The Little Archmage was, after all, a wandering split body of Hel — and there was no guarantee some powerful being wouldn't take notice of it.
To be safe, Hel couldn't directly take anything the Little Archmage obtained… except for one thing—
Word Tags.
Yes, the Little Archmage could also use the Word Tag System, since it carried a fragment of Hel's soul. That was precisely why Hel sent it out to roam and hunt.
Through the transfer function of the Tag Library, Hel could safely acquire all kinds of valuable tags, while keeping the Little Archmage's activities disconnected from her main body.
The tag [Storage Space (Purple)] was one of these.
The storage function of the magic ring was powered by this tag—meaning that wherever the tag existed, the storage space could be accessed.
This way, using the tag library as a bridge, Hel could transfer everything the Little Archmage gathered in the field straight into her own hands.
At present, though, the Little Archmage hadn't collected anything too special in the Mandrake Territory—just some low-tier elemental crystals.
But Hel could also use this setup to transfer lesser undead back to herself.
Undead that had advanced in rank could consume each other's elemental crystals to grow stronger. Those ones, Hel could leave with better talents and let them progress over time.
But unranked undead were different. They had no elemental cores, no aptitude for growth—they were just useless cannon fodder.
And since Hel couldn't openly give the Little Archmage a Death Sigil to use, this was the best way to collect them.
It was also much easier than summoning them through a teleportation array.
All the Little Archmage had to do was use the tag to absorb, absorb, absorb—filling its purple space that spanned a full 1,000 cubic meters, enough to store more than 20,000 corpses at once.
Thanks to this, Hel's undead army had expanded rapidly over the past few days—easily passing the one-million mark when combined with earlier numbers.
Satisfied, Hel stood up, opened the Undead Space, and stepped inside.
As she entered, the familiar noise of busy activity greeted her.
Since she needed to control the Little Archmage, Hel herself hadn't joined the sorting work—but Lily and the others were still at it.
Same setup as before—though this time, Sebas wasn't there.
Since there wasn't a massive backlog this time, Lily and the others could steadily process each batch Hel brought.
"Another batch's here."
Hel waved her hand, dumping the contents of her ring—thousands of zombie-like corpses—onto an empty stretch of ground.
The corpses didn't move, following the Little Archmage's pre-set commands, looking like a pile of lifeless bodies rather than restless undead.
"Again?"
Lily looked at the newly formed mountain of corpses and groaned, half-collapsing.
"I just wanted to take a day off…"
"A day off? Not happening."
The shameless capitalist Hel chuckled awkwardly—but seeing Lily's resentful little eyes, she relented.
"Alright, alright. Once we finish this batch, you can all take two days off. I'll work with you this time."
With a wave of her hand, a number of small skeletons crawled out from the corpse pile, ready to work.
Working together, the team's efficiency was excellent—within a short time, all 20,000 corpses had been processed.
But when it came time for fusion, Hel paused in thought.
Should she create another undead using the Soulburn Secret Technique?
No… her current stock of souls wouldn't be enough to create two at once.
Maybe it was better to enhance Hajikyo instead?
Currently, Hajikyo—her Skeletal Berserker—was at early sixth rank. At full power, it could fight evenly with a late sixth-rank opponent.
If she could raise it to the sixth-rank peak, it might even fight above its level.
But after some thought, Hel gave up on that idea.
To push Hajikyo further, she'd need five sixth-rank elemental crystals—and she only had a handful left.
Using just two wouldn't make enough of a difference. It would be better to make two new fighters instead.
Lily and the others were still digesting their elemental crystals, so they couldn't use them yet either.
So, back to the old plan.
This time, Hel deliberately decided the new skeleton would specialize in gun techniques.
During the Little Archmage's hunts, she had acquired several Gun Technique Word Tags, enough to give it a Gold-tier Gun Mastery tag, along with a Gold-tier Dragon Bloodline.
But when it came to a Secret Art tag, Hel hesitated.
She had already upgraded Hajikyo's Soulburn Tag to Gold-quality before—but replicating another Gold tag now would cost ten replication points, which felt wasteful.
Better to wait until she reached sixth rank herself, then copy it later.
For now, the new skeleton—soon to be named Hajigun—would just be a standard sixth-rank elite unit, not a hero-class one.
After thinking it through, Hel decided to give it a Gold-tier Bloodburn tag instead.
A skeleton using Bloodburn?
Not difficult at all.
As long as there was blood to burn, it worked.
And where would that blood come from?
From the poor Flesh Slimes, of course.
As expected, the Flesh Slimes became consumables once again.
Hel crafted five sixth-rank Bloodstones, each one sufficient for Hajigun to unleash the Bloodburn skill once.
Meanwhile, Hajikyo (the Skeletal Berserker) didn't go forgotten—now armed with Bloodburn, even at early sixth rank, it could likely dominate others of the same level.
That left Hel with one final sixth-rank elemental crystal.
Who should she give it to?
Niv's path focused on elemental affinity—it wouldn't help her.
The others were still digesting theirs.
So maybe… it was time to use it to create another new undead?