130: Chapter 130 Summoning the Winter Overlord (City Lord Level)

Amidst the raging fires of dragon breath, those Ice-Armored Undead that had just crawled out from underground were burned to ashes before they could even find their targets.

In less than ten seconds, tens of thousands of Ice-Armored Undead had all turned to dust.

The stream of white cold energy gathering toward the Winter Sovereign came to an abrupt halt.

Its body, which had just expanded halfway, suddenly froze, then began to shrink.

Boom!

The soul fire in its eye sockets dimmed instantly.

Immediately after, its body began to tremble violently.

Suddenly, bang!

Its knees could no longer support its frame, and it fell to its knees on the ground.

"Winter Sovereign's summoning has been forcibly interrupted! Backlash effect active! Entering stun state for 5 seconds!"

Seeing the prompt on the command panel, Xu Qin immediately spoke up.

"Tian Ming, what is its current status?"

"Replying to Master, its aura is weakening rapidly," Tian Ming replied.

"The summoning technique just now has overdrawn its core energy."

"Combined with the backlash from the interrupted spell… it can no longer hold on."

Hearing this, Xu Qin let out a long sigh.

"Finally…"

"Stop the ranged attacks. Keep the Bone Beasts surrounding it. Slowly whittle it down."

Boom, boom, boom!

The Bone Beasts surged forward, surrounding the Winter Sovereign tightly.

After 5 seconds passed, the Winter Sovereign awoke from its stun.

It stood up with difficulty, raised its greatsword, and slashed forward.

Boom!

-2310!

...

-2310!

Health locked, restored to full.

Under the continuous attacks of the Bone Beasts, the Winter Sovereign's health bar continued to slowly deplete.

Another minute passed.

The Winter Sovereign could no longer swing its greatsword.

Its strength was exhausted, and it knelt on one knee again.

At this moment, inside its eye sockets, the ice-blue soul fire was reduced to just a faint glimmer.

Tian Ming looked back at Xu Qin.

"Master, it has reached its limit."

"All units, cease fire."

The order was given.

One thousand Bone Beasts stopped attacking simultaneously.

The entire battlefield fell completely silent.

Xu Qin walked quickly from the Watchtower toward the elevator of the Combat Readiness Platform.

At the same time, the Floating City moved forward slowly, its shield stopping exactly thirty meters in front of the Winter Sovereign.

The moment the city gate opened, Python Emperor rushed out first, his eighty-meter-long skeletal snake body instantly coiling around Xu Qin layer by layer.

Through the gaps in Python Emperor's coils, Xu Qin looked at the ice-blue skeleton kneeling on the ground ahead.

It raised its head and looked at Xu Qin.

Two balls of soul fire, flickering on the verge of extinction, met Xu Qin's gaze.

Xu Qin raised his right hand.

"Undead Recruitment Order."

Ding!

"Target Identified: Winter Sovereign (Neutral · Legendary)"

"Target Current Health: Extremely Low (Estimated < 5%)"

"Recruitment Success Rate: 92%"

"Consume soul energy: 50000"

"Recruitment in progress…"

Hum!

Dark golden light lit up in Xu Qin's palm.

A chain shot out from his palm, wrapping around the Winter Sovereign's body.

The Winter Sovereign jerked its head up, the ice-blue soul fire in its eye sockets flickering violently, and its body began to struggle involuntarily.

But the more it struggled, the tighter the chain pulled.

Xu Qin watched with anticipation, waiting for the notification of successful recruitment.

Thirty seconds later, the Winter Sovereign's struggles grew weaker and weaker.

The dark golden light on the chain spread along its bones all the way into its chest cavity.

A fist-sized soul core was being enveloped bit by bit by the dark golden light.

Finally, the core's color changed from ice-blue to dark gold.

Ding!

"Recruitment Successful!"

"'Winter Sovereign' has been added to your command!"

"Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternally Loyal)"

Seeing this, Xu Qin finally let out a long sigh.

"Done."

Immediately, he opened the command panel and impatiently began browsing the hero list.

However, after scrolling through it from top to bottom…

Huh? Why isn't it there?

The Winter Sovereign was actually not in the hero list.

"Could it be that it's not a hero?"

Puzzled, Xu Qin checked the troop panel.

Sure enough, it wasn't there either.

With doubts, he closed the troop panel.

Then, on the main interface of the command panel, he saw a newly appeared tab: [Lord Unit].

"Huh? Is it a Lord?"

Xu Qin clicked it directly.

Sure enough, the first one on the list was [Winter Sovereign].

"Winter Sovereign (Lord-Level Unit · Legendary)"

"Level: 58"

"Attack Power: 6800 (Physical / Frost - Dual Attribute)"

"Defense: 3200"

"Health Points: 6200000 / 6200000 (Current Status: Severely Injured, Only 5% Remaining)"

"Command Type (Lord-Level): Can independently develop, build, and manage an area. Comes with the domain skill 'Eternal Frost Domain.' Within the domain, it can autonomously construct Frost-type buildings and summon Ice-Armored Undead garrisons."

"Special Note: Lord-Level units do not occupy Hall of Valor hero slots and do not occupy the commander cap. The areas they develop are considered the Lord's subsidiary sub-cities, and resources and troops can be interchanged through the teleportation system."

Xu Qin stared at the panel, his eyes widening.

Good heavens, this guy is actually a Lord?

According to the command description, this Winter Sovereign can independently build an area.

It's equivalent to… he caught himself a sub-city lord?

Xu Qin grinned.

He closed the panel and looked ahead.

The Winter Sovereign had slowly stood up and bowed its huge skull toward Xu Qin.

The ice-blue soul fire was calm and obedient.

"Come with me."

Xu Qin turned and walked into the Floating City.

"This godforsaken place doesn't suit you."

"Follow me… there is a bigger stage for you to perform on."

The Winter Sovereign followed silently, listening to Xu Qin's pep talk.

The moment it took a step, crack!

The massive ice-sealed coffin also floated up from the ground, hovering at its left side and moving along with it.

Seeing this, Xu Qin inexplicably felt a chill down his spine.

"It's fine, it's fine, it's a good omen. This is called promotion and wealth!!"

He repeatedly told himself in his heart, trying to appear calm and collected.

The group boarded the Floating City.

Upon arriving at the Lords Hall, Xu Qin clearly felt the temperature drop by over ten degrees.

He could see white mist when he breathed out.

He turned to look at the Winter Sovereign, which had consciously stood in the corner of the hall.

The guy's ice coffin was floating beside it, still emitting cold air.

"…Quite good."

"I'll save money on air conditioning in the future."

Tian Ming stood quietly to the side, not responding.

Xu Qin sat back on his bone throne, opened the command panel, and brought up the navigation interface.

After selecting the blue ruin to the northeast, he pressed the departure button.

Hum!

The Floating City slowly ascended, turned, and flew at full speed toward the northeast.

…

Half a day later.

In the Lords Hall.

Xu Qin was wrapped in an animal skin, sitting on the bone throne, shivering from time to time.

He looked at the Winter Sovereign standing in the corner, thinking about how to maximize its value.

"Once I take down the next ruin, I'll station you there and have you take charge of building the sub-city, so I can have it easier."