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

Chapter 89 Limited-Time Gacha Pool Ends

The two chatted on and off, making Wang Zhen frown deeply. In his memory, Zheng Xifeng was not a talkative person.

Suddenly, Zheng Xifeng changed the subject: "With so much output from you, have any people from Crescent City come looking for you lately?"

"New Moon City~" Sui An was a little puzzled when Zheng Xifeng suddenly mentioned it, but he still nodded.

"A few people came by a week ago, threw me a flag, and said they wanted to expand their business and offered a 10% discount."

"I see~ So you sold them anything?"

Sui An became more and more confused as he listened: "Not at the moment. I'm in contact with Brother Zhen, so naturally I won't switch them."

Zheng Xifeng nodded slightly and said softly, "That would be best. But for Wang Zhen's sake, I'll give you a word of advice: don't sell them any harvest like today's."

After finishing his sentence, Zheng Xifeng turned and left. He didn't chat with Sui An anymore, but instead went back to the car behind him and quietly waited for the team members' weigh-in results.

Sui An and Wang Zhen exchanged glances, not quite understanding Zheng Xifeng's meaning, but they subconsciously became wary.

Given Zheng Xifeng's status, there's no need for him to deceive a mere lord like himself for business.

To be honest, he probably doesn't get much commission from his own small amount of goods. As the team leader, his income naturally depends on the transportation volume of the entire fleet.

My stock is only enough for four or five truckloads at most, not even worth his attention.

So, what secrets are hidden in the newly built Crescent City?

The weighing was completed quickly. With Wang Hu and Erhu helping to watch the weighing, there was no fear that the captains would try to cheat on the weight.

「一级源兽肉13100斤、二级源兽肉66100斤、三级源兽肉3700斤，共1602块源石，抽成后就是881块。」

Listening to the count, it was about the same weight as Sui An had in mind. After all, all the scales had been scraped off, and the black-armored beast had instantly lost 30% of its weight.

Zheng Xifeng's three cars were full, Wang Zhen's car was full, and Erhu's car was more than half full before all the cooked meat was loaded.

"I'll be going now, Wang Zhen, do as you please," Zheng Xifeng instructed, and the convoy departed.

After they left, Sui An brought out the big guy from last night. This big guy was covered in scales, and its price couldn't be calculated according to the usual meat price. Wang Zhen couldn't judge the price either, so he could only take it back first and bring it back after it was sold.

Wang Zhen pulled a bag of Originium from Erhu's cart: "This is the 410 Originium from the last mining bonus. I've upgraded it to level 2 for you."

"I didn't bring your erhu with me; I left it with me. I can bring it to you anytime you want."

Erhu replied, "I'll go back with you later. The rift just opened yesterday, so it shouldn't be a blood moon today. I'll go back to get some things and come back tomorrow."

Sui An then spoke up, "Brother Zhen, could you get me some blue material called Electromagnetic Crystal? Please get me three portions first."

"What blueprints did you get your hands on this time?"

Upon hearing that Sui An was working on materials, Wang Zhen instinctively asked a question.

Before Sui An could speak, Erhu answered for him, "Yes, a blue-quality detection station, produced by everyone."

"Blue, huh?" Wang Zhen said in a flat tone, suddenly realizing that he looked down on the blue drawings. What was so special about just blue?

Ignoring their sarcastic remarks, Sui An was rather curious.

"Brother Zhen, what did Captain Zheng mean when he said not to sell large quantities of goods to New Moon City?"

Erhu paused for a moment, then blurted out, "Crescent City, isn't that a level 6 territory near Line 8? Now they're getting involved here?"

Sui An's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "What inside information do you know?"

Wang Zhen and Zhao Feng, who were standing nearby, also looked over, wondering what Erhu meant and feeling curious.

"Hey, what other inside story could it be?" Erhu shook his head, his tone somewhat disdainful.

"The lord of Crescent City has a powerful background. He forcibly seized the authority of the surrounding low-level territories and merged them into his own territory. I heard that his methods were very dishonest. It was exposed before, but someone quickly stepped in to suppress the news, so many people in Jiang City don't know about it."

"Captain Zheng told you not to sell large quantities of goods to Crescent City, does that mean Crescent City is now running its own chamber of commerce?"

"Yes!" Sui An nodded and pointed into the room: "They gave me a flag and said the purchase price would be 10% higher than in Jiangcheng."

