157: Chapter 157 Troop Selection

Entering the threshold of Formations was already so difficult, let alone the Minor Achievement Realm, and it was unknown how long it would take to master.

Moreover, the requirements for Minor Achievement in Formations were even higher.

Given the situation of Lin Xiao's territory, even if Xue Ying and the others mastered the Advanced Military Formation Technique of the Minor Achievement Realm, it would still be difficult for them to deploy it.

Insufficient number of Troop Types was the biggest problem.

Although legendary grade Troop Types could significantly reduce the requirements for setting up Formations, there weren't many legendary grade Troop Types in the territory.

Wanting to solve the problem of the number of people for setting up Formations was not actually difficult.

As long as one built the same barracks, it would work, and there was no rule saying that only one of the same type of barracks could be built in a territory, provided that you had multiple barracks blueprints.

Like Lord Gao Mu's supporting army, it had a full twenty thousand people.

A Level 7 barracks obviously couldn't recruit that many Epic Grade Troop Types.

The cost of using directional recruitment was too high, so in all likelihood, they had built the same type of barracks.

Furthermore, if the types of Troop Types didn't differ much, they could also learn the same Formation.

This was also a developmental path for lords.

If the types of Troop Types were few, shortcomings would indeed exist and it would be impossible to be so comprehensive, but one could completely choose to coordinate combat with other Human Race lords.

However, Lin Xiao didn't need to walk such a path.

His Troop Type's strength was powerful enough.

There was also the matter of heroes participating in Formations.

In all three actual combats, the military Formations were formed by Troop Types, and heroes did not participate in them.

Heroes and Troop Types were different; the latter needed to light up the Principles of Formations in the barracks technology to learn and understand Formations, whereas heroes didn't need to, as they were equivalent to complete entities.

Given Tu Lie and the others' legendary grade quality, as well as their inherited S-grade Outstanding Talent, wanting to get started with Formations wouldn't be too difficult in terms of difficulty.

But the Realm of merely getting started was obviously not enough for them to make any changes to Formations.

Heroes were heroes, and Troop Types were Troop Types.

The Cultivation Techniques were different, and the skills were also different.

Even if the two sides were compatible again, there were still essential differences.

Heroes were often the core of Formations; if they wanted to participate in Formations while preventing problems from arising in the Formations, they had to reach at least the Minor Achievement Realm.

Regarding this, Lin Xiao wasn't disappointed.

A threefold increase in strength was already powerful enough.

His army's attributes were originally dozens of times that of lords of the same order, and now multiplied by three, that gap could only be described as a world of difference.

Not to mention, the Advanced Military Formation Technique also had powerful characteristics.

In the final Void Land, Lin Xiao had the three armies take the field together.

The Black Armor Soldiers resisted damage, the Wind Shadow Archer dealt output, and the Dragon Cavalry chose the most suitable timing to strike.

This time, under the perfect coordination of the three major Troop Types, the monster tide composed of tens of millions of Void Monsters was easily destroyed, and there was no need to activate burst skills at all.

After the battle, not to mention the Black Armor Soldiers, the Wind Shadow Archer and Dragon Cavalry also looked relaxed, showing no signs of excessive spiritual power consumption. Evidently, under their coordinated combat, it was much easier than solving it alone.

This was not only because of their larger number, but also due to the coordination of the Troop Types.

[You opened a regional treasure chest and obtained the following items: 980 million Source Crystals...]

[You opened a regional treasure chest and obtained the following items: 910 million Source Crystals... Crimson Dragon Battle Armor (Epic).]

This regional treasure chest yielded a set of Epic Grade battle armor, which could be considered pretty good luck.

As the floors of the Void Land got higher and higher and the Void Monsters faced became stronger, the probability of obtaining high-quality items was also increasing.

"Not bad."

Lin Xiao was very satisfied.

Don't look at the fact that his territory already had legendary grade equipment; in the Second Source Sea, Epic Grade equipment was still the top-tier existence.

His army could at most achieve full equipment of perfect-grade now; wanting full equipment of Epic Grade, he didn't know how much longer it would take.

After opening the regional treasure chest, the fourteenth floor of the Void Land quickly transformed into Lin Xiao's territory.

The newly added territory this time was a full 100,000 square kilometers.

Combined with the original, Lin Xiao's territory size became 170,000 square kilometers.

Placed in Huaxia of his past life on Blue Star, this could also be considered a medium-sized province's territory.

"Hmm, has it exceeded the monitoring range of the Eye of Truth?"

Lin Xiao's heart stirred slightly.

As the territory size surged, he quickly discovered that a small half of the territory was not under the monitoring of the Eye of Truth.

Obviously, the monitoring range of the Level 5 Eye of Truth was 100,000 square kilometers.

Such a large range was completely worthy of the quality of the Eye of Truth.

Who made Lin Xiao's territory become so huge.

Not to mention Level 5 Lords, even Sixth-order Lords, most people's territories weren't as large as his.

The territory was too huge, and many places were not under monitoring, so the risk was also high, but Lin Xiao didn't care too much.

His current strength was far more powerful than when he had just upgraded his Level 5 territory.

Even if he couldn't grasp the movements of invading enemies in real time, he still had the confidence to cope.

In addition, clearing the fourteenth floor of the Void Land gave an extremely large number of slaughter points, reaching a full 45 billion.

Coupled with the plundering and slaughtering of these days, Lin Xiao's slaughter points had also accumulated to as much as 180 billion, allowing him to upgrade all Troop Types in the territory to legendary grade.

Unfortunately, the population quota was insufficient, so he could only wait until upgrading to a Level 6 territory.

After selling all the resource points generated on the new territory, Lin Xiao brought a large batch of resources back to the territory.

"Since I have already seen the actual combat, let's decide on the remaining population quota."

Lin Xiao thought to himself.

He had seen the performance of the three Military Formation Techniques with his own eyes.

Thinking for a moment, Lin Xiao first excluded the Dragon Cavalry.

It wasn't that the Dragon Cavalry's performance was bad, but rather that his next opponents would most likely be very strong.

In the previous encirclement battle, Lin Xiao's strength had already been undoubtedly exposed. In order to completely finish him off, the next attack launched by the Four Great Races would definitely be a fatal blow.

There was a high possibility that top-tier Sixth-order Lords, or even Super-spec Lords, would make a move.

Not to mention that the Human Race kept those lords closely watched.

In the Second Source Sea, the Four Great Races ultimately held the upper hand.

If they really wanted to forcibly transfer top-tier Sixth-order Lords and Super-spec Lords, the Human Race couldn't completely stop them.

Even if Lin Xiao was willing to let Seventh-order Lords garrison troops in his territory, and at the same time, let other Sixth-order Lords invade and help defend, it would still be difficult to guarantee foolproof security.

There were many fighting styles.

For example, taking advantage of the internal emptiness of those Sixth-order Lords who were helping to defend, to launch a concentrated raid on their territories and defeat them one by one; or launching an all-out war to pin down the power of the Human Race, and so on.

The Four Great Races were stronger, so the initiative would be in their hands.

Therefore, this battle was unavoidable.

Facing strong enemies, the pressure on the Black Armor Soldiers and Wind Shadow Archer was obviously greater, while the Dragon Cavalry, even with a small number, could still play a decisive role as long as they chose the right timing to attack.

Although the samsara holy stele was there, Troop Types could be resurrected.

But it also took some time from resurrection to returning to the battlefield, and in a critical battle, it might not be in time.

Therefore, Lin Xiao's choice was to prioritize strengthening the power of the Black Armor Soldiers and Wind Shadow Archer.