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Chapter 492: Half a Month to Gather a Million Troops
Chapter 492: Half a Month to Gather a Million Troops
Qin Muye has been closely monitoring the intelligence from Baijingzhou. After the second attack, which resulted in the death of a Ninth Rank Ninth Rank Spirit Summoner, the imperial court became even more concerned. They are no longer moving at a leisurely pace as they did before. Now, there is a clear sense of urgency.
The recruitment efforts have also become more generous. Even the most cumbersome and bloated systems have been mobilized under this life-and-death crisis, ruthlessly exploiting all available resources. As a result, the efficiency has increased several times over.
Previously, the court could afford to be indifferent because, at that time, the Ninth Rank Spirit Summoners shared the same mindset as Zhou Ji. They believed that killing an Eighth Rank Spirit Summoner was no big deal and that they could do it faster.
But now, the situation is different. A Ninth Rank Spirit Summoner has died. Although the official propaganda claims that Zhou Ji defeated the demon and forced it to beg for mercy, and that the demon chose to self-destruct out of cowardice, the high-ranking officials know the truth.
They are aware of the real situation. Zhou Ji was among the most powerful Ninth Rank Spirit Summoners, yet he could not escape. If they were in his position, they would likely meet the same fate.
Faced with death, everyone can only temporarily set aside their conflicts of interest.
They want to seize the opportunity to gain benefits, but if they do not resolve the "Spirit Tribulation," then no matter how many benefits they gain, they will all be dead, and those benefits will be meaningless.
Worse still, their entire families could be wiped out, which is the most serious concern.
As Ninth Rank Spirit Summoners from prestigious families, they can be awakened by their descendants after death and live for many more generations. But if their families are gone, who will awaken them? It is this pivotal role that allows the structure of these prestigious families to exist.
"Within a maximum of fifteen days, the troops will be fully assembled, numbering around three million. This is quite a surprise."
Qin Muye looked at the reports compiled by the intelligence department. In this regard, things were progressing smoothly, despite some setbacks, which were insignificant in the face of the larger situation.
Three million troops are enough for Qin Muye to complete his mission, but he needs to plan further to ensure absolute success. Otherwise, it will be difficult to gather another three million troops.
A first strike is powerful, the second weaker, and the third exhausted.
The first time, it was relatively easy to gather such a large number of troops, partly because the court was at the height of its power and partly because a large number of spirits were secretly helping. Otherwise, with the court's waning influence, it would have taken at least three to five months to gather such a force.
The court is at the height of its power, but this refers to overall strength, not the distribution of power.
The phrase "imperial authority does not extend to the countryside" is an unavoidable flaw, especially with the presence of Spirit Summoners. While ordinary people fear imperial authority, the implementation of various policies often has little to do with it and is instead controlled by prestigious families.
Especially in remote areas, the power of prestigious families often surpasses that of local state governments.
The entire realm is complex, so the smooth formation of this army is largely due to the efforts of the spirits. The prestigious families not causing trouble is already a good sign.
After all, spending money and effort to go to war is not something that will earn them a favorable attitude.
"The development progress of the 7th Rank spirits is quite good. This time, we are mainly focusing on enhancing the Titan and Insectoid bloodlines, along with some technologies from the Sky Net. The upper limit should not be easily reached, but it will likely result in a situation similar to a BOSS template."
As long as he achieves a million kills, he can start recruiting 7th Rank spirits, Qin Muye is naturally working on their development.
With the existence of the Stellar Array, Qin Muye is confident he can complete the development of 7th Rank spirits within a month.
To achieve this, he has reallocated a significant portion of the computational resources. Otherwise, it would be impossible to complete within a month.
And what will be completed within a month is just the initial version, which involves integrating the bloodlines and then optimizing them using the Insectoid gene pool. Finally, the mental techniques from the Rendaya civilization's great library will further improve the personal server and the connection to the magic network.
