Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 382: Knights Templar

Liang Yuzhi took away the four magic items and Magic Notes that needed appraisal. Appraising them wouldn't be difficult for her; more importantly, it was an incredibly vital opportunity to grind experience, grind Destiny Grids, and grind knowledge.

Therefore, it might take a month before she could provide the results.

Li Wei wasn't in a hurry regarding this at all. This was exactly how it should be; if he had benefits and didn't give them to his own people, what kind of person would that make him?

Following that, he took out a few more days, having Zhao Xuanxuan take the lead to upgrade ten Two-Star Blacksmiths to Three-Star, and through the recommendations of Nelson and Linus, upgraded fifty Two-Star Artisans to Three-Star.

This single wave consumed sixty Bronze Tokens, which was thirty Black Iron Tokens.

His inventory was rapidly decreasing.

Including the upgrades for the two Three-Star Magic Wells previously, he had used up 70 Black Iron Tokens in one breath. Currently, he only had 65 Black Iron Tokens left on hand.

He could only say that developing a territory was truly a bottomless pit.

"Draw out forty Three-Star Artisans, ten Three-Star Blacksmiths, and add fifteen Two-Star Blacksmiths; have all of them join the Enchanted Blacksmith Workshop to start forging Enchanted Equipment and Enchanted Weapons. Xuanxuan, you will be in charge of this. Nelson, Linus, you two must provide your full support without fail."

Li Wei issued an important directive. This carried strategic significance.Because with the buff of magic and the buff of extraordinary powers, the ancient combat unit known as cavalry could still shine brilliantly.

Afterward, Li Wei gave Zhao Xuanxuan five more Black Iron Tokens. These were for her to upgrade herself. On one hand, it was to upgrade to 4+4+4+4; on the other hand, it was in hopes that she could craft a Fusion Two-Star Attribute Card so she could reach Level 2 Awakening in all attributes as soon as possible.

This was the minimum standard to enter a Cross-Border Mission.

After arranging all this, Li Wei went to the Two-Star Temple. Today, this place had already become the emotional and spiritual refuge for all freemen. Although it hadn't gone so far as to produce Fanatics, everyone seemed to have gained the motivation to keep living, feeling as if their spirits had attained salvation.

And the Temple Priest Mark had also become dignified and righteous-looking—oh no, rather, he had gained a few degrees of holiness.

Now he didn't even need to speak, nor was he called Mark anymore. He only needed to sweep his compassionate gaze around to make people's minds feel at peace.

However, upon seeing Li Wei, Mark actually spoke.

"Great Viscount Blaze, the Pioneer under divine revelation, the Holy Knight of Light who pierces the darkness, I carry the divine revelation of the Gods to converse with you. May I ask what troubles and needs you have?"

At this moment, Mark's entire body was covered in a bright radiance, and even the words he spoke were extremely ethereal and mysterious.

Of course, this was what others saw.

From Li Wei's perspective, it was much clearer and more straightforward.

[Detected that you are carrying 2000 Campaign Points. You can make the following choices.]

[Consume 1000 Campaign Points to upgrade the current Temple to Three-Star. Note: This is one of the necessary conditions to upgrade to a Level 5 Territory, and additionally, an indispensable link in the City Building Mission—although your current territory is only a Level 2 Territory.]

[Consume 1000 Campaign Points—building upon the previous condition—to establish the Knights Templar, and allow one devout Temple Priest to upgrade into a Paladin. Description: The Paladin will automatically resurrect seven days after death, equipment will not drop, must provide their own warhorse, armor, and weapons, overall combat strength is Five-Star, possesses extremely strong suppressive effects against Magic Zombies, and can make Ability Users suddenly see the error of their ways and repent!]

[Description: If the Temple temporarily has no Temple Priest, the Paladin can also act as the Priest to host the normal operations of the Temple.]

[Description: For every 1000 Campaign Points consumed, an additional Paladin slot can be opened. The maximum number of Paladins a Three-Star Temple can possess is five.]

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Eh?

Campaign Points actually had this use? Li Wei had always thought he had to go to the Royal Capital to use them.

Then there was nothing to hesitate about.

Now was precisely the time to disregard everything and upgrade overall strength. Furthermore, if he remembered correctly, back in Kakh City there was also a Three-Star Temple, but whether there was a Paladin inside, he didn't know.

High probability there wasn't.

After all, Campaign Points weren't easy to obtain.

Were those Neanderthal Cross-Border Players that easy to kill?

It was only because Li Wei fought a home-turf battle with favorable timing, favorable terrain, and favorable human conditions that he luckily managed to get 2000 Campaign Points.

In the future, when executing Cross-Border Missions, it was possible he wouldn't even manage to scrape together five hundred points in a single mission.

Those were Li Yue's original words...

Then there was nothing left to say. Upgrade to a Three-Star Temple, establish the Knights Templar, and change Mark's profession to Paladin.

As 2000 Campaign Points were completely consumed, a practically blinding magnificent divine light crashed down from beyond the planet, enveloping the entire Temple for a full nine seconds. Although it didn't change a single brick or tile of the Temple, it had already become evidently different.

As for the original Priest Mark, within that divine light, he grew even taller, more compassionate, and the divine light even condensed into his armor and weapons.

In an instant, he had already transformed into a Paladin measuring two meters tall and wearing heavy Holy Armor.

And he possessed Five-Star combat strength.

He would resurrect after death!

This was settled!

The next second came the routine region-wide announcement!

[Region-Wide Announcement!]

