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

Sui An eventually upgraded all the card pool buildings, including the enlightenment transformation of [Riding the Victory Flying Cloud Banner].

Currently, he only has 18 sections of [Grey Steel Rock Construction Wall] and one Ice Cellar left for upgradeable buildings.

Wang Hu already adored that [girls' concert stage].

The reason for this is that the stage's effect of restoring the physical strength and source energy of professionals is just too suitable for a combat professional.

After all, the second condition for advancement for combat professionals is physical strength and the tempering of their professional core.

Aside from rare and precious materials and energy potions, the most basic and direct method is to use qi and blood and energy to temper the body through training.

Therefore, restoring physical strength and energy becomes an unavoidable path.

Here's the problem: Originium cannot be directly absorbed by professionals. The reason it can be used as currency is because many professions require Originium to create source energy items.

Therefore, normal professionals who want to quickly restore their source energy usually drink source energy potions.

Since it's a medicine, there are bound to be middlemen and losses.

Now there is a stage that can continuously restore physical strength and source energy, and its consumption is the same as that of the energy shield, consuming the source energy of the territory core, with additional losses almost minimized.

As a newly awakened Level 1 professional, Wang Hu would need approximately 12 hours to deplete his internal energy without using any potions, relying solely on food and natural absorption of external free energy.

I've heard that high-level combat professionals recover faster naturally; I wonder if it's because they have a stronger ability to absorb free energy from the outside world.

Wang Hu only needed to sit on that stage for half an hour to fully recover his strength, and that was only at level 1.

At level 2, the recovery time is reduced by another 5 minutes.

The cost is approximately the consumption of one Originium, referring to the cost at level 2.

Although this attribute of restoring stamina is passive, as long as there are professionals on it, the stage will automatically replenish their restoring energy and stamina, and the consumption is calculated per person.

Wang Hu decisively switched his daily wage to this benefit, keeping only the overtime pay of 3 Originium Stones from Blood Moon.

Sui An thoughtfully gave him another one. Under normal circumstances, Wang Hu was allowed to use it twice a day after training. Any more than that would make Wang Hu a little tired, since his energy couldn't be restored.

After finishing his workout today, Wang Hu thoughtfully washed the stage thoroughly; it was almost ready to be waxed.

Wang Zhen, standing to the side, was quite puzzled. What kind of building was this? But he still watched Hu Zi washing things with respect.

"Is Tiger alright?"

"It's nothing, what could possibly happen?" Sui An was slightly taken aback, as he was counting the number of source stones.

Wang Zhen twitched his lips. He wondered what Aunt Zhao would think if she saw this scene in a few days: a burly man nearly 2 meters tall so carefully wiping the pink stage.

Will Aunt Zhao beat me to death?

Wang Zhen decided to ignore it and just wait for Aunt Zhao to come and give him a beating.

"Your two green formulas sell very well. I don't even need to find anyone. I just throw them into the trading company, and the trading company absorbs them internally."

"Another 300 Originium, all your territory buildings should be at level 2 now, right?"

"Just a tiny bit short~" Sui An put the bag away and shook his head.

"I'm torn between expanding the wall first or upgrading it first."

"Usually, we expand first, right?" Wang Zhen walked to the side of the wall and gestured to indicate the surrounding area.

"After all, more space allows for more buildings to be constructed and more people to live in. You can't even build three of these wooden houses right now, don't you feel cramped?"

Sui An countered, "If there are too many, who will we invite?"

Territory is not a game. If you're not a childhood friend like Wang Hu, you could get slashed in your territory in the middle of the night.

Those great lords would always carry some life-saving items on them, in order to prevent their subordinates from rebelling and to have time to activate buildings to kill enemies.

Or like He Chong, who has a wealthy mother outside, if you dare to make a move, her wealth can get a bunch of mid-level professionals to hunt you down to death.

In reality, it's rare for someone to simply kill a lord, as the rewards are too small.

Of course, if the attack fails, the person is basically doomed, and even if it succeeds, they may still die. Who can guarantee that the lord doesn't have a few brothers who would risk their lives for him?

Although Sui An already had a life-saving pendant, he still didn't want to ask a stranger for help.

When asked, Wang Zhen fell silent. "There are only a few of us who could come."

Although Sui An's territory is now level 2, we should still avoid appearing in his territory during a Blood Moon night.

"That's right, once you reach level three, we can move in with you~"

Upon hearing Wang Zhen's words, Sui An suddenly thought of something and quickly asked in a low voice.

"Brother Zhen, if I could acquire a special building that could assist alchemists, do you think it would be possible to bring an alchemist to my territory?"

"You've produced blueprints again??" Wang Zhen blurted out, almost without thinking.

Sui An quickly waved his hands and denied it, "No, no, I meant if~"

"I don't believe you for a second! Then tell me where this stage came from!"

Wang Zhen glared fiercely at Sui An. Although he hadn't asked, Sui An shouldn't be taking him for a fool.

But after a moment's thought, he still offered an explanation for Sui An.

"It depends on the effect of the building. If it increases production or reduces losses, the effect is good, but alchemists won't be too interested. It's just icing on the cake. But if it can increase enlightenment, then it's extraordinary."

"As far as I know, the city lord owns a very rare blacksmith building, the kind that can enhance a blacksmith's enlightenment. The merchant guild's grandmaster blacksmith lives there long-term, and I've heard that building might even be purple!"

"The blacksmiths downstairs begged to go in and use it occasionally, and they often got into fights over it."

Sui An felt a pang of envy. A purple secondary building must be very useful; even he didn't have a purple blueprint yet.

"Then why not make more?"

"What are you talking about? Are purple materials that easy to obtain?"

Wang Zhen wished he could crack open his head, wondering what this guy was thinking all day.

"It's over. Aunt Zhao will come again at the end of the month, you..."

Before leaving, Wang Zhen watched as Wang Hu took out a few pieces of cloth and carefully covered the pink stage. He couldn't bear to look at it and turned away in distress.

Unfortunately, Wang Zhen was unaware that although Sui An did not have the professional building blueprints for alchemists, he did have half of the auxiliary building blueprints for combat professions.

It was that pink stage he disliked...

Sui An didn't go around telling everyone about it. Regarding the buildings in their territory, Wang Zhen, Erhu, Aunt Zhao, and the others all had a code of conduct:

Don't ask proactively.

Sui An was happy to play dumb and didn't take the initiative to speak.