This was a portal-type lair, and it seemed to be connected to a secondary plane. This type of lair mostly produced creatures through summoning, using equivalent exchange to summon creatures to serve the summoner. Brando looked at the portal of light, and took out two secondary moon crystals from the Dimension Hole and threw them in. Sure enough, the Time Vortex lit up, and a small head poked out from it.
It was like a three-inch-tall little person, or rather, a scaled down young girl. She had long curly hair and was covered in clothes as thin as a cicada's wings. Her entire body glowed, and although she had no wings, she could agilely hover in the air.
She looked outside from the vortex, then flew to Brando and the others and said respectfully, "Hello, my lord." Her voice was thin, and her accent was a little strange, as if she was a foreigner speaking Cruz.
As the girl spoke, she looked at everyone curiously, but she was not afraid.
"The lord she's talking about is the master of a magic territory, similar to your human lord, but different. In the eyes of magic creatures, only those who have power are natural lords, and they don't agree with titles. "Metisha explained to Scarlet and Roman.
"Oh." Roman nodded, but it was not clear if he understood.
Brando nodded. Unlike Scarlet and the others, he was no stranger to magic creatures because of his experience in the game, so he asked directly, "What's your name, what kind of creature are you, and what abilities do you have?"
"My name is Monica." The girl put her hand on her chest and introduced herself, "We are light spirits, the people of light entrusted to protect this sacred land. Our ability is to nurture this World Tree Fortress."
"World Tree Fortress?" Brando frowned. For some reason, he was very familiar with this name, as if he had heard it somewhere before. But thinking about it carefully, he did not know if this memory came from the game or the myths and legends of this world.
"The World Tree Fortress, or in your words, Lord, you can call it Valhalla. However, Valhalla is actually the name of the second World Tree Fortress. This is the third and last one." Monica replied.
"What second and third? What exactly is a World Tree Fortress?" Brando could not help but ask.
"I don't know about that, my Lord. Our knowledge comes from the inheritance of magic. That's what my memories say. This tree is the most basic form of the World Tree Fortress. That's all I know."
Brando nodded again. What Monica said was not strange. Many of the knowledge passed down in the bloodline were just words and phrases. However, this was only a casual question. He was more concerned about Valhalla's growth potential.
"Your ability is to nurture this tree. How do you do that?"
"The World Tree grows slowly once it sprouts. Think of us as gardeners pruning the branches of the tree, my lord," Monique replied.
Brando understood. "So, you are the workers of this town, right?"
Monica nodded. "You can put it that way. We can help you build this city according to your wishes, Sir Overlord."
"Then what can you build now?"
"I can't do it alone, my Lord. The Light Spirits are not omnipotent! I need more of my people to work with me. If there is one, two, or three Light Spirits, I can help my Lord build the Tree Nest. "
"Tree Nest?" Brando did not understand. He was very familiar with the order of construction in the Kingdom of Erouine, such as the nobles' barracks and blacksmiths. He had also seen some high-end buildings, but he had never heard of such a term. "What is that?"
"The Tree Nest can cultivate the Ancient Tree Roots. They are the most basic defense of the World Tree. Their strength is about the pinnacle of Silver-tier, but they cannot leave the World Tree. My lord, you can see them as mobile fortifications, or the guards of this town."
"In addition, the Ents and the World Tree are actually one. They are a part of the World Tree, so they do not need the Mana Pool to provide them with power. The Tree Nest can be built in this square or on the top of the Tree Crown. It does not need the Mana Pool, "Monica added.
"A part of the World Tree?" Brando felt that this sounded like the Rotten Beasts of the Golden Demonic Tree, but he was still very interested in the Tree Nest that did not need the Mana Pool. Although they could not leave the World Tree, they could be used for defense. After all, they were guards at the peak of Silver. "How many of these guards can the Tree House create?"
"With the current space of the World Tree, it can at most accommodate one, two, three, four Tree Nests, and each Tree Nest can produce one, two, three … … ten Roots, my Lord." Monica calculated seriously.
Forty, that was not enough. He was a little disappointed. If there were a hundred of them, he could rely on Valhalla without any worries. But when he thought about it, Valhalla was only the size of a palm, and the city hall was already a little cramped. Even if there were a hundred or a thousand guards, there would not be enough space to fit them.
Thinking of this, he asked again, "Valhalla … … I mean, this World Tree, how can it continue to grow?"
Monica replied, "That's the mission of the Light Spirits. Our mission is to nurture the growth of the World Tree. However, if it's just Monica alone, it will take one, two, three …"
"Wait, don't count, just tell me how many years it will take." When Brando heard Monica counting to forty with her fingers, he finally could not help but sweat. He was afraid that this little girl would keep counting until the sky turned dark.
"How do you know how many years it will take if you don't count?" Monica stared at Brando with her eyes wide open, seriously wondering if her Lord was an idiot to ask such a stupid question.
Brando immediately knelt down. The two of them haggled for a long time, and finally understood that if she were to cultivate the World Tree alone, it would take two hundred years.
"Two hundred years!" Scarlett was shocked when she heard this number. As a standard mortal, two hundred years was a little hard for her to accept. That was almost the time of a mortal's life.
"That is to say, as long as you have two hundred people, Monica, you can shorten the time to one year, right?" Brando had his own set of calculations. After all, four hundred Moon Crystals was not an unacceptable price for him.
