Great producer, watcher’s action. (5400)

Chapter 576: Master Maker, Watchers' Action. (5400)

"Holy shit! It worked, haha!"

Cao Xing was thrilled!

After all, it goes without saying how rare a Legendary sub-class is.

To some extent, it even surpasses a Legendary combat class!

He had even prepared for Francesca to fail, but she lived up to expectations and succeeded on the first try!

However, the surprises didn't stop there.

A second system prompt appeared.

[Survivor Cao Xing, please note! Because you are the first lord across the entire server to own a Legendary sub-class resident, you receive the reward: Expert Proficiency Emblem * 10, Title: Master Maker]

"?! The very first Legendary sub-class resident across the entire server, hahaha!"

Cao Xing couldn't help laughing out loud once again.

And as soon as the system prompt ended, the rewards had already arrived in his account.

He impatiently glanced at the attributes of the new title.

[Master Maker (Title)]

[Title Attributes: When all living-class members perform crafting, they gain an additional 10% proficiency and a 20% increase in crafting efficiency.]

The attributes of this title could be said to be quite good.

The 10% proficiency bonus might not seem like much, but through long-term accumulation, it could significantly speed up the improvement of these residents' living-class skills!

At the same time.

Francesca, who had already become a Legendary alchemist, gracefully walked out of the residential house.

She was still wearing that dark purple dress, the hem swaying slightly as she moved, resembling a blooming violet—elegant and mysterious.

Every step she took seemed to carry a certain special charm, like a Goddess of Nature walking toward you, making one feel as if bathed in a gentle spring breeze.

After this beautiful witch walked over to Cao Xing, she bowed in salute.

"I have successfully broken through."

Cao Xing nodded approvingly, then glanced at her skill panel.

[Legendary Alchemy Mastery: Can refine higher-grade secret medicines, increases alchemy efficiency by 300%, and has a 35% chance to grant potions an enhanced effect upon successful refinement.]

Awesome!

One can only say she truly lives up to Legendary Alchemy Mastery, and the effects are similar to what she mentioned before.

Cao Xing asked, "Francesca, how many bottles can your alchemy speed produce in a day now?"

The witch calculated in her mind for a moment, then replied, "About one thousand bottles or so."

Hearing this number, his heart was filled with joy once more!

"Very good, the Blood Legion is about to arrive, and we need more secret medicines to counter this enemy."

"Go ahead and refine secret medicines at full effort now."

"I understand."

After saying this, the beautiful witch gracefully turned around and walked toward the direction of the Alchemy Workshop.

Right now, she was going to utilize her Legendary Alchemy Mastery and begin mass-producing secret medicines!

Time flew by, and another two hours passed.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky had completely darkened.

Over two thousand combatants returned to the territory like ants returning to their nest.

And they handed all their recent harvests over to the lord.

Cao Xing directly transferred these materials and recruitment scrolls into his backpack.

[Acquired: Tier 5 Dragon Blood Warrior Recruitment Scroll * 63]

[Acquired: Tier 5 Elite Dragon Blood Warrior Recruitment Scroll * 5]

[Acquired: Ice Dragon Mark * 11.0654 million]

[Acquired: glacier shard * 3.7895 million]

[Acquired: dragon rock ore * 54,489]

[Acquired…]—[…]

"Very good, nearly seventy more recruitment scrolls in hand!"

"In a while, after using these recruitment scrolls, the total number of Dragon Blood Warriors in my territory will exceed two hundred."

This was an astonishing number!

You must know that even in the territories of top experts like Bai Zhi and Wei Jianyi, the number of Dragon Blood Warriors was only around twenty or thirty.

Cao Xing's side was almost ten times theirs!

Without hesitation, he quickly clicked to use this batch of scrolls.

"Hum hum!"

Dozens of meteors appeared in the sky, then turned into huge ice sculptures that fell before Cao Xing.

"Crack! Crack!"

Amidst a series of shattering sounds, tall figures emerged from these ice sculptures.

They came to Cao Xing's side and respectfully said, "Dragon Blood Warrior: Joel / Reagan / Ryan – Reporting to you!"

Cao Xing glanced over and discovered that among this batch of Dragon Blood Warriors, there were actually six or seven Saintesss Personal Guards, which were female Dragon Blood Warriors.

