Chapter 135: Chapter 129: The Opening of the Large-Scale Dungeon, Twilight City’s Rank Revealed

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation  Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

The game “Shining Era” was divided into 12 months. And each month had a fixed 28 days. There was no difference in the number of the month.

The 1st of each month was Monday, and the last day of each month—the 28th—was Sunday.

It was May 28, 12:00 noon. The system would release the lord’s overall strength ranking board.

At that time, among the 20 billion lords, the top one million lords would obtain the qualifications to enter the large-scale dungeon.

Richard had already gathered all the troops before 7 o’clock.

He waited for the ranking board’s announcement to be released and also wanted to raise the battle strength of another wave of troops for the last time.

Blacksmith shop.

Adele was holding onto the console with one hand. Although fatigue shrouded her face, her gaze was intensely proud as she looked at Richard.

“Lord, I haven’t let you down!”

Adele gestured for the undead soldier of the Axe of the Dead behind her to be equipped with a bullhorn helmet. It was a full-body armor with a mandala tattoo and a pale golden tomahawk in its hand.

“I’ve researched how to reinforce the Axe of the Dead with the fire elemental core!”

Richard was immensely touched when he looked at the blacksmith hero with dark circles under her eyes and was exhausted.

He reached out and touched her little head, his eyes serious.

“All the residents of Twilight City will remember your contributions! After reinforcing these soldiers, you should rest well for a while. You are not allowed to work with such high intensity anymore.”

She had not left the blacksmith shop for the past few days, and he could see the hard work she had put in even without mentioning it.

He was deeply grateful that he had recruited Adele. She was a true wealth of Twilight City.

“Lord Richard, it’s my honor to be of service to you…”

Adele’s eyes were crescent moons. She liked her current job and living in this city full of vitality.

No matter how much effort she put in, she would admirably complete the mission.

It was her persistence.

“Karu, send another ten units of Desert Crown Honey over…”

Adele’s eyes lit up. When she thought of the sweetness of the honey, she pursed her lips and looked toward the door.

“Lord, let’s reinforce the Axe of the Dead first…”

Richard deeply stared at the blacksmith hero and didn’t say anything else.

He turned his attention to the Axe of the Dead.

From the looks of it, the Axe of the Dead didn’t look any different. He opened the attribute panel.

One of the skills made his eyes light up after he took a few glances.

[Flame Tomahawk Slash (C-rank) — After throwing the tomahawk, it will explode and shatter, causing a huge amount of magic damage to enemies within a 10-meter radius. The tomahawk fragment has a high temperature of molten steel, causing second high-temperature degree damage to enemies within a 20-meter radius.]

‘The fire element core reinforced the Flame Tomahawk Slash skill?

‘What a good thing!’

The previous axe smash was able to deal magic damage to a diameter of 10 meters. The additional high temperature now had increased its attack range to 20 meters.

It meant that this skill could deal two waves of damage — the first wave was the magic damage from axe smash, and the second wave was the high-temperature burn…

This initially paralyzing skill has superseded enhancement after Adele’s research.

Richard was extra joyous.

He waved his hand and summoned all the undead soldiers.

There were 25 of them including the ones already been reinforced.

He had used 20 of the 100 fire elemental cores he had left. There were 80 left. Including the ten that he had used to reinforce the scorpion warrior last time, he had obtained a total of 620 of the 650 fire elemental cores.

Reinforcing the Axe of the Dead required 15 cores and 285 for the remaining 24 undead soldiers.

After a few days of experiments, Adele’s operation was smooth. In less than five minutes, she could complete the reinforcement of the Axe of the Dead.

It was different from the scorpion warrior that used a special potion directly on it.

Adele had to use a unique item to liquefy the fire core first. And then draw a unique pattern out of the liquefied solution.

Adele completed the enhancement when the undead soldier absorbed the pattern.

It seemed simple, but it would take a lot of effort to experiment with this enchantment.

All of the undead soldiers’ enhancements from seven to nine were completed.

The tomahawk Slash was a tremendous killer weapon. It was starkly reinforced into Flame Tomahawk Slash. This weapon, which already had tyrannical attack power, was further enhanced.

After one round of reinforcement, 335 out of 620 fire elemental cores remained.

Richard did not keep them and called the scorpion warriors.

The total number of scorpion warriors was 34. One soldier had already been reinforced three days ago.

These fire elemental cores were just enough to reinforce the remaining scorpion warriors.

Adele suddenly felt much more energetic and continued to work after she took a few cups of Desert Crown Honey.

At 11:30, she had starkly reinforced the troops.

The enormous double pincers of the 34 scorpion warriors had turned dark red and reflected a luster. Even without experiments, one would know the horror of their lethality.

