Chapter 230: then translation of chapter title

When Su Hao's skill rune deep in his soul was fully formed, the energy of the death dragon source crystal was also completely consumed.

At this moment, Su Hao's mental power and physique had already broken through the limit of the Third Tier, reaching Supernatural Grade Fourth Rank.

Although it was only a breakthrough of one limit, Su Hao's mental power and physique had increased severalfold.

Even if he uses the Omniscient Magic Book, he can cast Scarlet Touch and Bloody Soul Fire several times, so he doesn't have to worry too much about insufficient mental power.

Moreover, with Su Hao's current physique, he can barely wield the Supernatural Grade Fifth Rank Explosive Flame Heavy Hammer, further boosting his combat power.

The increase in mental power and physique already made Su Hao extremely satisfied, so he was less eager for the new skill rune deep in his soul than before.

Given such a huge increase in mental power and physique, even if this new skill after synthesis turned out to be trash, Su Hao could completely accept it.

Afterwards, with a slight thought, he opened the details of this new skill rune deep in his soul.

【Death Dragon Breath】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Rank

Effect: By consuming mental power, he exhales a Death Dragon Breath from his mouth, dealing strong death-attribute damage to all enemies ahead.

The amount of mental power consumed can be freely controlled; the more mental power spent, the stronger the Death Dragon Breath's power, the larger its area, and the longer its duration.

If the target is a living being not of the undead race, Death Dragon Breath can also inflict extra damage.

Being killed by the Death Dragon Breath, a living being has a certain chance to be transformed into an undead creature.

Depending on the unit's strength and race before death, the transformed undead creatures vary in both group composition and power.

……

If mental power is sufficient, doesn't that mean we could continuously use Death Dragon Breath, spraying all the way from Cheng Hua Avenue to Bai Cao Garden?

Su Hao gave a slight smile and nodded satisfactorily.

Moreover, Death Dragon Breath can inflict extra damage on all living things.

Furthermore, after the opponent dies, there is a certain chance to turn them into an undead; this effect is similar to that of the Death Tombstone, except it cannot transform the opponent into a dark bone dragon.

The transformation of Death Dragon Breath, the transformation of the Death Tombstone, plus the abilities of the Pale Skeleton Warriors and Pale Skeleton Mages to summon Pale Undead Warhorses.

In Su Hao's territory from now on, the utilization rate of corpses can be said to be nearly one hundred percent.

Mom no longer needs to worry about too many corpses causing environmental pollution.

Afterwards, Su Hao conducted a series of detailed tests on Death Dragon Breath, gaining a thorough understanding of the new skill's damage, consumption, range, and the bonuses from using the Omniscient Magic Book, among other things.

After the tests, Su Hao was very pleased with this skill.

It can clear small monsters from a distance over a large area, or deliver zero-distance point-blank output, leaving the opponent no room to dodge.

Soon after testing the skill's effects, Tie Gedyu led a group of dwarves back into the palace.

"Boss Su Hao, we've finished printing the materials; these are the originals, boss, take a look to see if there are any mistakes."

As he spoke, Tie Gedyu took out a large pile of books from his Storage Bag and placed them on the ground.

Su Hao merely glanced at them and then stored the data in his Storage Bag.

If Tie Gedyu were really foolish enough to secretly hide these books, then he would have no reason to exist.

Afterwards, Su Hao had Tie Gedyu lead the way to the Energy Crystal Mine, tasking them with estimating the mine's reserves.

However, this process cannot be determined in a short time; after all, the vein is huge, and even a rough survey requires considerable time to develop.

Taking advantage of this waiting period, Su Hao plans to head to the Sunset Volcano to finish the transaction of the Fire Storage Bag.

Before leaving, Su Hao called Tie Gedyu over and pointed to the Pale Undead Creature army ahead, saying: "To ensure your safety, I will leave this army behind to provide you with protection."

Every member of this army of Pale Undead Creatures possesses Supernatural Grade Third Tier combat power.

Although you cannot give them command authority, they still have considerable intelligence, can understand your words, and cooperate with you in making some arrangements.

When you encounter danger or enemies invade, they will take the initiative to help you defeat the foes.

