Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Chapter 1346 – Great Xia Imperial Dynasty
3rd month, 12th day, Africa warzone commander headquarters, warzone logistical hub, the Specter legion corps and the Atlantic Squadron both received the orders from Imperial Court.
“Immediately execute the steel forging operation.”
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In the next week, the Africa warzone started to work secretly, making the final preparations necessary for the steel forging operation planned last year.
Moreover, in the current European continent, there were not many obvious changes.
The Ottoman army and the Gaule army were still fighting intensely, Europe remained in a standstill, and the Romanov Dynasty was still reaping easy benefits.
However, Ouyang Shuo saw a different scene. Under the secret monitoring of the Black Snake Guards, Ouyang Shuo knew that the Ottoman Dynasty troops were secretly withdrawing from the Gaule frontlines and turning to the north.
The fight between the two was fake.
At this point, Manstein’s goal was extremely obvious – he wanted to give the Romanov Dynasty a fatal blow.
This plan aligned with Great Xia’s desires. When he received the report, Ouyang Shuo even could not help but reveal his delight.
The Ottoman Dynasty was giving Great Xia a brilliant assist.
In comparison, the Persia Battlefield was much more intense.
Under the Great Xia Army’s ocean-like oppression, Persian Empire land was being lost every day. The territory line splitting the two was like a red shoreline, pushing from east toward the west.
The battlefield situation was becoming clearer and clearer.
Ouyang Shuo predicted that as long as the Great Xia Army continued for a period of time, the Persia king would not be able to take it. If he did not want to lose everything, he should take the initiative to surrender.
If that happened, Ouyang Shuo could consider giving him half an official appointment.
Fighting to the death benefitted no one.
After all, Ouyang Shuo was unwilling to burn every nation to the ground after he wiped it out. Recovery would consume a lot of energy and resources.
Of course, before the Persia king surrendered, the Great Xia Army would not show any mercy.
They had to make the enemy feel pain and fear.
Only then would they be able to clear out the problems before the Empire’s future rule.
Many times, blood had to flow. If not, a mark would not form, and they would not remember.
When needed, Ouyang Shuo was willing to let blood flow into an ocean.
At the same time, Silver Hand and Azure Badge’s public opinion attack had reached its peak. This time, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to go.
In terms of leading public opinion, the two organizations were the true masters.
If this were not Ouyang Shuo’s original intention and was some unwilling person instead, they have might been played to death just like that, becoming the scapegoat of the two organizations.
3rd month, 20th day, since there were only two months till the deadline set by Gaia, Jack was not prepared to drag things on anymore and represented the Dawson Dynasty to admit their recognition of Great Xia.
At this point, Great Xia perfectly completed all three conditions required for upgrading to imperial dynasty.
Ouyang Shuo did not delay. At 8am, he rushed to the main hall and opened the communication compass to enter the territory interface. Then he applied for the upgrade to imperial dynasty.
The moment he clicked it, many System Notifications appeared.
“System Notification: Checking Great Xia’s imperial dynasty upgrade conditions…”
“Requirement 1: Unify China region, requirement met!”
“Requirement 2: Obtain status of Overlord of Asia, requirement met!”
“Requirement 3: Obtain the recognition of all global dynasties, requirement met!”
“System Notification: Checks completed, the Great Xia Emperor Dynasty meets all the requirements for upgrading to imperial dynasty, will you upgrade?”
Ouyang Shuo clicked confirm; then an abnormal scene occurred.
At the same time, a thick, seven-colored ray rose up from the Xia Palace. In the blink of an eye, it shot up high into the sky. Next, seven-colored cloud after 7-coloured cloud appeared; they contained a seven-colored prosperity light.
Signs of prosperity were descending from the heavens.
Interestingly, one of the seven colored rays landed on the Persia battlefield.
The charging Great Xia Army was bathed in the light, and their combat strength suddenly doubled. Like soldiers descending from the heavens, they instantly destroyed the Persian army.
Witnessing such a miracle, the opposing Persia army was so scared that they surrendered directly.
A seven-colored ray helped Great Xia achieve victory in a portion of the war, becoming a legend on the battlefield.
This small occurrence caused the situation on the battlefield to favor Great Xia; it was the final straw that crushed the Persian Empire. If nothing went wrong, the Persia king would surrender soon.
More System Notification sounded out from his communication compass.
“System Notification: Congratulations Great Xia for upgrading to imperial dynasty, the Great Xia currency automatically becomes a global currency and will flow through all dynasties.”
With that, the Great Xia currency took the lead in theit battle against the Daw dollar.
Perhaps if Jack knew that upgrading to imperial dynasty would give such a benefit, he would feel extremely regretful. He had smashed his feet with the stone he lifted up.
