Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Lin Rui was a bit surprised, a wild troop nest? He immediately replied: "That's good news, is there a problem?"

"No... no special problem. It's just that we can't beat the guards, could you... could you possibly help us? We won't ask you for nothing; we'll distribute the recruitment quotas based on contribution ratios, is that okay?"

"Sure, that's the customary distribution method in this world. Send me the coordinates, I'll head over there now."

Death's Claw immediately took the aerial cavalry, drawing a graceful curve in the sky and swiftly changing direction towards the address provided by Dongg Qingxue.

The army advanced rapidly, quickly reaching the destination, where there was a lineup of hundreds of goblins and humans on the plains.

This iconic troop type, it must be Dongg Qingxue.

Lin Rui directly instructed Death's Claw to land, the hurricane and grass bits swept up by the Griffin's wings made everyone in the lineup close their eyes, resisting the strong air currents.

Once the air currents settled, the human Explorers in the lineup opened their eyes and marvelled, "The aura from the major lord is strong, feels like there are dozens of armed helicopters hovering here."

Lin Rui smiled and nodded in greeting, saying, "Being able to withstand a terrifying impact, you're not weak either."

Dongg Qingxue stepped forward and introduced, "Major lord, this is Chen Dong. He previously visited your domain. He discovered this wild troop nest, but after failing to beat the guards, he contacted me. We couldn't win either, so we had to trouble you now. We didn't disturb you, did we?"

Lin Rui smiled and said, "Not at all, I'm also clearing monsters everywhere, anywhere will be the same. Are there others coming? If not, let's go have a look."

Chen Dong shook his head and said with deep emotion, "No more. Initially, there were ten Explorers in the alliance, now only four are left, nearly sixty percent extinction rate, even after major lord's help."

This casualty is indeed very tragic, a total of sixty percent of the Explorers lost their domain, even in scenarios with much collaborative effort and Lin Rui's help.

If the situation in other regions is similar, the death rate of Explorers might reach seventy to eighty percent.

Lin Rui could only think positively, hoping not every region was as terrifying as this one, given any territory has its border and hinterland.

The Golden Pansy Domain, surrounded by peaks and forests, might be a bit extra dangerous. Surely, there are beautiful, gentle plains lacking expansive, eerie forests and valleys, offering peaceful and calm life. Otherwise, eighty billion Explorers wouldn't be divided into many major regions.

"Forget it, don't think about these things." Lin Rui took a deep breath and said, "Live in the moment, since we've survived the first wave, let's strive to survive constantly. What's the deal with this wild troop nest?"

Chen Dong quickly pushed aside his sorrow, approached, and pointed to a dim building on the dark peaks in the distance saying, "Major lord, there is a Dark Castle on the mountain top, housing plenty of Blood Race. Beat their minions and you earn the qualification to occupy here, allowing recruitment of twelve new Blood Race warriors every cycle."

"Blood Race?" Lin Rui asked surprised, "Not a human faction troop?"

"It is a human faction." Chen Dong affirmed, "They accept our recruitment as true human loyal progeny. Major lord, you might be too busy battling to understand the detailed world background. In this world, Blood Race is one of the empire's twelve Electors, the empire's shield, with loyal progeny demeanor. Several times, human and Demon Legion clashes occurred, Blood Race would dispatch troops to aid the Emperor in fighting Chaos invasions."

Audrey laughingly told Lin Rui, "Lord, this situation is easy to understand, like us two, you're the Emperor, I'm the Blood Race, and I bring Undead to fight alongside you."

This explanation made things easier to grasp. It's said that the founder king of humanity also once slept with a beautiful blood race woman.

Lin Rui waved and said, "Let's go inside, deal with them."

"Oh~ Leave it to me~" Su Ye shouted, carrying a longsword on his shoulder, charged towards the Dark Castle ahead.

Chen Dong asked with concern, "Major lord, the inside is swarming with Undead monsters, won't it be dangerous for him to charge alone?"

