62: Chapter 62 Drake's Fury: A Review of His Achievements

"It's absolutely true, the information is correct."

Drake's face also showed a look of shock; clearly, when he first received the news, he had also found it hard to believe.

Only after repeated confirmation was Yager's death verified.

"The Purgatory Race sent a message asking us to cooperate with the investigation," Drake said in a deep voice. "Yager had a fallback measure left by his father on him. Although it was weakened in the First Source Sea, it still sent back some information."

"The one who killed Yager is a powerful lord who possesses dozens of giant dragons."

"The other party's identity and race are both unknown. What we need to do is determine their identity and race."

"Dragon Clan units?"

Hearing this, Matsumoto Toshio and the others looked at each other in dismay.

With so little information, how were they supposed to investigate?

Drake glanced at his subordinates. Naturally knowing what they were thinking, he continued, "The one who could kill Yager can only be a top-tier lord. Therefore, those dozens of giant dragons should all be Epic Grade."

"The number of top-tier lords of this level won't be very large."

"Currently, there are two directions for the investigation. One is the Human Race Prodigies who have just entered the Chaos Source Sea, as only they could possibly fit the killer's profile. The other is outside the Human Race."

"The investigation outside the Human Race is not our concern. Our Heretic Hunting Bureau's mission is those thirty-one Human Race Prodigies."

Drake finally stated the decision of the Heretic Hunting Bureau's higher-ups: "Increase the intensity of the invasions and eliminate them at all costs."

Regardless of whether the lord who killed Yager was one of the Human Race Prodigies, it was enough to put them on high alert.

"Especially that Yun Zhiyue, we absolutely must not give her any breathing room."

Drake added another line.

Yun Zhiyue's background was too strong. Once she grew up, she would become one of the very top top-tier lords.

Furthermore, her weakened period certainly wouldn't last long. It wouldn't be long before she could pull up the strength of her heroes and units, as well as the Rank of her territory's defensive structures.

She had to be targeted and invaded with priority.

"Alright, tell me about your results." Drake's gaze swept across everyone, expecting to hear some good news.

For example, that the coordinates of a certain Prodigy's territory had been determined.

However, to his disappointment, there was not a single one.

"A bunch of useless trash."

Facing Drake's angry scolding, the others also wanted to cry but had no tears.

There was nothing they could do either.

Of the Prodigies who upgraded to Level 3 territories, which one of them didn't come from a major power or a large Family, holding a vast amount of trump cards?

They could use extremely precious items to increase the probability of invading the opponent's territory, but the opponents could also use the same methods to reduce their probability of being invaded.

Therefore, they could only deploy enough manpower to guarantee a successful invasion.

The investment was massive, but it was worth it.

However, because of this, trying to screen them one by one to determine the coordinates of the Human Race Prodigies' territories meant the workload was immense.

It hadn't even been a single day, and expecting to determine the coordinates of the Human Race Prodigies' territories was like a blind cat trying to catch a dead mouse...

The only thing they could guarantee was that those Human Race Prodigies were currently being attacked with full force by the armies they sent out, running themselves ragged, suffering heavy losses, and having their growth pace significantly slowed down.

As for determining the coordinates of their territories and surrounding them with a massive army, that was not something that could be done in just a day or two.

"Matsumoto Toshio, it's excusable for others to have no results, but what about you?" Drake's cold gaze finally landed on Matsumoto Toshio.

Cold sweat instantly broke out all over Matsumoto Toshio.

He still hadn't managed to escape this ordeal.

"Drake, I, I..."

Matsumoto Toshio stammered, but he had to reveal the truth about the failure of his plan.

*Boom!*

A violent aura surged from Drake, pressing down on Matsumoto Toshio like a heavy blow. He spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed flat on the ground.

"Useless trash."

"You have made me lose all face in front of the other races."

"Three days. I will only give you three days. If Lin Xiao is not dead by then, you will be the one who dies."

Drake's voice was cold as he delivered the final ultimatum.

