Chapter 1422 Repairing the Magic Towers

In the dilapidated defensive magic tower, Shi Feng used the fortress token to bring up the system interface of the defensive magic tower.

"It really isn't easy to repair," Shi Feng clicked his tongue slightly as he looked at the displayed data.

For the four defensive magic towers, just repairing one required 80,000 magic crystals and thirty units of Seven Luminaries Crystals.

To repair all four completely required 320,000 magic crystals and 120 units of Seven Luminaries Crystals.

Zero Wing could still afford the magic crystals, after all, they had a complete magic crystal mine and a partial attribute mine. Their ability to collect magic crystals surpassed even ordinary super forces, but the Seven Luminaries Crystals were not so easy to come by.

Although some specific team dungeons and locations had drops, the drop rate was shockingly low, otherwise the various super forces wouldn't offer sky-high prices to purchase them.

So far, Zero Wing's inventory of Seven Luminaries Crystals was only a meager two hundred units. If they repaired all four defensive magic towers, it would use up more than half of their reserves.

Gritting his teeth, Shi Feng still clicked to choose to repair all four defensive magic towers.

Defensive magic towers could be said to be a defensive building unique to medium fortresses in the World Tower. Their effect was not only to construct a defensive magic barrier to resist foreign invasion, but also to condense the surrounding magic power and act as teleportation points for Return Scrolls.

In the world within the World Tower, players couldn't use Return Scrolls as they pleased, instantly returning to towns or guild residences.

Everything relied on legs!

Of course, mounts or flying mounts could also be used, but compared to Return Scrolls, it was much more troublesome, especially in terms of stamina management, since they had to conserve some stamina for the return trip. Using Return Scrolls didn't have such concerns.

And defensive magic towers could resist part of the suppression from the World's power, allowing Return Scrolls to connect to the defensive magic towers. This way, players could use Return Scrolls at any time even inside the World Tower, directly returning to the defensive magic tower.

Although the effect of the defensive magic tower was only valid on the current floor, and had no effect once they entered other parts of the World Tower, it was still a favorite among players. After all, each floor of the World Tower was very large, making travel back and forth quite inconvenient.

Because of this, medium fortresses inside the World Tower were much more profitable than small fortresses.

In addition to earning a lot of money from players, medium fortresses could also earn money from NPC merchants with the help of defensive magic towers. Because defensive magic towers greatly improved the defense value of a fortress, they were a standard for NPC merchants who didn't like adventure to decide whether to enter the fortress or not.

Earning money from players and earning money from NPC merchants were worlds apart.

The currency in Dragonheart City was Ancient Gold Coins, but players generally used Ancient Bronze Coins and Ancient Silver Coins, rarely using Ancient Gold Coins. Therefore, even if the Thirteen Thrones had a fortress in the Earth Core Mountains, they could still only earn very few Ancient Gold Coins.

But NPC merchants were different. Because they rented fortress shops, they paid with Ancient Gold Coins. In other words, the more NPC merchants who came to the fortress, the more Ancient Gold Coins they earned.

Shi Feng was currently in urgent need of Ancient Gold Coins, and killing the Ancient Demon Undead King had made Shi Feng even more eager for Ancient Gold Coins.

Generally speaking, the items dropped by fortress Bosses were very ordinary. This could be seen from killing the Legendary-ranked Undead War General, because compared to the Boss's drops, the fortress itself was the biggest reward.

However, the Ancient Demon-level Undead King dropped a very precious item in addition to the fortress management token.

The Free Inn Construction Blueprint!

When Shi Feng saw this construction blueprint, he thought he was seeing things.

The Free Inn!

That was one of the top town buildings in God's Domain. The value of its construction blueprint was even greater than a fragment of a Legendary item.

Because one of the conditions for a guild town to be promoted to a main city was to have a top-tier building. To put it bluntly, a construction blueprint for a top-tier building was equivalent to a main city, not to mention the effect of the top-tier building itself.

Probably just building the Free Inn would allow Stone Forest City to be directly promoted to an Intermediate City.

