41: Chapter 41 Thousand Shadows

Lin Xiao's gaze fell upon the newly summoned Epic-grade hero.

She was a girl who looked somewhat delicate, wearing silver-white leather armor and toying with a cold, gloomy dagger in her hand.

"Qian Ying, greets the Lord."

The girl bowed slightly, performing a salute to Lin Xiao.

"It seems her Aura isn't that strong." After letting the girl stand up, Lin Xiao thought to himself.

Whether it was Jiang Yao or Tu Lie, when they were first summoned, the impact they gave people was very strong. Even the most composed Zhong Yue, while not as flamboyant, was impossible to ignore.

Their presence was very strong.

But this Qian Ying was different; she was unassuming, as if one would forget her existence the moment they turned their head.

Lin Xiao didn't notice that the moment Qian Ying appeared, the previously wanton and arrogant Burning Sky Flame Dragons, including Taylor, all became silent as cicadas in winter, as if they had seen some terrifying existence, their eyes filled with fear.

"I'll know once I check the attribute panel." Lin Xiao didn't overthink it and opened Qian Ying's attribute panel.

[Qian Ying]

[Quality: Epic-grade]

[Rank: Third-Tier]

[Physique: 9100]

[Spirit: 8700]

[Cultivation Technique: Void Realm Escape Light Canon (S-grade)]

[Skills: Void Realm Walk (S-grade), Escape Light Technique (S-grade), Returning Ruin Power (S-grade), Instant Light Slash (S-grade), Void Realm Breaking Blade (S-grade)]

"Hiss~"

Lin Xiao gasped, looking at the girl beside him with some shock.

You really are something, Qian Ying. You look so delicate, yet I didn't expect you to be such a fierce character at heart.

Having powerful attributes is one thing, but the key is her Cultivation Technique and skills.

Qian Ying was undoubtedly an incredibly powerful super assassin. Her positioning was different from Jiang Yao and the others; she was not meant for head-on combat on the battlefield, but for infiltrating the rear to assassinate key figures.

Especially the Lord.

After all, beheading the Lord or destroying the Lords Mansion would both eliminate the opponent.

Qian Ying could slip into the light; as long as there was light, she could infiltrate. Even in a place without light, she could slip into the Void Realm. Once she found a target, she could instantly unleash terrifying lethality beyond imagination.

"I have arrived, you are dead."

Lin Xiao could completely imagine such a scene.

In the future, besides frontal assaults, he also had an extra method to secure victory.

After summoning Qian Ying and the Burning Sky Flame Dragons, the heavy stone in Lin Xiao's heart finally landed, and his whole body relaxed.

Why was he so impatient to build the Blazing Dragon Nest and summon Qian Ying and the Burning Sky Flame Dragons? Wasn't it because he was worried about being invaded when he was at his weakest?

After the territory Rank rose to Level 3, it reached the maximum level that the First Source Sea could accommodate.

This also meant that the Third-Tier Lords of the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race could search for him.

The prodigy ranking was a real-time updated list with a duration of one year.

Therefore, the intelligence that Lin Xiao had promoted to a Third-Tier Lord could not be hidden at all, and it would soon be known by the Sin Race.

Could the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race just watch him rise?

That doesn't exist.

They currently had the absolute advantage in the First Source Sea and definitely had the ability to send enough personnel to search for his territory and strangle him while attacking Human Race Lords.

An invasion could happen at any time.

The enemy was, after all, a Third-Tier Lord, so their strength could not be weak. Lin Xiao did not dare to say that he would definitely be able to easily annihilate all invaders.

If he couldn't annihilate the invaders and his territory coordinates were eventually exposed, what awaited him would likely be the crusade of the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race armies.

That was why he wanted to summon Qian Ying and the others as quickly as possible to enhance the territory's strength.

Only now could he relax.

Of course, it was only a slight relaxation; Lin Xiao still had many things to do.

"With Qian Ying and Taylor and the others, my current strength is not considered weak among Third-Tier Lords."

"But compared to those top-tier Third-Tier Lords, I am still far behind."

