116: Chapter 116 Leaving the Human Zone

Three days later.

Xu Qin stood at the edge of the Floating City, looking at the resource numbers on the command panel with a satisfied expression.

With the 300% regeneration rate of the Resource Temple and the tireless gathering efficiency of fifty thousand Troglodytes, the basic resources were all overflowing within three days.

"This is what you call sustainable development!"

Xu Qin opened the Lords Hall upgrade panel.

All material requirements were green.

He clicked [Upgrade] directly.

Ding!

[Lords Hall upgrade started: Level 8 → Level 9]

[Time required: 288 hours (12 days)]

[During the upgrade, the passive effects of the Lords Hall will remain unchanged.]

Done.

Xu Qin closed the building panel and opened the management interface for the relic branch city.

He found the name [Wasteland Outpost · Relic Branch City] increasingly unpleasant to look at.

"What kind of name is Wasteland Outpost? It's too tacky."

He clicked the rename option, thought for a moment, and typed in three characters.

[Yongyuan City]

Ding!

[Relic branch city has been renamed to: Yongyuan City]

"Hmm, this is better."

Xu Qin closed the interface and began to consider his next action plan.

He opened the command panel and looked at the dense list of troop types.

He had to go find the holy artifact next, a journey of three thousand kilometers, and anything could happen along the way.

But the relic couldn't be left empty.

This place was his logistical base; resource regeneration, teleporters, and buff buildings were all here.

If another lord attacked and dismantled it, all his hard work would be in vain.

Xu Qin calculated.

He couldn't leave too few troops behind, but he couldn't leave all his main force here either.

"Leave thirty thousand Troglodytes behind to be responsible for continuous gathering and transportation."

"Leave four Bone Dragons behind to patrol."

With four dragons perched above the relic, what lord would dare to approach within a hundred kilometers?

"Leave all twenty-two Earth Spirit heroes and twenty-two Orc heroes behind."

These auxiliary heroes were super soldiers themselves, so leaving them here to handle patrol duties was perfect.

Xu Qin continued to scroll down.

Elite Skeleton Warthog, Elite Sand Snake, Scorpion, Elite Sand Lizard, Elite Corrosion Beast, Rift Guard...

Although these troop types belonged to the primary system, they were bolstered by their +460 reinforcement level.

A +460 Rift Guard had over ten thousand HP and over eight hundred attack power.

In this area, it was a mini-boss level existence.

"Leave them all!"

Xu Qin added all the primary combat units to the garrison list in one go.

"Set up an automatic patrol route covering all resource points around the relic. If an enemy enters, attack directly without asking for instructions."

Ding!

[Garrison orders issued.]

After deployment was complete, Xu Qin opened the space status bar of the Combat Readiness Platform.

Previously, the Combat Readiness Platform was packed with over a hundred thousand troops, and space was tight.

Now that he had offloaded all the primary units and Troglodytes at the relic...

"Hehe!"

Xu Qin chuckled.

He opened his inventory and looked at the 80 sets of dragon bones.

He hadn't touched this stock before because the Combat Readiness Platform couldn't fit more dragons.

What about now?

Open the Resurrection Platform to full capacity.

Take out all the dragon bones and convert them one by one!

His soul energy was already overflowing.

This bit of soul energy consumption was just a drizzle.

The Resurrection Platform began to operate.

Every ten seconds, a set of dragon bones transformed into a Bone Dragon.

Fifteen minutes later.

On the Combat Readiness Platform, eighty Bone Dragons stood densely.

"..."

Xu Qin looked at these Bone Dragons and laughed out loud.

"That's quite a lot."

A spectacular scene involuntarily appeared before his eyes.

Dragon Bone leading eighty Bone Dragons descending from the sky, breathing soul energy and scorching the earth.

"No, I get excited just thinking about it."

"Let's go!"

Hum!

The Floating City engines started at full power, slowly ascending.

Below the relic, thirty thousand Troglodytes were still busy gathering and transporting.

Four Bone Dragons were perched on the city wall towers, their bone wings spread out.

In the surrounding resource points, patrol squads consisting of Rift Guards and Elite Corrosion Beasts had already begun moving along their routes.

Xu Qin went to the Watchtower and looked down from high above.

He saw undead units scattered everywhere within dozens of kilometers of Yongyuan City.

Patrol squads made of white bones marched on the ground.

"It should be able to hold out for a while."

Xu Qin turned the Floating City and flew at full speed toward the northeast.

Yongyuan City behind him grew smaller and smaller, eventually disappearing below the horizon.

...

One day later.

Xu Qin sat up from his bone throne and rubbed his eyes.

He yawned and walked to the Watchtower to look outside.

He saw that the scenery on the ground had changed drastically.

Previously, it was an endless gravel wasteland and sparse forests,

but now the land below was exposed black rock layers.

In the distance, there were large areas of dark red vegetation.

"Where have I flown to?"

Ding!

The command panel automatically popped up a notification.

[Notification: You have left the "Human Territory".]

[Current location: Myriad Races Conflict Zone.]

[Warning: Traces of multi-racial lord activity exist in this area, and the frequency of war is extremely high. Please remain vigilant.]

Xu Qin stared at this line of text, his eyes widening.

"Human Territory?"

He recalled.

From the moment he was summoned until now, the lords he had encountered were indeed all human.

So it wasn't a coincidence; it was intentional to throw all human lords into the same area to "raise Gu."

And now, he was piloting the Floating City out of that range.

"Myriad Races Conflict Zone, huh?"

Xu Qin immediately opened the command panel and halved the cruising speed of the Floating City.

Hum!

The Floating City's speed dropped from sixty to thirty kilometers per hour.

Subsequently, he released one thousand Skeleton Vultures and one thousand Sand Rats to scout the area fifty kilometers ahead.

One thousand Skeleton Vultures took off from the Combat Readiness Platform and scattered in all directions.

One thousand Skeleton Sand Rats crawled out from the descent platform and immediately burrowed underground upon landing.

Xu Qin sat back on the bone throne, waiting for the reconnaissance feedback.

Fifteen minutes later.

The first batch of information came back.

A building complex was discovered twenty-three kilometers ahead.

Red marker.

Xu Qin clicked on the details.

[Alien Territory (Hostile)]

[Race: Merman Tribe]

[Lord Level: Unknown]

[Troop size: approx. 3000-5000 (estimated)]

A few minutes later.

The second and third reconnaissance reports were sent back in succession.

Within half an hour, he found six red strongholds in a fan-shaped area fifty kilometers ahead with the vultures.

Merman Tribe, Rock Demon Tribe, Thorn Tribe, Bloodhoof Tribe...

All of them were alien races.

Xu Qin looked at the scattered red markers on the map and wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.

He couldn't help it; his reputation in the human territory was too notorious.

Those lords ran faster than rabbits, and he couldn't find a single living person within thousands of kilometers.

But as soon as he left the human territory, strongholds were everywhere.

"Good!"

Xu Qin stood up from the bone throne.

In the Human Territory, he still had to have some shame before attacking.

At least he had to make up a few words for a declaration of war.

But now...

Alien races?

Screw that, time to completely let loose!

"Tian Ming."

"Here."

"There are six alien territories ahead."

Xu Qin pointed to the nearest red dot on the map and said with a smile:

"Let's use the closest one to test our blades first."

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