Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

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Illumination Tower, this thing is equally important at night as it can dispel darkness, break the obscuring effect of deathly fog, and it can even be built outside the territory.

Most importantly, this thing isn't a special building; as long as you have a building blueprint and the materials, you can build an unlimited number of them.

The only question is, whether the area illuminated by the tower will drive away ghost creatures.

"Let's just try it and see!"

Thinking it, Zi Liyuan didn't stay in the Lord's Mansion but immediately summoned the White Jade Skeleton Squad gifted in building.

First, he decided to build an Illumination Tower on one side of the Lord's Mansion. Your next read is at empire

It must be said, this world truly is gamified. Ten White Jade Skeletons started working together; from laying the foundation to constructing the tower, it visibly rose before our eyes.

In just a quarter of an hour, a twenty-meter high Illumination Tower was established.

[Ding, Lord Zi Liyuan of the Lord's Mansion, has successfully built an Illumination Tower. Would you like to provide energy to activate the illumination mode, or set a custom schedule for turning it on and off?]

Well, it turns out that activating this thing requires consuming the territory's energy.

"Provide energy, activate illumination!"

Let's see the effect of this thing first. If it's good, building more doesn't matter; at least the entire territory should be unaffected by darkness.

Come nighttime, along with the deathly fog, ghost creatures appear. Although not very strong, they pose a great threat to the subjects within the territory.

Especially the Little Skeleton Collection Squad working 24 hours outside, they could only deposit the collected resources in the nearby workshops at night, daring to transport them back to the territory during daylight.

There's no way around it; Little Skeletons are too fragile. They are the true cannon fodder. A First Order creature, given time, wouldn't have a problem slaughtering a thousand of them, not to mention that most ghost creatures emerging from the fog are Second Order or above.

Upon the Illumination Tower, a yellowish large lamp appeared. Its dim light started to radiate from this lamp, bit by bit illuminating everything around.

Darkness, deathly fog, under the light's illumination, seemed to encounter some sort of nemesis, receding bit by bit, only stopping and standing off against the Illumination Tower after retreating a hundred meters.

Simultaneously, Zi Liyuan also noticed a spectre that didn't retreat with the deathly fog but instead hovered in the air, right within the light's illumination.

Then, above this spectre's head, a blood-red number "-1" fluttered up.

"Huh, the Illumination Tower does damage to ghost creatures, but it's almost negligible."

1 point of damage, what's the use of that!

Especially when Zi Liyuan observed the spectre for several seconds, the second time a blood-red number appeared, it took a full 10 seconds.

0.1 damage per second, slower than the ghost creatures' recovery. This thing is nothing more than for show.

However, these ghost creatures don't seem willing to stay under the light for long, so they immediately flew away, reentering the deathly fog.

Overall, the Illumination Tower has some use, at least reducing the number of ghost creatures roaming the territory's skies, right?

"Build! Light up the entire territory, don't leave any dark spots!"

Directing the White Jade Skeletons to build Illumination Towers at certain points, Zi Liyuan also began to check the energy consumption of these towers.

A single Illumination Tower, operating its lights 24 hours a day, only needs to consume 1 point of energy per day.

Such a trivial loss, who is that going to bother?

While overseeing the construction of the towers, Zi Liyuan opened the Lord interface to check the various resources acquired this time.

Having destroyed several territories, the materials obtained were not to be underestimated. After sending a portion to Xiao Yurou and Number Two, he began to consider the upgrade options for the Lord's Mansion.

He was just short of a few gold ingots, but after taking down a few territories, he unexpectedly got enough, meeting the upgrade requirement of 100 gold ingots.

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[Ding, consuming general materials (stone, timber, iron ingot, copper ingot, silver ore) x7000, quality materials (stone, timber, iron ingot, copper ingot) x700, silver ingots (white) x200, gold ingots (white) x100, energy 700. Lord's Mansion upgrade to LV7 commencing, countdown begins at 30 seconds!]

