Su Ye looked at the system panel.
Except for the Trading Module, which was greyed out and inaccessible, all other modules were functioning normally.
As for the Trading Module being unavailable, it was to maintain the last shred of fairness among Novice Lords—a fairness that ensured everyone started at the same starting line, relying entirely on luck.
Without this restriction, those Second-Generation Lords would have taken off long ago; who could possibly compete with them?
Among these Second-Generation Lords, many belonged to families with True Gods.
If trading were allowed, the other Novice Lords wouldn’t even need to bother playing.
Su Ye directly opened the chat channel to take a look.
Most people were discussing their troops or Talents.
[Hahaha, I’m about to take off!
Tier-7 troops, Wyverns!
Who else has this?] [Take off?
Take off my foot.
Do you even know how many units of food a Wyvern consumes every day?
Can you even afford to raise them?] [The novice period is fine; as long as you’re brave, the daily trials aren’t a big deal.
But once the novice period ends, troops Tier-5 and above are absolute money pits.] [Sour, I see you guys are just sour because he randomized a good Barracks.
Big boss, please carry me!] [Big boss, I can help you with the ranching, please take me with you.] [Damn it, why is my Barracks just a Farmland?
I can only recruit Peasants, and they’re weaker than me.
How am I supposed to play this?
I’m out.] …
Su Ye watched the chat channel with interest.
Currently, most Novice Lords were still adjusting their state of mind and hadn’t chosen to start the Void Trial yet.
After all, this wasn’t just talk.
Even though it was the novice period, the chance of failing was not small.
After watching for a while.
Su Ye closed the chat channel and then opened the Livestream Module.
Novice Lords cannot leave the Eternal World within the first thirty days.
They can only leave once the novice period ends or if they are eliminated.
The purpose was still the same: to prevent cheating.
The Livestream Module served two purposes: one was entertainment, and the other was teaching.
Everything was paid; naturally, nothing was shown for free.
Su Ye clicked directly into the most popular Novice Lord livestream room.
As soon as he entered, he was stunned.
“Holy crap!!” Su Ye stared at the livestream before him.
Erm, how should I put it…
the streamer was a female Novice Lord from the Germany.
Her troops were Goblins, and the livestream was, of course, adult-rated.
Do you even understand the ‘value’ of Goblins?
(Edited) “As expected of the Hans Cat family, they’re still far ahead in this regard,” Su Ye thought as he watched the screen.
When it came to appetite, the Hans Cats were indeed more hardcore.
A group of green-skins surrounding a blonde.
(Edited) “To be fair, her figure is actually quite good.” Just as Su Ye finished speaking, the livestream went black.
To continue watching, he needed to pay—one gold coin per hour.
Truly earning hard-earned money.
(Edited) Su Ye looked at other livestream rooms.
Currently, those livestreaming were basically doing ‘eye-opening’ content.
There were all kinds of troops: Goblins, Minotaurs, Pigmen, Trolls, and even Tentacle Monsters.
Of course, there were also some livestreaming woodcutting and mining.
After watching for a bit, Su Ye closed the livestream panel.
Right now, he didn’t have spare money for entertainment.
Someone else’s 1 gold coin might only be a few tiers of troops, but his 1 gold coin was a God-tier troop unit, or with good luck, a God-tier Hero Unit.
Such things would have to wait until he had surplus gold coins later.
Su Ye looked toward the battle situation with Lilith and the others.
As time passed, Imps rushed into the edge of Su Ye’s territory, and treasure chests materialized on the ground one after another.
This was the benefit of the novice period.
As long as you were strong enough, you could continuously accumulate resources.
Su Ye did a rough count; there were about dozens of treasure chests.
An hour passed.
The system notification sounded.
[Ding: Void Trial ended.
Evaluating…] [Ding: Evaluation complete.
Battle losses: 0.
Enemies killed: 1000.
Rating: SSS] [Ding: You have obtained an SSS-grade Abyss Difficulty Treasure Chest!] “My Lord God-Emperor!” Lilith’s voice rang out.
Su Ye looked at Lilith, who had appeared before him, a smile on his face: “Well done, Lilith.
You all should take a rest first.” “This concubine is not tired.
But, My Lord God-Emperor, how shall you reward me?” Lilith walked up to Su Ye’s side, her eyes fixed intently on him.
Su Ye: “…” “We’ll talk about that later.
I’ll clear the spoils of war first.” Su Ye looked at the treasure chests.
Exercising his authority as a Lord, the treasure chests scattered on the ground were collected into the territory’s warehouse.
A total of 400 Black Iron-grade Abyss Treasure Chests!
Black Iron was the chest grade, and Abyss represented the highest difficulty reward.
“This drop rate is not bad,” Su Ye thought as he looked at the Abyss Treasure Chests.
Then, he exercised his authority: Decomposition!
[Ding: Do you wish to decompose 1000 Imp corpses?] “Decompose.” Su Ye looked at the corpses on the ground.
If he didn’t decompose them, they would just rot away.
[Ding: You have decomposed 1000 Imp corpses and obtained 100 Origin Crystals!] “A 10:1 ratio?
As expected, the novice period is an opportunity to make a fortune.
As long as you have the strength, becoming rich overnight isn’t a dream.” Su Ye looked at his storage space with a smile.
[Ding: Do you wish to open Black Iron-grade Abyss Treasure Chest X400?] “Open them all.” Su Ye was filled with anticipation.
[Ding: You have obtained Gold Coins X100] [Ding: You have obtained Gold Coins X100] [Ding: You have obtained Origin Crystals X10] [Ding: You have obtained Origin Crystals X10] …
A series of system logs scrolled up.
The smile on Su Ye’s face was impossible to hide as he tallied the gains.
Gold Coins X20,000 Origin Crystals X2,000 The smile on Su Ye’s face suddenly froze.
Where’s my wood?
Where’s my stone?
Where are my resource cards?
Suddenly, Su Ye realized a problem: the trial he cleared was of Abyss difficulty, and it was only the first day.
Earning twenty thousand gold coins and two thousand Origin Crystals in a single day was something other lords wouldn’t even dare to imagine, nor was it possible for them.
For a normal lord clearing a normal Void Trial, earning 100 gold coins would already be considered quite good.
“So, is it because the difficulty was too high that the rewards don’t include those basic common resource cards, wood, stone, and the like?” Su Ye thought, somewhat speechless.
But this was also normal.
He had cleared an Abyss difficulty trial; if the treasure chests still yielded that kind of junk, then there would be a problem.
“It looks like I’ll need to find someone to buy them from,” Su Ye couldn’t help but think.
His territory was a grassland type with no forests or mineral deposits.
He couldn’t develop it even if he wanted to; he could only buy resources.
Then, Su Ye looked at the last treasure chest, which was also the best chest from the trial.
The previous ones were just chests dropped by ordinary monsters and could only yield those items, but the final rating chest was different; it could contain anything.
Of course, it was closely linked to the trial difficulty and rating.
The higher the difficulty and the rating, the better the items obtained.
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