123: Chapter 123 Serpent God's Stele

Five columns deployed in a fan shape.

Tian Ming took the center, commanding four thousand seven hundred liches to serve as support for the army's sustainability.

Manniu was in the north, leading three thousand three hundred Stitched Bone Beasts to push forward horizontally.

Blade Guard and Jackal Hunter went to the northeast, with four thousand five hundred Sand Jackals and Orcs cutting in from the flanks.

Chuan Yun and Tietang were on Tian Ming's flanks, leading three thousand elite Elven Archers and two thousand elite Musketeers to snipe lone enemy soldiers from a distance.

Xu Qin flipped through the reports from the Sand Rats, marking the traps hidden near the army on the command panel.

Afterward, he said to Tian Ming, "Tian Ming, watch out for traps."

"Yes!"

The words had barely left his lips.

Ding!

[Battle Victory! Kills: Lizardman Lord × 1, Units × 2400]

"Oh? So fast?"

Xu Qin looked at the command panel.

It had only been four minutes since the troops were deployed.

...

North side.

A Gray Vulture Tribe Lord was standing on the wall of their stronghold, directing soldiers to pile stones at the city gate.

"Hurry! Block the road!"

Its idea was simple.

Although the stronghold was small, the stone wall was two meters high and could at least hold out for a while.

But when it turned around after blocking the gate,

six Stitched Bone Beasts were already standing outside the city wall.

However, they did not ram the gate.

The nearly five-meter-tall Bone Beasts raised their forelimbs and grabbed the top of the wall directly.

Then, with a forceful tug,

Crack!

the entire wall was crushed.

The two-meter-high stone wall was useless in front of the five-meter-tall Bone Beasts.

The Gray Vulture Tribe Lord looked at the giant Bone Beasts stepping over the rubble and walking toward it, its face full of terror.

At that moment, the scene from when it first arrived flashed before its eyes.

...

East side.

Tian Ming floated in mid-air, the dark green light on his nether crown flashing.

Wither.

Within a radius of twenty-six meters, an entire area was shrouded in shadows.

The defense of four thousand defenders in a Bloodhoof Tribe stronghold instantly dropped by 70%.

Then, Chuan Yun raised his bow.

Swish, swish, swish!

Three thousand elite Elven Archers fired in unison.

A rain of arrows fell.

- 357! - 357! - 357! - 357! ...

Bloodhoof Tribe warriors who would normally require four or five arrows to kill now fell with a single shot.

Twelve seconds later.

There were no living things left standing in the stronghold.

Tian Ming didn't even look back as he floated toward the next target.

...

Southeast.

A Zerg Lord was sprinting with its brood mother and three hundred elites.

Its sense of smell was extremely keen.

It judged immediately that it couldn't win, so it decisively chose to abandon the city and flee.

It ran for two kilometers.

It looked back at the rear and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Very good, they didn't follow."

"With those guys to fill the Undead Lord's belly, I should be fine..."

Then it turned its head.

It saw that thirty meters ahead,

Jackal Hunter was standing there, and behind him were one thousand one hundred Undead Sand Jackals.

Zerg Lord: "..."

Jackal Hunter's bone claws scraped hard against the ground.

Shadow Rend Strike!

...

Floating City.

Xu Qin's command panel kept popping up notification messages.

[Battle Victory! Kills: Gray Vulture Tribe Lord × 1...]

[Battle Victory! Kills: Bloodhoof Tribe Lord × 1...]

[Battle Victory! Kills: Zerg Lord × 1...]

[Battle Victory! Kills...]

One every three to five minutes.

At first, Xu Qin clicked to check them, but later he just turned off the panel.

It was a bit noisy.

It's better to wait for Tian Ming to report later.

The entire clearing process lasted two and a half hours.

Forty-seven strongholds, all wiped out.

During this time, the eighty Bone Dragons led by Longgu also returned to the Floating City, and Xu Qin directly ordered them to stand by on the Combat Readiness Platform.

He had to let these dragons rest well, otherwise the battle losses would go up again.

Ding!

[Battle Ended! Summarizing settlement...]

Xu Qin put down his bone bowl and sat up straight.

[Total Kills: Alien Lords × 47, Units × 184720]

[Basic Drops Summary: Various Bones × 226400, ...]

[Talent "War Gift" triggered! All loot quantity × 20!]

[Final Acquisition:]

[Various Bones × 4528000]

[...]

Xu Qin looked at the four million five hundred thousand bones, seventy-six million soul energy, and all sorts of messy wood, stone, ore, leather, magic crystals...

"So much... can the treasury hold it all?"

He opened the treasury capacity.

[Treasury Capacity: 78% → Overflow!]

[Warning: Treasury full! Please expand or transfer resources!]

"Tsk... this is the only downside of the Floating City."

Xu Qin rubbed his temples with a headache, but the corners of his mouth were already stretched to his ears.

"The warehouse is too small!"

For the entire next day, Xu Qin collected all the loot scattered around the ruins and brought it back to the Floating City.

During this time, he had to throw all the resources he didn't need into the [myriad race spirit furnace].

It Hetero-smelted a pile of things he didn't even know what they were.

It didn't matter; they were all basic resources, and smelting them was better than throwing them away.

Looking at the overflowing resources, Xu Qin wiped the sweat from his forehead. Oh, he hadn't expected organizing resources to be so tiring.

Then he opened the War Gift panel.

The upgrade progress for War Gift was already over halfway.

But Xu Qin shook his head as he looked at the progress bar.

"Wiped out forty-seven opponents, yet it still only gives a C-rank rating. That's really unreasonable."

He closed the panel, walked to the edge of the Watchtower, and looked at the ruins.

He saw a massive figure in the center of the huge circular entrance.

Xu Qin opened the command panel and pulled up the high-altitude reconnaissance footage from the vultures.

In the footage, a giant python of astonishing size was coiled on the central plaza of the ruins.

Its snake body was covered in dark gold scales, and its total length was estimated to exceed eighty meters.

Behind the giant python was a snake-shaped stone sculpture.

On the base of the stone sculpture, a fragment emitting a pale golden light was embedded.

Xu Qin clicked on the stone sculpture.

[Serpent Sacred Monument (Relic · Legendary)]

[Effect: After being implanted in the territory, all of the Lord's units' Health permanently +15%. When receiving fatal damage, there is an 8% chance to trigger the "Serpent Molt" effect (prevent death once, restore 30% Health; each unit can trigger this at most once every 24 hours).]

Xu Qin raised his eyebrows after reading it.

"Health +15%, plus a death-prevention mechanism..."

No wonder these Lords wanted to gather one hundred thousand troops to seize it.

In the hands of any Lord, this thing would be a qualitative improvement.

Xu Qin closed the relic description and looked back at the giant python.

He opened the giant python's intelligence transmitted back by the vultures again.

[Ancient Spirit Giant Python (Ruins Guardian Beast)]

[Level: ?]

[Attack Power: ???]

[Defense: ??]

[Health: ???/???]

[Skills: ???]

[Note: This target possesses "Shielding Ability," unable to read detailed information.]

"Shielding Ability, that powerful?"

Xu Qin touched his chin.

Being unable to see the specific values meant the level of this python far exceeded the upper limit of the vultures' reconnaissance capability.

But...

The fact that that alliance of small fry dared to gather one hundred thousand troops to attack it meant that while this thing was strong, it was far from being unsolvable.

Xu Qin looked at Longgu.

Send Longgu out directly?