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

Chapter 154 Changes in the Golden Finger

Sui An took the stage out of the space, thought for a moment, and then dug out the planting base in the territory and stuffed it in. The planting base, which was 7 meters high, stood straight in the space.

"The height should be fine, but we don't know how long the plants can survive inside. Let's release them first, so as not to kill the precious seeds."

"And we have to take advantage of the fact that the territory is still quite empty, and quickly build a small city wall around it according to the dimensions and stuff it in."

Without further ado, Sui An had previously purchased 100 sets of materials for making the Thunder Seal Barrier. The territory had spent 62 sets, leaving 38 sets remaining.

Based on half the radius of the territory, you won't need much; theoretically, about 15 units of materials should be enough.

Sure enough, in the end, it only took 16 units to make a smaller set of walls, which just filled the space inside the fortress.

After finishing the wall, Sui An looked at his elemental stone statues. He now had fourteen, but he hadn't decided how many to move inside.

There are also things like the Sword Star Totem; after all, every time one is taken away, the territory's firepower decreases.

However, in the secret realm, I don't know how much firepower I have to allocate, since once the fortress is deployed, it means that I can't add any more buildings for 30 days.

"Then let's wait and see. Let me integrate the resources and see if I can make a few more purple giant crossbows or something. What the territory needs is high-end attack power. Ordinary small source beasts probably can't even break through the city walls."

After storing the expedition core inside his body, Sui An glanced at the sky: "Have I forgotten something? I feel like I've left something behind."

Sui An thought for a moment, opened his notebook, flipped to his record page, and finally remembered something else.

"My cheat code!"

"I can't believe I forgot something like this."

Sui An quickly opened the control panel of the territory core, clicked on the [Fantasy Building Blueprint Library] module, and sure enough, a new pop-up window had appeared.

[Your Lord Core level has been upgraded to level 4, the second section (Intermediate Blueprint Library) of the permanent blueprint library has been unlocked, and 3 types of blueprints have been randomly selected to be added to the permanent blueprint library. The blueprint selected this time has an initial level of 4.]

[The limited-time Epic Blueprint Library has been unlocked. Three blueprints will be randomly selected from the initial level 4 purple blueprints as the limited-time blueprints. The library will be available for 30 days, after which it will close. The next opening time is unknown.]

"As expected, the purple blueprint library is only unlocked during major stage advancements!"

Sui An looked at the pop-up window in front of him and suddenly felt a little disappointed.

Advancing to the intermediate level requires a long time. Even if I start by opening four rifts per month like I did at level three, it will probably take a long time to advance one level.

This means that the purple blueprint library will remain closed for a long time to come.

"I think I was being a bit too greedy. I already have three mid-level purple-quality blueprints to back me up, and I'm still not satisfied. Besides, I also got three blue blueprints!"

"There's also a golden blueprint library that could appear at any time, and there's even an unknown module that I haven't activated yet!"

"Let's take a look at what my six new blueprints are this time."

After trying to console himself, Sui An, as usual, first opened his purple blueprint library to see what new buildings were inside.

The purple limited-time blueprint library gacha interface still features three names paired with three character illustrations.

【The Forest Ranger's Botanical Paradise】(Special Effect Type)

【The Golden Flower Salute of the Rose Society】(Direct Attack Type)

【Gilded Stone Statue of the Fiery Lion】(Special Effect Type)

The first mushroom-shaped building should match the plant paradise. With a name like that, it's easy for him to guess its general purpose, unlike the last time he saw it and was completely confused.

The second one is a very simple bright yellow cannon, which matches its name. Although it is called a ceremonial cannon, it is marked with a direct attack type, so its actual function is self-evident.

Only the third function was a bit vague; it was a burly red lion statue, and Sui An couldn't guess its approximate purpose.

After all, the "stone statues" he encountered included elemental stone statues of the attack type, as well as statues of the summoning type, and that illusion altar also looked like the "stone statue" category.

"At least I got an offensive purple building randomly, so I'm in luck."

Purple turrets, purple crossbows, and blue city walls—this already constitutes a formidable offensive and defensive system. The rest is simply adding finishing touches and enhancing the overall design.

All you need to do is keep buying materials to increase the number of these buildings.

After reviewing the results, Sui An looked at the drawing rules. This time, the cost of a purple intermediate blueprint had increased from 10 source stones to 80 source stones per draw.

The 8-fold increase is probably based on the exchange rate between level 4 and level 1 Originium.

In other words, 2400 Originium guarantees one purple core material, and 7200 Originium guarantees one purple blueprint.

