The Spirit Realm Rules responded promptly:
"Certainly. You may retain up to three career codices. If you acquire more than three, you must discard one."
"Special notice 1: You may select a career codex and advance only on the completion settlement screen or the matchmaking screen before entering the Spirit Realm. Please prepare in advance."
"Special notice 2: The career codex you select will determine the territory assigned to you. (You have obtained this information based on your performance during this Plane Unification.)"
"A territory assigned to me? What territory?" Bai Xiaowen was slightly startled.
"Every Lord Tier Evolver will receive a large spatial fragment split off during the plane's remaking as his or her territory upon completing career advancement."
Bai Xiaowen looked at the specks of stardust scattered when the sphere of the Black Tide Plane had shattered. Those specks must have been the spatial fragments shed during the plane's remaking. They looked as tiny as dust, but each contained space within it.
"Only lords get one? What about Heroic Tier Evolvers?" Bai Xiaowen pressed.
"They do not."
"Does special notice 2 mean that if I choose the Sorian Codex as my career codex, I have to take a spatial fragment from the Black Tide Plane as my territory? I can't choose one from another plane?"
"That is correct."
"What does a territory do?" Bai Xiaowen asked again, but the Spirit Realm Rules gave no further answer.
Bai Xiaowen thought for a long time, then turned to his teammates.
"Let's set the territory aside for now. I'll sum up what we've learned about becoming Evolvers."
"The Evolver World seems different from what we imagined."
"Evolvers seem to specialize more narrowly. The career codices we study each correspond to a particular skill set. The Sorian Codex I received, for example,