Not having to wait for long, Zhou Zhou confirmed the proper execution of his lord talents.
[Your subject, Qin We has killed a Black iron-tier advance grade flame demon wolf. Promotion energy +40! Loots condensed!]
[Blessing of the War God: Your subject, Qin We has obtained an additional 160 promotion energy!]
[Phantom Cage: 200 Promotion energy has been obtained from your subject!]
"It could actually make a Black iron-tier kill compete with a White silver-tier kill!"
Couldn't help but be shocked after really seeing the effect of the lord talent.
"I'm glad it wasn't someone's lord talent, I wouldn't have fared well if I come against that person."
He muttered as rows of notifications repeatedly flashed across his view.
The only ones that stayed in his view were those he wished to read.
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"I'm beginning to get bored at how easy it is to clear the missions."
Stepping out of the Time Ruin, Huang Sai complained.
"Maybe you should give yourself a goal to keep it interesting."
"Something like clearing the flame demon wolves in 30 seconds."
Sun Can looked at his sparring partner as he said.
"That's impossible!"
"I can't cover the entire town in 30 seconds."
Huang Sai shook his head.
"If you can't think of it, you can't have it."
"Lu Chong and the other heroes will be able to do it in less than 30 seconds."
Sun Can said to the archer.
"What do you expect, they're legendary heroes."
Huang Sai defended his words.
"Then, take the missions in the Time Ruin as a grinding path to achieve a hero statue."
"Perception can determine how much effort you're willing to put to achieve a goal."
Sun Can said before sensing several gazes on him.
"What is it?"
He asked his companions staring at him.
"Were you by any means a philosopher before becoming a crossbow user?"
Qin We asked.
"No."
"Don't tell me you asked because of what I said to Huang Sai?"
Sun Can couldn't believe this dude.
"Of course."
"I rarely see a person who uses such words."
Qin We said as he kept up with Zhang Xiang.
"The lord left early today... I wonder why."
Huang Sai said with his gaze roaming from Qin We all the way to Zhang Xiang.
"Didn't you sense the massive amount of promotion energy after every kill?"
"I didn't experience something like that when slaughtering the fog monsters in the monster ranch yesterday."
"The lord must have just wanted to confirm that before leaving."
Zhang Xiang said to Huang Sai.
"Something like that happened?"
"I didn't sense anything."
Huang Sai was surprised.
"You must have sensed it due to you being a hero."
"I also didn't sense anything."
Sun Can said.
"So, promotion energy can be sensed."
"I had no idea."
Qin We was also surprised.
"We should hurry up; the lord must be waiting for us."
Zhang Xiang said.
...
"My lord, did you do anything to the city?"
Responding to Zhou Zhou's summon, Ashburn politely asked him the question in regards to his thought.
"Why are you asking?"
Not having a concrete clue of how much Leonardo da Vinci's influence would be on his subjects, Zhou Zhou responded with a question.
"Well, my team and I were suddenly able to solve problems that we couldn't even understand just yesterday."
"I don't think manufacturing the train would take as much as we estimated."
Ashburn conveyed to Zhou Zhou.
"That's excellent."
"As for such a sudden influx of knowledge, just attribute to lady luck smiling at us."
Zhou Zhou said to the gnome before inquiring about the specifics of the train's progress.
Moving from one profession outpost to the other, Zhou Zhou was excited after learning how much impact the statue effect of Da Vinci had on his city and its subjects.
"As usual, having a higher skill set will always be the best choice."
He muttered after seeing the impact Da Vinci's had on the only lifestyle professional hero in his city, Zhao Changshou.
"I have a feeling that I would complete the blueprint within a short period of time."
The architect revealed to his lord.
'What takes countless generations to form would be created in a short period of time?'
Zhou Zhou was in disbelief at the effect of the combination between a lifestyle hero inheritance and a genius way ahead of his time.
Suppressing his emotion, he asked Zhao Changshou about Yue Jing and his summons.
"The ant colony has indeed played a huge role in the rapid pace at which we construct the infrastructures in the city."
"Logistics is thoroughly covered by Yue Jing and his summons, leaving the architects to solely focus on building."
