novelraw Chapter 231 - 8: The King’s War Begins, Scramble for the Stone of the Gods
Chapter 231 - 8: The King’s War Begins, Scramble for the Stone of the Gods
A full month after the "Strongest Lord" event ended, the system notification for the "King’s War" event finally arrived.
[Event Name: King’s War]
[Event Mode: Help the native power you have pledged allegiance to (limited to nations), or the nation you yourself have founded, to defeat or subjugate the other nations within the Lord World and become their sole ruler.]
[Your Current Faction: Holy Empire]
[Successor to the "Heaven’s Chosen Ruler" title upon winning the King’s War: Tingfeng (His Majesty the Emperor of the Holy Empire)]
[Currently Declared War On: Gulad Empire]
[Current Allies: None]
[Current Subjugated Powers: Minotaur Kingdom, Forest Tribes]
[Current Neutral Powers: Ventecenia Kingdom, the Island Nations, the Dragon Realm (Lizardman Kingdom, Sub-dragon Tribe), other minor powers (No information available)]
[Note: As you are a contender for the "Heaven’s Chosen Ruler" title in this event, you will not participate directly in the King’s War, nor will you receive event points or point-based rewards for killing enemies. However, upon victory, you will receive the "Heaven’s Chosen Ruler" title, along with its corresponding title bonuses and an Exclusive Talent.]
No one had ever tried to challenge the King’s War event by founding their own nation.
Therefore, Qin Feng hadn’t known that as a contender for the Heaven’s Chosen Ruler title, he wouldn’t be able to personally participate in the King’s War, nor would he be able to claim the individual or victor’s ranking rewards after the event.
However, considering the "Heaven’s Chosen Ruler" title came with additional effects and an Exclusive Talent, Qin Feng came to terms with it.
Besides, the final rewards would surely be much better than the standard Event Rewards.
In addition, the Lord System also released a special announcement, one that hadn’t appeared in many of the previous rounds of the Lord Game.
[At the conclusion of this round’s "King’s War" event, the decennial "Stone of the Gods" scramble will begin.]
[Stone of the Gods (Mythical Treasure): Collect all the Divine Stone Fragments to obtain the "Divinity Ascension" qualification, which allows one’s Mythical Level Profession to break past level 100 and grants one of the tickets to enter the "Divine Domain."]
[Rules for the Stone of the Gods Scramble: A Divine Stone Fragment (each of the Lord Worlds created this year will possess one, for a total of 12, corresponding to one new world per month) will appear within the territory of the nation that wins the King’s War. All Lord Players may compete for it... The player who obtains a Divine Stone Fragment will receive the Plane coordinates and real-time location of all other fragment holders. After the third stage of the Lord World begins, they can use the Stone of the Gods to temporarily invade other Lord Worlds (this is not the permanent migration of the fourth stage, and includes no migration protection or penalties) to seize the Divine Stone Fragments owned by others. Upon a successful seizure, two smaller Divine Stone Fragments will merge into a one-sixth medium Divine Stone Fragment. The Lord Player who ultimately collects all the Divine Stone Fragments will permanently possess the Stone of the Gods (bound).]
[Note: Lord Players without a Divine Stone Fragment, especially those from older Plane Worlds, can rely on other sources of intelligence to find the fragments’ specific locations and join the scramble. As long as they manage to seize a single Divine Stone Fragment, they will immediately receive the detailed coordinates of all other fragment holders.]
The Stone of the Gods.
Qin Feng had already looked into it.
He had wondered if his sister had gone to the post-level-100 "Divine Domain," colloquially known as the fifth-stage world.
But the members of the Art Alliance told him that Qin Yao had long since earned the right to enter the Divine Domain. She had only stayed behind because she was worried for the safety of her Alliance companions, the ones who had fought and bled by her side all this time. That was why she had deliberately held back from entering the Divine Domain, remaining instead in an ordinary, fourth-stage Lord World.
If Qin Yao had been planning to enter the Divine Domain, knowing her personality, she would have certainly notified everyone in advance. She never would have just given a few hasty instructions and then completely vanished without another word.
However, since Qin Yao hadn’t taken her other Alliance companions with her, it meant that wherever she went, it was certainly not a simple place that Lord Players below level 100 could reach.
Otherwise, after enduring so many dangers and hardships with her companions from the Art Alliance, it made no sense for her to abandon them to face unknown risks all by herself.
That was precisely why Hungry Wolf and the others had urged Qin Feng to quickly increase his own strength. He needed to reach the fourth stage of the Lord World, "migrate" to their Plane, and join them in searching for other ways to break the level 100 limit...
’The Stone of the Gods isn’t so bad,’
’After all, the scramble for it doesn’t involve those powerful Native Creatures. It’s purely a power struggle among Lord Players.’
’With my current personal strength and the army under my command, aside from Mumu, who’s hiding some kind of heaven-defying Lord Talent, no other Lord Player is a match for me.’
’The King’s War is the real trouble.’
’From what I know so far,’
’the Gulad Empire’s conventional army alone numbers in the millions.’
’Their Dragon Cavalry total is over three thousand.’
’They have over ten thousand other Extraordinary Soldier Types, maybe even twenty or thirty thousand for all I know.’
’So, the only reason they didn’t steamroll the northern Forest Tribe and Minotaur Kingdom in one go was because they chose not to, not because they lacked the strength...’
’On top of that, there’s the Divine-level Talent, ’Destiny Team,’ which Flame Emperor Galukasa awakened at the same time as Fenrir. It can dramatically increase the growth rate of his native armies.’
’More importantly, this special Talent seems to grow stronger over time.’
’In the long run, the numbers of both their ordinary Extraordinary Soldier Types and their top-tier Extraordinary Dragon Cavalry will only continue to grow.’
’And,’
’it’s not just native powers like Flame Emperor Galukasa that are hard to deal with.’
’The Lord Players who swore allegiance to Flame Emperor Galukasa also get to enjoy the ’Destiny Team’ Talent Bonus, allowing them to transform all the grunts under their command—currently at the Zero-star (Purple) and Zero-star (Gold) stages—into high-quality Extraordinary Soldiers.’
At this thought, Qin Feng couldn’t help but sigh.
Although Fenrir also possessed an identical "Destiny Team" talent, her status was no longer Her Majesty the Queen of the White Wolf Empire. She was now Qin Feng’s personal hero and simply didn’t meet the criteria to have others pledge allegiance to her.
As a result, her "Destiny Team" talent, a scaling-type talent, was basically useless.
Of course,
Qin Feng possessed "Unit Upgrade," "War Merit Enfeoffment," "Survival of the Fittest," and other such Riding and Cutting talents.
To him, a talent named "Destiny Team"
was of little consequence.
But for Lord Players like MC and Mumu who had chosen to swear fealty to the Holy Empire,
their situation was truly difficult.
And such a difficult situation meant that most Lord Players would not readily join the Holy Empire’s faction.
Yet they still wanted more Event Rewards and victory rewards.
In that case,
the final result would be that the other Lord Players would choose to band together against the Holy Empire.
Under the buffs from the various Destiny Heroes’ "Destiny Team" talents, the number of their Extraordinary Forces would continuously grow, and they would all be 100% loyal Divine Chosen Soldiers who couldn’t be converted by the Riding and Cutting system.
The later it got,
the more disadvantaged Qin Feng’s national faction, with its smaller number of players, would become.
After all, while he could rely on "Village Management" for continuous Void Recruitment and could also convert loyal Native Creatures into Divine Chosen Soldiers,
that efficiency could never compare to the Void Recruitment of several thousand Lord Players combined.
’It seems...’
’I’ll have to end this quickly...’