Chapter 486
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Chapter 486: Upgrade Panel
The construction of sleds, this snow-traveling transport tool, wasn’t complicated.
Simply put, it meant replacing the wheels of a grain cart with skids.
The artisans in the Civilian Production Department were skilled in this area.
Once Luo Ji officially gave the order, their production efficiency was naturally outstanding.
In a short time, they built dozens of them.
With these, the issue of grain transport efficiency could indeed be solved.
However, what vexed Luo Ji was that the priority now wasn’t grain transport.
It was how to ensure that the transported grain wouldn’t be stolen by those grasslanders! This was truly worrying him.
After simply praising the head of the Civilian Production Department, Luo Ji, signaling the person to withdraw, walked back to the Hall of Political Affairs with a troubled expression.
He still needed to ponder this matter thoroughly. And as he pondered, he actually realized something.
Before the urgent report from the grasslands arrived, he was about to study the special development panels of his Luo Ji’s Civilization and the Beastmen Civilization.
The interruption from the urgent report made him forget about it.
Now that he remembered, he quickly reopened his development panel.
Looking at the two special development panels, Luo Ji didn’t overthink it much.
He decided to focus on his Myriad World Civilization first.
Previously, to plunder grain and resources, he had continuously invaded many players.
Each time he invaded a player, he would inevitably conquer two to three cities.
At the same time, he would defeat the enemy’s defending forces, capturing their defending generals and city lords.
Each of these actions earned him special points.
Additionally, recently, there had been “unlucky souls” constantly stumbling into his icy, snowy territory, bringing him warmth.
Although lying dormant didn’t earn many special points, the system would still provide one or two basic points.
In this way, Luo Ji had been racking up points quite nicely during this period.
Under his “diligent work,” his Conquest Points had now reached 153! Finally, he could level up!
The page opened, revealing Myriad World Civilization’s development page in a skill tree format. It was divided into several columns.
To unlock a column of development projects and skills, one had to spend corresponding special points and Civilization Points.
He gently tapped, and a system prompt window immediately appeared before Luo Ji.
[System Notification: Do you wish to consume 100 Conquest Points and 100,000 Civilization Points to unlock?]
“Phew—”
Letting out a long breath, Luo Ji tapped “confirm.”
The hard-earned 100 Conquest Points were instantly deducted.
In return, the black mist covering the second column of development projects and skills finally dissipated.
Unlike the first column, which only had two icons, the second column had three.
However, they were all gray for now. To activate them, he would undoubtedly need to spend Civilization Points to upgrade.
He decisively looked at each one. From left to right, Luo Ji first focused his attention on the first icon.
[Territory Conquest (Active): Upon fulfilling conquest conditions, you can consume corresponding Conquest Points to annex occupied territory for your own use! (Note: This effect does not include civilization characteristics)]
The appearance of this skill thoroughly confirmed Luo Ji’s previous speculation.
Indeed, the concept of a “Civilization Conqueror” was different from the concept of “Territory Conquest.”
The Civilization Conqueror could even seize the special characteristics of the opposing civilization.
Territory Conquest, however, clearly only allowed for the occupation of land.
Of course, both skills had their advantages.
The Civilization Conqueror skill could only be activated when defeating an entire opposing civilization.
However, the Territory Conquest skill had a phrase at the end, “will annex occupied territory for your own use!”
In other words, even if he didn’t directly clash with the opposing player, he could simply conquer a favorable city and then occupy it individually after the battle ended.
Thinking of this possibility, Luo Ji’s little heart pounded relentlessly.
This was quite something!
In a way, it was almost like being able to do whatever he wanted!
Of course, there were downsides too.
After a battle ended, at the earliest, 7 days later, if he wanted to directly take that city, he certainly couldn’t let the opposing player reclaim it.
Simply put, after conquering it, he would have to defend it for 7 days. The hit-and-run tactic would be completely unusable.
It had both pros and cons.
Without even thinking, regardless of what the other two icons were, Luo Ji was definitely going to unlock this Territory Conquest skill.
[System Notification: Do you wish to consume 10 Conquest Points and 10,000 Civilization Points to unlock the ‘Territory Conquest’ skill?]
The unlock cost wasn’t expensive.
But Luo Ji knew that wasn’t the main point.
The key was that each future activation would deduct corresponding Conquest Points.
This was a continuous consumption item!
After clicking “confirm” and decisively unlocking the skill, Luo Ji, holding his remaining 43 Conquest Points, shifted his attention to the next icon.
[Hegemon’s Monument (Special Building): A stone tablet proclaiming sovereignty and recording the achievements of the ‘Conquering King.’ Cities with a ‘Hegemon’s Monument’ will see their citizens’ loyalty to the ‘Conquering King’ increase by 1. After defeat, the surrender rate of defending forces and city citizens decreases by 15%.]
After a little thought, Luo Ji immediately understood the effects of this special building.
Although the Hegemon’s Monument special building only added one point of loyalty, fortunately, it didn’t conflict with other skill effects and could stack.
It could also reduce the surrender rate after a city was breached by enemy forces.
It was quite a beneficial special building for “rule.”
However, in the current situation, Luo Ji simply couldn’t spare the extra productivity to build this.
The construction of this special building would have to wait until next spring.
And this last icon.
Upon seeing it, Luo Ji’s breathing immediately quickened.
It was described as follows…
[Racial Coexistence (Passive): Within the civilization, the intimacy between different races +1.]
Luo Ji almost let out a silly laugh upon seeing this.
Although he hadn’t yet had time to study this new “intimacy” value, wasn’t this exactly what he wanted?
If he had known that the second column of the Luo Ji’s Civilization panel had this “Racial Coexistence” enhancement project, he would have run out and desperately grinded for points by any means necessary.
Spending these 100 Conquest Points to unlock it was absolutely worth it!
No matter what, Racial Coexistence had to be activated!
[System Notification: Do you wish to consume 10 Conquest Points and 10,000 Civilization Points to upgrade the ‘Racial Coexistence’ project to Level 1?]
He decisively clicked “confirm.”
After the upgrade was complete, Luo Ji clicked it again.
[System Notification: Do you wish to consume 50 Conquest Points and 100,000 Civilization Points to upgrade the ‘Racial Coexistence’ project to Level 2?]
Damn it! Not enough points…
Luo Ji looked at his remaining 33 Conquest Points with a stomachache.
How did they get spent so quickly?
He had originally wanted to upgrade “Racial Coexistence” directly to Level 2.
Now, it was clearly out of the question.
Moreover, calming his mind, he realized it would be best to keep 20 to 30 Conquest Points in reserve.
With that thought, it seemed like there wouldn’t be any further upgrades for a while.
