The transcendent dragon descendant died, and the level-19 dracons behind it twitched violently like melted candles.
‘Rustle!’
They turned into a pool of mucus, and no one stood still.
No one paid attention to the dracons. The players set their eyes on the figure who knelt before Richard.
“Is it worth it?”
A few players watched as the hero died most arrogantly. Kratos held the transcendent and the broken battle axe. Their hearts trembled.
The muscular warrior player subconsciously looked at the figure shrouded in yellow sand beside him. He felt an overwhelming degree of regret.
“Was it worth it for a hero of this level to kill a transcendent at the cost of its life?”
A word suddenly appeared in his mind.
His will was his subordinates’ everything!
He would complete it even if he had to sacrifice everything!
The muscular warrior player took a deep breath. Complicated emotions shrouded his eyes.
But Qingqiu was a player. How could a top-notch hero give up so quickly?!
He could not understand the thoughts of the number one player before him.
In the end, all the complicated emotions turned into a long sigh.
He had no reason or right to interfere.
A few players were shocked and realized that the troop descended and entered martial law.
Their line of sight suddenly lowered, and they could no longer see the specific situation near the obelisk.
The surrounding crowd vaguely protected them in the center.
A few looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
Otherwise, how could Qingqiu become a top-tier player? They were still vigilant against him even at this level. They would not want to talk if they were him.
The troop of Twilight City had secured the obelisk. Then, a familiar notification rang in Richard’s ears.
[Ding~ Dark Soul Eater—Kratos has killed the Extraordinary Dragon (level 20) that guarded the obelisk. Your damage output is over 70%. You have completed your promotion quest.]
Richard read the notification twice. His eyes immediately lit up.
Loreinna’s final blow worried him. Fortunately, Kratos still reached the 70% damage ratio the system required.
Things didn’t happen according to plan after more than two months of preparation. In the end, Kratos could still complete its advancement in Ell.
The sweet fruits he had obtained from so much effort made him feel particularly happy.
His gaze swept past the lifeless Kratos and looked at the obelisk.
Now, it was finally time to reap the rewards.
How many good things had this transcendent hidden in the building and led a level 19 soldier that revived?!
It was blissful.
Richard calmed down and looked back at the ground. He allowed Alves to land.
He turned over and walked to Kratos while the dark soul eater knelt on one knee and no longer breathed.
He stared at the scar-covered, majestic figure that had turned into a rock and remained standing.
Kratos held the head of the transcendent dragon with one hand. Blood flowed down from its body. Marks remained on its thick wrist.
The other hand held the broken battle axe and pressed it against the ground. It became the pivot of its body.
Kratos did not disappoint him.
This boss unit had a strong growth potential. It allowed strength to accumulate far beyond level 19 in just two months.
Kratos killed the transcendent dragon descendant because of Loreinna’s restraint.
However, It wouldn’t achieve such a brilliant result if it weren’t strong enough.
Richard’s gaze lingered on the headless body for a moment, and with a thought, a stone box appeared in his hand.
One has carved the stone box out of ordinary stone. It was the size of a palm, and nothing was remarkable about it.
He bent down and placed the stone box in front of Kratos, then took two steps back.
The next moment, cracks suddenly appeared on the rectangular stone box.
Evil and dark light bloomed from the cracks, and the aura surged into Kratos ‘body.
[Race Talent: Construct Life]
[No fatal weakness. Rocks could reconstruct the body as long as the soul remained undamaged and the body was alive. One can create a soul stone box to store the power of the soul. One can use the stone box to revive following the destruction of the primary soul.]
That was why they called it boss.
Other than its exaggerated battle strength, all sorts of strange and powerful skills were its hallmarks.
The god’s ancient tree could use the seed it had sown. It would give rise to dark treant, while Kratos could make a stone casket similar to a lich’s phylactery to revive.
This talent and the boss’s characteristic, Battle of the Searing Soul, made Kratos a powerful trump card when dealing with extraordinary dragons.
The energy of the stone box surged out. The crack had already expanded to the entire surface after a few breaths.
It reached a limit and directly shattered into powder.
Kratos lost all signs of life and surprisingly lit like a candle. It burned with a weak flame.
Life filled the broken body.
The surrounding magic energy surged rapidly. Kratos’ body seemed to have turned into a black hole. It devoured everything without any restraint.
