Chapter 1182: Viewing Rewards (Part 2)

Chapter 1182: Viewing Rewards (Part II)

[Title Name: Lord of Lords]

[Title Rank: Mythic Tier · Unique]

[Title Effect: You are the Lord of Lords among all Lords. When you engage in battle against other Lords, you may suppress their power by 50%. When your army fights against the armies of other Lords, your soldiers may also suppress the enemy soldiers' effectiveness by 50%.]

[Title Description: This title is specially bestowed upon Lords who achieve the pinnacle of both the Kingdom and the Empire faction leaderboard rankings simultaneously in the "Lord of Lords" event. Holders of this title are truly the supreme rulers among Lords!]

Zhou Zhou stared at the title, giving a subtle nod.

Though the effect of this title seemed simple,

it was undeniably powerful and practical.

From now on, whenever he encountered a Lord who was not the Lord of Lords,

within the same level of forces and equal troop numbers,

he and his army would almost certainly prevail over the opponent.

Even if the enemy possessed divine-state units,

Zhou Zhou, empowered by the title of Lord of Lords,

might still be able to defeat them despite being at a higher tier.

Zhou Zhou set aside the title and glanced at the other rewards.

A legendary upper-tier kingdom decree—natural trifling for Zhou Zhou, who already ruled an empire. He tossed it directly to the Star Alliance, letting whichever Star Alliance leader found it purchase it through auction.

The 10,000 points of legendary prestige reward was decent.

But for Zhou Zhou, it wasn’t much.

Then he turned his gaze to the ten boxes of faction summit rewards.

He opened one, and his brow lifted slightly.

Inside each box, there lay exactly 100 scrolls.

Zhou Zhou picked up one.

[Item Name: "Scroll of Heroic Resurrection"]

[Rank: Transcendent Upper Tier]

[Item Ability: Upon activation, a transcendent upper-tier hero of a race may be reborn from the river of time and space; if no such hero exists within the river for the master's own race, a hero from another race will be randomly selected and reborn.]

[Description: A magical scroll capable of summoning heroes, allowing fallen legends from history to reappear in the world.]

"The Scroll of Heroic Rebirth... there actually exists such a scroll?"

"One Scroll of Heroic Rebirth can summon a single hero—then with a full inventory of 1,000 such scrolls, I could summon no less than 1,000 human heroes!"

"What is the Supreme Will doing?"

"Are we being summoned into a grand temporal battle among the myriad races?"

Zhou Zhou gaped in astonishment.

The master who has climbed to the very top of the faction ranking list is not alone—there are many such masters.

After all, across the Supreme Continent alone, there are countless kingdom-level and empire-level master factions. Each master who ascends the ranking list of their faction's power points receives a corresponding number of faction summit rewards, which contain vast quantities of the Scroll of Heroic Rebirth.

Once all the "Hero Resurrection Scroll" had been activated, a vast number of heroes who had once fallen from history would now rise again—returning to the Supreme Continent and to the worlds where the myriad ethnic lords dwelled.

Thus, the number of heroes across the multiverse, including the Supreme Continent, would reach a peak not seen in any recorded age.

The power of the ethnic lords' domains would likewise surge dramatically.

Yet Zhou Zhou felt nothing of the matter.

The gap between his own strength and that of the ethnic lords was too vast—no mere increase in the number of heroes could bridge it.

Moreover, having obtained 1000 copies of the "Hero Resurrection Scroll," through mutual refinement, his own domain's strength had actually grown even more.

He pondered the Supreme Will's intent in bestowing so many scrolls.

Suddenly—

He thought of something, and opened the imperial panel of the Blazing Sun Empire.

He saw that for the Blazing Sun Empire to advance from an intermediate empire to an advanced empire, it actually required a staggering fifty thousand racial heroes!

He then recalled how, back when he was upgrading his kingdom, there had also been a massive requirement for heroes.

Merely establishing a primary kingdom required three heroes of his own race.

Upgrading to an intermediate kingdom demanded ten heroes of his own race.

As for upgrading to an advanced kingdom, the required number of racial heroes reached a full fifty!

"I understand now."

"The Supreme Will must have perceived that the current development progress of the lords of all races has already reached the 'Age of Kingdoms'."

"The lords of all races have now begun to require the addition of racial heroes to help them fulfill the conditions for establishing a kingdom."

"That is why the Supreme Will rewarded so many Hero Reincarnation Scrolls in this reward."

"After all, if we follow the normal process of hero emergence, a race might not produce a single hero in several hundred years."

"Compared to that, the probability of a deity's emergence is even higher than that of a hero."

Zhou Zhou had formed his own conjecture.

It made sense.

Let's do the math.

Indeed, among the surviving ten-thousand-tribe chieftains, many of the non-human chieftains have already begun establishing their own kingdoms.

Especially the top-bloodline chieftains, leveraging their ancestral strength, have long since founded their own realms—only slightly behind him in timing.

Yet…

Looking at his own temple, Zhou Zhou's expression grew subtly strange.

He had already established a mid-tier empire, and was only a step away from a high-tier one. His power had now reached a level comparable to, or even surpassing, some mid-tier deity-state chieftain factions.

Were other noble factions only just beginning to enter the Age of the Kingdom?

"Indeed, I've advanced too far ahead of the standard version."

Zhou Zhou thought to himself, filled with self-satisfaction.

Then his gaze fell once more upon the 1000 copies of the "Hero Resurrection Scroll."

He quickly scanned them, and found that the scrolls spanned every tier—ranging from the lowest transcendental rank to the highest legendary upper rank, all within this range of power.

"Are there no heroes of divine level?"

Zhou Zhou paused, startled.

He remembered that within the human race's Hall of Heroes, there had once been inheritances of divine-tier heroes.

Could it be that the Supreme Will had imposed a limit on the power of resurrected heroes, allowing them to rise no higher than legendary upper rank?

Zhou Zhou pondered for a few seconds, then gave a slight nod.

There is indeed a possibility.

After all, deities were no ordinary combat force of the Kingdom Era.

Even the lowest-ranking lower deities were generally possessed only by the earliest empires.

To grant the chieftains of the myriad races the power of deities—heroic forces on a divine scale—would be far beyond the bounds of reason.

Perhaps only when the chieftains of the myriad races had reached the age of empire would the Supreme Will allow heroes to be reborn with divine strength.

Zhou Zhou casually pulled out a scroll of the highest rank—Legend-Class Upper Hero Rebirth Scroll—and with a mere thought, summoned it into existence.

Before him, a shimmering river of time and space, veiled and ancient, slowly rose into the sky above the divine hall.

Then, a crimson flash erupted from within the river of time. It surged upward abruptly, breaking free of the temporal stream, and descended to the fore of the divine hall, gradually coalescing into a young human male—tall and imposing, bearing a noble bearing, clad in a blood-stained, ferocious armor, wielding a massive dragon-hooped crimson spear. His presence radiated both solemn authority and a hint of the wandering spirit of the martial world.

"Ten Directions Martial Emperor—Master of the World!"

"Have you seen the Emperor!"

Zunwu spoke respectfully.

"Zunwu?"

Zhou Zhou raised an eyebrow.

Then it came back to him.

Didn't the initial inheritance that Fei Luo received from the Holy Temple of Spirits belong to Zunwu, the Ten-Dimensional Martial Emperor?

Unfortunate—he had immediately summoned a familiar.

But why had his hero title changed?

And his hero rank had risen from epic to legendary upper tier?