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However, these three traits only consumed 40 Glory Points, leaving 10 Glory Points remaining.

Just as Lin Rui had not upgraded three troop types in one go before, with the remaining 10 Glory Points, Lin Rui chose to appoint a Heroic Spirit Level medic in each squad of the Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess.

The combat prowess gap between Heroic Spirit Level soldiers and Elite-level soldiers is quite significant.

Not only does their ability improve, but they also gain an incredibly crucial trait.

[Free Will: Heroic Spirit Level Trait: All Dharma is Void, but cause and effect are not, boiling blood, free will. The blood within the Crimson Chalice can transform into Crimson Chains, linking three targets. The Battle Priestess will convert 40% of the damage dealt into healing value to restore the life value of linked units. Any healing exceeding the target's life limit will be converted into a Blood Shield that blocks all damage except True Damage.]

Along with an area skill [Purifying Heaven and Earth: Emergency Healing Lv2: Activates an array, granting multiple buffs to all units within a fifty-meter radius, based on the number of attacks by Walnut in combat, with buff values being 25% of average damage. Cooldown time of 3 minutes. Consumes 100 Spiritual Energy Value]

Her per-instance healing value is low, but the frequency is high. Therefore, activating this skill virtually keeps ally troops within a fifty-meter radius in a Sub-Invincible Shield state continuously.

Excessive healing will grant soldiers a layer of Blood Shield that lasts until it's broken.

Logically, the combination of this trait and skill is completely worth 10 Glory Points. Moreover, upgrading to Heroic Spirit Level will mean a qualitative improvement in the soldiers' combat power.

Given the scale of the Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess, this upgrade will result in nearly thirty Heroic Spirit Level soldiers. With each soldier covering a 50-meter range, under full effort, a continuous steel barrier of Sub-Invincible Shield will form within a 1500-meter range.

Within this distance, all soldiers will continuously refresh the Sub-Invincible Shield, likely preventing any opponent from penetrating it.

With this premise, Lin Rui decisively used the next [Imperial Military Decree] on the [Holy Hall Maid Guard].

They can stand behind this Golden Light Barrier for steady output.

Therefore, Lin Rui chose to upgrade three troop tiers at once, but after the Holy Hall Maid Guard ascended ranks, Heroic Spirit Level soldiers are called Divine Archer instead of Sergeant.

Gaining an additional Heroic Spirit Level Trait [Divine Arrow Flight].

[Divine Arrow Flight: Heroic Spirit Level Trait: An arrow can shoot a hundred paces through a willow, the arrows like heaven chasing the sun. Divine Archer becomes the ruler of arrows; her shooting skills surpass ordinary people. Every 10 seconds, the next attack of the Divine Archer releases a powerful divine arrow, causing an extra 250% burst damage, with a chance to inflict an additional silence effect, rendering opponents unable to use any active skills for 2 seconds. Divine Archer can enter the second mode of shooting across the sun by sacrificing 50% attack speed to increase range by 100%, allowing her arrows to hit targets at longer distances with 10% Divine Damage.]

This is the first breakthrough to Heroic Spirit Level by the Holy Hall Maid Guard, whose combat power is exceedingly formidable, rivaling the Heavy-armored Spartan Guard.

Flag Bearers and Musicians, however, have no effect difference compared to other soldiers.

Both troops add universal traits; the Flag Bearer's generous military music can increase squad soldiers' movement speed by 30%, physical defense by 30%, and base attack by 100%.

The Musician's flag waving can increase the squad soldiers' Critical Strike Rate by 5%, adding 10% Divine Damage to critical strikes, and obtaining a [Momentum like a Rainbow] status for 10 seconds after killing enemy forces, increasing overall attack power by 30%.

For the remaining 20 Glory Points, Lin Rui also chose attack traits [Golden Divine Statue] and [Master of Destruction], with effects identical to Battle Priestess. After all, other traits increasing physical defense and reducing stamina consumption are less effective for ranged archers.

After strengthening these two main battle units, Lin Rui must think very carefully about what to strengthen with the last two [Imperial Military Decrees].

