Blue City, in the real world—Lin Chen's residence.
The silver-white game pod slid open from both sides.
Lin Chen climbed out, his body drenched in thick, sticky nutrient fluid, feeling very uncomfortable.
He immediately rushed into the bathroom to clean up and relieve himself.
It was a full thirty minutes later before he emerged, dressed in clean clothes and feeling much more refreshed.
Only now, his stomach was growling fiercely.
While nutrient fluid could maintain daily bodily functions, it couldn't solve hunger—so he picked up his phone and ordered some takeout.
Although most of his money had gone toward top-ups, he could still afford to eat.
Besides, Era of Lords had already started its global countdown: two years.
In other words, everything on Blue Star—food, clothing, shelter—would only last another two years.
So, he figured, might as well enjoy it while he could!
That said, compared to pleasure, Lin Chen preferred spending his time in Era of Lords, becoming stronger.
That felt far more meaningful.
While waiting for the food, he opened the Era of Lords game forum.
It was filled with news, player threads, even a few strategy guides.
But Lin Chen wasn't too interested.
He skimmed for a few seconds and closed the app.
When the food arrived, he dug in and had a great meal before heading off to bed.
…
The next morning, 8 a.m., Lin Chen woke up on time.
He went downstairs for a bowl of wontons, then rushed back home to enter the game immediately.
A swirl of glowing light surrounded him, and when he reappeared, he was back inside his room in the Divine Realm territory.
Exiting the room, Lin Chen went straight to the marketplace to check on his listings.
As expected, everything had sold out.
In return, he now had 23.97 million X Country Coins in his account—and even more message requests, all trying to contact him in some way.
Lin Chen shook his head and closed the market panel.
Next, he opened the top-up panel.
Today's daily gift pack was a must-buy, and there was also the monthly card reward to claim.
"You've purchased the Daily Gift Pack and received:
Blue Resource Pack ×5, Food ×10,000, Random Equipment Chest ×1, Equipment Enhancement Stones ×100."
"You've claimed today's Monthly Card reward and received:
Purple Resource Pack ×3, Food ×20,000, Random Equipment Chest ×1, Equipment Enhancement Stones ×100, Forbidden Spell Scroll ×1."
Then Lin Chen browsed through other gift packs and finally settled on the VIP3 Exclusive Pack.
When he had first reached VIP3, he couldn't afford it.
Now was the perfect time.
[VIP3 Exclusive Gift Pack]
Price: 10 million X Country Coins
Description: Available only to VIP3 users, can only be purchased once.
Includes:
5 million basic resources
500,000 food
Tier-5 Troop Chest ×1
Platinum Equipment Chest ×6
Random Blueprint Chest ×2
Designated Racial Soul Essence Chest ×50
Subject Refresh Card ×30
Forbidden Spell Scroll ×30
Resource Point Transfer Scroll ×50
Gathering Speed-up Scroll ×50
Compared to the VIP2 pack, the VIP3 pack was much more generous—naturally, the price was steeper as well.
But it was still within Lin Chen's budget. Without hesitation, he clicked Purchase.
"You've purchased the VIP3 Exclusive Gift Pack. 10 million X Country Coins deducted."
Remaining balance: 14 million (including leftovers from before)
Next, he decided to buy 10 Troop Gift Packs.
They were 300,000 each—so 10 totaled 3 million.
He didn't expect to draw Tier-8, Tier-9, or even higher-tier troops.
He just wanted more Tier-3 or Tier-4 troops.
Those were highly marketable—fetching good prices without massively boosting another player's power.
So—
"You've purchased Troop Gift Pack ×10. 3 million X Country Coins deducted."
There was a limit—only ten per month.
With 11 million X Country Coins left, Lin Chen bought two Resource Packs, 5 million each.
Because, truth be told, he was still desperately short on resources.
Without resources, he couldn't train troops.
And without troops, his exploration of Dragonspine Mountain would slow to a crawl.
So in the end, resources were his biggest bottleneck.
After this spree, Lin Chen was left with just over 1 million X Country Coins.
He decided to hold off on any further purchases for now.
Then he opened all the gift packs: the VIP3 Exclusive, Troop Packs, and Resource Packs.
Final loot included:
Basic Resources ×11.25 million, Food ×1.13 million
Tier-5 Troop Chest ×1, Random Troop Chest ×10
Random Equipment Chest ×2, Platinum Equipment Chest ×6
Random Blueprint Chest ×2, Designated Racial Soul Essence Chest ×50
Subject Refresh Card ×30, Forbidden Spell Scroll ×31
Resource Point Transfer Scroll ×50, Gathering Speed-up Scroll ×50
No hesitation—he opened all treasure chests.
"You've opened Tier-5 Troop Chest: Acquired Frost Toad (Tier-5 Troop)."
"You've opened Random Troop Chest ×10: Acquired—Tier-4 Troop: Skeleton Greatswordsman
Tier-3 Troops: Venomous Man-Eating Plant, Dwarf Musketeer
Tier-2 Troops: Silent Assassin, Skeleton Archer
Tier-1 Troops: … (others)"
Eleven troop chests, and the results were explosive.
One Tier-5, one Tier-4, two Tier-3, two Tier-2, and the rest Tier-1.
The Tier-5 would be held for now.
The rest? Sold immediately for an easy few tens of millions—then reinvested to keep the cycle going.
Next up: the Equipment Chests.
"You've opened Random Equipment Chest ×2: Acquired
Bronze Equipment: Iron Sword
Silver Equipment: Hunting Bow"
"You've opened Platinum Equipment Chest ×6: Acquired
Platinum Equipment: Thorny Armor, Overlord Shield, Bloodfang Dagger..."
Pretty standard loot.
Lin Chen would keep anything usable and sell the rest.
Finally came the Blueprint Chests and Designated Racial Soul Essence Chest.
"You've opened Blueprint Chest ×2: Acquired
Blueprint: Flower Bed, Red Lantern"
Both were decorative blueprints—not useful for the moment.
What did catch his eye was the Racial Soul Essence Chest.
[Designated Racial Soul Essence Chest]
Description: Upon opening, receive a Racial Essence of a designated race.
Can be used for Altar advancement and upgrades.
Racial Essences had many uses—most commonly to upgrade an Altar from Level 10 to 11, or Level 20 to 21.
They dropped from boss kills or rarely from treasure chests.
As such, they were considered quite valuable.
Now, with 50 Designated Racial Soul Essence Chests in hand, Lin Chen could get 50 Essences.
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