Building My Empire in the Frozen Apocalypse (Riley Carter) novel Chapter 90

Chapter 90 A Camp’s End

Chapter 90 A Camp’s End

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“Effect: No healing properties whatsoever.

“Special Side Effect: Upon consumption, inflicts severe gastrointestinal distress (more commonly known as extreme diarrhea) for one hour. All stats are reduced by 10% throughout this duration due to dehydration and physical exhaustion.

“Evaluation: A malicious creation of dark cuisine. Not recommended for use on allies.”

Riley nearly choked.

A laxative?

After all that effort trying to brew a healing potion, she’d ended up with a hardcore laxative instead?

“Stats reduced by 10%… from literally crapping yourself weak?”

Riley stared at the dark bottle in her hand with a weird look on her face.

It was a failed product, but the effect… actually seemed kind of useful?

If she ran into some boss with insane HP, or some hostile players, and managed to slip this into their food… just imagining it…

“Heh heh…”

Riley couldn’t help letting out a low, mischievous chuckle. She carefully placed the “Strange Potion” into her inventory and tagged it as “chemical warfare“.

Just then-

“Ding!”

“System Notice: This facility has been activated by a new user and has completed one full operational cycle:

“Ownership has been forcibly refreshed.”

Riley’s heart leapt.

Her gamble had paid off!

She reached out and placed her hand on the alchemy bench again, focusing her mind.

“Take.”

“Whoosh.”

The heavy wooden alchemy bench vanished into thin air, settling quietly into her inventory slot.

But the moment the bench disappeared, something strange happened.

The wooden cabin, which had seemed fairly solid until now, began to shudder violently–like an illusion losing its foundation.

The planks on the walls started turning sandy, dissolving into countless pale particles.

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The floor beneath her feet began turning transparent.

“Oh crap–it’s resetting!”

Riley’s expression changed. She grabbed Neeko by the door and bolted outside.

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The very next second after they cleared the cabin, the entire camp–the wooden structures, the fence, even the still–flickering campfire–collapsed in a warping blur of light.

No explosion. No debris left behind.

It was like someone had taken a massive eraser and scrubbed hard over a drawing.

Within seconds, the five camps that had occupied this stretch of snow were gone. Completely.

All that remained was empty white field and a few footprints not yet buried by the wind.

The world was blank and silent, as if humans had never been here at all.

“So that’s… how Death Decay ends.”

Riley stood in the snow, watching quietly.

What that squad leader said was true.

Once the last bit of value was drained from a camp, the system wiped it from existence without a second thought.

In this world, death wasn’t just the end of a life–it was the complete removal of any trace you’d ever existed.

“If I don’t push myself to get stronger…”

Riley clenched her fist and gazed into the distance. “Maybe one day, my home with Neeko will end up just like this–nothing but empty white.”

That sense of danger hit harder than any Ghoul encounter ever had.

“Let’s go. Home.”

Riley took a deep breath, her eyes hardening with resolve again.

She turned and stepped back onto her skis.

Others might get erased.

But she wouldn’t.

In this frozen world, she was going to live better–and longer–than anyone else.

“Neeko, I’ll make us some meat stew when we get back tonight!”

“Awooo!” As long as it’s not that creepy black stuff from earlier!

The trip back was smooth.

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With the “Quality Skis“, what used to be an exhausting trudge through deep snow became a swift, wind–whipped glide.

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