Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?

Chapter 127: 129: Elemental Crystal Technique

Chapter 127: Chapter 129: Elemental Crystal Technique

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[You have reached Level 30, now issuing an advancement quest for you]

[Quest Reward: Talent Ascension×1, Profession Slot+1, Professional Talent of Choice×1]

“…” Qin Muye looked at the advancement quest, the difficulty, it was not ordinarily high, the biggest challenges being the destruction of 10 third-rank forces and obtaining an S rank or higher in instance evaluations.

The former was a bit easier, as it could be completed through fighting and killing, but the latter was significantly more difficult, requiring an instance scroll, an epic item that could only be obtained from golden level Hero Treasure Chests.

With no event active, where could he find one? Perhaps there were other channels, but probably only people like the True Dragon Emperor knew about them, so he felt doomed to fail, no wonder many were stuck at the fourth-rank territory.

Fourth rank was actually considered above average in the Magic Continent.

Sixth rank was the Divine, fifth rank included the Dragon Clan, the annihilated Silver Star Alliance, and other top-notch forces, while fourth rank already had a significant influence on the entire Magic Continent, similar to the major kingdoms.

[Your territory has been upgraded to fourth rank]

[Territory: Mage Tower]

[Rank: 4]

[Advancement: 10000000 gold coins, 1000000 units of minerals, 1000000 units of wood, 100000 units of gemstones, 100000 units of crystals, 100000 units of sulfur, 100000 units of mercury]

[Resources: Average daily common resource production reaches 10000 (700000/10000)]

[Requirement: Lord reaches LV40]

Qin Muye almost spat out a mouthful of blood at these absurd upgrading conditions, he wondered which normal person could complete them… oh, he seemed almost done.

The most difficult part was having five types of special buildings, and he only had two: the Magic City Wall and the Alchemy Tower, and then all the heroes needed to be Level 40.

That was the most absurd part. He averaged one hero every ten days, how was he supposed to grind out more?

Moreover, reaching Level 40 was not that difficult per se, but there were simply not enough monsters around.

Qin Muye checked the leaderboard, and now only 32 people were left, Qin Muye himself had moved directly from third-rank champion status to fourth-rank champion, squeezing into 13th place.

The top ten on the leaderboard were all sixth-rank champions, and ahead of Qin Muye, the 11th and 12th places were both fifth-rank champions. Further back, there were quite a few at the fourth-rank, and from 25th place onwards it dropped to third-rank, with no lower ranks listed.

Now, the lowest Lord rank was third-rank, all at champion level.

Those who hadn’t upgraded to fourth rank were most likely stuck due to a lack of special buildings, as instance scrolls of epic quality wouldn’t be easily circulated if they were that common.

Qin Muye had only obtained two such scrolls so far, extremely low in production.

“Has it been a month without any events in ‘Lord Era’? Has it changed its approach, or is it secretly gearing up for something big?”

He had a considerably leisurely month, daily decoding Iron Blood Technology. He had thought it would take a month, but unexpectedly, he finished in just half that time, underestimating his dual talents.

For the latter half of the month, he had been studying the Floating City, combing its Alchemy Cannon and the Iron Blood Spaceship’s High Energy Laser Cannon including sources like the Magic Pool, Elemental Melting Furnace with the high-energy engines of the spaceship, power sources, along with Wen Country’s modern technology, forming a floating city where three civilizations merged.

The design was completed and tested with no major issues, but the resources were insufficient…

Especially the main structure, requiring a significant amount of materials, because his Floating City was not intended to rely on ‘Lord Era’ for construction. If dependent on ‘Lord Era,’ it wouldn’t need to be so complex, as learning the blueprints would suffice, but that would only build a part of the territory.

He had no business opening separate territories.

Meanwhile, other lords were joyfully opening their own.

“As for the main body, let’s use the latest Elemental Crystal Technique along with Maze Locking Technology, which should be sufficient and also allows for transparent energy conductivity.”

The Elemental Crystal Technique is a special material smelted by Qin Muye, combining Hell Power, Crimson Element, Red Prison Energy, Element Core and alchemical products.

It’s sturdy and tough, and possesses strong energy resistance and physical resistance, thanks primarily to the Dragon Clan—if he hadn’t dissected so many, extracting these characteristic data wouldn’t have been certain.

More importantly, its energy conductivity allows for an unobstructed flow of Magic Power or elements.

