The Secret Realm Hall—Now All That Remained Was Taking the Outpost!

Name: Secret Realm Hall Building Card

Quality: Orange Rare

Use: After construction, allows entry into a specific secret realm.

Note: A building containing the power of rules from before the Great Calamity. It is inscribed with extremely rare spatial and temporal magic patterns. If you possess a Secret Realm Magic Crystal, you can use the Secret Realm Hall to enter an adventure in the spacetime before the Great Calamity.

Fang Yuan looked at the notes for the Secret Realm Hall building.

A trace of curiosity appeared in his eyes.

"This building can actually let me enter the world from before the Great Calamity!"

"Doesn't that mean I can learn about this world's history before the Great Calamity happened?"

"I just wonder whether I can recruit heroes from those historical secret realms."

"Or perhaps, in the historical secret realms of the Great Calamity, I might even meet the Lilith and Christian of the past!"

At the thought, Fang Yuan immediately grew a little excited.

However, when he saw the usage requirements, Fang Yuan quickly calmed down again.

"A Secret Realm Magic Crystal is required to activate it."

"In other words, the Secret Realm Hall is actually a closed gate."

"You need to use a Secret Realm Magic Crystal as the key to open it before you can enter."

"But what exactly is this Secret Realm Magic Crystal?"

"How do I obtain one?"

With a thought, Fang Yuan opened the Lord's Mark and searched for relevant information.

Besides being an auxiliary city-building system, the Lord's Mark itself also contained a vast amount of knowledge. Whenever needed, lords could search it for the corresponding information.

Very soon!

Information about Secret Realm Magic Crystals appeared before Fang Yuan.

After quickly reading through it, he fell into thought.

"My deduction was right. A Secret Realm Magic Crystal is the key to opening it."

"And this key seals a fragment of a certain historical spacetime."

"Through the Secret Realm Hall, one can activate the historical fragment sealed within the Secret Realm Magic Crystal, allowing a lord to lead an army into that period of history."

"And Secret Realm Magic Crystals are often special curiosities as well."

"After using one and entering that period of history, you must complete the mission recorded on it."

"Only after completing the mission can you leave that historical spacetime."

"If you fail to complete it, you have to wait until the Secret Realm Magic Crystal's power is exhausted before you can return."

"During that period of history, not only can lords continuously obtain profits such as gold and resources, they can also recruit high-level heroes, high-level legions, or obtain rare equipment, building cards, and so on by completing missions."

"In short, the secret realm you enter is an enormous treasure trove. How much you can gain from it depends entirely on the lord's own strength."

"Besides that, secret realms are divided into solo and team types."

"Team secret realms allow many lords to enter. As long as they possess the corresponding Secret Realm Magic Crystals, they can all enter. They are generally large-scale secret realms."

"Solo secret realms are also called small-scale secret realms. They are often a certain historical fragment, and only one lord can enter."

"As for the harvest, it depends entirely on each person's own luck."

"If you're lucky, one secret realm expedition can make you rich enough to rival a nation. If you're unlucky, you and your entire army might be wiped out after entering, dying without a trace."

After carefully reading all the information about secret realms, Fang Yuan exited the Lord's Mark.

He muttered, "Danger and opportunity truly coexist."

"To enter a secret realm, the lord actually has to personally lead troops inside."

"This really is a dangerous job."

"Did Zhao Yu give me this building because he wanted to set me up and get me killed?"

Fang Yuan could not help thinking that.

But after searching for the price of Secret Realm Magic Crystals, he immediately dismissed the thought.

Across the entire Spatial Trading Market, there was not a single Secret Realm Magic Crystal for sale.

When he checked the transaction records, the most recent transaction had been two years ago.

A low-grade purple Secret Realm Magic Crystal had actually sold for ten million gold.

This was simply ridiculous.

Fang Yuan could not stop clicking his tongue in amazement.

