141: Chapter 141 He won't come.

Feeling the buff from [Rock God's Blessing], Xu Qin nodded in satisfaction.

With this buff, the defensive capabilities of Winter City would improve by another notch.

He began to patrol the city just like that.

"Master."

Winter Sovereign walked to Xu Qin's side and began to report the progress.

"Twelve sections of Frost Bone Wall and six Frost Watchtowers have been built within the city."

"The first batch of Ice-Armored Undead are currently being converted."

"It is estimated that a basic garrison will be formed in twenty-four hours."

Xu Qin nodded.

This sub-city lord was truly worry-free.

He only needed to provide permissions and resources, while the relic city defense and troop sources were all arranged by Winter Sovereign itself.

This was much more comfortable than making him stare at the command panel to work.

"If resources are insufficient, transfer them from Yongyuan City."

"Yes."

Winter Sovereign raised its hand.

An ice crystal panel floated in front of Xu Qin.

[Winter City Resource Reserves]

[Wood: 126000]

[Stone: 148000]

[Refined Iron Ore: 115000]

[Magic Crystal: 870]

[soul energy: 326000]

[Yongyuan City Resource Transmission Status: Stable]

[Guling Holy City Resource Transmission Status: Stable]

The resource lines for the three cities had already been connected.

Yongyuan City was responsible for gathering.

Guling Holy City was responsible for stacking troops and transit.

Winter City was responsible for defense and reinforcements.

Xu Qin's Floating City focused on expansion.

"Not bad."

Xu Qin walked to the city wall and found that the surface was covered in a layer of ice.

It felt cold just looking at it.

However, the undead were not afraid of the cold.

"I leave Winter City to you."

"If Yongyuan City is invaded, you must provide timely support; that is our home base."

Winter Sovereign bowed slightly.

"Yes."

Xu Qin turned and walked toward the Floating City, preparing to leave.

The materials needed to upgrade the Lords Hall to level ten had all been placed in the treasury.

Only the final upgrade time remained.

And during this time, he didn't plan to stay idle.

The Floating City slowly rose and flew toward the next relic.

Xu Qin walked into the hall, and just as he sat on the bone throne, the command panel popped up a private message.

[Sender: Tie Ge]

Xu Qin opened it to view.

[Tie Ge: My Lord, the relic is spawning monsters again.]

[Tie Ge: I am afraid the number of invaders this time is very large.]

[Tie Ge: Could you send a unit over? It doesn't need to be many, just help us hold the gap.]

Xu Qin did not reply.

The combat power of those fifteen lords was not strong to begin with; it was impossible for them to hold out.

Defeat was only a matter of time.

Not long after, Tie Ge sent another message.

[Tie Ge: My Lord, we are willing to acknowledge you as our master and hand over all our inventory to you.]

[Tie Ge: We only hope you can take action to save us.]

Take you all as underlings?

Xu Qin almost laughed out loud.

Are these lords even worthy?

As for the inventory...

Consuming troops to fight relics every day, how much could they possibly have?

At most a few hundred or a thousand.

To make the Floating City take a detour for this little bit of stuff?

And split troops to save people?

Pure loss!

Besides...

Fifteen lords.

The average troop strength is less than three thousand.

Added together, that's over forty thousand miscellaneous troops.

It sounds like a lot.

But they are all living troop types.

They need to eat the moment they open their eyes every day.

They are fine when fighting a winning battle.

Once the battle damage is high, loyalty drops, morale drops, and they run faster than anyone else.

The biggest advantage of him leading the undead to fight is that it is worry-free.

He orders them to charge, they charge.

He orders them to die, and they have no complaints.

Recruit a bunch of living troops that will run away as underlings?

That's just creating work for himself.

"A bunch of useless guys."

Xu Qin closed the private message.

The Void Rift Demons spreading out from the relic was not entirely a bad thing.

They would roam around, and secretly, they also played a role in protecting the relic.

Moreover, killing them could yield materials and farm experience.

No matter how you look at it, it was much more cost-effective than saving fifteen lords.

