Chapter 115: Territory’s Thirty-Day Progress | Testing the Cosmic Titan
30 days inside Time chamber...
"Aurora, I told you to not wear this loose robe." Luke said irritably to Aurora, who was running around the training ground while practising her skills. But because of that, her breast was bouncing too much, and some occasional glances from far knights could be seen here.
Aurora, who just completed her today’s training, stopped on her master’s words and gave him an innocent smile.
Luke sighed helplessly on this, because he had repeatedly told her, but she didn’t listen a single time and said, "It’s not comfortable."
So he asked Aurielle on this, who suggested letting her wear a bra. But she took it out the next day with the same answer.
"Whatever." He shook his head. Right now, Aurora is too innocent, which he noticed during this duration. Therefore, she will understand with time.
After that, he took the mana water from his side before slowly drinking it. "Huff." This is definitely the best.
Luke muttered with satisfaction. As he also completed his today’s training and was taking rest.
After 30 days inside, he had become more familiar with his titan form and could now use some of its abilities better.
He also used his third titan to fight with Aurora but got badly beaten, because his titan form gave him a 5x stats buff, which brought him to early silver knight stage raw power, which was clearly not enough against a golden knight, even with his titan ability, which is three cosmic systems he can use now. He couldn’t defeat her.
His first system allowed him to use their masses and characteristics, like the first system consists of meteors or asteroids, so he could use their combined weight to do everything, like attack, defend, or more, which brought his attack power to peak silver knight.
But this doesn’t stop there. He could also use their generated gravity, though it is very low now. And if worse comes, he can manifest them outside, then throw them toward enemies to kill it instantly.
And the second system, which consists of moons and satellites, also follows the same as the first, but with more masses and more gravity. So his attack power reached very close to half-golden knight.
And the third system, which is planetary, is even more absurd, because it allowed his attack power to reach half-golden knight stage.
On this, Luke thought about using the planet as an attack, and that was the craziest part.
A 200m planet with rough terrain literally appeared above Luke, which even formed a small gravity zone around the area.
And when he threw it toward Aurora, even she felt the threat, which resulted in using her ultimate origin ability, which destroyed the planet. But then came the even crazier part.
Because she destroyed not a normal boulder but a planet, which had an active core. Yes, a freaking core.
Which resulted in a devastating explosion that destroyed the surrounding mountains, and even the time chamber shook slightly from this.
Fortunately, both of them were already prepared and escaped the explosion range immediately. As this power touched peak of early golden knight stage.
After that, he summoned his third armour, and yeah, this armour is cool, named "Elythos." This armour could make structures and materials from the celestial bodies inside him, which gives him many new methods, like crowd control, attack, defense, and even more.
And he also found out that the Armour bonus of 3x depends upon who is wearing it. If Luke, in his human form, summoned it, then it would increase his human form strength by 3 times.
But if it’s Titan form, then the titan stats will further multiply by 3x, which was absurd.
Because the system didn’t tell him anything about this before, and he found out after training.
[You didn’t ask.] That’s what he said on asking.
So with the armor buff, his titan raw power reached peak silver knight, and his cosmic system attack power reached half-golden knight, and the third cosmic system reached early golden knight stage.
But even with that, he struggled against Aurora and couldn’t break her defense. Because she was defense type. Though he didn’t dare to use the manifestation attack again.
On that, he finally understood how broken Myrkhal was. Because his form transformation and form assimilation both gave some stats buff, which allowed his previously early Iron knight stage to touch early golden knight stage attack, which let him damage the golden knight beings.
Sadly, now with Myrkhal forms, his attack could only reach early golden knight stage. And not more.
Even though it was still amazing, because he could use Myrkhal titan now for more time.
With that, he also tried different abilities of form transformation, and each one was good.
After a few moments later, he came out from those thoughts and then checked the status of his people during these 30 days inside. First, no breakthrough among mages. Though they learned all the G-rank spells, and they need time for mastery.
While only Elena has learned G and F-rank spells, but she also needs time for complete mastery.
