186: Chapter 186 Breaking through armor to become a sharp edge, bestowed the name Armored Sharp Edge

Xu Qin brought the insect general through the Combat Readiness Platform and came to the Hall of Valor.

He clicked open the Hall of Valor interface.

"Get up there."

The Undead insect general supported itself with its six legs and crawled onto the promotion platform.

"Promote!"

Boom!!!

A dark purple light surged from the bottom of the promotion platform, enveloping the Undead insect general inside.

The insect general's carapace began to reorganize.

Thirty seconds later.

The light dissipated.

A brand-new Undead Hero walked down from the promotion platform.

As its six legs hit the ground, the entire grand hall trembled slightly.

Clang!

[Congratulations! Undead Hero promotion successful!]

[Undead Insect General · Hero]

Level: 1 (0 / 2000)

Attack Power: 1680 (Physical - Tear / Pierce)

Defense: 562

Health Points: 135000 / 135000

Command Power: 5000

Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternal Diehard)

Morale: None

Hero Trait:

[Swarm Commander: Can lead up to 1000 Undead insect-type troops to act independently. Command upper limit increases with hero level.]

Hero Skills:

[Shell-Splitting Storm (Active - AoE): Centered on itself, releases high-speed rotating carapace fragments in a 20-meter radius, dealing 220% attack power piercing damage and reducing hit targets' defense by 40% for 12 seconds. Cooldown 18 seconds.]

[Insect General Charge (Active - Displacement): Dashes forward 30 meters, all enemy units along the path suffer 250% attack power piercing damage, while knocking small units airborne. Cooldown 12 seconds.]

[Carapace Throne (Passive): When taking damage, has a 20% probability of complete immunity. When health is below 50%, defense is doubled, attack speed + 50%.]

[Swarm Command (Active - Buff): After activation, all friendly insect Undead within a 30-meter radius gain + 40% attack speed and + 30% movement speed. Lasts 20 seconds. Cooldown 45 seconds.]

After reading the panel, Xu Qin nodded.

"Swarm Command..."

This skill is extremely important.

Combined with the 40% attack speed bonus of Swarm Command, plus the 30% attack speed bonus inherent to the Necrotic Beetle's Swarm Instinct.

"Total attack speed bonus of 70%?"

"Good grief, isn't this just the Zerg version of Tian Ming?"

Tian Ming is a magic-type support hero, while this insect general hero is a physical buff type.

They complement each other perfectly.

Xu Qin looked the new hero up and down, nodding in satisfaction.

"As for your name..."

He looked at the insect general's two blade-like forelimbs and the carapace covered in deep blue runes.

"Let's call you Jiafeng."

Xu Qin patted the insect general's forelimb.

"Armor-breaking as a blade, sounds exhilarating."

"Tian Ming!"

"Present."

The Archlich's voice came from the command panel.

"Take Jiafeng and go to the vein to farm guardians together."

"Yes."

Receiving the command, Jiafeng kicked off with its six legs, charging straight out of the Hall of Valor.

The speed was extremely fast, disappearing into the exit of the Combat Readiness Platform in just a few breaths.

"Well, that's eleven heroes."

Xu Qin stretched lazily.

"From now on, the four battlefronts of the surface, underground, air, and swarm can all fight independently. I finally don't have to manage everything by myself."

After arranging all matters, Xu Qin finally had time to look at his inventory.

He still had one final event, which was the box-opening session.

[Undead Relic Box (Dark Gold) × 1]

An S-rank evaluation Miracle Treasure.

The last time he opened a dark gold treasure chest, it gave Ghost Sprint.

That thing directly changed the mobility of his entire tactical system.

"This time..."

Xu Qin made a wish toward the treasure chest,

"You were dropped by defeating a Level 3 Star Lord. You even made War Gift jump two levels consecutively."

"No matter what, you've got to get me some great guaranteed high-end stuff, right?"

