Floating City Concept

"Chen Xu? What a strange name. What kind of naming style is that for an undead creature?"

"Another competitor enters the field, and a powerful one at that, using Old Cyclops' bones to announce his arrival."

"The south... Hehe, things are getting lively."

For a brief moment, the Land of the Undead became unusually boisterous.

For these undead creatures, a new change was the most interesting thing to them.

Of course, there were those who could see the truth behind the name Chen Xu.

In the Everfrost Snow Mountains, a scorching soul fire ignited within Alix's pitch-black helmet.

"Chen Xu? A human name. Interesting. The authority of the undead has actually begun to accept the living."

Besides Alix, several other necrotic archdukes who frequently ventured outside the Land of the Undead also inferred this information from the name.

However, they were merely curious and did not have any other reaction.

They often traveled outside the Land of the Undead and possessed broad horizons. Since the Myriad Worlds had paladins brimming with heavenly divine power, demon warlocks full of fel energy, elemental mages who could undergo elementalization, and demon-kin who fused with monster bloodlines—or was it human-monsters?

In any case, there were countless examples.

A Lord of the Undead with a human identity was not an unacceptable thing.

After all, the human race was a miracle of creation, the ultimate jacks-of-all-trades who could react with anything, much like slimes.

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On the other side, as the Ascension Ceremony concluded, Chen Xu and the throne began to descend slowly.

Next, it was time to build an earthly divine kingdom.

Originally, Chen Xu wanted to build a magnificent city on the ground as the capital of his divine kingdom.

But as he sat on the throne and rose slowly earlier, a thought suddenly struck him.

Why must the city be on the ground? It wasn't impossible for it to fly in the sky.

In the Myriad Worlds, there were precedents for sky cities.

Those powerful mage civilizations possessed floating cities, the brilliant crystallization of their civilizations.

Through massive magic arrays to resist gravity, a floating city was both a residence for mages and a weapon of mass destruction for war.

On such a massive city, there were not only simple levitation arrays but also no shortage of various offensive means.

Moreover, in his previous life, there was a famous flying fortress whose master was a renowned Lich King.

Chen Xu decided to use that legendary fortress as a prototype to build his own floating city.

As for the core energy problem of the floating city, Chen Xu looked down at the throne beneath him. He would use this throne, filled with one billion points of faith power, as the energy core.

This was Chen Xu's exclusive artifact; using it as the core should be more than enough.

With the goal set, the next step was implementation.

"Xuan Chu."

"My Lord!"

At this moment, Xuan Chu and the other Black Knights radiated terrifying divine power.

Chen Xu had ascended to the divine throne, directly reaching mid-level divine power with one billion faith points. The Black Knights were at the first tier, reaching low-level divine power.

In an instant, nine gods had appeared under Chen Xu's command—gods who were absolutely loyal and would never betray him.

"Xuan Chu, do you have any knowledge regarding floating cities? Technologies that can make a city fly into the sky."

"My Lord, your idea is unparalleled, but there are no such records in Xuan Chu's mind. The cities of previous lords of the undead were all built on soil, or rather, in the soil."

"Sigh."

Chen Xu sighed.

It made sense. These undead creatures were born from the earth and grew upon it. Only soul entities like bone dragons and ghosts could fly into the sky.

But in their bones, they still retained a longing and love for the land.

Asking them to design a floating castle was asking too much of the undead.

In that case, he would build the outer cities first. The core capital would have to wait until Chen Xu found someone who understood floating city technology.

When he returned, he would ask Big Boss. As a merchant of myriad worlds, he should know people in this field.

Thinking of Big Boss, Chen Xu remembered the contract between them and the treasures of the Land of the Undead.

When his mental strength swept through his territory earlier, he had discovered three rare treasures.

They were the White Clay Graveyard, withered finger mushrooms, and bone marrow ore.

The white clay produced by the White Clay Graveyard was an excellent forging material. The bone marrow ore was a common material for crafting undead equipment, but the extremely rare marrow crystals found within it were top-tier alchemy materials.

Potions brewed with marrow crystals were mostly used to strengthen the physical body and were generally epic-tier. As for the mythic-tier potions that could break through physical shackles in legends, marrow crystals were one of the primary ingredients.

Withered finger mushrooms were materials for brewing mental strength potions. It was said that such potions could plunge the user into endless hallucinations.

If one could see through the illusion, they would undergo a spiritual transformation and gain special abilities. But if they failed, they would sink into eternal stagnation.

Generally, withered finger mushrooms grew in the nests of ghoul kings, and their quality was influenced by the ghoul king, mostly being epic-tier.

However, the growth site Chen Xu discovered was Old Cyclops' nest. The grade of these withered finger mushrooms actually reached the mythic-tier.

He just didn't know if a potion brewed from mythic-tier withered finger mushrooms would be too potent, turning from a supplement into a poison.

"Xuan Chu, Xuan Shu, Xuan Ji. Each of you take a portion of the skeleton soldiers and go to the three treasure locations to build cities."

"By your will."

The three Black Knights bowed and departed, each leading a large swarm of skeleton soldiers.

"Xuan Tian, Xuan Di, Xuan Chong. Take the undead army to the northern border and build fortifications, modeled after the walls of Daxia."

"By your will."

Regarding the competitors in the north, Chen Xu did not act rashly, preferring a defensive strategy.

After all, as a human and a newcomer, being too aggressive right away might be too arrogant and risk provoking a joint suppression by the others.

It was better to build high walls and amass troops—wait, the undead didn't seem to need food, so he would just amass soldiers.

Furthermore, Chen Xu planned to bring the technology and magic of the living to the Land of the Undead, letting these undead natives witness the power of mana cannons.

In any case, the struggle for the Lord of the Undead was only to determine the final victor; it never said he could only use the power of the Land of the Undead.

The stagnant water of the Land of the Undead had been still for too long. Let Chen Xu, a human, be the one to break the silence!