In the early morning next day, bright and warm sunshine shone through window and cast on Edward's face.
Edward opened his eyelids and saw a blue window floating in front of him.
"What happened ?" He suddenly sat up and look at his surroundings, only to find himself in a strange white room, "Why am I here ?"
The screen in front of him answered the question.
[ Ding !! Congratulations, Edward for becoming a new Lord ]
"Umm... Lord ? That's right, I am a lord." He stared at the white obnoxious words in a trance.
An artifact from lost continent merged with his body.
And he returned to the path of endless possibilities, the road that leads to the universe's strongest position and power.
The only problem is...can he really pull it off alone.
The reason why Humans are on a united front despite having 98% of it's population normal mortals is because of the resources needed for upgrading Lord's territory and troops are vast and endless pit. The only way, one can truly achive a continuous growth via the support of people around him.
Edward is not a person with fake delusion. He never expect himself to rival the wealth of an entire race.
*Grrr
His stomach protested in hunger.
He has not consumed food in the last two days but remained standing because of his will power.
The energy reserve in his body has shrinken by several levels. So, him before the night fall was in a pretty embarrassing situation.
Comparing to the difficulties he had faced in the past and would face in future, this was still no where bad.
"That green light ?" The memories of last night were hazy. He vaguely remembered something wherever the green thing shone, injuries were healed and life bloomed.
Thinking of this, his breathing fastened. Regardless of it's origin. That meteoroid brought a complete change it to his barren life.
After one single encounter, it not only restore his qualifications as a Lord, but even embedded him with new abilities.
All of his future achivements must be contributed to this golden opportunity.
He tried to summon that power back and put his hand on his eyes, even without looking he know they have changed and that power is stored here.
His subconscious thought triggered a mechanism, the green energy in the form of a fire appeared in both of his hand. The room within nothingness trembled on its descent. Concentrated particles of vitality were spreading in surrounding. Edward felt his weakness fading, the empty stomach was full in an instant.
"Oh my dear what are you ?" With unexplicable joy, he moved his hands left and right. The flickering flame followed his lead, making a "sho" sound. It has a childish temperature and insisted on playing again.
"Little guy, We will definitely play next time, should we do some work." He stored it back in his body and stand up supporting his right knee.
"I got a healing unit for free. Now let's what talent I have awakened this time. Is it same as the previous one or a brand new."
He smiled faintly, quite satisfied with the result.
He continues to stare at the blue window and most of it was about the basics about how to operate a Lord's territory.
[ The future of a lord is not only determined by his abilities and Troops but also various factor such as defences, weapon forging and loyalty of the residents.
The lower class troops are less intelligent and will follow command without asking back but the same can't be said about High level and wise Special Troops.. ]
He kept reading, it was same as what he has read before. The system insisted on relying on different factors to grow but the truth is...
The main factor deciding the life and death of a lord is the initial ability of a lord. If the first ability is a fertiliser than the troops are young sprouts, residents are roots and different professions are it's branches. They could grow on their own but it's a Lord talent that determines the territory's upper limit.
With a good talent, a lord could tear mighty dragons in two parts but the same can't be said for poor soul who never get passed beside fighting a pack of wolfs.
Taking a deep breath, Edward chose to ignore all the nonsense written from here onwards and looked over his talent/ability column.
[ Dryad's Blessings ( SSS LEVEL ): You can pass on vitality to anyone in your territory at will. The life force stored in your ( lord's ) body is as vast as the sea ]
[ Incubus Bloodline ( SSS LEVEL ) : The creature of opposite sex within a 100 metres can't resist your temptation. ( Can be increased ) ]
[ Silent Swordsman ( A ) ( broken ) : You will gain battle experience 30 times faster.
An ongoing quest chain is found !!
It's failed....]
Seeing two 'SSS' marked with golden characters, his lips curved into an "unbelievable" smile.
The ranking of talent/ability begins from low to high in the following order --
E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS.
The gap between different talents depending on their rank is twice of the difference in levels. So, the two ability he has gotten are not only 8x better than his previous 'Silent Swordsman' but it is also the highest level recorded so far.