Because the remaining soldiers are not the main force, or are the main force but haven't formed a scale.

Whether it is [Light Priest: Holy Light Messenger], [Phoenix Legion: Flame Mage] or [Heavy-armored Spartan Guard], their scale is seriously limited.

Seeing Lin Rui hesitate, Audrey immediately approached with glee and said, "Father Emperor, if you can't decide, why not give these two to me? I'll strengthen my Phoenix Legion Black Knight, they are all main legion, and their scale is enormous. Give me one, and with the blessing of enhancement, you'll immediately get hundreds of Heroic Spirit Level soldiers, thousands of Rare Level soldiers."

Lin Rui gave her a look and immediately refused, saying, "This isn't suitable for you, don't mention anything else, you immediately upgrade soldier tiers like this, can your Command Value direct them all?"

Audrey's military structure isn't suited for simplified power, her enhancement of 700% physical attack power clearly fits leading larger-scale troops.

Moreover, once [Dark Energy Prayer] is activated, the low-tier soldiers receive greater buffs than Heroic Spirit Level soldiers.

Audrey quickly argued, "Then I must at least increase a batch of backbone troops?"

"Don't waste it, just make good use of your Breath of the Gods. You don't lack Heroic Spirit Level soldiers; they are your backbone."

"Then... then putting it on the Crimson Dragon Rider works too, and the scale will increase later."

Lin Rui shrugged helplessly, "Just forget it, this is an Imperial Military Decree, it shouldn't be effective for the Undead."

Audrey snorted, "Stingy. It works for the Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess, why can't it work for the Crimson Dragon Rider, when they are both vampires?"

Lin Rui could only pretend not to hear, ultimately opting to use both Imperial Military Decrees on the [Heroic Spirit Level Troop: Heavy Spartan Guard].

This troop will become the core of long-range output in the territory in the future.

Especially their final skill [Judgment of Destiny LvMax: Those judged by destiny will endure endless suffering and punishment under the Power of Judgment. Heavy Spartan Guard uses faith to unleash Divine Strike, damage +130%, Critical Strike Rate +55%, adding True Damage equal to 25% of enemies' lost life value. If they successfully kill opponents, their [Judgment of Destiny] skill damage permanently increases by 10. Consumes 20 Spiritual Energy Value, cooldown 10 seconds.]

As long as they kill opponents, this skill's damage will permanently increase by 10 points; in a large battle, if they kill 100 soldiers, the damage increases by 1000 points.

Not needing to fight ten battles to boost their combat power over 10,000 points.

What does 10,000 points mean?

The legendary longsword in Lin Rui's hand [Soul Slaughter: Flame Force Field Sword], [Piercing Damage 3361-4521], [Sharp Damage 5899-8156], totals only 9000~13000 points of base damage.

Which means as long as they slaughter sufficiently, when this skill triggers it adds the equivalent base damage of a legendary weapon.

Of course, legendary weapons come with many additional damage types, like this longsword also boasts [+200% Spiritual Damage], [+80% Divine Damage], [+30% True Damage], [+35% Critical Strike], [+50% Spiritual Penetration].

Usually a single strike deals five to six ten-thousand points of damage, capable of instantly killing troops below Tier Five.

And Lin Rui's consideration is precisely to add various damages to the Heavy Spartan Guard.

Such as [Adding Rune: Fury Rune: Each soldier equates to having Fury Rune embedded, physical attack +50%, gaining 1 Fury Value per attack, above 30 Fury Value, physical attack +100%. Above 50 Fury Value, the attack carries 25% True Damage. At 100 Fury Value, Physique +10%, attack ignores opponent's armor, attack accumulates 10% Bleeding Damage per strike. Consumes 100 Fury Value, recovers 100% of own life value. (Consumes 50 Glory Points)]

Lin Rui later selected [Golden Divine Statue], [Master of Destruction], and [Tenacity and Durability] traits for this troop, ensuring they can persist in combat to the end, maximizing the permanent damage increase from [Judgment of Destiny].