Chapter 243

Territory.

Boom—!! A sudden thunderclap came from the sky, startling Su Hao awake from his sleep.

"Is this... an enemy attack?"

He frowned slightly, then immediately sent a message to Ling Xue'er and the others, asking what had happened.

But the reply was that they were still investigating.

"It seems we need to quickly build the Sky-Eye Watchtower."

This pitch-black situation made Su Hao feel very uneasy.

Even before Ling'er had just joined the territory, Su Hao had her build the Sky-Eye mechanical core, and the materials needed to construct the Sky-Eye Watchtower had long been ready.

But because the territory's forces were sufficient, Su Hao kept postponing it and had not yet built it.

Now the territory has an anomaly, yet I have long failed to discover its source; this will eventually become a hidden danger.

If someone really gets close to the sanctuary, a single mistake will cause irreversible consequences.

But with the Sky-Eye Watchtower, it's different; it's a supernatural structure capable of detecting even Supernatural Fifth Rank beings.

Once it's built, we need not worry about outsiders sneaking in.

If someone could truly evade the Sky-Eye Watchtower, worrying would be useless, for a Supernatural Sixth Rank is beyond what they can currently handle.

But that's for later; now that this has happened, we must quickly investigate where that thunderclap came from.

Fortunately, the territory inside and out is filled with many pale undead creatures and supernatural plant warriors, so the source of the thunderclap was quickly ascertained.

It turned out that at the edge of the territory, a void rift had appeared, from which countless undead creatures were pouring out, launching an attack on the territory.

"These undead creatures are truly persistent..."

After hearing Ling Xue'er's report, Su Hao gave a light chuckle, showing no worry at all.

He clearly understood that the Evil God's aim was to kill as many undead in his territory as possible, thereby weakening the power of the Night and Death Goddess.

Unfortunately, the development speed of Su Hao's territory is so frightening even to himself; unless a large number of Fourth Rank undead attack, even his territory cannot be entered.

But with the Evil God's current awakened power, how could he possibly dispatch a large amount of world undead? "Perfect—let's test the power of the enlarged Third Rank plants on you."

Su Hao smiled slightly, then had the pale skeleton warriors carry the enlarged Qiu Long bamboo warriors, enlarged Bi Tao throwers, and enlarged Flame Empress onto the Bone Dragon's back, flying toward the location of the void rift.

In just one night yesterday, Xiao Anni completed the mutation of all the enlarged Second Rank plants in the planting area.

Now the territory's enlarged Third Rank mutated plants number nearly three hundred.

Although their numbers are not large, they either have gigantic bodies, thirty meters tall, or possess super-large-range AOE skills.

Even with only nearly three hundred, they are sufficient to set up a solid defensive line.

Upon arriving at the territory's edge, Su Hao glanced ahead at the undead creatures battling the pale undead, and began deploying the enlarged supernatural plants.

The enlarged Qiu Long bamboo warriors are huge in size, with decent defense, capable of both killing enemies in close combat and resisting the undead's charge.

Thus Su Hao deployed them at the territory's edge, directly facing the undead pouring out of the void rift.

Their dense formation formed a purple-gold wall; no matter from which direction the undead attacked, they could not bypass the line they formed.

The enlarged Bi Tao throwers and enlarged Flame Empress were placed by Su Hao one kilometer behind the enlarged Qiu Long bamboo warriors.

They both possess powerful long-range attack ability; given sufficient output space, even a Supernatural Fourth Rank would be flung aside.

As for the enemy's numbers, for their super-large-range AOE skills, it makes no difference.

Anyway, after a single bubble burst and a round of fire rain, anyone within the range who deserves to die will die.

"Fire!"

After all the enlarged plant soldiers were deployed, Su Hao waved his hand and issued the battle command.

At Su Hao's command, the enlarged Bi Tao throwers drew energy from the nearby energy crystals, condensing three huge bubbles in their three launchers.

Whoosh—!! Accompanied by three whistling sounds, the three bubbles shot like meteors across the sky, carrying a whistling wind, precisely striking the distant undead horde.