An Intermediate City and a Beginner City had a world of difference in their impact on players advancing to Tier 3 when entering level 100 neutral maps.

Of course, building a top-tier building was very difficult. The materials required were all super rare materials in God's Domain, and there were also some materials that could not be stored in the backpack space.

Such as the extremely precious Realm Source Stone!

This thing was hard to come by in God's Domain. It could only be found in the black market, and its price was as high as 8,000 Ancient Gold Coins for just one piece. Building the Free Inn required a full three pieces. In addition, there were many other materials, which would cost at least 40,000 Ancient Gold Coins in total…

Moreover, in addition to building the Free Inn, large-scale mining of rare mineral veins in the Earth Core Mountains also required a large number of Ancient Gold Coins.

Mining in the World Tower was not the same as outside, where players could just go up and mine. There were countless monsters in the Earth Core Mountains, especially at night, when the density of monsters was so high that even expert teams would be wiped out if they were not careful. The places with mineral veins were basically the monsters' nests.

Mining a small amount was fine, but if you wanted to mine a large amount, you needed to build mines and construct defensive towers, which all cost Ancient Gold Coins.

It could be said that Zero Wing's rapid development now could not be separated from Ancient Gold Coins.

Time passed. Just as Shi Feng finished clearing the monsters in the Northern Fortress and repairing the various buildings of the fortress, a clear system notification suddenly echoed in everyone's minds.

Earth Core Mountain Range Region System Announcement: Congratulations to the War Blood Adventurer Team for successfully conquering the Rock Nest Fortress. The adventurer team's reputation in Dragonheart City has increased by 5,000 points, becoming the lord of the Rock Nest Fortress.

The system announced it three times in a row, causing the entire Earth Core Mountain Range to shake again.

"No way! How long has it been since Zero Wing took down the Northern Fortress? The War Blood Adventurer Team has taken down the Rock Nest Fortress?"

"The War Blood Adventurer Team is really ruthless. They have two fortresses in one area. It will be difficult for Zero Wing to dominate. Moreover, the Rock Nest Fortress is the only way to the northern area. Even if Zero Wing has the Northern Fortress, the benefits will be greatly reduced."

"That's nothing. You don't know that the War Blood Adventurer Team has just joined forces with several of the top ten adventurer teams on Dragonheart Island, preparing to jointly block the northern area of the Earth Core Mountain Range. They have also released a message that anyone who cooperates with Zero Wing or dares to go to the Northern Fortress will be enemies with War Blood."

"Too ruthless! Even if Zero Wing has a fortress, there will be no way out in Dragonheart City."

"This is no one else's fault. Who told Zero Wing to offend so many forces on Dragonheart Island back then?"

Because the War Blood Adventurer Team had conquered the Rock Nest Fortress, the players in the Earth Core Mountain Range were shocked by War Blood's speed of action and decisiveness. No one had thought that Zero Wing had finally made a name for itself in Dragonheart City, only to be ruthlessly beaten down by War Blood.

"Sister Qianyu, what should we do now?" Qing Huang looked at the news she had just received and said with a pale face, "Because of War Blood's words, the players who were originally preparing to come here don't dare to come now."

Maintaining a fortress was not easy. It required a large number of players to be stationed there for a long time, and they had to face monster hordes from time to time. The main source of income for the fortress was players. If no players were willing to come to the Northern Fortress, let alone making money, they would be lucky not to lose money.

"How could they take down the Rock Nest so quickly?" Feng Qianyu's face also darkened slightly.

Although she had known for a long time that War Blood was going to occupy the Rock Nest, she didn't expect it to be so fast.

"Guild Leader, or should we attack?" Aqua Rose said with a somewhat cold tone after seeing the news.

"Forget it, the fortress has a three-day protection period. It's useless to attack now." Shi Feng shook his head and said with a smile, "But since they want to play, then we'll play with them. Immediately issue a message in the name of Zero Wing, saying that anyone who enters the Rock Nest Fortress will be an enemy of Zero Wing. They can forget about entering the Northern Fortress!"