Upon hearing this, Cao Xing immediately understood something
The tree spirits have been guarding the Pale Tree since they were born.
That forest is their territory and their home.
Ever since his home was destroyed, he has defaulted to being homeless in his heart.
Now that I have entered someone else’s territory, I subconsciously think that I am an outsider.
This is their deep-rooted thinking.
Cao Xing shook his head, “In my territory, there are not so many things to pay attention to. Now that you have become my territory’s citizens, you will naturally be treated equally.”
“Now, in the name of the lord, I invite you to enter the cafeteria.”
There was no room for rejection in Cao Xing’s words.
The tree spirit clan looked at each other again, and the tree spirit clan female said: “Thank you to the kind lord.”
Then, they got into the cafeteria together.
And when this group of tree spirits saw the various delicacies already laid out on the dining table, their saliva suddenly began to secrete crazily.
The tree spirits look like creatures carved from ice, but in fact, they also have flesh and blood and need daily food.
The food in front of them directly aroused the desire deep in their hearts.
Cao Xing said: “Then, let’s start enjoying it.”
After getting Cao Xing’s permission, this group of tree spirits could no longer control themselves.
They came to the dining table, lifted up the roasted bear meat, wolf meat, and dry cheese, and devoured it.
While eating, he made a sound of admiration from his mouth.
“Oh my God! Such delicious bear meat, such delicious wolf meat, my tongue is almost melting!”
“Wow, it’s so delicious. I have never had such a sumptuous meal since I was a child.”
“Praise this benevolent Lord, who has given us abundant food!”
Other tree spirits also said, “Praise the great Lord.”
A lot of system prompts appeared in front of Cao Xing.
[Members of your territory: Arni has enjoyed delicious food, his loyalty has been improved, and his current loyalty is 74]
[Members of your territory: Carla enjoyed the delicious food, her loyalty has been improved, and her current loyalty is 72]
[Members of your territory: Neve has enjoyed delicious food, her loyalty has been improved, and her current loyalty is 71]
【your……】
The favorability of all members increases.
The living environment of the tree spirit clan is also very harsh, because the Pale Tree is sacred and inviolable.
Therefore, within their scope of activities, there are not many abundant supplies.
At this time, the petite Neve looked at Cao Xing while devouring the food on the table, as if she had something to say.
But in the end, she still couldn’t muster the courage.
While this group of tree spirits were eating, Cao Xing turned around and came outside the house.
Because he couldn’t wait to see the properties of several things traded from Hilton.
Especially, that golden shield! [Paladin’s Shield (gold) lv10]
[Quality: Treasure]
[Armor: 123~129]
[With special effects ①: Physique +20, Spirit +20]
[Included special effect ②: Intermediate unloading (when receiving a physical attack, reduce the damage caused by the opponent’s strength by 20 points)]
[With special effect ③: Intermediate magic resistance (when receiving a magic attack, reduce the opponent’s mental damage by 25 points)]
[With special effect ④: Knight’s Blessing (adds a layer of protective shield to all allies, the durability is 20% of the current allies’ health, the duration is 120 seconds, and the cooling time is 20 minutes)]
…
“Let me go…what a strong attribute!”
More than a hundred pieces of armor, plus several special effects, increase the survivability of shield users.
You can imagine how amazing Liu Muxue’s defense power will be with the Paladin’s Shield in hand! Moreover, the most powerful one is naturally the last [Knight’s Blessing] special effect.
Combined with your own talent, it is equivalent to permanently increasing the maximum health of all allies by 20%!
This is a huge improvement. If given to the mammoth, it can directly increase the blood volume by 3,000 points! Unfortunately, this piece of equipment has wearing requirements.
You need to reach level 10 to equip it.
However, for Cao Xing, it is not too difficult to reach level 10.
With a happy expression, Cao Xing began to check the second item, which was a bottle of secret medicine.
[Secret Potion of Vitality (Blue): After taking it, you can increase your physical fitness by 10 points within 180 minutes. 】
(Want to know the secret of Lord Count’s singing every night? Yes, this is it!)…
“It is indeed the secret medicine to increase physical strength!”
