My talent is 1.

Zhong Wuyai wanted to upgrade several attributes of the Magic Book.

151% magic attack bonus, 1210% magic damage bonus.

Alternatively, with a casting speed of 1510%, casting your own skills would take only 0.2 to 0.4 seconds, which is practically the same as instant casting.

There are also 21 skill slots, or you could adjust the final damage to 210% and the critical hit chance cap to 110%...

Too much.

To be on the safe side, Zhong Wuyai still added to magic attack, which might reduce skill damage significantly.

However, it has high base damage, its own class skills ignore 20% magic damage reduction, and the power of the Vermilion Bird ignores 30% physical and magical damage reduction and physical and magical defense.

With high base stats, everything will fall into place, especially since my equipment is primarily focused on magic attack, true damage, and critical damage refining.

Open the panel; you'll need to flip through pages to see the ones with many attributes.

【Zhong Wuyai】

Talent: 1

Class: Ruin Archmage

Reputation: 161700

Rating: 54

Experience: 1262500/800000000

Health: 1633280/1633280

Mana: 869750/869750

Physical attack: 125

Magic Attack: 470632

Spell critical strike chance: 52%

Spell critical strike damage: +1020%

Magic Hits: 76

Physical evasion: 98

Magic Evasion: 70

Physical defense: 3124

Magic Defense: 4346

Power: 125

Agility: 76

Physical condition: 846

Intelligence: 3849

Spirit: 4706

True damage: 54000

Water element attack: 9005

Ignore magic defense: 377

Magical Vampirism: 18%

Physical damage reduction: 111%

Magic damage reduction: 111%

True damage saving throw: 20%

Controlled reduction: 181%

Movement speed: 59

Health restored per second: 52

Mana restored per second: 57

Free attribute points: 1274

Skill points: 126

Job Skill 1 [Power of Annihilation Lv.5 (Max)]

Passive skill

Increases own mental strength by 20% in armor penetration and magic penetration.

Normal attacks deal 100% more magic attack damage.

Each skill attack deals damage and is followed by a normal attack.

All attacks ignore 25% physical damage reduction and 20% magic damage reduction.

Class Skill 2 [Annihilation Lv.5 (Max)]

Active skills.

Skill Strength: Level 3

For units with less than 3% health, unleash Annihilation to eliminate the target.

Effective against invincible units; targets with invincibility skills or status strength below level 3 can also be directly annihilated.

Each time a target is killed, Obliterate's cooldown is reduced by 10%.

Mana cost: None

Damage bonus: None

Release distance: 150

Cooldown: 1200 seconds.

Damage range, single-target damage.

Job Skill 3 [Erosion Lv.5 (Max)]

Passive skill

Skill Strength: Level 2

The skill deals damage equal to 15% of the target's maximum health, which cannot be recovered or healed during combat.

Each target can only trigger this effect once during combat, and the effect disappears after disengaging from combat.

The health required to cast Obliterate on an Erosion unit is increased by 500%.

Skill 1 [Rapid Fireball Lv.5 (Max)]

Active skills.

Locks onto the target, gathers magical power, and unleashes 51 fireballs, dealing devastating damage to the target.

Mana cost: 600

Damage bonus: 70% magic attack

Release distance: 150

Cooldown: 300 seconds

Damage range: Single target damage.

Skill 2 [Lightning Chain Lv.5 (Max)]

Active skills

Unleash several bolts of lightning to attack targets in front, dealing massive lightning damage and paralyzing them for 8 seconds. Up to 210 targets can be attacked simultaneously.

Mana cost: 500

Damage bonus: 1000 + 150% magic attack

Release distance: 120

Cooldown: 100 seconds.

Damage range: 0~120 fan-shaped area

Skill 3 [Flame Rain Lv.5 (Max)]

Active skills

Summons a rain of fire that deals massive magic damage to a designated area. The fire rain then deals additional damage to targets within the area every second for 81 seconds after it lands.

Mana cost: 1000

Fire Rain Damage Bonus: 100% Magic Attack

Damage over time bonus: 25% magic attack.

Release distance: 120

Cooldown: 300 seconds

Damage range: radius * 30

Skill 4 [Flame Wave Lv.1]

Active skills

Gather magical power and unleash a wave of flame in a designated direction, dealing massive damage to targets in its path. The resulting shockwave knocks targets away, causing secondary damage.

