Chapter 1016 - 619: Giant Dragon Special Training, Smuggled Tomb Gold! (Part 2)

Chapter 1016: Chapter 619: Giant Dragon Special Training, Smuggled Tomb Gold! (Part 2)

"Then it’s up to you!" Fang Zhou said solemnly.

Although Tiamat seemed somewhat unwilling, Fang Zhou knew that he had secured a great advantage.

Cultivating and training a flying spirit beast requires a tremendous amount of effort and resources.

It must be said, Fang Zhou’s primary focus before was on enhancing his own strength.

He hadn’t spent much effort on the development and training of Tiamat.

This had resulted in Tiamat’s talent and potential never being fully realized.

Now, with Major General Guan Huchi’s promise, Fang Zhou could confidently entrust Tiamat to the Silver Pegasus Knight Order, saving himself a substantial amount of effort.

Moreover, Tiamat’s training also requires considerable resources and provisions.

This Black Gem Young Dragon devours a large amount every meal, not undeservingly called a Gold-eating Beast.

All of this was undertaken by the Silver Pegasus Knight Order.

In conclusion, Fang Zhou really got a great deal.

To be honest, when he saved Major General Guan Huchi, Fang Zhou did it merely as a casual act within his capability.

However, seeing Guan Huchi being so loyal, Fang Zhou felt quite indebted.

He sincerely thanked Guan Huchi for sending him such a perfect gift, but Major General Guan Huchi just waved his hand repeatedly.

To him, it was nothing compared to Fang Zhou’s life-saving grace.

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A few days later, the Calamity Special Operations Team, which suddenly increased by more than a thousand members, gradually stabilized under the arrangement of Leng Feng, Zhuo Yue, and several veteran soldiers.

Fang Zhou also gained more personal time, allowing him to devote more effort to the Blood Spirit Lord clone side.

Fang Zhou spent some time considering the future development path of the Calamity Special Operations Team.

According to Lieutenant General Ning Danxin, the Calamity Special Operations Team wouldn’t be engaged in any battles anytime soon.

So, he took this opportunity to improve the overall strength of the entire Calamity Team.

He decided to increase the training intensity even more based on the previous intensity.

The morning was dedicated to physical training for the soldiers, and the afternoon was allocated for specialized skills practice.

After breaking through the Hell Pit Fortress gates last time, during the siege, the fragmented and uncoordinated performance of the Calamity Team warriors left a poor impression on Fang Zhou.

If it weren’t for his powerful undead summons, all having Silver level or above strength, along with Fang Zhou’s diverse undead magic, the Calamity Team might have ceased to exist.

But due to Fang Zhou’s portrayal of immense power, he inadvertently truly captured the hearts of these Calamity Team warriors.

In their respective legions, these originally rebellious special operation soldiers owed Fang Zhou their lives.

Otherwise, merely relying on those few moments of human connection would be unrealistic in gaining their loyalty.

Fang Zhou divided the two thousand members of the Calamity Team into twenty squads of one hundred each, with perfectly reasonable distribution of long-range and close-quarters combat professions.

Lancers, shield-bearers, archers, mages, with lavish configurations.

Being a special operations team without allied forces for coordinated combat, all professions within the Calamity Team had to be covered.

In the Hell Pit siege where the Calamity Team veterans who survived, most of them had either reached or were close to reaching the Bronze tier.

They were dispersed throughout the squads, serving as grass-roots officers.

They tirelessly praised Fang Zhou’s merits before the new recruits.

In their words, Fang Zhou became the perfect commander, with personal power transcendent, charging into battle at the forefront, and distributing credit among the soldiers.

The new soldiers didn’t know much about Fang Zhou’s other personality traits, but over these past ten days, they indeed experienced his camaraderie in training with the soldiers and his formidable strength.

Fang Zhou’s approachable demeanor only appeared once during the last heartfelt conversation.

For a superior, maintaining a bit of mystery and distance before subordinates was ideal.

For those soldiers who couldn’t endure the Calamity Team’s training, Fang Zhou immediately returned them.

After all, with Lieutenant General Ning’s promise, any deficiency in numbers would naturally be replenished the next day.

