Chapter 364: Chapter 364

After collecting the traits, Lin Rui left the Warlock Silver Tower, and Audrey immediately came up, asking with concern, "Father, why did you come out so late? Su Xi has been out for a while. Were things not going well for you inside?"

Lin Rui turned his head to glance at Su Xi, who was standing beside him with a cold expression and a blank face.

Indeed, every woman is a master performer!

With Su Xi’s indifferent demeanor, who would have thought she would exhibit such a stark contrast in the clouds?

Audrey probably never imagined that this cold Su Xi spent an entire day stealing the tower from her.

Suppressing his restlessness, Lin Rui smiled and replied, "I was doing some time-consuming things up there, so I successfully obtained three traits."

Audrey didn’t think much of it; she naturally assumed that Lin Rui’s achievement of obtaining three traits was absolutely due to exploring the Warlock Silver Tower.

"This Warlock Silver Tower is so powerful? I thought getting one trait would be very impressive, but I didn’t expect you to get three. How was the effect?"

The effect... Lin Rui’s expression was peculiar: "Let’s just say, very good. My recovery ability has qualitatively improved. Even if I exhaust my Spiritual Energy, I can cast a great deal of Spirit Magic simply relying on the recovery traits."

"Ah?" Audrey didn’t hear the latter part at all, only focusing on the first part: "Dear, your recovery ability improved again? I’m done for, I won’t even have time to rest and change clothes."

Lin Rui’s mouth curled up, another value was rewritten.

Who says there are only exhausted bulls in the world, and no worn-out fields?

Then Lin Rui walked toward Su Xi and looked at her with anticipation: "How was it, did you successfully break through?"

Su Xi nodded: "I consumed a trait and successfully forced an increase in Physique by one point, reaching 271 points. I can now proceed with the breakthrough challenge."

Lin Rui immediately checked her breakthrough task.

[Blood Flower · Super-Tier Advancement Task: Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the Empire, and blood is the fertile soil of the Empire. Wanna advance? Then go to slaughter! Spread blood over the Empire’s lands, regardless of friend or foe. Glorious death is still worth it, defeat is unforgivable. After starting the advancement challenge, a teleportation gate will open, and the advancer will be randomly transported to a battlefield where the Empire is engaged in fierce battle. Help the Empire win the battle, and the advancement will succeed. Fail in battle and fall alongside hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a sea of corpses and blood.]

"Hiss~" Lin Rui was stunned!

Is this a task that a human can complete?

Within the vast territories of the Empire, they are constantly fighting all sorts of freaks and demons from all directions every day.

Who knows what the battlefield’s situation is like.

If it’s a battle where the Empire’s elite is proactively attacking, that’s still manageable; though the battle is tough, the odds of success are relatively reasonable.

But if you end up in a defensive battle where the main force is the Provincial Guard fighting against the Chaos Army or the Green Tide, or the plague, then it’s truly deadly!

The battlefield situation would be very severe, often resulting in the complete annihilation of the army.

The Imperial Holy Scripture has a famous saying: "By calculation, you cannot win this battle. But victory is not your task. Your task is to delay the enemy from winning at all costs."

In such a battlefield involving hundreds of thousands of people, to help the Empire win alone... is virtually impossible.

The most glaring reference was the last cycle’s war between the territory and the Green Tide.

Even Lord Lei, who reached Tier Six, could not single-handedly stop the Green Tide’s invasion despite using intense bombardment.

Only by relying on the Blood and Flesh Mountains and Rivers of the Territorial Soldiers advancing without hesitation did they reverse the situation.

Su Xi gripped a legendary long saber, looked at Lin Rui, and asked in a calm tone, "Do I need to leave the legendary long saber in the territory?"

Lin Rui glared at her in anger: "What foolish nonsense are you talking about! I don’t care about the legendary long saber; I only care about you coming back safely."

Then Lin Rui personally took out a set of [MKV Thunderbolt Type] mecha and helped her put it on.

After that, he ordered Terion to deliver the once-enhanced [Sacred Treasure: Extreme Battle Banner] to Su Xi’s hand.

"This Sacred Treasure can provide you with a 35% damage reduction, as well as a 60% increase in extra Divine Damage. You should be very familiar with it."

Lin Rui also placed his own [Sacred Treasure: Ice and Snow Royal Court’s Extreme Cold Realm] onto Su Xi.

"You’ve encountered this Sacred Treasure less frequently, but its effects are extremely powerful. Within a one-mile range of the local units, all enemy units will have their speed reduced by 3% every second, and for each unit killed, you’ll gain a Spiritual Energy and Life Recovery Bonus, recovering 10 Life Value and 3 Spiritual Energy Value per second, lasting for 7 seconds." Read full story at novel{f}ire.net

Then Lin Rui placed a space ring onto her hand: "It contains hundreds of potions of excellent quality. If the battle goes unfavorably, rely on [Ice and Snow Royal Court’s Extreme Cold Realm] and [Epic-level Accessory: Warlord’s Green Voodoo Doll] to endure; never give up lightly."

Su Xi turned her hand to look at it, and then extended it back to Lin Rui, saying simply, "Put it back on."

Lin Rui looked at her speechlessly, helped her take the ring off the thumb, and reattached it to the ring finger: "I’m discussing something serious with you; please be serious."

Su Dai spread out her slender fingers, looked at the ring on her ring finger, and showed a faint smile, then under everyone’s gaze, softly kissed Lin Rui on the lips like a dragonfly touching water.

"As long as there’s a breath in me, I will continue fighting, kill everyone alone, and then come back to see you."

Audrey covered her mouth in shock, looking at Su Xi’s vanishing figure, and asked, "Father, why did she kiss you?"