CHAPTER 119: 45 CHAPTER BURIAL GROUND OF THE DEAD_2

After spending half an hour, Lin Rui basically inspected the buildings of the territory, and finally entered the trading market.

Inside, there was a batch of expensive fine-level equipment displayed in the window.

At the current stage, those who are willing to sell fine-level equipment are rare indeed.

Therefore, countless people in the entire area were paying attention to this shop, with the number of followers surpassing a million, reaching 1,564,612 people.

Mainly, those lords interested in buying fine-level equipment also need to gather resources to come back for the purchase, so they must add the shop to their watch list to avoid difficulty in finding it later.

Lin Rui did not sell this fine-level equipment for Realm Coins but changed the purchase conditions to only accept precious resources like gems, mithril, and vibranium.

Ordinary lords would not have so many special resources and could only go collecting and trading for them.

However, there are fortunate people chosen by destiny whose territory happens to have a mithril mine nearby. Lin Rui discovered that four pieces of fine-level equipment were bought by a lord named "Twin Harvey" using mithril.

This made Lin Rui contemplate; since there is a mithril mine, perhaps there could also be a gem mine nearby?

If the territory had a richly productive gem mine, then the pressure of future divine sacrifices would be significantly alleviated.

Mithril and tier one gems were nearly collected; Lin Rui left 500 units of grain for dinner reserves from the territory, and put all the remaining few thousand up, acquiring all the materials needed for the "Jilun Tower" at a 50:1 ratio.

Then he handed all the materials over to Soro, instructing: "Quickly construct the Jilun Tower. With this miracle building, the territory’s development will significantly improve."

Soro nodded respectfully: "Lord, the territory will fully commit to building these structures. But I suggest that before the expedition into the forest tonight, we gather a few wandering vagabonds nearby; the territory buildings are sufficient, we only need seven more inhabitants to advance in level. The territory should prioritize upgrading its level."

"Alright, the territory is in your hands. I’ll take some people out to search, and return before dinner."

"As you command, Lord, we will prepare a fine dinner waiting for your return."

Lin Rui couldn’t help but smile; after three years, he finally felt the sense of home again.

This feeling is truly nice.

A moment later, Audrey came over, hugging Lin Rui’s right arm, her soft body turned in front of Lin Rui, looking up at him, she said: "Dear Lord, the armies are all assembled. Shall we set out?"

"Let’s go!" Lin Rui decisively waved his hand.

Yesterday he had observed the distant bonfires from the high mountain, roughly remembering the positions of the neighbors, so he planned to visit the nearby territories. To get acquainted with the new neighbors and see if there were any wandering people along the way.

Of course, the bonfire does not necessarily indicate a territory; it could also be a wild rōnin, a merchant caravan camp, or signs of marauders.

Lin Rui could only try his luck, first heading towards the nearest bonfire to the north.

Saying "closest" is still over fifty miles away; without Lin Rui’s greatly enhanced sight, it would be impossible to see several clusters of fire at such a distant location.

However, as they got closer, everyone found it impossible for any human territory to be there, as the land had been corrupted by the power of the undead, turning the green grass and yellow soil into a rigid blue-black dead zone.

Inside, there were roaming corpse walkers and scattered skeleton frames.

Audrey covered her mouth in surprise, looking at Lin Rui and asked: "Lord, you said you remembered a bonfire in this direction?"

"Yes."

"That must be a ghost fire, right? How powerful the undead must be for the ghost fire to be so vigorous?"

"Hiss." Lin Rui took a cold breath, this damn world, it’s really unrest everywhere.

There is the Beastman Warband, Green-skinned Tribe, and Roaring Beast Swarm to the east of the territory, and shortly after heading north, they encountered a burial ground of the undead.

Any one of them is a threat to the territory if not addressed.

"Let’s go in and see, eliminate the danger in advance."

With this order, the territory’s army moved forward like a bulldozer, clearing all skeletons and corpse walkers along the way.

