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Back on the battlement, Chen Fan looked at the two Extraordinary Treasures he had taken from the warehouse.
As they cleaned up the battlefield, they gathered two Extraordinary Treasures dropped by Qian Fu.
Two more Extraordinary Treasures had dropped from the other thousand-plus Eerie Creatures. These two had been stored in the warehouse by Wang Kui and had not yet been examined.
He fiddled with a familiar bead in his hand.
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「Extraordinary Treasure Name」: Wind-Warding Pearl.
「Extraordinary Treasure Grade」: Green.
「Extraordinary Treasure Effect」: One of the essentials for building a 'Wind Tower', a special structure that can create strong winds.
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He was all too familiar with it.
He had obtained a Wind-Warding Pearl before and used it to build the Wind Tower.
He threw a look at the elegant, slender, dark stone obelisk behind the city wall.
Though a White-grade building, it looked incredibly cool.
The "Copper Eagle" atop the Wind Tower and the countless spiral and streamline silver runes engraved all over looked especially pleasant.
"Hmm..."
Without much hesitation, he spent 1,000 Eerie Stones and the Wind-Warding Pearl in his hand to upgrade this Wind Tower to level 2. He believed upgrading it to level 2 would be better than building an additional one.
The next moment—
The countless silver runes on the Wind Tower suddenly began to flicker, with increasing rhythm, before abruptly stopping.
Its appearance remained unchanged.
A panel popped up before him.
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「Wind Tower upgraded to level 2. Wind force increased, adjustable.」
「Please choose upgrade direction.」
「1: Capable of blowing warm wind, raising temperature within camp.」
「2: Capable of blowing cold wind, lowering temperature within camp.」
「3: Unknown Qualitative Change.」
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"..."
Chen Fan stood there expressionless and wordless.
The first upgrade direction was tempting. Temperatures were getting lower; winter was coming soon. Picking this could keep all the camp warm. The second direction would be great in summer.
But...
Who could refuse a "Qualitative Change"?
Anyway, in his case, he couldn't.
It left him with no real choice.
This was the second time he encountered "Qualitative Change." The first time he did, the city wall gained a "Thornmail" effect—quite good.
Without a moment's hesitation.
He took brisk steps down the city wall all the way into his stone house.
Getting Bathed.
Lighting sticks of incense.
With all this, he returned onto the battlement, took a deep breath, and confirmed the third upgrade direction.
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「Qualitative Change beginning...」
「Qualitative Change complete.」
「3: This Wind Tower has acquired the skill 'Storm Suction'. When activated, it generates an adjustable, powerful suction within camp range. (Common)」
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"Uh..."
Chen Fan cast a doubtful look at the Wind Tower's panel.
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「Building Name」: Wind Tower.
「Building Grade」: White.
「Building Level」: Level 2.
「Building Effects」:
1: Can generate strong winds.
2: Can unleash Storm Suction.
Ps: Upgrading to level 3 requires 2,000 Eerie Stones and 「Wind-Warding Pearl」2 or 「Wind-Calming Pearl」2... etc.**
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"Storm Suction?"
This was the second active skill he had obtained. The first was "Arrow Rain Storm."
But he wasn't quite sure what it could be used for.
Collecting spoils of war?
He felt that that would only mess the place up. Corpses and everything would get stuck to the city wall, making cleanup even harder.
Maybe it could be used against enemies.
After enemies charged into the canyon, execute the Suction...
Bring them right into the abyss pit, then activate the Phase One Meat Grinder.
"Hmm..."
Chen Fan grinned. That didn't seem bad; it could serve perfectly as a control skill. But soon he noticed the supplementary note: "Only effective within camp range."
That meant, unless he set off the Eerie Fires in the canyon, it couldn't draw enemies from the canyon into the abyss pit.
But if he had kindled those Eerie Fires...
Why would he turn to the Wind Tower? Wouldn't it be better to activate the Phase Two Meat Grinder?
"Forget it."
After pondering for a while, Chen Fan failed to think of a good use for the "Storm Suction". He'd leave it aside for now; there would be a time when it could be employed.
He looked at the other Extraordinary Treasure.
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「Extraordinary Treasure Name」: Soybean.
「Extraordinary Treasure Grade」: Green.
「Extraordinary Treasure Effect」: Must be planted in 'Level 2 Farmland'. Maturation cycle is 5 days. Tasty and slightly enhances physical constitution.
「Planting Conditions」: Requires watering with Eerie blood twice daily.
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An Eerie-Plant type Extraordinary Treasure.
He called over Qi Chong, who had been lying by the farmland these few days praising the "Sunflower," and handed this Eerie-Plant to him. He also built two more strips of Level 2 Farmland; there were quite a few of these soybean seeds.
"Phew..."
It was still early morning.
After finishing all this,
Chen Fan glanced around the camp, stretched lazily, walked out of the city wall, and mounted his horse, intent on taking a stroll in the canyon. He had no plan to leave Nameless Mountain. All he wanted was to wander about for fun.
A person couldn't sit around all day.
It would ruin his health.
He needed to stretch his legs from time to time.
If only it would stop raining.
Even though he was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, he still found the rain annoying.