The skills of these Saintesss Personal Guards differed somewhat from other Dragon Blood Warriors, but overall they were quite good.

"Welcome to join us, brave and battle-tested Norn Clan."

"Next, you will be under the unified command of Commander Bo Jie, and he will lead you to familiarize yourselves with the territory and participate in battles."

The new members looked around, and upon seeing the powerful aura of the Dragon Blood Warriors in the crowd, their gazes narrowed.

They solemnly nodded one after another and said, "Yes! Powerful Lord, you possess a prosperous and mighty territory."

After speaking, they walked behind Commander Bo Jie.

After summoning all the Dragon Blood Warriors, Cao Xing looked toward the combatants on the field again and glanced at their levels.

Throughout today, everyone had improved quite a bit.

Liu Muxue directly rushed to Level 95, only 5 levels away from the max level.

Sarah beside her also rushed to Level 90, officially becoming a Tier 10 Assassin!

The newly joined Green Snake Lana had also restored her level to Level 91.

Then came Assam and his mount, who had respectively surged to Level 76 and Level 74.

Next was Isabelle, whose level sprinted to Level 86.

Including Cao Xing's own level, which directly surged to Level 87.

"Very good! After tonight's monster siege ends, the territory might just add a few more Tier 10 max-level powerhouses!"

"By then, as long as I find the corresponding Relic and then acquire a few Heart of Legend, I can let all these members break through to Legendary!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he continued, "Everyone has worked hard in battle today."

"Go and rest up now, eat what you need to eat, and rest what you need to rest."

"There is still a battle to be fought at twelve o'clock tonight."

The warriors on the field responded one after another, "Yes! Respected Lord!"

With those words, everyone retreated one by one.

Including Green Snake Lana and the white snake Ilena, the two women glanced at Cao Xing before swaying their tails and leaving.

Soon, only Cao Xing was left here.

"My side is almost ready."

"Now, the legion side needs to be taken care of as well."

Cao Xing hadn't forgotten that he had also created the Starfire Legion.

Although the original purpose of creating it was for the legion's exclusive blueprints.

But he couldn't truly just leave it completely unattended.

Thus, he opened the legion chat channel and created a chat room using the commander's permissions.

He pulled several deputy commanders: Tian Jing, Yao Yiming, Ji Xinyue, and others into it.

Seeing this suddenly appearing channel, the three of them were somewhat stunned.

But they quickly understood and greeted each other in the channel one after another.

"Hello, Commander!"

"Great Lord Cao Xing, good evening!"

Cao Xing also sent a message in response.

After a pause, he asked directly, "Yao Yiming, report the current legion strength now. Don't count those branch divisions; just report the strength of the headquarters where you are."

Yao Yiming understood his meaning and quickly replied, "Reporting to the Commander! Currently, throughout the entire legion headquarters, the number of combatants is 2,489, and the number of staff is 875."

"Among them, there is only Deputy Commander Tian Jing as a Tier 7 combatant, a total of 697 Tier 5 combatants, and the rest are Tier 4 combatants."

Hearing this number, Cao Xing pondered for a moment.

Currently, the strength of the legion headquarters where Yao Yiming was located had almost reached the territorial level of people like Bai Zhi and Wei Jianyi.

Even surpassing them in certain aspects. After all, relying solely on the power of Tian Jing alone was not something these current Survivors could compare to.

However… it was still a bit lacking to confront the Blood Legion.

He asked again, "Xinyue, what about your side?"

That girl also reported quickly, "Great Lord Cao Xing, the current number of combatants in our Star Moon Legion is 1,165, and there are 448 staff members."

"There isn't a single one above Tier 5; there are 397 Tier 5 combatants, and the rest are Tier 3 and Tier 4 combatants."

Compared to the legion headquarters, Ji Xinyue's Star Moon Legion, acting as a branch division, was indeed much weaker in strength.

But this was also within expectations; after all, earlier on, the Star Moon Legion had been developing independently, and all the combatants in the territory were gathered by her.

Cao Xing pondered for a moment, then sent a message saying, "Next, I will support both of your legions with a troop type to help you challenge the monster siege."

"Under the condition of ensuring safety, try your best to challenge higher floors and obtain more rewards."

According to the rules of the monster siege, only those of the same faction could assist each other.

And now, Cao Xing was the commander of the Starfire Legion, and these people were all members of his legion, so naturally they also belonged to the same faction.

