This back-and-forth method of consuming the lives of NPCs of various races lasted for a month and a half. It was not until the various heroes and leaders who came later personally took action to kill all the demons near the Gate of Foreign Lands that they established a firm foothold nearby and continued to flow.

The army passed through the foreign gate to establish a base.

The establishment of the base opened up the reputation of the expeditionary force. The first batch of thousands of players with levels over level 50 entered one after another. They all chose to stay in the expeditionary force base to gain reputation, even Lin Xiao was no exception.

The reason is very simple. After opening the Outland, the fortress system is opened. Any player who has raised the reputation of Gaia to Respect and the Expeditionary Army to Revered will be eligible to build his own fortress and recruit NPC soldiers from the Expeditionary Army by consuming reputation and demon marks.

nourish.

The so-called fortress is divided into bases. You can use your reputation to exchange for the core cornerstones of the fortress and go to the depths of the outer domain. After placing the cornerstones, you can build a personal fortress that belongs to the player and recruit various functional NPCs and combat NPC soldiers.

Functional NPCs refer to various merchants, such as leather armor merchants and blacksmiths, hotels bound to hearthstones, flight points connecting other fortresses and the expeditionary force general base, grocers selling potions, merchants of various spellcasting materials, and learning professions.

Trainers, even professional tutors who learn spells, etc.

The newly recruited functional NPC only has basic functions, but you can upgrade the NPC to have higher abilities by occupying some special resource areas or collecting resources, or upgrading the core of the fortress, or sell some special products that are only available in this fortress.

A fortress is similar to some small towns or outposts in the game, which can provide players with supplies, transit, and even long-term stays.

Players need to pay taxes when trading here, which is also one of the sources of income for the fortress. Generally, one-tenth of the total amount of materials purchased and sold by players from NPCs is the income of the fortress owner.

The Outland is a safe area for players to rest, and houses are also provided for players to rent or buy. Players can store items that cannot fit in the package in the room.

However, this depends on whether the fortress is strong or not, because the fortress must be built in a dangerous area. It will not only face the attacks of demons from the outside world, but also the destruction of the Nightmare Sons. Once the fortress is breached, the players' items in the fortress will be lost.

Gone.

Therefore, whether a fortress can attract a large number of players to stop here for supplies depends on whether your fortress is strong enough.

Therefore, fortress is not something that ordinary players can play. At least a team must work together to build a fortress, such as a guild. Very few people build a fortress alone.

As for combat NPCs, they naturally refer to various NPC soldiers, including elite NPC soldiers, including any race. Generally, players who choose NPCs of the same race have advantages in recruitment prices and conditions.

These NPC warriors can also upgrade their level through combat, and can also collect resources to forge NPC-specific equipment to strengthen, and even upgrade their ranks, such as upgrading ordinary soldiers to elite templates, or even strengthening elite or leader templates.

In theory, a minion can become a super powerful heroic NPC if it meets harsh conditions.

But theories are generally just theories and are basically impossible to become reality.

Lin Xiao was very interested in this, discussed it with his girlfriend, and decided to go it alone.

The reason why we are not with the guild is because there are quite a few players in the guild who want to exchange fortress cores. Everyone can see the future of the fortress system. Those who can enter the brilliance are elites. It is difficult for them to conquer anyone, even if Lin Xiao

He has shown how powerful he is before, and they also recognize that he is very strong now, but recognition is one thing, and wanting them to be his little brother is another.

I obey you, but that doesn't mean I want to be your little brother.

In addition, people's hearts are changeable, and he may not feel comfortable if he really wants a bunch of people to be his little brothers, so he discussed it with his girlfriend and simply quit the guild to work on his own. Anyway, the cohesion in the guild is only that, and he doesn't expect them to be able to help.

The next step is to build up your reputation, and continue to receive repeatable missions from the Expeditionary Army to kill demons. You will gain a certain amount of reputation every time you kill a certain number of demons.

He and his girlfriend are both mages. She chose her core clan, the Skywrath Winged People, which is a sub-legendary race that was mutated from her original core clan, the Thunder Winged People. The template is probably based on angels, so the look is very biased. Angels are very beautiful and also have super talent for casting spells.

There are two types of Skywrath Wingers, namely Silver Wings and Gold Wings. Silver Winged Skywrath Wingers have more powerful thunder talents than Thunder Wingers, while Gold Winged Skywrath Wingers inherit the divine power of angels.

Shen Yuexin chose the Golden Winged Skywrath Winger, so the specialization she chose was Holy, which is equivalent to a combination of a mage and a priest. Her original talent tended to be combat-oriented. After joining Lin Xiao, she changed her original talent. She has become an auxiliary type, which means that she is now equivalent to a priest with high combat effectiveness.

As time went by, the demons near the expeditionary base were killed by them. Strong men from the main plane used spells to transform the nearby barren terrain and built a very large fortress. Under the leadership of the expeditionary force, they left the expeditionary fortress and established outposts nearby.

