Wasteland Lord: Starting from Thirty Days to Live

The Lost Souls are monsters that emerge from the infection of humans when the infection is not contained.

Warriors or sorcerers with extremely high combat power in life will become high-level soulless beings after death, or people with great obsessions will also become high-level soulless beings after death.

Vittorio didn't know what kind of creature was on the roof, but he was certain that it was different from ordinary creatures.

Realizing it had been discovered, it stopped hiding, leaped off the roof, and came before the crowd.

He was a middle-aged or elderly human transformed into a human, with gray hair and dull eyes. He was wearing tattered clothes, which could be vaguely identified as leather work clothes, suggesting that he had once been a stonemason here.

Its body was unusually tall, perhaps due to the transformation after it became a lost soul; it was a head taller than Edmund, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall.

Edmund's face was serious as he assumed a fighting stance, holding the greatsword known as "Bear Blade," waiting for the Stonemason Lost Soul to make his move.

The stonemason moved forward in silence, and with a casual flick of his arm, a "crackling" sound was heard. Upon closer inspection, his arm was petrifying inch by inch.

Petrification, it seems, is that its ability.

Without saying a word, the stonemason suddenly swung his arm, and in an instant, dozens of stone projectiles flew toward Edmund.

Edmund swung his greatsword horizontally, deflecting the stone projectiles one by one with a dull thud.

The monster's left side was still shrunken, grayish flesh, while its right arm and shoulder had completely turned into cold, hard, grayish-white stone.

It was silent, but charged toward Edmund with its fists clenched, its hard stone arms slamming down heavily.

If it were the old Edmund, he might have dodged it, but ever since he got this new greatsword, he's felt an itch to test its quality.

Edmund did not dodge, but met the attack with his greatsword.

In an instant, the greatsword and the stone arm collided.

A muffled thud.

For the first time, the monster's stone arm stopped moving, stone chips flew from its elbow joint, and cracks spread.

In its cloudy eyes, light flickered violently, revealing for the first time an emotion resembling "surprise and anger".

Vittorio watched the game from the sidelines, marveling at it.

"This thing seems to still possess a slight level of consciousness?"

Realizing the hardness of Xiong Feng's blade, it stopped trying to fight head-on and instead began to retreat. Its movements were stiff but swift as it moved towards the stone house next to the mine.

Edmund frowned, gave chase, and kicked open the wooden door, sending dust flying.

It was an abandoned stonemason's workshop, with a huge stone workbench in the center, on which were scattered unfinished sculpture parts and a few crude stone tools.

It includes an unsharpened stone hammer, a rough stone chisel, and a stone strip that looks like a spear shaft.

The monster retreated to the workbench, its petrified right hand suddenly grabbing the heavy stone hammer. The instant its fingers touched the hammer handle, a strange change occurred!

The hammer handle emitted a blue flash, flickering with mysterious runes whose meaning was unknown.

Even the usually composed Edmund couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine and cry out in surprise.

"Enchanted weapons?"

The stone hammer swung down, its speed and power increasing dramatically, and Edmund raised his sword to parry.

"clang--!"

The explosion was more terrifying than any before. The greatsword groaned under its own weight, and the swordsman was sent flying backward, sword and all, his back slamming against the wall. A sweet taste rose in his throat.

We can't fight them head-on anymore.

The stonemason brandished his gleaming stone hammer, pressing closer with each step. The workshop space was cramped, making it difficult to wield the greatsword.

Edmund dodged awkwardly, the stone hammer grazing his body, the resulting wind pressure stinging his skin.

He narrowly escaped death several times; his shoulder armor was dented, and he may have broken one or two ribs.

His gaze swept rapidly across the workshop: the rough stone walls, the heavy stone workbench, and... four thick stone pillars supporting the roof. One of them was not far from the monster, and due to years of vibration, it already had fine cracks.

A crazy idea popped into my head.

He spat out the blood foam in his mouth, suddenly sprang up, no longer dodging, but instead channeling all his strength into his arms, the greatsword drawing a heavy arc, not slashing at the monster, but fiercely striking the base of the cracked stone pillar!

"Break it!"

The sword blade collided with the stone pillar, sending sparks and stone dust flying. The crack widened instantly, emitting a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

Edmund used his last strength to strike the same spot with his second and third sword strikes!

"Snap!"

The supporting pillar finally broke. The roof, losing its support, groaned horribly, and huge stones and beams began to collapse and fall.

The stonemason looked up, the pale blue light of its hammer illuminating its first expression of what appeared to be fear. It tried to rush out, but it was too late.

Boom! ...

The entire roof collapsed, burying the monster, the stone workbench, and the enchanted tools that were shimmering with light beneath the rubble.

Smoke and dust filled the air.

Sword Ed knelt on one knee at the edge of the ruins, supporting himself with his greatsword, panting heavily. He looked at the ruins, where the stonemason's enchanted workbench and those crude yet dangerous weapons were also buried forever.

He won, but he also destroyed what might have contained secrets; only dust floated slowly in the pillar of light.

[Simulation Ended]

Vittorio snapped out of the simulation, his eyes gleaming.

Enchanted weapon?

Great stuff! I want it!

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Vittorio put away the parchment, and Edmund came in to report to him.

"Everything is ready, we can head to Shikeng Village."

Vittorio cleared his throat and informed Edmund of the information he had just learned, including the resource points in the village, the monsters hidden in the stone pit, and the Soul Loser whose strength was comparable to level two and his enchanted weapon.

"We must steal that weapon beforehand so we can take care of the monster quickly."

Edmund's eyes flickered, but he didn't ask Vittorio why he knew this information.

Or perhaps he had long been accustomed to the magical Vittorio always being able to offer something new and exciting.

After receiving the information, Edmund left, and about half a day later he returned to Vittorio with a stone hammer and a stone enchanting table.

Thanks to prior intelligence, he led his 30-man squad to victory, turning the entire Shikeng Village upside down without any casualties.

Of the various resources, people had already been instructed to bring them back, but Edmund personally went to investigate the secret in the warehouse that Vittorio had specifically pointed out.

Deep inside the warehouse, he found a stone double-headed enchanting table, with a hammer placed on top of it.

Edmund brought both of them back.

"An enchanting table? Is this the secret hidden in that warehouse?"

Vittorio carefully examined the stone enchanting table.

It was about the size of a table, with two heads and two circular bases on each head, obviously for placing things on. At the bottom of the bases was a circle of text, which Vittorio read aloud from beginning to end.

"Low-level Enchanting Table - Everything has a price, and equal exchange applies."

He had never seen anything like this before, and it was most likely related to the mystical sorcerers of this world.

Although he didn't know why a stonemason would have such a good thing, Vittorio naturally accepted it with a smile.

Vittorio tentatively placed his dagger on one of the circular bases.

The placed circular base shimmered with blue light, while the unplaced ring shimmered with red light.

"Does this mean I need to put things here too?"

Vittorio tried placing something on it, but it still glowed red.

After searching around, he finally found his most valuable possession—a small bag of gold coins.

He placed the bag of gold coins on the other side, and this time both sides turned blue.

A circle of text was also displayed on the circular base.

[Priced in gold, low-level enchantment, confirm?]