LV18 Territory, Level 8 City Lord's Mansion [Seeking Subscriptions]

He could finally understand why the first-place holder had been able to push their territory level all the way to LV13.

In fact, carrying out territory expansion missions now was completely different in difficulty from when he had expanded his own territory.

First was the consolidation of lord factions within each region.

The emergence of lord factions had cleared out nearly all hostile targets within a certain area.

Second was the increase in the lords' strength. Over this period, the surviving lords had basically built up their territories. Through treasure chests or Point Exchange, nearly every territory had varying numbers of Defense Towers.

Under such circumstances, territory expansion missions became much easier.

With good luck, one could even coast all the way through.

For example, if there happened to be no hostile targets—or only a few—within the designated area of an expansion mission, one could complete the territory expansion smoothly without taking much risk at all.

Yesterday, he had seen that Chen Rui's territory was LV12 on the Leaderboard.

Chen Rui was ranked below another person who was also LV12, placing only third.

He wondered whether Chen Rui would try to level up today.

With just over two days left before the rewards were settled, Zong Shen planned to push several more levels beyond his original target, lest someone overtake him in the final two days.

After completing the territory's Level 10 expansion mission, Zong Shen immediately proceeded to the next level.

At exactly twelve noon, Zong Shen took out [Anna's Divination Coin (Special)].

He performed a [Fortune Divination], but unfortunately, today he had thrown [Snake-Wreathed Rose]—in other words, the [Great Misfortune] side. His luck would decrease today.

"Damn it!"

"Forget it, I wasn't opening any treasure chests today anyway."

"Great Misfortune can't be that bad."

He curled his