While the pressure was immense, Ye Yun also saw unique aspects within this building. For instance, ordinary players could recruit here. This opened up vast possibilities. Based on prior experience, if Ye Yun were to offer Imperial Guard recruitment at a tenfold price, Feng Le City would gain another massive revenue stream!
Especially since Imperial Guard attribute enhancement and level upgrades also required this Recruitment Tower, and both incurred additional fees.
For example, recruiting a Level 1 Dragon Guard cost one thousand gold coins. However, if a player wished to upgrade the Dragon Guard to Level 2, it would not only cost ten thousand gold coins for the upgrade fee but also an additional amount equivalent to the recruitment cost as a usage fee for the Imperial Guard Recruitment Tower!
Enhancement worked similarly. However, the attribute enhancement function for Imperial Guards would likely be unused by most players in the early stages. After all, each enhancement required a fifty thousand gold coin fee and a ten thousand coin usage fee, totaling fifty-one thousand gold coins! The enhancement function itself would increase the current Dragon Guard's attributes by 20%. This was a practically useless feature for low-level Imperial Guards.
Holy crap!
Ye Yun couldn't describe his feelings with any other words. This was because whether it was level upgrades or attribute enhancements, the usage fees collected by the Recruitment Tower would all go to Feng Le City. This meant that once the Recruitment Tower was opened to the public, it would become an enormous money-making machine!
Considering Feng Le City's current territory of over 1.2 million square kilometers and the daily influx of hundreds of millions of players developing within the city, even without considering future income, the mere price difference from recruitment alone would cause Feng Le City's wealth to explode exponentially!
Players nowadays were not like in the first year, when Ye Yun brought in endless wealth from other planar maps. Even if only a fraction of it remained in the human territory, even the most ordinary player would earn no less than a thousand gold coins daily from monster hunting. Even if Ye Yun set the Dragon Guard recruitment cost to ten thousand, countless players would flock to it.
However, if they witnessed the difficulty of nurturing these guards, they would likely wish they were dead. Upgrading from Level 1 to Level 2 cost ten thousand gold coins, and from Level 2 to Level 3 would be twenty thousand gold coins. With the income of ordinary players, even upgrading one level would be a struggle.
The Dragon Guard's initial attributes provided 200 free attribute points, which players could allocate according to their preferences. Subsequent upgrades or enhancements for Dragon Guards would not grant additional free attribute points, making the allocation of these initial 200 points extremely important.
As for skills, they were generated randomly upon reaching certain levels.
In short, for those ordinary players, this was a trap. But for the top players or organized groups, the emergence of the Recruitment Tower was an opportunity for them to rise rapidly.
Especially for players with specialized professions who were usually busy managing their shops and earning money, and had no time for monster hunting. Now, with a guard who could grow even faster than themselves and was utterly loyal, they could attend to more matters.
Not all players in this world enjoyed combat.
Without hesitation, Ye Yun set the recruitment cost for all Imperial Guards to the maximum. This meant Ye Yun could recruit a Dragon Guard for only 1000 gold coins, but others would have to pay ten thousand! This included players who held official positions within Feng Le City.
After setting the recruitment prices, Ye Yun directly used his remaining building level upgrade counts to raise the Imperial Guard Recruitment Tower to its maximum level of nine, and then immediately recruited ten thousand Dragon Cavalry! The reason was that the upgrade materials for these special buildings were extremely difficult to find. Even after Ye Yun had slain so many diverse monsters, he had not obtained any materials required for upgrading these structures.
Imperial Guard Recruitment Tower (Special Building) Da Feng Novel Network
Level: 10 (Maximum Level)
Number of Imperial Guards that Feng Le City Lord can recruit: 10 billion
Number of Feng Le City Officials who can recruit: 10,000
Number of Feng Le City Permanent Residents who can recruit: 2,000
Number of Ordinary Players who can recruit: 1,000
Additional Function: Imperial Guard Level Upgrade and Imperial Guard Attribute Enhancement
Description: ...
Ye Yun did not recruit more Dragon Cavalry because the recruitment time was too long. If he were to recruit millions directly, it would take nearly three years to complete.
Recruiting ten thousand Dragon Cavalry would take 850,000 seconds, nearly ten days. Ye Yun assigned a commander of the City Guard to wait there, and then, without delay, began constructing city walls.
The territory had now reached 1.28 million square kilometers, and the previous city walls, less than 40 square kilometers, were insufficient to enclose the entire city. Therefore, considerable financial resources were needed to repair and complete the remaining vast sections.
At this time, Ye Yun also kept an eye out. He did not move the teleportation array of the nine Divine Cities that previously attacked Feng Le City further out; instead, he left it in place. He then built a ring of city walls around it, enclosing an area of ten kilometers around the teleportation array. On the city walls, he installed five thousand arrow towers and cannon towers, each reaching Level 45, sufficient to instantly kill any Divine City warrior! This meant Feng Le City would no longer need to arrange defenses against attacks from other Divine Cities.
Of course, this was also because the nine Divine Cities had attacked Feng Le City for over a month, dispatching hundreds of millions of troops without any success. Their high command had begun to show fatigue. Furthermore, with Zhou Ning leading the Dragon Palace into one of their Divine Cities, the troops they dispatched recently numbered only in the hundreds of thousands each time, hardly enough to withstand the onslaught of these arrow towers.
In addition to upgrading the new city walls to Level 50, Ye Yun also built twenty thousand new arrow towers, five thousand cannon towers, and five thousand electric towers on the walls, totaling thirty thousand city defense structures. He also upgraded all these defense structures to Level 20, which, at the current stage, was enough to instantly kill most players. The wealth accumulated over half a year was once again depleted by Ye Yun's unrestrained consumption.
Apart from these, Ye Yun also upgraded the Sky Hawk Arrow Towers to Level 50, increasing their overall growth coefficient by another 0.1, reaching 2.3. However, they did not awaken any additional bonus attributes. In comparison, the difference between a Level 50 Sky Hawk Arrow Tower and a Level 50 Human King City Crossbow was stark. In terms of attack, durability, and attack range, they were in entirely different leagues.
The attack range of a Level 50 Sky Hawk Arrow Tower was only 150,000 kilometers, while the attack range of the Human King City Crossbow reached 500,000 kilometers, more than three times that of the Sky Hawk Arrow Tower. The attack and durability were similarly incomparable.
Upgrading the Human King City Crossbow required 19 uses, the Imperial Guard Recruitment Tower required 9 uses, and the Sky Hawk Arrow Tower upgrade also required 10 uses. Out of the fifty-two building upgrade uses, only 14 remained. Ye Yun looked at the various buildings in the city and, for a moment, didn't know where to start. Because with these two buildings present, it could be said that even a Level 1 deity would have to kneel. Especially the Human King City Crossbow; once it unleashed its power, not only Level 1 deities but even Level 2 and 3 deities would retreat in defeat.
As for the "Qi Yun Altar" and the "Tian Ji Pavilion" from before, the construction materials were too demanding, and Ye Yun could not build them in Feng Le City. He could only wait for later.