Chapter 73: Chapter 73: A New Day Begins
Zong Shen has fully met the learning requirements for this skill book, so there are no additional attribute requirements prompted.
What he lacks the most right now is combat skills.
He hasn’t yet met the attribute requirement for the skills [Heavy Slash] and [Demon Transformation] at the moment.
So, without hesitation, Zong Shen learned [Shield Charge].
This skill is both a teleportation skill and a control skill, quite useful, and practically an essential skill for someone like Zong Shen who plays with a shield and sword combo.
He chose to learn it directly.
The skill book instantly turned into a white light, merging into his body.
Suppressing the urge to try it on the spot, Zong Shen continued to check things out,
Apart from the Recruitment Scroll, what interested him most was that Communication Crystal Tower.
This item is of the same level as the previous [Moon Well], enabling the territory to have a certain degree of communication ability.
Communication means information flow, which is the key to accelerating territory development.
If information is blocked, development becomes stagnant.
From a long-term perspective, it holds profound significance.
[Special Building: Communication Crystal Tower]
[Quality: Rare (Purple) Special Human Race Building]
[Requirements: Communication Crystal Tower Construction Map ×1]
[Complete building, can be constructed without material costs, please choose an area to place it]
[Construction Time: 8m (reduced by 20% through engineering)]
[Occupying Area: 18 square meters]
[Height: 30 meters]
[Durability Value: 3500]
[Building Armor: 30]
[An ancient human race building, a product of magic energy technology, after construction it can cover a radius of 1000 kilometers, costs certain materials to generate uniquely numbered communication crystals]
[Effect: Communication (in the effective range, hold the communication crystal to communicate with each other), Node (multiple Crystal Communication Towers can be arranged, node linking within a specified distance range, expanding the communication range)]
(The information age is coming your way)
This complete building that requires no material expenditure is simply perfect!
Zong Shen happily stored away the construction map of the Communication Crystal Tower, now he has two more construction blueprints in his hand.
[Vitality Totem Construction Blueprint]
[Quality: Excellent (Special Tribe Building)]
[Requirements: Basic Magic Pattern Stone ×20, Basic Elemental Crystal ×10, Basic Wood Rune ×3, Secret Silver ×5, Stone ×120, Fresh Beast Blood ×1000ml]
[Occupying Area: 6 square meters]
[Durability Value: 1000]
[Building Armor: 10]
[Effect: Vitality Spring (covers a radius of a thousand meters on allied units, enhances energy recovery, also increases movement speed by 5%, labor efficiency by 5%, and has a 5% chance of a critical strike effect during gathering, earning 2.0 times the resources)]
[Construction Time: 3h12m]
(Eating and sleeping well, working without exhaustion, what could be better than this)
[Tier Two Blacksmith Shop Construction Blueprint]
[Quality: Ordinary Human Building]
[Requirements: Wood ×50, Stone ×30, Iron ×20, Hemp Rope ×8, Basic Fire Rune ×1]
[Occupying Area: 25 square meters]
[Durability Value: 900]
[Building Armor: 10]
[Basic blacksmith shop, a key early building where you can forge basic equipment up to Green Level quality]
[Construction Time: 2h24m]
(Let the little flames of forging burn brightly in the territory)
Zong Shen slapped his hand, deciding to learn these two blueprints first.
It was already past three in the early morning.
Zong Shen yawned, and the exhaustion came over him like a tide.
Even with such a tightly packed daily schedule, he still felt overwhelmed, needing to explore, battle, and manage the entire territory’s construction and development.
He wished he could split a day into two.
Zong Shen quickly fell asleep with drowsiness, his last thought before sleeping was wanting to create a hero as soon as possible, who could help share some tasks.
...
The next day, at 9 a.m.
Zong Shen slowly opened his eyes.
Without curtains in the room, the sunlight outside was bright, filling the entire room with radiance.
Zong Shen rubbed his eyes and got out of bed.
"A new day has begun!"
He got up and started re-equipping his armor, slowly walked onto the terrace.
In the territory, the farmers, led by San Pang, had already begun their work.
Korby led the wolf cavalry in a jog around the territory while twelve Giant Wolves lazily lay on the grass.
Luna went to tend to the sapling of [Ancient Guardian].
Two mages were meditating with their eyes closed.
The two sisters, Mapple, stood on the courtyard wall, gazing into the distance.
Lensa Shattered Claw gently stroked the ground, seemingly sensing something.
Dwarf Uncle still lazily sat outside the blacksmith shop dozing off.
The entire territory was a scene of harmony and tranquility.
Zong Shen took out a wooden bucket, washed his face and rinsed his mouth with clean water.
He scratched his neck, sniffed his collar.
A pungent smell hit him straight in the face.
Zong Shen shook his head, took a deep breath.
"Ugh..."
This smell... has fermented...
"Must bathe tonight, not bathing is inhumane!"
Zong Shen silently thought.
Then he turned and left the terrace, went downstairs, and walked out of the Lord’s Small Tower.
He came to the [Moon God Well] nearby, where more than 400 ml of Moon God Spring Water had been produced.
Zong Shen directly extracted it into the wooden bucket for unified storage.
Then, he went to the [Market] and checked last night’s sales before sleeping.
All three items had been sold.
He received twenty Basic Elemental Crystals and ten Basic Wood Runes.
Then he listed another three items.
One exchange for twenty Basic Elemental Crystals, one for five Basic Wood Runes, and another for 200 wood, 80 iron, 50 stone, and 50 hemp.
After finishing all this, Zong Shen called San Pang.
"San Pang, get some quick-witted farmers here!"
San Pang, who was not far away, holding an iron pickaxe and vigorously harvesting stones, heard his call. He quickly called a few farmers working nearby and jogged over to Zong Shen.
Zong Shen, with a thought, opened [Building], selected [Communication Crystal Tower], and placed it inside the courtyard, by the wall.
A farmer stepped forward to start construction.
Then, Zong Shen took out a High-level Magic Pattern Stone, decomposed it into 100 Basic Magic Pattern Stones.
He selected [Vitality Totem] and also placed it in the courtyard, asking a farmer to start building it.
He wasn’t done yet; he upgraded the blacksmith shop to Tier Two, and another farmer started hammering away.
Another task started a fresh round of construction.
In addition, he was planning to upgrade the stable, having previously acquired a Stable Construction Map.
[Stable Construction Blueprint]
[Quality: Ordinary Human Building]
[Requirements: Wood ×50, Stone ×30, Iron ×20, Hemp Rope ×8]
[Occupying Area: 160 square meters]
[Slots: 20]
[Durability Value: 900]
[Effect: Basic stable, able to slowly restore 3 Life Value/h to horses]
(Give the horses a home to shelter from the wind and rain)
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