“System Notification: Congratulations Great Xia for upgrading to imperial dynasty. Global ports, dynasty markets, and the like are opened to Great Xia to recognize its position as overlord.”
These two points basically ensured that Great Xia would lead global trade.
Trade rules would even be decided by Great Xia.
Consequently, Great Xia’s economic foundations would be in an undefeatable position.
This was a pleasant surprise.
Before this, no one had expected there to be such benefits for upgrading to imperial dynasty.
This was actually easy to understand. After all, one of the requirements was to obtain global recognition. Since that was the case, obtaining such benefits was natural.
If not, there would be no reason for such harsh requirements.
Without everything falling into place, Ouyang Shuo would not be confident about upgrading to imperial dynasty so quickly. Originally, this was his final goal for the game world.
After all, another series of benefits were not listed.
Compared to an emperor dynasty, an imperial dynasty was at the peak of the world and was totally different.
Maybe because the matter was too shocking or it held too much meaning, but Gaia released a System Notification despite removing it in the final update.
“World Notification: Congratulations China region player Ouyang Shuo for successfully upgrading Great Xia Emperor Dynasty to Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, becoming the first in the world. Specially awarded 10 instantiating slots and permanent S rank permission level. Congratulations Ouyang Shuo, congratulations Great Xia!”
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The moment this notification sounded, the world boiled.
The players around the world did not expect Ouyang Shuo to be so carefree. Without even preparing, he directly applied for the upgrade right after the Dawson Dynasty expressed their recognition.
This surprise came a little too suddenly.
Logically speaking, Great Xia upgrading to imperial dynasty and being probably the only one should require grand preparation and a huge ceremony.
However, Ouyang Shuo had his own thoughts.
First, Great Xia was fighting in Persia. Additionally, in the dark, they were preparing for another war. It was not appropriate for them to hold an upgrading ceremony now.
Secondly, Great Xia had already held two ceremonies and holding another one would just be similar; there was not much need for that.
Moreover, the current background and atmosphere did not contain much joy. For Great Xia to openly celebrate now might seem like they were bragging to others, so it was better to be more low-profile.
As such, Ouyang Shuo applied for the upgrade without making any preparation. Of course, although there was no ceremony, there were pleasant surprises.
After Gaia released the notification, Ouyang Shuo headed onto the forums and announced, “Effective immediately, I accept Gaia’s invitation to voluntarily lead the Great Xia team to Planet Hope.”
The moment the world heard this news, everyone clamored once more.
If one said the players were shocked just now, this time they were truly surprised.
Ouyang Shuo’s statement represented that at this crucial point for mankind, someone had finally stood out to use all his ability to try to fight for the future of mankind.
The nervous hearts of the players were finally settled.
After these few months of promotion from Azure Badge and Silver Hand, Ouyang Shuo’s legendary story had been spread to the entire world and was spread by every country in the world.
Legendary rise to power, trying his best to spread Chinese Civilization, unifying China, and gaining authority over the oceans.
Legendary matter after legendary matter gave people reason to believe that Ouyang Shuo and his team could create a miracle on Planet Hope, overcoming difficulties to build up merit.
Ouyang Shuo’s prestige in the world had reached its peak at this point.
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After returning to the Imperial Reading Room, Ouyang Shuo’s face could not hide his emotions and excitement.
Naturally, he was not emotional because of players’ recognition or the future journey to Planet Hope, but because of the reward Gaia had given him.
He did not expect that apart from the 10 AI instantiating spots, Gaia would even give him an extra permanent S permission level award.
This reward was enough to drive one crazy.
After the Federation disbanded, no one had gotten the S rank before, and the highest was only A.
Even Ouyang Shuo, who could rely on Great Xia’s enormous resources, had his achievement value drop to 90 million after instantiating a batch of AIs. He was 10 million away from the S rank mark.
If nothing went wrong, he would be the first to upgrade to S rank.
The meaning behind this reward from Gaia was greater now that Ouyang Shuo did not need to worry about instantiating or exchanging for rewards. Even if he used them all, he could still keep his permission level.
He did not need to worry about getting demoted in rank.
The impending expedition was simply too important. With 90 million points in achievement value, he could do much more than just instantiating a bunch of AIs.
That was basically Gaia’s purpose.
“Thanks for being thoughtful.”
Ouyang Shuo looked up at the sky and silently said.
One could say that Gaia had given Ouyang Shuo the biggest help possible given her permission level.
How the future developed depended solely on Ouyang Shuo.
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Under Ouyang Shuo’s orders, the wave from Great Xia upgrading to imperial dynasty was slowly suppressed and did not cause many waves.
The eyes of the world were slowly turned back to the battlefield.
4th month, 1st day, Great Xia gave rise to discussions around the world once more.
