My talent is 1.

Upon arriving at the west gate, three magic-powered defense towers were firing at full force.

Although the group from Xianyang Palace was very strong, there were too many monsters, and they were all actual monsters, including an 80-level bronze BOSS.

Zhong Wuyai quickly found Shen Mengli.

"So, can we hold out?"

"Of course, no problem~... Hey~ when did you get here?"

"Just got here!"

"The East Gate is abandoned? ...That makes sense. With the Divine and Demonic Defense Tower, aside from Epic and Legendary BOSSes, other monsters basically can't get in."

"We've finished fighting at the East Gate, and the Flame Dragon even dropped a scroll for the hidden class, Dragon Knight."

"So fast, you pervert~..."

"Alright, alright, there aren't any more bosses after this, right?"

"There are two more, one is a level 70 legendary BOSS, and the other is a level 70 epic BOSS."

"The level 80 bosses are all here, but the level 70 ones haven't even appeared yet?"

You'll see it soon.

The monsters attacking the city are all seafood, including king crabs that are thirty meters wide and have four claws.

There's also a lobster that's nearly fifty meters long. In my past life, I could eat that for a year!

"Girl, is this seafood safe to eat?"

"Aren't you disgusted? Look at that Tidal Crab King with its mouth wide open, drooling. I certainly have no appetite."

"Damn it, can we even collect these monster corpses?"

"Yes, but you can only gather ingredients; other materials will drop directly from the drop list."

"That works!"

Zhong Wuyai went straight out of the city to kill monsters. Upon seeing Zhong Wuyai's figure, some people immediately stopped.

With the boss here, there's basically nothing for me to do!

"You guys keep fighting, don't waste the double experience! Oh, and... don't touch those two big shrimp and that crab, I'll handle them!"

This time, instead of using fireballs, I used Frost Spears. Seafood is best preserved by freezing.

Although it was a BOSS and its level was very high, the moment the critical hit occurred, it was destined to become food.

Continue... Frost Spear! Chain Lightning... Frost Spear!

Soon, all three bosses were defeated.

"Where's the chef? Come over here and dig out the meat!"

Zhong Wuyai turned his head and focused his gaze on the Bronze BOSS.

【Azure Shark Guard】

Bronze BOSS

grade:???

Because it is humanoid, everything except the fins on its back has been transformed into arms.

"Looks like he's not going to get to eat shark fin soup."

Gatling gun fireball!

[Ding! You have defeated the Bronze BOSS, Azure Shark Guard, and gained 6220000 experience points. You also gained an additional 43540000 experience points for defeating a monster of a higher level.]

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Zhong Wuyai for achieving the first kill of the level 80 Bronze BOSS, Azure Shark Guard. Reward: 2000 Reputation Points, 5 Free Attribute Points]

"Huh?...They even have a first kill announcement?"

"Let's team up! There's a level 70 legendary boss, the first kill announcement is still up!"

Shen Mengli immediately panicked. She hadn't paid attention at first, but when the server-wide announcement appeared, she remembered that the level 80 bronze player had been there all along.

Now, only Gold and Legendary bosses remain among the level 70 bosses. We can't let the first kill of the level 70 Legendary boss slip by.

"You guys are joining the crew."

Chain Lightning! ...After forming a team, Zhong Wuyai unleashed Chain Lightning to clear the monsters.

When you're close to the target, Chain Lightning is quite useful, as it can attack 210 units at once. In open areas, it's even better than Rain of Fire.

Soon, all the monsters were eliminated.

A large whirlpool appeared on the distant sea, and gradually, swarms of shrimp soldiers and crab generals rushed towards the camp.

The monsters are mostly tidal crocodiles, deep-sea giant eels, and lobsters.

The BOSS is a starfish-shaped giant with many tentacles.

Kraken

Legendary BOSS

grade:???

The tentacles were about ten meters long and it was quite large. Fortunately, it couldn't fly, otherwise, just the weight of that thing hitting it would have meant rebuilding the entire base.

Zhong Wuyai didn't dare to get too close. He heard from Bai Xiaoniu that this BOSS's skills were ranged. Apart from its own Flaming Wave, all other skills could only be used when it was within the attack range.

