"Don't disappoint me."
Qi Yitao slowly walked up to a dried corpse and took a dark gray crystal stone from his backpack. At its center glimmered a sinister blood-red light, flickering like an eye. Just looking at it was enough to make one's skin crawl.
Qi Yitao began chanting, and a blood-red mist emerged from the crystal stone, slowly seeping into the dried corpse.
Only a moment later, the player who had already become a corpse actually began to move.
When Qi Yitao finished chanting the final verse, the dried corpse instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist. In the blink of an eye, the mist returned to the crystal stone, and everything became calm once more.
"Damn it, these people are way too weak!" Qi Yitao stamped his foot in anger, then opened the system map and studied it carefully. "Looks like I'll have to look elsewhere for stronger experts."
"If I remember correctly, this is a high-resource map occupied by the Star River Alliance. There should be plenty of experts there. I'll start with you and test my power."
After saying that, Qi Yitao summoned a two-headed giant wolf, mounted it, and rode toward the Setting Sun Hills not far from Stone Ape Forest.
Storm Empire, Twilight Echo's Guild Residence.
"Tianquan, are you saying that if we don't hand the town over to Zero Wing to manage, Zero Wing won't agree to cooperate with us?"
"Zero Wing really thinks too highly of itself! Does it really think Twilight Echo needs them to protect the town?"
"I told you long ago that Zero Wing was unreliable. Rather than cooperate with Zero Wing, we might as well invest more into the town's defenses. There's still some time before the protection period ends, and the area around the Mana