"I can't believe I lost control."
"Law skills are really difficult to master."
Zhou Zhou said as he walked into his bathroom.
Filling the bathtub with hot water, he lay back and scrolled through the messages in the Cerulean planet world channel.
[I can finally rank in a match again. I hate how weak I am!]
[God bless me! Let me return to Black iron-tier from negative 1.]
[Is anyone willing to form a team? I have many doctors in my territory and need a strong party member.]
[I have more long-range soldiers in my territory. A lord with strong offensive, let's form a team!]
[Are you still worried about not being able to rank? Still anxious about your future as a Lord? For just 500 Black iron-tier mist cores and you can bring home the lord rank +1!]
[...You can even get a 20% discount if you buy it many times. No big alliance would give you the same deal! Don't miss out!!]
[Have anyone figured out who stopped Blazing Shit unbeaten run yesterday?]
[I heard it was Great One. It seems even Blazing Shit can't compare to the lords in the top tier races.]
[How massive is the difference between Blazing Shit and True? Great One lost against True!]
[Blazing Sun: @stillflag it's not as much as the difference between me and you.]
[Fück! Blazing Shit roosted the hell out of Still Flag!]
[That must've hurt Blazing Shit to require a response!]
[Everyone should calm down. I don't want Blazing Shit going back to his old ways.]
[If his old ways include selling meats, I'd love to see that again!]
[How the hell are you still suffering from meat shortage? I took care of that a week ago!]
Closing the world channel, Zhou Zhou opened the notification icon at the corner of his lord interface.
[Your daily ranking attempt has been reset! (+1)]
[Ranking Attempts: 15]
"Without conquering other territories, the highest rank one can reach is at most Yellow gold-tier elementary grade."
"And that's without losing a single match."
He muttered as he picked up his scrubber.
..
At exactly six in the morning, a total of 15,000 subjects stepped into the Hall of Truth.
Crossing a distance of 800m in a blink, Zhou Zhou appeared inside the hall.
"It's way bigger on the inside."
He muttered before speeding up time.
'20 times the normal time flow!'
Sensing the intense time dilation around them, the spawns of time were shocked.
With prior experience, they quickly regained their composure.
"So many insights!"
As Zhou Zhou traveled through the first layer of space, he was astonished by how quickly he gained insights into his space law skills; namely the space teleportation and the space seal.
Within minutes, he came across his play buddies.
"How did I forget about you guys?"
"I wouldn't have injured myself if I came here."
He sighed, slightly disappointed in himself.
Shaking it off a second later, he launched an attack.
Picking the space nomad in front of the group, he froze it in place.
But a second later, it shattered the space seal on it.
Quickly teleporting 800m away, Zhou Zhou noticed the space nomads directing behind him.
"They can still keep up..."
"I wonder what the limit of their teleportation is."
He continued teleporting while applying the insights granted by the Hall of Truth.
Compared to the past, he was now able to move through space nodes much faster, and before the space nomads could seal them off.
..
Meanwhile, the Blacksmiths of Blazing Sun City improved rapidly as they swung their hammers under the Hall of Truth's influence.
The Chefs held quills and scrolls as they recorded hundreds of recipes and ingredients out of thin air.
Architects derived steps to advance the blueprints they own to the next tier.
Doctors documented illnesses and symptoms, along with prescriptions treatment.
Alchemists recorded new potion formulas using old ones as references.
Alchemy Technicians created blueprints for new technologies while upgrading existing models.
Tailors acquired new found knowledge of materials and ways to handle them.
Under the influence of the Hall of Truth, everyone made rapid progress in their respective crafts.
The difference lay in how fast each of them progressed.
A genius without a professional class could advance to the Green bronze-tier advance grade after getting taught for just a couple of hours.
The best among ordinary subjects could only reach the Green bronze-tier elementary grade at the same time period, while the others would stop at the Black iron-tier advance grade after 20 hours in the Hall of Truth.
..
Teleporting through the first layer of space for hours, Zhou Zhou wasn't too shocked when he encountered space nomads able to seal off the space nodes before he could teleport away.
"Despite seeing how skilled they are, I still feel we are not anywhere close to the second layer of space."
He muttered as he withdrew the protection of the Supreme Will, sending himself outside of time.
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