They were supremely intimate.
Richard had bound their souls to them before the eggs hatched.
The sandworms could sense Richard was just like their father after hatching.
Richard didn’t care. He just needed them to follow his orders.
!!
He slowly reached out his right hand and pressed it on the void sandworm’s closed mouth.
It released his spiritual energy at the same time.
It connected to the other party’s soul.
The void sandworm’s consciousness was still very young and could not communicate normally.
It took Richard a long time to find a way to communicate with the man.
He could transmit his thoughts to the other party’s soul through his spiritual energy.
As it was an interaction of spiritual energy, the other party could understand it directly.
Even so, it still took him a long time to understand it.
In the end, the void sandworm replied happily, like a child who had found a toy.
Richard didn’t waste any more time. He had the god’s ancient tree share its link with the seed to the void sandworm.
The void sandworm was still a little afraid of the god’s ancient tree that often disciplined it.
He allowed the other party’s spiritual power to seep into its mind.
After some communication, the void sandworm’s body suddenly glowed with a golden light.
It was like a light with a switch.
The surrounding space rippled like water in the golden light.
It was as if an ordinary person could shatter space with a wave.
After the fluctuation reached a certain limit.
‘Crack!’
A crisp explosion sounded.
The space that rippled was like glass that fell from the sky and shattered, splashed everywhere.
An eight-meter-wide, irregular spatial rift appeared before Richard.
At the same time, an evil and dark aura surged out of the spatial rift…
The dark dimension!
Richard’s eyes widened in surprise at the familiar presence.
He succeeded!
The void sandworm was awesome!
At this moment, ‘Roar!’
A low growl came from the other side of the crack.
A spine-chilling sound came from the void hunter. Sharp spikes covered its back, and its limbs were like daggers.
He sensed a strange aura.
The void hunter was like a shark that smelled blood. And it rushed toward the spatial crack.
However, a strange change occurred when they passed through the spatial rift.
‘Bang!’ The monster seemed to have hit a layer of transparent glass, and its body violently bounced back.
“Failed!”
Richard’s eyes narrowed.
Before he could figure out the specific reason…
Suddenly, a black mass of void lickers appeared behind the void hunters.
These monsters had bent backs and two-meter-long tongues with ferocious barbs.
A glance at the twisted and hideous exterior was enough to palpitate one’s heart.
These level 6 and 7 monsters did not encounter obstacles like the void hunters, and they swarmed out directly.
The god’s ancient tree saw this.
‘Hu!’
The vast branches waved violently.
The terrifying power could split mountains and split rocks. The void lickers that came out of the spatial rift were smashed into pieces before they could react.
Fresh blood and severed limbs splattered all over the ground.
The void sandworm trembled in fear at this sudden scene. The energy it emitted suddenly dimmed, and the spatial rift shattered.
The space that rippled just now returned to usual.
Richard immediately turned to the void sandworm.
It released this little fellow’s mental energy. And it seemed a little upset and apologetic.
After a few moments of calm, Richard tried to ask the man if he could keep the spatial rift open.
The void sandworm thought for a moment. After recovery, it could open it for a while, but it couldn’t keep it open.
Richard calmed it down and opened up a spatial rift again.
The same scene appeared before his eyes.
This time, the void sandworm was prepared and wasn’t frightened.
It wasn’t until four hours later that the void sandworm finally closed the spatial rift due to exhaustion.
Richard knew what to do.
This little guy’s strength had not yet reached adulthood, and he could only open a space gap about seven meters in diameter with all his might.
Moreover, it could only allow level 8 void foragers to pass through due to lack of energy.
The space barrier blocked these void monsters above this level.
Richard was satisfied with the information he’d gotten.
Although the time was a little short, at least the transformation of the god’s ancient tree could continue to progress.
As the void sandworm grew, one day, it could open a spatial crack 24/7.
Moreover, he could filter out high-level monsters, which relieved him.
His biggest worry was that a high-level boss would appear after he opened up a space rift. Now, it cut off this hidden danger.
As for the god of the dark plane… I’m sorry, the central plane does not allow gods to appear.
If the other party used the method of Darkness Descent, then sorry, he had the enormous killing weapon of the god’s ancient statue.
What made him even more excited was… After the god’s ancient tree transformed, it could still kill void monsters to level up.
In the future, he could set up a training point in the land of quicksand for the newly recruited troops to level up.
Not bad. Richard didn’t lose out this time.
He patted the void sandworm with satisfaction more than 20 meters long.
Having the god’s ancient tree and the void sandworm hunt the monsters of the dark plane on their own, Richard didn’t stay any longer.
There was still a long way to go for the god’s ancient tree to reach 100% of its transformation. It was not something that could solve in two or three days.
After Richard returned to Twilight City, he took out two treasures from the system space–the fusion crystal and the psionic gemstone.
When he arrived in front of the troop lairs, he pondered.
Three fusion crystals could fuse two into one unit and retain the characteristics of the two units.
It was undoubtedly a soul-strapping treasure.
But what made him hesitate was whether he should fuse them first or use the psionic gemstone to improve the characteristics of the troop type first before proceeding with the fusion.
He had to improve the characteristics before fusing them. Could he get additional improvements when he fused them again?
Richard hesitated momentarily, then looked at the gemstone’s system panel.
[Psionic Gemstone]
[Level: 5-stars]
[Special Property: 1. Can enhance a troop class to the extreme. Can choose the enhancement direction after use.]
[Restrictions]
[1. Reinforcement is to strengthen an aspect of the soldier type’s characteristics. One can not reinforce if the soldier does not have characteristics.]
[2. After use, it will reinforce all newly recruited troops.]
[3. It can only reinforce a single attribute. It cannot reverse the entire reinforcement process.]
[4. You can only enhance the troops produced from the troop-type lair. You can not reinforce summoned creatures and mechanical puppets.]
[He still had 14 pills on hand. So he could try one out.]
Richard’s eyes fell on his favorite troop class. The Axe of the Dead.
He took out a psionic gem and walked to the front of the tomahawk cabin, silently chanting to use it.
[Ding~ Please use it when you research the technology of this troop type.]
Richard didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
‘You should’ve said so earlier. It’s a waste of expression.’
With this in mind, he looked at the fusion crystal.
Now, he would test the waters with the fusion gem …
However, what kind of troop type should he combine?
He looked at his troop-type lair panel.
There were a total of 9 with a troop-type lair.
1. Scorpion Warrior, 2. Axe of the Dead, 3. Bandaged Mummy, 4. Guardian Mummy, 5. Yellow Sand Mage, 6. Sand Condensation Archer, 7. Giant Axe Death Knights, 8. Dark Gargoyle, 9. Cursed Pharaoh.
Skeleton Blood Dragon and Skeleton Demon, these two Crown 1-star troops, were recruited from the corpses of the giant dragon and the demon by the two mummified heroes. They could not be fused.
Richard pondered as he looked at the soldiers before him.
