Reducing their travel time by half an hour, Lu Sheng, Dai Lui, and Loth returned to Blazing Sun City.
"I will go make a report to the lord."
Dai Lui said to his peers before walking towards the war-room a short distance away.
"Alright."
Lu Sheng and Loth said as they made their way to their apartments.
The skilled pilot was given an apartment in the military base after getting picked to carry out the arms dealing task with Dai Lui and Lu Sheng.
Arriving at the war-room, Dai Lui only had to knock once before receiving a response from Zhou Zhou.
The reason was because he had already dropped a message of his return through his communication tool to Zhou Zhou during his journey back to the city.
"My lord, here are the items traded."
He said while handing over the spatial ring received from Saifen.
Holding off from inspecting the goods, Zhou Zhou asked.
"You said you have something to inform me?"
"Yes, my lord."
Dai Lui said before informing Zhou Zhou of the message sent by the Tahan Kingdom concerning the need for more Aurora Towers.
'I wonder if Zhao Changshou has constructed another tower.'
Zhou Zhou thought after hearing Dai Lui.
He contacted his chief architect immediately.
Seconds later, he got a response.
*We finished the second Aurora Tower yesterday, and the third is still under construction.*
*It should be completed by tomorrow.*
Reading the message, Zhou informed him that he would be sending someone over before having Dai Lui go retrieve the Aurora Tower.
"Yes, my lord."
Dai Lui accepted the task as he took his leave.
"We're taking a break now."
Zhou Zhou said to Bai Yung and Lu Chong, no longer able to endure the urge to inspect the items gotten from the Titan Kingdom.
"Yes, my lord."
Bai Yung and Lu Chong said as they left the war-room.
"Now… what do we have here?"
Zhou Zhou sent his perception into the spatial ring before first inspecting the regional tokens.
Using thirty seconds to go through the information of the regional tokens, his excitement dropped a notch.
"This indeed is a problem."
"The only solution is to specify the regions I want."
"However, doing that will give out clues as to what faction Dai Lui belongs to."
He muttered as thoughts flashed through his mind in search of a solution.
The regional tokens given by the Titan Kingdom only had three regions that were close to Blazing Sun Desert.
The other two were located at the other end of the Capital of Aurora Kingdom.
"It seems my soldiers will have to get their hands dirty after all."
"I'll have Dai Lui change the trade condition with the Titan Kingdom."
Finding no concrete solution to the problem, Zhou Zhou backed down.
Teleporting to the safe room where his token tablet was hidden, he fused the three territory tokens to it.
[Congratulations on obtaining a White silver-tier regional token (Mingguang Town) and officially becoming the regional lord of this area!]
[A new area, Mingguang Town, has been added to your regional territory column!]
[You have obtained a regional treasure chest: Exclusive to Mingguang Town!]
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[…a White silver-tier regional token…]
[...Clear Sky City…]
[...a regional treasure chest…]
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[...a Green bronze-tier regional token…]
[...Fish Spring Town…]
[...a regional treasure chest…]
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"Fuse."
Interested in establishing a very high tiered region over a kingdom, Zhou Zhou fused the newly gotten regions into Blazing Sun Desert.
[Fusion in progress...]
Moments later...
[Fusion successful!]
[Congratulations! Your initial territory, Blazing Sun Desert (White platinum-tier, 26,048km²), has successfully fused with Mingguang Town (White silver-tier, 9,862km²)!]
[Territory size has expanded! Current area: 35,910km²]
[Blazing Sun Desert has perfectly inherited all resources from both the original and the fused territory!]
"Continue."
Using his newly obtained fusion certificates, he fused the other two regional tokens one after the other, increasing the size of Blazing Sun Desert.
However, despite the fusion of both regions, he couldn't advance his region to Diamond-tier.
"I'm still short of 6,000km² to get there."
He muttered before changing his focus to the territory tokens.
"I should be able to advance Blazing Sun City to Yellow gold-tier advance grade at this region size."
Zhou Zhou mused before teleporting outside the manor.
Once he did that, he began the advancement immediately.
Taking out three of the Yellow gold-tier territory tokens acquired from the Titans, as well as the origin crystals, mist cores and basics materials, he agreed to option of upgrading his territory.
Boom!
A golden light covered the entire manor before dissipating a couple of seconds later.
A wave of notifications followed after.
[Congratulations, your lord's mansion has been upgraded to a Yellow gold-tier advance grade building and advanced to a lord manor!]
[Your territory has been upgraded to Yellow gold-tier advance grade!]
[Territory Tablet Durability: 5,000,000 / 5,000,000!]
[Your territory has expanded to 200,000m × 200,000m (40,000km²)!]
[Scarlet fog will not appear in any of your territories!]
[Upgrade reward: Basic Building Blueprint Treasure Chest (Yellow gold-tier advance grade)!]
[Supreme Barrier: The special barrier protecting your territory has been upgraded!]
[Lord Talent Hint: Your Monster Ranch can be upgraded!]
[Lord Talent Hint: The strength of the Bishop in your Goddess of Life's Shelter has increased by one grade!]
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