151: Chapter 151 Occupation Successfully Completed!

[ Skeleton Vulture Resurrected × 188 ]

"Not bad, more than half of the fallen ones have been replenished."

He opened the command panel and found the vulture troop.

"All vultures, listen up! Drag those Rift Locust fragments in the air back."

The order was issued.

Over two thousand vultures flapped their bone wings and flew toward those dark purple wrecks.

They grabbed the wrecks and dragged them toward the Combat Readiness Platform.

Soon, a small mountain was piled up on the Combat Readiness Platform.

Xu Qin looked at these materials and nodded with satisfaction.

"This wave was worth it."

He turned around and returned to the Lords Hall, raising his hand to open the dark gold treasure chest.

[ Undead Relic Box (S-Class) ]

[ Open Undead Relic Box (S-Class)? ]

"Open."

[ Obtained: Floating Sentry Tower Core (Blueprint) ]

[ Floating Sentry Tower Core Blueprint ]

[ Quality: Epic (Purple) ]

[ Type: Floating City Defense Module ]

[ Effect: Can be integrated into the Floating City wall artillery area to unlock the building "Floating Bone Sentry". ]

[ Floating Bone Sentry (Upgradeable): Can detach from the Floating City and autonomously cruise within a 1,000-meter radius. Equipped with automatic enemy target acquisition, low-altitude interception, and early warning marking functions. ]

[ Base Attack: 300 (Shadow) ]

[ Defense: 500 ]

[ Health Points: 10,000 ]

[ Construction Requirements: Bone × 50, soul energy × 200, Iron Ore × 10 ]

[ Current Maximum Single Construction Quantity: 100 ]

"Is this really an S-class item? Isn't it too pathetic?" Xu Qin expressed some dissatisfaction.

To deal with an eighth-tier monster like the Rift Locust, a single bone sentry would have to strike six times.

To be honest, it is really not high.

But this thing is not meant for frontal battles.

That group of locusts just now swarmed from all directions, and there were still shooting blind spots above the Floating City.

If the shield hadn't been thick enough, he would have had to release the dragon bones this time to cleanse the ground.

Ground cleansing is indeed satisfying.

But the materials will also be cleansed away together.

The bones and flesh of monsters in high-tier planes are valuable.

Every time the dragon bones are used, it is equivalent to burning resources with legendary troops.

"Air defense early warning, automatic interception, and can also mark targets."

Xu Qin touched his chin.

"If the quantity is large, maybe it can play some role if we encounter insect swarms in the future."

There is no other way; there are only a little over two thousand Skeleton Vultures.

Lose one, and there's one less.

The system prompt popped up.

[ Do you want to integrate the "Floating Sentry Tower Core Blueprint" into the wall artillery area? ]

"Integrate."

Hum!

Vibrations came from the wall artillery area on the edge of the Floating City.

On the originally neatly arranged Bone Wall, an extra row of circular grooves appeared.

In each groove, there was a cluster of deep blue soul fire, and a new building option appeared next to it.

[ Floating Bone Sentry ]

[ Constructible Quantity: 0 / 100 ]

Xu Qin was just about to click build.

The command panel popped up with another prompt.

[ Detected that the Floating Bone Sentry belongs to a movable defense unit. ]

[ The level of the wall artillery area has reached Level 10, and batch construction permissions have been unlocked. ]

[ Current constructible quantity: 1,000. ]

Xu Qin stopped his hand.

"Can build one thousand?"

He opened the treasury.

Previously sweeping eleven ruins,

and farming a wave of Void Rift Demons over at the blue portal,

plus the drops from this demon nest.

There are plenty of bones.

And soul energy is certainly not lacking.

The only slightly troublesome thing is iron ore.

However, there is a resource temple over at Yongyuan City.

The iron ore veins will regenerate after being mined, and the resource teleportation platform can send a batch to the Floating City treasury every hour.

Using them to build defense units is not a waste.

Xu Qin entered into the quantity column.

[ 1000 ]

[ Construct Floating Bone Sentry × 1,000. ]

[ Consumption: Bone × 50,000, soul energy × 200,000, Iron Ore × 10,000. ]

[ Confirm? ]

"Confirm."

