95: Chapter 95 The Undead Will Self-Destruct!

After waiting for five days, the day had finally arrived!

Xu Qin sat up from his bone throne, summoned his command panel, and clicked on the list of new features.

The first line of text caught his eye.

【Wraith Fury (Passive · Permanently effective for the entire army)】

【Effect: Undead units that fall in battle will, at the moment of death, detonate their remaining soul energy on the spot, dealing area-of-effect damage equal to 500% of the unit's maximum HP to all enemy units within a 5-meter radius.】

【Additional Effect: The soul energy pollution generated by the explosion will remain in the area for 8 seconds, during which the morale of enemy living creatures within the range will continuously decline, and incoming healing effects will be reduced by 60%.】

"500% HP?"

Xu Qin brought out his elementary school math skills again.

A +40 Stitched Bone Beast has 3600 HP.

3600 multiplied by 5 equals 18000.

If one Bone Beast dies, it explodes for 18,000 on the spot!

"What the f*ck..."

Xu Qin gasped.

What does 18,000 mean?

A Mineral Vein Guardian only has 100,000 HP; two Bone Beasts sacrificing themselves could blow away a third of that.

Plus there's the soul energy pollution, morale reduction, and reduced healing.

For living races, this is simply a nightmare.

You spent all your effort, finally managing to kill my frontline Bone Beast?

Congratulations, it exploded, and everyone around you is finished.

Didn't die?

Don't worry, there are thousands more behind it.

Xu Qin grinned and let out a laugh.

"From now on, whoever fights me needs to think clearly about one thing."

"If you kill my troops, you won't survive either."

The more he thought about it, the better it felt, and Xu Qin quickly looked down at the second item.

【Undead Recruitment Order (Active · Lord Skill)】

【Effect: When the HP of a neutral Undead-type monster drops below 30%, the Lord can consume soul energy to initiate recruitment and bring the target under their command. The recruitment cost is linked to the target's level. After successful recruitment, the target retains its original attributes and skills, and loyalty is locked at 100 (Eternal Diehard).】

【Restriction: Only effective on "neutral Undead-type" monsters; cannot be used on the Undead units of other Lords.】

Xu Qin stroked his chin as he read the description:

"Are there actually neutral Undead-type monsters...? Are there?"

He quickly recalled what he had seen on the continent.

The Mineral Vein Guardians are not considered Undead.

Neither are the Erosion Beasts.

The neutral monsters he had encountered before were only stronghold monsters like Sand Jackals and Minotaurs.

But based on this feature, it means that on this continent, there are wandering wild skeletons, ghosts, death knights...

Those are all neutral Undead.

"Can I recruit them just by beating them to low health? Isn't this just 'catch and use'?"

Xu Qin stood up and paced back and forth on the Watchtower.

"Luckily I have a Floating City, I can go wherever I want. If I had chosen a sub-base back then, this feature would be half-useless."

If he happened to run into some high-level wild Undead monsters in the future...

The more Xu Qin thought about it, the happier he felt, nodding repeatedly.

"Good! Good! Good! These are all very practical features."

He closed the Lords Hall panel and opened the upgrade interface for the various zones of the Floating City.

Watchtower, upgrade.

Forging Area, upgrade.

Hall of Valor, upgrade.

Magic Zone, upgrade.

Defense System, upgrade.

Energy Zone, upgrade.

descent platform, upgrade.

Combat Readiness Platform, upgrade.

He clicked them all in one go.

Ding ding ding ding, eight upgrade notifications popped up simultaneously.

【Upgrade time: 72 hours (3 days)】

All of them were three days.

The Floating City hovered steadily in the center of the Oasis, and the Troglodytes below were still transporting timber.

Xu Qin leaned back on his bone throne, hands behind his head.

The wind blew in through the gaps in the Bone Wall of the Watchtower, ruffling his hair.

"So comfortable, this is what life is about."

"Quietly farm for three days, wait for the zones to finish upgrading, and then consider the next step."

"Fighting and killing is so tiring, it wastes troops and brainpower."

"Farming is better..."

Just as he was getting drowsy and about to fall asleep.

Snap.

The command panel popped up a communication request from Tian Ming.

"Master."

Xu Qin opened one eye.

"Speak."

"All surface resources in the Oasis have been collected. Timber, stone, and refined iron ore have all been stored."

"Mm."

"There are no more collectable resource points in the current area. Do you need to relocate?"

"So fast?"

Xu Qin opened his eyes and sat up.

He opened the regional map and traced a circle on it with his finger.

Sure enough, he had completely stripped this Oasis bare; not even a blade of grass was left.

To the west is the desert, nothing there. He had just fought to the south, and that side is saline-alkali land.

"Then... let's head back northwest, continue developing, and be a little Undead who loves farming."

Xu Qin's finger tapped on a green marker on the map.

That was the Oasis where he had originally defeated the three Lords: the Troglodyte, Earth Spirit, and Orc.

He had only collected half of it at the time, leaving because of the eternal source crystal vein.

He zoomed in on the map and observed for a few seconds.

Mm.

The Oasis was still there, and the marked resource points hadn't changed.

This meant no other Lords had approached this area.

"Let's go there." Xu Qin stood up, "Tian Ming, recall all troops from the Underground Space, and pause the Ore Spirit production line."

"Yes."

"Recall all Troglodytes to the Combat Readiness Platform, and prepare the Floating City for takeoff."

"Understood."

Half an hour later.

The 90,000-strong army was completely housed in the third level of the Combat Readiness Platform.

The ten standard pits in the Underground Space were completely destroyed and buried.

Xu Qin stood at the control console of the Lords Hall and pressed the start button.

Hum!

The energy core at the bottom of the Floating City began to operate, and the entire city slowly rose.

Sand and dust were blown away by the air blast, leaving a huge circular indentation on the bare ground of the Oasis.

"Direction northwest, distance about forty kilometers."

Xu Qin entered the coordinates, and the Floating City turned and flew towards the northwest.

Speed of twenty kilometers per hour, it would take about two hours to arrive.

He yawned and lay back down on the bone throne.

"Call me when we arrive."

"Yes, Master."

...

Ten thousand miles away.

On a gravel wasteland at the edge of the desert, three armies occupied three sides, forming a huge triangular standoff formation.

In the center of the triangle was a magnificent ruin.

The broken stone pillars were over twenty meters high, and the carvings on the tops of the pillars had weathered to the point where their original appearance could no longer be seen.

The pillars formed a semicircle, and in the middle was a half-collapsed hall.

In the very center of the hall, a layer of pale blue shield enveloped the entire structure.

Inside the shield, a purple treasure floated in mid-air, emitting a tempting glow.

At this moment, the three Lords gathered here were sending troops to monitor the treasure, but none of them made a move.

Because the shield had not yet dissipated.

According to the information already provided, the shield of this ruin would automatically dissipate in three days.

At that time, whoever gets in first gets it first.

But, wanting to get in first is not easy.

Northern camp.

Twelve Lords were gathered together, mostly from the Dwarf Race and the human race, with a few Goblins and Gnomes.

They had already built sub-cities on the north side of the ruins; although the city walls were crude, they could at least hold for a while.

Inside the council tent of the sub-city, several Lords sat around a stone table covered with animal skins.

A Dwarf Lord was speaking.

His name was Gross, he had a full beard and a loud voice.

"Is there an Undead Lord named Xu Qin, do you guys know him?"

"I know him."

A tall, thin human Lord opposite him named Fang Che replied.

"One against thirteen, total annihilation. He's pretty fierce."