Chapter 438: Chapter 302: The Goblin Prince, A Path to Certain Death! (5.6K)

Tianyuan Territory, Staff of Divine Right.

Inside the colossal furnace, surrounded by nine flowing torrents, where light and shadow interweaved, a curtain aglow with star sand was fluttering.

Beautiful, dreamlike.

“The second-generation concealment skill has finally been created.”

Isloa wiped the sweat from her forehead. While the fusion of techniques wasn’t her main academic interest, after so many days and nights, the creation of this large-scale magic filled her with a great sense of accomplishment.

Next to her, Mu Yuan and General Duo Lai were truly drenched in sweat, looking thoroughly drained.

Duo Lai had even transformed into a jelly pancake, sprawled out flat on the ground.

Cool, so cool.

Didn’t want to get up anymore.

Duo had given it everything! After all, the initial fusion determined the limit of the technique, so it dared not slacken in the slightest. Afterwards, however, it got easier; it was just a matter of extracting energy from the small energy stones to power the Staff of Divine Right.

Lord Shepherd had to put in even greater effort since he had to not only manage energy output but also perform some of the intricate operations during the technique’s fusion, resulting in both physical and mental exhaustion.

However, when you consider it, the three of them working together to create a technique that could be called perfect and top-tier, overexertion was to be expected.

Usually, the work of research and fusion for such a technique would require a team of over a hundred elite mages to execute.

And yet, the final product would not be nearly as good as what the three of them had accomplished.

“The second-generation concealment technique, building on the basis of the Night Illusory Curtain and incorporating the River of Stars and Starry Eyes, not only makes the whole technique more natural and prolongs its duration, but it also significantly enhances the concealment of ‘life essence’. Moreover, under this technique, Tianyuan Territory is also greatly resistant to divination and predictions.”

Aside from having a higher cost than before, it had no flaws.

But even this cannot be said to be a flaw of the technique; it’s Lord Mu’s shortcoming.

He’s broke.

If Soul Sand were used as the energy source, this technique would burn through a hundred Soul Crystal Coins a day.

Even the Great Lord couldn’t sustain that.

Sustaining it would make his heart ache like it was being sliced with a knife.

Thank goodness for the small energy stones

「Large-scale Magic: Night Hidden Starry Sky」

Under the lord’s vision, this concealment skill appeared like a starry canopy covering the sky of Tianyuan Territory. With specks of starlight flowing and converging into rivers, occasionally an eye or two would open upon the curtain of stars, roll its eyeballs, and then plunge back into the abyss.

Though it was a tad strange, it didn’t matter as long as it was practical.

Apart from the lord’s perspective and the hero’s vision, ordinary people, even fourth-order strongmen or beings in the Legendary Realm, would not be able to witness such a spectacle.

Under the cover of Night Hidden Starry Sky, Tianyuan Territory seemed to vanish into a rift in space, invisible and undetectable. Fourth-order strongmen would need to be within a few kilometers to sense something was amiss.

Of course, it was different for those in the Legendary Realm.

Beings in the Legendary Realm could control the Power of Heaven and Earth and might spot the anomaly from afar. As for how far, Mu Yuan couldn’t be sure; he wasn’t a legend and had never experienced the wonders of that power.

“Regardless, the concealment offered by Night Hidden Starry Sky is quite ingenious and shouldn’t cause problems in the short term… After all, the wilderness is vast, and the nearest major tribe is hundreds of kilometers away.”

Mu Yuan didn’t plan to maintain it for too long.

The small energy stones he had wouldn’t last forever.

But it should be enough until Duo Lai ascended to Legendary, right?

He thought.

As a Devouring Slime, Duo Lai recovered very quickly. After lying flat on the cool floor for half an hour, it sprang up lively and spirited.

It began its daily tasks.

Eat! (strike through) Train!

Not picky about its diet to ensure a swift pace in its training, Duo Lai ate almost anything, including minerals, plants, and crystals.

Nowadays, most of Tianyuan Territory’s material income was going into Duo Lai’s stomach.

However, since Tianyuan Territory had cut off trade with the outside world and couldn’t engage in business with the Featherman kingdom, the materials income was effective.

The main income came from monsters’ tributes.

While there were plenty of monster materials, relying solely on devouring monster components could lead to an imbalanced diet, with a limited increase in basic attributes by the end of the day. To raise the upper limit of the daily training benefits, the only option was…

After battling for half a day, Duo Lai hustled to a small Soul Sand Mine a hundred kilometers away, covered and concealed, while the sky grew dim.

Glancing left and right, with no people or monsters around, Duo Lai used its rarely deployed earth-based ability to slowly burrow into the ground, reaching the depths of the mine.

Time to eat!

This Soul Sand Mine was buried deep, making excavation difficult and noisy, so Lord Mu had decided not to mine it until the situation in the surroundings had truly stabilized.

He just let Duo Lai nibble at it from time to time.

Nibbling was much easier for Duo Lai; it didn’t matter if it was ordinary rock, raw Soul Sand, or rich Soul Sand deposits, it simply swallowed them down for digestion without any fuss.

Silently, Duo Lai gnawed a large hole into the mine deep underground.

This was training.

The other commanders of Tianyuan Territory were also in training, whether they were leveling up, refining skills, deepening artistic conceptions, or practicing through sparring; the territory was alive with martial vigor.

There was no need for the Great Lord to urge them at all.

In the west, at the Skeleton Cemetery, ‘Bone Two’, calling himself the second strongest after Emperor Dead Bone, was teaching some elite Skeletons who had just awakened their self-awareness.

“I can recall the days when our territory was nothing more than a few thatched cottages; we, alongside Brother Dead Bone, stepped into the forest, combating a variety of enemies that seemed very strong back then… It all feels like it was just yesterday.”