Mana cost: 500

Flame Wave damage bonus: 100% magic attack

Airwave damage bonus: 50% magic damage.

Release distance: 1210

Cooldown: 200 seconds

Flame Wave Width: 10

Damage range: 1210*10

Skill 5 [Frost Spear Lv.1]

Active skills

Condensate a spear made of ice and fire it in a designated direction. Upon hitting the target, it deals massive damage, and the shattered ice fragments deal half the damage to units around the target.

Mana cost: 300

Damage bonus: 200 + 1210% magic attack

Release distance: 100

Cooldown: 18 seconds

Damage range: radius * 8

Skill 6 [Magic Shield Lv.1]

Active skills

Upon release, the user's magic surges, forming a shield to protect themselves. When attacked, the user's magic points can negate the damage, and true damage is ineffective. The shield disappears when the user's magic points drop below 100. It can be manually deactivated.

Damage reduction: 21 × mana

Cooldown: 1 seconds

Skill 7 [Rapid Chanting Lv.4 (Max)]

Passive skill

Reduces skill cooldown by 121% and increases casting speed by 28%.

equipment……

Enhanced Set Bonus: True Damage +12000

Skill Enhancement

Normal Skill Enhancement: [Chain Fireball Cast Range +10] [Chain Fireball Damage +5%] [Chain Fireball Maximum Fireball Power +1]

Skill Enhancement: [Annihilation Cast Range +10] [Annihilation Cast Maximum Health +1%] [Automatically triggers when Annihilation is cast upon attack meeting the conditions]

Talent Skill Enhancement: None

The Magic Tome provides a huge boost, doubling the damage by 151% and increasing magic attack to 47. It's questionable whether a level 90 boss can withstand a barrage of fireballs.

Zhong Wuyai really wanted to see how much damage his current skill dealt, but he couldn't measure it against ordinary monsters.

However, level 80 and 90 bosses should be able to.

Shen Mengli was almost ready. The dozen or so people from Xianyang Palace had nothing in their bags except for materials.

"Alright, you can apply to establish a base now!"

"How about a lower location? Should we put it on the wasteland on the edge of the valley? There are monsters and minerals all around."

"Then how do we defend the city? Can you defend all four gates? You guard one gate, I guard one gate, Youchu and Chen Wenyu guard one gate, and the rest of you guard one gate."

"You overestimate me. Level 50 is manageable, but what about a level 70 legendary boss? I could fight it for ages and still not be able to hold it!"

"Are there any places with three city gates?"

"I think the area around Sunny Lake is the best. The monsters there are mainly from Sunny Lake and Crescent Bay. Monsters from other places will attack from the east and west sides, not the north and south. Even if ancient monsters want to come, they will have to go around them."

"It's quite far from the resource point!"

"We can catch some sea mounts to collect resources on the seabed of Crescent Bay; it's just as good as what we can do on land!"

"Alright then~ How many gold coins do you have now?"

"Seven million, and there are still a lot of things that haven't been sold. The star-up stones can't be sold at all; it's all the equipment that's been enhanced to +10 that's being sold."

"It's okay, I'll do a few more when I have time. Come back and give me the money first, then I'll apply for the post."

Shen Mengli teleported back and gave Zhong Wuyai one million gold coins.

"Holy crap, give me another million."

"No, there's a huge shortfall in funding for building the base. The city walls, resurrection stones, and administrative hall all cost money, as do arrow towers and cannons. We don't have enough for all of that."

"That's not enough."

"If you weren't so insane, I wouldn't even be planning to build it now. We're a small group, so we'd need at least ten million gold coins to build 20 turrets."

Zhong Wuyai rubbed his nose. "Those turrets, you can just get a few and I'll upgrade them for you."

With a reputation of 160,000, Zhong Wuyai entered the palace without any hindrance. The guards did not give him any trouble. After explaining his purpose, he went in to report...

There were many places in the palace that could not be entered. We could only follow the guards to a side hall, where we met not the king, but the prime minister.

Establishing a garrison is essentially the same as setting up a village, and can be done in any main city. However, the first garrison is directly upgraded to a town, so it is handled by the Prime Minister.

Only in the main city would a royal decree be required.

[Ding, application successful. Please establish your base as soon as possible.]

Zhong Wuyai received an additional appointment letter and a scroll from the administrative hall.

To the east of Lake Sunrise is the Wind Plains Rift, to the west is an open area, and further west is Crescent Bay.

