Su Ye looked at the system panel. Aside from the Trading Module, which was grayed out and unavailable, all the other modules functioned normally.
The Trading Module was disabled to preserve the last shred of fairness among Novice Lords. This fairness meant that every Novice Lord started from the same line and had to rely entirely on luck.
Without this restriction, those second-generation Lords would have taken off long ago. Who could compete with them?
Among these second-generation Lords, quite a few came from families with true gods. If trading were allowed, the other Novice Lords might as well not bother playing.
Su Ye opened the Chat Channel and began reading.
Most of them were discussing their troops or talents.
[Hahaha, I'm about to take off! Seventh-Rank Wyverns—who can beat that?]
[Take off my ass. Do you even know how much food Wyverns consume every day? Can you afford to feed them?]
[It's fine during the Novice Period. As long as you've got the guts, the daily trials won't be much of a problem. Once the Novice Period ends, any troops above Fifth Rank are money pits.]
[Jealous. You're all just jealous that he randomly got a good Barracks. Big shot, carry me!]
[Big shot, I can help you raise them. Please take me with you.]
[Fuck, why is my Barracks a Farmland? I can only recruit farmers, and they're weaker than I am. How the hell am I supposed to play this? I'm done.]
... Su Ye watched the Chat Channel with great interest. Most Novice Lords were still adjusting to their new circumstances and had yet to begin the Void Trial.
After all, this was no joke. Even during the Novice Period, the risk of failing was far from small.
After watching for a while,
Su Ye closed the Chat Channel and opened the Live Streaming Module.
Novice Lords could not leave Eternal World for thirty days. They could only leave after the Novice Period ended—or after being eliminated.
The purpose was still the same: preventing cheating.
The Live Streaming Module served two purposes: entertainment and education.
Both required payment. Of course, no one was going to let you watch for free.
Su Ye entered the most popular Novice Lord's livestream.
The moment he entered, he froze.
"Holy shit!!" Su Ye stared at the livestream before him.
Erm... how should he put this? The streamer was a female Novice Lord from Hans Mao Country. Her troops were Goblins, and naturally, it was an adult livestream.
Did they even understand the value of Goblins?
As expected of Hans Mao Country. They're still miles ahead in this regard, Su Ye thought as he watched the scene in the livestream. When it came to appetite, Hans Mao Country was still more hardcore.
A group of green skins surrounded a blonde.
"Honestly, her figure is pretty damn good." The moment Su Ye finished speaking, the livestream went black. To keep watching, he had to pay—one Gold Coin per hour. Making money off hard labor.
Su Ye checked out a few other livestreams. Most of the current streams were similarly eye-opening.
There were all kinds of troops: Goblins, Minotaurs, Boarheads, Trolls, and even Tentacle Monsters.
Of course, some were simply livestreaming themselves chopping trees or mining.
After watching for a while, Su Ye closed the livestream panel.
He did not have spare money for entertainment yet. Someone else's one Gold Coin might only amount to a few lower-rank troop units, but his one Gold Coin meant a God-tier Troop unit—or, if he was lucky, even a God-tier Hero Unit.
That sort of thing could wait until he had extra Gold Coins.
Su Ye turned his attention to Lilith and the others' battle.
As time passed, Lesser Demons rushed in one after another from the edge of Su Ye's territory, while treasure chests appeared across the ground.
This was one of the Novice Period's benefits. As long as one was strong enough, one could continuously accumulate resources. Su Ye roughly counted several dozen treasure chests.
An hour passed.
The system notification sounded.
[Ding: Void Trial concluded. Evaluation in progress...] [Ding: Evaluation complete. Casualties: 0. Enemies killed: 1,000. Rating: SSS] [Ding: You have obtained an SSS-Rank Abyss Difficulty Chest!]
"God Emperor!" Lilith called out.
Su Ye looked at Lilith, who had appeared before him, and smiled. "You did very well, Lilith. Go rest for now."
"I am not tired. But God Emperor, how do you intend to reward me?" Lilith walked over to Su Ye's side and stared straight at him.
Su Ye: ...
"We'll discuss that later. I'll deal with the spoils first." Su Ye looked at the treasure chests.
Using his Authority as a Lord, he stored the treasure chests scattered across the ground in the Territory Warehouse.
There were four hundred Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chests in total!
Black Iron was the chest's grade, while Abyss represented rewards from the highest difficulty.
"This drop rate isn't bad." Su Ye looked at the Abyss Treasure Chests and then invoked his Authority. "Decomposition!"
[Ding: Would you like to decompose 1,000 Lesser Demon corpses?]
"Decompose." Su Ye looked at the corpses on the ground. There was no point in leaving them there; they would rot eventually.
[Ding: You decomposed 1,000 Lesser Demon corpses and obtained 100 Origin Crystals!]
"A ten-to-one ratio? As expected, the Novice Period is the best time to get rich. As long as you're strong enough, getting rich overnight isn't a dream." Su Ye smiled as he looked into his Personal Space.
[Ding: Would you like to open Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chest x400?]
"Open them all." Su Ye waited expectantly.
[Ding: You obtained Gold Coin x100] [Ding: You obtained Gold Coin x100] [Ding: You obtained Origin Crystal x10] [Ding: You obtained Origin Crystal x10]
... A string of System Logs appeared, and Su Ye could not hide the smile on his face. After tallying the gains:
Gold Coin x20,000 Origin Crystal x2,000
The smile on Su Ye's face froze. Where was his Wood? Where was his Stone? Where were his Resource Cards?
Then Su Ye realized something: the trial he had cleared was Abyss difficulty, and it was only the first day.
He had earned twenty thousand Gold Coins and two thousand Origin Crystals in a single day. That was something other Lords would not even dare imagine, much less achieve.
An ordinary Lord would be doing well to earn a hundred Gold Coins from clearing an ordinary Void Trial.
"So, because the difficulty was too high, the rewards didn't include basic Resource Cards, Wood, Stone, and other ordinary resources?" Su Ye thought helplessly.
Still, that made sense. He had cleared an Abyss-difficulty trial. If the chests had still produced that kind of junk, that would have been the real problem.
"Looks like I'll need to buy them from someone." Su Ye could not help thinking. His territory was grassland terrain, with no forests or mineral deposits. He could not develop those resources himself and could only purchase them.
Then Su Ye looked toward the final treasure chest—the best chest obtained after the trial. The previous chests had merely dropped from ordinary monsters and could only yield such items, but the final rating chest was different. It could contain anything.
Naturally, it was closely tied to the trial's difficulty and rating. The higher the difficulty and rating, the better the rewards it could produce.
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