The difference in strength between the two sides has already sealed the outcome of this battle, and it is impossible to reverse the situation just by halving the damage.

After more than a dozen attacks, the ice giant finally collapsed and turned into a cloud of ice slag.

Cheng Yang picked up a piece of silver-level equipment on the ground, feeling a little depressed in his heart.

Hey, now even if it's the first nightmare difficulty, the equipment that bursts out is not eye-catching.

Fortunately, the ten pieces of equipment that broke out in this copy were all silver-level, which gave Cheng Yang some comfort. These pieces of equipment are still useful for their subordinates, and the fact that they are all silver-level equipment also shows that this quest is indeed the first pass.

Cheng Yang took a turn in the heart of this Ice and Snow City, but found the first pass reward for this dungeon at the central fountain.

Cheng Yang vomited in his heart, this is completely a city with a big ice block, what kind of fountain should he make? Spray ice?

However, seeing the thing in his hand, Cheng Yang chose to forget the criticism of this urban design.

Ice and Snow Crown (upgradeable): The ordinary law crown, made of the refined zuò of the ancient gods. Since the Great War of the Ancients, the crown has been covered with dust, and the remaining power is less than 1/10,000, and it takes endless spiritual energy to break the seal. It is currently an ordinary soldier-level equipment, increasing the wearer's magic energy value by 300 points, special effects: 1, demon life: active state skill, after opening this state, the wearer is attacked and deducts the corresponding points 9, ww ◎ w. The magic energy value is deducted before the magic energy value is exhausted;2, it is sealed (unsealing condition: the equipment is upgraded to the gold level. ）； 3. Sealed (unsealing condition: unknown); 4. Sealed (Unsealing conditions: unknown. ）。 Quality upgrade conditions: 1000 psionic points; Level upgrade conditions: 100,000 psionic points.

Cheng Yang was overjoyed, and it really lived up to his trip! I got another piece of upgradable equipment, and it happened to be suitable equipment for mages.

This piece of equipment may not have much effect on Cheng Yang's attack power, but it has a very strong improvement in his survivability.

First of all, the Ice Crown has greatly increased his magic energy value, and now it is only a normal quality magic crown. It has already increased its mana by 300 points, and if it is upgraded to gold level, the increase will be even more.

After that, because of the characteristics of demon life, Cheng Yang was completely able to use magic energy as health. In other words, Cheng Yang is now equivalent to having 1500 health points.

What makes Cheng Yang feel happiest is that he doesn't have to use life potions in the future.

Although the health flasks and magic flasks increase by the same amount, the health flasks have a weakness in that if they are attacked during the duration of the effect, the effect will disappear. Magical Potions, on the other hand, have no restrictions on this.

Cheng Yang looked at the amount of his psionic value. It was less than 11 million points, and the idea of upgrading equipment was temporarily abandoned.

Cheng Yang then withdrew from the dungeon, and Cheng Yang didn't have any thoughts about this dungeon, just to see if he could get anything good after his strength improved in the future.

After that, Cheng Yang did not go to the main city of Xiaocheng City again, he believed that Jian Yongjun was ten smart people and knew what he should do.

After cultivating in Tianning Village for a night. The next morning, Cheng Yang called Tan Chao, and then explained some things to Liu Qingwu, and then went back to Fengzhen.

Arguably. Cheng Yang's trip was a complete success, the problem of Xiaocheng City was solved, and he also got an upgradeable piece of equipment.

For the next thing, Cheng Yang plans to take care of the affairs in the territory. After all, the expansion during this period of time has made the territory spread too wide, but with the strength that Cheng Yang now controls in his own hands, he has to control such a wide area. There are still some difficulties.

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After returning to Luofeng Town, Cheng Yang went to Qianzhuang as soon as possible and asked Wang Lu to prepare one million psionic points so that he could use it to upgrade the Ice and Snow Crown.

In the next two days, Cheng Yang stayed in Luofeng Town, and the biggest benefit was that his cultivation speed had increased again, and at the same time, even the efficiency of skill proficiency improvement had increased a lot.

On March 7 of the last calendar, Xuanli returned to Luofeng Town and handed Cheng Yang a few drawings.

Five architectural drawings of the fortress, four of which were used around Xiaocheng City, and the last one was used in Black Tiger Village.

Cheng Yang looked at the five drawings and felt that the four fortresses around Xiaocheng City were not so much fortresses as small strongholds. The wall, which was no more than 200 meters long and wide, was about seven meters high, much higher than any existing wall. Cheng Yang estimated that even with his current strength, it would be difficult to jump onto the seven-meter-high city wall without the help of external forces.

