All upgraded, new members in the territory! (5400)

Cao Xing exclaimed, "Meat of this Epic quality is hard currency even in the later stages."

"The remaining 170,000 portions will be enough for me to use for a long time!"

"Once Fizz Walker sends the resources over, I can let all the soldiers breakthrough to Tier 5, and then deal with the Ancient Battlefield."

"That way, the experience points won't be wasted either."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing became even more satisfied.

After carefully confirming there was nothing left to do.

Cao Xing prepared to return to the Lord's Castle to rest for a while.

For the past month during the Battle of the Oracle, Cao Xing had just set up a tent and slept on the crystal ground.

Now, he could finally return to his little nest and sleep comfortably.

Pushing open the doors of the Lord's Castle, the environment inside was brand new once again.

The spacious hall on the first floor was the epitome of luxury.

A huge crystal chandelier hung overhead, emitting a soft light that illuminated the entire hall.

The marble floor was black and white, covered with a layer of soft carpet.

Many sculptures and crafts were placed in the corners, and there was a roaring fireplace and oil paintings in the wall corners.

Cao Xing exclaimed, "How magnificent! My Lord's Castle is now even more gorgeous than Winston's Earl's Mansion!"

Who could have thought that such a gorgeous castle had been upgraded step by step from a dilapidated stone house?

His heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Looking around, on the side of the hall, there was a spiral staircase with wrought iron railings.

Following the stairs up, he reached the second-floor rest area, which was filled with a quiet and elegant atmosphere.

The warm fire crackled in the fireplace, and the warm white curtains and wooden furniture added a touch of coziness.

The specially made windows were like picture frames, clearly showing the Pale Tree swaying in the wind outside.

The leaves rustled, creating a wonderful harmony with the tranquility of the room.

"This design is not bad; I can see the beautiful scenery from inside the room. Even some nobles cannot compare to the current quality of life."

"This is the life a Lord should have!"

Cao Xing thought happily.

At the same time, he noticed that Liu Muxue was still sleeping soundly on the large, warm bed.

The soft light fell on her profile, illuminating her in a sacred and tranquil way, like a sleeping beauty.

Cao Xing took off his mage robes and crawled into the covers.

He hugged his beauty and had a comfortable sleep.

Cao Xing slept for over a dozen hours.

He slept until the second day of the development period.

…

The next day.

A system prompt appeared.

[Survivors please note! You have passed the first day of the development period, and the first event, 'Enhanced Ice Nest', has started.]

[A large number of Ice Nests have now been randomly deployed in major regions. A large number of powerful monsters will hatch from the Ice Nests, so please deal with them cautiously.]

[Weather Forecast: Today's weather is light snow, with temperatures ranging from -53°C to -62°C]

…

Seeing the system prompt, all the Survivors opened their eyes.

Yesterday, everyone didn't encounter anything.

The system was also very considerate, giving everyone a day of rest.

Therefore, the 'Enhanced Ice Nest' event only started today.

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue woke up together.

The two looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their faces.

"Axing, let's keep working hard today."

After a day of rest, Liu Muxue also knew that they had to continue developing the territory today.

Cao Xing nodded, "Okay, let's work hard together."

"Strive to have stronger strength before the Blood Legion arrives."

"Mm-hmm!"

The two quickly got up and went to the center of the territory.

At this moment.

Over a thousand combat personnel were waiting on the spot for Cao Xing's instructions.

After seeing their Lord's figure, thousands of eyes looked over at once.

Cao Xing asked, "Have you all rested well?"

"Rested well, Lord!!"

The warriors replied in unison, the shouting of over a thousand people was deafening, and the momentum was quite astonishing!

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

The Ascalon Warriors on the side said, "Lord, please give us today's mission!"

The Centaurs were equally excited, "And us, the Centaurs can't wait to go out and fight!"

All the warriors responded one after another, full of enthusiasm.

Cao Xing waved his hand to suppress this group of militants.

He did not immediately issue today's mission.

Instead, he first distributed the large pile of equipment from yesterday.

Most of the equipment was for the Dragon Blood Warriors.

Such as the Beast King leather armor, light armor, and some golden spears.

Among them, Cao Xing gave the Epic spear and the other Cursed spear to the two leaders, Rune and Gain.

Because Er Qiao already had golden weapons, there was no need to distribute them to him.

