163: Chapter 163 The Snake Woman Locked the Door!

When the seven-time limit was exhausted, Yi Chang had completely collapsed onto the carpet in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

Her constitution reached 86, and agility 71.

The remains of her OL uniform were scattered all over the floor.

Only one sleeve of the white shirt still hung on her shoulder, and the slit of her narrow skirt was torn up to the waistline.

Her newly shapeshifted legs were curled up weakly, the silver scale patterns on the inner sides of her thighs particularly striking under the moisture of sweat.

"Lord..."

Her voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible, the watery sheen in her vertical pupils not yet faded, "Is the... debt paid off?"

"The interest hasn't been calculated yet."

Yi Chang closed her eyes, her snake tongue flicking out weakly.

The system pop-up lit up again—

[beauty causality relationship detected! Target: Yi Chang (Snake Scale Tribe · Shapeshifted Form)]

[bond progress: Lv.3!]

[Exclusive gold-tier affix awakened—City Construction Fanatic!]

[Effect 1: Upgrade speed of all buildings in the territory +100%!]

[Effect 2: Territory resource output +50%!]

[Advanced class special effect 3 (hidden): When Yi Chang is within the territory, the loyalty cap for all NPCs +15.]

Chen Chen scanned the data and closed the panel with satisfaction.

Resource output increased by half, and building upgrade speed doubled.

This snake was even more valuable than he had expected.

—

Starting the next day, the energy fluctuations of the Tyrant Totem attracted more and more alien races.

Second-tier, third-tier, they came in swarms toward the Floating City.

Jiang Jiuyou stood on the city wall, her ice-blue pupils sweeping over the dense tide of alien races below.

"Another wave is coming, northeast direction, about forty third-tier Winged Beast."

Iron Wall's adjutant raised binoculars: "Should we sortie?"

"Sortie for what."

Jiang Jiuyou's hand rested on the remote fire control panel of the secondary command console, "Fleet fire net, cover fire."

On the city wall, the weapon systems of eighty-nine vehicles turned simultaneously.

30mm armor-piercing shells, electromagnetic pulse shells, high-explosive incendiary shells—the intersecting barrage wove a net of death three hundred meters outside the city wall.

Every bullet carried 10% true damage.

The moment the forty third-tier Winged Beast charged into the fire net, their crystal carapaces were directly penetrated by the true damage, and their flesh and blood were shattered into powder in the barrage.

From detection to total annihilation, forty-seven seconds.

Jiang Jiuyou didn't even stand up from her chair.

"Experience gained." Shen Wanbing's voice came from the communicator, "Everyone's level increased by an average of 0.3."

This kind of thing happened seven or eight times a day.

The alien races became experience packs delivered to their doorstep.

Chen Chen didn't have to do anything.

His daily schedule was—waking up in the morning, drinking a bowl of bone marrow soup, and checking how much the experience panel had jumped.

At noon, guiding the "cultivation" of the women.

At night, attributes skyrocketing.

Level 21.

Level 22.

Level 23.

The experience bar looked like someone had pressed the fast-forward button.

Two thousand three hundred people grinding monsters simultaneously, with a four-fold experience bonus, and a 10% cut.

Chen Chen was leveling up rapidly even while lying down.

Level 24.

The fifth day.

Level 25.

—

System time 14:22.

Chen Chen was drinking soup in the City Lord Tower; the moment the last bar of the experience bar was filled, the dome of the entire Floating City flashed violently.

A scarlet system-wide announcement exploded—

All war zones, all survivors, all alien races, received this message simultaneously.

[System-wide Announcement!]

[Congratulations to the Floating City Lord · Chen Chen, for becoming the first player on the second map to break through level 25!]

[War Zone Leaderboard officially opened! Faction Hegemony System officially unlocked!]

[Current Faction Rank 1: Ghost · Floating City — Comprehensive Score: Crushing lead.]

The public channel instantly boiled over.

Exclamations in various languages and accents flooded in.

"Level twenty-five?! How many days has it been?!"

"Floating City... is that the one that killed the Bishop of Ashes?"

"What kind of evaluation is a crushing lead? Is the system not even pretending anymore?"

Two thousand three hundred people inside the city erupted in deafening cheers.

Iron Wall led the roar on the city wall, and the adjutant was so excited that he threw his helmet away.

Chen Chen put down the soup bowl and opened the attribute panel.

From level 20 to 25, a total of 60 free attribute points were gained.

Now, each level up grants 12 free attribute points!

He didn't even think about it.

perception +20. Spirit +40.

Confirm.

perception jumped from 61 to 81.

Spirit soared from 136 to 176.

A dull boom came from deep within his brain.

The materialized tentacles of Mental Power changed from translucent to solid silver threads, the coverage area surged to five hundred meters, and the penetration power tripled.

The multiplier of the Gravity Domain jumped from 22 times to—

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field evolved again!]

[Spirit attribute broke the 170 threshold! Domain multiplier increased to 25 times!]

[Spirit Shock upgraded: For targets within the domain whose Spirit attribute is 40% lower than the host, the forced stun time is extended to 1 second!]

Chen Chen clenched his fist.

197 constitution, 93 agility, 176 Spirit, 81 perception, 68 luck.

A hexagonal warrior.

And every side was ridiculously long.

The communicator rang.

Shen Wanbing's voice carried rare excitement: "Chen Chen, after the Faction Hegemony System was unlocked, the faction data of other regions appeared on the leaderboard. The comprehensive score of the second place—is only one-third of ours."

"Understood."

"Also, level 25 unlocked a new system function—"

Shen Wanbing didn't finish her sentence.

The blue light of the concentration ice heart necklace suddenly jumped to an unprecedented frequency.

A piercing alarm sound exploded from the communicator.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Wanbing's voice changed.

"The edge of the map... abnormal spatial fluctuations have appeared."

Chen Chen stood up and walked to the panoramic window.

On the distant skyline, three huge blood-red vortexes were tearing the sky apart out of thin air.

Each vortex was over five hundred meters in diameter, with dark red energy tides surging at the edges, uprooting the surrounding floating giant trees and pulling them in.

Shen Wanbing's voice came from the communicator, lowered to the minimum—

"The energy fluctuation characteristics inside the vortex... are completely identical to the frequency band of that SS-rank Unclaimed Divine Seed."

Chen Chen's hand rested on the hilt of the golden ship-slaying blade at his waist.

"Blood Origin Royal Court?"