15: Chapter 15 Targeted Recruitment, Level 2 Territory

With a territory of 1.9 square kilometers, unless one's luck is terrible, some resource points will inevitably appear.

Lin Xiao's luck was decent; the newly converted territory had an extra iron mine and a stone mine. Although they were both micro-scale, they still represented a significant amount of wealth.

Besides that, there was also a large forest.

As a Lord, one can choose to bundle and sell the resource points within the territory.

Soon, Lin Xiao sold off the iron mine, stone mine, and forest within the territory to Jin Ruxuan, receiving a large sum of Source Crystals.

He didn't keep these Source Crystals either, exchanging them all for various necessary resources and items at Jin Ruxuan's.

After returning to the territory, Lin Xiao immediately got busy.

He first went to the north side of the territory and upgraded the Frost Fortress to Level 1. Its size immediately became much larger, and its footprint also increased significantly.

A Level 1 Frost Fortress could recruit up to 10 Frost Giants. Lin Xiao did not hesitate and immediately maxed out the number. As a cold tide surged continuously, one Frost Giant after another walked out from inside the fortress.

10 Frost Giants occupied 500 population slots.

In this way, the territory's population became 900, with 100 still remaining to be filled.

Lin Xiao did not choose to recruit commoners to fill the population deficit, but instead continued to recruit military units.

However, how to recruit military units was a problem.

A Level 1 territory could only build one barracks.

The Frost Fortress had already occupied this barracks slot, so building a new barracks wouldn't work.

As for using a random unit token for summoning, the type of unit that would appear depended too much on luck, and with only 100 population slots, there was a high possibility of waste.

If 10 Rare-grade units were summoned, due to insufficient population, the other five units would disappear.

Just thinking about it felt like a loss.

Fortunately, it wasn't without a solution.

Lin Xiao's gaze fell on the new item in his backpack.

[Targeted Unit Recruitment]

Quality: Rare.

After using this item, one can specify a certain unit type within the territory for targeted recruitment. The recruitment quantity is 1, and the quality of the unit must not exceed the quality of the item.

Lin Xiao was quite satisfied with the composition of the units in his territory, so he only intended to supplement the number of units.

Compared to normal recruitment, using an item for targeted recruitment was definitely more expensive. However, then again, to recruit normally, one first needed a barracks, which was another huge expense.

Therefore, as long as the number recruited wasn't too high, it was still cost-effective.

[Please select the unit type to recruit]

The Black Armor Soldiers and Dragon Cavalry appeared in the selectable list.

"Black Armor Soldiers."

Lin Xiao immediately made his choice.

Black Armor Soldierss were frontline units; using their bodies and shields to block attacks from Void Monsters, 10 was too few.

Lin Xiao used up five Targeted Unit Recruitment items in one go.

He saw light appear out of thin air in front of him, and one Black Armor Soldiers after another walked out from it.

"Greetings, my Lord."

"Welcome to my territory."

Lin Xiao called over Wang Wu and had him take the five newly arrived Black Armor Soldierss to help them integrate into the territory.

Because the territory Rank was already Level 1, the Rank of these Black Armor Soldierss was not suppressed; they arrived at Tier 1 and occupied 100 population slots.

In this way, the territory's population was full.

Lin Xiao also bought a large amount of resources from Jin Ruxuan, and the remaining Source Crystals were enough to upgrade the territory.

Thus, the only remaining condition for upgrading to a Level 2 territory was the buildings.

3 Level 1 buildings, and 5 total buildings.

It is worth mentioning that for the same type of building, only the one with the highest Rank is counted. Therefore, although there were many residential houses in the territory, they still did not meet the upgrade requirements.

Now, there were four types of buildings in the territory, with the Lords Mansion and the Frost Fortress both being Level 1.

For the fifth type of building, Lin Xiao thought for a moment and chose a watchtower.

As the territory grew larger and larger, various defensive buildings needed to be constructed to provide solid protection for the territory.

A watchtower was also one of the essential defensive buildings.

Arriving at the edge of the territory, Lin Xiao placed a watchtower in all four directions.

When invaded by external enemies, they could allow Lin Xiao to immediately detect where the danger was coming from.

One more Level 1 building was needed.

Either upgrade the tavern or upgrade the residential houses.

"Let's upgrade the tavern."

Lin Xiao thought for a moment and made a decision.

The tavern could be used to recruit heroes. Every once in a while, heroes of random quality would be refreshed inside. The higher the Rank of the tavern, the easier it was to refresh high-quality heroes, and the number of heroes that appeared would also be greater.

Of course, for now, the tavern was just for show.

As a basic building that didn't require blueprints and that every Lord could build, its upper limit was predictable.

Even if upgraded to Level 3, the highest quality hero that could be recruited was only Rare-grade; a Level 1 tavern would only produce Common-grade heroes.

In fact, including Lin Xiao, those new Lords in the first and second tiers basically obtained their powerful heroes from Hero Tokens.

Returning to the Lords Mansion, Lin Xiao upgraded the tavern to Level 1.

When the construction time ended, four watchtowers stood on the edge of the territory, and the tavern was also upgraded to Level 1, satisfying all upgrade conditions.

"That's it."

Lin Xiao opened the territory panel and selected the newly appeared upgrade button.

"Upgrade territory."

...

Golden light, even more magnificent than when upgrading to a Level 1 territory, descended from the sky, enveloping the entire Lords Mansion.

Under the shroud of the golden light, the Lords Mansion underwent astonishing changes. Not only did its Rank increase to Level 2, keeping it synchronized with the territory Rank, but its appearance also changed drastically, from the original brick and stone house to a three-story building.

Its footprint became larger, the interior space was bigger, and all kinds of furniture were readily available.

After the Lords Mansion finished upgrading, more golden light surged towards the entire territory.

Within the 1.9 square kilometer area, wherever the golden light reached, space became more stable and perfect. At the same time, endless Spiritual Qi surged out from the Void Realm, significantly increasing the Spiritual Qi concentration within the territory.

The Spiritual Qi concentration of a Level 2 territory undoubtedly exceeded most areas of the Main World.

[Congratulations, your territory has upgraded to Level 2. You are the first Lord to complete the upgrade. Reward: 1 million Source Crystals, one Rare-grade treasure chest.]

[You have obtained one opportunity to adjust your territory. Do you wish to use it?]

The System rewards arrived quickly, but Lin Xiao didn't have time to pay attention to them. Taking advantage of the territory upgrade opportunity, he began to adjust the territory.

The larger the territory, the more areas that needed adjustment.

Fortunately, the territory converted from the same Void Land still followed basic laws and wouldn't result in errors like splicing a desert and a lake together; otherwise, Lin Xiao would have had a headache over how to adjust the territory.

It didn't take long for him to complete the adjustment of the territory.

The entire territory could not be called perfectly natural, but it had no major flaws, which stabilized the territory and allowed the Spiritual Qi concentration to be maintained.