Undying Warlord

There was not much time for everyone to be in agony, not even those who wanted to grieve over the loss of their loved ones.

It was necessary to clean up the battlefield, install new traps and improve themselves to become stronger in order to make sure that they would have even fewer casualties when the new batch of Vampires attacked them after arriving in Shiron.

According to their calculations, it would take less than two days before other Vampire Clans would reach the base of the Undying group, which was barely enough time to do a few things.

As such, it was only fortunate that there were no signs of Vampires even after two days had passed.

No attack happened and it felt like the first four Vampire Clans had been the only Vampires interested in the Sanctum Keys.

Sven and the others believed that the other Vampire Clans took longer because they were marching at them with bigger armies, which included the weaker Vampires that were Tier-1 existences of a lower level.

The four Vampire Clans that the Undying group had fought had hastily come over, leaving behind their weaker forces to rush to Shiron as quickly as possible. That was why their numbers had been so low.

A huge army was expected to arrive in the following days, which was why everyone worked tirelessly, especially Dilan and the other high authorities.

They wanted to become as strong as possible in the shortest time and that worked somewhat fine. Many new Enhancement Potions such as -Swiftness- had been created by Sarah, and they were given to all the Ascenders, who contributed the most to the victory in the first large-scale battle against the Vampires.

Meanwhile, Dilan was mostly focused on conquering the Pagoda of Time. This had multiple reasons, including accumulating more Dungeon Points, collecting the treasures and whetstones the monsters dropped, and last but not the least, their Essence crystals.

Dilan didn’t take a single break when conquering the Solo mode of the Pagoda of Time, which was how he conquered the instance dungeon more than 50 times within two full days.

He was worn out and dead-tired but the number of Essence crystals he found in his storage ring was even more astonishing than the number of <Bronze> and <Silver> Tier-1 treasures. There were even three <Gold> Tier-1 treasures Dilan had been able to collect.

They were certainly great treasures, but they were not of any use to Dilan, who was actually quite satisfied with the equipment he was currently wearing.

It was not overly powerful in terms of their reinforcement in stats but their abilities could be used quite well for various means to survive a variety of unexpected situations.

With all the accumulated Essence crystals, Dilan was able to get his hands on every single Infected Essence crystal in the trading hub.

Many Ascenders had begun to search the cities in the surroundings to find helpless Survivors, small groups of Ascenders that were willing to join the Undying group, and also larger groups that could either join them or become friendly affiliates.

They didn’t come across many large groups in the surrounding cities but there were certainly many smaller groups of Survivors and Ascenders. Most of them chose to join the Undying group and they returned with the Scouts, whose secondary mission was to kill every single zombie and collect their Essence crystals.

The secondary mission was as successful as the first one. In only two days, they increased the number of infected Essence crystals drastically, and they brought back large numbers of Survivors, including powerful Ascenders.

The newcomers were warned that the Undying group was bound to face attacks from several large groups of Vampires, which made many groups hesitate to join them. However, when they witnessed the strength of the Undying group’s ordinary Scouts, they quickly changed their opinion.

The Scouts could easily defeat Silver Tier-1 monsters, which was more than enough reason to trust the Undying group a little bit.

Dilan felt that it would be advantageous if more humans would join them because it felt like they needed more manpower to fight against the Vampires.

However, after the Vampires didn’t bother to arrive a whole day after they had been expected, Dilan switched his focus on absorbing all the Essence crystals he had received.

[105,315 Essence crystals of varying qualities and Tiers have been absorbed. No stats attributed to the host!]

Dilan knew that he wouldn’t get any stats from the Essences he had collected. The infected Essence crystals had been collected by others and they were of extremely bad quality. Most were, in fact, Tierless Essence crystals, but that was of no concern for Dilan.

As for the other Essence crystals, Dilan had already received status enhancements from all the monsters, which inhabited the Pagoda of Time. Thus, he didn’t receive any additional status points, which was perfectly fine because Dilan’s target had been something entirely different from the beginning.

[Essence pool has been filled. Host reached Level 15(Tier-1)! +1.0 Status points can be allocated!]

[Essence pool has been filled. Host reached Level 16(Tier-1)! +1.0 Status points can be allocated!]

[Essence pool has been filled. Host reached Level 17(Tier-1)! +1.0 Status points can be allocated!]

[The host absorbed various infected Essence crystals, meeting several requirements to upgrade passive ability [Immunity] Tier-0 ★ to Tier-0 ★★★★★]

Dilan received slightly more Essences from absorbing Essence crystals after two of his five stats had been maxed out. Nonetheless, absorbing more than 100,000 Essences merely resulted in three level-ups.

Adding the fact that his Essence pool had almost been full beforehand already, leveling up to Level 15 only required a slight nudge. Thus, one could say that 100,000 Essence crystals were only worth about two levels.

Dilan was not dissatisfied by this because he had expected such an outcome. In fact, he was quite happy about his passive ability [Immunity]. It advanced much more than he could have hoped for, which was satisfying to see.

[[Immunity (Passive)] Tier-0★★★★★✭✭

Gains immunity against poisons and infections below Tier-2 Level 10! Immunity includes scratches of zombies, restricted to 1000 scratches/bites a day (1000/1000)]

[[Immunity] Tier-0 ★★★★★-

Upgrade requirements

1) Essence of ‘100,000’ infected monsters has to be absorbed [14,568/25,000]

2) Bronze Essence of ‘10,000’ infected monsters has to be absorbed [7530/10,000]

3) Essences of ‘1,000’ Tier-1 infected monsters have to be absorbed [261/1000]]

The Upgrade requirements of the Immunity ability were not that difficult. Dilan only had to keep requesting the Trading hub to collect Infected Essence crystals for him, and that was it.

It was only a matter of time before his Immunity ability would be upgraded again. Thus, Dilan averted his focus as he inspected a new batch of passive abilities to figure out whether there was something useful for him or if he had to keep searching for new passive abilities to bind.

“What are you looking for?” Kathrine appeared next to him all of a sudden. Dilan turned his head to her with a faint smile on his lips.

He hadn’t seen anyone in the last two days, but that was only obvious because he had been inside the Pagoda of Time, spending his time efficiently.

Now that his level was too high, it was not possible for him to enter the Pagoda of Time ever again after he stepped out. This was quite sad but Dilan accepted this rather easily.

“I’m just looking for a new passive ability. I still have a few slots left to occupy,” He answered her honestly, turning his head back to the large shelves that were filled with ability crystals.

“How about a semi-passive ability?” Kathrine suggested and Dilan raised an eyebrow at that.

“A semi-passive ability…? That might not be a bad idea…”