Inside the dilapidated Defensive Magic Tower, Shifeng used the Fortress Token to call up the tower's system interface.
Sure enough, repairing them won't be easy. Shifeng was astonished when he saw the system interface.
Repairing one of the four Defensive Magic Towers would cost 80,000 Magic Crystals and 30 units of Seven Luminaries Crystal.
Repairing all four Defensive Magic Towers would cost 320,000 Magic Crystals and 120 units of Seven Luminaries Crystal.
Ling Yi could afford the cost of Magic Crystals. After all, he had a complete Magic Crystal vein and an Attribute vein. His ability to collect Magic Crystals far surpassed that of ordinary superpowers. However, Seven Luminaries Crystal wasn't so easy to obtain.
Although Seven Luminaries Crystal could be obtained from certain Team Dungeons and locations, the drop-rate was shockingly low. Otherwise, the various superpowers wouldn't have offered astronomical prices for them.
Even now, Ling Yi only had 200 units of Seven Luminaries Crystal in his stockpile. If he wanted to repair all four Defensive Magic Towers, he'd have to use up more than half of his stockpile.
Gritting his teeth, Shifeng chose to repair all four Defensive Magic Towers.
The Defensive Magic Towers were unique to Medium Fortresses in the World Tower. Their main purpose wasn't just to create a defensive magic barrier. Their main purpose was to gather Mana and act as a teleportation point for Return Scrolls.
Inside the World Tower, players couldn't use Return Scrolls as they pleased to teleport back to their town or Guild Residence.
Players had to rely on their legs to teleport!
Of course, players could also use Mounts or Flying Mounts, but using Return Scrolls was much more troublesome. This was especially true when it came to Stamina usage. After all, players needed to conserve a certain amount of Stamina during the return journey.
Meanwhile, the Defensive Magic Tower could resist a portion of World Power's suppression, allowing players to connect Return Scrolls to the Defensive Magic Tower. This way, even if players were inside the World Tower, they could use Return Scrolls to return to the Defensive Magic Tower.
Although the Defensive Magic Tower's effects were only effective on the same floor, it was still a favorite of the majority of players. After all, every floor of the World Tower was massive, and it was rather inconvenient for players to travel back and forth.
Because of this, Medium Fortresses in the World Tower were far more profitable than Small Fortresses.
Moreover, aside from earning a ton of money from players, players could also rely on the Defensive Magic Towers to earn money from NPC merchants in Medium Fortresses. After all, the Defensive Magic Towers provided a significant boost to a fortress's Defense. To NPC merchants who did not like to take risks, the Defensive Magic Towers were the standard for entering a fortress.
There was a world of difference between earning money from players and earning money from NPC merchants.
Dragonheart City's currency was Ancient Gold, but players generally used Ancient Copper and Ancient Silver. Very few used Ancient Gold. Hence, even though Thirteen Thrones had built a fortress in the Gravity Mountain Range, it still earned very little Ancient Gold.
However, it was a different story for NPC merchants. Since they rented the fortress's Shops, they paid in Ancient Gold. In other words, the more NPC merchants visited the fortress, the more Ancient Gold they would earn.
Currently, the Shifeng desperately needed Ancient Gold. Moreover, after killing the Ancient Demon Undead King, the Shifeng longed for Ancient Gold.
Generally, fortress Bosses only dropped average items. This was evident from the Mythic ranked Undead General. After all, compared to the Boss's loot, the fortress itself was the greatest reward.
However, aside from dropping the Fortress Management Token, the Ancient Demon Undead King had also dropped an extremely valuable item.
It was the Freedom Hotel's Construction Design!
When the Shifeng saw this construction design, for a moment, they thought their eyes were playing tricks on them.
The Freedom Hotel!
The Freedom Hotel was one of God's Domain's Peak Towns and Cities. Not even Fragmented Legendary items could compare to its construction design.
After all, one of the conditions for a Guild City's promotion to a Main City was to have a Peak Building. To put it simply, a Peak Building's Construction Design was the equivalent of a Main City.
