131: Chapter 131 Blocking the Door and Grinding Monsters?

The Floating City was flying at high speed through the air.

Inside the Lords Hall.

Xu Qin sat on the bone throne, looking at the region map on the command panel.

On the map, the blue light dot in the northeast direction was getting closer and closer.

Just then. Ding! A reconnaissance report from the ruins was sent back by the vultures.

Xu Qin opened it to take a look.

The content stated that within a fifty-kilometer radius of the blue ruins, fifteen alien territory markers had been discovered.

The racial composition of these aliens was very complex, including Orcs, Treants, Lizardmen, and more.

"Only fifteen lords?" Xu Qin analyzed while stroking his chin. "The lords here are really slacking off."

He zoomed in on the reconnaissance map and looked at the area surrounding the blue light dot.

He saw densely packed territory icons distributed to the south and west of the ruins, arranged in a semi-circle.

"The building scale isn't large; it looks like they are all branch cities," Xu Qin muttered to himself. "But the defensive fortifications are built quite densely."

"Looking at it this way, they all seem quite capable..." Xu Qin studied the alien territories carefully, looking for a breakthrough point.

But the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong.

Because all the defensive fortifications of the territories were facing the direction of the ruins.

Logically speaking, if these lords intended to compete for the ruins, they should have directed their troops and defensive fortifications towards other lords.

After drawing a circle on the map, Xu Qin concluded: "They are camping the spawn."

"These people aren't fighting over the ruins; they are defending."

"Preventing whatever is coming out of the ruins from escaping."

Xu Qin stood up and wrapped the animal skin tightly around himself.

Fifteen lords surrounding a single point in a defensive formation.

Isn't this just camping the spawn at a dungeon entrance?

What level of monsters must be inside to make so many alien lords choose to cooperate?

"Interesting."

Xu Qin opened another real-time reconnaissance feed sent back by a vulture.

In the footage, the outline of the ruins was already vaguely visible.

He saw that outside the ruins, a layer of visible dark purple mist permeated the air, obscuring the outline of the ruins and making it appear and disappear.

"I must obtain more accurate intelligence." Xu Qin clicked on the command panel and selected the vultures scouting near the ruins. "Scatter, all of you, and get a clear look at the situation behind the defensive line."

...

Thirty minutes later.

The vultures sent back clearer footage.

Xu Qin watched the footage and instantly perked up.

On the ground in front of the defensive line, a large number of monster remains were scattered.

The remains were uniformly humanoid in form, covered in dark purple scales, and ranged in size from three to five meters.

And the quantity was immense.

Just within a one-kilometer area in front of the defensive line, there were thousands of remains.

Xu Qin flipped through the reconnaissance report while recalling: "These monsters... why do they look a bit familiar?"

He rolled his eyes while thinking.

"Why do they look a bit like an Erosion Beast?"

Could it be the previous Rift invasion?

Xu Qin instantly became interested. He zoomed in on the footage and carefully observed the details of the remains.

Suddenly, he saw a small, dark purple crystal inside the chest cavity of one of the remains. Xu Qin was stunned at first, then seemed to remember something.

He hurriedly opened the equipment list in the [Forging Area] and found the forging blueprint for the Bone Emperor's Scepter.

[Bone Emperor's Scepter (Legendary · Orange)]

[Main Materials:]

[Bone × 100]

[Abyssal Bone Marrow × 50]

[void soul crystal × 20]

[Bone Essence × 100]

Among them, the void soul crystal was a dark purple crystal.

Xu Qin looked at the small purple stone in the footage, then looked at the [void soul crystal] on the blueprint.

Alike! Really alike!

"... Tian Ming."

"Present, Master."

"Look at this purple crystal, does it look like a void soul crystal?"

Xu Qin dragged the reconnaissance report into Tian Ming's avatar.

After analyzing it for a moment, Tian Ming nodded his skull.

"Reporting to Master, the energy characteristics are highly consistent."

Xu Qin suddenly realized.

No wonder these alien lords were lingering here and refusing to leave.

A broken ruin that could continuously spawn monsters and also drop rare materials.

Isn't this just a natural, infinite spawn point?

