Chapter 731: Chapter 474: Frosty Winter Challenge Ends, Legion 1.1 Rule Update

[The above is the complete update content of the rules for Legion version 1.1]

[Please strive to maintain your development. Sixty days after landing, the region will undergo its first preliminary adjustment, which will last 4 to 12 hours through a Time Stop across the entire region]

[A second adjustment will occur one hundred and fifty days after landing, lasting 6 to 18 hours via a regional Time Stop]

[These adjustments will comprehensively consider the development status of legions within each region, the number of Lords of Death, and Free People lords who have lost their territory, and will readjust the total number of lords and the distribution range within the region]

[Detailed phased announcements will be provided at that time]

The system’s prompt came to an abrupt halt here.

There were actually only a handful of rule changes in the Legion version 1.1.

This rule update was merely a response to the increasingly evident conflicts over territory ranges among legion members.

Take Zong Shen as an example. According to the Territory Level, his territory range is a circular area with a diameter of 16 kilometers, covering a full 200.96 square kilometers of land.

This territory area, no matter how you look at it, is not associated with being "small."

But the actual use of the territory is not so, because the legion 1.0 rules only allowed the recruitment of lords within the Legion Commander’s territory range as legion members.

This led to Zong Shen’s territory being almost entirely surrounded by his own people, with forty to fifty people within the 200.96 square kilometers of land.

These legion members invisibly squeezed Zong Shen’s territory.

This problem cannot be resolved in a short time, but as the legion members, including Zong Shen himself, continuously develop, conflicts are continually being nurtured.

With the advent of the new rules, this problem will be effectively alleviated.

Because in the region, from the initial ten thousand lords, there are not even seven thousand now.

They either died from challenges or perhaps from wild monsters, ruin traps, indigenous people, mutual conflicts, diseases, accidents...

There are indeed too many factors in this world that can lead to the demise of lords.

Apart from death, those whose Lord’s Courtyards were destroyed and who lost their territories will also lose their "lord" status.

In other words, currently, the region has 30% to 35% more vacant land than when it first landed.

Moreover, the subsequent recruitment of legion members is not restricted by territory range.

It is foreseeable that the future will inevitably be a period of large-scale development and integration within the region’s legions, with internal cooperation and external competition among the legions becoming prominent.

In addition to this, this announcement also provided the timings for the two regional adjustments.

These are scheduled for sixty days after landing and one hundred and fifty days after landing, respectively, indicating two large-scale adjustments.

The specifics will only be known upon seeing detailed announcements at the time.

Because the Lord System has not reached a conclusion yet, it also needs to finalize its adjustment strategies based on the then-existing situation.

Zong Shen stared at the announcement text in deep thought. He had already gotten used to pondering and speculating on every change of rules.

In the upcoming period, legion development will be crucial.

He originally planned to take the Lone Ranger route because, for Zong Shen, the advantages of joining forces were limited and not as apparent as for general lords.

Simply put, with the Guide Module, he could do quite well on his own and maintain a fast-paced development speed.

He created the legion not out of subjective desire but because it was the trend of the times.

Clearly, the Lord System introduced the "Legion" feature to enforce collaboration and alliance among lords.

In this situation, if Zong Shen goes against the tide, he’ll easily miss significant development opportunities.

No matter how powerful a Lone Ranger is, they need a long development period like any other lord.

Facing a combined force of lords, how many can a strong Lone Ranger withstand, a thousand? Five thousand? Or even ten thousand?

Even if a lord has only a few dozen warriors, after joining forces, it can form a force of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Can you withstand it?

It’s precisely because of human selfishness that the "Legion" is needed as a bond.

Based on the Lord System’s rules, an absolute iron line rule is established.

Zong Shen is not a reckless fool. He doesn’t want to go against the lords; this is their game, and everyone is a fish swimming in the river.

When there’s no qualification to leave the river, one must obediently play by the rules.

Moreover, an important factor is that legion development actually has minimal impact on Zong Shen’s personal development.

And he has Jiang Yi as an agent, so he doesn’t need to waste time on the legion’s trivial affairs.

Currently, some advantageous content has already appeared in the legion, indicating that the Lord System encourages competition and development among legions.

This is truly a trend of the times. Not only does Zong Shen have to play, but he must play well and masterfully.

Besides the above, Zong Shen also noticed one point: the changes brought by the Frosty Winter Period.

Signs of indigenous interference have appeared not only in the Sarand Sultanate in the continent’s south.

Similar situations have occurred in many other parts of the continent. Perhaps the indigenous people have not yet intervened, but they have certainly noticed many unusual situations among the lords.

Obviously, from the current situation, the fuse has just been lit.

To spread across the entire continent, or until the eventual explosion, there’s still quite a bit of time, and we’ll have to see if the Lord System introduces any new surprises.

Combining the results of the challenges with some parts mentioned in Chen Rui’s words and guide hints, Zong Shen has reason to believe that these are due to the intervention of the Lord System.

It has brought forward the Frosty Winter Challenge and relaxed confidentiality restrictions, representing a change and a test.

So what is the variable that causes changes in the Lord System?

It’s all an unknown mystery.

However, traces of clues have vaguely formed.

He quietly pondered.

When he returned to his senses, the Time Stop status had ended.