Zhong Wuyai rode Jiali to the seaside at high speed, and hurriedly spread out the fire rain. After spreading one layer, he retreated and continued to spread the fire rain.

The monsters that came ashore were burned to death after only a few steps.

With a duration of 81 seconds, almost no monsters can withstand the damage from the fire rain and advance.

The epic boss was the first to reach the shore.

Badia, the Deep-Sea Whale

Epic BOSS

grade:???

Badia was very large, nearly ten meters tall when standing. Except for its head and the fin on its back, which resembled a whale, its limbs and other features were almost humanoid.

This guy's attacks have a stun effect; even his basic attacks have a 50% chance to stun. We absolutely must not let him get close.

A blazing shockwave! "Kaira, get ready, unleash Tidal Vortex!"

The attack range of deep-sea monsters is relatively long. Although Zhong Wuyai is immune to damage and control, it would be bad if his skills hit other people.

Timing it perfectly with Badia's movement speed, Kayla immediately retreated after releasing Tidal Vortex.

At the fourth second, Badia was trapped by the tidal vortex.

Zhong Wuyai immediately ran over and unleashed a chain lightning attack on Badia.

The surrounding monsters were also paralyzed.

Zhong Wuyai didn't stop there; after unleashing two Gatling fireballs, he immediately released a chain lightning attack...

The minions and the boss all fell to the ground.

It's easy to fight, but only for Zhong Wuyai.

The people from Xianyang Palace fought the level 50-60 monsters for a long time but couldn't finish them off. The boss was fought entirely by Shen Mengli, Shen Youchu, and Chen Wenyu.

Everyone else was clearing out the smaller monsters, and only after clearing out a portion of them were people sent to the BOSS.

After Zhong Wuyai arrived, he cleared out all the monsters, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After Badia died, only the Kraken remained.

After seeing the Kraken up close, Zhong Wuyai was reminded of the sea monster in Pirates of the Caribbean, with its barbed fangs that looked disgusting.

As the duration of the Rain of Flames gradually ended, Kraken's health bar was around 70 million, but it lost over 10 million health when the Corruption debuff was triggered.

A barrage of fireballs!

"Boom boom boom boom~..."

The expressions of everyone in Xianyang Palace were increasingly strange. They had been tense while defending the city, with Xiang Yang assigning manpower, Yang Yimu commanding the team, and the top combatants responsible for the BOSS.

The monster siege proceeded smoothly until the level 70 and 80 bosses appeared, bringing with them countless smaller monsters, at which point some teams began to panic.

But since Zhong Wuyai, it just felt like... it ended without me even noticing... less than two minutes in total, and even the BOSS was taken care of.

[Ding! Defeat the level 70 legendary boss Kraken...]

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to players Zhong Wuyai, Shen Mengli, Shen Youchu... for their team's first kill of the level 70 legendary boss Kraken! Reward: 15000 Reputation, 1 Legendary Gift Box]

"Yay~...a legendary gift box!"

[Ding! The city defense battle has ended. Congratulations on successfully establishing your base.]

[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to Xianyang Palace Guild on successfully establishing its base! All members will receive 1 resurrection attempt, 10 guild resource chests, and the base will be upgraded to a town.]

[Ding! Your base has been upgraded to a town. Please name the town.]

Chang'an

Zhong Wuyai didn't even hesitate and directly typed in the two characters "Chang'an".

[World Announcement: Congratulations on upgrading Xianyang Palace's outpost to a town! You will be rewarded with 1 random building blueprint]

Next, we'll upgrade Chang'an Town to Chang'an City. It might consume a lot of resources, but we can obtain resources by dismantling arrow towers…

[Ding~Ding~Ding~……] A whole bunch of message notifications.

Zhong Wuyai glanced at it; it was all congratulations and the like.

When did I get so many friends?

Many people don't even remember adding each other as friends.

"Bai Xiaoniu, come here. Call over all the people in the various professions, and also the people from the Blooming Sect."

"What are you doing?"

"Tear down the walls, demolish all the walls and iron gates and rebuild them."