In other words, he could already provide support to them.

However, doing this also had a drawback.

That was, if Cao Xing supported troops to other territories, the difficulty of the monster siege on his own territory's side would not drop in the slightest; it would still spawn monsters of corresponding difficulty based on the entire territory's power.

Meanwhile, territories that received reinforcements would have their difficulty adjusted upward based on the strength of the newly added troop types.

This was a rule figured out by other Survivors during the previous two monster sieges.

Generally speaking, it gave Survivors an opportunity to cooperate with each other.

However, only territories with formidable strength and confidence in their own capabilities were qualified to do such a thing.

In the chat channel, when the three vice commanders heard that Cao Xing was going to send them reinforcements, they were taken aback for a moment.

Tian Jing asked with some concern: "Boss, are you okay on your end?"

As someone who had personally experienced the last monster siege, Tian Jing knew very well that the difficulty of the monster siege was still quite high.

By the tenth wave, even Level 90 Overlord-class monsters would appear, and there was more than one.

In particular, this event would also adjust the difficulty based on territory strength.

Even though he knew that Cao Xing might have grown stronger this month and the difficulty of the monster siege would also increase,

if Cao Xing still split up his forces to provide support at this time, problems might arise.

Including Ji Xinyue and Yao Yiming, they also tried to dissuade him:

"Commander, if it's too much trouble, forget it? It's fine for us to challenge according to our previous progress."

"Yeah, it doesn't really matter whether we get these rewards or not."

Cao Xing smiled, "Rest assured, it's just supporting you with a legion; it won't have much impact on my territory as a whole."

"Tonight is the last monster siege, everyone take this opportunity to properly improve yourselves."

"Right, this is an order."

Hearing this, the three no longer refused and solemnly said: "Understood, Commander!"

After exiting the chat channel, Cao Xing pressed the communication device by his ear.

"Zuoke, Zuofei, Futagen, you three come to the territory center once."

Hearing the command, the two wandering swordsman leaders and one Silver Knight Legion leader quickly put down what they were doing and came to the territory center.

"Lord, good evening."

Cao Xing nodded slightly and then instructed: "Next, Zuoke and Zuofei, you will lead all the Wandering Swordsman Legions to a territory more than ten kilometers away from ours to support them in challenging the monster siege tonight."

"Futagen, you will lead all the Silver Knights and griffins to support a territory about two hundred kilometers away from our territory right now."

"Someone will meet and assist you when you get there."

Upon hearing this, the three leaders immediately straightened up, "Yes! Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

With that said, Zuoke and Zuofei took dozens of wandering swordsmen and headed towards Yao Yiming's territory.

As for Futagen, he took 99 Silver Knights and a large number of griffins and flew into the sky.

Watching their departing figures, Cao Xing thought to himself.

"In Yao Yiming's territory, with this group of max-level Tier 7 wandering swordsmen, it should be able to help them push through to the ninth or tenth wave of the monster siege."

"On Ji Xinyue's side, there is a large number of Tier 5 Silver Hand Knights and two Tier 7 knight legion leaders, which is roughly enough to push through to the eighth or ninth wave."

"In other words, if this monster siege goes smoothly, they will both guaranteed obtain at least two Bright Moon Treasure Chests."

Thinking of this, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

For Survivors at the current stage, any Bright Moon Treasure Chest was an extremely precious resource.

Many people until now had only heard of them and had never even seen one.

This didn't even count the several Gold Treasure Chests and Silver Treasure Chests from the previous few waves.

Therefore, if they could unbox some good things from the treasure chests this time, it would indeed boost their strength by a wave.

Next, Cao Xing had nothing to do and continued strolling around the territory.

Walking and walking, he arrived at the blacksmith shop area.

"Speaking of which—Harold is now also a Master Blacksmith. If he takes another step up, he can become a Legendary blacksmith."

"And in my backpack, there are still 25 Proficiency Emblems in total, which adds up to 125,000 points of proficiency."

"I wonder if this can directly max out Harold's proficiency?"

Cao Xing decided to go in and ask.

Pushing open the door of one of the blacksmith shops, he glanced at Harold's proficiency panel along the way.

[Master Forging Mastery: 19672 / 200000]

"Only one-tenth of the proficiency?"

"From the looks of it, wanting Harold to break through to Legendary is still quite a bit away."

