Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Because it was the opening of the Sea Sky Path betting market, there was a guaranteed minimum odds, meaning that those who won would have at least a 0.5x payout.

For instance, the bets against Zi Liyuan being "not" numbered over one hundred thousand, and the stakes even exceeded one million Spirit Crystals.

However, the people betting on Zi Liyuan being "is" were few, with total bets amounting to only 700 Spirit Crystals.

If those who chose "not" won, then the Sea Sky Path would have to pay out over five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

But if those who bet "is" won, they would take all of the more than one million Spirit Crystals, distributed proportionally according to the amount they each bet.

As for the betting odds opened by the Sea Sky Path, it's akin to a welfare benefit, depending on whether these pitiful Lords can grasp the dream of wealth.

Bets amounting to over one million Spirit Crystals—isn't that like handing out welfare?

However, Lord Zi didn't immediately bet all his assets but instead looked at the other betting markets set up by the Sea Sky Path.

The second betting market was "Bet on the time of the first Lord, Zi Liyuan's downfall."

The options on the betting market ranged from the fourth day after a new Lord entered the Sea of Realms to the thirtieth day.

There were 28 options in total: 27 time options and one for surviving past the thirtieth day without falling.

The definition of downfall was either Zi Liyuan's death or the destruction of the Lord's Mansion.
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Now it was already the fifth day, so the bets for the fourth day had already been cleared out, with the wagered Spirit Crystals locked into the betting pool of this market.

The most interesting aspect of this betting market was that you could keep betting; it wouldn't close until the last seven days, when betting would stop.

However, Zi Liyuan had no intention of betting now. Since this market lasted for quite a while and it was only the fifth day, with a substantial amount of time before the market closed, there was no need to put his Spirit Crystals in it just yet.

Afterward, he took a look at some of the other markets opened by the Sea Sky Path.

All had something or other to do with him, like the rankings, but the variables were too high, and he had no intention of betting a single crystal.

"I currently have a total of 13,500 Spirit Crystals. When I level up to LV9, I should be rewarded with an additional 7,000 Spirit Crystals. Going all in on upgrading to a Level 10 Lord's Mansion would ensure a minimum of 96% of the betting capital."

Isn't this just a super welfare sent out by the Sea of Realms?

If it wasn't for the urgency to upgrade the Lord's Mansion to Level 10 to remove the Sea Boundary Seal, delaying the upgrade to the seventh day would've been best.

Because at that time, the various leaderboards would calculate rewards, and everyone in the top one hundred would get a share.

And the one dominating the top spot would naturally receive even more rewards.

Lord Zi was certain, the longer he dragged it out, the more the Sea Sky Path's betting markets would grow, and the more he would earn.

But he didn't want to wait. The variables over two days were too many. Today, he was lucky to have run into a group of Alien Lords.

If he hadn't discovered them, he could have easily been ambushed by an Alien Lord.

Perhaps he would have been able to detect them early thanks to the map hack, but dispatching several of them would not have been so simple.

This hunt of the Alien Lords had also exposed his hand, so the next time the Alien Lords targeted him, they would definitely prepare in advance against his methods.

But once the Sea Boundary Seal was removed and Zi Liyuan could exercise his full strength, the current situation would completely reverse.

Instead of being targeted by others, he would start a slaughtering spree, hunting Alien Lords!

"Hmmph! Wait until I rise to a Level 10 Lord's Mansion, they're all dead!"

After looking through the betting markets in the casino, aside from the Sea Sky Path's setup where he could fleece a good amount, the rest didn't have much to offer, so he didn't wait any longer and directly opened the Lord interface.

Looking at the vast array of resources, he clicked on the upgrade interface for the Lord's Mansion.

[Ding, consuming common materials (stone, lumber, Iron Ingot, Copper Ingot) X8000, fine materials (stone, lumber, Iron Ingot, Copper Ingot) X800, Silver Ingot (white) X300, Gold Ingot (white) X200, Crystal (white) X100, energy 800. The Lord's Mansion upgrade to LV8 begins, countdown 30 seconds!]

With the end of the 30-second countdown, a faint golden light enveloped the entire Lord's Mansion.

The splendid mansion rose and expanded, and two giant stone lions appeared at the entrance, giving the entire mansion an air of majesty and grandeur.

[Ding, upgrade complete, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for becoming a Level 8 Lord, with an expanded Lord territory!]

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for becoming the first Lord in New World No. 99 to upgrade to Level 8, rewarded with Spirit Crystals X3000, a random treasure chest (blue) X4, prestige of the New World No. 99 territory 40 points!]

[Ding, the Lord's Mansion has been upgraded to LV8, territory expanded by 100 square meters.]

A series of notification sounds crazily rang in his ears.

Simultaneously, the news of Zi Liyuan upgrading his Lord's Mansion to LV8 was broadcast three times in New World No. 99's universal channel.

In five days, upgrading to a Level 8 Lord's Mansion would make him the fastest in human history to do so.

According to records, the fastest a human Lord ever upgraded to Level 8 took six days; he was a whole day ahead.

Truly, he eclipsed the past and present alone, and whether there would be others to follow remained unknown.

At this moment, various messages were flying across several chat channels, teeming with endless discussions about him.