Final Lord

Chapter 159 Death Qi Crystal
"Can they compare to us? They gain experience through training. We level up by killing monsters. Our efficiency in one day is equivalent to their training in several weeks."

Soon, the Firefly Guard, the Cat Sand Beast, and the Harpy, who were responsible for extinguishing the fire, also gathered around Wang Bufu.

Seeing that the troops had finished assembling, Wang Bufu waved his hand dismissively:
"Go back, rest, and celebrate!"

"Oh!!!"

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【Death Crystal (S)】

Material
Effects: It can be used to raise undead creatures, as well as to craft equipment and upgrade units; it has a wide range of uses.

Wang Bufu played with the little thing in his hand, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

Of the spoils from the attack on the Blazing Corpse King, some were put into storage, and others were divided up. He only kept twenty Death Qi Crystals.

These necromantic crystals have a very special function—to nurture the dead!
For the undead to survive, they must use the death energy of the undead.

There is no death energy in the territory of the living; you have to go to places like burial grounds to find enough death energy.

These crystals of death energy can solve this problem.

By burying death crystals underground in your territory, you can create terrain suitable for the undead to live in, thus raising undead creatures.

In the Principality of Bucks, keeping undead is undoubtedly illegal. This is because the materials used to create undead are often high-quality corpses, and humans have a tradition of building tombs to commemorate their ancestors.

A necromancer without enough materials will naturally resort to digging up graves.

In the Duchy of Stag, necromancers are not universally hated, but they certainly find it difficult to move an inch.

But Wang didn't care about all that. Anyway, the emperor was far away, and the Duke of Xionglu couldn't trace him back to anyone.

He secretly led the blind cat and the Death Crystal to the depths of the Dragon Vein Gold Mine.

"Blind cat, dig out a 400-square-meter bedroom right here."

"Alright!" The blind cat waved his staff, and the rocks and soil parted like flowing water, quickly revealing a basement.

Wang Bufu buried the death energy crystal in the basement, watching the soil in the basement gradually turn from yellow to black, and revealed a satisfied smile.

He took out a small bag and sprinkled the bone powder inside evenly on the basement floor. Then he took out a bag of elemental powder and covered the bone powder with it.

Soon, the soil, crystallized with deathly energy, began to writhe like flesh and blood.

A semi-transparent figure emerged from the death crystal.

"My lord, what is this?" Blind Cat asked curiously.

"Elemental Ghost. The most basic building unit of the Undead race, just as basic as the Skeleton Army."

Wang Bufu reached out his hand towards the Elemental Ghost, and the light of the fire flashed by. The Elemental Ghost was slightly startled, then turned to Wang Bufu and gently stroked his palm to show its submission.

"Go, turn the Dragon Sleep Gold Mine into a haunted gold mine."

"Ah—" the elemental ghost uttered an ethereal sound. It flew to the Dragon Vein Gold Mine and circled around it.

“Very good! Haunted gold mines are exclusive structures for the undead race; only elemental spirits can build them.”

Once a gold mine becomes a haunted mine, the quality of the gold itself will not change, but there will be an additional way to mine it.

Elemental spirits can mine gold from the void by wandering near haunted gold mines.

The territory is currently facing a severe manpower shortage. If we hand over the mining work at the Dragon Vein Gold Mine to the undead, our people will be free to do other things.

With elemental spirits present, a portion of the mined gold will be directly converted into undead death energy, which can be used by the surrounding undead.

With a stable source of undead death energy, the territory can purchase undead on a large scale.

"Buy what?" The blind cat rubbed his ears, thinking he had misheard.

“Buy undead,” Wang Bufu said seriously. “For the same job, a human has to rest for a minute after working for ten minutes. They also need to sleep at night, which is such a waste of time. But undead are different; they don’t get tired at all and can work until they die. Therefore, undead slaves have always been very popular in the slave market.”

Good undead slaves are high-class goods, no cheaper than princesses from small countries.

The blind cat suddenly realized, but was still puzzled: "My lord, where are we going to find slave traders to buy undead in this desolate wilderness?"

Wang Bufu smiled slightly: "I have a brilliant plan!"

……

That afternoon, Wang Bufu summoned Mair.

At this point, Mair had changed into a sheepskin coat, a specialty of the New Gru territory, perfectly blending into the atmosphere of the New Gru territory.

Although Mair was wearing many layers, her attribute panel remained completely bare.

Name: Mai
Level: Level 2 and Level 6

Occupation: Businessman

Attributes:……

Special skill:

Trade route permit: Allows access to the exclusive trade routes of the commercial church.

Bargaining: Always getting a good price when making a deal.

Keen sense of smell: A keen ability to detect rare and valuable goods.

Wang Bufu didn't see any personal talent, and he didn't know if it was because Mair lacked talent or because his favorability was too low for him to see it.

But the special effects were very clear.

Normally, as an entry-level profession in the commercial church, merchants only possessed the special skill of a trade route permit.

Both of his special skills—bargaining and a keen sense of smell—were developed by Mair himself.

Normally, there are only 3 skill slots, but Mair filled them all at level 2. It has to be admitted, this fifteen-year-old girl is a talent.

"My lord." Mair stood before Wang Bufu, his head bowed and his attitude respectful, which was very pleasing to the eye.

Wang Bufu asked with a smile, "How are you doing? Are you getting used to living in my territory?"

“Excellent! Your people are very welcoming, and I have made many friends. I have also learned a lot of new things.”

He gave a standard, conventional answer. Wang Bufu nodded, then asked:

"After observing for so many days, from your perspective as a businessman, what do you think of our territory?"

Mai's calves tensed. She realized that Wang Bufu's test was coming.

"To be honest, I'm not very satisfied!" Mair said, surprising everyone.

"Oh?" Wang Bufu asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"

"The commerce in your territory is far too primitive. The people in your territory live far too well."

The food includes snowmelt and wheat grown in the black soil, which can be made into soft bread, as well as an endless supply of deer milk and sweet mushrooms.

To be honest, I have never seen a lord of any territory who would allow his people to eat rank-level food as their daily meals.

This is truly extravagant!

Those who do ordinary jobs don't need to eat so well at all. The excess energy they can't use will just dissipate into the air and be wasted.

Such rations are only valuable to soldiers who do not need to fight constantly.

In my opinion, we should trade the high-ranking food for ordinary food for the people. That way, they will still have enough to eat.

(End of this chapter)