After hearing Su Hao's explanation, Tie Gedyu was stunned at once, repeatedly muttering the same sentence to himself.

Supernatural Grade Third Tier... so many undead creatures, all of them Supernatural Grade Third Tier...

After a while, Tie Gedyu gradually came to his senses, pointing at the thousand Pale Undead Creatures before him and stammering:

"Su, Boss Su Hao, are you saying these, these undead creatures are all Supernatural Grade Third Tier? And they're supposed to stay behind to protect us? You're not joking with me, are you?!"

As I said before, I have no need to deceive you; as long as you work for me, you don't have to worry about safety, and you'll certainly reap benefits.

I still have a bit of business; I'll leave for now and come back later.

Su Hao gave a slight smile, patted Tie Gedyu on the shoulder, then mounted a Pale Bone Dragon, leading the previous Pale Undead Creature army toward the Sunset Volcano.

Leaving Tie Gedyu standing there alone, dazed.

Pa! After Su Hao's figure faded into the distance, Tie Gedyu suddenly exerted all his strength and slapped himself hard; the blow loosened his teeth somewhat and caused his cheeks to swell greatly.

"Hiss!"

"It really hurts; this is neither a dream nor an illusion."

If that's the case... these roughly one thousand undead creatures all have Supernatural Grade Third Tier combat power.

Moreover, from now on they will be responsible for the safety of our tribe?

Tie Gedyu's expression was somewhat bewildered; he always felt this situation was somewhat unreal.

This isn't to say he doubts Su Hao's words; given Su Hao's strength and influence, there's absolutely no need to deceive him.

Since Su Hao said these undead creatures all have Supernatural Grade Third Tier combat power, then there won't be any Supernatural Grade Second Tier among them.

Merely thinking about these one thousand undead creatures with Supernatural Grade Third Tier combat power, who will in the future protect these dwarves whose highest rank is only First Tier, makes him feel somewhat unreal.

Moreover, in the earlier battle against the crystal monsters, he had already witnessed the strength of these undead creatures, which is not something ordinary Supernatural Grade Third Tier can match.

Casually taking out just one or two of them could slaughter his dwarf tribe.

Yet now there are a thousand such undead creatures being used merely to protect their safety— isn't that a bit of overkill? "Huh?"

Just then, Tie Gedyu noticed an anomaly.

The Pale Undead army that Su Hao originally brought over numbered only about two thousand.

He now has left over a thousand or so pale undead creatures in the Airen Buluo, so logically speaking, his army should now have only about a thousand left.

But the problem is, Tie Geda discovered that the number of that army showed no sign of decreasing.

This means that Su Hao's army has inexplicably gained over a thousand more undead creatures! Coupled with the fact that, when they just arrived here, no crystal monster corpses could be seen in this ruin, Tie Geda formed a bold guess about the origin of these over a thousand undead creatures.

"Could it be that..."

"These undead creatures with Third Tier transcendent combat power are all summoned through the corpses of transcendent monsters?"

Just thinking about this, Tie Geda sucked in a breath of cold air, his already large eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

If that's really the case, then Su Hao, the big boss's strength is terrifyingly great.

It probably won't take long before his undead army spreads throughout the Dark Forest, becoming its ruler and a dreaded Undead King that makes people pale at the mere mention! Watching Su Hao's retreating back, Tie Geda's eyes filled with reverence, further strengthening his resolve to cling to this powerful patron.

Immediately he walked aside, opened his communication wristband, contacted the Dwarf King Tie Huzi, and recounted everything that had happened since Su Hao arrived here, word for word.

Tie Huzi: ……

What kind of dream talk is Tie Geda spouting? Transcendent plants that can bring an ordinary person's physique close to, or even reach, First Rank transcendent level could be supplied in unlimited quantities!

He also found a Fifth Rank transcendent Sun Smelting Furnace that can speed up forging, increase success rate, and reduce difficulty?

Could we dwarves possibly possess such things? Not to mention Fifth Rank transcendent, we haven't even seen Fourth Rank transcendent!

