Rod suppressed the excitement in his heart, taking the Black Battle Group and heading west to the Red Forest.

It's worth mentioning that, under Molly's efforts, the Black Battle Group had expanded to over a hundred people, and after Rod officially advanced to Commander, the number of people wanting to join the group increased explosively.

If he wanted to recruit, he could easily recruit ten thousand people.

But that would be meaningless, and the Royal City wouldn't allow a battle group to expand to the scale of a legion.

For Rod, the main purpose of expanding the battle group was to transform them into "angel envoys" of the Dream Realm, so that he could earn divinity.

To transform someone into an "angel envoy" of the Dream Realm, he needed to provide them with abundant resources, enhance their spiritual energy, break through bottlenecks, and increase combat power.

According to the results of the training in recent times, Rod summarized a principle: only when the total combat power enhanced under his assistance exceeded past totals, would the initial transformation begin, with a transparent name outline appearing on the Dream Tombstone.

To be fully transformed into a "Dream Envoy," the enhancement had to be more than three times greater, with a complete name on the Dream Tombstone.

This explains why, despite helping Olivia ascend to Monarch Level, there was not the slightest sign of transformation.

After all, he only gave a little push at a critical moment, and the success of her ascension relied more on her own effort, which could not surpass the sum of her past strength.

Recruiting a large number of warriors would dilute the battle group's resources and slow down the transformation process.

It's not worth the gain.

Thus, Molly strictly adhered to Rod's requirements, only recruiting those with great potential and combat power below the Third Level.

Only if someone's potential was extremely immense, with suspicions of the "Life of Man," could an exception be made.

Unfortunately, such individuals had long been noticed by the Royal City.

The Royal City has always placed extreme importance on talent selection and cultivation, with a complete rule system. Except for a slight oversight in Rod's case, others have no chance of slipping through, leaving Rod few opportunities to pick up leftovers.

"If only I had become the Fire Son earlier."

Rod felt a deep regret in his heart.

"I could've bagged all those rising stars earlier."

But of course, that's just wishful thinking.

Even if he received them all, he wouldn't have enough resources to sustain them.

It's fortunate that he's the Master of Dreams and doesn't need conventional resources.

The supplies allotted to the Fire Son, along with battle victory rewards, were all contributed to the battle group.

As a result, the Black Battle Group's benefits are exceptionally good. Archbishop Horus visited once and believed the resources they obtained were almost equal to the amount used to cultivate warriors during the Fire Epoch.

However, even so, it is still very difficult to convert them into "Dream Envoys" in a short time.

This time, aside from the three dedicated ones, Rod added only one person—Frank from Mushroom City.

He's also an old teammate and has fought alongside Rod many times, being the only complete "Dream Envoy" among more than a hundred newcomers.

Frank's trait is "Inorganic Transformation," which can alter the inherent properties of non-living matter; the greater the change, the more spiritual energy it consumes, such as altering a spiritual energy potion into a healing potion that doesn't consume much spiritual energy.

However, transforming feces into a healing potion might require a King to accomplish.

Although his trait is not combat-oriented, he himself is combat-oriented, only gaining growth and increasing spiritual energy in intense battles between life and death.

Thus, Frank's position had always been awkward; ever since he became a Fourth Level combatant, his advancement was very slow.

Until he joined the Black Battle Group.

Rod believed Frank's characteristic was very peculiar, possibly the "Life of Man."

He initially intended to use 10 points of divinity to explore his advancement method but was unexpectedly informed by the Book of Knowledge that this characteristic seemed to be a relatively known soul trait in ancient times, with a complete set of training methods in its memory.

Consequently, Frank had the fortunate opportunity to become the first "Dream Envoy" to be personally guided by the Book of Knowledge.

Under the guidance of the Book of Knowledge, he constantly utilized his characteristic, altering the most challenging materials like Star Marrow, Sun Crystal, and high-purity Sun Stone, which are minerals of high spirituality.

With repeated practice, his characteristic deepened in his soul, the trajectory of the "Inorganic Transformation" Source Law became clearer, and the Special Level advanced rapidly, closing in on its origin.

This was one of the reasons Frank could quickly become a "Dream Envoy."

On their departure, Frank's trait had reached the final level, which is the longest level.

Once completed, he could master the Source Law of "Inorganic Transformation," advancing to Commander.

Of course, his spiritual energy is far from sufficient to support such an endeavor.

His current sole task is to boost his spiritual power level.

Thus, he also had to follow Rod to battle.

The five rode Anna and arrived half a day early at the westernmost border of Trolian—the "Red Forest."

This was an expanse of dyed red deadwood forestland, vast in scope, with nothing but blood red in the rolling Black Fog as far as the eye could see.

The Destruction Temple, abode of the King of Light, is situated right in the center of the Red Forest.

In front of the Red Forest was a human outpost recently occupied by the Kingdom.

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