Although Cao Xing didn’t see the attributes, he used his previous experience playing on the tablet to judge the effect of this secret medicine.
10 points of physical fitness is not low, it is comparable to his improvement of three or four levels.
Of course, only before the second level.
After the second level, the attributes improved each time you upgrade will be more.
Cao Xing drank it without hesitation.
Because he is a fragile mage, he naturally wants to improve his survivability as much as possible.
[Taking [Vitality Secret Medicine] successfully, the physique has been improved, the talent [Eternal Power] has taken effect, and this state has become permanent. ] “Sure enough, potions can also be boosted by talents.”
“10 points of constitution added another 200 points of health to me, which is really good.”
Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction and threw the [Paladin’s Shield] to Liu Muxue.
Liu Muxue looked at the gorgeous golden shield in her hand in surprise.
She had been staying with Cao Xing just now and saw the transaction process between him and Hilton.
Naturally, we know how precious this golden shield is.
Throwing it onto the trading market would definitely shock the survivors in Area 174.
However, Liu Muxue has secretly made up her mind to develop the territory together with Cao Xing.
There was no need to say any unnecessary words of gratitude, but he silently put the shield into his backpack.
Besides, her whole body belongs to Cao Xing, so a piece of golden equipment is nothing.
At this moment, Cao Xing and Liu Muxue suddenly felt a violent vibration in the soles of their feet.
Boom! The vibration came very suddenly, causing the buildings in the entire territory to shake slightly.
Liu Muxue subconsciously grabbed Cao Xing’s shoulders.
The residents were also frightened and stopped what they were doing.
The group of polar men were in a hurry, shouting with exaggerated expressions.
“Oh! God, what happened?”
“Is the earth moving?”
“No, it’s the Mother Earth who is hungry. She wants to eat the polar people who are full of filth!”
“Aww, Mother Goddess, please forgive us!”
All these polar people were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing constantly and performing prayer movements.
Living underground all year round, earthquakes are the most terrifying natural disaster for them, and they can take away the lives of many polar people every time.
But fortunately, the shock came and went away quickly.
However, both Cao Xing and Liu Muxue saw surprise in each other’s eyes.
Because the shock just now was not felt in their area, but in the entire blustery snowfield, and even in the entire Western Continent! [World Channel] has become a mess, and a large number of survivors are talking frantically inside.
“Is it really an earthquake?”
Cao Xing was puzzled.
A system prompt appears.
[Attention all survivors! The remaining time until the novice protection period: 39 hours and 17 minutes…]
[After the novice protection period ends, the game content will undergo some changes. 】
[New expansion pack: The dragon’s resurrection is about to begin. 】
[The sleeping ancient dragon: Dolma, is gradually awakening. The power of the dragon it overflows has turned into ice nests, appearing frequently around the world.
There will be a large number of ice nest beasts, ice nest eyes, Dolma minions and other monsters in the ice nest.
As time goes by, the power of the dragon continues to recover, and the monsters that appear in the ice lair will become more powerful.
Your goal is to protect your respective territories and destroy more ice nests under the attack of these ice nest beasts. 】
【Notice! Ice nests appear randomly. In order to allow survivors to adapt as quickly as possible, small-scale ice nests will appear during the novice protection period. 】
…
The prompt had just ended, and all the survivors saw that there seemed to be a meteor shower in the sky.
Those meteor showers fell all over the world, creating huge craters.
Boom! Boom!
Violent vibrations continued to occur.
The world chat channel was suddenly in chaos.
Li Zheng: “Wo Ri! What happened? The system said that a giant dragon is about to wake up?”
Leonardo: “A new expansion pack is about to be launched. This is the system’s way to allow us to adapt in advance.”
Murata Kenichi: “A giant dragon? It seems that this brave man will finally become a dragon-slaying warrior!”
Muhammad: “You are wrong. This is a punishment from heaven! It is a punishment for us. In fact, we should have died long ago. We came to this world just to pay for our sins. Everyone will die, hahahaha! Everyone will die!”
Wang Zhuang: “Those upstairs, don’t go crazy here.”
……
Including the chat channel in Area 174, a large number of comments came out in an instant.
