Get rich fast, massive upgrade! (5000)

"Lord, we have all returned!"

Cao Xing glanced over, discovering there were no casualties, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Not bad, you are all great, I am proud of you!"

Hearing the lord's recognition, the warriors looked at Cao Xing with excited eyes!

This time, they traveled tens of thousands of kilometers back and forth, spending four or five days wiping out their enemies!

It could be said they won quite handsomely!

At this time, the fourteen leading captains stepped forward one after another, handing over dozens of backpacks.

"Lord, these are the supplies we collected inside, please review them."

Cao Xing took them.

And when he saw the massive amount of resources packed inside the backpacks, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve upwards wildly!

Damn it! There are simply too many things in here!

Just the Expert-level Heart of Strength alone, he saw no less than two to three hundred of them.

Then there were also many souls of various elite, boss, and chieftain levels.

After that, there was also a large amount of food, along with all sorts of miscellaneous resources!

It could be called a massive amount!

If all these resources were digested, it could definitely greatly enhance his territory's strength once again.

Cao Xing suppressed the excitement in his heart.

Then he transferred all the internal resources, except for the food, into his own dragon-patterned backpack.

Anyway, his backpack space was big enough, more than enough to hold these things.

[Obtained: Hero's Heart * 1]

[Obtained: Blood of the Strong * 1]

[Obtained ——]

Soon, various resources were gathered by Cao Xing.

Finally, a tally was conducted.

First, he glanced at the quantity of various Heart of Power, counting his previous gains at the headquarters.

The quantity of Heart of Power here was:

[Hero's Heart] * 1

[Master-level Heart of Power] * 32

[Expert-level Heart of Strength] * 285

[Advanced Heart of Power] * 1894

The four grades of Heart of Power broke through two thousand pieces in total.

It could be said to be the time he had obtained the most Heart of Power in history.

Then, there were those souls.

He also glanced at the quantity.

[Tier 7 Red-robed Bishop Soul (Commander-level) * 1]

[Tier 6 and 7 White-robed Priest Soul (Boss-level) * 15]

[Tier 5, 6, and 7 Black-robed Priest Soul (Chieftain-level) * 84]

[Tier 4, 5, and 6 Hunter Elite Soul * 357]

The quantity of these souls also reached over four hundred.

Making the corners of Cao Xing's mouth almost unable to stop smiling.

Then there were other miscellaneous gains.

Including various iron, copper, mithril ores, fabrics, and so on ——

Adding up to nearly two million units.

This was an astonishingly huge fortune!

Even though Cao Xing's territory now had so many workers, it would still take about three to four months of mining to get such a large quantity.

It could be called instant immense wealth!

Besides this, there was also a relatively important gain.

Those Attribute Tomes.

He glanced at the quantity.

[Large Attribute Tome (Strength, Agility, Spirit, Constitution) * 1348 volumes]

[Medium Attribute Tome * 2976 volumes]

These Attribute Tomes were also a good resource; under the condition of sufficient quantity, they could increase the attributes of territory members quite a bit.

"Speaking of which, ever since the last Lake Doron City battle, it's been a long time since I used these Attribute Tomes to let them improve."

"I don't know how many there are added up now."

Then, Cao Xing glanced at his backpack; the total quantity of various Attribute Tomes inside had already exceeded ten thousand volumes!

"Good fellow! Unknowingly, there are actually this many."

"This feels great!"

Aside from that, there were various weapons and equipment. Gold-quality weapons reached 16, and equipment numbered 7 pieces.

There were a total of 95 blue-quality and purple-quality weapons, and 64 pieces of equipment.

As for those white-plate and green-quality ones, needless to say, there were thousands of pieces!

"There are simply too damn many things."

For a moment, Cao Xing didn't know which resource to use first.

After pondering in his heart for a moment, Cao Xing quickly made a decision.

Clearly, the souls should be digested first right now, after all, these souls all had level restrictions.

Once those combat personnel's tiers exceeded the tier of the souls, they could no longer be used.

Therefore, Cao Xing shouted out.

"All personnel who participated in the battle this time, step out of the ranks."

