Chapter 57

Bloodbath Hall was a great place. However, its usefulness was limited in the early stage.

To put it another way, it was not that the Bloodbath Hall was useless in the early stage, but that it was Lin Ke who had a long term plan where the Bloodbath Hall did not play a huge role in the early stage.

After all, according to how the Bloodbath Hall worked, the number of Bloodbath Souls were limited. Once Lin Ke cleared a level, he would have no choice but to load the next level as he could not repeat the same level anymore.

If he were to insist on continuing the battle but fail to win the first few rounds, it would be unprofitable.

In the Bloodbath Hall, players had to have a great understanding of their own combat abilities and prepare sufficiently for the next level. Otherwise, the Bloodbath Souls reward would not be as lucrative as before.

Lin Ke did not need to worry much about the difficulties in Level 2. He fought two more rounds after closing the Bloodbath Shop. Although the enemies’ capabilities had increased decently, Lin Ke could still dominate with ease by his team’s effort.

As Lin Ke estimated the growth rate of the protector’s power, he predicted that the enemies of this level would not be strong enough to defeat his team.

However, the last protector of this level would have mighty capabilities, perhaps enough to pose a threat to them – this meant that he would not survive for long in the next level, as the enemies of that level would be many times stronger than this.

Lin Ke did not continue his offense as he could finish off the remaining protectors anytime. He was not impatient.

After all, he was merely here to take a look. He still had other matters to attend to.

“The defensive facilities can probably be categorized into buildings in progress, at least the utility facilities are ready now.”

Lin Ke did not stop thinking about his next decision and arrived in an empty room. Lin Ke smacked his head and said, “Ah, I almost forgot that I still need to look at the requirements to upgrade the dormitories to Level 4.”

Standing in front of the Level 3 dormitories rooms, Lin Ke realized that there was no one in, and was surprised. It was not uncommon for Dra and Avina to head out, but did Lucy join them too?

To upgrade a Level 3 dormitory to Level 4, the requirements were simple.

A Level 4 Elemental Tower must be present. Resources to be spent were 50,000 silvers and thousands worth of wood and stones.

Indeed, now that the newcomer’s phase was over, even a building like a dormitory would now require the consumption of all these resources.

Before this, it merely required a thousand or two worth of silver.

“Wow, this is so expensive.” Lin Ke took a deep breath. He would be Level 10 and the Elemental Tower would be upgraded to Level 4 by the next day. Then, the upgrades for all the remaining buildings would be placed on top of his schedule too.

Upgrading the Level 3 Elemental Tower to Level 4 was a huge leap, the resources required had drastically increased. This was not good news.

Besides, Lin Ke was also unsure whether low-level buildings would lose their newcomer’s benefit once the Elemental Tower gets upgraded to Level 4. In that case, even a Level 1 dormitory would require up to ten thousand silvers to construct.

“This is the most terrifying news.” Lin Ke looked at the remaining silver. There were a little more than 100,000 silvers left. He took a deep sigh.

He did not regret using close to a million silvers to upgrade the equipment sets. Now, he only needed to consider one issue – his next place of earning more silver.

For now, he still did not need to worry much over it. He still had not claimed his reward from the sixth-day server opening event.

The event for the sixth day was [King of the Heroes], the rewards for it were obviously going to be lucrative.

The event was a competition of comparing heroes’ quantities amongst the players.

As there was no one else competing with Lin Ke, he did not need to do anything to be eligible for the first place’s reward.

There were three groups of items in the first place’s reward.

The first was silver. It was no longer the 500,000 amount of silvers earned a few days ago. Instead, the amount had increased to 1,000,000 silvers.

It was because of this reward that Lin Ke did not worry about his current consumption rate of silvers. It was a reserve he could fall back on.

Besides, there was also another event the day after that would probably reward a generous amount of silver as well.

The second was a piece of Level 6 multicolored Treasure Stone. For now, Lin Ke had no way of using it.

Finally, the third was a treasure chest.

A Hero Treasure Chest!

It was different from the arena’s treasure chest that could only award a hero’s Soul Shards. This treasure chest was capable of awarding a complete hero.

Red Grade Hero Treasure Chest: Unlock any legendary rating red grade hero!

This would be a Seven Star hero that surpasses Six Star heroes like Dra and Alice. It would be the strongest hero Lin Ke ever owned!

Although Lin Ke was excited as it signaled the arrival of a red grade hero, he was not too happy.

It was because he had immediately realized an underlying problem – the hero had arrived too easily. He was bothered by the lack of that hero’s Soul Shard.

Of course, it was a joyous occasion to summon a complete hero from their Hero Card.

However, what if Lin Ke also had the Soul Shards of that hero?

In Lin Ke’s hero pool, there was one Avina’s Soul Shard. This was rewarded when he was summoning Alice, long after Avina herself was summoned.

At that time, Lin Ke was overwhelmed by the excitement of summoning a dark-gold grade hero, he did not mind thinking too much about the Soul Shard he had obtained.

However, now that he looked at the reward, he had a realization – it could only mean one thing if the Soul Shard of a hero still appeared after the hero was summoned.

These Soul Shards did not instantly become useless after the hero was summoned. In fact, they still played a huge role!

In the future, it was very likely that the player would need these Soul Shards to upgrade the relevant hero.

Although Lin Ke was happy that he would have a red grade hero soon, where would Lin Ke find its Soul Shards when he needed to level up the hero in the future?

Lin Ke filtered through his thoughts, he could only think of the arena that only had 3 specific red grade hero’s Soul Shards for sale.

“No… there’s another place!”

Lin Ke suddenly raised his head and remembered that there was still one place where he could obtain the red grade Soul Shards he needed.

The altar… No, the Elemental Furnace!

There were universal Soul Shards on the wheel above the Elemental Furnace!

Although there were only 3 Soul Shards per spin, it could be Lin Ke’s only way of upgrading the red grade hero if he managed to win it a few times.

However, if that was his approach, how many diamonds would be spent before he would have enough?

Lin Ke looked at the more than 1,000 diamonds in his inventory. Should he try it?

Soon enough, he shook his head and gave up on that thought. It was possible that he would not get the 3 red grade Soul Shards even after spending all his diamonds.

Hence, there had to be other ways of obtaining red grade Soul Shards.

He had to rely on his own patience to keep searching for it.

Lin Ke did not need to thoroughly consider this matter for now. He was delighted by the fact that he would soon have his own legendary rating hero.