Chapter 385: Chapter 83: Emperor’s Guard! Arms Dealer! Summoned Warhorse

[Level 3 Effect (Unlocked): As the highest-ranking emperor of a faction, when you have the fanatical support of the majority of the people in your territory, you can periodically inspect your soldiers and replace all "Low-level Recruitment Soldier Types" in your cities with "High-level Recruitment Soldier Types" of the same culture, or even specific recruitment soldier types of the same culture, such as "Royal Dragon Cavalry," "Kingdom Mages," and "Ancient Young Dragons." However, the greater the power disparity between the unit types, the smaller the number of soldiers that can be converted each time.]

[Upgrade Requirement: Has reached Level 100 and cannot be upgraded further.]

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[Summoned Warhorse (Lv. 3) Level 1 Effect: By blowing a whistle, no matter where your bound Mount is, what it is doing, or what kind of attack it is facing, it will instantly disappear and be teleported to your side to fight with you.]

[Level 2 Effect (Unlocked): Your number of bound Mount slots has now expanded to ten. Once successfully bound, they can all benefit from any of your Talent Abilities, skill effects, and Equipment Effects that apply to bound Mounts, including "Bloodthirsty Stack" and "Whistle Summoning." Currently bound Mount: Violent Bear Boss Valkyrie (1).]

[Level 3 Effect (Unlocked): After any of your bound Mounts die, they can be directly resurrected after a countdown. This is the highest form of resurrection ability, ignoring any level of the "Divine Gift of Sealed Resurrection" ability.]

[Upgrade Requirement: Has reached Level 100 and cannot be upgraded further.]

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[Arms Dealer (Lv. 3) Level 1 Effect: You can now use Gold Coins in the "Firearms Store" to directly purchase Otherworld Weapons and Otherworld Equipment you have already obtained. This allows you to equip your Divine Chosen Army and Loyal Native Creatures with powerful Otherworld Weapons and Otherworld Equipment. You can also directly purchase exclusive Dog Food to raise the level of Otherworld Weapons and Otherworld Equipment. The level increase from this Dog Food is affected by the "Dynamic Troop Equipment" Talent. Currently, Otherworld Weaponry and Conventional Weaponry can only be upgraded to a maximum of Level 5.]

[Level 2 Effect (Unlocked): You can now spend Gold Coins at the "City Clinic" to quickly heal all of your Divine Chosen Soldiers and Loyal Native Creatures. This will also completely remove all debuffs from them, including Divine Gift abilities like "Permanent Bleeding" and "Permanent Poisoning."]

[Level 3 Effect (Unlocked): Once a month, you can participate in a Sword Saint Challenge Tournament. If you succeed, you will gain the aid of a Cheating-level Hero with the "Sword Saint" Profession and also acquire that "Sword Saint’s" signature skill. The Sword Saint heroes appearing in subsequent Sword Saint Challenge Tournaments will be stronger and possess even more powerful signature skills.]

[Upgrade Requirement: Has reached Level 100 and cannot be upgraded further.]

"Holy shit!"

"This is badass!"

"Emperor’s Guard!"

"Summoned Warhorse!"

Qin Feng swore repeatedly, his eyes filled with shock, because both of them actually had a resurrection ability with no cost whatsoever! And it was the highest-priority form of Resurrection!

No matter what type or level of "Sealed Resurrection" Divine Gift the opponent had, it couldn’t be used against them!

They were practically Invincible!

Beyond that, the other effects of these two new Riding and Cutting Talents were just as outrageous, completely justifying the steep cost of over ten thousand Dragon Crystals for each upgrade.

Take the "Emperor’s Guard" Talent, for example. One of its basic effects was to significantly increase the various resource incomes of every city under his command.

Although Qin Feng was no longer short on these conventional resources, the true value of this effect lay in the future. As soon as his cities unlocked the production of rare, high-level resources, he could immediately use this Riding and Cutting Talent to boost their output, allowing his cities’ development speed to leave all rivals at the same stage in the dust.