It not only serves the players, but also opens up territory and serves as a buffer against the devil's counterattack.

But if the corresponding players want to build a fortress, they must stay away from the expeditionary force fortress and go to the depths of this foreign world.

According to regulations, the farther a fortress is from the expeditionary force, the more important the location, and the more support it will receive from the expeditionary force. At the same time, there will also be a huge bonus when calculating scores in the future, which will force players to enter the depths of the outer world.

This was very beneficial to Lin Xiao, who had a level advantage. After spending several months accumulating enough reputation, merits, and demon marks, they exchanged for a fortress core and a squadron of 100 level 50 soldiers. The fifth-level NPCs, five of whom were elite NPCs, prepared sufficient supplies, mounted their mounts, and led the troops away from the expeditionary force headquarters, which had developed into a super fortress, and into the vast outside world.

Recruiting elite combat-type NPCs requires Green Demon Marks to redeem them. The explosion rate of this thing is extremely low, and it has taken so long to accumulate less than ten.

Ordinary NPC warriors at level 55 only have 3,500 HP, while elites have around 10,000, and their average combat power is slightly lower than that of ordinary demons.

This outer world is ravaged by the power of demons and chaos, and the energy in the void becomes extremely violent. Players will obtain a negative BUFF in the wild of this world. There is a certain probability of failure when casting any spell, and the mana consumption and casting time will increase by 50 %.

Only in the area controlled by the expeditionary force, and the void energy is soothed and calmed by the mage tower established in the expeditionary force's fortress, will this negative BUFF disappear.

Therefore, the early stage of land reclamation really relied on NPCs to pile up their lives, and the players did not play any role in it, not even Lin Xiao.

Although the level of sixty-eight is quite high, there are a lot of powerful demons in the outer realm. Any enhanced elite of level seventy or above can drive them around with a group of subordinates.

The enhanced elites at level 70 can only have 100,000 blood. A powerful race like the devil can have 20,000 to 300,000 blood. They have strong attack power and powerful spells. If they add a group of juniors, they will not be able to fight at all.

It has been almost half a year since he opened the door and left now. He died at least twenty times, which is still relatively few. Those who were in their early fifties and went to the outside world died hundreds or even hundreds of times. The powerful demons struck

They doubt life.

After leaving the Expeditionary Force Fortress, many players who were out hunting down sporadic demons knew when they saw them that they were preparing to go out to build a fortress, and they all paid attention to them.

At this stage, there are not many players who dare to go out and build fortresses, and most of them are in the accumulation period.

There are one hundred NPC soldiers in this squadron, of which 95 ordinary soldiers include 50 warriors, 5 stalker scouts, 10 archers, 10 mages, 10 knights, and 10 priests.

Three of the five elites are melee fighters and two are mages.

If the team configuration is reasonable, even if they encounter strengthened elite demons, they will still be able to fight... although they will suffer heavy losses.

All five Rogue scouts were sent out to check the surroundings to avoid running into a large group of demons unknowingly.

Three days later, Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin ran back to the expeditionary force fortress with less than a third of their men dead or injured.

Less than fifty kilometers away from the expeditionary force fortress, he was discovered by a flying demonized monster. After killing several small groups of demons in succession, he attracted the attention of a level 76 leader, the demon warlord, who personally led the demon army against him.

They launched an encirclement and suppression campaign, but he was forced to leave half of his troops behind and ran back in despair.

"Not at all."

They were forced to come back just after leaving the expeditionary force. Even if they were lucky enough to escape next time, they would still be besieged and killed by demons before long.

The girlfriend beside her flapped her golden wings and said:

"We need to train an elite force. At least a group of elites with levels above level 65 can be used to fight our way out."

"I see."

Returning to the expeditionary force fortress, he used the remaining demon marks to recruit a group of new soldiers, a total of one and a half squadrons, with the same configuration as before, and left the expeditionary force fortress again.

But this time, instead of running out, we went to an outpost called Eagle Point to the west of the fortress to gather. There are a large number of NPCs and other players in the outpost. If you encounter a large number of demons like before, you can escape to the outpost for refuge.

, so that he won’t be driven around like before.

Eagle Post is located on a high ground more than 40 kilometers away from the Expeditionary Force Fortress. It is surrounded by cliffs and there is only one road going down around the high ground. As long as you guard the only intersection and conduct air defense, you can firmly defend this place.

When Lin Xiao arrived, he happened to see a large group of about two to three thousand demons attacking Eagle Post under the command of a demon warlord. Many elite NPC soldiers guarded the pass, and a large number of players squatted on the city wall to control the direction of the crossbows on the city wall.

Attack below.

Inside the sentry, there are two teams of players leading two teams of NPC soldiers on standby.

Like Lin Xiao, they were preparing to take the route of the fortress army, and they were also training their troops. When the main demon attack was thwarted and retreated, they would take the opportunity to beat up the drowned dogs.
Chapter completed!