Chapter 191: The Gift Box Icon! Tier-Based Clusters, Synergizing with the Spirit Fairy Garden
"The domain is open now." Lyra, Caelus, and Sylvia looked at each other in dismay.
At the same time, the planet had also merged with a middle expanse cluster.
Caelus had managed to clear up a lot of things on the Azure Origin Planet, but it still was not enough. He still did not have complete ownership of this planet.
There were powerful Crown IIIs in hiding. He could not afford to slack off.
"So, how is the procedure?" Caelus asked. "Now that we are merged with other planets, will we not get attacked?"
"Yes. 100%," Lyra replied. "But for now, there will not be any attacks since the domain is open."
"Lord Origin, I believe you should also utilize this time to go inside the domain and find opportunities or get intel on the other leagues that have appeared."
Caelus nodded; he believed this was a good idea.
As it was right now, his King Candidate ranking was No. 1 after revealing himself.
He would make sure that it stayed the same.
Caelus turned to Sylvia.
"Will you be alright?" Sylvia asked. This question was directed at him and Lyra, who simply nodded.
"He will be fine," Lyra added. "His strength is back to the top."
Sylvia nodded as she turned to Caelus, who nodded back.
They swiftly went into the domain after Caelus checked his phone, leaving Lyra alone.
"I need to get more intel on that man, Mark Twilight while I still can." Lyra wanted to atone for her sins by being helpful to Caelus.
If not, her status would be instantly revoked as a pillar once she went back to meet the God she followed.
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Caelus and Sylvia opened their eyes. They were back at their kingdom.
As soon as they arrived, they were bombarded with messages from people wanting to meet them.
By now, the public had already seen the small incident in the Solaris Kingdom, which was on the news 24/7.
However, the matters with Azula were still heavily hidden from the masses. That incident was not something that could be shown to ordinary civilians.
This was the handy work of Lyra and the Player Association head, under the request of Old Man Welt.
He had left a message summarizing the details for Caelus, who replied with a thank you before coming into the domain.
"I guess it is time for us to go and meet the others."
"I will be at the tavern in Sector A," Caelus put the message in their kingdom chat.
The Tavern could host a lot of people. But not more than 5,000 or so, of course. Hence, he could only meet a few people at a time.
There was not enough open area in the kingdom to hold more players at once.
Just then, a notification rang out.
[New leagues have been added.]
[The chat for them will open in an hour.]
[Ding! Winning the gamble has made you the ruler of the Faust Kingdom. The kingdom has been converted into a vassal state.]
Caelus was very much aware of this. But the NPCs of that kingdom had permanently died. All that remained were roughly 6,000 players in that kingdom.
Hence, he broke down the kingdom, used its power to make the Origin Kingdom bigger, and granted them cabins.
They were already pleading within his chat, begging him to grant them access to the Origin Kingdom and stating that they did not want to stay in the Faust Kingdom any longer.
With Faust gone and completely blacklisted from his and his allied kingdoms, these players would no longer be mind-controlled. He wanted to ask them more details about it later, but for now, it was time to meet the players.
Then, another notification arrived.
[Ding! You took down the King of Reign Kingdom: As a result, all the kingdoms under its rule will now belong to you.]
[Ding! It has been detected your kingdom level is less than the Reign Kingdom. The connection was incomplete.]
[The Reign Kingdom will continue kingless till your kingdom becomes Tier 4]
Caelus only glanced at it before ignoring it. He knew what must be done to the vampires. He and Sylvia will pay them a visit once they returned to the real world.
[Ding! You took down the King of the Solaris Kingdom; as a result, all the kingdoms under its rule will now belong to you.]
He had also taken down many nobles that had kingdoms. Their players were more than willing to join him; hence, he began breaking them down one by one until eventually only one kingdom was left: Brenda’s kingdom.
Brenda then came to visit Caelus.
"Are you alright? Chairman Welt filled me in on everything," Brenda said.
"I am fine," Caelus replied. "How is the management of the kingdom going? I was out for the day."
"It is going well. With the previously formed team, we managed to clear out the rest of the noble families you eliminated that day and stored all the items received in the kingdom castle."
"Most of the citizens have already seen you as their new ruler automatically."
"You just now have to take that throne. Although, it already is your throne in the game world."
"That is great," Caelus smiled. "Are you close to Crown?"
