Novel Full Chapter 71 - 53: New Research Projects
Chapter 71: Chapter 53: New Research Projects
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yu reached for one of the building blueprints, selected it, and sent it to the City Construction and Planning Bureau.
Xia Luo had already heard the Lord had made a great haul and was waiting eagerly at the City Construction and Planning Bureau. Just as she expected, a building blueprint glowing with red light materialized on her desk.
"Vein of Life..."
She read the relevant information carefully, her eyes shining with excitement.
For her, the appearance of this building held immense significance. Its importance lay not in the Epic Quality Death Devourer, but in the building’s secondary effect.
Death is unavoidable for everyone, but with the Vein of Life, the souls of the dead would be sheltered.
Afterward, whether they were reanimated as undead to continue fighting or fell into a deep slumber within the Vein of Life, it was a welcome outcome.
She was confident their great Lord would treat the souls of his subjects kindly.
Afterward, she ordered her subordinates to immediately mobilize resources to construct the Vein of Life beneath the World Tree. (Once Lin Yu made his selection, it was confirmed that the roots of the World Tree could also serve as the construction site for the Vein of Life.)
Regardless of what Xia Luo was thinking, Lin Yu was quite pleased with his choice of the Vein of Life.
’If I can add the law of reincarnation later, the territory can establish a complete cycle of rebirth. This wouldn’t just make more efficient use of the territory’s subjects, but would also perfect the territory’s fundamental laws.’
’The World Tree... it might become an independent world someday. Having perfected laws is always a good thing.’
He then took out two adaptive research blueprints and chose to use them.
As the blueprints resonated with the World Tree, the two adaptive research blueprints quickly took form and flew into the Wisdom Library.
The corresponding research projects appeared simultaneously on the Technology Tree:
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[Name]: Spiritual Weapon
[Category]: Spiritual Technology
[Description]: Your territory is filled with Spiritual Energy. With the advancement of Rune Technology, some people had the novel idea of engraving runes onto their weapons. After lengthy experimentation, Spiritual Weapons were born.
Spiritual Weapons possess greater attack power and higher durability. They also have anti-magic, armor-piercing, and various other unique properties.
A fully spiritualized weapon can be stored within one’s body.
[Prerequisites]: Basic Spiritual Energy Theory, Basic Spiritual Energy Application, Advanced Metallurgy, Advanced Weapon Forging, Basic Rune Theory, Foundations of Rune Application
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[Name]: Cultivatable Plant Architecture
[Category]: Natural Technology
[Description]: Your territory has numerous plant-based buildings, which were originally created by modifying plants. The abundant Spiritual Power within the territory has allowed their modified forms to gradually regain their vitality.
Through this research, the territory’s plant-based buildings can regain their natural plant characteristics, allowing them to flower, bear fruit, and be cultivated from seeds.
Plant-based buildings grown from seed are no longer subject to construction plot limitations, behaving just like normal plants.
Note: Plant-based buildings grown from seed do not provide Prosperity.
[Prerequisites]: Advanced Mutated Plant Research, Professional-Grade Cultivation, Bio-architecture
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Meanwhile, inside the Wisdom Library, Lin Chenxi was also waiting for a notification.
After the territory took the top rank at the end of last month, she had gone home to rest. To her surprise, the Lord opened his reward chests that very night, obtaining new technology and building blueprints.
Xia Luo had been at the City Construction and Planning Bureau and began construction of the new building that same evening.
She, however, didn’t find out until the next morning, a fact that had bothered her for days.
’I can’t make the same mistake this time,’ she thought.
Sure enough, not long after the Lord returned to the Lord’s Mansion, two motes of golden light shot out from the mansion and flew into the Wisdom Library.
"Spiritual Weapons and Cultivatable Plant Architecture... both of these are excellent!"
Lin Chenxi often worked closely with Lin Yu, so she was well aware that the territory’s current weapons and equipment were severely lacking. With Spiritual Weapons, the combat effectiveness of the territory’s soldiers and heroes would rise to a whole new level.
’As for Cultivatable Plant Architecture, the benefits for the entire territory are even greater. Our current defenses rely on a vast number of defensive plants. Now they can be planted everywhere, breaking the one-per-square-meter limit. What hope would our enemies have of getting in?’
There was just one problem: the prerequisites for these two projects were quite demanding.
Basic Spiritual Energy Theory and Basic Spiritual Energy Application had just been completed a few days ago, and Advanced Metallurgy and Advanced Weapon Forging had been researched long ago.
However, the two projects—Basic Rune Theory and Foundations of Rune Application—weren’t in the Technology Tree’s list of available research projects.
The Technology Tree had one frustrating drawback: you couldn’t see what research projects came next. Subsequent options would only appear after their prerequisites were completed.
While one could follow the general progression, there were sometimes deviations. It felt a bit like opening a loot box.
Just like with Basic Rune Theory and Foundations of Rune Application—she couldn’t even find their prerequisite technologies.
The prerequisites for Cultivatable Plant Architecture were manageable, at least. It only needed Professional-Grade Cultivation. That technology had been available for a while, but it hadn’t been researched because Advanced Cultivation was sufficient for the territory’s needs.
"Looks like I’ll have to search the library!"
’Team One has to research Administrative Structure. Once that’s done, we can form government agencies to manage the territory. That’s a project the Lord personally assigned, so it can’t be delayed.’ (Institutions recognized by the system receive attribute bonuses.)
’Team Two is working on Intermediate Large-Scale Mechanical Structures. They can pause for now and resume later.’
’Team Three just finished Intermediate Road Construction and was planning to start on Advanced Road Construction in a few days. Based on our experience with architecture, completing Advanced Road Construction should unlock various specialized road-building branches.’
’But Team Three’s research isn’t urgent either. They can pause, too.’
Lin Chenxi silently reviewed the Research Institute’s current workload in her mind and made a decision.
"Listen up, everyone. I’m going to assign our priorities for the next few days."
"Team One, continue with your current task."
"Team Two, shelve your current project. Save your progress; you’ll resume in a few days. I want you to start researching ’Professional-Grade Cultivation’."
"Team Three, you and all the assistants will come with me to the library’s Energy District. We’re going to find books related to Spiritual Energy and energy runes. We have to unlock Basic Rune Theory and Foundations of Rune Application in the next few days. The territory has an urgent need for them!"
The researchers sprang into action. Team Three and Lin Chenxi led the assistants to the thirteenth floor of the library.
The collection on this floor was entirely dedicated to books on Extraordinary energies. It included not only works on Spiritual Energy but also various elemental energies, Magic Energy, Demonic Qi, dark energy, primal force...
Even though Lin Chenxi could narrow down the general area, finding a useful book was still like searching for a needle in a haystack.
But no matter how difficult it was, they had to unlock Basic Rune Theory and Foundations of Rune Application. Otherwise, research into Spiritual Weapons would be impossible.