Two hours later
Outside Blazing Sun City, 8 soldiers rode on their mechanostrider while a dragon flew above them.
Riding in the middle of the group was undoubtedly the lord, Zhou Zhou.
Except for the dragon, everyone else what putting on an armor that matched their combat professional grade.
"Let's go f*ck the regional scarlet lord up!"
Zhou Zhou grinned as he said to his soldiers.
"Yall!!"
The soldiers shouted before chasing after their lord.
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In the desert
Zhou Zhou and the soldiers looked at the sandman's territory in the distance.
A huge desert pyramid laid there with about 200 sandmen patrolling the perimeter of the pyramid.
The others should be inside the pyramid with the regional scarlet lord.
"Go bring me the corpse of the leader of the sandmen."
Looking straight at the huge desert pyramid, Zhou Zhou said to the limit soldiers.
"Yes, my lord!"
Lu Chong, Bai Yung, Hui Teng, Qin We and Man Nao answered before rushing towards the sandmen.
Seeing the unfamiliar life forms running towards them, the sandmen quickly began their counterattack.
At the forefront of the group, Bai Yung leapt forward after arriving within 20 meters from the first-line of the sandmen's defense.
"Goodbye."
He muttered before using the mental manipulation skill to stun the sandmen closest to him.
Unable to put up a defense against the White silver-tier life form, the sandmen were silently sent to the Netherworld.
Sprinting pass the busy Bai Yung, Lu Chong, Hui Teng and Man Nao made use of the mental manipulation skill to stun their opponents.
I need such a skill.
Envious of the skill used by his fellow soldiers, Qin We could only sigh as he cross blows with a Green bronze-tier elementary grade sandman.
Making use of the mental manipulation skill and their close combat techniques, the soldiers of Blazing Sun Territory easily slaughtered every enemy on their path.
Watching the battle, Zhou Zhou noticed an issue in the combat form of his soldiers.
They can handle the attacks of multiple opponents at once, but they don't seem to have an attack that can take out multiple opponents at once.
The only attack my territory has that can take out a large number of opponents is Nezario's dragon breath and his charge.
And the reason his charge can cause so much damage is due to his body size.
A bigger sized Lu Chong might indeed be able to slaughter dozens of opponents with a single strike of his spear.
Contemplating for a solution to his problem, he was absent minded to the state of the battlefield.
Taking out both the summoned sandmen and the originals around them, the soldiers continued their massacre as they advanced towards the desert pyramid.
"It's coming."
Huang Sai muttered as he caught sight of a sandman holding a golden staff and wearing a golden mask.
It was more than 3 meters tall and looked quite tall.
Zhou Zhou brought his focus back to the battlefield before looking at the regional scarlet lord.
The monster information appeared a moment later.
[Monster Name: Sandman Lord – Simon (Scarlet Lord)]
[Strength Level: White silver-tier elementary grade]
[Monster Description: The strongest scarlet lord in the blazing sun desert. It controls the entire blazing sun desert and has many sandman subjects under its command. It is good at summoning and was once a member of the emperor of sand's race when the emperor of sand was alive!]
[Loots: 10 white silver-tier mist cores, 5 origin crystals, 300 kg black iron-tier sand crystal, White silver-tier elementary grade (one sandman scepter, one sandman mask, one sandification skill book, one sandman summoning lord, one alchemy pharmacist recruitment book), 6 black iron-tier elementary grade lord talent crystal fragments.]
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"This will be fun."
Qin We said as he stared at the scarlet lord after bashing apart the head of an intermediate grade green bronze-tier sandman.
"I got this!"
Bai Yung said before dashing towards the masked sandman.
"Like hell I'll let you!"
Qin We made his move as he also shot after the masked sandman.
Ignoring the 2 competitors, Lu Chong, Hui Teng and Man Nao focused on taking out the remaining sandmen.
Seeing 2 enemies approaching it, the scarlet lord struck its staff to the ground, summoning 4 sandmen of the white silver-tier elementary grade.
Arriving in front of one of the sandmen, Qin We pulled it into his shield before thrusting his sword into the gem-like heart in its chest.
Ignoring the disintegrating sandman, he continued forward.
"Failing to stun you fakes doesn't mean I can't still take you out."
Bai Yung sneered at the summoned sandmen without a mind of their own.
Repeatedly switching his spear between his hands, he danced through 2 of the summoned sandmen while leaving an empty spot in their chests.
Bringing his focus on the masked sandman, he saw it about to summon a new batch of sandmen.
"Too late."
Bending his upper body backward, he tossed his spear towards its chest.
With a spear puncturing through its heart, the sandman began disintegrating into sand.
"That shouldn't be."
Bai Yung was confused at the state of the sandman.
"It wasn't supposed to disintegrate. Only summoned sandmen disintegrate."
"Damn!"
Qin We cursed as he flew backwards after getting hit by the masked sandman's staff.
"It could switch with sandmen it summoned?"
Clarifying his confusion, Bai Yung quickly retrieved his spear before using the mental manipulation skill on the masked sandman.
Pausing for a moment, the masked sandman quickly recovered before slamming his staff into the ground, summoning a new batch of sandmen.
Whoosh!!
Bai Yung saw a blur flash passed him before puncturing through the chest of the masked man.
The 3 meters regional scarlet lord paused before losing the green glow in its eyes and falling face flat on the ground.
Turning backwards, Bai Yung saw Lu Chong straightening his body posture.
I won't be able to dodge his spear.
He thought after a few seconds of pondering.
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[Your subjects, Lu Chong and Bai Yung has killed the sandman lord (regional scarlet lord) – Simon. Promotion energy +240! Loots condensed!]
[The territory of the scarlet lord has become ownerless. You can plunder or occupy it!]
[The Blazing Sun Desert has become an ownerless area. After you obtain the regional token, you can become the regional lord of this area!]
"Regional lord…"
Zhou Zhou looked at the notification.
He was looking forward to it.
Then, he checked out his phantom storage.
[Promotion Energy Storage: 23,056 / 3,000,000 (1,000,000)]
'Not even enough to let either Huang Sai or Sun Can reach their limits.'
'Compared to the 2,250 fog monsters in the monster ranches, 1,126 sandmen really aren't that much.'
'The only advantage is the higher number of intermediate and advance grade green bronze-tier sandmen.'
He mused as he thought of plans to acquire large amount of promotion energy.
Soon, the limit soldiers brought the corpses of the 1,126 sandmen to Zhou Zhou.
Putting the corpses into his emperor storage ring, he began retrieving their loots.
As for the soldiers, they began searching for the accumulated resources of the sandmen.
[Lord Talent Hint: You have obtained loots - 10 white silver-tier mist cores, 5 origin crystals, 300 kg of black iron-tier sand crystal, White silver-tier elementary grade (one sandman scepter, one sandman mask, one sandification skill book, one sandman summoning lord, one alchemy pharmacist recruitment book), 6 black iron-tier elementary grade lord talent crystal fragments.]
'I'm not in a hurry to unlock the other effects of the phantom cage lord talent; I can have a new lord talent.'
Having his consciousness in his spatial ring, Zhou Zhou found the 6 black iron-tier elementary grade lord talent crystal fragments.
Then, he looked at the golden scepter.
It was completely made of gold. At the top of the scepter was a statue of a sandman wearing a crown whose face could not be clearly seen.
The equipment notification appeared.
[Equipment Name: Sandman Scepter]
[Equipment Grade: White silver-tier elementary grade]
[Equipment Effect 1: It can reduce a portion of energy consumption when using sand-element-related skills.]
[Equipment Effect 2: The user can swap positions with the life summoned by the sandman.]
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