Chapter 104: Pioneer for the King
The first thing Zhang Yang saw after waking up was the dim light, and then the burnt and smelly air filled his nostrils. The scorching aftermath was still hanging around him, and he almost thought he was being sent to an incinerator.
After struggling to get up, Zhang Yang ran out like crazy. The next second, he saw a doomsday scene.
The whole earth was still burning, and black particles were floating in the sky, blocking the sun.
A huge deep pit appeared where the confidant had been before, and there was no trace of a ghost.
Zhang Yang suddenly burst into laughter, very crazily, and words could not describe the surprise in his heart.
He actually killed a hidden dragon before the plot officially began.
This feeling is so wonderful.
When I opened the village construction order, it was already filled with dense information.
"You successfully killed Sudala, the extraordinary lord of the devil-horned lizard clan."
"You have successfully plundered a broken fantasy village building order. (Because you are in the extraordinary trial and are in a special situation, even if the other party has set up an heir, it will still be forced to drop.)"
"You have successfully plundered a complete game village building order."
"You have successfully obtained a fragmentary civilization code of the magic horned lizard race."
"You killed a Hidden Dragon. (Even if the plot has not yet unfolded, this kill is still valid. The total number of Hidden Dragons in the Hegemony will be limited to 999.)"
"You gain one unit of royal energy, which means that this is unique to this world and is limited to the battle for supremacy among latent dragons. This attribute is invalid outside this world. (Note: Each latent dragon starts with one unit of royal energy, which can be gained after defeating or killing it)."
"Your current amount of royal energy: Two. The specific effect is that the higher the value of royal energy, the fewer natural disasters there will be in the sphere of influence you control; the people in the sphere of influence you control will be more united, and the soldiers will fight more fearlessly; the quality of the talents who come to you is higher; the crop yield and commercial prosperity will be higher."
"You get a golden fragment of hope, which is composed of 100 white fragments of hope. It will only be dropped by extraordinary lords or latent dragons. After using it, you can be exempted from being killed once. However, the upper limit of this item is one. Once it is dropped, it is bound to you."
"You have successfully plundered a complete A-level demon soul (gold), which can be sold."
"You have successfully plundered a fragment of the magic horned lizard's spirit. It can be sold."
"You have successfully plundered 150 units of magic horned lizard blood (gold), which can be sold."
"You indirectly killed 500 captain-level demon soldiers."
"You indirectly killed 1,500 elite demon soldiers."
"You indirectly killed 2,000 ordinary demon soldiers."
"You have gained..."
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"Friendly reminder: You have been exposed. Although the Wei Dynasty has not yet discovered your true intentions, all the hidden dragons will gradually know of your existence. There is no doubt that you have become a prominent figure, the legendary pioneer of the king. Please take care of yourself."
"Friendly reminder: You can use the golden fragment of hope to withdraw from this Hidden Dragon Contest at any time, but due to this, you will not be able to activate any other village building orders."
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The appearance of the last two messages instantly woke Zhang Yang up from his ecstasy, and he immediately realized how serious the matter was.
He will not quit. After all this time, he is no longer the weak rookie he used to be. He is used to extraordinary powers. How can he be willing to be an ordinary person?
Besides, this isn't the beginning of hell.
“There are three key points I must understand and grasp firmly.”
After just a few seconds, Zhang Yang quickly calmed down.
"First, Bald Ridge Fortress is a Jedi in everyone's eyes. If I start the game here, it will give others countless ways to encircle and annihilate me. Therefore, the key to breaking the deadlock is to make the Jedi no longer a Jedi. This requires me to completely turn Bald Ridge into a real fortress, even if I spend all my wealth for it."
"Secondly, I must continue to advance. That confidant just now was too arrogant and too confident in his fireball, which is why I failed. However, his A-level extraordinary soul strength can crush me. Moreover, among the 1,000 latent dragons, each one is definitely extraordinary. I might encounter all kinds of abnormalities. If I don't improve myself, the consequences will be worrying."
"Then there is the third key, which is also the most important. My village in the fantasy world will be the key to whether I can dominate the game world! If I don't develop this village well, then when the hegemony plot officially begins, I won't be able to get the maximum amount of resources. Ten to thirty percent of the ratio can change everything, especially now that I have no soldiers, no food, and even no water."
"Now, let's start the race against time!"
Zhang Yang quickly summoned the golden scales and started a sale as swift as a whirlwind.
"Will you sell all 2,000 incomplete ordinary demon souls?"
"You gain 200,000 energy points."
"Would you like to sell all 1,500 incomplete elite demon souls?"
"You gain 600,000 energy points."
"Will you sell all 500 incomplete captain-level demon souls?"
"You gain 500,000 energy points."
In a blink of an eye, Zhang Yang's energy reached 1.4 million points, and he could obtain 70 units of mana.
