Demonized Wild Monsters

After searching the Chaos Mall for a good while.

Huang Yu ultimately spent 2000 Soul Crystals.

He purchased a set of ordinary building blueprints – the Steel Mill.

[Steel Mill: Tier 1 Ordinary Building]

[Description: Requires 20 territory inhabitants to operate. Can smelt 2000 units of iron ore into 1000 units of Fine Iron daily!]

[Note: Upgrading to Tier 2 requires 35 Soul Crystals, 280 units of Wood, 210 units of Stone, and 40 units of Fine Iron!]

The blueprint for the Steel Mill was far more expensive than a Steel Furnace.

However, its cost-effectiveness was also much higher.

2000 Soul Crystals were enough to buy 13 Steel Furnaces.

But thirteen Tier 1 Steel Furnaces could only smelt a total of 650 units of Fine Iron daily.

Whereas a Tier 1 Steel Mill could smelt 1000 units of Fine Iron daily!

This money was well spent.

Of course...

It would have been even better if there was a discount.

Seeing that he had enough Soul Crystals and materials.

After the Steel Mill was built, Huang Yu immediately upgraded it to Tier 2.

[Steel Mill: Tier 2 Ordinary Building]

[Description: Requires 40 territory inhabitants to operate. Can smelt 4000 units of iron ore into 2000 units of Fine Iron daily!]

[Note: Upgrading to Tier 3 requires a Tier 3 Spark, 350 Soul Crystals, 1800 units of Wood, 2000 units of Stone, and 400 units of Fine Iron!]

After upgrading the Steel Mill, Huang Yu was back to square one.

The Soul Crystals in his hand were almost gone...

But this was only temporary.

The materials from last night were almost completely consumed by the Blue Mountain Workshop.

A large batch of equipment would be produced soon.

Moreover, there was Dilios and the forty-four Spartan Warriors...

Speak of the devil.

At this moment, Huang Yu suddenly received a system notification.

[Lord gained 56 experience, 7 Soul Crystals!]

[Lord gained 42 experience, 5 Soul Crystals!]

[Lord gained 86 experience, 11 Soul Crystals!]

Listening to the faint roars coming from the forest.

And the system notifications.

Huang Yu knew.

The Spartan Warriors had found the migrating Giant Lizards!

In the forest battlefield.

The Spartan Warriors didn't charge headfirst into the Giant Lizard horde.

Instead, they broke into smaller squads.

Under Dilios's command, they intercepted, drove, and dismantled the large Giant Lizard population.

Relying on their knowledge of the terrain and their exquisite combat skills.

After a short period of engagement.

More than ten Giant Lizard corpses lay on the ground.

The surviving Giant Lizards, like headless flies, were herded by the Spartan Warriors, darting around the forest.

They were already not adapted to the forest environment.

Now, under the deliberate misdirection of the Spartan Warriors, they were even more panicked, step by step marching towards death.

Relying on its enormous size, the Giant Lizard was barely considered a top predator on the plains.

But in a dense forest, its massive size instead limited its vision and movement.

It could only rage impotently at the agile Spartan Warrior.

Swish!

A javelin was thrown by Dilios.

Though the spear's landing point wasn't as precise as a Spartan Javelin Thrower's, it still relied on its superior strength.

The javelin thrown by Dilios pierced the neck of a Giant Lizard nearly twenty meters long.

"Roar!"

The Giant Lizard cried out in pain and charged at Dilios.

Its massive body trampled the bushes in its path.

Stimulated by pain and anger, the Giant Lizard displayed strength befitting its size.

Bang!

With a loud noise, Dilios nimbly dodged the Giant Lizard's charge.

However, the Giant Lizard, blinded by rage, had no intention of stopping.

It crashed headfirst into a tree that required two people to embrace.

With a creaking sound, the tree broke in half.

Meanwhile, Dilios, obscured by the tree, rapidly closed in.

Slam!

The Giant Lizard's flexible, slender tail was like an iron whip.

Swinging wildly, it easily shattered the trees around it.

Even Dilios wasn't confident he could withstand a single tail lash from the Giant Lizard, indicating its immense power.

However.

The gap between hunter and prey is sometimes not just about strength, but also skill!

Relying on his exquisite combat skills, Dilios easily dodged the Giant Lizard's uncoordinated attacks.

Wielding his longsword, he circled the Giant Lizard.

Within a few breaths, he left numerous deep wounds on the Giant Lizard's body, and severed its limbs.

Gush!

The Giant Lizard wailed as it collapsed to the ground, looking in despair at Dilios, who stood over it with his longsword aimed.

Suddenly!

A chilling sense of danger washed over him.

Dilios didn't hesitate and withdrew.

The next moment.

A deep red, soccer-ball-sized sphere of high temperature landed where Dilios had just been standing.

Boom!

With a deafening explosion, the deep red sphere detonated, blowing the Giant Lizard's head clean off.

It also released a wave of intense heat.

Blood, tree trunks, and dirt flew everywhere.

When the explosion subsided, a deep pit appeared where the high-temperature sphere had landed.

The soil in the pit showed black scorch marks.

Dilios dropped the excellent quality round shield he had held in front of him. It was a bit hot to the touch.

The shield had just blocked the explosion of the crimson sphere for him.

At this moment, it was already covered in cracks.

It was basically declared scrap.

Dilios looked in the direction the fireball had come from.

It was a giant lizard, over ten meters long.

Although its size was not as large as the giant lizards Dilios had encountered before.

The sense of danger it gave him was unprecedentedly high!

This giant lizard's appearance was clearly different from ordinary giant lizards.

The scales on its neck showed a dark red color.

Gray smoke with sparks was occasionally spat from its mouth.

It was clear that the magic attack just now originated from it.

Stomp, stomp, stomp...

Seeing that his attack had not only failed to kill Dilios but had also blown off the head of his companion.

The giant lizard was extremely enraged.

It slowly walked towards Dilios, the gray smoke from its nostrils becoming even thicker.

Its golden vertical pupils emitted a faint pressure.

"Demonized monster!"

Dilios was extremely vigilant.

He knew that the giant lizard in front of him must be above LV20!

Because it was demonized.

It also possessed a not-weak magical attack ability.

If he wasn't careful and got hit.

Even if he was a hero unit.

He would be blown into shattered charcoal!

"Roar!!!"

The demonized giant lizard opened its ferocious mouth.

The dark red scales on its neck flashed.

A surge of fiery energy gathered in the demonized giant lizard's mouth.

A moment later.

A dense red sphere formed, which the demonized giant lizard spat out, flying towards Dilios at an extremely fast speed.

When Dilios saw the demonized giant lizard open its mouth, he dodged backward.

Before the sphere landed, he narrowly avoided the explosion range.

Boom!!!

Several large trees were blown to smithereens.

A large pit, two to three meters deep, appeared on the ground.

The demonized giant lizard frantically charged through the flying leaves and dirt.

After looking around, it found that the enemy's trace was lost.

"Hiss hiss~"

A forked, dark red tongue flicked out repeatedly.

The demonized giant lizard searched the surroundings for the enemy's scent.

However.

The demonized giant lizard trembled and suddenly looked up.

Why were there so many similar auras around!