70: Building territory

It was night.

The moon was bright and the stars twinkled.

Li Feng returned to his castle with a rich haul of spoils and an overwhelming number of Troops.

Moonlight pierced through the magical mist, falling upon him.

It added a shimmering, ethereal veil to his tall and slender figure, making him seem like an immortal banished from the heavens, untouched by worldly affairs.

Before him, the leaderboard quietly opened.

Li Feng firmly held the first position with over 5 million points!

In second place was a re-energized Fang Song, who was slightly ahead of the third-place contender with 1.2 million points.

Li Feng silently closed the leaderboard.

The top spot in the assessment was clearly secure.

No one could threaten him.

This time, he had harvested five or six dozen Lords in one go.

Besides wanting to collect assessment points, he also gathered a good amount of resources.

He looked up at the starry sky, deep in thought.

The basic resources harvested from dozens of Lords amounted to over 2 million units.

Adding his own collected basic resources, he now had over 5 million units in total.

With so many resources, it was time to start building city defenses.

Previously, Li Feng had resources but no blueprints, so he hadn't started construction.

Now, with the War Tech Tree unlocked, even without blueprints, he could build all conventional city defense structures.

The first thing to build, naturally, was city walls.

What good are city defenses if there isn't even a city?

As a Lord, he already had his own castle.

Now, he still needed his own city.

When thinking of a city, city walls are the first structure most people imagine.

With the War Tech Tree unlocked, even without city wall blueprints, Li Feng could easily construct them by expending resources.

[City Wall]

Construction requirements: wood, stone, iron ore * 100 / meter.

Every 300 units of basic resources can build 1 meter of city wall.

Li Feng calculated that his basic resources could build approximately 18,000 meters of city wall.

Since he was backed by a cliff, Li Feng only needed to build walls on three sides.

After calculating, Li Feng made a decision.

He would build three 5,000-meter long walls, and the remaining basic resources would be used to construct a small barbican.

A barbican is one of the main defensive facilities of a city.

Since the remaining resources weren't too abundant, Li Feng only planned to build a semi-circular small barbican on the inner side of the city wall directly in front of him.

At the same time, Li Feng intended to move a portion of his arrow towers into the barbican.

If anyone were to attack Li Feng's city.

After breaking through the first city gate, they would enter the barbican.

What would greet the enemy would not be an unobstructed path.

But a volley of arrows!

With a plan in place, the next step was execution.

Using the War Tech Tree, Li Feng entered a God's-eye view, looking down at his territory from above.

Soon, he determined the placement of the three city walls.

[You have built 15,000 meters of city wall, consuming 1.5 million wood, 1.5 million stone, 1.5 million iron ore, 150 rotten wood, 150 rotten stone, and 150 rotten iron!]

Rumble!

A sound like a mountain collapsing and the earth splitting echoed, and Li Feng's territory shook violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred.

From the God's-eye view, Li Feng witnessed it firsthand.

Three city walls rose from the ground around his castle, encircling and protecting it.

They were ten meters high and an astonishing five meters thick.

Heavy and majestic.

[City Wall]

Rank: Normal

Health: 12,000

Defense: 120

...Normal city walls generally only have 10,000 health.

Because Li Feng added many elite-quality resources, both health and defense were boosted to some extent.

12,000 health might not seem like much.

But this wasn't the total health of the entire wall; rather, every inch of the wall had such formidable health.

If an enemy wanted to break through a gap large enough for one person to enter, they would need to deal over a million damage, and even then, it would only be a possibility.

And this was assuming Li Feng didn't repair the walls.

In fact, with the War Tech Tree unlocked, Li Feng could completely repair the walls while fending off enemy attacks.

Unless he ran out of resources, the city walls would never collapse.

The War Tech Tree was an even more precious treasure than War Treasure.

Even many top-tier Lords did not possess it.

Only in the Novice Lord assessment did some powerful Novice Lords have a chance to acquire it.

This wasn't all.

Li Feng then constructed a barbican behind the front city wall, almost exhausting his remaining basic resources.

Subsequently, he moved a large number of arrow towers into the barbican.

Li Feng's gaze shifted to the passage behind the city gate.

Behind the city gate, he had previously left a groove.

The next moment, he consumed a large amount of rotten iron to construct a portcullis.

It fit perfectly into the groove he had prepared earlier.

The portcullis, built entirely from elite-quality iron ore, boasted a massive 100,000 health, making its damage resistance incredibly high.

The portcullis appeared out of thin air, like a second city gate, completely blocking the city wall passage.

Seeing this, Li Feng was very satisfied.

Normally, this heavy portcullis would hang hidden in the groove above.

If a siege battle were to erupt one day, and enemies broke through the city gate and entered the barbican.

Li Feng could drop the portcullis, blocking the enemy's retreat.

Catching them like turtles in a jar!

From a high-altitude view, a small city thus rose from the ground.

The only flaw was that the city currently only had one castle, with the rest of the area being empty.

Li Feng could only stare helplessly at this.

Just building these three city walls and one barbican had almost emptied his entire fortune.

Just moments ago, his castle's warehouse was brimming with resources.

Now, there was little left, almost to the point of being empty.

However, for a considerable period, Li Feng wouldn't need to construct any buildings.

When he wasn't strong enough, he dared not expose his territory's coordinates, so naturally, no other Lords would come to his territory.

"But I believe that in the future, my city will definitely become a large safe zone, a trading zone, and a transit hub, with countless Lords walking within my city."

Li Feng murmured, his heart filled with confidence for the future.

For ordinary Lords.

Building a city was primarily to defend against external threats and protect their Lord Altar.

But for a few powerful Lords.

It meant they could publicly disclose their territory's coordinates, allowing various Lords to come and go, forming a truly vibrant and prosperous city...