The sound of scratching at hard objects echoed in the boundless darkness.
A cracking sound rang out, followed by countless echoes reaching everyone's ears.
A Blood Corpse with all ten fingers worn flat stretched out its palm and reached out to grab, but did not touch the hard rock it had imagined.
He immediately started yelling, making a piercing sound.
[ Clear Soup Master ] soon heard the roars and echoes of the Blood Corpse and quickly crawled into the flat, artificial cave in front of him.
He quickly walked to the end of the cave and discovered that the Blood Corpse had actually dug a hole through it.
Yes, even though [ Clear Soup Master ] had done everything he could to reduce the work efficiency of the Blood Corpse, the entrance to the Marquis's seal was still completed after twelve days of continuous operation.
Of course, in reality, the twelve days were concealed by [ Clear Soup Master ], but in the Marquis's perception, only less than five days had passed.
And naturally, the four players who connected to the Adelaide LAN once again received high praise from the Marquis of Oliver.
New orders were quickly issued: leave some of the Blood Corpse Blood Corpse to continue expanding the cave entrance, and send the rest to attack nearby human settlements.
The Marquis, who has not yet fully recovered his strength, usually only synchronizes with [ Clear Soup Master's ] vision. Therefore, in order to ensure the plan goes perfectly, [ Clear Soup Master ] volunteered to stay here as the supervisor, while the remaining three led the army of Blood Corpse to a non-existent human settlement.
In a valley outside the Marquis's fiefdom, seven or eight hundred players had been waiting for a long time.
A total of twelve carriages were parked in the middle of the valley; that was the first payment the marquis was about to receive.
Conversely, a thousand Blood Corpse will die here today, becoming nothing more than experience packs for the players—cash on delivery is the only proper way to do business.
There's an old saying in the real world among gamers, "More trouble than it's worth." And that's certainly true.
It would be very difficult for three players leading a ragtag group of Blood Corpse to win a battle, but it would be incredibly easy for them to feed the enemy.
The three men, leading thousands of Blood Corpse, seemed like ancient warriors, deliberately targeting heavily defended areas of the Soul Returner with their cannon fodder.
The brutal battle goes without saying. This predictable attack allowed players to easily form an encirclement, and the three elite Blood Corpse, once surrounded, would desert like ambitious but incompetent generals in history, leaving all the Blood Corpse for the players to grind into pieces.
Once they return to the ranks that have not yet launched an attack, they will regain leadership under the temporary sexual enhancement granted by the Marquis, and then launch another valiant and invincible suicidal charge.
After this happened three times, the Blood Corpse with even a little intelligence began to try to dissuade the three from throwing their lives away with their babbling, but the three still wouldn't listen and insisted on launching a final charge with their last remaining forces.
And this time, they really won!
The humans on the other side were chased so badly that they were routed, and even twelve cartloads of unknown supplies were left behind.
Although they didn't know what was inside the carriages, the Blood Corpse, guided by the three, became like cattle, pushing the blood-filled carriages towards the Marquis's sealed land.
Meanwhile, in Ed's castle, Willow's research into the Territory Secret Pact was also beginning to bear fruit.
Players spent about a week collecting detailed and complete data on all areas surrounding the sealed location.
This data was stored in Ed's [ Root Network ], and in order for Willow to also be able to access this information, Little Green reluctantly offered up one of its leaves once again.
After connecting to the Root Network, Willow was amazed that such a magical field really existed in the world.
Unlike real-world domains, the data space Ed created using the Root Network does not actually exist anywhere in this world; it is essentially a virtual space that "pays homage" to (or plagiarizes) another world, the Internet.
Here, Willow saw every detail near the Marquis's sealed land, from a cliff with a deep hole carved out to a moss-covered rock; the entire sealed land was thus presented in her mind.
All of this can be done simply by Willow closing her eyes and connecting to the Root Network with her mind; she can even zoom in and out, and it can be clearly presented without any paper.
Clearly, in order to prevent something from another world from corrupting the pure, fresh-faced lich, Ed granted Willow the same access rights as Seraphina: a youthful version of the Root Network.
Seraphina wasn't interested in what actually existed within the Root Network; she only chose to share her abilities because using it could significantly reduce her workload.
Willow's use of the Root Network, compared to Seraphina's "open access," is closer to "data retrieval."
In addition to viewing the topographical map of the sealed land, Ed also granted her access to view the map of the World of Disorder. However, he used his access to black out parts that might involve two worlds, making them appear to Willow like confidential files on a foundation's website that couldn't be fully viewed due to insufficient permissions.
With the complete terrain of the sealed land in hand, Willow began to use her Psionic Energy to delineate the domain in the gem chosen as the carrier of the Territory Secret Pact.
This is also an essential step in renewing the Territory Secret Pact. Even before the outbreak of the Demonic Tide, the simplified map of the territory must be presented in the Territory Secret Pact in the form of an aerial view.
This requirement is quite reasonable for Territory Secret Pact, since a lord should at least know what his territory looks like.
Willow, a country girl from the Demon Realm, became addicted to the internet after experiencing it once, spending three whole days online before finally completing the Territory Secret Pact.
With the final stroke, Willow let out a long sigh of relief.
"Finally... it's finished!"
The lich extended his right hand, and a piece of artificially catalyzed amber (from Resin-Dropping Pine ) slowly floated towards Ed, who was not far away.
Ed took the amber, which was about half the size of a fist, and when he looked through it in the sunlight, he could actually see some traces of Psionic Energy drawn on it.
Will these traces remain forever?
Ed asked the lich lady, who was stretching, and Willow yawned in reply:
"No, it's still an unactivated Territory Secret Pact. You just need to channel your Psionic Energy through it once to completely fuse the contents with the gem."
"Only then will it be a true Territory Secret Pact."
"Of course, I must warn you that if this area already has an owner, activating it with Psionic Energy will result in severe backlash."