Chapter 515: Wasteland Incident 2

The Wormhole in the Void grew larger and larger until it completely overshadowed the Undead Fortress.

WHOOSH—

A wind kicked up, howling fiercely.

Li Ziyu suddenly felt his body go light, a sensation of weightlessness washing over him.

“City Lord, we’re ready!”

Before Li Ziyu could figure out what was happening, he heard Bebuta shout.

His eyes lit up.

‘Finally, it’s ready!’

‘Then what the hell are we waiting for!’

‘Any longer and we won’t be able to hold them off!’

“Activate the teleportation! Go, now!”

Li Ziyu roared with all his might!

Having received his command, Bebuta activated the teleportation without a moment’s hesitation.

A terrifying suction force erupted from the Wormhole, enveloping the entire Fortress.

Some of the Undead in the midst of battle found their sword swings feeling unnaturally light, and then realized their own bodies were beginning to float. They looked around in a daze, seeing their comrades floating up as well.

“Hmph!”

Seeing the Skeletons float into the air, Kroger snorted coldly and struck his Scepter against the Void. An invisible ripple spread outward.

The Void Creatures, who had been attacking frantically just moments before, suddenly retreated, each one scrambling to get away faster than the next.

‘The teleportation has already started. There’s no point in continuing this.’

Kroger didn’t press the attack. He didn’t know their destination. ‘If they’re teleporting back to the Undead’s home territory,’ he thought, ‘my Void Creatures will all be slaughtered.’

‘Next time,’ Kroger vowed internally, ‘the next time we meet, I’ll make sure to slaughter every last one of these Skeletons!’

Kroger seethed with anger.

RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE!

The pull of the Wormhole intensified. The massive Undead Fortress jolted twice, then slowly lifted off the ground, rising into the sky and moving toward the aperture.

Li Ziyu watched the Void Creatures shrink into the distance, then looked up at the massive black hole in the sky and became lost in thought.

‘This scene…’

‘I just feel like something is missing…’

A flash of inspiration struck. In that moment, he channeled his inner Team Rocket.

Li Ziyu’s eyes lit up.

‘Oh?’

‘I know what was missing!’

As his body floated in mid-air, accelerating ever faster, Li Ziyu suddenly threw his head back and screamed, “I’ll be baaaaaack~~~~”

His voice was still reverberating, but he had already been sucked into the Wormhole, leaving only a fading echo behind.

Hearing Li Ziyu’s final shout, Kroger’s expression darkened instantly.

‘You want to come back?’

‘Do you really think the Void Race is a pushover?!’

‘If you come back, I’ll make sure you stay here for good!’

As the Undead Fortress was sucked into the Wormhole, the massive portal in the sky rapidly shrank, vanishing in an instant.

The sky returned to normal, as if the Wormhole that had just appeared was nothing but an illusion.

The first part of the journey through the Wormhole was utter Darkness, but the second half was a dazzling kaleidoscope of colors.

The journey through the Wormhole didn’t take long. Soon, an exit appeared before Li Ziyu’s eyes.

A pulling force materialized, guiding the Undead Fortress through the exit.

His vision blurred. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer on the Green Grassland.

Li Ziyu floated gently back down onto the roof of the main tower. The area immediately around the Undead Fortress was strangely clear, perhaps an aftereffect of the Wormhole, but a little farther out, he could see dust churning in the air, as if they were in the middle of a sandstorm.

The Desolate Land of Death!

The familiar, sand-filled wind allowed Li Ziyu to instantly recognize this place: the Desolate Land of Death.

‘We’re back!’

“Oh, Wasteland, your king has retur— COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!…”

Li Ziyu, wanting to have a dramatic moment, hadn’t expected the clean bubble of air created by the Wormhole to suddenly vanish. The sandstorm swept in, blasting him in the face and stuffing his next words right back down his throat with a mouthful of grit.

‘Nope, can’t deal with this. I’m outta here.’

Li Ziyu ran for the main tower, repeatedly spitting to get the sand out of his mouth.

He wasn’t worried about the Undead, as this kind of weather couldn’t affect them.

Back inside the main tower, Li Ziyu did a quick headcount. Damenevsky, Bebuta, and the Leopard Woman Guli Geli were all there. ‘Good,’ he thought.

Damenevsky and Bebuta were fine, but the Leopard Woman Guli Geli was a mess.

Just after they had come through the Wormhole, the ever-curious Leopard Woman had rushed outside. Like Li Ziyu, she’d been blasted by the sandstorm and was now covered from head to toe in a filthy layer of dust.

“Mission accomplished,” Bebuta said, stepping forward to address Li Ziyu.

“Ptooey! Good work, good—ptooey—work,” Li Ziyu sputtered, still trying to clear his mouth of sand. That one mouthful had been massive; even after all this spitting, he could still feel grit between his teeth.

“This is where you live?” Damenevsky asked doubtfully, glancing outside.

The environment was far from ideal.

In fact, it was downright hostile, rivaling even the harshness of the Northern Territory.

Damenevsky was somewhat disappointed.

He wasn’t the only one; even Bebuta felt uncomfortable. He had no love for sandstorms either.

“No, no, no,” Li Ziyu said, quickly clearing up their misunderstanding. “This should be the Desolate Land of Death, a buffer zone at the edge of the Wasteland.”

Damenevsky and Bebuta seemed relieved to hear that.

After saying this, Li Ziyu fell silent and connected to the Soul Network.

Before going to the Void Land, he had spent all his time wandering the Desolate Land of Death, placing a Soul Base Station every so often.

He did this to ensure Soul Network coverage and to keep track of his location.

He’d been away from the Otherworld for a while; he needed to catch up on what had happened.

He didn’t know what the Otherworld was like before, but ever since the Transmigrators arrived, it changed from one day to the next.