Its feet rippled on the ground like waves.
He even devoured more majestic energy.
The aura of the boss began to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Metamorphosis.
A transformation from level 19 to transcendence!
Delight filled Richard’s eyes.
There were Loreinna, Emily, the Greed Lion, and now Kratos.
The number of transcendents he could send to fight had already reached four!!
It would be enough to make all the players’ eyes turn red with envy if word of this got out.
To most players, transcendents were still top-notch big shots one could only see from afar and worship.
Richard already had four extraordinary servants who were loyal and subservient!!
What kind of concept was this?
These four transcendents alone could defeat any top-tier player!
A few top-tier players could block the extraordinary attacks from billions of players. But players who could defeat four transcendent attacks will happen only in dreams.
The top-tier guilds could only wail if they were to include the mighty Twilight City troops.
Twilight City gradually became increasingly dazzling.
Richard had built a city with his hands and reached an unimaginable height.
He sensed Kratos still needed some time to complete its transformation. He calmed his excitement and looked at the unguarded obelisk.
“Loreinna, go and check.”
A gentleman would not stand under a dangerous wall. Richard naturally did not need to do such a thing as the ruler of Twilight City.
Loreinna nodded and disappeared into the air. She only reappeared after two to three minutes.
“Lord, I sensed no danger in the obelisk.”
She finished speaking, and the system notification sounded again.
[Ding~ You commanded the troop and annihilated the obelisk’s guards. You have obtained a glorious victory. You have also killed the guardian hero–the transcendent dragon.]
[You have received 1,000,000 experience points.]
[You have received a special reward–Dragonblood Tower.]
The notification disappeared afterward. Richard immediately felt something in the System Space.
He immediately perked up.
The system had clearly stated it would grant one rare item to the ones that captured the obelisk at the opening of the dimension explorer chapter.
In the “Shining Era,” mystical items were remarkable strategic treasures. These treasures had no level, and their attributes were not necessarily strong or weak. They often had unique characteristics.
Richard took out the Dragon Blood Tower from the System Space.
In his hand was a miniature tower covered in blood.
However, it gave a mighty aura. Instead, a sense of oppression filled it.
[Dragon Might]
Richard narrowed his eyes and opened his attribute panel.
[Dragon Blood Tower]
[Strange Item — It can generate a 50-meter tall tower after one has placed it in a city.]
[Special Characteristic:
1. It can increase the production of dragon lairs by +2 every week.
2. It has a unique attraction to dragons. It can attract a dragon to join it every week.
3. It has powerful deterrence against non-dragon enemies.]
[Description: A rare treasure with unique abilities.]
“Good heavens, this treasure was quite interesting.”
That piqued Richard’s interest.
It would be a divine artifact if a lord with innumerable dragon lairs owned it.
The production of a single troop lair had never been high. The highest troop lairs in Twilight City was only 10 per week.
Two more didn’t seem like much. But 20 to 30 lairs were equivalent to an additional five or six.
It was not a small sum over the years.
Moreover, the production of dragon-type lairs was less than that of other races, which increased the preciousness of this treasure.
Then, Richard felt a little regretful.
There were no dragon lairs in Twilight City. He recruited skeletal demons from the corpses of giant dragons, so they had no use for this strange item.
However, a giant dragon could join them every week.
It would serve as a deterrent to the enemy, which was also beneficial.
Richard set it aside and returned to Twilight City after he played with it for a while.
His smile grew wider after he obtained the item.
He looked at the obelisk before him and walked over with Loreinna.
The no-fly feature still existed, although the transcendent dragon descendant had died. They could only walk.
They stepped through the battlefield that seemed to have been trampled by a giant beast and arrived at the obelisk.
Richard looked up.
The mysterious building was fifty meters tall and gave him a strange feeling. That blurred his perception.
He could only see the tower with his eyes and could not sense its aura.
That was the building that the system had repeatedly warned him about, and the Black Gold System had even clearly stated that it might drop ancient laws.
It was blissful.
Richard stepped through the tall stone door in high spirits.
The interior of the obelisk appeared before his eyes.
The inside of the obelisk was hollow, like a cylinder, unlike what he had imagined.
The stone walls gave off an indestructible and heavy feeling.
That started from the bottom. One has carved a circular staircase in the wall that rose one ring at a time until it reached the top.
