Chapter 5: Food (You will obtain a means of food production. It is recommended to invest at least 1 point).
[Lord Core (Building-Type Unit): Pioneered by the Great Lords of the First Era's Transcendent Primordial World, Eternal Light World. It can produce 'Half-Beast Tribe' combat units through biological and genetic technology. Due to technological gaps in the Lord Core, the current 'Lord Core' can no longer directly absorb 'Energy Crystals' but has been downgraded to obtaining energy through 'feeding,' thereby producing 'Half-Beast Tribe' combat units.]
[The Lord Core exhibits different levels of capability at different grades, ranging from E to SSS.]
[Once the Lord Core is successfully activated, two modes of food consumption can be selected: 1. Produce 'Half-Beast Tribe' combat units, 2. Enhance the Lord Core's branch attributes. The Lord Core possesses a vast skill tree distribution, requiring sufficient 'food' to unlock the ability traits distributed across the skill tree.]
[Food: Food in the Lord Continent is divided into two types. One is normal food used by town residents, with the default statistical name being 'Living Resources.' The 'Food Units' that can be notarized must contain a high concentration of biological characteristic energy (biological energy density exceeding 32,865,000 Π per cubic meter). Lords have their own methods of producing food. 'Food' and 'Concentrated Souls' are the absolute hard currencies of the Lord Continent.]
[Concentrated Souls: Can be used to nourish the grade of the 'Lord Aura.' The notarization rules for the 'Lord Aura' are the same as those for the 'Lord Core,' ranging from E to SSS.]
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The situation was different from what he had anticipated. Judging by this, every team entering the Lord Continent would have its leader obtain both the 'Lord Aura' and the 'Lord Core.' Both were used to develop the legion—one related to the legion's combat power, resources, etc., and the other was a means of mass-producing troops.
Regarding the six traits of the 'Lord Aura,' normally, 'Legion,' 'Resources,' and 'Food' must be upgraded. With the 15 potential points obtained through conventional channels, investing 4 points into each of the three traits mentioned above, and allocating the remaining 3 points to 'Leadership' and 'Production,' would suffice.
The so-called use of potential points to upgrade the 'Lord Aura' meant that each subsequent upgrade of the 'Lord Aura' would have a greater magnitude of improvement.
Su Xiao felt that he couldn't play it safe this time. Violators like Shenfu and Haoji seemed to have long guessed that one part of this battle royale would be entering the Lord Continent, and they must have made extensive preparations for this.
Since that was the case, he might as well take advantage of having 30 potential points this time and push the style of not playing by the rules to the extreme. Su Xiao attempted to use potential points to upgrade the 'Legion' trait of the Lord Aura. After raising it to 5 points, the hexagonal ability value chart representing the Lord Aura's capabilities showed that the 'Legion' trait was maxed out. It seemed he could become a hexagonal warrior.
Su Xiao had no interest in being a hexagonal warrior. He tried to continue upgrading the 'Legion' trait, only to receive a related prompt from Apocalypse Paradise. It wasn't a prompt saying it couldn't be upgraded; rather, it advised Su Xiao to maintain a balanced Lord ability to have greater competitiveness later on.
Ignoring this prompt, he continued upgrading the 'Legion' trait until all 30 potential points were used up. This caused his hexagonal ability value chart to form a strange shape. The 'Legion' trait had already pushed beyond the hexagonal chart, extending particularly far from the top, making the entire hexagonal chart look like a pocket watch with a straight chain.
[This world has a total of one 'Supreme Lord,' three 'Great Lords,' fifteen 'Senior Lords,' and hundreds of 'Junior Lords.']
[To be a lord, one must rule over a town, city, or large city. Therefore, even a relatively weak junior lord still has their own town. If you defeat the lord of that town, you will successfully occupy this place. Provided you do not harm civilians, craftsmen, and other town members, and do not disrupt the production order, that town will become your territory.]
[Tip: The five 'Broken Origins' of this world have been embedded into the 'City Hubs' of four large cities and have been notarized by the Void Tree. You cannot use any method to extract these 'Broken Origins' from the 'City Hubs' before the end of this round of the battle royale. When this round ends and enters the settlement phase, the 'Broken Origins' within the large cities you occupy will be stripped out by the Void Tree, granting you ownership rights.]
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It seemed that short-term occupation wasn't the key. One needed to develop a sufficiently large legion to qualify as the final winner. Regarding this, Su Xiao prepared two alternative plans to proceed simultaneously.
[Before entering the Lord Continent, you must complete the selection of your initial territory. As the first place in the first round of the battle royale, you may choose one of the following territories.]