Chapter 316: The System Supports the Lord Ahead of Others (1/2)
[King of the South Sea, Neptune Spear, completely dominated!]
[Neptune Spear]
Overlord specialty: Shipbuilding (Can be absorbed)
-You can construct the “Dreadnought Shipyard” that can create the magical iron fleet. (Cost: 10,000 Gold)
Overlord authority: Call of the Deep Sea (Can be absorbed)
-Affinity with sea monsters +300
“Mm…” Kang Chul-In stroked the beard he didn’t have. “What should I absorb...?” He couldn’t absorb them both, so he had to choose between the [Shipbuilding] specialty and the [Call of the Deep Sea].
“Shipbuilding is nice… but the Call of the Deep Sea is nice too…” It was a hard choice for him to make because both abilities were S-ranked. If he chose Shipbuilding, he could construct the Dreadnought Shipyard and grow his fleet, and if he chose Call of the Deep Sea, he could train powerful sea monsters.
“I guess…” Kang Chul-In spread his hand out over where Neptune Spear had fallen.
[Would you like to absorb the Shipbuilding specialty? Yes / No]
[Yes.]
His choice was the Shipbuilding specialty that could construct the Dreadnought Shipyard. It was a reasonable decision. It was true that Call of the Deep Sea was useful, but he would have to hunt down sea monsters himself in the great ocean to train them. Kang Chul-In was already busy enough, so he didn’t have time to catch all the Poke… no, the sea monsters.
“When would I be catching monsters?” He shook his head. It wasn’t easy to find rare monsters like a leviathan. It was only a coincidence that he was able to hunt down a leviathan in the past. How would he be able to find one just because he wanted to?
“K-Kuk…!” While Kang Chul-In was contemplating to himself, Neptune Spear gasped and grunted.
“Now should I head over to Esmeralda territory?”
“Ugh... kuk…!” Kang Chul-In absorbed the Shipbuilding specialty without caring about Neptune Spear in the slightest and…
Plop! Neptune Spear died. The King of the South King, and the ruler of the south died futilely.
“Hm?” Kang Chul-In raised his eyebrows when he discovered the corpse.
“Tsk, tsk…” Then, he clicked his tongue. “This guy… he should’ve trained his stamina some more… how bad must his stamina have been to…”
This was a fallacious argument. Neptune Spear’s stamina wasn’t bad. Anyone would’ve suffered the same in that situation. His hair was pulled out, his chest was split into 10 pieces by Kaiforce, and after his bones and flesh were separated, his Lord position was stolen, and then his specialty was absorbed. It would be a miracle if he was alive.
[You have completed the absorption of the Shipbuilding specialty!]
[You can now construct the Dreadnought Shipyard!]
[You have captured the [Trident] fleet!]
[Along with the [Poseidon], the other 9 ships have been acknowledged as yours!]
Neptune Spear’s pride, the fleet, was acknowledged as Kang Chul-In’s.
[You have received ownership of the kingdom [Aquatica] from the King of the South Sea Neptune Spear…]
[The Aquatica kingdom has been absorbed into the Valhalla kingdom! (Percentage: 90%)]
[The title of Aquatica has been adjusted from ‘kingdom’ to ‘territory!’]
“Mm…!” Kang Chul-In was surprised. “90%... isn’t that pretty much all of it…?”
It was rare to absorb 90% of the previous Lord’s land.
Aside from right after the Great Summoning when Lords first chose their territories, it didn’t happen. Right after the Great Summoning, faith from the people in a territory would be low, and the relationship between the Lord and the people wouldn’t be that deep. Due to this, it was easy to absorb the territories of Lords earlier on. However, that wasn’t the case now. It had already been four years since the Great Summoning, and Neptune Spear was a king (it didn’t show because he was compared to Kang Chul-In, but Neptune Spear was incredible too).
Such a kingdom couldn’t be absorbed smoothly. In the worst-case scenario, the entire territory would be filled with rebel forces who would fight over ownership of the territory. In fact, once in the past, when Kang Chul-In took over a different territory, people had caused rebellions, and Kang Chul-In sent an army to get rid of the territory as a whole.
“Why?” It was strange.
“How?” The Aquatica kingdom, no, the Aquatica territory was a vast land. Of course Kang Chul-In would consider it strange that he had absorbed a ratio of 90% of the original land. However, there was a reason behind this.
[Your charisma (S++) is high, and the people of the Aquatica territory don’t rebel!]
[The people of Aquatica, who are satisfied at the way you rule the Valhalla kingdom, support the absorption actively!]
[The loyalty of the land-owners of Aquatica and their subordinates remain at 85! (Maximum: 100)]
His high charisma prevented the people of Aquatica from rebelling, and his “give and take” method of ruling Valhalla seemed to have appealed to them.
“Yes…” Kang Chul-In nodded.
“It was good to focus on internal affairs... very good…”
Congratulatory background music should’ve been playing in the background. It was understandable. How much work had Kang Chul-In put into internal affairs after regressing? He used to shudder at just the “i” in internal affairs. All the stats related to it never exceeded C.
“I guess nothing is impossible if you work for it.”
Of course, he hadn’t mastered the area yet, but compared to the past, he had definitely improved.
And…
[The system supports the Lord who’s ahead of others!]
Another message popped up.
“Hm…?”
The system supports a Lord who’s ahead of others? He didn’t understand what that meant.
“Your Majesty.” Just then, someone approached Kang Chul-In. It was a lieutenant wearing a naval uniform of the Aquatica kingdom.
“Who are you?”
“Yes, I am the lieutenant of Poseidon, Clemenceau.”
“Clemenceau?”
“Yes, your Majesty.”
“So?”
“First…” Clemenceau bowed in front of Kang Chul-In. “Clemenceau greets the Supreme King of the West!”
“Mm…!”
“I will do my best!”
A quick pledge of faith… it seemed like the message from the system wasn’t false.
“Is that so?”
“Yes, your Majesty.”
“Why? I just killed your king.”
“I saw.”
“Is it possible to pledge your faith in such a short amount of time? Logically…”
“The heavens wish it, so how can I not follow their will?”
“...!”
“As your Majesty already knows, us Pangaeans have done nothing but accept the supernatural’s will.”
It was clear what Clemenceau was saying. This lieutenant general was saying that he couldn’t escape from the influence of the system. Yes, it was like a heavenly order. The will of the system was like the heavens for the Pangaeas…
“I guess…” Kang Chul-In nodded.
“Well, I suppose there’s no need to ask about it. Fine, Clemenceau. I will acknowledge you as my subordinate.”
“Your benevolence is awe-inspiring, Your Supreme Majesty!” Clemenceau prostrated himself on the floor before Kang Chul-In.
“Get up.” Kang Chul-In raised Clemenceau. “Here, take this.” He even gave him something.
“T-This is…?!”
“Why are you so surprised?” Kang Chul-In shrugged his shoulders.
“O-Of course I would be surprised…! This is…!” His surprise was understandable. It was because Kang Chul-In had given him the fleet, Trident, and the Soul Core, Triton!
“You are the first to have pledged your faith to me.”
“...!”
“This kind of treatment should be obvious.”