Lin Xiao would not belittle himself, but he would not be blindly confident either.

The top-tier Third-Tier Lords must have maxed out their Epic-grade heroes and Epic-grade troops. Although such existences in the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race were not many, they certainly existed.

Fortunately, his own upper limit was far higher than theirs.

"Seize the time and grow quickly."

"It would be best if I could grow to a level they cannot imagine before the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race react."

Lin Xiao did not rush to leave.

He swiped his finger and opened the barracks technology panel of the Blazing Dragon Nest.

Now the extraordinary energy in the territory was Chaos Source Qi, so the Burning Sky Flame Dragons could fully absorb Chaos Source Qi to grow.

But there was a problem: the Burning Sky Flame Dragons were too large.

Their twenty-meter bodies could not enter the Spirit Gathering Array at all. The same problem appeared with the Frost Giants; promoted to the Third-Tier, their bodies had also grown to ten meters tall.

Without the help of the Spirit Gathering Array, the growth speed of these giant troops could not keep up with the Wind Shadow Archers and the others.

He could only check if there was a solution in the barracks technology.

Suddenly, Lin Xiao's eyes lit up.

[Red Lotus Domain: Consume a certain amount of Magic Crystals to form a Red Lotus Domain centered on the Blazing Dragon Nest, stimulating the Bloodline power of the Burning Sky Flame Dragons to achieve rapid growth.]

Unlike the Human Race troops who Cultivate spiritual energy, alien troops like the Frost Giants and Burning Sky Flame Dragons Cultivated Bloodline power.

The effect of this Red Lotus Domain would likely not be worse than the Spirit Gathering Array.

"Pity..."

Looking at the conditions to light up this barracks technology, Lin Xiao shook his head slightly.

The Level 3 Blazing Dragon Nest did unlock this barracks technology, but to light it up, he had to first light up the prerequisite barracks technology below it.

To light up Epic-grade barracks technology, various Advanced resources were required.

Lin Xiao's resources were not inexhaustible, and he still had to take care of other troops; it was clearly far from enough to light it up.

After instructing Taylor and the other Burning Sky Flame Dragons to seize the time to grow, Lin Xiao brought Qian Ying back to the inner city, introduced her to everyone, and arranged for her to Cultivate in the Spirit Gathering Array to improve her strength.

Then, he went non-stop to the north and south of the territory to upgrade the Frost Fortress and Storm Camp to Level 3.

After these two Perfect-grade barracks were upgraded to Level 3, the number of troops that could be recruited reached 50.

Lin Xiao quickly recruited all the Frost Giants and Wind Shadow Archers.

The new troops were all Second-Tier.

Subsequently, he used directional recruitment to replenish the number of Black Armor Soldierss and Dragon Cavalry to 100 each; the newly summoned Black Armor Soldierss and Dragon Cavalry were all First-Tier.

As a result, the army composition in the territory became 20 Burning Sky Flame Dragons, 50 Frost Giants, 50 Wind Shadow Archers, 100 Black Armor Soldierss, and 100 Dragon Cavalry, totaling 320 troops.

Among them, the Third-Tier Burning Sky Flame Dragons occupied 1000 population, the Third-Tier and Second-Tier Wind Shadow Archers occupied 200 and 100 population respectively, the Second-Tier Frost Giants 100 population, and the Second-Tier and First-Tier Black Armor Soldierss and Dragon Cavalry occupied 50 and 20 population.

Thus, the territory panel became:

[Territory: Eternal God Domain]

[Territory Rank: Level 3]

[Territory Size: 100 square kilometers]

[Population: 39,600 / 100,000]

[Hero: 4 / 4]

[Buildings: Lords Mansion (Level 3), Blazing Dragon Nest (Level 3), Frost Fortress (Level 3), Storm Camp (Level 3), Spirit Rhyme Platform (Level 2), Flame Turret (Level 2), tavern (Level 2), Civilian Residence (Level 2), City Wall (Level 2)...]

After thinking about it, Lin Xiao did not continue to recruit troops; he had to leave enough population for future troop quality upgrades.

Moreover, there were too many troops, and he could not afford to support them now.