If you only consider purple materials, they are still much cheaper than attribute crystals.

Not to mention, the cheat code provides blueprints, purple core materials, and intermediate source materials all at once, making it much cheaper than buying them on the market.

In fact, the scarcity of blueprints is the greatest factor; although materials are also expensive, they are only a bonus.

Take Sui An's blueprint for the purple giant crossbow, for example. If he sold it to those mid-level lords, he could easily make twenty or thirty thousand without any problem.

Although he didn't get a cheaper price or any mid-level gift pack, Sui An was already quite satisfied that the price hadn't increased.

He exited the purple blueprint library and opened the permanent blueprint library.

Sure enough, the interface has changed, with two new buttons added on the left side, one for basic level and one for intermediate level.

After clicking the intermediate button, Sui An saw the new blue drawing information.

Bennett's Statue of Courage, The Night's Judgment Arrow Stand, The Witch's Library

Judging from the brief information in the notes, [Bennett's Statue of Courage] can provide a buff, similar to his own [Victory Banner], but the direction of the buff may be different.

The [Night of Judgment Arrow Tower] should be a standard blue mid-level arrow tower, which can be considered as a basic attack building for the future. It should be an upgraded replacement for the [Oz's Lightning Statue].

However, the [Witch's Library] puzzled him a bit. The description was vague, indicating that it was a resource building.

As far as Sui An knew, resource-type buildings were not uncommon. For example, the well in his own territory was a typical resource building.

There are even high-quality wells where the water has various special properties, making them a favorite of alchemists and planters.

Like the [Secret Realm] in the previous evolution options, which can produce crystals, it also belongs to the resource category.

He had actually seen mine buildings in Jiangcheng—mines that regularly produced ore.

But the library is also a resource building. He couldn't figure out if it could produce textbooks from the source world so he could learn Chinese, math, English, physics, and chemistry.

Don't be so ridiculous!

It's been so many years since we've studied seriously.

"Why won't Sui An open the door? Does he think we can fly in?"

Erhu and his group stood in front of the massive city wall, looking at the gray gate with some confusion. They had been waiting for a while, but no one had opened the heavy city gate!

Several of them tried to push the gate open, only to find it was locked from the inside. They couldn't very well break down the city gate themselves to get in.

Wang Zhen raised an eyebrow slightly and looked around. "They're probably busy looking at the new territory's characteristics and forgot about it. Let's just wait a bit."

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Zhao Feng chimed in, "That's right, it'll be ready in a minute, Erhu, what's the rush!"

"When you have free time, go look at the new city wall. It's so magnificent!"

"I've watched it several times already." Erhu pouted, but only muttered to himself.

Zhao Feng glanced at the pile of wolf carcasses not far away and said with a smile, "Why don't we help him clean up the area? We'll have to clean it up later anyway, and we have the tools in the car, right?"

Erhu nodded: "Alright, let's get started!"

In front of the core of the territory.

Sui An glanced at his remaining source stones. He had already upgraded one gold building and nine purple buildings, and completed the construction of two city walls, one large and one small. He still had 9 source stones left, as well as 900 portions of intermediate source material.

However, he didn't dare to draw from the purple pool right now. There was no need to rush. He didn't know how much the consumption of several intermediate buildings was, so he decided to wait.

I resisted the urge to click to draw immediately, just to try the salty taste.

As usual, Sui An first checked the price for obtaining the intermediate-level blue blueprint.

The price for drawing a blue blueprint once has increased to 24 Originium, which is an 8-fold increase, consistent with the price increase of the purple blueprint.

This means that one intermediate blue core material costs 720 source stones, which is almost the same price as a blue material attribute crystal.

If you plan to draw a large number of times later, the price won't be too low.

The price range for mid-grade materials is even more exaggerated than that for low-grade materials.

Some rare blue materials can even sell for the same price as purple materials.

The price of attribute crystals is only rising because there are plenty of crystals available; otherwise, given the demand, the price would likely have gone up even further.

There are also Thunderstone cores like those in your own city walls, which are so cheap that they're not much more expensive than low-level blue materials.

In fact, the price of intermediate-grade materials should be eight to nine times higher than that of low-grade materials of the same quality, which should be the normal range. After all, the minimum exchange price for a level 4 source stone is nine source stones.

而金手指里，各等级源石依旧遵循1：2：4：8：16：32——.——这样的两倍提升，所以价格按8

The increase of several times seems unremarkable.

This is probably the difference between the system and the market. The "golden finger" may only look at the energy value, but in the market, scarcity will also be factored into the cost.