Along Crescent Bay, you can also go to Crescent Island, Yellow Pepper Island, and even directly into the Endless Sea.

To the north lies a tranquil forest, and further north lies the frigid, windy region.

This location is a good spot for both gathering resources and farming monsters.

Moreover, if one can cross the Endless Sea, one can reach the western coast of the Dragon Empire.

Arriving at the shore of Sunny Lake, Zhong Wuyai inserted the garrison token into the chosen spot, held the appointment letter given by the prime minister in one hand, and a scroll in the other.

After the scroll was opened, the garrison headquarters transformed into an administrative hall.

[Server-wide Announcement: The Xianyang Palace Guild has established its first stronghold. All members will be rewarded with +1000 reputation and 1 resurrection attempt. Monster siege will begin in 5 hours.]

"Damn, Zhong Wuyai has already built a base?...So fast?... "

"Look at the members of Xianyang Palace, they're all level 50, what's so strange about that?"

"This is unbearable! I've been working myself to the bone for so long with my SS-level talent, and I'm only level 29. How did those beasts in Xianyang Palace level up?!"

"Upgrading is one thing, but this uniform set of ten-star equipment is really baffling. I couldn't even upgrade it to +5 by selling everything I own."

"Dude, you're so poor, it's just a matter of tens of thousands of gold coins."

"Is it a matter of money? And then there are the crystals. Bronze is alright, silver is still hopeful if you grit your teeth, but gold equipment? Where are you going to get so many gold crystals?"

"I'm from the Azure Dragon Empire, and I can tell you definitively that Xianyang Palace is selling crystals and equipment upgrade stones in bulk; they seem to have so many that their warehouses can't hold them all..."

"What the hell?! Can't we do cross-border transactions? I want to buy!"

"Most of them are exchanging materials for building their base. Our guild leader even got a +10 enhanced piece of equipment, it's incredibly powerful."

"What you're talking about is nothing. Sikong Shen doesn't even know how much money and materials he spent. He has 6 pieces of equipment that are enhanced to +10, and he can kill level 30 epic bosses ten times faster than before."

"Lin Xihang is even more powerful. His damage is not as good as Sikong Shen's, but his defense is really unparalleled. A level 35 gold BOSS can hit him like scratching a thorn. Now when the BOSS is open, all the shield warriors have changed to output gear, but Lin Xihang is the only one who can withstand it."

"Wow, that's amazing! With so many ten-star equipment in Xianyang Palace, how powerful must they be?!"

"I don't know, the only word to describe it is freakish. After all, Zhong Wuyai even defeated a level 90 legendary BOSS. Even if the others are weak, they're only weak in Xianyang Palace. If you look at them in another place, they're incredibly powerful!"

A resurrection stone costs 30 gold coins, plus various materials... Hire four NPC architects, each earning 4 gold coins per hour...

Zhong Wuyai was dumbfounded by Shen Mengli's actions.

The money is being spent like water; a million or so can disappear in no time.

Building fences or wooden railings is inexpensive, but also not very durable.

So it was a stone wall from the start, but the cost made Zhong Wuyai shake his head in disbelief...

The cost of the stone alone amounted to over ten thousand, which is more than a million gold coins.

At the beginning, there were only resurrection stones and an administrative hall, with the core of the settlement located inside the administrative hall.

Once the core is destroyed, the base will immediately turn into nothingness...

The teleportation array costs 50 gold coins and is a low-level one. It can be used once per second and can only be used by one person at a time.

Forget about the main city, it's not even as good as the starting village...

Soon, some players from the Zhang Group and the Dingguo Army also arrived.

"What are they here for?"

"The people I called over are all in secondary professions, so the construction speed can be faster."

It took four architects and a bunch of assistants nearly two hours to build the city wall.

"We don't have much money left, only enough to build seven arrow towers. Which side will you guard?"

Why are you asking that?

"You have two arrow towers over there, and five arrow towers elsewhere."

"I don't need them here. Would it be alright to put those two arrow towers at the entrance of the administration hall?"

"That's fine, but why put it here like this?"

"I checked the guild war interface. We can no longer declare war on lower-level guilds; we can only declare war on guilds based in our territory or higher-level guilds."

"Are you afraid they'll attack later?"

Yes!

"No, Zhong Wuyai, get this straight, even if you weren't here, who in Xianyang Palace could possibly defeat us right now?"