Qin Muye's strength is definitely capable of reaching the 7 Rank, but it can probably only be considered as early-stage 7th Rank. Subsequent stages include mid-stage, late-stage, perfect, great Perfect, peak, and Peak Great Perfect, and half-step 8th Rank. The key is to see how much modification 7th Rank can withstand to become 8th Rank.
"Once at 7th Rank, the monsters can no longer perform cross-rank kills," Qin Muye sighed. At 6th Rank, he could rely on equipment to perform cross-Rank kills against 7th Rank, but at 7th Rank, there is no way to do so, because the gap between 7th and 8th Rank is truly too large.
If 7th Rank is a powerful individual, then 8th Rank has already begun to benchmark against the entire world.
The gap is quite significant, even if 7th Rank monsters are equipped with Stone Ghost-level armor or Demon Image-level armor, they cannot pose a sufficient threat to 8th Rank, which is an essential difference.
Unless it is something like Qin Muye, who has a life form that has become indescribable, with conceptual abilities plus a large number of divine Artifacts and auxiliary enhancements, can 7th Rank perform a kill against 8th Rank.
As for Qin Muye to kill 9th Rank at 8th Rank? That’s even more impossible. If he encounters a 9th Rank, he should run for his life as soon as possible.
However, he believes that if he truly encounters a 9th Rank, he might not even have the chance to run.
"With the addition of Titan bloodline, both damage reduction and attribute growth can compensate for the monsters' inherent attribute deficiencies."
The Titan Bloodline he uses is certainly not Zeus or Cronus, but a human bloodline he synthesized himself, though not the original.
Because the original has already disappeared and become part of the Abyss, Qin Muye can only extract a portion and re-integrate it.
In addition, the Insectoid technology is not much of an issue, not to mention the Insectoid gene pool is very complete.
Qin Muye contemplates making a modification, perhaps allowing the monsters to accept the Hive's Divine Artifact enhancement. The increase is quite significant, not limited to Insectoids, it is definitely Mythic-level or higher.
But if it cannot be achieved, it doesn't matter; when the Hive is made into a territory trait, another modification can form a more significant enhancement effect.
Currently, the progress of the Divine Artifact territory trait project is going very smoothly, at least it has already completed nearly 70%, not a single Divine Artifact, but the average progress of all Divine Artifacts combined.
With the Stellar Array, it must be synchronized, it cannot be studied one by one slowly. Qin Muye does not lack the combat power of a territory trait, but he lacks the combat Power of all Divine Artifacts integrated into territory traits.
In addition to the Divine Artifact territory trait project, Qin Muye has also initiated a new territory trait project, yes, the Mythic-level treasure territory trait, such as the Core of the World, the Tablet of Fate, etc. This is currently quite difficult, at least it will have to wait until all Divine Artifacts are used before it can be initiated.
Once this instance is completed, his strength will definitely become much greater, and he will no longer need the help of the Titan God Race.
Because he is strong enough, but he hasn't thought about becoming stronger and then creating a Titan-level grand structure in the Fairy Tale World or the Horror Universe. After all, he has once helped himself, and building a bridge over a river also has its limits.
On the contrary, the Tidal World, this world can be further exploited. Previously, there was no capability, but now that there is, he definitely cannot let it go.
This world only has this much value left; the rest of the value has already been squeezed dry by Qin Muye.
As for the Ten Thousand Shadows World, Qin Muye does not plan to go because there is an unknown hole in the sky leading to who knows where, safety first.
"Fifteen days, the Firewalls of the Spirit Land still have some gaps. I hope there will be progress during this period. Although multitasking can lead to the Stellar Array's computing power and my energy being scattered, it is still quite convenient. I can only hope everything goes smoothly."
With so many plans, Qin Muye can only prepare some backup plans to ensure seamless transitions in case a project fails or gets delayed. There is no 100% successful plan in the world, and anything can fail for various trivial reasons.
Qin Muye has never thought he could do everything perfectly, but he can rely on his abilities to do things as well as possible. If everything were perfect, Qin Muye would not need to strive.
(End of Chapter)
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