Twenty thousand hands of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars.
Not many.
Just two million pillars.
Perhaps only a tiny bit more than the combined reserves of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars on every continent in the entire World Battlefield.
Chen Fan grinned happily.
He had never felt so happy before.
He had used the popular will himself, then thrown the Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars he had built at no resource cost into the battlefield. It did not matter what he had used to build them. The pillars he had deployed were genuine Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars.
Naturally, when the resources were refunded, they had to be returned to him.
That was perfectly reasonable.
Nothing wrong with it.
As for the rest...
He looked toward the small cluster of Sky-Piercing Pillars nearby. The Mortal Domain's reserves of popular will had been completely exhausted in this battle. Using and constructing buildings without spending resources required popular will. After contributing twenty thousand hands, he had used the last bit of popular will to fire the Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon at the remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars, hoping to see whether he could preserve them that way.
Unfortunately...
He could not.
But that was pocket change now. With those twenty thousand hands of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars as his trump card, he finally felt a little safer.
Next...
He looked at the two continent titles on the Endless Night Lord Panel deep within his soul, and the notifications flashing incessantly.
``` "Continent title": King of the Blood Arena.
"Title effects":
1: In all ultimate Calamity: Blood Arena events, 30% of expended resources will be refunded during post-battle settlement.
2: In all ultimate Calamity: Blood Arena events, contributed forces are automatically multiplied by 2. Settlement refunds are based on the actual forces contributed.
3: The continent gains strong resistance to certain ordinary calamities, such as