"It's hard to say. There are quite a few players with SS-level and S-level talents, as well as players from other empires. It's uncertain."

"What about their levels? Can they keep up? Are their equipment up to par?"

"Just in case, since I'll be leveling up very quickly later on. Once I'm inside the Tower of Babel, I'll basically stop paying attention to things here."

"That works too, but you'll guard the east gate with two guards, the west gate with three guards, and the two guards will be stationed in the administration hall."

"Three? Are you sure you can handle it?"

"The west side is full of monsters from Crescent Bay, including a legendary boss at level 70. It's water-based and has large area-of-effect skills, but you can still control it. The east side is a bit troublesome. The rest is manageable, but the Flame Dragon will attack the east gate. No one but you can withstand it. Also, it's uncertain whether the Thorn Flower Queen will attack."

"Alright, I'll go to the east gate. You can take care of the west gate."

"How about I sell the rest of the items? That way I can hire some level 80 NPC guards to help defend the city."

"No need, we'd be better off building more arrow towers."

Zhong Wuyai arrived at the city gate and looked at the information displayed there…

[Level 1 Stone City Gate]

Durability 5000/5000

Defense: 100

[Building Trait: Defense]: Reduces damage taken by 10%.

Hmm? ...At noon, I was looking at the description of the city gate. What if it were changed to 110%?

Or... a level 11 city gate?

"Hey, you over there, can this city gate be demolished?"

A deputy walked over.

"What's wrong, Guild Master Wuya? Don't you want this city gate anymore? Why are you tearing it down?"

"I mean, can it be dismantled?"

"Sure, but we'll lose half of our building materials."

Oh, I see... then it's alright.

Even if you dismantle the Stone Gate, you probably won't get much material. What if it's level 11?

Zhong Wuyai dragged 1 directly up, and then... the entire city gate changed dramatically.

The dark, gleaming light, with its intricate patterns, resembled the gate of a doomsday fortress.

Furthermore, there was an internal gate, and the outer door had three rows of barbs on its surface. It looked incredibly menacing.

However, compared to the stone wall next to it, it looks like a Boeing 747 engine mounted on a tractor.

The others stared blankly at the city gate, their faces filled with disbelief.

[Level 1 Steel Armor City Gate]

Durability: 120000

Defense: 3000

Spike damage: 1000

[Building Trait: Defense]: Reduces damage taken by 21.5%.

[Building Trait - Spikes]: When attacked, deals 1000 true damage to units around the spikes.

Let's leave it as is for now, without dismantling it.

Zhong Wuyai checked the time; there was still more than an hour left. He then rode Jiali to the West Gate.

With a speed boost of 59 points, Jia Li's speed reached 300 points, making Zhong Wuyai's speed seem like he was flying, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"Why did you come here? Are you worried about us?"

"No, I found something fun."

"What's fun?"

Zhong Wuyai didn't speak, but instead changed the building property of the level 1 stone gate to reduce damage taken by 110%.

That puts the matter at ease.

Level 2 Arrow Tower

Durability: 1000

Attack: 300

Defense: 150

Attack range: 100

[Building Trait: Attack]: Ignores defense and increases attack speed by 10%.

As usual, Zhong Wuyai placed 1 after 2.

Immediately afterwards, a purple light surrounded the arrow tower.

[Level 1 Magic Defense Tower]

Durability: 100000

Attack: 15000

Defense: 5000

Attack range: 280

[Building Characteristics - Attack]: Attacks ignore defense and increase damage by 10%.

[Building Effect - Defense]: Reduces damage taken by 15%.

That should solve the problem.

The magic defense tower that ignores defense is still quite powerful.

Shen Mengli didn't think too much about it. Because of the limited gold coins, she could only build level 2 defense towers. Upgrading would require a lot of resources and gold coins.

But even if all the equipment were auctioned off, it wouldn't be enough time; there simply wouldn't be enough time to build it.

Unexpectedly, the arrow tower next to Zhong Wuyai turned into a magic defense tower.

"How did you do that?"

How many times have you repeated this sentence?

"But you never told me that! If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered building a level 2 tower; I could have just built fifteen level 1 arrow towers!"

"Don't worry about it, it's enough as long as it's sufficient."

Three level 1 magic defense towers and a damage-immune city gate were still not enough for Zhong Wuyai, so he began to upgrade the stone walls.