On these four fortresses in Xiaocheng City, there are only two city gates, one facing Xiaocheng City, and the other is the direction of departure. In other words, such a fortress is tied on the passage out of the main city, and if the fighters in the main city want to enter and exit, they must go through the permission of Luofeng Town.

However, Cheng Yang didn't dare to go too far in this regard, after all, the main city is equivalent to the self-reserved land of the gods, if he directly does not allow the fighters in the main city to enter and exit, it is estimated that the rules will change soon, and maybe his fortresses will directly come to naught.

The four fortresses were small in size, and each could garrison no more than 800 people. Correspondingly, there were not many materials needed to build these four fortresses, and each fortress only had 100,000 cubic meters of stone and 30,000 cubic meters of wood. That's nearly ten times less than a level 1 fortress in its full state.

However, the fortress planned near Black Tiger Village is very formal, a boxy fortress is located on the plain, and the length of each wall is more than seven hundred meters, which is definitely a complete version of the level 1 fortress.

Such a fortress can garrison close to 10,000 troops, and the fortress has a complete granary and supply warehouse, as well as quest halls, taverns and other buildings. However, there are no life-class-related buildings in Level 2 villages.

It can be said that such a fortress is completely prepared for war. This can be seen in the attributes.

From these drawn drawings, Cheng Yang has been able to see the attributes of the Level 1 Fortress: the efficiency of life strength restoration is increased by 100%, the efficiency of magic energy recovery is increased by 100%, and the range of archers is increased by 20%.

While it may seem like the increase in health strength and mana energy is not very significant, it is not. Just imagine, when a battle starts, it's impossible to take life potions immediately after your HP decreases, right? In many cases, the defenders take turns walking up the walls, and when their health is reduced, they retreat to meditate and recover.

This is true of health intensity, and so is mana.

It can double the recovery speed, which is of great benefit to the overall combat effectiveness. What's more, this is only a level 1 fortress, and after the level of the fortress is raised, this restoration efficiency may be even higher.

As for the archer range bonus, it feels good at first glance, but the actual effect is not as good as the other two bonuses. In a large-scale war, the 20% range bonus is at most just the first round of strikes, and in the case of a large number of people, the first round of attacks will cause some small casualties to the opponent at most, and it will not have much impact on the outcome of the war.

In fact, Cheng Yang first planned to build this fortress in the isolation zone of the provincial main city, that is, on the south bank of the river, but considering that there are no better materials in the territory of Luofeng Town, and no better fortress can be built, Cheng Yang moved this fortress near Black Tiger Village.

This has the advantage that this fortress can be watched by the Black Tiger Village, and if one place is attacked, the other can be immediately supported.

In this way, the force of Luofeng Town's territory in the Wucheng City area will be more stable, even if the Wucheng City side wants to make more moves, it has to think more.

Of course, the materials consumed by this fortress are also very considerable, one million cubic meters of stone and 500,000 cubic meters of wood, but it is not missing at all.

After some calculation, Cheng Yang decided to build these fortresses immediately, anyway, the total consumption of raw materials is not very much, Cheng Yang does not need to drag down the development of the territory in order to save this material.

After the decision was made, Cheng Yang immediately threw these drawings to Li Wanshan, and asked him to immediately add the construction authority of these fortresses to the territory. This is a necessary process, and the stronghold option will appear in the buildable buildings in the province only after the building privileges of these forts have been added, and then they can be built.

However, the location of the fortress was also relatively selective, which was taken into account when Xuanli made the architectural drawings.

A fortress must be an extension of the defense of the territory, that is, the existence of a fortress must rely on the territory or something related to the territory. This may be a vague statement, but it is clearer to put it another way.

Forts are to be built either within the realm or within the reach of official roads.

Taking the current Luofeng Town as an example, the fortress around Black Tiger Village can only be built on the official road between Tianning Village and Black Tiger Village. As for the four fortresses around Xiaocheng City, except for the passage out of the city from Tianning Village to the main city of Xiaocheng City, the construction of fortresses in the other directions does not meet the conditions.

These three fortresses could only be built after an official road leading to the main city of Xiaocheng was built by a station, and this official road had to lead to the corresponding passage out of the city.

In fact, this condition is very well understood, just like now, if Cheng Yang wants to build a fortress at a certain passage out of Wucheng, he must first build an official road from a field station to Wucheng, and then rely on this official road to build a fortress.

Obviously, if the sphere of influence of Luofeng Town's territory fails to reach the periphery of Wucheng City, this fortress will undoubtedly be a wedding dress for others. Therefore, the construction of the fortress is not a panacea, and without sufficient strength, the fortress will not solve the problem either.

In a sense, the fortress was a defensive structure, not an offensive one