Chapter 448: Nest of Corruption (2/2)

A rotting expanse of land immediately appeared within the territory. A pitch-black nest was slowly wriggling into existence. It was pretty scary. It was fortunate that I didn’t tell the workshop girls to come over yet. They wouldn’t be able to stomach their lunch otherwise.

Exactly 10 minutes later, the Nest of Corruption was finished!

The only selection I saw for the Nest of Corruption was Dark Insect. Each Dark Insect required 100 of every basic resource so I recruited 10 of them. These bugs were also the production force of the city. The more Dark Insects there were, the greater the city’s productivity!

Ding~!

System Notice: Congratulations, you have recruited “Dark Insect” x10. As the first territory to have 10 Dark Insects, you have obtained the reward: “Skeletal Spearman” x20!

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Skeletal Spearmen?

I was startled. Twenty smelly Skeletal Spearmen appeared within the territory. They were all cyan skeletons holding corroded iron spears. They were considered to be long-range units and were Undead Castle’s Rank 1 troops. A while later, I realized that the productivity of the territory’s early stages would be extremely low. Resources would have to be obtained from fighting wild monsters but players couldn’t carry those resources. Only the territory’s own troops had that ability!

Skeletal Spearman: Attack★, Defense★, Transport Capacity: 100.

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This meant that each Skeletal Spearman could only carry 100 units of resources home. The system gave me 20 Skeletal Spearmen, which meant that I could bring home 2000 units at a time. It wasn’t much, but it wasn’t little either.

The building that produced troops in the undead city was the Nest of Graves. It required 4000 of each resource to construct. I, myself, was powerless at the moment, so it was obvious how important these 20 Skeletal Spearmen were. If not for these Skeletal Spearmen, I’d have to rely on the city’s own slow productivity to construct the Nest of Graves. That alone would take three days.

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I happily assigned the 20 Skeletal Spearmen to go on a campaign and made Dark Knight Udal lead the expedition!

“My lord!” Dark Knight Udal rumbled. “A band of Fallen Devils carrying goods has appeared southwest of the city. Let’s go destroy them!”

I opened the world map and really did find a blood-red spot there. The mark on the map was the coordinates of those Fallen Devils.

I brought along a group of little brothers and headed out to participate in a slaughterfest. A bunch of chattering red-skinned little imps carrying backpacks appeared at the edge of the forest. The way they dashed about seemed like they were high on drugs or something.

I wasn’t willing to lose a single Skeletal Spearman so I lead the attack myself. There were 10 Fallen Devils total and they were all Level 125 shadow-rank mobs that weren’t even a threat to me. I ran into their party and unleashed a Martial God–empowered War Crush!

Boom!

Power surged and a large chunk of the Fallen Devils’ HPs instantly vaporized. I neatly drew all their aggro and the faraway Udal commanded the 20 Skeletal Spearmen to attack. Although the damage they dealt wasn’t amazing, it was still passable in my books.

The Heaven-stealing Sword danced about wildly, reaping the lives of these Fallen Devils. I was glad that I took charge of this myself. If I allowed the Skeletal Spearmen to advance first, at least 5 to 10 of them would’ve died. I couldn’t handle that kind of loss, especially since the territory was at the early stages of development. I absolutely could not lose my precious troops in vain.

In the blink of an eye, the Fallen Devils were all dead on the ground. These territory-type mobs didn’t drop any equipment or magic stones. Instead, each of them carried about 1000 units of resources, enough to keep my Skeletal Spearmen busy for a long time.

I summoned the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf to escort my transport team. I had to protect these Skeletal Spearmen. I couldn’t rule out any surprise attacks from the players of Hegemon Palace, Flower Room, and the like here. My heart would ache if they killed a few of my Skeletal Spearmen.

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We had to transport the resources dropped by the Fallen Devils five times before we finally brought them all back to the territory. This, plus the territory’s own production allowed me to construct the next building—

Nest of Graves: Basic structure. Produces undead-type units. Resource Requirement: 4000 Gold, 4000 Wood, 4000 Stone, 4000 Crystal. Time Required: 30 minutes.

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This building took 30 minutes to construct. Let’s go loot more monsters with my little skeleton brothers then!

In that half an hour time, the few red dots around the territory were cleared off the map. We killed two Scavenger Devils and a group of Lesser Devils which gave us a bit more than 5000 units of each resource.

I suddenly heard a ding. The Rank 1 Nest of Graves was finished!

I opened the building details and saw that it could only produce one kind of troop—

Skeletal Spearman: Attack★, Defense★, Transport Capacity 100. Resource Requirement: 200 Gold, 200 Wood, 200 Stone, 200 Crystal. Time Required: 150 seconds.

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I selected 25 Skeletal Spearmen. Each Skeletal Spearman took 2.5 minutes to produce. Fine, I’ll take it slow!

I looked at the map and suddenly saw a huge red dot appear. The territory system then sent out a warning. “A wave of powerful enemies is approaching.”