He also claimed to have found a large number of books recording advanced forging techniques, which even contained refining methods for Fourth Rank and Fifth Rank transcendent materials, as well as forging methods for Third Rank and Fourth Rank transcendent equipment? And what about those thousands of Third Rank transcendent undead creatures? Su Hao even left over a thousand Third Rank transcendent undead creatures to protect Tie Geda and these dwarves.

Do you even realize what you're saying? If you're going to make up a story, at least make it somewhat believable—if any of what you said had a hint of realism, I'd accept it.

Tie Geda also understands that some of what he said is too fantastical, completely beyond common comprehension.

So he didn't offer much explanation, asking Tie Huzi to wait a moment.

Using the Dwarf Group's internal dedicated transmission structure, he sent two Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Bamboo and Blazing Flame Fire Dragon Fruit, along with a copied forging technique, to Tie Huzi.

Let Tie Huzi see the actual objects, and he'll know whether it's true or false.

However, that forging technique was obtained from Su Hao in a trade, and he still owes Su Hao a large debt; without Su Hao's order, who would dare give too many forging books to the Dwarf King? Even the forging book he gave out is the lowest in value among all those books.

As for the Sun Smelting Furnace and the pale undead creatures, there's no way to take them over.

However, Tie Geda believes that after Tie Huzi sees these few items, he'll know Tie Geda hasn't lied.

When Tie Huzi had just received these items, he still held a doubtful attitude.

Even though the Blazing Flame Fire Dragon Fruit and Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Bamboo look quite extraordinary, they are not ordinary plants.

But what Tie Geda said is simply too fantastical; he still doesn't really believe it—just two plants actually achieving that?

However, the items have already been sent over; to know their specific effects, one just needs to try them.

Afterward, he summoned four ordinary dwarves and had them eat the Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Bamboo and Blazing Flame Fire Dragon Fruit.

The next moment.

A surge of surging energy burst forth from within these four ordinary dwarves, and their physiques rapidly increased at a visible speed.

Although this improvement still leaves a considerable gap from First Rank transcendent.

But their physiques have indeed noticeably improved, far surpassing those of ordinary dwarves.

And all of this is merely the effect of a single transcendent plant.

If we just add another three or five, even if their physiques can't reach First Rank transcendent, getting close to it would be no problem.

After witnessing the effects of the Blazing Flame Fire Dragon Fruit and Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Bamboo, Tie Huzi suddenly felt that perhaps Tie Geda's words weren't entirely false.

However, he is after all the king of the dwarves, and did not therefore draw a conclusion.

He hastily set aside the book Tie Geda had sent over and began to carefully read its contents.

Gradually, Tie Huzi's eyes widened and his breathing became somewhat hurried.

"A priceless treasure, a priceless treasure!"

Just after looking at a few pages, he understood the value of this book.

Without exaggeration, with the techniques provided in this book, the dwarves' success rate and speed in refining ores and forging equipment will be greatly increased.

Most importantly, according to Tie Geda, this is merely one of those many books, and moreover the most inconspicuous one.

In the remaining books, aside from those techniques that increase forging speed and success rate, there are also formulas for forging various powerful weapons and armor.

Although the dwarves could previously forge transcendent equipment, neither weapons nor armor could compare to those obtained from outdoor exploration.

This is also why, at the flower elves' trading fair earlier, when Tie Geda saw the serrated short blade, he would seize it at all costs.

The purpose was to decipher its forging craft and improve the dwarves' forging technique.

But even for the dwarves, a race skilled in forging, trying to obtain a complete set of forging techniques from a single finished weapon is obviously unlikely.

At most they could only study part of the forging technique, and moreover would need to conduct many experiments.

Now that they have this complete set of forging techniques, they no longer need to waste time on these matters.

Through this book and the Purple Gold Imprisoned Dragon Clan, even if Tie Huzi didn't fully believe Tie Geda's words, he could see Su Hao's important value, and he immediately planned to personally go to Tie Geda's tribe.

However, before obtaining Su Hao's approval, Tie Geda dared not act on his own, lest Su Hao become dissatisfied.

Tie Huzi also felt that simply going over like that would be inappropriate, so he had Tie Geda communicate with Su Hao first, and only go over after things were settled.

(End of chapter)