"System, begin the Void Trial. Difficulty: Abyss!" Su Ye's voice rang out.
[Ding: Void Trial has begun. Difficulty: Abyss. You have thirty seconds to prepare.]
Lilith, Talys, and Ishtar, three hero-grade units, simultaneously led their respective troops and appeared around Su Ye's territory.
Su Ye watched the blood-colored light at the edge of his territory. Countless bloody glows were writhing, accompanied by bursts of indescribable, terrifying whispers.
Monstrous creatures with fish heads and human bodies appeared within Su Ye's territory. Their huge fish eyes protruded, and they held long knives or war spears, while some even carried scepters.
In addition to them, there were twisted masses of fused flesh that were constantly writhing and crawling.
Su Ye checked their specific attributes.
Name: Deep One Murloc/Priest
Level: Bronze 1-Star
Rank: Tier 4
PS: Kin of an indescribable deity. These aquatic dependents have infinite lifespans but are relatively weak in strength.
Name: Flesh Aberration
Level: Bronze 1-Star
Rank: Tier 4
PS: Beings that have faced the indescribable. Their flesh is twisted, their souls are warped, and they are drowned in endless whispers and madness, instinctively destroying and fusing with everything.
"Both types of monsters are Bronze 1-Star. It's a good thing I wasn't impulsive." Su Ye took a deep breath as he looked at the monsters appearing in his territory.
Let's see what they're made of first.
On Lilith's side, a blood-red light surfaced in her eyes. Although Lilith had always been charming, soft-spoken, and gentle in front of Su Ye...
...she was a genuine member of the Chaos faction. Her murderous intent was rooted deep in her bones.
A war scythe manifested in Lilith's hands.
With a flap of the wings on her back, she turned into a streak of black light and appeared before the Deep Ones.
A dark purple halo appeared on the war scythe.
The moment Lilith swung it, a crescent-shaped slash tore through the air.
In Su Ye's eyes, the crescent slash directly shredded several Deep Ones.
Su Ye frowned and sighed, "Rank Suppression!"
Rank Suppression was the damage reduction high-rank creatures had against low-rank creatures.
black iron 9-Star to Bronze 1-Star might seem like a small step, but the destruction Lilith caused had dropped significantly. At black iron 9-Star, a casual slash from Lilith could kill a large area.
But at Bronze 1-Star, she could only shred a few Deep Ones. The difference was massive.
"Tsk tsk, now this is interesting." A hint of excitement appeared in Lilith's eyes.
Dark purple flames erupted on Lilith's body. Amidst the weaving fire, her black-purple wings transitioned into a burning state, and her war scythe was also covered in dark purple flames.
Flames of Original Sin. Flames symbolizing original sin were burning—flames born from the seven deadly sins rooted in living beings. For anyone they touched, as long as they possessed the seven deadly sins, the fire would never go out, burning eternally until total death.
This was also the first time Su Ye had seen Lilith use her skills.
As Lilith swung her war scythe, countless Flames of Original Sin fell like divine punishment.
Su Ye watched this scene with his mouth agape.
"Is this your true strength?" Su Ye said with some admiration.
The other Original Sin-series Fallen Angels also began to display their skills one after another.
Except for the Gene Forbidden Army. The Gene Forbidden Army was a relatively special god-tier troop type; they had no skills of their own, and the key was that they hadn't fused with any genes yet.
They were in a state where their potential had not yet been unlocked.
However, relying on their inherent strength as a god-tier troop type, while they couldn't clear the invading creatures on a massive scale, slaughtering them one by one was no problem.
The massacre began.
Compared to yesterday, there didn't seem to be much difference. The only difference was likely that during the previous Void Trials, Lilith and the others hadn't used their full strength.
Today, they were at least using their skills.
As for whether it was their full strength, Su Ye didn't know, but it didn't look particularly difficult.
As the killing commenced, the levels of the troops under Su Ye's command rose rapidly.
The troops recruited just today had already reached around black iron 3-Star, and this was only the beginning.
"It looks like I can raise the level of the lords heart a bit more," Su Ye couldn't help but think.
The level cap of the troops was linked to the lord.
If the lords heart was black iron 3-Star, then Su Ye's level was black iron 3-Star, and the troop cap would be Bronze 9-Star. The rank gap between the troops and the lord could not exceed one major rank.
If Su Ye was still at the black iron rank, then Lilith and the others could at most reach Bronze 9-Star.
They could be one major rank higher at most; unless the lord's level went up, the troops' levels could not increase further.
As time passed...
Su Ye looked at the changes on the battlefield, but there didn't seem to be any.
An hour passed.
The Void Trial ended.
The system prompt sounded.
[Ding: Void Trial ended. Evaluating...]
[Ding: Evaluation complete. Combat losses: 0. Enemies killed: 4,000. Rating: SSS]
[Ding: You have obtained an SSS-rank Abyss Difficulty Treasure Chest!]
"Not bad, not a big problem. An SSS-rank Abyss Difficulty Treasure Chest, nice," Su Ye thought as he looked at the chest floating on the battlefield.
Lilith and the others had all reached the level of Bronze 1-Star.
Relying on these four thousand invading monsters, the troops under Su Ye, including the units recruited just today, had all reached Bronze 1-Star.
Of course, Lilith's help was indispensable. After breaking through to Bronze 1-Star, Lilith mostly focused on knocking down monsters to let the others land the finishing blows to harvest experience and raise their levels.
Then, once the others reached the Bronze Rank, they continued to do the same, letting those who hadn't broken through yet take the final hits.
"Go and rest for a bit first," Su Ye said to Lilith, Talys, and Ishtar.
The three nodded and took their troops to wash up.
"Decompose!" Su Ye used his authority to decompose all the corpses in his territory.
[Ding: You have decomposed 4,000 Bronze 1-Star creature corpses. Obtained: origin crystal X1,000]
"One thousand origin crystals? Not bad." Su Ye looked at his origin crystals; these things were the eternal hard currency of the Lord World.
With a thought from Su Ye, the treasure chests dropped from this Void Trial gathered in front of him.
"Six hundred of them?" Su Ye looked at the chests gathered before him with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Bronze-grade Abyss Treasure Chest!
"I should be able to get some good stuff from these," Su Ye thought expectantly as he looked at the Bronze-grade Abyss Treasure Chests.
"Open."
[Ding: Obtained High-Grade Meat Resource Card X10]
[Ding: You have obtained high-grade wood resource card X10]
[Ding: You have obtained high-grade stone resource card X10]
[Ding: You have obtained Advanced Iron Ore Resource Card X10]
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