Chapter 371: The Resurrected Governor
“Hoo—”
The long-lost fresh air rushed into Kazumi’s face, instantly improving her slightly low mood. After taking a few deep breaths, she looked up at the territory she hadn’t entered for a long time.
The surroundings were still the same dilapidated doomsday scene, with collapsed buildings and rubble everywhere. The corpses and broken flesh on the ground were also gone, leaving behind rough traces of movement and searching. If the young girl guessed correctly, it was probably the guys from the Ghoul Plain who wandered here and ate the remains.
However, this was not a loss for Kazumi. Instead, it saved her the effort of cleaning and tidying up later. The young girl had long considered the ghouls on the plain as her own, and it would only take some time to catch them. It wouldn’t be a significant loss to operate her abilities over there.
The biggest difference was the gray sky, which had returned to its original appearance. This was also why the young girl believed her abilities had largely recovered and she dared to enter the territory.
The terrifying doomsday scene before was truly a bit scary, as if the entire territory space would collapse completely in the next second. Coupled with the blood-red [Damaged] reminders all over the system panel, Kazumi didn’t even dare to open the system. She directly closed the Black Coffin for more than half a month to let it recover on its own. A while ago, she put the Death Crystal obtained from Masashi Sakuraba into it to accelerate the overall recovery of the territory.
“Everything has to be rebuilt from scratch…”
Shaking her head helplessly, looking at the ruins everywhere, Kazumi murmured.
“Little Black, come out and clear things up.”
Stepping over the rubble blocking her path, Kazumi directly summoned Little Black from within her body.
The terrifying and monstrous beast drilled out of the young girl’s body in a twisted manner, its dense teeth stretching and retracting as if alive. After adjusting its position a few times, Little Black turned its head 180 degrees back to its original position and obediently began to clear the rubble and debris blocking the path between them according to its master’s wishes.
“I remember… the Graveyard Hall should be around here.”
The cold-blooded capitalist with her arms crossed watched the undead laborers tirelessly paving the way. The young girl looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar surroundings, pondering whether her estimated position was correct.
But it didn’t matter even if she was wrong, as Little Black was the one digging stones, and the undead didn’t need to be paid (haha).
Little Black’s digging speed was surprisingly fast. After all, it had been parasitizing in the young girl’s body, a place where death aura converged. Its growth rate was obviously higher than that of creatures of the same level. Coupled with the elite creature bonus, although its skills had not improved, its physical qualities alone were much higher than Little Black’s before.
As the skeleton throne, with only half of its seat remaining, appeared before them, Kazumi was fortunate that the direction she chose was not wrong. While controlling Little Black to clear the entire hall, the young girl walked to the skeleton throne and asked uncertainly.
“Territory Panel?”
She was a little doubtful whether the completely damaged [Great Graveyard] could still function as before, but as the dilapidated panel appeared before her, it confirmed the girl’s uncertain guess.
“Hoo— It’s good that these few functions can still be used.”
She patted the small hills on her chest with some relief. The current unexpectedly good situation made the young girl breathe a long sigh of relief.
The territory’s situation was too bad, basically equivalent to restarting the game in Kazumi’s previous life.
But reality did not allow for a restart, so the girl could only embark on her long road to reconstruction. However, the previous territory planning was all handled by the diligent Ice Lich. Now that Lei was dead, if Kazumi had to rebuild the territory with that abstract architectural planning, she really didn’t know where to start.
However, the good news was that the Great Graveyard’s ability to resurrect the governor was still usable. This way, she only needed to pay a small amount of resources to resurrect the responsible governor, and then the young girl could go AFK and wait for the overall reconstruction of the territory.
Of course, it wasn’t that the young girl was lazy, but Kazumi deeply knew that as an outsider, she was definitely no match for the professional governor. She only needed to grasp the general direction of development as the lord of the territory.
“Little Black, come here.”
Kazumi called Little Black, who was clearing the rubble nearby, again. She didn’t even give the ghoul a chance to tilt its head cutely. The girl’s small arm directly reached into Little Black’s slender, sharp-toothed mouth and dug around as if searching for something in a pile of junk. Then, she took out two black crystals flowing with energy and the half-blue skull that had lost its soul fire.
“There are two more… that should be enough.”
The girl crushed the expensive Death Crystals. Surging death energy poured out from the cracks of the small crystals and was then guided by a dark green energy, rotating on the vast graveyard hall, and finally constructing a mysterious magic array bit by bit.
Then, she took out a faint soul fire covered by an energy lampshade from Little Black’s mouth. The preliminary preparations for Lei’s resurrection were basically completed.
“Little Black, hurry up. After you’re done, go to the [Graveyard Hill] behind the mountain to get a corpse. Choose a good quality one. Also, don’t eat it!”
After doing all this, the young girl directed Little Black to go to the mountain behind the graveyard to find a corpse to store as Lei’s temporary body. Later, with enough abilities and time, she could strengthen an ordinary body into an Ice Body. After all, for the current Kazumi, compared to Lei’s combat ability, what was more important was the territory’s internal affairs and planning ability.
Little Black also sensed the seriousness in its master’s words. With a “wu” sound, it pushed aside the last piece of rubble in its hand and then scurried towards the Graveyard Hill behind the graveyard.
The magic array constructed by the death energy became more and more solidified. In the center of the magic array, the soul fire under the lampshade was replaced under the half-blue skull. The death energy of the magic array coiled around, preserving the vitality of this last trace of soul fire.
At this moment, Little Black returned to the graveyard hall with a corpse in its mouth and lightly placed the corpse in the center of the magic array. Little Black tilted its head and looked expectantly at Kazumi, who was busy in the magic array.
“Ah, good boy, good boy, our Little Black is the best.”
Sensing the strange gaze, Kazumi helplessly reached out a hand and patted the ghoul’s head twice to praise it. Little Black happily wagged its head and rubbed its face against the girl’s palm.
After appeasing Little Black, Kazumi shifted her gaze to the corpse on the ground. It had to be said that Little Black was really commendable this time. The corpse was of a middle-aged adult male, complete with flesh and full muscles, truly a high-quality corpse as she had instructed.
The death energy, like waves, rolled towards the corpse, pushing it to the very center of the magic array. The blue skull covered the corpse from directly above. Under the impetus of the death energy, the full flesh instantly withered, revealing the white bones beneath the skin and flesh.
The blue skull directly replaced the pale, complete skull. The originally dim soul fire burned fiercely at that moment. Mysterious ice energy emanated from the skeleton, finally converging into a dilapidated, dark robe.
The skeleton, suspended in mid-air, slowly descended. The soul fire in the eyes of the broken skull burned fiercely. With its arms crossed in front of its chest, it bowed its head, and the familiar low, hoarse voice came from beneath the rotten skull again.
“Cord Lei, resurrected by your summons, dedicating the highest loyalty to Lord.”
