Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Basic Gifts (Please bookmark and like ~!)_1
Translator: 549690339
The Baijiang Tenglong Group was filled with an incessant stream of alerts.
The newcomers were all expressing their relief and excitement about surviving the calamity.
He saw that the Liver Emperor had excellent merit and his territory had been largely preserved intact.
Mr. Tan had even reached his expected goal and made it into the top hundred of the rankings, albeit he was in 99th place, still it counted as top hundred.
This was a great honor.
Upon seeing this, Lord Shepherd immediately sent his congratulations.
However, the group did not have much of a joyful atmosphere, as two of the new Lord had tragically died in the trials.
“This is the trial.”
“And it’s just the beginning.”
“To an official Lord, the Eternal Continent is still a place full of crises, requiring constant vigilance.”
Mu Yuan reminded himself quietly that since he had started this path, he just had to keep going, stride by stride, striving to become the strongest, before he could secure a peaceful existence.
He stepped out of the Mage Tower, facing the bright daylight and strode forward.
“Trudge, trudge-”
“Heave, heave-”
The newly resurrected Skeleton Warriors soon threw themselves into their busy work.
They stripped off usable armors and picked up the scattered Soul Sand.
They also purified and burned the worthless monster corpses.
Mu Yuan also had lots to do.
He kept checking for omissions everywhere, constantly prepared for the monsters’ potential onslaught.
“Where did the last monster tide come from all of a sudden?”
Soon,
through the Hurricane War Hawk, he discovered a huge pit just two or three kilometers away from his territory.
The pit was deep and seemed to lead to the underground.
Mu Yuan couldn’t help suspecting that the enemies came from below ground.
However, now was not the time to explore and linger over this. He went forward to take stock of the losses.
Some of his troops had unfortunately perished.
Three Silver Slimes, an Imperial Guard, and a Strong Shooter.
Many Skeleton Warriors had died too, at least several dozens in total. This is where the preciousness of the ability, Undead Resurrection, truly showed itself. It was a justifiable divine skill.
“Defensive buildings like the Thunder Magnetic Coil Tower, consumed about four Soul Crystals during the trial…Most of it was used in the final battle.”
“Emperor Dead Bone’s Death Corps took an even bigger toll, consuming the energy of 5 Soul Crystals all at once. According to him, this wasn’t even its limit.”
“Other expenses, such as the recovery of the troops, repair of the equipment, etc., also consumed three to four Soul Crystals.”
War really did consume Soul Crystals.
He hadn’t even accounted for the cost of repairing the buildings in his territory.
But the more one spends, the more one earns. This battle was like a meat grinder, and Mu Yuan had lost count of the number of monsters that had been eliminated in the Tianyuan Territory.
“Under the influence of the red mist, monsters became crazy, as though their potential was squeezed out, resulting in a lower drop-rate, but even so, the huge quantity poses a significant…”
“Report to the Lord, Duo Lai found lots of food… lots of Soul Sand and Remnant Souls-1‘
Captain Duo Lai, now in human form, dragged a huge bundle to assure he didn’t taste any.
He counted on his fingers and said:
“There are about six Soul Crystals, as for Remnant Souls… there are one hundred… one hundred and twenty-seven Random Remnant Souls, thirty-six One-Star Remnant Souls, forty-nine Two-Star Remnant Souls, seventeen Three-Star Remnant Souls.”
“And four Rare-Level Remnant Souls.”
“However, it seems that a lot of Soul Sand fell into the cracks. What a loss! No! I have to turn these places over again to find them!”
With that said, Duo Lai dropped the bundle and rushed out to continue digging the earth.
Mu Yuan roughly calculated his income, he wasn’t sure about the other territories, but he was definitely making a profit.
For other lords, there was no loss as they greatly profited by acquiring the ‘Formal Lord Identity’.
Furthermore, they were given gifts from the Eternal World after passing the trials.