He turned his gaze, and the strange scene in the center caught his attention.
A broken magic array currently emitted energy.
One could see thumb-sized dracon statues scattered around the magic array.
Richard thought of the resurrection characteristics of those troops, and their effects were self-evident.
Richard frowned afterward.
Nothing else was in the hall apart from the magic hall. He did not even see the extraordinary soldiers’s lair that the players had mentioned.
Richard pondered. He walked to the front of the broken magic array.
The sand around him picked up a few mini dracon statues on the ground with a wave of his hand.
However, he sensed it and found that the magic power had disappeared. It had all become ordinary.
Richard looked at the shattered magic circle. He couldn’t help but feel a little regretful.
It would be blissful if one controlled such a magic array. It could continuously revive. That was the power of a natural disaster.
The surroundings exploded for a long time. Richard confirmed he couldn’t find anything okay. He no longer lingered.
He brought Loreinna along and walked up the circular staircase carved into the wall.
The obelisk was more than 50 meters tall, and the length of the circular staircase was not short.
He walked for a while. Then, he reached the top.
He looked down and saw that the broken magic array at the bottom of the obelisk had become the size of a thumb.
He retracted his gaze, and he stepped onto the last step.
The above archway was semi-circular. Richard passed through it and froze wide-eyed. The square was spacious.
The magic lamp illuminated the surroundings. The light was sufficient and not dim at all.
He turned and saw a treasure chest that shone with rainbow light on the east side.
“Rainbow Treasure Chest!”
He was in a good mood. That was a top-notch treasure chest that could open a glorious treasure!
Three giant statues eight meters tall and more stood on the side of the treasure chest.
These statues had the heads of giant dragons and sharp limbs. Their power-filled muscles bulged.
A pair of dragon wings grew on its back as if it wanted to spread its wings and fly.
It held a strange, long-handled weapon, and its body emitted brutality and madness.
Even just a glance made one feel uncomfortable.
“Transcendent… Troop lair!”
Richard laughed.
“I’ve finally found you!”
And just as the players said, there were three of them!
“That was a f*cking transcendent troop lair!”
“It was truly priceless!”
Transcendent troops were well-deserved trump cards, even if they were top-notch native forces!
Now, Richard had obtained three troop lairs of this level at once!
Just these three extraordinary troop lairs alone would be a bloody profit even if there were nothing to gain from the capture of the obelisk this time.
He took a few deep breaths and could not suppress the excitement in his heart. He calmed down and could not bear to look away.
A broken magic circle with a similar aura to the bottom of the obelisk came into view in front of the statue.
Richard frowned slightly and could not help but carefully sense. He immediately found a familiar aura of the transcendent dragon.
This magic array! Could one revive the transcendent dragon descendant?
He was somewhat bewildered.
Then why didn’t the other party resurrect? This thought arose, and he immediately thought of Kratos’s last move.
It smashed the head of the transcendent dragon. That was the boss. It devoured the other party’s soul.
The dark soul eater was a boss from a high-level demon of the abyss, the soul eater. It was not a good being.
“It is fate.”
Richard’s expression was rather subtle.
“One could revive the transcendent dragon descendant If it were someone else.”
“I can still make the attacker suffer a huge loss, although I don’t know how many times it can revive even if I do it once.”
“Unless you have the power to crush the obelisk.”
No wonder the players on the forum complained about the difficulty of capturing the obelisk.
How could the players at the current stage deal with such a defensive force?
The system broadcasted the first player to conquer the obelisk. That made sense.
Richard collected his scattered thoughts and walked forward happily.
He first looked at the three ferocious statues.
[Dragon Wing Statue]
[Level: Transcendent 1-star]
[Recruitable Troops: Evil Dragon Wings (Transcendence 1-star)]
[Recruitment Quantity: 20]
[Weekly Production: 10]
[Recruitment Requirement: 20,000 units of gemstones, 20,000 units of sulfur]
[Description: You can recruit transcendent soldiers, the wings of the evil dragon. They have the power of the five-colored evil dragon and represent destruction and death.]
Transcendent 1-star, Evil Dragon Wings!
Richard’s heart trembled as he read the attributes.
It was not that he did not have any transcendent troops.
The evil spreader, a soldier he snatched from the Tower Race’s Plane right under Lolita’s nose. She also possessed terrifying power.
