Outrageous! I started as the Elf King!

Chapter 19 The Temple of the Gods

The fighting continued until after midnight.

The army of 100,000 undead was finally wiped out.

Except for a few high-level undead with some intelligence that managed to escape, all the other undead were wiped out.

Almost all the participating spirits have leveled up.

They generally reach the seventh level.

There are also more than two hundred elven units that have reached the eighth tier.

Five other elves have reached the ninth rank.

Lin Yi's level has also increased, reaching the initial stage of the King rank.

Reaching the King rank means transcending the realm of ordinary professionals and can be considered a powerful figure with the qualifications to establish a small force, like the Zombie King.

Overall, the Lin Yi territory's strength increased significantly after this war.

If this happened a few more times, his elven legion could easily sweep through the entire inner city ruins.

However, while the harvest was plentiful, there were also casualties.

I won't say how many elves were injured, but with the elf spring, they can recover in a short time.

It mainly refers to the elven units that have been killed in action.

After a post-battle inventory, Lin Yi learned that a total of forty-seven elven soldiers had died in the battle, most of them being elven swordsmen at the forefront.

They faced the onslaught of the undead army head-on and suffered the most severe losses.

Fortunately, the Tree of Life has the ability to revive fallen elves.

Whenever an elven soldier dies on the battlefield, their body decomposes into pure elemental energy, which returns to the Tree of Life along with their soul and is directly transformed into a sprite.

Lin Yi only needs to consume a small amount of energy crystals to revive them.

After their resurrection, their previous memories will not be forgotten.

At most, the level will return to the initial stage.

Of course, this is just a minor issue.

With the ability to "gain experience by killing enemies", their levels can quickly rise again.

……

As usual, some of the elves cleaned up the battlefield and collected the energy crystals that had been dropped.

Another group of elves carried the corpses of the dead together.

During the process, an elven mage who possessed fire elemental skills intervened and burned all the piled-up undead corpses to ashes, which made Lin Yi feel much more relaxed.

Finally, the post-war cleanup work was completed.

The elves handed over the collected energy crystals to Lin Yi.

"Your Majesty, this war yielded a total of over 98,300 energy crystals."

"In addition, there are more than 500 pieces of various weapons and equipment."

"These are relatively complete and have the potential for reconstruction."

"All other useless items were destroyed."

"good!"

Lin Yi nodded approvingly.

Every elven unit is trained fully armed, so there is no need to re-equip them.

The captured weapons and equipment can only be temporarily collected. We can consider remelting them when we have a blacksmith shop-like building. What if we need them someday?

"You all go and rest too."

"Remember to give everyone a cup of the elven spring water. It's very useful for healing injuries and restoring magic power."

He has no shortage of the Fairy Spring water now.

There is still a lot of the elven spring water that was drawn out earlier.

In addition, the Magic Spring is constantly gathering new elven water, so Lin Yi naturally wouldn't be stingy with the elven water under his command.

"Praise be to you, Your Majesty the Great Elf King!"

The elves were deeply moved and immediately bowed in respect.

After the elves withdrew, Lin Yi opened the system quest.

The quest to hunt "one thousand monsters of level five or higher" has been completed.

He successfully unlocked the territory building – [Temple of the Gods].

If it weren't for the intense battle at the time, Lin Yi would have definitely built the Temple of the Gods immediately to see what purpose this building was for.

……

[Temple of the Gods: This is a special building that can comprehensively enhance your territory's war capabilities.]

[Initial level construction requirements: 1000 Energy Crystals]

……

"A comprehensive upgrade to the territory's strength?" "This building is a must!"

Lin Yi immediately found an open space near the Tree of Life and built the Temple of the Gods.

Just like its name.

The Temple of the Gods is a palace-style building.

Although it is not large in scale, it exudes a faint golden light, and you can tell at a glance that it is extraordinary.

The Temple Bestowed by the Gods

[Building Information: A divinely bestowed temple is indispensable for a territory to become stronger.]

[Level: Low]

[Currently unlocked enhancement categories: Troop type - Low-level physical attack, Low-level physical defense, Low-level magical attack, Low-level magical defense]

Upgrade Requirement: 10,000 Energy Crystals

[Special Note: Upgrading the Temple of Divine Gifts will unlock more enhancement categories and allow you to increase enhancement levels.]

[Note: Enhancement levels are not shared between different unit classes.]

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[Low-level Physical Attack: Increases the physical attack of the user's class/unit by one time. Requires 50,000 energy crystals.]

[Low-level Physical Defense: Increases the physical defense of the user's class/unit by one time. Requires 50,000 energy crystals.]

[Low-level magic attack: ...]

[Low-level magic defense: ...]

……

"It can enhance both physical and magical attacks and defenses, making it quite comprehensive."

"Moreover, this is only a portion of the categories."

"As the Temple of the Gods upgrades, more areas can be unlocked for enhancement, which may not be limited to troop types; buildings may also be enhanced."

"Furthermore, even a low-level enhancement can result in a full doubling of the improvement."

"That's really a bit perverted!"

"The only downside is that it's a bit expensive..."

Lin Yi sighed.

The nearly 100,000 energy crystals I just obtained on the battlefield, even if rounded down, are only enough for two enhancements.

This is only the basic level.

When [Intermediate Enhancement], [Advanced Enhancement], etc., come out, they will definitely be more expensive.

Lin Yi then communicated with the system again.

Thoroughly understand the enhancement functions of the Temple of the Gods.

To put it simply...

One-time enhancement, lifelong benefit.

For example, if Lin Yi applies a "Low-level Physical Attack Enhancement" to the Elf Archer unit, then both existing Elf Archers and those trained in the future will have this aura buff, which will be permanently effective.

The same applies to other types of troops.

The difference is that different unit types do not share enhancements.

This was also specifically mentioned by the system.

For example, Lin Yi enhances the physical attack of the Elf Archer, but the Elf Mage does not benefit from this aura, although it wouldn't be of much use even if they did receive it.

"The enhancement function of the Temple of the Gods only yields greater benefits when you have a larger number of troop types."

"My current number of military units is ultimately too small."

Even the most numerous elven archers only number in the hundreds.

"Instead of spending 50,000 energy crystals to enhance once, it would be better to use the money to train and expand the number of elf archers by a thousand."

Lin Yi plans to strengthen a certain type of unit only when its numbers reach several thousand.

Before that, the focus should be on training more types of troops.

After all, he still had a mission to complete.

Ultimately, it's because there aren't enough energy crystals.

If he had an unlimited supply of energy crystals, he would assign all kinds of physical and magical attacks to all his troops, regardless of their usefulness.

However, he is far from being rich enough to act recklessly.

They would love to break an energy crystal in half.

(End of this chapter)