As the 30-second countdown came to an end, a faint golden glow rose into the night sky, enveloping the entire majestic Lord's Mansion.

The grand residence, growing taller and wider, gleamed with increasing luster and was imbued with an aura of authority.

[Ding, upgrade complete, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for becoming a LV7 Lord, territory range has been expanded!]

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for being the first in the Sea of Realms New World No. 99 to upgrade to a LV7 Lord, reward of Spirit Crystals x2000, random treasure chest (blue) x3, Sea of Realms New World No. 99 prestige points 30!]

[Ding, Lord's Mansion upgraded to LV7, territory expanded by 100 square meters.]

[Ding, requirements for upgrading the Lord's Mansion to LV8: general materials (stone, timber, iron ingot, copper ingot) x8000, quality materials (stone, timber, iron ingot, copper ingot) x800, silver ingots (white) x300, gold ingots (white) x200, crystals (white) x100, energy 800.]

The notification sounds once again rang crazily in Zi Liyuan's ears.

Simultaneously, the news of the upgrade to a LV7 Lord's Mansion was broadcast throughout the entire Sea of Realms New World No. 99.

Three successive broadcasts put the spotlight back on Lord Zi as the number one Lord and sparked discussion and speculation among all the Lords.

There was nothing to be done; the guy had moved too fast. In just four days, he had gone from nothing to LV7, a pace that thoroughly dominated all other Lords.

The Alien Lords, especially those in Area No. 10086, had already formed several different organizations, secretly heading toward the revealed coordinates.

Each Lord that Lord Zi eliminated or who fled for their lives broadcast their original coordinates in World No. 99's channel before their demise or escape.

No one was a fool; with a little deduction, one could roughly figure out the location of Zi Liyuan's territory.

Therefore, by tomorrow at the latest, in broad daylight, there would undoubtedly be Lords knocking on his door, looking for trouble.

It just wasn't known whether they were coming to deliver death or to meet their own.

"Sigh, the rest of the materials are all ready; now I just need to smelt enough silver and gold ingots, and then I can upgrade to Level 10 Lord's Mansion in one go, completing the unsealing," he said.

Underneath the ruins of the relic, he had found a large stash of rare resources, and similarly, the Spectral Secret Realm had yielded quite a few valuable materials.

Coupled with the resources mined in the last few days, as well as those transferred from Xiao Yurou and Number Two, Zi Liyuan was quite capable of directly upgrading the Lord's Mansion from LV7 to LV10.

"We're working through the night today; I must smelt all the silver and gold ores into ingots!" he declared.

Yesterday's treasure chests yielded plenty of silver ore, more than enough for his upgrade to LV10, and he had also acquired a significant amount of gold ore. From LV8 to LV10 Lord's Mansion, he only needed a total of 900 gold ingots.

The gold ore he had was more than sufficient, and now the priority was to smelt the metal ingots and then proceed with the upgrade and unsealing!

As long as the unsealing was done, his combat strength would return to its peak, and summoning a Spectral Dragon army in the blink of an eye would make him invincible!

With the plan set, Zi Liyuan didn't want to wait another moment. He dashed into the smelter, but in an instant ran back out and rushed to the altar.

With a wave of his hand, he summoned a large group of Little Skeleton Subjects and started tossing these fragile beings onto the altar.

He could have built three smelters, and with Xiao Yurou's help in smelting metal ingots, Lord Zi didn't build them all, erecting only two: one within his territory and another within the encampment of his 'pups.'

Now was the perfect time to construct another one, to improve the efficiency of the smelting process.

Besides, he could follow Xiao Yurou's example and upgrade the smelter, such as adding a couple more furnaces!

So, he began sacrificing Skeleton Subjects to summon higher quality, skilled White Jade Skeleton Subjects.

First, he called forth 20 White Jade Skeletons with a talent for construction to maximize building speed.

Then, another 100 White Jade Skeletons with smelting talents were thrown into the smelter to work, continuously smelting the needed metal ingots for him!