"Yes."

Matsumoto Toshio gritted his teeth and accepted.

...

Yager's death caused a massive stir among the four races.

While they increased their invasions of the Human Race Prodigies like Yun Zhiyue, they also turned their attention to the other races in the Chaos Source Sea.

Lin Xiao was completely unaware of the turbulent changes in the outside world.

After returning to his territory, he had all the Burning Sky Flame Dragons return to the volcano where the Blazing Dragon Nest was located to recover their mana, while he himself began to take stock of his harvest.

This round of slaughter had made him a fortune, and Yager's legacy in particular gave him a huge surprise.

Tens of millions of Source Crystals, and basic resources totaling several millions.

Various Advanced resources in substantial quantities.

Epic Grade items, seven.

perfect-grade items, sixty-two.

Hundreds of rare grade and excellent-grade items.

Equipment, items, Hero Tokens, troop talismans, construction blueprints... they had everything.

What Lin Xiao cared about most was, naturally, the Epic Grade items.

The seven Epic Grade items were: one Hero Token, two troop talismans, two pieces of equipment, and two construction blueprints.

Among them, the two construction blueprints were for a gravity magic well and a star dome barrier, both of which were defensive structures.

Not just the Epic Grade ones, but even the construction blueprints among the perfect-grade, rare grade, and excellent-grade items were, without exception, all defensive structures.

Auxiliary and functional structures like the lingyun terrace, however, were nowhere to be found.

Lin Xiao found this quite normal.

Who would keep auxiliary and functional structures in their inventory? They would have definitely built and used them long ago.

Unless one's luck was exceptionally good, obtaining the corresponding blueprints after destroying a territory was rare.

Looking at the Materials required for the two Epic Grade structures, Lin Xiao couldn't help but shake his head.

The requirements were too high.

He couldn't possibly build them anytime soon.

Although Yager's legacy provided a large amount of Advanced resources, Lin Xiao only obtained one-tenth of it. Basically, none of the sets were complete; he was either missing this or that.

And it was possible that Yager himself hadn't even gathered all of them.

The same went for the perfect-grade structures. On the other hand, the rare grade structures didn't have high requirements and could be built directly.

Lin Xiao did not delay, immediately starting to build on a large scale within his territory.

Before long, the empty spaces in the outer and inner cities were packed with various defensive structures.

Defense had always been the weak point of Lin Xiao's territory.

Lin Xiao knew all too well how he wiped others out in a single wave, and he certainly didn't want the same thing to happen to him.

Although others didn't have units as abnormal as his, he still had to guard against them.

The existence of these defensive structures would also improve the territory's overall strength, killing two birds with one stone.

Once the construction was completed, Lin Xiao summoned his heroes and units and distributed the equipment in his hands.

Not all of the harvested equipment was usable.

Even so, after this round of equipment upgrades, the quality of the equipment worn by Lin Xiao's army had improved by a large margin.

While they couldn't all be fully equipped with rare grade gear, every unit had more or less equipped some rare grade gear, boosting their strength by a lot.

The four heroes were even fully decked out in perfect-grade equipment.

The two Epic Grade pieces of equipment were a Battering Ram and a bow of destruction.

The Battering Ram was undoubtedly a behemoth, dealing high damage especially to large structures, while the bow of destruction pursued extreme lethality.

The former was handed to Zhong Yue by Lin Xiao, while the latter was given to Jiang Yao.

Although Lin Xiao could use both of these weapons himself, his stats were powerful and he had numerous skills, so he didn't really need this extra weapon. It was better to hand them to his heroes to make the best use of them.

Looking at the exaggeratedly designed Battering Ram in Zhong Yue's hands, Tu Lie suddenly felt that his mountain-splitting axe was no longer appealing...

The Hero Tokens and troop talismans, Lin Xiao kept them.

He had no intention of replacing his heroes and units. After all, dismissing them would also count as casualties.

Keeping them was just to be prepared.

After finishing these things, Lin Xiao opened the regional channel.