An Army Soul Troops, once it reached a thousand soldiers, crossed a threshold. It meant that the army soul of that troop had advanced from the "prototype level" into the "complete level," greatly increasing the amplification abilities granted by the army soul and deriving abilities suited to the troop's characteristics.
The gap between a complete-level Army Soul Troops and a prototype-level troop was enormous.
The saying passed among lords that a "Mortal Realm lord" could command a troop to fight against a Legendary Realm existence referred specifically to a complete-level Army Soul Troops. Every genuine Army Soul Troops had endured countless wars of blood and fire. They had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, earning fearsome might and resounding reputations.
They were the trump cards among trump cards, capable of intimidating countless monsters and slaughtering their way through monster tides.
When dealing with enormous monster tides or defending a city, such a trump-card troop could even play a greater role than a Legendary Realm existence.
Of course, if such an Army Soul Troops were commanded by a Legendary Realm general, it could naturally unleash power far greater than one plus one.
Shen Linglong could easily slay a monster of the Legendary Realm despite being newly advanced to that realm because she relied on the battle-hardened, fearsome "Unparalleled Linglong Troops" under her command.
Along with great strength came great expense. For a lord to nurture such a trump-card troop, he needed enormous financial resources to feed countless auxiliary materials to the Army Soul Prototype.
"Battle training and the investment of corresponding resources can both improve the Army Soul Prototype."
Materials could be bought with money, but Rare Troop Types were much harder to obtain. In particular, for a lord to establish an Army Soul Troops,