176: Chapter 176 A Chain Reaction [The Wrath of the Dead]

The moment the land finished merging.

Xu Qin, sitting upon the bone throne, gently raised his right hand.

"Release!"

Boom!

The ground trembled.

On the eastern side of the merge line, three hundred tunnel exits exploded simultaneously!

Instantly, an eclectic army of one hundred thousand skeletons,

transforming into a surging white wave of bones,

poured out from the underground passages and charged toward the spore blanket continent.

Rumble!

The skeletal army crossed the merge line and stepped onto the spore tribe's mycelium blanket surface.

Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff!

The sporangia on the ground began to spray!

Pale green spores enveloped the entire area like a fog.

-180!

-180!

-180!

Thousands of skeletal cannon fodder began losing HP simultaneously.

But they felt no fear, still stepping on the mycelium blanket and charging forward.

Ten seconds later!

The first batch of cannon fodder with the lowest HP began to fall.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!

The chain explosions of [Wraith Fury] began triggering in large areas!

Within a radius of several hundred meters, the sporangia were blown to smithereens!

The mushroom building clusters were torn apart by the shockwave!

The mycelium blanket was blasted away by the roots!

However, the skeletal cannon fodder behind stepped on the shattered bones of those in front and continued charging deeper into the spore territory.

Not long after...

Bang, bang, bang!

Another batch died in battle.

Immediately following, dense sounds of explosions merged into one piece deep within the spore fungal tribe's territory.

Xu Qin opened the command panel,

watching the rapidly fluctuating battle loss numbers.

[Friendly Casualties: 1,200]

[Friendly Casualties: 3,400]

[Friendly Casualties: 7,800]

...

[Wraith Will triggered, overall army attack power +1%]

...

+12%

+34%

[Wraith Will triggered, overall army attack power +50% (maximum limit reached)]

"Although the attack power bonus isn't really needed," Xu Qin said as he looked at the interface, "it looks pretty satisfying."

Because the spores' corrosion would automatically attach to the skeletons.

The skeletons would explode upon death.

Although the battle wasn't over, [Wraith Fury] could not be stopped.

but there were simply too many skeletons.

Hundreds of thousands rushed into the heartland, and as soon as one batch finished exploding, another batch followed.

On the screen,

the spore fungal lord's building clusters were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The sporangia couldn't be repaired in time after being blown up,

and were completely destroyed by the next wave of self-detonation.

The mycelium blanket was burned pitch-black by the chain explosions, and large vacuum areas appeared in the fog.

Following that, the giant mushroom buildings began to collapse one after another.

One hundred thousand white skeletons took only ten minutes to blanket the entire fifty-square-kilometer land.

Looking as far as the eye could see, there were bleached white skeletons everywhere.

Seven minutes later.

Ding!

[The enemy's core building has been destroyed!]

[Territory War victory!]

That's it?

Xu Qin didn't even stand up.

Ding!

[Combat Evaluation: Grade A (Overwhelmed the enemy with absolute numbers, the lord survived, high tactical execution rate, relatively high casualty-to-loss ratio)]

"Grade A, huh..." Xu Qin said with a bit of regret, "It seems the opponent was too weak, which is why I didn't get an S."

But it didn't matter; winning was enough.

Ding!

["Undead Immortality" triggered! Successful resurrection: 31,847 units.]

"Geez."

Xu Qin looked at the resurrection numbers,

"Over forty thousand cannon fodder actually only suffered a little over ten thousand losses."

[Settling spoils of war...]

[Targets killed: Spore Fungal Tribe (mixed units) × 62,000+]

[Basic drops:]

[Mycelium wood × 28,000]

[...]

[Spore Fungal Lord Core × 1]

[Talent "War Gift" triggered! All spoils of war quantities × 23!]

[Final acquisition:]

[Mycelium wood × 644,000]

[...]

[Spore Fungal Lord Core × 23]

Xu Qin looked at the [Mycelium Wood] column and blinked.

