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The Age of Lords: A Scholar's Journey

In a world on the brink of collapse, Ethan is thrust into the "Age of Lords," where survival is dictated by mastering territories and harnessing magic. With only basic skills and minimal advantages, he must navigate this perilous new reality to secure his place and thrive. Ethan's exceptional learning ability becomes his greatest asset in this challenging environment. As he adapts and acquires crucial knowledge, he begins to turn the tide in his favor, striving to build a strong foundation for success in the demanding "Age of Lords."

Infinity_Snake · Fantasy
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26 Chs

Starting Over: Ethan's New Territory and Its Challenges

"Two architectural drawings, a skill book, and a unit enhancement book." Ethan looked at his backpack. In addition to the drawings of the farmland and the spirit workshop, there was also a book called Elementary Magic Power and the Spirit Experiment Manual. These two books were found by Ethan on the second floor of the Mage Tower.

*Elementary Magic*

Learning requirements: Knowledge 10

Attack magic increases damage by 5%

At first glance, it seems to be a very good skill book, and it is still a beginner level, which shows that this skill can grow.

"This is really the invincible hero..."

Ethan then opened up his personal attributes. With a mere 10 points of knowledge, and the nine-year compulsory education, not to mention too much, there are still 5 points.

*Lord LV1 (0/1000)*

*Territory: Mage Tower (Broken)*

*HP: 100%*

*Magic value: 0*

*Attack power: 0 (The lord's attack power can add 10% to the attack power of his troops)*

*Defense: 0 (The lord's defense can add 10% to the defense of his troops)*

*Strength: 0 (The power of the lord can increase the lethality of attack magic and improve the effect of auxiliary magic and continuous rounds)*

*Knowledge: 0 (Knowledge affects the upper limit of the lord's magic value, 1 point of knowledge corresponds to the upper limit of 10 magic points)*

*Lord Talent: Learning Ability (Add 50% EXP when gaining EXP)*

*Lord Skill: Primary Scouting (Temporary)*

"..."

Looking at his attributes, Ethan was really stunned this time. Except that his health was 100%, everything else was 0. This feeling was quite explosive, and the god-level talent he imagined was also absent. It can only increase the experience by 50%, which seems to be useful from the early stage to the late stage, but it is completely useless to the limit.

"I overestimated myself." Although Ethan was a little shocked by his own attributes, he didn't think too much about it. After all, this matter cannot be solved by suffering.

"I can't use primary magic power, so I can surprise myself with the remaining spirit experiment manual."

He knew that his initial units were spooks. If he couldn't do it, he would be fine with units. He didn't mind.

*Spirit Experiment Manual*

*Research requirements: tier 2 territory, magic guild/mage tower and other related buildings*

*After using it, you will get the research technology to strengthen the attack power of the spirits, strengthen the defense power of the spirits, and strengthen the health of the spirits*

"It's not bad, but the requirements are a bit strict and require a Tier 2 territory."

As for the subsequent construction requirements, Ethan didn't care at all. His territory was the Mage Tower, so it was no wonder that the units in the novice gift bag were designated as sprites.

"Let's build a spirit workshop first, then we will be able to lead the troops to the expedition." Ethan immediately chose to start building a spirit workshop on the second floor.

*The spirit workshop is being built, this time consumption: 50 units of ore, 50 units of wood, required time: 1 hour*

Ethan was also a little excited when he saw the dim lights appearing.

It's just that the construction takes time, which made him a little surprised. He thought that it would be enough to refresh it directly.

"There are 100 units of food, including 50 units of white bread and 50 units of water. Does that mean that the daily consumption of units is food?"

"No, in addition to units, I also need to consume food."

Although he is digitized, he also needs food to maintain.

"In this way, although food is only a single resource category, the types are definitely more complex."

Ethan immediately understood the importance of food. He first went to the material warehouse. This is a building that comes with the territory.

On the basement level of the Mage Tower.

This is not only a warehouse for supplies, but also a dried-up magic pool is built here.

Ethan glanced at it. The materials were placed quite neatly, and he could see everything clearly at a glance. After all, there were four kinds of materials: bread, water, wood, and minerals.

"It's still relatively weak now. Let's do this first. After the material warehouse is expanded, we can store the food separately."

From the current point of view, it can probably hold about 5,000 units of wood or minerals. As for food, it is naturally more.

"Don't worry about the water. My Mage Tower is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is mainly the staple food. It would be great if I replaced 50 units of water with white bread."

White bread was different from wood and minerals. Ethan had checked it out. Fifty units of white bread were fifty pieces of bread, which was a bit of a pitfall.

"Fortunately, there is farmland. I have to quickly..."

Ethan was about to build farmland when he suddenly remembered something. Farmland can indeed grow grain, but there is a fatal problem, that is, he has no grain seeds.

"So the first problem I have to face is the food problem? I hope this farmland can be as magical as The Age of Lords without seeds, otherwise I can only go fishing."

He could see that he was basically no different from starting from scratch, and now he could only hope that the spooks could be more powerful. Since it came to the present, there has been no good news.

"At this time, those overpowered lords should have already started to go out to fight monsters with his troops, I will put it aside to consider the issue of food."

Ethan sighed, a little helpless.

My guess is that this start is only quite satisfactory; it can't be considered very good.

After leaving the Mage Tower, Ethan found that the protective barrier was not small. Not only did it cover the entire Mage Tower, but it even extended a radius of about 1,000 meters from the Mage Tower as the center, which was estimated to be the initial territory.

Big is really big, and there are even a lot of resources scattered on the ground and shrouded in it together.

*Constructing farmland, this time consumption: 10 units of food, required time: 10 minutes*

Ethan checked the food categories on the resource panel. What was missing was not white bread, but water. This made him heave a sigh of relief. He was still smart. If there was no white bread, he would be furious.

The farmland is not as big as the spirit workshop; it is only about 5 square meters. Ethan will build it first to see the situation, and then talk about it after it is completed. After all, this is not only built once; he has learned the blueprint. As long as there are enough resources, any amount will do.

And he is not short of water resources; there is a river not far from the Mage Tower.

"Just take advantage of this time to collect the resources within the territory, and forget about going out. If you encounter a wild monster, you will get cold on the spot." Ethan muttered softly, and then started to act.