Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 1056 - 252: Blood Flower (Part 2)

Moreover, the traits here are even stronger.

When a priest falls in battle, the soldiers’ attributes of the entire squad gain an additional +2%. If all the priests perish, the soldiers’ attributes are effectively doubled before the battle concludes.

A soldier with 400 physique against a soldier with 800 physique, lagging in all aspects behind the opponent, may struggle to even break through defenses.

The key point is, this is only the motivation provided by a single priest, who also offers encouragement to the entire army.

If an army is dispatched with 1200 combat nuns, all soldiers in the army will receive an increase of 1200 points in divine damage!

When the Celestial Kingdom Armament deploys as a whole, a formidable army of 300,000 at the drop of a hat makes the enemy unable to resist the divine damage inflicted by the soldiers.

That’s why, when the Celestial Army moves out collectively, their combat strength is extremely formidable.

However, a solitary soldier might be unable to defeat an exceptional magical being of the mundane world.

Direction three and direction four are strategic developmental paths, the former intensifies economic capability, the latter significantly enhances military recruitment.

Overall, the value of direction three remains higher.

Direction four may be crucial in other territories, extensive training of basic infantry could yield rare-level warriors.

Training elite infantry might even produce Lord-level powerhouses.

But this capability is significantly overshadowed by Wutong’s edict in the Golden Pansy Domain.

Most of the citizens of the Golden Pansy Domain have high talent, and Caroline’s empowerment cannot break through to legendary level, thus lacking substantial enhancement depth.

It’s akin to a capability strengthened to a high degree where further enhancement provides very limited improvement.

Whereas in a novel direction, even slight enhancement could lead to qualitative leaps.

Just after reviewing Caroline’s traits, Lin Rui recalled another building in the territory.

[Hall of Oaths and Sacrifice: This hall allows the territory to activate an oath by offering a large quantity of sacrifices. For one cycle, it will receive the inspiring effects of the oath.]

[Wisdom Oath: Bright is this heart, pure and pure again. Wisdom expels evil, god obliterates demon aura. Trust in the Goddess, venerate and accomplish. Follow her illustrious commands, dispatch unruly ministers. Loyal and earnest, my sincerity illumines. Upon activation, all territory citizens increase wisdom value by +10%, spiritual strength by +15%, spiritual energy limit by +20%, spiritual recovery speed by +50%. Sacrificial cost: Tier Five Spiritual Gem * 300, Spirit Crystal Coin * 5000, Crystal * 5000]

[Virtue Oath: Uphold this noble virtue, make morality manifest. In all actions, only goodness is revered. With freedom at the core, unswayed by earthly cages. Spirit untainted by worldly dust, untouched by vulgarity. Humbly offer this being, Goddess is revered. Upon activation, all territory citizens increase willpower value by +10%, fixed damage reduction per instance equivalent to willpower value * 1.1 points, and rebound the opponent with willpower value * 1.2 points of divine damage. Sacrificial cost: Tier Five Spiritual Gem * 300, Spirit Crystal Coin * 5000, Mithril * 5000]

[Guardian Oath: Heard are the drums and horns, a thousand knights are dispatched. See the virtuous, strive for parity, attain high endeavor. When villains invade, my oath reigns for victory. Fierce foes fall, knights gallop. The goddess’s oath thus comes to fruition. Upon activation, all territory citizens increase physique by +10%, physical attack by +20%, critical strike rate by +10%, with attacks carrying 5% divine damage. Movement speed adjusts attack power disproportionately. Sacrificial cost: Tier Five Spiritual Gem * 300, Fine-level Equipment (Blue) * 100, Spirit Crystal Coin * 5000]

This has also expired, so Lin Rui selected the Guardian Oath, fortifying the territory’s army.

By the afternoon, the troops are assembled, advancing to the front of the [Central Courtyard Divine Palace].

The Central Courtyard Divine Palace is the exclusive legendary miracle building of the Human Empire, with a construction cycle of 3600 hours and has been completed under the blessing of the Territorial Essence.