"Huh?...Are you crazy?!"

"Get lost. Just demolish it when I tell you to, stop talking nonsense. By the way, don't waste the demolished resources. Store them first, and when rebuilding, build all level 3 and 4 walls and gates."

"What exactly do you want to do? There are still many shops and houses in the area that haven't been built yet, and there are many places where money will be spent."

"Don't worry about that, just do what I'm told!"

Why isn't this woman using her brain at a time like this? Didn't she realize I was farming resources...?

Shen Mengli didn't understand at first, but after seeing the God and Demon Defense Tower, she seemed to realize something and immediately gave the order.

The city walls and gates were manageable, and the Demon Soul Defense Towers could be dismantled quickly by a few people, but...

A level 5 arrow tower transforms into a God/Demon Defense Tower at level 51; it cannot be demolished and can only be destroyed.

This presented Zhong Wuyai with a dilemma, as the city wall beneath the base hadn't even been topped out yet...

However, I didn't pay too much attention to it. The resources from dismantling the steel armor walls and steel frame gates were enough to directly build level 8 or even level 9 walls and gates.

Zhong Wuyai certainly wouldn't dare to go that far. If it turned into a temple, he'd be doomed. This wasn't equipment that could be stored in a bag.

They might just disappear completely, even their base might be blown away.

The group of architects naturally had no objections. Demolishing so many high-rise buildings would give them enough experience to be promoted to intermediate architect.

Zhang Haitao, who had just stepped out of the teleportation array, was dumbfounded... What... what happened?

The surrounding area was bare, with only seven or eight deputies building city walls in the distance...

"Could it be that the entire siege was destroyed?... That shouldn't be the case; the scene just showed armored walls a moment ago?"

"Vice President Shen, what's going on here...?"

"Who knows what got into that bastard that insisted on tearing it down and rebuilding it?"

Zhang Haitao opened his mouth, unsure what to say... Goodness, this is extravagant! Even building a base is done like this...

Of course, Zhang Haitao didn't forget the purpose of his visit...

"The video of the monster siege..."

"Yes, but I don't think it would be very useful to you!"

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"See for yourself."

Zhang Haitao was speechless after watching the recording. Couldn't Zhong Wuyai have just refrained from taking action? Now there's not even a point of comparison...

Fortunately, we can still learn from the previous battles.

Of course, this can only be used as a reference; they don't have ten-star equipment, let alone the Five Elements and Four Symbols.

Then Zhong Wuyai unleashed a barrage of fireballs in a second, instantly killing the BOSS with a single skill that unleashed countless fireballs...

Zhang Haitao himself wanted to bring people into Xianyang Palace, but the people in Xianyang Palace were just there for show and didn't contribute much.

"I also want to be a 'passive winner'~"

"I don't think you need to rush to build a base. Level 50 players need to be at least 200 to defend it. Of course, if that guy is willing to help, you can just drag the main monster away."

"What about the garrison order? Has it been leaked yet?"

"I got two loot here, and the other side hasn't been tallied yet. But do you have that many gold coins right now?"

"I don't have any, but the Li, Ye, and Zhang families do, and they've already paid the deposit!"

"How much did they offer?"

"50 each!"

"Too few. Fixed price of 80 per coin. It won't go down or up. If you accept, then let's make a deal."

"Isn't this... a bit too expensive?"

"Expensive? ... Our territory tokens are all dropped by level 70 epic and legendary bosses. If you can beat them, go ahead and fight them. Anyway, no one else besides Xianyang Palace will be selling territory tokens for the next six months."

Building a base is expensive, but the returns are also high. Whether it's a main city or a village, all shops belong to NPCs. Except for a few special talents who can obtain one or two shops, everyone else can only be a consumer.

The outpost is different; the entire outpost building belongs to the player, and apart from the 15% tax, there are almost no other costs.

In areas like Chang'an Town, surrounded by resources and monster spawn points, the profits from teleportation arrays alone are enormous.

Even if he only charges 3 gold coins per person for each teleportation, Zhong Wuyai can still make a profit.

