NOVEL NEXT Chapter 23
Chapter 23: Construction
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Li Cheng started to raise the level of his territory.
“Ding, dong, you’ve consumed two hundred thousand stones, wood, and iron ores to raise the Lord’s Hall to level eleven!
“Ding, dong, you’ve consumed four hundred thousand stones, wood, and iron ores to raise the Lord’s Hall to level twelve!”
“Ding, dong…
“Ding Dong, you’ve consumed two million stones, wood, and iron ores to raise the Lord’s Hall to level twenty!”
“Ding, dong, your Lord’s Hall has reached the upper limit of level. Please complete two Lord’s Quests as soon as possible to unlock a new level.”
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The territory’s level once again reached the upper limit. Li Cheng opened the territory panel.
[Underworld]
[Level: 20]
[Guild: None]
[Population: 12,388/22,000]
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[Area: 7,000]
[Expansion Speed: 200 grid/day]
[City Wall: None]
[Buildings: Lord’s Hall (level 20), basic barracks (level 10), basic kitchen (level 10), Frost Shooting Range (level 10)…]
[Military Strength: 2,000 Frost Marksmen (level 10), 7,812 Goblin Miners (level 5) , 78 Moon Dance Mages (level 9)]
[Defense facilities: None]
[Resources: 3 billion wood, 80.9 billion iron ores, 20.3 billion stones, 31 billion food, 48 billion gold coins]
[Resource Points: Gold Resource Points (Epic)]
[Upgrade Requirements: 200,000 stone, wood, iron ores, 20,000 crystals, 2 completed Lord Quests]
[Surrounding threats: None]
A level 20 territory was three to five times larger than before, reaching 7,000 square meters.
Seeing that, Li Cheng did not hesitate to use the Territory Expansion Coupon.
The territory expansion speed increased to 1,000 square meters per day, and the population limit was 22,000.
Li Cheng started to look at the second stage Lord Quest.
[2 Lord Quests]
[Quest description: Under your guidance, everything in the territory is thriving. However, if you want to go further, you have to be prepared, be it in terms of military strength or defense.]
[Quest difficulty: 5,000,000]
[Quest details:]
[1. Kill Gold-grade Boss (0/100)]
[2. Military strength above intermediate rank (10,833/20,000)]
[3. Territory defense building score (0/100,000)]
[Quest duration: None]
[Quest reward: territory level resolved]
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Seeing this, Li Cheng was speechless.
5,000,000 difficulty… Was the Lord’s quest for an SSS player that difficult?
The requirements of the quest were quite harsh. For example, killing 100 Gold-grade Bosses was enough to scare off the ordinary players.
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One had to know that there were very few Gold-grade Bosses. The second requirement was to have 20,000 mid-level and above soldiers. This was another big problem.
As for the third requirement, a defense score of 100,000 would require all the city walls to be at least Black-Iron grade, as well as a Gold-grade defense tower.
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If ordinary players encountered such a territory advancement quest, they would probably be stuck here for the rest of their lives. Even the professional players and large guilds could only wait for the currency exchange to be opened and pay to complete this quest.
However, these three requirements were not a problem for Li Cheng. He rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought.
“It seems like I need to make a trip to the Frost Dragon Domain.”
After closing the territory panel, Li Cheng opened the building panel and began to build the newly unlocked buildings. He was now a level one Lord and had unlocked many new buildings.
[Trading Hall]
[Forging Factory]
[Mana Extractor]
[Combat Academy]
[Basic Training Camp]
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These could all be built. For example, the Trading Hall was a place where players could trade. Whether it was the materials, weapons, or equipment they obtained, they could all be placed in the Trading Hall.
The Forging Factory was where the forging function could be unlocked. As long as one had the blueprints, they could forge anything.
The Mana Extractor was the place where mana was extracted from the crystals. This was because many buildings needed mana to support them. For example, the Forging Factory. If one wanted to speed up the forging process, mana consumption was essential.
There was also the territory’s Defense Tower. If one wanted to automatically defend themselves, Mana would be consumed. As for the Combat Academy, it was a place to improve the skills of the troops. However, it required a hero to stay inside and conduct research.
The basic Training Ground was a hack-type building that could increase the experience points of the troops as long as they were thrown into it. Buildings like the Combat Academy and the basic Training Ground were unique. Each territory could only build one of each.
Li Cheng used the Building Spawn Rate card to complete all the buildings that were being built. At the same time, he raised them to their maximum levels.
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At this moment, rumbling sounds resounded throughout the territory. Some things might be useless, but they could not be lost.
After completing all of the items, Li Cheng opened the Trading Hall. At this moment, the Trading Hall was completely empty.
In reality, this reason was very simple. Until now, only Li Cheng was a level one Lord.
The other players could not construct the Trading Hall at all.
‘It seems like I have to find a way to speed up the progress of the other players,’ Li Cheng thought to himself.
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As for the Forging Factory and the Mana Extractor, they were not of much use at the moment. Li Cheng did not have any blueprints or crystals currently.
Hence, Li Cheng went to the Combat Academy.
[Combat Acadmey]
[Level: level 10]
[Current research skill: none]
[Resident Hero: None]
[Research method: to be determined]
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Li Cheng Thought for a moment and put the Frost Marksmen inside.
“Ding, dong, you have chosen the skill, Frost Freeze. Please choose resident hero!”
Resident hero. Even if the hero was in charge of the research of skills, during the research period, the hero could not leave. Two options popped up on the system.
[1. Shadow Princess Lillian: Research Efficiency 100%]
[2. Moon Dance Saintess Luna: Research Efficiency 300%]
From the looks of it, Luna was more proficient in the research of magic skills, so Li Cheng chose Luna.
There were also two options for the research method. One was to fully study, and the other was to find time to study.
Li Cheng naturally chose the second option. At this stage, he just needed to find time to study the skills.
The basic Training Ground was also a very useful building. It was also an important source of experience points for the early stages.
He opened the basic Training Ground interface.
[Basic Training Ground]
[Description: provides a training ground for the troops. Can increase the troops’ experience points.]
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[Level: 10]
[Current Training Force: None]
[Trainable Force: 0/20,000]
[Max level: Basic Training Ground]
It could already accommodate 20,000 soldiers, which was not bad. If he wanted to upgrade it further, he could only build an Advanced Training Ground.
However, that was a building that only existed in the mid-stages of the territory. It was still too early, so Li Cheng’s eyes landed on the last two new buildings.
[Heavenly Knight Academy, Moon Dance Altar]