After reviewing his cheat codes, Sui An finally remembered one last thing.

That is the change in the core energy storage of his own territory. Although the core energy of his territory is no longer enough for his own use since the rift opened, it still saved him a lot of resources.

After all, full energy is equivalent to 960 Originium, and you can get 112 Originium per day. In the time since advancing to level three, you have produced tens of thousands of Originium for yourself.

At this moment, the core energy of his territory is still at 10%, and it should have automatically replenished its Originium.

Sui An began to actively fill the core with source stones. It wasn't until he had stuffed in 60 source stones that the massive energy core recovered 1%.

"Wait, this time the increase doesn't seem to be four times, it's more than six times!"

"As expected, the energy reserves of the territory core are still proportional to the increase in territory area. A level 4 territory is exactly 6.25 times that of a level 3 territory. That matches up."

The core of the territory still recovers in ten days under normal circumstances. With its own source crystal core tower, it only takes a little over eight days to fully recover.

The energy recovery of the territory core has always been a mystery to Sui An. This is because when he advanced from the second to the third level, he received a special enhancement: "Territory energy concentration increased by 15%", but the recovery speed of his territory core did not increase.

Sui An thought for a moment and concluded that there were two possibilities for this situation: either the core of the territory had a constant absorption rate, and even if there was liquid energy outside, it could not increase its speed, only certain special buildings could bring about an improvement, such as his own [Source Crystal Core Tower].

Alternatively, the energy source required by the core of the territory may not come from the space where the territory is located at all, such as drawing it from another dimension, or even more exaggerated sources like outside the world or chaos.

Therefore, it is naturally unaffected by the energy concentration of the territory's location.

"You can earn 6000 source stones in ten days. Sure enough, even if your territory is in a bad state, you can still survive without relying on frequently opening rifts to earn resources."

Sui An was somewhat emotional. Although these 6000 source stones could not be taken out of here, they could support the operation of the territory. In a sense, killing the roaming source beasts every day was an income without any cost.

In fact, during the ten days or so that the rifts stopped, Sui An made sure that Wang Hu and the others used the stage more often to avoid wasting energy.

If you build more resource-based buildings and convert the daily energy regeneration into sellable resources, you might be able to develop your business over several years or even decades.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that you can survive.

This is acceptable for low-level territories, but mid-level territories now have an additional forced crescent-shaped rift, which means that the life of a pure freeloader is no longer viable.

After finishing tidying everything up, Sui An picked up the notebook again, trying to fill in any gaps, but when he glanced at the sky, he suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh no, I forgot to open the door for them!"

"If you don't open the door soon, I'm prepared to camp out outside all night!"

Erhu grinned as he looked at Sui An as he walked out of the city gate, and began to tease him.

Sui An scratched his head awkwardly and could only force a smile: "Sorry, so many things have changed since the promotion, I'm so busy I'm completely confused."

"Why don't we all drive the cars in? There's plenty of space inside now!"

"Did you bring that pile of big logs in too?" Wang Zhen glanced at the original location of the territory, where there used to be a pile of big logs outside the territory.

"Yes, I deliberately put them over there. They would naturally pile up once the territory was completed, saving us the trouble now."

Sui An led his group back in. Compared to the towering city walls all around, the buildings inside now appeared remarkably small.

The vehicles were all parked on the east side of the territory, which was all empty space and not needed at the moment.

"Old Wang, let's go up and take a look!" Erhu looked around the territory as soon as he got off the car. There were steps leading up the inner wall of the territory in all four directions.

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Except for Fang's parents, everyone else came to the top of the city wall.

Although Sui An had already seen the appearance of the city wall through the projection, the feeling was still significantly different after arriving at the top. This height was equivalent to looking down from the fourth or fifth floor, twice as high as his previous watchtower.

"Now this is what it feels like to have some territory. I guess this is what it felt like for people in ancient times to conquer cities and strongholds."

Erhu was watching with great interest. In fact, he had been to an even higher city wall, namely the super-large city wall of Jiangcheng, which was more than 20 meters high.

But for some reason, the feeling at this moment is somewhat different.

"At this steep slope, low-level source beasts basically don't come up, and even mid-level source beasts, unless they have a special size, will have a hard time getting up here."

Wang Zhen slapped his hands on the wall and looked around. Apart from the elemental statues and the previous gold-shattering turret, there were only four built-in sentry towers. He didn't seem to see the giant purple crossbow from before.

"Didn't you make that giant purple crossbow?"

"Hmm, I'm not ready to do it yet. I have something with a better price-performance ratio!"

