Wait, what is this? I Oh my.

Bayou is utterly startled by the introduction of this skill, exclaiming in excitement.

Bayou, what on earth are you doing at this late hour? Ahem.

Bayou realized she had lost her composure, waking the slumbering Inshi.

This is undoubtedly a top tier passive skill.

Bayou dared to read the skill description several more times in disbelief.

Indeed, she had not misread it at all.

This means Bayou has become undead like her minions, impervious to countermeasures.

As long as not all of her undead are vanquished, she remains immortal.

All the undead will share the burden of damage with Bayou.

At that moment, she felt she had truly become the queen of the undead.

The number of undead signifies the thickness of her life force.

She can now act with reckless abandon.

Eager to experiment, Bayou hastily opened her status screen to check her health.

Health 600.

None.

Bayou conjured a small blade of wind and sliced her wrist.

Yet, before any blood could flow, the wound healed instantaneously.

She then conceived a bolder act.

To verify the effects of her skill, she cast a curse upon herself, accepting the consequences herself.

Your level seven skeletal warrior has perished.

Three messages popped up in succession.

Although Byu's curse was not potent, it was nonetheless issued at the royal level.

She felt no repercussions, but three of her undead had perished, and the system did not clarify the cause of their demise.

This skill is exceedingly powerful.

Initially, Bayou had been concerned that other lords might acquire similarly formidable abilities, especially since the rewards for the top 10 on the leaderboard are identical.

However, the rewards are randomly drawn, and whether their professions possess such strength remains uncertain.

The second place on the points leaderboard still belongs to that trader who has reached 25 points, just one point behind by you.

Counting those lords who share the same score in the top 10, there are no more than 20 in total.

This may well define the future landscape of Lords.

Bayou silently noted these names.

The leaderboard has been completely shut down and Bayou begins to anticipate its next appearance.

At this moment, she is still enveloped in excitement and the troops can only be summoned tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Inshi, who has been awakened, finds herself unable to fall back asleep.

Her ears twitch incessantly, and her acute hearing allows her to detect the unusual behavior of a few individuals.

What could be the matter? Are you perhaps lacking oxygen? Chapter 231.

Above the town time, 6:00 by you rose punctually, adorning herself in her chair sailor outfit.

Chinfong and Chuna arrived as usual for their meal.

In the past, their daily fair consisted solely of roasted meat.

But now, not only was there someone to prepare their meals, but they also enjoyed the addition of vegetables.

This treatment was a stark contrast to their former existence.

Chunfong, being a gentleman, refrained from paying too much attention to Bayou.

After all, it is rather impolite for a man to frequently scrutinize a woman.

However, Chonu immediately noticed that Bayou had changed her attire.

Since their arrival, they had seen her in at least three different outfits, which was quite unusual.

Were it not for her status as a lord, Chinua might have assumed she was on holiday.

Please eat.

I shall summon a troop first, Bayou waved her hand, to which the duo responded with indifference.

After summoning her soldiers, Bayou began to inspect her warehouse supplies.

Thanks to the dwarves mining and refining efforts from the previous day, there were nearly enough iron ingots.

As for wood and stone, she had never been in short supply.

Moreover, with some stock available in the siblings warehouse, Bayou could easily mobilize those resources.

Bayou dispatch the undead immediately to retrieve iron or from the dwarven mines.

Xiao Yianua understood esteemed one, Xiaoin did not question Bayou, recognizing that her town had already reached level 9, likely necessitating resources to break through that threshold.

Bayou soared into the sky, observing the eastern boundary where her town met the previous territory.

The surrounding trees had long been cleared by the nightly monks.

Countless magical beasts, left homeless, were forced to encroach upon the territories of others.

These creatures united in their resistance against the undead, but were swiftly vanquished by Chunfong and Chinua.

Their objective was to swiftly elevate their rank by relying on the magical beasts along the periphery of the dark forest while the emerald hills would aid the rulers of Bayu S4 races in their rapid development.

If this pace continued, Bayou's power would experience exponential growth.

Soon the undead from the Bayan Mountains returned with the iron or to Xiao Yianu's castle.

Bayou did not wait for the dwarves to smelt it in the furnace as that would be too slow.

Instead, she employed her fire magic for a rudimentary purification followed by decomposition through the system.

Although some resources would be wasted in the process, Bayou was unperturbed, for these resources were just sufficient for her town as upgrade.

She had long been eager for this moment.

Upgrade Bayou thought with anticipation to witness the ensuing transformations.

In an instant, the supplies in the warehouse were depleted, accompanied by a tremor that resonated through the earth.

A radiant black and gold light began to emanate from the surroundings.

A spectacle far grander than that of the previous town upgrade.

Outside the town walls, towering black walls rose from the ground, majestic and standing at least twice the height of the town's original fortifications.

The ground cracked open, revealing a floor composed of black stones that entirely enveloped the town, leaving no trace of soil visible.

Bayou stumbled slightly.

The once even courtyard of the castle had vanished, replaced by a colossal staircase of stone that rose to cradle her gently upwards.

As Bai turned a look, she realized that her castle could no longer be deemed a castle.

It had transformed into a luxurious palace exuding a sinister black aura.

The four affiliated castles had also morphed into subordinate palaces encircling by Yu's grandabode.

The area of the palace was significantly larger than that of the original castle, nearly surpassing the size of the original town.

The walls that once safeguarded the town had now become the protective barriers for this palace.

The palatial complex was unevenly arranged with no doubt that the palace behind by you stood the tallest and most magnificent.

The black stone steps beneath her feet led directly to the palace gate.

The original protective barrier remained unchanged, merely repurposed to safeguard the palace instead.

The unique structures within the town had been repositioned, automatically allocated to sensible locations.

The Blackwater altar, the gateway of passage, and a series of defensive towers have been placed outside the palace.

While the positions of the four-wheel magic stone pillars, and concealed chandeliers remained unchanged, still located at the gate of the walls.

On either side of the broadstone steps, skeletal heads adorned the supporting pillars, their eye sockets ablaze with blue flames, casting an eerie azure glow that augmented the palace's uncanny atmosphere.

Bayou stood on the stone steps, her face a mask of shock, marveling at the magnitude of the transformation.

At that moment, her siblings and in she rushed out, joining her at the top of the stone steps, staring in astonishment at the changes surrounding them.

This was a city.

The opulent palace they now inhabited resembled the royal palace of a kingdom.

Establishing a kingdom, Bayou was once again taken aback by this revelation.

But upon glancing at the requirements, she realized this objective was still far beyond her reach.

She needed to upgrade the city to its maximum level, elevate her own strength to royal status, and acquire an item known as the tears of the kingdom.

Upon inspecting this item, Bayou noted that the acquisition conditions were both simple and daunting, the annihilation of a kingdom.

Based on the information revealed by the system and what Bayou had learned, it became evident that the kings of these native kingdoms were at least of royal caliber.

Bayou stood frozen, her astonishment rendering her heart restless, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information the system had bestowed upon her.

Just moments before upgrading the city, she had been ignorant of the next level of the town.

The tremors within the city had yet to subside, and Bayou speculated that much like the previous upgrade, she might receive some exclusive structure, she would have to wait for the tremors to cease in the city to complete its upgrade for the revelation.

Bayou summoned the system panel to check her city's information.

Gazing at the attributes, Bayou felt a wave of nausea.

Though the enhancement was immense, the exponential increase in upgrade resources was bewildering.