Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Chapter 732: Chapter 455: Taking the Initiative

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The Insect Race Dominator was escorted by Xiao Guang to a small valley on the southwest coast.

Following the Insect Race Dominator were only a handful of combat-type insects, while the rest were a large group of engineer-type tool bugs responsible for mining all sorts of resources.

After all, developing towards the ocean, whether tool bugs or combat bugs, required a genetic adjustment of the insect swarm to adapt to the marine environment.

But Zi Liyuan was quite stingy. Besides providing some energy to the insect swarm dominator, he only offered some miscellaneous ordinary supplies.

These things, don’t even think about cultivating high-level insect races; even mid-levels aren’t possible. They could only hatch a batch of tool bugs with reprogrammed genes for underwater work and low-level combat bugs.

You must know the danger in the ocean is numerous times greater than on land.

A bunch of low-level combat bugs, virtually useless, afraid they wouldn’t be specialized delivery boys for ocean monsters!

However, the insect swarm dominator didn’t argue for resources but prepared to let the existing insect swarm directly dig tunnels for deep-sea exploration.

Resources in the seawater couldn’t be collected for now, and even if collected, safe transport wasn’t certain.

So it would take an alternative route, not directly entering the ocean but digging from underground to the seabed instead!

Those various mineral resources buried deep under the sea, the ocean monsters wouldn’t be digging for them, would they?

Gather a large amount of resources for itself first; when the swarm grows large, flooding into the ocean would truly be the time for exploitation.

When it cultivated enough sixth-tier legendary battle bugs, it intended to make Zi pay a heavy price for enslaving it!

Regarding this stubborn specimen of an insect swarm dominator, Zi Liyuan was vigilant at all times.

This one would rather die than sign the Boundary Sea Contract, having only a servant-master contract of enslavement, which wasn’t reliable and might counteract at any moment.

Although Zi Liyuan took some precautions, especially altering the opponent’s Spirit. In case of rebellion, its spirit would suffer the blazes of Nether flames, severe enough to shatter its soul.

Given this plan, Zi Liyuan intended to use the insect swarm dominator as cannon fodder. Whenever he found this thing cultivating a legendary insect general, he’d find a reason to dispose of it, drag it back, and revive it using the “Rebirth” setup.

Any monster resurrected by the “Rebirth” skill would have its spirit bound by the Rules of Death, unable to defy his will, not ever harboring rebellious thoughts.

Of course, not having rebellious thoughts didn’t represent submission.

The Spider Queen from earlier was the best example; when Zi Liyuan was weak, this legendary boss obeyed his orders superficially, exerted minimum effort in battle, and displayed a lazy attitude.

Later, things changed; as Zi Liyuan grew increasingly mighty, especially revealing some hidden potential, the Spider Queen voluntarily submitted and genuinely served.

The lazy Spider Queen could barely hold off Orochi in the same tier.

The serious Spider Queen could crush Orochi and Yuki-onna in the same tier.

But no matter how lazy, the legendary boss template stood firm, effortlessly dispatching a few epic bosses of the same tier.

If the insect swarm dominator cultivated legendary insect generals, they would be directly taken out, revived, and turned into his henchmen, at worst sent to the frontline as expendables.

After all, being a legendary boss, killing them would demand considerable costs.

As long as Zi Liyuan wasn’t pained, the suffering naturally belonged to the enemy.

Sending off the Insect Race Dominator, Zi Liyuan rode Dilys out of the Land of the Dead.

This time, he flew directly north into the territory controlled by the old witch.

Like Wu Zhaoyi’s territory, bunkered cities had been established near the coastline, with one roughly every hundred kilometers.

However, instead of calling them bunkered cities, it’s more apt to call them run-down small towns.

Scant garrison forces, spiritless subjects, numb workers vs. officials enjoying their dainty wives and concubines, forming a stark contrast.

Flying along the coastline over five towns, the situation appeared much the same.

“Tsk, tsk, decayed to this extent, it would be unjust for the Wild Boar Skin dynasty not to perish.”

The Human race’s tool subjects worked extremely inefficiently, the speed of extracting resources slow, even inferior to ordinary Skeleton Subjects summoned by Zi Liyuan.

Alien race subjects practiced deception and even privately misappropriated extracted resources.

The Human Corps were sparse and listless, weapons and armor rusty, not even patrols or guards paid attention.

Alien Corps gathered together, secretly stole military materials, and sold them to alien tribes outside.

Such small towns guarding the coastline were simply a joke.

If any fourth-tier lord boss-level sea monster landed, they might as well ravage an entire town.

“Master, the town ahead is being invaded by sea monsters.”

Zi Liyuan, deep in thought, was awakened by Dilys’s words.

The map came up, currently displaying the situation of a nearby town below.

The original garrison force hadn’t resisted upfront, directly disintegrated, fleeing in all directions.

Instead, the alien corps still knew to pick up weapons, resisted while retreating, snatching some valuables from fleeing subjects in the process.

As for the official guarding this place, he had long sat in a monster-drawn carriage, with all his possessions in tow, embraced his beloved wives and concubines, and fled.

As for subjects, as for his mission of guarding this place, everything could just go to hell!

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