After hanging up the phone, Chen Xu immediately threw himself back into the post-war inventory phase.
While the quality of the dungeons in the South Realm wasn't high, their sheer number was impressive. Taking down 53 dungeons at once provided 400 million units of corpse materials, not even counting the dungeon clearance rewards.
With this many corpses, converting them all into skeleton units would triple the size of his undead army.
As per his usual routine, he allocated 200 million to the skeleton units: 100 million for skeleton soldiers, and 50 million each for skeleton archers and skeleton mages.
The skeleton brothers had been with Chen Xu the longest and were his most frequently used units. In other words, they were the foundation of the Undead Kingdom. He could neglect anyone, but he couldn't neglect his skeleton brothers.
The remaining 200 million corpses were split: 50 million to ghosts, 50 million to necrotic knights, and 100 million to abominations. Based on the conversion ratios, this would yield 500,000 ghosts, 625,000 necrotic knights, and 500,000 abominations.
The reason for increasing the proportion of abominations this time was because he had obtained an interesting skill from the dungeon rewards.
【The dungeons in this land all originate from offshore islands of the same world. That place is a paradise for animals, free from human interference, with extremely rich biodiversity. Unfortunately, while they escaped humans, they did not escape Hell.】
【Congratulations to Professional Chen Xu for completing the dungeon clears. You have received the following rewards (consolidated from 53 dungeons):】
【Reward 1: Crimson Leather Coat】
【Reward 2: Corrupted Heart】
【Reward 3: Corrupted Fruit】
【Reward 4: Dungeon Space Fragment (Breeding)】
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【Reward 16: Dungeon Space Fragment (Corruption)】
【Reward 17: Dungeon Space Fragment (Parasite)】
【Reward 18: Dungeon Space Fragment (Aberration)】
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【Reward 34: Special Skill Scroll - Summon Parasite Series (Includes Flesh Parasite, Bone Parasite, Soul Parasite, Metal Parasite, and the legendary Conceptual Parasite)】
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【Reward 102: Destiny Points × 53】
【Reward 103: Dungeon Core × 53】
To Chen Xu, the clearance rewards—the materials and equipment—were just space-consuming junk. Combined with the drops from the monsters inside, a massive mountain of trash had already piled up within his Undead Kingdom. He needed to find a time to dump all this on Daxia to handle.
Among the rewards, only the affixes of a few space fragments were somewhat interesting, along with that parasite skill scroll.
The mention of parasites immediately made Chen Xu think of the abomination's massive physique and bloated belly, which should be able to hold quite a few parasites. This combination came from a game Chen Xu loved in his previous life, which featured a bloated zombie monster that would explode upon death, splashing parasites everywhere to attack enemies.
However, Chen Xu didn't plan on breeding parasites for self-destruction. After all, symbiosis was also a great partner besides parasitism.
As soon as the skill scroll was in his hands, Chen Xu used it immediately, adding five new skills to his panel.
【Flesh Parasite (Level 1): Consumes energy to construct a Flesh Parasite Egg. The egg needs to hatch within flesh and must consume a large amount of flesh after hatching.】
【Bone Parasite (Level 1): Consumes energy to construct a Bone Parasite Egg. The egg needs to hatch within bone marrow and must consume a large amount of bone after hatching.】
【Soul Parasite (Level 1): Consumes energy to construct a Soul Parasite Egg. The egg needs to hatch within a soul or soul fragments and must consume a large amount of soul energy after hatching.】
【Metal Parasite (Level 1): Consumes energy to construct a Metal Parasite Egg. The egg needs to hatch within metal ore and must consume a large amount of metal after hatching. Different metals consumed will grant the parasite different traits.】
【Conceptual Parasite (Level 1): Consumes energy to construct a Conceptual Parasite Egg. This egg requires imagination.】
From the skill descriptions, the path of parasites seemed very promising. However, parasites were not creatures of the Land of the Undead, and his inherited knowledge had no relevant information on them. Chen Xu would have to research everything himself.
'Maybe I can make some necrotic parasites?'
Chen Xu raised his hand to condense a Flesh Parasite Egg. It was about the size of a grain of rice, white with a reddish tint and a small black speck at the tip.
Next, Chen Xu used his mental strength to pull an abomination to his side, then stuffed the egg into the abomination through one of the stitches on its body.
After waiting a while and seeing that the egg adapted well to the environment inside the abomination, Chen Xu condensed a large cluster of eggs—about the size of a basketball—and stuffed them all into the abomination.
The abomination didn't understand why the Lord of the Undead was stuffing strange things into it, but as a loyal subject, it didn't resist and let Chen Xu do as he pleased.
After all, in the long history of the Land of the Undead, every Lord of the Undead had performed strange experiments on undead creatures. These creatures had long since grown accustomed to it.
After placing the first batch of eggs, Chen Xu pulled over another abomination and repeated the steps. He injected eggs into a total of 100 abominations.
Chen Xu looked at the 100 abominations before him and the active eggs within them, nodding in satisfaction. Now, he just had to leave it to time. Once the parasites hatched, he could proceed with the next step.
Next, Chen Xu took out three space fragments with the affixes: Corruption, Toxic, and Aberration.
After reaching the mythic-tier, Chen Xu could control the fusion bias of the space fragments, meaning he could direct them to merge with specific regions. Unless the region was highly incompatible with the fragment's affix, it would merge according to the Lord of the Undead's will.
He planned to merge the Toxic affix fragment into the Slaughterhouse to give the abominations an AOE capability. The Corruption and Aberration affixes were, strictly speaking, powers belonging to Hell. Merging these two was an experiment for Chen Xu.
He wanted to see if he could integrate the power of Hell into the Undead Kingdom. If he could, then perhaps the powers of special worlds like Heaven, the Sea of Spirit, or the Elemental Spirit Realm could also be merged. Bone dragons breathing holy light, ghosts mastering elemental powers, or even skeleton succubi? The thought was exciting.
Chen Xu chose to merge both Corruption and Aberration into the Giant Valley. So much time had passed, and the two Behemoth corpses in the valley still showed no movement. He decided to add some incentive to these two employees who had been slacking off for so long, letting them know that the Undead Kingdom didn't tolerate idlers.
Wrapping the fragments in mental strength, he merged the three in an instant.
【Undead Kingdom merged with dungeon space fragments; space expanded.】
【Slaughterhouse merged with Toxic, generating a new region: Plague Slaughterhouse.】
Good, the fusion of the Toxic affix fragment matched Chen Xu's expectations.
【Undead Kingdom merged with dungeon space fragments; space expanded.】
【Eerie Distillery merged with Corruption, generating a new region: Corrupted Winery.】
【Undead Kingdom merged with dungeon space fragments; space expanded.】
【Corrupted Winery merged with Aberration, generating a new region: Mad Alchemy Lab.】
'Wait, why the distillery? Where's my Giant Valley?'
Rate on N.U.
