A year later, Maximus's progress was going smoothly.
A year had passed with not much happening.
This year, he continued to train, fought to accumulate the world's origin, spent time with his family, and managed his empire and guild.
With the repetition of these activities.
Maximus perceived that time was moving at a much faster rate.
His children were already growing into adulthood without him knowing.
His wives also passed the test and became official students.
As for the Golden Gate trial to become special students, Maximus prevented them from taking it.
With his help, they didn't lack many resources, and putting themselves in danger for something redundant seemed stupid.
As he was reminiscing, his token vibrated.
"What is it?" Maximus didn't bother to take a look and just asked Tintin.
"It's the empire array. It's already finished."
"Oh, they've upgraded the empire array to tier 5, huh?"
"Very well, just activate it. I will visit the empire later when I have time," Maximus said lazily.
"Right away, host," Tintin rolled her eyes at her host's laziness.
The disturbance of the mana shocked most of the citizens.
"Is there someone fighting nearby?!"
The people panicked as if it were the end of the world.
But as time passed, people noticed that the concentration of mana became higher and higher.
"Heh, what is there to be scared about?"
"This is just the empire array being upgraded," a native of Moonlight Empire, who had been calm from the beginning, jeered at them.
The empire's population back then was not even a billion.
But now there were about 60 billion, occupying almost all the land of the sunburnt plateau.
Being here at the very beginning made the man proud.
"What do you mean?" The people look at him intently.
"You're just new here, so you don't know."
"Do you remember the Tier 6 individuals who were working in the city a few months ago?"
"That's right, they came here to upgrade the empire's array."
"This also happened five years ago when the empire array was upgraded to Tier 4."
"I guess the array is now being upgraded to Tier 5," the man said, arrogantly.
The news brought shockwaves to all the people in the kingdom.
Soon, reactions from people were all over the Moonlight forum.
[Hey, the Empire Array was upgraded to tier 5 quite fast!]
[Hahaha, praise the greatness of His Majesty!]
[Does that mean we could farm higher-tiered plants?]
[You should work on your abilities first; without skill, how dare you farm high-tiered plants?]
[Tier 5 Array means my training will be faster from now on. Praise Your Majesty!]
[That's right. The kingdom where I was previously only had tier 1 or 2 scrap arrays that didn't even provide mana for training.]
[Those above, even with higher intensity of mana, if your talent is trash, there is nothing you can do.]
The man mocked, the mana you can absorb is according to your talent.
Without talent, even in the most mana-intensive environment, your training progress will still be like a turtle crawling.
[Hey, am I the only one waiting for another update to the token applications?]
[I'm also waiting. The moonlight map update earlier was very convenient.]
[That's right. The only pity is that it can be used to peek at my beautiful neighbor.]
[Ban the pervert upstairs!]
Soon, the man was automatically banned, sending waves of cheers.
[Hahaha, that's what happens to perverts!]
[By the way, the Empire Array is already tier 5. Does that mean that tier 5 individuals will also come to us?]
The Empire Array had automatic defense, attack, and various auxiliary functions.
This is also why even those arrogant tier 4 individuals came here; they held their tempers.
Once you're locked by the Empire Array, there is nothing you can do but wait for the imperial guards.
Then, according to the severity of your actions, the court will judge how much and how long your sentence will be.
[Does this mean new business opportunities?!]
[Those people at higher tiers are quite rich.]
[Hahaha, they are also easy to slaughter.]
[The one upstairs, are you the one who scammed several tier 4 individuals a month ago?]
[What do you mean by scam? I'm doing legal business; otherwise, I would already be eating prison food right now.]
[Boss, teach me your ways. How do you scam those people?]
Soon, people actively talked about the future of the Moonlight Empire and various daily stories they encountered.
The spies of various empires also reported about the advancement of the Empire's array.
Upon hearing the news, Emperor Akash couldn't help but click his tongue.
"Is this what a rich empire should be?" He muttered enviously.
Most of the top empire arrays are only at tier 5, not because that's all they can afford.
