Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 937 - 578: Song Jin_2

"Although stone is not as valuable as iron ingots, it's still a very precious resource in the first-order. How much money did you spend on such tall and thick stone walls, and the twenty upgraded tower archeries, junior?"

Looking at Zhang Yan's defense facilities and civilization units, everyone was greatly shocked and amazed.

Zhang Yan shook her head and said with a smile, "This is a rare territory. There's a small spirit stone vein in the valley from which we can extract spirit stone resources."

"Spirit Stones?"

The crowd's eyes narrowed, and they exclaimed, "Are those the rare high-level resources needed even by high-level lords?"

"Yes!"

Zhang Yan nodded and continued, "I handed over the extracted spirit stones to the student council, and with the support and overdraft from the student council and the Ninth Campus, I bought the civilization core of the Great Song Dynasty."

"The Song Dynasty's civilization has the civilization trait of commerce and the civilization skill of training troops. The former can greatly enhance the effects of commercial trade and economic structures, while the latter can use funds to improve the efficiency of troop training."

"With this civilization trait and skill, I sold the spirit stones for a large amount of money and then invested it in the construction of the city's defenses and troops, resulting in what you see now."

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"So that's how it is!"

After listening to Zhang Yan's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

"No wonder you didn't want to give up this territory, class president."

"A spirit stone vein, who would want to give up such a resource?"

"It's only been thirty days, and you've established such defenses and troops. Given more time, I'm afraid the class president could stand against the lords on the prestige leaderboard, right?"

"Having such a rare resource, combined with the Song Dynasty's commercial trait and training skill, the development speed is indeed astonishingly fast."

"You even have the special troop, Yue Family's Beiwei Armor Soldiers. Class president, you didn't build the rare level civilization buildings as well, did you?"

People spoke in waves, expressing their astonishment.

Zhang Yan shook her head and explained, "I haven't built the rare buildings yet. Those few Yue Family's Beiwei Armies were the result of my talent skill's effect."

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly realized and eagerly asked, "Did you recruit any heroes?"

Zhang Yan responded indifferently, "I recruited two common heroes of the general type from the tavern."

"Is that so?"

"What a pity!"

Hearing this, everyone sighed.

Zhang Yan's talent skill, Charming Beauty, not only enhances her own charm attribute and charm skills but also reduces the training cost of male troops and increases the likelihood of male heroes appearing in the tavern. Each month, it attracts a group of males, most likely troop types, with a small chance of heroes.

This month, it was a high likelihood event, resulting in several of the Great Song's special troops, the Yue Family's Beiwei Armor Soldiers, but no heroes were obtained.

Though heroes can also be recruited through the tavern, as you know, the majority appearing in the tavern are common heroes. Aside from having their own names, being a bit smarter, having slightly higher attributes, and possessing one or two useful but limited skills, there's not much difference from other troop types.

After all, there are ranks among heroes, ranging from common heroes to rare heroes, epic heroes, legendary heroes, even mythic heroes, and Immortal Spirit heroes. Their abilities and potential are worlds apart.

Common heroes have limited potential and are only useful in the early stages unless they encounter some fortune; otherwise, they can at most advance to the third order.

Not just heroes, but lords as well; without special talents and extraordinary encounters, reaching the third order is extremely rare.

Life is indeed so cruel!

Everyone sighed, then returned to the main topic.

"With such strong defenses and the strength of so many of us, even lords on the prestige leaderboard would be no match."

"More than being not afraid, it's practically a major gift delivered to our doorstep. My troops can be fully upgraded this time."

"Wonder what treasures it will yield at the end?"

"Whatever it yields has nothing to do with you, did you not know? The big experts have already reserved it."

Everyone spoke up, their tone tinged with sarcasm, directly targeting Xu Yang.

Yet, Xu Yang simply ignored them, finished surveying the surrounding terrain and defense facilities, then asked Zhang Yan, "How do you plan to distribute it?"

"This..."

Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment, seemingly a bit timid, and finally threw the decision back, "You decide."

