Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 153 Successfully Advancing to Level 4

Soon, it issued another command, and the wolf pack that had not yet entered the hallucinogenic range instantly split into two groups, attempting to bypass the hallucinations and attack from both sides.

"Has some intelligence, but not much —"

Sui An was not in a hurry to clear out the lured wolves. After so many battles in the rift, he had already mastered the various operating methods.

The enormous witch illusion took long strides and began running towards one side, not only attracting the wolf pack that had already entered the hallucinatory range, but also quickly catching up with all the wolves on that side.

On the other side, the diverted wolf pack had reached the edge of the wall and was about to pounce when a new illusion emerged from inside the wall, wiping out all the wolves that rushed over.

The giant golden wolf in the distance was so frightened that it took a few steps back. After a brief moment of confusion, it began to howl to the sky, trying to wake its subordinates.

Its voice seemed to actually have some effect; the wolves that had been lured away by the illusion suddenly stopped attacking and all stopped in place, howling at the sky, as if responding to the wolf king.

"Hmm? This wolf king is really something!"

Sui An narrowed his eyes and immediately deployed all the elemental statues forward. Upon sensing the nearby source beasts, lightning began to roar.

As the bombardment of the elemental statues began, the wolves that had attempted to respond were instantly silenced and returned to their rage. Ignoring the bombardment, they continued to charge toward the illusion.

The wolves began to be slaughtered frantically, and the giant golden wolf visibly became enraged. It bared its teeth and lunged towards—

The illusion rushed past.

It was definitely not hallucinating; it probably just felt that it could destroy the eerie illusion.

A golden energy blade swung out from its enormous, gleaming claw, but it had no effect; the blade passed through the illusion and disappeared into the distant sky.

Seeing that it had no effect, it seemed to understand that this thing could not be destroyed, and began to turn its head and growl softly towards its territory, then ran wildly towards its territory.

But the next moment, it suddenly dodged to the side, its huge body sliding several meters across the yellow earth, and the giant sword of fire in the sky crashed down, hitting the very path it had been running.

Sui An had anticipated that the giant sword would pierce through the air, which is why he always used a two-hit combo to deal with agile source beasts.

Small fire swords rained down from the sky. Although the golden giant wolf dodged the giant swords, the source energy covering its body was ignited by the sinful flames. Just as it was about to roll on the ground to extinguish the flames, it was hit by the small fire swords that followed closely behind.

"Aww!"

The painful roar was abruptly interrupted as small flame swords pierced through the golden energy on its body. Finally, the remaining swords pierced its massive body, and it quickly collapsed to the ground.

The golden giant wolf died, and the remaining wolf pack followed suit. The fourteen elemental statues roared and quickly wiped out the entire wolf pack.

The distant cracks had completely disappeared, and Sui An opened his pocket watch to check the time.

"Five minutes left?"

"That's it?"

Erhu, who was in the distance, was also stunned. He had never seen the scene of other third-level territories being promoted before, and he felt that today's scene seemed a bit too simple.

"Isn't this normal?" Wang Zhen let out a long sigh and patted Erhu's shoulder with a smile.

"You spend every day in his territory, don't you know the strength of his territory? I said from the beginning that this is not even a dessert for him."

"No—" Erhu wanted to say something more. He felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Should we go over now?" Zhao Feng's tone was noticeably more relaxed. The rift had closed, so there was generally no danger.

Erhu quickly put down his binoculars and waved his hand, saying, "Don't go over there yet. He told me beforehand that we should wait until his territory is completely relocated before going over."

Zhao Feng turned her head and asked, "Relocate?"

Erhu pointed to the riverbank: "Yeah, let's enclose that thing!"

"Oh, you can get it?"

Zhao Feng also remembered that when a territory is upgraded from level three to level four, it can be moved within a small area once. However, the area to be moved is really small, so many lords are too lazy to move it, and many people have subconsciously forgotten about it.

"It should be just right!"

"That's great. I always thought I'd have to wait until he reached level five to get it."

Zhao Feng glanced at the pocket watch on his body: "I should be able to complete the promotion in about two or three minutes."

As Sui An stood before the core of the territory, he suddenly felt as if each second was an eternity. The cracks on the outside had disappeared, but the light from the core of the territory was still bright.

It's clear that there's no necessary connection between the two.

Sui An even wondered if it would be considered cheating if the territory failed to eliminate the rift, as long as it held out until the rift closed, and then let the powerful combat professionals waiting in the distance sweep across the battlefield.

