[Ding: Void trial complete. Evaluating...] [Ding: Evaluation complete. Losses: 0. Enemies killed: 8,000. Rating: SSS.] [Ding: You obtained an SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chest!]
Su Ye let out a long breath. An hour had passed, and the void trial was over.
This time, however, the invading force had been twice as large as yesterday's: a full eight thousand monsters, all ranging from Bronze Three-Star to Bronze Five-Star.
The good news was that they had dropped plenty of treasure chests.
The bad news was that if he upgraded the Lord's Heart again, the monsters might reach around Bronze Nine-Star, or even Silver Rank. That would be too difficult.
Su Ye needed to make some compromises and strike a balance.
Lilith and the others had barely gained any levels during this void trial. Lilith was still only Bronze One-Star, mainly because all those monsters had been used to feed the newly recruited troops.
Those new recruits, on the other hand, had reached Bronze One-Star this time.
Every troop in Su Ye's territory had now reached Bronze One-Star. Even those recruited today had advanced to the Bronze Tier, but the price was that Lilith and the others who had reached that tier long ago had made no further progress.
It was equivalent to wasting a whole day.
That was inevitable. If he wanted the newly recruited troops to advance, the troops recruited earlier would have to make sacrifices.
Su Ye was now in a position where upgrading the Lord's Heart meant giving up abyss-difficulty void trials. Otherwise, at this rate, no more than two upgrades would bring the monsters in those trials up to Silver Rank.
Fighting enemies one major tier higher was manageable, but two major tiers higher would be too difficult.
There was the damage reduction from their tier, compounded by tier suppression.
The gap was simply too large. He did not even know whether he could clear the trial, but an SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chest would certainly be out of reach.
So Su Ye now had to choose: upgrade the Lord's Heart and gain new traits, or keep earning SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chests reliably.
He already had an answer in his heart.
Back to the present.
Su Ye looked at the corpses in his territory.
"Decomposition!"
[Ding: You decomposed 8,000 corpses and obtained Origin Crystal ×2,000.]
"Two thousand. Not bad." Su Ye looked at the two thousand Origin Crystals produced by decomposition. His nearly depleted reserves were plentiful again.
Then Su Ye gathered all the treasure chests dropped during this void trial.
There were one thousand Bronze Rank Abyss Treasure Chests in total!
[Ding: Open Bronze Rank Abyss Treasure Chest ×1,000?]
"Open them." Su Ye took a deep breath as he watched the Abyss Treasure Chests open before him.
[Ding: You obtained Advanced Meat Resource Card ×10.] [Ding: You obtained Advanced Wood Resource Card ×10.] [Ding: You obtained Advanced Stone Resource Card ×10.] [Ding: You obtained Advanced Iron Ore Resource Card ×10.] [Ding: You obtained Advanced Copper Ore Resource Card ×10.]
Su Ye fell silent as he looked at what he had received. They were good, but these things... Hmm. For him right now, they were not as useful as gold coins and Origin Crystals.
During the beginner period, these Advanced Resource Cards could only be sold at bargain prices. At market value, few lords could afford them.
"Copper ore showed up too." Su Ye looked at the two thousand copper ore Resource Cards he had just acquired.
These Bronze Rank treasure chests had yielded two thousand cards of each of the five resource types, meaning each type had accounted for two hundred chests.
Like the iron ore cards, each Advanced Copper Ore Resource Card contained ten thousand units of copper ore.
It was also a hard currency and one of the materials lords needed.
Moreover, these basic materials were indispensable for developing other technology-side troops. At present, his only technology-side troops were the Gene Praetorians.
But Su Ye knew he would definitely be able to recruit other technology-side troops later. If he recruited a hero unit capable of research and development, these materials would have a use.
Su Ye put away all the Resource Cards.
He turned to today's greatest reward, the SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chest—or rather, his greatest daily reward.
[Ding: Open the SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Rating Chest?]
"Open it." Su Ye watched the abyss-difficulty rating chest before him with anticipation.
[Ding: You obtained Troop Refresh Recruitment ×1.] [Ding: You obtained Barracks Upgrade Card ×1.] [Ding: You obtained Origin Crystal ×1,000.] [Ding: You obtained Gold Coin ×10,000.] [Ding: You obtained the lord-exclusive Unique Secret Treasure: God King Treasury.]
Su Ye fell silent as he looked at what he had received.
With the Troop Refresh Recruitment Card he already had, he now had two. He also had two Barracks Upgrade Cards.
The gold coins and Origin Crystals were fine, though he could only call them average.
Lord secret treasures were equipment exclusive to lords.
Secret treasures were divided into the following grades: white, green, blue, purple, gold, orange, red, five-color, seven-color, nine-color, and Unique Level!
Secret treasures were different from wonders. Wonders were buildings, whereas secret treasures could come in any form.
Of these, lord-exclusive secret treasures were the rarest.
That meant they were things lords could equip themselves.
Su Ye immediately inspected it.
Name: God King Treasury Grade: Unique Level Attribute: Lord-exclusive Trait 1: Replication (Can replicate any secret treasure, weapon, or equipment it touches! Cannot replicate Unique Level items.) Trait 2: Ascension (Raises the grade of collected or replicated secret treasures, weapons, and equipment by one level. Cannot raise Unique Level items!) Trait 3: Projection (Can deploy projections of collected secret treasures, weapons, and equipment. Projections possess the traits of the original items.)
Su Ye studied the God King Treasury's attributes: replication, ascension, and projection. Hmm... Why does this feel so similar to the abilities of a certain king of lampposts?
It was even more overpowered.
[Ding: Soul-bind the God King Treasury? Once bound, it cannot be traded and will disappear permanently upon death!]
"Bind it." Su Ye did not hesitate. This was the first secret treasure he had obtained, and it was Unique Level at that. There was no reason not to bind it.
It only had three traits, but every one of them was absurdly powerful.
"Replication? I wonder if it can replicate Lilith's weapons and the others'?" Su Ye looked toward Lilith and the others, a thoughtful glint in his eyes.
Lilith and the others all came with their own divine artifacts. Their weapons, in particular, were essentially unique items—or rather, their exclusive divine artifacts.
Still, he had to try to find out. What if it worked? Wouldn't that send him soaring?
Although lords did not need to fight on the battlefield, they still needed the ability to protect themselves. A lord who could not even do that would be utterly useless.
"Lilith," Su Ye called out.
A black silhouette descended from the sky and appeared before Su Ye. Her hair was still a little damp, but the moisture instantly evaporated.
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