The colossal sphere of light appearing in the easternmost part of Great Yan drew the world's attention.
However, facing inquiries from various nations, Great Yan's highest decision-making body was equally baffled.
Meanwhile, the impending nightmare-level threat gradually shifted the focus of the surviving nations back to the deployment of their defensive forces.
No one knew that when the sphere of light broke through the clouds and stood abruptly on the land, outside of Donghai City, the first to discover this anomaly was actually a slumbering dragon.
At the very center of the Frozen Battlefield, the magnificent dragon, as grand as a mountain range, exhaled winds and snow capable of covering ten thousand meters.
Yet, such a powerful dragon, after annihilating the entire eastern war zone resistance forces of Great Yan, fell into a deep slumber.
Known as a forbidden target, it possessed its own pride.
Since it had already confirmed through destruction that the power level of the world before it was too weak, as a strong being, Frosty Arrogance did not mind giving the weaker ones time to catch up.
After all, under the miracle of the system, even the weakest races had a chance to become stronger.
This world, with its dominant intelligent species called humans, had a considerable population.
After sacrificing ninety-nine percent of them, it was possible for the world's consciousness, stimulated by the events, to give birth to some powerhouses that would catch Frosty Arrogance's eye.
The dragon, as majestic as a mountain range, slowly opened its eyes. With its eyes half-closed, its pale golden dragon pupils pierced through the wind and snow, and also saw through everything within the sphere of light.
Gazing at Chen Luo, who was staring at the system's creation within the radiance, a trace of pleasure surged in the dragon's heart.
Finally, a fruit worth anticipating had appeared.
However, it was still a bit unripe.
Hopefully, before those guys arrive, I can get to taste you when you're mature.
With a sense of inexplicable anticipation, Frosty Arrogance, who yearned to battle strong opponents, slowly closed its eyes.
Dragons were born strong. Being born powerful, they could continuously enhance their strength even in their slumber.
This was the absolute difference in the essence of life.
However, not all strong beings possessed an unconcealable arrogance.
If Frosty Arrogance had not been coiled here, some monstrous beings might have directly descended upon Great Yan and destroyed Chen Luo.
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At the very center of the spherical light,
Chen Luo floated in mid-air, organizing the system's creations that were constantly appearing, correlating them with the information continuously flooding his mind.
The main urban area of the upgrading Starfire City had expanded to nearly five hundred square kilometers, and the maximum population capacity of the city had also been increased to ten million.
Outside the city, the land, under the system's mighty power, had transformed into supporting farmlands, pastures, rivers, and mineral deposits.
Not to mention the land outside the city, just such a magnificent urban area would take ordinary people several days and nights to traverse.
However, for the strengthened professionals, it was still somewhat acceptable.
Such a grand great city, divided by the re-expanded Starfire Plaza at its center, was split into three residential districts and seven functional districts.
The facilities within the residential districts were increasingly close to modernization, with each person possessing their own independent dwelling.
Interspersed within the residential districts were some functional areas established by the system, resembling convenience stores.
They were managed by the system's AI, and people only needed to pay experience points to shop.
Outside the residential districts lay the truly main functional areas, primarily divided into food production, equipment processing, and the cultivation system that only appeared after upgrading to a great city. xxs壹贰
The cultivation system occupied nearly sixty percent of the functional district's space. It included skill training rooms, which could help professionals accelerate their skill improvement, roughly equivalent to a weakened "Wolf's Heart" buff.
However, when stacked with the Wolf's Heart, it was still considerable. Furthermore, based on the information Chen Luo obtained, if one was willing to spend experience points, they could even accelerate time within the skill training rooms, leading to faster skill progression.
The other major training facility consisted of various attribute training grounds.
Strength, agility, constitution, and even spirit could be trained in different venues.
However, while requiring a large expenditure of experience points, it also demanded a significant amount of time and perseverance through solitude.
But unfortunately, these grounds could at most help players increase their corresponding attributes to 100 points.
And according to the information Chen Luo had acquired, increasing a single attribute to one hundred points had a difficulty comparable to an ordinary person upgrading an S-class skill.
After reviewing these new functions, Chen Luo nodded in approval. Although all of this was no longer useful to him, it was still very convenient for his citizens to improve their strength.
And as the lord of a myriad of soldiers, the improvement in his subordinates' strength would ultimately be reflected in the lord.
It could be said that Chen Luo, who had reached the Abyss level at this point, already had some qualifications as a strategist in this first chapter of the doomsday game.
As Chen Luo pondered, the upgrade of the Starfire City-state had reached its final stage.
Those soldiers who had been enveloped earlier regained their consciousness.
They sat at the dining table, gazing at the suddenly vast and boundless great plaza, and for a moment, they were all somewhat stunned.
"Huh? We were just having a meal, why did the background change?"
Before the bewildered crowd could make sense of the situation,
A fierce beam of light flashed from the very center of the city, forcing those around to cover their eyes.
Unbeknownst to them, Chen Luo, who had landed in the center of the plaza, twitched his lips as he looked at the flashing, massive columnar object before him.
"System, are we going through this again?"
*Hum!*
As the light gradually extinguished, those who regained their sight looked up.
Within the light, a colossal sculpture nearly a hundred meters tall stood in the center of the town.
The sculpture depicted Chen Luo, bare-chested, in a pose of fury, his fist raised to the sky.
His upper body, with bulging muscles, was covered in ghastly scars.
However, in the statue's eyes, an indomitable fighting spirit was vividly conveyed.
Merely by looking at the sculpture, a sense of exhilaration to face a powerful enemy surged from within people's hearts.
"City Lord! Long live!"
The professionals who joined later, looking at Chen Luo's sculpture and recalling the bloody battles they had experienced in the past few days, felt an indescribable sense of pride spread through their hearts!
But the first group of priestesses who followed Chen Luo took the atmosphere in a different direction.
"Ahhh! Military Lord is so handsome! I want to have his babies! Ten of them!!"
"Go away, go away! You lustful woman, you've been coveting the boss since the anime convention! Why don't you make a move!"
Chen Luo, hearing the loud "whispers" from the priestess group behind him, turned his ears forward without looking back.
"Say more, your City Lord loves to hear it!"
This central sculpture would refresh a massive number of town quests daily.
Citizens could complete these quests according to the system's requirements to receive rewards in the form of living supplies and experience points.
After all, Chen Luo would definitely accept more survivors in the future. Unlike Chen Luo's legions, these newcomers did not have a massive accumulation of experience.
These later arrivals would still need some other means to obtain experience points and supplies to survive.
The source of all these outputs was borne by the system.
Of course, as the City Lord, Chen Luo also had the authority to access a certain amount of the town's reserve experience points to issue tasks he wished to set.
Overall, the newly born Starfire Great City now possessed the ability to survive independently, be self-sufficient, and continuously grow stronger.
[Territory Upgrade Complete! You have received new quest prompts!]