Fortunately, its function [Spiritual Energy Reserve] can be augmented by the effect of the Territorial Essence [Historically Significant].

The Territorial Essence invested within this span has accumulated 24,500,000 units of storage energy in the Divine Palace.

Twenty-four million is undoubtedly four hundred million units short of its storage limit, but it’s enough to carry out [Forbidden Army Enhancement] for half a squad of soldiers.

One wave of enhancement can elevate the soldiers to legendary levels.

After enhancement, the palace provides a quota of 50,000 Forbidden Army soldiers, whose command value is halved.

This supports Wutong in eliminating all their command values, otherwise, a single Aries Gold Saint would swiftly consume 16384 points of command value, which is unsustainable.

Clearing the command value for such a soldier requires consuming 1,638,400 units of Spirit Crystal Coin, amounting to billions of units for a full squad.

However, under the effect of Sacred Treasure: Army of Justice and Tiger Wing Rune, this command value significantly decreases.

When it comes to building military might, Lin Rui has always been willing to invest, whether it’s eight billion Spirit Crystal Coins, or even eighty billion or eight hundred billion to forge an invincible army, sparingly.

As long as the territory persists, as long as supremacy exists, money is merely a number.

The assembled troops now stand before the Central Courtyard Divine Palace, receiving the sacred baptism.

[Function Five: Divine Baptism: Spiritual Purification: In front of the palace lies a baptism pool, where the baptized residents gain +300% corrosion resistance, divine damage +30 against evil creatures, all territory gain effects +5%, temporary gain effects +3% for one cycle.]

This [Divine Baptism] itself offers rather average results, but its ability to enhance other blessings makes it immensely powerful.

As the soldiers receive baptism, Audrey happily stands beside Lin Rui, asking, "Father, are you ready?"

"Not yet. Before entering the Desolate Domain World, we need to first complete a Blood Flower task."

Audrey grumbled, "Damn it, this task isn’t bound but allocated randomly to battlefields, or I would let Father see how strong my troops really are now."

Audrey has already reached Tier Eight; upon completing another promotion challenge, she will reach Tier Nine.

By the time she returns from the Desolate Domain World, she can attempt to resurrect and activate the Refined Race’s ultimate Master of the Wild Hunt, Shadow Moon.

Thus, Lin Rui smiled and said to her, "No problem, the promotion task will soon be completed, please prepare."

Audrey eagerly nodded, smiled and asked, "Father, shall we see who returns first?"

"Let’s test that then." After saying that, Lin Rui opened the promotion system.

[Blood Flower: Super-tier Promotion Task: Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the Empire, blood is its fertile ground. Want to ascend the ranks? Then slaughter! Shed blood across the Empire’s lands, no matter enemy or ally. Death in battle is tolerable; defeat unforgivable. Upon activating the promotion challenge, open a teleportation gate, and the rank ascender will be randomly sent to an Empire battlefield embroiled in fierce combat. Win the battle for the Empire to successfully ascend; defeat means falling forever among countless bodies.]

Upon task activation, he was immediately swept away by powerful attraction, transported to a fiercely contested battlefield.

The sky stained blood red by demon aura, countless demons descend from the heavens with burning flames, this city is at the brink of collapse, the Human Empire’s defense is on the verge of collapse as the thick swarm of demons rush into the city, fire erupts everywhere as monsters slaughter all races.

Lin Rui’s descent from the sky immediately brought tears of joy to the despairing defenders, while monsters madly roared and rushed at him.

Floating in mid-air, Lin Rui turned to look in all directions, he wondered how many soldiers from the Golden Pansy Domain had been teleported here.

Not that he needed their protection, but this time he would be the one to lead others quickly through the ascension.

He lazily reclined on the throne constructed from spiritual energy, his right hand propping his chin, with a snap of his fingers, a Celestial Divine Priest emerged, charging at the demons surrounding him.

In the next instant, the skies were filled with divine priest apparitions, effortlessly cleaving through the approaching demons.

The sky began to rain blood, with countless monster corpses and flesh cascading down everywhere. Above and below ground, all reflected the battle mirrors of the Celestial Divine Priest.