The next morning, wisps of acrid black smoke still rose from parts of the Red Fortress's ruins.
The fighting had ended before midnight. The Revolutionary Army, battered by the massive explosion, had proved more fragile than expected. Green and the unexpected Undead Army under his command had become the final weight that crushed it.
Green had gained the most from the battle. By his count, the Nightmare Kingdom had drawn in more than 135,000 souls, while the Graveyard had absorbed a vast amount of Death Psychic Energy. Death Psychic Energy now permeated the entire Graveyard more densely than before. Green even noticed that the hands of the great clock atop the Town Center, made manifest by his Meditation Method, were turning faster. This would greatly shorten the time it took him to advance to Legendary Rank.
After all that killing, the Graveyard's Psychic Energy balance had reached an unprecedented [650000]!
If the Undead Legion gained an average of ten Psychic Energy for each Revolutionary Army soldier it killed, then, after subtracting the balance left from the battle at Edis Prison, it had harvested the lives of more than fifty thousand soldiers in less than three hours.
It was not Green's first time profiting from war against his conscience, but he had never before taken part in a battle involving over a hundred thousand people. As he looked at his Psychic Energy balance, his heart pounded despite his body's growing undead nature.
The first thing Green did after the battle was spend like a man newly rich. He upgraded every building in the Graveyard that met the requirements but had been held back by a lack of Psychic Energy. The Mage Tower, Hero Hall, and City Defense Fortress each rose by one level. He also built every available subsidiary building and