In the evening, the main body and the avatar each returned with tens of thousands of undead troops.
The Undead Avatar arrived at the main body first.
After the two of them counted the spoils of war, she led a group of peasants toward the Alliance.
As for the avatar who returned with the Alliance members, after settling the lords, it silently disappeared.
In the Alliance Hall, none of these Alliance members looked dejected over the loss of their troops.
The moment they saw their Alliance Leader again, they were completely exhilarated.
“Alliance Leader is awesome!”
“So strong! Undead summoning is totally a bug, what ruling race, it’s practically a cheat!”
“Alliance Leader, are we starting the plan to unify the island now?”
In their eyes, if even the ruling races could be handled easily by their brave Alliance Leader, weren’t the other lords on the island just child’s play?
“Everyone, quiet down. The harvest this time was indeed great, but as you all saw, I used most of the resources to strengthen the Alliance.”
She paused, then pointed to the peasants not far away.
“My goal is to turn the Alliance into a fortress. Unifying the island is just a small step. We have a long road ahead, but your soldiers can’t die in vain. It just so happens I have a batch of peasants here—I’ll compensate everyone with them.”
At these words, everyone was a bit happy.
The more peasants they had, the faster their development would be.
Most importantly, in the battle with the elves, they had all participated personally.
Those elves had almost nothing except some equipment.
Yet the Alliance Leader not only generously offered resources to upgrade the Alliance, but after distributing the equipment, even wanted to give out peasants.
Where could you find such a generous Alliance Leader?
Not to mention she was a cute, white-haired little loli.
“Alliance Leader, I love you!”
“Alliance Leader, I love you too!”
“Alliance Leader, I also also also…”
“Enough, enough,” Qilin’s face was full of black lines. I love myself, too.
“Lu Renjia, go tally those lists. As for the rest of you, we’ve all just been through a war. Rest and recover. Here’s a simple task for you—release a message on the terminal.”
“Understood!”
Everyone answered seriously, then quickly dispersed.
With the Alliance Leader uniting the island, their status would rise accordingly.
Even newcomers who joined later couldn’t shake their position, because they entered after the Alliance Leader unified the island.
There’s a difference between offering timely help and adding flowers to a brocade.
Of course, they probably didn’t know that in Qilin’s world, it had never even snowed.
At this moment, there was no need for these lords to stir up support—the terminal’s full-server announcement was the best publicity.
Currently, on the world chat, almost all lords were discussing one topic: When would Qilin start to act?
And those lords who had quit the Qilin Alliance before the battle due to lack of determination were now even more regretful.
Missing development opportunities was secondary—they were more afraid the other party would come looking for revenge later.
In truth, Qilin couldn’t be bothered with these guys.
To him, these lords were just clowns, ants—what kind of trouble could they cause? Besides, there was no real conflict between them.
Quitting the Alliance was a mutual decision.
He wasn’t so petty.
But those lords who had cursed him on world chat—he wouldn’t let a single one go.
These people might not amount to much in the future, but you never know when they’d pop up to disgust him, just to brush up their sense of presence.
At this moment, Qilin didn’t care about any of this.
Because just now, his Lord’s Hall had finished upgrading, advancing to a Mid-level Town.
The two newly unlocked buildings were the Catapult Tower and the Forge Factory.
There wasn’t much to say about the Catapult Tower—it was just like an Arrow Tower, a military building within the territory.
But the Forge Factory was interesting.
It could be used to forge equipment.
It covered all equipment up to and including Tier Nine, and the building itself couldn’t be upgraded.
It seemed to change along with Qilin’s own level.
In addition, there were various civilian facilities built specifically for workers.
Of course, that wasn’t the most ridiculous part.
The craziest thing was, you could directly spend gold coins here to upgrade your soldiers’ equipment!
For example, Light Armored Cavalry—they came with default Tier Two equipment, but as long as you had money, you could directly boost them up to Tier Nine.
Of course, certain unit types that couldn’t equip weapons couldn’t be upgraded.
Undead were also excluded, because strictly speaking, they were summons and not Qilin’s own units.
Plus, the weapons of the undead were made from their own bones, so their weapon rank was fixed the moment they were summoned—it couldn’t be upgraded.
Looking at it this way, this building was much more useful for intelligent races, and practically useless for beast-type units.
[Currently upgradeable unit types: Light Armored Warrior, Light Armored Cavalry, Knight]
[Would you like to upgrade unit equipment level? Select quantity: …]
[If this option is selected, equipment for summoned units will be automatically enhanced, and summoning costs will increase accordingly.]
“Yo, that’s pretty user-friendly.”
Qilin glanced at the post-upgrade prices.
Raising equipment from Tier One to Tier Nine only cost five hundred gold coins; at present, Tier Nine equipment was so rare, its market price could reach two thousand.
“Too bad, unit weapons and equipment can’t be traded.”
Qilin sighed, mourning the loss of a get-rich-quick path.
Right now, the number of undead was so large, he barely needed his own units anymore.
Still, just in case, their strength needed to be improved, though it wasn’t an urgent matter.
He looked again at the buildings unlocked at High-level Town: there were three—Gold Mine, Energy Tower, and City Wall.
“Gold Mine?!”
His face lit up in delight.
He hadn’t expected such a thing.
Of course, the City Wall’s function was obvious, and as for the Energy Tower in the middle, it was probably another kind of defensive structure.
Qilin chuckled, then returned to the Lord’s Hall to prepare for sleep.
Over the next two days, he planned to use goblins and undead to fully explore the island and silence all opposing voices.
As for those who agreed, he naturally didn’t mind sparing their lives—he wasn’t a tyrant, after all.
Alliance members had already begun rallying support for him.
Once everything was ready, unifying the island and completing the main quest was inevitable.
Of course, this was also the final deadline for those lords.
[Congratulations! You have unlocked the Human unit: Demon Hunter!]
“Eh?”
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