Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?

Chapter 143: 145: Title Quest

Chapter 143: Chapter 145: Title Quest

“Are you saying that this time, essentially, the Hell Church feels that the Demon Crystal production is insufficient, so they gave me Hell to expand production?” Qin Muye was quite incredulous, finding the matter very odd indeed.

The news brought by Tian Qi refreshed Qin Muye’s worldview, and for a moment, he had no idea what the other party’s actions truly meant.

“Yes, Master. However, it seems the Hell Church might want a larger share after the production capacity is increased, but I always feel that’s not what they really have in mind.” Tian Qi wasn’t foolish, not taking everything at face value. Was all this elaborate setup just to give him a gift?

They could’ve simply said it was a gift and asked for help.

“What about the Lamp God? Did you lock him in the prison?” Qin Muye quickly moved on to the next topic.

“It has been locked up. Black Hand is arranging for an interrogation, and also, the other party gave me a map, claiming it shows the location of the Lamp God Hell.” Tian Qi handed the map to Qin Muye.

Qin Muye unfolded the map; he… couldn’t quite understand it, after all, geography was not his forte, but he did understand one thing—the item was a quest object.

[You have triggered the quest: King of Rubies]

[Expand the area of your Hell to ten times the size of your territory]

[Reward: Title—King of Rubies]

[Do you accept the quest? Yes/No]

“…” Qin Muye looked at the quest with a headache. He didn’t even want to mention the title, clueless about its effects, but the difficulty was indeed steep.

Allow Hell to reach ten times the size of his territory? If this had been during the Low Rank period, it wouldn’t have been too big a challenge, but now that his territory is at Rank 4, the difficulty was considerable.

From the intelligence gathered, this Hell was almost at the bottom of the hierarchy. Otherwise, how would they just send someone to guard it haphazardly? Because for both the Hell Church and the Church Court, it was considered the least threatening among many dangers.

Being understaffed, naturally, most were sent to guard Hells that posed greater threats.

More importantly, the difficulty of the task would increase with the rank of the territory; it was manageable now, but if the rank were to rise to Rank 5, and with it the size, the difficulty would naturally increase as well.

Therefore, if he wanted to complete the task, it would be best to do so while still at Rank 4, otherwise, the difficulty would become massive later on.

After some contemplation, Qin Muye ultimately chose to accept the quest. Whether it was achievable was another matter; there was no way he could complete it at the moment.

“Alright, I’ve got it. Inform Black Hand about this, and when he has time, have him check the charter to see if there is a way to absorb other Hells and expand ours to ten times the size of our territory before advancing to Rank 5,” said Qin Muye resignedly.

He had no better solution; if it were up to him, he could only fight his way through. But if Black Hand handled it, maybe he could make the Hell Church, the Church Court, and the Federation work for him—they all wanted Demon Crystals, after all.

Excessive use of Demon Crystals certainly had many benefits, but it could also lead to a dependency on them, creating an effect akin to Magic Addiction.

This Magic Addiction wasn’t based on physiology but rather an energetic longing. One could manage a few days without intake to get rid of this energy craving, but the trade-off existed; prolonged avoidance of Demon Crystals led to magic power in the body falling dormant.

Over time, dormant magic power would start to dissipate because the vitality of the internal magic power usually relied on the intake of Demon Crystals. As long as it doesn’t become dormant, magic power would circulate within and not scatter.

The more magic power one had inside, the faster it would dissipate in such circumstances, but at the same time, many effects brought on by the magic power would vanish.

Qin Muye was openly scheming; one could use Demon Crystals to continually strengthen one’s magic power or give up the various capabilities and effects that it brought. As long as one refrained from those crystals, he could not form a monopoly.

Unfortunately, who would willingly give up once they tasted the essence of power and longevity? Qin Muye wouldn’t either.

Asking these powers to give up was no easier than asking them to organize their violent forces to directly invade Qin Muye’s Hell and produce Demon Crystals themselves.

Perhaps these three factions had entertained such thoughts for a long time, currently just planning, as Qin Muye guessed they were entities not known for jumping the gun without seeing a sure advantage, never aspiring to give away too many benefits.

Qin Muye had no spare time to pay attention to the three forces in the Horror Universe—the real treasures lay within the Cosmic expanse. Yet, at this stage, he lacked the power to explore the cosmos.