Including the 7 units in his hands, there are a total of 77 units. Each unit of mana can refine 9 cubic meters of space, so he can refine 690 cubic meters of space. Together with the 90 cubic meters of space refined before, the total is 780 cubic meters.
If each floor of the fortress is set to two meters high, then he can get about three floors of space, with each space being 130 square meters in size.
However, for the time being he only planned to build a two-story inner castle, and the rest of the work would be done on the north slope platform.
Yes, there was originally a platform of more than 500 square meters here. It was the foundation of the fortress built here by the Wei Dynasty. The stones were chiseled out bit by bit.
The difference between this platform and the top platform is about six meters.
What Zhang Yang has to do now is to cut all the edges of this platform into vertical planes, that is, to create a third platform with a height difference of three meters from the second platform and a height difference of 25 meters from the ground.
In this way, he will have a usable area of 500 square meters on the second platform and 1,200 square meters on the third platform.
The usable area on the top of the fortress is 300 square meters, and the usable area inside the fortress is nearly 400 square meters.
The total area is 2,400 square meters.
Although it was still a little small, it was a fortress with three levels of depth and four levels of firing areas, which was a nightmare for anyone who wanted to capture it.
"Qiao Shuzhi, take some people to pick up all the weapons."
Zhang Yang gave the order quickly, and now no one dared to question his order, including the old man. The scene that just happened was really too weird, too magical, and too terrifying.
"When trouble comes, demons emerge, and God will destroy our Wei Dynasty!"
"My dear son-in-law, are you going to rebel?"
"If you want to rebel, you might as well destroy the demons first. Although this is the most difficult way, it is the right way!"
"God bless my human bloodline!"
The old man began to talk nonsense, which was quite pitiful. The military strategy that he was most proud of in his life was completely destroyed in the doomsday-like explosion just now.
He knew very well that ordinary troops could not resist at all.
Zhang Yang alone destroyed an army of 5,000 people.
"Uncle, go and have a rest. Things are not as bad as you think."
Zhang Yang could only comfort himself in this way, but he was also very clear that this battle between the hidden dragons was not just about the lost deer of the Wei Dynasty, but also a struggle between humans and alien races in this game world. There was no surrender, no compromise, only life and death.
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Five hours later, Zhang Yang consumed 1.4 million energy points, and the 77 units of mana he exchanged for were all used up.
The renovation of the Bald Ridge Fortress is only halfway completed.
First is the two-story inner castle.
There are stairs connecting the upper and lower floors, a door, the roof is set to be two meters thick, the floor is one meter thick, leaving a half-meter thick stone wall as support.
There are a total of sixteen firing holes in the two inner forts.
This place can be used as daily residence.
Then came the second platform. Zhang Yang dug a 30-centimeter-deep hole every half a meter on the hard rock, leaving it for future use as a railing.
As for the remaining magic power, he used it to carve the plank road.
The plank road is two meters wide, with a breast wall embedded in the stone wall, providing good concealment and defensive capabilities.
Unfortunately, due to insufficient magic power, the excavation was not carried out very far.
However, the next thing would not require any magic power. Qiao Shuzhi and others brought back a large number of burned weapons. Zhang Yang built a big fire and used the second closed-circuit circle to melt them on site. They did not need to quench them to the level of fine steel, but made them into iron pillars and railings.
Tie the iron pillars and railings together with ropes and pile them with medium-sized stones to form a breastwork half a person's height.
At this point, the defense was completed.
At this time, Zhang Yang was so tired that his brain was numb. His soul power was too much consumed and he urgently needed to have a good sleep.
So he gritted his teeth and simply used the random military token to recruit ten captain-level soldiers, all of whom were fully armed.
Faced with this scene, the entire Qiao family was numb.
However, the old man was full of fighting spirit again and revived with full health. He kept circling around the ten captain-level soldiers recruited by Zhang Yang.
"My dear son-in-law, you go and have a rest. Now I can use my lifelong reputation as a soldier to guarantee that this place is impregnable. We can hold it for five days, not to mention three. Tsk, tsk, tsk! These are the Royal Guards of the Wei Palace, the most elite infantry in the world, well-equipped and highly skilled. Wow, five of them at once."
"Hey, could these two be the golden-armored archers under the command of Mobei Tianji Khan? Eight hundred years ago, Mobei Tianji Khan traveled across the desert and made several attempts to invade the Central Plains. If it weren't for the two generations of Wei emperors who worked hard to govern the country and outlasted him, who knows what would happen to the Central Plains today? The 800 golden-armored archers under Tianji Khan's command are the most feared."
"Ha, these three, I am not good-looking enough to recognize them immediately. Hmm, let me think, this three-meter-long sword is so sharp, could it be the Mo Dao that has been lost for a thousand years? Tsk tsk, most people can't bear this heavy armor, the heavy armor Mo Dao, I know, this is a type of soldier from the previous dynasty. Since the rise of Wei, the heavy armor Mo Dao has disappeared."
(End of this chapter)
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