"You've discovered an undead ruin. Do you wish to explore it?"
Lin Xiao turned around. A ball of clear light unfolded in front of him. There were words written on it.
Looking up, he saw a thick fog formed by the death aura surging back and forth at the edge of the city wall. Indistinct spirits could be seen in the fog, but none of them dared to cross the city wall. It was unknown whether they could or did not dare to come out.
"This is going to be fun. I've become a commander without an army!"
More than a hundred of his subordinates had all died inside. Not a single one of his subordinates was left to explore.
There were too many spirits inside. Even a hero would not be able to hold them off if they all swarmed together.
Moreover, there was a big boss inside that might be even stronger than him. He was only able to escape earlier because the boss was not fully awake. If he dared to enter now, he would be courting death.
Looking up at the starry sky, there was a red full moon in the middle. However, there was a blue full moon and a normal white full moon on the left and right sides of the sky. They moved in different orbits as well.
The moonlight shone on the ground, allowing people to see things, but not the lush wilderness outside the city.
The city ruins had been abandoned for who knew how long. Plants and creatures could not survive inside the city due to the death aura. However, it was different outside the city. It was currently surrounded by a lush forest. If he wanted to leave, he would have to pass through this lush forest.
To be honest, passing through the forest in the middle of the night in this dangerous Wanxiang Ruins world was quite risky.
However, it was not advisable to stay here forever. Who knew if the undead really could not come out? If the boss in the ruins completely woke up and came out, he would be doomed.
Therefore, Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and decided to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.
He looked back at this dangerous birthplace and made a mental note of it. When he was stronger in the future, he could explore it again. He then left the ruins without looking back and entered the lush forest.
Not long after he entered the forest and disappeared, the powerful will in the center of the city ruins finally fully awakened. A thick blue pillar of light shot up from the center of the city. He could faintly hear a soul-piercing roar. The thick fog that had been lingering at the edge of the city suddenly expanded with the roar. It extended for hundreds of meters and only stopped when it reached the edge of the forest.
In the forest, Lin Xiao randomly picked a direction and ran all the way. His speed was comparable to that of a level-6 transcendent. Ordinary beasts simply couldn't react in time.
There didn't seem to be any powerful ferocious beasts in this forest. Most of them were just ordinary beasts. At first, he was quite worried, but later on, he didn't encounter any danger, so he was a little relieved.
He didn't know how far he had run in one breath, but he felt that he was far enough away from the ruins of the city. In addition, he hadn't encountered any danger in the forest, so he slowed down slightly.
Not long after, he found a tree that was dozens of meters tall. His heart skipped a beat, and he approached it. He kicked away an unknown beast that was entrenched under the tree, and climbed up the tree to stop temporarily.
It was already the latter half of the night. After resting on the tree for a few hours, the sky began to brighten.
When the sky was completely bright, he climbed to the top of the tree and looked around. When he looked back, he could no longer see the Undead Ruins. On the other side, there was a primitive forest that stretched as far as the eye could see. The trees were each taller than the last. In the depths of the forest, he saw several super ancient trees that were at least a few hundred meters tall.
"This …"
He had run in the wrong direction. The more he ran, the deeper he went into the forest. The other side of the city ruins was the way out of the forest.
This made people speechless.
He had no choice but to turn back.
Fortunately, he didn't run very far. Fortunately, he stopped to rest at night. If he had rushed all night, he would have been screwed.
He didn't go around the ruins on his way back. If he guessed correctly, the Undead hidden in the ruins wouldn't come out during the day. They would only come out at night.
Not long after, Lin Xiao returned to the ruins of the city. He found that the thick fog in the ruins had disappeared, and the ruins were full of wandering skeletons and Undead.
"This …?
Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up. He kicked a tree that was as thick as an arm, took out a stick, and rushed forward. He smashed a skeleton into pieces.
The Undead could respawn, so he immediately thought of a way to earn some points.
Other things aside, he had to earn 10,000 points to level up his hero to become an official hero.
In this world of the Vientiane Ruins, a Level-0 hero had no functions. Whether it was a hero's strategic spells, nest slots, or hero's talents and hero's storage space, all of these functions could only be unlocked after leveling up.
This setting clearly meant that a Level-0 hero was only a hero apprentice and not an official hero.
It was indeed very slow for a person to farm Undead, but he wasn't in a hurry now. Since they respawned once a day, he could farm as many as he could. Normal skeletons and zombies were so weak. Considering the number of skeletons in the ruins, as long as he didn't fight them head-on, they wouldn't be able to kill him.
Moreover, after he killed more than a hundred skeletons, another card fragment dropped. He combined it with the previous three Skeleton Card fragments to form a complete Skeleton Card. He quickly summoned a hundred skeletons, and his efficiency suddenly increased.
After spending about half a day, Lin Xiao cleared all the Undead in the ruins. He obtained a total of more than a thousand points, five Skeleton Card fragments, and another Skeleton Card.
