Undead Mage from a Cell

The sudden attack of three Level 19 Puppet Dragons successfully killed a Level 19 Titan and took the Titan's heart.

Thus, the direction of this world started veering off in a different path.

Initially, the Thunder Research Institute, which lost its Level 19 guardian, began researching ways to remedy the situation.

Later, other forces noticed this development and, to prevent the Thunder Research Institute from regaining its foothold, they also quickly started their research.

Among them, Dragon Exile Tower and Silverlight Academy were the first to research the use of the Titan heart to make Puppet Dragons, and they quickly restored some items.

However, the most crucial part of letting Puppet Dragons grow to Level 19 had still not been figured out.

At this time, news came from the Dark Academy, which had always been situated in the Underworld.

This included the hero's growth path.

Meanwhile, leveraging their research on extracting Earth Vein energy, Dark Academy raised their academy's resident Level 19 Dark Titan to Level 20.

It became the first Level 20 powerhouse in this world.

Thus, a chaotic battle ensued to prevent others from getting ahead, and this research on extracting Earth Veins quickly became popular in the world.

Very soon, the military strength of this world saw a comprehensive boost.

Most Titans started at Level 15 and could soon reach Level 17.

Other unit types followed suit, and the battles between the various forces intensified.

This kind of warfare also made all forces need more resources, thus increasing their intensity in extracting Earth Veins significantly.

Once or twice was fine.

As the number of times increased, the situation in this world changed.

First, the upper limit of this world appeared, with Level 20 becoming the cap.

Then, over ten Level 20 entities appeared all at once and fought a battle, which lowered the world's limit.

The cap was dragged directly down to Level 15.

If it were only this, it would have been manageable. They could still hold steady at Level 15.

But because before this battle, all forces had been developing their military strengths, with over three thousand troops above Level 15.

Now, with the cap restrained to Level 15, to maintain these troops above Level 15, they had to extract Earth Vein energy madly to find a way for these entities above Level 15 to survive.

Therefore, research into extracting Earth Vein mines delved deeper, and the speed of energy extraction increased rapidly.

Under such extraction, the surface vanished completely, and the level cap of this world dropped level by level.

By the time they realized something was wrong, it was already too late. Eve had escaped to the Underworld by then.

To ensure the survival of this world, the forces that fled underground ultimately sealed all units exceeding the world's level cap somewhere underground.

And they researched how to create more troops with the least resources.

If their research didn't yield any problems, there was hope for this world.

But the sealed powerful units were not content.

They launched a rebellion.

In this rebellion, all units above Level 4 were annihilated, and the world's level cap, from when they fled to the Underworld at Level 10, became Level 7.

Eve, fortunate with her own methods of concealment, remained intact.

Over the years, through various strategies, she gradually took control of the Underworld.

If not for Gu Xi coming over, perhaps in a few centuries or millennia, there might still be hope for this world.

But now, all of this benefited Gu Xi entirely.

Not to mention, in Eve's hands were concentrated the research results of most of the Seven Great Forces from back when this world still existed.

Also, Eve herself was a competent researcher.

As long as she had a direction, she could research and come up with something.

As for how much the researched results would be useful, that depended on the ideas proposed by Gu Xi and the others.

For instance, the Mechanical Dolls present in this world now were her research output.

All the external Illusion Techniques and monitoring devices were also handled by Eve.

It can be said that Eve's involvement truly provided Gu Xi with a professional researcher.

After explaining all these things, Eve was still sighing there.

"If it weren't for the fact that waking up consumed too much energy, and normally only about one-tenth of my consciousness stayed awake, I wouldn't have let you find me."

Gu Xi pondered for a moment but didn't mention that as long as she didn't escape, he could dig out this place.

Instead, he shifted the conversation to the resources that can be taken from this world.

Gu Xi did not forget what his main goal was upon coming to this world.

In this regard, Eve didn't bother hiding anything about this world.

So she openly detailed the various situations of this world.

With Eve guiding, Gu Xi's exploration speed of the Underworld increased significantly.

At least many paths didn't need to be searched by Gu Xi's subordinates anymore, and some hidden items were unearthed at once.

There were several crucial places within this.

For example, the Puppet Dragon Graveyard, the last known site of the hero who triggered the world's great change.

Another was the main battlefield where surface forces fought the Dark Academy to enter the Underworld.

And the slumbering site of rebelled, sealed, powerful units that were extinguished.

These places were enormously attractive to Gu Xi.

Therefore, under Eve's guidance, Gu Xi dispatched his Ghost Squad to these locations to transport items.

As for Gu Xi himself, he repeated the initial plan.

Summoning, converting Ghost Dragons.

As for the gains from this world, that would await their return after completing this world.

Seeing Gu Xi thinking this way, the Contracted Undead under him no longer tried to persuade.

They all understood that what Gu Xi was doing now was very meaningful for his growth.

The best they could do was help Gu Xi handle miscellaneous affairs.

Just like each time after Summoning, Eldest Princess Anna would actively step forward to help integrate the newly summoned Undead Corps, arranging them to designated places.

Whenever resources were transported in, Luna would voluntarily handle their allocation.

Shaya stayed by Eve's side, inquiring about the fundamental intelligence of this world.

They were all employing their own methods to ease Gu Xi's burden.

Just like that, five days had passed in the blink of an eye.

With Eve's assistance, Gu Xi's forces finally completed a full exploration of the Underworld, completely emptying it.