Chapter 69 New DLC, Dragon Resurrection (Subscription Request)
Hearing this, Cao Xing suddenly understood something.

The tree spirits have been guarding the Pale Tree since they were born.

That forest is their territory and their home.

Ever since my home was destroyed, I have assumed in my heart that I am homeless.

Now that I have come to someone else's territory, subconsciously, I think of myself as an outsider.

This is their deep-rooted thinking.

Cao Xing shook his head. "In my territory, there are not so many rules. Since you have become my subjects, I will naturally treat you equally."

"Now, in the name of the lord, I invite you to enter the dining hall."

There was no room for rejection in Cao Xing's words.

The tree spirits looked at each other again, and the female tree spirit said, "Thank you, my gracious Lord."

Then, they went into the cafeteria together.

When this group of tree spirits saw the various delicious dishes already laid out on the table, they couldn't help but drool like crazy.

The tree spirits look like creatures carved out of ice, but in fact, they have flesh and blood and need to eat daily.

The food in front of them directly aroused their deepest desires.

Cao Xing said: "Then, start enjoying it."

After getting Cao Xing's permission, this group of tree spirits could no longer be controlled.

They came to the dining table, raised their roasted bear meat, wolf meat and dry cheese, and ate with relish.

While eating, he made sounds of praise.

"Oh my god! Such delicious bear meat, such delicious wolf meat, my tongue is about to melt!"

"Wow, this is so delicious. I've never had such a sumptuous meal since I was a child."

"Praise this merciful Lord, he gave us abundant food!"

The other tree spirits followed suit and said, "Praise the great lord."

A lot of system prompts appeared in front of Cao Xing.

[Your territory member: Arni has enjoyed delicious food, his loyalty has been improved, and the current loyalty is 74]

[Your territory member: Carla has enjoyed delicious food, her loyalty has increased, and her current loyalty is 72]

[Your territory member: Niv has enjoyed delicious food, and her loyalty has increased. The current loyalty is 71]

【your……】

The favorability of all members increased.

The living environment of the tree spirits is also very harsh, because the Pale Tree is sacred and inviolable.

Therefore, there are not many supplies within their range of activities.

At this time, the petite Neve was wolfing down the food on the table while looking at Cao Xing, as if she had something to say.

But in the end, she didn't muster up the courage.

While this group of tree spirits were eating, Cao Xing turned around and went outside.

Because he couldn't wait to see the properties of the things he traded from Hilton.

Especially, that golden shield!
[Paladin Shield (Gold) lv10]

【Quality: Treasure】

[Armor: 123~129]

[Additional special effects ①: Constitution +20, Spirit +20]

[Additional special effect ②: Intermediate force reduction (when receiving physical attacks, reduce the damage caused by the opponent's strength by 20 points)]

[Additional effect ③: Intermediate magic resistance (when attacked by magic, reduce the opponent's mental damage by 25 points)]

[Additional special effect ④: Knight's Blessing (adds a layer of protective shield to all friendly units, with a durability of 20% of the current friendly unit's health, a duration of 120 seconds, and a cooldown of 20 minutes)]

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"Oh my god... what a strong attribute!"

More than one hundred armors, plus several special effects, all increase the survivability of the shield user.

It is conceivable how amazing Liu Muxue's defense will be when she holds the Paladin's Shield!
Moreover, the most powerful one is naturally the last [Knight's Blessing] special effect.

Combined with your own talents, it is equivalent to permanently increasing the maximum health of all friendly units by 20%!

This is a huge improvement. If given to a mammoth, it can directly increase its health by 3000 points!
Unfortunately, this equipment has wearing requirements.

Need to be upgraded to level 10 before it can be equipped.

However, for Cao Xing, reaching level 10 is not too difficult.

Cao Xing, with a happy look on his face, began to check the second thing, which was a bottle of secret medicine.

[Secret Vitality Elixir (Blue): After taking it, you can increase your physical fitness by 180 points within 10 minutes. 】

(Want to know the secret of the Earl's nightly revelry? That's right!)
...

"It really is a secret medicine to increase physical strength!"

Although Cao Xing didn't see the properties, he used his previous experience playing on the tablet to determine the effect of this secret medicine.

