Chapter 175: Global Lord’s Blessing! Second Expanse

[Global Lord’s blessing card (???,???)]

[Global Lord’s blessing (???,???): Once you have met the requirement for the next town tier upgrade and era change. Use this card to immediately transition into a new era and upgrade the existing items in the town to its maximum achievable state for the tier.]

"What?" Caelus was baffled.

Was this not insanely good?

No, it was so good that he did not know what to say.

If he used this card right now, then all the items, walls, and troops would directly reach the rank of Silver III!

While compared to other kingdoms it might not be much, it was certainly an improvement.

He could use this for his tier 3 upgrade.

He had already confirmed the origin kingdom back then. Now as long as he does not absorb a new kingdom into his origin domain where he will have to expand in size and as a result put in more troops and defenses, he will be fine with the existing layout.

He already met the requirement for era ascension to the Cyber-Arcana era and for Tier 3. There were not any other requirements because he already fulfilled them; it had to do with troops and defenses.

"This is a really good time to do it." Caelus nodded.

He met up with Sylvia and began preparing for ascension.

Just then, he received a direct message from Mia.

[Mia: I hit the end of the first expanse of the endless expanse.]

Mia had somehow already achieved Silver I. He believed this had something to do with her Angel Talent.

Or could it be that she did not even have to undergo ascension quests?

That was very much possible. Her talent was a Middle S-Rank, after all.

There were all sorts of strange talents in the domain.

Of course, that was just his theory that he had to confirm with Mia himself.

[Caelus: What are you doing at the end of the first expanse? Did you try to explore the land of snow?]

The land of snow was the most prominent region in the first area of the endless expanse.

[Mia: I did. It is too easy.]

Caelus’s lips twitched when he heard this.

[Mia: Ahead of the end of the first expanse lies the second expanse with there being two new regions. Some old players from other kingdoms looked down on me for being stuck at the first expanse...]

[Mia: Another one just went by in a car, he looked at me with a sneer.]

Caelus’s lips twitched when he saw the message.

How come Mia was being looked down upon by everyone?

Also, as far-fetched as it might sound, a car was nothing. People went into the endless expanse in their fighter jets sometimes.

[Caelus: Do not worry. I am working on it. I will unlock the second expanse.]

The endless expanse, as they say, was endless. But at the same time, it is not just going to let you continue onward endlessly.

There are natural barriers that you must overcome to earn your spot inside it.

The people that went through were probably silver like him, Sylvia, and Mia. But the barrier was not about the rank. It was about unlocking it. And the condition for the second expanse was precisely the tier 3 kingdom. The conditions changed as you progressed.

In a way, it was similar to how you required Iron II to gain access to the endless expanse.

The world there was infinitely bigger.

He wondered if merging with the other middle expanse space would show a drastic change in the endless expanse.

For some reason, something told him it would.

As Mia waited, Caelus went toward the Alchemical Mana Condenser Silos.

It had been two weeks since he transitioned to the Manapunk era, and the silos should technically have condensed two drops of mana water by now. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Mana water in essence was concentrated mana transitioning into a liquid state. It can grant you benefits like clearing any sort of debuff, increasing aura or stamina permanently, and most importantly, random buffs.

These buffs will not wear off depending on the rarity of the droplet.

It could be something as simple as "Whenever you get beaten up, you start generating gold".

This was not something he made up. This was something that had already happened before. But the person that had the buff only had it for a week because it came from epic grade mana water.

Legendary is said to give the buff for a month, and mythical, permanent.

He was excited. He went there and saw two droplets of water in a vial at the very ground floor of the silos that were continuously filtering the ambient mana in the air.

He examined the vial.

[Mana Water (Rare)]

"Only Rare?" Caelus’s lips twitched.

This was worse than he thought.

But of course, there were reasons. This silo was rather incomplete. There were better filtration processes. He was sure there were better filtration processes.

Such as a kingdom with technology will have vacuum filtration that uses a microscopic filtration process to achieve a terrifying level of refinement over mana water.

It all depended on the era one was in and also the items you had.

"This Cyber-Arcana era. This should be able to improve the silos by a lot."

The Cyber-Arcana was technology. Technology with magic.

Precisely what the Azure Origin Planet followed.

Meaning, as long as he acquired blueprints, he could make a small Fottis city right here in the origin kingdom.

Likewise, the Alchemical Mana Water Silos could be further refined as well.

He immediately went through the blueprints available to see what was available.

If possible, he kind of wanted to obtain more useful blueprints. For now, he decided to buy the basics.

[You have bought Cyber-Arcana Era Tower building Blueprint.]

[Technology-Rune connector Blueprint]

[You have bought Technology integration blueprint.]

[You have bought Hard-Light Holographic Emitters.]

[You have bought Zen Garden Aesthetic Blueprint.]

Cyber-Arcana Era Tower building just made all the buildings more modern.

The hard-light holographic emitters replaced the street lamps and now had sensors to track signs of people around to project light more efficiently.

Technology integration allowed him to integrate technology into the already existing things around the town. Such as the pneumatic tubes that were situated in buildings of the origin kingdom.

Now, he will rewire them to the underground.

With technology integration, these things will naturally be connected to a network using the technology-rune connector blueprint. This will be how transportation via the pneumatic mana tubes will work now.

Before, it worked based on mana signatures. Now it can be accessed using technology.

Speaking of transpiration, spatial teleportation of goods was still far away. He would need several more advanced era than this for that.

On that note, he was not done. These blueprints were far from enough.