[[A temporary points exchange will open 36 hours after the challenge starts]]

[[The time stop announcement will last for 5 minutes]]

Quickly checking the announcement, Zong Shen found it rather interesting.

The challenges are becoming more simplified now.

However, the scorching temperature of 45℃ is still quite terrifying.

Moreover, during the challenge, water magic and frost magic will be greatly weakened.

Zong Shen had originally planned to use the Frost Raven in the territory to build some air-conditioned rooms.

Now it seems doubtful.

Additionally, during the challenge, water sources will also dry up.

These are things that need to be noticed in advance.

Also need to prepare some sunshade items.

To make full preparations for going out.

Because the climate pressure on survival in this challenge is not considered large.

45℃ is still bearable, like digging a cellar, or making a pool.

And the death of subjects will not deduct points.

Zong Shen remembered that in Huaxia’s Turpan area, there was a terrifying record of ground temperature reaching 83.3℃.

But this does not mean he can take it lightly.

The key issue still lies with that Flame Demon Boss, which is not only the main source of points.

It also concerns the subsequent changes in temperature.

If the Flame Demon Boss is not eliminated within 24 hours, the regional temperature will rise by 10℃.

Failing to eliminate it twice consecutively will cause the temperature to reach 65℃.

This problem, even if barely survivable, will make movement extremely difficult, making it impossible to effectively attack subsequent refreshed Flame Demon Bosses.

So this challenge actually tests the integrated strength of the region more.

Only by ensuring that the first two Flame Demon Bosses can be taken down within the cycle can the temperature be stabilized at 45℃, thus not affecting subsequent situations.

After all, fighting at 45℃ is completely different in difficulty compared to fighting at 55℃ or even 65℃.

Five million life value is not too much, but not too little either.

Calculated based on the regional average surviving Lord quantity of 7,000 people.

Each person only needs to handle a little over 700 life value points of the Flame Demon Boss.

This time, the Lords’ strength is generally significantly stronger than during the Burrow Challenge.

Zong Shen does not expect all the Lords in the region to be present.

He only hopes that at least half of the regional Lords show up, which would suffice.

After all, attacking the Flame Demon Boss is high risk along with high reward.

There are still many conservative Lords who are unwilling to come.

Specifics may need to involve some regional mobilization.

As the Flame Demon is a big boss, casualties among the Lords are inevitable.

But such occurrences are more beneficial than harmful.

Even Zong Shen could absolutely not eliminate the Flame Demon Boss alone.

However, with his current territory strength, it is conservatively estimated that he can handle at least 20% of the life value.

The most crucial are the first strike and the last strike, which are two key rewards.

With more people, luck comes into play.

Especially the first strike, where luck outweighs strength.

However, Zong Shen still has some confidence in contending for the last strike.

This is highly related to output capability; the strongest output has the best chance to secure the last strike.

These are not major problems.

After pondering for a while, the time stop state ended.

Zong Shen quickly turned and walked into the passage he came through, taking out a Communication Crystal to contact Marie.

The communication was quickly connected.

Marie had just handled the issues in Sitanos yesterday.

She had taken the Dinar belonging to Master Mars over, and by the way, discussed the matter of the large pasture.

Meanwhile, she also procured a batch of food for the territory.

Currently, the food has not yet been exhausted, this is just precautionary.

According to Zong Shen’s plan and instructions, the territory must always maintain more than half a month’s worth of food.

And in recent days, an additional three to four hundred refugees have arrived, who need to eat.

The daily food consumption levels of the territory have increased again.

As for now, Marie is busy with a new round of construction within the territory.

Zong Shen immediately informed Marie about the Heat Wave Challenge and the rules.

And instructed her to start preparations immediately!

First is the water source issue, urgently construct three to eight water cellars, and fill them.

Then additionally construct several [Tier Three Cellars], and reserve some water in them.

Bring the Frost Raven for emergency freezing.

This will be used as an emergency cooling chamber.

The original frost cellar for food storage also needs to be refrozen quickly.

Add some ice blocks in, to ensure that it can last through the three-day scorching period.

In addition to the above preparations, he also instructed Marie to construct the [Low-Temperature Cold Storage Construction Blueprint (Blue)].

This is a one-design, one-building construction, specifically for cold storage.

The territory is currently not lacking in Ice Element Magic Gemstones, and there are enough Water Runes and Basic Magic Cores, fully capable of building it.

The cellar’s capacity was already running low, half of the food can be transferred to the cold storage, which is also a type of insurance measure.

After all, a professional cold storage building is much more reliable than a temporarily frozen cellar’s cold storage.

These are critical issues, the rest are relatively easy to solve.

The territory is not short of food, even if farming has not yet been fully carried out, with the Dinar in hand, he can easily purchase a large quantity of food.

Finally, he instructed Marie to tell Hoy to go to the [Market] to purchase items that can reduce temperatures.

Whether they are magic items or other frost-related items.

In any case, as long as it is related to cooling, do not miss it.

Although the effect of frost magic will be greatly weakened, Zong Shen will not give up this aspect of preparation.

Even if only 50%, or even 40% effectiveness remains, it is still worth it.

After arranging these preparations, Zong Shen also communicated with Jiang Yi.

To understand the development situation of the Legion.

Because the announcement has already appeared, there’s no further need to notify.

Since the Legion 1.1 rule opened, the number of Legion members is nearing the limit.

The limit for a first-level Legion is 120 people, now there are 112 people.