4: Chapter 4 Black-Armored Soldiers, Area Treasure Chest

After Jiang Yao left, Lin Xiao glanced at the unit token in his backpack and chose to use it.

A light gate quickly appeared, and from within it walked out individual units wearing black armor, holding broadswords and shields.

The number of units provided when using a unit token is random, ranging from 5 to 10 people.

Lin Xiao's luck was good; he received the maximum number of units, totaling 10 Black Armor Soldierss.

"We pay our respects to the Lord."

The 10 Black Armor Soldierss bowed in salute at the same time.

"Rise."

Lin Xiao opened the attribute panel of one of them.

[Wang Wu (Black Armor Soldiers)]

[Quality: Rare]

[Tier: Tier 0]

[Physique: 35]

[Spirit: 20]

[Cultivation Technique: Blood Battle Art (C-Rank)]

[Skills: Steel Barrier (C-Rank), Blade Mastery (D-Rank), Block (D-Rank)]

Like Jiang Yao, the attributes and spirit of these Black Armor Soldierss also exceeded the Tier 0 limit, but they were a cut below Jiang Yao, averaging around 20 to 40.

The gap in Cultivation Techniques and skills was even larger.

If they were to actually fight, the strength Jiang Yao could demonstrate would be even greater than the difference on paper between the two.

This was the difference between a hero and a unit.

Lin Xiao quickly issued an order for Jiang Yao to lead the 10 newly summoned Black Armor Soldierss to attack the Void Land together.

After one hero and ten units were summoned, the territory's population was immediately full, and no more new heroes or units could be summoned.

Units of different levels occupy different population shares.

For example, commoners only occupy one population slot; a Tier 0 territory can summon a total of 100 commoners.

Units occupy more population slots: Common-level units occupy 2, Fine-level occupy 5, and Rare-level occupy 10.

This is the population share at Tier 0; as the tier increases, the population share occupied by both commoners and units will also grow.

The 10 Rare-level Black Armor Soldierss occupied 100 population slots. Now, Lin Xiao couldn't even summon a single commoner. Without commoners, there would be no one to gather resources or collect supplies. It was impossible to let precious heroes and units do such work, but fortunately, Lin Xiao didn't mind.

He was definitely going to focus on military expansion right now.

As for the supplies needed by the heroes and units, as well as the resources and Materials lacking for territory development, he planned to obtain them from other lords through the trading market.

Lin Xiao walked toward the depths of the gray fog.

In the Void Land to the east, there were only twenty or so Void Hounds in total, which had long since been wiped out by him. Therefore, Lin Xiao did not encounter any obstacles, and soon, a treasure chest emitting golden light appeared on the ground ahead.

"Regional Treasure Chest."

Lin Xiao's face showed joy.

After killing all the Void Monsters in the Void Land or destroying their nests, a Regional Treasure Chest would appear; this was the reward given to the victor.

Theoretically, one can obtain most items from a Regional Treasure Chest, including Mythical-level items.

Of course, the more powerful the Void Land, the higher the probability that the Regional Treasure Chest produced will contain high-quality items. For the current starting Void Land, Lin Xiao didn't hold much hope.

[Do you want to open the Regional Treasure Chest?]

"Open."

[You opened a Regional Treasure Chest and obtained the following items: 5000 Source Crystals, 400 units of food, 400 units of wood, 350 units of stone, Crossbow (Common).]

As expected, they were all basic resources, and the equipment provided was also the lowest Common-level.

After being opened, the Regional Treasure Chest immediately disappeared. The next moment, this area of the Void Land began to transform.

The surrounding gray fog instantly vanished, the ground turned into soil, connecting with the eastern side of the territory and becoming a part of Lin Xiao's territory.

He opened the territory panel and took a look, discovering that the territory size had become 2500 square meters.

"My Lord, the Void Lands to the west, south, and north have been cleared." At this moment, Jiang Yao strode over and reported.

They were all weak Tier 0 monsters, completely unable to withstand a single blow before Jiang Yao and the Black Armor Soldierss; the time they spent traveling and looking for monsters was longer than the time spent killing them.

"Well done." Lin Xiao nodded in approval and pointed to the new edge of the territory on the east side: "Wait for the new Void Land to generate, then continue killing."

"Yes."

...

The Void Land outside the territory is endless, but it takes some time for the next layer of the Void Land to connect to the territory.

The more powerful the Void Land, the longer it takes to border the territory.

But since it is currently only the second layer of the Void Land, it obviously won't take long to wait.

Lin Xiao went to the Void Lands in the other three directions.

The Void Lands surrounding the territory exist independently, not as a whole, which also means that every time a layer of Void Land is cleared, four Regional Treasure Chests can be obtained.

[You opened a Regional Treasure Chest and obtained the following items: 6000 Source Crystals, 600 units of food, 500 units of wood...]

[You opened a Regional Treasure Chest and obtained the following items: 5500 Source Crystals...]

After opening all four Regional Treasure Chests in one breath and harvesting a number of Source Crystals and resources, while waiting for the second layer of the Void Land to connect, Lin Xiao opened the territory panel again.

At this time, the territory size had become 7000 square meters.

To upgrade from a Tier 0 territory to a Tier 1 territory, the following conditions must be met.

100,000 Source Crystals, 10,000 units of food, 10,000 units of wood, 10,000 units of stone

Territory size: 100,000 square meters

Population: 100

Hero: 1

Any buildings: 3

Except for population and heroes, other conditions were not met.

"Upgrading the territory is not that easy."

Lin Xiao felt a bit emotional; among the First-Generation Lords, those who could upgrade their territory to Tier 1 within seven days were undoubtedly a very small minority.

However, for the Second-Generation Lord, the difficulty was significantly reduced.

Returning to the territory core, Lin Xiao opened the construction list; all constructible buildings were in it.

These were all basic buildings; as long as there were enough resources, they could be built directly. If it were Advanced construction or special construction, blueprints would be needed, and the required Materials were often very rare.

[Civilian Residence: 100 units of wood, 200 units of stone]

[tavern: 500 units of wood, 500 units of stone]

Lin Xiao did not hesitate; he placed down one Civilian Residence and one tavern.

They were basic buildings, and the construction time was very short. As the corresponding resources were deducted, a Civilian Residence and a tavern quickly appeared in the territory. Adding the Lords Mansion, the building requirements for upgrading the territory were met.

"Territory size is easy to solve, but basic resources are lacking quite a bit."

Lin Xiao frowned slightly; relying solely on opening Regional Treasure Chests, novice gift packs, and first-kill rewards, the basic resources provided were clearly not enough.

It wasn't that there were no resource points in the territory; even if he was truly unlucky and there were no resources, the new territory transformed from the Void Land might have resources.

The main thing was that he didn't want to waste time on gathering resources.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao opened the regional channel.

"Ding, do you want to join the Morning Star No.1 High School communication group?"

A System notification sounded.

Morning Star No.1 High School was the school Lin Xiao had previously attended. He did not hesitate and immediately chose to agree.

"Welcome, classmate Lin Xiao."

"Welcome, classmate Lin Xiao."

As the only heir of two mid-level lords, Lin Xiao also had quite a reputation in Morning Star No.1 High School. Joining immediately drew a wave of welcomes.

"Hello everyone."

Casually sending a message in the group, Lin Xiao exited and opened his friend list.

Right now, among the same batch of new lords, he had no reputation and had never spoken in the regional channel, so he hadn't received many friend requests, and most of them came from classmates from the same school.

Lin Xiao chose to accept them all.

Just after he accepted them, one of the friend avatars quickly started blinking.