The Supreme Will's expectation is for a new lord to defeat 100 monsters below the Green bronze-tier after 7 days of development.
Zhou Zhou thought as he opened the novice lord ranking.
[Blazing Sun: 1st]
"Seems I'm finally at the top."
He smiled as he stared at the total number of pages below.
[1 / 75,011,542 (page)]
5 million pages gone. That means at least 500 million lords failed to become official lords.
What a waste of lord talent crystals.
He thought before going through the world channel.
Surprisingly, there was no lord on the world channel.
"For the first time ever, the world channel is as quiet as a ghost town."
Zhou Zhou muttered as he watched the empty space ahead.
'Will this be the future after I kill every one of them and absorb their lord talent crystals?'
'Can... Can I endure such silence?'
He thought as his desire to kill every cerulean lord began wavering.
"Sigh. I guess sometimes you can't just endure the consequences of the future you so much desire."
Blazing Sun made his choice.
The cerulean lords would no longer go extinct by his hands.
"They should all be glad my soldiers were too strong. If they weren't, I wouldn't have noticed such a scene."
He mumbled as he opened the 6th treasure chest:
5 Green bronze-tier basic resource packs!
3 Green bronze-tier mist core big gift bags!
5 Gradeless basic military profession change certificate big gift bags!
5 Black iron-tier advance grade basic military recruitment books big gift bags!
5 Black iron-tier advance grade lifestyle professionals recruitment books big gift bags!
3 Gradeless beginner soldier class change certificate big gift bags!
3 Gradeless beginner soldier recruitment book big gift bags!
Opening the big gift bags, he kept the class change certificates for military professionals and the recruitment books for lifestyle professionals.
As for the recruitment books for military professionals, he handed the 3 cavalrymen recruitment books, the 3 crossbow soldier recruitment books, 2 scout recruitment book and 2 musketeer recruitment book to Qin We.
He would add a scout and a musketeer to his reserved team.
Bringing his attention to his other rewards, he checked out his reputation rating point.
"At first place, with a reputation rating of 5 points."
He muttered as he found himself with 4 points above those in the 2nd place.
Moving to the next reward, he checked out the lord's blessing— supreme barrier.
Zhou Zhou found it in his skill panel.
[Skill Name: Lord's blessing— Supreme barrier]
[Skill Quality: Special]
[Skill Description: An official lord's exclusive skill! Every time a lord conquers a city or builds a city, a supreme barrier will automatically rise in the city after the lord agrees to it, to prevent the scarlet fog from invading the territory.]
[The lord can close the supreme barrier of any territory at any time.]
"So, a novice lord protective barrier that only works against the scarlet fog, and not against an enemy breaking in."
"I guess it has its uses."
Activating the skill, a golden square light barrier rose from the ground in the distance before enveloping the entirety of Blazing Sun City.
"Nice aesthetics, though."
He muttered before checking out the next reward on his list; the battle resurrection scroll.
[Item Name: Battle Resurrection Scroll]
[Item Grade: Special]
[Item Effect: All living beings that die in a battle can be revived upon use.]
The Supreme Will really do care for the lords that passed the novice lord test.
With this scroll, they can recover their military strength in preparation of the next lord test.
Blazing Sun mused.
Receiving an idea, he questioned the notifications in front of him.
"Can this battle resurrection scroll be used in the supreme challenge?"
The next second
A text notification appeared with an answer.
[Lord Hint: The supreme challenge can be considered a battle.]
Zhou Zhou smiled as the supreme challenge just got more interesting.
I can finally know the limit of my soldiers without starting all over again.
He mused.
Checking out the next reward, he once again held a potential advancement potion.
[Potion Name: Potential Advancement Potion]
[Potion Grade: Extraordinary-tier]
[Potion Effect: After consuming it, it can increase the potential of life forms below the Extraordinary-tier level to the potential of an advance grade Extraordinary-tier!]
"This will cover the advancement of Zhao Changshou."
Zhou Zhou nodded as the list of subjects to have their potential increased got reduced.
Finally left with the last reward other than the supreme challenge, he checked it out.
[Construction Blueprint Name: Imperial Ancestral Temple]
[Construction Blueprint Level: Special]
[Construction Blueprint Effect One – Ancestral Protection: Different types of statue of the human ancestors on cerulean planet can provide various buffs to territories, subjects, and lords after settling into the statue of the human ancestors on cerulean planet.]
