The female mage who came to help was stunned for three seconds after hearing Ye Miao's words: "Boss... are you sure?"

In the game "Fantasy World," mages and alchemists need to accumulate elements to cast skills. Generally speaking, their equipment can hold various elements and cast various skills, but if the corresponding types are matched, they will gain additional benefits when casting skills. For example, a water mage using a water staff to gather water elements and then using a water skill will inevitably be more powerful than a water staff that gathers wood elements and then uses a wood skill.

In addition, according to the game settings, the consumption rate of elements is extremely slow, and correspondingly, collection is not easy.

So, seeing Ye Miao trying to use this method to rescue people from the swamp, the female mage felt it was unreliable: "By the time I collect all the water elements in the swamp, she might turn into humus."

Ye Miao shook his head, his attitude calm and resolute: "Just collect water elements, don't worry about anything else."

"Then I'll give it a try..." The female mage frowned and attempted to cast a skill. With a wave of her staff, a blue light enveloped the swamp. Before the skill finished, the female mage saw several prompts pop up.

"Obtain [Water Element]*1"

Female Mage:?!

One skill yielded a water element? Based on the drop rate of elements she normally collected, even 10 skills wouldn't necessarily yield a water element.

Ye Miao ignored her shock and squatted down at the edge of the swamp. He touched the surface of the mud first, and felt that it was much dryer. Then he tried to pull Ding Yu: "Can you get up?"

Ding Yu tried using her strength and shook his head. "My upper body feels fine, but the mud is still sucking me down there, so I can't move."

Ye Miao turned to look at the female mage: "Come again."

"Okay!" The female mage felt confident this time and released another wave of skills, gaining [Water Element]*1 again.

Ding Yu could clearly feel the ground beneath her feet harden, as if she hadn't fallen into the mud, but rather had sunk into a pit. Ye Miao and Chu Cheng pulled hard together, and Ding Yu was "pulled" out of the pit, leaving behind a crater over a meter deep.

"Are you okay?" Ye Miao asked with concern. Ding Yu fell to the ground, still in shock: "I'm fine, I'm just scared to death..."

Ding Yu was almost swallowed by the swamp just now, and he was still frightened.

"Mom!" Wu Xi threw herself on her and burst into laughter.

Chu Cheng frowned: "So the new mode is a swamp?"

"Maybe." Ye Miao responded casually, but a little absent-mindedly.

The new mode could be called swamp mode, but if it was anything like she remembered, the focus of the gameplay wasn't the swamp.

More importantly, if she remembered correctly, the system would no longer issue card packs after this mode ended. However, in the original game, players could still obtain card packs through methods such as krypton gold. Now that they were truly in this world, the only way to obtain new cards might be through alchemists.

Ye Miao returned to the territory after pondering for a while. After sorting out the key points, he issued two announcements one after another.

The first one is to tell you how to play:

【Ye Miao】

New mode: Death Swamp, swamps will be refreshed outside the territory at any time.

***Please all players pay attention to the road when going out, and don't accidentally enter the swamp! ! ! ***

***Please all players pay attention to the road when going out, and don't accidentally enter the swamp! ! ! ***

***Please all players pay attention to the road when going out, and don't accidentally enter the swamp! ! ! ***

Other:

If a wizard or alchemist can use the swamp to collect elements.

Water mages can collect water elements in any situation;

Ice mages can collect ice elements when the swamp is frozen;

Fire mages can collect fire elements by searching for swamps with blue flames at night.

Wood and Grass Mages can collect Wood Elemental by searching for swamps containing rotten plants.

Mist Mages can collect Mist Elements by going to the swamp in the early morning when the fog is thick.

The second is the acquisition information:

[Ye Miao] purchases various elements. Everyone can go to the reception hall to submit them.

Price: 20 gold coins/piece

Acquisition progress:

Water Element (0/500)

Ice Element (0/500)

Fire Element (0/500)

Wood Element (0/500)

Grass Elemental (0/500)

Mist Elemental (0/500)

Since various elements are difficult to collect but consumed very slowly, there was no strong market demand before.

For warriors like Ye Miao who don't have special skills in collecting elements, the elements occasionally dropped by monsters are enough for the Alchemist NPC to make several cards every day. Mages who have element collection skills don't have to worry about not having enough elements, so the price of elements has always been low, usually one can be bought for 10-15 gold.

Therefore, everyone was a little surprised when they suddenly saw the territory collecting large quantities of these things, and the price was slightly higher than the market price.

Even Chu Cheng, who was following beside him, couldn't help but ask: "Why are you acquiring so many elements?"

Ye Miao thought about it and explained: "It's a territory upgrade mission, you have to do it."

Chu Cheng looked at her, the confusion in his eyes not diminishing. "Water mages can collect elements directly from the swamp. I just saw that. How do you know the other collection methods?"

Ye Miao had already made up an explanation on the way back. Although it wasn't just to deal with Chu Cheng, he still managed to lie without hesitation: "When I was short of elements to refine cards, I happened to meet a high-level player in T City who specialized in elements. I was very curious why he had so many elements to sell. He said there was a swamp near his territory and told me the collection methods. But there was no way, it was too far away. Even if he told me, I wouldn't be able to get it. I didn't expect there would be such a direct model now."

"I see." Chu Cheng's confusion faded and he nodded.

