The first one was from Dantean.
Haru identified it and went still for a moment in the way he did when something landed better than expected.
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[Barracks Blueprint—Angel Reincarnation Pool]
[Grade: Unique]
[Construction requirements:
1 million units of Wood
800,000 units of Stone
500,000 units of Refined Iron
10,000 Magic Crystals]
[Use Restriction: Only Kazehaya Haru, the Divine Emperor of the Aetherium Empire, can use it]
[Special Reminder: If you are not the Divine Emperor Kazehaya Haru, handle this blueprint carefully, otherwise you will likely receive the Aetherium Empire's hatred.]
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He'd been waiting for this since the beginning. When he'd first arrived at the Endless Continent, the Angel Reincarnation Pool had been the one blueprint that refused to appear as a drop item. Not for him, not for any Castle Lord or Ranger, not for anyone. He'd spent enough time suspecting that the GM had quietly made it impossible to obtain this blueprint. Now finding it here, as a drop item from a Demon Lord, felt almost personal.
This restriction clause was exactly what he'd expected. The Angel Reincarnation Pool was unique to him. Another Castle Lord could get this blueprint a thousand times over, and they still wouldn't be able to use it. The special reminder from the GM made him smile. This was proper protagonist treatment.
He already had five pools, with a sixth going up the moment Nova returned to Angel City. This blueprint made that number seven, which translated to seven thousand adult Angels every day, starting tomorrow.
The number mattered less than what it pointed toward. Their real goal was the God Level Angel Reincarnation Pool, a facility that produced Angels already at the True God Tier. There were no Demigods, no Two-Winged or Four-Winged Angels. Every Angel born from it had at least six wings. That would change the arithmetic of every war the Aetherium Empire would ever fight.
But building one required Nova to be a Supreme Goddess and that required her bloodline to evolve into an Eighteen-Winged Angel. That a ceiling that every Sixteen-Winged Angel under his command had attempted and failed to break. In the entire history of the Illusory Angel Realm, only Celestia held that distinction among the high-ranking Angels.
He had two Supreme God Tier Godheads now. One of them would be given to Nova after she became an Eighteen-Winged Angel and that would push her directly to the Supreme God Tier. That would give her the ability to create God Level Angel Reincarnation Pools.
'Let's focus on Nova.' He noted. 'And Sylvana. Since she has no growth ceiling, they both must get the same priority.''
The Empire's current numbers were significant but not sufficient. After the final cleanup of the Demons, there were now about 200,000 True Gods in total.
Among the almost 180,000 Angels, about 160,000 were Gods and 20,000 were Demigods. The other 20,000 or so Gods were among the Elves and other top-level races. It was impressive by any normal standard. But when measured against the Truth Faction, which had around ten million Gods, the Faith Faction which had tens of millions of troops on top of that or the Dimensional Demons, whose numbers dwarfed both of them, it was just the beginning.
...
The second blueprint was from Miltonic. He identified it and his expression stopped moving. Then something lit behind his eyes.
[Faction Conversion Architectural Blueprint]
[Grade: God Level]
[Description: It is a very rare Special Blueprint that can convert the faction of a building. Can convert up to God Level Buildings.]
[Special Reminder: Choose carefully. Conversion cannot be reversed.]
He'd been waiting for this one almost as much as the Reincarnation Pool blueprint, and for a more specific reason. Sitting in his storage were two God Level blueprints he'd not been able to use: the Myriad Starfall Tower and the Abyssal Wrathblaster. Both belonged to the Dimensional Demons' faction.
Building either one would have instantly converted his empire into an affiliate of the Abyss—making every faction in the Endless Continent his enemy overnight, long before he was in a position to handle that.
The Faction Conversion Blueprint was what those blueprints have been waiting for. He considered the cannon briefly and set it aside. Powerful as it was, capable of killing even peak High Gods, it had no effect on Supreme Gods, which meant it couldn't serve as a strategic weapon against the enemies that actually mattered. One blueprint meant one conversion, and he wasn't spending it there.
The Myriad Starfall Tower was something else entirely. It wasn't an offensive weapon, it was a scanner capable of locating and locking onto Divine Kingdoms hidden in the void.
Every God kept their Divine Kingdom in the void as insurance as that dimension was infinite, and finding another God's Divine Kingdom without the exact coordinates was effectively impossible. With the Myriad Starfall Tower, this task became trivial.
The applications were straightforward. Enemy Supreme Gods trying to outlast him in a war of attrition? He could find their Divine Kingdoms and strike directly. Evil gods trying to survive by hiding? They would immediately get located. And beyond living enemies, every Divine War in the Endless Continent's history had produced dead Gods.
Their ownerless Divine Kingdoms have been drifting unclaimed in the void ever since. Hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated divine treasure, scattered across infinite space, waiting for someone who could find them.
'Getting rich overnight' was an understatement. He almost got up to leave for the Endless Continent immediately, but ultimately stayed where he was. The blueprint wasn't going anywhere.
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