"Let me calculate … …"
"Don't calculate yet, just tell me yes or no." Brando was sweating profusely again. In the previous discussion, he had discovered that the Light Spirits did not only count to ten, but they seemed to like to do things by the book and did not like to save steps.
"Alright then, but if we have to complete it within a year, we won't be able to spare time to help Lord Brendel build other buildings." Monica thought for a moment and answered.
However, this was not a problem for Brando. He could pay more Light Spirits to help him build his territory. But just as this idea formed, Monica saw through it and immediately shattered Brando's fantasy.
"My Lord, there is a limit to the number of Light Spirits that can pass through the portal. Are you thinking of summoning thousands of Light Spirits to help Monica?"
"Limit?" Brando's daydream was shattered like a mirror falling to the ground. He never thought that there was such a setting. "What is the limit?"
"The Light Vortex can only withstand one, two, three … … twenty energy transitions per month."
"That's twenty?"
Monica nodded.
Twenty a month. Just summoning two hundred Light Spirits would take ten months, which meant that it would take at least a year and a half for the World Tree to grow to the next stage. Brando suddenly felt a little disillusioned. He did not have that much time. He thought that Valhalla Fortress would become his main force in a short period of time.
But fortunately, Monica's next words gave him a glimmer of hope. She said that the portal could be expanded, but the prerequisite was to build a Moon Tower in Valhalla.
Brando knew about the Moon Tower. It was a type of auxiliary building to the Mage Tower, and its function was to train Astrologers. In the game, Astrologers were actually a type of wizard. Their ability was prophecy, and at the same time, they were proficient in channeling mana.
Astrologers could change the location of mana gathering points, or use the Moon Tower to channel mana from the Mana Pool into the Lair, increasing the production of creatures in the Lair, or increasing the efficiency of the Alchemy Laboratory.
This was their function in the game, and Monika wanted to use the first function of the Moon Tower. Even though he did not know if the stats in the game would work here, but since a native like Monika said that it would work, and Medissa did not object, then there should be no problem.
A Moon Tower could strengthen three other buildings. Although the Moon Tower itself required a location for a Mana Pool, its effect was equivalent to dividing the Mana Pool into three. In the past, it was not a rare building in the game. However, Brando felt that he would be the first to build a Moon Tower in a beginner's territory.
Normally, Lord-class players would either build a Wizard Tower or a Crystal Pool. Very few would even build Lairs, let alone a Moon Tower. Although Brando had never been a Lord-class player, he felt that it was too strange.
However, with the Moon Tower, the production of the Light Vortex could be increased to forty. Brando was very optimistic about the growth of Valhalla. After all, the title of the most legendary territory in The Amber Sword was not given by him. He saw Valhalla as his biggest potential support in the future. As long as this fortress could be revived faster, it did not matter how much he invested.
And so, Brando used the remaining Secondary Moon Crystals to summon the remaining nineteen Light Spirits. He did not know what kind of bad taste the designer had, but the Light Spirit race did not seem to have any males. All the Light Spirits that were summoned were all small and soft girls. They were like real fairies, chattering non-stop. In a short while, the hall of Yggdrasil was as lively as Erouine's most prosperous market.
Brando and the others could not help but feel a headache when they saw the noisy Light Orbs flying all over the sky. He could imagine how 'lively' the city of trees would be when there were thousands or even tens of thousands of such residents in the future. In fact, he doubted that the other residents of the city would be able to sleep at night.
At the same time, he also asked Monika about the other abilities of the Light Spirits. He learned that it would take about a week for the twenty sisters to build a Moon Tower. This was not considered slow. The construction of a Moon Tower required the magical power of a Wizard. If Brando only relied on the help of The Shire, his apprentices, and half-baked Warlocks, it would take at least two to three months. This was also the estimated construction time of his Wizard Tower.
At the same time, apart from the Tree Burrow, the Light Spirits would also build two special buildings that belonged to Valhalla. The Valuren Warrior Hall and the Wind Archers Camp.
Brando had never heard of these two buildings before, but according to Monika, these two buildings were the core of Valhalla's ability to preserve Valhalla's Heroic Spirits. Thus, Brando guessed that these two buildings would be used to train these two special units. Since Monika said that these two buildings did not require a Mana Pool, he would definitely put them on the agenda.
After all, this was the main reason why he needed Valhalla.
The Valuren Warrior Hall would take ten Light Spirits a month to build, and the Wind Archers Camp would take less time, but it would still take three weeks. Brando planned to build the Warrior Hall in the plaza, directly opposite the City Hall, while the Wind Archers would be able to use the second floor of Valhalla. The Tree Burrow would be built on top of the canopy, and it would take up all the space available in Valhalla.
Just as he finished his calculations, he raised his head and saw Felaern walking in with a few people. Behind her was Lord Macsen's second son, Carglise, who was the captain of Macsen's personal guard, and two other tall Tree Elf girls with longbows on their backs.
Carglise walked around the hall of the World Tree, looking around curiously like a monkey. He did not look like a noble at all. However, the two Elven girls weren't much different. They looked at the Tree Hall with astonishment.
The Tree Elves had never seen such an architectural style outside of the Green Tower, which was similar to their hometown.
However, when Brando saw Carglise and the Tree Elves together, the first thing that came to his mind was whether Bosley and Tamar had made any progress.
(Author's Note: Didn't we agree on two chapters, but each chapter is 4000 words? Oh my god. Why don't we release two chapters this month? Or maybe we can vote on it? The options are: A one chapter, B one chapter, C one chapter, D one chapter.) (Author's Note: To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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