Chapter 1199: Chapter 1199

It turns out that these Undead Mages had been entrenched here for over a thousand years, and they were harmful to the entire world, long despised by the will of the world. Therefore, a special task had formed around this place.

Du You, with his own power, had directly destroyed them, so the task now belonged to Du You, a territory task completed outright. Du You could establish his own territory anywhere in the Northern Mountain Range. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✶𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲✶𝗻𝗲𝘁

Even Du You noticed that the monster sieges that would have occurred after the establishment of a territory wouldn’t happen anymore. Although Du You didn’t mind, this seemed a bit too favorable. It was like inviting a wolf into the house, bringing Earth Consciousness into one’s home.

Even because of the special environment here, the territory was directly upgraded to tier three upon establishment, without needing any further effort from him. Du You had a look of wry amusement on his face before designating the very spot as his territory.

Then, Du You found that, even though his territory was currently devoid of anything, it still reached tier three, and it wasn’t just an ordinary tier three, the experience value was nearly maxed out. A little more effort, and it could be quickly elevated to tier four.

"Master, you’re quite lucky, a whole territory. And it looks like it’s even favored by the world consciousness," someone commented.

Du You rolled his eyes, "No thanks, when the world will realizes the invasion of Earth Consciousness, it will naturally repel it. But a territory, it’s foolish not to take what’s free, right? The chest from this task hasn’t been opened yet." What Du You referred to was the task of clearing the Undead stronghold, which did not overlap with the territory task, so there was still a chest to open.

A batch of Crystal Coins, Du You no longer cared about them. Then, he took out the following blueprints. At first glance, Du You was delighted with the blueprints, but upon seeing the last tip, Du You gritted his teeth.

"Very well, you’re courting death, then don’t blame me," he muttered.

What Du You received were very important architectural designs, a blueprint for a Lord’s Mansion, although he already collected one, but such blueprints could never be too many, they were all good stuff.

Lord’s Mansion blueprint: Can construct a Lord’s Mansion in your territory, only usable in this world.

Yes, just the addition of that last clause, that it could only be used in this world, meant it couldn’t be taken to other worlds.

Du You was very familiar with what this world had to offer; the entire Ice Crystal Plains world had very scarce resources and not many creatures. The overall level had only just reached tier five, which was not high at all.

Therefore, despite being discovered by the academy for such a long time, it was only used to train students and never considered for occupation. After all, the academy’s own territory tools were not particularly abundant.

The students and academy tutors within this world had also never completed a territory task, so there was essentially no territory belonging to this world. The whole world was in this state, without a single bit of development value. If it wasn’t for Du You accidentally completing a territory task this time, he wouldn’t bother staying any longer in this place.

With a wave of his hand, Du You tossed the Lord’s Mansion blueprint to the ground to initiate its construction, then gathered a group of skeletons under the control of a Bone Dragon to start building. With the skeletons’ speed, they could construct it in less than a day.

Although Du You had other blueprints, his were all in a set, possibly useful in the future, so he wouldn’t waste them on this place. After tidying up, Du You did not continue developing this area.

"Let’s start cleaning up the battlefield," Du You commanded as he directed a large number of Demonic Flame Skeletons to begin the cleanup. Useless corpses, bones, and the like were collected and burned, ensuring nothing was left behind.

After all, this was his territory, and it wasn’t possible to let the place go completely to waste.

Next, Du You had the skeletons start clearing the roads around. The previous battle had collapsed a lot of snow in the area, creating avalanches that blocked roads. There was also a cliff fracture to clean up.

Since the insides of the surrounding mountain peaks were hollow, Du You also had the skeletons clear some paths to directly traverse through the belly of the mountains. As for what the inner part of the mountains could be used for, Du You didn’t consider that.

The chest, having not disappeared, remained in his hands. Du You stretched out his hand to touch it and obtained two more blueprints.

Skeleton Wall blueprint (Tier five, Permanent): Can build a Skeleton Wall in your territory.

Skeleton Swamp blueprint (Tier four, Permanent): Can build a Skeleton Swamp in your territory.

"Didn’t expect to get Undead Attribute defensive blueprints. Let me see, hey, this is quite good, but it needs to be built on a territory with an Undead foundation, and its power will be greatly enhanced."

Du You carefully reviewed the details and noticed that the Skeleton Wall was not merely a wall, it also came with a strong magical Defensive Barrier, and could automatically use bone arrows and Bone Spikes for ranged attacks.

Moreover, the Skeleton Wall could have Skeletal Class Undead Creatures embedded within as a special defensive method. These embedded creatures would then be immobile, but their defensive and combat abilities would be greatly strengthened. Especially those ranged Skeletal Class Undead, embedding them was optimal.

The last feature was that Skeletal Class Undead Creatures could enter and exit without doors, directly passing through the wall, naturally excluding the enemy’s undead. This greatly facilitated the combat of Skeletal Class Undead.

The Skeleton Swamp was not an actual swamp, but a type of terrain-based defensive structure.

Creating a vast swamp around the area, invaders might sink, but that was just a basic capability. Skeleton arms would reach out from the swamp to attack or restrain enemies.

Lords could even hide Skeletal Class Undead inside the swamp, so they could suddenly appear and attack the enemy when they approached. Skeletal Class Undead could move freely under the swamp, changing positions.

If there were other types of undead creatures, they would not have this ability. Of course, for soul-type undead creatures, anything goes, since they did not have a physical form to begin with.

The only pity was that these powerful defensive structures could not be built on ordinary territories. Even though they could still be useful if built, they would lower the morale of the inhabitants, indirectly reducing the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and the enemy might even treat the territory like it was ruled by an Undead Mage. But it didn’t really matter, as the standard defenses of his own territory were already strong.

After storing the blueprints, Du You waved his hand, "Let’s go, it’s time to head back. After such prolonged battles, we should be ready to continue upgrading."

"Yes, we are fully prepared and won’t have any lingering effects," Lin Yucha and Lin Yushi said to each other, exchanging glances.