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

As the second illusion quietly dissipated into starlight, of the three surrounding rifts, only the one belonging to the Song family remained unclosed.

However, the source beasts surging over at this moment were already very sparse. Without the pull of the illusion, these source beasts headed straight for the wall, but the majority were small-sized source beasts of level 2, and their destructive power was really limited. They relied entirely on their numbers to cause wear and tear.

Three elemental statues and two crossbow watchtowers, plus the protection of level 2 walls, are basically enough to completely suppress them.

The occasional level 3 source beasts that appeared were all cleared out by Sui An using level 1 sword stars. The consumption of a level 1 sword star is only slightly more than half that of a level 2 sword star, about 14 source stones per sword strike, which is enough to clear out ordinary level 3 source beasts.

Five minutes later, the crack in the distance began to flicker, and finally disappeared as light.

Wang Hu looked at the source beasts that had been completely wiped out, let out a long breath, and then turned his head sharply to look at Sui An, his face rosy and full of smiles.

"Xiao An, I'm going downstairs to replenish my source energy. My soul essence is sufficient; I can try to advance to the core of my profession!"

"You've had enough? Great, go ahead! Focus on your sprint, don't worry about anything else, I'll take care of things!"

Upon hearing this news, Sui An smiled broadly and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If Wang Hu doesn't advance, he thinks Hu Zi will be incredibly frustrated.

Although level 2 professionals still have little effect in today's defensive battle, they will not bring about a qualitative change to Sui An's territory.

But at least there has been visible progress. If a person doesn't make substantial progress over a long period of time, many people will inadvertently give up.

Otherwise, why is there such a huge difference between people? Apart from chance and talent, many people just can't see their own progress and gradually lose their enthusiasm.

Tiger's current situation is like this: his good brother, who is a builder, has been promoted in less than a month, while he, a combat professional, is promoting slower than a lord, which is quite discouraging for him.

Wang Hu nodded, and then leaped directly down from the 5-meter-high watchtower's arrow platform. His muscular body crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, as if he couldn't wait any longer.

This scene made Sui An's eyelids twitch, and he quickly comforted Hu Zi: "Promotion to the core professional level also needs to be taken seriously, so don't be so impatient."

"I know, I need to restore my energy first, and I'll get myself in shape!"

Tiger's voice came from the stage, but the urgency in his tone was impossible to hide.

Sui An sighed helplessly. Hu Zi was getting really anxious, but he couldn't help blaming himself for being so long-winded.

Aside from builders, all other professions need to refine their professional core. When advancing, they will all face a problem: when advancing their professional core, they need to use the absorbed soul essence as a foundation and their own source energy as power to break through.

Breakthroughs have a chance of failure. Failure will damage your core, and you will need to spend time using source energy to repair it. This time will increase with the degree of damage.

You ask why architects aren't needed?

That's because the core promotion for builders doesn't involve builders at all. It's like an automated factory; as long as you fill in enough resources, that's all that matters.

As for whether there is any risk in territory promotion, there is no risk in ordinary promotion.

However, after so many years in Jiangcheng, Sui An knew that when the territory was expanded from 3 to 4 and from 6 to 7, a rift would definitely open!

Although it was a rift without the influence of the Blood Moon, the allure of the territory to the Source Beasts was no less than that of the Blood Moon.

In some ways, the danger is even greater than that of a blood moon.

According to the speculations of their predecessors, the destruction of their territory at this time might grant the Source Beasts some special benefit, which could probably allow them to break through racial limitations, hence their frenzied attacks.

At this moment, the source beast was simply instinctively thinking that your territory was particularly delicious. Although its reason was briefly dominated by greed, it was not corrupted by the blood moon. Its destructive ability and defensive and evasive abilities were much more agile.

The night sky grew increasingly quiet, and as the blood moon lingered longer, there were almost no more roaming source beasts in the wild.

Sui An's gaze kept glancing at Wang Hu below. After his source energy was depleted, it usually took him 25 minutes to recover, and he was almost fully recovered by now.

Sure enough, Wang Hu opened his eyes not long after. He looked up at Sui An, who was looking at him, and grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Xiao An, I'm ready to start the sprint!"

"Charge! Charge! Charge! Charge! Let's go all out!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Sui An directly encouraged Wang Hu, and naturally there was no need to mention the risk of failure.

Wang Hu took out a red glass tube from the side, which was only the length and thickness of an index finger.

Inside was a red liquid. As Wang Hu picked up the liquid and poured it inside, it slowly sloshed around. It looked somewhat thick and appeared rather dark under the blood moon.

After uncorking the bottle, Wang Hu took a deep breath, drank it all in one gulp, and slowly closed his eyes.

A faint, milky-white fluorescent light gradually appeared on his body, mostly concentrated on his chest, while his limbs and head were almost invisible.

Sui An knew that this was the color of the physical body's source energy.

Most source colors are associated with their elemental properties, such as gold (Wang Zhen's gold element), red (Zhao Yi's red element), and cyan (Erhu's cyan element)...

However, due to individual differences in talent, the color may vary slightly.

As your profession level increases, the elemental properties of source energy become more and more obvious, gradually replacing the energy characteristics of source energy itself, and the color changes will be even greater.

As Wang Hu began to condense source energy to break through, the milky white source energy in his chest became increasingly thick and bright, and slowly rotated like a small vortex, not only sprinting towards the core, but also absorbing the free source energy from the outside world.

However, the basic energy source in the outside world is scarce, so Wang Hu drank that bottle of red potion to prevent insufficient energy.

Until a certain point was reached, the small vortex suddenly stopped, as if someone had stepped on the brakes. After a brief pause, the vortex suddenly spread out, as if a force had shattered it.

Wang Hu suddenly opened his eyes, a bright light flashing in his peripheral vision. He quietly stretched out his long arms, and his strong muscles were instantly stretched, making him seem even more imposing.

As he stood up and stepped off the stage, a soft hum emanated from his bones and muscles, a sound so melodious that even Wang Hu was somewhat captivated.

Suddenly, he swung his right arm, clenched his fist, and slammed it into the ground. Driven by the source energy, his bare arms glowed with a milky white light. With great force, he slammed the fist into the ground.

"Bang!"

A somewhat muffled sound came, and a large chunk of the yellow earth was immediately cracked open, sending dust flying everywhere.

Slowly raising his hand, Wang Hu revealed his signature smile again, extending his fist, which had just slammed into the ground, towards Sui An; some yellow dust still clung to it.

"Xiao An, I've become stronger!"