novelraw Chapter 406: One-Star Mage Tower
Chapter 406: One-Star Mage Tower
In the afternoon, Li Wei and Li Yue joined hands to drill the other soldiers. Two of them against twenty, or being chased by twenty cavalrymen until their souls fled in terror, clutching their heads and scurrying like rats, crying for their fathers and mothers.
When evening arrived, they had to continue pairing off to slaughter each other. This time it was purely infantry combat. Each wearing their equipment, Li Wei wielding the Enchanted Heavy Sword, and Li Yue wielding the Five-Star Enchanted Long Saber. Back and forth, offense and defense alternating, saber light and sword shadows, clinking and clanking.
Neither held back, both acting as if they had fought until their eyes went red with anxiety and desperation—mhm, primarily Li Yue.
In pure infantry combat, Li Wei could achieve ten victories in ten battles, a hundred victories in a hundred battles, suppressing Li Yue until she lost her temper. Perception +8 was not a joke.
But if Li Yue mounted a horse, and if he didn't have Adai's assistance, he would certainly lose in both infantry combat and cavalry combat, losing a hundred times in a hundred battles.
The buffing of the Dark Moon Knight was far too brutal and savage.
That was truly the horse like a swimming dragon, the spear like a shooting star, slaughtering Li Wei until he was drenched in sweat—and the scene then was exactly like the scene right now.
Thus, during infantry sparring, Li Wei was also entirely without mercy, slaughtering Li Yue until she was drenched in sweat, causing her to collapse and lose control several times...
But the effects of this kind of sparring were truly excellent. Li Wei could clearly sense that Li Yue's confidence, previously destroyed by being killed, was recovering and rebuilding. Until one day in early September, she suddenly executed and activated the Hidden Attribute, Delusion Breaking, catching Li Wei off guard and massacring him.
"De—Delusion Breaking?""That's right, the second Hidden Attribute."
"How can it be this fast?"
Li Wei was extremely astonished and bewildered.
"This is precisely the welfare benefit of not having a Native Card. Once you have a Native Card, wanting to activate a second Hidden Attribute becomes very difficult—ten times, a hundred times more difficult."
"Instead, professionals without a Native Card find it easier to activate a second Hidden Attribute. This is very normal, ah. You can't possibly have all the benefits given to you; do you think you're the chosen child of this version?!"
Li Yue loudly ridiculed and mocked. Although her entire head was covered in sweat, the sweat soaking her hair, she was exceptionally radiant with delight, displaying a flamboyant and unbridled confidence. This was truly a rare sight.
It seemed Li Wei's methods had taken effect.
Over the past dozen or so days, Li Wei had defeated her a full several hundred times in an infantry state. Thus, losing and losing, hadn't she just gotten used to it!
Just as Li Wei was about to shout out loudly, 'Wicked demon, come fight again!', a wave of All-Territory Announcements flooded the screen without any forewarning!
[All-Territory Announcement]
[Pioneer No. 1, Zhao Kewu, led a grand army to find and breach the hidden camp of the Barbarian Cross-Border Players on this planet. With the assistance of the King's Special Envoy, he slew a Barbarian Thousand-Man Commander and two Barbarian Centurions on the battlefield. For this, he obtained 1,000 Campaign Points and two Duke Medals of Honor.]
[Carrying the prestige of this grand victory, the King's Special Envoy conducted an initial friendly negotiation with the Frost Duke. The results of this negotiation are brilliant and remarkable. Both parties have agreed that after fifteen days, once the conditions agreed upon by both sides are satisfied, a peace treaty will be signed. The Frost Duke will officially become a great Duke of the Locke Kingdom. The entire planet, aside from the legal territories and the currently occupied zones, everything else will be categorized as the Frost Province.]
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[All-Territory Announcement]
[After concluding the negotiation with the King's Special Envoy, the Frost Duke encountered a Barbarian assassin on his return journey and suffered heavy injuries!]
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Yi!
Yi?
After reading these two All-Territory Announcements, Li Wei's eyes widened. Then his first thought was of the elderly Duke of Weir: you absolutely must hold steady, ah.