“Ding-!”
He murmured softly.
As expected, the notification sound rang out.
‘Prompt: Your territory ‘Tianyuan Territory’ has passed the trial, promoted to a level one territory, unlocking the formal Lord, formal territory abilities which include Lord’s Power and construction list, the details are for you to explore.’
‘Prompt: You have passed the trial and received a gift from the Eternal World.1
Light descended, just like when purifying the Root of Corruption.
Within the light, several precious objects took shape.
Some Soul Crystals; two special…self-assignable Rare One-Star Remnant Souls marked ‘Bound’; three similarly bound types of Breakthrough Material;
The gifts were modest, after all, they were rewards that newbie Lords could receive.
To most of the new lords, the two Rare Remnant Souls were already quite precious… most of the new lords did not even have a rare troop at this time.
But the gifts didn’t stop there.
First there were physical gifts, then warm celestial light fell, blessing the various types of soldiers in the territory.
The smallest in Tianyuan territory, a LV1 Little Skeleton, advanced two levels in the light.
Others that were slightly higher, like the LV4, LV5 ghosts, also advanced two levels.
The LV8 Hong Yi, the LV8 Seventeen, Lu Liu, and those who had ranks like Bone Five, Bone Six, etc. overflowed with experience in the gift of light, however, they couldn’t store the excess experience, which was a little disappointing.
Emperor Dead Bone, Jun, Bone Two, and other skeletons were all promoted to ‘First-order professional Level 3’.
As for Captain Duo Lai, who had held the highest level in Tianyuan Territory since early on with First-Order Professional Level 3, he directly shot to level 6.
It seemed that the higher the level, the bigger the reward.
If the trials had resulted in heavy losses of soldiers, then they would stand to lose during this phase. But no matter the losses, once the Lords survived the trials it was like a fish leaping through the Dragon’s Gate, now they were free to roam beneath the sky.
The soldiers received upgrades, and of course the Lords did too, and even more so.
Soon, a brighter milky white light column fell upon Mu Yuan. He was completely covered, as if bathing in a hot spring, his body was warm, his pores opened, and the warm essence energy seeped into his body.
The ‘crack’ sound echoed,
as if a barrier had broken, the energy inside Mu Yuan’s body suddenly burst out. It had transformed from a thin stream into a bubbling torrent about three fingers wide, showing signs of forming a circle.
Both the output of energy and the recovery of energy were several times higher than before.
It was also much easier to wield this power, like a weapon that had been heavy in his hands suddenly became light. Many advanced techniques that he had only understood in theory previously, felt attainable now.
Smooth! Transparent!
Unparalleled!
“Is this what the realm of First-Order Profession Level feels like? Simply describing it is far from enough to showcase its profundity.”
As the light faded, Mu Yuan closed his eyes to experience it for a while before his eyes sprang open.
Stretching his hand out straight and clinching his fist, his power surged along his meridians, inflating his sleeves as if buffeted by a storm.
A tiny white light appeared in the centre of his palm, almost like an energy cannon, and it shot out with a bang, leaving a small crater in the ground.
If he had not been skill-less, Lord Shepherd could have easily handled Bone Two or Bone Three.
But being skill-less was not a problem.
He was now a Formal Lord, and soon he would be able to wield the Power of the Lord.
With the basic gifts now complete, expansion of the newly promoted territory began.
Under the Lord’s gaze, the mist on the boundary receded inch by inch symbolizing the expansion of Tianyuan Territory.
It spread over the main battlefield, extending further to the desolate wasteland, the huge pits filled with corpses, the small woodland that seemed devastated by a tornado, the undulating hills, the burbling stream…
All these scenes were vividly reflected in the Lord’s sight.
He now had ample territory for planning and construction.
At this point, the names of the territories on the Trial Golden List, which hung high in the sky, started to disappear one after the other from the bottom.
The extra gifts from the Golden List began to drop, one after the other..