However, evil spreaders were suitable for preaching and were not battle-type soldiers. Moreover, they had vast restrictions. One can only recruit one evil spreader at a time. One couldn’t recruit a second one before the first evil spreader died.
Now, one had placed three transcendent troop lairs!
That was a transcendent troop!
It had transcendent as a precondition enough to explain, even if it was only a 1-star!
And more importantly, he could use the strange item he had just obtained, the dragon blood tower!
This reward was a set!
“Hahahaha, this feels good!”
However, the smile on his face froze again when Richard saw the resources required for recruitment.
[Recruitment Requirement: 20,000 gemstones, 20,000 sulfur]
“An evil dragon wing required 40,000 units of rare resources.”
Now, the three troop lairs had a total production of 60 evil dragon wings. He would cumulate 2.4 million units after recruitment.
That recruitment was the first time. Richard could produce 30 every week, 120 per month. That meant 4.8 million units of rare resources.
And this did not include the +2 weekly production of each soldier the dragon tower had provided.
At this point, Richard looked at the three statues before him with joy and pain.
These were not transcendent troops. These were three gold-devouring beasts!!
The monthly expenditure of rare resources in Twilight City was already in the tens of millions with these three troop lairs.
His liver ached at the thought of such an exaggerated expenditure.
He gritted his teeth and said fiercely, “We would expand our income! Otherwise, we couldn’t level up if this continued. The current production of troops alone could crush Twilight City.”
The resources required by high-level troops were simply insane.
There weren’t many transcendent soldiers in a top force like Solan City. That was no wonder.
It would hurt anyone who came.
Richard shook his head. He looked at the rainbow treasure chest beside him.
He was no stranger to this treasure chest. He had obtained one in the death arena during his second large-scale dungeon.
Richard stepped forward and bent down to open it.
‘Creak!’
A remarkable sound rang out. The seven-colored light gradually lit up as it opened the treasure chest.
The surrounding vision was blurred.
The colorful light gradually disappeared after a few breaths.
Richard stared at the treasure chest.
One had placed a mini warhammer at the bottom of the treasure chest.
The warhammer was only the length of a palm, but it gave off a feeling of being as heavy as a mountain.
Richard reached out and took out the mini warhammer, but as soon as he left the treasure chest, he felt a heavy feeling in his hand, and the weight increased rapidly.
He pondered.
He swung the warhammer.
‘Clang!’
Sparks flew, and they crashed into the ground.
The warhammer grew in the wind. It fell to the ground with a bang. The entire ground shook for a moment.
At this moment, the mini warhammer disappeared without a trace. A six-meter-long warhammer replaced it.
The long-bronze-handled warhammer had a flat head with spikes on one end.
A fist-sized hole was on the side of its head. One had used and embedded something. But there was nothing embedded in it.
The entire warhammer didn’t bear any extra carvings. It reflected a bronze luster.
It gave people a sense of oppression as heavy as Mount Tai.
[Teda Warhammer]
[Level: 5-stars]
[Skills: Heavy Mountain (A-rank), Indestructible (A-rank), Heavy Armor Penetration (A-rank), Sweep in All Directions (A-rank), and Mountain Crushing (A-rank)]
[Special Characteristic: It wields the teda warhammer. It consumes twice the stamina and increases 50% of the user’s strength; ten times increase at 300%.]
[Description: A 5-star weapon forged by a legendary Teda blacksmith. It possesses great power. You can find a suitable gem to embed on the warhammer. It can upgrade to a glorious weapon.]
5-stars treasure.
Richard’s eyes lit up. His attributes were still top-notch, although he hadn’t reached glorious.
Moreover, this warhammer was a perfect match for Kratos.
“Could it be that whoever kills the transcendent that guarded the obelisk will drop equipment that the other party can use?”
That lost Richard in thought.
However, he was too lazy to think about it. He would study the next obelisk.
He looked at the exaggerated warhammer. His mood became even better.
Something broke Kratos’s weapon. Its battle would increase a lot if he exchanged it for this 5-stars warhammer.
Richard acquired yet another top-tier treasure and had thought of something. He turned to sense it.
However, there was nothing else in this space than the statue of the dragon’s wings and the treasure chest.
He felt slightly disappointed.
The ancient rules he mostly looked forward to obviously did not exist in this obelisk.
