Chapter 674: Chapter 674

Du You slowly dissipates the aura, unable to hide the joy on his face.

Aura Skill was unlike other skills, it was a one-time consumption skill. Though consuming quite a bit of power when activating the Aura Skill, it was one-time only. Once activated, there was no need to keep consuming power to maintain it.

If he was willing, he could ensure that the aura was always present around him, never to disappear.

Of course, no one would do that, because while maintaining an aura, a special area would form around oneself, where the power would change and repel external forces, easily detectable by others.

If someone discovered that he is using an aura, it could be misinterpreted as an intention to attack.

Moreover, no one wants other people’s power endlessly swirling around them. It might be fine in a fight, but maintaining an aura otherwise would be annoying.

Besides, with Du You’s magic power, the release of a mere aura didn’t consume much at all.

Leaving the secret room, Du You saw the still vigilant sisters, "I’m done, take a break now. By the way, how long did I take?"

"Three hours, not too long, just in time for dinner. By the way, master, how powerful is your new skill?"

Du You smiled and shared the skill panel with the two. Both of them were taken aback when they saw it. They had seen Aura Skills before. In fact, many aura attributes were public knowledge.

Having seen many, they naturally knew how high the bonus ranges of the aura could be. Generally, an all-around enhancement aura like Duyou’s wouldn’t exceed 1% per level. His aura was simply outrageous. If only they could see the star rating tag behind it, they wouldn’t be so surprised.

A legendary 10-star rating, something Du You had always kept hidden and would never reveal to anyone.

Whether they could guess it or not was irrelevant to him, Du You would never admit to it.

After waiting two days in his territory, the Civil Research Room was finally built. As an auxiliary building of the Lord’s Mansion, it was built next to the mansion, as if it was part of the same structure.

The two structures were closely integrated, and nothing seemed abrupt. Though the building itself has no levels, similar to the Lord’s Mansion, it upgraded as the mansion did.

Auxiliary building of the Lord’s Mansion:

Civil Research Room: Researches civil functional buildings, can enhance the level of civil buildings and reduce upgrade requirements. Can draw blueprints of civil buildings, with a chance to produce new blueprints.

After reading the introduction, Du You was even more elated. "I didn’t expect this building to be so powerful. Researching our own blueprints will greatly reduce our future dependency on other blueprints."

Thinking about the hard-to-buy blueprints made Du You quietly rejoice. But there probably aren’t many of such auxiliary buildings, otherwise, the market prices for blueprints wouldn’t be so high, and there wouldn’t be so few blueprints.

Through research, Du You discovered that the Civil Research Room could produce blueprints of any building already in his territory. However, the usage limit of the manufactured blueprints depended on luck.

At the very least, a single-use blueprint would be produced. The farms he had always had were not enough, but that would change now.

If he was lucky, he might even be able to directly craft a permanent blueprint, it wasn’t impossible.

However, if a building didn’t exist on Du You’s territory, it couldn’t be created from scratch; only research over time was possible. Crystal coins could be used to speed up the research and improve the effects of the blueprint produced.

If he was to actually invest crystal coins, Du You found that it would be like an endless pit.

So, Du You wouldn’t use his crystal coins recklessly if possible. Fortunately, the number of blueprints requiring research wasn’t high.

"Focus all efforts on researching the farm, upgrade it to tier three, then sketch out the blueprints." Du You directly ordered, and the Civil Research Room immediately put all its research ability on farm research.

"Why research the farm? We have the orchard, which is a permanent blueprint too."

Hearing this, Du You laughed, "The orchard could replace the farm to a certain extent, but it can’t completely replace it. There are many things that the orchard can’t produce and the yield of the farm is also higher."

Du You continued: "The key point is, the blueprints produced here can be sold. If I package and sell some blueprints, won’t that provide a source of funding for the development of our territory?"

This was the idea Du You had. Although he didn’t dare to sell blueprints on a large scale, for fear of revealing something, there were a considerable number of blueprints on the market. Selling a few wouldn’t draw attention. Moreover, these were civil blueprints, not military ones. Du You wondered why there were no military research rooms.

Never mind, having this was already quite good, he shouldn’t be too greedy.

"Let Shaliya collect more information about civil buildings. With these, the research speed of the research room will be faster, along with better results, easily producing special effects."

"Hee hee, master, you are giving Shaliya another difficult task."

"Yes, yes, Shaliya has been complaining these last few days about how Master is a laissez-faire leader."

Du You rolled his eyes, "If she doesn’t like it, she can delegate tasks to someone else anytime." Shaliya was focused on developing the territory for future revenge, so why would she let go? Googlᴇ search 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✶𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲✶𝗻𝗲𝘁

Don’t be fooled by her complaints, in truth, she was actually enjoying it. The stronger the territory, the closer she got to her revenge. The current territory was incapable of confronting the Kingdom of Hanhai, but advancing a level could make a difference.

As long as the Kingdom of Hanhai didn’t have too many tier five experts, they might actually manage to overwhelm the kingdom’s tier fives with a swarm. Of course, Du You wouldn’t dare to act recklessly without absolute certainty.

"Master, what are we doing next? We can’t just keep waiting in the territory, right?"

Without thinking, Du You replied, "We have a lot to do next. We don’t have many green crystal coins left, and we need them for upgrading levels and learning new skills. I have chosen several places we’ll be hunting at in the future. But for now, let’s stay in the territory and cultivate a bit more. The rewards from the Empire haven’t been given yet and the border isn’t stable. But I don’t think it will take too long now."