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"That's right!"

Erhu looked at Sui An and chuckled, "The Great City Lord of Jiangcheng is a powerful figure who pursues stable development and never bothers to coerce others into taking his territory. All the builders who have pledged allegiance to him do so voluntarily. The Second and Third City Lords are suppressed by the Great City Lord and would not voluntarily do anything to disrupt stability."

"But not everyone in the world can refrain from bullying the weak. It seems that Crescent City wants to use the Chamber of Commerce and the bidding to probe the development of the surrounding territories. Normally, they wouldn't even look at your level 1 territory's small size."

"But once they see your shipment volume, the first thing they'll think of is that you have high-quality blueprints, and they'll want to find a way to take you over, right?"

"As long as they don't cause a big scene in Jiangcheng, the city lord and the others won't do anything to Crescent Moon City."

"When it comes to selling goods, you should sell to Ping An Trading Company. Although Ping An Trading Company was established through the cooperation of the three city lords' territories and they suppress each other internally, outsiders cannot get too involved. In this respect, it is safer for you to sell your goods."

"After all, unless it's a major secret realm, you won't attract the attention of the three city lords."

Upon hearing Erhu's words, Sui An suddenly shuddered.

During the days Wang Zhen was away, I actually considered selling it to Crescent City, but in the end I stored it in the cellar.

However, the cellar space was not large, and if Wang Zhen did not come sooner or later, he would eventually sell the items to Crescent City. After all, selling to other people in Jiangcheng would not earn as much as selling to Crescent City, which would earn him 10% more.

The thought of almost being targeted made Sui An grit his teeth in hatred.

"That's so damn sneaky! That 10% bonus was just bait; I almost fell for it!"

"Little Anzi, don't be greedy for cheap deals. In this area of ​​a hundred miles, besides the city lord of Jiangcheng, how many decent lords are there?"

Seeing Sui An's exasperated appearance, Erhu was quite pleased and kicked Sui An with his leg.

"Let me tell you something else. I once went with a hunting party and accidentally ended up at the end of Line 1. There was a big city there, but there wasn't a single small territory within a hundred miles of that city. Can you guess why?"

Sui An looked at Erhu with surprise and voiced his opinion: "Could it be that the architect's privileges were forcibly revoked as soon as they awakened?"

Erhu clicked his tongue, seemingly admiring Dacheng: "Yes, that was ruthless!"

"Then why don't they run away or resist?" Wang Hu, who was standing to the side, couldn't stand their behavior and asked curiously.

After all, even a lord is not invincible within his territory. No matter how many ways you can protect yourself, if you offend everyone and they all rebel against you, you will still be in trouble.

Moreover, if others don't risk their lives for you, you'll have a bunch of source beast meat but won't be able to convert it into resources; you'll just be an empty shell.

Erhu waved his hand and said, "I don't know the specifics, but it's probably some kind of special method. There are countless treasures in this world, and maybe there's something like this that can control others."

"Okay~" Wang Hu nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Erhu left with the convoy, leaving only himself and Wang Hu in the territory once again.

"Tiger, stand guard for me while I go organize the resources."

After making some arrangements, Sui An jogged into the house. Today was the last day of the limited-time gacha pool, and he wondered what changes might occur.

First, as usual, I organized my current resources.

Including the dividends, I harvested a total of 3136 Originium today, and used 516 yesterday.

Including the previous inventory, Sui An now has 3761 Originium.

According to Sui An's own bottom line, the resources available at this moment are 2700, which is enough to draw another big guaranteed draw plus a small guaranteed draw.

He looked at the event screen in front of him with some excitement.

However, he now has a problem: once the limited-time purple blueprint library ends, will a new purple blueprint library be refreshed directly? Should he save some Originium?

However, the previously displayed next opening time was "unknown".

But he quickly calmed himself down. He could continue to earn Originium, but the limited-time blueprint library only had 5 hours left.

"270 draws, start drawing now!"

[Basic Source Material *256]

[Burning Wish Agate*4] [Heart of Pure Water*3] [Wing of the East Wind*3]

[Astrologer's Illusion Altar *1] [Dandelion's Thousand Winds Barrier *2] [Dawn Sword Star Ignites the Darkness *1]

This time, drawing blueprints was the most satisfying one for Sui An. It seems that he had had some bad luck before. This time, he got 4 blueprints and 10 sets of materials in 270 draws.

