CHAPTER 514: CHAPTER 247: THE POWER OF LIMIT TREASURES_2

Lin Rui suddenly felt a sense of inner suffocation; spending more than six billion units of all-category resources only strengthened this strategic treasure five times, but the effect merely extended the range to 18 kilometers!

This range just barely meets the needs of the tens of thousands of troops currently in the territory, with thousands of elite troops and twenty to thirty thousand undead spread out; the battlefield width can exactly cover eighteen kilometers.

To cross a battlefield of this level, even if a Griffin activates high-speed flight to traverse the battlefield at ten Mach, it would still take five seconds.

But 99% of the soldiers don’t have this ability. Without super-strong acceleration and traits that don’t provide a movement speed bonus, like the Sun Flame Knight heavy units wearing power armor, their movement speed can only be supported by their physique, so even at their Tier Five extreme speed, it’s just over two hundred meters per second, not even reaching one Mach. It would take them about 100 seconds to cross the battlefield.

Calculating the frost damage received at 0.8% of maximum Life Value per second, if their traits aren’t strong enough, their Life Value will be depleted, even without engaging in battle.

But this is only a theoretical scenario; in reality, there’s finally an advantage for Lin Rui!

That is, no one dares to rush headlong at full speed on the battlefield. Even someone as strong as Su Xi, a legendary super-tier warrior, wouldn’t dare charge at full speed. Otherwise, on a battlefield filled densely with flashing swords and shadows, they could be severely injured at any moment from swords coming from all directions.

On an intensely contested battlefield, advancing several dozen meters per second is already the limit. A massive army definitely cannot advance 18 kilometers in 125 seconds.

This means that scattered troops and ragtag groups engaged with the Golden Pansy Army already pose no threat.

As long as the Golden Pansy Army can successfully deploy defenses, even if millions of green tide assaults appear again, they would be easily blocked by the Golden Pansy Army.

They can’t even shake the iron defense line of the Golden Pansy Army in the slightest.

To fight the Golden Pansy Army, it must be an elite army commanded by a heroic commander, perfectly integrating multiple troop types.

Or a Demon Slaying Squad composed of supreme-tier, high-combat power giant beasts, advancing with life mages and high-tier priests continuously dispelling, blessing, and maintaining combat power.

But in either case, it is not something a single-type mob can resolve.

Otherwise, no matter how elite, even ten thousand undead Death Knights or ten thousand Beastmen Doomsday Barbarians, or even ten thousand Two-legged Flying Dragons from the forest, wouldn’t suffice. They would only be slaughtered in large numbers.

Now, the Golden Pansy Domain can finally proudly say that it has moved beyond the level of chaotic battles with scattered troops, cave beasts, and resource guards, now becoming a regional power. What comes next is elite confrontation among forces and territorial wars of domination.

But looking at this eighteen-kilometer figure, Lin Rui also has a headache.

This number just barely meets the territory’s current needs, and as the territory continues to expand its army size in the future, efforts must be made to increase the range covered by this sacred treasure.

Yet considering the next enhancement requires twenty billion units of all-category resources, Lin Rui doesn’t even know where to find such resources.

He can only hope the upcoming plane war will bring in a large amount of resources.

Then, Lin Rui spent a billion units of all-category resources each to strengthen the remaining two sacred treasures four times.

[Sacred Treasure: Celestial Kingdom Armament: Ultimate Battle Banner (Divine Blessing Enhancement Four Times): Survival isn’t an inherent right but a trophy snatched by forgotten heroes from a harsh world! This is the armament of the celestial kingdom, this is the banner of heroes. The soldiers under command inflict an additional 90% divine damage, receive 35% damage reduction, and gain 500 points of fixed damage reduction.]

[Sacred Treasure: Army of Justice (Divine Blessing Enhancement Four Times): Light shines upon justice, faith buries disloyalty, and strength is undefeated. Imperial soldiers possess a strong sense of honor. This provides them with immense spiritual strength in battle, enabling them to strike the enemy more effectively. Soldier’s Will +25%, the Will modifies physical defense and spiritual resistance according to a coefficient. Fight for justice, and all soldier command values are treated as Tier -2, Talent -1, allowing the Lord to transfer 50% of their commander traits to soldiers under other heroes. (Note: identical traits do not stack, taking the highest value)]

In fact, Lin Rui has four sacred treasures in his hands; [Ultimate Battle Banner] he has two, but there’s nothing he can do; he really lacks resources, and can only fully strengthen one. This time, the territory’s participation in plane war, Lin Rui will be involved throughout, so one Ultimate Battle Banner should satisfy the needs of the entire army.

Basically, with the enhancement of sacred treasures at this level, combined with some powerful traits, all hero units of the territory have reached 100% damage reduction on their heroic bodies, reaching the limit of stacking.

Except for true damage and divine damage, regular soldiers can no longer effectively deal damage to them. Even a legendary warrior like Su Xi can’t. Su Xi’s strongest output trait is to slash through defenses to zero, with each strike’s physical output nearly being true damage, and forcibly deducting Life Value based on the difference in will and soul. Against powerful units, cutting down 80% or even 90% of the opponent’s Life Value in one hit is no problem, but against heroes with 100% damage immunity, all this loses its effect. Only attacks that don’t carry true damage and divine damage are completely ignored by the heroes.

This leads to that classic scene where soldiers can’t attack the opposing heroes.

It’s not that they can’t attack; it’s just that attacking holds little meaning. Most of the output is immune.

With the energy, it’s better to attack the regular soldiers. Winning the battle, even with thousands of troops facing one hero, the influence on the situation is very limited. With countless soldiers targeting one hero, relying on a little bit of true damage, they can grind it to death.

Of course, facing powerful heroes, it’s not impossible for one person wielding a battle axe or warhammer to overturn an entire army.

The enhancement from the Ultimate Battle Banner is very straightforward. Just like its name, it extremely increases the sacred damage and defensive bonuses. Under the current circumstances, soldier fixed damage reduction has already exceeded a thousand points, and the damage reduction percentage has increased to over 70%, reaching the extreme of hard reinforcement.

But the effect of [Sacred Treasure: Army of Justice] was somewhat unexpected for Lin Rui.

This command value can actually decrease.

The command value consumed by soldiers is calculated according to a formula of continuous multiplication by 2 squared.

A regular Tier One soldier consumes a command value of 1, and each increase in tier or talent multiplies by 2, meaning a Tier One Excellence Level soldier consumes a command value of 2, whereas a Tier Two Elite soldier consumes 8, and a Tier Three Elite soldier consumes 16.

However, this sacred treasure can reduce command value three times, meaning the command value of a Tier Three Elite soldier equals that of a Tier One Excellence Level soldier, being only 2 points.

This would be something that makes an Imperial Lord ecstatic.