Zhao Changshou said, praising the Diamond-tier advance grade summoner and his ant colony.
"That's good."
"Only by giving our bests will we progress together at a considerable pace."
Dropping those words, Zhou Zhou called a meeting with the soldiers of his first army in preparation of the myriad lord event tomorrow.
Choosing to hold the meeting in the military base rather than his mansion, he said to them.
"We'll be having another challenge from the Supreme Will tomorrow, which means there's a possibility one or more of you will get hurt if you aren't careful."
"To be on the safe side, I will increase the strength level of those of you who still have room to advance to the Yellow gold-tier elementary stage."
"As for you four, you might only play a supportive role during the challenge."
Looking at Hui Teng, Huang Sai, Qin We and Sun Can, he made sure they were aware of their shortcomings.
Avoiding Zhou Zhou's gaze, they all stared at their squeezed fists resting on their thighs.
"Let's begin."
"Zhang Xiang, step forward."
Beginning from the weakest amongst his heroes, he called out the cavalryman.
Compared to Lu Chong, Monica and Bai Yung who got Epic-tier hero inheritances, Zhang Xiang got the commander-type hero inheritance at the Extraordinary-tier.
Summoned as a Green bronze-tier elementary grade cavalryman, he needed 297,000 promotion energy to advance to the Yellow gold-tier.
'The difference between a kingdom-tier combatant and an empire-tier combatant is too huge.'
Zhou Zhou thought as he calculated the amount of promotion energy needed to advance the other heroes to the Yellow gold-tier.
Surprisingly, for the divine-tier soldiers, it difference with the empire-tier was only twice as much despite the insurmountable gap between them.
'It will take only an abnormality like Lu Chong to bridge that gap with the help of his law skill.'
Keeping his gaze at the amount of promotion energy stored in his phantom cage, he began transferring promotion energy to Zhang Xiang.
[Promotion Energy: 16,736,549 | 10,000,000]
At exactly [16,439,549], he stopped transferring promotion energy to Zhang Xiang.
Breaking through as soon he stopped receiving any more promotion energy, Zhang Xiang quickly calmed the surging energy in his body.
"Powerful!"
Sensing the increase in his strength, the cavalry hero exclaimed.
Leaving the stage, a new name was mentioned.
It was the blood fire arrow elf - Monica.
Having previously increased her strength to the White silver-tier advance grade, Zhou Zhou still had to fork out 1,600,000 in order to take her promotion energy to 3,000,000.
'I guess this is what you call suffering from enjoyment.'
He mused as he watched his promotion energy drop to [14,839,549].
Next on the list was the carefree hero, Bai Yung.
Having just 42,000 promotion energy, he needed a freaking 2,958,000 promotion energy to reach the Yellow gold-tier elementary grade.
At the moment of Bai Yung's breakthrough, Zhou Zhou had [11,881,549] promotion energy left.
After Bai Yung came Maris.
'I'm glad I raised his promotion energy to the peak of the White silver-tier.'
Zhou Zhou thought as he transferred just 1 promotion energy for the soul reaper to achieve his breakthrough.
And having paid his debt to Thanatos in advance, Maris could advance his strength to the Yellow gold-tier advance grade.
Replacing Maris, Aegon prepared for his and Nezario's advancement.
With the both of them linked, they didn't have to receive separate promotion energy in order to advance.
Raising Aegon's promotion energy to 6,000,000, Zhou Zhou spent a total of 3,254,032 promotion energy.
At the end, he was left with [8,627,516].
Finally, he called out his strongest soldier.
Happy that his law skill didn't affect the promotion energy he needed to advance, he gladly spent 2,987,997 promotion energy on the soldier.
Staring at the remaining 5,639,519 promotion energy, Blazing Sun decided to go all out.
He only stopped after transferring additional 5,400,000 promotion energy, raising Lu Chong strength level to the White platinum-tier intermediate grade.
Using the remaining 239,519 promotion energy on himself, he advanced his strength level to the Yellow gold-tier intermediate grade.
Enjoying the feeling of growing significantly stronger, he began anticipating the event.
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