Commander Bo Jie used an axe, so he couldn't use them.

For this scene, everyone didn't say anything.

After all, by comparison.

Among the many troop types on the field, indeed, no other troop type could compare to the Dragon Blood Warriors.

This was also the reason why Dragon Blood Warrior scrolls were relatively hard to get.

Many lords cultivated the Dragon Blood Warriors in their territory as core combat personnel.

Even a ten-man Dragon Blood Warrior legion was difficult to assemble.

Let alone like Cao Xing, whose numbers had already exceeded 50 and were about to march towards a hundred-man legion!

And at this moment, after this group of Dragon Blood Warriors changed into their brand-new equipment, their momentum also rose by a large margin!

Especially Commander Bo Jie.

Cao Xing gave him a set of Gold-quality [Tiger King Light Armor].

Although compared to his physique, this set of light armor looked a bit incongruous on him.

However, his small body exuded a fierce aura!

In the entire territory, no one dared to ignore the threat of this Commander Bo Jie.

Then, Cao Xing took out the one hundred [Barbarian Round Shields] from his backpack.

And distributed them to all the Silver Hand Knights.

All the knights took them with excited expressions.

Now they held shields in their left hands and spears in their right hands.

If they were missing one mount like the Frost Wolf Assam rode, this knight order would be completely formed.

"Thank you, Lord!"

The knights thanked him solemnly.

Cao Xing waved his hand and then ordered.

"All Dragon Blood Warriors and Nightmare Archers, step out."

Hearing the order, a total of 86 people from the two professions stood out.

They gripped the weapons in their hands and looked seriously at their Lord!

Cao Xing took out over a hundred [Expert-level Heart of Strength] from his backpack and said.

"Come here to receive the Heart of Strength, and then break through directly."

These Dragon Blood Warriors looked at the pile of Heart of Strength on the ground, exuding surging energy, and looks of excitement immediately appeared in their eyes!

Because they knew that they would soon be able to transform into Tier 5 Expert-level!

Before this, the Tier 5 troop types in the territory were only over a hundred Wild Boar Warriors and over a hundred Ascalon Warriors.

Because Dragon Blood Warriors and Star Country Swordsmen, etc., were not Warrior-type professions, they could not use the altar to break through.

After the Battle of the Oracle, Cao Xing finally managed to gather a large number of Expert-level Heart of Strength.

With excitement, all the Dragon Blood Warriors and Nightmare Archers stepped forward to receive the crystals.

Then, each of them used them to break through.

"Click! Crack!"

As the sound of crystals shattering continued to ring out.

Then they integrated the power contained within and transformed.

Auras containing powerful lethality rose up!

In less than three minutes, someone succeeded in breaking through.

[Your territory member: Phinis has successfully broken through to a Tier 5 Boss-level creature, base attributes increased by 100%, HP +50%, Prosperity +15]

[Your…]

A series of system prompts rang out.

This also meant that Cao Xing had more Expert-level powerhouses!

After consuming a total of 108 Expert-level Heart of Strength, these 81 people (excluding Commander Bo Jie and the four Dragon Blood Warrior leaders) all successfully broke through to Tier 5 Expert.

While the other warriors on the field had envious expressions on their faces.

After all, many people here only had Tier 3 or 4 combat power, and they all wanted to break through to Tier 5 like these Dragon Blood Warriors!

Cao Xing didn't make them wait too long, and with a wave of his hand.

He spent 100 million Ice Dragon Mark in the [Dragon Shop].

And directly exchanged for two thousand [Advanced Heart of Strength].

When so many crystals were piled up on the territory's ground, the rich energy aura almost solidified!

Everyone in the entire territory could feel this vast power.

Especially those Tier 3 warriors on the field, staring at those Heart of Strength, even their heartbeats accelerated!

In the expectant gaze of everyone.

Cao Xing said directly.

"All Mages, Silver Hand Knights, and Tribal Witch Doctors, step out."

As he finished speaking, a total of 298 people on the field stood out.

"Come over here, receive the Heart of Strength from me, and today I will let you all break through to Tier 4."

"Understood!"

"Thank you, great Lord!"

Everyone stepped forward with excitement and then used the Heart of Strength to break through in an orderly manner according to their teams.

Then, the same bursts of auras rose up!

