Chapter 43 The Third Era - Technology

A tough battle.

Those cunning hobgoblins were really tough opponents. After they got close to the wooden wall, they actually wanted to climb up the city wall with their sharp claws and weapons. Some musketeers directly picked up the spears they had replaced earlier and pointed them at the bottom of the city wall. Poke it hard. Compared with the musket, this is actually the one they use more easily.

In this kind of close-range battle where high fire is used to fight low, the shortcomings of slow loading of muskets and crossbows are magnified. Each shot takes half a minute to load. On the contrary, the killing effect of long guns is 10% better, one after another. With the gravitational potential energy, it penetrates those hobgoblins with bigger heads.

Three unfortunate fellows were slightly injured by random hobgoblin weapon throws.

"It's over." He said, looking at the corpses everywhere.

And the sound of the system also arrived.

‘It has been detected that the era has been upgraded to the third era. Please choose your upgrade reward. ’

[Era of Emperors (Magic - Fortress)]: We have successfully mastered the power of magic. Humanity has taken the flames from lightning, and we will control the lightning itself! Our civilization has always built high walls to defend against enemy attacks, and continuous fortifications are what we depend on for survival.

[Era of Kings (Rune - Fortress)]: We have always regarded words as a tool for recording knowledge, but now we are surprised to find that words will become power itself, with mysteries that ordinary people cannot understand. Line of Defense, an endless line of defense, building high walls to protect your civilization.

[Era of Emperors (Level 2 Technology (Optional Secondary Branch) - Fortress)]: The cold world does not leave us a shred of hope. Those spells and magic will always be the plot of the book, but fortunately, even if the body is fragile, We can still rely on our own brains and hands. We are not stronger than others, but sweat builds a high wall to protect our health.

The new era still has three categories: spells, runes, and technology. The second level of technology is because it was technology in the previous era, so you can choose the secondary branch of technology. Technology has two sub-branches: iteration and reorganization.

Bastion... Is it because he was a turtle in both eras?

It's true.

He managed to achieve zero casualties by relying solely on the turtle tactics, but he also managed to survive the relatively difficult early stage.

Otherwise, the subsequent civilization characteristics here will have other things, such as maneuvers, traps, employment, economy, etc. They represent the behavioral characteristics of a civilization, and the fortress is the most prominent characteristic that it dominates. Items are shuffled anew with the beginning of each new era.

There is no bonus, but it has a certain impact on the minds of the people it leads to. It is more like a small evaluation.

Ji Lin reached out and clicked on the second stage of the technology branch - iteration, and confirmed.

Continue to select technology in the imperial era and identify branches as iterations. Iteration means that the characteristics of technological civilization are full of rapid evolution and uncertainty. This instability will make them move forward faster in the era. The secondary branch iteration of technology has another very special effect, which can research technology beyond the current era and reduce the negative effects of advanced research, if you have this technology option.

The function of reorganization is to increase population growth and territory population capacity, which is also very delicious, but he doesn't need it for the time being.

The general knowledge reserve of technology is the richest, and it is more convenient to transform into a hybrid civilization in the later stage.

‘After selection, please select civilization characteristics’

‘Blood Purification: +5% experience gained. ’

‘Prosperity and stability: +5% production efficiency. ’

‘Dangerous technology tendency: +5% research speed, dangerous technologies are more likely to appear in your research and development list. ’

"Choose bloodline purification."

There is nothing to think about, continue to choose blood purification. Prosperity and dangerous technological tendencies are both very comfortable characteristics. One increases total production, the other increases research speed, and the latter is a prerequisite characteristic that increases a large amount of research and development speed. The 5% experience gain of bloodline purification is slightly inferior to the characteristics of biathlon.

But the system will not write all the characteristics of civilization on it. Just like the introduction of game items written by Blue Star Game Company and the actual attributes, there will always be a slight gap.

