(Counting, this Chapter should be 712... let’s see if the previous ones can be altered)
Before Tang Yu appeared a system interface that only he could see. He flipped to the building list page, scrolled down, and found a special building he had neglected for years.
Once, in the era when the territory had less than five Transcendents, Tang Yu relied on spells like ’Destructive Thunderbolt’ to obliterate alien Transcendents physically.
Later, the territory had more Transcendents, but the alien numbers were still tenfold or hundredfold. It was then that he developed a new version of large-scale AOE magic ’Endless Thunderbolt,’ a single spell capable of annihilating multiple Transcendents.
The large-scale spells guarding the territory have been a trump card to reverse adverse situations multiple times.
However, things gradually changed later.
First-tier large-scale spells could obliterate Transcendents.
Second-tier large-scale spells could obliterate Senior Transcendents.
Third-tier large-scale spells could threaten Super Second-tier... yet couldn’t kill them. Despite containing immense energy, its threat to Super Second is a hundred or thousand times higher than spells of the same level, but at most can only severely injure those with ’undying characteristics’ of Super Second-tier.
Its practicality didn’t match the value of Divine Skills.
Fourth-tier large-scale spells, fifth-tier large-scale spells... Tang Yu gradually stopped developing them later on.
The value was too low.
The territory only possessed nine large-scale spell slots, and a single third-tier large-scale spell occupied three slots.
Tang Yu opened the spell positions and glanced, noting that it stored three ’enhancement large-scale spells,’ which could slightly improve their combat power, better than nothing.
"These three spells were stored a few years ago? Two years? Or three years?"
He teleported to a secluded area of Kowloon Mountain.
Before his eyes, stone blocks and round logs appeared out of thin air. The ground sunk, forming a solid foundation, stone columns lifted upward, thick walls with no gaps were piled up in an instant.
In just three to five seconds, a building over a thousand square meters appeared in front of Tang Yu.
The thick walls had no windows, but there were a few book-sized vents near the domed roof, and on the side of the building was a straight column like a pointer, with subtle fluctuations spreading from its top.
The third-tier Spell Factory is the construction limit for a seventh-tier territory.
Tang Yu didn’t go inside but instead clicked on the "Spell Factory" building column within the building list.
"Spell Factory" upgrade directions:
① Spell Slot: Each upgrade increases slots by 3;
② Large-scale Spell Construction Speed Upgrade: Each upgrade increases construction speed by 30%; Fresh chapters posted on noᴠelfire.net
③ Large-scale Spell Release Speed Upgrade: Each upgrade increases release speed by 30%;
④ Capacity Limit Upgrade: Upgrading can enhance the spell slots’ capacity for carrying large-scale spells;
Tang Yu stroked a nonexistent beard.
The more upgrade directions chosen, the exponentially greater the cost. The large-scale spell construction speed could be ruled out first, but he had to upgrade the remaining three.
The three-tier spell slots had only 9, far from meeting the demand, so Tang Yu set ’Spell Slot’ as the first upgrade direction.
Leveling up once required 10 million Source Crystals, twice 100 million, thrice 1 billion...
Tang Yu glanced at the warehouse inventory, opting to upgrade it three times first.
[Ding! Upgrade completed.]
[Deducted Source Crystals 110 million, and several other resources.]
[Territory Spell Slot +9.]
"The second upgrade direction is ’Spell Capacity Limit.’"
He remembered that currently, it could only carry four and a half-tier large spells, and some fifth-tier spells couldn’t be contained after construction, resulting in energy dissipation, making them self-destruct and disintegrate in three to five days.
The capacity limit must be upgraded.
Leveling up once required 20 million Source Crystals; leveling up twice required 200 million Source Crystals...
Lord Tang looked again at the warehouse inventory, determined to upgrade, "Let’s upgrade it thrice."
[Ding! Upgrade completed.]
[Deducted Source Crystals 220 million, and several other resources.]
[Territory Spell Slot Capacity Limit Enhanced.]
"Lastly, the release speed of large-scale spells, let’s upgrade it three... no, two levels will suffice."
[Ding! Upgrade completed.]
[Deducted Source Crystals 44 million, and several other resources.]
[Territory Large-scale Spell Casting Speed Increased by 69%.]
’Spell Slot’ and ’Capacity Limit’ are applicable to the entire territory.
While ’Large-scale Spell Casting Speed’ is closely tied to the specific spell factories available to the territory.
His upgrades on the interface were more like ’research’; each system building needed to undergo ’version updates’ post ’research.’
Luckily, the update cost wasn’t high.
Tang Yu reached out and pointed at the spell factory in front of him, which already had an upgrade option added.
Source Crystals, stone, wood, and rare resources were deducted.
No big commotion, he only saw that the column like a pointer rose further, under the sunlight, casting faint, distorted halos.
Inside the spell factory, Tang Yu operated the complex instruments with familiarity.
Testing, imprinting, modifying, and perfecting...
"The only Divine Skill I now control is ’Glazed Flame.’
In his palm, an indescribable crimson pattern slowly appeared.
Even if isolated by the spell factory, the fire series Source Qi within several kilometers became ebullient.
He slowly, ever so slowly, imprinted the ’Glazed Flame’ mark on the flawless white stone platform.
Glazed flames abruptly erupted, incinerating everything around it.
Lord Tang appeared outside the spell factory, grimy and dust-ridden, looking at the unscorched, yet vanished section of Kowloon Mountain’s midriff, he was silent for a moment,
"Seems like large-scale spell research can’t be conducted in Kowloon Mountain."