[Pioneer No. 11 Li Wei upgraded a Three-Star Temple and established a Knights Templar!]

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Haha, how cool!

Soon, Liang Yuzhi and Zhao Xuanxuan both hurried over.

"Wow, Little Wei, this is a real Paladin. You really are—"

Liang Yuzhi didn't even know how to describe it. A Paladin! Five-Star combat strength, can automatically resurrect! Well, the City Building Mission was secured.

Because even Weir City only had fifty Paladins.

"Next, have Mark patrol further areas. Have him go to that small county town to the north. Arrange ten cavalrymen and a squad of soldiers for him, plus five electric trucks equipped with steam generators and loaded with supplies. We can use that small county town to the north as our new base; it's the valley exit of the northern mountain ranges, easy to defend and hard to attack. We need more population, Little Wei, and a Paladin—this is a massive killer weapon for refreshing the population!"

"Alright! We'll do just that."

Li Wei also felt this idea was fantastic. Although he knew that expanding the territory was a dose of poison in the short term, to delay the territory's bankruptcy in the future, he had to figure out a way to occupy more land.

It was a dilemma of a choice.

After arranging these matters, Li Wei returned to Riverside Fortress. He had to continue building water conservancy facilities and grind Farmer Destiny Grids. No matter what, this was the fundamental root.

Time flew by, and a month passed.

It was already July.

In this month, alongside the completion of the Southern Fortress and the garrisoning of troops, Li Wei's territory successfully upgraded to Level 3, simultaneously outputting the conditions for upgrading to a Level 4 Territory.

As expected, he needed to upgrade the Temple to Three-Star, and at the same time, he needed to fulfill two conditions.

One was to increase the territory's population to 3000 people. However, this included Vassal Territories—which meant adding Hathaway's territory's population. Li Wei only needed to round up another seven to eight hundred freemen and it would be enough.

Then the other condition was requiring a Three-Star Magic Well.

Well then, the two required conditions had been achieved; only the last condition remained.

Li Wei guessed that to upgrade to a Level 5 Territory—that is, successful City Building—he would highly likely need a One-Star Mage Tower, while the population might need to break past 5000 people.

In any case, it shouldn't be a massive issue.

Currently, after a month of hard-fought efforts, Riverside Fortress and the Great Bridge on the south bank had been successfully completed and were basically open to traffic.

But right now had also basically entered the rainy season. Experiencing rainfall every two or three days caused the river's water level to surge fiercely by nearly three meters.

Even Riverside Fortress had to enter a state of emergency flood control.

The simple wooden bridge on the river surface had long vanished without a trace. In truth, this wooden bridge was only used for a little over ten days, but it had played an important role. It laid a solid foundation for the early construction of the Earth Fortress, such as carving out ascending mountain paths, pouring foundations, slicing the mountain body, and so on.

If it wasn't for that, now that the rainy season had arrived, the construction schedule would have had to be delayed.

But now, with the Great Bridge turning the north and south banks into a thoroughfare, supplies, personnel, and armies could pass leisurely. This held strategic significance.

Right now, it was precisely four in the afternoon. A massive torrential downpour had just ended, and a new flood peak was passing through the river.

The river's surface water level had already risen to five meters. This height was already approaching the north bank's dikes, and even preliminarily threatened the south bank's dikes.

Because of this, even Hathaway had to interrupt her Mage Tower research and lead several hundred people on patrol along the south bank.

As for the north bank, it was led by Li Wei and Thomas, taking several hundred people on tense patrols to ensure no dike breaches occurred.

However, the surging flood was a piece of good news from another angle, because it also brought massive quantities of free-floating Chaotic Magic Particles.

For instance, Li Wei's Three-Star Magic Well had so far siphoned 42 units of Magical Power.

Even Hathaway's Magic Well downstream—which could only eat the leftover scraps and cold soup—had currently accumulated 18 units of Magical Power.

Additionally, with the flood surging, some mutated large fish or mutated aquatic creatures would come running down with the flood to cause trouble, and thus logically were slain.

These were all excellent magical materials + excellent high-quality food.

"Report! Lord, thirty kilometers upstream, there is a dike collapse. It is suspected a Level 5 mutated creature is stirring up wind and waves!"

A soldier sped over on horseback to report!

Following behind him was a Three-Star Hunting Pet crow.

He was one of the cavalrymen who had begun training two months ago. At present, his riding skills were already quite consummate, and he was on the verge of obtaining a Cavalry Card.

And these Hunting Pets were their eyes and ears.

"Adai!"

Upon Li Wei's order, Adai—who had been resting and storing up energy—flapped its wings and took flight. The next second, it dove down, grabbed the Hathaway on the south bank, and soared into the sky.

This was the special configuration on their end for flood control and emergency rescue.

Adai could now achieve speeds of two hundred kilometers per hour, extremely fast. And Hathaway was a Spellcasting Witch of the Ice magic system. Dike collapse? An Ice Magic spell sent down could temporarily control the situation and ensure a total collapse didn't happen.

On this end, Li Wei immediately got into his vehicle, stepped on the gas pedal, and sped rapidly upstream along the dike road.

Sitting in the vehicle was Thomas. To plug up a collapsed dike, there was no one more suitable than him.

And following behind were a full twenty large trucks fully loaded with flood control supplies, as well as twenty passenger buses packed with five hundred people, all on standby, racing with lightning speed.

However, he didn't know why, but Li Wei felt a bit uneasy at this moment. This Level 5 mutated creature was probably somewhat formidable.

(End of this chapter)