My Apocalypse Territory

Tang Yu strolled leisurely while surveying his territory.

With his power having risen to the Fifth Tier of Awakening and his potential nearly fully tapped, he had finally hit a bottleneck.

修炼ing was out of the question. No amount of further 修炼 would be of use. He could only reluctantly live out his days like a retired cadre, just to keep his mood somewhat cheerful.

Perhaps one day, a bolt of lightning might strike, leading to an epiphany and a breakthrough.

That's what Lord Tang thought to himself.

Now... it might be better to look into researching equipment and tools. Since his own power couldn't be increased, he had no choice but to start with external objects. After all, he wasn't opposed to becoming a wallflower.

Having thought it through, he walked into the spell factory.

This was a new system building that could be used for research, construction, and the activation of large-scale spells, which were part of the territory's protective magic.

Tang Yu had already learned that these so-called large-scale spells were essentially evolved from common spells, but both the power and scope of these spells were much larger than that of ordinary spells.

Currently, there were only two large-scale spells provided by the spell factory.

Super-sized Fireball.

Construction cost: 5000 Source Crystals.

Construction time: half a day.

Destructive Thundebolt.

Construction cost: 10000 Source Crystals.

Construction time: one day.

A level one spell factory had three Spell Slots, capable of storing three constructed large-scale spells which had a casting range larger than the territory boundary, similar to the operational range of the Guardian Puppets, also a kind of defensive measure for the territory.

This was also where his confidence in dealing with super-sized Demonized Beasts stemmed from.

Arrow Towers and Cannons might struggle to damage Demonized Beasts on the level of mega beetles, but the power of these territory-specific large-scale spells should be sufficiently explosive.

He had already constructed those two spells and stored them in the Spell Slots.

"Having never tried them out, I feel a bit uncertain. Should I find some time for a test?" Tang Yu propped his chin up, deep in thought, "However, both of these spells are offensive and single-target. Hmm, the Super-sized Fireball should have some range, but not much. Right now, it would be best to research a control type spell. It wouldn't do to be caught off guard against some highly agile enemies in the future."

After pondering for a moment, Tang Yu sent a voice message to Eileen.

Within a few minutes, he saw Eileen walk in.

Currently, Eileen was dressed in a light white striped shirt and black pants, her hair tied up, and she was wearing an oddly mismatched earthy yellow hard hat, looking at him with a hint of curiosity.

...Had she just come from a construction site?

Tang Yu then remembered that Eileen was the head of the Logistics Department. During the construction of the Sanctuary, she was in charge of approving many materials and naturally, there was nothing surprising about her visiting the site.

"I need the cooperation of your Ice series spells."

Eileen nodded, she never asked too many questions.

Tang Yu took Eileen to an adjacent room used for collecting spell data.

The room was surrounded by semi-transparent crystal walls which appeared fragile but were actually the best material for absorbing damage from spells.

He pressed a control switch, and soon, a thick pillar rose from the floor in the center of the room.

"Freeze this pillar with your best Freezing Series Spell," said Tang Yu, then after a moment's thought added, "Start with twenty percent of your power, then fifty percent, and finally unleash your full strength."

With this method, data at different intensity levels could be calculated.

"Yes!"

Eileen stretched out her fair hand.

In an instant.

From the bottom up, a layer of ice formed on the black pillar, enveloping the entire pillar.

Tang Yu estimated the thickness of the ice. It looked to be a few centimeters.

...So this was two-tenths of Eileen's strength? It didn't seem all that thick.

He thought about it, pulled out his Swift Revolver from his waist, and fired two shots at the ice layer.

The bullets made slight indentations on the ice before falling to the ground with a clink.

Upon a closer look, the two bullets had actually deformed.

"Are they that hard?"

Tang Yu saw Eileen's somewhat puzzled expression and couldn't help but chuckle dryly.

After some time apart, Eileen's progression in strength seemed to have surpassed his expectations.

Just a short while ago, when he had broken through to the Fifth Tier of Awakening, Eileen was still at the Fifth Tier as well.

Contemplating, Tang Yu didn't slow his actions and pressed another button. The pillar emitted a high temperature, and the layer of ice slowly melted away, the heat steaming up. "Try the power of five layers."

This time,

the speed of the ice layer's coverage was faster, and its thickness harder... Of course, the test didn't need him to shoot with a handgun, this pillar itself had the capability to collect data.

Three minutes later, the ice layer melted again.

"Unleash all your power."

Eileen took a deep breath, her blue hair fluttering, her earthy yellow hard hat trembling incessantly.

Bang.

The chin strap of the hard hat split open, and the hat skewed as it fell.

Tang Yu instinctively reached out to catch it, and a chill that pierced to the marrow instantly spread throughout his body.

At that moment, Eileen had already extended her hands, exclaiming "Condense!"

Her hair lifted upwards.

Around her palms swirled white mist.

And that thick, black pillar was, in the blink of an eye, already enveloped in layer upon layer of deep blue ice crystals.

This time, the ice layer grew thicker and thicker, thicker still...

Tang Yu just stared wide-eyed, watching as the ice crystals spread from the pillar, almost filling the entire room.

"Ah... achoo!"

With that sound,

Eileen jolted awake.

Turning around, she saw Tang Yu covered in white frost, panicking at once, hastily dispersing the cold air surrounding them.

"Lord... this... I... I..."

After a moment, Tang Yu exhaled a breath of white fog, seeing Eileen's appearance, almost about to cry, which was just like the clueless look she had when she first arrived at the Territory.

He could only pat her head, indicating he didn't blame her.

Just then, he had already thought that Eileen had become much stronger recently. But he had not realized that a fully unleashed Eileen was so powerful that if he hadn't possessed a Fifth Tier Peak physique, within seconds under the shroud of this chill, he probably would have bit the dust.

Looking at the walls of crystal around him, the lights were flickering—that was the absorption of the power of the Freezing Series Spell. Otherwise, who knows how far these ice layers would have spread...

"As for the data on freezing spells, this should have collected quite a bit. Next, just need to reference some ice series runes, and after further deductions, we should be able to develop a large-scale Frozen Spell based on Eileen's freezing ability..."

Tang Yu thought to himself as he walked over to the control switch, ready to let the pillar radiate heat and melt those layers of ice.

He pressed the switch,

pressed it again,

and pressed it yet again!

However, the pillar still didn't respond.

Tang Yu's mouth twitched, "This... it couldn't be broken, could it?" He couldn't help but glance at Eileen, who was standing by his side, head lowered, still looking quite downcast.

"Forget it, we'll just switch to another testing room," he said.

Suddenly, a long-missed prompt resounded in his mind.

"Ding! Sky-splitting Crystal detected, please claim as soon as possible..."

"Ding! Sky-splitting Crystal detected, ..."

"Ding! ..."

Tang Yu: "???"