Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

Ice Cream flapped its wings and flew away, heading towards its nest.

Meanwhile, Alex was on the ground, tallying the corpses. She used her left eye to summon from the werewolf corpses, and for regular wolf corpses, she used her scythe for double summoning.

The frozen werewolf corpses, hard as ice blocks, would take an unknown amount of time to transport back for summoning. She figured she might as well summon what she could right there.

Moreover, this was deep in the snowy mountains, not only was the terrain difficult, but the distance from Alex's castle was also considerable. She couldn't even imagine how long it would take for the land-based undead summoned here to reach her castle.

Alex planned to summon some of the corpses here and then disassemble each one. It would be more convenient to transport the remaining bodies and materials back this way.

An hour and a half later, the other bone dragons and gargoyles also arrived one after another, bringing help to transport the materials. By then, Alex had nearly finished summoning and disassembling the corpses.

Besides discovering werewolf corpses, Alex also found a few strange stones, likely the stone giant corpses Ice Cream had mentioned. Beyond that, there was nothing else.

Ice Cream returned as well, finding its nest raided and nothing left behind.

Its mother's body must have been taken too. Alex couldn't believe that not a single Holy Court knight had perished in such a fierce battle; the absence of any human corpses suggested that they had likely been taken as well.

In any case, anything of value was gone, all that remained were these bodies, and even some of those had been stolen.

Alex approached the stone giant corpses and casually disassembled them.

The stone giant's body turned into a thousand units of stone and a glowing red Essence Shard.

Alex picked up the Essence Shard from the ground. As for the stones, she had no interest in them; transporting a bunch of rocks back would be too much of a hassle.

Alex looked around to see if there were any other stone giant corpses but found none. She didn't find any bodies, but she did find quite a few units of stone.

The useful items had all been taken by that other Lord after his disassembly; this body was only left because it was well-hidden and they hadn't discovered it.

However, stone giants were rare, and that Lord could have taken no more than ten at most. Alex wasn't too upset about missing out on a few Essence Shards; she was more interested in how she might reunite him with his ancestors the next time they met.

By 11:30 PM, Alex had completely tallied, disassembled, and summoned from these bodies.

There were a total of 1,800 Moon Silver Wolf corpses. Alex remembered clearly that Greenbean had initially said there were over 3,000 wolves in the Moon Silver wolf lair, which meant that the other Lord had already transported away at least 1,200 Moon Silver Wolf corpses before Alex arrived.

This indicated that the other Lord was not only early, but he also had a substantial number of troops, all capable of flying, and his own strength had reached the Commanding level. He was definitely a top-tier Lord in the first echelon!

"The Eldoria continent is so vast; how did I end up meeting him?"

Conversely, the same could be said for the other party.

Of the 1,800 Moon Silver Wolf corpses, only 300 were in werewolf form, the remaining 1,500 were regular wolves.

Among the 300 werewolf corpses, there were five Commanding level werewolves. Alex summoned only one Commanding level bone beast werewolf, the other four were summoned as other types of undead.

The four Commanding level were one Skeletal Demon, two Ethereal Wraiths, and one gargoyle.

From the 300 werewolf corpses, disassembly yielded 6,000 units of elite food, 500 magic crystals, and 160 Essence Shards.

The remaining 1,500 corpses could be used to summon 3,000 undead, allowing Alex's undead army to expand significantly.

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is often different.

Summoning 1,500 corpses was a massive undertaking. Alex calculated that although there was no cooldown limit now, it still required Mana Points. Her Mana Points were 120, and each summoning consumed 3 points, with 1 point regenerating per minute.

It would take two hours to summon 40 corpses, producing 80 undead. Alex would need to summon continuously for over three days without sleep to complete the summoning of 1,500 corpses.

Wait, pulling out the scythe would double the Mana Points, meaning she could summon 80 corpses in two hours, significantly speeding up the process.

But completing all the summoning before the beast tide was still unrealistic because Alex couldn't afford to summon without rest.

Alex abandoned the idea of summoning 3,000 undead from 1,500 regular wolf corpses as it was simply not feasible.

After brief consideration, Alex decided to first summon from the 300 werewolf corpses because she could use her left eye magic for direct summoning without consuming Mana Points.

As for the remaining 1,500 corpses, they would have to be transported back to the castle for slow summoning. Although swinging the scythe allowed summoning two at a time, it still consumed 3 Mana Points per use, and Mana Points needed time to regenerate, allowing only single-entity summoning.

It would be more efficient to just throw them into the Blackwater Altar for rapid summoning, all in the interest of saving time.

With the last day approaching and the beast tide imminent, Alex could at most summon from 400 corpses, producing 800 undead. She planned to throw the remaining 1,100 corpses directly into the Blackwater Altar.

Summoning so many corpses using her left eye would probably knock her out from exhaustion.

Alex used up her Mana Points to summon a portion tonight and would continue slowly the following night.

Alex instructed the undead that had arrived to start transporting the Moon Silver Wolf corpses. As for the newly summoned land forces, she didn't trouble them further, letting them head straight back to the castle.

Since these undead couldn't die, even if their movement through the snowy mountains was slow, they would still make it back.

The good news was that Alex had brought all her aerial forces this time. The number of gargoyles was sufficient, and with the help of the bone dragons, they could transport all the corpses back in one go.

Alex ordered Arthur to escort from behind while she rode Ice Cream back to the castle first.

Two hours later, Alex finally flew out of the snowy mountains and returned to the castle, ending a night of grueling activity.

It was now 2 AM, and the first thing Alex did upon returning to the castle was to list the 10,000 pieces of equipment Sophie had sent.

[Hamburger initiates a trade!]

[One ordinary piece of equipment trades for ten magic crystals.]

[Remaining quantity: 10,000 pieces.]

Now she only needed magic crystals to upgrade the Barracks, with the last day of the novice period already starting.

Alex planned to upgrade the Barracks before continuing with summoning. After all, with her current number of undead, she wasn't short of twenty.

Alex collected the materials piled outside the gate, which had been scavenged from the werewolf castle.

[Congratulations Lord, you have obtained 4,000 magic crystals, 5,000 units of food, 2,000 units of stone, 80 Essence Shards, and 200 pieces of animal fur.]

These were the materials from inside the werewolf castle, along with 10k units of wood, 20k units of stone, and 5k iron ingots Alex had obtained from disassembling the werewolf castle's crystals.

This scavenging trip could definitely be called a huge harvest.

Free stuff, what more could one ask for!