The stone walls are divided into sections, each 10 meters long.

Zhong Wuyai upgraded each of them to the steel armor city wall.

Before a garrison even reached the town, it already had the walls of the main city.

Level 1 Steel Armor City Wall

Durability: 100000

Defense: 1500

[Building Trait - Defense]: Reduces damage taken by 15%.

[Building Shield]: Reduces damage by 80%. The shield disappears after the city gate is breached.

Zhong Wuyai moved very quickly, circling the camp and upgrading all the city walls to level 1 steel armor walls.

When we returned to the East Gate, the steel-armored city gate didn't look so awkward anymore.

But this arrow tower...

"Can the arrow tower be upgraded to level 3?"

"I'd like to too, but we don't have enough materials!"

"Take the other one apart!"

"That's such a waste. Besides, we don't have enough time."

"Don't worry about that, just listen to me."

Time? What a joke! With me standing here, what use is the arrow tower? It's just a decoration.

With 470,000 magic attack, a single Frost Spear deals over 100 million damage. If it crits, even a Flame Dragon would be instantly killed, so what can other monsters do?

"Then I'll have the architect from Blooming come; let's not let the other guilds participate."

"They're all just standing there like idiots, touching the metal sheets on the city wall..."

After Zhong Wuyai upgraded an arrow tower to a magic defense tower, he waited for the person who would bloom to arrive...

Upon hearing that the level 1 magic defense tower had been demolished, Hao Ren thought to himself, "Holy crap..."

[Ding! Monster siege begins. Xianyang Palace guild players, prepare yourselves!]

"Guild Master Wuya, are we really going to demolish this? This is a magic energy defense tower!"

"Just demolish it! Stop arguing! After you're done, use the materials to upgrade that arrow tower, upgrade it as much as you can!"

"But... but the monsters have already attacked, is it not appropriate to dismantle it now?"

"This is none of your business, hurry up and dismantle the tower!"

After saying that, Zhong Wuyai unleashed a blazing wave of energy into the distance!

Instantly, a large number of them were wiped out, and even at a great distance, the monster horde was torn apart.

They were all level 20 or 30 monsters. Although there were more of them, Zhong Wuyai's skills had a wider range.

After several waves of fiery energy, apart from a few monsters outside the attack range, all that remained on the ground at the East Gate were a large amount of materials and gold and silver coins.

You can still vaguely see a few rolls of things.

"Holy crap... I forgot about that!"

"Hey girl, find a few harmless people to come to the East Gate and collect the loot. They'll all be gone in a bit."

"No, the monsters are almost at the door, and you suddenly need people."

"I've finished here. There are materials all over the ground, and I think there are a few scrolls or something. If you don't want them, just leave them. It's no big deal to refresh them."

"Wait... are you done on your end?... You pervert~... I'll send someone right away~!"

Hao Ran was stunned when he saw Zhong Wuyai displaying his power. He had heard many legends about Zhong Wuyai, and they were getting more and more outrageous.

But when I saw it with my own eyes, I realized that those who exaggerated were actually being conservative.

Is this even human?

There's no limit to how outrageous things can get.

"Don't just stand there! Destroy the tower!"

"Oh, oh, oh~! Let's take it apart now~!"

Blooming Guild Channel...

"Guess what I'm doing?"

"What are you doing? Just watching the people from Xianyang Palace defend the city?"

"NO! NO! NO! ...The monsters are attacking! Guild Master Wuya ordered me to dismantle the magic defense towers at their base, the kind of magic defense towers that only exist in the main city."

"Holy crap... Are you crazy?"

"You son of a bitch, are you kidding me? The monsters are already at our doorstep, and you're going to take down the tower?"

"Magic defense tower, why don't you just say you're dismantling the capital's magic crystal cannons? Look at you, so capable!"

"I knew you wouldn't believe me."

Hao Ran then sent over screenshots of the tower being demolished...

Seeing that nearly half of the magic defense tower had already been destroyed, everyone in the Blooming Guild was dumbfounded...

"This...this is really a magic defense tower..."

"Wait, why demolish it out of the blue?... With such powerful attributes, how much would a magic defense tower cost to build?"

"I don't know what President Wuya is thinking either, I'll just do as he says~!"...

"Damn it, how could anyone make such a bizarre request?"

"This is worse than death. If my building level weren't so low, I would have gone to the East Gate. I could have gained so much building experience there."