179: Chapter 179 The Birth of the Omnipotent War Corpse

Floating City.

Xu Qin turned off the vassal channel and opened his inventory.

960,000 high-quality skeletons lay neatly in the treasury.

He rubbed his hands together, his gaze burning.

"100,000 Musketeers, 90,000 Archers..."

"If we match them according to the 12-in-1 Stitched Bone Beast ratio..."

Xu Qin opened the myriad race spirit furnace interface and swiped his fingers through the void.

Musketeers plus Archers plus goblin mages equaled a long-range explosive Bone Beast?

Lizards plus tauren cavalry plus War Rhino equaled a super-heavy Charge type Bone Beast?

"960,000... Calculated at 12-in-1, we can build 80,000 Stitched Bone Beasts."

Xu Qin's breathing accelerated slightly.

80,000.

All fused from high-quality Tier 3 materials.

The combat power of each one would be several times that of existing Bone Beasts.

If they were further strengthened with Ore Spirit to +100 or above...

"The threshold of a million-strong army."

Xu Qin muttered to himself, looking at the line of text on the Star Lord channel.

[Tier 2 Star Lord: 2,000 square kilometers, troop strength over one million.]

He stood up and walked toward the myriad race spirit furnace deep within the Combat Readiness Platform.

He looked at the massive spirit furnace and suddenly remembered something.

"Right, I still have twenty-three lord cores of different races in my hands that I haven't used yet."

Xu Qin turned his head to look at the colorful core spheres in his inventory.

Spore fungus core, rock race core, plant race core, zerg core...

If these things were thrown into the spirit furnace together with this batch of high-quality skeletons...

What would be refined?

Xu Qin's eyes lit up.

"Let's try blended refinement first."

Xu Qin took out a few lord cores and threw them into the spirit furnace.

The orange flames suddenly surged!

A low humming sound came from inside the spirit furnace.

Ten seconds later, a prompt popped up on the interface.

[Hetero-smelting complete!]

[Obtained: Star Spirit Soul Essence]

[Star Lord Soul Essence (Special Material · Rare)]

[Description:]

[1. Hero Enhancement: Deposited into the Resurrection Platform / Hall of Valor, it can perform "core infusion" on hero units, greatly enhancing single attributes. The attribute type provided by each Star Lord Soul Essence varies according to the core race.]

[2. Star Lord Attribute Enhancement: The Star Lord can directly absorb the soul essence to permanently enhance his own base attributes. Each soul essence can increase Attack Power +50, Defense +20, Health Points +800.]

[Note: Star Lord Soul Essence is ineffective for ordinary troops. It only takes effect for "hero-grade" and "Star Lord-grade" units. Each hero can absorb at most 1 every 24 hours.]

After reading, Xu Qin raised an eyebrow.

"Good stuff."

Xu Qin directly threw all the remaining cores into the melting furnace.

Soon, he had twenty-three soul essences in his hands.

But...

"Not enough to go around." Xu Qin played with the soul essences, deep in thought.

There are nine core combat heroes, plus the Winter Sovereign, and himself.

Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future anyway; let's distribute them first and talk later.

He directly crushed one.

Hum!

Orange energy surged into his body.

Clang!

[Lord core absorption successful!]

[Attack Power +50, Defense +20, Health Points +800]

Xu Qin opened his attribute panel.

[Xu Qin]

[Level: 53]

[Attack Power: 4,860 (Physical - Slashing)]

[Shadow Attack: 1,400]

[Defense: 1,820]

[Health Points: 58,800 / 58,800]

[Equipment: bone emperor scepter]

"Not bad."

Xu Qin nodded with satisfaction.

Now, with twenty-two soul essences remaining, they naturally had to be left for the heroes.

After all, they were the ones charging into battle.

Among them, five were left for Tian Ming, whose attributes would directly skyrocket by then.

Xu Qin put away the cores,

opened the treasury, and looked at the 960,000 skeletons.

"Resurrection... launch!"

He walked to the Resurrection Platform and opened the fusion interface.

Last time making Stitched Bone Beasts, he used random combinations of twelve different creature skeletons.

This time was different.

Xu Qin wanted directional matching.