If the Freedom Hotel was completed, Stone Forest City would most likely become an Intermediate City.
There was a massive difference between an Intermediate City and a Basic City's entry into a Level 100 neutral map and a Basic City's entry into a Tier 3 neutral map.
Of course, constructing a Peak Building was extremely difficult. The required materials were all super-rare in God's Domain. Moreover, some of these materials couldn't be stored in a bag space.
For example, the incomparably precious Origin Stones!
Origin Stones were extremely rare in God's Domain. Normally, one could only find them on God's Domain's black markets. Moreover, a single Origin Stone cost 8,000 Ancient Gold. Meanwhile, the construction of the Freedom Hotel required three Origin Stones and many other materials. All in all, the total cost was at least 40,000 Ancient Gold.
Moreover, aside from constructing the Freedom Hotel, mining the Gravity Mountain Range's rare ore vein required a lot of Ancient Gold.
Mining in the World Tower wasn't as difficult as mining in the World Tower. Players could simply mine the ore once they reached the tower. There were countless monsters in the Gravity Mountain Range, especially at night. Even an expert team would suffer a team-wipe if they weren't careful. Basically, any ore vein was a monster nest.
Mining in small quantities wouldn't be a problem, but to mine in large quantities, one would need to construct a mine and defensive tower. Both of these costs required Ancient Gold.
If Ling Yi wanted to develop rapidly, he couldn't do without Ancient Gold.
Time passed quickly. Just as the Shifeng finished clearing out the Northern Fortress's mobs and repairing the various structures, the crisp sound of a system notification suddenly echoed in everyone's minds.
Gravity Mountain Range Region System Announcement: Congratulations to the War Blood adventurer team for successfully conquering the Rock Nest Fortress. The adventurer team's Popularity in Dragonheart City has increased by 5,000 points. War Blood has become the Lord of the Rock Nest Fortress.
The system announcement repeated three times, causing a commotion in the Gravity Mountain Range once more.
"What?! How long has it been since Ling Yi captured the Northern Fortress? War Blood has already claimed the Rock Nest Fortress?! "
"War Blood sure is ruthless. It has already claimed two fortresses in one region. Ling Yi will have a hard time monopolizing the Gravity Mountain Range. Moreover, the Rock Nest Fortress is a necessary route to the northern region. With this, even if Ling Yi obtains the Northern Fortress, he'll lose a lot of profits."
"That's nothing. War Blood has just joined forces with several of Dragonheart Island's top ten adventurer teams to seal off the Gravity Mountain Range's northern region. War Blood has also declared that anyone who cooperates with Ling Yi will become War Blood's enemy if they head to the Northern Fortress."
"How ruthless! With this, even if Ling Yi obtains the Rock Nest Fortress, he won't have a way out of Dragonheart City. "
"He can't blame anyone for this. After all, Ling Yi offended so many of Dragonheart Island's powers in the past."
Due to War Blood's success in capturing the Rock Nest Fortress, the players in the Gravity Mountain Range were shocked by War Blood's speed and decisiveness. None of them had thought that Zero Wing, which had just made a name for itself in Dragonheart City, would be so mercilessly crushed by War Blood.
"Big Sis Rain, what should we do now?" Blue Phoenix asked, her complexion ashen as she read the message she had just received. "Because of War Blood's words, the players that had planned to visit our Northern Fortress no longer dare to do so."
Maintaining a fortress wasn't easy. It required a large number of players to defend it for a long time. Moreover, the fortress's main source of income was players. If no players were willing to visit the Northern Fortress, they'd be lucky if they didn't suffer losses.
"How did they capture the Rock Nest Fortress so quickly?" Phoenix Rain's expression darkened.
Although she had long since known that War Blood intended to capture the Rock Nest Fortress, she hadn't expected it to happen so quickly.
"Guild Leader, should we attack them?" Shiuse Qiangwei asked coldly when he read the message.
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