was.
“I have to speed up my development. I can’t drag Gale down.”
Natalie secretly made up her mind.
She had to make herself strong enough, otherwise, she wouldn’t be worthy of working with Gale.
Perhaps it was also because she lived in such an environment at such a young age that Natalie had such thoughts.
…
After thinking for a long time, Gale still sent a message over.
[I hope that we will be able to meet up in person in the future.]
This was also the first time he felt a little pity for another Castle Lord.
Gale believed that anyone with a little kindness would feel the same way.
Who could have imagined that a little girl would be able to survive?
Of course, Natalie would still have to survive the upcoming beast tide.
Only after passing the beast tide would they have the chance to meet in the future.
Gale would not be able to help her in this regard.
After sending his message, Gale closed the interface.
He planned to chat with this little girl when he was more free in the future.
At that moment, the Elven Empress Cicely flapped her wings and flew up to Gale.
“What is it?” Gale asked.
He sensed that there was something wrong with Cicely’s emotions, even feeling a hint of a murderous intent.
“Master, we’ve discovered the Goblin Tribe!” She replied calmly.
“And we have already determined the exact location. As long as you give the order, we can attack it!”
Cicely had long since blacklisted this organization that invaded the castle and violated Gale’s authority.
Now that she had found their traces, she naturally couldn’t hide the killing intent in her heart.