I reckon they should be able to calculate it.

Since Zheng Xifeng gave him a friendly warning, he dared not try to provoke the Origin Realm by pushing the boundaries of the rules. Perhaps the so-called will of the Origin Realm would put him in a big trap, and if he failed, he would suffer a terrible fate.

"Ding!"

A clear, crisp sound emanated from the core of the territory, as clear as the sound of a wind chime.

The bright light gradually returned to normal, and the control panel of the territory core suddenly popped up automatically, with a window appearing on it.

Congratulations! Your territory core has been upgraded to level 4.

At the same time, a strange power emanated from the core of the territory and surged wildly into Sui An's body.

This is feedback from the Builder Core, also known as the Lord Core.

Combat professionals can advance their professional core by strengthening their physique and refining their core. After a successful advancement, they will gain stronger source energy and their physique will also receive a significant boost.

The same applies to career advancement. By understanding and mastering skills, and frequently using them to refine the core of your profession, you will eventually gain more professional information, stronger source energy, and a slight physical enhancement after advancement.

The same applies to builders. Their biggest benefit from promotion is the advancement of their territory core, which brings increased building authority and improved basic attributes.

After a successful promotion, it will also benefit the builder. However, for small-scale promotions, this benefit is negligible, only slightly enhancing his physical speed.

However, the improvement brought about by this major stage advancement is extremely obvious, and may even be greater than the sum of the previous two enhancements.

With the core of the territory no longer providing energy, Sui An's body transformation was also complete.

He swung his fist, feeling full of power. He tried picking up the intermediate weapons stored in the room, wielding them a few times, and gained a general understanding of their power.

His physique is now at the level of a normal level one combat professional, and even slightly stronger, but he is still some distance from level two.

While his physical strength was enhanced, his mental power seemed to have undergone a more powerful transformation.

At this moment, he could feel a special power being nurtured in his mind, but it seemed that it was still far from being able to be successfully nurtured.

But he casually flipped through a book, only glancing at it briefly, and he could almost understand the information on that page.

Next, he tried to connect the elemental statues. Previously, when he operated six elemental statues at once, he already felt a headache and some strain, but now it felt much easier. He even increased the number to fourteen and still handled it with ease.

It seems that if he were to connect with the spirit again, he wouldn't be unable to keep up with the spirit's movements.

[You have been granted one permission to adjust the location of your territory's core. Please select your final location.]

Unexpectedly, the first pop-up window was a prompt to adjust the position.

Sui An clicked the adjustment button below, and a 3D projection of his territory automatically popped up on the control panel in front of him. This projection was much larger than before, showing that his territory control radius had increased from 40 meters to 100 meters.

Moreover, the territory projection in front of us not only includes the territory itself, but also extends to a 100-meter radius around the territory.

"Wow, this is so convenient!"

Sui An was overjoyed. He had been worried about how to operate so many of his buildings, but he didn't expect that the area of ​​the core territory would be temporarily doubled, making it easier for him to move all the locations.

Sui An had already drawn up a rough plan for himself. The new territory would retain his existing walls and be transformed into his own exclusive area. Anything that was not suitable to be shown to others would be stuffed inside these walls.

For example, the saplings, witch altars, sword star totems, and other items in my own planting base are all arranged in the inner circle. I'm sure I'll have many more things that are inconvenient to put outside in the future.

After all, even if he recruits people later, it's impossible for them all to have the same level of trust as Erhu and his team. These people can only be considered level two personnel, and he will most likely hand them over to Erhu, Fang Si, and his team to lead.

He will keep the energy shield here constantly from now on. This range of energy shield is perfectly adequate for his daily use.

As for the area outside the original wall but inside the new city wall, it is divided into four regions according to the four quadrants, with the residential area placed in the third quadrant in the southwest direction.

This time he added thirty-one stone houses. Apart from his own, the other thirty were placed here, which should be enough for a short time.

Three stages will also be placed here for their convenience; he made a separate stage for himself and placed it next to his house.

After a level 3 blue building is upgraded to level 3, it is no longer something to be ashamed of.

As for the alchemy workshop and the kitchen, he added one each and placed it in the second quadrant in the northwest direction. At the same time, Sui An added five more cellars at once, placing a total of eight cellars below the alchemy workshop and the kitchen.

He also placed wells on this side, and even built three more.

The necessary pits had already been dug by Erhu and the others in advance.

As for the first and fourth quadrants, he left them empty for now, and would see later whether to use them to add other buildings, such as nursery buildings like planting bases.

