Deep Ones, Flesh Abominations!

"System, begin the Void Trial. Difficulty: Abyss!" Su Ye's voice rang out.

[Ding: Void Trial activated. Difficulty: Abyss. You have thirty seconds to prepare.]

Lilith, Thalys, and Istar—three Hero-Level Units—simultaneously led their troops to positions around Su Ye's territory.

Su Ye watched the blood-red light at the edge of his territory. Countless crimson glows writhed within it, accompanied by waves of indescribable, fear-filled murmurs.

Fish-headed, humanoid monsters appeared within Su Ye's territory. Their huge fish eyes bulged outward, and they carried long blades or war spears. Some even held scepters.

There were also twisted things of fused flesh, constantly writhing and crawling.

Su Ye checked their detailed attributes.

Name: Deep One Fishman/Priest

Level: Bronze One-Star

Rank: Tier Four

Name: Flesh Abomination

Level: Bronze One-Star

Rank: Tier Four

"Both types of monsters are Bronze One-Star. Good thing I didn't act impulsively." Su Ye took a deep breath as he looked at the monsters that had appeared in his territory.

Let's see what they were made of first.

A blood-red gleam surfaced in Lilith's eyes. Before Su Ye, she had always been seductive, soft-voiced, and delicate.

But Lilith was a genuine member of the Chaos Faction. Bloodlust was rooted deep in her bones.

A War Scythe appeared in Lilith's hand.

With a beat of her wings, Lilith turned into a black streak and appeared before the Deep Ones.

A blackish-purple radiance surfaced on the War Scythe.

The instant Lilith swung it, a crescent-shaped slash tore through the air.

In Su Ye's eyes, the crescent-shaped slash directly shredded several Deep Ones.

Su Ye frowned and sighed. "Rank Reduction!"

Rank Reduction was the damage reduction high-rank creatures had against low-rank creatures.

From Black Iron Nine-Star to Bronze One-Star seemed like only a minor rank difference, but the destruction Lilith caused had dropped far too much. At Black Iron Nine-Star, a casual swing from Lilith could cut down a whole swath of enemies.

Yet at Bronze One-Star, she could only shred several Deep Ones. The gap was far too great.

"Hehe, now this is interesting." A trace of excitement appeared in Lilith's eyes.

Blackish-purple flames emerged around Lilith. Amid the intertwining blaze, her blackish-purple wings entered a burning state, and the War Scythe was likewise covered in blackish-purple fire.

Flame of Original Sin—the fire that symbolized Original Sin. It was born from the desires of the Seven Deadly Sins rooted in living beings. Once touched by it, as long as one possessed the Seven Deadly Sins, the flames would never go out. They would burn for Eternity, until death utterly claimed them.

It was also Su Ye's first time seeing Lilith use one of her skills.

As Lilith swung her War Scythe, countless Flames of Original Sin descended like heavenly punishment.

Su Ye stared at the scene with his mouth agape.

"So this is your true strength?" Su Ye said with some emotion.

The other Original Sin Fallen Angels also displayed their own skills.

Only the Gene Praetorians were different. They were rather special God Level troops. They possessed no skills themselves, and the key was that they had yet to Fuse with Genetics.

Their potential had not yet been unlocked.

However, relying on the strength inherent to God Level troops, although they could not clear the invading creatures on a large scale, slaughtering them one by one was no problem.

The slaughter began.

Compared to yesterday, it seemed no different. The only difference was probably that Lilith and the others had not gone all out during the previous Void Trial.

Today, at least, they had used their skills.

As for whether they were truly going all out, Su Ye did not know. It just did not seem difficult for them.

As the slaughter began, the levels of Su Ye's troops rose rapidly.

The troops recruited today had already risen to around Black Iron Three-Star. And this was only the beginning.

"Looks like I can raise the Lord's Heart's level again." Su Ye could not help thinking.

The upper limit of troops was tied to the lord.

If the Lord's Heart was Black Iron Three-Star, then Su Ye's level would be Black Iron Three-Star, and the troop limit would be Bronze Nine-Star. The rank gap between troops and their lord could not exceed one major rank.

If Su Ye remained at the Black Iron Rank, then Lilith and the others could only reach Bronze Nine-Star at most.

They could only be one major rank higher at most. Unless the lord's level increased, the troops' levels could not rise any further.

As time passed.

Su Ye watched the changes on the battlefield, but it seemed like nothing had changed.

An hour passed.

The Void Trial ended.

The system notification rang out.

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

[Ding: Evaluation complete. Casualties: 0. Enemies killed: 4,000. Rating: SSS.]

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

"Not bad. No major problems. An SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Chest—not bad." Su Ye thought as he looked at the chest floating above the battlefield.

Lilith and the others had all reached Bronze One-Star.

With the help of those four thousand invading monsters, every troop under Su Ye's command, including the units recruited today, had reached Bronze One-Star.

Naturally, Lilith's help had been indispensable. After breaking through to Bronze One-Star, Lilith mostly knocked down monsters and let the others finish them off to raise their own levels.

Then, after the others reached the Bronze Rank, they continued doing the same, allowing those who had not yet broken through to land the finishing blows.

"You should all go rest first." Su Ye said to Lilith, Thalys, and Istar.

The three nodded and led their troops away to wash up.

"Decomposition!" Su Ye used his Authority to decompose all the corpses in his territory.

[Ding: You decomposed 4,000 Bronze One-Star creature corpses. Obtained: Origin Crystal x1000.]

"A thousand Origin Crystals? Not bad." Su Ye looked at his Origin Crystals. This was the eternal hard currency of the Lord World.

With a thought from Su Ye, the treasure chests dropped during this Void Trial gathered before him.

"Six hundred?" Su Ye looked at the chests gathered before him, surprise in his eyes.

Bronze Rank Abyss Treasure Chest!

I should be able to get some good things from these. Su Ye looked expectantly at the Bronze Rank Abyss Treasure Chests.

"Open."

[Ding: Obtained Advanced Meat Resource Card x10.]

[Ding: You obtained Advanced Wood Resource Card x10.]

[Ding: You obtained Advanced Stone Resource Card x10.]

[Ding: You obtained Advanced Iron Ore Resource Card x10.]