"It wasn't done by the Duke of Weir."
Seemingly guessing what Li Wei was thinking, Li Yue suddenly spoke. "The matter of Thorns Pass upgrading to Thorns Province isn't a weakening for the Duke of Weir; he should also have interests mixed within. Furthermore, as a member of the All-Heavens Lord Alliance, he can obscurely drag things down from behind. But wanting to conduct an assassination with such great fanfare and publicity, that is courting death. Therefore, a problem must have occurred somewhere. After all, the cunning of the Barbarian Tribe, their insidiousness, the eeriness and treacherousness of their methods—that is no joke."
"So right now, I am instead suspecting that it's the Barbarian Tribe stirring up trouble. Just watch, there will very soon be new unforeseen events."
Speaking up to here, Li Yue swept a glance at Li Wei. "Do you still want to continue?"
"Continue."
Li Wei nodded his head, reining in his thoughts, fundamentally not taking those two All-Territory Announcements from just now to heart. Wielding the Enchanted Heavy Sword, he directly charged up. In an instant, both sides were tangled in battle once again. Several minutes later, Li Yue was heavily swatted flying by a strike from Li Wei's sword, smashed so hard she vomited blood. Lying on the ground, it took her a good long while to climb back up.
The efficacy of this medicine was a bit fierce, but it was also truly effective and useful.
Directly confronting fear, directly confronting death!
Either explode and erupt, or collapse and mentally break.
And Li Yue undoubtedly belonged to the former.
"Fuck! Come again!"
Acting like a mad tiger, Li Yue pounced up once again, then was swatted flying again, going round and beginning again.
An hour later, Li Wei carried the dying Li Yue on her last breath back.
The battle situation was tragic and intense, but there is no survival without obsession.
Three days later, Li Wei was eating lunch with the pig-headed Li Yue when he suddenly received the notification that the Mage Tower had been built.
It was four days later than the scheduled time, but it had truly succeeded.
[Your territory has successfully constructed a One-Star Mage Tower. Your territory has thereby become even more formidable.]
[Description: The One-Star Mage Tower requires a Caster of at least the Second Order to hold the fort and preside over it. The specific effects are as follows:]
[One: It can double the radiation range of the Magic Well, meaning it can radiate a regional radius of forty kilometers. Furthermore, it can extract and absorb Chaotic Magic Particles within this region, simultaneously orderly controlling the deployment of magic power within the territory. For example, only permitting crops of One-Star Quality to be produced within the farmlands.]
[Two: The One-Star Mage Tower can now store more standard magic power; the upper limit is 2,000 units.]
[Three: The One-Star Mage Tower can now possess more attack methods than the Three-Star Magic Well, increasing from the original three attack methods to five, namely: Large Fireball, maximum firing range forty kilometers, suitable for attacking enemy grand legions and slow-moving heavy units; Dense Fireballs, firing 300 small fireballs in a single volley, maximum firing range five kilometers, suitable for attacking fast-moving enemy units; Large Flame Arrow, maximum firing range forty kilometers, can adjust attack direction mid-flight up to twenty-nine micro-adjustments, capable of attacking vital enemy targets; Dense Flame Arrows, maximum firing range ten kilometers, can adjust direction mid-flight up to three micro-adjustments, capable of attacking fast-moving enemy cluster targets; Freezing Three Sisters (Fierce Wind, Blizzard, Ice Spikes), suitable for use in cold seasons, Area-of-Effect magic, can maximally affect a hundred-kilometer radius.]
[Four: The One-Star Mage Tower can be compatible with the Enchantment Blacksmith Workshop and the Magic Potion Preparation Workshop, capable of increasing the work efficiency and product quality of Enchantment Blacksmiths and Magic Potion Doctors by 30%.]
[Five: The One-Star Mage Tower can research Sequence 3 Magic. Within the Mage Tower, you can use fewer materials with higher efficacy to craft Sequence 3 Magic Items. Simultaneously, it can mass-produce Three-Star and lower Item Cards.]
