Chapter 2174: Chapter 2174: Sweeping Toward the Border
As the army gradually moved toward the border, to them, it seemed almost no longer a threat.
The closer they got to the border region, the weaker the cities became over there. Initially, there were some eighth-tier strong people stationed, but later even eighth-tier ones were nowhere to be seen. Finally, there were barely any seventh-tier ones, and their prowess was mediocre at best.
How could such strength pose a threat to them?
"What do you think these undead are actually doing, why are they acting so strangely?"
"Indeed, they keep advancing toward the edge, occupying cities over there, but what’s the use? If the undead need an army, they clearly haven’t turned those people into undead, instead, they keep them as they are."
That’s exactly what they couldn’t fathom. Generally speaking, no one would bother to do something that is laborious yet not rewarding.
These undead, however, insisted on doing just that, keeping those cities almost intact, except for the people who resisted and those who controlled the cities, the rest were mostly not killed. They even accepted the surrender of those cities.
Though unsure of what method they would use to control them, after all, at least their lives were preserved.
The people below weren’t slaughtered; instead, they were retained, except for transforming some Magical Beasts or other things into undead, there wasn’t reckless killing of innocents, which made their actions perplexing.
No, it was simply unbelievable. No one could understand the reason behind the undead’s actions.
"Could it be that occupying more cities strengthens them further?"
"Impossible, there have been experiments on this a long time ago, with no effect at all. Besides, they are expanding towards the edge, where the effect is even worse. I really don’t understand what they are thinking. Undead creatures shouldn’t have ambitions, could they be searching for something?"
"Stop overthinking, searching for something? Does searching require such a large area?"
These undead truly baffled them, as they couldn’t figure out the reason behind these actions no matter how hard they tried.
After all, Du You’s approach didn’t align with their interests, and naturally, Du You wouldn’t bother explaining much to them.
"Forget it, what’s the point of overthinking, we just have to avoid them. This way of developing will leave them many vulnerabilities. By then, with insufficient upper-tier strength, they won’t pose much threat to us."
"Exactly, exactly, we should rather go deeper and establish our own cities. With cities closer to the center, our strength surely can develop further; that is the real important thing."
Many people banded together and left this place. Of course, to them, it was about pursuing better avenues for advancement, not running away. That’s right, it was definitely not because of fear of the undead that they left their homeland.
What they didn’t know was that the number of undead under Du You’s control was increasing, and some rewards gained from World Will had also changed.
Because Du You could use a large number of corpses to create seventh-tier undead creatures, with the expansion of the area, Du You obtained a series of new buildings, which directly manufactured seventh-tier undead.
The cost wasn’t too high, except it required a large number of corpses, which was a way to limit rapid expansion.
Du You gladly took the ease, at least it was faster and more economical than creating them himself. From now on, his time could be spent exclusively on creating powerful eighth-tier undead, without wasting it on seventh-tier ones anymore.
Besides, in Du You’s view, seventh-tier undead are quite useful. Because in the outer regions of the world, cities are basically established by seventh-tier creatures, and at the very edges, there are cities built by fifth-tier and sixth-tier people.
Having enough seventh-tier strong ones would allow him to occupy these cities one by one, making them his own.
With enough seventh-tier undead creatures, development becomes much easier. As for ordinary living beings, as long as there isn’t indiscriminate slaughter, they are quite supportive of his rule.
Indeed, supportive. Du You has a stringent set of regulations for those under his rule, much better than a world that only knows exploitation or simply neglect, at least the people’s lives have improved.
Furthermore, roads connect cities, armies ensure safety, various exchanges and businesses become increasingly prosperous, the people find their quality of life gradually improving.
As a result, at the end, whenever he attacked a city, those most fearful and detesting were the city’s upper class, while the people below were highly welcoming. They couldn’t wait to be ruled by these undead, as they wouldn’t face mortal danger, instead, their lives would become more marvelous.
As for being made into undead after dying, most people actually didn’t care much.
Because these undead creatures, many can retain their memories before death, which is akin to continuing to live.
Moreover, their families are even happier, although they turned into undead, at least they could stay by their side, couldn’t they? This type of undead retaining pre-death memory and wisdom is also a recent gift from World Will.
Otherwise, having Du You manufacture them alone would be bothersome. By spending points, he produced a batch of such capable Liches, and then had them stationed in each city, that was their job.
As development continued, the cohesion among Du You’s people grew increasingly stronger, far beyond comparison with other cities.
If those people didn’t disregard these ordinary people, they would be shocked to discover Du You’s grip over the people. Unfortunately, concerning the surrounding environment, they paid no attention to it.
This led to significant changes happening internally within Du You’s territory every day, while the outside world continued to mock Du You’s actions.
In their minds, undead are simply undead, even with such a good starting point, development remains so useless. To them, entirely a fruitless laborious task.
Du You also didn’t mind, though the support grew increasingly dense, it indeed served no purpose for himself.
Similarly, Du You began constructing altars in each city, these altars were to control the world. Because this world belonged to a ninth-tier world, more altars were needed, and of superior quality.
It seems now, expansion has become easier, the real trouble lies in establishing these altars.
"It’s almost there, our control scope should be sufficient by now."
"Indeed, sufficient, although it occupies only less than one percent of this world, the scope is still okay."
Saying it’s less than one percent, that was their guess of the size, in reality, it might be even less. A massive ninth-tier world is incomparable to regular worlds.
