Ultimately, Ye Yun followed Xiao Tiantian’s advice and spent one million gold coins to build an arrow tower atop his lord's manor. He chose not to build an area-of-effect cannon tower because Ye Yun considered flying players; after all, if enemies gained aerial superiority, it would be a disaster for Fengle City at this stage.
“What are you spacing out for? Go up and use the Skyhawk Guard you purchased to upgrade this arrow tower. The benefits will far exceed your expectations,” Xiao Tiantian urged Ye Yun, though she herself could not leave this separate courtyard.
Arrow Tower - Level 1
Durability: 100,000
Attack Power (Physical): 1000
Attack Speed: 0.9s
Attack Range: 100 meters
Additional Attributes: None
These were the attributes of his arrow tower. In Fengle City, even players who had just left the novice villages would struggle to defeat it. One could say that this arrow tower was a mere trifle for Fengle City at this current stage.
“System prompt: Does the player wish to use the special consumable item ‘Skyhawk Guard’ on arrow tower numbered ‘101’?”
Just as Ye Yun took the Skyhawk Guard out of his inventory, he saw a faint green light emanate from the outer layer of the arrow tower.
“Yes!”
The Skyhawk Guard immediately detached from Ye Yun’s hand, flew to the three-meter-tall arrow tower, and exploded into powder, scattering over the tower.
“System: Arrow tower numbered ‘101’ is undergoing modification… Modification complete 10%… 20%…, arrow tower modification complete.”
In less than ten seconds, the originally dull gray tower body instantly became gleaming silver.
Skyhawk Arrow Tower - Level 1
Durability: 150,000
Attack Power (Physical): 10,000
Attack Speed: 0.8s
Attack Range: 1100 meters
Additional Attributes:
Hawk Eye - Can discern all invisible hostile units within attack range and prioritize them for attack.
Upgrade Growth Base - 2.0
Gold required for upgrade: 10,000,000
“Holy crap, it truly is a product of the Myriad Things Mall! With a base attribute of 10,000, the upgrade growth base is still 2.0. This is simply a killing machine!”
Looking at the attributes of his Skyhawk Arrow Tower, even though Ye Yun had mentally prepared himself, he couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement. The powerful attack combined with the Hawk Eye attribute was simply too awesome.
Upgrade! It must be upgraded!
“System prompt: Congratulations to the City Lord for consuming 10,000,000 gold coins from Fengle City to upgrade the ‘Skyhawk Arrow Tower’ to Level 2.”
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“System prompt: Congratulations to the City Lord for consuming 10.24 billion gold coins from Fengle City to upgrade the ‘Skyhawk Arrow Tower’ to Level 12.”
“System prompt: Fengle City’s city construction level is insufficient. Please upgrade the city wall level before further upgrading defensive buildings.”
Hearing the system’s prompt, Ye Yun was stunned. He then remembered that his city walls were only upgraded to Level 12.
The maximum city level in the Starfield Map is determined not by the lord’s manor but by the defensive level of the city walls.
Skyhawk Arrow Tower - Level 12
Durability: 307,200,000
Attack Power (Physical): 20,480,000
Attack Speed: 0.5s
Attack Range: 13,200 meters
Additional Attributes:
Hawk Eye - Can discern all invisible hostile units within attack range and prioritize them for attack.
Area Attack - Automatically activates when more than three enemies appear within attack range, simultaneously attacking three enemies.
Magic - Each attack deals an additional 50% of attack power as magic damage to enemies.
Upgrade Growth Base - 2.0
Gold required for upgrade: 20,480,000,000
Ye Yun looked at the arrow tower, which had now grown to twelve meters high before him, and couldn't help but gasp.
Damn it, although it consumes a lot of gold, these attributes are incredibly powerful! It even has two more added attributes, and such potent ones at that!
Ye Yun was speechless at the arrow tower’s might.
For the current Ye Yun, attribute points, no matter how strong, were not as important as his own strength. Therefore, his focus was on ancillary benefits.
The lord’s manor was built in the center of Fengle City, but with the Skyhawk Arrow Tower’s thirteen-kilometer attack range, it couldn’t even reach the surrounding city walls. At most, it could only attack within the city, which was somewhat different from Ye Yun’s initial plan.
With an attack speed of 0.5 seconds, if there were enough enemies and sufficient attack power, it could kill six enemies in one second!
It’s a pity that ‘Skyhawk Guards’ are rare and hard to come by. He’ll try to improve the Myriad Things Mall in the future, and then he won’t worry about them not appearing.
He had to upgrade it by at least one or two more levels, otherwise, it would be a disservice to its incredible attack power!
Ye Yun glanced at the remaining gold in Fengle City, which was over 140 billion, and without a second thought, he directly upgraded the city walls to Level 14.
From Level 12 to 13, one kilometer of city walls required 200 million gold. From Level 13 to 14, it was 400 million per kilometer. With Fengle City’s current scale, it consumed a full 72 billion gold.
Ye Yun smiled at the remaining gold and, without hesitation, directly upgraded the Skyhawk Arrow Tower to Level 14. The nearly seven hundred billion gold accumulated by Fengle City over half a year instantly dwindled to less than ten billion.
Ye Yun didn’t care about this, as long as money could solve a problem, it wasn’t a problem.
Skyhawk Arrow Tower - Level 14
Durability: 1,230,000,000
Attack Power (Physical): 81,920,000
Attack Speed: 0.5s
Attack Range: 15,400 meters
Additional Attributes:
1 - Hawk Eye - Can discern all invisible hostile units within attack range and prioritize them for attack.
2 - Area Attack - Automatically activates when more than three enemies appear within attack range, simultaneously attacking three enemies.
3 - Magic - Each attack deals an additional 60% of attack power as magic damage to enemies.
There!
The attack range reached 15 kilometers, which was enough to cover the entire Fengle City. Moreover, the attack power and durability had quadrupled! With this attack power, it was sufficient to instantly kill the vast majority of the first-tier players in most star domains of the Tenth Directional Cosmos!
Of course, if he encountered those top-tier players, the arrow tower’s destructive power would be negligible.
It must be upgraded further!
Ye Yun looked at the gold in his inventory and couldn’t help but have the idea of investing more.
Based on past experience, as long as Ye Yun, the City Lord, personally funded the construction of Fengle City, a portion of Fengle City’s future revenue would be used to repay Ye Yun preferentially, along with an additional 3%-5% interest yield!
This was also a way of making money, after all, Ye Yun only held a portion of Fengle City’s shares. He couldn’t pass up free money! Moreover, this task itself was a great opportunity for Fengle City, so how could Ye Yun give it up?
“System prompt: Player ‘Jie Ming’ has injected funds of 1 ‘Jing’ into Fengle City through private lending. Does the City Lord wish to accept?”
Nonsense!
After Ye Yun agreed, he immediately began the frantic process of upgrading the city walls and the Skyhawk Arrow Tower…