He didn't idle for the rest of the day. He led his skeleton subordinates to build a simple shelter outside the city walls at the edge of the ruins. He then led his subordinates to investigate the ruins carefully.
He was also curious about where the Undead were hiding at night. Was there an underground city under the ruins? Or …
He found a place to dig through the piles of rubble and dug to the bottom of the hard ground. Other than a large number of broken bones, he didn't find anything else.
However, at night, as the fog slowly rose, he realized that the broken bones suddenly changed. A faint Death Qi slowly seeped out from the bones, and a large number of Undead Spirits rose from the cracks of the rubble.
Lin Xiao quickly retreated outside the city. He coldly looked at the Undead Spirits trapped in the thick fog within the city walls and the gradually awakening strong Death Will.
He wanted to see what the Death Will was. Was it a powerful Undead Spirit or some other Undead?
However, the moment the Death Will was completely awakened, the gray fog rapidly expanded, and the Undead Spirits that covered the sky and earth drowned him.
"Damn!"
Lin Xiao rolled and crawled into the forest. He cut into a patch of vines and felt the cold Death Will staring at him from behind. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead.
His subordinates …
They were all dead again.
Next, he obediently ran further away and built a nest in the forest to wait for dawn.
The next day, he returned to the ruins. As expected, the ruins were filled with Skeletons and Zombies. He took out another Skeleton Card and summoned a hundred Skeletons to continue killing monsters.
For the rest of the time, Lin Xiao obediently earned points. He killed all the Undead in the ruins every day. Then, he obediently led his subordinates away from the ruins and into the forest. He was not interested in exploring at all.
He didn't know if the Undead in the ruins were a farming mechanism or replenished from somewhere. Anyway, he killed so many every day and the same number of Undead respawned every day. There was an endless stream.
On the twelfth day, he finally collected ten thousand points to upgrade his summoning core. Then, he added ten thousand gold and a hundred wood and ores to upgrade his hero core to level one.
"Your hero core has been upgraded to level one. Population limit has been raised to 1000. Nest slots have been opened. You now have three. Hero Talents, Hero Leaderboard, and Strength Leaderboard have been opened."
"Scanning for Hero Talents …"
"Checking the strength of the real body. You have the following Hero Talents. Please make your choice within 60 seconds. Random selection will occur after 60 seconds."
"One: Murloc King. You can upgrade any Murloc troop to level three Murloc troop. Every time you upgrade your hero level, all attributes of the Murloc troop you command will increase by 1."
"Two: Goblin King. You can upgrade any goblin army to a Level 3 intelligent goblin army. You can also use rare resources and gems to upgrade intelligent goblins or elite goblins to Level 5 intelligent goblin mages. Every time you level up as a hero, the goblin army you command will have all their attributes + 1."
"Three: King of Naga. You can use a certain amount of rare resources and gems to upgrade any humanoid Elite troop above level four to level six Asura Naga. Every time you upgrade your hero level, all attributes of the Asura Naga troop you command will increase by 2."
"Four: Creator, the troops you command will receive + 200% battle experience, -50% resource consumption for leveling up, and + 100% command limit. You can command a mix of troops without suffering a drop in morale or any negative statuses.
"Five: Lord of Truth. Every time you upgrade your hero level, all attributes of the troops you command will increase by 1. Combat experience of the troops you command will increase by 100%. You can use a large amount of resources to upgrade troops above Elite to Heroes. The weaker the Elite troop is, the more resources you will need."
"This …"
This Hero Talent was quite amazing.
They were all extensions of the power system that he had mastered. The Murloc, Intelligent Gnomes, Asura Naga, the Law of Creation, the Law of Truth, and the Gray Dwarf might not have been added in because they were not adjusted enough.
Lin Xiao could only choose one out of the five. He fell into deep thought.
However, after thinking about it seriously, he realized that he had no choice but to choose the Lord of Truth talent.
The reason was simple. He was now preparing to condense the Priesthood of Truth. Therefore, all his actions had to serve this purpose. This trip to the Vientiane Ruins was very important to his growth. He had to focus on the Priesthood of Truth, even if the others seemed stronger.
"Lord of Truth!"
With a thought, four out of the five talents were hidden. Only the Lord of Truth talent was left. It was shining brighter and brighter. Soon, it turned into a ball of golden light and merged into his body. Lin Xiao instantly felt … the changes in his subordinates.
The remaining 40-odd skeletons all had their vitality, strength, and agility increased by one point under the enhancement of the talent.
With the skeletons' strength increasing by one point, the increase was quite significant.
Moreover, he took out all the Skeleton Card fragments from the Twelve Heavenly Blocks. There were a total of 33 pieces. If he could combine them into eight complete pieces, he would have 800 skeletons in total. He summoned all of them at once.
A total of 841 skeletons was quite a number. They surrounded him in a tight circle. With the enhancement of the strategic attribute, they were quite powerful.
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