Undead Mage from a Cell

Since the discovery of the Life-taking Stone powder, Gu Xi has been even more meticulous in dealing with the items buried beneath the black ash.

Gu Xi summoned the Ghost Squad transformed by White Impermanence.

They didn’t need to transport the black ash; they only had to bring it from the deep pit to the surface.

Then a large number of Undead dealt with this black ash.

Gu Xi’s intention was to first sift through this black ash.

Then, transport all of it back to Yalidov City by vehicle.

The Undead transporting this black ash were all newly refreshed from Yalidov City.

They were all converted from the nearly sixty thousand Mud Undead that were repeatedly slaughtered.

Now, the entire Yalidov City was focused on processing the spoils of war.

Even Eldest Princess Anna had no leisure time.

She couldn’t make time to organize these Undead, so she simply sent them all over to help with the transportation.

As for the vehicles used for transport, the Ammunition Vehicles were used temporarily. In the absence of transport vehicles, the Undead could carry or drag the items.

After all, Undead don’t tire; they just need to be packed, and they can keep walking back and forth, mostly wasting some time on the road.

Regarding the items sifted from the black ash, the Undead would immediately sort and package them.

Statistics were conducted hourly, with the latest data presented to Gu Xi.

While his Undead minions processed the black ash, Gu Xi himself was not idle.

In addition to studying the stones with Life-taking Stone powder, he also focused some energy on the black ash.

The description of this black ash indicated that it could be used to enhance Skeleton Soldiers or skeleton-type weapons and equipment.

However, Gu Xi found the enhancement effect to be rather unimpressive.

The amount of black ash that could bury a Skeleton Soldier only increased the attributes by 0.1.

This consumption felt somewhat wasteful.

After all, moving this much black ash from the pit consumed a lot of time.

If it increased the attribute by 1 point, it might be worth it, but just 0.1, and only for Skeleton Soldiers, rendered it quite useless.

Gu Xi also applied this black ash to the Death Incarnation - Bone Dragon and the White Bone Obelisk, besides being used for enhancing Skeleton Soldiers.

However, after experimenting, the effects were not satisfactory.

At this point, Gu Xi understood why Octopus Head Player discovered the function of this black ash early on but only used it as the foundation for Death City.

This stuff couldn’t be effectively utilized.

Frustrated, Gu Xi shook his head and prepared to conduct other experiments when new news arrived from Yalidov City.

The first batch of black ash had been delivered to Yalidov City.

Gu Xi’s four Contracted Undead had each taken a portion of the black ash for further research.

The recent messages indicated that it wasn’t that the black ash lacked utility, but rather that the proper direction hadn’t been found yet.

In Yalidov City, all four Contracted Undead genuinely needed the black ash.

The first to discover the function of the black ash was Eldest Princess Anna.

Upon receiving the black ash, Eldest Princess Anna immediately thought of the coal slag from Victoria City.

That substance had already caused a great fire in Victoria that led to its rebuilding.

As the former British Princess, Eldest Princess Anna naturally knew about the coal slag situation.

She used the coal slag handling method to process this black ash.

She found it could be used, for while black ash was also grey, it could provide energy, and the amount was considerable.

So Eldest Princess Anna immediately expressed her own need for the black ash.

However, Shaya quickly expressed her need as well.

She discovered the black ash matched the attributes of mummies, which had previously been traded with Gu Xi, so she took some to consult the mummies.

The mummies considered it valuable and prepared for a large import.

Most importantly, they offered a high price.

Shaya wasn’t sure if it was worthwhile to agree to the deal or not.

Luna and Eve responded more slowly but also had certain directions.

Upon receiving a portion of black ash, Luna discovered it had strong shielding capabilities.

Once the black ash ascended, neither normal sight nor spirit or other means could see the objects behind it.

This reminded Luna of a core building in the Undead City.

Dark Sky.

As the Death City, Yalidov City, just needed to level up to freely construct core buildings.

Dark Sky was never one of Luna’s main choices.

After all, Yalidov City wasn’t in the usual game world where Gu Xi played and fought.

It was located independently within the Mirror Image Underground Palace.

Dark Sky wasn’t necessary.

So even though Luna knew about this core building, she hadn’t considered building it earlier.

Now, with the black ash delivered, it offered Luna an opportunity.

This black ash could counteract peeping in spirit aspects; adding it to Dark Sky would surely be effective.

As for Eve, there was no doubt.

She was the only Contracted Undead who hadn’t found a result but requested a large amount of black ash from Gu Xi.

In Eve’s opinion, not finding a direction meant insufficient research materials.

If she had enough research materials, she could create wonders.

In Eve’s eyes, this black ash could serve as building materials, fertilizer, or magic materials.

Surely, there were many use cases.

Eldest Princess Anna using it as an energy source was fine; employing it for Dark Sky preparation was suitable.

However, Shaya shouldn’t sell it cheaply.

The mummies intended to import black ash in large quantities, indicating they had already found its usage.

That suggested potential development.

Directly selling raw materials would be a waste.

Despite the current abundance of black ash that couldn’t be transported back, it would eventually be exhausted.

If new methods were researched after the black ash ran out, how would they cope with material shortages?

In the end, they couldn’t just find another similar Death City for combat.

Even with a Death City Cluster behind the enemy.

Gu Xi would have to conquer it successfully.

Therefore, not all of the black ash could be sold; some had to be reserved.

For the differing opinions among the four Contracted Undead, Gu Xi was quite helpless.

Fortunately, the quantity of black ash was still quite large; from the current situation, it seemed it couldn’t be fully excavated within a month or two.

In the short term, Gu Xi didn’t need to worry about the depletion of black ash yet.

However, at this time, another issue presented itself to Gu Xi.

Could this space continue to support another month or two?