Ten minutes later, Ye Yun had returned to Fengle City. He then took the time to visit the New Mortal Continent and the Bitter Sea Dragon Palace to reap a wave of rewards before returning to prepare for the upcoming battles in both the game and the real world.
In the game, Ye Yun now had nearly six hundred million divine stones and over a billion spirit stones in hand, giving him ample confidence! He directly injected one hundred million spirit stones into Fengle City, then vigorously constructed city defense buildings and upgraded all of them to level 30!
Five thousand level 30 city defense buildings! With over five hundred billion attack power, it was still not enough against the natives of the Nine Divine Cities! Therefore, Ye Yun did not hesitate to spend more money, raising the level of all city defense buildings to level 32, pushing their attack power beyond a trillion!
"War is indeed a costly endeavor; ordinary people truly cannot afford it." Although it was burning through money, Ye Yun also knew that this was the consequence of his rebirth and his disruption of the predetermined course of fate, a burden he had to bear.
It could be said that in less than a year of his current gameplay, Ye Yun had forcefully accelerated the historical progression of the human race by four to five years.
In the game, besides the Ghost race players, after map fusion, who could apply to attack the four main cities of the human race, the remaining threat came from the indigenous inhabitants of the other nine Divine Cities for this quest.
"Under attack by natives in the game, and by alien players from various star fields in the real world, it's as if they don't want me to live!" Ye Yun stood in the Qitian Tower, cursing and operating to take out the Human King City Crossbow blueprint from his inventory.
"System prompt: Special city defense building blueprint detected in the City Lord's possession. Do you wish to use the blueprint to construct the Human King City Crossbow?"
"Construct!"
The arrow towers, battlements, and lightning towers had all been upgraded to level thirty-two. To upgrade them further would require an astronomical amount of gold. Although Ye Yun possessed enough wealth, he was reluctant to spend it. After all, he was confident in his ability to defend the city in the game, but the real world presented a colossal bug. Ye Yun alone could not possibly manage such a vast star field.
If the major races were to unite, let alone the star field, even the Blue Star itself might not be able to be protected!
"System prompt: Please designate an area for wall construction, City Lord. The area must not be less than 100 square meters and the height from the ground must not be less than 1.2 times the wall height!"
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Ye Yun rubbed his forehead. Apart from the City Lord's Mansion, what other buildings in Fengle City were comparable in height to the walls?
Helplessly, Ye Yun cleared a hundred square meter open space next to the Sky Eagle Arrow Tower and designated it as the construction site for the city crossbow.
Soon, a building resembling a turret appeared next to the Sky Eagle Arrow Tower. A massive crossbow perched atop the turret, angled thirty degrees towards the distance. The crossbow body, made of some unknown material, was so dark it sent a chill down one's spine.
Human King City Crossbow (Special City Defense Building)
Level: 1
Attack: 10
Durability: 30
Attack Speed: 1 second
Current Energy Bolt Count: 100/100.
Growth Base: 3.0
Attack Range: 1km
Functions:
1. 50% chance to attack with a double shot.
2. 20% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 65% of attack damage to enemies!
3. 10% chance to deal 50% nine-shot damage to nine different enemies.
Upgrade Requirements: Godhead Fragment *1, Universe Martial Heavenly Stone *1, Gold Coins 1,000,000.
Ye Yun looked at his new building, his initial excitement turning to disappointment. It truly lived up to its name, containing 'human' in its designation; it had a low starting point but high growth! This was remarkably similar to the reality of the human race.
However, the upgrade required Godhead Fragments and Universe Martial Heavenly Stones? This was quite infuriating. Both items were rare treasures, yet they were needed to upgrade a single building? Was this not excessively demanding?
Even the mighty Sky Eagle Arrow Tower's initial attack and durability far surpassed the city crossbow, yet its growth base was only 2. It had only slowly increased after subsequent upgrades, and was still a considerable distance from 3.0. He wondered if the city crossbow's growth base would change upon upgrading.
Ye Yun had accumulated sufficient Godhead Fragments and Universe Martial Heavenly Stones from his journey in the Divine Realm. However, he needed to reserve the Godhead Fragments for his own people, so he could not consume too many on this structure.
After all, Fengle City's current defenses were already far too advanced. And in the real world, the gap between the human race and the alien races from other star fields was even more significant.
"System prompt: Congratulations to the City Lord for consuming Godhead Fragment *16,780,000, Universe Martial Heavenly Stone *24, and Gold Coins 16.8 trillion to upgrade the 'Human King City Crossbow' to level 25!"
Human King City Crossbow (Special City Defense Building)
Level: 25
Attack: 28242e
Durability: 84726e
Attack Speed: 0.6 seconds
Current Energy Bolt Count: 150/24300 (Recovery rate of 10 bolts per second.)
Growth Base: 3.0
Attack Range: 542km
Functions: ...
"You've got to be kidding me! Is this bolt count not a joke?" Ye Yun almost spat blood upon seeing the city crossbow's attributes. This was something he had built using over ten million Godhead Fragments, and this was all he got?
In large-scale siege battles involving hundreds of thousands of troops, what use was this quantity?
Although its attack was fierce and its range was far, enemies could completely overwhelm it with numbers.
Furthermore, even after leveling up to 35, its growth base remained 3.0, unchanged. Its functions also remained the same, with no increases or enhancements.
Despite his disappointment, Ye Yun understood that this was a building that relied on accumulated strength. The higher its level, the more terrifying its attack and durability would become. At this rate, a city crossbow below level 35 would completely surpass a level 40 Sky Eagle Arrow Tower in attack power, and would then leave the Sky Eagle Arrow Tower far behind.
After constructing the city crossbow, Ye Yun stopped paying attention to it and took out a blueprint emitting a dark green glow. This was one of the core blueprints of all Divine Cities!