209: Chapter 209: Spending 1.6 Billion Soul Energy to Advance to Skeletal Beast!

Time passed quickly,

With a blink of an eye,

seventy-five days had passed.

Xu Qin originally thought that playing it safe would be agonizing.

The reality was completely different.

Because every day as soon as he woke up,

there was a pile of reinforcement work waiting for him.

Then, Xu Qin discovered that

the most exhilarating thing in the world was clicking the [Reinforcement] button.

"Why do I never get tired of clicking it? How strange." Xu Qin kept clicking and muttering to himself.

There was no help for it,

this steady, incremental development pleasure

was even more addictive than fighting battles.

Within these two months, the Lords Hall

was also pushed all the way from Level 20 to Level 22.

The eight major sectors followed closely behind, maxed out across the board.

The consumption of soul energy infusion acceleration was still terrifying,

but Xu Qin was already used to it.

With Tian Ming leading a team to grind Mineral Vein Guardians 24 hours a day,

the daily soul energy output stabilized at over 80 million.

The Ore Spirit output had also long broken 100,000 per day.

Under this abnormal resource income,

the reinforcement progress of his main troops steadily advanced.

Among the several major troop types,

Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton +310, Necro-Beetles +340, Iron-Hoofed Skeletal Beast +350, Bone Dragon +500.

On the vassal side, Tie Ge sent another two batches of troops.

The quality of Su Yao and Fang Che's tributes also significantly improved, with Tier 3 accounting for over 60%.

As usual, Xu Qin killed them all and converted them into bones to store in the treasury.

The total troop strength had expanded from 7.8 million to over 9.2 million.

And today,

the thing he had eagerly anticipated after enduring for nearly half a year was finally coming!

Looking at the upgrade countdown, Xu Qin's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated.

5

4

3

2

1

[Hall of Valor has been upgraded to Level 22!]

[Currently available promotion slots: 12]

"Finally!"

After letting out a long sigh towards the sky,

Xu Qin opened the troop panel,

found the list of Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons,

and clicked on Number One in the first row.

This was the first Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton to walk out of the Resurrection Platform.

[Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton (Six-Source Fusion Type) +310]

[Attack Power: 8560]

[Defense Power: 2760]

[Health Points: 148200 / 148200]

[Mana Points: 1200 / 1200]

[Movement Speed: Extremely Fast]

[Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternal Diehard)]

[Morale: None]

Xu Qin nodded in satisfaction.

Not bad, after half a year of reinforcement,

this panel of the Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton was already quite capable of fighting.

He transferred Battle Skeleton Number One out of the giant pit and brought it before the altar of the Hall of Valor.

[Promote]

Beep!

The prompt information panel popped up.

[Warning!]

[The target troop's current attribute value base is too high (total 159520).]

[The Hall of Valor promotion mechanism requires an additional supplement of soul energy.]

[Conversion rule: 1 point of attribute value = 10000 soul energy.]

[This additional consumption: 1.595 billion soul energy.]

"What?"

Xu Qin looked at that string of numbers.

"It still needs fifteen... er, sixteen hundred million?"

He hurriedly opened the treasury.

[Current soul energy: 4.78 billion]

"Heh, piece of cake."

In these five months,

soul energy had a tens-of-millions output every day,

and although upgrading buildings and infusion acceleration spent quite a bit,

it couldn't keep up with the fierce income.

1.6 billion?

Just right to clear out the inventory.

Xu Qin directly clicked [Confirm].

Hum!

[Undead Hero promotion begins...]

The altar's eight bone pillars simultaneously erupted with purple light.

Boom!

Majestic soul energy poured into the skeleton.

Crack!

Crack!

Battle Skeleton Number One's bone armor

had purple-gold patterns emerge on it.

Half a minute later.

[Undead Hero promotion successful!]

Boom!

A brand-new battle skeleton close to five meters tall

walked out from the altar.

The promoted Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton's limb bone armor was twice as thick as before.

The six bone tubes on its back also expanded by a circle.

It walked up to Xu Qin

and lowered its body.

"Master."

This single sound was like a chorus,

as if multiple souls were speaking at the same time.

