The Tycoon God of Online Gaming
Chapter 264 - 265: Upgrading the Research Project

Chapter 264: Chapter 265: Upgrading the Research Project

After making up his mind, Chu You and Shànguān Xū left the place together.

Once the ruling fortress was activated, all building functions were revived. What Chu You needed to do now was to use the copious Time Acceleration Cards on him to accelerate the enhancement of the attributes of the fortress buildings.

One step at a time!

The ’Research Palace’ was located midway up the main structure. This place was massive, with runes filling the entire building.

The operations were simple, much like those of the guild’s core building. Chu You decided to start here because the ’Research Palace’ was incredibly powerful, and it was the foundation of everything. This knowledge was gained from his past life.

"My Lord, this is the Research Palace, and according to ancient legends, its divine power is extraordinary," Shànguān Xū said with an anticipatory look on his face. He was curious about how far Chu You could take it.

Chu You remained silent, calmly selecting the core device. Immediately, a screen that filled his entire field of vision appeared.

At the top of the large screen, there were two options. What Chu You saw was: Basic research, and on the right was: Advanced research!

Under basic research, there were four options: Economy, Combat, City Defense, Production!

Chu You squinted slightly. This interface was much like a skill tree, with the only difference being that the skill tree contained skills, while this interface contained a multitude of scientific research projects. What Chu You was looking at was the economic interface.

Basic research had three major categories. Each category had a multitude of research projects requiring attention. As for advanced research...it could only be investigated once basic research was fully complete.

Among the economic interface, the top research project was lit brightly, indicating that it could be researched, whereas the research projects below it were greyed out.

Chu You selected the first research project, which was wood production: 0/10: researching wood production would increase the daily output of mineral resources for the guild to which the player’s flag belongs!

The wood production was 0/10, meaning this research project could be upgraded to level 10! The benefit it would bring would increase the daily output of mineral resources for the guild of the player who’s ruling. The research effects would apply to all members of the ruling guild.

Of course, the prerequisite was that the player had a lumberyard. Once a lumberyard was owned, the research effects would take place immediately.

Chu You began...

System: Upgrading the wood production research to level 1 requires 100 strategic resource ores, 30 mercury, and 30 minutes. It will increase the daily wood production by 10 for each lumberyard owned by your guild players!

The more lumberyards a player owns, the greater the gain!

Opening his bag, Chu You used a ’Research Time Speed-Up Card for 30 Minutes!’. The research process was instantly completed!

System: Upgrading the wood production research to level 2 requires 300 strategic resource ores, 60 mercury, and 2 hours. It will increase the daily wood production by 30 for each lumberyard owned by your guild players!

After raising the wood production by 1 level, the second row of research projects showed up brightly, meaning that they could be upgraded. However, Chu You didn’t do so.

He took it one at a time, leveling each project to the maximum level before moving on to the next. After all, every project needed to be upgraded. If a research project didn’t reach a certain level, the advanced research project couldn’t continue to be upgraded.

Chu You used two ’Scientific Research Acceleration Cards for 1 Hour’ consecutively, instantly completing the level 2 wood production research!

He continued the upgrade...

In Shànguān Xū’s eyes, every time Chu You upgraded a research project, the runes of the Research Palace would become more intricate, with their color gradually transitioning from cyan to gold...

System: Upgrading the wood production research to level 10 requires 3000 strategic resource ores, 860 mercury, and 30 days. It will increase the daily wood production by 300 for each lumberyard owned by your entire guild players!

If a player owns five lumberyards, then apart from the daily benefits brought by the level of the lumberyard, an additional 1500 wood would be added every day!

Chu You used five ’Scientific Research Acceleration Cards for 24 Hours’ consecutively, immediately raising the research project of wood production to the maximum level.

The color of the runes became even more exquisite, sketching out many fine lines. The emitted light gradually turned gold, which was truly beautiful to behold.

Next up was the production of ore.

Under Chu You’s calm gaze, he raised this research project to the maximum level as well.

Ore Production: Level 10: It will increase the daily ore production by 300 for each mine owned by the guild players.

He continued...

Mercury Production: Level 10: It will increase the daily mercury production by 140 for each mercury mine owned by the guild players.

And continued...

Crystal Production: Level 10: It will increase the daily crystal production by 100 for each crystal mine owned by the guild players.

He didn’t stop...

Sulfur Production: Level 10: It will increase the daily sulfur production by 100 for each sulfur mine owned by the guild players.

He continued...

Gemstone Production: Level 10: It will increase the daily gemstone production by 100 for each gemstone mine owned by the guild players. Chu You owned a Level 5 gemstone mine, so it would bring Chu You an additional 100 gemstones a day. Including the mine’s original output, Chu You could receive a total of 120 gemstone resources a day.

"My Lord..." Shànguān Xū felt something was off and couldn’t help but say it aloud.

On the economic interface, when all five strategic resource research projects had been upgraded to level 10, Chu You selected the option for advanced research, which was already brightly lit.

Army Speed: 0/10: Will increase the moving speed of the army under the entire guild’s players.

This was truly powerful. The research outcome would also affect the Chiyou One Warship. The army speed included sea, land, and air. Any combat unit recruited by the player would be blessed.

As impressive as it was, the cost to upgrade this research project was huge in terms of both strategic resources and days. As the level increased, the required resources and number of days would also increase significantly.

This didn’t bother Chu You, however. The scientific research speed-up cards he had accounted for more than 3000 days in total. He had 50 ordinary packages and 50 high-end packages! (Please refer to Chapter 198, My Goal, First Spend a Hundred Million!). These were only scientific research speed-up packages, not including the Biospeed Booster Packs and Building Speed-up Packs.

The only thing he was worried about was the strategic resources he had on him. After checking his strategic resources bar, he figured he could hold out for a bit longer.

So next, it was time to upgrade!

Army Speed: Level 10: Will increase all your guild’s combat units’ movement speed attribute by +30%. This research project cost Chu You a total of 240 days’ worth of speed-up cards and a vast amount of strategic resources.

All done, the basic research of the economic section was completed!

Now was the time for combat-related aspects.

Chu You selected the combat interface and looked at the first research project.

T1 Army Attack Power 0/10 & T1 Army Defense Power 0/10. Then it ranged all the way to T9 Army Attack Power and T9 Army Defense Power.

In ’Celestial World’, the recruited biological army totaled up to nine orders. So why are there T1-T9 here? Was it correlated to this? One could say that, but the reason there’s a ’T’ prefix was because the player’s combat system didn’t just include a biological army, but illusory aspects as well.

For example, Chu You’s Chiyou One Warship belonged to the T6 order.