Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

Chapter 218: Auxiliary barrack

[Blood Moon in the sky, darkness descends!]

Alex walked from the main fortress to the palace, noticing that the left annex was missing a section. The siblings noticed too but chose not to mention it.

Alex arrived at the Barrack to summon troops, while the dark elves prepared dinner for the siblings, who hadn't eaten in nearly two days.

After summoning the troops, Alex took out the Kingdom's Tear and the Race's Tear from the Warehouse. When the two items collided, the latter was immediately absorbed.

Alex didn't notice any special changes and had to check the system for details.

[Name: Kingdom's Tear]

[Level: None]

[Progress: 1/100]

[Description: Essential for establishing a kingdom.]

There was a note next to [Progress], which Alex clicked to view.

[Note: By merging a certain number of Kingdom (Race) Tears, it will upgrade to an Empire's Tear. Possessing an Empire's Tear allows the establishment of an empire without meeting the usual prerequisites.]

"So that's how it works."

Alex studied it for a while and understood its use. Establishing a kingdom would require fusing the Kingdom's Tear with the city crystal. The Race's Tears seemed to enhance the kingdom's energy. If one possessed an Empire's Tear, it might be possible to bypass the kingdom stage and directly establish an empire.

So, turning Undead City into an Undead Kingdom required her to reach King level, and an empire would require Emperor level?

But Monarch level could also establish a kingdom. Strange.

Native races in this world could, but Lords from Earth like Alex were not allowed.

Alex had decided that a kingdom wasn't her end goal. She planned to build the Strongest Undead Empire.

However, compared to reaching King level and maxing out the city, conquering a hundred races seemed too difficult.

Alex guessed that absorbing Race's Tears wouldn't always add just one point of progress. The differences between races, like dragons and rats, were too vast.

"Leader, dinner is ready."

A dark elf came to remind Alex.

"Oh, okay."

Alex joined the siblings for dinner. Xiao Hui seemed to have just taken a bath, her hair still damp.

After dinner, Alex addressed the siblings, "Sophie is progressing too slowly. Her strength isn't enough. Tomorrow, take the undead and help her. Finish off the dwarf kingdom quickly, then focus on the Orc Empire."

In this world, one could never slack off. Only by constantly growing stronger could one survive.

Alex wanted them to help Sophie not just to speed up progress but also to help the three of them develop quickly.

"No problem, but there's only one Monarch-level dwarf and two Monarch-level undead there. Can we handle it?" Xiao Hui felt it was risky, as the dwarf kingdom was likely stronger than the hobgoblin kingdom.

"It's fine. We're not fighting all seven clans head-on. If they destroy one clan in their civil war, we'll have a chieftain's corpse, giving us a chance to turn the tide." Xiao Mu explained.

"True, they're not united and are still fighting among themselves."

Compared to the hobgoblin kingdom, the dwarf kingdom was easier to deal with unless they united overnight.

"Don't worry, I'm here this time, and I've prepared in advance."

Alex took out a fully charged fortress Essence Shard from her ring, showing it to the siblings to reassure them.

With this experience, Alex wouldn't make the same mistake again. Even if she wasn't crossing continents, she didn't know how large a continent was or if she could return, so she had to keep a fortress Essence Shard as a backup.

After dinner, the three planned to rest. The siblings' troops had been steadily growing in the Dark Forest, their numbers increasing.

Alex suddenly had a new question. She was undoubtedly the ruler of the undead race, so why didn't she have a Race's Tear?

Could there be other undead races scattered around the world?

There were too many questions, and Alex didn't want to think about them. She remembered the Hobgoblin Barrack crystal in the Warehouse hadn't been built yet.

Apparently, unique Barracks couldn't acquire other Lords' Barracks, but after conquering a race, even a unique Barrack would gain their corresponding Barrack crystal.

This made things much easier.

But how to conquer unorganized races?

Boars were everywhere. How to conquer them? Kill them all?

Alex took out the Hobgoblin Barrack crystal and clicked to build it.

She looked towards the palace where the undead Barracks were but didn't see the Hobgoblin Barrack there.

"Where did it go?"

Alex flew into the sky, activating her left eye to survey Undead City. She finally saw the Hobgoblin Barrack on a plot of land in the west.

The area was divided into grid-like sections, which Alex had thought were for building houses. Now she saw the hobgoblin barrack fit perfectly into one of these sections.

"So, it's for building auxiliary Barracks. But Undead City is too dark, surrounded by barren mountains. When can we get some light here?"

Alex landed back in the palace. The palace was the only illuminated area, and with the red moon hidden behind clouds, the outside was pitch black and a bit eerie.

The city's layout reserved the west for auxiliary Barracks, but there wasn't much space, meaning selective construction was necessary.

But that's okay. There were other cities besides Undead City. When Undead City upgraded to a kingdom or empire, the space would increase again.

As Alex walked towards the palace, she opened the system to check the auxiliary Barrack's basic information.

[Auxiliary Barrack: hobgoblin crystal]

[Status: Cannot upgrade]

[Barrack can summon: Automatically summons one hobgoblin daily, one major level below the Lord.]

[Current summoning level: lv5 Commanding level]

Alex had expected differences between main and auxiliary barracks but was still surprised.

Summoning one lv5 Commanding level hobgoblin daily was frustrating, as her Barrack could only summon lv7 Standard level undead.

The auxiliary Barrack couldn't upgrade and summoned automatically, which was convenient.

The hobgoblins' life cap was King level, so even if Alex reached Sovereign Level, the auxiliary barrack couldn't summon Empire level hobgoblins.

But Sovereign Level was far off. When Alex reached King level, the auxiliary Barrack would summon Monarch-level hobgoblins daily.

Though only one, it would add up over time. This was fantastic.

In high spirits, Alex decided to take a relaxing bath and then go to sleep.