Chapter 1238: Recruiting Trillions of Soldiers! 'The Artifact Creator Ancestor's Refining Experience'

Chapter 1238: Recruiting One-Trillion Soldiers! "The Art of Weapon Crafting from the Grand Creator"

What is it to be a vassal kingdom?!

As long as he can obtain a Saint Path Elixir Type II, it would not matter whether he serves the Empire or merely a kingdom-level lord, or even a minor, obscure lordship—he would willingly submit.

Moreover, he had chosen to align himself with a ruler of limitless potential—the Emperor himself.

Thus, he never felt that his choice had been a betrayal of himself or the Tbom race. All he now wished was that, once the Emperor had fully risen, the Emperor would not feel that his Tbom kin had become a hindrance.

Zhou Zhou had never anticipated that Colir would think so deeply.

He smiled lightly:

"This is merely the beginning."

"Serve me faithfully."

"What you desire, I shall grant you."

A mere ten thousand bottles of True God-tier potions meant nothing to Zhou Zhou; at most, it was a single hair from nine oxen.

A drop in the bucket.

"Your servant desires nothing else, only to remain by Your Majesty's side,"

Collier said, his words echoing from the very depths of his soul.

Before Zhou Zhou's eyes, a textual notification manifested, declaring that the man had ascended to the rank of a fanatic believer.

Zhou Zhou stroked his chin.

He pondered for a moment.

Then, he casually tossed another World Ring over to him.

Collier caught it in a daze, sending his divine sense slipping into its depths, only to be struck with utter awe to find a staggering one hundred thousand bottles of Holy Path Potion Type II resting inside!

"This!!"

Collier’s eyes widened in sheer disbelief.

This amounted to a staggering one hundred thousand bottles of Holy Path Potion Type II!

With standard administration, it would grant their Behemoth clan no fewer than eighty thousand Amethyst Behemoths!

At that very moment, Collier’s breath caught sharply in his throat.

Yet, despite the feverish excitement coursing through him, he did not lose his reason.

“Your Majesty, this is...”

he inquired, stepping with utmost caution.

“I favor those who possess loyalty.”

“And loyalty must always be rewarded.”

Zhou Zhou replied with a faint, knowing smile.

When talent was not scarce, loyalty was the paramount criterion for assessing subordinates' importance and determining promotions or salary increases.

None of the others!

Colier fit this perfectly, so Zhou Zhou decided to bestow upon him another reward.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"I shall dedicate myself utterly and tirelessly to Your Majesty until my final breath!"

Colier spoke with absolute conviction, having just learned the blue-star language.

Zhou Zhou smiled gently, then briefly conversed with Colier before sending him away.

After Colier had departed, Zhou Zhou swiftly attended to the remaining matters and then entered the Palace of Cycles to continue refining the Lord's Law.

The next day.

Within the Palace of Cycles.

Zhou Zhou opened his eyes.

"The third day, then."

"Tomorrow, the second phase of the Lord of All Races event begins."

He murmured to himself.

His voice was perfectly calm.

The faction points and hidden lord shop points accumulated over the past two days had imbued him with immense confidence and resolve, steeling him to face whatever the second phase might bring.

Dismissing his stray thoughts, he made his way to Mu Gu's domain, only to find that Wu Xin had already led the soldiers into the Crimson Broodmother.

Accustomed to the routine, Zhou Zhou struck up a casual conversation with Mu Gu while they waited.

A brief moment later.

A streak of golden light shot out from the depths of the Crimson Broodmother, landing upon the earth and resolving into the figure of Wu Xin.

"I have the honor to see the Emperor!"

Wu Xin bowed respectfully.

"Wu General, you've worked hard."

Zhou Zhou smiled faintly.

"Haha, the Emperor is joking—killing a bunch of helpless nest monsters that don't resist at all? What could possibly be hard about that?"

Wu Xin laughed.

Then immediately respectfully offered three world rings.

Zhou Zhou's eyes brightened with anticipation.

His million-new soldiers were inside them!

With a single thought, he scanned them—and his heart leapt with joy.

