Chapter 1015: Horizon
Taking a break was not an activity Loimos partook in, or any undead for that matter, so as soon as his business in the Emerald Realm was done, he moved to the next thing on his list.
As it stood, now that Emerald Realm was conquered and with the slow pace of progress in expanding undead territory, there was no big mission that actually required the champion’s involvement in any way, the other superpowers were not yet touchable, it would simply be idiotic to start hostilities when they could still make plenty more preparations.
Verdoyante was under Yuolrt’s jurisdiction to take care of, Yoreterre was not a place that they could freely conquer either, as that would provoke the other superpowers into taking action against the Empire, so currently, apart from making progress with the royal miasma that was many times slower than a snail, the best that could done in the way of expansion was conquering islands, small civilisations that were sometimes found living under the sea and realms.
The first two were rather rare these days, islands were only discovered over the horizon every once in a while, and although somewhat intelligent beings that formed large groups were a bit more common, they did not tend to form large enough groups to allow for sudden creation of enough miasma to hasten progress.
It only left the realms and the expansion technique tied to them.
Overall, the amount of still unconquered realms currently known and accessible to the Empire numbered in the thousands, most of them were small and uninteresting, so much so that they couldn’t be used for the expansion technique, but they still provided the Empire with additional land.
The main attractive aspect of realms was not actually the chance to discover new species that could bolster the ranks of the Empire, or novel ways of power, unique resources and the likes, but the flat amount of additional land they provided, realms took up basically no space whatsoever, but could be as large as entire continents, if not far larger than that.
They could be used for undeads to settle in, or to create unique breeding grounds to cause the emergence of specific naturally spawned undeads, the latter was the fate of most of the small and bare realms that were basically just small plots of land without any livings beings apart from grass and a few trees.
One thing that was on the bucket list was a realm which gateway could be moved in an efficient manner, the architects and engineers had great plans to fashion a mobile fortress this way, apparently finding the creation of typical mobile bastions too easy for them now, causing theories and ideas to sprout about more complex and unique designs.
That was a good thing, the madness of the architects was what made them so effective and competent in their endeavours, some of what they constructed was definitely unnecessarily complicated or bizarre, but many considered that this was what gave the Undead Empire its charm.