Chapter 706: Territory upgrade in progress
In addition to upgrading the territory, he also had to clear the lord's fortress, and by the way, he used the [Level 8 City Lord's Mansion Upgrade Voucher].
I think the eighth-level city lord's mansion should become stronger.
After sitting on the bed and thinking for a while, he got up, put on his equipment, and left the room along the stairs to the hall of the Lord's Fortress.
Looking at the three girls busy in the kitchen, they fell into deep thought...
About twenty minutes later, Zong Shen sat at the dining table, with three different breakfasts in front of him.
Breakfasts made by Luna, Tasia, and Alsia.
The three women stood nearby, looking at Zong Shen expectantly.
I don’t know if this is a different kind of Shura field!
In order to prevent anything from happening to the three girls, he could only eat one portion at a time.
I solved these three breakfasts in three strokes, five divisions and two divisions.
Even with his physique, he felt slightly bloated, and his hunger and fullness levels were almost full.
"belch!"
After burping loudly, he touched his belly.
After seeing this, the three women left with satisfaction.
At this point, except Mariel who was still resting, everyone was basically up.
Vereesa took Zoe Babbitt to wander somewhere again.
Speaking of which, Zong Shen didn't see Xiao Heizi in the past two days. The guy seemed to have slipped back into the poisonous swamp.
However, its loyalty has not changed significantly, so it should be no big deal.
As the three women dispersed, Zong Shen slowly stood up. He did not leave the fortress, but went directly to the top tower of the fortress.
The height here is equivalent to a dozen floors, enough to overlook most of the territory.
Except for a few epic buildings and legendary buildings, most of the buildings in the territory are not this tall.
Therefore, Zong Shen has an excellent observation field here, which is just suitable for him to upgrade his territory.
Speaking of which, this was his first time coming here after the Lord's Fortress reached level seven.
There are four sentry towers in the Lord's Fortress. Except for the seventh floor of the main body, each of these four sentry towers is about 30 meters high. There is a combat platform every five or six meters, on which various defensive equipment can be arranged.
Spiral steps lead up to the top floor, which is also the commanding heights of the fortress.
After Zong Shen upgrades the Lord's Fortress to level eight, the height of the entire fortress will be further increased.
He looked in all directions and could see five-level city walls standing in circles.
There is also a matrix of defense towers distributed behind the city wall defense line, which also presents a stepped formation.
Although there are thousands of defense towers, they are not enough to form a luxurious circle around them.
Therefore, after referring to the attack characteristics and range of various types of defense towers at each level, the defense towers are arranged in the form of a defense matrix, which can ensure a balanced defense inside and outside the territory.
The most important thing is that once the defense towers are formed into a matrix, they can cooperate with multiple levels and types.
It is very important to realize the complementary attacks of defense towers.
Because different defense towers have different advantages, disadvantages and characteristics, they can complement each other after being properly matched.
Except for the two rather bizarre [Sixth Level Flame Towers (Golden)] which were placed on the periphery, the other defensive arrow towers were all within the city wall circle.
The characteristics of the two flame towers are rather strange, leaning towards "melee towers".
Not only can it stretch and retract, it can also rotate and spit fire, just like the legendary "Roman Torch".
When an enemy appears within the range, it can spin in circles with magic power.
The characteristics of this defensive tower dictate that it must be placed on the periphery.
Zong Shen didn't know how long they could be kept. Anyway, one was placed in the north and the other was placed in the south, both about four to five hundred meters away from the outermost city wall.
That position can be covered by the attacks of most of the defense tower matrix in the first circle.
In addition, after the territory has shrunk its defenses, the defense towers in the center circle can basically cover most of the area, greatly increasing the attack density of the defense towers.
However, most areas of living areas, commercial areas, agricultural areas, and industrial areas will be exposed.
Some key buildings have been moved to the central area to ensure that basic wartime production capabilities will not be stagnant during defensive challenges. .
As for the agricultural and pastoral areas, I don't care about it.
All the surviving cattle and sheep in the small pasture were slaughtered.
Anyway, Mr. Mars still has a large ranch on standby.
As for agriculture, there is no need to worry. The farming in the territory is already in a blank state.
