"Really? Is this really... the basic building?!"
Caelan sighed repeatedly as he looked at the Abyssal Hatchery in front of him.
"Amazing, from Level-0 to Level-100 Troops, it can all be recruited."
"And this is only a Level-1 building, if I raise it to a higher level, how strong will its recruitment effect be?"
"Unfortunately, it's just a bit more expensive to build."
[The construction cost of Abyssal Hatchery: 10k resource points]
[The construction cost of Abyssal Sacrifice Table: 100k resource points]
[The construction cost of Abyssal Gate: 20k resource points]
The buildings within the territory were the same as the territory, both could be purchased and upgraded.
It was only the effects of upgrading the two that were a little different.
After upgrading a territory, more types of new buildings could be constructed, such as Spirit Altar for recruiting racial heroes, Mage Tower for housing and recruiting mages, or other upgrades to basic buildings, such as Forges and Metallurgy Chambers for creating higher-grade equipment.
The upgrades to ordinary buildings, on the other hand, could increase the types of soldiers recruited and reduce the consumption of resources by a small amount, or simply reduce the time it took to recruit soldiers.
However, the appearance of the Abyssal Hatchery broke all these rules that were common in the past!
Because all the Troop-Types it displayed were all directly recruitable.
No technical conditions!
No recruitment restrictions!
As long as Caelan was able to activate it and take out its corresponding resources, then he could completely do unlimited recruitment.
"Right, activate it."
As he thought of this, Caelan suddenly realized a problem.
That was that the Abyssal Hatchery was still in an unactivated "Dry" state.
It wasn't just the Abyssal Hatchery!
The entire Dark Abyss gave Caelan a very strange feeling.
It was as if The Dark Abyss itself, including the countless dimensions within it, had been dead for a long time.
Caelan hadn't seen a single living creature in the abyss in half a day.
Whether it was an animal or a plant, there was none!
Aside from the vortex above its sky that was always in a state of rotation, the entire abyss was in a state of eerie to terrifying dead silence.
And the word dryness didn't only apply to that Abyssal Hatchery that was covered by countless black tentacles, but also to the Abyss itself.
"Regardless of all this about the situation of The Dark Abyss, it's no matter how weird it is it has nothing to do with me anyway, I'd better enquire about how to activate the Abyssal Hatchery first."
After thinking of this, Caelan sat on top of the Abyssal Throne and inquired about the way to undo the Abyssal Hatchery's current Dry state.
[The way to lift Abyssal Hatchery's Dry State: Soul ×500]
After seeing this answer, Caelan let out a huge sigh of relief.
Because this condition wasn't that difficult for him.
Ordinary souls were sold at Arcane Treasure Exchange and they were called Soul Stones, priced at 1 resource point a piece.
And with the initial resources he had, he could directly exchange those Soul Stones containing Souls.
And, since Caelan had chosen Double Random options at the beginning, he had 1.5 times the amount of resource points or a total of 1,500 resource points.
"It turns out that only Soul Stones are needed to remove Dry State, so the way this building is activated isn't too difficult, but that's normal, after all, this is the basic building, so if it's too difficult, it's probably unlikely that anyone will be able to complete it."
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Caelan glanced at the Abyssal Hatchery in its Dry state, then looked to the other side.
"Other than that, there is a third, door-like building that seems to be called the Abyssal Gate."
"And what function does it have?"
Caelan clicked up the Abyssal Gate and checked out this building.
The introduction of the Abyssal Gate was rather concise.
[Abyssal Gate: Ignores any dimensional crystal wall rules and opens a two-way indestructible but cancellable teleportation portal.]
Concise, but not simple!
Caelan stared wide-eyed and read the Abyssal Gate's introduction several times over and over again before finally confirming that he had read it correctly.
"Ignores any dimensional crystal wall rules? Indestroyable? Teleportation channel?"
"These few items combined, oh, my God, is this really the basic building?"
Previously, Caelan studied the relevant knowledge carefully at Westerford University.
For the most part, teleportation portals were not part of regular buildings. Ordinary territories could only have the technology to create teleportation portals if they reached at least Level-3.
