Global Lords: My Heroes Grow Infinitely
Chapter 167 - 157: Silent for 6 Months, Territory Level 7! _2

Chapter 167: Chapter 157: Silent for 6 Months, Territory Level 7! _2

When only their alliance remained, they began to fight among themselves to determine the final ranking.

The rankings were: Tang Xichen, Xiaozhang, Ye Xue...

"Tang Xichen came out on top again. The Tang Family must have invested heavily to hire such an expert for protection."

"It’s hard to say he’s not part of the Tang Family, otherwise, why would a reclusive master help them?"

"Although the Tang Family is a prominent family, there are many others stronger than them. Without personal connections, others certainly wouldn’t help."

There was much discussion.

However, the discussions quieted down after the competition ended.

Vehicles drove on the highway.

In the car, Tang Xuanze and three others discussed what happened after the competition.

"Xiaozhang, every ten years, there is a specialized agency overseas that uses certain detection equipment to evaluate the rankings of lords worldwide. I feel this time you might break into the top one hundred," Tang Xuanze said.

"Can I only get into the top one hundred? Patriarch Tang, weren’t you ranked second last time?" Rosen asked.

He knew there was a gap between himself and Tang Xuanze since he had fewer attribute points, but with his transformation abilities, he didn’t think he should lose to Tang Xuanze.

"My last ranking was second in Central Plains and thirtieth in the world."

"And Nangong Wan was ranked first in Central Plains and first in the world."

"Of course, this ranking is on the surface, and when the time comes, a screen will appear before everyone asking if they want to participate in the ranking competition."

"Huh? Ranking competition?" Rosen realized that the ranking was determined through competition.

"Yes, only through performances in the competition can a comprehensive evaluation be made, a score given, and therefore ranks calculated; that’s the role of the instrument."

Hearing Tang Xuanze’s words, Rosen immediately understood and said, "So, if one chooses not to participate in the evaluation competition, they won’t be on the world leaderboard?"

"Exactly, that’s why excluding those who can’t participate due to being occupied at the time and those who don’t intend to join the ranking competition, I might make it into the top one hundred."

"But compared to me, your transformation skills are enough to get you into the top one hundred," Tang Xuanze expressed confidence in Rosen.

Rosen also felt that his ranking score in this competition would surpass Tang Xuanze, no matter what.

But it’s hard to say, as his transformation list included Tang Xuanze’s form in a Vortex Narutomaki clone state, not the original, so the strength is certainly weaker than the original.

Adding the attributes of the Golden Holy Dragon, he might surpass the original, but it’s not a certainty and would depend on the circumstances during the ranking competition.

The competitive tournament lasted nearly half a year.

It finally concluded.

Returning to his territory, Rosen found that the resources had reached an incredible amount.

In fact, on that day itself, he upgraded his territory three levels in succession.

When Rosen left, his main city was a level four main city; upon return, he consumed resources in succession to upgrade it to a level seven main city, fully immersing himself in the joy of upgrading constructions and summoning troops.

Upon reaching level seven, there were many new things he needed to comprehend and explore.

But before that, Rosen first returned to the Naga Main City to meet his parents and inquire about the situation over the half-year period.

His parents told him that after Rosen left, the territory had suffered sixteen major attacks and thirty minor attacks.

The largest attack involved a group of lords breaking in with their army, but their army was quickly defeated.

They even threatened that they came with too few forces this time and would return with a larger army to capture the territory.

This incident happened just yesterday.

However, considering the scale of Rosen Territory, boasting an army of twenty to thirty thousand, mostly advanced troops purchased from the store, one can imagine the psychological shadow felt by those invading lords.

Facing a territory with so many defense towers and such a formidable army, even a veteran lord would need to bring several tens of thousands of troops to conquer it.

But which lord could bring out so many troops? Unless they’re not afraid of their own territory being attacked.

Rosen casually guessed that the lords’ boasts were false and not to be trusted.

After understanding the general situation, Rosen began upgrading other territory buildings.

First was upgrading the barracks to level seven.

From a level five to a level seven barracks, fifteen troop positions were added.

Rosen examined them.

The capabilities of these troops were similar to those seen in the competitive tournament, but the ten troop positions of the level six and seven barracks were the first time Rosen had seen them.

A Beastman Great Mage appeared among them.

This troop already far surpassed heroes like the Prophet in strength, so one can only imagine how powerful a level seven hero summoned at the hero altar would be.

[Beastman Great Mage: Possesses a variety of powerful magic, including elemental magic, healing magic, rule magic, and can conduct various tasks.]

Just by reading the troop description, it’s hard to feel its might, so Rosen summoned it.

"Lord!"

Unexpectedly, the Beastman Great Mage, like a hero, had self-awareness, and could communicate with Rosen in a language he understood, which was quite impressive.

"You can actually communicate with me. Let me ask you, the described rule abilities, what are they? You should be able to cast only one skill, right? The others should be innate abilities, correct?"

The Beastman Great Mage nodded and said, "My skill is Fireball Technique, and the others are innate abilities. As for the rule abilities, they refer to time, space, and dimension."

Wow, so the rule abilities are time-space?

Then if a Great Mage is summoned with rule abilities as a skill, wouldn’t it be able to traverse time and space?

"With your innate abilities, can you currently traverse time-space?" Rosen asked.

"No, even if my skill were time-space ability, I could only warp space and slow down time around me. As for innate abilities, they can only slightly warp time-space for the target."

"So, if it’s not a Great Mage with rule as a skill, they’re weak?" Rosen inquired.

"Of course not weak, I’m certainly worth the summoning price for my powerful Fireball Technique!" the Great Mage replied somewhat off the mark.

"Alright, I’ll summon another Great Mage to see if I can get one with rule skills."

Even though the Great Mage is the strongest troop of the level seven barracks, consuming a lot of resources, testing the theory required some expense.

The good news was, the second Beastman Great Mage Rosen summoned had activated the time-slowing skill.

Its effect is to slow down the time of targets within a twenty-meter radius, reducing their speed by half, which means their attack speed is halved.

Unfortunately, the slowdown range is only twenty meters.

But the good news is, enough Great Mages summoned and spread around can create a sufficiently large time field to slow down enemy forces, giving an absolute advantage!

The third Great Mage Rosen summoned happened to have the skill of space distortion.

Through experimentation, it couldn’t sever target limbs like a divine skill but could confuse spatial perception, rendering enemy movement erratic, which was an unsolvable interference.

"It’s impressive, but resource-consuming,"

Rosen stopped summoning more Great Mages, needing sufficient resources to explore other unlocked things.

For instance, new buildings.

At the level seven main city, a previously unseen building was unlocked, named the Tower of Time.

The purpose of this building is to accelerate time within the territory, though it doesn’t include the time for resource gathering.

It’s mainly for speeding up troop summoning and construction upgrades.

Unfortunately, only one Tower of Time can be built, and at a level seven territory, it can only be level one, accelerating by 50%; for upgrades, the main city needs to be upgraded first.

"This building is already quite good, let’s look at other troops."

[Beastman Juggler: A jester among beastmen, you may think you’re killing the jester, but it might be your own troops or yourself falling; specifically restrains lower-level troops.]

[Beastman Beast Tamer: Can be equipped with magical beasts in cages at half price, and Beastman Beast Tamer provides a double enhancement to the strength of magical beasts.]

[Beastman Skateboard: Even the Slide Master isn’t as slippery as this; once a Beastman steps on this skateboard, they max out on evasion. Although not very strong, it’s suitable as a meat shield.]

...

Reviewing many troop types, Rosen found these three the most interesting.