Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 110 I will build a tower here

Led by the golden giant ship, countless players gathered around the surrounding sea like ants. With the power of the Negative Stars, a simple dock and related buildings will be built soon.

They had to race against time, because it wouldn't be long before the Chaos Demons in Antarctica realized that this was a shameful betrayal, and they would quickly recover their strength and launch a war to retake the beachhead. Although they had the auxiliary defense of the naval guns, the situation was still not optimistic.

Players began to enthusiastically pile up various materials with the help of gold coins and GPA, allowing the Negative Stars to manipulate and change them.

Almost every one of the negative star players who had mastered the magic transformation and distortion was a talented architect and worker, and they could quickly melt and decompose the basic materials. This made the players more enthusiastic, and it seemed that the first phase of construction would be completed soon.

"The first section of the city wall and living facilities will be completed in about 48 hours. By then, we can hold a ceremony in the center of the site to call for psychic support from Antarctica. Although I personally think that this power may not be very strong, it is much better than being exposed to the wind and snow. The demons are also a problem. At that time, we will have to assemble some city defense facilities and related rune mechanisms."

In the makeshift conference hall, Leon did not bring along his two beautiful elf servants who had attracted his hatred. Instead, he wore gorgeous golden clothes and described the current situation in an orderly manner.

It's true that he wants to attract hatred, and it's also true that he must keep the players here, but Le Ang can't act too stupid.

In this case, players will question the abilities of the negative star players and may even develop a rebellious mentality.

Only when there is a certain degree of greed, lust and stupidity, coupled with a certain degree of ability and initiative, can the players' unwillingness be magnified. They think that if they are a little better, they may be favored. This is also a part of the plan.

Of course, the form in Leon's hand was also real, because the current leaders of the players were already in the meeting room, calculating their own interests and listening to Leon's voice.

"The Negative Stars have a strong hatred and hostility towards demons, so you can trust the Negative Stars in battle. But at the same time, although they are equally strong in exploration, they are far inferior to us players in absolute numbers. This is also a certain advantage that I have fought for.

The next action plan is that players will start to transfer all resources to the region, then begin to prepare the trade environment and help build some infrastructure and buildings.

Most players started to explore outside, trying to find some credits."

Li Ang held the file in his hand, looked at the players in front of him with different expressions, and said calmly.

"I don't think we can play any role in the defensive battle, because everyone knows that the victory just now was due to special reasons. The sharpness of the weapons does not mean that we are very useful. When standing on the city wall, most of the time it will hinder the performance of the negative stars.

So I personally recommend that most players start to turn to the exploration state. We don't need to waste time in the base. If you want some real estate, I would recommend it to you.

But in terms of buildings and population, I think it’s time to act now.”

"I refuse. The players came all the way here not to eat sand, they should at least ensure logistics and defense. Otherwise, if this place is breached, so many players will have to fight guerrilla warfare in Antarctica. Can you afford the price?"

A player who looked like he had a thick face tapped the thick cigar in his hand and looked at Li Ang with some dissatisfaction.

There were hundreds of thousands of players in numerous factions, and the leaders of the players on the field were organizations with at least a thousand members. Just like this player with a face full of flesh, he represented the interests of the players who were once members of the dock union in Altdorf.

After being expelled from the Empire, these players were eager to find an environment that could support them. Obviously, the Negative Stars were a better choice. So they didn't want to leave here directly, but chose to prove their abilities in their own way. If they left, they would not have any advantage.

"The gathering place is definitely the most important priority. You can run away with the negative star people, but we can't."

"Yes, yes, we must prioritize base construction first."

"How could they run away if the base is not stable..."

The players talked at once and rejected Li Ang's suggestion. As the leader of the Negative Star players, Li Ang could only reluctantly reject his own proposal.

At this time, almost everyone turned their attention to a great hero. The hero who directly led the player fleet to defeat the demons at the landing point. Edward was looking at the table in a daze until the person next to her shook her shoulders tentatively. Then she blinked as if she had just woken up from a dream.

"Wait a minute, what's going on? What exactly happened?"

"I just hope you can make a choice, Edward."

Looking at Edward, who seemed to have just woken up from a dream and had a confused look on his face, the player patiently explained to the beautiful girl.

In fact, Leon's opinion was not the first one to be raised. Previously, there was a more radical proposal for demon hunting, which had also been rejected. It was a consensus that players must work together because the strength of a single player in this world was too weak.