Generally speaking, even if a technical civilization is as clever as him, it will still be lucky enough to get the second bloodline purification and obtain the lowest level of awakening of group magic talent. But because the system will not provide you with blueprint buildings, you cannot obtain blueprints from other players.

As a result, it cannot be used, and the hard bonus of awakening can only be eaten, and cannot be constructed as normal runes or magic civilization.

But Ji Lin had a solution. He perfectly obtained the reward crystal mine through the copy of Air and Steel, and the system opened the corresponding blueprint store for him. There were three blueprints in the store: crystal mine field, research station (crystal mine), College of Engineering.

There happens to be one of these three blueprints that allows him to slightly bypass this restriction:

(The previous description has also been modified)

[College of Engineering (District Building)]

[+15% scientist generation, +15% mechanic generation, +15% magic craftsman generation, +10% attraction, unique territory. 】

[Stone: 4000, Steel: 2000, Gold: 2000, Crystal Ore: 200]

[Construction time: 20th]

[An institution of higher learning dedicated to the research, development and promotion of technology. It provides basic equipment. You can continue to expand it through subsequent projects, or you can place the research station next to the Engineering College to gain bonuses. 】

[The whistle of steam never stops day and night, and the pace of science never stops. 】

Magic Craftsmen, that is something that should not appear in technological civilization. He bypassed this difficulty slightly by obtaining blueprints. He did not intend to build the most basic academy to improve the knowledge level of the territory. Building a more advanced engineering academy in one step would achieve better results.

When he has both source potential and magic craftsman training facilities, he can produce magic craftsmen normally.

As expected, after he chose blood purification, the magic craftsman has been lit up from gray to a color that can be used normally.

The attributes are given generously. This engineering academy can stand alone even in the buildings of the information age.

It's just too expensive. What kind of wonder is built with 5,000 units of stone and 2,000 steel and gold? The cost of the Great Library, a real wonder, is not as much as the steel used here.

Steel is not iron ore. It needs to build a metallurgical furnace or a blacksmith shop to obtain it.

Well, although crystal ore releases hydrogen because of its simple processing, the steam and steel world also has amazing material strength. They have partially popularized hydrogen metallurgy technology.

But, he is not crazy yet.

In the absence of even mechanics and magic craftsmen, he went to hydrogen metallurgy because he felt that his territory was too peaceful and the sky was too dark - he wanted to set off a big firework to illuminate himself.

'Rewards are being given according to player needs'

'Telescopic telescope: +30%-50% field of view, can mark targets and guide long-range troops to attack. '

'Quest book: Lightless Broken Veins'

'Spring: A spring full of healing power. '

He had never seen a quest book before. He had never heard of this name and did not understand it at all.

The other two rewards for clearing the level without injury were both improvements for him, one to improve the combat effectiveness of long-range troops and the other to increase the territory.

But he still chose this quest book, and the future was promising.

He was not in a hurry to use the quest book this time. There should be only a few X-level quest books, but he had never seen a quest book with this description. It was too strange.

'Selection completed'

'Technology-Iteration-Fortress, Bloodline Purification, Quest Book: Lightless Broken Veins'

'Unified settlement is being made. '

'Improvement is in progress. Welcome to the world, lord. ’

[Lord]: Ji Lin

[Territory Race]: Human

[Lord Talent]: Foresight, Fire Extinguisher, Planned Defender, Battlefield Maneuver (Master)

[Building]: Town Center.

[Troop]: 300 (100 musketeers, 200 light crossbowmen)

[Territory Population]: 910/12800

[Territory Building]: Town Center, Primary Residence (82), Farmland (700), Mill (4), Pasture (1), Public Toilet (1), Bathhouse (1), Herb House (1), Wooden Wall (400)

[Civilization Type]: Technology-Iteration-Fortress

[Civilization Characteristics]: Bloodline Purification (Level 2)

[Territory]: Plain x1, Floodplain x1, Swamp x1, Coast x1