10 points of physical fitness is not low, it is equivalent to the improvement he gets when he reaches level three or four.

Of course, this is limited to before the second level.

After the second stage, the attribute improvement gained with each upgrade is also greater.

Cao Xing drank it without hesitation.

Because he is a fragile mage, he naturally has to try his best to improve his survivability.

[Successfully taking the [Secret Vitality Elixir], my physique has improved, my talent [Eternal Power] has taken effect, and this state has become permanent.]
"Sure enough, potions can also be enhanced by talent."

"10 points of physical fitness, and an additional 200 health points for me, that's pretty good."

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction and threw the [Paladin Shield] to Liu Muxue.

Liu Muxue looked at the gorgeous golden shield in her hand with surprise.

She had been staying with Cao Xing just now and saw the transaction process between him and Hilton.

Naturally, I know how precious this golden shield is.

Throwing it into the trading market would surely shock the survivors in Area 174.

However, Liu Muxue has secretly made up her mind to develop the territory together with Cao Xing.

There was no need to express any extra gratitude, but he just quietly put the shield into his backpack.

Besides, she belongs to Cao Xing entirely, so a piece of golden equipment is nothing.

At this moment, Cao Xing and Liu Muxue suddenly felt a violent vibration under their feet.

Rumble!
The tremor came so suddenly that the buildings throughout the territory shook slightly.

Liu Muxue subconsciously grabbed Cao Xing's shoulders.

The people in the area were so frightened that they stopped what they were doing.

The group of polar people were in a panic, shouting and screaming with exaggerated expressions.

"Oh my God, what happened?"

"Is it the ground that's moving?"

"No, it's the Mother Earth who is hungry. She wants to eat the filthy polar people!"

"Woo woo, Mother Goddess, please forgive us!"

All these polar people knelt on the ground, kowtowed continuously and performed prayer gestures.

Living underground all year round, earthquakes are the most terrible natural disaster for them, and they always take away the lives of many polar people.

But fortunately, the vibration comes quickly and goes away quickly.

However, Cao Xing and Liu Muxue both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Because the vibration just now was not felt in their area, but in the entire Snowy Plain, and even the entire Western Continent felt this vibration!
[World Channel] has become a mess, with a large number of survivors speaking crazily in it.

“Is it really an earthquake?”

Cao Xing was puzzled. Before they could react.

A system prompt appears.

[Attention all survivors! The remaining time until the novice protection period: 39 hours and 17 minutes...]

[After the novice protection period ends, the game content will undergo some changes. 】

[New expansion: Dragon's Awakening is about to start. 】

[The sleeping ancient dragon: Zhuoma, is gradually awakening, and the dragon power it exudes has transformed into ice nests that appear frequently around the world.

A large number of monsters such as Icebrood Beasts, Icebrood Eyes, and Jorma Minions will appear in the Icebrood.

As time goes by, the dragon's power will continue to recover, and the monsters that emerge from the Ice Nest will become more powerful.

Your goal is to protect your respective territories from the attacks of these ice nest beasts and destroy more ice nests. 】

[Note! Ice nests appear randomly. In order to allow survivors to adapt as quickly as possible, small-scale ice nests will appear during the novice protection period.]

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As soon as the prompt ended, all the survivors saw that there seemed to be a meteor shower in the sky.

Those meteor showers fell all over the world, creating huge craters.

Boom! Boom!

Severe vibrations continued to occur.

The world chat channel was suddenly in chaos.

Li Zheng: "Damn it! What happened? The system said a giant dragon is about to awaken?"

Leonardo: "A new expansion pack is about to be released. This is the system's way of letting us adapt in advance."

Murata Kenichi: "A giant dragon? It seems that this hero will finally become a dragon slayer!"

Muhammad: "You are wrong, this is God's punishment! It is our punishment. In fact, we should have died long ago. We came to this world just to pay for our sins. Everyone will die, hahahaha! Everyone will die!"

Wang Zhuang: "The guy upstairs, stop going crazy here."

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Including the chat channel in zone 174, a large number of comments emerged in an instant.