But the current situation is that although everyone knows that they need to work together, how and who will do it is still a matter of dispute. Li Ang is the communication point for the negative star players. Many player guilds have their own interests and choices. Now only the hero who led everyone to the landing point has not expressed his position.

However, for some unknown reason, the hero who led the players to the Antarctic continent seemed to be drained of energy. He looked dazed and looked at everyone in a daze.

Only after being reminded several times did he blink awkwardly and cough.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about something. If it was me who proposed the plan, I would agree with everyone's judgment. After all, I am just a brave general who charges into battle, not a guild leader of players. Everyone in our guild also hopes to be able to go to the end with me, so I abdicate."

"……what?"

The tone went from low to high, and Leon, who had been singing the opposite tune, suddenly raised his eyebrows and raised a loud questioning voice.

"Now everyone needs you to stand up and put forward your own ideas, but you stand up and say you have no ideas?? How about everyone listen to me now and just ignore the defense mission and go out and earn some extra money?"

"Is your wealth and glory the only thing on your mind? Don't forget that you are a person living in reality!"

"What's wrong with me living in reality? I used to be a loser, so why can't I be a lackey now? Can't you find the things earlier and go back earlier? You have to mess around here for no reason. Just a little bit of GPA, what can you do? Anyway, if you can't come up with an idea, I'm going to - wait a minute."

Just as a quarrel was about to break out, Li Ang's face suddenly changed. He pressed a metal pendant on his ear and looked at the players around him with a serious expression.

"Wait a minute, I have some information from the Negative Stars..."

Seeing the players around him suddenly lose their enthusiasm, Leon nodded and listened carefully to the task requirements coming from his ears.

"Yes, yes, I see. It's because there are too many of us that the calculation was wrong? Isn't it? I see. I will explain it clearly to these players. Yes. Yes, sir, I promise to complete the task."

After a series of players nodding and bowing with great disdain, or even envy and jealousy, Leon finally sighed and sat down on the chair with some melancholy.

"We've received news from the Negative Stars. Because they are short of manpower and have not considered the magical winds of the Chaos Wasteland carefully, the strength of the barrier they built is not enough, so they need to mobilize the players to build and assemble it."

"What? Do we need to be mobilized to assemble it?"

"Yes, and preferably within twenty-four to forty-eight hours."

Li Ang nodded, looked at the players around him who were all surprised, and said in a low voice unwillingly:
"Players can also carry out tasks. You can connect to the Negative Star Psychic Network and let the Negative Stars assign you some tasks and instructions. They need to build a building called the Mind Tower as soon as possible, so that the psychic energy can use quantum effects to shuttle from the South Pole to the North Pole for protection. This is the most important thing. Other things can be delayed, but the construction needs must be met. We must mobilize at least tens of thousands of players to complete the task. As for how to build it and how to do it, the Negative Stars said that they will debug their own network to see if they can connect to the players.

But judging from my condition, there shouldn't be any problem, it's just a matter of how many people will participate."

"Wait a minute, so this means that the current base actually has no defenses at all?"

"We still have some basic defense measures, but forget about barriers and other things. The requirement now is to build the so-called Mind Tower in the shortest possible time. At least we need to build a first-stage Mind Tower."

Looking at Edward, whose eyes were already blank and he had entered a trance again, Leon nodded to the players.

"It seems that everyone has already made up their minds, so I won't bother you any more. The Negative Stars will meet with you next, and I will go to other areas to take care of and maintain a certain level of runes. Don't think that I just eat and drink all day, my understanding of runes is probably far better than any of you."

After Li Ang said this, he turned around and left without hesitation. Because if he continued like this, he suspected that he would probably not be able to hold back his expression.

As the demons were constantly captured and slaughtered in the Arctic Land, new technology and the characteristics of the subspace were revealed, which gave Leon some new ideas. For example, he could make Antarctica a strategic stronghold, and he could also reveal the true situation of this world.

The simplest way is that if this world is really shrouded by some kind of powerful force, then as long as you attack the sky, you will either be spread and swallowed up, or you will get a certain degree of counterattack.

And as long as we use the power of counterattack and the corresponding calculation method, we can get the power needed to break the sky.

Coupled with the further expansion of psychic power, some external psychic links have become possible, which made Leon begin to think of using players to create wonders on the spot in Antarctica.

