Chapter 4: Malevolent Garden – Graveyard of Skeletons

All of the 30 units of food were snatched off within a few seconds and the critics in the chat sections were dumbfounded.

They were just trying to see if they could lower the price but in their hearts, they all wanted to have a decent meal. However, didn't even get to see what the food looked like and all the food was robbed of the trading area.

Thinking of this, the chat was mourning while Asher was already a rich lord.

In this early stage when food is scarce, how could these lords let themselves lose this opportunity?

Of course in the middle and late stages, the food won't have such a ridiculously high market price, but this is the early stage where lords don't have an efficient source of food.

Asher didn't continue to sell more as he should still store food for his living subordinates. In this transaction, Asher earned a total of 150 gold coins, and excluding the transaction fee of 5 gold coins, he now has 161 gold coins in hand.

"Summon 10 Undead Workers for 50 gold coins and a combatant for 100 gold coins."

As soon as the voice fell, a portal appeared above the altar and the summoned creatures walked out of it.

10 Undead workers were the same as earlier while the combatant looked like an evolved undead.

The combatant was roughly two meters tall wearing comparatively light leather armor, while their skeletal bodies were clad in strips of cloth. In addition, it was also carrying a long-bladed sword looking like a full-fledged undead soldier.

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[Death Warrior]: Tier-1 Elite Summon (Temporary) – HP: 3 MP: 30 Vitality: 50 Attack: 7 Defense: 5 Agility: 6 Resistance: 3

[Loyalty]: 100% (Racial Trait)

[Fatigue]: 0% (Undead Trait)

[Hunger]: 0% (Undead Trait)

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Nice!

In general estimation, this combatant unit has good stats. This is just a most basic first-order unit and it already has a strength of Tier-1 elite monsters. How can Asher not be happy?

You know, there are ten tiers Asher has knowledge about and each tier is divided into different fields, such as:

Ordinary → Elite → Master

Each unit has its own specialty and its level will also be based on that specialty. For example, if the Tier-1 ordinary Undead workers evolve to their limit level, then also, they will only be proficient in building, not fighting.

However, Asher has the advantage of having the inheritance of the great sorcerer, and although his summoned creature will always have the reduced stats of the original summons, but its ridiculously high for ordinary lords.

This is officially Asher's greatest advantage at present.

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Soon, Asher arranged for the fifteen undead workers to start the production and building work, like some of them formed a team to collect wood, stones, and other materials in the dark forest for the construction of the territory.

While others were responsible for restoring the depleted ruins, fortifying the territory, and building the necessary defenses.

The dark forest doesn't have any powerful monsters and the undead workers with high stats are enough to handle them easily. Those Howling Birds might become a problem, but the undead workers are also in a group, so it won't be much of a concern.

Leaving these undead workers to do their work, Asher continued to explore the valley along with Death Warrior.

He needs to see if there is any other gold pot around or if there are some ethnic monster dens. After all, in the three rules of survival, knowing your surrounding is the most important aspect.

The Dark Valley is neither small nor too large, and it didn't take much time for him to explore most of it. During this time, one after another prompts continued to emerge in his eyes giving Asher a full knowledge of the surrounding environment in a short time.

[Ordinary swamp]: Low exploration value

[Ordinary Ruins]: Low exploration value

[Malevolent Garden]: Tier-1 Elite Territory – A graveyard of undead skeletons. High exploration value. You can get: a Dark Iron Treasure chest, Summoning materials, Magic Scroll, etc.

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A high-level exploration value? It directly attracted Asher's attention and looking at the obtainable items, he knew that it was worth exploring.

Asher immediately ordered the Death Warrior to lead the way and he wanted to test its strength.

Soon, both of them entered the Malevolent Garden, and walking into the cemetery, Asher could feel the dark energy lurking around.

The environment is eerie and some evil energy is still affecting this place that has been abandoned for hundreds of years.

Just after walking for a while, two ragged skeletons appeared before him.

[Skeleton]: Tier-1 Ordinary Monster – Magically reanimated bones of dead humans, walking-moving bones. Low threat value with only instinctual attack skill.

The two skeletons were wearing no armor and wielding a small bone sword. This kind of undead creature without any intelligence and defense is even weaker than undead workers.

But… they can still pose threat to ordinary humans because skeletons have no emotions of fear and they only know to slash forward.

"Attack them."

The death warrior roared in a shrilling voice and rushed out toward the skeletons. It crossed the rugged path in an instant at a speed far exceeding an undead warrior and directly stabbed one of the skeletons.

Crush…

It shattered its skull in one hit and at the same time blocked another skeleton's attack with its bones. With its high defense, an ordinary skeleton wasn't any trouble for him.

Boom…

Without any emotion of pain, he turned his head and slashed the weak skeleton into pieces.

[Ding! You have killed a Tier-1 ordinary skeleton and gained 5 gold coins.]

[Ding! You have killed a Tier-1 ordinary skeleton and gained 5 gold coins.]

Seeing Death Warrior's performance, Asher was satisfied with his first combatant. Although it is in a weak state due to its low level, but it still has a good attack power.

From the looks of it, Asher thinks that it won't be any problem for Death Warrior to fight at least 7-8 skeletons at the same time, and it won't even decrease their vitality by much.

Skeletons are just ordinary monsters that only know to aimlessly strike the enemy, but Death warrior is a Tier-1 Elite monster that has ridiculously high stats due to Asher's inheritance.

Asher also discovered that he can also gain gold coins when his subordinates kill other monsters. This is great, after all, how can a lord always take the frontlines?

"Well done, but it's still not good enough. Go and slaughter all the undead skeletons."

"Roar!"

With a grunting roar, the death warrior immediately resembled a black afterimage, and the skeletons were alerted one after another.

In just a short time, the death warrior was surrounded by around twenty skeletons and it was a hard fight.

Although it has high stats, it's still a Tier-1 monster, and it's hard for him to defeat all of these skeletons at once, but the death warrior is very agile and the walking bones couldn't even catch up.

Some of the woken skeletons sensed Asher's presence and strode toward him. The joints of the skeleton made a gurgling sound as it raised its bone sword to slash at his body.

Facing such a weak attack, Asher could easily crush them with his strong attack power, but he didn't do anything for now because he wanted to test his defense.

-0!

A sound of a bone hitting echoed, but there wasn't any scratch on Asher's petite body. The skeleton didn't even pierce his outer skin, on the contrary, the bone sword was directly shattered into pieces.

"Hahahaha… Ridiculous..."

While laughing, Asher reached out and grabbed the skeleton, holding its skull like a chick and amidst the skeleton's desperate struggle, it turned into white powders.

[Ding! You have killed a Tier-1 ordinary skeleton and gained 5 gold coins.]

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