ps: I was delayed yesterday due to something, and I was told that I would make up for it in a burst today, but the result... Oops, it was so late, I don’t know if it’s too late today, Xiaolong will try his best to write the first chapter first.
The Dark City of the Dark Duke is located in the northwest of the Kingdom of Solna, very close to the northwest corner to be precise, adjacent to a large basin called "Fostel".
The Fostel Basin is vast in area and is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Solna, Ptolemy, and Garthwood within the undead forces. It has always been a place with the most chaotic security and barbaric forces running rampant.
The reason why this place attracts so many large and small forces to stop here is actually because of the large amount of "black iron ore" abundant in the Great Basin.
As a special type of iron ore, black iron ore only has inferior darkness, and the strengthening effect of undead power is not that rare in itself. However, a small amount of mixed "stygian iron" ore crystals are among the most precious metals in the undead realm. The undead tribe
The main force of the regular army: Black Samurai. The official weapons equipped by the heavily armored warriors of the Black Knight series are almost all forged from the extremely rare Stygian Iron, which can greatly strengthen the strength of these high-level and high-quality undead and transform them into
Got to be even scarier!
Of course, the reason why those big city lords are able to obtain such a large amount of Stygian Iron is related to their ongoing trade agreements with the Undead Secret Realm. The Undead Secret Realm generally has a large gap in the types of resources and the demand for medium and low-grade resources.
However, compared to the main material world, the reserves of special and rare resources there are surprisingly huge. They have always been the main materials that the owners of large and medium-sized cities are jealous of.
Compared to those large and medium-sized powerful lords who have opened the "Alien Trade Agreement", this small amount of profit is naturally not a big deal.
But for those undead gangs who have no established strongholds and have to wander around and plunder, the Fostel Basin is a big piece of meat they cannot miss. Even if it is rich in black iron ore, for many
The undead forces with average strength are also of great benefit.
To be able to gain a foothold in such a place, the Dark Lord and the others really went through a lot of trouble, and they probably lost no less than three million Union coins in compensation for this!
Even so. In the end, they only established an initial stronghold at the town level. It can be said that if they had not accidentally received the help of Liu Yifei and his Plague City, the Dark Duke and the others would have been able to upgrade their territory to a formal territory [1
level city] level also requires a lot of time, manpower and material resources, and the gap in interests involved before and after this is even more huge and unimaginable~
Nowadays, the Dark City is already one of the few third-level territories on the edge of the Fostel Great Basin! Although the territory has not yet been fully built, under the active efforts of the lords and players, the prosperity of the Dark City has been greatly improved.
A good foundation, and the surrounding conditions are even better, making many player lords in the northwest region of Solna almost crazy with envy...
Thanks to the fierce competition of the Dark Duke and the others, they now control five resource deposits around the Fostel Basin!
One place for timber, two places for stone mines, two places for black iron ore...
If we look solely at the benefits from resource extraction, the Dark Duke's Dark City can even equal Liu Yifei's Level 5 Plague City!
A large amount of black iron ore is produced every day, even if the part that needs to be paid as tribute to the superior NPC lord is discounted, the profit is still astonishing! The additional 10% of basic attributes are not covered. Nowadays, in the undead realm, the high-quality equipment that can be obtained is not available for the time being.
Mention. If it is hand-made by players, more and more "customers" have begun to request "made from black iron ore" or even "made from slug iron"!
In this way, taking advantage of the current skyrocketing price of black iron ore, the Dark Lord and the others have actually made a large sum of money, making up for a considerable part of their huge initial investment in one go...
Lord mode. In the final analysis, it is still the way for rich people to spend a lot of money to build a territory. As long as the location of the territory is well chosen and there is a foundation to support the prosperity of the territory, it is absolutely unreasonable to lose money~
For example, after the "Dark Iron Ore" sign was launched, the number of players stranded in Dark City every day reached more than 40,000...even more powerful than the players in local medium-sized system cities!
Because there are so many people who want to secretly mine black iron ore and then turn around to make money~
With the large flow of people, the profitability of various service buildings in the territory, such as blacksmith shops, tailor shops, taverns, hotels, etc., has gradually increased, bringing thousands of gold coins in net income to the Dark Lord every day...
...
However, as the old saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind!
