Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 969 218: Strengthening Sacred Treasures

The trait of Audrey [Twilight Highlands] is something Lin Rui has reviewed many times, its effects almost memorized by heart.

The main surprise for Lin Rui this time was the scale; Audrey, like a little hamster, kept hoarding troops for herself, with the army's size even surpassing Lin Rui's estimates by twenty percent.

In her army, units above Tier Six occupied eight brigades. These primarily consisted of Dark Temple Warriors who were promoted during battles against the Blood-colored Demon Shadow.

Additionally, there was a battalion of Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess under the blessing of Dark Origin and a battalion of Dark Temple Priests.

These soldiers were not just Elite-level or Heroic Spirit-level but had reached the Lord-level.

The Power of Dark Origin is an extremely precious blast fall. Besides elevating her contract items to Legendary-level, Audrey used the rest to strengthen the soldiers in these two battalions.

Especially the battalion of Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess, which Lin Rui specifically exchanged for Audrey, was reinforced by her using the Power of the Dark Origin.

Although enhancing soldiers' talent beyond the Elite-level doesn't provide Audrey with more gems, the increase in tier would indeed improve the tier of the gems.

Apart from these eight brigades of super-tier soldiers, Audrey also amassed seventeen brigades of Elite-level, Rare-level, and Heroic Spirit-level units.

Seventeen brigades, which is equivalent to a division plus five additional brigades.

Adding up, the forces directly under her jurisdiction now exceed two divisions.

Lin Rui glanced and immediately realized why it didn't quite match his estimates.

Among these seventeen brigades, only four brigades were slowly accumulated by Audrey like a little hamster, bit by bit eroding the Command Value.

The other thirteen brigades were hastily assembled by Audrey before the Territorial Essence was deployed, hanging under her Commander Attribute.

After all, given her current Commander Value, with the blessings of various traits, items, and blessings combined, she could indeed command a large army.

These soldiers above the Elite-level were also under the blessing of her Twilight Highlands trait, thus providing her with hundreds of thousands of Spiritual Gems from just a single wave.

The super-tier Spiritual Gems are undoubtedly exceptionally precious, with a market price of ten thousand Spirit Crystal Coins per piece not being outrageous.

In a cycle, selling these Spiritual Gems could net Audrey a lucrative gain of 40 million Spirit Crystal Coins.

If Lin Rui had not just scored billions of Spirit Crystal Coins, he truly couldn't have afforded so many Spiritual Gems.

With this income, Audrey's status as the richest person in the territory is firmly established.

After completing the transaction with her, Lin Rui turned to Caroline and said, "Have Groller craft more Clan Badges as soon as possible, equipping the entire army with super-tier Clan Badges at the fastest speed."

Groller was the Gray Dwarf Hero of the territory, although his tendencies were unbelievably lecherous, expressing interest in both the men and women of the Dark Elves; his craftsmanship remained very reliable.

The Radiant Hourglass also had an effect on him, so his craftsmanship had improved.

When thinking about the Radiant Hourglass, Lin Rui specifically checked the progress.

With Audrey's Twilight Highlands trait, Spiritual Gems have become one of the most important specialties of the territory.

Super-tier Spiritual Gems remain quite precious, primarily used for inlaying to enhance Clan Badges.

But the sub-five-tier Spiritual Gems produced by Audrey were primarily used to fill the Radiant Hourglass to accelerate its progress.

The activation prerequisites of the Radiant Hourglass have not changed, with Tier One Spiritual Gems counting as 1, Tier Two Spiritual Gems counting as 4, Tier Three Spiritual Gems counting as 16, Tier Four Spiritual Gems counting as 64, and Tier Five Spiritual Gems counting as 256.

However, the number required to activate this Radiant Hourglass is increasing every moment.

Even now, Lin Rui, without any manipulation, observed this number continuously climbing, the digits rolling endlessly like a waterfall.

However, due to the overwhelmingly large base, the initial digits remain relatively calm.

This number has already skyrocketed to 47,587 billion!

There are four digits after the ten thousand figure, even if they roll at thousands per second, it takes some time for the front numbers to change.

Calculating based on 50 billion, even using all five-tier Spiritual Gems would require nearly 200 million pieces.

Lin Rui couldn't help but click his tongue and asked, "This restriction of the semi-divine artifact is too severe, no wonder it can't be rated as a Divine Artifact. Activating it once, and wanting to activate it again next time is extremely difficult. I didn't even notice when it rapidly advanced the activation condition to such an extent."

Two hundred million Tier Five Spiritual Gems!

Audrey gains less than 30,000 Spiritual Gems in one cycle, it would take over 6,000 cycles to gather 200 million gems.

Caroline said, "The territory's population and area have significantly increased, especially with the addition of tens of thousands of elves and the Legendary Giant Dragon Presto, the consumption is naturally exceptionally massive. Moreover, with the accelerated cycles, the territory has also recruited substantial numbers of soldiers."

Lin Rui asked with concern, "Aside from Heilv Castle, how effective is recruitment elsewhere?"

"The Ogre Kingdom's prisoner camp is very effective, producing two Epic-level Celestial Punishment Hunters, four Rare-level Imperial Dawn Legion Mages, and fourteen Knights above Lord-level."

Caroline emphasized the Lord-level and above Knights because upon reaching Lord-level, they could advance via the Path of the Holy Grail to become Legendary Great Knights in the Golden Pansy Knight Order.

Lin Rui nodded and said to Caroline, "Don't rush these new recruits into the battlefield; let them first visit the Goddess Hall to improve their Luck Attribute, and then go to the Warlock Silver Tower to seek their fortunes. All territory soldiers may worship at the Warlock Silver Tower for free, which is a benefit freely granted by the territory to its soldiers."