Xu Qin didn't feel surprised;

a six-source fusion body represented the resonance of remnant souls from six races.

Having a slightly unique voice was quite reasonable...

"Get up!"

He impatiently opened the panel.

[Soul-Eater · Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton Hero (Six-Source Fusion Type)]

[Level: 1]

[Attack Power: 12350]

[Defense Power: 4080]

[Health Points: 216000 / 216000]

[Mana Points: 3000 / 3000]

[Movement Speed: Extremely Fast]

[Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternal Diehard)]

[Morale: None]

[Hero Trait: Independent Command (Can lead up to 5000 Undead troops to act independently. Command upper limit increases with hero level.)]

[Skills:]

[Multi-Source Resonance (Passive): All attributes +20% extra. Any single instance of damage received does not exceed 10% of max health points (overflow is invalid).]

[Six-Source Storm (Active Skill): Releases six types of fused energy, dealing mixed damage equal to 200% of attack power to enemies within a 25-meter radius, reducing targets' movement speed by 40% for 10 seconds. Cooldown: 25 seconds. Mana cost: 150.]

[Devastating Charge (Active Skill): Charges at full speed, collision damage +300%, knocking back all targets along the path. Immune to control during the Charge. Cooldown: 15 seconds. Mana cost: 100.]

[Abyss Bone Spikes (Active Skill): Sprays shadow bone spikes in a designated 15-meter radius area, dealing 150% piercing damage of attack power, reducing hit targets' defense power by 30% for 15 seconds. Cooldown: 20 seconds. Mana cost: 120.]

[Soul-Eater Domain (Active Skill): Deploys a 30-meter radius force field centered on itself. Enemies take 1500 shadow damage per second, and friendly Undead recover 2% of max health points per second. Duration: 15 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds. Mana cost: 300.]

After reading the panel, Xu Qin patted Soul-Eater's bone armor with a face full of gratification.

"From today onwards, your name is Soul-Eater."

Soul-Eater's skull lowered slightly.

The deep purple soul fire in its eye sockets leaped once.

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing my name." Multiple echoes rang out.

Xu Qin opened the command panel and found Tian Ming.

"Tian Ming!"

"Please give your instructions, Master," Tian Ming replied immediately.

"Take Soul-Eater to the giant pit to grind levels." Xu Qin waved his hand, "Everyone is already Level 180 now; bringing along a Level 1 little brother should be very fast."

"Yes."

"Let's go, let's head over together."

"Yes!"

Xu Qin brought Soul-Eater, left the preparation platform, and came to the edge of the giant pit.

The next second.

Bang!

The Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton jumped into the giant pit in response.

At the bottom of the pit,

dozens of Mineral Vein Guardians immediately launched an encirclement attack upon seeing Soul-Eater.

But Level 1 Soul-Eater did not retreat half a step.

It stood motionless in place, gazing at these guardians.

Bang!

The stone pincers of guardian after guardian smashed onto its body.

-187!

-164!

-210!

...

Dozens of damage numbers floated up.

But Soul-Eater's health bar didn't budge at all.

Afterwards,

Soul-Eater raised its arm and backhanded a sweeping strike.

[Six-Source Storm]!

Bang bang bang!

-47800!

-47800!

-47800!

...

+4320! (Bone Proliferation health recovery)

+4320! (...)

...

A dozen or so guardians were directly smashed to pieces.

Then it turned around,

and the bone tubes on its back spewed out three dark purple projectiles.

Boom!

-52300!

Boom!

-48900!

Boom!

-51100!

Three guardians were blown flying simultaneously.

Xu Qin watched Soul-Eater charging back and forth among the Mineral Vein Guardians with his mouth wide open.

In an instant, he seemed to realize something.

Soul-Eater's initial hero panel...

seemed about the same as Bone Dragon's when it had just been promoted.

The attack power was on the same order of magnitude.

The health points were even a notch higher.

That is to say...

if he hadn't obtained the Bone Dragon back then,

but instead relied purely on basic Undead to slowly upgrade and reinforce...

as long as there was enough time,

he could still catch up with the Dragon Race at the hero level.