Lord Era: I, The Strongest Lord Of The Abyss!

#132 - Chapter 132 Return and "Work"

After Wu Wei explained some things to the demon heroes and provided them with food, war materials, and a certain number of demons in advance, he temporarily returned to the real world.

Although Wu Wei currently has two vacant demon hero slots, he is not in a hurry to recruit them.

This is because he plans to complete some tasks in the real world first, and then decide when to recruit them based on his needs.

After all, having four demon heroes with different personalities and values is already giving him a headache enough; if he adds two more, he doesn't think he can handle it.

As for less important matters such as reselecting lord skills, Wu Wei also plans to do them after he returns.

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[Do you want to exit the Lord Era?]

[Note: After exiting the Lord Era, the game time within the Lord Era will also pass. Please ensure you are adequately prepared before leaving.]

[Furthermore, after you exit the Lord Era, unless certain major news is notified to you through the system, you will not be able to interfere with anything in the Lord Era in any way.]

[Yes/No]

"Yes."

Wu Wei recited.

Then, in an instant, Wu Wei's datafied body disappeared into the endless abyss.

And the next second, with the appearance of data out of thin air, Wu Wei himself returned to the real world, namely the First High School's playground in Linjiang City.

"....."

Looking at the clear blue sky, Wu Wei couldn't help but narrow his modified scarlet vertical pupils.

To be honest, having gradually become accustomed to the complex and changeable weather of the abyss, he found it somewhat unbearable to look at such a sky.

Since Wu Wei and the other new lords were all teleported to the Lord Era through the same relic, their return area was unified on this playground.

However, this situation will change after these new lords obtain personal relic terminals.

This is because every new lord who passes the Lord Trial can apply for a personal relic terminal of their own within the empire.

But before Wu Wei could return to the classroom, a figure also appeared on the empty ground beside him as data materialized out of thin air.

It was Li Qi.

The fourth-place in this Linjiang City assessment.

Having just returned from the Lord Trial, he naturally noticed Wu Wei as well.

However, the two of them did not exchange any words. Wu Wei simply glanced at him and walked towards the teaching building.

At this time, other grades had already started their holidays, so there were very few people in the school.

However, all the teachers stayed at the school, waiting for their students to return to the real world.

And the reason they stayed here was not only to comfort those unqualified lords who failed the Lord Assessment and were forcibly removed, but mainly to introduce "jobs" to the other new lords.

That's right, lords also need to work.

Just like many common societies.

New lords are at the bottom of this society.

Having just obtained lord qualifications, they have no foundation of their own.

And throughout the Lord Era, war and annexation are omnipresent, so it is difficult for these small lords to survive on their own.

As a result, the vast majority of new lords need to join various guilds as members, or they join an alliance and become a part of the alliance.

Some excellent lords will choose to join a family and become a member of that family.

These options look similar, but in reality, they have significant differences.

For example, guilds.

Although guilds in the Lord Era absorb the largest number of lords, their strength is the weakest.

This is because the size of guilds varies greatly. Some guilds may only have four or five new lords, and may not even have a single veteran lord.

Such guilds are likely to dissolve after not even surviving a single war.

And larger guilds, although numerous and possessing many veteran lords, are not much stronger either.

Because the biggest feature of guilds is freedom.

Because of this, many lords, if dissatisfied with the internal distribution of the guild or yearning for better treatment, often directly leave the original guild and join other guilds.

Therefore, the internal mobility of guilds is very high.

Only those who have experienced countless wars and gathered enough popular support can create a powerful guild and retain enough strong individuals.

And there are not many such veteran guilds.

As for alliances, they are similar to guilds, but the components are different.

Alliances in the Lord Era are formed based on values, lord factions, or other aspects.

For example, some alliances specialize in recruiting lords who are good at researching technology, while others specialize in researching forging techniques.

Alliances' screening of their core members is often very strict, but the lords who pass the screening will, without exception, become core members.

All core members of the alliance will enjoy the limited supply of resources within the alliance and can grow rapidly with the help of other alliance members, eventually benefiting the alliance.

And in addition to the core members of the alliance, there are a large number of peripheral alliance members.

Their existence is simply to provide resources to the alliance, provide soldiers, and help core members complete their tasks.

Although they are the most numerous, their value within the alliance is the lowest.

However, even so, many lords want to squeeze their heads and join an alliance to become a peripheral member.

Because the benefits given by the alliance after joining are simply too great.

In addition to being protected by the strong within the alliance, many magic knowledge, armor, magic patterns, constructs, and weapons produced by the alliance are also open to them.

It can be said that as long as the alliance they are in does not fall, these lords who join the alliance will slowly and steadily become stronger.

This is where joining an alliance is stronger than joining a guild.

However, joining an alliance is not the most desired thing for all lords.

Joining a prominent family and becoming a member of that family is the most beneficial thing for these lords.

Because unlike alliances and guilds, the foundation of any slightly prominent family should not be underestimated.

Not only do they have vast territories in the Lord Era, but they also possess huge private property that alliances and guilds do not have.

After countless years of accumulation, those families that have always stood strong are more terrifying existences than alliances and powerful guilds.

Strength and wealth, like, can be accumulated indefinitely.

So in this case, no lord can guess how huge resources and war soldiers those prominent families have, or how many trump cards they have that can change a war.

Even those emerging families with only a few hundred years have a foundation that ordinary lords cannot match.

Every force that dares to call itself a family is an out-and-out monster in the Lord Era.

Relying on their own strength, they can not only reach deals with major guilds and alliances, but also use their wealth and foundation to recruit the best batch of new lords, absorbing them into their huge family system as fresh blood.

And, the most, most, most important point is that.

The empire's emperor who established this human empire where Wu Wei is located is the most powerful family among countless families.

The family that has ruled this empire for over a thousand years, using the world as their surname.

These guilds, these alliances, these families, although their internal struggles are constant.

But in reality, they are all fighting each other within the family power range of this family named Shi.

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Previously, Su Yingxue told Wu Wei to return to the real world in time, the purpose of which was to allow Wu Wei to find a foothold in the real world.

However, just as Wu Wei came to the inside of the teaching building, the group of teachers who were originally introducing suitable guilds, alliances, and families to the new lords collectively quieted down.

"That's..."

"Wu Wei?"

"That... monster?"

Everyone, including those new lords, was looking at him....

And responding to their gaze was Wu Wei's pair of scarlet, indifferent vertical pupils.