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After all, it was they who fought this time, so these resources naturally had to be provided to these warriors first.

Soon, over 1,400 people stepped forward one after another.

Cao Xing continued, "Now, send a captain from each military unit to come here and claim the souls."

"Then reward these souls to the warriors who killed the most enemies!"

Hearing the command, seven or eight captains walked out one after another.

Since a total of 600 Ascalon Warriors went out to fight this trip, they only needed to let Yaskin come up to claim them.

Cao Xing first divided them proportionally, giving each military unit about 25 elite souls.

The Ascalon Warriors were allocated a few more souls, a full 150 of them.

Soon, more than 300 elite souls were all distributed.

Then, the captains of the major legions turned around and began issuing rewards to the warriors who ranked at the top for killing enemies in this battle.

The combat personnel who were assigned souls had excited expressions in their eyes!

While the others who weren't assigned any appeared very envious.

At the same time, they secretly decided in their hearts that if there was such an action next time, they must perform well to strive to kill more enemies, and then get the lord's reward!

At this moment, more than 300 combat personnel held the souls in their hands and shouted excitedly!

"Thank you very much, Lord!"

Cao Xing waved his hand and said, "Start the breakthrough."

"Yes!"

As the words fell, these more than 300 warriors simultaneously slapped the souls into their bodies.

"Hum! Hum hum!"

Waves of soul fluctuations appeared.

The commotion of more than 300 warriors breaking through to elites simultaneously was still very astonishing.

In the blink of an eye, powerful aura fluctuations covered the entire territory.

Their breakthrough was very fast; in less than three minutes, system prompts continuously appeared.

[Your territory member: Feng transformed into an elite-grade creature, basic attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Eagle Falling Slash]

[Your territory member: Vito Newman transformed into an elite-grade creature, basic attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Five-segment Slash]

[Your ——]

Continuous system prompts rang out one after another.

Soon, the breakthroughs of all the warriors were nearing their end.

Cao Xing made a slight tally: out of a total of 357 elite souls, 301 succeeded in the end.

This probability could not be said to be low; it could even be said that his character exploded!

Cao Xing was very satisfied with this result.

And along with the breakthrough of this group of warriors, Cao Xing's territory strength, prosperity, and his territory's population were all skyrocketing!

After all, an ordinary creature occupied 1 population, and an elite creature occupied 2 population.

It was equivalent to suddenly increasing the population by more than three hundred.

But it didn't matter; anyway, Cao Xing's Lords Castle had already been upgraded to Level 13, possessing a population capacity of 10,019, so the population limit was still very ample.

Cao Xing thought to himself, "Next is to digest those chieftain-level souls."

"A full 84 pieces, which can also boost a wave."

Glancing at the combat personnel below, he continued speaking, "In the territory, apart from that batch of elite creatures just now, everyone else who has reached the elite grade, step out of the ranks."

Hearing the command, four to five to a dozen elite members appeared in each military unit.

After all, previously, Cao Xing had also helped the warriors undergo a large-scale upgrade once.

So there were quite a lot of elite creatures.

Of course, the Dragon Blood Warriors had the most on this side.

Among the more than one hundred people, there were a full forty-plus elites, which showed how terrifying the quality of their powerhouses was.

The elite members of other military units were not few either.

Cao Xing continued, "All of you come over here to claim the souls."

A crowd of elite powerhouses walked over one after another, then took the souls.

Finally, Cao Xing gave 30 chieftain souls to the Dragon Blood Warriors.

The remaining 54 pieces were distributed to the warriors of other major military units. They said respectfully:

"Thank you very much, Lord!"

Then, they simultaneously slapped a large number of these chieftain-level souls into their bodies.

That throb from the depths of the soul appeared once again.

[Your territory member: Roosevelt has successfully transformed into a chieftain-grade creature, basic attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Dragon Blood Extraction]

[Your territory member: Lamia has successfully transformed into a chieftain-grade creature, basic attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Twin Blades Rondo]

[Your ——]

As one system prompt after another appeared, these combat personnel also ushered in transformations one after another.

