Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?-Chapter 267 - 269: Prelude to Ascension

Chapter 267: Chapter 269: Prelude to Ascension

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“Hmm, I know,” Qin Muye said unconcernedly.

“Damn, does this mean I’ll hit a level cap again soon?”

“I still have two profession slots left, I wonder if I can mix in a better profession, preferably of the Epic rank.”

“Settle the territory’s affairs as quickly as possible, the World of Shadows truly awaits us,” Qin Muye spoke.

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“Yes, master, I’ll arrange everything promptly. It’s just that recently, some Titan Divines seem to be scheming around us,” Black Hand said.

“Schemes? Better be careful, those Divine beings aren’t known for their integrity,” Qin Muye remarked as he opened the territory panel, which showed no change.

“Before we open it, announce to outsiders that I’m breaking through in strength and shouldn’t be disturbed. Then, after everything’s settled, we’ll head to the World of Shadows.”

“How about this, unlock the Exotic Realm Lock, and let the Floating City enter plane mode to hide during this period,” Qin Muye suggested.

“I just hope that when I reach level 50, the Ultimate Truth of All Things can help me get this Wisdom Profession Talent, Diligence,” he hoped.

“Master, the territory has been completely arranged. The newly born 500,000 Spirit Monsters have orderly entered various industries, although the impact might be somewhat significant,” Black Hand reported.

[Book Mountain Path: Increases extra experience gained by 50% per level.]

[Abundant Resources: All production in the territory increases by 5%.]

The advancement task at level 50 requires Ordinary Level troops to count numbers. It’s not too late to recruit new Spirit Monsters until the other conditions are met.

For instance, a hero with an internal affairs-type Epic profession would have various powerful countermeasures as Talent, and might even be able to increase Talents. However, Black Hand couldn’t do it, as his Talents were limited unless enhanced by Qin Muye as in this case.

For example, now, the 500,000 Spirit Monsters needed to be trained to Elite level, becoming combat troops, logistics troops, etc.

After all, the previous systems of energy and power were built on a rank 5 Floating City; now that it’s rank 6, it could fly, but the previous securities were gone.

Not just Black Hand, all the templates for Spirit Monster heroes were synchronously upgrading from the 4th generation Dragon Blood Spirit Monsters to the 5th generation Elemental Spirit Monsters.

And now, his territory was also developing at a crazy speed; after reaching rank 5, the expanse of his Different Plane Floating City grew tenfold, a truly massive entity.

As for combat power, there’s no need to mention that Elite Level meant seasoned veterans, while Ordinary Level represented raw recruits. How could they possibly compete?

Compared with various Lord Talents Qin Muye had, it was still far too inadequate, and Qin Muye reckoned their potential wouldn’t be very high either.

Black Hand walked in with twenty slender tentacles hanging behind him, and a pale blue Elemental Life floated behind him, its upper body muscular, the lower half like mist melding into Black Hand’s body.

Black Hand soon took an interest in a Professional Talent called Book Mountain Path, which, similar to the Boundless Sea of Learning, added extra experience gained.

He received one Talent Ascension and two professional slots, as well as a self-selected Professional Lord Talent and a self-selected Lord Talent.

In terms of production, Elite Level logistical troops can produce nearly several times the resources compared to Ordinary Level troops.

Oh, and resources can’t be mined indiscriminately, after all, most of them are actually manifestations of the Gaia Mother Goddess.

Ordinary Level and Elite Level are not on the same level, Qin Muye couldn’t possibly keep 500,000 Spirit Monsters at Ordinary Level over such a minor issue.

Qin Muye could only hold a laissez-faire attitude and use it casually.

Qin Muye now converts 1 point of Experience into 120.3 points of Experience. Considering the amount of energy-type buildings within his Different Plane Floating City that can provide immense Experience, this effectively multiplies his Experience gain by a hundredfold, allowing him to reach level 50 in one day, but he is sure to get stuck on the advancement task.

Qin Muye couldn’t really turn hostile, especially since the other party was stronger than him. He estimated that although he had reached rank 5 and could easily fight native inhabitants of rank 6, there was still quite a distance from rank 7, which seemed to be a watershed.

Qin Muye also noticed a problem, some Lord Talents didn’t seem to be enhancing, like Wisdom Guide that ensures a minimum of Advanced Skill level obtained every level, and the Wise Man Professional Talent acquired every 10 levels alongside the ascending of all Talents through Ultimate Truth of All Things, as well as the newest Ghost Shadows, which were not fortified and remained the same as before.

