Loren's soaring mood quickly plummeted, but the next second it rose again.
"Ding~ Detected energy source—Ancient God Divinity, beginning to absorb power."
Can you not gasp for breath like that??
He felt like he was riding a roller coaster, his emotions surging up and down wildly.
He suddenly lowered his head to look at the crystal ball in his hand—the thing that had granted him the Demon Archduke bloodline turned out to be an Ancient God Divinity?
But before he could examine it further, the crystal ball shattered directly, turning into energy and vanishing into nothingness.
This Ancient God Divinity hadn't even warmed up in his hands before it was gone.
Loren felt his heart ache painfully.
"Ding~ Ancient God Divinity has been fused, beginning to analyze world rules. Rule analysis successful.
Rules fusing into the system... Fusion successful...
Lord System activated, obtained Lord Talent—Eye of Truth."
After the system prompt sounded, Loren's mind displayed his own attribute panel.
Gray Eagle Territory (Bound. Once the territory falls, the system will automatically self-destruct)
Level: Village-Town Grade
Lord: Loren Grant (Can view detailed attributes)
Special Attribute: Level Up (Soldiers who join the Gray Eagle Territory can gain monster-killing level-up function. The upper limit of levels depends on bloodline potential; higher potential means higher level cap.)
Defensive Structures: 1 Black Iron-grade Arrow Tower (Can be upgraded to Bronze-grade Arrow Tower)
1 Wooden City Wall (Can be upgraded to Gray Earth City Wall)
Living Structures: Lord's Manor, Blacksmith Shop
Residents: 110 people
Army: Humans (40) — 1 Silver-grade, 39 Bronze-grade.
Soul Power: 0
Evaluation: In the Endless Wasteland, only those adventurers dreaming of becoming lords would establish such a crude territory. Perhaps at the next Blood Moon Day, this territory will cease to exist.
After the Gray Eagle Territory's attributes appeared, a hint of joy flashed in Loren's eyes. Sacrificing one Divinity had finally activated the system.
He didn't get the chance to know how strong the Divinity was, but the system was definitely far more useful than a Divinity he didn't know how to use.
But after carefully reading the attribute panel a few times, the corner of Loren's mouth kept twitching.
Too shabby. The entire territory combined didn't even have two hundred people...
Simply ridiculous.
And what was even more fatal was that the system was bound to the territory—once the territory fell, the system would also be destroyed.
The Ancient God Divinity had already been devoured by the system. If the system disappeared too, he would really go crazy.
Although the territory's attributes were a bit poor, the system's functions were overwhelmingly powerful.
Especially the characteristic that anyone who joined the Gray Eagle Territory could gain monster-killing level-up—this was simply overpowered.
In the Nor Main Plane, ordinary lifeforms could only raise their levels through grueling hard training, but now his subordinates could level up by killing monsters—what was the difference between this and cheating...
The levels in the Nor Main Plane were divided into Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, with three more ranks above Platinum, but those were not something he could touch right now.
In the future, he could completely buy a batch of Black Iron-grade and Bronze-grade slave soldiers and raise them to Silver or even Gold grade.
Simply exhilarating.
But what was that Soul Power status bar?
Experience points?
Loren was a bit puzzled, but after studying it for a while without figuring anything out, his gaze shifted to another status bar.
Lord: Loren Grant (Can view detailed attributes)
With a thought, the next second, his personal attributes appeared before his eyes.
Loren Grant
Identity: Lord of Gray Eagle Territory, Descendant of the Purple Iris Flower Family
Lord Talent: Eye of Truth (Can observe the loyalty of subordinates)
Level: Silver Beginner
Bloodline: Purple Iris Flower Family Bloodline (A-grade, Awakened), Trait: Mental Fortitude (A-grade), Greatly improves mental resilience and soul strength, can immunize against mental spells below Rank 2.
Demon Archduke Bloodline (In the process of awakening)
Cultivation Technique:
Purple Iris Breathing Method (S-grade) Advantages: Primarily trains the mind/spirit. After cultivation, it will greatly strengthen the spirit, increase mental resilience. At later stages, it can immunize against mental shocks from spellcasters. When used in conjunction with corresponding skills, it can unleash powerful force.
Disadvantages: The Purple Iris Breathing Method provides insufficient physical training; full-force bursts can easily cause significant bodily damage.
Innate Skills: Steel-Breaking Slash (S-grade) — Can condense all mental power and focus the full strength of the body to erupt.
Storm Slash (S-grade, learnable at Gold grade) Armor-Piercing (S-grade, learnable at Platinum grade)
In the Nor Main Plane, if ordinary people wanted to increase their strength, they had to choose a breathing method to cultivate.
Breathing methods were graded into S, A, B, C, D five ranks; the higher the rank of the breathing method, the stronger it was.
The highest S-grade breathing methods were extremely precious, with harsh cultivation conditions—not only requiring massive amounts of magical potions but also extremely high talent. Usually only great nobles had the chance to learn them.
One of the conditions for cultivating the Purple Iris Breathing Method was—must have the bloodline of the Purple Iris Flower Family.
After cultivating an S-grade breathing method, the entire person would receive enormous improvements.
Loren's current mental power was more than ten times stronger than that of an ordinary Silver-grade warrior.
After glancing at the attribute panel, Loren carefully reviewed his memories again and found that his attributes were indeed exactly as the system displayed—no discrepancies whatsoever.
Especially the description of the Purple Iris Breathing Method was extremely detailed. This powerful S-grade breathing technique was the very foundation of the Purple Iris Flower Family.
The breathing method mainly trained mental power, allowing one to condense mental power into full-body strength and instantly erupt damage far exceeding one's grade.
He was currently Silver Beginner, but if he used the S-grade skill that came with the breathing method—Steel-Breaking Slash—he could erupt with Gold Beginner-level power. Extremely exaggerated.
Of course, the flaw of the Purple Iris Breathing Method was also obvious: insufficient physical training.
After using Steel-Breaking Slash, he would quickly fall into weakness. In other words, this was a high-burst cultivation method.
It could only sprint quickly, not endure long.
Unfortunately, his attributes did not show specific numerical values for strength, constitution, and other physical stats—he could only get a rough idea.
But no matter what, his current attributes could be called gorgeous: A-grade bloodline, S-grade breathing method, and an even stronger Demon Archduke bloodline in the process of awakening—this was practically no different from starting with a divine artifact gifted at the beginning.
Additionally, there was one Lord Talent that pleasantly surprised Loren—the Eye of Truth.
In the Nor Main Plane, there was no contract that could bind the loyalty of subordinates. There were far too many unruly and rebellious subordinates; countless lords had been killed due to betrayal by their own men.
Now being able to see the loyalty of subordinates directly eliminated one of the biggest headaches all lords faced.
It was simply perfect for him.
But just as he was about to delve deeper into what other functions the system had,
the system's mechanical prompt sounded again.
"Ding~ Mission triggered: First Pot of Gold.
You, currently penniless, urgently need a massive sum of funds as investment to restart the territory.
Mission Objective: Earn 10 million puke within three days.
Mission Reward: Activate the Demon Archduke bloodline."
System mission??
Earn ten million in three days??
And the reward is activating the Demon Archduke bloodline?!
Loren felt his heart suddenly beat much faster.
As a being feared by everyone, existing only in myths and legends—the Demon Archduke—how powerful exactly was unknown.
And he was about to become the new generation's Demon Archduke.
The legendary Dark Sovereign.