200: Chapter 200 [Astral Banner] and [Level Four Star Lord]!

After arranging the tasks, Xu Qin looked at the territory area.

Currently, the area of the Boundless Domain had reached 31,876.6 square kilometers.

"I wonder how much is still needed to advance to Level 4."

Xu Qin opened the star lord level interface.

[Star Lord Level Classifications:]

[Level 3: 8,000 square kilometers (Achieved)]

[Level 4: 40,000 square kilometers]

[Level 5: 200,000 square kilometers]

"That means swallowing one more continent will allow me to advance to Level 4."

Xu Qin looked into the void at those slowly drifting points of light.

He didn't know yet what the buffs for a Level 4 Star Lord were,

but based on the pattern from Levels 1 to 3,

it would definitely be another wave of qualitative change.

"I hope the next one that crashes into us is slightly larger in area. Because..."

"My Undead Army is already thirsting for battle."

After muttering to himself, he looked at the treasure chest in his inventory.

Xu Qin blew on his hands and rubbed them vigorously.

"Open!"

Ding!

A dark golden light burst forth.

The dazzling light caused Xu Qin to instinctively narrow his eyes.

A few seconds later, the light subsided.

A palm-sized black flag hovered in his palm.

This flag had no flagpole; tiny specks of starlight flowed across the flag's surface, fluttering without any wind.

Xu Qin looked at the item description.

[Name: Star Realm Battle Flag]

[Quality: Dark Gold (Legendary Universal Item)]

[Type: Strategic Wonder (Undroppable / Indestructible)]

[Effect 1: Void Reserve Army (The flag contains its own internal space, allowing friendly troops to be stored within it, with a maximum capacity of 3 million units.)]

[Effect 2: Void Raid (After the reserve army is deployed, the damage of all deployed units +50%, movement speed +30%, lasting for 45 seconds.)]

[Remarks: This item can be handed over to hero units to hold and use.]

"Isn't this f*cking... a Soul-Devouring Banner?"

Holding up the palm-sized black flag, Xu Qin blurted out.

"No," he shook his head again, "the Soul-Devouring Banner is too gloomy."

"It should be called the Myriad Army Banner!"

"Mhm... That's more like it."

The more he looked, the more excited he became.

The greatest value of this item did not lie in storing troops,

but in its deployment.

Although unlike the descent platform,

which could deploy over long distances,

it allowed a hero to enter the enemy's core building cluster before using it.

By then, three million Beetles would instantly pour out from the flag.

Coupled with the 50% damage boost buff,

the original 350,000 true damage from self-destruction

would skyrocket directly to 500,000.

That image was too beautiful; Xu Qin didn't dare to think about it too deeply.

"Then... who is most suitable to use this item?"

The answer was obvious:

it had to be Shadow.

Shadow lacked command abilities

and could not lead soldiers into battle,

but its specialties were stealth, breaching, and concealment—

making it the hero in the entire army best suited for sneak attacks.

The description of the Star Realm Battle Flag stated clearly

that it could be held and used by hero units.

It just needed to be brought to the designated location and then unfurled.

"Simply perfect." Xu Qin chuckled.

He opened the flag's reserve interface,

and then checked one million Necro-Beetles from the roster list.

[Do you want to store Necro-Beetles × 1,000,000 into the Star Realm Battle Flag?]

[Yes]

Hum!

One million grayish-black Necro-Beetles

turned into dark purple soul streams and surged into the flag.

The starlight on the surface of the flag flashed violently for a split second before returning to calm.

The more Xu Qin thought about it, the better he felt, and he chuckled twice.

"Whoever fights me in the future, Shadow will flank to the rear first."

"Your grand army arrays at the front, while your core buildings stay safely in the rear."

"And then..."

"Bang! One million Beetles bloom from the center."

He stroked his chin and laughed,

"There are still two million empty slots left in the flag. No rush, slowly fill them. Just fill it up before the battle."

Xu Qin closed the flag interface and directly opened the command panel.

"Shadow!"

On the panel, Shadow's icon flashed for a split second.

"New equipment, take it."

Ding!

[Hero "Shadow" has equipped: Star Realm Battle Flag (Legendary Strategic Wonder)]

...

Over the next few hours,

Xu Qin led his troops to organize the newly annexed Centaur Clan continent.

The 9,600 square kilometers of verdant grassland entirely belonged to him now.

The Troglodytes and Beetles cooperated

to clear out the cracks in the collision zone and the remaining architectural ruins.

Tian Ming continued to lead the heroes to grind monsters in the giant crater.

The batch fusion of Iron-Hoof-type Stitched Bone Beasts was also ongoing, and the Resurrection Platform operated at full capacity.

Everything was orderly.

While patrolling, Xu Qin calculated his upcoming plans.

Just then...

Beep!

The command panel suddenly popped up a prompt.

[Continent Collision Warning!]

Xu Qin jolted awake and opened the panel.

[Collision Direction: Northwest]

[Opposing Continent Area: Approximately 8,200 square kilometers]

[Continent Nature: Ownerless Barren Continent (No Star Lord)]

[Estimated Collision Time: 2 hours]

Xu Qin raised an eyebrow.

"There's such a good thing?"

He walked to the Watchtower and looked toward the northwest.

Sure enough,

deep within the void,

a grayish-brown continent was slowly drifting over.

This was a purely wasteland continent.

"Eighty-two hundred square kilometers given for free? Swallowing it will directly make me a Level 4 Star Lord."

Thinking this, he began to browse through the historical records of the star lord channel.

Within the starry void, a large number of ownerless continents indeed existed.

These continents did not belong to any star lord

and drifted randomly in the void.

Once they collided with a continent possessing a star lord,

they would automatically merge.

"Those star lords mentioned before that crashing into an ownerless continent is pure luck."

"I didn't expect my luck to be pretty good."

"Perhaps this is the reward for a winning streak."

Xu Qin was in a great mood.

...

Two hours later.

Boom!!!

The collision occurred.

The grayish-brown barren continent

directly fused with the Boundless Domain.

Ding!

[Ownerless Continent merger complete!]

[Territory Area Increased: 8,200 square kilometers]

[Current Territory "Boundless Domain" Total Area: 40,076.6 square kilometers]

[Territory "Boundless Domain" total area detected to have exceeded 40,000 square kilometers!]

[Congratulations! You have been promoted to a Level 4 Star Lord!]

[Level 4 Star Lord Buff (Newly Unlocked):]

[starfield anchor Level 2: The maximum number of directional anchors is increased to 8. They can be adjusted once every 24 hours, and the single deflection angle is increased to 8 degrees.]

[Army-Wide Enhancement · Level 4: Base attributes of all troops within the territory +30%.]

[Territory Barrier · Advanced: Barrier duration upon collision extended to 5 minutes.]

[Resource Regeneration · Advanced: Regeneration speed of all natural resources within the territory +80%.]

After reading them one by one, Xu Qin laughed out loud.

Very good, the starfield anchor directly upgraded.

He had always wanted to build directional anchors before,

but the Level 1 function was too weak, with a deflection angle of only 5 degrees.

Now that it was upgraded to Level 2, with eight anchors, each could deflect by 8 degrees.

Although precise guidance couldn't be achieved,

at least the direction could be fine-tuned

so it wouldn't drift aimlessly.

"Good enough, build it directly!"

Xu Qin opened the building list and found [starfield anchor].

As for the construction materials, given his current inventory,

it was merely a single hair from nine oxen.

Two hours later,

all eight anchors facing different directions were fully in place.