Even though there are two gold-lettered signs of "Liuyun" and "Plague City" behind it, there are still many guys appearing around Dark City recently who seem to want to take advantage of this gold mine in the hands of the Dark Archduke~
Fortunately for the player group, Liu Yifei's current reputation is not an exaggeration. Although he suffered some setbacks in the southern border two days ago, the popularity of the "Uncrowned King" in Solna is already great enough to stop children crying at night.
Not to mention that Liu Yifei's banner has not yet fallen. Even if it does, no one would dare to provoke the entire Plague Alliance...
Just kidding~
Eight powerful player lords formed a behemoth that almost monopolized the entire Kingdom of Solna, including a plague city, three third-level city territories, and four second-level city territories...
Who dares to provoke such a perverted alliance?
Not to mention the small territory of Solna, I am afraid that no player group dares to jump out and challenge openly in the main material plane of the entire game world!
This alliance has at least the ability to organize a local regional battle!
Without the joint efforts of at least two medium-sized system cities, it would be even more difficult to completely remove them~
Therefore, what has always caused the Duke of Darkness to be frightened recently is actually the pressure from NPCs...
Ever since the chaos started in the Xerseis Fortress in the southern border, the Forstel Basin has also started to become chaotic!
Although in the past, uncontrolled undead bandits roaming and committing crimes in the border areas of various countries have never stopped. But recently, they have become extremely violent. Even the boss of the Dark Lord was furious because the resource strongholds at three edge locations in the country were seized.
, directly issued a conquest order!
Any adventurer, mid-level or lower-level lord who can eradicate the border bandit organization will receive high rewards!
The other rewards were just that. What really made the Dark Duke unable to stop was... the rewards for "intermediate lords" actually included another town-level territory quota!
Fuck~~~
Since becoming a lord, the Dark Duke has also begun to pay more and more attention to collecting various information about the lord, and he naturally knows about the restrictions on players not being able to privately expand their territory within the country~
Unless you are outside the Land of the Dead...
For example, Liu Yifei's territory is far away in the Sighing Mountains. It is simply far away from the sky and the emperor, and the terms of the ghost clan cannot control him. Or, except for the situation where other racial forces seize territory and transform it into a ghost clan stronghold, in addition to the situation of his own clan
Within the territory, the spacing restrictions of territories should follow the following rules: village-level territories are separated by one kilometer, town-level territories are spaced by three kilometers, small city-level territories are spaced by ten kilometers, and medium-sized city-level territories are spaced by thirty kilometers.
Therefore, when the kingdom or the entire race cannot continue to develop, the titles and resources of "Lord" and "Territory" are absolutely extremely limited. Not only will you become stronger if you grab one more early, but you will also become stronger if you grab one more for others.
One less...
A town-level territory quota...that means that as long as the Dark Duke is strong enough, he can continue to extend his control deeper into the Fostel Basin!
As long as you find a place with a good location...even if it is only a town-level territory, with the support of the Dark City behind you, it will not be difficult to achieve amazing prosperity there~
And for the Dark Duke, who wants to become bigger and stronger and become the "second brother" of the lord in Solna. Such a good opportunity must not be missed!
But just when he excitedly received the military order and stated that he would eradicate at least two of the enemy's bandit groups within a month, more than a week has passed, and the Dark Duke has not captured even his first prey!
Although mission failure only requires a little "appropriate" punishment, for the Dark Lord, this is still a very troublesome matter~
Especially when a large number of his former subordinates were borrowed by Liu Yifei...
To be honest, he still has a lot of complaints about this~
Anyway, in the eyes of the Dark Lord, Liu Yifei's strength has long exceeded their limits and imagination. Although this guy always seems to be unhurried and unhurried on the surface, it is easy for people to put down their guard, but with the other party
The more contacts there are, the more thoroughly the Dark Lord will be able to see this person!
This is a nasty guy who likes to keep a lot of trump cards, and then constantly surprises his "enemy" during the fight!
That is to say, unless you are his enemy and beat him to a state of serious injury and near death, it is impossible for you to know how many cards he still has in his hand and how long it will take before he launches a desperate counterattack.
A moment, a second, or the moment when this thought occurred?
Such guys are so scary. For the Dark Lord, it is difficult for him to understand these mysterious Eastern companions. He thinks they are all wonderful~
However, even so, just the strength revealed by Liu Yifei and Plague City was enough to make the Dark Duke stunned~
In comparison, he really felt that his subordinates were not going out to fight with Liu Yifei to gain military merit, but simply going to die as cannon fodder...
