Chapter 273: Governor’s Territory Planning
Kazumi and Lei arrived at the location where the dimensional gate should have been in just a few minutes. The ruined buildings from Kazumi’s memory were gone, replaced by a wide, black city wall emitting a death aura.
“Have all the buildings in the plan been completed?”
Leaping off the ice carriage, Kazumi looked at the thick city wall, which was two to three stories high, and then turned to the lich waiting beside her and asked.
“Reporting to my Lord, the planned upgrade buildings have basically been completed. However, a new dimensional gate passage requires your confirmation, as I do not have the authority to open it.”
Lei walked forward, and its cold, hoarse voice spoke respectfully from its skull.
“Hmm, your plan is not just to protect the Great Graveyard, is it?”
Placing her hand on the cold city wall, Kazumi felt a slight comfort from the faint death aura flowing within. She nodded slightly and continued to ask Lei.
Perhaps due to being too busy before, after confirming Lei’s loyalty and ensuring that the overall direction of the territory’s construction was correct, the young girl adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards the governor’s construction policies. After all, Lei had proven his own internal affairs planning capabilities, so it was better for her, a novice who had only played simulation management games, to not add to his burden.
The reason Lei had presented for building the city wall in the previous plan was that the Great Graveyard needed protection, as damage to its core would cause the entire territory’s death aura circulation to become chaotic.
Kazumi, having played games before, knew this point. Therefore, she had agreed to his construction plan regarding this matter at the time, but now it seemed that her governor had plans beyond just this.
“Yes, my Lord. I wrote about the future development direction and the reason for changing the dimensional gate’s location in the supplementary notes of the construction plan.”
“Elaborate.”
Kazumi coolly replied to Lei, lightly covering up the awkwardness of not carefully reviewing the plan due to Sato Shinichi’s phone call at the time.
“Yes, my Lord.”
“My subordinate’s idea is to set up the territory’s general dimensional gate on the plains to the east. If enemies enter through your entrance, the ice sky curtain and death energy can continuously damage flesh-and-blood creatures, plus the influence of darkness, temperature, hunger, and terror on flesh-and-blood creatures’ emotions. Even if they manage to reach the city area here, their strength will be greatly weakened.”
“The territory’s scope is not large enough now. When it expands to a certain extent, it will be impossible to distinguish the buildings here by sight. In the future, if there are trap and mist buildings, the entrance can be transformed into a large-scale defensive secret realm. It can also be divided into an area for powerful undead creatures that cannot be controlled or coexist normally in the city, so as to weaken the enemy’s strength.”
“Even if they are fortunate enough to emerge from the arranged locations, individual enemies that are not in scale will find it difficult to cause destructive damage to the city wall. Relying on the troops by the city wall can exert stronger combat power, and with proper coordination, it is not impossible to kill stronger enemies. However, I am more inclined to use the environment to wear them down first, or even kill them directly.”
“It would be even better with soul-type troops like [Banshee] and [Ghost]. Defeating enemies with their own inner struggles can also reduce unnecessary consumption.”
“Also…”
Listening to Kazumi’s words, Lei showed no sign of dissatisfaction on its face. Instead, it took out a black, ancient book from its怀 and began to introduce it to the young girl seriously.
“…”
Listening to the incessant hoarse voice, Kazumi felt that this was probably why she didn’t want to pay too much attention to her territory’s hardworking governor. However, apart from this one flaw, Lei’s overall impression was stunning.
Yes, stunning.
Kazumi had never imagined that this guy, whom she considered a territory construction NPC, could achieve to this extent. With this series of introductions, Kazumi could understand his plan, but such an approach was something even Kazumi herself had not thought of.
And all the silly Underworld Lord could think of was dragging enemies into the coffin territory to beat them up together?
It had to be said that Lei’s plan was truly perfect. Perhaps due to the limitation of her own game thinking, Kazumi still couldn’t fully distinguish between the game “Undead Lord” and her real-life ability [Black Coffin]. Perhaps such an operation was impossible in a game, but for her real-life ability, such a plan was completely feasible.
Especially the utilization of emotions like darkness, cold, and hunger in flesh-and-blood creatures made Kazumi suspect whether the skeleton in front of her was a true undead creature, rather resembling a cunning demon skilled at manipulating people’s hearts.
For the strong, powerful attacks might not be able to kill them, but the despair induced by the cold, darkness, and loneliness in a dark space, no matter how strong their power, they wouldn’t be able to resist, would they?
Coupled with the soul-type undead creatures like [Banshee] and [Ghost] that Lei mentioned, Kazumi now felt that if operated properly, killing much stronger opponents than herself wouldn’t be a problem at all!!
“Very good, do as you say.”
Suppressing a hint of excitement in her heart, the young girl turned around and praised her diligent governor, then continued to ask.
“Also, how is the sturdiness of the city wall?”
This was also within Kazumi’s concerns. After all, the city wall built in this manner was not a system-produced building. Therefore, she was still skeptical about whether it could withstand the attacks of powerful heroes, and it might turn into a shoddy project that would crumble at the slightest touch.
“The quality of the materials provided by my Lord far exceeds my expectations. The sturdiness is very high. With my strength, it would take continuous twenty minutes to chisel through, and it would consume a lot of magic power. In the future, if my Lord can obtain the blueprints for the city wall, you can build directly on the original city wall.”
“In my subordinate’s view, [Frost Breath] or [Bone Giant Wall] would be very suitable for our territory’s future development direction.”
[I wish I could, too…….]
Hearing Lei casually mention two tiers of high-level city walls, which were not even that easy to obtain in her previous life’s game, Kazumi felt her PTSD from resource scarcity resurfacing.
This felt like a F2P player listening to a whale big shot talk about how useful a certain item was. She knew that item was useful, but where could she get it?
Isn’t it like “Why can’t they eat meat porridge?”
“Hmm, let’s go in and take a look.”
Knowing that it was not the lich’s intention, the young girl shook her head and no longer paid attention to Lei’s continued nagging, and walked straight towards the empty gate at the center of the city wall.
However, to Kazumi’s surprise, what greeted her in this area designated as the city gate was actually a small team of skeleton soldiers wearing neat black armor and emitting a faint black aura all over their bodies?
