Chapter 931 - 541: My Body Is Like a Blade, Level 6 Lord’s Fortress

At this moment, Tasuya finally arrived late, riding a grassland horse.

"My lord, those skeleton knights suddenly became agitated..."

"Huh? What’s going on?"

She began shouting loudly before she even passed through the makeshift wooden city wall area.

Until she witnessed these lion skeleton knights respectfully saluting Zong Shen.

Zong Shen smiled and waved nonchalantly.

"Tasuya, you arrived just in time."

"Take the warriors to the residential area."

"These lion skeleton knights should be settled outside for now."

"When Marie returns, let her know."

"Have her choose a suitable position to settle these skeleton knights."

"Although I’m confident in keeping these guys in a stable state,"

"it’s still best to limit their contact with living creatures."

Zong Shen was in a good mood, his tone rather light-hearted.

Tasuya nodded rather blankly.

"Kobol, Areg, follow Tasuya."

Zong Shen specifically instructed the leaders of the garrison knights and charging knights.

It was sort of an introduction for them.

Neither knight had any objections, nodding from their warhorses.

"Knights, follow me!"

All thirty-six knights turned their mounts around.

The lion skeleton knights also stood up under Tasuya’s guidance, returning to their skeleton bone horses.

Following Tasuya, they headed towards the southeast direction of the territory.

The departure of the knights restored peace to the central area.

Except for the occasional farmer bringing a cart to the water cellar to fetch water.

In the central district, only Zong Shen remained.

Others were either training in the comprehensive training ground.

Or doing chores as instructed by Zong Shen.

The current temperature was only 35°C, not exactly comfortable.

But everyone was already used to it.

After all, most of the warriors had good constitutions.

Operating in this temperature wouldn’t negatively affect their bodies.

The thirty-six knights just recruited occupied 120 Recruitment Command points on the [Silver Lion Battle Banner].

The current Recruitment Command is [120/8000].

Time still needs to "ferment", after enduring for three to five months.

Everything will be different.

With a lion knight corps under his command, where couldn’t they go on this grassland?

By then, with just his cavalry, Zong Shen could rule and dominate this region.

By the time the knights left, the sixth-level City Lord’s Mansion had also completed its upgrade.

Because the intervals between the originally frail wooden city walls in the central area expanded again.

The sixth-level City Lord’s Mansion is also square.

Just using something like the [Fortress Advancement Route].

The original walls transformed into small fortress towers.

Now, each side of the four towers measures sixty meters.

The central area covers 3,600 square meters.

The height of the towers also changed.

From five meters to six meters, akin to a common two-story building on Earth.

The width changed from two meters to two and a half meters; this change is similar to before, enough to accommodate people anyway.

The outer appearance still seems built with bluestone.

Above, there are parapets with larger intervals every five merlons.

Large crossbows can be mounted above.

Unfortunately, the width still lacks a bit; if it were four or five meters wide, medium or small catapults could be set up, along with some fancy magic energy cannons.

Zong Shen’s mind couldn’t help but start planning the future defensive layout of the Lord’s Fortress.

However, there were clear changes in the four fortress gates.

The structure still employed a vertical lifting style, but changed from iron railings to iron gates.

A small iron window, one meter square, was left in the middle, which could be opened or closed at any time.

The overall changes were quite distinct.

Zong Shen focused his gaze and looked at their durability value changes.

[Level 6 Fortress Tower]

[Durability Value: 9500+1500]

[Building Armor: 75]

[Building Magic Resistance: 75]

[Defense Effect: Basic Damage Distribution (30% of the destructive effect of the struck part of the tower will be averaged out to the four towers)]

...

[Level Six Fortress Gate]

[Durability Value: 5500+1500]

[Building Armor: 95]

[Building Magic Resistance: 80]

[Defense Effect: Basic Firmness (triggers when deformation exceeds 50%, increases double resistance by 15 points, lasts 30 minutes, can only trigger once every 24 hours)]

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Sure enough, the City Lord’s Mansion upgrade brought significant enhancements in durability value.

Additionally, a basic defense effect was added.

For example, the tower has Basic Damage Distribution, which can spread out the destructive effect by 30%.

That is to say, initially able to create a one-meter pit, in reality, only a seventy-centimeter pit would appear.

The remaining 30% is distributed to the other parts of the four fortress towers.

The fortress gate, however, possesses a Basic Firmness effect.

It activates when seriously deformed under attack.

It can increase double resistance.

The increase in resistance translates to a direct enhancement of the fortress gate’s strength.

Worthy of being the Lord’s Fortress, the City Lord’s Mansion upgrade thoroughly integrates this route.

Zong Shen, with hands behind his back, leisurely inspected.

He walked through the iron gate, entering inside.

The internal area expanded by more than a thousand square meters.

Besides the Lord’s Fortress itself expanding slightly, most of the extra area extended into the courtyard.

The distance from the city gate to the [Magic Well] and [Moon God Well] was over ten meters.

It was even farther to the fortress entrance, requiring nearly twenty meters of travel.

Originally, the City Lord’s Mansion had barely a ten-meter distance from the house to the outer courtyard.