What the fuck?

Six hundred and forty thousand wood?

He clicked open the attribute description of the mycelium wood.

[Mycelium Wood (Mutated Resource · Rare)]

[Type: Special Wood]

[Description: Mutated wood soaked by spore fungi for a long time, featuring high density and strong toughness. When used as a building material, it additionally grants buildings 5% elemental resistance (including magic, shadow, fire, and frost).]

[Can replace ordinary wood for all construction and upgrades that consume wood.]

After reading, Xu Qin sat up straight from the bone throne.

5% elemental resistance!

This meant that if the upgrade materials for the eight major zones were completely replaced with this mycelium wood, the Floating City's elemental resistance would directly increase by one tier!

And with a quantity of six hundred and forty thousand...

He opened the resource panel to take a look.

[Wood (including Mycelium Wood): 712,000]

"Good grief, storage is going to overflow again."

Xu Qin nodded in satisfaction and looked once again at the [Spore Fungal Lord Core].

[Spore Fungal Lord Core (Special Material · Rare)]

[Type: Organic Energy Core]

[Description: A life core condensed within the body of a Spore Fungal Tribe lord. It contains an extremely high concentration of fungal vitality. It can be used for building reinforcement, territory greening, or thrown into the myriad race spirit furnace for Hetero-smelting.]

[Twenty-three lord cores...]

Xu Qin looked toward the myriad race spirit furnace.

If this thing was mixed together with the previous Storm Wingtribe materials and Blade Beetle tribe materials for Hetero-smelting...

what would come out?

Just as he was thinking, Tian Ming's voice came through the command panel.

"Master, the main army has returned."

Ding!

[Current total area of the Boundless Domain: 641.6 square kilometers.]

Xu Qin closed the panel and looked at the newly merged eastern area.

That land, which was once covered in mushrooms, was now left with only pitch-black char.

"Tian Ming, have the Troglodyte go over and dig out the tunnels on that side as well."

"Yes, Master."

Xu Qin sat back down on the bone throne.

"No rush. Let's save them up first."

"When we gather more types of lord cores, we'll throw them all into the spirit furnace together and see what good things can be refined."

...

Over the next three days.

Xu Qin's Boundless Domain welcomed a total of three territory collisions.

The first time was in the early hours of the second day after the collision warning popped up.

A 60-square-kilometer floating landmass crashed over from the northwest direction.

The opponent was a rock-type race.

"Stone Armored Soldiers?"

Xu Qin looked at the reconnaissance footage sent back by the Bone Storm Winged Guard and shook his head in disgust.

"High defense, low attack, very slow movement speed..."

He looked at the data on the panel.

The Stone Armored Soldiers had an average HP of 8,000 and extremely high defense, but their attack power was only a little over four hundred.

"Tian Ming, there's no need for the whole army to dispatch."

"Just release thirty thousand self-detonating skeletons into the tunnels and have them pour out from the eastern exit."

"Yes, Master."

Ding!

[Territory Collision! Territory War triggered!]

[Battle start!]

Thirty thousand skeletal foot soldiers simultaneously poured out from three hundred tunnel exits.

Upon seeing the skeletal army, the opponents directly panicked.

Although the Stone Armored Soldiers were tough, they couldn't withstand this kind of numerical impact.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

...

Eight minutes later, the battle ended.

Ding!

[Territory War victory!]

[Combat Evaluation: Grade B]

Xu Qin couldn't even be bothered to look closely at the panel.

"Grade B, huh... It's normal not to get an S grade when bullying the weak with the strong."

He looked at the spoils of war.

The talent triggered, and it was 23 times again.

Stone, iron ore, a bunch of basic resources credited to his account.

Ding!

[Current total area of the Boundless Domain: 701.6 square kilometers.]

"War Gift is getting harder and harder to upgrade."

Xu Qin closed the panel and slowly shook his head.