Chapter 174: The 10% Kingdom Tax! Special Reward From the Void Trial

[Resource Points: 12,304]

He swiftly signed in for today and got an additional 650, making it reach 12,954.

[Town Funds: 5.2M Origin Credits]

[Beast Materias: 539,293]

[Wood: 202,928]

[Ore: 323,299]

Things were looking not too bad. The origin credits were humongous.

It was essentially a lot of money for a town or kingdom that had only been existing for four weeks now.

This was thanks to the 10% tax he placed on everything. Whenever NPCs bought or sold, he would get 10%.

Now this was the real way to live! Be the government and live off the money they give you!

The ultimate politician life.

Afterward, he moved on to the beast materials.

Amongst them, there were not many silver or higher beast materials. That is because people were not strong enough for silver beasts yet.

The silver materials in that amount came from him and Sylvia going to the land of snow.

Wood and ores were far better. There were wood logs that were at Silver rank power.

Ores were, of course, only at bronze.

But this was enough for one town ascension to silver.

For Town Ascension, it required 300,000 beast materials of bronze or higher, 5,000 Resource points, and a powerful catalyst.

For that, he had origin shards.

With that said, he swiftly proceeded with the town ascension after giving everyone a warning.

Everyone in the kingdom, except him, Sylvia, and his summons, vanished into thin air.

At the same time, he had to give out an additional 100k beast materials and 1,000 resource points along with 6 origin shards.

This was because some were somehow still in Iron rank.

But with this, they should directly reach silver with two ascension transitions. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Just then, he received a system message from Brenda.

[Brenda (Perez Kingdom King): It is done. I have convinced the king.]

By now, Brenda was already aware that Caelus was Player 555. They spoke as soon as they went in.

[Caelus: What did you do to convince him?]

[Brenda: I told him that eliminating you this early will be a loss for the kingdom. Considering how fast you grew, there are more opportunities to let your kingdom grow more before breaking it down and gaining everything inside for themselves.]

[Brenda: That king, Solaris the Fourth, is a greedy man. He readily accepted this offer.]

[Caelus: Hm. Fair enough.]

[Caelus: By the way. Do you have origin merit tokens? Can I borrow some? Preferably, I would like two. I will give them back in a few minutes.]

[Brenda: ???]

[Brenda: Alright. Fine. I will give them to you. Do not go back on your word.]

As she said that, a trade was initiated and Caelus received the origin merit tokens.

Surprisingly, she gave four.

He was taken aback.

[Brenda: I feel like it might have a use. Do not thank me. I am very judgmental about things and have a higher sixth sense.]

[Caelus: Thank you, Miss Brenda.]

With this, he had more chances of triggering duplication.

He needed 10 merit tokens for tier 2, but for tier 3, he needed 30.

Hopefully, he would be able to trigger more.

With that said, he began duplicating.

Unexpectedly, all of them managed to hit 10x!

His origin merit tokens immediately reached 44.

He gave back the 4 and was left with 40.

But before that, he looked at the Cyber-Arcana era blueprint he had. The kingdom was now running on the Manapunk era.

So were the majority of the kingdoms here.

He had already met the requirement for transitioning to the Cyber-Arcana era. That was level 3 cabins and more than 100 bronze players in his world.

But before that, he kind of wanted to initiate a void trial.

He selected abyssal-level difficulty and unleashed the Pharaoh Knight into the surrounding space of the kingdom. This domain would be suspended inside a barrier until the void trial was over.

As soon as he initiated the void trial, the chaos faction quest giver also gave him quests.

While that happened, the neighboring kingdoms were made aware of the initiation of the void trial.

The Torres family’s head was immediately alerted.

"Is this... a void trial?" The Torres family head was stunned as he stood up.

He had already sent the royal kids back to the Solaris Kingdom as soon as the Pharaoh Knight dropped them off. Seeing the sky break and monsters spawn made him jump out of his seat.

"I need to contact the king."

"Void trial?" Brenda sat inside the throne within her cabin, which looked like a castle.

It was clear that cabins could be changed; she likely had an update related to that.

She stood up from her throne. Around her were the elite members of the Perez family.

"Is that from Caelus’s Origin kingdom?" Brenda was stunned.

Caelus was truly lucky.

The void trial was hard to get. Not even the Solaris kingdom had it, let alone the Perez family.

"Maybe I should ask him to give me the update too," Brenda looked at the sky in hope.

However, the next moment, her eyes widened in shock. She saw the sky above the Origin Kingdom crumbling. Threads shot through the skies as the sky itself broke apart and a massive golden holy dragon emerged, shooting into the sky. It made the void trial disperse.

This was witnessed by everyone in the area. Torres, Patek, Johnson, Solaris; the bustling origin domain that had countless beings all saw it.

This sight they would never forget.

In the Solaris Kingdom, a man with white hair sat in a throne with one of his arms supporting his chiseled jaw.

He looked indifferently at the projection of the sky fracturing from the sheer might of the power displayed and sneered.

"Player 555. You are in my domain. How long can you last?" Solaris the Fourth eyed the projection in mockery.

"Very good. I will now wait for you to gather more updates so you can give them all to me directly."

Ding!

[You have successfully completed the Void Trial for a Tier 2 Town.]

[You can attempt another Void Trial tomorrow.]

[Evaluation: Mythical Grade]

[You eliminated 100% of the Darkspawns.]

[Your town has obtained the following rewards:]

[1. Random Troop Card (Mythical, Tier 2)]

[2. 5,500 Resource Points]

[3. 5x Resource Level Up Cards (Legendary)]

[4. Wonder of the World: Spirit Fairy garden (Legendary, Tier 2)]

[Ding! Because you eliminated 100% of the darkspawns, you have obtained a special reward.]