Free Web NovelChapter 141: Chapter 109: Secretly Watching the Battle
There was no hiding it. The Clan Leader knew she had gone to find Mengmeng. Unless they never returned to the Tribe, he would come and ask, even if they didn’t bring it up themselves.
"You wait at home. Don’t run around, and guard the meat. I’m going to find the Clan Leader," Meng Ni said, pinching her younger sister’s cheek.
"Mm, okay, I get it." Mengmeng had wanted to go along, but after hearing her sister’s words, she nodded quickly. ’I have to guard the meat. If no one’s home, what if someone from the Tribe sneaks in and steals it?’
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In the darkness of night, the Soul Fires of the Undead atop the fortress and the bonfires lit by the Minotaurs cast a shimmering, interwoven glow.
The children were still laughing and roughhousing without a care in the world, but the adult Minotaurs seemed somewhat tense.
An Undead Architecture rising during the day was abnormal enough. Then, so many Undead had been dispatched—not toward the Wraith Mountain Range, but out into the Wasteland. Finally, they had learned from their leader that an enemy was attacking.
But they were only a little tense; it was a far cry from being afraid. Tsk, as if these Undead were the same as before. With the boon from the forbidden land, their numbers were terrifyingly vast.
’We aren’t even afraid of the Undead anymore, so why would we fear some enemy from the Wasteland?’
In the main hall of the fortress keep.
Lounging on the White Bone Throne with his head propped in his hand, Li Ziyu opened his eyes from his doze. Liu Xingxing and Zhang Peng, who had been waiting for news, immediately looked over. He grinned. "It’s over."
"We won?" Liu Xingxing asked hastily.
Zhang Peng hit him lightly on the side. "Why settle for just ’won’? It must have been a great victory."
Li Ziyu stood up and stretched lazily, his whole body relaxing. In a great mood, he said, "Mm, a great victory. Pretty much a total annihilation."
"Whoa, Boss, you’re incredible! So dominant! So damn cool!" Liu Xingxing shouted, laying on the praise like a total bootlicker.
Zhang Peng’s mouth twitched. ’I never would have guessed, Liu Xingxing. You little brat, you actually beat me to it.’
Li Ziyu waved his hand, a nonchalant look on his face. "It was alright. Just a few thousand of them, nothing special. By the way, Zhang Peng, you need to keep gathering intel. Things won’t be this simple. I have a feeling they’ll definitely send more people. We can’t have a repeat of this. We might not have a Catman to warn us next time."
Zhang Peng bowed quickly. It had been his oversight this time; he had failed to detect their movements from the very beginning.
’Mm, it’s time to contact the surrounding Tribes.’
The Tribes he regularly traded with and was familiar with were too far from their base in the Wraith Mountain Range, making communication untimely.
The surrounding Tribes were different. They could be used as an early warning system, allowing for much faster intelligence transmission. It was just a matter of digging a few more tunnels, not a big problem.
With the battle over, the Undead had already begun to clean up the battlefield. The spoils of war were secondary; the main priority was the corpses. They absolutely had to be brought back!
Even with the forbidden land—the Wraith Mountain Range—the Undead’s passion for corpses had not diminished in the slightest.
To speed up the battlefield cleanup, Li Ziyu summoned another ten thousand Undead, sending them out to assist and bring the corpses back as quickly as possible.
The moon rose high and the sky filled with twinkling stars as the Undead finally began to return, one group after another.
Through the system, Li Ziyu also received the battle report. The Skeleton Longbowmen and Skeleton Warriors had suffered almost no losses, but of the twenty thousand newly summoned Skeleton Undead sent to the battlefield, over ten thousand had been lost.
If this had happened in the past, Li Ziyu would have been clutching his heart, collapsed in his chair and unable to get up. But now? It was just a drop in the bucket, no big deal. ’Only ten thousand Undead, after all.’
As the Undead returned, corpses were continuously transported to the main keep and piled up. The stench of blood became so thick that even someone with a chronically stuffy nose could smell it.
There were too many corpses to just leave them piled up. Li Ziyu quickly had the system begin decomposing them.
[Decomposing goblin +1. Acquired: Skeleton x1 unit, goblin ears x1 pair, Soul Energy x40 units]
[Decomposing mutated Human +1. Acquired: Skeleton x1 unit...]
