Impenetrable City - A city that has undergone a thousand consecutive defense battles with a damage loss of less than 10% will obtain this title. Cities that obtain this title will have their building durability permanently increased by 10%, defensive building attack permanently increased by 20%, and city residents' defense during defense battles increased by 20%. This title's status can stack with any other status.
Guard Recruitment Level Upgrade Card - After use, the current level of guards within the city will permanently increase by 1.
Lord's Exclusive Seal (Special) - This equipment is exclusive to the Lord of Fengle City. Players who equip it will have all attributes increased by 50% within the range of Fengle City. After use, it can transport all players within Fengle City to a battlefield designated by the player.
Ye Yun breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the rewards from the system this time. They all focused on enhancing the overall strength of Fengle City. Especially the 'Impenetrable City' title, it was as if it was tailor-made for Ye Yun's ideas. This was because Ye Yun's greatest passion was to build dense defensive structures within his city, as only then could he feel a modicum of security. After all, besides the Dragon Palace's millions of troops, humanity's overall strength was still too weak.
And Ye Yun now had to manage not only Fengle City but also Shangjing City. It would be very difficult for the millions of troops to defend two main cities.
"Upgrade the Guard Recruitment Building!"
Ye Yun sat in front of the Qitian Tower and was the first to use the newly acquired 'Guard Recruitment Building Upgrade Card'. This was because, compared to the 'Auspicious Altar', this item could be upgraded directly without specific materials.
"System Prompt: Upgrading Fengle City's 'Guard Recruitment Building' will significantly affect the player's guard recruitment time. Please confirm."
Hearing the system's prompt, Ye Yun was stunned.
Previously, recruiting guards only required money for recruitment and upkeep. Even if you recruited ten million or a hundred million, as long as the gold coins were in place, they would be arranged in seconds. There was no concept of time needed.
Upon hearing this prompt, Ye Yun canceled the upgrade without hesitation and then opened Fengle City's attributes. Seeing the hundreds of trillions of gold coins, he unhesitatingly recruited two hundred million guards from the recruitment building. Previously, it was limited by Fengle City's funds, so Ye Yun had only recruited thirty million in installments. Now that the recruitment building was being upgraded, the system's prompt would not be without reason, so Ye Yun decided to recruit extensively first, as all these guards would eventually be placed on the city walls and would not affect the normal gameplay of players within the city.
After recruiting, Ye Yun used the upgrade card again and confirmed directly, then eagerly opened the Guard Building's attributes.
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Imperial Guard Recruitment Building (Special Building)
Level: 1
Number of Imperial Guards that can be recruited by the Lord of Fengle City: 10,000
Number of Imperial Guards that can be recruited by Fengle City officials: 100
Number of Imperial Guards that can be recruited by Fengle City's permanent residents: 10
Number of Imperial Guards that can be recruited by normal players: 5
Additional Function: Imperial Guard Level Upgrade and Imperial Guard Attribute Enhancement
Resources required for building level upgrade: Dragon Scale * 1, Phoenix Feather * 1, Xuanwu Armor * 1, White Tiger Tooth * 1
Description: The city lord's imperial guard recruitment building. The lord can recruit various imperial guards here by spending a small amount of gold coins. This building can also be opened to normal players, who can recruit up to a thousand personal guards by spending a certain amount of gold coins (to be set by the lord). The lord can adjust the recruitment cost for normal players between twice and ten times the lord's recruitment cost.
Recruitable Imperial Guards:
1 - Dragon Guard, Recruitment Cost: 1000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.0, Recruitment Time: 10 seconds
2 - Spearman, Recruitment Cost: 3000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.01, Recruitment Time: 15 seconds
3 - Hidden Archer, Recruitment Cost: 5000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.02, Recruitment Time: 20 seconds
4 - Tiger Cavalry, Recruitment Cost: 7000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.03, Recruitment Time: 25 seconds
5 - Field Medic, Recruitment Cost: 9000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.04, Recruitment Time: 30 seconds
6 - Destruction Mage, Recruitment Cost: 11000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.05, Recruitment Time: 35 seconds
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16 - Dragon Rider, Recruitment Cost: 31000 gold coins, Growth Factor: 2.15, Recruitment Time: 85 seconds
The rows of recruitable imperial guards made Ye Yun's blood boil. Although the Level 1 recruitment building could only recruit Dragon Guards and Spearmen, the base Dragon Guards' initial attributes already surpassed guards that had been reinforced three times. The Spearmen were equivalent to guards reinforced four times.
As for the Dragon Riders, their initial attributes were comparable to guards reinforced twenty times.
What shocked Ye Yun the most, however, was not this, but the growth factors of these unit types. Even the lowest Dragon Guard's growth factor was on par with the previous city guards, and the Dragon Rider's reached a terrifying 2.15!! This was more terrifying than Xiao Jinlong.
Instantly, Ye Yun felt that the two hundred million guards he had recruited earlier were no longer as appealing. These were Level 1 guards that cost over twenty billion to recruit, and now they seemed like a bunch of trash! Furthermore, their subsequent upgrades would require an astronomical amount of wealth!
However, despite his disappointment, Ye Yun also knew that although these newly recruited soldiers looked powerful, the recruitment time was a problem. Recruiting dozens or hundreds was fine, but once the numbers increased, the time spent alone could be agonizing. Moreover, the cost of upgrading guards was already terrifying, so what about these imperial guards?
Although the growth of these recruited soldiers was monstrous, even surpassing many divine beasts, their flaws were also very obvious. Firstly, their initial attributes were too low, making it impossible to increase their initial attributes when they were weak, unlike Xiao Jinlong or Jinwu. Secondly, in terms of cultivation, they didn't upgrade by directly absorbing experience points like Xiao Jinlong and Jinwu. Instead, they required gold coins to upgrade them, and the cost of gold coins increased with each level.
It could be said that even if "Ma Baba" (a common nickname for Jack Ma in China) used all his wealth, it would be a question whether he could cultivate a guard to level thirty or forty!
Of course, even if the guard's initial attributes were pitifully low, once they reached level forty, their attributes would absolutely crush players who spent the same amount of wealth to buy attribute points. At the current stage, even most players in the Dragon Palace could not contend with a level forty guard!
This was also one of the main reasons why Ye Yun had recruited so few guards as city guards previously. If it weren't for the 'Divine City Evolution' quest that automatically strengthened the city guards periodically, Ye Yun would never have recruited them.
Although Ye Yun's current earnings were three-day stones, each worth two hundred trillion gold coins, he still felt immense pressure to cultivate his current two hundred and thirty million city guards!