Cao Xing made a tally: out of 84 chieftain-level souls, 74 succeeded in the end. Clearly, this success rate once again far exceeded the soul's own inherent success rate.

The Luck stat was simply too overpowered; it could be said to have indirectly saved him an unknown amount of resources.

With over seventy elite-level powerhouses suddenly appearing in his territory, Cao Xing was in a very good mood.

Next up were those 15 chieftain-level souls.

To nurture domain-level powerhouses and then digest those dozens of Master-level Heart of Power.

This also meant that he would immediately have over a dozen more Master-level powerhouses!

However, Cao Xing still withheld three souls: one each of Tier 5, Tier 6, and Tier 7.

These three souls were naturally prepared for Assam's lady of the lake sword. Back then, it was Cao Xing who actively proposed sealing the basic attributes of the lady of the lake sword, with the cost requiring the consumption of four chieftain-level souls to restore it.

Although it sounded a bit staggering in cost.

But now, because Assam had used the lady of the lake sword a few months early, slaying enemies every day with its legendary-tier special effect, the weapon's base attack power had been increased by more than ten thousand points.

It was equivalent to trading four souls for nearly ten thousand points of weapon attack power.

Clearly, this trade was definitely not a loss.

The remaining 12 souls were also very easy to distribute.

Aside from Blood Spider Queen's Blood Spider legion, which didn't need to use souls, basically all other troops had one or two elite-level creatures.

Soon, 12 combatants with elite-level strength stepped out of the ranks.

Under everyone's gaze, they all slapped these souls into their bodies.

"Hum! Hum hum!"

Waves of fluctuations emerged.

Successive system prompts appeared once again.

[Your territory member: Legumi (Silver Hand Knights) has successfully transformed into a chieftain-level creature, base attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Knight's Journey]

[Your territory member: Patty (Earth Mage) has successfully transformed into a chieftain-level creature, base attributes increased by 30%, learned new skill: Meteor Impact!]

[Your——]

In the end, out of the 12 chieftain-level souls, a full 9 succeeded.

This success rate could be said to be quite awesome.

At this point, Cao Xing still had one Commander-level soul, over a thousand Heart of Power, and nearly ten thousand attribute books unused in his hands.

Thus, he first took out all those attribute books, then said: "Same old rules, send one representative from each troop to come up and collect these attribute books."

"Give priority to those members who were not assigned souls."

Hearing the order, aside from Hilda, the other few captains stepped forward one after another to collect the attribute books in batches.

In the blink of an eye, everyone had completely distributed the large pile of attribute books piled in front of them.

Just like before, the quantity distributed to each troop was about the same.

With a slap of these attribute books, their attributes basically all increased by a section.

At this point, yet another item had been digested.

Cao Xing's gaze swept over the more than two thousand combatants in the territory.

Currently, his territory basically no longer had any troops below Tier 4.

Therefore, those more than a thousand high-level Heart of Power could be considered of little use.

Of course, once that group of Arctic People or other personnel leveled up in the future, they could also be used for them.

As for those nearly three hundred Expert-level Heart of Strength, they could be used to give a boost to troops like the Star Country swordsmen and Silver Hand Knights.

But this quantity was still not quite enough.

After all, besides the above two troops, Cao Xing also had Nightmare Archer, earth and wind mage regiments, all of which needed [Expert-level Heart of Strength] to break through to Tier 5.

After pondering for a moment, Cao Xing decided to distribute these Expert-level Heart of Strength first and boost their strength for now.

Thus, he shouted out.

"All Star Country swordsmen, Silver Hand Knights, and Nightmare Archer step out of the ranks."

Over three hundred people stood out simultaneously.

Cao Xing continued: "Xiao, Furtagen, Menglita, the three of you act as representatives and come over to collect these Expert-level Heart of Strength."

"95 pieces per troop, then distribute them according to contribution."

Hearing this, the three people on the field stepped forward simultaneously, collected these Expert-level Heart of Strength, and distributed them to the members below.

These warriors also respectfully expressed their thanks.

Then they crushed the Heart of Power one after another to make a breakthrough.