Moreover, the construction cost of teleportation portals in ordinary territories was extremely high, and they could easily be destroyed. The portals opened by the Abyss Gate cannot be destroyed, obviously beyond Caelan's understanding
When Caelan was shocked, the task of the Lord Trial was officially released
【Lord Trial Task】
Welcome to the Lord Trial, the content has two items.
The first is to create a territory of at least Level-10 and ensure that it is not destroyed. Higher territory Levels yield higher trial scores.
The second is to accumulate 200k resource points at the end of the trial.
Note that it doesn't matter if you logged, farmed, hunted, mined, or plundered others on your own, as long as you saved up 200k resource points, you were considered to have passed. Similarly, more resource points saved up yield higher trial scores.
【Note】
All newborn lords can be teleported to the Eternal Continent!
The resources on the Eternal Continent had been very extremely rich, the Lords could acquire resources there.
Caelan read the task carefully. The difficulty of this trial is at least twice as high as before. The previous trial conditions only need to accumulate 100k, this time, somehow, it needs to accumulate 200k. He was extremely confused and shocked by this.
In the previous Lord Trials, It was already very difficult to obtain 100k resource points, not to mention 200k.
Trying to rely on the little resources around one's territory to save up enough resource points was a sheer fantasy, after all, the initial environmental resources of many races weren't rich at all. Even if one barely managed to scrape together 100k, it would be just a passing grade.
The Eternal Continent is very mysterious, and no one knows its origin.
This trial task required 200k, for any newborn Lord who wanted to pass this trial, he had to build enough portals to send their subordinates to the Eternal Continent, establish colonies, and bring back the collected resources.
【Supplementary】
Since everyone wants to go to the Eternal Continent, then you can't just send civilian troops like farmers, servants, or slaves to gather resources there.
Once your competitor identifies a weakness they can capitalize on, they will not hesitate to take out your civilian troops, plunder the resources you gather, and then destroy your portals.
Therefore, you must have armies that can protect civilian troops while building colonies.
Only then will you be able to successfully pass this Lord Trial!
Nowadays, Caelan had just established a territory and had a portal straight away, which made him somewhat doubt whether his luck was good or bad.
The bad aspect was that within his initial environment, there weren't any resources to gather at all.
The good aspect on the other hand was that he hadn't even done anything yet, and a paranoid extreme war architecture had already been built.
"Wait, I get it ...."
Suddenly, Caelan looked thoughtfully at the Abyssal Sacrifice Table, Abyssal Hatchery, and Abyssal Gate.
He was finally starting to connect the three together.
"This world, once upon a time, was a world of war."
Caelan raised his head and looked towards the vortex above the sky.
Somehow, that vortex above the sky seemed to sense Caelan's gaze.
In its middle part, the eye-like center of the vortex was also responding to Caelan's gaze if nothing else.
"The Dark Abyss it has no valuable resources, and it has no need to mine the so-called resources."
Caelan looked at the barren land spreading for thousands of miles beneath his feet, at the various skeletons that had long since withered and weathered in the distance.
"Because the Dark Abyss itself, feeds on plunder!"
"It is a living War Machine!"
"Using war to feed war, provoking endless war is the mode of survival that the Dark Abyss should have."
"It doesn't need the so-called civilization, nor does it need any communication, but all other civilizations can understand it."
"Because its appearance only means that war is coming!"
Thinking of this, Caelan finally swept away his past bitterness and gloom.
With glowing eyes, he walked over to the Abyssal Hatchery, exchanged 500 Resource Points for 500 Soul Stones, and threw them into it one by one.
"Boom!"
As the Soul Stones were thrown into the Abyssal Hatchery, the black tentacles that had previously covered the Abyssal Hatchery retracted, and then the entire Dark Abyss began to emit an eerie roar from the bottom.
That was the appalling roar that was emitted by this long-silent war machine that had finally been awakened.
"My dearest war, the one I have longed for, the endless war ...."
And Caelan smiled and looked to the sky, locking eyes with whichever black and red vortex was above it.
"Is it finally going to start?!"
A certain desire that had been intentionally suppressed by him was finally getting the chance to be unleashed.