My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 456 - 424 Telekinesis and Nightmare Puppet

The castle’s garden was shaded by green trees, and sunlight filtered through the treetops, scattering spots of light here and there.

Tang Yu looked up at the majestic castle in the distance.

The change was not significant, with only the addition of buildings such as watchtowers and belfries around the perimeter, and the main body had grown somewhat taller; the overall layout remained unchanged.

But Tang Yu knew well that with each upgrade, the castle’s exterior walls and internal facilities and so on, all improved accordingly, most notably becoming more sturdy.

Once, someone had broken into the castle and engaged in combat with the statue that turned into a ferocious beast, and not only did they fail to even scratch the surface of the stone sculpture, they couldn’t damage the corridors either; a huge fireball thrown at it would likely be absorbed directly by the red carpet.

In this respect,

the garden of the castle was somewhat weaker. Tang Yu still remembered how he had repeatedly made a mess of the garden.

"However, it might also be because I’m too strong," he reasoned.

Stroking his chin, he felt this made sense.

Looking around, he also noticed changes in the garden.

In the vision of the "Insight Eye," some brightly colored plants were inhaling and exhaling Source Qi, and although faint, there was indeed Source Power flowing through parts of the plants like roots and buds.

They were Source Plants!

It seemed he could no longer wreak havoc in the garden at will.

Tang Yu squatted in front of a green, bud-like plant, observing it closely.

Its stems were thin, and the buds were round and plump like a human face, with several long petals that fluttered in the wind like ears.

Tang Yu reached out a finger and gently prodded it, causing the plump bud to indent like a small dimple.

The long and wide petals drew back, tightly enclosing the pistil... Tang Yu couldn’t help but feel the bud was blushing?

A delusion, it must be a delusion.

Not all plants in the garden had become Source Plants; so far, only a few had, and their function was unclear—after all, the "Insight Eye" had determined they were inedible, and the best they could do was provide a slight increase in the garden’s defensive abilities.

The significance was minor, nowhere near as beneficial as eating Crystal Jade Rice, which could advance one’s cultivation progress.

...

When it came to upgrades in the Territory, except for those staying inside the castle who could sense the changes around them, others were unaware that Lord Tang had just taken a momentary out-of-body glance.

But he didn’t discern anything significant.

This idiotic system rarely gave prompts. From the overall territory to each specialized building, it required him to research and develop everything himself.

He decided to investigate the conditions for the next upgrade first.

Tier four, and tier seven, represented a hurdle, and Tang Yu felt there would be some differences.

"Territory Fitting Degree reaches 80%."

"Collect one million units of Telekinesis."

"Own eight million units of Source Crystal."

The first condition was unsurprising. Originally, he had thought it would need to reach 100%.

Condition two... Lord Tang blinked. What the hell was Telekinesis? Clearly not the same as telekinetic ability.

He flipped through his message records, which only showed "Opening Telekinesis collection feature," and then nothing further.

Indeed, one shouldn’t expect an idiotic system to suddenly produce a system elf with a soft, cute voice... upon consideration, he most likely wouldn’t be accustomed to it either.

Tang Yu relied on self-help.

He switched from the main page to the building panel, the personal panel, message panel... until he finally discovered a new interface.

The Telekinesis interface.

Opening it, it was empty.

There was only a Telekinesis value displayed as 96.739... (after thirteen decimal places omitted), the number was constantly changing, and in no time, it had already broken through the one hundred point mark.

Compared to the requirement of a million points, there was only a word’s difference.

"Is this collected passively..."

Tang Yu contemplated. After all, he wasn’t a newbie lord anymore, and with a Territory Fitting Degree as high as 50%, he had his own methods for exploration.

His mind delved into his brain.

A lifelike map of the Territory’s topography emerged in his mind.

It couldn’t compare to the mysterious sensation he had just experienced, but it was much clearer than before, and he could even zoom in to see the figures coming and going in the commercial area.

Their appearances were still quite vague, but the yellow or green glow above each person’s head was strikingly clear.

Occasionally, tiny particles of light could be seen emerging from their bodies, flying upwards into some unseen space, and vanishing.

"This... must be Telekinesis," Tang Yu noted.

He observed that the light particles varied in size, but it was primarily those with a green glow above their heads that had Telekinesis appear.

Gradually, he came to a realization.

Telekinesis... was similar to what he understood as Belief Power, incense, and Power of Faith, produced by all living beings.

What was different was that producing Telekinesis did not require prayer; it only required survivors to have a sense of identification with the Territory, and to be within its range... it was a passive generation.

Each ordinary person marked with a green color could generate about 0.1 unit of Telekinesis a day.

Awakeners generated even more.

And currently, with over a hundred thousand ordinary people in the Territory, it seemed only ordinary people could collect ten thousand units of Telekinesis a day, but it wasn’t that simple.

Among the many representative people’s lights, seventy percent were green, thirty percent were yellow, mixed with a few red and blue dots (representing allies), and the green glow varied from light green to dark green... Most ordinary people’s sense of identification with the Territory ranged from light green to medium green.

Only early survivors, significantly helped by the Territory, or those more prone to gratitude, could reach deep green.

"Adding in the tens of thousands of permanent Awakeners, roughly twenty thousand units of Telekinesis could be collected a day. One million units... that would take fifty days... too long, way too long!"

Lord Tang didn’t consider whether he could increase the Territory’s Fitting Degree to 80% within fifty days—he only knew that twenty thousand units a day was too little.

Whether it was Source Crystals or Telekinesis, he aimed to be the man who raked in hundreds of thousands per day.

"There’s currently no way to utilize Telekinesis, but saving it up certainly isn’t a loss. At tier seven, I’ll probably be able to use this special energy."

