Chapter 421 Mood
At this moment, on the cruise ship Bidean, thick dark green smoke enveloped the upper half of the entire massive cruise ship, obscuring its full appearance. Beneath the hazy smoke, slender white figures shuttled back and forth.
“Miss [Coffin]… Miss [Coffin], this is…”
The commotion affecting the entire cruise ship quickly attracted the attention of the two people preparing traps on the deck. After confirming it wasn’t an enemy attack, seeing the densely packed humanoid skeletons around them, the two, with slight fear on their faces, found Kazumi again and asked with trembling tones.
“Just some subtle tricks. They didn’t affect you, did they?”
Looking at the people before her, Kazumi’s face showed no excess expression. She pointed at the pagoda spire extending from the幽 green light portal nearby and asked in return.
“N-no, we just didn’t expect such a large-scale action.”
Glancing around at the completely changed environment and the pale skeletons slowly moving on the deck, Little Insect couldn’t help but swallow. He shook his head like a rattle drum.
“Mm, it’s just that the range is quite large. The rest of the battle will be entrusted to you.”
Kazumi nodded, not wanting to appear too overbearing. She then flattered them a few sentences.
In fact, for the young girl, the change in the entire environment was just a small experiment in her ability speculation.
It was a small idea derived from the Territory Governor expanding the defensive range of [Imperial Guards] by connecting to the city walls linked to the Great Graveyard. One should know that even NPCs like Lei could innovate their abilities by stepping out of the differences between the game and reality. As the master, Kazumi had no reason not to broaden the scope of her ability usage in this regard.
[Ghost Gate] possesses the ability to create temporary teleportation building units. Although it is currently unrealistic for the entire Hades City to descend into reality with the current amount of Death Energy in Kazumi’s territory, projecting the spire of the [Great Graveyard] building into reality by placing it horizontally is achievable.
And the range determined by [Imperial Guards] is the area around the [Great Graveyard] building. In theory, even if it’s just a small spire of the building, it can be considered within the building’s range.
The reality proved Kazumi’s conjecture to be correct. Although, similar to her territory, the combat power of the skeleton warriors summoned through traits had decreased drastically. Not to mention the heavy black stone armor, even the skeletons on the deck didn’t have weapons. Their pale bones looked like they could be blown away by the wind. The only commendable aspect was their dense numbers.
However, this was also what Kazumi needed. The skeleton warriors summoned by [Imperial Guards] only consume the Death Energy of the territory. With the current state of the territory’s ability reserves, exchanging Death Energy for a batch of cannon fodder skeletons that could continuously regenerate was quite cost-effective.
“It’s just that the movement isn’t convenient, and it also occupies a [Ghost Gate] slot, so it can’t be used as a regular method.”
After waving goodbye to Little Insect and the other, Kazumi leaned against the wall, pondering the drawbacks of the newly experimented ability.
This simplified version of [Imperial Guards] still had quite a few problems, such as a long casting pre-movement, obvious targets, and it would also block Kazumi’s only displacement method as a mage. After all, with only one [Ghost Gate], Kazumi could only dive into the territory, unable to achieve teleportation within a range.
However, in specific scenarios like now, it was sufficient as cannon fodder and information gatherers. Otherwise, with the range of such a large ship, it seemed that Little Insect and the others’ abilities couldn’t cover everything so comprehensively.
Of course, everything Kazumi did did not mean she had already recognized the people under [Spike]’s command and was willing to diligently work for them. It was more of a well-timed mutual benefit.
With Kazumi’s abilities, such large-scale ability experiments were indeed not suitable for casually conducting them in any place. Even in the wilderness, it would inevitably be perceived by others. Besides, Kazumi usually had difficulty traveling to a very distant place to prevent her overt identity from being exposed.
This mission also provided the young girl with an excellent opportunity. Little Insect’s burrowing worms directly brought the girl to places she could never reach normally. The inevitable combat scenes also allowed Kazumi to experiment with her abilities freely without any worries.
On the other hand, the completely different traits shown by the [Spike] team compared to the members of the [Dark] Organization also made Kazumi quite willing to associate with them. The main reason was that compared to the monsters she had interacted with before, the fact that they were ordinary people was enough to make them appear like angels.
It was definitely not wrong to build a good relationship with an executive who held a neutral attitude towards her, and moreover, that person seemed to be of lawful evil alignment. Not to mention ability users like Little Insect who possessed long-range teleportation abilities. If they could become friends, they might play a significant role in the future.
The success of the ability experiment simply meant consuming a bit of Death Energy within an acceptable range. If it failed, replenishing some Corpse Crows as informants would suffice.
Feeling the Death Energy around them gradually dispelling the uncomfortable salty sea breeze, Kazumi couldn’t help but take a deep breath. She rubbed the poor Corpse Crow, which she had summoned into her palm at some unknown time, with one hand, and the young girl perceived the situation on the other side.
The Crocodile Lord and the Water Ghoul had been released by Kazumi long ago. Cooperating with the Ghost Gate opened at the bottom of the ship, their task was to catch some aquatic creatures and throw them into the territory. Never mind whether they could survive, even if all of them turned into corpses, they could provide a small amount of non-humanoid corpse material for the territory.
Also, a large amount of seawater could alter the terrain of the entire territory. Without affecting the Territory Planning, introducing more water resources to increase the water element content within the territory could, to some extent, improve the spellcasting ability of the corresponding spellcasters.
Well, referring to Lei, the only third-rate ice-element Lich.
Withdrawing her perception of the underwater situation, the young girl frowned and rubbed her nose bridge with some confusion. She didn’t know if it was because the two [Ghost Gates] used as displacement methods had been released, but Kazumi felt an indescribable gloomy aura swirling in her heart at the moment, as if something unusual was about to happen.
But with Little Black existing within her, and the [Ghost Gate] underwater being retrievable instantly, logically speaking, such worry should not appear.
Feeling her mood unable to calm down even after taking several deep breaths of Death Energy, the young girl took out her mobile phone and turned on the screen. On the fluorescent screen, the silly, sunlit smile seemed to be right before her eyes, and the oppressive feeling in her heart gradually faded, as if everything she had done at this moment had meaning.
Cherishing the scene in her mind like a treasure, the young girl slowly closed the pure black mobile phone, and the gentle smile on her face gradually disappeared, transforming back into the eternally unchanging stern expression. Her cold gaze seemed to pierce through the sea surface, staring directly at the endless seabed, and finally, she let out a long sigh.
“Hoo—”
