Inside the Lord's Hall.
Fang Yuan's face lit up with delight when he heard the notification.
"Just as I thought!"
"My guess was right. The garrison is Orange Quality!!!"
Before the battle began, Fang Yuan had inferred from the half-orcs' quality that this garrison might be Orange Quality.
After all, even a centurion's camp had a shaman and a commander who wielded Bloodthirsty Battle Qi.
As the half-orcs' headquarters, there was no reason for it to be worse than that centurion's camp.
It was precisely because of this that Fang Yuan had disregarded everything else and spent his resources producing soldiers to seize the Beastmen Tribe.
Now!
The reward had come!
An Orange Military Territory.
The return on investment had to be a hundred percent, right?
However, this was also related to the region he was in.
Within the Gloomy Forest of the northern frontier.
It was rare to find a second lord within a hundred kilometers.
This was an undeveloped region where no lords had set foot.
Monster lairs were everywhere.
Only in a place like this could one possibly get lucky and obtain an Orange Quality Military Territory.
If this had been in the densely populated central region of the Gondor Kingdom.
Heh!
Forget about an Orange Military Territory.
Being able to see an unclaimed territory at all would already count as impressive.
Fang Yuan looked at the option box that had appeared before him.
He thought silently.
"An Orange Military Territory."
"This means Orange high-tier troops, and they will be automatically produced every day without costing any money."
"A high-tier Orange Military Territory is enough to support an alliance's troop requirements."
"And now!"
"This Orange Military Territory belongs to me alone."
"Then in the future, this Valley Garrison will inevitably become the foundation of my rise!"
Fang Yuan took a deep breath, then quickly made his choice.
"Occupy!"
"Ding, occupying the Orange Military Territory will take one hour. Please ensure that sufficient military strength remains within the territory to protect it from being conquered."
Upon hearing the new notification.
Fang Yuan frowned slightly.
"It actually won't finish being occupied until an hour later."
"Fortunately, Lilith and the others wiped them all out, killing every half-orc."
"If one or two of them had escaped and fled to the Golden Flower Family's Pioneer Territory to request reinforcements."
"Then things would have become troublesome."
"My decision to send Lilith and Christian with the main force was indeed correct."
"As the saying goes, even when a lion fights a rabbit, it uses all its strength. The dangers of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield are impossible to predict."
"Only caution can reduce mistakes and ensure that the battle doesn't suffer a reversal."
"From now on, I must do the same whenever I send troops to conquer. I absolutely cannot let profit blind me."
Just as Fang Yuan was secretly warning himself.
The notification from the Lord's Mark came once more.
"Ding, the extermination of the Steel Fang Tribe is complete. Clearing the spoils of war has begun. The process is expected to take one hour."
"Ding, a secret chamber has been discovered in the Steel Fang Tribe. Hero Lilith has begun exploring the secret chamber."
Fang Yuan's face showed astonishment when he heard the second message.
"A secret chamber?"
"What is this!"
Just as Fang Yuan was puzzled by the secret chamber.
At that moment.
Within the Valley Garrison.
A Flame Mage who was clearing the battlefield hurried over to Lilith.
"My lady."
"We discovered a secret chamber!"
Lilith raised her head in surprise upon hearing this.
"A secret chamber?"
"What did you find inside?"
The Flame Mage nodded solemnly.
"We found a Blood Sucking Vine."
Lilith's brows knitted slightly when she heard the name.
"A Blood Sucking Vine!"
"Isn't that a plant found only in the Endless Abyss?"
"When the Great Calamity Era began back then, the demons' Endless Abyss lost contact with the outside world immediately."
"There was a rumor that the lords of the Abyssal Demons had pledged allegiance to the foreign Mist Gods."
"But later, before the Great Cataclysm Era began, no demons from the Abyssal Plane were ever seen joining the Mist Gods."
"Even the followers of the Demon Cult dedicated to demons disappeared one after another, and all kinds of abyssal creatures likewise never appeared on the continent."
"I never expected that after so long."
"We would actually discover a Blood Sucking Vine in the northern frontier of the Gondor Kingdom."
"Perhaps within this secret chamber, we can find some clues about the disappearance of the Abyssal Plane back then."
At this thought.
Lilith quickly rose and said.
"Lead the way!"
"Yes, my lady!"
The entrance to the secret chamber was inside the grand hall of the half-orc tribe's chieftain.
However, after the clearing was completed.
The former grand hall of the half-orc tribe's chieftain had also revealed its original appearance.
It had once been the Command Center of the garrison.
However, it was still being cleared.
For now, they did not know what purpose this Command Center served.
Guided by the Flame Mage, Lilith soon arrived at the entrance to the secret chamber.
Flame Mages stood guard at the entrance.
When they saw Lilith arrive.
The squad leader in front bowed and said.
"My lady."
"The Blood Sucking Vine inside the secret chamber isn't very powerful. It is only Green Tier Three quality."
"We have already destroyed all of the Blood Sucking Vine's clones."
"Only the main body remains."
"However, the main body is inhabiting a skeleton."
"You will have to inspect the precise situation yourself."
Lilith nodded.
She then followed the secret chamber's stairs downward.
The secret chamber was not deep, with only a shallow level.
She soon entered the secret chamber.
Lilith frowned slightly after entering.
Because she discovered that this was not a secret chamber at all.
It was clearly a dungeon!
The shallow level did not look very large.
However, on the side against the wall, there were withered skeletons and dried corpses everywhere.
Dried human skin hung from the bodies.
It was obvious that they had been drained of blood by the Blood Sucking Vine.
Lilith walked up to a dried corpse and prodded it with her staff for a while. A badge fell from the corpse.
As a mage and the ruler of her former world.
Lilith was also extremely proficient in Noble Heraldry Studies.
She recognized the item's origin at a glance.
"This badge is the Golden Flower Family's guard insignia!"
She then prodded the dried corpses one by one.
The ten or so dried corpses in the prison all dropped the same insignia.
"These are the Golden Flower Family's most elite Guardian Knights."
"How could they have died here!"
Deeply puzzled, Lilith looked toward the deepest part of the dungeon.
Lilith sniffed.
"What a heavy stench of blood."
"The Blood Sucking Vine's main stem is inside."
"Perhaps we can find the answer over there."
Lilith strode forward.
In a short while, she arrived at the end of the secret chamber.
Here.
Several Fire Elementals summoned by Flame Mages surrounded a skeleton.
The skeleton's head had already been cut off.
There was also a long spear beside the skeleton.
Orange light shimmered across it.
"An Orange Weapon?"
"No, it looks like a wondrous item."
"It might be useful to the lord."
He then looked behind the skeleton.
A ferocious Blood Sucking Vine coiled around the skeleton's spine.
Its open suckers hissed at the surrounding Fire Elementals.
"What is this!"
"A parasite!!!"
"A Blood Sucking Vine parasite."
"If I remember correctly, during the Glory Era."
"Only the most devout bishops of the former Demon Cult could be parasitized."
Lilith abruptly looked at the headless skeleton.
"So this skeleton's identity is that of a bishop of the Demon Cult!!!"
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