The [Farm Tower (Purple)] responsible for guarding the agricultural area was moved to the side of the Lord's Fortress.
In the courtyard of the fortress, senior agronomist Salome Linyu cultivated several cultivation fields.
In addition to sweet potato vines, other crop seeds have recently been obtained and sown.
Everything is ready, just the defense challenge is over!
At present, the defense circle has basically taken shape. As long as all personnel are withdrawn into the central area by then, the siege team should not be interested in the empty buildings on the periphery.
Even if those buildings destroy the surrounding buildings, the ultra-long-range defense towers in the territory can also take advantage of the opportunity and have more output time.
In fact, even if building damage is included in the score, there must be a rigorous calculation formula.
For example, those whiteboard buildings and basic buildings, such as [Double-Story Stone House], [Civil House] and other low-level workshops, are definitely incomparable to those excellent-level or even higher-level buildings.
At this time, all high-end buildings in the territory are basically in the central area.
Still remaining on the periphery, 99% of the buildings are basic buildings and whiteboard buildings.
This is also one of Zong Shen's arrangements.
As the saying goes, be prepared and be prepared.
After looking around for a week, he was still very satisfied with the progress of the territory's defense infrastructure.
Immediately afterwards, he took out the [Communication Crystal] and contacted Howie.
Ask him to notify immediately and recall all non-combatant citizens who are outside the coverage of the territory's defense matrix to the territory. The combatants can then be divided into small groups in an orderly manner and patrol the outskirts of the territory.
After the notification, he contacted Vereesa and asked her to find Reese Ulysses.
About five or six minutes later, the intermediate space mage Reese Ulysses flashed in front of him with a flash of blue light.
"Sir, are you looking for me?"
She hunched over and nodded slightly to Zong Shen.
After not seeing her for several days, her face seemed to be more energetic.
Loyalty has also been increased to over 90 points.
You must know that Zong Shen did not give her anything. These loyalties were gradually increased by her in the daily life of the territory.
This shows that Reese Ulysses is still very satisfied with life and daily life in the territory.
Zong Shen nodded slightly.
"Just stay here and take me to run errands with you in a flash."
That's right, Zong Shen was going to let her use flash to help him move around.
In a way, flash is better than flying mount.
This is especially true when traveling over short distances of tens of kilometers.
It only costs a bit of magic points, but now the territory also has a batch of magic springs.
At the very least, Reese Ulysses will not be short of magic points.
After a simple explanation, Zong Shen placed his hands on the edge of the sentry tower and slowly looked at the scenery.
After another ten minutes, he saw that the farmers on the periphery had returned to the central area, and the soldiers all formed small teams and dispersed, and then he stood up straight.
He opened the [Territory] option, and a line of subtitles appeared, showing the status information of the territory.
[Territory: Level 8]
[City Lord’s Mansion: Level 7]
[Current expandable range: 9,000 meters in radius, expansion will be successful after completing the land expansion task]
[Click to start expansion]
Level 9 territory expansion will attract 90 random hostile targets within a radius of 45 kilometers.
Zong Shen didn't care about this and even yawned.
One thing to say, according to the current situation, it is impossible to say whether there are 90 hostile targets within 45 kilometers of the territory!
The lords were like locusts, killing all the beasts such as "prairie bulls", "prairie wolves" and "prairie tigers".
In addition, various monsters have also suffered great misfortune.
The stronger monster lords will join forces to fight in groups, while the weaker ones will be killed alone.
Since the arrival of the lords, the number of bandits, horse bandits, and rogues who used to run rampant on the Endless Continent has decreased a lot...
This is the naked reality.
In addition, the lords also had a certain impact on the ecology of the Endless Continent.
For example, this is true for vegetation cutting, stone collection, plant collection, etc.
Now some lords have changed their game. They look for wasteland in the wild, and then plant saplings spawned by natural magic.
By shortening the growth cycle of harvested saplings, logging can be carried out quickly.
The small trees cut down are equivalent to one or two pieces of wood.
Those lords who are close to the forest or in the mountains are more comfortable.
Just open up a forest farm on the spot and there will be no shortage of wood at all.
Moreover, the amount of wood that can be exchanged for each tree is also different.
