206: Chapter 206 Update on Military Unit Organization

Boundless Domain, Floating City, Lords Hall.

Xu Qin looked at the branch city list, pondering in his heart.

With Winter Sovereign holding down the fort,

dozens of ruins were absolutely safe.

Even if some Twilight, Skylight, or Earthlight Alliance came again,

they would only repeat the same mistakes.

However...

There was only one Winter Sovereign.

What if Guling Holy City and Winter City, or even other branch cities, were attacked at the same time?

With the increase in strength of these lords,

mutual conquests would definitely become more and more frequent.

Winter Sovereign might not be able to attend to everything.

"Gotta add an insurance policy."

Xu Qin opened the Floating City's troop list and found [Undead Elf Archer] and [Undead Dwarf Musketeer].

These two Ranged Troops were absolute mainstays in the low-tier planes before.

But now...

Opponents in the high-tier planes easily numbered in the hundreds of thousands or millions,

these Ranged Troops were fine for single-target focus fire,

but when it came to large-scale warfare...

"Send them all back."

Xu Qin selected the two units and opened the teleportation array interface.

[Target: Guling Holy City]

[Teleport Unit: Undead Elf Archer × 10000]

[Confirm]

Hum!

A dark purple pillar of light rose,

and ten thousand archers turned into soul currents and disappeared.

After the cooldown ended, Xu Qin transmitted another wave.

After four teleports, all the archers were delivered to Guling Holy City.

Then came the Musketeer.

With the same process, the Musketeers were transmitted to Winter City in batches.

"Alright."

"Each of the sixteen branch cities has a garrison,"

"Plus Vulture patrols and the rapid support of the teleportation array,"

"even if the low-tier planes are attacked from multiple sides, they can hold out for a while."

Afterwards, Xu Qin opened Tie Ge's communication interface.

Xu Qin · Master: Tie Ge.

Tie Ge · Orc Race: Subordinate is here!

Xu Qin · Master: I want to take back the two Bone Dragons I sent to you before.

Tie Ge · Orc Race: Yes! Thank you, Master, for your care all this time!

Looking at Xu Qin's message, Tie Ge felt not a trace of disappointment.

Those two dragons,

having helped it hold down the fort for several months,

it was already immensely grateful.

Now, it was only natural for the master to take them back.

Xu Qin closed the communication,

opened the Floating City's Combat Readiness Platform,

and looked at the current total composition.

[Necro-Beetles: 2341277]

[Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton: 34700]

[Iron Hoof Bone Beast: 2198030]

[Bone Storm Winged Guard: 91600]

[Troglodyte: 45000]

[Stitched Bone Beast: 77500]

[Bone Dragon: 80]

"Not bad..."

Xu Qin looked at the data on the panel and nodded with satisfaction.

Those low-tier miscellaneous soldiers from before,

were either sent back to guard the city,

or retired to old age.

The ones left were all uniform high-tier mainstays.

...

One day later.

Yongyuan City's teleportation array continuously erupted with dazzling strong light.

Batch after batch of bones and soul energy,

poured from the low-tier planes into the Floating City's treasury.

Xu Qin looked at the prompt information on the panel.

[Received: Mixed Bones × 1102000]

[Received: soul energy × 22040000]

At the same time, the two Bone Dragons also arrived via the teleportation array,

flapping their bone wings,

and landing outside the Floating City.

80 dragons, all present!

Xu Qin opened the Troglodyte army's establishment information.

This batch of Troglodytes teleported up along with the bones numbered thirty thousand.

Xu Qin directly incorporated them into the gathering army.

Then, he looked at the 1.1 million mixed bones.

"Let's check the quality first."

He clicked on the bone details.

Snake-man bones, scorpion-man bones, lizard-man bones...

They were all tier-2 and tier-3 troop bones from low-tier planes.

The quality was uneven.

After browsing through them one by one, Xu Qin closed the panel.

"As expected."

"These low-tier miscellaneous brands have no value for conversion whatsoever."

But Xu Qin didn't feel it was a pity at all.

Because...

"Fusion won't work, but self-detonation definitely will."