He had already used hundreds of people to create a World Wound on the spot in the snowfield. There was no reason why he couldn't build the Mind Spire he wanted to build with the Negative Stars and the supplies he brought with him when there were now hundreds of thousands of players.

'You have built the third city, Antarctic Landing!'

'You can choose to build the wonder Mahabodhi Temple (Mind Spire)! '

'Consumption: Magic power is determined by yourself, construction time is determined by yourself, and required minerals are determined by yourself'

'Introduction: Leon from the Negative Star proposed a wonderful theory while studying the nature of magic and subspace creatures, and it is gradually becoming a reality. If thoughts and ideas can forge demons and appear all over the world, then there is no reason why the essence of psychic energy cannot do this.

And what's more, if we go one step further and gather all the floating emotions and souls in this world and purify them in this tower, perhaps we can point the spire to the sky...? '

'Urban Characteristics: Soul Connection
Treat all intelligent creatures within the tower's influence as individuals that can be influenced, and draw magic from them. Ten additional points of magic can be recovered for every thousand people. The city is considered to be connected to the capital.

More features are under development.'

It wasn’t a very impressive spectacle, but for Leon, it was the first step towards a higher level.

Yes, psychic energy can resonate across distance and time.

As long as there is thought, there can be resonance and vibration. With an anchor point to determine cognition and thoughts to resonate, spiritual energy can be transmitted along the thoughts themselves.

Just like the gods of the subspace begin to bless, it is because your thoughts begin to move, so the blessing phenomenon will appear. As long as the thoughts are aligned, the power will appear. Does it mean that this is actually a signpost, a wonderful guidance that can enable everyone to strengthen along the way of thinking?

This is a very meaningful thing and is very worthwhile to try.

Because in this way, Leon can not only build his own safe haven at the South Pole, but can even to a certain extent explain the wonderful characteristics possessed by the players.

After all, if this makes sense, then the concept of a player itself is a kind of magic and conceptual protection. They insist that they are a player, and they automatically think that there is nothing wrong with them. In this case, how can they accept that their souls are corrupted?
Their cognitive premise is the player first, and then others. If this is the case, everything is clear.

But there are still some things that need to be proven, such as what kind of great power can allow players to come here, and whether some ugly things can be transmitted to another world without barriers in this way.

Back in the cabin, Leon still lowered his head in contemplation, thinking about the pros and cons of such an action. Theoretically, now in the process of searching for wonder components, he should not extend his power and ideas again. But with such a tempting answer right in front of him, how could Leon ignore it?

"Sir, what are your plans next?"

Oliver once again emerged from the shadows and bowed respectfully to Leon.

Sitting inside the magnificent cabin, the young man nodded thoughtfully, looked at Oliver, and whispered to himself:
"Integrate these players and build a tower together. We will build the first Mind Spire on the outskirts of Antarctica, and then continue to spread inward. These spires can collect all-round magic power through resonance, which will reduce a lot of burden in using magic power."

"But sir, if we do this, the outside factions will most likely develop a certain degree of hostility and hatred towards us. At our current pace, it will be difficult for us to confront the entire world."

"Yeah, we currently have no way to fight the whole world. Even if the answer is likely to appear..."

Perhaps by building more spiritual towers, the cage covering the sky could be broken through, but the current situation was that as long as spiritual towers were built to absorb energy, the surrounding world would definitely react violently. No one could sit back and watch their souls being controlled by another being.

In the first stage like now, just absorbing discrete emotions and magic is nothing, after all, there are similar devices and mechanisms all over the world, but the subsequent things are the core.

Looking at the design of the Mind Spire in his hand, Li Ang felt somewhat unwilling.

However, this unwillingness is only temporary, and Li Ang himself is well aware of it.

His ambition is too big, which often makes reality unable to keep up with his pace. This is his own shortcoming, but also his advantage.

There are so many things he wants to do, such as killing the monsters in the subspace that are blocking his scientific research, finding the secrets hidden in this world, and researching the players' singularities and some special units that may exist in reality.

Li Ang has ideas about these things and even has the ability to execute them.

But time just can't go on at the same time.

"You guys continue to carry out my plan. I'm going to go see what's going on on the other side first."

At least we need to make sure what happened to that strange chaos pollution.

Edward, the guy who had long been on the death list in Leon's mind, seemed to be taking his last step in reality.

Looking at Oliver who bowed his head respectfully, Leon sighed and closed his eyes again. The wonderful feeling of immersion appeared again, bringing him back to his original world.

(End of this chapter)