Ye Miao pursed her lips and struggled for a moment, then lowered her voice: "Um... can you lend me some money?"

Borrowing money from others was something she felt very uncomfortable about. She didn't even have the courage to look up when she said this. Noticing Chu Cheng's gaze, she lowered her eyes even lower: "I want to... upgrade the city quickly, but after the upgrade, there won't be much spare money in the account, and I feel uneasy."

She originally wanted to wait a few days and auction the [Advanced Resurrection Coins] to make money after the situation stabilized, but now purchasing elements would immediately incur additional expenses, so she couldn't wait any longer.

Chu Cheng understood: "We can provide a 15-day interest-free loan of 500,000 gold coins. Is that enough for you, Lord?"

"No, no, no, I don't need that much...!!!" Ye Miao waved his hands hurriedly and calculated carefully, "Three hundred thousand is enough. If everything goes smoothly after the upgrade, I can pay you back in three days!"

"Okay." Chu Cheng said as he opened his backpack and calmly took out a silk purse that didn't look very big. Ye Miao turned his gaze and saw: 300,000 gold coins on it.

Three minutes later, all players in City T received a system notification at the same time.

[System] Congratulations on the successful upgrade of "Get Rich Overnight Town" to "Get Rich Overnight City"!

At the same time, Ye Miao saw another pop-up window.

【Upgrade successful】

You have unlocked:

Larger territory area;

The area covered by the barrier stone has been expanded according to the territory size;

The upper limit of the number of people in the territory is increased to 10,000;

Unlock river transport function;

Cross-map transactions and social permissions;

· Authorization to publish world announcements (current scope: City T).

——After upgrading to a city, you can further expand your territory and increase the number of people. Please click to view the details.

After reading the pop-up window, Ye Miao was stunned for three seconds.

"Cross-map transactions and social permissions" means...

She held her breath and opened the map, and sure enough, there were changes!

Previously, the so-called "big map" actually only covered City T. Everything outside of City T was black, outlined in red. If you placed your hand on it, it would say "Unreachable." But now, the map had expanded dramatically. While most areas outside of City T remained black, some unique coordinates were marked, indicating the territory outside of City T that had been upgraded to a city.

Then Ye Miao received several messages in succession.

[An Ruoying] Ahhhh, you've upgraded! You've upgraded! Congratulations!

[(Stranger) H City · Linhe City · Lord · Fang Yuan] Linhe City sent a congratulatory message.

[(Stranger) City Z · Sweet Zongzi City · Lord · Li Weiwei] Congratulations to another territory for joining the Doomsday City Alliance!

[(Stranger) S City, Impeccable City, Lord Hua Yao] Congratulations! You guys in T City are so strong??? You've already created two city-level cities in just a few days???

…

Ye Miao didn't bother to reply to the random congratulations for the time being, but first clicked on An Ruoying's dialog box, expressed his gratitude, and then told her that she could use the new model to acquire elements, but skipped the fact that card packs might not be issued in the future.

An Ruoying couldn't help but wonder: What's the point of acquiring elements? It's useless if I accumulate too much of this stuff?

[Ye Miao] Before, there was no need to accumulate, but the original usage and output were basically balanced. Now the system has suddenly reduced the difficulty of collecting. Is it just out of kindness? Do you believe it?

[An Ruoying] Damn, that makes sense. I'll listen to you and save some for safety.

Then Ye Miao said again: We are tentatively planning to attack Tianju the day after tomorrow, is that OK?

【An Ruoying】! ! !

[An Ruoying] That's great! But is it okay to attack right after upgrading your city? Don't you need to develop it yourself for a while?

[Ye Miao] No need.

In terms of numbers and combat power, her territory, already at full capacity like a small town, was definitely far superior to Tianju's, which had leveled up twice. It was just that the previous mode was too inhumane, and she didn't want to risk her life.

If they attacked now, it would be like 3000 against 1000, no problem at all. On the contrary, if they developed for a while, Tianju would also develop while she was developing, and it would be hard to say how strong they would be.

[An Ruoying] Then I'll bring some people to meet you tomorrow night, and then we'll work together to get the sweet orange. We'll try to make it quick and decisive, and finish the battle in 1 minute!

Ye Miao laughed: 1 minute is too cruel, I will give him 5 minutes to fight back.

Sweet Orange City.

More than a dozen core members gathered in the living room of Lord Zhou Xian's villa. After seeing the upgrade notice of Overnight Rich City, the living room fell into deathly silence.

After a long time, the person who broke the silence, his voice a little hoarse, filled with endless guilt, asked Zhou Xian: "The boss said they noticed something strange before, and now it has been upgraded. Will it be..."

"Recruiting people." Zhou Xian gritted his teeth, "Immediately post an announcement and openly recruit people. Offer benefits, give out money, and recruit high-level players."

The member next to him frowned: "But the new members have just joined. If we rely on them to fight..."

Everyone felt that it was not very reliable.

"Mercenaries, understand?" Zhou Xianqiang calmed himself and convinced himself, "With enough money, nothing is impossible. If we can withstand this wave, we will be number one in T City in the future."

The author has something to say:

Tomorrow is New Year's Day

But I didn't mean to let Tianju die on New Year's Day.

It's a beautiful coincidence...

Happy New Year! I will send red envelopes to all comments on this chapter before the next chapter is updated.