It's because at the beginning, before the era of imperial domination, there wasn't much use to a higher-tiered array besides showing off.
Now, various top empires are also upgrading their arrays to tier 6 and above.
However, their progress is not as fast as the rapidly rising Moonlight Empire.
They haven't even completed 1 percent of the array.
Besides the size of the empire array.
The top empires were not like Maximus, spending money like water just to hasten the empire array's progress.
After learning that the Moonlight Array had reached tier 5.
Emperor Akash negotiated with Maximus if he wanted to accept tier 5 individuals into his empire.
After some negotiation, Maximus agreed to pay 100 million magic crystals for each tier 5 individual.
However, their contract was much more strict.
Instead of just staying in the moonlight empire, with nothing to do.
These tier 5 individuals needed to provide value to his empire.
They needed to work for him for at least 1,000 years, of course with pay.
A week later, Maximus finally had the time to visit his empire.
Overlooking 7.8 billion kilometers of his empire's land.
He saw various constructions, where creating a prototype of the city was only a matter of days.
Millions of flying boats were transporting people all over the place.
A large tract of land was filled with all kinds of plants, providing an overwhelming amount of food for the empire.
Hundreds of millions of soldiers were training in an orderly fashion.
The Moonshadow Academy which served as a gathering place for the most talented people in the empire.
"Time has passed; I didn't know that my empire would reach this level in just a few years," Maximus sighed.
As he looked at the empire's only port, he frowned. "It's too crowded."
Flying to his castle, he thought about this problem.
"Call Doran," he said to the guard in the palace.
Soon, Doran came in hurriedly. "I've met Your Majesty."
"Hmmm," Maximus acknowledged.
"I'm here to talk about the ports," Maximus began.
"Why is there only one?"
"When do you plan to construct other ports?"
"This," Doran quickly apologized, realizing his negligence.
After all, the only ones who came here to the Sunburnt Plateau were the Starsea Traders Sea Caravan and the Eryndor Empire Sea Caravan.
The Berrun Port City can easily take this load without much burden.
That's why, Doran hadn't thought about adding more ports.
"Alright, I know, I also forgot about this."
"You should begin construction immediately."
"I want the Sunburnt Plateau to be surrounded by our ship."
"But, Your Majesty, the money?"
"Don't worry; I will provide you with unlimited funds."
"Just make sure to do everything perfectly."
"As ordered, Your Majesty."
"Furthermore, the land in Sunburnt Plateau is running out of space," Maximus expressed his concern.
He estimated that the maximum capacity of the Sunburnt Plateau is about 500 billion people.
But to ensure there is enough space, he would limit it to 100-200 billion.
"I will give you three years to train our own navy."
"We can't always rely on Starsea Traders," Maximus continued.
Although Cedric and Starsea Traders were his own, he had other plans for them.
"In three years, I want our navy fleet to conquer the entire Sun Sea region."
"If there is not enough land, then conquer the surrounding sea area."
"As you ordered, Your Majesty," Doran said excitedly.
They were finally adding the map to the Moonlight Empire territory.
"What about the transportation of people, Your Majesty? Should we continue?"
"Of course, why not? Conquering the Sun Sea region will take 4-5 years."
"Why waste such time?" Maximus smiled.
"Indeed," Doran nodded.
The waste here was the amalgamation of will.
It was indeed a waste of time not to strengthen the amalgamation of will in these few years.
"Finally created the tier 6 chapter of 'Origin,'" Maximus muttered.
With hundreds of millions of life points.
He had finally thoroughly mastered all tier 6 techniques, spells, and skills, creating the tier 6 chapter of 'Origin'.
"Now I can also sell these tier 6 knowledge that I've studied!" Maximus said excitedly.
His shop's income had been decreasing, from over 100 trillion per month to now over 50 trillion.
With the addition of tier 6 techniques, spells, and skills with transcendent mastery insight.
He would finally have enough money to buy tier 5 ultimate treasures and become invincible.