Upon hearing Lin Rui inquire about her strengthening effects, Audrey displayed a proud smile: "Hehe. Father, just wait and see. Although there have been no battles in the last few days, when you see my army next, you’ll be greatly shocked; their strength is incomparable to before."

Lin Rui smiled at her and said, "Still being all mysterious? Alright, I’ll wait for you to give me a surprise."

Lin Rui checked the time and said, "You can start preparing now, as we’ll march into the Desolate Domain World this afternoon. The Legendary Soldiers will be the main combat force, and your troops will assist in reconnaissance. Wutong will also be going, so don’t mess up and embarrass yourself."

Audrey immediately patted her chest, exuding confidence: "Father, just wait and see. I’ll show you what it means to look at someone with fresh eyes after three days."

During Lin Rui and Audrey’s short conversation, Caroline had also completed her ascension.

Under the golden light, Caroline’s demeanor remained unchanged, still appearing a bit shy with her hands clasped in front of her, lacking the various self-assured lines that Audrey added to herself.

But her traits are extremely powerful, capable of completely transforming the territory.

[Heroic Body: Commander +10, Root Bone +10, Soul +10, Life Value +100%, Spiritual Energy Value +100%, Resilience increased by 100%, Damage Reduction +50%, Spiritual Energy consumption -50% when casting spells, consecutively using skills grants [Diligent Governance] effect, skill level cumulatively +1, effect disappears after more than 4 hours of sleep.]

[Innovation: Legendary Commander Trait: Though the state be ancient, its mission is renewed. Reforms are a comprehensive adjustment of the superstructure, and the superstructure greatly promotes the development of productive forces. Caroline is a great legendary-level reformist; she can reform the territory’s development direction, reshape territorial buildings, and even transform individual traits.]

[Development Direction One: National Faith: Comprehensive enhancement of the territory’s faith capability, all in the Golden Pansy Domain +20 Luck Attribute, Luck Level +1, Probability Mechanism +5%, Clan Aura influence speed +100%.]

[Development Direction Two: Political Commissar Incentive: Steel Priests are the faith of our territory; Combat Cultivators are our backbone. Completely strengthening military morale and spirit, each priest enhances the comprehensive attributes of their squad’s soldiers by 5%. If a priest dies in battle, their squad’s soldiers receive an additional +2% to attributes, lasting until the battle ends. For every priest in the army, all soldiers gain 1 point of Political Commissar Incentive effect, Divine Damage +1]

[Development Direction Three: Economic Vitality: Economy is the foundation of a territory, all building outputs +300%, production efficiency +200%, scale effect enhancement, each similar building stacks another’s output efficiency by 25%.]

[Development Direction Four: Full Mobilization: Limited mobilization restrains the territory’s ambitions; let us crush all enemies with an iron will. All military building costs -80%, periodic output scale +150%, 20% chance to produce soldiers with Talent +1, 10% chance to produce Talent +2, 1% chance to produce Talent +3 (Note: Cannot surpass the hero’s own Talent)]

[Development direction adjustment cycle is three years, can be accelerated through Territorial Essence effects.]

After reading, Lin Rui stated without hesitation: "For now, choose [Political Commissar Incentive] as the territory’s development direction. Once we march into the Desolate Domain World, you can invest Territorial Essence to adjust to [Economic Vitality] or [Full Mobilization]."

The effects of each development direction are too powerful.

Once a direction is chosen, it essentially changes the territory’s development strategy absolutely; each can fundamentally transform the territory.

Take the most basic first direction, National Faith, for example, with an all-member Luck Value +20, Luck Level +1, Probability Mechanism +5%, under the current effects in the territory, it’s almost equivalent to when Lin Rui initially entered this world.

After all, when he first entered this plane, his Luck Level was only +4, and as a special attribute, his Luck Value was just the most basic 1 point. He rapidly grew relying on this basic trait.

This means that the citizens possess templates comparable to a Child of Fortune.

Each of them, based on their own Talent, would originally be Legendary-level or Epic-level figures, protagonists in their own stories.

With Caroline’s trait support, once the territory opts to strengthen National Faith, these citizens will obtain a three-year enhanced protagonist template, making them akin to a Child of Fortune. Just like Rose, whose Luck Level is not that high, just Tier Seven Gold, which was enough to support her rise to Tier Ten Legendary. Upon joining the Golden Pansy Domain and further enhancement, her gap with the Divine Spirit was as thin as a windowpane.

When she and Lin Rui enter the Divine Realm together, other Divine Spirits are unlikely to be her match in single combat.

The Political Commissar Incentive chosen by Lin Rui is specially selected for entering the Desolate Domain World.

Each priest enhances the comprehensive attributes of their squad’s soldiers by 5%. Assuming a squad has 12 Combat Priests, that’s an enhancement of 60% to the soldiers’ all attributes.

It’s all attributes, including attribute points, Physical Attack, Spiritual Strength, Physical Defense, Spiritual Resistance, Life Value, Spiritual Energy Value, True Damage, Divine Damage, Divine Resistance, and all attribute values. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

That soldier would immediately soar, essentially having an extra hero commanding them.

In low-tier battles, this might not be as apparent. A Tier One soldier enhanced by 60% may not necessarily defeat a Tier Two soldier.

But in Super-Tier combat, this is an earth-shattering transformation. With both being Tier Eight Legendary soldiers, and this side outclassing by 60% just in attribute values, how could they lose?