Putting his hands together and praying devoutly, he clicked [Open].

Hum!

Dark golden light burst forth!

Immediately, a pitch-black cube the size of a fist materialized in front of him.

On every face of the cube, skeletal patterns of different races constantly shifted.

There were Zergs, Orcs, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Lizards...

And many races that Xu Qin had never seen before.

Xu Qin hurriedly clicked to view.

[Ten-Thousand Bone Reshaping Emblem (Command Item · Legendary)]

[Type: Permanent Item (Untradeable / Indestructible)]

[Effect: After activation, the lord can perform a "Reshaping" operation on any type of skeleton.]

[Reshaping: By infusing soul energy, transforms skeletons of any race and type into "Universal Bones". Universal Bones are omnipotent skeletons that can be designated as any racial skeleton to participate in recipes when conducting fusion, resurrection, refinement, and other operations.]

[Conversion Ratio: 1 : 1 (Soul energy base consumption 1000)]

[Note: Soul energy consumption increases with the quality of the skeleton. The higher the quality, the more soul energy required for reshaping.]

After reading this description, Xu Qin instantly opened his mouth wide.

Then...

"Holy shit!!! 1 to 1 conversion!"

What does this mean?!

It means he can convert excess skeletons according to recipe proportions, converting whatever is lacking!

Not enough Dwarf Musketeers?

Convert!

Not enough Elf Archers?

Convert!

Not enough Troglodytes?

Still convert!

"Isn't this fucking equivalent to... all skeletons being universal bones?!"

Xu Qin played with the pitch-black cube in his hand, the more he thought about it, the more he felt this thing was heaven-defying.

But after calming down, he also discovered a problem.

"No rush."

"1 to 1 conversion consumes 1000 soul energy per skeleton."

His current inventory has over 120 million.

It sounds like a lot.

But if he wanted to convert the remaining 600,000+ skeletons entirely into universal bones...

600,000 multiplied by 1,000.

600 million soul energy...

Moreover, this is without calculating the differences in skeleton quality.

Otherwise, 600 million wouldn't even be enough.

"The gap is a bit big." Xu Qin smacked his lips.

This was the true threshold of the Ten-Thousand Bone Reshaping Emblem.

It's not that skeletons are lacking, it's that there isn't enough soul energy to burn.

If it were any other lord, getting this thing would also be useless.

"Good thing I have War Gift." Xu Qin let out a long breath.

As long as battles never stop, soul energy will never be exhausted.

"So when all is said and done, I still have to fight more."

Xu Qin put the emblem into his inventory.

Just as he was about to close the panel and go check on Tian Ming,

A red prompt suddenly popped up in the upper right corner of the command panel.

It was sent from the [Star Lord Channel].

Xu Qin casually clicked to view.

The light screen unfolded.

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: Everyone pay attention, my territory's edge observation station has detected an abnormality.

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: A large-scale gravitational tide is forming in the sea of stars region where I am located.

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: According to past experience, once the tide takes shape, the drift speed of all surrounding continents will surge by several times, and the collision frequency will increase significantly within the next 72 hours.

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: In other words, over the next three days, multiple consecutive territory contention battles may occur.

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: Everyone prepare yourselves.

The channel instantly exploded.

Solma · Level 2 Star Lord: Again? The last gravitational tide bumped into four pieces of land in one go!

Gerwin · Level 2 Star Lord: I just finished a fight, my forces are still recovering...

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: Old Cass, how large is the range? Is my side affected?

Cass · Level 5 Star Lord: The specific affected range is unknown. But calculated based on the tide intensity, it covers at least fifty thousand star sea regions.

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: Fifty thousand regions... Then basically all star lords won't be able to escape.

Herman · Level 2 Star Lord: Thank you Boss Cass for the warning!

Ryan · Level 6 Star Lord: Thanks a lot.

Talick · Level 2 Star Lord: Thanks for the reminder!