A large distance away from Blazing Sun City
Qin We and Sun Can finalized their battle with a scattered group of 46 desert fog lizards.
"How's your progress in advancing your skill?"
Loading the corpses into one of the carts locked to his mechanostrider, Qin We asked the poison crossbow soldier.
"I'm still far from the intermediate tier. Even Huang Sai has given up on this class."
Going after the next corpse, Sun Can said.
"I doubt the sword shield soldiers would directly advance our skills to the intermediate tier. We'll likely level up our skill to the beginner tier before going after the intermediate tier."
Qin We sighed.
He was once again impressed by Lu Chong's feat.
"Although, it's difficult, the lord is right."
"Increasing our grade isn't the best way to increase our combat strength. Rather, it will make us useless in the face of any higher tier of soldier or being."
He said.
"That's right."
Sun Can nodded in agreement.
Half an hour later
Blazing Sun City
Zhou Zhou headed to the lord's wooden house and first extracted the loot from Zheng Huaiba's corpse.
The loots were not of much value except for the archer class change certificate and the most important 6 Black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments.
"Huang Sai's luck is terrifying. He wouldn't have to practice from scratch anymore."
"He can have the basic skills of an archer with this class change certificate."
He smiled before focusing on the 6 black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments.
He took out the 6 new black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments and the 8 black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments he had obtained from the black-tailed fog scorpion leader previously.
Then, he put them all together.
A hazy black iron light appeared.
At the same time
A line of golden words also appeared.
[10 black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments are discovered. Do you want to fuse them into a black iron-tier lord talent origin divine crystal?]
"Yes!"
Zhou Zhou was filled with anticipation.
The next second
A black iron light flashed.
A thumb-sized hexagonal black iron crystal appeared in front of him.
It was surrounded by a black iron light belt that was like a ring of stars.
It looked quite magical.
Beside him were the remaining 4 Black iron-tier lord talent crystal fragments.
Zhou Zhou picked up the hexagonal black iron crystal.
A text notification appeared.
[Treasure Name: Lord Talent Origin Divine Crystal]
[Treasure Grade: Black iron-tier]
[Treasure Effect One: After absorbing it, the lord will randomly awaken a Black iron-tier lord talent!]
[Treasure Effect Two: Talent Advancement – Since this lord's talent origin divine crystal is Black iron-tier grade, it can't advance the other lord talents!]
[Do you want to absorb it?]
"Yes!"
Zhou Zhou immediately said.
The next second
This lord talent origin divine crystal immediately turned into countless black iron light spots and quickly entered into his glabella.
He subconsciously closed his eyes.
A moment later
Zhou Zhou opened his eyes.
The Black iron-tier lord talent origin divine crystal in his hand had completely disappeared.
Zhou Zhou's face lit up.
This was because he vaguely felt that he had grasped an extraordinary ability.
He immediately opened the Lord's personal information.
His lord talent column had already been updated again!
[Lord Talent: 100% Drop Rate (Legendary-tier), Gnome Alchemy Workshop (Green bronze-tier), Monster Ranch (White silver-tier), Phantom Cage (Black iron-tier)]
"Phantom Cage?"
Zhou Zhou studied this lord talent.
He opened the details of this lord talent curiously.
[Lord Talent: Phantom Cage (Black iron-tier)]
[Phantom Cage: During battle, the phantom cage talent is activated to seize the unabsorbed promotion energy.]
[Lord Talent Hint One: The lord talent can be activated by using yourself as a medium or any of your subjects.]
[Lord Talent Hint Two: If your subjects are in battle and a large distance away from you, the phantom cage can still be activated.]
[Lord Talent Hint Three: Range of the phantom cage is 2km. The range can increase with the growth of the lord talent's tier.]
[Lord Talent Hint Four: You can use the seized promotion energy to raise your strength or the strength of your combat professionals.]
[Lord Talent Hint Five: After acquiring the maximum amount of promotion energy containing in the phantom cage, you can make use of it to forcefully increase the potential of your combat professionals to the White platinum-tier advance grade. Storage: 0 / 1,000,000]
Zhou Zhou opened his mouth in shock.
There was actually such a talent in existence?
In addition, this was the first time he had seen so many lord talent notifications.
I no longer need to care about wasting the promotion energy even if Man Nao and Lu Chong who has reached their potentials kill an opponent.
And most importantly, the potentials of my combat professionals can be increased!
Then, he quickly thought of how to make use the lord talent.
I will inform the soldiers about the possibility of increasing their potentials, but this privilege will only be used after they've passed the criteria of owning an advance tier combat skill.
I'm sure with that, they'll be more motivated in advancing the tier of their combat skills.
…
The territory of the Dragon Lady
In front of the wyvern's nest
The Dragon Lady looked at the world channel in disbelief.
She couldn't understand why Blazing Sun would choose to antagonize almost half of the cerulean lords by killing a fellow lord.
'You might be strong, but that doesn't mean you can face more than 3 billion lords and their subjects alone.'
'It doesn't matter. Removing you would make it easier for me to be above the other lords.'
…
In an undead cemetery
1 Green bronze-tier elementary grade undead knight, 5 Black iron-tier advance grade zombie elites, 50 Black iron-tier intermediate grade ghosts, and 100 Black iron-tier elementary grade skeleton soldiers lingered.
In the middle of them was a coffin.
Jack, who was in the coffin, also saw what happened on the world channel.
"Interesting."
"You should all kill each other while I get the spoils of the battle."
His expression was cold, like a real corpse, but that only made his smile eerie.
…
'I will break the news of the chance to increase their potentials when Man Nao, Wu Tu, Qin We and Sun Can return.'
'But before that, it's time to upgrade the territory.'
Walking out of the lord's wooden house, Zhou Zhou looked at the building.
A line of text appeared a moment later.
[Do you want to upgrade the lord's wooden house?]
"Yes!"
He answered.
The next second
A golden light covered the entire lord's wooden house.
The long-awaited upgrade had begun.
..
A moment later
The golden light that covered the lord's wooden house dissipated.
Zhou Zhou looked over.
Not only was the lord's wooden house much larger and more exquisite than before, there was also a small courtyard surrounded by stone walls.
A series of text notifications appeared.
[Congratulations, your lord's wooden house has been upgraded to a Green bronze-tier elementary grade building. It has been upgraded to a lord's courtyard. There is an additional courtyard!]
[Your territory has been upgraded to a Green bronze-tier elementary grade territory!]
[Territory Token Durability: 20,000 / 20,000!]
[Territory: 5,000m × 5,000m]
[All fog monsters within the territory of the new territory have been expelled!]
[Scarlet fog will not appear in any of your territories!]
[You have received an upgrade reward: Wall Blueprint (Green bronze-tier elementary grade)!]
[Lord Talent Hint: The potential of your combat professionals can be increased to the Diamond-tier advance grade. Storage: 0 / 3,000,000.]
[Lord Talent Hint: Your monster ranch can be upgraded!]
Before Zhou Zhou could react, three rows of familiar golden text suddenly appeared in front of him.
It also appeared in front of billions of cerulean planet lords.
[Cerulean Planet World Channel Announcement: Congratulations to Blazing Sun in becoming the first cerulean planet lord to upgrade his territory to the Green bronze-tier elementary grade. Rewards: Supreme Treasure Chest +1, Reputation Rating +1, Unique Title of the Race: Glory of the Pioneer I!]
[Cerulean Planet World Channel Announcement: Congratulations to Blazing Sun…]
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