What met the eye was a single World Ring filled with vast quantities of Iron-Bear pet eggs, Tree-Heart gems, and other spoils of war.

In the other two World Rings, one contained 256 trillion copies of the "Yellow Symbol Army Recruitment Manual" and 256 trillion copies of the "Storm Spirit Recruitment Manual," while the other housed 256 trillion copies of the "Yellow Symbol Army Promotion Certificate" and 256 trillion copies of the "Storm Spirit Promotion Certificate!"

Should all these promotion certificates and recruitment manuals be fully utilized, He would instantly amass a force of one quadrillion soldiers!

A force of one quadrillion soldiers!

Even the most advanced god-kings' noble factions would scarcely possess such terrifying strength!

"General Wu, as always—go to the reserve recruits and select 512 trillion new soldiers, promote them into Storm Spirits and Yellow Symbol Army troops, then lead the Storm Spirits to further become Curse-Wizards."

"I shall go to the Summoning Gate to recruit new troops."

Zhou Zhou spoke immediately.

"Understood, Your Majesty!"

General Wu nodded.

Tone brimming with anticipation.

A day of recruiting one trillion soldiers!

Even in the myths He had heard since childhood, no tale dared write so boldly!

He wasted no time—immediately transforming into a stream of golden light, rushing from the divine realm back to the capital of the Prairial Empire, heading straight to the recruitment center.

The so-called "pre-recruit soldiers" were volunteers drawn from the common folk under the Prairial Empire's domain, enlisted as reserve soldiers.

These reserve soldiers underwent basic training daily. When the Empire needed more recruits to transition into full-fledged extraordinary soldiers, these reserves would instantly respond, using their transfer credentials to become official extraordinary soldiers, then joining the various legions under the Empire's command to bolster their strength.

One of the primary reasons Zhou Zhou launched relentless attacks on neighboring enemies was to amass a vast number of common citizens, from whom he could then select large numbers of suitable candidates for reserve soldier status.

The two systems reinforced each other, forming a self-sustaining, positive cycle that had continued without end.

Now, upon seeing Wu Xin depart, Zhou Zhou instantly teleported to the summoning gate.

Before him stood a towering summoning portal. With a single gesture, he tossed the 512 trillion recruitment documents from his world ring into the portal.

Boom!

The portal of summoning burst with radiant light!

Zhou Zhou, seeing this, swiftly summoned a vessel of the Cosmic Emperor, then cast into the summoning portal one hundred crystals of upper-tier mid-tier gods. With that, he summoned all fifty-one trillion two hundred billion new soldiers and placed them within the inner world of the Cosmic Emperor vessel.

He briefly spoke a few words to these new recruits, then instructed Zero to lead them to the Forbidden Spell God Statue, where they would undergo reincarnation into Forbidden Spellcasters.

Next, he spent another hundred crystals of upper-tier mid-tier gods to summon today’s new subjects.

The result? A total of thirty-one million, three hundred sixty-eight new subjects!

Among them, eleven were upper-tier mid-tier deities!

Additionally, four were deities of lower-tier gods.

Zhou Zhou nodded in satisfaction.

Excellent.

Not only did he summon over five million more subjects,

but he actually managed to call forth an additional four deities.

Though he no longer held gods of this caliber in high esteem,

it still came as a pleasant little surprise.

He then made his way to the Lord's Market, inquiring of Zhou Chengmin what new wares were available today.

He had originally assumed there would be nothing of interest to him this time either.

To his surprise, however, his eyes caught upon an item that genuinely piqued his curiosity.

[Item Name: Refining Insights of the Ancestor of Artifact Creation]

[Item Grade: Mid-tier Main God]

[Item Effect: Upon use, the reader gains a portion of the refining and ascension insights from the Ancestor of Artifact Creation, making it easier for an artifact smith to ascend to the rank of Ancestor of Artifact Creation.]

[Item Description: The crafting manual of the Holy Flame Patriarch, recording his profound insights into the creation of divine artifacts. He bestowed this manual upon his disciple, Olofa, hoping that she might soon transcend the threshold of the master craftsman and ascend to become a true master of creation.]