Coming out of the secured warehouse housing the corpses of the Aurora Kingdom's citizens, Zhou Zhou heard Li Ya's voice.
"I didn't think you would be the lucky person, my lord."
Responding to her words, he said.
"I can only do with what I'm lucky to receive from the Supreme Will, your highness."
"I guess that's true."
Li Ya said.
"How was your loot?"
Minister Wang asked the newly famous lord.
He's the one in charge of the aurora crystals in the Aurora Kingdom.
"I got 31 aurora crystals."
Zhou Zhou said as he looked at Li Ya.
"Your highness, we can have a deal now, right?"
Hearing the number of aurora crystals Zhou Zhou looted was shocked.
"That's a looting rate of 15%."
Minister Wang couldn't believe his ears.
"My lord, can I see them?"
He quickly asked.
This time he spoke a bit more respectful to Zhou Zhou.
Handing the bag in his hand over to the minister, Zhou Zhou said to Qin We.
"My ring."
To prevent Zhou Zhou from faking his loot by using prepared aurora crystals, the minister had him leave his spatial ring outside the warehouse.
"It's complete."
Minister Wang confirmed the loot to Li Ya.
"My lord, Minister Wang will craft a new contract to carry out the deal."
Li Ya said to Zhou Zhou.
"Thank you, your highness."
Zhou Zhou said to Li Ya before leaving with Minister Wang.
Having to loot the corpses of 200 Green bronze-tier Aurora Kingdom's citizens, he looted only 31 of them to place his loot rate at 15%.
The other 169 corpses were left floating in the first layer of space.
He made sure to remember the space nodes around the area to avoid losing the corpses forever.
...
After finishing his business in the Aurora Kingdom, Zhou Zhou returned to the border between his territory and the Fish Spring Town territory using a space teleportation formation in the capital city of the Aurora Kingdom.
Teleporting to his city together with Qin We and Sun Can, he let them return to handle their business while he headed to his mansion to wait for the report of Hui Teng and Bai Yung.
The first to come was the city's military commander, Bai Yung.
"How was today?"
Zhou Zhou asked him.
"We had a bit of a situation."
"The fog monsters allied together to resist our attack."
"We had no choice but to leave out the plan you made and deal with the fog monsters."
Bai Yung said to his lord.
"Well, what matters is that we achieve our aim."
Zhou Zhou said before bringing his fist in front of Bai Yung.
Responding to Zhou Zhou's action, Bai Yung placed his spatial ring on his.
Receiving the corpses of the fog monsters, Zhou Zhou counted 5,500 of them in total.
He also saw the regional token, the territory tokens, and treasury of the fog monsters.
"To avoid a situation like this from happening again, we'll make sure we deal with an entire region whenever we make our move."
He said to his military commander.
"Yes, my lord."
Bai Yung acknowledged before taking his leave.
Looting the corpses of the fog monsters, Zhou Zhou obtained the following.
24,816 Mist cores! (1,360 Green bronze-tier, 22,200 White silver-tier, and 1,256 Yellow gold-tier)
18 Green bronze-tier lord talent crystal fragments!
9 Origin Crystals!
1 Alchemy Technology Product Blueprint - Mist Energy Cannon! (Yellow gold-tier advance grade)
And skill books worth approximately 1 Extraordinary-tier item and 8 Diamond-tier items.
None of the skills was worth learning, so he kept them aside to be traded off to the Ultimate Collector.
Having 2 Extraordinary-tier laser cannons mounted on the sentry towers located at the north and south of his city, he didn't care much for the Yellow gold-tier cannon.
"Ashburn and his disciples can take turns to study it until one of them reaches the level to learn."
He muttered before taking out the regional token of the Desolate Gabi Region.
[Treasure Name: Regional Token]
[Area Name: Desolate Gobi (Changeable)]
[Regional Grade: Black iron-tier]
[Region Area: About 611 Square kilometers]
[Treasure Description: The Lord who possesses the regional token and fuses it with the territory stone tablet can become the regional lord of the Desolate Gabi and obtain a regional exclusive treasure chest!]
'I wonder if having multiple regions will help me upgrade my Blazing Sun Desert Region.'
Zhou Zhou thought as he walked towards the territory stone tablet located at the far edge of his sitting room.
Coming in front of the tablet, he placed the regional token on it.
A second later.
A suction force came from the territory stone tablet before it absorbed the regional token.
Rows of golden text notifications appeared an instant later.
[Congratulations on obtaining a Black iron-tier regional token (Desolate Gabi) and officially becoming the regional lord of this region!]
[A new area, Desolate Gabi (Black iron-tier) has been added to your regional territory!]
[You have obtained a Regional treasure chest! (Exclusive to Desolate Gabi)]
Testing his luck, Zhou Zhou inquired from the Supreme Will.
"How do I upgrade my territory?"
"..."
"Seriously?"
"I should really consider if the Supreme Will is no longer interested in me."
He muttered before opening the treasure chest of Desolate Gabi.
"Another building treasure?"
He was shocked at the palm-sized stone nest model inside the treasure chest.
He read the treasure information.
[Treasure Name: Golem Lair]
[Treasure Grade: Black iron-tier]
[Treasure Effect: After placing it in the territory, the lord will have an advance-tier military recruitment building that can recruit golems.]
[Treasure Description: A specialty of Desolate Gabi. It can summon an advance-tier monster soldier type called a golem for the lord's own use.]
[Do you want to place it?]
"Just the advance-tier?"
"A pity the golems aren't as interesting as the elves."
Not interested in a bunch of rocks that are only good at defending themselves, Zhou Zhou put the treasure away.
"The Ultimate Collector might find a good use of it."
He muttered before focusing on arranging the 1.1 million basic materials and 430,000 mist cores obtained from the treasury of the fog monsters.
...
"The legends were true!"
"There's really a kingdom formed by the undead in the Sandstorm Forbidden Land."
Gavi whispered as he stared at the patrolling corpses below him.
"What legend is that?"
Squatting on the tree branch beside the professional scout, Wu Tu asked him.
"It's a legend that a very powerful undead king, the King of Eternal Silence, and its queen, the Queen of Eternal Silence created an undead kingdom and named it, the Capital of Eternal Silence to dwell away from every other life form."
"It's said that whoever steps into the Capital of Eternal Silence would immediately get noticed by the king and its queen."
"Death is the only possible outcome in such a scenario."
Gavi explained to his team leader.
"We should be outside the capital, right?"
Fear was visible in Wu Tu's eyes as he asked Gavi.
"Of course!"
"Not even the deathly state skill can enable us survive against the royalties who are said to be at the peak of the beginner kingdom level."
"There are also rumors that they are both very close to the Legendary-tier."
Gavi responded to Wu Tu.
"We should return to the safe path."
"The others should've finished resting."
Wu Tu said before jumping through the forest using the tree branches.
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