161: Chapter 161 is too dirty!

Xu Qin's eyes lit up.

High-tier magic iron ore.

He had just seized twelve high-tier magic iron ore veins from Klax.

Now another one was drifting over?

"My luck is not bad. If every day is about picking up things like this, it's quite nice."

Xu Qin opened the construction panel.

Once this piece of debris merged, he would have the Troglodytes go over to mine it.

Although three square kilometers wasn't large, it was completely enough to be used as a mining area.

Right at this moment, another reconnaissance report was transmitted back.

Xu Qin clicked open the details.

The image showed a rock crevice,

deep inside of which was wedged a fist-sized dark purple crystal ball.

The surface of the sphere was smooth, with extremely subtle energy fluctuations.

Xu Qin looked at those fluctuations, and his expression slowly darkened.

As a player who had played strategy games for ten years,

he could recognize this kind of thing at a glance.

This was other lords using debris as mobile outposts to monitor this void region.

And this piece of debris disguised as an ore vein was drifting toward his side.

"Interesting."

Xu Qin rubbed his chin and began to ponder.

Since the opponent could place surveillance devices on the surrounding debris,

it showed that their own strength was extremely strong, and their range of activity was immense.

This piece of debris was discovered by him thirty kilometers away,

meaning the opponent's main continent was likely a few hundred kilometers away.

Then, what did the opponent want to obtain through this device?

To scout nearby opponents?

Or to look for prey that could be hunted?

Even if they could find it,

how could they guarantee that it would definitely drift over?

Could it be... that they had the ability to control the drifting direction of the continent?

If that really was the case...

then it meant

that the opponent could crash their continent over at any time to trigger a Territory War.

"The feeling of being beaten passively is really fucking annoying."

Xu Qin stood up, walked to the edge of the Watchtower, and looked toward the Boundless Domain.

This land of more than one hundred square kilometers floated quietly in the void.

All around was pitch-black void, with occasional sporadic pieces of debris drifting past.

Xu Qin looked around, and there was only one thought in his mind.

How could he make this continent move?

If he could actively control the direction of movement,

then when encountering an enemy continent drifting over,

at least he could choose whether to meet them head-on or evade them.

Instead of being like this right now,

like a piece of meat over one hundred square kilometers placed on a chopping board,

waiting for other lords to crash into it.

"The territory itself doesn't have a propulsion system..."

Xu Qin looked through the territory functions of the command panel.

He looked again at the parameters of the Floating City.

The Floating City itself could fly.

Its speed was eighty kilometers per hour.

But the problem was...

"This is a continent of over one hundred square kilometers after all."

Xu Qin looked at the volume of the Floating City.

The Combat Readiness Platform plus all major zones,

at most added up to just a fraction of a square kilometer.

"Troublesome..."

"It couldn't really be allowed to let the Floating City act as an engine, right."

Xu Qin rubbed his temples and shook his head repeatedly.

Even he felt it was absurd.

Just as he was standing at the edge of the platform in a daze, a message popped up on the command panel.

[Winter Sovereign (Branch City Communication): Master, all the skeletal remains of the Guling Holy City battlefield have been collected. Shall they be teleported?]

Xu Qin recovered his senses.

"Teleport."

Hum!

The cross-plane teleportation rift lit up.

Ding!

[Reception complete!]

[Notice: Treasure Vault capacity has reached 92%!]

"Good grief."

Xu Qin looked at the overflowing numbers,

and quickly transferred a portion of the skeletal remains to the Combat Readiness Platform.

He closed the treasure vault interface,

and that piece of approaching debris floated into his mind's eye again.

"No, I must give it a try."

Xu Qin opened the control interface of the Floating City.

Anyway, that piece of debris wouldn't arrive for another half an hour.

Taking advantage of this time, he would test whether the Floating City could push the continent.

Even if it could only change the direction a little bit, it was still better than being completely passive.

"Besides..."

Xu Qin looked at the parameters of the Energy Zone.