Sui An was also glad that he hadn't prepared in advance. Regardless of whether it was good or bad, at least the purple giant crossbow could be replaced later, but the purple pool was only available for a limited time.

If the purple pool isn't open yet, then I'm definitely preparing to craft the purple giant crossbow.

"You've got something good again?"

Wang Zhen's smile was thought-provoking, after all, Sui An had already confessed to him and Erhu that he had his own blueprint and path.

Regardless of whether it's a secret treasure from the Origin Realm or not, the fact that he said it at least indicates that he's already certain.

"It should be a cannon type, which will be cheaper to build. I'm going to give it a try first."

Sui An spoke half-truthfully, saying that such things couldn't be kept from Wang Zhen and the others, so they should just keep it a secret. Developing it would also benefit them.

"I also have some good news to share with you."

Everyone looked over, wanting to know what good news Sui An had.

Sui An smiled, brought up his territory projection, locked it to a certain location and kept zooming in. Finally, everyone saw a door-shaped projection in a house in the projection.

"???"

"Holy crap, isn't that the door?!" Erhu exclaimed in surprise. After saying that, he belatedly looked around to make sure no one was passing by before cautiously continuing to ask.

"Why did you put this thing here?"

Not only Erhu, but Zhao Feng and the others also looked over with shining eyes, eager to know the answer to this question.

Sui An then retrieved another set of information from a blueprint, which was the information from the dimensional portal.

Now everyone was speechless.

"I never imagined that this thing could be recorded as a special building by architects."

Fang Si was the first to realize that the fact that this thing could be displayed in Sui An's building archive meant that it could only have been collected by him in some incomprehensible way.

Zhao Feng clicked his tongue in amazement: "So, the information that the Great City Lord made his fortune through the secret realm might actually be true—"

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze instantly shifted from the information on the blueprints to Zhao Feng's face.

"Aunt Zhao, tell me what's going on?" Erhu shamelessly came over. He was the most gossipy person, and he was always full of curiosity about these kinds of things.

Zhao Feng didn't intend to hide anything.

"Back then, it was said that several secret realms appeared in the Old World Jiang City in the early stages of the Origin Realm invasion, but no one could find them afterward. Everyone thought they closed naturally or were damaged during the war between the various lords."

"It seems that these secret realm dimensional portals have been collected by these lords. Only the most core people should know this information. I just don't know if these secret realm dimensional portals can be preserved if the territory is destroyed after they are collected."

"It should be possible!" Sui An suddenly said, and everyone's attention turned back to him.

"Buildings created by lords can be actively dismantled and recycled, and the core materials used in their construction can be retained after recycling. However, dimensional portals do not have a dismantling button on my device."

"This means that although I can reposition this thing, I cannot destroy it, and it probably won't live or die with my territory."

"Very likely."

Zhao Feng added from the side: "Because the earliest location of the secret realm is not in the territory of the Great City Lord, but in the lakeside park of the old Jiang City. However, the location of the lakeside park is now about the location of residential building No. 32. There is no trace of the secret realm at all."

"But there were rumors that there was a secret realm in the Great City Lord's territory, but the rumors disappeared immediately afterward. I feel that it is more likely that the Great City Lord seized it from someone else."

"I never knew there was such a secret. We were just born in the wrong era. Those were such wonderful times!"

The sound of the erhu is full of longing, making one wish they had been born a few decades earlier.

"Forget it!" Zhao Feng glanced at Erhu with disdain. "Do you even know how many people lived in Jiangcheng in the old world? A full two million. How many are left in Jiangcheng now?"

"Actually, the population is still growing overall now, unlike when we were kids. Back then, it was really chaotic. It was only thanks to the three city lords unifying Jiangcheng that things stabilized."

"It's just that we don't know how long the three city lords can coexist peacefully. Once one of them decides to break through first, Jiangcheng will probably be destroyed in an instant."

Zhao Feng was older than everyone present, so he naturally knew more about the past secrets and had even witnessed the time when the territory was in a frenzy of fighting.

The atmosphere on the city wall instantly sombered, but Erhu didn't seem to care at all, patting Sui An repeatedly.

"Hey, why are you bringing this up? Aren't we here to celebrate Sui An's promotion?"

"That's right, I'll go talk to Uncle Fang and ask him to get more meat tonight, we'll go have hot pot!"

Sui An quickly pulled everyone aside and said with a smile, "I also prepared some wine in advance. This is a rare thing; I usually can't bear to drink it."

"Oh, the landlord's bleeding money, we have to go!"

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