<h4>Chapter 438 - Defending the ck Wastnd</h4>


    The third day after Zhao Hai and the others arrived at Flower City, assassins started appearing on the ck Wastnd. These people brought various antidotes for poison as they investigated everything inside.


    However, they soon discovered that they were mistaken. Even if they drank some antidotes so that they wouldn’t be poisoned temporarily, they didn’t expect to get besieged by arge number of undead. Moreover, these undead were very powerful, and since they’re undead, they didn’t need eyes to see the intruders. This meant that stealth techniques were utterly useless. All of their methods of stealth were not effective in dealing with the undead.


    It was already known in the continent that the most headache inducing enemies that an assassin could face were undead creatures. This was because most of their methods aren’t very effective against the undead. Hidden weapons were useless, poisons were useless, and assassinations were useless. In the minds of the assassins, the undead were a huge pain in the ass.


    For the assassins, to have headaches is when dealing with ordinary undead. They had no other fate than to die under Zhao Hai’s undead.


    Zhao Hai didn’t make his undead deal with the assassins by using their instincts. Instead, he grouped up a thousand undead and gave them to an Advanced Undead tomand. When the assassins enter the ck Wastnd, they didn’t immediately attack them since it would be very troublesome. When those people prated deeply into the area, they will surround them and then kill them in one go.


    When Zhao Hai heard that the first assassins had arrived in the ck Wastnd, he cared about it. He already knew that this day would arrive. As long as these people enter the ck Wastnd, then they wouldn’t be able toe back. After that, people would be too scared to enter his territory.


    At the current time, the other powers wouldn’t be sending in 9th rank experts to enter the ck Wastnd. 9th rank experts weren’t asmon as cabbages, they cannot just dispatch them casually.


    Common 9th ranks weren’t very willing to be dispatched easily, especially into the ck Wastnd. The ck Wastnd was too close to the Carrion Swamp. All of them knew that the 9th rank Magic Beasts inside the swamp were very strong. Most 9th ranks in the continent weren’t their opponents.


    More importantly, in thest few months, the poisonous mist from the Carrion Swamp has begun to spread to the ck Wastnd. All who entered barely managed to get out. Even if they did get out, the poison that they got from the fog eventually killed them.


    This poison was the same as those that proliferated in the Carrion Swamp. Because of this, ordinary people didn’t dare to enter the ck Wastnd.


    Naturally, this development was Zhao Hai’s arrangement. Zhao Hai wanted to instill the idea that the ck Wastnd has be the second Carrion Swamp.


    Zhao Hai’s n was very effective. In the beginning, when the Seven-colored poisonous mist started to spread to the ck Wastnd, some people started to examine what happened inside. Upon seeing nobody inside, they dered that the ck Wastnd has be a ce full of beasts and poisonous mist.


    This development naturally made the people of the Purcell Duchy very restless. They neighbored the ck Wastnd, if the Seven-colored poisonous mist continued to spread, they would be the first people to experience bad luck. This made the people from the Purcell Duchy attach great importance to the ck Wastnd.


    Fortunately for them, when the poisonous mist spread to the whole ck Wastnd, it didn’t go any further. Instead, the mist engulfing the ck Wastnd became thicker and thicker. People may be able to survive entering the ce in the beginning, but now, nobody managed to survive.


    But ever since Zhao Hai revealed the Buda n’s Banner, there were a lot of people who entered the ck Wastnd. These people were assassins sent by various nations. They also made sufficient preparations, they brought all kinds of detoxification potions as well as protective masks. But all of these were useless, these people wouldn’t survive. If the only thing present in the ck Wastnd was the poisonous mist, then they might have a chance to survive. But unfortunately for them, in the ck Wastnd, the poisonous mist wasn’t the only thing they need to look out for.


    These assassins entering the ck Wastnd was like a pebble entering the ocean. This fact made the Great powers feel suprise. They didn’t think that the ck Wastnd would be this terrifying.


    But to Zhao Hai’s disappointment, they didn’t send out 9th rank experts to do their investigations. Just as what Zhao Hai thought before, 9th ranks weren’t asmon as cabbage, they couldn’t just be casually deployed, especially to such a dangerous ce. This made the powers hesitate in sending them over.


    Although the great powers were somewhat wary of the Buda n, they weren’t afraid of them. After all, the Buda n was just another entity in the vast continent. Except for Boris who has a huge enmity with the n, most people didn’t take the Buda n too seriously.


    Even if Zhao Hai had a lot of good things in his possession, those wouldn’t’ be able to drastically affect the continent’s economy. For a lot of Nobles, only when you touch their sources of ie would they seriouslye and deal with you.


