[Ding: Do you wish to consume 20 gold coins for the daily recruitment?]
The system's prompt sounded.
"Recruit." Su Ye looked at the eighteen-winged Holy Angel statue in front of him with anticipation.
Countless rays of holy light intertwined, a holy light brilliant to the extreme, accompanied by the echoes of hymns, as countless phantoms of little angels played musical tributes.
Holy anthems echoed throughout the great hall.
The holy light fell and intertwined, and twenty figures condensed within the great hall, appearing before Su Ye to the melody of the hymns.
Ishtar's battle blade appeared in her hand; Lilith restrained herself well, though her expression carried a hint of displeasure.
When the holy light dissipated, twenty angels wearing silver-white battle armor, with white wings and golden hair, knelt on the ground in unison.
"We pay our respects to the Master!!" A loyal, firm voice rang out.
"Everyone, get up first." Su Ye looked at the twenty recruited angels.
The twenty angels stood up from the ground, and the one at the head looked at Su Ye with fanatical devotion in her eyes, while also seeing Ishtar and Lilith behind Su Ye.
A pure white blade appeared in her hand.
Su Ye:...
Although he knew about the discord between Holy Angels and Fallen Angels, he hadn't expected such a thing to happen the moment they met.
"Stop." Su Ye's voice rang out.
The black primordial darkness on Ishtar's body faded, and she snorted coldly.
The holy power on the newly recruited angel's body also dissipated, and the pure white blade vanished.
Su Ye rubbed his temples and looked at the leading angel, checking her attributes.
Name: Keisha
Loyalty: 100
Level: black iron 1-Star
Rank: God-level
troops: Holy order - Keisha
Talent: Holy order
Skill: Flame of order
Artifact: Sword of order
Potential: Creation (crystal palace bonus)
PS: A Holy Angel who has mastered the power of the holy and the power of order, the absolute ruler of the Order faction in the true sense, possessing unimaginable potential and strength.
"As expected." Su Ye looked at Keisha's attribute panel; compared to Ishtar, her starting attributes were almost completely the opposite existence.
If Ishtar was pure primordial darkness, then Keisha was pure light.
Subsequently, Su Ye looked at the other nineteen angels.
Name: Holy Angel
Loyalty: 100
Level: black iron 1-Star
troops: Holy Angel
Talent: Holy Power
Skill: Fire of Judgment
Artifact: Sword of Judgment
Potential: Main God (crystal palace bonus!)
PS: A special Holy Angel troop belonging exclusively to Keisha, possessing the power of the holy, and having the power of absolute judgment over creatures deemed evil.
"Uh?" Su Ye looked at the Holy Angel's description—having the power of absolute judgment over creatures deemed evil—is this the legendary "I say you are evil, therefore you are evil" claim?
"Keisha, this is Lilith, an Original Sin Fallen Angel, and this is Ishtar, a Pure-blood Fallen Angel; I think you should already know without me having to say anything." Su Ye looked at Keisha and said slowly.
Keisha looked at Lilith and Ishtar, and after hesitating for a moment, nodded.
"This is Talys, and outside there is also Pangilia. I hope you can get along well; you are all the people I trust most, and I do not wish for you to fight amongst yourselves." Su Ye said in a deep voice.
These words were spoken for Keisha to hear, and also for Lilith and Ishtar to hear.
"Master, your will is what we follow." Keisha said solemnly, kneeling on the ground.
"Lord God Emperor, we will also listen to you." Lilith smiled and snuggled up to Su Ye's side.
Ishtar also nodded.
The matter was already a foregone conclusion; the Holy Angels had ultimately become members of Su Ye's forces, and their opposition was useless, especially since Su Ye had already spoken.
He did not wish to see them fighting amongst themselves.
Therefore, no matter how unwelcome the Holy Angels were, whether it was Lilith or Ishtar, they prioritized Su Ye's will above all else.
This was the benefit of constant 100 loyalty; otherwise, even with 100 loyalty, if it wasn't constant, it would plummet, as extreme troops from two opposing factions had gathered together.
This was completely unimaginable.
"Ishtar, Lilith, Talys, take Keisha to introduce her to the others. Remember, no causing trouble. Tonight we'll hold a banquet to welcome Pangilia and Keisha to our home." Su Ye said with a smile.
"Understood, Lord God Emperor." Lilith smiled and agreed.
"Yes, my Master!" Keisha said with devotion.
Ishtar did not speak, and Talys remained expressionless.
Su Ye watched Keisha, Lilith, and the others leave and took a deep breath. As long as they didn't start fighting, that was fine. As for the rest, living together would allow them to slowly work things out over time.
"Now I have four barracks under my command, and the troops are roughly divided into four types: Fallen Angels, Holy Angels, Dragons, and the Gene Forbidden Army. Currently, the weakest are the Gene Forbidden Army. It seems the matter of Talys and the others fusing genes needs to be moved up the schedule." Su Ye couldn't help but think.
Among the four major troop types, the weakest was undoubtedly the Gene Forbidden Army, while the strongest currently were the Dragons, or more accurately, Pangilia and her Ancient Black Gold Dragon legion.
Although they were all at black iron 1-Star level, at the same rank, Pangilia was undoubtedly the strongest existence under Su Ye's command, even surpassing Lilith and the others.
"That's about it." After organizing his thoughts, Su Ye opened his friend chat and sent a message directly to Little Merchant.
[Otherworld Traveler: Could you please help me keep an eye out for any news about seeds of chaos or seeds of holiness? Just like with the seeds of darkness and seeds of technology, I want them all, as long as the price is right.]
On her end, Lin Xiaoxiao saw the message Su Ye sent and immediately replied.
[Little Merchant: OK, Big Shot. Leave it to me. At the latest, it should take a few days to find them for you.]
[Otherworld Traveler: Alright, then I'll trouble you with this.]
Su Ye directly closed the friend chat panel and walked out of the Holy Sanctuary.
What Su Ye didn't know was that a huge storm had been stirred up in the chat channel.
[Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, have you guys looked at the Combat Power Ranking yet?]
[Damn, is this even a human? Is this really a human?]
[What's wrong? What happened?]
[No, the person above me, you must have just gotten internet access. The bastard at the top of the Combat Power Ranking, his combat power just soared from 100,000 to 200,000. What kind of absurd thing is this?]
[That bastard at number one must have a high-tier Tech-side barracks; otherwise, there's no way to explain such a surge in combat power.]
[It's confirmed, it's definitely a high-tier Tech-side barracks. Only the Tech-side can mass-produce large amounts of weapons and equipment; this is the only reason combat power could soar like this. Otherwise, how could it be possible just relying on troops?]
[What if? What if it really is just troops?]
[Damn, this stubborn guy above me, what kind of troops can increase combat power by that much? My Sanctuary-level troops are just like that.]
[Holy crap, Sanctuary-level troops, worship the Big Shot, please carry me, Big Shot.]
The chat channel immediately went off-topic.