[Your territory member: Feng broke through to a Tier 5 creature, base attributes increased by 100%, HP increased by an additional 50%—]

[Your territory member…]

After hundreds of system prompts, Cao Xing conducted another statistics tally.

Out of 295 Expert-level Heart of Strength, a total of 263 succeeded; this probability also far exceeded the average.

Cao Xing felt extremely satisfied!

At this point, this trip's harvest was basically digested completely.

Currently, there remained 1 [Hero's Heart], 32 [Master-level Heart of Power], and 1 [Tier 7 Commander-level soul] that had not been digested.

As for the Hero's Heart and the soul, Cao Xing already had candidates in mind.

As for those 32 Master-level Heart of Power, they would need to wait until these chieftain-level creatures who had just broken through to Tier 5 reached level 50 before distributing them.

Thus, Cao Xing said.

"Alright, everyone has worked hard travelling and fighting over the past few days, go back and rest now."

The warriors looked at each other and said excitedly: "Yes, respected Lord!"

Over two thousand people dispersed like a tide.

Their faces carried smiles of joy one after another.

In this battle, they could be said to have swept away everything like withered weeds.

Coupled with four or five consecutive days of travel, they did indeed feel somewhat fatigued.

At this moment, they only wanted to return to their rooms and have a good rest.

However, Tian Jing stayed behind. Cao Xing noticed that he seemed to have something to say, so he asked: "Tian Jing, is there something you need?"

Ever since Tian Jing was rescued from that basement by Cao Xing, more than half a month had passed.

After spending time and communicating with the warriors during this period, the aura on his body was not as gloomy as before, and some smiles would appear on his face on ordinary days.

Of course, because of his lizardman appearance, this smile appeared rather chilling.

Hearing Cao Xing call him, Tian Jing immediately walked over and reported excitedly: "Boss, I went to scout the tall mountain you mentioned."

"On top of the mountain, there is indeed a huge humpbacked giant eagle nest, inside which lives a flock of humpbacked giant eagles, numbering around seventy or eighty!"

"It seems there are also some giant eagle eggs, which are currently in a hatching state."

A look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes: "Oh? Are there actually this many?"

"Yes, Boss!"

Cao Xing nodded slightly and said: "Very good, I understand."

"When there is time later, I will send people over to tame all these humpbacked giant eagles and bring them back."

"You go rest too."

"Yes!"

After speaking, this lizardman left this place.

After Tian Jing left, a look of contemplation appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

This group of humpbacked giant eagles was still quite important.

Although they didn't have much combat power, their ability to transport goods could be called peerless, able to easily grab several tons of cargo.

If they could all be brought back to the territory, they would also be a good transport tool.

Of course… these humpbacked giant eagles also had a shortcoming, which was that they could eat a lot.

From the actions of that group of black-robed priests in Lake Doron City before, it could be seen that these giant eagles could even eat a whole horse in a single meal, with an astonishing appetite.

And if you didn't feed them, they refused to work.

If they were all brought back to the territory, they would consume a large amount of food every day.

Therefore, before figuring out how to make this group of giant eagles create value, it was better not to capture them back.

Otherwise, suddenly having dozens of freeloaders, even he wouldn't be able to afford to raise them.

After making his decision, Cao Xing stopped thinking about it and continued to check the other harvests.

He glanced at some of the resources in these 14 backpacks.

[Coins * 532 million]

[Food * 5.143 million]

[Mithril * 149235]

[Iron * 1.5462 million]

[Copper * 332,400]

[Eternal Gold Ingot * 16245]

[Magic Pattern Stone * 21781]

In addition to these materials above, there were also some relatively rare miscellaneous materials.

Such as various gold ornaments, silver ornaments, gems, gem fragments, and so on.

If they were all sold, they should also have a value of two to three hundred million crowns.

"Not bad, 500 million coins, and five million food."

"Calculated this way, if I want to let those thousand-plus warriors break through to Tier 6, I will still need about 1 billion crowns and about seven million units of food."

"It seems I'll still have to shamelessly go borrow some from the Old King."