I have an Apocalypse City - Chapter 720

Chapter 720: Chapter 720: Sword Formation

“Boss, resources are no problem. We now have more than 800 members in our alliance. With this many people, we can gather all these resources in a month!” A middle-aged man with a rough face shouted loudly.

Song Jian looked up at him and found that he didn’t recognize the man, who seemed to be a new player recently absorbed into the alliance;

“We can’t have everyone gather resources, but we can increase the development effort in the Valley of the Undead and buy the resources directly. I think, as long as the price is right, it should be easy to gather these resources!” Wang Qi nodded and said;

Song Jian nodded. Food, wood, and stone are the most basic materials. Even if buying them from Sin City, it won’t cost much money. Gold and gems must be mined from the caves. The most important thing is that gold can be processed into gold bricks. During the process of making gold bricks, there is a chance to produce gold bricks that can be brought into the real world. Therefore, many miners like to mine gold ores, which makes gathering 50,000 units of gold in a short period difficult.

As for the gems in the resources, they are not the ones found in the Valley of the Undead that can be embedded, but a material that accompanies all ores. When mining any material, there is a certain probability of obtaining it, and the higher the grade of the ore, the more likely it is to produce this kind of gem;

The demand for this kind of gem on the market is not huge, and purchasing them is not difficult. The main issue is that gathering 30,000 units in a month may cause the price of these gems to rise sharply;

However, since obtaining the Valley of the Undead, the City of Hope Alliance isn’t short of money lately. And many players, upon learning about it, want to join the City of Hope Alliance. After all, apart from the resources in the Valley of the Undead, there are numerous undead creatures – countless Skeleton Soldiers! These monsters have high levels and low strength, so leveling up here using AOE skills is incredibly satisfying!

“Let’s leave the matter of supplies to Wang Qi. Can you gather all these supplies within 20 days?” Song Jian asked.

Wang Qi shook his head and said: “As long as there is enough funding, these are just ordinary materials. Moreover, our Transmission Array has opened connections with two other cities, so we can purchase supplies from them!”

Song Jian nodded. If these materials are placed in one alliance, the amount is massive, but if they are distributed among several major cities, they might not even cause a ripple. As long as the operation is done correctly, the price may only increase by 10 or 20% in order to gather all the required supplies;

“As for the second task…”

Before Song Jian could finish speaking, Luo Tianyu interrupted him: “Don’t worry about the second task. As soon as our territory expands, we’ll first clear out the small monsters in the area. It’s already been done many times!”

“We must not be careless; we need to check every nook and cranny!” Wang Qi said, “Especially those monsters that can go invisible but don’t attack proactively. We might not notice them if they hide in some corner…”

After thinking for a moment, Song Jian asked, “Did you clean the sewers?”

Several people were astonished and looked at Song Jian;

“Damn, if you didn’t remind us, we might have overlooked the monsters in the sewers…”

“Yeah, who goes in the sewers to fight monsters and level up? The environment there is terrible. But, indeed, there are quite a few monsters in the sewers. I’ve been in there when doing a quest…”

“Boss, what about the sky? Do the monsters in the sky count?” Someone suddenly asked.

“Only the territory counts, not the airspace!” Song Jian said immediately, if the task included the monsters in the sky, probably no player could complete this task perfectly;

“So we just need to organize people to clear out the monsters in the sewers again!”

“We must check carefully multiple times and not miss a single monster!” Song Jian said with a serious expression.

Although clearing out monsters seems simple, it is challenging to thoroughly clean all the monsters hiding in the corners. Players don’t frequently visit some places, and some monsters can turn invisible; these factors need to be considered.

The people brainstormed and came up with several targeted suggestions, all while looking at the third task;

“The defensive buildings provided by the system, including city walls, gates, Arrow Towers, Caltrops, and even moats, can only provide a little more than 60,000 defense points when added together!” Wang Qi frowned and said.

Song Jian was taken aback, how could this be?

“Are you sure?” Song Jian asked.

“Definitely, even if we build all those that we cannot currently use, it’s only a little over 60,000!” Wang Qi said;

Song Jian’s brow furrowed. The third task seemed independent of the other tasks, but it was closely related to the monster siege in the fourth task.

If the defense facilities are insufficient, it will be tough to resist the monster invasion. Therefore, Song Jian estimated that 100,000 defense points might be the minimum requirement. To successfully defend against the monster siege in the fourth task, the constructed defense facilities must have at least 150,000 or even 200,000 defense points.

However, the system has provided only a little more than 60,000 defense points worth of defensive buildings. In one month, they not only need to build but also find new defensive buildings – this is probably the most difficult part of the task.

“Wang Qi, first order our brothers to build the available defense buildings, then send people to other cities to find new blueprints. If there are none, invite the master builders from other cities to construct them for us..” Song Jian said.

Wang Qi nodded, clearly realizing that this defense building task is the most difficult among the four tasks.

After some discussion, everyone left the Manor Castle and started getting busy;

Song Jian suddenly remembered the defensive array that the Sect Leader of Qingyun Sword Sect used during his battle with the Demon of the Abyss in the assessment mission world – the Qingyun Sword Array!

“If we can set up a city-defending grand array similar to the Qingyun Sword Array, it would definitely meet the task’s defense requirement!” Song Jian thought silently in his heart.

With Song Jian’s current mastery of sword arrays, setting up a Qingyun Sword Array that relies on the power of heaven and earth is far too difficult, but arranging a simpler defense array shouldn’t be a problem;

However, the most important thing is that Song Jian doesn’t have many sword stones left. As the carrier of the sword array, the more complex the sword array, the more blank sword stones are required, and since Song Jian returned from the assessment mission world, he has discovered no more sword stones, and the stored sword stones have been almost consumed.

Song Jian looked at the remaining thirty or so blank sword stones in his inventory, and couldn’t help but frown.

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