I have an Apocalypse City Chapter 986

Chapter 986: Chapter 987: Visiting by Reputation_1 Chapter 986: Chapter 987: Visiting by Reputation_1 Catherine's level, which was originally only twelve, has now directly increased by more than ten levels to become a thirty-level hero. With such a level, she could even rank among the top contenders in the entire Kingdom of Elasia.

Most importantly, just as Song Jian had said earlier, her name had indeed spread throughout all the human kingdoms. And mind you, there are more than just Elasia among the human kingdoms.

With the improvement of her level, her strength increased, and so did the number of troops she could lead. From now on, Catherine could even have a hero join her army under the title of deputy, and when necessary, she could command this deputy to lead an army on their own.

“Is this, is this really happening?” Catherine's face remained filled with disbelief, and she even pinched herself to make sure she was not dreaming.

The massive windfall, as if manna from heaven, made Catherine doubt the reality of it all.

After a long while, Catherine looked up to the sky, where Song Jian was floating mid-air, with Flame Light Wings behind him constantly shedding fine specks of light, like a dreamy illusion, as if a deity had descended to the mortal world.

“From this moment forward, you are my staunchest belief. Wherever your longsword points, there I will charge into battle, and I shall fight valorously under your command, until the moment my life comes to an end…”

Catherine dismounted and knelt on one knee towards Song Jian in mid-air, her left hand on her chest, and she earnestly swore her knightly oath to him!

At that moment, Song Jian, looking disheveled in the air, kept spitting and wiping away dirt. He had gotten too close to the City of the Undead, and the third stage of the Red Lotus Karma Fire Sword Formation had directly destroyed the undead castle, engulfing him in the dust that was raised, transforming him into a muddy figure, his mouth and nose filled with dust laden with the Force of Death, and a faint stench of decay lingering around his body.

“It feels as if I fell into a dung pit…” Song Jian's expression was unsightly as he stared dumbfounded at the huge palm print on the ground that resembled the “Hand of Buddha.”

“What happened to occupying and plundering? Why destroy everything upfront?” Song Jian's face bore a crying-without-tears expression, feeling like all his efforts were for naught.

After conquering a castle, there are three options: occupy, plunder, and destroy!

To occupy means to make this castle one's own, plunder is to take all the resources from the castle and then abandon it, while destroy means to completely level the castle as if it never existed.

Typically, a lord will choose to occupy castles of their own faction, and resort to plundering those of other factions, harvesting a fortune before leaving them derelict.

The abandoned castle that Song Jian occupied had also been plundered and left derelict after it was captured by someone else. There are many such castles in this world.

In this Assessment World, wars are happening all the time, countless castles are captured, and numerous abandoned ones rise again because some hero finds and occupies them.

Simply owning a castle and developing it automatically grants the noble status of a lord, which for any commoner hero is nothing short of a shortcut to the heavens.

Falling from the sky, Song Jian stood in front of the huge palm print and spaced out.

Once there was a level three castle before me, but I did not cherish it. If there were a chance to do it all over again, I think I would never again unleash the Thousand Swords Art with my full power…

In fact, given the castle's defenses, Song Jian could have easily used normal Thousand Swords Art to destroy all the enemies and the castle's defenses like peeling an apple.

At most three times, no, two times, the Thousand Swords Art would have been enough to destroy all the defensive forces on the castle walls, and as for that corpse witch lord, Song Jian did not believe he could withstand even one strike of the Thousand Swords Art.

“I could have obtained a complete third-level castle, and even if it was plundered, I would have gotten a huge amount of resources, but now it's all gone…” Song Jian sighed deeply.

The resources of a third-level castle would have been enough for him to upgrade his own castle to second-level and to construct every permissible building.

“My lord, your strength is akin to that of a deity. The glory of this victory was meant to be yours…” Catherine stepped forward with her army, speaking to Song Jian with a face full of reverence and embarrassment.

Song Jian sighed and waved his hand, “Forget it, it's nothing. You take over the necromancer lord's resource points. I want to go back to the castle for some rest.”

Catherine hurriedly said, “As you command, my lord. Please take good care of yourself!”

Song Jian nodded, mounted his mutated unicorn, and dashed toward his castle.

Watching Song Jian's retreating back, Catherine's face was full of admiration, “The lord is truly open-minded and modest, so much so that such a glorious victory doesn't even bring a hint of pride to his face. And he hasn't even inquired about the rewards… I shall safeguard these resources for the lord for now, and present them when he needs them!”

Catherine led her troops to take control of the necromancer lord's left-behind resource points one by one. With the death of the necromancer lord, these resource points had become ownerless, and since there were few soldiers left by the necromancer lord, Catherine easily took them all.

Aside from a giant handprint, nothing was left of the third-level City of the Undead. A day later, a small mound slowly rose in the center of the handprint.

A battered Black Dragon hatchling wriggled out from the mound, its body covered in wounds with flesh turned inside out and its wings torn with large holes, resembling a tattered, hole-ridden discarded bag.

However, curiously, there was no blood flowing from its injuries, be it bones or muscles, skin, or scales, all shimmered with a faint grey metallic luster.

The Black Dragon hatchling looked around blankly for a while, then let out a tender dragon's cry akin to a chick's peep and stumbled outside the handprint, falling countless times before barely managing to balance its body.

Struggling out of the deep crater, the amnesiac Black Dragon hatchling, driven by instinct, wobbled toward the direction of the Elf Mountains.

Song Jian returned to the castle with a face of sorrow. All the buildings were under orderly construction, and beaver workers bustled everywhere. These beavers walked upright like humans, about the size of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, dressed in simple coarse clothes. Dusty from their toil, they all bowed respectfully to Song Jian before carrying on with their unfinished tasks.

New beaver workers joined the workforce every day. With them, the human castle was being built at an incredibly fast pace, and it was certain that a first-level human castle would soon be fully erected.

“My lord, a hero is waiting for you in the reception hall, claiming to admire your renown and wishing to join your ranks!” an elegant-looking beaver worker hurried over to Song Jian as he returned.

“A hero who came admiring my name?” Song Jian was stunned, “Am I really that famous now? How come I don't know about it?”

After pondering for a moment, Song Jian nodded and headed toward the reception hall. He was curious to see how a hero had come admiring his name when he hadn't even finished building a tavern yet.

PS: Thank you to “The White God” for the 100 starting coins reward~

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