Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 950 - 208: Lin Rui’s Shortcut to Godhood (Part 2)

Advancing multiple tiers at once is impossible.

Although the territory has removed the limit barriers for tiers, for the human race, advancement challenges always exist.

Challenges before Tier Five are manageable, requiring only the defeat of a high-tier mirror image.

For territorial soldiers with territory traits and treasure bonuses, it’s a breeze.

Especially for soldiers at the Heroic Spirit Level or above, even a glance can annihilate a monster. Elite-level monsters, even if a tier higher, pose no threat to Heroic Spirit soldiers.

But challenges for Super-Tier advancements are completely different.

[Blood Flower · Super-Tier Advancement Task: Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the Empire, and blood is its fertile ground. Want to advance? Then go kill! Drench the Empire’s lands with blood, be it enemy or friend. Dying in battle is acceptable; losing is not. Once the advancement challenge is initiated, a teleportation gate opens, and the advancer will be randomly transported to a fiercely contested battlefield of the Empire. If they help the Empire win the battle, they succeed in advancing. Losing means falling with hundreds of thousands of soldiers into a sea of corpses and blood.]

Even someone as strong as Su Xi, a Legendary-level soldier, took two days and nights for this advancement challenge, narrowly escaping death.

Moreover, Su Xi wasn’t a single-attribute soldier; she truly accumulated resources, developed all attributes, and armed herself with extensive equipment. In the end, Lin Rui gave her almost all the sacred relics and legendary equipment, allowing her to reverse the battle situation single-handedly, completing the advancement task by sheer force.

This Blood Flower task isn’t always so perilous.

But no one knows where the soldiers of the Golden Pansy Domain will be teleported to in any given battle.

If they’re unfortunate enough to be sent to a high-tier battlefield, facing Tier Seven, Eight, or Nine demons and angels attacking an Empire fortress, even soldiers from the Golden Pansy Domain would struggle to change the situation.

This inevitably leads to a casualty rate.

This isn’t a casualty that can be resurrected; the reversal of mountain and river sacred relic requires a soldier’s corpse.

This condition has never changed. Lin Rui previously considered enhancing all sacred relics to see if the reversal effect could be stronger.

But this condition will not be altered.

Because this sacred relic imitates Wutong’s decree, it can never surpass Wutong.

Wutong himself needs the remains of soldiers to reverse mountain and river.

Once soldiers fall on foreign battlefields, a significant number are destined to perish.

And every Super-Tier soldier cultivated up to now has consumed vast resources of the Golden Pansy Domain!

Unless necessary, casualties shouldn’t occur without reason.

But war is the most uncontrollable thing. Where there’s an advantage, there’s also disadvantage.

And given the Empire’s vast territory, objectively speaking, in most situations, it should be on the defensive, at a disadvantage. Enemy forces are advancing, destroying fortresses, burning villages, besieging cities.

Of course, the task system isn’t so cruel as to throw the advancing soldiers into a hopeless city, expecting them to hold the city against demons, the green tide, and ratmen.

At least, they would only be teleported after the imperial provincial army launches a counterattack, and the conflict enters a small-scale battle.

But don’t misunderstand; this isn’t kindness from the system.

Super-Tier soldiers are precious resources for the Empire.

They shouldn’t die in meaningless battles.

Overall, when a territory has many Super-Tier soldiers continuously advancing, it’s salvation for the Empire.

This reminded Lin Rui of what was said by the Holy Knight at that time: the Empire survives because fresh blood continuously joins, allowing it to remain steadfast and its legacy unbroken.

Advancement of Golden Pansy Domain soldiers undoubtedly helps stabilize the situation, supporting buildings before they collapse.

Super-Tier soldiers actively joining battles might turn a likely defeat into victory, helping the Empire’s army achieve a turnaround.

Therefore, the Empire has many epics, many statues commemorating those who made great contributions in wars.

Such statues exist in almost every city, a testament to the Empire’s long legacy and frequent wars.

But for advancing soldiers, it’s not necessarily good news.

Even if they forcibly change the battlefield situation, the win rate isn’t guaranteed to exceed 50%.

The Empire is mostly on the defensive, occupying absolute advantage only in directions where elite forces advance.

Even considering the Golden Pansy Domain’s innate luck advantage, most troops participate in offensive battles.

The casualty rate might not be lower than 10%.

Advancement is like cultivation, going against the natural order, especially in the mortal world, where Tier Five should be the extreme. Each Super-Tier step pushes world limits.

Theoretically, each advancement involves trials and tribulations, survival of the fittest, with each level’s survival rate far less than 1%.

An elimination rate of 99% or 99.99% is normal.

The high advancement rate of Golden Pansy Domain soldiers is due to acquiring numerous human divine kingdom items early, along with Wutong’s bonuses, so the territory resembles a human divine kingdom, producing many Super-Tier soldiers.

But Lin Rui cannot accept even a 10% casualty rate.

After all, given a large enough base, even a small probability turns into a terrifying reality.

Out of ten thousand soldiers advancing, a thousand would die!

Losing a thousand Epic-level or even Legendary-level soldiers would drive Lin Rui insane.

Therefore, he must ensure large numbers of soldiers undertake advancement challenges simultaneously, ensuring enough Golden Pansy Domain soldiers on every warship, using their formidable strength and scale to secure victory.

Of course, if they could be transported to the same battlefield, it would be even better.

So what Audrey said about soldiers advancing easily is impossible. Considering safety, it’s best for a batch of soldiers to break through with Wisdom Value, then accumulate more resources to ensure their other attributes also catch up, at least not lagging too far behind.

Otherwise, during an initial advancement, traits might bridge gaps. By the second advancement, with Wisdom maxed out and every other attribute trailing the enemy by hundreds of points, with a total attribute disparity near a thousand points, how could they fight?

However, Lin Rui isn’t worried about their traits.

Their traits generally surpass opponents in both quantity and quality.

Lin Rui contemplated, spending forty billion Spirit Crystal Coins to buy forty thousand Books of Wisdom.

It seems like a lot, but once distributed among the troops, it’s quite limited.

Divided among ten thousand troops, each gets only 4 wisdom points, even among a thousand troops, just 40 wisdom points each.

But Lin Rui bought them anyway, intending to boost his own attributes.

Not to mention, throwing a few thousand Books of Wisdom at himself might elevate him to a near-Divine Spirit level, right?

The strongest in the territory has reached Tier Nine, so advancing himself to Tier Ten is justified.

He would be the territory’s strongest, even its divine protector!

Like Giant Dragon Presto’s status in its territory, with absolute strength shielding the entire force.

By then, Lin Rui would be a cornerstone of the Golden Pansy Domain and its strongest protector.

He is already on a clear path to becoming a Divine Spirit and should attempt approaching divine levels, protecting the entire territory like a divine being.

Of course, even a divine being, if alone, can be schemed against by enemies and fall.

No matter how strong, loyalty from an army and armed force is necessary.

Otherwise, his advancement tasks might be fraught with danger. Should he encounter a strong demon, backed by an army,

Lin Rui would not only have to contend with high-tier powerful entities but also fight enemy troops, which might prove difficult to overcome.