Chapter 193 - 129: Epic Heroes (2)
Now, even if his territory’s situation was exposed, he wouldn’t have to worry about anyone causing trouble.
Besides, if the Extraordinary Territory was really as powerful as they said, he wouldn’t need to fear anyone giving his family a hard time. Otherwise, once he ascended to godhood, those people would be in for a world of hurt.
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「Time flew by in the blink of an eye.」
While Lin Yu was busy developing the Glacier World and securing a fallback plan for himself, September came to an end.
The territory’s army had finished their fun with the invasion event. The next step was to set up defenses and wait for the competition organizers to randomly assign them an attacker.
Lin Yu wasn’t the least bit worried about this. In terms of offense, his legion was only ranked second, but when it came to defense, he was confident that if he claimed to be number two, no one would dare claim to be number one.
Lin Yu let the soldiers and civilians of his territory rest easy, not even recalling the twenty thousand mercenaries stationed next to Li Hua’s territory.
The surrounding lords had actually handed over half of their Elemental Core earnings for the month. These Elemental Cores were then split into two shares—one for Li Hua, and one for Lin Yu.
Their request was simple: for the two of them to act as a rapid response team for the month. If any lord couldn’t hold out, they were to rush over and provide aid.
Since they couldn’t be everywhere at once, Lin Yu and Li Hua had a requirement: everyone had to resist on their own first. Only when they were on the verge of collapse could they call for backup. This was to prevent anyone from abusing the rescue service, which could lead to lords who truly needed help not receiving it.
While most lords were busy deploying troops, setting up defenses, and arranging defensive tactics,
Lin Yu was leisurely stargazing from the World Tree Crown, taking the opportunity to summarize his gains for the month.
Between the spoils from his own territory’s invasions and the payment from the mercenaries, he had collected a total of 429 Elemental Cores.
On the last day, to retain Lin Yu and Li Hua as a rescue team for the month, the lords had paid a large number of Elemental Cores. From this, Lin Yu received over 200 more, bringing his total harvest to 670—all of them Excellent-grade Elemental Cores.
Lin Yu suspected that the lords of the United Tribes had turned in all the Advanced Elemental Cores they found, ensuring that the top contenders from the superior races could synthesize even higher-grade Elemental Cores. That was probably why only Excellent-grade ones were left.
The Epic-grade Ice Element Core he had acquired from the Glacier World previously had 990,000 energy remaining. After accumulating energy for over a month, it had gained 3,500 more points, leaving it just 6,500 points short of the amount needed to promote an Ice-type Legendary Hero to Epic-grade.
Lin Yu used 13 Excellent-grade Ice Element Cores to charge the Epic-grade Elemental Core, bringing its energy to a full one million.
Then, Lin Yu summoned Dong Lin to the Lord’s Mansion.
Looking at Dong Lin’s sturdy build in his human form, Lin Yu said with a grin, "Dong Lin, I guess it’s true that we wouldn’t have known each other if we hadn’t fought! Your attack on our territory back then really gave me a huge headache."
"Heh heh, you can’t really look at it like that. The information we received said there was a lot of food over by the Teleportation Gate. We just came over to eat. Who knew you’d attack us the moment we arrived? We were just defending ourselves!"
"Besides, we were starving back then, so hungry we were seeing stars. When someone tried to stop us from eating, of course we were going to attack."
"And the voice that told us to come here also said that the central area had lots and lots of delicious food, enough for me to have a hearty meal. That’s why my brethren headed for the center after they’d eaten their fill—they wanted to find food for me. But you ended up killing them all."
"In the end, just as I was about to have a little snack before heading to the center to find food myself, the territory brought out enough delicious food for me to eat my fill. I was worried something might have happened to my brethren who hadn’t teleported over yet, so I went back."
Dong Lin’s response left Lin Yu wide-eyed. He never imagined that Dong Lin would actually claim that they, the Mammoths, were the victims. If that was the case, then what was the point of them defending the territory so desperately back then?
"Forget it! Forget it! Let’s not talk about this. We’re all one family now, so there’s no need to draw lines. Let’s just let those past misunderstandings be bygones!"
Lin Yu waved his hand, cutting the topic short.
"The main reason I called you here today is because an opportunity has come up, and I wanted to see if you’re interested."
"What kind of opportunity?" Dong Lin’s eyes widened instantly as he tried to read something from Lin Yu’s face.
"Ahem! An opportunity that will be a huge help to you!"
"Well... to raise your grade by one level."
"Oh, just raising my level by one? That’s not very useful," Dong Lin said, slightly disappointed.
Lin Yu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at his reaction. He had gone out of his way to be mysterious, only for Dong Lin to completely mishear him.
"Not your level, your grade! I’m talking about raising your grade by one level! Your grade!"
"What? Raise my grade?"
"Is something that good even possible? You mean I can be promoted from Legendary to Epic?"
Dong Lin immediately grew excited, his upright body beginning to dance uncontrollably.
But he calmed down just as quickly.
"My Lord, you’re not pulling my leg, are you?"
"How could an opportunity this good possibly fall to me?"
"Shouldn’t the Phantom Commander, Prime Minister Lin Chenxi, Captain Yuan Xiaobo, Vice-Captain Rose, or Manqiluo be more deserving of this chance than I am?"
After calming down, Dong Lin’s rational mind told him it was impossible for such a rare opportunity to fall to him. After all, compared to the others, he had only surrendered and pledged allegiance to the territory. He was an outsider who had joined them.
The others were all beings native to the territory. Compared to him, their emotional attachment and loyalty to the territory were much higher.