Including the 60 pulls I did before, although I still have two guaranteed pulls, it's not the best guaranteed pull I've ever had.

Sui An opened the detailed statistics on the interface and found that he had drawn 960 times from this limited-time blueprint library, which is equivalent to 9600 Originium!

11 drawings and 33 core materials.

A month ago, I was worried about whether I could afford the three big safeties, but a month later I found that I had doubled my money.

"As expected, blueprints are the architect's foundation!"

After admiring his achievements, Sui An opened his enlightenment interface. This time, he had four more blueprints and many new effects.

First, the [Dawn Sword Star that Ignites the Darkness] has been fully awakened.

【Burning Night: When you select Burning Night mode, your Flame Sword will no longer transform into a Firebird, but when the Flame Sword disappears, it will apply an enhanced Sinful Flame effect to enemies in a larger area, burning their source energy more intensely】

"Aside from the latest inspirational effects, are there any other changes?"

Sui An was somewhat disappointed. He had thought that completing all three enlightenments would bring some other changes, but nothing new had been added.

The Sword Star Totem's Inspiration effect, in addition to the already unlocked [Sword Rain] and [Fire Phoenix], now includes Burning Night.

Literally, the effect is to sacrifice the second stage of damage to enhance the burning effect of Sinfire and the range of Sinfire.

It still has a specialized attack effect, so specific testing is needed to see its effectiveness.

However, so far, the only situation where the Sin Flame effect was needed to defeat the enemy was the previous Source Crystal Puppet.

Sui An turned his gaze to the second building that was full of inspiration.

【The Dandelion's Thousand Wind Barrier】

【Rift Mode: When you select Rift Mode, you can attach barrier pillars to other buildings, providing each building with a unique barrier effect. Furthermore, the destruction of each barrier will not affect other pillar barriers, and the basic barrier properties remain unchanged.】

【Merge: When you select Merge Mode, and there is more than one Dandelion Thousand Wind Barrier in your territory, you can activate multiple Thousand Wind Barriers in their initial state at the same time, merging the initial barriers together. For each initial barrier of the same level merged, the base defense will double, and the consumption will also double.】

The effect of the barrier surprised Sui An.

The term "crack" literally means to apply a membrane to a building, and each pillar can be covered with one.

Normal barriers are spherical, and some buildings may be difficult to completely cover by a small barrier, but there are currently no such buildings in the Sui'an territory.

The tallest watchtower is only 7 meters high, but the diameter of the small barrier is 10 meters, so it can still be contained by some tricks.

Its real use should be in those super long and super tall buildings, or placing one's elemental statues on the city walls to directly face the enemy.

Compared to the rift barrier, Sui An prefers the fusion barrier because it can further enhance the strength of the barrier.

However, there is a problem with the integration and separation of boundaries.

That is, is the strength greater when eight smaller barriers are stacked together, or when two initial barriers are merged together?

Of course, the coverage area of ​​the initial barrier is 48 times that of the eight smaller barriers stacked together.

"I still need to test it, but I don't think I have the ability to do so yet —"

"But even Wang Zhen probably doesn't have the ability to break through my eight layers of minor barriers in one strike."

I shifted my gaze back to the barrier; I couldn't test the effect myself in a short time, so I had to put it aside for now.

I still need to check the enlightenment effect of the last witch's altar.

[Disillusionment: Activates Disillusionment Mode upon summoning. The illusion itself does not have hallucinogenic effects and will dissipate under your control. It will also apply a stronger hallucinogenic effect to all targets within a certain range. Targets in this state will become confused and will actively attack all targets around them, prioritizing the strongest. This effect is affected by the target's grade and the target's will. The effect lasts for a maximum of 1 minute, with no change to the cooldown time.]

"Disillusionment?"

This effect surprised Sui An. The original illusion would also cause the source beasts to riot, but the target of the attack was still the illusion itself. As for hitting other source beasts, it was just accidental damage.

Some source beasts even have strong control abilities, and their attacks will be restrained when they are about to encounter their own kind, so they basically have to be eliminated by themselves.

Now, let's just stop the performance and directly enhance the hallucinogenic effect, then let these source beasts kill each other. Although it's a one-time illusion, and the effect only lasts for one minute.

But the effect is still amazing!

"I just don't know if this more potent hallucinogen can work on a level 4 source beast, even if it's a level higher."

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