Chapter 611 - 576: Corpse Moving Technique and Sea Soul Staff
The clean-up of the battlefield immediately got underway, for with the corpse transportation skill, a lousy professional skill, all of Da Fei’s humanoid troops could load the corpses of the enemy forces on the ship and take them away.
Here, let’s focus on introducing the "corpse transportation skill," a unique professional skill for undead players. Normally, non-undead players can’t transport enemy corpses. Even their own fallen troops can only be gathered within the battlefield area for easy resurrection and cannot be transported away in vehicles. But undead players can.
The biggest feature of undead players is the Soul Summoning Technique, which is the legendary increase in troops as they fight, and the killed high-level soldiers will correspondingly transform into the same or lower-level troops of the Undead Race, which is extremely perverse. However, to balance the game, the Soul Summoning is limited by a "Dark Energy" setting, which requires the undead player’s dark energy to cast it. Each undead player’s dark energy is limited, replenished by the game on a weekly basis. The higher the level of the summoned soul, the more dark energy is needed.
For example, if an undead player kills a level 7 Green Dragon in the wild, then the undead player can convert its corpse into a level 7 Bone Dragon of the Undead Race, but the energy needed for one conversion is very high, hundreds of times that needed for a skeleton. Once there isn’t enough dark energy, do you just watch the corpse go to waste as it refreshes?
Of course not, that’s what the corpse transportation skill is for. Players can load the corpse of the Green Dragon onto a vehicle and store it in the refrigerated storeroom of the Undead City for later use.
For other races, obtaining troops above level 4 is not easy; they need to gain reputation and complete tasks. Similarly, the learning of the undead player’s Soul Summoning Technique is also restricted. That is, if the reputation is not enough, the level of Soul Summoning will be low, and the killed high-level troops cannot be transformed into undead troops of the same level. In other words, a novice undead player, even if they kill high-level troops, can only stare helplessly, unable to convert them, not to mention the ungraded BOSSes which are even more impossible to convert.
Because of this situation, the importance of the corpse transportation skill is greatly increased. Low-level undead players will transport and store the corpses of every high-level troop they kill for future use. Thus, the latent strength of the Undead Race far exceeds the imagination of all races.
Transporting corpses also has significant tactical value. For example, in the chaotic battleground of national wars, when undead players annihilate a player’s troop of another country, they can immediately transport away his fallen troops. Even if he calls for reinforcements, without corpses to resurrect, the loss is hard to make up for.
Also, because of the distinct tactical value of transporting corpses, there is another significant game balancing measure—that only undead players can transport corpses, not their Vice Heroes. This means that players of other races cannot transport corpses, even if they hire a Vice Hero from the Undead Race.
Then, let’s talk about the volume of corpse transportation.
The command value of corpses and goods have a one-to-one relationship; that is, a Green Dragon has a command value of 10, so loading it onto a vehicle occupies 10 units of cargo space, and a transport vehicle has a cargo capacity of just 10 units. Even with overloading, one vehicle can’t carry many corpses, and the efficiency is very low. Hence, the Undead Race’s logistics has special types of vehicles, corpse transporters! Depending on the specifications, corpse transporters can carry 50-100 command value corpses, which greatly improves the efficiency of corpse transportation and also preserves the bodies longer to prevent them from being quickly refreshed by the system.
Of course, Da Fei doesn’t have a corpse transporter; his Flying with 500 units of cargo hold plus the Holy Vine Space with 1000 units can only carry a total of 1500 command value corpses. And with so many dead level 5 Hell Horses and level 4 Banshees on the battlefield, it’s absolutely no problem to fill it up.
Da Fei’s first priority is to fill up Banshees first, as Da Fei wants to see if the souls of the dead bodies killed on land can be sucked over by the Sea Soul Staff when transported to the sea?
Theoretically, it should be possible, right? After all, any corpse that can be "resurrected" or "converted" has a soul. Da Fei has also encountered the situation where resurrection was not possible, such as during the last national war where that American born Demon rushed onto the ship and sacrificed a few gunners resulting in an inability to resurrect them.
In short, Da Fei immediately returned to the ship with Selvia, ready to witness what would happen next! As for Elena, who had become the boss, she was naturally going to receive her employees.
