The former carries the risk of backlash at any moment!

The latter is more stable but comes with all sorts of restrictions, making it difficult to convert a large number of Divine Chosen Soldiers at once.

Under these circumstances, challenging a major Native Power, a dominant force in its own right, would be suicide.

However, as much as they didn’t want to believe it, the reports from the Divine Chosen Scouts they’d sent out earlier confirmed Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior’s story. Large numbers of Gulad Legions were continuously rushing the Great Wall. This clearly meant someone had seized the Northern Territory’s Great Wall, a position that was easy to defend and hard to attack.

At this thought, No Money Great Treasure Sword couldn’t help but exclaim in the chat channel:

“Holy shit!”

“That’s fucking awesome!”

“No wonder Lord Tingfeng has been keeping such a low profile!”

“So he’s been quietly building his own kingdom up north, subjugating all those scattered Forest Tribes?”

YoLendMeDragonGateCoins:

“Wait a sec!”

“Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior!”

“So you actually know Lord Tingfeng for real?”

“Last time, when that asshole ‘Upper Hook’ was giving you shit, why didn’t you talk back to that fucking idiot?”

Hearing this, Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior was taken aback for a moment, then explained:

“Huh?”

“You mean that thing from last time?”

“To be honest.”

“It’s really not worth mentioning.”

“Tingfeng’s the amazing one.”

“Not me.”

“If I went around riding on Tingfeng’s coattails, that’d be pretty classless, don’t you think?”

Wai Bi Babu couldn’t help but chime in:

“Respect.”

“Looks like you’ve got real character, bro.”

WantsSisterSheyu chimed in with agreement:

“Totally.”

“That’s a respectable attitude, bro.”

Oreo quickly followed up:

“Wait! Dude! I just have to ask! Did Lord Tingfeng actually take the Great Wall?”

“If he even managed to conquer the Great Wall, which is the toughest nut to crack, then it’s only a matter of time before Lord Tingfeng’s army takes all the cities in the Northern Territory!”

“And we don’t have to be in such a rush to escape anymore!”

“We can just stand our ground and fight the Gulad Empire’s army head-on!”

“If we want to earn event points, we could also send a Messenger from our Divine Chosen Soldiers to deliver a letter to Lord Tingfeng and pledge our allegiance!”

“That way!”

“We’ll officially be part of the Holy Empire!”

“Any Native Soldiers from the Gulad Empire we kill afterward will count toward our score in the King’s War event rankings. We won’t be wasting the points those Gulad Soldiers provide!”

Xiaocao, who was a newbie, asked:

“But aren’t player-founded kingdoms unable to acquire Cultural Camps from Native Powers?”

“If we pledge allegiance to Lord Tingfeng, won’t we be stuck at the Zero-star (Red) stage, unable to get advanced soldiers of the Extraordinary Realm?”

Oreo explained:

“No, that won’t happen.”

“The only Lord Players who can’t get Cultural Camps from Native Powers…”

“…are the ones who are the ’emperors’ of their self-founded kingdoms.”

“As players who are subjects of that kingdom, we can still choose to separately pledge allegiance to one of the Native Powers under that player’s banner. By doing so, we can get their corresponding Cultural Camp and exclusive Soldier Types.”

“Take Lord Tingfeng’s Holy Empire, for example.”

“If we pledge allegiance to the members of the Tiger-man tribe under his command, we’ll get access to all the Tiger-man tribe’s exclusive Soldier Types and its Cultural Camp.”

“If we choose to pledge allegiance to members of his Minotaur Kingdom, we can get the Cultural Camp and exclusive Soldier Types from the Minotaur Kingdom.”

“Furthermore, if Lord Tingfeng can conquer the Gulad Empire and subjugate its native cities and villages…”

“Then we can also choose to pledge allegiance to the group of Native Creatures that were originally part of the Gulad Empire’s faction, which would grant us the Gulad Empire’s Cultural Camp and exclusive Soldier Types.”

“In particular.”

“If Lord Tingfeng can capture the Gulad Empire’s Central Capital.”

