Chapter 212: Is it wrong for the Undead Race to have a City Hall?
[Building: Graveyard Hill]
[Quality: A]
[A hillside where bodies were carelessly discarded in the wilderness, over time it became a dedicated graveyard hill, possessing the ability to condense death aura and awaken undead corpses.]
[Abilities: Corpse Qi Gathering, Body Disposal, Burial, Wanderer]
“Wow…”
A rare tone of surprise escaped from the young girl’s mouth. Kazumi, sitting on a Ghoul, looked somewhat stunned at the panel before her, which could be described as extremely luxurious.
This resource building, which Kazumi had spent more than half a month building, truly lived up to its A-class quality and the various resources it consumed.
When it comes to building blueprints, in the game “Undead Lord,” there’s quite a bit to consider. Generally, only buildings of A-class or above can be constructed using building blueprints and the required resources.
Buildings below A-class, like the previous [Corpse Crow Nest] or [Dark Altar], are ready to use as soon as they are acquired; one simply needs to select a location to build them.
However, Kazumi wasn’t sure whether to consider herself lucky or unlucky for obtaining an A-class building blueprint at the start of the game.
Especially for resource-based buildings, the earlier they can be built, the better for accumulating and developing. This randomly rewarded resource building had indeed been a hindrance to her for a long time; otherwise, Kazumi wouldn’t have racked her brains over a single corpse before.
Fortunately, it wasn’t too late to build it now, and the rewards from such a long accumulation were incredibly abundant.
Don’t be fooled by the appearance of this building, which is just a small hill with a few graves. The four skills on its building panel make it the most prestigious high-level building in Kazumi’s territory so far.
There’s no need to elaborate further on [Corpse Qi Gathering] and [Body Disposal]; they are both corresponding resource-related abilities. The former can gather death aura to produce resources, while the latter will produce a random amount of standard unit corpses on the small mound every natural day, which is a godsend for a girl currently in dire need of resources.
It’s important to know that generally low-level resource buildings only have one method of resource production, such as [Spirit Summoning Tower]’s [Summoning Spirits] or [Ten Thousand Bone Cave]’s [Bone Crushing Production]. Although slightly more advanced buildings come with other unique abilities, resource production is strictly limited.
However, [Graveyard Hill] not only has two resource production abilities but also incredibly powerful associated abilities!
[Burial] appears to be an ordinary ability, similar to the preservation effect of a [Corpse Repository]. Corpses buried in the Graveyard Hill will be preserved to the greatest extent possible, preventing the death aura between flesh and blood from dissipating over time.
While it can be said that dissipated death aura is integrated into the territory and not entirely wasted, in many situations, especially in the late game, the quality of flesh and blood materials is strictly required for troop production, sacrificial offerings, or progressing the technology tree.
In the future, when development progresses, a true repository that can preserve flesh and blood materials will be a foundational building that every territory needs.
And the last ability, [Wanderer], is probably the true special ability of this building. The skill name might seem a bit difficult to understand, but after reading the detailed description of the ability, Kazumi has a general understanding of this ability.
[Wanderer] allows corpses buried in the Graveyard Hill to have a chance to rise and become true wanderers, aimlessly roaming within the entire Graveyard Hill.
Although it looks a lot like ordinary corpses transformed into undead due to the gathering of death aura, according to the skill description, these so-called wanderers can retain their abilities or memories from their previous lives as the building’s level increases.
Of course, the extent to which they can retain these is also related to the quality of the [Graveyard Hill] itself. With its current newly built quality, the trigger chance is basically in the single digits, let alone how many abilities can be retained.
Another point that Kazumi found somewhat disappointing was that these resurrected corpses do not count towards her troops.
Yes, that’s right. In simpler terms, they are neutral monsters.
Therefore, Kazumi cannot bring herself to bury the corpses of strong practitioners and hope to trigger the [Wanderer] special effect.
If they only retained their abilities without consciousness, it would be fine; she could slowly accumulate strength and then conquer them. But if both consciousness and strength were to be restored, honestly, Kazumi feared that her humble little territory wouldn’t be enough for those powerful beings to dismantle.
Regardless, these minor flaws cannot completely conceal the power of [Graveyard Hill] as an A-class resource building, with its dual resource production, resource preservation capability, and a special troop production ability with certain limitations.
Although it doesn’t have the flashy special effects of the high-level buildings Kazumi saw in her previous life, it truly embodies the solidness that a resource building should possess.
It can be said that after successfully building this, the entire territory can enter a phase of rapid development. Currently, the territory has almost zero high-level combat power, but as long as there is accumulation of resources, Kazumi believes that even mass-producing troops can create a miracle.
Aren’t the Corpse Crow Swarms and Corpse Maggot Seas fragrant?
Kazumi’s previously calm eyes relaxed and spread out. She slowly stood up from the Ghoul’s back and looked at her territory, which had finally started to show some progress after much effort. Her earlier frustration due to the dog’s unreliable behavior also improved significantly.
Seeing Little Black and the others, who had deviated from her commands and were playfully running around on the Graveyard Hill, Kazumi let out a helpless smile.
Perhaps even Undead Creatures have their own instincts. For swarm creatures like Corpse Crows that have nests, it’s fine. But Little Black and the others are drawn to wherever the concentration of death aura is high.
Now that the Graveyard Hill has been built, they will probably sleep there from now on.
Quietly adding a new command in her mind, “Do not bite any corpses within the territory,” Kazumi waved her hand and closed the panel before her.
She surveyed her territory, which was already beginning to take shape, but her brows furrowed again. She looked somewhat puzzled at the system panel, which showed no reaction.
Kazumi had already built the three most basic buildings: resource buildings, production buildings, and altars. She had also seized opportunities to attempt the achievements in her memory, but the reward she had been longing for had not yet appeared.
“Could it be in the achievement rewards for killing people within the territory?”
Tapping her wrist with some confusion, Kazumi couldn’t quite figure out the system’s behavior. The most important building still had no sign of appearing. She couldn’t possibly expect to sacrifice it through the altar; the probability of that would be too life-draining.
Just as the young girl sighed and decided to accept reality and go back to organizing her information, the once peaceful territory began to shake inexplicably. The three ordinary buildings simultaneously bloomed with black light, converging on the open space nearby.
“This is?!?”
Ice-cold death aura crazily gathered towards the open space that Kazumi had previously designated as a warehouse area. The gray-white rotten soil cracked inch by inch, eventually revealing a huge void.
“Boom—”
A massive sound echoed in the quiet space. As the dense, almost tangible death aura rushed towards her, what appeared before Kazumi was actually a massive piece of suspended land covered in thick rotten soil!!
The familiar architectural style and the iconic entwined wraiths on it made the young girl’s once calm eyes ripple with brilliance. Her pale pink lips slowly parted, and a tone of disbelief escaped from Kazumi’s mouth.
“Municipal-level building, Great Graveyard.”