He checked the materials on the interface:

Dwarf Musketeer skeleton × 2.

Elf Archer skeleton × 2.

Bloodhoof tauren cavalry skeleton × 2.

Iron-Horned Battle Rhino skeleton × 2.

Goblin fire mage skeleton × 2.

Troglodyte skeleton × 2.

A total of twelve skeletons, six races, two of each.

"There are genes from three races for ranged combat, two for melee Charge, and one for underground mobility."

Xu Qin rubbed his hands together.

"Let's see what comes out."

He clicked [Fusion].

The Resurrection Platform flashed brightly with blue light!

Twelve skeletons were sucked in simultaneously.

Bones shattered, reorganized, intertwined, and spliced...

Thirty seconds later.

Boom!

A brand new Bone Beast about four meters tall stepped out from the Resurrection Platform.

Xu Qin looked up.

This thing... completely lacked the style of the previous Stitched Bone Beasts.

The lower body had the thick limbs of a War Rhino and a tauren rider, with the joints wrapped in dense bone armor.

The upper body leaned toward agility, with an armor shape fused from various bones, and two backward-curving long horns on top of its skull.

The most bizarre thing was that on both sides of its back spine, three hollow bone tubes were embedded, and the ends of the bone tubes glowed with a faint blue light.

Xu Qin immediately clicked open the panel.

[Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton (Six-Source Fusion Type)]

[Attack Power: 285 (Physical - Impact / Magic - Shadow / Flame - Burst)]

[Defense: 92]

[Health Points: 5,200 / 5,200]

[Movement Speed: Extremely Fast]

[Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternal Diehard)]

[Morale: None]

[Traits:]

[Multi-Source Resonance (Passive): Fuses bones of more than six creatures. All attributes increased by an additional 12%, and any single damage received does not exceed 15% of maximum health points (overflow parts are invalid).]

[Precision Long-Range Shot: Ranged hit rate +25%.]

[Tough Physique: When health points are below 30%, defense is doubled.]

[Abyss Erosion: Attacks hit with 15 points of shadow damage (ignoring defense).]

[Bone Thorn Burst: Every time health points decrease by 25%, back bone thorns eject, causing 55 piercing damage within a 5-meter radius. Can be triggered up to 3 times.]

[Triple-Mode Switching (Active):]

[Assault Mode: Inherits Iron-Horned Battle Rhino Charge ability, movement speed +60%, impact damage +200%. Cooldown 15 seconds.]

[Bombardment Mode: Back bone tubes launch soul energy projectiles and fireballs, range 40 meters, attack power +80%. Cooldown 3 seconds.]

[Burrowing Mode: Inherits Troglodyte underground tunneling, enters underground complete concealment, surface movement speed 80%.]

After reading this panel, Xu Qin gasped.

Goodness, it could tunnel underground, conduct long-range bombardment, and engage in melee Charge.

There was even an anti-death passive?

"Holy shit... what the fuck kind of all-around warrior is this?"

Xu Qin walked around the Bone Beast, more satisfied the more he looked at it.

But he didn't have time to marvel.

"Mass production!"

Xu Qin opened the fusion interface and maxed out the quantity directly.

[Dwarf Musketeer skeleton × 28,800]

[...]

[Goblin fire mage skeleton × 28,800]

[Total skeletons invested: 172,800]

[Output Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton: 14,400]

Xu Qin clicked [Confirm].

The Resurrection Platform continued to operate.

Blue light flashed endlessly.

Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons walked out one after another from the exit, neatly lined up on the Combat Readiness Platform.

Half an hour later.

14,400 Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons densely filled the entire platform.

Xu Qin stood beside the bone seat, looking at this neatly arrayed new legion, his heart surging with emotion.

"Next... is enhancement."

He clicked open the Ore Spirit enhancement interface.

Checked all 14,400 units.

Clicked [Ore Spirit enhancement].

[Confirm consumption of source crystal essence × 1,728 to perform Ore Spirit enhancement on 14,400 units of Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons?]

Confirm.

First time.

Second time.

Third time...

He clicked twenty times in one breath.

Clang!

[The current batch of troops has reached the single-day enhancement limit (+20).]

[Total source crystal essence consumed: 34,560]