Richard was in a great mood after he looked at the scorpion warriors and undead soldiers’ final moment of reinforcement.

The harvest from this exploration of the ruins was simply too bountiful.

In the future, he must establish trade relations with the Fire Elemental Lord. Such good things could not be buried by the other party…

When Richard saw that noon was about to arrive, he brought all the troops gathered in the open space of the Twilight City ready and prepared for the dungeon.

His eyes were burning.

After half a month of preparation, it was finally time to test their strength.

Opening the [Forum Chat], the sand sculpture players were so excited and going crazy.

[Ow! Ow! The comprehensive strength of the territories will be counted soon!! My territory is a third-level village, but I got rare-level troop lairs. I can squeeze into the top one million, right?]

[Ha Ha Ha, my level three small city has upgraded. I’m sorry, I have to decide on this reward!]

[What about the big guys at the game company? Can you tell me about this run?]

[F*ck, for the sake of this dungeon, I have stormed to eight battalions!! I don’t believe that anyone can withstand the skeleton sea’s tactics! I, the undead, am the true god of the world!]

[Demon faction, please form a team. My city — level 2 small city. There are five squadrons of elite-level demons, one of the rare-level demons, and at the same time, there is a high-potential G-rank hero…]

[Why is there still no news? Waiting makes me panic…”

[The dungeon is about to open. I’m cute, please, take care of me. My leg hair has been shaved clean…]

The exchange of posts continued…

Richard looked at the players’ messy posts, and his mood lulled.

Sure enough, no matter what time it was, these sand sculptures were a source of joy.

Time slowly passed, and finally. The system notification arrived at 12 o’clock sharp as promised.

[Ding~ The ancient battle of lords shattered the river of time, causing countless time fragments to remain in the main plane.]

[One of the time fragments is about to appear.

[Lords, please take note. The territory strength ranking board has released the qualifiers. Please check for yourself.]

[The top one million players on the Lord Ranking Board can enter the time shard to explore in 10 minutes.]

[The lords who enter the time shard this time will receive the protection of the Guardian Shield until the lord returns from the time shard.]

[Note 1: This is the only time. The next time, you will not be able to obtain the Guardian Shield. Lords, please take note of the safety of the territory.]

[Note 2: After the death of the troop the lord carries, the lord can spend points to resurrect at the end of the time shard. The lord can resurrect himself for free.]

[Note 3: The time shard contains all sorts of special treasures. The winner will receive a special reward. Lords, please be prepared.]

With the system notification, the entire forum immediately went into a frenzy.

Everyone opened the Lord Ranking Board to check if they were on the one million qualifiers.

Richard was also extremely excited and immediately opened the Lord Ranking Board.

In the next second, another series of notifications sounded.

[Ding ~ In Twilight City’s comprehensive strength statistics, each judge will receive corresponding prosperity. After adding all the prosperity, the territory’s comprehensive strength will reach a maximum of 1,000 prosperity points.]

[Territory Level: 2 Small City — Insignificant land, 10 points of prosperity.]

[Number of Residents: 1,000 — Very few, 5 points of prosperity.]

[Business Relationship: Not opened — No one is interested, 1 point of prosperity.]

[Territory Buildings: Several high-level buildings — Average, 5 points of prosperity.]

[Cultural Characteristics: None — Barbarian land, 0 points of prosperity.]

[Religion: None — City of the faithless, 1 point of prosperity.]

[Territory Specialties: Desert Bees, fire dragon rabbits — The future can be expected, 500 points of prosperity.]

[Military Strength: Three squad’s glorious-level troops, one squadron’s rare-level troops, several squadron’s rare-level troops — Dugu Qiubei, 1,000 points of prosperity.”

[Heroic Battle Strength: Three A-rank heroes — Who can contend with them, 1,000 points of prosperity.]

[Lord Strength: Glorious-Level — One hand covering the sky, 1,000 points of prosperity.]

Total — 3,522, territory overall strength ranking — 5,232.

Richard was exceedingly interested.

He did not expect the territory’s overall strength would be tested on a total of 10 items.

When he looked at the first few items, his heart turned cold.

“What cultural characteristics, religious beliefs, number of residents, business relations…? In this godforsaken place, how could he have such a thing???”

Fortunately, the last three items were directly filled up which forced the overall score to rise.

But even so, the ranking was still lower than 500,000… According to this kind of calculation, the score would probably be higher than the others in prosperous areas of the territories.

But no matter what, he got the admission ticket.

His eyes sparkled when he looked at the full score of the three troop forces.

He had poured all of his resources into the troop forces during this period, and it had not been in vain.

Next, it was time to test the brilliance of Twilight City!

He wanted to see how those lords with 1,000 prosperity in terms of culture, trade, and territory level would resist the saber in his hand.