Next, all the Iron knights present in the territory became peak Iron knights, as they used Iron knight tempering potions.
Meanwhile, 900 Iron Knight Archers that were recently summoned used Iron Knight breakthrough potions to become 900 Bronze Knight Archers. And only 100 were left at peak Iron Knight.
However, not a single Body Temper Realm member was inside the time chamber, because all previous Body Temper Realm members, except the border ones, had already become Iron Knights, and all the Body Temper Realm members are recent recruits.
Which have not gone through the loyalty test and Aurora’s chain binding. "I will deal with them after this war."
Luke was pretty sure that almost 1/4th of them were spies, while almost half had sold themselves.
Because it doesn’t make sense to not leave the territory which is going to fight a losing war. ’Well, according to outside people.’
Luke shook his head and stopped thinking about them.
With that, he checked the progress regarding Ascension Series and regretfully not a single person had mastered them. "Approx. 90 previous bronze knights present here, and none has mastered this."
Luke was counting the number after removing ten bronze knights, who were still on the way from Count territory, and not including the recent 900 bronze knight archers.
Sadly, the same for Marinthians as well.
"Our military strength didn’t increase much in case of lower strength." Luke muttered with a little regret in his voice. Apparently, he had accepted that anyone can master this series with a little bit of time.
"No wonder Silver knights are few, compared to bronze knights." With that, Luke looked toward the far distance. There, Aurielle and Vaelira were sparring as each of their attacks equaled a grenade explosion.
"Vaelira was still far from the half-golden knight stage, but Aurielle has already reached late bronze knight." Luke’s expression brightened, and he felt Aurielle was really talented, but sadly, due to not getting resources early from her family, she was left behind her peers.
"Don’t worry, Aurielle. I will give you everything which you would never be able to get before." Luke took a silent vow.
At this time, Aurielle’s position shifted toward him, and her eyes also met Luke’s, and both smiled at the same time.
Then Luke shifted his attention from them, toward Mana Well and Healing Spring. "If we can bring their water outside with its effectiveness remains, then it would be great."
For this, he asked the system if there was any way, to which it replied. [Well, you can get a blueprint or an upgrade blueprint for this.] Even though the system didn’t explain much, Luke understood.
Though at least one thing happened which improved his mood. The system’s previous two days rewards.
The first one was very helpful to their current territory.
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[Reward: E-Rank Enchanted Watchtower]
[Base Quantity: 1]
[100x Return Activated: 100 Watchtowers]
[Deployment: Territorial Defense Grid]
[Detection Range: 5km per tower]
[Communication Link: All towers connected]
[Suggestion: Network placement recommended for maximum coverage]
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Yeah, a watchtower, and a magical one. Sadly, they are operated best with Mages in them. But knights can also operate them, though that will require at least two knights.
"With this, the territory defense parameters will almost become impossible to breach, at least for normal units or assassins."
When Luke was smiling while thinking where to place the watchtowers, the system’s slightly low voice came.
[Luke....]
And a bad premonition immediately rose in his heart. ’He is going to give some bad news again.’ And this thought instantly came into his mind, which made his expression like, "Stay away from me, you horny system."
But the system didn’t care about Luke’s reaction and told him the bad news. ’Heh?? This is not bad news, at least for me.’
[The newbie benefits are off.]
"-_-"
"And what were the newbie benefits that I was getting?" Luke, with scrutinizing eyes, asked the system.
[All the summoned units come at peak realm, which should be early realm, while rewards come in bundles instead of one.]
[And now rewards will be linked with wives realms and calculated according to G-rank and above.]
[So rewards will not cross the threshold, like earlier summoning a Relic or legendary grade artifact.]
"NO!" Luke looked toward the system with a betrayed expression. But the system kept saying, you were supposed to get single rewards from each wife every time. It was he who tempered this slightly, but since he became Bronze Knight, he can’t do that anymore.
"This..." After hearing this, Luke calmed down a little bit, but he still felt bad.