Chapter 17: First Kill Reward: Legion Equipment!

"Buzz..."

Before John could even react, another golden notification window appeared in front of him.

[Global Announcement: Congratulations to Lord "Tyrant" for achieving the world’s first achievement of killing a Lord-tier creature while exceeding the target’s rank!]

[First Kill Rewards Distributed: Basic Resource Selection Pack ×10,000, Lesser Experience Potion ×100, One-Star Legion Equipment ×1!]

[World First Kill achievement detected. The system will broadcast this achievement three times across the entire server. Would you like to hide your name?]

"Don’t hide it."

John raised his right hand and tapped directly on the "No" option.

The next second.

In the vision of every surviving lord across Godfall Continent, golden-red banners forcibly unfolded in the center of their screens.

Accompanied by the deep sound of war horns, the announcement echoed three times.

[Global Announcement: Lord "Tyrant" has achieved the world’s first Lord-tier Boss kill while exceeding the target’s rank!]

[Global Announcement: Lord "Tyrant" has achieved the world’s first Lord-tier Boss kill while exceeding the target’s rank!]

[Global Announcement: Lord "Tyrant" has achieved the world’s first Lord-tier Boss kill while exceeding the target’s rank!]

The world chat channel instantly exploded.

The speed of the scrolling messages was so fast that only afterimages could be seen.

"Him again?! How come I’ve never heard of this guy before?"

"What kind of talent did Tyrant even get at the start? Even an SSS-Rank talent should still follow the rules of the game!"

"Could he be some young master from one of the major alliances?!"

"I have a crazy theory... Tyrant isn’t secretly a GM account, is he?"

"I officially volunteer to be Tyrant’s dog! Woof woof! Just throw me some meat and I’m good!"

"Can you people have some dignity? I’m different. I want to be Tyrant’s mount. I’d happily let him ride me every single day!"

"???"

"Something is seriously wrong with the guy above."

"+1. The guy above is definitely not right."

"..."

John didn’t even bother looking at the world chat.

Instead, he began calculating his gains from this battle.

The levels of all his Dark Knights had risen from Lv10 to Lv12.

Their new attributes were:

[Unit: Undead Dark Knight]

[Rank: Four-Star]

[Level: Lv12]

[HP: 1900]

[Attack: 1200]

[Defense: 240]

[Trait: Undead Body (Immune to mental magic, no pain, no fatigue)]

[Skill: Trampling Charge (Lv2, increases movement speed by 120% while charging and deals impact damage equal to 180% of Attack Power)]

Their attack had increased by another 200 points, while their defense had reached 240.

Besides that, he had also gained a massive amount of resources, gold coins, and other rewards.

Those were all within expectations.

The most interesting reward, however, was something else.

John’s gaze landed on the top of his inventory.

Inside were one hundred neatly arranged light-blue potion bottles.

"Lesser Experience Potion."

In Godfall Continent, units could rapidly level up by killing monsters.

But the leveling method for lords themselves was extremely limited.

They could only rely on their armies.

For example, although his Dark Knights had reached a higher level, John’s own level was still stuck at Lv9 because his other units dragged down the average.

He was only one step away from reaching Lv10.

However, Lesser Experience Potions were different.

They directly increased John’s own experience.

After making a rough calculation, John murmured:

"These potions are enough to let me level up five times."

Without hesitation, he immediately chose to use them all.

"Buzz!"

One hundred glass bottles shattered simultaneously inside his inventory.

Pure blue streams of energy transformed into countless particles of light and flowed into his body.

[You used Lesser Experience Potion ×100. Obtained 100,000 Lord Experience Points!]

[Your experience has reached the current limit!]

[Your Lord Level has increased to Lv10!]

[Detected that the current level has reached the server tier limit. Excess experience has been stored in the Experience Reserve. (Stored Experience: 81,200)]

[Congratulations, Lord "Tyrant" has reached Lv10 and unlocked Tier Advancement Evaluation!]

[Lord Class Advancement Challenge activated!]

[Quest Objective: Enter the designated space and complete the advancement trial.]

On the virtual map, an area in the northwest corner that had previously been covered by darkness suddenly lit up.

A rotating dark-purple vortex icon appeared.

John stared at the vortex marker, the corner of his mouth slightly rising.

In his previous life, his ordinary class had not received any advancement challenge after reaching Level 10.

"Looks like only God-Tier classes have advancement challenges."

"And if it’s a God-Tier evaluation, the difficulty definitely won’t be low. But the rewards should be equally impressive."

He checked the quest panel once again.

Fortunately, there was no time limit.

"Not in a hurry."

John suppressed his excitement and shifted his attention back to the final reward.

"One-Star Legion Equipment ×1."

[Item Name: One-Star Legion Equipment Chest]

[Type: Legion Equipment]

[Description: Open to randomly obtain one One-Star Legion Equipment.]

[Open?]

[Yes / No]

John didn’t hesitate.

His finger landed on "Yes."

"Open."

Buzz——!

The next moment, an item slowly descended from the burst of light and floated in front of John.

It was a completely black chain.

The chain was about as thick as a thumb and roughly thirty centimeters long.

At both ends hung two dark silver pocket watches about the size of a palm.

The surface of the watches was densely covered with mysterious symbols.

There were no hour or minute hands.

Only layers of markings rotated counterclockwise continuously.

John grabbed the chain.

The system notification immediately sounded.

[Equipment Name: Fatal Pocket Watch]

[Type: Legion Equipment]

[Quality: One-Star (Lv1)]

[Effect 1: All army units commanded by the lord gain +50 Basic Attack.]

[Effect 2: All army units commanded by the lord have their skill cooldowns reduced by 0.5 seconds.]

[Upgrade Requirements: Basic Wood ×1000, Basic Stone ×1000, Basic Iron Ore ×1000, Basic Gold Coin ×1000, War Medal ×1.]

[Evaluation: The stopwatch of death ticks endlessly. Every movement of its hands announces the enemy’s approaching demise.]

Legion Equipment!

Unlike other equipment types.

For example, lord equipment only worked after being equipped onto the lord’s body.

Furthermore, each equipment slot could only hold one item.

But Legion Equipment was completely different.

As long as it was placed inside the lord’s inventory, every army unit under his command could benefit from it!

And when John saw the two effects, his breathing slightly stopped.

All army units gained 50 Attack!

For high-tier units, it might only be an additional advantage.

But for massive low-tier cannon-fodder armies, those 50 points of Attack represented a complete qualitative transformation.

For example, if all 1,500 Spearmen gained an additional 50 Attack, the total damage output of the army would instantly increase by tens of thousands.

The second effect was even more valuable.

All army skills had their cooldown reduced by 0.5 seconds.

The core skill of his Undead Dark Knight, Trampling Charge, already had a cooldown of only a few seconds.

Reducing that by half a second meant the charging cycle became much smoother and more lethal.

If he upgraded this pocket watch in the future and reduced the cooldown even further...

Wouldn’t the Dark Knights be able to maintain continuous charging?

"What a pity."

John looked at the upgrade requirements.

He already had the four basic resources.

But the final requirement—

War Medal

—was something he currently did not possess.