As soon as Selvia boarded the ship, she jumped excitedly and exclaimed, "I got paid! Captain gave me my salary, a million Gold Coins!"
—Apoo! Da Fei sprayed out a mouthful of essence blood! Can you not publicize getting your salary like that?
Sure enough, Catherine immediately followed up: "What about me? What about me? Where’s my salary?!"
Anlicia was laughing heartily, patting Selvia on the head and teasing, "What’s a little kid doing with so much money? Come on, give half to your big sister!"
Selvia snorted: "I’m not a kid!"
Alright, Vice Heroes asking for salaries must have triggered some scene event; it’s all domestic harmony. Remember to buy a thong bikini with your salary, haha!
Da Fei then forced a laugh: "Everyone has one, everyone! A million each, haha, whoahaha!"
Anlicia immediately stretched out her hand: "Oh! A million is not too much for me, hand it over!"
Catherine laughed: "Do I still get paid for the long time I was absent for work?"
Da Fei scoffed: "That offsets the earliest reward you got from me!"
Selvia excitedly said: "I’ll go call Deirdre to collect her salary!"
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Amidst the laughter, the first Banshee corpse was air transported onto the ship by the Vine Demons, and Da Fei eagerly anticipated!
Sure enough! A wisp of light pink smoke from the Banshee corpse was absorbed into the Sea Soul Staff.
Da Fei was startled and his eyebrows twitched! Holy moly, it actually works? The Sea Soul Staff collects anything that touched water? Does that mean in the future if I kill enemies on land, I can just move the corpses into water to feed the Sea Soul Staff? Does this overcome the shortcoming that the Sea Soul Staff can only be used in water? Could this be a bug?
Haha, wahahaha! Awesome, if this continues, who knows how powerful the Sea Soul Staff will eventually become!
Now, more and more corpses were being transported onto the ship. Meanwhile, Elena and the group of hero employees were bringing nearly a thousand workers of various races to the dock.
Elena laughed heartily: "Lord City Lord, all these people want to join my mercenary company! But their only use could be running errands."
Da Fei chuckled: "Great! The more, the better!" Damn it, why the change to calling me ’Lord City Lord’? Alright, you’re a boss too, keep calling me ’master’ but it’s kind of awkward for me.
Just then, Catherine suggested: "Captain, we have too many people. Even with the Holy Vine Space, the Flying can’t carry that many. We have to take fewer corpses!"
It’s truly hard to have both, the more you fill the smaller the Holy Vine Space feels. But no worries, if it comes to it, I’ll just take all the Demon Children from the city wall to feed them.
Da Fei waved his hand broadly: "Fill it up with Banshees!"
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Finally, the Flying opened up the Holy Vine Space and loaded nearly a thousand Cave People workers, as well as the bulky Ogre and Minotaur forces. The cargo hold was also filled with hundreds of Banshee corpses, and the deck was crammed with smaller-sized troops, causing the entire Flying to sway as if it was about to collapse!
Such overloading would definitely cause a shipwreck if it were to sail far across the sea. In any case, as Anlicia started the Teleportation Array again, with a sudden flash of white light, the scene changed once more, and the Flying returned to Radiant City with a splash.
This teleportation used up 45,000 Mana, emptying 4 Charging Crystals instantly! It turns out, the more you load up and the further you transport, the more Mana it consumes viciously. After these multiple transits, the 10 fully-charged Charging Crystals on the Flying before departure were almost depleted, so it was time to recharge again. Da Fei once again profoundly realized that A-grade batteries were totally unreliable.
In any case, everything had to be done quickly, my Flying is not an Undead corpse cart and doesn’t have corpse preservation capabilities. Wait a second, could that ice coral I bought from the Dwarf Auction be considered?
Whatever, Da Fei immediately placed the ice coral in the cargo hold, and a surge of cold air instantly filled the cargo space crammed with mountains of corpses. In any case, just try it. And looking at the hold full of Banshee corpses—ugh! For some reason, Da Fei suddenly felt a strong urge to vomit, like he was in a slaughterhouse!
Alright, I admire those Undead players! Now there’s not much to say, just hurry up and take out everyone from the Holy Vine Space to organize and position them.
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