[You completed the main quest and obtained Lord Skill·Attack Enhancement.]
[You completed the main quest and received an evaluation of: SSS.]
[Based on your evaluation, you have received the following rewards:]
[1 Self-selected Special Building Blueprints×10]
[2. Four types of Special Resources×1,000,000 units each]
[3. Self-selected Rare Level Building Blueprints×10]
[4. Self-selected Epic Building Blueprints×5]
[5. Self-selected Advanced Treasures×20]
[6. Self-selected Professional Lord Talent×1]
[7. Professional Column Expansion Rolls×5]
[8. Gold Coins×100,000,000]
[9. Talent Upgrade Vouchers×5]
[10. Self-selected Epic Reclassification Certificate×1]
Qin Muye looked at these quest rewards, his expression also a bit surprised, because he found that the quest rewards had become even better, especially with the appearance of the Self-selected Professional Lord Talent, which was a pleasant surprise.
It was a pity that the Self-selected Lord Talent wasn't randomly given, and the originally self-selected Rare Level profession had turned into an Epic Level one.
If it had been before everyone was at Epic Level, Qin Muye would have been overjoyed, but now he didn't care at all since he had long since achieved Epic for all his people.
"If I use all the Professional Column Expansion Rolls, I'll hold the professions of physiologist, medical scientist, psychiatrist, geneticist, virologist."
"Eh? Is something a bit off here?"
After Qin Muye finished appointing the professions he had exchanged in the Sky Net Era timeline, he was about to use the Self-selected Professional Lord Talent when he suddenly discovered something—his personal panel had become garbled.
Whether it was Attributes, Skills, or Talents, they were all a jumbled mess of indecipherable characters.
Not only that, but the Lord Advancement quest was also garbled.
"Did 'Lord Era' crash???"
Soon, Qin Muye confirmed again that 'Lord Era' hadn't crashed, but there was something wrong with his personal panel, as if it couldn't detect him anymore.
He first chose the Wise Man's Talent called "Diligence" from the Self-selected Professional Lord Talent.
[Diligence: For every additional 10% Experience gained, form a Magic Value Limit increase of (Rank×1,000) points.]
"I can clearly feel the rise in Magic Power, but there's a problem with the Attributes, and the Advancement Quest is also invalidated..." Qin Muye was frustrated.
Under normal circumstances, he should now be at Rank 6 and have received the reward, but the problem was that the reward hadn't arrived and the quest had glitched.
Afterward, he tried using a Talent Ascension Scroll, but there was no response.
"Strange? Why can I use the Professional Column Expansion Rolls, and the Self-selected Talents load, but why is the Talent Ascension Scroll not working?"
Qin Muye was confused, which didn't seem like good news.
After all, each ascension of a Talent represented an extreme transformation for him.
He then looked at the Territory Advancement Quest and also discovered a significant bug.
The requirement of a Lord reaching Level 60 had become garbled, turning into a bundle of weird characters.
"Also, why have the kill count in my Territory Advancement Quest and the completion of annihilating a million enemies in one go, and the 70% prestige, been reset to zero???"
"Is it because of the garbled text causing a reset?"
Since the other conditions were rigid, they hadn't been reset.
"Is 'Lord Era' really this poorly made, or am I just too much of an anomaly?"
Qin Muye quickly pinpointed the likely culprit; it was probably because he had absorbed the world.
It seemed that the Endless Abyss was what devoured the Secret Martial World, but in fact, it should be him, and it was precisely because of this that "Lord Era" determined his identity.
Because of his action, he was determined to be both a Lord and an instance, which caused logic confusion and collapse.
In other words ... he has now freed himself from half of "Lord Era"; as long as he completely takes control of his territory, he will have completely shed "Lord Era".
As of now, there are pros and cons.
Firstly, without the Lord Level system, Qin Muye lost a large amount of rewards, such as the Divinity Talent he should have at rank 6, or the additional rewards after leveling up, not to mention Talent Ascension and such—especially Talent Ascension. Without this shortcut, Qin Muye would have to do his own research, which is a major project and will take a lot of time.
But there's also a bright side. Not receiving benefits from the Lord Level system means he is no longer bound by it, and as for the "Lord Era" panel currently before him, it's actually not Qin Muye's but belongs to his Endless Abyss territory.