One of the survivors named Jiang Na exclaimed: “Oh my God, a meteor fell near my territory! It turned into an ice nest, and many monsters covered with ice spikes emerged from it!”
When the other survivors in Area 174 heard this, they were immediately surprised, “Let me go… It turns out these meteors are what the system calls the Ice Nest.”
“Sister Jiang Na, how strong are those monsters?”
Jiang Na was silent for a moment, and then spoke again: “Huh…it seems okay, they are all level 4 and 5 monsters, I can still deal with them!”
Hearing this, the other survivors also breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the system also reminded that it was the early stage of the dragon’s recovery, and there was only a slight leakage of power, so the monsters that appeared in the ice nest were not powerful.
As the dragon gradually awakens, the level of the Ice Nest monster will gradually increase.
At this moment, Ji Xinyue also shouted in the chat channel: “An ice nest also appeared outside my territory. Oh my God, there are so many monsters coming out!”
Le Hangyu: “I saw it too, I’ll do it!”
Qiao Weichao: “Fuck! This ice nest killed my polar man, damn…”
Zhang Yuzhe: “Brothers, go back to your territory quickly, the ice nest will not hit our territory!”
The survivors heard the warning and fled back to their own territory.
The sudden change caught everyone off guard.
…
Cao Xing looked around and closed the chat channel.
“It seems that dragon’s ice nests have appeared near the territories of many survivors.”
“But fortunately, this is an advance warm-up of the system. The level of the monsters that appear is not high. It is also to allow the survivors to adapt to the game changes after the novice protection period ends.”
Cao Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
The sudden shock did make him panic a little.
Liu Muxue blinked her beautiful eyes and said softly: “Axing… the system said that the dragon is about to wake up. Is the dragon very powerful?”
Cao Xing nodded and said, “Of course. Didn’t you hear what Hilton said? The Northern Continent was almost destroyed because of the awakening of a giant dragon.”
“This ancient dragon on our continent is probably similar.”
“Huh? So scary…”
Liu Muxue was worried.
Cao Xing smiled and said: “Don’t worry, according to the system prompts, it will probably take some time for the dragon to wake up.”
“Besides, if the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up.”
“The aboriginal people in this world are much stronger than us. When the dragon wakes up, they will be the first to attack it.”
“If we can’t even withstand them, then there’s nothing we can do.”
Hearing this, the worry on Liu Muxue’s face dissipated a bit.
He looked at this man with a look of fascination in his eyes.
He always seems to have a way to solve every difficulty.
At this moment, Cao Xing suddenly felt a gust of wind above his head.
He raised his head and clearly saw a shooting star passing by.
Then, it hit directly near his territory.
“Boom!!!”
Violent shaking, more than ever before! The snow on the ground was blown away, and the territorial buildings shook violently.
Cao Xing was stunned, “Shall I go? Did you hit me on the head?”
Before Cao Xing could check, the leader Cao Yi exclaimed from outside.
“Lord! Something hit near our territory!”
Cao Xing walked over quickly.
Including the tree spirit clan who were eating in the canteen were also alerted and they came out one after another.
Then, everyone saw that it was about 800 meters away in the territory.
A lair that was all white and looked like an ice sculpture appeared, and a powerful wave of power continued to appear inside.
“Ho! Roar!”
Waves of wild beast-like roars appeared.
A look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing’s eyes, “So this is the Ice Nest.”
But at this time, the group of tree spirits were staring at the ice nest.
One of the tree spirits exclaimed: “Oh my God! That’s the power of the ancient dragon!”
Hearing the words ‘ancient dragon’, all the tree spirits were extremely frightened.
“Why? We have already arrived at the Western Continent, but the dragon still refuses to let us go?”
“The dragon has already destroyed our home, will it destroy our last habitat?”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…We are a cursed race. We should sink together with the Pale Tree…”
The tree spirit clan was extremely desperate at this time.
Neve even collapsed on the ground.
The other citizens looked at this group of pale-skinned people.
However, they did not feel that the reaction of the tree spirit clan was exaggerated.
After all, these people have already experienced a dragon disaster, their homes were destroyed, and their tribesmen died in droves.
This incident left a deep psychological shadow on them…
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(End of chapter)