The older and thicker the tree, the more equivalent wood resources it has.
In addition, there are many fancy tree species in the Endless Continent, and after felling, wood of different types and effects can be obtained.
Zong Shen has basically never lacked resources since landing, so he has not studied this issue. When he chose to expand his territory, he took out [The Prophet's Sharp Eyes (orange)] and activated [ Visual Enhancement] effect, gaining super vision.
That's not all yet, he took out the [Single Telescope (Purple)] again.
The two effects are superimposed to give him super terrifying vision and field of vision.
In order to avoid accidental damage, he used his lord authority to remotely shut down the automatic attacks of several giant turrets in the territory. After waiting for a full ten minutes, the giant crossbow tower with the longest range besides the giant turret took the lead in taking the lead.
With the reverberation of powerful strings, huge crossbows as thick as thighs were launched.
Through his super vision, he saw that the intruders turned out to be several mountain bears.
In the next ten minutes, various beasts appeared one after another in other directions.
Without exception, they were all killed by giant crossbow towers several kilometers away.
Warriors scattered around the perimeter dragged the bodies of these beasts back into their territory.
There are a total of thirty-six beasts, and after all are processed, a lot of meat and fur can be obtained.
It took half an hour before and after, and the only hostile targets that attacked were these thirty-six beasts.
Seeing the notification of successful expansion in front of him, Zong Shen felt helpless.
Without any hesitation, he continued to expand.
Level 10 territory will expand the territory to a radius of ten kilometers and attract hostile targets within fifty kilometers of the territory.
Let alone fifty kilometers, Zong Shen has no opponent even within two to three hundred kilometers!
The two tyrants in the area - the goblin tribe in the mountain forest and the black dragon in the poison swamp were both killed or subdued by him. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the real bully in the area.
This time Zong Shen waited for a full twenty minutes before his super vision failed before the attacker appeared.
It seemed to be a group of gangsters, but they looked well-equipped. A large part of the gangsters seemed to be wearing Avalon's standard light armor, but they were paired with other equipment, which looked a bit uneven.
Looking through the attack reports, he saw the name prefixes of these attackers.
[Defection of Light Cavalry from Seakabang City]
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[Wandering light-armored swordsman of Seakabang City]
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He knew this city of Seakabang, it was the city in turmoil next to Bosbang.
It seems that the problem there is very serious. Even the state army defected in groups and even wandered here!
This group of defectors are basically second-level Avalon soldiers, with a small number of third-level warriors. There are seventy or eighty people in total. They can be regarded as a wandering rebel army.
It's just that it's not worth mentioning at all to Zong Shen.
About one-third of these bandits are the original Avalon light cavalry. They ride batches of mixed-breed prairie horses, but the horses don't seem to be in high condition, and each one is very thin.
Defection and wandering caused them to lose the supply of fine forage, and continuous running quickly consumed the horses' muscles and fat.
Zong Shen was very interested in those hybrid prairie horses, so he closed the defense towers in his territory.
Take out the [Communication Crystal] and contact Colby, asking him to lead the Wolf Cavalry Squadron and the Lion Knights to surround them.
If you can capture them alive, capture them alive. If you can't capture them alive, kill them on the spot. The equipment will be stripped off, and the corpses will be piled up and burned!
As for the horse, try to keep it!
The defecting wandering warriors appeared in the southeast of the territory.
It exactly corresponds to the direction of Seakabang City.
After Colby received the order, a squadron of Wolf Cavalry and Lion Knights rushed over.
There aren't many buildings on the south side, so the two sides meet in the open space.
Relying on the numerical advantage and level suppression, Colby and his men easily defeated this group of wandering warriors.
21 were killed, 56 were captured, and a total of thirty-three horses were obtained, two of which were accidentally killed.
This result was still within Zong Shen's acceptance range.
The entire battle lasted no more than ten minutes, but three Wolf Cavalrymen were injured.
[Territorial expansion completed]
[Current territory level: 10]
After upgrading two levels in a row, it was already around nine o'clock in the morning.
As the territory level increases, the time required for territory expansion becomes longer.
And the difficulty of territory expansion tasks is getting lower and lower!
