Burn the Sea of Stars, Light the Milky Way, Supreme Protocol!

As time passed, an hour went by.

The Void Trial ended.

[ Ding: Void Trial has ended. Evaluating... ]

[ Ding: Evaluation complete. Battle losses: 0. Enemies killed: 5000. Rating: SSS ]

[ Ding: You have obtained an SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Chest! ]

"Five thousand? There were actually five thousand monsters in this Void Trial." Su Ye looked at the mountain-like pile of corpses.

"As expected, Abyss difficulty is multiplication, not simple addition." Su Ye smacked his lips, thinking of yesterday's Abyss difficulty trial, which had only contained a thousand Lesser Demons.

But today, there had been five thousand—and they were fourth-tier units. That was only because he had raised his Lord's Heart by one level.

Still, the higher the difficulty, the better the contents of the rating chest. Otherwise, he could never have gotten a unique-grade Wonder. Even God-Level lords would fight tooth and nail over something like that.

"Decomposition." Su Ye directly used his Authority to decompose the corpses within his territory.

[ Ding: You have obtained 500 Origin Crystals. ]

"Not bad." Su Ye looked at the 500 Origin Crystals yielded by the decomposition and nodded in satisfaction. It was waste utilization to begin with; getting 500 was already quite good.

"God Emperor." Lilith flew down from the sky and landed before Su Ye, followed by the Original Sin Fallen Angels, each bathed in blood.

Su Ye smiled at Lilith and the others. "Go wash up and rest first. Leave the rest to me."

Lilith nodded and led the Original Sin Fallen Angels off for a bath. They were covered in blood, after all, so they naturally needed to clean themselves properly.

Watching Lilith and the others leave, Su Ye saw that after an hour of slaughter, Lilith had reached Black Iron Grade Seven Stars. The other Original Sin Angels had advanced as well.

"God-level units really take a lot of resources to level up." Su Ye shook his head and stopped dwelling on unit upgrades. Thankfully, he had the Spirit Source Lake. Though it was slow, it could still raise them over time.

With a thought from Su Ye, all the chests dropped by the monsters gathered together. He checked them and found a total of 800 chests.

[ Ding: Do you wish to open the Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chest? ]

"Open it," Su Ye said with a hint of anticipation.

[ Ding: You have obtained Gold Coin x100 ]

[ Ding: You have obtained Origin Crystal x10 ]

"As expected." Su Ye looked at what came out of the Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chests. It was still Gold Coins and Origin Crystals.

He had obtained 40,000 Gold Coins and 4,000 Origin Crystals. For other lords, that would have been a fortune, but to Su Ye, it was merely passable.

The main issue was that he currently had nowhere to spend them.

"Not bad." Su Ye looked at the final rating chest.

[ Ding: Do you wish to open the SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chest? ]

"Open it." Su Ye took a deep breath and stared expectantly at the chest before him.

Three notification chimes rang out in succession.

[ Ding: You have obtained a first-tier Barracks: Machine Gun Barracks! ]

[ Ding: You have obtained a rare Wonder: Wine Pool and Meat Forest! ]

[ Ding: You have obtained a unique Wonder: Valhalla! ]

Su Ye sucked in a breath as he looked at what he had obtained: one Barracks and two Wonders.

"As expected, the novice period is a game for the brave. No wonder that near the end of every novice period, even knowing Abyss difficulty is brutal, some lords still insist on trying it." Su Ye smiled as he looked at his rewards.

The items he had gotten yesterday had also been good. He had thought it was a hidden benefit of the Novice Buff, but apparently that was not all. The Abyss-difficulty Void Trial really did have good rewards.

Su Ye began checking them.

Name: Machine Gun Barracks

Level: 1

Tier: First Tier

Faction: Chaos

Recruitment: 2000/2000 (Daily)

Gold Coin: 1 Gold Coin (1 Gold Coin)

Upgrade: Origin Crystal x1

"Uh..." Su Ye looked at the status panel for the Machine Gun Barracks.

Fine. This was already the most ordinary unit type, bar none. Its sole advantage was that it could recruit two thousand Machine Gunners per day. Sound impressive, right?

In reality, one also had to account for the troops' food and drink. That was the real expense. Units like these were generally used as cannon fodder by high-level lords. They would not even be chosen for mining, because they could not do it. They could only serve as temporary cannon fodder.

Otherwise, feeding them every day would require an enormous amount of resources.

Each unit also required one Gold Coin to recruit, because one Gold Coin was the minimum possible recruitment cost. There was no recruitable unit cheaper than that.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, Machine Gunners were the least cost-effective unit type, without question.

Even farmer units were better than Machine Gunners. At least farmers had specialties. Machine Gunners did too, of course, but from a combat perspective, they were merely average. Their cost-effectiveness was far inferior to other first-tier units.

"Upgrade." Su Ye looked at the green barracks model in his hand and chose to upgrade it.

[ Ding: Your first-tier Barracks, Machine Gun Barracks, has upgraded into the God-Level Barracks: Supreme Protocol! ]

"Nice." The model in Su Ye's hand transformed from a green barracks into a skyscraper brimming with futuristic technology. He checked its attributes.

Name: Supreme Protocol!

Level: 1

Tier: God Level

Faction: Order

Recruitment: 10/10 (Daily)

Cost: 1 Gold Coin (500,000)

Upgrade: Origin Crystal x100

"The Human Alliance, huh?" Su Ye's eyes flickered. Could it be the Human Alliance I know?

"This is making me walk the path of a war criminal. No, damn it, what war criminal? If I don't lose, why should I be called one?" Su Ye licked his lips as he looked at the model in his hand.

Supreme Protocol!!

Su Ye directly used his Authority to place Supreme Protocol beside his Lord Manor. Together with the Fallen Heaven Sanctuary, they stood on the left and right sides of his territory.

On the left stood an eerie yet sacred dark church. On the right stood a technological skyscraper futuristic to the extreme.

"God Emperor, what is this?" Lilith appeared beside Su Ye. Her hair was still damp, but the moisture evaporated in the next instant.

"A new unit. Your new companion," Su Ye said with a smile.

Lilith raised an eyebrow, her gaze turning unfriendly as she looked at the technological skyscraper. Su Ye looked at Lilith and then understood why she was hostile.

Lilith belonged to the Chaos Faction, while the technological skyscraper belonged to the Order Faction. The two could be said to be utterly incompatible.