If he weren't nearly one with the Endless Abyss, he wouldn't be able to see this panel at all, because the Endless Abyss is still in the hands of "Lord Era". As someone with a Shared Destiny with it, Qin Muye is naturally tied to it because of this indirect relationship.
If he were a traditional Lord, he would be free as long as he clenched his teeth and gave up his territory.
"Considering the current situation, it seems the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?"
He indeed lost a lot of rewards, but the abilities brought by the Talent have never disappeared, which indicated something—that the Talent given to him by "Lord Era" was intrinsically his own, otherwise it would have vanished together with everything else.
For example, his Grandmaster Level Reconnaissance Skill has already become ineffective, which clearly suggests that some skills were borrowed from "Lord Era" itself.
"The Profession system and Talent system seem to have quite a few problems now. I can still learn and supplement them, but all these influences are achieved indirectly through the territory."
Qin Muye narrowed his eyes in contemplation; if he devoured another world, then it's highly likely these too would stop working because of that.
If it had been his former self, it would indeed have been an inauspicious sign, but for his current self, it meant he had become stronger.
Once the entire Lord System is no longer effective on him, that might be the true day of liberation.
"However, at the moment, my strength should be around rank 8. Rank 9, I'm afraid that won't be so easy to achieve."
He had some speculations about rank 9, which would at least require the existence of world-level entities, like God, Chaos Chaos, and so forth—a series of beings representing the will of worlds.
"Right now, the Endless Abyss is evolving towards a real world, at least its exterior has completely become a real world barrier, while the Abyss Layer and Illusion Dream Realm have grown further; only the main body remains unchanged."
"I just don't know whether my territory can still Advance."
Because one requirement for Lord Level was garbled, Qin Muye currently wasn't certain about it.
The rest was actually manageable. To enhance Territory Traits, he needed five, and he was short of one. Unification, Slaughter, Blood Sacrifice, and Prestige weren't too big of a problem to accomplish—after all, he just needed to fight.
At least that's the case for now; mainly because they were reset, otherwise Unification, Slaughter, and Prestige would have been completed long ago. Luckily, the requirement of Good and Evil for the destruction of world instances wasn't reset; otherwise, he'd need to devour a world again.
Fortunately, the difficulty wasn't great, and he could complete it once more.
It's just that the Territory Traits might be a bit tricky, requiring Qin Muye to either resolve a world-ending crisis or develop his own solution.
Normally, he would prefer to develop one himself and then artificially manufacture it, but the remaining two crises on the Warlock Dynasty server wouldn't give Qin Muye enough time.
"Now that I think about it, 'Lord Era' still has its advantages—it at least sends me to different worlds," Qin Muye wanted to break free from "Lord Era", but he couldn't deny that the greatest benefit "Lord Era" provided was not Talent or Skill, but the Random Dungeon Scroll and Server Transfer Token.
No matter how vast the world is, it cannot support a person surpassing their world; only by gathering the resources of many worlds can one become stronger.
It's like a plant in a flowerpot; even if the flowerpot is big, there is a limit.
Events can rapidly strengthen the territory, but Qin Muye's own strength doesn't rely on grinding levels; the number of times he has leveled up by fighting monsters could be counted on one hand—he relied solely on staying at home.
"As expected, the Strategic Magic has also become ineffective. The Rule Level infusion is inherently part of the Lord System," Qin Muye tried to use magic, but unfortunately, there was no response unless he cast it himself.
That is, he was now in the same position as the original inhabitants of the server.
"Tsk, it's a bit regrettable."
The loss of Lord rewards from "Lord Era" was a minor issue, after all, he needed to look at the bigger picture; he couldn't work for "Lord Era" all his life.
"But to be honest, it's a bit too much that the main body of events is the territory and not the Lord..."
Qin Muye looked at most of the functions that hadn't become dysfunctional, such as events and the inventory, and found it a bit absurd.
The inventory could still be opened, but it had an issue: it allowed retrieval but not storage. Of course, if it were rewards, they would directly go into the inventory, but it couldn't be used as a storage space anymore.
Luckily, Qin Muye didn't mind these things; after all, for him, it was just a storage space. He could directly create one inside his own Shadow—that wasn't a big deal, since the Shadow Space of the Spirit Monsters could even accommodate Demon Statue Level Mecha.
"Wait a minute, will the Random Dungeon Scroll still affect me in the future? After all, I might be the main subject of this thing, not the territory?"