Accompanied by the continuous system prompts.

It took about ten minutes.

These 298 people consumed a total of 361 Advanced Heart of Strength before they finished breaking through.

With everyone's breakthrough, Cao Xing's territory prosperity also skyrocketed.

On the current prosperity leaderboard, the gap between Cao Xing and the others was widening further and further.

Looking at those hundreds of powerful figures who had broken through to Tier 4, their auras astonishing, a look of appreciation appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

"Very good. Currently, in my territory, there are over two hundred Tier 5 powerhouses and over six hundred Tier 4 powerhouses."

"The only Tier 3 creatures left are those one thousand Ascalon Warriors."

"And in my backpack, I still have over 1,600 [Advanced Heart of Strength]."

"It's almost enough to let all the Ascalon Warriors break through to Tier 4…"

Cao Xing was a bit hesitant at this moment.

Because he had an even more cost-effective breakthrough plan to let these warriors advance.

It not only consumed fewer resources but also had a 100% success rate.

That was using Balthazar's Altar of Gods.

However, Fizz Walker was still helping him gather resources.

It would probably be a few days before he delivered the resources.

And during this time, Cao Xing still needed them to go out and fight.

If they couldn't break through, a large amount of experience points would be wasted.

Moreover, he had plans to deal with the Ancient Battlefield in the near future, so before that, he needed to improve the strength of all the warriors as much as possible.

After pondering for a moment, Cao Xing decided to just use the Heart of Strength to let them break through.

A little waste is fine.

By comparison, improving strength as quickly as possible was the most important thing.

Thus, Cao Xing waved his hand and took out all the remaining one thousand-plus [Advanced Heart of Strength].

Then he said.

"Now, all Ascalon Warriors who are still at Tier 3, come over and claim your Heart of Strength."

A strong light erupted in the eyes of the warriors as well!

They walked forward with excitement, then maintained order as they claimed the Heart of Strength one by one.

And then used them.

Similarly, bursts of auras rose up once again.

The strength of the entire territory, including its prosperity, skyrocketed by a large margin once again!

A total of 1,378 [Advanced Heart of Strength] were used to let all one thousand Ascalon Warriors break through.

Now, in Cao Xing's territory, there were truly no combatants below Tier 4!

Furthermore, these people all possessed various terrifying permanent status effects, allowing them to fight against enemies one or even two tiers higher.

In other words, these thousand-plus combatants could actually be regarded as Tier 6 creatures in terms of real combat power.

This was a force enough to make people feel fear!

And next, once the Goblin Locke produced a large number of robots, Cao Xing would have an even larger and more troublesome batch of troops.

All the warriors had irrepressible excitement on their faces!

They couldn't wait to go out and fight to continue improving themselves.

However, before that, Cao Xing still had one thing to do.

That was to use the two scrolls he had exchanged for yesterday.

After all, these were a Leader scroll and a Commander scroll, which were very important.

With a sense of anticipation, he took the scrolls out of his backpack.

[Use 'Dragon Shaman Recruitment Scroll'?]

[Use 'Jord Ironfrost Recruitment Scroll'?]

Cao Xing directly clicked 'Yes'.

Instantly, a burst of light rose up.

The scrolls in his hands disappeared.

Two hexagram arrays of different sizes appeared in front of him.

On one side, it flashed with intense thunder power.

"Crackle… Crackle-pop…"

Intense electric light kept bursting, as if brewing some kind of destructive thunder!

The hexagram array on the other side was significantly larger, with a diameter exceeding three meters.

Intense snowflakes gushed out from it, as if coming from another world.

"Swish…"

"Crackle!"

From within the thunder and the sky full of snowflakes, two figures could be seen.

One was about 1.5 meters tall.

The other was over five meters tall!

Such a huge height difference immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Good heavens, such a tall creature?"

This made everyone even more curious about what kind of creatures Cao Xing had summoned this time.

When the destructive thunder and snowflakes gradually stopped.

Everyone could clearly see these two figures with a huge difference in height.

One was a strange creature holding a staff and wearing a dark purple robe.

His appearance looked very old, the skin on his face piled up like wrinkled tree bark, pointed ears, and those deep green pupils all marked his non-human identity.

The other was even more exaggerated.

He was over five meters tall, his muscles like cold steel, giving people a feeling of being indestructible.