Fifteen lords surrounding the gate; on the surface, it was defense, but in reality, they were camping to farm materials.

However...

Xu Qin looked again at the density of the remains.

Judging by the scale of these alien forces, they probably lose quite a few troops fighting one wave of monsters.

Investing so many troops just for a few materials?

Why does it feel like they are farming at a loss?" Xu Qin scratched his head, looking puzzled.

But soon, he threw the question to the back of his mind.

"Forget it, it's none of my business, as long as I can make a profit, that's all that matters."

His War Gift was currently level 19, and a few more battles would get it to level 20.

By then, for every one he hits, it could drop 21.

"First, wipe them all out, then monopolize the ruins." Xu Qin opened the control interface for the Floating City and increased the speed to the maximum.

...

Just as the Floating City was speeding over.

Signs of collapse appeared on the front line of the ruins.

On the east side of the front line, inside the Tie Ge's territory.

Tie Ge stood on the command tower, looking at the defensive line ahead, his face ashen.

Strange, why were the monsters endless?

This was already the third wave today.

Logically, there should be at most two waves a day.

But today, before nightfall, a third wave had already spawned.

At this rate, after this wave was finished, they would have to spawn again shortly.

What was even more troublesome was that the number of monsters in this wave was more than the previous two combined.

Rumbles!

Dense, muffled thunderous sounds came from the direction of the ruins again.

He saw dark purple [Void Rift Demon]s rushing out from the direction of the ruins, looking like a tide.

"Heavy infantry, forward! Shield wall!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Two hundred Orc heavy infantry raised their shields and lined up, blocking the defensive line.

Boom!

The first Void Rift Demon slammed into the shield wall.

-89!

-89!

Ugh!

Three heavy infantry were knocked back half a step, and cracks appeared on the edges of their shields.

Immediately after.

Clang, clang, clang!

One monster after another slammed into it.

The weak shield wall defensive line already had gaps.

Tie Ge saw this, and a look of worry appeared in his eyes.

He looked at the second row and saw that the morale of those Orc warriors had already begun to drop.

Suddenly!

Ah!!!

A scream came from within the defensive line.

He saw the arm of a heavy infantryman being torn off by a Void Rift Demon.

Pfft!

-210!

Fresh blood splattered, spraying onto the faces of the two rows of Orcs behind.

Beep!

A system notification popped up.

[Your Orc warriors' morale: High → Low]

[Reason: Witnessing a comrade's gruesome death]

Tie Ge's heart sank, and he immediately shouted:

"Hold! Hold the line for me! Reinforcements are arriving soon!"

However.

As another heavy infantryman had his head bitten off by a Void Rift Demon.

The warriors in the back row finally broke.

"Run!"

[Orc Archer morale: Low → Broken]

[Unit has lost the will to fight and refuses to execute orders!]

"A bunch of cowards!" Tie Ge roared, "Get back here!"

But no soldiers paid him any mind.

The defensive line collapsed instantly.

The Void Rift Demon tide rushed in instantly.

Tie Ge saw this and hurriedly looked at the Treant defensive line on the left flank.

He saw that the other side also showed signs of collapse.

However, the Treants did not retreat; they were simply crushed.

The wooden wall of the Treant Lord's territory was torn open by the Void Rift Demons, and a large number of monsters flooded into the rear, beginning to slaughter the fleeing Elven Archer units.

Lord Ta Lun's voice appeared in the regional channel.

Lord Ta Lun · Treant: The third wave of the demon tide has erupted! The number exceeds 15,000! The front line has collapsed! All lords, please send troops to support immediately!!

Tie Ge: Mine has collapsed too!

Ci Jia · Lizardman: My troops just finished rotating, it will take fifteen minutes to assemble!

Lord Ta Lun · Treant: Fifteen minutes?! Do you want us to die here?!

Tie Ge turned off the channel, not wanting to look anymore.

All he needed to do now was rally his remaining troops and retreat to the second-line fortifications.

As long as his territory could be saved, he would... Hmm?

Just then, a black shadow swept overhead.

He subconsciously looked up.

He saw that in the sky, suddenly there was an extra... Hmm?

A city.

"That is..." Tie Ge widened his eyes.

Floating City?