It's also good for storing cars or similar items.

Furthermore, after the territory is upgraded to level 4, the territory core unlocks two sets of built-in white-quality building blueprints.

These are an open-air nursery and a water storage pond, which seem to be prepared for planting.

The remaining task is to construct new city wall buildings. I had already prepared adaptive blueprints for these, and they only needed minor adjustments to be ready for immediate use.

The only new problem I face is the elemental statue that accompanied me to level three.

The attack range of this building is only 20 meters. After being placed on the city wall, its overall height reaches about 13.5 meters. However, you can set appropriate grooves on the top of the wall to reduce its height.

However, the directions of the Source Beast Rift attacks are varied, and I need to frequently adjust the positions of the elemental statues. It seems that I am not suitable to make a deep groove around the wall, which would actually reduce the thickness of the wall in a roundabout way.

Therefore, Sui An ultimately chose not to set up the groove. The height of the 3.5-meter stone statue was actually acceptable compared to the 10-meter-high city wall and the 11-meter-high battlements.

The elemental statues of this height can attack targets up to 14 meters away from the base of the city wall, which is actually sufficient.

This is ultimately a level 3 blue building. It can still be useful at level 4, but it will gradually be phased out later.

As for the lower-level Gold-Shattering Cannon, since it is a turret structure, it can be placed directly on the city wall.

Originally, within its territory, Sui An also used a frame built of gray steel rock walls to support it.

This was his current territory distribution. Once that was determined, Sui An began to make adjustments.

The new territory has quietly begun to change, and the towering city walls have transformed this once unremarkable territory.

"Damn, this city wall looks really nice!"

Erhu's eyes widened. On the gray city wall, which was more than ten meters high, there were strange purple patterns all over the place, which looked like an electric grid.

Even though they were used to seeing buildings appear out of thin air, seeing a tall city wall that would have been considered magnificent even in the old world, seemingly "growing" out of nowhere, still shocked them greatly.

"This city wall can be used all the way to level six without any problems. Sui An's territory has only advanced to level four, but it has already solved a major problem and saved a lot of detours."

Wang Zhen's eyes lit up as he watched the city wall come to life from nothing and be completely formed.

In fact, many level 4 territories along Line 7 currently use green or even white walled buildings. Both of these blueprints result in [walls]. Only blueprints starting with blue result in [city walls].

The green intermediate fence is only five or six meters high and is relatively thin, so of course it is also much cheaper to build.

"That Sui An kid's really struck it rich! I need to suck him up. I'm moving my whole family over tomorrow!"

Erhu grinned. Although he already knew all this, only by seeing it with their own eyes could everyone truly appreciate the difference. The sense of security this thing brought was hard to describe in words.

"Old Wang, are you planning to move in?"

"Let's hold off for now. It wouldn't make much sense unless Xiaoling also successfully awakens."

Wang Zhen shook his head. Sui An still needed him to help maintain the Ping An Trading Company line. Don't underestimate him just because he was only a squad leader. There were at least five or six hundred people like him in the Ping An Trading Company, if not a thousand.

But with him around, it will be much easier for Sui An to find materials.

The two biggest problems limiting builders are blueprints and materials. It's common knowledge that blueprints are hard to buy and materials are hard to find.

Not to mention that Captain Zheng is also helping out, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Captain Zheng actually helped with today's purple materials, otherwise it might not have been so easy to get them.

"Aunt Zhao, when are you planning to move in?"

Erhu turned his head to the other side again. Zhao Feng was still looking at the city wall. When she heard Erhu's question, she answered very readily.

"We'll see when Sui An is available. Pingping and I have already discussed it, and the steamed bun shop has already been sold."

Wang Zhen turned his head and asked, "Has the steamed bun shop been sold yet?"

"Yes, last month was the last month."

"That's good too. Uncle Wang's steamed bun shop is too tiring. He has to stay up all night every day. He's only in his early forties, but he looks about as energetic as my dad."

I think the erhu is quite good. Whether in the old days or now, making breakfast is always tiring.

He started the car, somewhat impatiently saying, "Let's go! The city wall is finished; we should go take a look!"

Several vehicles started up one after another and headed toward the new territory.

Sui An was unaware of Erhu and the others' movements at the moment; he was simply staring at the pop-up window in front of him, lost in thought.

A special building (dimensional portal) has appeared within the territory that can be collected.

[Accept or not?]

What are the special buildings that can be included in the game?

What does it mean that a dimensional portal is also a building?