Especially his tightly clenched hands, which were somewhat exaggeratedly bulging, like two ten-thousand-jin boulders growing on his body, appearing very uncoordinated.

If one were to get punched by him, it would definitely result in bruises all over.

At the same time.

These two figures spoke slowly.

"Giant Clan — Jord Ironfrost…"

"Dragon Shaman — Weinmne, reporting to you!"

Hearing the two speak.

Everyone present showed a look of surprise.

Because they had heard of an extremely famous but very rare race.

The Giant Clan.

This was one of the three major races of the Southern Continent.

Once the overlord race of the continent, possessing extremely powerful strength.

However, currently among these three major races, only the Dwarf Clan was frequently active in the sight of various groups.

Because the forging techniques of the Dwarf Clan were famous throughout the continent, and the various weapons and equipment they crafted were deeply loved by all major groups.

Relying on this forging skill, the Dwarf Clan conducted extensive trade with other groups, thereby obtaining a large amount of resources.

Besides that, many dwarf blacksmiths would integrate into local cities to obtain better treatment.

This was the development path of the Dwarf Clan.

The other two major races were quite different.

The Elf Clan and the Giant Clan were basically relatively closed off and rarely interacted with other groups.

In fact, over the years, they had gradually faded from everyone's sight.

But it could not be denied that these two races still possessed extremely powerful strength.

Especially the Giant Clan; they were born with immense strength and possessed extremely strong combat talent, so it could be said that everyone was a born warrior.

Every generation of the Giant King had an extremely strong physical body, and even possessed the terrifying combat power to tear Legendary powerhouses apart with their bare hands!

These were things Harold had told Cao Xing during their usual chats.

Therefore, this time when Cao Xing suddenly summoned creatures of this race, it still made everyone feel somewhat shocked.

Of course, the Dragon Shaman next to him was also very special.

After all, those who could control the power of dragons were not ordinary people.

Cao Xing said: "Welcome to the team!"

"This territory has become even stronger because of your arrival."

At this moment, the two looked directly at Cao Xing.

There was no contempt or arrogance in their eyes.

The Dragon Shaman in the dark purple robe bowed slightly to Cao Xing.

"It is an honor to join your territory. The Dragon Totem will protect you."

On the other side, the white-skinned giant, like a silent block of iron, bowed to Cao Xing and then remained silent.

Cao Xing didn't mind; after all, these two newcomers just didn't like to talk, but their attitude was fine.

Thus, Cao Xing first checked their attributes.

[Dragon Shaman: Weinmne]

[Race: Earth Goblin]

[Level: 38 (Tier 4 Leader-level creature)]

[Health: 265276 / 265276 (Pale Tree bonus)]

[Attack: 4732 ~ 4844]

[Armor: 765 ~ 831]

[Attributes: Strength 1125, Agility 984, Spirit 1287, Constitution 1205]

[Skills: Thunder Dragon Totem (Summons a totem that deals Thunder-attribute damage to enemies within 20 meters every 2 seconds, and has a 30% chance to cause them to enter a Paralyzed state for 30 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds) Dragon-shaped Lightning (Summons dragon lightning to deal 2 * 157% Thunder-attribute damage to enemies and summons two Thunder Flying Dragons of the same level to assist in battle. Duration: 1 minute. Cooldown: 90 seconds) Transform into Dragon Egg (Turns an enemy creature into a dragon egg for 1~10 seconds, during which it cannot attack or perform other actions. Cooldown: 2 minutes) Thunder Dragon Possession (Grants 1 ally the power of the Thunder Dragon, increasing Spirit by 20%, Magic Resistance by 20%, and Magic Damage by 20% for 120 seconds. Cooldown: 5 minutes)]

[Talent: None]

[Satiety: 65]

[Loyalty: 67]

(Introduction: A shaman who has mastered the power of the Thunder Dragon, he can bring you powerful blessings.)

A look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

"This Dragon Shaman is a bit overpowered!"

"Not only does he have powerful single-target control, but also a powerful single-target buff skill!"

"Especially that 'Thunder Dragon Possession', it can actually increase my Spirit attribute by 20%, which not only improves the strength of various status skills but also increases my magic attack power by quite a bit!"

"Combined with my Nessa's Blessing Aura + Eternal Power, the strength just explodes instantly!"