[Six: The One-Star Mage Tower can research the fortification of equipment, the fortification of weapons, and the fortification of hunting pets, capable of increasing the fortification success rate by a minimum of 5% and a maximum of 10%.]
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"Did it succeed?"
Watching the smile on Li Wei's face uncontrollably spreading, Li Yue immediately asked.
"It succeeded, a One-Star Mage Tower! Haha!"
Li Wei couldn't help but laugh out loud. This was a Mage Tower possessing strategic significance. With this, his territory could be considered to have stabilized, considered to have barely broken free from the demonic curse of going bankrupt within a hundred years!
Sitting opposite him, Li Yue was also smiling. This was a Mage Tower, ah. Her heavy investment was not in vain; this was truly far too difficult.
"Next, hurry up and return to the Territory Main City to see if you can accelerate the construction speed of the Level 4 City Wall. On the other hand, you must make preparations for war."
"Exactly, the current situation is indeed a bit eerie and treacherous."
Li Wei nodded his head, also rapidly cooling down and calming his mind. "I feel it is necessary for us to immediately apply to build two Magic Arbitrary Doors. A faster communication and support channel must be established between the Territory Main City and Riverside Fortress."
"I believe it is feasible! This matter must be done quickly. I keep feeling that in this month—"
Before Li Yue even finished speaking her words, her complexion suddenly changed slightly. Yet Li Wei had already darted out a step ahead of her. The next second, he hammered the copper warning bell at the top of Riverside Fortress.
Clang, clang, clang!
The rapid, urgent ringing of the bell echoed out amidst the fields and wilderness. Upon hearing the bell, the soldiers who were originally on patrol, the Freemen who were harvesting corn in the farmlands, gathering wild vegetables in the wilderness, cutting wild grass, or catching fish in the river all immediately dropped everything in their hands and ran back as if they had gone mad.
And precisely within this short period of time, an indescribable, eerie, and bizarre pressure was slowly appearing. Invisible and intangible, yet it made people feel their blood pressure surging up, golden stars swimming before their eyes, and the world spinning around them. Some people even experienced auditory and visual hallucinations.
For a moment, many people were screaming in terror, children were crying, and even the warhorses were restlessly bucking their hooves.
"Open the basement doors, enter the basement!"
Li Wei roared angrily, yet he was completely devoid of any methods.
Because he also didn't know what had happened, he just felt a sensation of an imminent grand disaster befalling them.
Fortunately, Li Yue charged out at this time, grabbing Li Wei, who was still ringing the bell, in a single snatching grab.
"Don't panic, calm down, the problem isn't major. This should be an ancient magical artifact being activated somewhere, triggering a round of a highly powerful Radiation Storm!"
"But this Radiation Storm will take at least twelve hours, or thirty-six hours, before it arrives at our location! Hurry up and seize the time, harvest all the crops in the farmlands and bring them back!"
And after Li Yue finished speaking these words, Li Wei felt the sensation of imminent grand disaster from just a moment ago thin out considerably, and in just a few short seconds, it vanished entirely, as if nothing had ever happened.
"Milord! Milord!"
At this time, Javier galloped over swiftly on horseback, shouting anxiously into the air, "Milord, I suspect this is highly likely a new round of Doomsday Attacks. Sixteen years ago, precisely sixteen years ago, three days before the true Doomsday erupted, a similar situation appeared. Then a round of extremely terrifying Radiation Storm appeared, blowing for a full sixty days! Just that single Radiation Storm caused the deaths of countless people!"
So that was how it was; no wonder Li Yue was so experienced.
Li Wei looked towards Li Yue, but the latter rapidly shook her head. "There is no time to build the Magic Arbitrary Doors. However, Riverside Fortress has a Three-Star Magic Well. As long as Isabel holds the fort, the problem won't be major. Currently, the most pressing matter isn't even the construction of the Level 4 City Wall, but Hathaway's barony territory. The One-Star Magic Well over at her place cannot withstand this Radiation Storm. It's either abandon the barony territory, or upgrade her Magic Well to Three-Star."
(End of this chapter)