[Ding: Void Trial concluded, evaluating...]
[Ding: Evaluation complete. Combat losses: 0. Enemies killed: 8000. Score: SSS]
[Ding: You have obtained an sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest!]
Su Ye let out a long breath of turbid air. An hour had passed, and the Void Trial was over.
However, the number of invaders this time was double that of yesterday—a full eight thousand monsters, all ranging from three-star to five-star Bronze Rank.
The good news was that quite a few treasure chests had dropped.
The bad news was that if he upgraded the level of the lords heart further, he might face monsters around nine-star Bronze Rank, or even Silver-grade monsters. That would be too difficult.
Su Ye needed to make some trade-offs and find a balance.
Lilith and the others' levels hadn't changed much during this Void Trial; Lilith was still only Bronze 1-star. This was mainly because the experience from these monsters had been used to feed the newly recruited troops.
Instead, it was the new recruits who had advanced to Bronze 1-star this time.
Currently, all the troops in Su Ye's territory had reached Bronze 1-star. Even the troops recruited just today had been promoted to the Bronze Rank. The price for this, however, was that those like Lilith, who had reached the Bronze Rank long ago, remained stagnant.
It was equivalent to wasting a day's time.
This was inevitable; if he wanted the newly recruited troops to level up, the previously recruited troops would naturally have to make sacrifices.
Su Ye was now in a position where if he upgraded the lords heart, he would have to give up the Abyss-difficulty Void Trial. Otherwise, following this trend, after two more upgrades at most, the monsters in the Abyss-difficulty Void Trial would become Silver-grade beings.
Crossing one major rank was manageable, but crossing two major ranks was simply too difficult.
Between the rank-based damage reduction and the rank-based suppression...
The gap was just too wide. It was unclear if he could even clear it, but the sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest would definitely be out of reach.
So now Su Ye had to make a choice: upgrade the lords heart to gain a new term, or maintain a stable acquisition of the sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest.
Su Ye already had an answer in his heart.
Back to the present.
Su Ye looked at the corpses within his territory.
"Decompose!"
[Ding: You have decomposed 8,000 corpses and obtained origin crystal x2000]
"2,000, not bad." Su Ye looked at the two thousand origin crystals he had just extracted, replenishing his nearly depleted supply.
Next, Su Ye gathered all the treasure chests that had dropped during this Void Trial.
A total of 1,000 Bronze-grade Abyss Treasure Chests!
[Ding: Would you like to open Bronze-grade Abyss Treasure Chest x1000?]
"Open them." Su Ye took a deep breath as he looked at the Abyss Treasure Chests before him.
[Ding: You have 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 High-Grade Iron Ore Resource Card x10]
[Ding: You have obtained High-Grade Copper Ore Resource Card x10]
...
Su Ye fell into silence as he looked at the items he had pulled. They were good, but... well, for the current Su Ye, they weren't as practical as gold coins and origin crystals.
If these high-grade resource cards were put up for sale during the newbie period, they could only be sold for a pittance. If sold at market price, few lords could actually afford high-grade resource cards.
"Copper ore has appeared too." Su Ye looked at the two thousand copper ore resource cards that had appeared in his hand.
The five types of resource cards from these Bronze-grade chests totaled two thousand each, meaning each type of resource card occupied two hundred chests.
High-Grade Copper Ore Resource Cards were just like the iron ones; each card contained ten thousand units of copper ore.
It was also a hard currency and one of the essential materials for lords.
Furthermore, if other Tech-side troops were to develop, these basic materials were indispensable. Currently, his only Tech-side troops were the Gene Forbidden Army.
But Su Ye knew he would definitely be able to recruit other Tech-side troops later. If he recruited a Hero Unit with research and development capabilities, then these materials would have a place to be used.
Su Ye put away all the resource cards.
He looked toward the biggest harvest of the day—the sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest—or rather, the biggest harvest of every day.
[Ding: Would you like to open the sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest?]
"Open it." Su Ye looked at the Abyss difficulty score treasure chest before him with anticipation.
[Ding: You have obtained troop refresh recruitment card x1]
[Ding: You have obtained barracks upgrade card x1]
[Ding: You have obtained origin crystal x1000]
[Ding: You have obtained Gold Coins x10,000]
[Ding: You have obtained the Lord's Exclusive Unique Relic: God Kings Treasury]
Su Ye fell into silence as he looked at the items he had received.
With this troop refresh recruitment card, he now had two in total, and he also had two barracks upgrade cards.
The gold coins and origin crystals were okay, but could only be described as average.
A Lord's Relic—this was a piece of exclusive equipment for a lord.
Relic grades were divided into: White, Cyan, Blue, Purple, Gold, Orange, Red, Five-Colored, Seven-Colored, Nine-Colored, and Unique!
Relics were different from wonders. wonders were architectural in nature, but relics could be anything.
Among them, Lord's Exclusive Relics were the rarest.
This meant it was something a lord could also equip.
Su Ye checked it immediately.
Name: God Kings Treasury
Grade: Unique
Attribute: Lord Exclusive
Trait 1: Copy (Can Copy any relic, weapon, or equipment touched! Unique-grade cannot be copied)
Trait 2: Elevate (Increases the level of collected or copied relics, weapons, and equipment by one grade. Unique-grade cannot be elevated!)
Trait 3: Projection (Can project collected relics, weapons, and equipment, possessing the traits of the original item)
...
Su Ye looked at the attributes of the God Kings Treasury—Copy, Elevate, Projection. Hmm, why did this feel similar to the ability of a certain King of Heroes?
It was even more broken.
[Ding: Would you like to soul-bind the God Kings Treasury? Once bound, it cannot be traded and will completely disappear upon death!]
"Bind." Su Ye did not hesitate. This was the first relic he had obtained, and it was Unique-grade; there was no reason not to bind it.
Although there were only three traits, all three were incredibly absurd.
"Copy, huh? I wonder if I can Copy the weapons Lilith and the others use?" Su Ye looked at Lilith and the others with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.
Lilith and her group all came with their own divine artifacts. Especially for Lilith and the others, their weapons were basically Unique or their own exclusive divine artifacts.
But he had to try whether it would work or not. What if it did? Then he would truly take off.
Although a lord didn't need to go to the battlefield, they still needed the ability to protect themselves. If they didn't even have that, they would be too much of a loser.
"Lilith." Su Ye called out directly.
A dark shadow descended from the sky and appeared before Su Ye. Her hair was still a bit damp, but it evaporated dry in an instant.