With the Ore Spirit sliding down all day,

soul energy reserves had broken thirty million again.

He could afford to squander it!

He manipulated the Floating City to slowly ascend into the air, circling around to the edge of the east side of the continent.

The Floating City hovered five meters away from the edge of the continent.

Xu Qin aimed the bow of the ship at the side rock wall of the continent, then opened the control panel of the Energy Zone.

"Energy Zone power... maximum!"

He dragged the thrust slider to the very end.

Hum!!!

The energy core of the Floating City emitted a violent roar.

The six source crystal engines entered full-load status simultaneously,

and soul energy began to decrease at a rate of ten thousand per second.

The bow of the Floating City slowly pressed against the rock wall at the edge of the continent.

Boom!

The moment of contact caused the entire city to tremble slightly.

Xu Qin looked at the coordinates of the Boundless Domain on the regional map.

Immovable.

Xu Qin's expression turned somewhat unsightly.

After continuously pushing like this for 30 seconds,

Ding!

on the regional map, the coordinates of the Boundless Domain...

actually shifted by 0.01.

"Oh? It works!" Xu Qin's eyes widened instantly.

This train of thought was correct, it was just that this displacement amount...

according to the current power, consumed ten thousand soul energy per second.

"Not enough, the thrust is seriously insufficient."

Xu Qin decisively turned off the full-load power.

The Floating City's engines shut down and quieted down.

Thirty seconds burned three hundred thousand soul energy,

in exchange for a shift of 0.01.

This efficiency was almost no different from having none.

"It's because the level of the Energy Zone is too low."

Xu Qin looked at the data on the panel, rubbing his chin.

If the Energy Zone was upgraded to a higher level,

and the output power multiplied several times... maybe it could really achieve directional propulsion.

"Forget it, I'll talk about it after the Lords Hall finishes upgrading to level 11."

Xu Qin drove the Floating City back to the central mooring area of the continent.

That three-square-kilometer piece of debris, let it come over.

Anyway, there were no troops on it.

The worst result would just be being targeted by the opponent.

...

Forty minutes later.

A prompt popped up on the command panel.

[Detected that an unowned floating continent is merging into the territory!]

[Area: 3.12 square kilometers]

[Merging... Complete!]

[Current total area of the Boundless Domain: 108.01 square kilometers]

Xu Qin clicked open the details of the new plot of land.

[New resource point: High-tier Magic Iron Ore Vein (Medium) × 1]

Consistent with the reconnaissance report.

Xu Qin immediately marked two points on the map.

The first point was the location of the ore vein, letting the Troglodytes go and mine it.

The second point was the location of the dark purple crystal ball.

"Split off one thousand Troglodytes to go mine, and keep the rest as usual."

The command was issued through the panel.

One thousand Troglodytes split from the gathering team and moved toward the new land plot.

Six hours later.

Ding!

[Lords Hall upgrade complete!]

Xu Qin opened his eyes and rolled over to sit up from the bone throne.

He directly opened the Lords Hall panel,

and flipped to the newly unlocked functional column.

[Level 11 Lords Hall · New Features:]

[Will of the Dead (Racial Passive · Permanent): For every 100 units of all undead troops under the lord's command that die in the same battlefield, the attack power of the entire army is permanently stacked by +1% (single-battle upper limit +50%). Reset after the battle ends.]

After reading the description, Xu Qin's eyes widened.

"Good grief, the more that die, the fiercer they fight?"

"Isn't this fucking passive custom-tailored for the self-detonation build?"

His brain spun rapidly.

In the previous Territory War with Klax,

he threw in nearly 180,000 low-level skeletons as suicide bombs.

180,000 divided by 100 equaled 1,800 stacks.

But the upper limit was 50%.

In other words, as long as 5,000 undead units died on the battlefield, the entire army's attack power bonus would reach max capacity.

5,000?

He had over 3 million skeletal remains in his treasure vault, to be thrown away casually.

"This passive... is too dirty."

Xu Qin couldn't help laughing out loud.