Lin Rui had no time to speak before Su Ye shouted ahead, "Wow~ Watch my Red Lotus Blade Slash!"

In the next moment, the sky's black veil was instantly lit by a bloody sword light, like lightning piercing the firmament, illuminating the dark world.

Chen Dong and Dongg Qingxue both opened their mouths in shock, staring blankly towards the mountain ridge ahead.

A blood-red blade aura over a hundred meters long cut through the sky, directly splitting apart the castle's wooden gate.

Before the blade light extinguished, the gutter left by the blade aura was densely covered with scattered skeleton remains.

"This… this… this…" Chen Dong trembled at the mouth corners, what kind of monstrous power is this!

Dongg Qingxue instantly felt weak, eyes teary from excitement, is this strength really achievable by current Explorers?

Mommy, this world is too unfair, I don't want to stay here, I want to go home!

Finally understood why humans can establish themselves in this world full of monsters.

Because humans in this world, are indeed part of the monstrous beings! While they have the same name as Blue Star humans, they are fundamentally not the same species!

"Ma...major lord, he, he, is a soldier of your domain?"

"Yes, any problem?"

Big problem indeed!

Dongg Qingxue almost wanted to cry. Were we really in the same region for a cycle period? Why are you so strong to this extent?

Feels like just this one soldier could easily shred all of us to pieces!

Chen Dong, frightened, stepped back half a step; those three morons must be crazy and deranged for daring to plan an ambush on this major lord.

His heart almost stopped beating with fright, with the major lord's strength, slaughtering all Explorers would mean just a mere lifting of eyelid.

Dongg Qingxue swallowed and asked, "Major lord, where do you rank on the domain military strength leaderboard?"

"Honestly, I haven't looked, you reminded me. Let me check, fifth on military leaderboard, seventh on comprehensive leaderboard." Lin Rui said with a smile, "Other domains might have Giant Dragons, Hydras, etc., we need to work hard too."

Chen Dong looked at Su Ye's silhouette plunging alone into the fortress, shocked and said, "I feel even Dragon Mother's Giant Dragon Legion isn't capable of taking down a single warrior from your domain?"

If ranking on domain military strength leaderboard is based on Command Value ranking, possibly countless low-quality legions indeed can't stop Su Ye.

But Lin Rui also didn't underestimate other Explorers, among eighty billion people from Blue Star, surely someone is a hidden expert.

So he calmly answered, "Haven't seen other people's legions, hard to comment much. Let's go, we should check inside the castle."

When Lin Rui approached, he discovered this War Castle was completely activated, densely packed savage bats soared into the sky from above the castle, orbiting and obscuring the sky.

Walking from the fractured castle gate into the castle interior, the castle was illuminated by Evil Spiritual Light, the ground littered with broken corpses and frostblade residues.

Layer upon layer of Undead Zombies, Skeleton Warriors, Ghouls, and Bloodthirsty Bat Wolves surrounded Su Ye, yet could not halt his steps.

He charged left and right, where the blade reached, severed limbs flew, amidst frosty blade light, remnants shimmered, shattered undead remains shot in all directions.

Amidst such intense combat, he still took the leisure to greet Lin Rui, "Oh~ Lord, you've entered as well? Please trust me, if you could delay entering by three minutes, I will definitely wipe out all these monsters."

"Hey, Su Ye, don't boast. The real challenge has arrived!" Audrey laughed and spoke out.

Looking in the direction of her slender finger, three Netherworld War Chariots driven by four Undead Knights each, surrounded by numerous green Vengeful Spirits, appeared on the battlefield.

Tier Four Rare Level troop [Nether Engine]!

Core abilities [Holy Bone Box Control] and [Unclean Magnet], providing two different healing traits for all undead units on nearby battlefield.

This is an undead strategic troop, almost equivalent to three weakened heroes appearing on the battlefield!