Plop! Thud!
All sorts of strange sounds echoed at the entrance/exit of the 'dimensional gate' on the seventeenth floor of the Dungeon.
The 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) attracted by Gros's shouts were like chickens lining up to enter a cage, falling one after another into the pit Chen Hai had dug.
Once the number exceeded ten, Reed unleashed magic attacks on those lifeless, blood-soaked, terrifying monsters.
As strong winds and light erupted simultaneously, the Corpses in the pit became completely still.
Chen Hai's experience points also rose accordingly.
From this perspective, even things without 'true life' could become Chen Hai's experience points.
As long as the act of 'combat' was involved in the process.
The only drawback was that the experience points weren't many.
But there's a saying, 'many a little makes a mickle', and the world where Saeko Busujima and others live contains a large number of 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse).
A city has at least hundreds of thousands of people.
Excluding survivors and eliminated Corpses, the number is definitely still over a hundred thousand.
However, it's impossible for all these 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) to obediently move into Chen Hai's cave.
Therefore, having the Izdihar responsible here is just preliminary preparation.
Chen Hai plans to, when the time is right, occupy the island nation of Japan through the Adventurers of Orario.
Finally, using the island nation as a springboard, he will thoroughly conquer the 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) plane where the Corpse virus erupted.
Then—
[Once the occupation rate of the other world reaches one hundred percent, all battles and conflicts on the entire planet will become the Host's experience points; moreover, because of the recent crisis, the nations of the 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) plane will definitely conflict for new markets and resources.]
What Chen Hai was thinking was analyzed by the system, which also provided a simple summary.
This system is quite good… it reminded Chen Hai of the 'unique skill' from another reincarnation work — Great Sage.
This skill belonged to Satoru Mikami from that time i got reincarnated as a slime, and it could help the protagonist accelerate thinking, analyze targets, perform appraisal, and so on.
[This system believes itself to be stronger.]
Confidence isn't a bad thing.
[This system eagerly anticipates the day the Host completely conquers a world.]
Speaking of which… assuming the 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) plane is fully occupied, and after people realize Chen Hai's power, how should those nations be made to fight?
[This system has a suggestion, and it can also confirm that it is a suggestion the Host is well aware of.]
What?
As Chen Hai was curious, the system continued,
[In human society, there is a novel genre called 'National Destiny Binding'. You can set up wars and battlefields to have representatives from various countries compete for rankings, and then allocate resources according to those rankings.]
The system really knows everything.
Chen Hai couldn't help but retort.
He did remember this 'National Destiny Binding' genre.
Typically, the protagonist has a golden finger, crushes the representatives of other countries, and receives the highest-level rewards.
If this competitive system were placed in the 'Living Dead' (Zombies/Corpse) plane, it seemed there would be no problem.
[As long as a certain scale is limited, the entire world can be kept in continuous conflict.]
[Of course, there is also a permanent solution, such as — nuclear war.]
[Large scale, powerful, highly destructive, and capable of yielding a lot of experience points.]
[Because the 'nuclear weapons' used by modern humans are equivalent to the top-tier magic of some high-magic planes, at least reaching the battle power level to easily 'destroy a city'.]
It must be said, it's a bit terrifying.
Chen Hai indeed needed experience points, but he had no intention of playing the role of a world-destroying demon king.
To start a nuclear war in another world just for experience points was too outrageous.
And most importantly—
[Large-scale warfare is not sustainable. After one wave of experience point harvesting, the next might drop to one-thousandth or one-ten-thousandth of the level. I understand this point; the Host focuses more on future gains than immediate benefits, which is indeed the correct action.]
This was what Chen Hai wanted to say.
It was still that saying, draining the pond to catch all the fish is the most foolish.
Therefore, Chen Hai would not be curious about 'how many experience points there would be after a nuclear war'.
At the same time, Vini was staring at Chen Hai.
As a newcomer to the 'Izdihar group', Vini had never deeply understood this world, so she felt both curious and afraid of everything.
Especially beings other than 'Izdihar'.
For Vini, her identity was different from humans, and she would also be attacked by monsters, so she was directly caught in the middle.
But now Vini put these thoughts aside.
She was very curious about how the Dungeon Lord would arrange things for her next.
So Vini spoke softly,
"Dungeon Lord… sir, is it okay for us to stay here?"
"Oh? Why do you ask?"
"This floor… there are a lot of humans, right?"
Vini hadn't been with the 'Izdihar' group for long, but she had already witnessed the terrifying nature of both humans and monsters.
At her words, Chen Hai snapped his fingers.
The path leading here was immediately blocked by a wall.
And on the side, a spiral staircase was generated, allowing them to return to the 'Heretic Secret Chamber'.
"Now you don't have to worry."
"As expected of the Dungeon Lord…"
Mermaid Mari looked at the labyrinth with its changed terrain, once again realizing the power of the Dungeon Lord before her.
At the same time, this also made Mari begin to ponder the relationship between the 'Izdihar and the Dungeon Lord'.
Are they considered to be living in the Dungeon Lord's home?
After all, the entire labyrinth was under the Dungeon Lord's control.
If he didn't let them stay anymore, what would they do… they couldn't just run to the surface, could they?
Mari imagined such a situation, and it could be said to be quite bad.
Fortunately, she believed her Dungeon Lord was not that kind of terrifying guy.
"The world beyond this strange gate feels quite vast, Dungeon Lord… can we go see it?"
Fei'er stared at the 'Living Dead' plane with great interest.
Besides flora and fauna, what most attracted the Heretics were modern human buildings.
Various towering skyscrapers stood tall, igniting a strong desire for exploration.
Not just Fei'er, but Rei also had similar thoughts.
"What kind of world would it be, so different from ours?"
Before she finished speaking, Guros voiced his thoughts from another perspective.
"Those humans infected with the virus turned into monsters bleeding from all seven orifices, like unconscious puppets. Does that mean we can survive in that world?"
Compared to the 'Heretic Secret Chamber' in the Dungeon, Guros believed the 'world where humans were infected by a virus' was better.
It was normal for him to think this way... The Heretics in the Dungeon were attacked by monsters and disliked by humans.
But in the alternate world beyond the dimensional gate, humans had disappeared, leaving only Corpses and empty cities.
"Develop in another world?"
Lizardman Reed fell into thought upon hearing his companions speak.
"Host, the 'Living Dead' world (occupation rate: 5%) now covers the human school building you previously visited; furthermore, a one-kilometer radius centered on the school building has been assimilated by the Dungeon."
En... Chen Hai was well aware of this.
There were reasons for him to arrange the Heretics within the Dungeon.
First: higher efficiency;
Second: greater safety.
However, since the Heretics wanted to explore the alternate world, he had no intention of refusing.
"That's fine."
Chen Hai nodded.
"Outside the dimensional gate, the closest building to you was originally a human school. Now you can use it as a base to attract and hunt 'Living Dead'."
"Really... we can?!"
Reed was very surprised.
"You are responsible for building that schoolhouse into a base; it will be useful in the future."
"Of course! Whatever Lord of the City says, we will do!"
The Heretics seemed very happy.
Even Vini was the same.
Leaving the Dungeon, which contained monsters and Adventurers, to go to an alternate world where humans had mutated, was a good thing for them.
"Then prepare yourselves. Afterwards, turn the schoolhouse into an outpost."
This outpost was Chen Hai's first step in his future conquest of the 'Living Dead' plane.
And he decided to entrust this task to the Heretics.