81: The mycelial range is my territory.

Qiao Yu finally spent nearly 1 million cubic meters of fungal swarm count, allowing the Level 2 Fungal Nest to birth a full 20,000 Beast Soldier Level fungal creatures as cannon fodder, as well as nearly 500 Beast General Level fungal creatures as members of the other five Fungal Squads.

"I'm poor again all of a sudden."

Qiao Yu scratched his head and smiled helplessly.

But looking at the Beast General Level fungal creatures outside the fungal nest, leading an army of tens of thousands of Beast Soldier Level fungal creatures, Qiao Yu was still very satisfied.

"With a fungal army of this size, capturing the Main City of County 0203 should be a piece of cake, right?"

That being said, the Main City was not within the fungal nest's range after all, and if fungal creatures were not within the camp's range, they could not achieve infinite resurrection.

"System, is there any way to expand the fungal nest's range to a minimum? This way, the fungal army can have infinite resurrection without having to migrate the entire fungal nest."

[Wherever the Mycelium spreads is the nest's soil. The host can expand the Mycelium range underground at will. Any area the Mycelium expands into can serve as a Fungal Camp location.]

"Well said. Going beyond the Mycelium range would be invading other camps. I would certainly never do something so despicable and shameless."

"But as long as the Mycelium covers an area, it is my Fungal Camp. If someone else's sphere of influence is above the Fungal Camp, then they are encroaching on our territory."

"And by expelling or even killing them to reclaim my lost land, I am merely exercising my sovereignty."

Qiao Yu nodded silently, a mischievous smile appearing on his face.

"System, with the remaining fungal swarm count, how much can I expand the underground Mycelium?"

[Reply to host, the current remaining fungal nest count is 460,000 cubic meters, which can expand the Mycelium range by approximately 46 square kilometers.]

"46 square kilometers... that's about the entire range of an ordinary county town. It should be no problem to cover the area belonging to County 0203."

Qiao Yu thought to himself and immediately gave the order.

"System! Use all the remaining fungal swarm count to expand the underground Mycelium range."

With a ding from the system, the entire structure of the fungal nest where Qiao Yu was located began to wriggle.

The flesh within the building wriggled continuously, expanding its Mycelium underground.

Qiao Yu walked outside and could clearly see that the ground closest to the fungal nest was already covered by blood-red Mycelium. The vividness of these mycelia faded the further they were from the fungal nest.

As the fungal nest continued to wriggle, the range of the blood-colored Mycelium on the ground expanded wider and wider.

After nearly an hour, Qiao Yu received a notification from the system that the 46 square kilometers of Mycelium expansion was complete.

Qiao Yu clicked on his Communication Watch, opened the map, and roughly calculated the area of County 0203, which was about 56 square kilometers.

Excluding the suburban area where he was currently located, the remaining Mycelium had essentially covered the entire Main City within the range of the fungal nest's Mycelium.

Now Qiao Yu could fight at will in the Main City. Even if he were to face a Lord Level monster, he would have no worries about his life.

"Then the next goal is to invade the Main City..."

"Ahem, the next goal is to reclaim territory. These cities originally belonged to human territory, and I'm considered half-human, right? So it's not excessive for me to take these territories for myself."

Realizing he had misspoken, Qiao Yu coughed lightly and thought about his next plan without a hint of embarrassment.

Qiao Yu looked at the slightly damaged blood shadow battle blade in his hand and sighed helplessly. The combat suit on his body had also completely turned into a fungal combat suit; although it was as clean as new, its defensive capabilities were certainly not as good as a Series 7 Combat Suit.

Qiao Yu's fungus could currently only achieve infinite reproduction and replication of devoured materials, thereby recreating equipment and weapons made from those materials, or repairing equipment and weapons replicated by the fungus.

It did not yet have the ability to independently analyze and develop powerful materials. After all, kru alloy was a strategic material developed by the great human scientist Kelo Dessenna during the middle of the Great Nirvana Period.

It was developed based on monster corpse materials and the "Blue Gold" metal discovered on the moon.

Qiao Yu had no way to go to the moon to obtain Blue Gold himself for now. After all, if there was something ready-made, why should he do everything himself and go through the trouble of developing it?

"It seems it's time to get myself a new set of equipment."

Qiao Yu unhurriedly took out his phone and opened the Warrior Mall, thinking that he should at least get a set of Series 7 equipment. If he was going to upgrade, he had to upgrade the whole set.

But when Qiao Yu saw the prices of Series 7 equipment in the Warrior Mall, his face stiffened, and his heart still felt a pang of distress.

"I didn't expect that after being in the Wilderness Area for so long, I'd still be so poor."

Qiao Yu helplessly palmed his forehead.

Actually, he only had himself to blame. When expanding the fungal nest, for the sake of convenience, he didn't selectively keep the materials from the monsters' bodies but instead let the fungal swarm devour everything.

The benefit was that the fungal swarm count increased significantly, but the downside was naturally that he had no money on the human side.

As for the Rebirth Potions he had listed in the Warrior Mall, although they were all sold out, the increase in wealth wasn't much due to the limited quantity provided.

"Eh, why can't I just replicate the materials from the monsters and then sell them to the HR Alliance or the Dojos?"

A lightbulb seemed to go off in Qiao Yu's head as he let out an "Eh."

"However, although I can replicate them, they are made by the fungal swarm after all. I'm not sure if the effectiveness will be greatly reduced. If people find out I'm selling fakes, won't that be disastrous?"

As soon as the thought arose, Qiao Yu poured cold water on it himself.

Although no warrior in history had ever tried to sell fakes, the HR Alliance and the Dojos were no fools. Every monster material sold by a warrior is registered and can be traced back to its source, specifically to prevent the occurrence of fake goods.

In the regulations governing warriors, there are also specific responsibilities a warrior must bear if they sell fake goods.

It wouldn't just be a matter of how many years of imprisonment; the HR Alliance and the Dojos would refuse to sell any goods to that warrior in the future.

"Forget it, maybe I should just sell the equipment and weapons I produce myself."

Qiao Yu tried to use the remaining fungal swarm to replicate a new combat suit.

"System, how much fungal swarm is consumed to replicate a Series 6 Fungal Combat Suit?"

[10 cubic meters of fungal swarm count will suffice.]

"That's roughly the cost of birthing a Beginner Beast Soldier Level monster."

"This is practically pure profit."

One should know that a Series 6 combat suit can withstand attacks from Intermediate Beast General Level monsters. In terms of conversion, it would require materials from at least an Intermediate or Advanced Beast General Level monster to produce.