"The worst Secret Realm Magic Crystals are Purple Quality."

"At that price..."

"Even if they were listed, I couldn't afford them myself."

"Looks like building this Mystic Hall will just leave it gathering dust."

"It can only be used as a decorative building, upgraded to raise Prosperity."

"In terms of usefulness, it's not even as good as a Magic Crossbow Tower."

Fang Yuan turned to inspect the Magic Crossbow Tower Building Card.

Compared to the flashy but impractical Mystic Hall...

This building was far more useful.

Name: Magic Crossbow Tower Building Card

Quality: Orange Common

Use: After use, a Magic Crossbow Tower can be constructed.

Note: Before the Great Calamity, this defensive structure was created by human magic artisans combining goblin technology. The tower was made from high-strength composite materials, while its repeating crossbow used a goblin steam mechanism and was inscribed with a Magic Rune Array. It could automatically lock onto targets and fire. Its bolts possessed extremely strong piercing power, while the rune magic also granted them magical damage.

On the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, watchtowers, magic towers, and the like were all defensive buildings.

The difference was that those equipped with magic could attack automatically.

Those without magic needed ranged soldiers stationed inside before they could attack.

Fang Yuan currently had a Glimmering Magic Tower in his territory, but that tower's main function was to support mage units by providing a buff aura. It had little combat power of its own.

Now that he had the Magic Crossbow Tower Building Card, it perfectly filled the gap in his main city's defensive towers.

Fang Yuan directly used the two Building Cards.

He began selecting construction locations on the building panel.

"My territory's Northern Territory hasn't been explored yet. The Northeast Direction has the supply station, so enemies probably won't come from there in the future."

"To the south is the Stone Spring Village Resource Territory, where soldiers are stationed as well. There's no urgent need there for now."

"Only the west—more precisely, the Northwest Direction—has a Dungeon Entrance."

"That's a huge unstable factor."

"It isn't obvious while the invincibility period is still active, but once the newbie protection barrier disappears, the dungeon monsters will most likely try to approach my main city."

"So placing the Magic Crossbow Tower at the base of the city wall in the Northwest Direction is the most reliable choice."

After deciding on that building's location, the next was the Mystic Hall.

It was foreseeable that this building would probably gather dust for quite some time.

Yet it was an Orange Rare building, and it might come in handy someday.

So it was better to build it near the main city.

Close to the Hero Altar.

Once the locations for the two buildings had been decided...

Fang Yuan immediately constructed them.

"Ding, 10,000 gold and resources consumed. You have constructed the Orange Common building Magic Crossbow Tower. First-tier Ice Arrow unlocked. Prosperity +1000."

"Ding, 10,000 gold and resources consumed. You have constructed the Orange Rare building Mystic Hall. Current secret realm entry limit: 1 time per day. Prosperity +1000."

Then came the upgrades.

"Ding, 90,000 gold and resources consumed. Magic Crossbow Tower upgraded to Level 4. Fourth-tier Ice Arrow unlocked. Prosperity +3000."

"Ding, 90,000 gold and resources consumed. Mystic Hall upgraded to Level 4. Current secret realm entry limit: 4 times per day. Prosperity +3000."

The Magic Crossbow Tower's Ice Arrows could deal ice damage to monsters and inflict effects such as frostbite and chill. One Ice Arrow could be fired for every five shots.

That surprised Fang Yuan somewhat.

As for the Mystic Hall's upgrade effect, it merely increased the number of times one could enter secret realms.

In Fang Yuan's opinion, that was not even as useful as Prosperity.

He looked at the Prosperity section on the main city panel.

"An additional 8,000 Prosperity."

"Only 2,900 Prosperity away from upgrading the main city to Level 5."

"Now it depends on Lilith and Christian in the Northeast Direction."

Fang Yuan raised his head and looked toward the Northeast Direction.

"Judging by the time..."

"They should be arriving around now."

"I wonder how far the battle has progressed?"