Chapter 741: Chapter 483: Crafting Corpse Puppets, Advancing Awakening, Overturning Talent!

The expressions of the several men changed drastically.

"I never expected the Human Alliance to have progressed this far internally. Their reconnaissance is so powerful that it can even agitate the disguised aura within me."

"We’ve been exposed! What do we do? Damn it, where is Lord Azklos?"

"Let’s fight them to the death! Kill these Human Alliance lackeys!"

"Report! We’ve detected the auras of three Demon Worshipers. Coordinates..."

"An unstable Temporary Spatial Rift has been captured at coordinates (128, 982, 332). It’s suspected to be enemy-created, and the Space Wrinkles are abnormally dense!"

"Lock the coordinates! Inform nearby Teams to encircle and eliminate the Demon Worshipers. Be cautious of a cornered beast’s last stand!"

"Protect the military Array Master and proceed to the spatial rift. Find any clue possible and reverse-engineer the enemy Legendary Demon Lord’s Void coordinates!"

In the command center of the Beast Fighting City military base, voices rose one after another, reporting the developing situation and relaying orders.

Soon, the three exposed Demon Worshipers were surrounded by an elite military Team.

At the same time, another Team quickly arrived at the cave where Azklos and the others had teleported from. However, all they found were several lifeless mountain peaks and a massive crater where the spatial passage, having collapsed, had devoured the land.

"The spatial fluctuations here are strong. Those Demon Worshipers must have snuck in through this passage. However, this temporary passage has already collapsed," the Array Master, encircled by the others for protection, said grimly. "A strong, desecrating aura lingers in the air, and I can’t feel any trace of life nearby. A powerful Demon on the other side must have obliterated the passage."

"Everyone spread out and search carefully. Ensure no one slipped through the net."

Soon, the Team had meticulously searched a radius of several dozen kilometers, but they found nothing and returned to the location of the collapsed passage.

"Inform the higher-ups that this area has been secured."

"Report, target has been eradicated." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Report, the target here has been slain..."

As all invading Demon Worshipers were confirmed to be eliminated, the three-day-long sweep came to a close. Everyone in the Fierce Beast Mountain Range received the message that the operation was over.

"To think they were all killed just like that."

In a gorge, Fang Zhou looked at the message on his personal terminal, stunned.

I haven’t even killed enough yet... No, I haven’t earned that much Military Merit, and you all are already dead? You guys are completely pathetic!

Okay, on second thought, it’s to be expected. Considering the strength of the Beast Fighting City military, coupled with the hidden capabilities of the various military academies, it would reflect poorly on them if it took a long time to eliminate a few mere invaders. Instead, discovering the threat and swiftly eradicating it with thunderous force is what’s normal.

It’s just a shame. If only I had gone deeper into the mountains earlier and run into those invaders, I would have made a fortune by killing them all.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhou silently calculated his gains. He had gained 30,000 contribution points—enough Military Merit to be promoted to Lieutenant—along with the Demon Blade fragments and purple pouch he had seized from Azklos. Most valuable of all were the powerful enemy Corpses. All things considered, it was a substantial harvest.

Fang Zhou nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. It’s equivalent to killing a few dozen Bronze-rank Fierce Beasts."

Black Iron-rank Fierce Beasts were valued at a few hundred contribution points, while Bronze-rank ones surged to over a thousand. The difference in value wasn’t simply due to more flesh and blood but because of their stronger Scale Armor, Beast Hides, bones, and various organs that had been tempered by Energy. After processing, these items became precious Magic Energy materials that could be used in many advanced weapons and equipment.

However, for the current Fang Zhou, Bronze-rank Fierce Beasts were easy enough to kill, but they were rare, hard to locate, and would flee at the slightest disturbance. These creatures mostly dwelled in the depths of the Fierce Beast Mountain Range, making hunting them time-consuming and laborious.

Looking at the ravaged forest, Fang Zhou sighed softly. This hunt had ended so anticlimactically. Since the Beast Fighting City authorities had already sounded the retreat, he had no reason to waste any more time in the Fierce Beast Mountain Range. Bronze-rank Fierce Beasts were already rare, and after being systematically hunted down by the military’s elite Teams over the past few days, tracking them had become far too troublesome.

Fang Zhou planned to return to base, finalize his promotion and exchange his Military Merits, and then properly sort through the spoils he had collected. If he could turn the corpse of the Lord of Six-armed Snake Demon into a powerful Undead Creature, it would give his strength another boost.

After a long trek back to Beast Fighting City, the first thing Fang Zhou did was report his safe return to Lieutenant Colonel Shen Zhongyun. Then he went to the Sea City Military Academy base to handle his promotion. Afterward, he successfully redeemed the [Pale Spring] that Vigus had been longing for from the Beast Fighting City military warehouse.

When Vigus’s pale fingers touched the crystal vial, the shadows in the entire room trembled. The pale liquid in the vial glimmered with a cold radiance like moonlight, only far denser.

"Your Soul Fire’s frequency needs to synchronize to 37 tremors per second."

Fang Zhou’s fingertip touched the center of Vigus’s brow, and the azure-blue runes of the soul imprint spread down her spine. Vigus could feel her master’s deliberately suppressed Undead mana calibrating the restless Energy nodes within her body, millimeter by millimeter. This was an extremely dangerous operation. The slightest deviation would cause her soul to be torn apart by the Pale Spring.