...

His eyes opened.

Tang Yu saw that plump bud unexpectedly floating in the air, and its petals were spinning like propellers.

Seeming to feel his gaze, the bud "plooshed" away and landed in a distant flowerbed, using the dense cluster of blossoms to conceal its shape.

Hiding and refusing to come out.

Tang Yu: "..."

...

After the Territory Upgrade, the first thing was to raise the levels of core buildings such as the Tavern.

There weren’t many changes.

The Tavern now had nine additional Contract slots, plus the two leftover before, making for a total of eleven more followers.

Tang Yu casually summoned a common B-tier warrior, but after thinking it over, he decided not to form a Contract.

Nor did he plan to continue summoning.

Currently, the Territory wasn’t short of hands, only a Transcendent summon could enhance the high-end combat power of the Territory.

However, Nancy’s occurrence was an accident; Tang Yu felt that even if he tried another ten times with ten consecutive draws, he wouldn’t be able to pull out a golden rare.

"Maybe I could contract followers at Awakening Tier Perfection and help them to break through to Transcendent..."

That thought lingered for a moment before Tang Yu dismissed it.

Transcendent wasn’t a stage one could break through to just by wishing it so; talent, luck, and resources were all indispensable.

B-tier and above, the talent was not poor, and those chosen from countless potential followers to become a member of his retinue, their luck, was naturally excellent.

But resources were limited.

It was not possible for Tang Yu to use most of his resources to train new followers and ignore the old veterans that had followed him through many battles.

Luo Zhe, Grey Blade, Kong, Winnie, and several others had made great contributions. They were either at the twelfth layer or Thirteen Layer Peak, not far from Great Perfection, and Tang Yu hoped that they would transcend the mundane in the near future.

As for Red Moon, Greta, and Tylon, they were already at Great Perfection, trying to break through their limits in seclusion again and again.

They were still a good distance from becoming Transcendent.

All these consumed resources daily at an incalculable rate; Eileen and Nancy, being Transcendents, had even more demand for Cultivation Resources—high-purity Source Crystals, Crystal Jade Rice—there was never enough to truly satisfy them.

Relying on external objects was one way, but to circulate Cultivation Skills and absorb Source Qi also worked. However, even if Earth’s Source Qi concentration was high, breaking through to Transcendent by bare cultivation alone—who knew how many years it might take... Even several decades might not suffice!

Source Crystals weren’t thrown away on tavern debauchery.

But, every time the Territory was upgraded, celebrating by splurging was a must.

After much thought, Tang Yu walked into the system market.

The level 6 market, from the outside, still looked like a small store, but upon entering, one could notice a significant expansion, with three shelves—one right in front of you and the other two on each side of the shop.

There were a total of sixty goods slots.

With the market upgrade came one free refresh; Tang Yu scanned the options.

The ordinary resource packs he ignored, but from the fourth-level market onwards, there was a chance to refresh special resource packs, including special metals, rare wood, and so on.

Tang Yu bought all the special material resource packs.

He refreshed again.

...

Special resource packs and blueprints, buy!

...

Skill Rune Stones, buy!

...

Equipment and items with special effects, buy!

...

Most were small items; Tang Yu glanced over and decided that as long as the price wasn’t too expensive, he’d buy them.

In less than an hour, the market had been refreshed over fifty times, and the Space Ring was already filled with various goods.

These goods wouldn’t make a qualitative difference for the Territory, but in certain areas, they still had considerable value.

Blueprints... even trash blueprints could be used for research to broaden one’s horizons.

Skill Rune Stones... to increase the skill reserves of the Territory, to provide ideas for the Magic Research Institute in creating skills.

And there were some special items... like the universal key that could open most door locks, the Source Pointing Needle that pointed to high Source Qi density areas, the Constant Temperature Badge to wear for warmth in winter and cool in summer...

Although they weren’t much help in combat, in certain situations, they could prove to be very useful.

They were reasonably priced anyway, and buying them was no mistake.

Tang Yu also felt an impulse to dismantle and study their internal structures, but thinking twice that he might not be able to put them back together, he decided not to waste them.

Another refresh.

Tang Yu caught a glimpse of a blueprint in the left cabinet priced at ten thousand and, without thinking, controlled it with his mind to purchase directly.

"Ding! Your balance is insufficient, please place enough Source Crystals in the warehouse in time..."

"Ding! Your balance is insufficient..."

"Ding!..."

What the what?!

Tang Yu was dumbfounded, wasn’t it ten thousand Source Crystals? There’s no way I’m that poor!

He opened the system panel and looked; the bottom still showed that he had over three million remaining.

"I knew it couldn’t be... Wait a second, the unit of the price tag above, isn’t that high-purity Source Crystals?!!"

Ten thousand high-purity Source Crystals for a blueprint!

Ridiculous!

He hadn’t looked closely at the beginning, so he hastily approached the blueprint cabinet, the information regarding the blueprint immediately surfaced.

[Nightmare Puppet (3/3)]

Combat Power: Transcendent First Tier.

Materials: 1 Transcendent Soul Crystal, 10 units of Dream Water, 200 units of Cloud Pattern Fine Gold, 1000 units of Mithril, ...

Note: The Nightmare Puppet blueprint is one of the necessary core materials for manufacturing and can only be used three times. Moreover, once the Nightmare Puppet blueprint is purchased, the market will have a higher probability of refreshing items like Nightmare’s Cloak, Nightmare’s Scythe, Nightmare’s Mount, Nightmare’s Treasure Artifact and other Nightmare sets...

Looking at the various introductions on the Puppet blueprint, Tang Yu fell into deep thought.

(PS: I have sinned for the recent lack of updates, aaah~ why can’t Word type for itself!)