Shaking his head, Cao Xing walked out of the blacksmith shop again.

In a flash of time, it was 23:55 at night.

There were only five minutes left until the monster siege started.

Without Cao Xing's command, several thousand combat personnel of the entire territory had already arrived outside the territory, preparing to cope with the last monster siege tonight.

In the legion channel, the voices of other vice commanders also came through.

Yao Yiming: "Commander, we are ready. The entire Wandering Swordsman Legion has arrived at my territory."

Ji Xinyue: "Great Lord Cao Xing, we are ready here too. The Gryphon Knight Legion is already waiting above my territory."

Cao Xing replied: "Alright, remember to act within your capabilities. If you felt the difficulty during the previous wave of battle, do not continue challenging the next wave."

The two of them responded successively.

"Understood!"

"No problem at all!"

After closing the chat channel, Cao Xing said nothing more.

Continuing to stand in the territory, he silently waited for the arrival of the monster siege.

At the same time.

In the pitch-black night sky, several beings wearing gray robes with profound gazes were floating mid-air.

From each person emanated an extremely vast and profound aura.

These beings were none other than the Watchers.

They gazed down at the boundless earth below and the human giant cities radiating specks of light.

Among them, a figure surrounded by several Watchers elders, with an aura as vast as an ocean, gradually retracted his gaze.

He turned his head and asked: "Elder Di, has the blood been scattered?"

The one whose name was called was a being with a gloomy aura, a snake-like weapon tucked at his waist, and also possessed Legendary-tier strength.

This Watchers elder respectfully reported: "Reporting to the Leader, it has been successfully scattered. King Velen does not know about it. We can blockade the entire main city of Seir at any time now and then carry out the blood summoning ritual."

Hearing this, several figures on the scene were somewhat moved.

Ever since they were repelled a thousand years ago, they had been dormant for too long!

Now, the time had finally come to emerge into the world once again!

Pausing for a moment, this Elder Di suddenly asked:

"However—Leader, there is something I don't understand. Why not directly blood-sacrifice all living beings in the entire main city of Seir?"

"Wouldn't it be faster to open the blood portal this way?"

Hearing this, the Leader immediately turned around and stared straight at this person with a pair of falcon-like eyes.

Although he didn't say a word, it made this Watchers elder feel an extremely terrifying pressure, as if his heart was tightly gripped, filled with a sense of suffocation!

Even the other Watchers elders, at the instant this Leader's aura erupted, were so frightened into silence that they didn't dare to say another word.

In this oppressive atmosphere, another elder on the side smoothed things over: "Le—————Leader—Elder Di was just casually speaking. He was also doing it for the sake of the organization and didn't mean anything else."

"Please spare him this time!"

Hearing this, this Elder Di also hurriedly nodded and said: "Yes, respected Lord Leader!"

"I just wanted the Watchers to complete the plan faster and let blood descend upon the earth, wholeheartedly thinking for the organization!"

Upon hearing this, the Leader also gradually reined in that terrifying aura on his body.

However, his gaze remained frosty cold, and then he said: "I will reiterate once more what the creed of our Watchers is."

"Our mission is to overthrow all forces that oppress the people and completely eradicate those vampires and parasites leeching off the people!"

"Kingdoms, churches, territories—these are all targets we must destroy!"

"After tens of thousands of years of development, this feudal system has become deeply rooted, deeply branded within the hearts of the common people."

"Only by using the most radical and decisive means can we awaken the long-dormant sense of rebellion in people's hearts!"

"A thousand years ago, we failed."

"This time, we will likewise encounter difficulties, obstacles, and even joint strikes from numerous forces, but we still will not flinch in the slightest!"

"Even if it costs our lives, we will carry out our mission to the very end!"

"But one thing must be reiterated: no matter the situation, we must never lay a hand on those ordinary people."

"Do you all understand?"

His tone was extremely solemn!

He surveyed every single person present with a sharp, eagle-like gaze.

All the Watchers elders solemnly said: "Understood! Respected Leader!"

Seeing this scene, the Leader nodded slightly.

Then, turning into a shooting star, he instantly lunged toward the human city below.

The other elders closely followed behind as well.

At the very back of the procession, the Elder Di who had been reprimanded by him had a trace of extremely deeply hidden malice in his gaze as he looked at the Watchers Leader.