“Forget it, there’s no point in thinking about these things, the Horror Universe is too complicated, and I’m just an ordinary person without the strength to truss a chicken.”

Qin Muye’s gaze turned towards his advancement task. Currently, the progress of destroying ten tier-3 forces had changed to 7/10. In these days, Demon Blood and the others had destroyed at least three forces.

It seemed as though they had shifted from plundering to destroying forces, probably aiming to amass Skeleton Soldiers. This time, Demon Blood and his group were not only looking to plunder but also to obtain sufficient labor force, and undoubtedly the best were from the Undead Clan. With the vile language and the Soul Summoning Technique, gathering Skeleton Soldiers wasn’t a big problem.

Only, the Rich Ocean server was full of marine species, not very suitable for land.

Even if the Skeleton Soldiers summoned from corpses maintained the skeletal form of their previous life, it couldn’t be that a mermaid pulled up would turn into a human-like Skeleton Soldier; they would still have the appearance of a mermaid, with the upper body of a human and a fish-like skeletal lower half.

Such Skeleton Soldiers would find it difficult to move around on land, and underwater movement would still be inconvenient due to their different structure. More likely, they would just sink to the bottom rather than swim freely like mermaids.

Just like the Skeleton Soldiers pulled from the bodies of Harpies under his command, although they had wings, they couldn’t fly and could only hop around on the ground like ground chickens.

Therefore, finding a suitable species to serve as Skeleton Soldiers in the Rich Ocean server was not an easy task, since it was all sea.

“However, the Sea Dragon King is really tenacious, having escaped from the pursuit of both the True Dragon Emperor and Wang Junzi without dying. He must be quite fast.”

Qin Muye did not believe that the Sea Dragon King’s strength could compare to two rank-6, Champion Level domains, even considering home-field advantage. The only possibility was that the opponent was truly top-notch at escaping.

On the other hand, the situation in the Extreme Cold Ice Land seemed rather good. The fourth-ranked Han Mei had disappeared, and it was unclear whether she had used a Server Transfer Token to leave or had been killed by Jiang Tianjun.

Regardless of the circumstance, it meant that the Extreme Cold Ice Land was out of the game, and Jiang Tianjun was still cleaning up some Lords who couldn’t escape but also couldn’t resist.

So, it’s good for a domain to be able to flee. Even if it’s a mouse being chased by a cat, as long as it isn’t caught, there’s still a chance to turn the tables, unlike Han Mei, who had no choice but to leave.

As for Wasteland City and Zombie Kingdom, these two servers were also restless, always stirring up trouble everywhere.

However, the results weren’t very good, and most of the time, they were on the receiving end of beatings.

Qin Muye had seen the situation for what it was, the Lords of Wasteland City and Zombie Kingdom hadn’t utilized their strengths, instead attacking others where they themselves were weaker.

The environment was their greatest advantage. Just by mutating powerful Zombies or Mutant Beasts, they could easily create a Zombie Tide Beast Sea.

And they could use species from other servers to mutate various strong local Zombies and Mutant Beasts, which would be enough to trouble other servers.

The Bursting Soldiers’ efficiency was unparalleled, but unfortunately, it seemed they didn’t have such a mindset and were instead continuously probing.

It was likely that they were only focused on winning, or perhaps constrained by ancient ways of thinking.

Bear in mind, their Zombies and Mutant Beasts had infectious abilities, the former through viral infection, the latter through radiation contamination. If they developed these two abilities, they could touch upon races like the Insect Race and the Undead that excelled in Bursting Soldiers.

It was for this reason that Qin Muye valued these two forces so much, having spent a considerable price to acquire a vast amount of knowledge on biology, viruses, medicine, and more from these two servers.

After supplementing his Spirit Monster evolution with this Knowledge, Qin Muye’s rank-5 transformation had become increasingly bizarre.

But he did not care at all. What’s the use of looking good? Surviving is what matters.

Living on the knife-edge among a group of rank-6 Champions, Qin Muye felt immense pressure. If the timing had been better, he would have wanted to transfer servers to find one where the Lords were less formidable.

He refused to believe that all servers’ Lords were so outstandingly powerful.

“Or is it that the ancient world I was in was not simply a feudal society?”

“Otherwise, how could each one’s Power be so outlandish?”

Qin Muye was somewhat puzzled by this.