"You will definitely regret what you've done today! Definitely!"
Seconds later, after dropping a harsh threat, Fenrilo mounted his Contracted Spiritual Beast and fled in a panic.
Watching the other's figure disappear from sight, Evelyn's golden eyes slowly faded, and a hint of annoyance and disappointment involuntarily surfaced on her pretty face.
"Uncle Iron Hammer, should I not have let him go?"
"If it had been Erik, he would have definitely deleted his account by now."
"And yet, I couldn't even bring myself to kill his Spiritual Beast."
"No, this was exactly right," Iron Hammer said slowly, squatting down until he could look Evelyn in the eye. He looked into her eyes earnestly and spoke softly.
"Fenrilo is just a player we've turned away from our door. He is rude, but not to the extent that we need to kill his Contracted Spiritual Beast or force him to delete his account."
"Teaching him a lesson is enough."
"Evelyn, do you remember what I told you?" He reached out and touched Evelyn's head, "There is a difference between the powerful and the strong."
"Those who have the power to trample on order and the laws, and do so, are merely the powerful."
"Those who have the power to trample on order and the laws, yet still abide by them, are the true strong."
"I know." Evelyn's eyes were clear. "The strong have things they do, and things they do not do."
"Very well," Iron Hammer said with a relieved smile, "Strong yet restrained, just in this respect, you are much more suited for Ascension than Erik."
A slight noise made the two of them instantly lower their voices.
They looked together in the direction of the disturbance.
A figure approached, looking around timidly before speaking up.
"Um...excuse me, is this the Luoyue Guild?"
Following Qin Chuan's words, the Epic Rank Lv50 conquest target in Secret Realm A-Class Zone 5150 crashed to the ground.
Watching the Time Stop time decrease from a "4" at the start to a "3," Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh.
Indeed, it was right to save Time Stop time whenever possible.
He wondered when the Time Stop time would return to starting with a "4," or even breakthrough to a "5."
Considering A-Class instances in reality and A-Class Secret Realms in the Dream Realm also required Time Stop time, Qin Chuan instantly put on a pained expression.
"What's with that face?" Yue Li, who had quickly arrived, couldn't help but laugh.
"It's nothing, just suddenly thought about my dwindling savings," sighed Qin Chuan. "Let's tally up the resources."
Tally results: 1 piece of Random Epic Resources, 2 pieces of Moon Halo Equipment Material, 9 Equipment Enhancement Stones, and some other resources.
After three consecutive conquests of A-Class 1-star Secret Realms, Qin Chuan roughly understood some of the reward patterns.
Epic Resources generally dropped 1 random piece, Moon Halo Equipment Material might be 1 selected piece or 2 random pieces, Equipment Enhancement Stones fewer than 10, and the rest of the resources negligible.
If the conquered Secret Realm Difficulty was higher, there might have been better rewards.
It was just a pity that Prayer could not take effect in the Secret Realm, otherwise doubling the drop rewards would have been possible.
Once resource collection was complete, the space within the Secret Realm began to distort.
This was a sign of impending collapse.
A teleportation force covered the two of them and six Spiritual Beasts, instantaneously transferring them outside of the Time-Space Rift. As the Time-Space Rift slowly closed up and ultimately vanished, rows of text abruptly appeared.
[Congratulations to the player's Guild for reaching a total of 10w points, Level upgraded to Lv2!]
[Guild member limit has been increased to 22 people!]
[Guild Array Map unlocked!]
[Exclusive Conquest unlocked!]
Following the update, the Guild had just been unlocked, and there were many discussions about it on the Dream Realm Forum.
Everyone believed that since there was such a thing as Guild Level, it was certainly possible to level up the Guild, and the most likely thing related to Guild leveling was Guild total points.
Now, this guess had been confirmed.
With a total score exceeding 10w, the Guild level had risen to Lv2.
The two exchanged glances and simultaneously opened the Guild panel.
[Guild Members: 4/22]
[Guild Total Points: 100000] (Ranked 1st on the server)
[Personal Points: 49000]
[Guild Array Map][View]
[Exclusive Conquest:]
[Current Target: No.1 Agasoc]
[Current Progress: 0%][Start Conquest]
Looking at his interface, which had quite a few new additions, Qin Chuan stroked his chin and clicked on the Guild Array Map.
The next instant, a surprised expression appeared on his face.
The Guild Array Map was divided into Personal Array Maps and Group Formation Maps.
Array Maps resembled the double helix of DNA, with many symmetrical Arrays on two parallel lines, which intertwined in certain areas to form larger Arrays.
Qin Chuan randomly clicked on an Array named [Qi Power] in the Personal Array Map, and a line of text emerged before his eyes.
[Please first upgrade [Enlightened] to Lv10]
[Enlightened] was the precursor to [Qi Power].
Qin Chuan clicked on [Enlightened], and a similar prompt appeared.
If it was a large Array at the intersection of two lines, then both precursor Arrays needed to reach Lv10.
After some exploration, Qin Chuan had a realization.
It seemed that the Array Map could only be upgraded starting from the two lines' initial points.
The starting points of the two lines were [Sharp Intent] and [Solid as Rock].
Qin Chuan clicked on [Sharp Intent].
[Do you want to spend 1000 Personal Points to upgrade [Sharp Intent] to Lv1?]
[Sharp Intent (Lv1): Increases the attack of all Spiritual Beasts by 1%]
What?! Qin Chuan's eyes widened.
The Personal Array Map could actually be upgraded using Personal Points?
This way, there were two big spenders of points: the Array Map and the Guild Store.
Qin Chuan's teeth began to hurt a bit; he didn't immediately upgrade but clicked on [Solid as Rock] instead.
The cost was the same, and the increase was the same, only the attack had changed to defense.
Do the two lines focus on different directions...?
Qin Chuan mused and exited the Personal Array Map to enter the Group Formation Map.
The names and layouts of the Arrays in the two maps were entirely the same, but the text prompt that appeared when Qin Chuan clicked was different.
[Do you want to spend 1000 Conquest Points to upgrade [Sharp Intent] to Lv1?]
[Sharp Intent (Lv1): Increases the attack of all Spiritual Beasts by 1%]
[Group Formation Map affects all Guild Members]
Affects all Guild Members...
Clearly, the Group Formation Map was more cost-effective than the Personal Array Map.
However, the two maps consumed different resources and didn't conflict, they could be stacked.
That raised a question.
What were Conquest Points?
Qin Chuan quickly associated it with another unlocked feature.
Exiting the Guild Array Map interface, Qin Chuan was about to understand more about the Exclusive Conquest when Yue Li suddenly spoke up, "Luo, can you upgrade the Group Formation Map on your end?"
"Yeah, I can, just don't have any Conquest Points..." Qin Chuan spoke reflexively, then quickly thought of something, "You can't upgrade the Group Formation Map?"
"Right." Yue Li nodded, "I can see it, but I can't upgrade it."
Qin Chuan understood.
If even Yue Li, the Vice-President, didn't have the authority to upgrade the Group Formation Map, then clearly, only the President had that authority in the entire Guild.
"Let's study the Exclusive Conquest, shall we?"