Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 450 - 205 Decree: Princess’s Blessing_2

Jill Meilun: "Shut up, fool! No one is interested in your agitation. What we need to discuss now is how to deal with the issue of being dragged onto the battlefield by Lin Rui at any moment."

Guy Can’t Coward: "What’s to fear! Just go for it."

Spirit Cave: "Go for whom? The Other Plane or Lin Rui!"

Xuexu the Young Wife: "Just saying! You’re all about to go to battle, yet here you are, fighting amongst yourselves. How do you expect to survive the first Plane War?"

Noesen Moonlight Forest: "Exactly. I think we should form a military committee with me as the supreme commander to ensure victory. Then together we can eliminate the cancer that is Lin Rui."

Qin Mo: Sin City: "Self-proclaimed strongest? How about a fight? Whoever wins gets to command."

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Lin Rui glanced at the chaotic civilization channel and immediately got a clear understanding of the enormous cost involved in this venture.

Though it hasn’t reached a hopeless final outcome yet, taking this step leaves no room for regret. Regardless, he must continue to strengthen the Territorial Essence and enhance his power with all his might.

He glanced at the effects of the new decree.

[Imperial Decree: Princess’s Blessing: The territory blessed at the Holy Spirit level grants all subjects a slight Holy Spirit level enhancement effect. When the blessing is active, it briefly distorts the causal lines. All soldiers’ Life Value +10%, Spiritual Energy Value +10%. When blessed by a Priest, the Princess’s Blessing effect triggers, granting a Sub-Invincible Shield lasting 1 second.]

After reading it, Lin Rui immediately understood the source of this Princess’s Blessing.

It should be a weaker and expanded version of Commander Wutong’s trait. Her Commander Trait is extremely strong, covering attack, defense, and status comprehensively, and improving greatly. For example, the first one is Life Value and Spiritual Energy Value both +100%. A Tier One soldier under her command has Life Value comparable to Tier Two. If critically injured, it will forcibly lock life for several seconds. Even if they die, they can continue to fight on the battlefield in Heroic Spirit form.

This Princess’s Blessing isn’t as strong as her Commander Trait. The effect is relatively single and at roughly one-tenth the strength.

But it can’t be beat for its wide range of effectiveness! It applies to all subjects and soldiers in the territory.

And the key is, it can stack with Wutong’s Commander Trait!

In the strongest scenario, the army of the Golden Pansy Domain would make one’s scalp tingle just thinking about it.

One swipe and there is the hard and invincible Sub-Invincible Shield, lasting a whole second!

High-tier ferocious battle prowess can slash out a storm of blades and axes in a second, but all that echoes are the ear-piercing invincible sounds.

After painstakingly cutting down the Life Value of the Golden Pansy Domain’s troops, a beam of blessing light flashes, and the about-to-be-slain soldier enters a Sub-Invincible State. The enemy can only watch in rage as the Golden Pansy Domain’s soldier remains impregnable, unscathed, while Life Value rapidly recovers during the invincibility, starting all over again.

Even severely pounding them into a critical state, with the Priest unable to heal in time and the next strike becomes fatal. The soldier immediately enters a locked life state! Ten seconds, enough to endure until the Healing Aura descends once more. My apologies, please start all over again.

If it were a fair competition, this situation would definitely break the balance!

But sadly, the real battlefield never cares about fairness. The enemy has to face the near-irrational army of the Golden Pansy Domain for a battle of Blood and Flesh Mountains and Rivers.

Of course, this is all about the whole army. For more elite combat power, the Healing Chain of the Heroic Spirit Level Crimson Chalice Battle Priestess can remain locked on a single soldier, such as Su Xi with the Overlord Body or the tireless Holy Grail Knight.

Keep such high-tier, high-talent units in Sub-Invincible State from start to finish.

Of course, in large-scale wars, the effect of this individual Sub-Invincible State may be limited.

Many forces indeed possess similar Celestial God Incarnation abilities, granting some soldier or hero invincibility for a period.

But the power of a single entity can hardly save the other lives in a battlefield of hundreds of thousands.

If other troops, even priests, are first killed, the individual Sub-Invincible State will be quickly broken. At most, it’ll drain the priests’ Spiritual Energy to the point of exhaustion.

Yet for decapitation or executing a breakthrough, it may prove quite effective.

At least for now, it resolves the worries of encountering the unmanageable Tier Nine units.

With Wutong’s blessing, Lin Rui didn’t rush into things.

Su Xi’s reasoning is also valid; after investing in the (small) Territorial Essence, any terrifying impact could potentially occur, so full preparation is best.

So Lin Rui plans to first use the current resources to bring one or two Strategic Treasures to the utmost under the Goddess Pendulum.

After some thought, Lin Rui decides to first enhance [Flesh and Metal Frenzy] and [Magic Secret Spell]

If it is Wutong’s decree whose relative effect is smallest on anyone, it’d surely be Audrey. Her undead always resist various territorial trait enhancements.

After all, they are dark summons and not human.

Otherwise, with her [Dark Energy Prayer] effect, keeping undead in a ten-minute Sub-Invincible Shield would definitely be invincible.

If she truly had this trait, she’d dare to single-handedly march onto Dragon Island and plunder all the treasures in the Giant Dragon’s nest.

So Lin Rui decides to compensate her, enhancing the undead’s toughness, helping the territorial army stall the opponent’s advance.

[Strategic Treasure: Magic Secret Spell (Divine Grace Blessed Five Times·Cannot be further enhanced): The Dark Mage can recondense broken spirits, repair broken bodies, allowing them to commit greater atrocities. All undead creatures linked by black magic, Life Value overall +180%, Physical Defense Value overall +150%, but fear flames, with flame damage +50%. Undead attacks will siphon blood from opponents to restore their own Life Value, and excess recovery beyond the Life Limit will be converted into a continuously existing Blood Shield]

[Strategic Treasure: Flesh and Metal Frenzy (Divine Grace Blessed Six Times·Cannot be further enhanced): Eradicate all resistors with the frenzy of flesh+metal. Melee unit quality 180%, overall melee damage +100%, overall melee physical defense +100%, Life Value Limit 150%, for every additional melee soldier on the battlefield, the Life Value Limit of all troops increases by 6 points, and Physical Defense by 1. (Note: The enhancement cannot exceed three times the Life Limit)]

Enhancing [Flesh and Metal Frenzy], like for Audrey’s undead, is to stabilize soldiers’ defense; as long as soldiers aren’t easily slain in one blow, they’re almost indispensable!

Just like the name of this Strategic Treasure, the domain’s army features are both robust and tough.

Right after Lin Rui finished enhancing these two Strategic Treasures, Caroline hurriedly stopped Lin Rui in his tracks: "Lord, could you please wait for a while before investing in the Territorial Essence?"

With curiosity, Lin Rui asked: "Why?"

"To maximize production. All subjects are currently fully harvesting the field’s yield, sowing the next month’s crops and Golden Pansy. If you can use the next batch of Territorial Essence after all the seeds are sown, it will no doubt yield the greatest effect."

"At the same time, Jilun Mage is accelerating the Gryphon pregnancy rate, striving to ensure all Gryphons are impregnated before you invest in the Territorial Essence."

Lin Rui paid little attention to this part.

The Gryphons on the Dragon Nest already delivered offspring at the same time they first triggered the [Celestial God Incarnation] trait, and the two subsequent cycles were enough for them to recover.

Fortunately, Jilun Mage’s intervention with his [Dark Energy Prayer] has allowed them to conceive again smoothly.

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