183: Chapter 183 Recruiting Troops

[Congratulations on your territory upgrading to Rank 6. You are the first lord to complete the upgrade, rewarded with 10 billion Source Crystals and one mythic-grade treasure chest.]

[You have obtained an opportunity for territorial adjustment. Do you wish to use it?]

[Congratulations on your Rank advancing to the sixth order. You are the first lord to promote to the sixth order, rewarded with 10 billion Source Crystals and one mythic-grade treasure chest.]

With the upgrade of the territory, everyone's upper limit was also unlocked, and all heroes and Troop Types naturally Advanced to the sixth order.

Lin Xiao was no exception.

Not only that, the Hunyuan Saint Body was also taking effect simultaneously.

Endless and powerful forces surged within their bodies, rapidly enhancing everyone's strength.

The attribute limit of the sixth order was ten million, and ten times that was one hundred million.

Without opening the attribute panel, Lin Xiao knew that everyone's attributes had increased by ninety million at this moment.

After advancing to the sixth order, the essence of life underwent a transformation.

His upper limit became higher, his Aptitude became stronger, and his Lifespan also became five thousand years.

However, at this moment, Lin Xiao couldn't care about these at all. He didn't even glance at the two mythic-grade treasure chests he had just acquired, forcibly maintaining sobriety amidst the life transformation, and quickly got busy.

Lin Xiao knew very well.

The Four Great Races were constantly paying attention to his changes.

Even without the prodigy ranking, they could quickly perceive the upgrade of Lin Xiao's territory.

Even if the time flow rate within his territory was several times that of the outside world, the time left for him was incomparably brief.

He had to race against time to complete pre-war preparations before the enemy invaded on a large scale.

With a slight thought, Lin Xiao immediately pulled the territory's time flow rate to the maximum, which was six times, and then completed the territorial adjustment at the fastest speed.

With his current territory size, this was undoubtedly a massive project.

Fortunately, regarding this territorial adjustment of 1.5 million square kilometers, he had already rehearsed it countless times in his mind, and this time it was done in one go without costing him much time.

The adjusted territory could not be considered perfect, but there were no major flaws either, making the territory stable, and the concentration of chaos source qi successfully maintained the standard of a Rank 6 territory.

Following that, Lin Xiao's figure slipped into the Void Realm, instantly flashing beside various buildings, and began to upgrade their Rank.

The first to be upgraded were naturally the five legendary grade barracks.

Smashing time-shortening props down, these five barracks were immediately upgraded to Rank 6.

"Rumble~"

As the Rank upgraded, the five legendary grade barracks suddenly underwent astonishing changes; volcanic eruptions, howling gales, surging cold waves... They became increasingly colossal, and their affected range also increased to two hundred square kilometers.

Lin Xiao flicked his fingers, opening the interfaces of various barracks technology, and maxed out the levels of both the newly appeared projects and the original projects.

The effect was immediate.

The strength of the Troop Types corresponding to them suddenly skyrocketed.

Especially the Principles of Formations; after being upgraded to Level 6, all Human Race Troop Types felt like they had received a divine revelation. Countless inspirations instantly welled up in their minds, and those originally difficult and hard-to-understand parts of the Advanced Military Formation Technique they learned became simple.

"Hahaha, I've comprehended it."

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is."

legendary grade Troop Types like Xue Ying and Wang Wu suddenly realized the truth at this moment, and their Formation Realm instantly completed a Breakthrough, reaching the Realm of Minor Achievement.

They were originally only a kick away from the Minor Achievement of the Formation, and completing the Breakthrough with the assistance of the Level 6 Principles of Formations was also reasonable.

They were not the only ones who completed the Breakthrough.

Those Epic Unit also invested great effort and painstaking care into Formations.

Although they failed to successfully master the Entry-Level of Formations, they had also accumulated a deep foundation. Building on this accumulated effort, they also successfully completed the Breakthrough.

In the future, even without legendary grade Troop Types, as long as their numbers were sufficient, they could form Advanced Military Formation Technique by themselves, exerting an Entry-Level standard.

However, if they wanted to unleash the might of Minor Achievement in Formations, or if their numbers were insufficient, legendary grade Troop Types still had to preside over the operation of the Formation.

After finishing clicking the barracks technology, next was recruiting Troop Types.

The population limit of a Rank 6 territory was 100 million, while a sixth-order legendary grade Troop Type occupied a population share of 100,000, and an Epic Unit occupied 10,000. Even if they were all legendary grade Troop Types, there would be at most 1,000 people; if they were all Epic Grade, they could have 10,000 people.

In Lin Xiao's territory, there were already 1,460 Troop Types now, so naturally it was impossible to achieve all legendary grade members.

A major battle was imminent, but upgrading the quality required a relatively long time. Therefore, Lin Xiao prepared to temporarily suspend the quality upgrade of Epic Unit and recruit a wave of legendary grade Troop Types first.

Although the newly recruited legendary grade Troop Types were only fifth-order, their attributes were far inferior to Epic Unit.

However, the gap in quality was enough to make up for it. Given the difference between legendary grade and Epic Grade, these newly recruited legendary grade Troop Types would instead be stronger in strength.

Which Troop Types to recruit definitely required trade-offs.

Considering that the Formations of the Human Race Troop Types had completed a Breakthrough and would become the main force of the upcoming battles, Lin Xiao quickly made a decision to strengthen them first.

The recruitment limit of the Rank 6 Storm Camp, Rock Fortress, and Thunder Cavalry Camp was three hundred people.

Maxing out all recruitment limits was obviously unrealistic as there wasn't that much population share. After thinking about it, Lin Xiao recruited 228 Wind Shadow Archers, 178 Black Armor Soldiers, and 189 Dragon Cavalry, bringing the numbers of these three major Troop Types to a total of 600 people each.

As a result, the Wind Shadow Camp was left with only 50 people from its recruitment limit, while the Rock Fortress and Thunder Cavalry Camp still had 100 people left each.

"Should I continue recruiting and max out the population first?"

Such a thought flashed through Lin Xiao's mind.

In fact, the best way to break the deadlock and get rid of the crisis was to rapidly upgrade to a Rank 7 territory.

Once he became a Seventh-order Lord, Lin Xiao's strength, even if temporarily incomparable to the two strongest Seventh-order Lords Bloodhoof and Shadow Devourer, would not care too much about most Super-spec Lord.

Wanting to withstand the siege of Seventh-order Lords would be much easier than now.

For other Sixth-order Lords, upgrading a Rank 7 territory was very difficult, but for Lin Xiao, it was of no difficulty.

The resources in his hands were enough to let him max out the population, the building requirements were a breeze, and most of the other upgrade conditions could be directly met.

The most troublesome thing was the five Lords Hearts.

Lin Xiao had to take the initiative before the enemy invaded, eliminate five Sixth-order Lords, and satisfy all upgrade conditions.

Among the Sixth-order Lords, there were quite a few with weak strength.

With Lin Xiao's strength, it was very easy to resolve them and get the Lords Hearts.

But no matter how fast, it still took a little time.

During this process, there was a high probability that the enemy's attack would come.

Not to mention the emptiness of the territory caused by the expedition of the grand army, the problem was that the Four Great Races also knew very well that if Lin Xiao was allowed to upgrade to a Rank 7 territory, they would have already failed halfway.

Therefore, they would definitely not give Lin Xiao a chance, and would certainly invade at all costs—invading, invading, and invading again—keeping Lin Xiao's territory in a state of war at all times.

"The probability of rapidly upgrading to a Rank 7 territory is too low; I might as well get ready for battle."

Lin Xiao thought no more, flashed and returned to the central area.