If that really happened, he would be able to save himself a lot of trouble, at least he would have a better grasp on his next self-selected profession.

Now, Black Hand wasn’t doing things personally but was making grand strategic plans and then gradually having them executed by various ranks through coordination and planning within the Magic Network.

The chaining of four Talents only goes to show how deserving it is of being an epic profession; it’s just extravagantly powerful.

Although Black Hand is a hero, he is essentially a Spirit Monster, so naturally, he too had been transformed into a Heroic Spirit Monster modeled after Elemental Spirit Monsters.

The so-called shock doesn’t refer to causing various disruptions in the industry, but rather to the issue of there being too many people and having difficulty arranging for their placement.

Therefore, many buildings also need to be replanned, and even resource buildings require a new round of additions, not to mention that the energy section of the Floating City also needs significant optimization.

So such a little boost, when put into the territorial enhancement, is just like a drop in the ocean; any one of the Professional Talents of those Spirit Monsters specialized in production can easily overwhelm it.

His advancement quest will surely include the option of a Rank 6 domain, within which many conditions are lacking, making direct advancement impossible.

He also realized that now, with a proper foundation in place, taking on a Rare Level profession would more likely be redundant. It’s not that Rare Level professions aren’t attractive, but if other Lords are using Epic Level and he’s using Rare Level, wouldn’t he be falling behind?

He also discovered that most of the Talents in the Wisdom profession are chain-type and require various prerequisites. There are plenty of Talents, but the means to acquire them are too few.

His Rare Level profession’s combat power is close to that of an Epic Level profession, but that’s only in terms of combat power. Indeed, in combat, it seems to be the case, but it doesn’t mean its Talents are better than those of similar types, especially since the same type of Epic professions have much more potent targeted Talents.

Now for every additional 10% Experience Attribute gained, he can get a 1500 point Magic Shield. His Learning Ability, Enlightenment, Endless Sea of Study, and Book Mountain Path combined give him an Experience multiplier of 12030%, which equals a Magic Shield Value of one hundred eighty thousand.

Now he doesn’t want just any profession; it wouldn’t be wise to fill every profession slot merely because they exist.

Back when he was Rank 1 and 2, the disparity really wasn’t big, but starting from Rank 4, the difference between each Rank began to increase significantly.

Otherwise, if he still used the old template, he would have suffered a great loss.

If it weren’t for the fact that another Professional Talent, Diligence, required Book Mountain Path as a prerequisite, he would have taken Diligence first.

If he had another choice, he wouldn’t have chosen this Talent.

It’s not that fairytale worlds aren’t good; other than the Titan Divine Races having malicious intentions, everything else is quite nice.

In the past, he could leap over two Ranks, but now he can only leap over one Rank. This isn’t because he gets weaker with every upgrade, but because as Rank gets higher, the disparity gets bigger.

Because Diligence and Endless Sea of Study are similar—the only difference being that for every additional 10% Experience Attribute acquired, instead of getting a Magic Shield, you get Magic Value.

He rested in the fairytale world for nearly a month, during which he was furiously Bursting Soldiers, mainly to meet Qin Muye’s advancement conditions. He was only 500,000 common Spirit Monsters short, but luckily, he managed to gather them all.

That’s not the point; the point is that this is also a chain-type Talent. He has both Endless Sea of Study and Endless Toil on him—one increases additional experience, the other uses additional experience for enhancement.

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This type of Talent is probably the worst kind of talents, a fixed percentage, even Black Hand can’t compare—after all, he increases by 10% per level, not just a one-time increase of 10%.

This caused him a bit of frustration.

Over the past month, Qin Muye has been busy with all these things.

He had thought about dealing with the World of Shadows first, but then he thought there was no hurry; it wouldn’t be too late to go there after he developed well at Rank 5.

But these matters had to be handled by Qin Muye himself, as other related Alchemy, Energy, and Metallurgy heroes and Spirit Monsters were not capable enough yet.

For his Professional Lord Talent, Qin Muye plans to choose the Wisdom profession’s Talent rather than the Scholar’s; after all, an Epic profession is always better than an Ordinary one.

As for another common Lord Talent, there really wasn’t much to choose from, so in the end, he could only settle for Abundant Resources.

As for his concern that his level 50 advancement task may now have one fewer condition for quicker completion, he is rather indifferent.