This Elemental Crystal isn’t just material; it’s also energy objectified. As long as the Magic Pool, Elemental Melting Furnace, High Energy Engine, etc., are still operating, they will have memory Repair ability, and as long as the entire Floating City or these energy cores aren’t instantly destroyed, they can regenerate instantly.

Of course, this is predicated on having sufficient energy. Without enough energy, forget it.

Moreover, since it is energy objectified, the Elemental Crystal is naturally under the control of Qin Muye’s talents from the Crimson Ancestor and the Lord of Hell, allowing Qin Muye to easily reshape and rebuild it.

Qin Muye hadn’t planned on using just the Elemental Crystal Technique; he planned to add other materials as well, such as various metal materials analyzed from the Iron Blood Spaceship.

It also features four sets of power units. One is the commonly used hybrid power, one is the regular Magic System power, one is the Iron Blood Technology power, and the last one is nuclear power derived from modern technology obtained from Wen Country, currently just a fission power plant.

Generally, the first set, the hybrid power, is used, while the other three sets are backups, hidden just in case.

After all, the Floating City is flying in the sky. If someone cuts off its energy supply, it would fall down.

This is just the beginning; in the future, there will be five sets, ten sets, or even a hundred sets of backup power sources.

“Beyond Level 3, each stage is a watershed,” Qin Muye couldn’t help but remark.

Today, his territory has expanded to include the entire Red Wind Plain and even spilled over quite a bit. Therefore, Qin Muye’s Floating City had to encompass the entire Red Wind Plain, which increased the original cost many times over.

This was originally the ground of the first generation Silver Star Alliance. The plain is exceptionally vast, especially with a mountain behind Qin Muye.

And not just one mountain, but several, all included within his territory.

However, the mountain was unfortunate. Black Hand had already begun tunnelling through it, using traditional missiles from Wen Country combined with Alchemy Gunpowder made into Mountain Opening Fireworks by Qin Muye. Aside from being noisy, there were no other downsides.

These Mountain Opening Fireworks were actually quite popular. While Qin Muye used them for blowing up mountains to clear paths, they could be used in combat elsewhere.

Aside from some Level 2 troops that can withstand them, most other Level 2 troops couldn’t handle them. They were much less effective against Level 3 troops, and completely ineffective against Level 4 troops.

Even Dragon Blood Spirits within Qin Muye’s command weren’t afraid, especially with their original Life Values boosted by the Holy Blood Bottle. If these Dragon Blood Spirits were on the brink of death, even a Level 40 Tian Qi wouldn’t survive a punch from them.

Even without the Holy Blood Bottle, a Life Value of 2500 dropping to 100 could still convert into 2400 Attack Power. And these were just the base Dragon Blood Spirits; those deployed into battle were Frenzy Blood Spirit Monsters, whose fighting power was even more ferocious, exchanging 1 point of health for 2 points of Attack Power.

Divine Artifacts probably couldn’t stop them, but this also had its flaws. Once their health was too low, they could be instantly killed.

Generally, apart from Frenzy Blood Spirits that could reduce their own health, other Spirit Monsters had quite a process to trigger this, starting with running out of Magic Power. After all, with an Elemental Shield, if it really came to losing life, they were likely already in a bitter struggle.

They were desperate, naturally they couldn’t care too much.

“Black Hand, take a look at this Floating City project proposal and see how best to implement it. I’ve also attached a list of needed materials; feel free to speak up if anything is inappropriate,” Qin Muye summoned Black Hand and handed over all documents regarding the Floating City’s plans and designs.

After reading through them, Black Hand thought everything was fine, except that it was expensive.

“Master, we are short on materials, and there are too many things lacking skilled workers. It is unlikely that construction can proceed anytime soon, and the Elemental Crystal Technique also presents challenges,” Black Hand stated succinctly.

[Hero: All heroes reach Level 40 (0/1)]

[Building: Ordinary building types reach 100 (1016/100), rare building types reach 10 (63/10), special building types reach 5 (2/5), all buildings achieve Level 4 (3/4)]

[Mission Requirements: Subordinate hero units reach 10 (16/10), destroy a power rated as Rank 3 (0/10), elevate territory to Rank 4 (3/4), elite troop count reaches 50,000 (13,200/50,000), ordinary troop count reaches 100,000 (60,000/100,000), earn an S-level or higher instance evaluation once (0/1)]