"The number of Contract Undead had finally increased by one."
Seeing the situation before him, Gu Xi's thoughts immediately began to stir.
Luna's existence had brought him Aryadovi City, but her lack of combat strength was also obvious.
Why not take this opportunity to visit the Graveyard in Victoria City again and see if there were any suitable undead he could contract?
Just as Gu Xi was considering this, the battle at the end of the Sewer came to an end.
Just like on the other side, when the last rat was killed, the black fog shrouding the end of the Sewer turned into a transparent white curtain of light.
When both ends of the Sewer had been opened, Gu Xi suddenly noticed that pipes on both sides began pouring water into it. It seemed the activation task at the Water Well had been completed.
Gu Xi had no intention of pressing onward for the moment.
He called out to Luna.
"Luna, let's go activate the Candle Factory."
Luna swiftly came to Gu Xi's side, followed by the Skeleton Battle Squad.
When Gu Xi and the others climbed up from the Water Well, they could see that the Sewer below already had knee-deep flowing water.
After coming up from the Water Well, Gu Xi handed the linen bundle to Luna.
"Luna, take a look at this."
Luna took the items from the linen bundle, and her eyes immediately lit up. She was the first to pick up the Hearthstone. As someone who had once been an Elf, she was most familiar with such a thing.
"My lord, this is wonderful news. Didn't we plan to establish an Anchor Point in Victoria City? This is a perfect opportunity. If we can have a residential building in Victoria City, I can use this Hearthstone to set up a fireplace. Then we can travel back and forth between the Council Hall and the residential building through the fireplace."
"Alright, let's move quickly. I'll activate the Candle Factory first. You go build the City Gate. We'll split up so we can finish faster."
Luna had no objections. After receiving Gu Xi's orders, she swiftly flew toward the Council Hall.
Gu Xi, meanwhile, led the Skeleton Soldiers toward the Candle Factory.
At this time, the Candle Factory was still exactly as it had been before, without any changes. Upon arriving, Gu Xi decisively poured out the Ghastly Rat Meat and threw it all into the pot that was boiling something.
As the Ghastly Rat Meat was tossed in, Gu Xi noticed the Candle Factory beginning to change.
The Candle Factory's color scheme turned white. The Animal Skin hanging at the entrance became rat hide, and the contents boiling in the large pot also turned white.
Most importantly, Gu Xi noticed that a wooden chest had appeared in a corner of the Candle Factory.
Gu Xi stepped forward and opened the wooden chest. Inside were thirty White Candles, each as thick as a finger.
White Candle (White): Special undead item. Produces a certain amount of Negative Energy, replenishing undead life force (has an especially strong effect on Ghosts and spirits).
As a Necromancer, Gu Xi could feel the dense Negative Energy within the White Candle the moment he held it.
Once the candle was lit, it could quickly form a Negative Energy field. Any undead illuminated by its light would receive support from Negative Energy.
To undead, this was like proper food, used to replenish strength and life force.
It seemed that no building in a city was chosen without reason.
Just then, Gu Xi heard a chime beside his ear.
The City Gate had begun construction. Total investment: 300 Negative Energy Points, 3 units of wood, 3 units of stone. Completion in 4 hours.
Hearing this, Gu Xi felt considerably relieved. Three buildings had now been activated, and the City Gate was under construction. The worry weighing on him was half gone.
There was still some time left, so Gu Xi decided to take his subordinates around the district and see what the rooms contained.
After all, entering rooms without opening the chests would be letting down his identity as a player.
Thus, Gu Xi immediately led the Skeleton Soldiers to search the nearby rooms.
Gu Xi discovered that James I had truly been wealthy.
To deceive people, he had made everything as perfect as possible.
Everything in the rooms had been arranged according to their original layouts.
Other than the absence of people and corpses, he had provided everything else.
Every building in Gu Xi's area contained all kinds of furniture.
In the houses closer to the main street, the furniture had been dragged out by Gu Xi's Battle Squad and used as Roadblocks.
However, items that could not be used as Roadblocks remained inside the houses.
Gu Xi saw many ancient-style clothes here, as well as wooden horses made for small children.
In the houses farther from the main street, there were even more items. Gu Xi even found weapons such as bow and arrow, swords, and Long Spears. There were also chicken coops and doghouses outside.
After making several rounds with his subordinates, Gu Xi did not haul all these items out. He merely took stock of the existing houses.
For the moment, setting aside the matter of large, medium, and Small Buildings, there were three hundred and sixty-two buildings used as background scenery alone.
More than half of them were two-story houses. There were also thirty-two Three Layers houses and three four-story apartment buildings.
Besides these three hundred-plus buildings, there were also some houses that had collapsed from age. Those were the empty lots intended for constructing other buildings.
Among the three hundred-plus buildings, the one-story houses were all located near the Water Well.
From the arrangement of the houses, Gu Xi could tell that the area he occupied was on the outskirts of Aryadovi.
Of the five passages leading out from his district, three led to different districts of Aryadovi.
Each of these three passages had a corresponding checkpoint.
Gu Xi led the Skeleton Soldiers to patrol each of them.
One passage required crossing a bridge over the river to enter Aryadovi's Upper District.
Another passage was blocked by a City Gate.
Without taking down the bridge and the City Gate, Gu Xi could not even think about reaching those two areas.
The only relatively easy checkpoint was the passage at the city's southwest corner.
This passage led to another neighborhood in the Lower District. That neighborhood also had River Docks and a Freight Track, making it part of Aryadovi City's Industrial District.
The only checkpoint on this road was a six-story tower. It did not occupy much space, and from a distance it looked like a Barracks. Taking it should not be too difficult.
Gu Xi planned to seize this area first once he had enough troops, expanding his territory before anything else.
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