One of the survivors, named Jiang Na, exclaimed: "Oh my god, a meteor fell near my territory! It turned into an ice nest, and many monsters with ice spikes all over their bodies came out of it!"

When the other survivors in Area 174 heard this, they were immediately surprised. "Oh my god...it turns out that these meteors are what the system calls ice nests."

"Sister Jiang Na, how strong are those monsters?"

Jiang Na was silent for a moment, then spoke again: "Huh... It seems okay, they are just level 4 or 5 monsters, I can still handle them!"

Hearing this, the other survivors also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the system also reminded that it is now the early stage of the dragon's revival, and only a slight overflow of power is occurring, so the monsters that appear in the ice nest are not very powerful.

As the dragon gradually awakens, the level of the Ice Nest monster will gradually increase.

At this moment, Ji Xinyue also shouted in the chat channel: "An ice nest appeared outside my territory. Oh my god, so many monsters came out!"

Le Hangyu: "I saw it too, I'll do it!"

Qiao Weichao: "Fuck! This ice nest crushed my polar people to death, fuck..."

Zhang Yuzhe: "Brothers, go back to your territory quickly, the ice nest will not hit our territory!"

The survivors heard the alarm and returned to their own territories.

The sudden change caught everyone off guard.

...

Cao Xing looked around and closed the chat channel.

"It seems that giant dragon ice nests have appeared near the territories of many survivors."

"But fortunately, this is an advance warm-up for the system. The levels of the monsters that appear are not high. This is also to allow the survivors to adapt to the changes in the game after the novice protection period ends."

Cao Xing breathed a sigh of relief.

The sudden vibration did make him a little flustered.

Liu Muxue blinked her beautiful eyes and whispered, "Ah Xing... the system said that the dragon is about to wake up. Is the dragon very powerful?"

Cao Xing nodded and said, "Of course. Didn't you hear Hilton say that the Northern Continent was almost destroyed because of the awakening of a giant dragon?"

"The ancient dragon on our continent is probably about the same."

"Huh? So scary..."

Liu Muxue was worried.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Don't worry. According to the system prompt, it will probably take some time for the dragon to wake up."

"Besides, if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up."

"The natives of this world are much stronger than us. If we really encounter a giant dragon awakening, they will be the first to take on the attack."

"If even they can't hold on, there's nothing we can do."

Hearing this, the worry on Liu Muxue's face dissipated a little.

She looked at the man with a fascinated look in her eyes.

He always seems to have a way to solve various problems.

At this moment, Cao Xing suddenly felt a gust of wind above his head.

He looked up and clearly saw a shooting star passing by.

Then, it crashed directly near his territory.

"Boom!!!"

The violent vibration is greater than any previous one!
The snow on the ground was blown away and the buildings in the territory shook violently.

Cao Xing was stunned. "Oh my god? This is going to hit me on the head?"

Before Cao Xing could check, the leader Cao Yi exclaimed outside.

"My Lord! Something has fallen near our territory!"

Cao Xing hurried over.

Even the tree spirits who were eating in the cafeteria were alarmed and they came out one after another.

Then, everyone saw that it was about 800 meters away from the territory.

A snow-white nest appeared, like an ice sculpture, and powerful power fluctuations continued to appear inside.

"Roar! Roar!"

Waves of beast-like roars appeared.

Cao Xing's eyes flashed with realization, "So this is the Ice Nest."

At this time, the group of tree spirits were staring at the ice nest.

One of the tree spirits exclaimed: "Oh my God! That's the power of the ancient dragon!"

Hearing the words "ancient dragon", all the tree spirits showed great fear.

"Why? We have already come to the Western Continent, but the dragon still won't let us go?"

"The dragon has already destroyed our home. Will it destroy our last habitat as well?"

"Wuwuwu... We are a cursed race. We should sink along with the Pale Tree..."

The tree spirit clan was extremely desperate at this time.

Neve simply collapsed to the ground.

The other citizens looked at this group of pale-skinned people.

However, they did not think that the reaction of the tree spirits was exaggerated.

After all, these people have experienced a dragon disaster before, their homes were destroyed, and large numbers of their people died.

This incident left a deep psychological shadow on them...

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(End of this chapter)