Mission Complete (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

As the information on the two items flashed before his eyes, Gu Xi's eyes lit up.

He picked up the arm first. The moment it entered his hand, he felt its weight sink. With Gu Xi's strength, he had nearly failed to lift the arm in front of him.

This startled Gu Xi. Looking down, he found that although the arm was pitch-black and its exterior had twisted beyond recognition, it was clearly a metal arm.

Judging by its condition, this was a left arm. At the severed end, he could even see red and green wires wriggling about.

Clearly, this was a plug-and-play arm.

At the deltoid, there was a conspicuous red five-pointed star emblem.

Ding! You have discovered a mission item. You may activate a Temporary Task!

Temporary Task: Sealed Power

Mission Description: Find all the components and assemble them into a complete human body!

Mission Requirements: Find seven sealed components (0/7), assemble and defeat the construct (0/1)

Mission Reward: One Contract Puppet (level determined by the average level of the recovered components).

Note 1: The sealed components are the head, left hand, right hand, chest, waist, left leg, and right leg.

Note 2: Each component has many different variants with different effects. Please select what you consider the most suitable combination.

Looking at the mission before him, Gu Xi was stunned for a moment. Weren't there just seven body parts? How could there be multiple choices for each component?

But he immediately realized that this should be a Long-Term Mission, not something that could be completed in this Game World alone.

Instead, he could find various different components across many games. Only then would there be multiple options to choose from.

After understanding what was going on, Gu Xi put away the arm. He had accepted the mission, but the sealed components would not be so easy to find.

Now was not the time to think about that. Gu Xi's attention was still focused on the more than forty Skeleton Soldiers that had survived.

After checking on the skeletons, Gu Xi was shocked to discover that his losses this time had been truly disastrous.

Battle Squad 1 had been completely wiped out, not even leaving Gu Xi a single seed behind.

Only six skeletons remained in Battle Squad 2. Battle Squad 3 fared somewhat better; because they had been farther away, nineteen skeletons survived. Battle Squad 4 had eighteen surviving skeletons.

Among these skeletons, all the Skeleton Warriors had also been wiped out. Only three Skeleton Soldiers remained alive, while all the rest were level 1 and level 2 skeletons.

It could be said that after this one battle, Gu Xi's Combat Power had completely collapsed.

If another battle like this came, he would not even need to face another massive Black Ghoul Shadow. He would be unable to withstand even ordinary Black Ghoul Shadows like the two previous waves.

Gu Xi could not concern himself with anything else at the moment. He had to deal with these skeletons first.

"Quickly harvest the battlefield. Stack the Roadblocks back up, and use the Ghoul Qi Beads for reinforcement. Don't worry about consumption."

Before Gu Xi had even finished speaking, a blinding light suddenly shone from the two-story building behind him. Then a bright moon appeared in the sky, its Moonlight tearing through the darkness and falling upon the ground.

Gu Xi noticed that wherever the Moonlight shone, a thin layer of frost appeared across the ground at a visible rate.

At the same time, Gu Xi felt the temperature around him rapidly plummet, as though the area had suddenly entered the depths of winter.

Even the Bonfire Gu Xi had specifically lit at the street corner had visibly shrunk.

Gu Xi swiftly straightened up, Ghastly Head in one hand and Bone Shatter Wooden Stick in the other, as he stared sternly toward the two-story building.

However, the cold did not harm Gu Xi or the others. Instead, it continuously spread outward, ultimately forming a massive circle centered on the two-story building, with a radius of more than five hundred meters and nearly six hundred meters.

Everything within the circle had completely changed.

Within the circle, the positions and styles of the buildings had not changed much, but the materials of the buildings and some decorative details had undergone obvious changes.

The buildings that had originally been made of stone and wood had now become structures of ice and white bone.

Skull-like decorations could be seen everywhere on the doors and beams.

Most importantly, the ground before them had become ice. If one scraped away the snow that had begun accumulating atop it, one could even see the Sewer beneath the ice.

"This..."

The progress of Temporary Task: Dead City has changed. Council Hall conversion complete.

Temporary Task: Dead City (Complete)

Mission Reward: Necromancer Class Skill—Death City.

Death City Level 1: Lock one (0/1) Undead City belonging to the player as a Death City, used to train and store Undead Army units. You may also consume 5 mana to open a City Gate on the battlefield. The Undead Army within the city may freely travel between the city and the battlefield through the gate.

Note 1: The Level Cap of Death City is player level +8.

Note 2: Death City can only lock onto one city. Other cities acquired later will not be under Death City's control.

Note 3: The skill level corresponds to the city level. Once the city levels up, the skill will level up as well.

Note 4: To open a gate on the battlefield, Death City must first have a gate.

Seeing this newly acquired skill, Gu Xi's eyes lit up. The mission was complete?

He had taken this city?

Just as Gu Xi was growing excited, the door of the two-story building burst open with a bang, and Luna floated out from inside.

The moment she saw Gu Xi, Luna said excitedly, "My lord."

"How's the situation?"

"We've taken this third of the city. The total area is 0.9 Square Kilometers, and the altered zone is all ours. Aside from this small building turning into the Council Hall, three buildings within the area have been affected.

"One is the Church in the southeast corner, one is the Candle Factory in the northwest corner, and the other is that Water Well over there—the entrance to the Sewer. All three buildings have now become special structures.

"Their functions and activation requirements are written on the map."

A map?

Gu Xi looked past Luna's figure into the small building. He noticed that the first-floor dining room had changed. All the tableware had been Put Away, and a parchment map had been pinned to the tabletop with a small knife.

Beside the map sat an ink bottle made from a Skeleton skull, with a quill still inserted in it.

Gu Xi walked up to the map. Before he could make out the information on it, a ding sounded beside his ear.