"Yes. But crossing into Crown is very hard. To acquire the crown, you cannot use an ascension token, and the quest will be immensely hard."
That was news to Caelus. But it made sense. This was a whole new level of power, after all.
In fact, if Azula’s powers were not concentrated on him, and his powers on Azula, then perhaps they could have destroyed a country.
They then went to meet the other players.
He entered the Tavern of Endless Food and Drinks, and the noise hit him before anything else did. Mugs slamming, someone laughing too loud at their own joke, the smell of roasted meat that never seemed to run out no matter how many players cleared their plates.
The room went quiet for half a second when they noticed him.
Then, immediately, they all stood up shouting.
"Boss 555! You came!" Sarah was the first one to arrive next to him enthusiastically. Sylvia immediately began looking at her with killing intent.
Sarah shuddered upon seeing Sylvia.
Caelus saw this and naturally told Sylvia not to do anything.
He let Sarah speak without any fear of Sylvia, who had threatened her once before.
Then, Sarah continued speaking.
"Boss 555. The fan club is currently running really well. A lot of members have joined," Sarah gave a thumbs up.
"Lily and I made a bet on whether you were from Fottis City or not for 30,000 Origin Credits. I won!" Sarah said excitedly.
Lily groaned from the side.
But at the same time, she also came forward to meet Caelus.
One by one, everyone came forward, conversing with Caelus.
It was very crowded, but in the end, Caelus managed to speak with all of them and even promised them a new monthly salary payout.
This was done by everyone who was a king: paying the players per month. Some usually paid 10,000 Origin Credits. Some 5,000.
Caelus decided to pay 30,000 per person per month.
That was because they made a whole lot of money with all the NPCs swarming in here.
As it was right now, the Town funds were at 7.4M Origin Credits.
That sum was generated in two days’ time.
From the initial 5.2M to 7.4M, the increase was immense.
With that done, there were still 30 minutes left until the chat to the other leagues opened up. The other middle expanse leagues, so Caelus decided to utilize this time to customize his cabin.
[Ding! Please select a structure.]
Plenty of structures appeared on the system screen. It only showed the structures that were available for the Cyber-Arcana era they were in.
There was a mansion, a modern castle, a cave-type structure, a treehouse.
In the end, Caelus went with a treehouse.
[Please use wood to grow an artificial tree.]
Indeed, a treehouse needed a tree. Just then, a notification appeared.
[Ding! It has been detected that there is a Wonder: Spirit Fairy Garden nearby. The cabin can connect itself to it to grow a treehouse matching your era.]
"Then do that," Caelus nodded.
Having a wonder was great. It made life better.
Speaking of which, he had not done a void trial yet. He would do it once the chat opened up.
Soon, the treehouse was built. It looked just like how it was shown in the picture.
It was a huge house on top of a tree. There was a capsule elevator to go up, or a stair, or if you preferred sliding, there was also a slide on the side. There was also a slide at the back of the tree, which directly led to a pool below.
Caelus and Sylvia immediately went in to see the interior. It was far more spacious than before.
Before, the cabin size increased with its own level, but now, the customization could automatically do that without caring about the level.
Caelus and Sylvia spent some time in the bedroom, hugging each other. Sylvia was on top, kissing him all over his face.
With people coming in every few minutes to see Caelus, she had not gotten the time to show affection to him.
She had been holding herself back for a long time now. But now she fully let go.
"Those girls... They will never get to hug and kiss you like this," Sylvia mumbled under her breath as she held onto Caelus tightly, whose lips were twitching in speechlessness.
Is this his obsessive girlfriend’s way of comforting herself?
But it would not be far-fetched to say he missed his girlfriend’s warmth and affection. He very much did, and he decided to show some love as well.
Sylvia was soon back to her playful self, teasing him over small things, and they ran around the room, throwing pillows at each other, both of them laughing.
But time was short; 30 minutes soon passed, and new notifications appeared.
[Ding! The chat to the newly added league has been opened up.]
[Ding! Leagues will now be rearranged.]
[All the Tier 2, 3, and 4 kingdoms will be part of the same league cluster, differentiated from other lower clusters so as not to have higher-ranking kingdoms attacking lower-ranking ones.]
"They are just implementing this?" Caelus’s lips twitched.
Then, from the corner of his vision, he saw a new notification. It was a gift box icon.
He pressed on it curiously.