Sui An was puzzled, as he had never heard of such a claim before, but that did not stop him from clicking "Yes" at lightning speed.

What do you call this? You call it double happiness!

As soon as he clicked "agree," Sui An was pleasantly surprised to find a special golden blueprint in his territory's building blueprint library.

[Building Name]: Dimensional Portal [Building Type]: Standalone Building [Building Level]: Level 1 (Cannot be upgraded)

[Building Quality]: Gold [Building Effect]: A fixed connection channel between the shattered fragments of the world and the real world.

[Additional Cost]: None [Crafting Requirements]: Cannot craft a gold blueprint that cannot be rebuilt or upgraded.

"Damn it, what's the use of this?!"

Sui An cursed loudly, but it seemed like he had unlocked nothing, like a piece of waste paper of gold quality.

But he soon discovered that it wasn't entirely correct. Although the blueprints were useless, the gate seemed to be useful after it was included as a territory building!

After he activated the territory projection, he discovered that the [Dimensional Space Gate] had appeared in the projection of his territory buildings, and could naturally be used as the location for moving his buildings.

Sui An immediately chose to place the dimensional gate in the inner city. In order to prevent others from seeing it from above the wall, he simply built a new stone house in the inner city and placed the dimensional gate in the vacant stone house.

"Will this thing change in any way?"

Sui An walked out of the house and into another room. Sure enough, the magnificent dimensional portal had already led him into his room.

Although I can adjust the position of the dimensional portal, the other side of the dimensional portal seems to be fixed in the underground cave.

"This doesn't seem very safe. If a Source Beast suddenly jumps out from the other side, I might get slapped in the face."

Although this dimensional portal is relatively small, it is still possible for beings like Level 3 Shadow Lizard mutants to emerge.

Sui An reached out and touched the dimensional portal, and suddenly realized that he seemed to be able to control the position of this portal within the secret realm, just like he could control the buildings in his territory!

As long as he stands in the secret realm, he can make this dimensional gate appear as if it were his own building, and the reason he can do all this is actually the auxiliary core within his body.

[The subsidiary core possesses all the core functions of the Builder profession, and can share all modules of the territory core within a certain range of the territory.]

Sui An had specifically tested this auxiliary core; it could still be summoned even after leaving the territory.

However, he can only remotely control the buildings within the territory by opening the control template of the territory projection through the auxiliary core within 500 meters outside the territory's boundaries.

The distance was 500 meters for a level 2 territory and remained at 500 meters for a level 3 territory; it didn't increase, so it seems the distance is fixed.

Once inside the secret realm, under normal circumstances, summoning the subordinate core wouldn't be of much use, even though he hadn't tested it before.

But now, it's starting to be useful!

It still cannot control other buildings in its territory through the dimensional gate, and the function of collecting source resources is also unusable in the secret realm. There is only one function that it can use, and that is to move the dimensional gate.

"Then I can just move this thing inside the expedition fortress later!"

"Oh, right, the Expedition Fortress!"

Sui An slapped his forehead and quickly left the secret realm. After thinking for a moment, he moved an elemental statue from the city wall and placed it near the stone house.

The elemental statues can automatically attack source beasts. If a source beast were to crawl out, the elemental statues would most likely be able to deal with it. After all, source beasts that can slip out of such a large dimensional portal are limited in size and are unlikely to be ridiculously strong.

Upon returning to the core of his territory, Sui An excitedly reopened the territory control panel, completely oblivious to the fact that he seemed to have forgotten something.

In the [Build Upgrade] module, the [Expedition Fortress] blueprint is now marked as ready to be crafted.

Click to create!

A crystal ball, the same size as a level 4 territory core, quietly appeared in front of him. Its shape was almost identical to that of the territory core, except that the [Expedition Core] was red, while the territory core was transparent.

As soon as this thing appeared, Sui An could feel that he could control it, just like his connection with the core of his territory.

"Receive, send—"

I tried to absorb it into my body, and it worked!

"If I had two of these, wouldn't I be able to carry a territory with me wherever I go? If I don't like someone, I can just start a war!"

"It's a pity that it takes 30 days to open it once, that's too long —"

Holding the core in his hand, Sui An connected his consciousness to it and saw a huge space. This space was empty and looked somewhat illusory.

He casually crammed a girl's stage into the space, and by observing the size of the stage, he roughly determined the dimensions of the room.

"A diameter of one hundred meters, which is equivalent to half the area of ​​a level four territory, should be a fixed proportion."