“As expected, this kind of thing is not easy to obtain… It was a drop from the obelisk of large or giant planes.”
Richard calmed down and didn’t mind. The harvest this time was already exaggerated enough.
His gaze landed on the statue of the dragon’s wings.
He had strong expectations for this extraordinary soldier.
He opened his attribute panel and looked at the recruitment column.
[Ding~ Do you wish to consume 800,000 units of resources to recruit dragon wings (x20)?]
Richard did not hesitate.
Two and four hundred million units of rare resources immediately disappeared from the interface. That dropped to just over 500,000 units.
The statue before him immediately moved after he spent a vast amount of resources.
‘Kacha!’
A crisp cracking sound came from behind the statue of the evil dragon’s wings. In the next second, a ferocious figure broke out of the shell.
‘Swoosh!’
The dark red dragon wings flapped fiercely. That stirred up a strong wind, and his figure quickly rose.
Richard saw its appearance after he passed the statue.
It was a life form with a ferocious dragon head. It was mighty and over five meters tall. It emitted a brutal and evil aura.
The wrinkled-covered dragon wings on its back had defensive power one could feel.
The barbs in front of the dragon were sharper than spears. They become a killing weapon once they swooped down to attack.
The monster held a strange, long-handled weapon in its hand. Its head was triangular and hollow, similar to the stationery used when reading books with triangular rulers. However, the monster looked particularly fierce in its hand.
It would make one’s back go numb, even if it were just a glance from afar.
[Evil Dragon Wings]
[Transcendent Troop]
Each of them required 40,000 units of rare resources to recruit.
The price was so high that it left people speechless.
This soldier was their trump card, even if it were a native force.
The birth of the first dragon’s wings made it unable to fly due to restrictions. It flapped its wings several times until it landed on the ground.
It stood firm, scanned the area, and immediately found Richard’s voice.
It strode over to Richard at once.
This transcendent soldier knelt most humbly.
“My Lord, your loyal servant sends you the highest regards. May the darkness protect you.”
Richard laughed in satisfaction.
The evil dragon wings were not non-battle troops like the evil spreader. They were the most ferocious killing machines!
That was of great significance in a turbulent situation.
One, two, three! These transcendents gave off a powerful sense of oppression and incessantly broke the shell behind the statue.
The scene was like a summer cicada that shed its shell.
The surrounding space had already become narrow at the birth of all the evil dragon wings.
Richard looked at the oppressive scene before him and was extremely satisfied.
He owned another trump card in his hands from today onwards.
He could unleash an immense destructive power if a top-tier hero commanded the six teams of evil dragon wings.
Richard opened the other party’s attribute panel with anticipation.
However, he was about to take a closer look when a pressure like the collapse of a mountain and the gush of thousands of rivers filled the sky.
At this moment, the space seemed to be frozen.
His heart thumped wildly.
Richard turned his head to look behind him.
A look of surprise flashed across his eyes.
“Kratos! Has the transformation been completed?”
He could not be bothered to look at the attributes of the evil dragon wings. He immediately waved his hand and led everyone downstairs. The obelisk remained.
He stepped out of the towering stone door. He looked around and immediately saw Kratos.
At this moment, the scars on Kratos’s body had all recovered.
The other party stood on the ground like a majestic mountain. The entire world seemed to rotate under its feet.
It was like the other party could shatter the world and destroy everything at any moment.
Kratos’s eyes gradually regained clarity. The aura of the collapsing space around it slowly stabilized.
Then, the transformed top-tier boss gradually walked up to Richard.
It neatly knelt on one knee.
Endless fanaticism filled its tone.
“My Lord, thank you for your gift!”
“I’ve already stepped into transcendence and possess even soul-crushing power!”
“From today onwards, I will be the sharpest saber in your hands. I will cut through all the thorns for you!”
Richard’s lips curled up at the sight.
In the end, this boss still took the final step.
Twilight City nurtured four transcendents. That was from today onwards.
The god’s ancient tree could devour bodies in the rotten swamp to advance if one would include it.
The power in Richard’s hands had already reached an astonishing level.
It waved its hand to get the supernatural boss up. Richard strongly opened Kratos’s attribute panel.
[Kratos (Dark Soul Eater)]
[Boss Unit]
[Level: 20 (Transcendence, all attributes increased by 500%)]
[Extraordinary Characteristic: Devouring Darkness]