[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac":3,"chapter-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Universal Lord: The Zero-Troop Building Maniac",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1941995,2690,"Chapter 13: The Unlucky Ghost of a Fallen Hero","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>On the third morning, as the first rays of sunlight appeared on the earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the new lord Xu Meng got up early. The events of yesterday had kept him from sleeping well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could possibly have brought down a griffin flying 300 meters high?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting out of bed in the farmhouse, Xu Meng looked somewhat dejected,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and with his already gaunt face,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he looked like a sick man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I must cheer up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today is the third day, and in four more days, the monster wave will arrive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have advanced troops, griffins, and they are flying units. I can definitely take the lead over others!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to become a great lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng encouraged himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>getting up even earlier than the farmers in his territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating, he started to get busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unloading timber, plowing fields,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>anything he could do to improve efficiency, he did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his hero woke up,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he and the hero rode two griffins and went out to level up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the encounter yesterday,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he didn't fly around recklessly today,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but instead followed the explored areas, letting the hero and the griffins hunt and level up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ximan, can you reach level 5 today?\" Lying on the back of the griffin, he asked the middle-aged man beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man, sitting upright on the griffin, answered very seriously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem, my lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximan was an ordinary hero, a human warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he was an ordinary hero, he grew to be very powerful,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the strength of a hero lies in their growth potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a spear in hand, he coordinated with the griffin to attack, and most beasts were no match for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng nodded in satisfaction, completely putting the unpleasantness of yesterday behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, I explored there yesterday, and there are beasts active.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng pointed to the west, directing the griffins to fly forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two griffins, carrying him and Ximan, flew in the blue sky, overlooking the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a loud rumble shook the heavens and earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>causing both men and beasts to shudder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's going on?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng was momentarily stunned, and then he lost his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world was filled with blinding light, a sea of whiteness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Land, land quickly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The griffins, having lost their vision, panicked and flapped their wings wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying without vision was extremely dangerous; unable to distinguish up from down or left from right, they might crash into the ground and not even know why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, they did not lose their vision for long,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the griffins slowly descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Phew... what just happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng looked around and saw that they hadn't entered the area from yesterday, and he breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sound of an arrow slicing through the air was heard,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a figure was sent flying off the back of the griffin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your hero Ximan has been killed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The hero Xi Man, unable to react in time, was shot by the arrow and fell to the ground, dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your unit, Griffin, has died.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your unit, Griffin, has died.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have died and are returning to the lord's crystal for rebirth...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Rebirth complete.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng stared blankly at the familiar territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>motionless, like a wooden chicken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, a heart-wrenching, furious scream echoed through the valley:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"F*ck you!!!!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The farmers in the territory, stunned, looked at their lord,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one daring to approach or say anything, and after a moment, they continued with their farming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two streams of tears flowed from his sunken eye sockets,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>quickly wetting Xu Meng's gaunt cheeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly squatted on the ground, unable to stop crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wuwuwu…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is such a bullying act… such a damn bullying act.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't even enter your territory… I didn't even get a clear look at it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was just leveling up my units and heroes in the wild forest, and I got shot…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's only the third day… what kind of thing can have that kind of range?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he cried, Xu Meng felt more and more wronged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of situation is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought he had a bright future with the high-level flying unit building he randomly got at the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly, on the second day, his level 3 Griffin was shot dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the third day, the two Griffins he had just recruited, and even his hero… were all shot dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng, filled with grief and anger, felt as if his career as a lord was over,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>how could he possibly deal with the monster wave in four days?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more he thought about it, the angrier he became,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sadder, the angrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn you, I'm going to report you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must have exploited a loophole in the rules of the battlefield of myriad worlds!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it! You can't bully people like this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Meng opened the lord's terminal forum and went on a rant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>recounting his misfortune and accusing the battlefield of myriad worlds of being unfair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who's the idiot, making up stories without any basis?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were shot from over a thousand meters away?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why don't you title it 'On the third day, I was killed by a sniper cannon'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hilarious, exploiting loopholes in the battlefield rules?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyone who can exploit the battlefield rules would kill you with a glance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those are all divine-level heroes who have reached level 100.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the battlefield of myriad worlds, reaching level 100 means becoming a god, and understanding the rules is impossible before reaching level 100.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing all the replies were insults, Xu Meng felt wronged and cried again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations, your arrow tower has killed the high-level unit, Griffin ×2, and obtained 20 Griffin meat chunks.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations, your arrow tower has killed the ordinary hero, Human Warrior, and obtained 1 Warrior promotion certificate.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu scratched his head, looking at the messages on the lord's terminal,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Griffins again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was very grateful for the Griffin that had come to him earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soft feathers from the Griffin's belly provided him with pajamas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feather robe Sylph wore was woven by Li Li Huahua from the soft feathers of the Griffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level 5 arrow tower had a range 1.5 times that of other level 1 arrow towers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and with the boost from his mythic talent, it reached a terrifying level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wondered which unlucky person had lost even their hero this time...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sylph, come back and take the new hero of the territory out to level up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu didn't pay much attention, sending a message to Sylph, glancing at the mythic angel beside him, and adding:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If she doesn't listen, take her to see the Dark Flame Dragon to the northwest.\".\u003C\u002Fp>",1113,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","971b2665717de4a23d846cf4ddb11ba7ae7c764528df7d5a57cc08f4877cf2d7","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-14","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-12",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]