He walked directly to the Resurrection Platform.

Opened the batch resurrection interface.

[Confirm Resurrection: Snake-man Bones × 319000?]

[Confirm]

Hum!

The Resurrection Platform shone with brilliant blue light.

Undead snake-men poured out from the exit one after another.

Their curved snake tails dragged on the ground, holding bone scimitars, with ghostly fires flickering in their hollow eye sockets.

Xu Qin looked at the panel.

[Undead Snake-Man Warrior]

[Attack Power: 312 (Physical - Piercing)]

[Defense: 86]

[HP: 1800/1800]

[Loyalty: 100/100 (Eternal Die-Hard)]

[Morale: None]

Not bad...

If they exploded after death, they could deal 13,000 damage.

Xu Qin did not stop and continued throwing in bones.

[Confirm Resurrection: Scorpion-Man Bones × 246500?]

[Confirm]

Undead scorpion-men were shorter in stature than snake-men, but had an extra bony scorpion tail.

After exploding with 2,100 HP, they could deal 15,000 damage.

Alright, continue!

[Confirm Resurrection: Lizard-Man Bones × 188500?]

[Confirm]

...

All kinds of bizarrely shaped undead poured out from the Resurrection Platform.

HP ranged from 800 to 1,500.

The post-death explosion damage was at least 6,000.

Five minutes later.

The Resurrection Platform stopped operating.

1.1 million brand-new self-detonation troops,

were neatly arranged in the open space outside the Floating City.

Xu Qin stood at the front of the formation, looking from left to right.

"Beautiful."

He opened the command panel and looked at the troop overview.

[Total: 5.74 Million]

Two days later.

Beep!

The command panel popped up a golden prompt.

[Energy Zone Upgrade Complete!]

[Magic Zone Upgrade Complete!]

...

Xu Qin opened the panel and checked them one by one.

After the eight major zones upgraded to level 15,

their respective efficiencies climbed once again.

Xu Qin directly switched to the Lords Hall interface.

[Lords Hall Upgrade Conditions (Level 16) Met!]

[Upgrade Requirements: Wood × 3.5 Million, Stone × 2.8 Million, Iron Ore × 1.5 Million, soul energy × 15 Million, Magic Energy Crystals × 200, High-Tier Magic Energy Crystals × 60]

[Upgrade Time Required: 72 Days]

Xu Qin opened the treasury.

Wood, stone, and iron ore were completely sufficient, given the spoils of war from the previous few battles plus the territory's own production.

Magic energy crystals and high-tier crystals were also enough.

As for soul energy...

After a few days of uninterrupted farming of Mineral Vein Guardians,

coupled with the spoils sent back from the low-tier planes,

soul energy had returned to just over 300 million.

15 million?

It didn't even count as the fractional remainder.

[Upgrade]

Boom!

Resources poured in.

[Lords Hall is upgrading...]

[Remaining Time: 71 Days 23 Hours 59 Minutes]

Xu Qin directly opened [soul energy Infusion].

Max it out!

[Single infusion limit reached (90% of remaining upgrade time cannot be skipped)!]

[soul energy consumed for this infusion: 154 Million]

[Current Remaining Upgrade Time: 7 Days 4 Hours]

With over 150 million soul energy, Xu Qin threw it in without blinking an eye.

Looking at the remaining 60-odd million soul energy in the treasury, he shrugged indifferently.

"It doesn't matter, anyway Tian Ming and the others are farming down below, bringing in tens of millions every day."

He closed the panel and lay back on the bone throne.

Currently, the 2.19 million Iron Hoof Bone Beasts had been enhanced to +35.

Wanting to rush to +60 would take at least five days.

No way around it, this couldn't be rushed.

The base number was too large, so strengthening even a little bit was better than nothing.

To be honest, this kind of comfortable life was indeed not bad.

Every day was just farming mineral veins, enhancing troops,

and listening to Tie Ge buttering him up in the vassal channel.

Occasionally opening the star lord channel,

to see what those star lords were chatting about and learn a thing or two.

"Anyway... it's very comfortable."