Hum!

On the Bone Walls around the Floating City, one thousand grooves lit up simultaneously.

Clusters of soul fire rose from within the grooves.

Bone fragments flew out and assembled around the soul fire.

A dozen seconds later.

The Floating Bone Sentries took shape.

They looked like hovering bone disks, with soul fire flashing in the center.

Wait, when a thousand of them gathered together, they really had a sense of presence.

[ Floating Bone Sentry Construction Complete × 1,000! ]

[ Enable autonomous cruising? ]

"Enable."

The order was issued.

One thousand Floating Bone Sentries flew out from the city wall and dispersed around the Floating City.

The outermost layer is responsible for patrolling.

The middle layer is responsible for interception.

The bone sentries close to the shield stopped at fixed positions, with their soul fire aimed at the sky.

Xu Qin looked at the minimap.

The area that originally could only be explored by vultures now had an extra circle of white early warning range.

A radius of 1,000 meters.

When an enemy enters the range, the bone sentry will actively mark them.

"It's still quite worth it."

Xu Qin looked up at the sky above the Floating City and nodded with satisfaction.

At this moment, Tian Ming walked into the main hall.

"Master, the vulture troop has completed material recovery."

After hearing this, Xu Qin opened the loot tab.

[ Rift Locust Soul Core ]

[ Quality: Rare ]

[ Description: A flying-type soul core containing shadow demonic energy, which can be used to strengthen flying troops or as an upgrade material for the Magic Zone. ]

"Yo~ This high-tier area is not bad. The materials dropped by just any troop are good things."

The Skeleton Vulture's panel is not bad.

The problem is that speed and defense are not enough.

The locusts can smash their skeletons, indicating that air combat in high-tier planes will not be easy in the future.

The vultures need to be upgraded.

The Floating Bone Sentries also need to be upgraded.

And the shield.

This time the shield was beaten from one million down to more than 280,000, and replenishing energy will consume another batch of resources.

The strength of high-tier planes truly cannot be underestimated.

As Xu Qin was calculating, the Floating City beneath his feet suddenly swayed slightly.

Following closely,

Beep!

The command panel had an extra golden prompt.

[ Detected that the current Floating City has stably docked at an unclaimed floating landmass. ]

[ Do you want to occupy this land? ]

Xu Qin instantly widened his eyes.

"Occupy land?"

He clicked on the detailed description.

[ High-tier plane rule: Integrate continent. ]

[ Lords can occupy unclaimed floating landmasses, shattered lands, and ruin continents. After occupation is complete, the floating landmass will become an extended territory area. ]

[ Occupied floating landmasses can absorb surrounding stray gravel, resource fragments, and unclaimed landmasses to slowly expand the land area. ]

[ The expansion speed of the floating landmass is affected by the territory core level, garrison size, energy supply, and surrounding resource density. ]

[ Note 1: Lords cannot directly control the movement direction of floating landmasses. ]

[ Note 2: After a floating landmass contacts other continents, they can assemble themselves. If there is hostile territory in the contact area, a territory contention battle will be triggered. ]

[ Current floating landmass area: 2.16 square kilometers. ]

[ Current status: Unclaimed. ]

After reading it, Xu Qin showed a look of sudden realization.

So that's how it is; high-tier planes play like this?

It's not about who flies faster and can keep grabbing.

Instead, whoever conquers more land can grow their own territory.

Those floating gravels ahead are by no means waste stones.

Those are mergeable lands that can fix the portal down.

Xu Qin raised his hand and clicked confirm.

[ Do you want to bind the "unclaimed floating landmass" as a subordinate territory of the Floating City? ]

"Bind."

Hum!

A territory mark emerged beneath the Floating City.

The mark fell into the rocky ground.

Following that, the gray landmass on the minimap turned green.

[ Occupation Successful! ]

[ Obtained Subordinate Territory: Shattered Rock Floating Landmass. ]

[ Territory Area: 2.16 square kilometers. ]

[ Automatically connected to the Floating City territory network. ]

[ Prompt: You can name the subordinate territory. ]