With mechanical sound, the main door leading towards the central control room opened. Through the gate, the group of animals ran into the room, followed by Lumen.

Lumen's heavy armored boots clap loudly against the steel floors on her way to the central terminal. It is a slow and steady walk but occasional powerful steps shown her little excitement that doesn't show through her helmet.

The covers of various cables and wires began to open as she arrived in front of the terminal, waiting for her command. With her approval, it has started to move, twisting and snapping into the proper position, embedding in the sockets giving the Lumen complete control of the base.

Immediately, Lumen commanded five of her drones, sending them to the battlefield to bring corpses or what was left of them while others continued to build and maintain the wind turbines.

With its filling the ques of the drones, Lumen proceeded to the research tree and chose the Logistic and Diplomacy branch.

Research Improved rations Effect 25% increase on army supply

New trade goods: Flavored Energy Jelly

Research Non-Profitable Supply Aid Effect Unlocks 'Non-Profitable Food Aid' option to any neutral or friendly faction by reducing any supply-related trade goods to zero, improving the relationship at every turn.

Lumen usually chose those research choices a bit later but had to pick them due to unexpected quests. Thankfully those were 0-turn searches that required no more than 12 hours.

With its research underway, Lumen reached towards the empty space and took out the box out of her inventory. It was a small dark box with a golden rim.

Unlike other lords, Sylvesris was the only lord who couldn't use the inventory system efficiently due to her trait, Body of Chaos, which prevents her from using anything related to magic and qi.

Trait Body of Chaos Effect

-10 Permanent on Magic and Qi Aptitude

All jobs and skills related to Magic and Qi will be locked

-70 Diplomatic relationship with local religions

It can't be affected by direct Magic and Qi-related skills.

Reflect the mind or soul-related skill as pure damage.

Any units in a 10m radius will lose 8% of their total mana or qi per every second.

Leaving her only able to receive the reward items from inventory, nothing else.

Lumen opened the box's cover with a simple tap and saw her first equipment. It was old wooden gravel with its charred head and a simple chain with a silvery light connected to the body.

Research Lost Justice Effect +0.1% attack per for each person with good and neutral alignment target killed directly and indirectly.

+50% additional damage against a target possessing the following trait: Thug, Unlawful, Criminal, Wicked, Corrupted, High-Class, Low-Class

+5 public order for every region under the wearer.

*This equipment can be upgraded after meeting certain conditions*

Trivia: A gavel strike can end a life. But later, I'm the one who will be sentenced.

"It's better than I thought." Lumen took its chain and wore it around her neck, equipping it.

Just as Lumen expected, the legendary ranked equipment and unique ranked ones always focused on more niece side rather than the stats and damage increase like common and uncommon or strong unique properties like mythical or godly ones.

Thankfully at least this time, she got a more useful one.

"You are being watched by red, blue, green, and purple."

With sudden the message screen, Lumen understood she had successfully established a connection with four primordial gods.

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Accessory Chosen of Four Effect Establish a connection with four ancient gods.

Unlocks special rituals to improve the relationship and receive boons for the offering.

-50 Diplomatic relationship with local gods.

Despite its shady-looking deal, it was a straightforward and honest deal for Lumen, as the help of those four definitely required her to fend off future threats, as Zera possessed almost no way to deal with some of them.

After seeing your iron disciple, way of combat and killing, the Red wants to make a contract with you.

After seeing your pursuit of knowledge and the desire for improvement, the Blue wants to make a contract with you

After seeing your care and shelter of innocent life, the Green wants to make a contract with you.

After seeing your uncorrupted beauty, hidden pride, and golden ration that even god would envy, the Purple wants to make a contract with you.

Receiving the news from four, Lumen faintly smiled and pressed 'accept.' on all four of them. Of course, she would accept all four of them.

Red, blue, green, and purple were a bit surprised but decided to see the extent of your ability.

Then Lumen felt a familiar burning sensation around her chest, followed by four wisps of smoke materializing before her eyes. Four wisps of smoke got a similar color to the four gods as its way for them to communicate with her.

Immediately Lumen stood up from her seat and reached toward the corpses that drones bought from the battlefield. Then she spoke out word appeared in her mind.

"I offer this spoils of my battle to the god of red."

With an utter of a simple sentence, the large pile of corpses began to turn into dust and was absorbed by a red wisp leaving behind nothing.

God of red is satisfied by your offering grants you and your unit's skill: Improved endurance.

Lumen knows how to deal with each god from her past experience. Those four would be taken as simple from the outside, but that was a trap set up by themselves.

It's more like an assumption from the players themselves rather than those four. In reality, they are entirely neutral gods that don't care for the player's downfall or destruction of terra. If players follow their assumptions and continue to offer them without realizing their true nature will only end up being sucked dry by offering everything to them by the players own greed.

The true nature of offerings to those four were concepts rather than singular things.

Anything related to war, honor, and martial proves can be offered to the red, like proof of one's training, the creation of weapons and armor, and even a war plan or new doctrine.

Lumen walked towards the groups of animals and raised her hand towards them and her other hand towards her temple.

"I offer this safety and future growth to the god of green."

"I offer this experience of those researches to the god of blue."

Following her sentence, a small green and blue light flew out from the group and absorbed to both balls.

God of green is satisfied by your offering and reduces the chance of natural disaster in your provinces by 10%.

God of blue is satisfied by your offering and improves the research rate of your faction by 10%

While green and blue, it is something more simple. Green was growth and life. So she only needs to care for and protect any innocent life, restore damaged soil and water, and grow her population. The blue was a movement ranging from her simple action to the advancement of technology and new law.

But as for purple.

God of purple observes you with high expectations and wants you not to discriminate.

"Um."

Lumen didn't know what to do except unequip her armor for a moment, as she knew at least to do that.

The purple god's concept was the spread of rowdiness and happiness with a mix of erotica and art. This means her population's happiness, positive character relationships, art, and a number of partners or children. But, of course, Lumen currently has no population, relationship, or an experience with the opposite sex, so she is only left with an art part.

But as a former man, Lumen has no knowledge about art, let alone simple makeup.

So she decided to ask from the god itself.

"Can you teach me about dance and makeup?"

God of purple was dumbfounded by what you just said, but it is happy to teach its dance and wake up to such a perfect specimen.