Therefore, Shen Mengli knew the price of the garrison token clearly and didn't give Zhang Haitao any room to bargain. If it weren't for the fact that she had a long-term cooperation with Zhang Haitao and had a large number of star-up stones to deal with, she would have directly set the price at 100 million.

Zhang Haitao hesitated for a moment, then decided to buy one for himself first. If other families wanted it, he could resell it to them; if not, he could keep it for himself. In any case, the price of this thing would definitely not drop in the short term.

"Okay, Vice President Shen, please wait a moment. I'll go raise some money to buy a residence permit. I'll contact you again once there's any indication of a change in policy."

"Alright."

……

What is Zhang Haitao doing here?

"Buy a garrison permit!"

"I almost forgot, but I still have a few left. How much did he offer?"

"Several major families offered 500,000 gold coins each, but I raised my offer to 800,000 gold coins."

"If we can sell it for 500,000, we'll sell it!"

"Hey, get this straight, it's worth a million and we won't have trouble selling it, what's the rush?"

"Aren't we short of money? Besides, the value of a garrison token is definitely going to drop, and drop drastically at that."

Why?

"Don't you see how difficult it is to defend a city? Without me, do you really think those arrow towers, city gates, and walls would be of any use? Could they even hold the city?"

"Have you forgotten that this is a problem with the location we chose? If you were in the open area east of Thousand Peaks Mountain, there would be at most one level 70 epic boss, and it's unknown whether there would be any level 70 mobs."

"Um... I haven't considered that."

"Furthermore, even if they buy now, they'll have to wait more than two months or even longer. Otherwise, their level will be a problem, and it won't just be one or two, it will be a whole group. There's also the equipment gap. How many guilds do you think would be willing to buy now? 500,000 and 1 million are actually the same. It's all about the big players buying. Those who want to buy don't care about the price, and those who don't want to buy think 500,000 is too much."

"But the monsters I'll be fighting later will definitely be in the Disaster Dungeon and Frosty Wind State. I'll have more and more Garrison Orders after that. I dare not say more, but I'll definitely have three to five hundred."

"If that's the case, then we really need to make a move sooner rather than later..."

How many do you have?

"Two of them, what's wrong?"

Give it to me!

Shen Mengli didn't hesitate and handed over the garrison order directly.

Zhong Wuyai looked at his package; there were 7 items, plus these two, making a total of 9.

After all, we've killed so many level 70, 80, and even 90 bosses, and they were all first-time drops, so it's not surprising that we have so many.

After thinking for a moment, Zhong Wuyai decided to drag the number 1 up; there was no point in adding more of it.

By the time they reach level 50, they'll have accumulated a fortune. But by then, it won't matter how much they've saved up, as not many guilds can afford it.

Moreover, with all 91 garrison tokens sold out, there are very few guilds left in the Azure Dragon Empire capable of establishing garrisons.

"Here, take all of these. Sell them if the price is right; there's no point in keeping them!"

"This...you...how did you get here?...Tell me!"

"Stop asking that kind of question!"

"Oh, I was just curious!"

"Instead of wasting time on this, I'd rather make more money and resources. I'm planning to upgrade Chang'an Town to Chang'an City."

"That's still a long way off; it will take at least six months to accumulate the resources."

How much resource is left for demolishing buildings?

"We could rebuild it twice more on the current scale."

"Look, are we still lacking resources?"

Shen Mengli immediately realized, this... really is...

The city walls and arrow towers that cost millions of gold coins to build have all been upgraded in the blink of an eye... and a new God and Demon Defense Tower has also been added.

"That, that defensive tower..."

"We have as much as we need, as long as we have enough resources!"

"But we don't have enough gold coins. We need gold coins to build these things."

"Sell the rest of the +10 equipment!"

"It's a bit of a shame. A +10 upgrade is hard to come by, and these attributes are all pretty high-quality. Aren't you worried that once their combat power increases, they might have other ideas?"

"Then I might still have some expectations. To be honest, right now, apart from the people from the Demon Dragon Empire who are openly challenging me, players from other countries in the Azure Dragon Empire are all keeping their distance from me. It's not interesting at all."

