88: Chapter 88 It's Flying.

Tian Ming took the order and led a group of heroes including Man Niu, Chuan Yun, and Jackal Hunter, along with melee and Ranged Troops, to leave the Combat Readiness Platform.

The Floating City instantly quieted down.

Only then did Xu Qin walk quickly toward the Combat Readiness Platform.

Now, he still had one thing to do.

In front of the Resurrection Platform on the Combat Readiness Platform.

Xu Qin opened the vault and took out the more than 54,000 Troglodyte skeletons that had been piled up for a long time.

Then he opened the Resurrection Platform, put all these skeletons into the queue, and clicked [Batch Conversion].

Hum!!!

The entire Resurrection Platform suddenly erupted with dazzling light.

Ten minutes later, the light gradually faded.

[New Undead Troglodyte × 54120]

"Good! Everyone, go mine for me!"

Xu Qin gave orders on the command panel, moving this batch of Troglodytes as a whole toward the direction of the ore vein.

The massive swarm of Troglodyte skeletons filed out from the Combat Readiness Platform and disappeared into the underground tunnels.

Xu Qin estimated,

if the 50,000-plus Troglodytes mined at full capacity, they should be able to clear out this ore vein within five hours.

...

Finally, around nine o'clock in the evening, the prompt that the ore vein was exhausted popped up.

[Ore vein resources have been exhausted.]

When Xu Qin received the notification, he was half-reclining on the bone throne, resting with his eyes closed.

He opened the vault to check the inventory of eternal source crystals.

Including what he already had, the total number exceeded 450,000.

To be honest, it was a bit low.

He had originally thought that a resource point as large as two Floating Cities would be enough to renovate the entire city.

But looking at it now, it was still far from enough.

But it didn't matter; one must learn to be content.

Xu Qin closed the vault interface and looked at the Underground Space.

Ding!

[Talent "War Gift" level increased! 14 → 15!]

[War Gift Level 15: When calculating battle results, quantity of all loot × 16!]

"Very good!"

Xu Qin looked at this line of text and nodded with a smile.

Sixteen times.

Ten pits, leaving 20 remains in each pit for resurrection, producing 320 in one round.

Even after deducting the 20 remains left for seeding, he still made a net profit of 300.

He opened the hero panel.

Tian Ming: 32 → 34.

Chuan Yun: 25 → 29.

Man Niu, Jackal Hunter, and others also coincidentally gained a level.

"The experience requirements for blank-slate heroes are really low..."

Xu Qin muttered, and said to the command panel:

"Tian Ming, recall all troops to the Combat Readiness Platform, everyone board the city, prepare to depart."

"Yes."

The movement underground gradually subsided.

The Troglodytes and combat units in each tunnel began to withdraw back to the Floating City one after another.

Xu Qin didn't have time to wait, so he went to the Forging Area to dismantle all the refined ore.

Ten minutes later, the entire army returned to the Combat Readiness Platform.

Xu Qin opened the area map and looked at a green marked point 62 kilometers to the east.

That was a large Oasis forest belt scouted by the Skeleton Vulture, with an extremely impressive reserve of wood and stone.

But the problem was that there were already traces of other lords' activities in that area.

As for exactly what races they were, there was no more information for the time being.

But Xu Qin didn't care at all.

Resources are things that don't have a concept of ownership to begin with.

Whoever can harvest them depends entirely on their own ability.

If someone blocks, fight.

If no one blocks, move.

As for that lord camping in the Oasis...

Xu Qin walked toward the Watchtower with his hands behind his back.

"I hope you aren't too weak, otherwise it won't be interesting to fight."

One minute later.

Rumble!

The Floating City began to shake.

The Energy Zone erupted with a low humming sound.

The consumption of soul energy instantly soared from zero to four thousand.

The Floating City slowly rose into the air and completed its turn on its own.

Afterwards...

Whoosh!

It flew toward the northeast.

In the night sky, a faint blue trail of soul energy gradually dissipated.

Inside the Watchtower, Xu Qin watched the saline-alkali land beneath his feet slowly recede.

At the current speed, he would arrive in about three hours for the 62 kilometers.

Three hours later, the Floating City slowly decelerated.

Xu Qin stood by the edge of the Watchtower and looked up.

Under the cover of night,

a deep green, continuous stretch of Oasis appeared ahead.

He opened the reconnaissance screen.

The +40 Skeleton Vulture perspective was extremely clear; even the textures on the treetops could be distinguished.

Xu Qin zoomed out the map and swiped back and forth to observe.

The diameter of this Oasis was close to twenty kilometers.

The wood reserves were very impressive, and the stone belts were distributed in an east-west direction, with at least nine visible to the naked eye.

There were even five places where iron ore was exposed on the surface.

The resources exposed on the surface alone were enough to level up the Floating City several times.

"What a good place."

He raised the perspective and began to count the number of lords in the area.

Within the Oasis, more than a dozen territories of varying sizes were scattered throughout the area.

And in the middle of the Oasis, there was the largest territory.

Inside the territory, there were even rows of iron chariots.

The number of soldiers, roughly estimated, should be over five thousand.

"Looks very strong, let's probe their foundation first."

Xu Qin swiped on the command panel,

more than two thousand Skeleton Sand Rats silently burrowed underground and spread toward the Oasis.

...

Twenty minutes later, the reconnaissance results were transmitted back one after another.

Xu Qin marked them one by one on the area map:

Northwest corner, it was the Elf Race, with about two thousand Archers.

Southeast corner, adjacent to the iron ore belt, was the Dwarf Race, with troop numbers around 1,500.

Near the stone belt was a group of three-meter-tall stone creatures, the Stone Spirit Clan, all in heavy armor, numbering about eight hundred, slow-moving but with extremely high defense.

Beside the river, it was the Murloc Clan, with a population of 1,900.

Inside the forest, it was the Thorn Clan, a plant-based race.

The remaining seven or eight lords included the Thunder Lizard Clan, Werewolf Clan, Rock Demon Tribe, Flame Bird Clan, etc.

In short, the races were all different.

"Not bad, my War Gift can finally be put to good use."

Xu Qin finished reading the reconnaissance report and looked again at the human territory in the middle of the Oasis.

"The strongest one is indeed the human race."

He turned off the Skeleton Sand Rat perspective and looked at Tian Ming.

"Tian Ming."

"Present."

"Send troops to harvest resources. Wood, stone, iron ore—harvest everything that can be harvested."

"Yes." Tian Ming nodded in agreement.

Afterwards,

Clatter!

The three-layered bone boardwalks of the Combat Readiness Platform all lowered.

A massive, dark Undead Army poured out from the bottom of the city.

Bone Transport Carts followed closely behind.

The Troglodytes and Sand Jackals separated and spread out, pressing toward the edge of the Oasis.

Tens of thousands of skeleton units poured out like a flood.

Xu Qin returned to the Lords Hall, sat on the bone throne, and casually clicked open the chat panel.

He saw that inside the regional channel under the human channel.

Dozens of messages were scrolling by.

He clicked on the channel interface and started reading from the beginning.

Sure enough, the lords here had already discovered him.

Victor · Human Race: Has anyone seen what that thing to the west is?

Sylvia · Elf Race: My reconnaissance eagle was almost swatted down; it's at least forty meters high.

Krenda · Dwarf Race: A floating building?

Krenda · Dwarf Race: That doesn't make sense, right?

Tanton · Stone Spirit Clan: Not only is it floating, it can also move.

Victor · Human Race: What?

Tanton · Stone Spirit Clan: It is flying.