162: Chapter 162 Submit to Me

Xu Qin was happy for a moment and quickly calmed down.

He still couldn't get too cocky; this was just the beginning.

Furthermore, that dark purple crystal ball was still resting on the new territory block.

The next opponent could crash over at any time.

"Max out all the zones first."

Xu Qin opened the zone panels of the Floating City and checked the upgrade requirements one by one.

Combat Readiness Platform, Energy Zone, Forging Area, city wall battery zone, Magic Zone, and Hall of Valor.

All six major zones were stuck at Level 10.

Xu Qin finished reviewing the upgrade material requirements for each zone.

High-tier magic iron ore was refined iron ore,

low-tier magic crystal ore was stone,

and dark red moss was wood...

Plus an endless amount of Soul Energy...

"Start upgrading!"

He clicked to upgrade all the zones.

Then he opened the Soul Energy infusion panel.

After a 90% infusion acceleration, the remaining time was compressed to 24 hours.

Each required the consumption of 2.16 million Soul Energy.

All six together totaled 17.28 million.

Xu Qin looked at his Soul Energy balance.

32 million.

Click.

Hum!

Eight dark golden pillars of light rose simultaneously from each zone of the Floating City.

The Soul Energy balance jumped directly from 32 million to 19.04 million.

Xu Qin's eyelids twitched a few times.

"...The feeling of spending money is completely different from making money."

He closed the panel, stood up, walked to the edge of the Watchtower, and looked at the full view of the Boundless Domain.

Across the 108 square kilometers of land, there were six anti-air towers, four shield towers, and two refineries distributed.

But for a territory scramble war, these were still far from enough.

Although he won the previous battle against Klax,

many problems were exposed during the process.

The opponent cowered inside the shield tower and wouldn't come out, and his long-range attacks couldn't break through at all.

The dragon bone was so strong, yet it was almost crippled by the anti-air tower.

In the end, he had to rely on suicide bomber skeletons dropped from the air to break the stalemate.

"What if the next opponent also has an anti-air tower?"

Xu Qin stroked his chin.

"No, I need to change my mindset."

Right now, he shouldn't be thinking about how to break the opponent's defense.

But rather how to make his own troops seize the initiative.

"The rule of the territory scramble war is that the battle begins after the two continents merge."

"The moment they merge, the borders of the two continents will be directly spliced together."

"In other words..."

Xu Qin looked toward the edge of the Boundless Domain.

"What if I concentrate all my military forces along the boundary line in advance?"

The moment they merged, the Undead Army could directly press forward.

Without giving the opponent any time to regroup.

But the problem was...

He didn't know which direction the opponent would crash from either.

Xu Qin opened the regional map, recalling the direction from which that piece of rubble had drifted earlier.

It seemed to be the southeast, right?

"There's an 80% chance it's the same direction," Xu Qin deduced.

He looked at the terrain on the southeast side of the Boundless Domain.

That was the newly merged three-square-kilometer rubble belt, with rugged terrain and many rock crevices.

"Perfect."

Xu Qin opened the command panel and issued a series of instructions.

"All Troglodytes, stop mining."

"Six thousand Troglodytes, 200 meters behind the southeast boundary line, dig three rows of tunnels along the boundary."

"Ten meters deep, three meters wide. An exit every twenty meters."

"The other four thousand Troglodytes, construct earthen high platforms above the tunnel exits."

The order was given.

Ten thousand Troglodytes stopped gathering and surged toward the southeast boundary line.

Xu Qin looked again at the Undead Army on the Combat Readiness Platform.

Next was to wait for the zone upgrades to finish and wait for the opponent to crash over.

Two days later.

Floating City Lords Hall.

Xu Qin was checking the effects of each zone after reaching Level 11.

Beep!

The floating bone whistle transmitted an early warning alarm.

[Warning! An ultra-large landmass has been detected approaching the Boundless Domain!]

Xu Qin's hand paused as he directly pulled open the regional map.

He saw that in the southeast direction,

a massive floating continent was approaching.

[Unknown Floating Land]

[Estimated Area: 487.6 square kilometers.]

[Distance: 89 kilometers.]

[Movement Speed: Approx. 15 kilometers/hour.]

[Estimated Contact Time: Approx. 6 hours.]

Hiss...

Xu Qin looked at the estimated area and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Four hundred and eighty-seven square kilometers?

That was four and a half times his own size.

"Good grief, although I knew you were big, you're way too big!"

He immediately pulled up the location of that dark purple crystal ball.

It was still there.

The opponent had been watching him all along.

Xu Qin sneered.

He opened the command panel and clicked on the coordinates of that rubble territory block.

"Retrieve that crystal ball."

Thirty seconds later, a Skeleton Vulture flew back to the Floating City holding the dark purple crystal ball in its beak.

Xu Qin took the fist-sized object, placed it in his palm, and looked at it for two seconds.

Then, he casually tossed it aside and smashed it with his bone staff.

Crack.

Purple fragments scattered all over the ground.

"Letting you know,"

Xu Qin turned around and walked toward the control console.

"I see you."

Afterward, he sat back down on the bone throne, opened the command panel,

and began making final deployment adjustments.

"Entire army, Level 1 combat readiness."

...

Six hours later.

Boom!!!

The earth shook violently.

The edges of the two continents crashed together.

The rock layers began to squeeze and fuse with each other.

Standing on the Watchtower and holding onto the bone railing, Xu Qin could feel the entire Floating City shaking slightly.

Ding!

[Territory Scramble War triggered!]

The red full-screen prompt popped up once more.

The rules were the same as last time.

Xu Qin finished reading and closed the prompt.

Beep!

A communication request popped up.

[Opponent lord "Aisela" has initiated a communication request with you. Do you accept?]

Sending a communication before the battle?

Xu Qin clicked accept.

A line of text floated up on the command panel.

[Aisela: Little lord. You should know my strength. Submit to me, and I can retain your territory permissions as my vassal. This is your only chance to survive.]

Xu Qin finished reading and sneered.

He opened the opponent's lord information.

[Enemy Lord: Aisela]

[Race: Storm Winged Tribe]

[Level: 72]

Storm Winged Tribe?

Flying race?

Xu Qin quickly flipped through the reconnaissance report sent back by the floating bone whistle.

The first set of data popped up.

[Enemy troop detected: Storm Wingguard]

[Attack Power: 1860 (Physical - Dive/Piercing)]

[Defense: 420]

[Health Points: 4200 / 4200]

[Trait: High-Altitude Dive (Active): Plunge down rapidly from high altitude to attack. First-hit damage +200%, target stunned for 0.5 seconds upon hit. Cooldown: 8 seconds.]

[Trait: Storm Synergy (Passive): For every 3 surrounding flying units of the same clan, movement speed +10%, evasion rate +5%.]

Xu Qin flipped further down.

[Storm Wing · Thunderer]

[Attack Power: 3200 (Magic - Lightning/Ranged)]

[Defense: 680]

[Health Points: 8800 / 8800]

[Range: 60 meters]

[Trait: Chain Lightning (Active): After an attack hits, lightning jumps to 3 surrounding units, with damage decreasing by 20% per jump. Cooldown: 6 seconds.]

Xu Qin was very surprised.

Good grief, they were all flying troops?

He opened the minimap,

and saw densely packed red dots lifting off from the boundary of the opponent's continent.

"So, so fragrant~"