“We’ll be able to use the Royal Academy in the capital—the one that trains Dragon Cavalry—to obtain the corresponding Dragon Cavalry camp. Then we can train incredibly powerful Extraordinary Dragon Cavalry.”

“But it has to be the Central Capital of the Gulad Empire.”

“The Extraordinary Dragon Cavalry can only be produced in that one core city. The other cities of the Gulad Empire can’t train Dragon Cavalry, which means there would be no way for us, as allegiant players, to qualify for obtaining them.”

“In other words.”

“As long as Lord Tingfeng doesn’t occupy the Gulad Empire’s Central Capital, even if he captures all the other Gulad Cities, his Holy Empire won’t unlock the path to acquiring Extraordinary Dragon Cavalry…”

Xiaocao replied:

“Oh.”

“I think I get it.”

“So as long as it’s a Native Power within a player-founded kingdom, we can pledge allegiance to them and get their specific Cultural Camp, right?”

Oreo nodded.

“That’s right.”

“In essence, it’s no different from a native kingdom.”

“Take the Gulad Empire, for example.”

“It subjugated both the Ventecenia Kingdom and the Minotaur Kingdom.”

“We could choose to pledge allegiance to members from Ventecenia or the Minotaur Kingdom. That would unlock the Mage Soldier Type from the Ventecenia Kingdom, or the Minotaur Infantry from the Minotaur Kingdom.”

“But in that case, we wouldn’t be able to get the Dragon Rider Soldier Type that originally belonged to the Gulad Empire.”

“It’s basically a three-way choice.”

“Unless the Native Powers from those kingdoms can remain stable within the Gulad Empire for three years without rebelling, fleeing, or causing trouble… only then will they be completely integrated into the Gulad Empire.”

“At that point.”

“No matter which Native Power’s members we pledge allegiance to, we’ll be able to unlock the Cultural Camps of all the integrated Native Powers and get their exclusive Soldier Types.”

“And this…”

“…is the whole point of jointly electing a ‘Heaven’s Chosen Ruler’.”

“Once a ‘Heaven’s Chosen Ruler’ is chosen, and no other players object, we can all help them conquer and unify all the powers in the Lord World. This would allow all exclusive and Cultural Camps to be merged into the Heaven’s Chosen Ruler’s faction.”

“And all of us players on this Lord Plane would enjoy the ‘unification’ bonus, simultaneously unlocking all the unique Soldier Types in this world.”

Hafke AI Tank suddenly interjected:

“But.”

“There’s a problem.”

“Lord Tingfeng isn’t a Destiny Hero. He doesn’t have a Destiny Talent.”

“If you choose to join the ‘Holy Empire’ that Lord Tingfeng founded, you need to be prepared for your progression to be slower than that of Lord Players in other kingdoms.”

Xiaocao frowned.

“Huh?”

“What’s a Destiny Hero?”

“What do you mean?”

Oreo began to explain:

“They’re basically the ‘Chosen Ones’ of the Lord World.”

“They possess a Destiny Talent, which not only accelerates their own growth but also benefits all their followers. This growth buff becomes more and more extreme over time. The later into the game, the more ridiculous it gets.”

“Look at us now. The overall strength of players is around the Zero-star (Purple) level.”

“We’re still a long way off from these Native Creatures.”

“Normally, without grinding for a few years, we’d have no hope of catching up to their progress.”

“But if we pledge allegiance to a faction with at least one Destiny Hero, we can benefit from their Destiny Talent Bonus. This would allow us to just barely catch up to the progression of these Native Powers within a few short months.”

“I’m not saying we’d be strong enough to fight them head-to-head.”

“But at least we could send out a group of advanced soldiers from the Extraordinary Realm to be a nuisance on the dangerous main battlefield, picking off the enemy faction’s Heroic Units and Extraordinary Soldiers.”

“So.”

“Normally.”

“The ‘Heaven’s Chosen Ruler’ in every Lord World is basically chosen from among one of these Destiny Heroes.”

“They wouldn’t let just any random schmo become the Heaven’s Chosen Ruler, the most prestigious position of all.”

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