Xu Yang, upon hearing this, spoke no further, "The city wall is only a hundred meters wide, which can't accommodate too many soldiers, and it's very likely we'll face the strongest first wave of the enemy's attack. Thus, I suggest that the Civilization Units and the Elite troops be split into two waves, one in the front and one at the back, with Common troops filling the middle."

"Makes sense!"

Zhang Yan, upon hearing this, also agreed and quickly looked around at everyone, "Who here has Civilization Units?"

"This..."

Everyone exchanged glances, looking from one to the other, and eventually, only a few, the upperclassmen, stepped forward confidently.

It was only natural, as those who had obtained civilization items during the safe period were either lucky or second-generation lords. Clearly, there were no such rare characters among the group Zhang Yan had pulled together.

It was different for the upperclassmen who, having operated for several years, managed to gather some Civilization Units, provided they hadn't died.

"Then let's assign roles that way. I and student Xu Yang will hold off the first fierce charge, and others will follow up as needed...

Zhang Yan quickly made the arrangements. Although some were somewhat dissatisfied, no one voiced any protest.

Although Zhang Yan was quite diplomatic, at this moment she could not care about that, her eyes fixed on Xu Yang, her expression serious and her words solemn, "Xu Yang, it's all on you!"

"Hmm!"

Xu Yang nodded, glanced at Zhang Yan and those shrinking back, did not say much, and took up his weapon to go up to the city wall.

The son of a wealthy man cannot sit without awe!

It was even more so for a lord. Unless they had something to rely on, most lords would not join the defense on such city walls but rather command from the center.

These people were no exceptions, always sending soldiers ahead while they themselves never mounted the walls; after all, swords and arrows show no mercy, and they, being lords with a focus on charm, could ill-afford to take such risks.

"Everyone stay here, preparation time is about to end!"

Zhang Yan reminded everyone and then she too headed for the city wall.

People differ; though she was also a charm-focused mainstream lord, she had purchased a lot of equipment due to her wealthy background. Moreover, her Talent Skill, Charming Beauty, considerably boosted the Morale of her male troops in battle, so she had to go up on the city wall.

"Class leader, wait for me!"

Seeing her climb the city wall, Feng Cheng immediately followed, pulling out a rather heavy crossbow from his backpack, "I spent a lot of money on this heavy crossbow, just the right chance to rack up some Experience."

"Thanks!"

Zhang Yan looked at him and smiled delightedly, enough to make the young man's heart race uncontrollably.

Just at that moment...

"Preparation time over!"

"The enemy begins their attack!"

The cold voice of the Sky-reaching Tower rang out, and a magic light descended, landing hundreds of meters outside the city wall, turning into a fully armed Iron Cavalry.

"This is..."

"No good!"

"The enemy is from Jin Country Civilization!"

On the city wall, Zhang Yan looked out into the distance at the black-armored troops, armed to the teeth, and her confidence scattered in an instant, replaced by sheer panic.

"What?"

"Jin Country Civilization?"

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"This..."

The people behind her heard this and were also greatly alarmed.

Jin Country Civilization!

Every lord present, a student from Heaven-Connecting Academy, had studied and understood Jin Country Civilization quite well.

It is a very dominant civilization among First-Order lords, possessing the civilization trait "Great Jin" and the Civilization Skill "Heavy Equipment."

Great Jin: After the unification of the Jurchen tribes, Jin Country became a powerful kingdom with abundant horse resources and excellent iron refining technology, capable of training extremely powerful Heavy Cavalry (The training costs of all iron-armed troops are reduced by 30%, and the training costs of Heavy Cavalry are reduced by 50%).

Heavy Equipment: The soldiers of Jin Country are heavily armed with long-term combat training in heavy armor, which has conditioned their bodies and skills, enabling them to better utilize heavy equipment (Under Heavy Equipment, defense increases by 20%, movement speed by 30%, Physical Strength consumption decreases by 40%, and the effects of Iron Cavalry and Escort Army are doubled.)