[ The wait is over. From now on, the lord can freely enter lost continent. ]
The blue window made a sound, followed by a change in surrounding space.
When Edward looked around his "Lord hall" it was a standard house carved from wood 50 feets long and 30 feet wide, a tree was coming out of the floor in middle. It was his Lord Core.
There was nothing else except a bed, a table and few chairs.
"This is my first time seeing this type of lord core."
The shape and size of lord core depends on its owner and varies from one person to another.
Although, it has no other functions except Summoning special troops and storing basic materials collected by the residents and their respective lords.
Walking in front of it, Edward put his hand on thick trunk. Probably, 1 metre in diameter. Concentrating his attention to summon a strong troop, he began to use his authority as a newbie lord.
Each new lord can summon one free special troops and a 24 hours accelerator card.
It is only valid for the first summon. Afterwards one must fulfill certain conditions. Like a summon portal must be made, specific resources must be offered and so on... Still the chances of summoned troop betraying are quite high except the first one. So, this one is a special.
"Come forth"
He clenched his teeths and a amethyst aura rosed from his shadow and it got sucked away by the tree in an instant.
[ Ding !! Ding !!! A critical hit ]
[ Ding !! Ding !!! A special troop from a forgotten world is summoned ]
[ The grade is....Epic class ]
( Bronze, Silver, Gold, Super Rare, Ultra Rare, Epic Class, Legend class, Forbidden Class, Demi God )
[ Time left until summoning : 23 : 59 : 55 ]
It tooks from an instant to several years for a specal troop to be summoned. The time required for the first summon is decreased by 10 times to make the impatient lords feel a sense of joy.
However, there was a downside to this mechanism. You couldn't summon a troop above ultra rare as your starter.
Which somehow how is broken by Edward. He will make a new record after a day passes by.
"Accelerate"
He too was a human. Impatience run down in his genetics.
The timer went from [ 23 : 59 : 02 ] to [ 00 : 00 : 59 ].
...
[ 10...]
[ 9....]
...
[ 2...]
[ 1...]
[ 0 ]
A dark purple portal appeared on one of tree's branches, blinding the host for few seconds.
Stepping on the devilish energy, a female figure walked out of it. Her clothes were both revealing and enchanted with miasma. Her dark purple lips were opened spraying a hot breath. Adjusting her hair above her ears, she made a grand entry after her long last wait.
When the devilish aura vanished. Edward regained his vision but lost his mind.
Standing next to him was a woman so beautiful that he can't express her charisma. Two canine teeth at front, dark golden vertical puopils amidst of her amethyst colour eyes were first to catch his attention. After that he begin to scan her anomaly by moving in circles.
Two black horns on top of her silver white hair.
*Thud
A tail extending from the tip of her buttocks with a peach on its other end.
*Thud
Small jet bat like black wings rising from just above her hips.
*Thud
She wasn't a human but a greater demon called Succubus.
When Edward finally stopped his inspection, the succubus knelt down to express her loyalty.
"Greetings to his highness the Great Demon King"
But Edward didn't listened to it all. His eyes were locked on to something very dangerous and big. Her ample breasts. No matter how he tries he couldn't let go of them from his sight.
Frustrated he extended his hand to raise succubus girl. Both people's eyes meet for a couple second and Dora's lips curved into a sly smile. Looking at her lord, her beautiful pupils also extended to a heart shaped pattern. Feeling the burning desires in his raging eyes, she moved her head forward and then.....
*Clap
Raising his hand, he gave her a solid slap.
"How dare you use magic against me ?"
Five fingers were printed on her face, even though it didn't hurt more than an ant's bite. The succubus acted pitifully with few drops of tears squeeze out from her eyes.
"I am sorry..my King.. Please don't excute me. I will never dare to do that again. I.."
She hold onto his thighs. Not letting him go until he forgive hers.
This made Edward shake his head in disappointment.
Even if he is dissatisfied with her, he can't dispose her. She is the first resident of his territory and killing her is equivalent to destroying his own start.
'How to say, this woman has big butt and breast but not brain.'