[Night retreats, dawn arrives]
Night quickly fell, and the undead army gradually returned. The original forty Monarch level undead had increased to over fifty, accompanied by a hundred thousand undead troops.
As Alex had expected, there wasn't much of value among the spoils. The stored, rotting food was useless to anyone.
But it didn't matter. The experience points, the Invisibility skill, and the Kingdom's Tear made the trip worthwhile.
While Xiao Mu and Xiao Hui were still downstairs having dinner, Alex had already gone upstairs to rest.
After a bath, Alex slipped naked into bed.
Downstairs, Xiao Mu and Xiao Hui continued their banter at the dinner table, while the alchemy warlocks outside the hall worked noisily to turn the retrieved Monarch corpses into pills.
[Night retreats, dawn arrives]