Boom—!! At the moment the bubbles struck, a deafening roar erupted; the powerful water surged like a tsunami, scattering the undead into disarray.

First and Second Rank undead, under this powerful current, had no resistance at all; they were instantly destroyed, leaving only some bodily fragments.

"Still, this is exciting to watch!"

Although Su Hao had tested the enlarged Bi Tao throwers the previous night.

But when these three bubbles detonated among the undead, the visual impact of the scene was still extremely strong.

First Rank skeleton monsters and Second Rank headless knights had no resistance whatsoever and were blown into fragments.

However, the undead felt no fear; even though the giant Bi Tao thrower's shot caused massive casualties.

the remaining undead continued to rush forward in waves toward Su Hao's position.

"I hope you can bring me some surprises."

Su Hao smiled slightly, then waved his hand again.

"Fire!"

Whoosh—!! After receiving Su Hao's command, the nearby enlarged Flame Empress murmured incantations, simultaneously absorbing the energy crystal beside her, and the surrounding air grew scorching.

After a brief casting preparation, the Flame Empress waved both hands lightly, and a crimson cloud appeared above the battlefield, scorching fireballs pouring down like rain.

Dense fireballs exploded among the undead horde; each blast left several skeleton monsters and headless knights unrecognizable.

Gradually, the battlefield was blanketed by vast flames; even First and Second Rank undead that merely touched the flames suffered massive damage.

Soon, the undead on the battlefield were utterly wiped out.

On the battlefield, aside from numerous severed limbs and broken bodies, only the void rift floating in midair remained.

Su Hao knew that the death of these undead was not the end, but merely the beginning.

In the Evil God's previous attack, many Third Rank undead participated, yet Su Hao easily wiped them all out.

After witnessing Su Hao's strength, how could the Evil God possibly send these cannon fodder to die? Indeed, after those skeleton monsters and headless knights died, a large number of undead again surged out of the void rift.

There were First and Second Rank skeleton monsters and headless knights, plus many Supernatural Third Rank undead. There were also undead knights riding skeleton warhorses and wearing heavy armor.

There were liches wearing tattered cloaks, without corporeal rank.

There were bone dragons with only bone armor left, hovering in the air.

There were those holding staffs……

Unfortunately, the output of a single enlarged azure tide cannoneer and enlarged blazing flame empress was already astonishing; hundreds firing together, that scene……

Just a single volley blasted a huge crater into the ground, with no trace of the original appearance left.

As for the undead creatures at the blast's epicenter, even those of third tier suffered heavy casualties.

These enlarged azure tide cannoneers and enlarged blazing flame empresses were equivalent to artillery turrets, but in pursuit battles they could not exert much effect.

However, in positional warfare, their killing power far surpassed that of many peers of the same rank.

The only shortcoming is that energy consumption is a bit high, but compared to the destruction caused, this loss is entirely acceptable.

However, these liches and bone dragons, being third‑tier undead, still had many stragglers break out of the bombardment zone even under this intensity of fire, dragging their wounded bodies to the territory's edge, and then……

They were speared to death by an enlarged coiled dragon bamboo warrior, finally collapsing at the territory's edge, unable even to pollute the territory's environment.

Boom——! But just then, a heavy footstep sounded, and a monster nearly a hundred meters tall stepped out of the void rift.

Its entire body was composed of chunks of rotting flesh, exuding a foul stench.

Those chunks of flesh were covered with pus‑filled sacs and ulcerated wounds, oozing green pus.

Its uneven skin looked as if countless maggots had gnawed it; the wounds constantly writhed with maggots, emitting a hair‑raising sound.

Its eyes were blood‑red and ferocious, as if it wanted to devour all living things; its whole body radiated terrifying pressure, making the surrounding air feel oppressive.

But that wasn't the end; immediately after came a second abomination of the same size.

"Two fourth‑tier abominations—interesting, though I wonder if you can withstand my firepower."

Facing supernatural fourth‑tier abominations, Su Hao felt no fear.