As they continued to delve deeper, the undead troop quickly became more aggressive, with Horror Wolves, Silver-backed Wolves, Corpse Ghosts, Ghouls, Vengeful Spirits, Undead Warriors, and Graveyard Guards emerging in succession.

However, the Golden Pansy Domain’s army’s blade was extremely sharp, advancing triumphantly all the way into the ghostly realm of the undead.

After advancing for over ten minutes, the army halted, Audrey reported to Lin Rui: "Lord, one of my squads of Skeleton Warriors was instantaneously wiped out."

Needless to say, they have encountered a major monster.

"Assemble the entire army, move towards the place where the undead warrior disappeared."

Audrey’s tier two Ghouls, having fought from last night to today, have leveled up from tier two level one to tier two level three, with physique attributes breaking through from over fifty points to sixty points, moving swiftly, quickly surrounding nearby, totaling up to seven squads, consuming her 340 command value points.

In addition, there were some scattered Tomb Evil Ghosts, Undead Warriors, and a squadron of Skeleton Soldiers.

Both in quality and quantity, her undead army was already very impressive.

Even if the opponent is tier three, she has the power to contend.

Moreover, Audrey confidently said: "I have an ability, souls with a value below twenty points are slain without mercy!"

The ultimate ability given by the Black Queen is indeed unreasonable like this.

The knights lined up in front, soon advancing to the scene, where a squad of Skeleton Warriors had already been scattered into a skeletal ruin, and around the skeletal remains, the battlefield was in ruins, the ground shattered into deep rifts spreading in all directions.

"Such intense combat? It seems that the Skeleton Warriors were affected by the aftermath of the battle," Lundestadte remarked while stroking the ground’s cracks.

Audrey resurrected the troop of Skeleton Soldiers, giving a charming snort: "Dare to bully my little skeletons, watch me knock his head askew!"

Lin Rui decisively ordered: "Chase after them. While they’re engaged in battle, eliminate both parties."

The battle traces were very clear, and the Golden Pansy Domain’s army pursued along the rifts forward, quickly catching up with the two battling parties.

Audrey exclaimed: "It’s a Burrow Demon, a tier three rare level monster!"

Finally seeing a rare level wild monster again.

Everyone looked far into the battlefield, seeing a towering black Burrow Demon rampaging on the battlefield. It had a body resembling a giant black beetle, eight blade-like limbs and claws, covered in a thick carapace with numerous sharp backspikes hanging on it.

It not only possessed a powerful physique, with each claw strike sending rubble flying, but crucially, it also had powerful spiritual magic, capable of summoning earth spikes. Rows of earth spikes would suddenly burst from the ground, hitting targets, sending them flying, and stunning them.

Its opponents, a dozen humans, were suffering bitterly under such earth spike attacks.

The battlefield was fierce, yet Lin Rui casually stood with arms crossed, observing from the side. Audrey nonchalantly pulled out a red grapefruit, peeled it open, and fed a piece into Lin Rui’s mouth with her delicate fingers, happily eating a piece herself.

The fruit was very sweet and cool, perfectly soothing the cold and dark of this burial ground. Lin Rui raised an eyebrow and asked: "Where did you get the red grapefruit?"

"I bought it at the market yesterday. Isn’t it normal for girls to buy some clothing, store up some fruits and snacks?"

"Hey! Hey! Hey! We’re fighting to the death here, and you guys are just watching!? Eating fruits!? This is too much!" a person among the battling humans turned to shout indignantly, but as he shouted, he spat out a mouthful of blood and flesh.

Audrey immediately offered concerned comfort: "Oh, you’re hurt!"

"Knowing I’m hurt, hurry and help!"

"Then you stop talking, fight well! Every time you talk, you spit blood!"

"..."

!!!

Several battling humans momentarily stumbled, turning with furious glares.

Does not speaking mean we won’t get hurt, or spit blood anymore!