Utilizing his connection with Major General Guan Huchi, Fang Zhou secured opportunities for his subordinates with talents in Battle Qi cultivation, such as Leng Feng, Zhuo Yue, and other Silver-level combat professionals, as well as a few exceptionally talented Bronze-level officers, to receive guidance from the Golden Limit master Guan Huchi.

After all, as his subordinates grew stronger, Fang Zhou’s own reputation benefited.

This move only made these officers even more devoted to him.

Especially Leng Feng, who was willing to offer his life out of gratitude for Fang Zhou’s recognition.

Fang Zhou not only rescued him from the Golden Middle Rank Hydra Crocodile King during the exploration of the Demon Crocodile Swamp but also arranged for him to receive personal guidance from a Golden Limit expert.

This was something most combat professionals couldn’t even dream of.

On the tenth day, Fang Zhou learned from Major General Guan Huchi that the defeated Count of Naples, who escaped from Hell Pit Fortress, was now holed up in another city with his remaining forces, showing no intention of counterattacking.

Moreover, Lieutenant General Ning Danxin had been ordering the fortress repairs all this time, with no signs of dispatching troops.

With the training and integration of the Calamity Special Operations Team on track, Fang Zhou could finally focus his main attention on the Blood Spirit Lord clone.

Although Fang Zhou was now able to multitask, simultaneously controlling the clone and his main body in combat.

However, unlike generally low-intensity battles, the recent siege warfare Fang Zhou’s Undead Mage main body engaged in at Hell Pit Fortress involved Bronze-tier being insignificant, Silver being commonplace, and Gold often taking action in the high-end battlefield.

Moreover, the Calamity Special Operations Team under Fang Zhou was tasked with the most intense city-breaking operations.

Under such circumstances, Fang Zhou dared not to be distracted, focusing all his attention on the battlefield.

It was only after the successful capture of Hell Pit Fortress and the reorganization of the Calamity Special Operations Team that Fang Zhou allocated some of his efforts to the clone.

In the past ten days, according to his plan, Fang Zhou consumed a large amount of soul power to teleport massive amounts of middle and low-tier undead resources from the Tomb Territory.

Then he exchanged these resources for a substantial amount of Blood Moon Coins from the Blood Moon Merchant Trist, totaling 1 million.

Seeing Trist’s excited grin, Fang Zhou naturally understood that selling such middle and low-tier undead resources in this way wasn’t cost-effective.

But he had previously conducted market research in Tusk City, and Trist’s prices were mid-range in town.

Additionally, given his understanding of Fang Zhou’s power, Trist didn’t dare to excessively undercut the price. This transaction wasn’t too disadvantageous.

After all, for Fang Zhou, who was on the verge of breaking through to the Golden Middle Rank, these middle and low-tier resources below the Silver level were of little use to him.

He had entire Wasteland of Strife as his territory, where he could gather a massive amount of middle and low-tier undead resources at any time.

Quickly converting them into the Blood Moon Coins he most needed was his priority.

After acquiring a significant amount of Blood Moon Coins from Trist, Fang Zhou didn’t hold onto this wealth for even a day before spending it all.

He exchanged it for a bulk of resources from Trist and other merchants he introduced, which could help his tomb undead leaders break through their bottlenecks and advance to Gold.

Resources capable of affecting Gold-level undead were indeed high-level, and their prices were more than five times higher than middle and low-tier resources.

Additionally, the costs of permanently summoning these tomb undead leaders to the Blood War Furnace via the Tomb Teleportation Gate had to be considered.

And bringing these tomb undead leaders to the Blood Moon Observatory to receive the baptism and recognition of the Blood Moon Will incurred enormous expenses.

Half a month later, when Fang Zhou summoned the Corpse Witch Lord Murphite, the Bone Dragon Uriel, along with Tidamia, Sain, Leblanc, Vladimir, Karsas, and Apache, the tomb undead leaders, all to the Blood War Furnace, promoting them to the Golden Lower Rank, his previously acquired over 1 million Blood Moon Coins were entirely spent.

The result was eight loyal Golden-level undead at his command.

Indeed, besides the six tomb undead leaders, the Corpse Witch Lord Murphite and Bone Dragon Uriel also offered their loyalty to Fang Zhou for breaking through their bottlenecks and ascending to Gold.