79: Chapter 79 The City Lord's Hall Upgrade Completed!

The only fly in the ointment was that the Minotaur and the other melee heroes were still level 19.

Because... Xu Qin recalled the scene from two hours ago, and he still felt a lingering fear.

At the time, he felt the ranged attacks were too easy, so he wanted to let the Minotaur go in and try.

Since there was only one Mineral Vein Guardian left, and it was low on health anyway, it would be good to let the Minotaur grind some experience.

As a result, the Minotaur jumped into the pit and slashed down with its halberd...

Bang!

Nearly three thousand damage; it was indeed fierce.

But the single remaining Mineral Vein Guardian also seized the opportunity to strike back.

The Minotaur's HP instantly dropped to a sliver.

If not for Tian Ming, Chuan Yun, and the group of ranged units providing timely follow-up attacks...

The Minotaur would have been done for on the spot.

"I almost wasted 150 Resurrection Coins." Xu Qin let out a long sigh.

So for the melee side... Xu Qin gave up for the time being and honestly let the ranged units shoot.

When strength is insufficient, one must absolutely not get cocky.

Wait until the team is stronger as a whole, then let the Minotaur go up.

Xu Qin looked at the Mineral Essence inventory.

After a day of cycling, the inventory had expanded to a quite considerable number.

Thus, he directly recalled the 22 Orc heroes and 22 Earth Spirits heroes.

44 subsidiary heroes, 100 each, totaling 4400.

"Everyone is a brother of the Undead Race; naturally, I won't play favorites or treat anyone differently."

Xu Qin muttered to himself while clicking confirm.

The light of enhancement rose and fell throughout the Hall of Valor.

44 heroes, all completed the second round of Mineral Essence enhancement.

...

Time came to 11:00 AM the next day.

Xu Qin sat on the bone throne in the Lords Hall, looking at the countdown on the panel with full anticipation.

Upgrading the Lords Hall to level 6 required forty-eight hours.

It was almost time.

10 seconds... 5 seconds... 1 second...

Ding!

The panel expanded, and lines of golden characters appeared:

[Lords Hall upgrade complete!]

[Lords Hall: Level 6]

[New feature 'Bone Fusion Technique' unlocked.]

[Description: Level 6 Lords Hall unlocks the exclusive high-level feature for the Undead Race. The Lord can perform deep fusion on bones from various sources in the Resurrection Platform to create a brand-new fusion-type undead unit, the "Stitched Bone Beast".]

[Stitched Bone Beast characteristics:]

[Number of bones fused: Minimum 3, maximum 12. The more types of bones and the higher the quality put in, the stronger the produced Stitched Bone Beast will be.]

[Inherited characteristics: The Stitched Bone Beast will randomly inherit some racial traits and skills of the input bones and undergo mutation and enhancement during fusion.]

[Size: Determined by the total mass of the input bones. After fusing 12 large creature skeletons, the resulting Stitched Bone Beast can reach a size of over 6 meters.]

[Note: The Stitched Bone Beast cannot be further fused or disassembled. Once created, it is in its final form. After the Lords Hall level increases, the upper limit for the number of fused bones can be increased.]

[Subsidiary feature: Low-level unit fusion]

[Description: The Lord can put 3 or more low-level undead units of the same type into the Resurrection Platform for fusion. After fusion, it produces 1 elite undead unit of the same race, with significantly improved attributes and skills.]

[Note: Current fusion ratio: 3:1. After the Lords Hall level increases, the fusion quality and quantity limit can be increased.]

Xu Qin's eyes widened sharply.

Low-level unit fusion?

Three-in-one to become elite?

He abruptly opened the unit panel, his gaze sweeping over the long list of names.

Skeleton Warthog, Sand Snake, Sand Scorpion, Sand Lizard...

These units were his original foundation when he started.

They had followed him all the way from the Wailing Desert to now.

Especially the Warthogs, which could also be used as mounts, though they were a bit hard on the rear end.

But honestly...

