“Snap!”
Chen Xu snapped his fingers.
Above the Plague Slaughterhouse in the Undead Kingdom, a spatial gate opened. The mountain of dungeon monster corpses piled in the Heavenly Crafts warehouse fell through this spatial gate into the Slaughterhouse.
Since the Undead Kingdom had no concept of environmental protection or air pollution, the Slaughterhouse was open-air.
At this moment, Patchwerk sat in the Slaughterhouse, leaning against a mountain of corpses, secretly cutting chunks of meat from the corpses behind him and stuffing them into his body.
Most of these corpses were from ordinary monsters with no special attributes, so Chen Xu did not allow Patchwerk to merge with them. They couldn’t generate special limbs or significantly increase his size; it was better to save them for creating abominations.
Creatures like Patchwerk, Kunpeng, and Sindragosa, enhanced by Chen Xu’s talent, had grown in sentience, no longer as mechanical and rigid as ordinary summoned creatures.
However, this growth in sentience also brought desires. Patchwerk’s act of stitching corpses was an expression of an abomination’s craving for bodies.
At the same time, out of obedience and fear of Chen Xu’s commands, Patchwerk dared not openly merge the flesh, only doing so in secret.
Patchwerk had just stuffed a small piece of corpse into his body when he was struck by a falling corpse from above. Startled, he thought Chen Xu had discovered him and immediately sprang up.
He looked up and saw a large hole torn in the sky. Beyond the hole, an endless stream of corpses poured into the Slaughterhouse.
Patchwerk quickly waddled his corpulent body out of the Slaughterhouse, thinking as he ran,
‘Boss Kunpeng is too amazing! Yesterday, I wished for lots and lots of meat chunks, and today my wish came true!’
Meanwhile, after all the corpses in the warehouse had fallen into the Undead Kingdom, Chen Xu closed the spatial gate. Then, he left a smaller spatial gate, about the size of a football field.
He dispatched dozens of ghosts to stay there.
Then, he turned to Liu Gao. “Director Liu, you can just throw the subsequent monster corpses into that hole. But your people need to be careful when working; don’t fall in.”
Ever since Chen Xu reached the mythic-tier, the undead aura in the Undead Kingdom had grown increasingly dense. Liquid undead aura could even condense on the walls of the Overlord’s Castle, as if one had arrived in Linghai’s damp spring season.
This concentration of undead aura was only suitable for undead creatures. For ordinary people or low-tier job-holders, it was a definite danger zone, not suitable for prolonged stays.
Liu Gao patted his chest and assured Chen Xu regarding his instructions, “Don’t worry, we are professionals at this.”
Leaving the Heavenly Crafts warehouse, Chen Xu returned to his military academy dorm.
Now that he had a stable source of corpses, he no longer needed to painstakingly clear dungeons. Ten million corpses a day meant 100 million in ten days. If all corpses were converted into skeleton brothers, Chen Xu could reach the one-billion mark in two months.
However, if he wanted to balance the number of high-tier troops, it would take more time. In any case, the future looked promising.
“My Lord!”
“Hmm? Xuan Zhong, what is it?”
Chen Xu grabbed a bottle of soda and lay on his bed, continuing his leisurely, relaxed life, when he suddenly received a message from Xuan Zhong.
“The Labor Company has received an order.”
“Oh, can’t you handle it? You can use any skeleton soldiers in the Undead Kingdom.”
“It’s a rather large order. A new client wants to commission a Natural Wonder.”
“Oh!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Xu sprang up from the bed.
“Commission a Natural Wonder?”
“Yes.”
“What’s the payment? What will the client use to pay? Yin-attribute resources, legendary creature corpses, dragon corpses, giant creature corpses, or perhaps space fragments?”
“Legendary creature corpses and space fragments. One hundred corpses and five space fragments, though the affixes are quite varied.”
“One hundred?! Is the client still here? I’ll go over immediately!”
...
City of Miracles, Skeleton Labor Company.
Chen Xu emerged from a spatial gate and walked into the reception room next to it.
He saw a wizard in black magic robes, with graying hair, a pale face, and vacant eyes, sitting on the sofa, holding a cup of hot tea and carefully sipping it.
This was the most frail person Chen Xu had ever seen. People often said Necromancers looked weak and delicate, but compared to this wizard, it was a mere drop in the bucket.
If Chen Xu hadn’t detected that his soul state was perfectly normal and active, he would have suspected that a rival company in the City of Miracles had specifically hired an actor to extort him.
The Skeleton Labor Company was a rising star in the City of Miracles. Relying on the almost zero-cost advantage of its skeleton workers, the Skeleton Labor Company had monopolized low-end mercenary tasks in the City of Miracles at extremely low prices.
Tasks like reclaiming barren lands, rebuilding abandoned mines, mining in harsh environments, or low-budget construction projects—all these low-paying, high-demand, strict-requirement jobs were monopolized by Xuan Zhong.
Initially, the peers in the City of Miracles scoffed at this behavior. They had thought this new company, backed by Wanbao Pavilion, would be a formidable force, coming to carve up market share. Unexpectedly, it was just a scavenger, taking on any shoddy job.
But soon, those peers stopped laughing.
The skeleton brothers completed every task perfectly with low cost and high efficiency.
When employers saw how outstanding the skeleton workers were, they flocked to them.
According to intelligence from Big Boss, the Merchant of Myriad Worlds, Chen Xu’s Skeleton Labor Company currently handled nearly a quarter of the mercenary tasks in the City of Miracles.
Although it took on many orders, the quality was not high. For Chen Xu, the company’s profits were just another garbage mountain in the Undead Kingdom.
Fortunately, hard work paid off; today, a big order finally arrived.
“Hello, client!”
Chen Xu walked over proactively.
The white-haired wizard turned, glanced at Chen Xu, and instinctively used a detection spell on him.
“Ugh!”
Then he tilted his head and fainted directly.
Fortunately, Chen Xu quickly suppressed his instincts; otherwise, with the strength of a mythic-tier soul, merely staring at him would have done more than just make him faint.
“Sigh, what an impolite client.”
Chen Xu waved his hand, dispatching a ghost to enter the wizard’s soul and help him recover quickly.
However, Chen Xu felt that this wizard’s detection spell was somewhat familiar, a bit similar to the detection spells from Akhan, but with a few changes in the spell nodes.
After a while, the white-haired wizard woke up with a start on the sofa, his face filled with terror.
The ghost also floated out of his mind, licking its lips with a satisfied expression.
“Client, you suddenly fainted. I’m not skilled in healing spells, so I could only use some ancient remedies to help you recover!”
Chen Xu smiled at the white-haired wizard.
The white-haired wizard also regained his senses and, seeing Chen Xu staring at him, quickly stood up from the sofa.
He bowed deeply to Chen Xu, accompanied by a special gesture.
Chen Xu was also familiar with this gesture; he had learned it at the Akhan Enlightenment Academy. It was called an audience ritual, used by lower-tier wizards to salute higher-tier wizards.
“Respected Mythic Venerable, please forgive my previous offense.”
Chen Xu waved his hand. He was still very patient and tolerant with clients.
“Client, what should I call you?”
“Akhan Oris.”
“Akhan? Are you still part of the royal family?”
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