142: Chapter 142 The Bone Emperor's Scepter!

bone essence!!!

Xu Qin stood up from his bone throne with a start.

"I knew it would be like this!"

Since discovering the blueprint for the bone emperor scepter, he had successively obtained the abyssal bone marrow and the void soul crystal.

The only thing missing was the bone essence.

At the time, he had suspected whether the bone essence might be a technology waiting to be unlocked by the Undead Race.

As it turned out, hey, it really was.

This material was produced by the Forging Area itself.

"Fine!"

"As long as it can be produced, that's fine."

Xu Qin first clicked on the bone essence extraction instructions.

[bone essence Extraction]

[Function Description: Deposit high-quality skeletons and use soul fire to refine them, extracting the bone essence from the bones.]

[Extraction Ratio: 1,000 High-Quality Skeletons can be extracted into 1 bone essence.]

[If Elite-grade, Lord-grade, or Legendary-grade skeletons are deposited, the extraction efficiency will increase.]

[The current Forging Area level is insufficient; it must be upgraded to Level 10 to unlock.]

One thousand high-quality skeletons for one bone essence.

The bone emperor scepter required one hundred.

One hundred thousand.

He had over four million skeletons in his possession.

Let alone one hundred.

He had enough to extract four thousand.

Xu Qin looked at the treasury and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He used to think there were too many skeleton piles, taking up space.

Now, looking at it,

it seemed like it wasn't enough.

"Upgrade the Forging Area."

[Forging Area Upgrade: Level 9 → Level 10]

[Cost: Wood × 80,000, Stone × 80,000, ...]

[Estimated Time: 72 hours]

Xu Qin clicked confirm directly, then...

"Accelerate."

[soul energy Infusion]!

[Consumed soul energy: 648,000]

[Remaining Forging Area Upgrade Time: 7 hours 12 minutes]

No problem.

Just seven hours.

He then clicked on the newly unlocked Floating City Teleportation Array.

[Floating City Teleportation Array]

[Construction Requirements: Magic Zone Level 10]

[Effect: The Floating City can establish an instant teleportation connection with any bound branch city ruin.]

[Single Teleportation Limit: 10,000 units.]

[Teleportation Cooldown: 60 minutes.]

[Note: This teleportation cooldown is calculated independently from the branch city teleportation network.]

"Finally, it can be networked!"

Xu Qin let out a long sigh.

Although the three branch cities could transfer troops between each other,

once the Floating City flew out,

the connection between the main force and the rear would be severed.

But now, it was different.

Wherever the Floating City went,

the rear forces could be replenished there.

Resources could also be pulled over directly.

He no longer needed to worry about the Combat Readiness Platform not having enough space,

or the problem of supplies not keeping up during long expeditions.

Seven hours later.

The Forging Area upgrade was complete.

In the center of the furnace, a black bone platform appeared.

Xu Qin selected 200,000 high-quality skeletons from the treasury.

Rock Demons, Giant Pythons, Giant Dragons, Void Rift Demons, Bloodhoof Tribe, Stone Spirit Clan...

Batch after batch of skeletons were sent into the furnace.

[bone essence Extraction Complete!]

[Obtained: bone essence × 286]

Xu Qin picked up a piece of bone essence.

It was only the size of a fingernail, with a white light shining on its surface.

The final material for the bone emperor scepter, collected!

He opened the forging panel and placed all the materials into the forging table.

[bone emperor scepter (Legendary)]

[Skeletons × 100]

[abyssal bone marrow × 50]

[void soul crystal × 20]

[bone essence × 100]

[Forge: bone emperor scepter?]

[After confirmation, materials cannot be returned.]

Xu Qin clicked confirm.

Ding!

The forging table lit up with an orange glow.

[Forging bone emperor scepter...]

Hum!

The four materials were enveloped by soul fire and slowly melted into a single mass.

Xu Qin stood in front of the forging table, watching curiously.

Ding!

[Forging Successful!]

[Obtained: bone emperor scepter (Legendary)]

In the center of the forging table, a white bone scepter floated up.

The staff body was about 1.5 meters long, entirely spliced together from dozens of bone segments of different colors.

There was no gemstone at the top, only a fist-sized black-purple void soul crystal.

Inside the void soul crystal, tiny slivers of shadow energy flowed.

Xu Qin reached out and grasped it.

A surge of power flowed from his palm into his body.

The command panel popped up a notification.

[Detected Lord Equipment: bone emperor scepter!]

[Equip?]

"Oh ho? A Lord can use it too? Does this mean... I can fight in the future too?"

Xu Qin raised an eyebrow.

He had originally thought this thing was prepared for Tian Ming.

He only needed to strategize from behind the scenes.

Now looking at it...

Did he, as a Lord, still have a chance to be a grand mage?

Xu Qin clicked confirm.

Hum!

The bone emperor scepter fell into his hand.

[bone emperor scepter (Legendary)]

[Type: Staff/Scepter]

[Equipment Requirement: Undead Lord, Undead Mage Hero Unit]

[Attack Bonus: +1200 (Shadow)]

[Spell Damage: +35%]

[Shadow Damage: +50%]

[Effect 1: Bone Emperor Majesty (Passive) (With the wearer as the center, within a 200-meter radius, all friendly Undead units gain +15% Attack, +15% Defense, and +20% HP Recovery Speed)]

[Effect 2: Soul Fire Command (Passive) (When the wearer casts Undead-type skills, skill range +30%, cooldown reduction 15%, soul energy consumption reduced by 20%)]

[Effect 3: Bone Revival (Active) (Designate a 100-meter radius area to summon bone soul fire. All destroyed friendly Undead units within the area have a 30% chance to immediately reassemble and resurrect. Lasts 10 seconds. Cooldown 30 minutes)]

[Effect 4: Bone Emperor's Might (Active) (Release the Bone Emperor Domain. Enemy units within a 300-meter radius take 1200 points of shadow damage per second, Attack -25%, Defense -25%, Movement Speed -30%. Lasts 12 seconds. Cooldown 2 minutes)]

[Effect 5: Undead Imperial Authority (Passive) (Within the wearer's command range, Undead units have their immunity rate increased by 100% when affected by living race skills, morale suppression, or fear-type effects)]

"These two area skills are a bit outrageous," Xu Qin couldn't help but exclaim.

Once Bone Emperor's Might is activated, that's 1,200 damage per second within 300 meters.

This damage doesn't insta-kill high-tier units.

But on the battlefield, the one thing there is no shortage of is cannon fodder.

With one round of the domain, low-tier units are cleared out directly.

Looking at Bone Revival again.

He has [Undead Immortality].

A 50% chance for a free resurrection after battle.

Now the bone emperor scepter has given another in-battle resurrection.

Wraith Fury is responsible for self-destruction.

Bone Revival is responsible for pulling people back.

Undead Immortality is responsible for the post-battle return.

"Isn't this just making employees die repeatedly and work repeatedly?"

"Is that a bit inhumane?"

Xu Qin pondered while toying with the staff.

But then he thought about it.

Anyway, the Undead aren't human to begin with, so if they die, they die.

Oh, that's fine then.

He opened his attribute panel.

[Xu Qin]

[Level: 53]

[Attack: 4260 (Physical - Slashing)]

[Shadow Attack: 1200]

[Defense: 1680]

[HP: 42600/42600]

[Equipment: bone emperor scepter]

[Current Status: Bone Emperor Majesty is in effect]

Not bad, the panel boost isn't exaggerated.