Chapter 173: Ascending to Silver III! Surrounded by Massive Kingdoms

[Starting today, the domain’s opening time will be dictated based on the region you are in and how many servers each planet in your region has.]

[The other planets will automatically follow the time of the planet with the most opened servers.]

[You can fight for this when you become a king.]

"Hm?" Caelus frowned. "Does that mean the Azure Origin Planet has already merged with another middle expanse cluster?"

However, when he looked at the cooldown, he saw there was still a day left.

"Is the domain opening up for us to prepare for tomorrow?" Caelus tilted his head.

"That might be the reason," Sylvia chimed in. But for now, it was time to descend to his origin kingdom.

Caelus nodded.

"I think we should advance to Silver III and reach Gold III combat before we go."

Sylvia had no problem with that.

Caelus and Sylvia both obtained the level-up card from the challenge domain. They were a party, after all.

He used divine duplication on it; however, in the end, it still failed.

’Why does it keep failing?’ Caelus frowned. But he was sure that he would one day obtain 10x of them.

With that positive mindset, he reached level 21, used the ascension token he had in abundance, and began ascending.

Swoosh!

A golden light erupted from where they stood.

[Ascension Initiated.]

[Rank: Silver II -> Silver III]

[Level: 1 (0/200)]

[Your Divine Halo, Fighting Spirit, and Chaos Ring are being recalibrated.]

[+100, +2, +50]

[Your Region Domain buff of +5 is active.]

[Your Chaos Faction buff of +11 is active.]

[+168 Combat Score]

[Level: 1 (0/200)]

[Combat Score: 87.49 (Gold II) -> 1.70 (Gold III)]

Then they swiftly recalibrated the Mod.

Caelus duplicated the mod recalibrator already. He had 11 on him now.

[Combat Score: 1.70 (Gold III) -> 51.70 (Gold III)]

With that done, he bought Tier 12 Mana ores from the shop. He did not have enough to synthesize using the material synthesizer. He had already used 2 out of the 15 he synthesized for his silk thread talent, where he filled the core to the brim.

Hence, he bought Tier 12, which is equivalent to Gold III, in abundance.

He decided to refuel his silk thread core with the Tier 12 ores since they would be stronger.

Once that was done, he reforged his and Sylvia’s armor and weapons. He also tried duplicating Sylvia’s reforged blood moon sword. It was successful, except that he accidentally hit 10x duplication.

They looked at the pile of blood-moon swords with twitching lips and, in the end, equipped the sword.

Their combat powers surged.

The armor gave 12, and both weapons combined gave 24.

In total, their combat scores surged to 87.7 (Gold III) for Caelus and 87.4 for Sylvia.

"The way we are advancing is way too scary, is it not?" Caelus asked with a soft chuckle. One ascension could get them almost 87 combat score.

But at the same time, it was far from enough. There were a lot of formidable beings that could destroy him in one move. It was not even a competition.

Things would only get more competitive and fiercer from here on out.

But for now, it was time to head back into the Domain.

He had already messaged Brenda.

She had already beckoned him to go in, saying that she would manage things for him.

With that security, they entered the domain.

They were surprisingly back at the town.

Right now, everyone was disoriented. Inside Sector A of the Origin Kingdom, at the Tavern of Endless Food and Drinks, everyone was busy chattering away.

"This is troublesome. I was supposed to get my kid brother to kindergarten today. How will I do that now?"

"Um. Then go do that."

"Ah, no. I do not want to miss out on anything here, especially since we have become a kingdom now."

"Hey, are you guys just going to eat the food here? Come look outside. We are right now being surrounded by massive kingdoms."

They all looked at him with a deadpan face.

"We are very much aware," Marcus spoke up in the tavern. He was one of the early players of Town 513, which had now evolved into an Origin Kingdom.

"But we are puny bronzes. How are we supposed to compete against those gods?"

"We are literally neighboring one of the many affiliated kingdoms of the Solaris Kingdom, an old server with Golds at that."

"Well. Our boss did make it clear that he will not be merging with the Solaris Kingdom," Alex, also one of the old players, spoke up.

"I mean, at the end of the day, what matters is that our boss is strong. He should have the means to do something."

"Yeah, our boss is smart. He does not do things rashly."

The ones that spoke were Maru and Sarah, Sarah being the leader of Caelus’s fan club.

"Are we really going to put all our faith in Player 555? Are we for real?" The one that spoke up was Vaelin, the man that once arrogantly challenged Caelus to a gambling event. Only a few days might have passed since then, but for them, it felt much longer, and now their cooldowns had also ended with them coming back.

"Although I do agree that he is strong, I do not think we should necessarily side with him. What if by siding with him makes it worse for us?"

Everyone glanced at him and then ignored him.

Seeing this, Vaelin sighed. He had no say inside this place, but that was on him. He acted all arrogant and mighty to these people, after all. But they were still kind enough to open up the door to the Tavern in Sector A for him and his girlfriend, Elara.

At the same time, he thought of something.

"Oh yeah. The royals seem to be back. What do we do about them?" Vaelin spoke up, catching everyone’s attention.

"Leave them be," Marcus spoke up. "I am sure boss already has his eyes on them."

They were not wrong.

A golden knight stood on the roof of a building with its cape flowing in the wind.

He was secretly tailing the royals who had revived. With them was Sebastian as well.

The one that Caelus took the mage talent from.

"We need to get to the Solaris Kingdom and put an end to Player 555 once and for all," Isolde spoke up with anger.

"Calm your anger, sister," Sebastian spoke up. "The fact that he has not affiliated himself with the Solaris Kingdom is asking for certain death."

"Now it is not just us. There is also our father here, who is a strong Gold III."

"True," Theron chimed in.

Just then, beside Prime, the golden knight, Caelus silently appeared.

"Good work, Prime," he turned and spoke to Prime, who nodded back at him.

"Once this is all over, maybe I will get more gacha pulls for the pillar gacha and get you a good pillar potential card to convert you into a pillar. That day will not be long, give me a few days." Caelus smiled and spoke to Prime, who nodded back again.

Prime was still at Iron Rank. But he was still silently working in the shadows for Caelus, regulating the NPCs and giving them sanctions to place shops and such.

He was and will always be his way to control the place.

He would give Prime the best potential card he could get from the roll.

With that in mind, he descended next to the royals.

"Well, well, well, looks like the man-children of the royal families are back."

"Player 555," everyone went on alert.

"Calm down," he laughed softly. "I am just here to send you down to your kingdom."

Caelus summoned the Pharaoh Knight. It looked menacingly at the royals, who shivered feeling its aura.

"W-what is that?"

"Your personal transportation guide that will take you back to your parents, my dear man-children."

The Pharaoh Knight went forward menacingly, picked them up one by one, and stacked them on top of each other before rushing beyond the Origin Kingdom with immense speed. He dropped them off at the nearby kingdom which was surprisingly called Torres kingdom.

It should be of the Torres family.

"If I kill them here, it will put Brenda in trouble, and so will the players here. I first need to gauge the strength of their king." Caelus was thoughtful.

For now, he decided to check his town status.

It was time to make some upgrades.