First Pot of Gold: Earn Ten Million in Three Days

Loren's soaring mood quickly plummeted, only to rise again the next second.

"Ding~ Energy source detected—Ancient God's Divinity. Beginning power absorption."

Could it stop being so dramatic??

He felt as if he were on a roller coaster, his emotions rising and falling wildly.

He abruptly lowered his head to look at the Crystal Ball in his hand. The thing that had given him the Archdemon Bloodline was actually an Ancient God's Divinity?

But before he could inspect it further, the Crystal Ball shattered directly, turning into energy and vanishing into nothingness.

The Ancient God's Divinity was gone before he had even had time to warm it in his hands.

Loren's heart ached.

"Ding~ Ancient God's Divinity fused. Beginning analysis of world rules. Rule analysis successful.

Integrating rules into the system. Integration successful.

Lord System activated. Lord talent acquired—Eye of Truth."

After the system notification sounded, Loren's status panel appeared in his mind.

Gray Eagle Territory (Bound. If the territory falls, the system will automatically be destroyed.)

Level: Village-level

Lord: Loren Grant (Detailed attributes available)

Special Attribute: Leveling (Armies joining Gray Eagle Territory gain the ability to level up by killing monsters. The maximum level depends on bloodline potential; the greater the potential, the higher the maximum level.)

Defensive Buildings: 1 Black Iron Grade Arrow Tower (Upgradeable to Bronze Grade Arrow Tower)

1 Wooden Wall (Upgradeable to Grey Soil Wall)

Civil Buildings: Lord's Manor, Blacksmith Shop

Residents: 110

Army: Humans (40). 1 Silver Grade, 39 Bronze Grade.

Soul Power: 0

Evaluation: On the Endless Wasteland, only adventurers dreaming of becoming lords would establish such a shabby territory. Perhaps after the next Bloody Day, this territory will no longer exist.

After Gray Eagle Territory's attributes appeared, delight showed in Loren's eyes. Sacrificing a divinity had finally activated the system.

He had no chance to find out whether the divinity was powerful, but the system was definitely more useful than a divinity he had no idea how to use.

But after carefully examining the status panel a few times, Loren's mouth twitched.

It was too shabby. The entire territory did not even have two hundred people.

That was truly something else.

And more critically, the system was bound to the territory. If the territory fell, the system would be destroyed as well.

The Ancient God's Divinity had been devoured by the system. If the system disappeared too, he would truly go mad.

Although the territory's attributes were somewhat lacking, the system's functions were ridiculously powerful.

Especially the ability for those who joined Gray Eagle Territory to level up by killing monsters. It was simply overpowered.

Lifeforms on the Nol Main Plane could only improve their levels through grueling training, but his subordinates could now level up by killing monsters. How was that any different from cheating?

The Nol Main Plane's ranks were Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, with three further ranks above Platinum, though those were not something he could touch yet.

In the future, he could completely purchase a batch of Black Iron Grade and Bronze Grade slave soldiers, then raise them to Silver and Gold ranks.

That would feel incredible.

But what was that Soul Power status bar?

Experience points?

Loren was somewhat confused, but after studying it for a while without figuring anything out, he focused on another status bar.

Lord: Loren Grant (Detailed attributes available)

With a thought, his personal attributes appeared before his eyes the next second.

Loren Grant

Identity: Lord of Gray Eagle Territory, descendant of the Orchid Family

Lord Talent: Eye of Truth (Able to observe subordinates' loyalty)

Level: Silver Beginner

Bloodline: Bauhinia Family Bloodline (A-class, awakened). Trait: Mental Fortitude (A-class), greatly increases mental resilience and soul strength, able to resist mental spells below the second circle.

Archdemon Bloodline (Currently awakening)

Cultivation Technique:

Bauhinia Breathing Technique (S-class). Advantages: Primarily cultivates mental power. After cultivation, it greatly strengthens the mind and increases mental resilience. At later stages, it can resist a Spellcaster's mental attacks, and when used alongside corresponding skills, can unleash immense power.

Disadvantages: The Bauhinia Breathing Technique provides insufficient physical training. Going all out can easily cause severe bodily damage.

Innate Skills: Steel Breaker Slash (S-class), able to gather all mental power and unleash the full strength of the body in a single burst.

Storm Slash (S-class, learnable at Gold Grade). Armor Piercer (S-class, learnable at Platinum-grade).

On the Nol Main Plane, ordinary people had to choose a breathing technique to cultivate if they wished to gain strength.

Breathing techniques were divided into five ranks: S, A, B, C, and D. The higher the rank, the stronger the breathing technique.

As the highest-ranked breathing technique, S-class breathing techniques were extraordinarily precious and had harsh cultivation requirements. Not only did they require large quantities of magical potions, they also demanded immense talent. Usually, only great Nobles had a chance to learn them.

One of the requirements for cultivating the Bauhinia Breathing Technique was—one had to possess the Bauhinia Family Bloodline.

After cultivating an S-class breathing technique, a person would undergo enormous improvement.

Loren's mental power was currently more than ten times stronger than that of an ordinary Silver-level Warrior.

After looking over the status panel, Loren carefully searched through his memories and discovered that his attributes were indeed exactly as the system displayed, without the slightest discrepancy.

Its description of the Bauhinia Breathing Technique in particular was exceptionally detailed. This powerful S-class breathing technique was the foundation upon which the Orchid Family stood.

Breathing techniques primarily trained mental power, allowing one to use it to gather the strength of the entire body and instantly unleash damage far beyond one's rank.

He was currently a Silver Beginner, but if he combined it with the breathing technique's innate S-class skill—Steel Breaker Slash—he could unleash the power of a Gold Beginner. It was absurdly exaggerated.

Of course, the Bauhinia Breathing Technique's flaw was also obvious: it did not train the body enough.

After using Steel Breaker Slash, he would quickly fall into weakness. In other words, this was a high-burst cultivation technique.

It could only sprint quickly; it could not last.

Unfortunately, his attributes did not include specific physical data such as strength and constitution, so he could only get a rough idea.

But no matter what, his current attributes could be called dazzling: an A-class bloodline, an S-class breathing technique, and an even stronger Archdemon Bloodline awakening within him. It was no different from being handed a divine artifact at the very start.

There was also another lord talent that delighted Loren—Eye of Truth.

On the Nol Main Plane, there was no contract capable of binding a subordinate's loyalty. There were far too many unruly subordinates, and countless lords had been killed because their subordinates rebelled.

Now that he could see his subordinates' loyalty, it directly eliminated the hidden danger that gave every lord a headache.

It suited him perfectly.

But just as he was preparing to continue investigating what other functions the system possessed,

the system's mechanical notification sounded.

"Ding~ Mission triggered: First Pot of Gold.

Trapped in a difficult situation, you urgently need a large sum of funds to restart your territory.

Mission Objective: Earn 10 million Puke within three days. Mission Reward: Activate the Archdemon Bloodline."

A system mission??

Earn ten million in three days??

And the reward was activating the Archdemon Bloodline?!

Loren felt his heartbeat suddenly accelerate.

As a lifeform feared by all and existing only in myths and legends, no one knew just how powerful an Archdemon truly was.

And he was about to become a new generation of Archdemon.

The legendary ruler of darkness.