    In simple words, Zhao Hai didn’t pose a threat to their interests, so they didn’t go and intentionally provoke Zhao Hai. Naturally, the Radiant Church and Boris were different, their enmity with Zhao Hai was deep, there was no resolving it.


    Zhao Hai didn’t care about any of these, as long as the continent didn’t send in 9th ranks, he can carry on his ns in the Carrion Swamp.


    At this time, undead filled the ground of the ck Wastnd while Blood Hawks filled the skies. The defense of thend was already very solid. Even if a 9th rank came in, Zhao Hai can still deal with it. Thus, Zhao Hai didn’t really worry about anything.


    After ying around in Flower City for three days, Zhao Hai was already ready to carry out his n. But before carrying out his operation, Zhao Hai did another thing, it was to absorb parts of the carrion swamp into the Space, whether it be the mud or the nts in the swamp.


    Zhao Hai chose a ce in the swamp and absorbed a chunk of it into the Space. Taking in small insects, nts, and the mud. Then he took another ind sized chunk into the Space.


    These two absorptions made the Space’s farm reach level 45. He could now cultivate most of the nts. But it was a pity that the Ranch didn’t get upgraded, so Zhao Hai didn’t know what happens when the Ranch and Farm reaches level 30 and 40, respectively.


    Afterpleting all of these, Zhao Hai began to deal with the Carrion Swamp’s 9th rank Magic Beasts. For other people, dealing with those 9th rank beasts was difficult. But for Zhao Hai, it was much easier, he already had Zhao Wen and Cai’er,


    After Zhao Hai asked Cai’er about the positions of the 9th ranks, they started to n their course of action. One must know that dealing with 9th ranks wasn’t an easy thing. If they made the 9th rank escape, then it would certainly alert the other 9th ranks in the swamp, and eventually the entire Flower Protection Alliance. By that time, Zhao Hai’s losses would be great, so he needs to be careful.


    For the first target, Zhao Hai must choose someone who wasn’t very strong and was someone who didn’t get into contact with the others too much. This type of target would have the most chance of seeding.


    After Cai’er and Zhao Wen discussed for a long time, they finally decided on their first 9th rank target. This Magic beast was a flying type 9th rank Magic beast. It’s form was a Skrk, it flies quickly, has poison magic, and is very cowardly. This made it choose to not get in contact with other Magic Beasts often. His strength in the swamp was quitemon, not the same as Zhao Wen. So Zhao Hai decided on this target as well.


    Because of the Skrk’s personality, its territory was ced in an odd and remote location, ensuring that it would be the least attacked ce. Adding this to the other reasons, this made Zhao Hai choose him.


    But Zhao Hai was still very careful, no matter what, this was a 9th rank expert, someone not easily dealt with. Otherwise, 9th ranks wouldn’t be treated like nuclear weapons.


    Flower City didn’t undergo a change since Zhao Hai and the others directly appeared their using the Space. Therefore, the 9th ranks defending Flower City didn’t take note of the differences happening inside.


    Since Cai’er and Zhao Wen spent these past several months inside the Space, there shouldn’t be any huge change that happened inside Flower City. Therefore, the positions of the 9th ranks shouldn’t have changed as well.


    Time didn’t have any meaning to 9th ranks. For them, what they needed to do was toprehend the heavens and hopefully achieve supreme existence.


    Ninth rank experts would generally close up for several years at a time. Therefore, when Zhao Hai enter the swamp in the past, even if he let out a small disturbance, the 9th ranks didn’t give it much attention.


    Having decided on their target, Zhao Hai began their operation. Zhao Hai opened the monitor and released Zhao Wen, who was holding the Ghost Staff, on the northwest side of Flower City.


    This was the direction towards the Skrk’s territory. But before arriving there, they needed to pass through the territory of another 9th rank Magic Beast, one having the form of a typus.


    typuses were also present on the other parts of the continent. Moreover, its impression on the people was that of a very docile Magic Beast. If you don’t attack it, then it wouldn’t attack you.


    But the typus inside the Carrion Swamp was different. It was because the typus’ defensive measure was poison. Adding on to the environment inside the Carrion Swamp, this made the typus on the other parts of the continent very different from the ones inside the Carrion Swamp.


    As far as Zhao Wen knows, this 9th rank typus was one of the more terrifying existences in the swamp. It has tremendous strength as well as defensive power. The most important thing about this typus was that it was the most powerful poison expert in the entire swamp. This made him part of the top existences in this ce.


    1. Dead soldiers -> Assassins,… I was really hoping that they would be some special profession before. But it seems like they weren’t