Such a huge, slow‑moving monster—isn't it just a living target? Boom boom boom——! No special order from Su Hao was needed; once the two abominations appeared, the enlarged azure tide cannoneers and enlarged flame empresses concentrated fire on them.

Countless water bubbles and fireballs struck them, triggering violent explosions that blasted their bodies backward, almost back into the void rift.

Boom boom boom——! But before they could steady themselves, a second barrage struck them again.

Then came a third round… a fourth… a fifth……

In the end, those two magnificent fourth‑tier abominations, under relentless bombardment of water bubbles and fireballs, couldn't even take a few steps before collapsing at the edge of the void rift.

……

"Ah, is it over already? How boring."

With the deaths of the two fourth‑tier abominations, no more undead surged from the void rift; Su Hao shrugged and wore a look of disdain.

He had thought that the undead creatures the evil god had summoned this time would bring him some surprise.

As it turned out, there were only two fourth‑tier abominations of this caliber, and they never even stepped onto his territory—under the barrage of enlarged azure tide cannoneers and enlarged flame empresses, they were blown to pieces.

In short, the evil god's attack this time caused Su Hao zero loss; even the pale undead creatures that initially clashed with him suffered no casualties.

Moreover, once the enlarged azure tide cannoneers, enlarged flame empresses, and enlarged coiled dragon bamboo warriors joined the battlefield, the outcome was even more obvious.

Even if they could withstand the bombardment and reach the territory's edge, the enlarged coiled dragon bamboo warrior would block them, and they would ultimately fall at the territory's edge.

"If we refined all these test materials, it would be a nice profit……"

Looking at the corpses littering the battlefield, Su Hao suddenly felt that if such attacks came a few more times, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Although the attacking undead were mostly first‑ and second‑tier, the extraordinary materials that could be refined from these corpses were also only first‑ and second‑tier.

Undead summoned with this medium were far weaker than the pale undead.

But as long as undead could be summoned, for Su Hao it was a huge gain.

The more undead belonging to Su Hao, the stronger the power the goddess of night and death could awaken, and the greater the force the death tombstone could exert.

Furthermore, as the goddess of night and death gradually recovered, the evil god had to divert more power to suppress her, reducing the threat to Su Hao.

"Ah? No!"

Just then, a flash of inspiration struck Su Hao; he recalled that the skeleton warrior skill, after being merged into the skeleton summoning technique, no longer required white bone as the medium for summoning undead.

Rather, any undead medium could be used to summon undead.

This means that the undead corpses littering the ground can all serve as media for the skeleton summoning technique, to summon undead belonging to Su Hao.

Thus, the refining step is omitted, saving considerable time and effort.

"Ah, wrong wrong—I think if I just haul these corpses back and place them near death, they'll automatically turn into undead?"

"Holy shit, these evil god's people are too nice—they're worried my forces are insufficient and my conquest of the dark forest is too slow, so they specially sent me a batch of materials."

"What a good person! This is truly a great person—I must go thank them properly."

Su Hao gave a slight smile, and while the void rift had not yet fully vanished, he hurried over and said earnestly:

"Thanks for the gift, old iron, coming all this way—I have nothing worthy to offer in return, and I don't know how to repay your kindness."

"But rest assured, I won't waste your goodwill; I'll make full use of these materials to summon more undead, quickly conquer the dark forest, and let the goddess of night and death revive."

"Jee‑jee‑gala‑kala‑kala!"

After hearing Su Hao's sincere apology, the void rift suddenly emitted an angry roar.

Even if Su Hao couldn't understand the words, he could guess that the evil god behind it was giving him a friendly greeting.

But they only swore a few lines, then, for some reason, fell silent.

Seeing this, Su Hao's smile grew a bit wider.

"Looks like the power of the goddess of night and death has recovered quite a bit."

Thereafter, Su Hao dispatched many pale skeleton warriors to bring the corpses back to the territory, wanting to see whether the death tombstone could transform them into undead.

(End of chapter)