After having a group of new units like Sand Jackal, Erosion Beast, and Elf Archer,

their combat power could no longer keep up with the latest version of the territory.

Even at +20 maxed out, the Skeleton Warthog's attack was only around 30.

The gap was too large.

And now, he could fuse three Skeleton Warthogs into one elite Skeleton Warthog.

"This low-level unit fusion came just in time, very good!"

Xu Qin turned and ran toward the Resurrection Platform.

"Must fuse!"

He opened the command panel while running.

1250 Skeleton Warthogs, three-in-one, could produce 416 elite Warthogs.

240 Skeleton Sand Snakes, three-in-one, 80 elite Sand Snakes.

320 Skeleton Sand Scorpions, three-in-one, 106 elite Sand Scorpions.

150 Skeleton Sand Lizards, three-in-one, 50 elite Sand Lizards.

"Quantity decreases, quality increases."

Xu Qin arrived in front of the Resurrection Platform,

"Anyway, what I lack now isn't quantity, but quality."

He first selected three Skeleton Warthogs and threw them into the Resurrection Platform.

Clicked [Unit Fusion].

The system popped up a confirmation box:

[Confirm fusing Skeleton Warthog × 3?]

[Confirm!]

The groove of the Resurrection Platform lit up with a dazzling blue light.

Three skeletons were swept into the center by the energy flow, starting to twist, reorganize, and stack.

Bones broke and reconnected, spines elongated, limbs thickened, and the tusks on the skulls grew violently outward—

Five seconds later.

The Resurrection Platform exit opened.

A brand-new undead unit walked out.

Its size was twice as large as the original Skeleton Warthog.

At the front of the skull, two upward-curving tusks were half a meter long, shimmering with a deep blue luster.

Xu Qin opened the unit panel.

[Elite Skeleton Warthog · Fusion ( + 20 )]

Attack Power: 78 (Physical - Charge / Pierce)

Defense: 34

HP: 280 / 280

Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternally Loyal)

Morale: None

Characteristics:

Bone Spike Charge (Enhanced): Initial Charge damage +100%, knocks target back 2 meters on hit, stuns for 1 second.

Tusk Penetration: Normal attacks carry 15% armor penetration effect, ignoring 15% of the target's physical defense.

Xu Qin looked at the attack power value on the panel.

The original +20 Skeleton Warthog only had an attack power of 32.

Now it had more than doubled.

And it had two extra new characteristics.

"Strong!"

Xu Qin turned around excitedly, looking at the Combat Readiness Platform:

"Fuse them all! Warthogs, Sand Snakes, Sand Scorpions, Sand Lizards, leave none behind!"

"Oh right! And that Stitched Bone Beast..."

He stopped and looked at the large pile of bones lying in the inventory.

Troglodyte bones, Orc bones, Earth Spirits bones...

The ones left over from fighting the three-party alliance, there were still tens of thousands left unconverted.

Not only that, some bones like the Rift Guard and Erosion Beast hadn't been used either.

"Let's try to stitch an original-flavor Bone Beast first, and then put in some Mineral Essence to enhance it."

Xu Qin directly took out twelve bones from his inventory and threw them into the Resurrection Platform.

Clicked [Bone Fusion · Stitched Bone Beast].

[Confirm performing deep fusion on the following bones?]

[Earth Spirits bones × 2, Troglodyte bones × 2, Orc bones × 2, Minotaur bones × 2, Sand Jackal bones × 2, Erosion Beast × 1, Rift Guard × 1]

[Expected output: Stitched Bone Beast × 1 (Quality influenced by the type and quality of bones input)]

[Confirm!]

Hum!

The energy of the Resurrection Platform was ten times more violent than before.

Three skeletons shattered, melted, and reconsolidated in the energy vortex...

Ten seconds later.

A dull sound of bone collision came from the direction of the exit.

Xu Qin stepped back two paces.

He saw one... no,

a huge Bone Beast monster nearly five meters tall walked out from the Resurrection Platform exit.