Furthermore, if he took them as underlings, he would have to preside over the big picture for no reason.

It was purely looking for trouble.

...

On the other side.

Outside the portal relic.

Tie Ge looked at the command panel, waiting for Xu Qin's reply.

Time passed second by second.

Unknowingly, five minutes had already passed.

Still no reply.

On the front line, the Orc Heavy Infantry were retreating in defeat.

The Void Rift Demons followed closely behind, rushing out and brandishing their dark purple claws, slashing toward an Orc infantryman.

Pfft!

An Orc warrior's breastplate was slashed open.

Their health points dropped to zero.

The morale of the Orc Heavy Infantry began to decline.

"Hold the line!"

Tie Ge roared, holding his battle axe,

"Hold the line for me!"

But just as he finished speaking, a Void Rift Demon jumped directly from mid-air into the defensive line.

It pierced an Orc's shoulder with one claw and threw it backward with force.

Rip!

Flesh and blood flew, falling to the ground.

[Morale Decreased!]

[Orc Heavy Infantry Morale: High → Normal!]

Tie Ge's eyelids twitched.

Immediately after, another system notification popped up.

[Orc Heavy Infantry Morale: Normal → Low!]

"Where are the Archers in the back!"

"Shoot!"

The Orc Archers in the rear drew their bows.

Swish, swish, swish!

Arrows were shot out haphazardly in all directions.

Seeing this scene, Tie Ge suddenly realized that they couldn't hold out today.

On the other side, the Treant Lord Ta Lun also arrived in a disheveled state.

Its bark armor was full of cracks.

"Give up."

Tie Ge gritted his teeth and asked,

"That undead hasn't replied yet, wait a bit longer."

"Wait for what? He won't come."

"How do you know?"

Ta Lun looked ahead.

"He kept us to block the gate."

"Now that the gate cannot be blocked, we are useless."

Ta Lun withdrew its gaze and continued,

"When we placed our hope in him, the ending of failure was already doomed."

Tie Ge did not refute; he agreed with what Ta Lun said.

From the very beginning, the fifteen lords had no qualifications to negotiate terms with Xu Qin.

He was willing to keep them because they could still block monsters.

Now that they couldn't block them, there was naturally no need to pay attention.

Shouts came from afar again.

"The western defensive line has collapsed!"

"The Void Rift Demons have rushed in!"

"Ci Jia's troops have run away!"

Tie Ge looked up.

The Lizardman defensive line had broken.

A large group of Void Rift Demons rushed out from the gap.

The Lizardman soldiers dropped their weapons and fled backward.

Ci Jia stood on a high platform, his face looking ugly.

[Lizardman Warrior Morale: Collapsed!]

[Some units refuse to execute orders!]

[Some units have entered a fleeing state!]

Tie Ge's morale completely collapsed.

He slammed his battle axe onto the ground.

"Run!"

Ta Lun looked at him.

Tie Ge looked up, his voice dry.

"Everyone run!"

"Whoever wants to defend, let them defend."

The defensive line of the fifteen lords completely collapsed within half an hour.

The Void Rift Demons crossed the defensive line and demolished all the buildings on the periphery of the relic.

Tie Ge led less than eight hundred Orcs to break out of the encirclement.

When he looked back, he saw Ta Lun's Treant troops still behind.

The Treants walked slowly.

Some had already been caught up by the Void Rift Demons.

Tie Ge wanted to go back.

But these were the only Orcs left by his side.

Going back wouldn't save them.

It gritted its teeth and continued to flee.

...

Inside the Floating City.

Xu Qin had no idea about the situation at the portal relic.

At this moment, his attention was entirely on the command panel.

[Lords Hall Upgrading: 99.8%]

Ding!

[Lords Hall upgrade complete!]

[Lords Hall: Level 9 → Level 10!]

[Territory range expanded!]

[Floating City base durability increased!]

[Lords Protection range: 800 meters → 1200 meters!]

[Level cap for all Floating City zones increased to Level 10!]

[New feature unlocked: Floating City Teleportation Array!]

[High-level forging feature unlocked: bone essence extraction!]