The Tycoon God of Online Gaming
Chapter 265 - 266: Spend Another Billion! Fear?

Chapter 265: Chapter 266: Spend Another Billion! Fear?

After examining all the scientific research projects, Chu You thought it was time to exchange more strategic resources — he was running low.

Turning to Shànguān Xū, he said casually, "Boss, I have to go now. You can return and report the news."

"Ah...well, alright, my lord." Shànguān Xū’s face was filled with undisguised regret. Given what he had observed, the lord in front of him was incredibly powerful. He sincerely hoped to stay longer and see how Heavenly Gate Fortress would develop under Chu You’s rule.

It was clear, though, that his lord had ordered him to leave.

Shànguān Xū walked to a nearby statue and teleported away. In the next moment, his hunched figure appeared not far from the entrance of the Heavenly Gate Fortress. Slowly, he advanced towards the half-open gate, glancing back every few steps. It was clear that he found it hard to leave.

When Shànguān Xū finally exited the giant gate of the fortress, Chu You closed it behind him.

Worth noting is that there was only one gate in the Heavenly Gate Fortress.

Using a small teleportation array, Chu You arrived at the large portal of the Heavenly Gate Fortress, which was synchronized with the channels previously opened by the players.

A short while later, Chu You arrived at the City Above the Clouds, at the marketplace where each batch of resources was exchanged for 20 million Gold Coin. There were five types of strategic resources, and this time, Chu You spent a total of 100 million Gold Coin.

His fortune, which was previously 860 million, immediately dropped to 760 million.

Then, he returned to the Heavenly Gate Fortress. Upon reappearing there, Chu You found the situation rather amusing.

His guild and ruling fortress were deserted, without a trace of life. The fortress was especially eerie due to its vastness and the fact that he was the only one occupying it.

Once again he arrived at the Research Palace, where Chu You continued to work on basic research projects—combat-related ones.

T1 Army Attack Power: Level 10: Increases the attack power of the T1 troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20%.

T1 Army Defense Power: Level 10: Increases the defense power of the T1 troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20%.

Why should the T1 research project be upgraded to level 10? There were practical reasons: to undertake higher-level research projects, Chu You needed to fully upgrade the lower-level ones. Well, it didn’t matter. In the early game, players couldn’t access high-level T-unit troops anyway. And the low-tier T-unit troops could also serve as cannon fodder.

T2 Army Attack Power: Level 10: Increases the attack power of T2 troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20%.

T2 Army Defense Power: Level 10: Increases the defense power of T2 troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20%.

When Chu You upgraded T5 Army Attack Power and Defense Power to level 10, two new research projects appeared under them: Total Army Vitality and Total Army Defense.

Total Army Vitality: Level 10: Increases the maximum vitality of the troops recruited by your guild’s players by 30%.

Total Army Defense: Level 10: Increases the defense power of the troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20. In this case, it wasn’t a percentage increase, but a specific number.

Next, he started to upgrade T6, and when he finished upgrading all of T6, the research project of Total Army Attack Power could finally be fully upgraded. If the previous stages weren’t fully upgraded, this research project could not be maxed out.

Total Army Attack Power: Level 10: Increases the total attack power of the troops recruited by your guild’s players by 20.

Having done all this, Chu You felt that the combat-related upgrades were almost complete, so he decided to focus on city defenses.

As the name suggests, City Defense refers to the fortress’s overall defense power. It doesn’t apply to the recruited armies, it’s more about protecting the structure itself.

Total Fortress Defense: Level 10: Increases the defense power of the fortress’s gate by 1000. Just this research project alone cost Chu You 265 Research Time Speed-up Cards.

Fortress Maximum Vitality: Level 10: Increases the vitality of the fortress’s gate by 5 million.

Defense Device Attack Power: Level 10: Increases the attack power of the fortress’s attack device by 30%.

Defense Device Defense Power: Level 10: Increases the defense power of the fortress’s attack device by 30%.

Defense Device Vitality: Level 10: Increases the vitality of the fortress’s attack device by 30%.

Chu You hadn’t built the defense devices yet; when he did, their research effects would immediately come into play. Such structures were part of the buildable objects, and using Building Speed-up Cards could expedite their construction.

Now that the research for all city defenses had been completed, Chu You turned his attention to the last category—production research.

What does production research entail? If Chu You obtained a level-one monster spawning nest, the quantity of monsters he could spawn greatly increased. Given that each nest could only spawn monsters once a week, players who wanted more troops had two options: get more nests or wait until the following week.

Higher-level nests produced fewer monsters. These were considered invaluable and losing even one caused great distress to players.

T1 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T1 nest can recruit a maximum of 1,000 monster troops.

T2 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T2 nest can recruit a maximum of 850 monster troops.

T3 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T3 nest can recruit a maximum of 550 monster troops.

T4 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T4 nest can recruit a maximum of 320 monster troops.

T5 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T5 nest can recruit a maximum of 250 monster troops.

T6 Monster Recruitment Limit: Level 10: Each T6 nest can recruit a maximum of 120 monster troops.

As for T7-T9, Chu You decided to upgrade them later. It should be noted that all these effects apply to the members of the ruling guild, "Immortal". If Lin Luor procured a monster nest, the recruitment limit effect would apply there as well.

With all these tasks completed, he left this place and arrived at the small teleportation array, where he selected ’Construction Palace’. In the next moment, Chu You found himself in a different location.

Once inside the palace, Chu You explored a bit, then opened the construction interface. Many different structures were listed there.

Firstly, Chu You chose to construct a lumberyard, but unfortunately, only one could be built. Although the Heavenly Gate Fortress was enormous, there was tragically little vacant land.

Then he quickly built the lumberyard, and at the same time, a Logging Workshop materialized in another open space within the Heavenly Gate Fortress. The Logging Workshop and the external timber resource mine were different. Players could mine timber from the external mine, no matter who owned it, but the Logging Workshop of the ruling fortress did not offer such a function; it only provided the fortress owner with a daily timber yield.

The Logging Workshop had different levels, but Chu You didn’t consider this to be an issue; he immediately upgraded the Logging Workshop to its maximum level.

Logging Workshop: Level 10: Provides the ruler with 200 pieces of timber each day, plus an additional output of 300 pieces due to research outcomes, amounting to a total daily yield of 500 pieces of timber.

Next, he upgraded the mine to its maximum level, which yielded 500 minerals every day for the ruler, including the effect of the research result.

Mercury Mine: Level 10: Yields 300 units of mercury for the ruler each day.

Crystal Mine: Level 10: Yields 200 units of crystal for the ruler each day.

Gem Mine: Level 10: Yields 200 gems for the ruler each day.

Sulfur Mine: Level 10: Yields 200 units of sulfur for the ruler each day.

After erecting these five resource mines, the defensive structure option was finally unlocked in the construction interface.