[Construction Blueprint Effect Two – Ancestral Blessing: The lord will go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to worship the ancestors before each big battle. There is a chance of obtaining a random temporary war buff effect.]
[Construction Blueprint Effect Three: When lords and forces under them go out to hunt fog monsters, they will encounter fog monsters that have a very small chance of dropping the statue of the human ancestors of cerulean planet.]
[Special Note: If a lord is lucky, they can obtain the legacy of a God-tier Human Ancestor.]
Zhou Zhou's eyes lit up when he saw the last note.
"How powerful would a God-tier legacy be?"
He mumbled as he fantasized about obtaining the legacy of God-tier human ancestors like the Gods of Mount Olympus, Pangu, Nuwa, Shiva, Brahma, Amun Ra, Nephthys, Odin, Thor, Amaterasu and Inzanagi.
Bringing his lord back to reality, Bai Yung handed the 100 fog monsters over to him.
Extracting the loots from the fog monsters, he obtained:
421 Black iron-tier mist cores!
197 Black iron-tier basic resource packs!
10 Gradeless basic military profession change certificates!
22 Gradeless basic military profession change certificate big gift bags!
10 Black iron-tier advance grade basic military recruitment books big gift bags!
30 Black iron-tier advance grade lifestyle professionals recruitment books big gift bags!
Opening up the big gift bags of the military recruitments books and the lifestyle recruitment books, he obtained 50 military professionals recruitment books and 180 lifestyle professionals recruitment books.
'My lord talent is freaking awesome!'
Zhou Zhou held himself back from screaming as he saw the large amount of lifestyle professional's recruitment books in his spatial ring.
Giving the entire 50 military professionals recruitment books to Qin We, he waited for him to take care of the recruits before sending Hui Teng to recruit the 425 lifestyle professionals using the lifestyle recruitment books gotten since the beginning of the novice lord test.
The city is just short of 156 subjects before we clock a population of 1,000 subjects.
He thought excitedly.
He wasn't excited because he almost close to a thousand subjects, but because almost 95% of those subjects were lifestyle professionals.
"Industrialization requires so many hands on deck."
"What I did to my soldiers won't work in creating a paradise of impossibilities."
He muttered as the over 70 architects began to assist Zhao Changshou to build the road networks in the city.
With nothing worth doing within the next 2 hours and 30 minutes, he and his soldiers headed back into the city to get some rest.
2 hours and 29 minutes later.
Sitting on his stone throne, Zhou Zhou had a blood colored text in front of him.
[Would you like to take on the supreme challenge as an official lord?]
"Yes!"
He said without hesitation.
Rumble!
Just as Zhou Zhou chose to accept the supreme challenge, a thick scarlet fog quickly spread outside the supreme barrier and the White platinum-tier defensive barrier of Blazing Sun City.
The surroundings turned scarlet as crimson lightning continuously flashed and exploded.
The subjects of Blazing Sun City were dumbfounded when they saw the changes in the weather.
Fear appeared in the eyes of many subjects.
Zhou Zhou looked at this scene thoughtfully.
He also felt a sense of oppression, and of confusion.
"Is this really a challenge from the Supreme Will? Or a challenge from the Crimson Overlord?"
He complained in his heart.
At this moment, a line of notifications appeared in front of him again.
[Supreme Will Notification: In 10 minutes, the chosen scarlet lords from the Crimson Overlord will launch more siege battles against the lords who have accepted the supreme challenge. Please be prepared!]
[Supreme Challenge Rule One: All the forces under the lord can recover to their peak state after every round of the supreme challenge ends, as long as the lord is still alive. Some of the battle losses can also be restored!]
[Supreme Challenge Rule Two: The lord has the right to withdraw from the supreme challenge before the next round begins after every round.]
"It's really a challenge from the Crimson Overlord."
The corners of Zhou Zhou's mouth twitched at the sight of the notifications.
"That must be the reason the Supreme Will made the rules favorable for the lords."
"I guess we're now useful enough to have a chance to live."
"You are this King's opponent?"
At this moment, a hoarse and deep voice sounded.
The voice seemed to come from all directions and its tone was filled with arrogance.
Zhou Zhou's eyes narrowed as he sensed danger.
The hands of Bai Yung and Qin We tightened against their weapons as they sensed the threat from booming voice.
Having the physique of a kingdom-tier giant, they could accurately sense the might of the self-proclaimed king.
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