"Okay, okay... you're amazing, alright?"

"They've all been auctioned off. If I don't have enough money, I'll make two more."

"It can't be ten stars, can it...?"

"How could that be? Ten-star ones are for internal use only. Don't tell anyone about your fully tempered one."

"Okay!"

"By the way, does Chen Wenyu only have two pieces of equipment?"

"You just remembered? Chen Wenyu has hundreds of thousands of HP, but he doesn't even have level 50 equipment."

"Make him two pieces of equipment that he can use. I have plenty of gold materials. Just come and take whatever you need."

"Why don't you go and do it?"

"I still need to figure out a solution for the city walls and gates."

"Okay~..."

It took several hours to demolish all the steel walls, leaving two level 4 stone gates surrounded by level 3 stone walls.

Zhong Wuyai waited for the skills to cool down before starting to level them up one by one...

[Level 1 Magic Barrier]

Durability: 6000000

Defense: 250000

[Building Trait - Defense]: Reduces all damage by 60%, and reduces the attacking unit's all attributes by 50% for 3 seconds after being attacked.

[Building Characteristics - Formation]: After being attacked, it reflects 150000 damage back to the target.

[Building Shield]: Reduces all damage by 99%, disappears after the city gate is breached.

[Barrier Gate]

Durability: 120000000

Defense: 500000

[Building Trait - Defense]: Reduces all damage by 80%. After being attacked, the target cannot attack the barrier gate again for 3 attack seconds.

[Building Trait - Damage]: Units that attack the barrier gate will take 60% damage.

[Building Feature - Barrier]: When attacked, deploys a 100% durable shield. Targets with a shield radius of 20 share the damage with the barrier gate. Duration is 1 minute, cooldown is 5 minutes.

[Building Characteristics - Domain]: After being attacked, a spacetime domain with a radius of 50 is deployed. Allied units within the domain receive 50% increased damage and 30% reduced damage taken.

This city wall was upgraded a bit too early; it should have been upgraded to level 4... But, it's okay to demolish it now, which will be a good opportunity to replenish resources.

Then Zhong Wuyai was promoted in front, while his deputy was demolished behind.

Everyone was stunned. How could a level 4 stone gate suddenly become a barrier gate?

And this height... and this size, is this really the kind of facade a small town could have?

The level 3 stone wall was transformed into a level 1 magic array barrier, although I don't know how my guild leader managed to do it.

But once these barriers are dismantled, everyone will be roughly a high-level architect, or even an advanced engineer...

After all the level 1 magic array barriers were dismantled, Zhong Wuyai ordered them to build level 4 stone walls.

Most people had guessed some of it, but some couldn't believe it...

"Boss, this can upgrade buildings, and by many levels!"

"Is it a bug?"

"There are no bugs in the fantasy world, it's obviously all about talent."

"That's for sure! Just look at Wei Chuizi, he has a hidden class and ten-star equipment!"

"Holy crap, does that mean the boss's talent can be farmed indefinitely?"

"Shh...don't talk. It's not good to keep this to yourself if others find out."

"Of course, I understand!"...

After finishing the two city gates and walls, Zhong Wuyai started working on the teleportation array.

However, the teleportation array's maximum level was only 10, so Zhong Wuyai didn't dare to upgrade it and directly upgraded it from level 1 to level 11.

[Interdimensional Portal]

Affiliation: Chang'an Town (Site of Xianyang Palace)

It can establish connections with other teleportation portals and arrays, with low teleportation costs, and can perform one-way cross-regional teleportation per month.

Currently marked teleportation points: 199

Currently accessible teleportation area: Azure Dragon Empire Capital

Zhong Wuyai stared blankly at the teleportation array for a moment. What on earth was this "cross-territory" thing?

After opening the teleportation array, Zhong Wuyai was so excited he almost jumped up.

Cross-border... As the name suggests, it allows teleportation across national borders, but it's only a one-way trip, and the teleportation area is currently limited to border fortresses.

This is really interesting.

There was also a building blueprint in the guild warehouse. Zhong Wuyai's eyes lit up when he clicked on it... This looked even more fun...