CHAPTER 270: CHAPTER 115: ENEMIES OF THE WORLD AND SUPPRESSING AN ERA - PART 2

Catherine Roy: "Damn!"

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Auntie Thirty: "What are you guys doing? Too much money to burn, just for shouting ’damn’?"

Ye Manxue: "Look at the leaderboard, it’s making my scalp tingle."

Death God’s Eagle: Dark Castle: "Damn, is there something wrong with this damn leaderboard? The numbers must be glitched!"

Quinn Constantine: "I still haven’t figured out how many digits there are! The gap is massive."

Excellent Coder Li Hehe: "I’ve heard folks in the west of the Federation are bad at math, but I didn’t think they’d be this dumb. A War God follower, only knowing to swing a big sword, can’t count beyond ten fingers."

Sano Hinata: "What’s dumber is someone still wants a life-or-death duel with Lin Rui, right? @Noesen Moonlight Forest."

Qin Mo: Sin City: "@Noesen Moonlight Forest! Stop pretending to be dead silent. Don’t tell me you’re sleeping too. That’s too cliché."

Yekaterina: Ice City: "Stop squabbling like a bunch of horny rabid hounds! Can we calm down a bit? The real issue is what the hell is up with Lin Rui? Are we just going to let him control our lives and deaths like this? We might be forced onto the battlefield unprepared any time."

Noesen Moonlight Forest: "Exactly, we need to unite against a common enemy! The most worrying scenario is being suddenly conscripted for war, two or three days earlier than expected, utterly disrupting all of our careful plans and preparations."

Dongqing Xue: "Uh... speaking as someone weak, before you all join forces against him, have you considered that everyone’s total scores on the leaderboard don’t even add up to a fraction of Lin Rui’s?"

That one sentence instantly silenced the entire civilization channel.

Most who can speak in the civilization channel are top ten thousand leaders of the leaderboard. The pointedness of that sentence is just too strong; it’s almost like saying, "I’m not targeting anyone specifically, but I mean all of you here are trash!"

Even if the whole world were against him, Lin Rui could still subdue an entire era!

Lin Rui swiftly glanced over the chatter and then closed the civilization channel. If it were an internal conflict among Explorers, even if Wutong is inconveniently involved, Lin Rui still has some confidence.

But if various world powers get involved, should a Count, Duke, or even Elector cast greedy eyes upon them, Lin Rui would not only have to deal with dragons’ claws on Bloodbath Mountain and the Green Tide calamity of Blood Maple Forest, but also worry about insidious plots from the Empire’s rear.

Indeed, as the saying goes, as long as Saints aren’t dead, thieves never rest. The arrival of a Holy Spirit Level was both the territory’s glory and the beginning of misfortune.

Before this, Lin Rui had never thought that the usually lucky Golden Pansy Domain would find itself facing a world of enemies.

Fortunately, the luck of the Golden Pansy Domain is still shining bright, and Wutong, being a level 0 Saint, still can’t contend with the powerful Main Goddess of Fortune.

Luck shines on all aspects of the clan. Sterling along with other knights cleaned the battle gains from a heap of corpses and respectfully presented them to Lin Rui.

Just now, Audrey had shown them the outcome of being reckless in front of the Empress at the cost of her own life.

Under Wutong’s noble demeanor, they were meticulous, at last revealing the training effects of the [Territory Guard Castle], behaving even more like Imperial Guards than the Black Banner Guard.

[Ding, obtained Valkyrie’s Awakening Chapter.]

[Valkyrie’s Awakening Chapter: With a frail body, you crushed a powerful Celestial Kingdom armed force head-on. Your bravery and skill caught the attention of the gods. The Awakening Chapter of the Heroic Spirit Hall is bestowed upon you as honor. Upon use, a squad of Elite-level soldiers can awaken a Heroic Spirit Soul and advance to Heroic Spirit Level. (Note: This item can only be used once, for the same type of troop)]

This is shockingly powerful. After all, Golden Pansy Domain had just personally experienced a massive elite assault and the ensuing grim outcome.

And Lin Rui, gazing at the lonely Wutong, is more determined than ever to strengthen the military power of the territory. If even the terrifying power of a Holy Spirit Level can’t prevent such tragedies, Golden Pansy Domain must build an unparalleled army to avoid repeating history. Losing all close ones is something that should happen only once!

Although... Audrey died twice. Hopefully, she learns from this, stops being so reckless, and becomes a bit more restrained.

The maximum benefit from [Valkyrie’s Awakening Chapter] is to gather a full squad of soldiers before using it, so Lin Rui stored it away and turned to another item.

This particular item Lin Rui is quite familiar with, [Sacred Treasure: Celestial Kingdom Armament: Extreme Battle Banner], bestows the commanding army with 50% Divine Damage, and 30% Fixed Damage Reduction.

Sacred Treasures, their value speaks for itself; they’re ultimate strategic treasures usable from the beginning to the Divine Kingdom. Even in plane wars, world conquest battles, battlefields with hundreds of thousands or millions, they still influence the course of battle.

The number of flags for the Golden Pansy Clan’s army is a bit low. Counting the Wild Battle Banner, there’s a mere five flags in total. The Undead Army has hundreds of troops holding a single flag, which is quite shabby actually.

But compared to the motley crowd without any flags and the Green Tide, even a single flag indicates a bona fide professional army.

Besides these two items, nothing else was dropped.

This Templar Order was empowered by the Celestial Armament of the God of Light to forcibly elevate their prowess above Tier Five. As part of Celestial Armament, their drop rate is considered a whole, so even though fewer items were dropped, they are still regiment-level rewards, making them actually more plentiful.

Just the [Valkyrie’s Awakening Chapter] alone can indicate just how much enhancement it brings. If Golden Pansy Domain were to individually gather Heroic Spirit Level soldiers, it would take several years to assemble a squad, even with the Goddess of Fortune’s blessings. In the past, the clan invested enormous wealth, over two cycles’ time, and only managed three Heroic Spirit Level soldiers.

Now the issue is where Lin Rui will find one squad of Elite-level or above same-type soldiers.

The main combat troop types of the territory are actually just four: one is the Heavy Halberd Guard [Black Banner Guard], another is the Heavy Elite Assault Legion [Sun Flame Knight], a Melee Output Core [Dawn Fanatic], and a troop of Priestesses [Crimson Chalice]. Other troop types are a few and not yet formed, especially the Mage Corps of the [Imperial Dawn Legion] which is still under construction, not to mention the elite-level mages not even forming half a squad yet.

Troop selection can only be among these four types.

The choice considered, Lin Rui leaned toward the [Sun Flame Knight], which aligns better with his combat strategies.

His combat strategy involves a squad breaking through a front line, causing its defenses to collapse, with the Sun Flame Knight and Dawn Fanatic as the only squads capable of such an effect.

But the Dawn Fanatics are too fragile without additional support; a squad of them could be decimated quickly, so this strategy is better suited for the Sun Flame Knights.

The remaining issue is how to gather enough Elite-level Knight’s Hearts to form a squad of Sun Flame Knights.

With Terion and others leading soldiers to clear the surrounding territory, and the Goddess of Fortune’s strong protection, they should be able to collect some in the coming days.

Lin Rui remains quite optimistic; perhaps it won’t be long before they have a Heroic Spirit Level Legion! Before the next major battle, they must find a place to bolster the ranks of the territorial soldiers’ levels!

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