Not only that, but the Talent’s basic effect also significantly enhanced the various Ability Values of his city garrisons, while simultaneously increasing the attack power and defensive armor of all city defense structures.

Whether facing the "Eight Realms Alliance Army" that was about to descend upon his city or the potential arrival of the Sky City’s Illusory Remnant Soul in the future, these offensive and defensive bonuses would play a crucial role.

Furthermore, the core ability unlocked by the "Emperor’s Guard" Talent at Level 2—forming the Emperor’s Guard unit—was just as outrageous.

This Royal Guard unit not only possessed the highest-priority resurrection ability, but all its members also received a substantial boost to their Ability Values.

Although it came with the restriction of having to "closely follow Qin Feng and undertake bodyguard duties," this minor drawback could be all but ignored when compared to the first two heaven-defying advantages.

Finally, the ultimate effect of upgrading the "Emperor’s Guard" Talent to Level 3 completely changed Qin Feng’s recruitment system.

It could directly replace the "Low-level Recruitment Soldier Types" in all of Qin Feng’s cities with "High-level Recruitment Soldier Types" of the same culture, or even specific elite soldier types from that culture.

Take the imperial cities of the Gulad Culture, for example. Originally, they could only recruit ordinary empire soldiers and the somewhat stronger Extraordinary Empire Soldiers.

Now, they could all be replaced in batches, according to a certain ratio, with "Lionheart Knights," "Holy Knights," "Heavy Armor Knights," "Earth Dragon Cavalry," and even the most insane "Divine Gift of Royal Dragon Cavalry."

Keep in mind, these were all exclusive, top-tier Soldier Types that only the highest-level core cities within each region had the right to recruit.

Previously, once Qin Feng had used up his weekly recruitment slots, he had no other way to obtain these top-tier Soldier Types besides slowly cultivating talented individuals among the Native Creatures who possessed similar Talents.

But now, with the Level 3 "Emperor’s Guard" Talent, Qin Feng could not only rapidly reduce the proportion of low-tier soldiers in his army, achieving a quantum leap in its overall combat power, but he could also seize this opportunity. He could drastically expand the numbers of high-level Divine Gift soldier types like the "Royal Dragon Cavalry" and "Ancient Young Dragons," whose strength far surpassed that of ordinary Divine Chosen Soldiers.

As for the Summoned Warhorse Talent...

Its initial effect at Level 1 was to grant bound Mounts like Valkyrie a "targeted Teleportation" function, allowing Qin Feng to summon them to his side at any time to help him in battle.

After upgrading it to Level 2, it simply increased the number of Mounts he could bind. For example, he could bind the Winged Dragon Beast he had been using recently as a new Exclusive Mount, or select a suitable Ancient Giant Dragon from the army of Ancient Giant Dragons and convert it into one of his Exclusive Mounts.

He could also choose new Exclusive Mounts from other groups of Demon Beasts.

He could even turn Ocean Giant Beasts like the Kraken and the Leviathan into his Exclusive Mounts.

Of course, strictly speaking, these extra Exclusive Mount slots weren’t the important part. What mattered was that these Exclusive Mounts could all benefit from half a stack’s worth of Qin Feng’s "Bloodthirsty Talent" effect. This would allow them to gain an incredibly thick Life Value bar through "diligence and hard work."

It also conveniently allowed Qin Feng, the "capitalist," to just lie at home and rake in a massive number of Bloodthirsty Stacks, enabling him to fire off hundreds of millions of "Multi-shot Arrows" in a single volley.

Most importantly, they could all benefit from the Level 3 "Summoned Warhorse" Talent effect.

They would directly obtain the highest-priority resurrection ability.

This way, Qin Feng would no longer have to worry about the most important beings around him accidentally dying in battle, nor would he have to spend the Maximum Life Value he had painstakingly accumulated through his Bloodthirsty Talent to pay the price for these unfortunate losses.

And finally, there was the Arms Dealer.

It was the most famous Chinese mod for the game Riding and Cutting 2.

Although its actual effects weren’t as outrageous as the previous two Riding and Cutting Talents that came with the "Divine Gift of Resurrection" ability, it was still incredibly powerful.

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