Realized Game: I Hoarded 10 Billion Defense Towers

Shen Fei saw that establishing a city alliance had a significant benefit. Setting other matters aside, as the alliance’s level increased, the City Energy consumption for using Teleportation Arrays between member cities would be reduced by a certain percentage. In fact, once the alliance reached a certain level, using the Teleportation Array between allied cities wouldn’t consume a single bit of City Energy.

Interesting... Shen Fei nodded as he reviewed the information on the so-called city alliances.

However, Shen Fei hadn’t yet considered who to form an alliance with. He owned nine Neutral Cities in Qing City; he was practically an alliance by himself. As for forming an alliance with others, I’ll have to see...

He wasn’t concerned about the City Energy consumption. After all, with nine Neutral Cities, he had more than enough. Moreover, he still had the Heart of Energy from the Technology City, which he’d obtained long ago from killing Godzilla.

Following the complete overhaul of the City Energy Attributes panel, Shen Fei teleported back to [Yang City] while continuing to review the update content. He then infused the Heart of Energy he was holding directly into [Yang City]’s energy supply.

WHOOSH.

Following a flash of light from the Heart of Energy’s use, he watched as [Yang City]’s City Energy surged. It had been depleted to just over 1,300 after all the Teleportations across Great Xia during the version 4.1 monster tide. Now, it instantly shot up by 5,000 points, landing at over 6,300.

Not bad!

This surge in City Energy not only gave him more confidence in using the Teleportation Array but, more importantly, also boosted many other Attributes, such as the City Shield and the percentage-based bonuses of the city’s special characteristics.

Nodding in satisfaction, Shen Fei continued to check the other updates.

Soon, he reviewed the more precise display for the city’s area of influence and the buff that city characteristics provided to player abilities. He skipped the second-to-last item, which stated that cities could now construct special functional buildings. His gaze then fell upon the final item, a new feature called [City-Affiliated Monster Nest].

Shen Fei saw that his guess had once again come true. With the 4.3 update, Neutral Cities could now have their own [Monster Nests].

Before, Monster Nests would spawn around each Neutral City as part of the version 4.1 update, with a small wave every three days and a large one every seven. Now, after this update, Neutral Cities could have their own affiliated Monster Nests as well.

These "affiliated nests" didn’t mean the Neutral City could spawn monsters to counter the version 4.1 monster tides. Instead, as a Neutral City owner, you could now place a Monster Nest belonging to the city in the surrounding area. These player-placed Monster Nests could be challenged whenever one pleased, unlike the version 4.1 system with its fixed, unchangeable three-day and seven-day spawn cycles.

Moreover, these player-placed Monster Nests were graded by level and could spawn monster tides of varying strengths accordingly.

With this update regarding affiliated Monster Nests, Shen Fei also saw that the Energy Block he had recently obtained from destroying the 10-billion-HP Monster Nest could be used on them to enhance their level. The method to establish these affiliated nests was to use items Shen Fei had possessed for a long time, such as the [Source of the Skeleton Monster Nest]. He had five or six such items in his inventory.

Thanks to the comprehensive update to Neutral Cities in version 4.3, countless items in Shen Fei’s possession were now usable. Although the update mostly involved city-related aspects, Shen Fei’s personal Combat Power didn’t see a significant increase. But a stronger city meant a stronger home base, which in turn gave him more confidence. Shen Fei understood this principle well.

Therefore, even though players’ personal Combat Power didn’t increase much after the 4.3 update, it was still good news, both from the changes in the Neutral Cities’ appearance and for the players who saw the related update text on their personal panels. Indeed, the 4.3 update was all about matters concerning Neutral Cities. Consequently, players who didn’t own or hadn’t joined a Neutral City received no update notifications this time.

After quickly browsing through the version 4.3 update, which he found slightly lacking in content, he immediately opened the Attribute panels for his nine Neutral Cities in Qing City. He then quickly and formally re-granted administrative permissions for the cities to Zhang Qiqiang, Sun Yu, Gun’Er, and the others.

With the exception of [Yang City], Shen Fei granted them administrative permissions for the other Neutral Cities, including the ability to add new members. The ownership of the nine cities belonged to Shen Fei, but now that Neutral Cities had an identity verification function, he couldn’t possibly verify every single player himself. Therefore, he quickly delegated the necessary permissions to the others.

Version 4.3! Neutral Cities! The vast majority of Neutral Cities that weren’t claimed by players have retreated into special zones!

After granting permissions to Sun Yu, Zhang Qiqiang, and the others, Shen Fei’s thoughts turned to the other Neutral Cities. In Hang City, [Lin’an City]—which had been occupied by Medusa, a monster tide boss who had gained sentience and become an intelligent boss—was surprisingly also counted as one of Shen Fei’s. Although this city was a special case because it had fallen, seeing this half-ruined city appear on his panel still filled Shen Fei with a multitude of thoughts.