In this case, why waste his troops? It's better to leave it to him so that he can send more manpower to search for the bandits...
It's just that the Dark Lord only dared to think about such thoughts~
The entire Plague Alliance was "pushed" by Liu Yifei single-handedly, and it is the absolute core of power!
Other player alliances may be able to use democracy, voting, voting and other fun methods, but here in the Plague Alliance, it can only be Liu Yun's word!
Others can propose, discuss, and elaborate~
But as long as Liu Yifei decides...
Then there is no need to discuss~
Everyone can only cooperate and cooperate!
Although this method has not made any big mistakes so far, and it has really reduced a lot of disputes and troubles in the Plague Alliance. But sometimes, it still makes the Dark Lord silently feel a little unhappy.
"Hey... the war in the south is going on endlessly. I don't have a clue about this matter. There's really quite a lot of shit..."
Seeing his men busy transporting various supplies and war machinery in the territory, the Dark Lord complained somewhat depressedly.
The area around the territory is already in danger. It seems that there are always some strange guys spying on the territory in every corner. However, all of this is not as serious as the "crisis" that broke out yesterday!
Nearly two months ago, the "Desolate Bone Society" that occasionally showed its true face during the "declaration of war" finally revealed its brutal fangs this time!
What no one expected was that...these people actually came from Garswood, located in the hinterland of the undead forces in the north of Solna, a truly established power among the undead forces...
...
In the game, there is indeed the concept of a so-called "powerful country" or even an "empire" and the distinction between strength and weakness.
Although Solna is a strong figure among the player group like Liu Yifei, it is the weakest among the entire undead clan in terms of national strength... As an emerging kingdom that Toradre and Solna jointly cultivated,
This country has existed for less than two hundred years, and its level is only slightly better than the human Kingdom of Dickwell~
In this way, it will have a more or less all-round and invisible impact on players as "citizens", such as the number and strength of monsters in the territory, the abundance of resources in the territory, etc.~
Although the strength of Garswood's "Desolate Bone Society" is still lagging behind that of the Star Wars mercenary group, other than that, it is definitely one of the best in the country!
This time, this group of people seems to be well-prepared to deal with the plague forces. Currently, at least nearly ten thousand people have gathered outside the Dark City. It seems that the scale is only a part of the opponent's main strength...
There is no war mobilization order, no convenience and support provided by the system, and an army of ten thousand people can be assembled by relying on the player's own appeal...
The Dark Lord didn't know how these people from the "Desolate Bone Society" did it. His only feeling was that these people were completely fucking crazy!
He obviously has such strong strength. How much can he do if he stays in his own kingdom and does some serious things?
Even if you just develop a territory, it won't be difficult, right?
Why go all the way to fight with them?
What's especially damning is that this guy chose his Dark City!!!
If this battle really breaks out...God bless~
If the Dark City is successfully defeated, wouldn't it mean that it needs to be upgraded again?
"Fuck~
If we really get to that point, I will spend millions to dig out these beasts and skin them..."
Thinking of the bleak future of Dark City, the Dark Lord couldn't help but grit his teeth and cursed.
"Mabuse? Mabuse!
Damn it~
Where did this guy go?
I said Mabuse, how busy are you all doing?
Xuelan...hasn't she been online yet?"
After hesitating for a moment, the Dark Lord called his capable subordinates in the command channel, intending to pay attention to the defense situation of the territory.
"Um...boss~
The transportation of urban defense machinery is almost done...I'll go~
It’s such a tiring job!
These city defense bed crossbows are really troublesome to carry. Fortunately, they are small. If they were medium-sized, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to move them at all with our methods~
In addition, a large number of mobile ballistas were mobilized from Wanwu City...
Oh!
These Orientals are really capable of working hard!
Actually, so many mobile ballistas have been produced in a short period of time. They are really skilled~
In fact, if you ask me, having these mobile ballistas should be enough.
Those idiots from the Desolate Bone Society actually want to defeat us in a siege battle. Isn't this looking for death?
Haha~
Let me tell you, if they can climb our third-level city wall, then they will be considered powerful~
Unless we get thousands of zombies to die on our city wall, otherwise, they won't even think about coming up~
With the city wall protecting us, will we be afraid of those damn clowns?
Miss Xuelan, is she making a little fuss this time?"
When he thought about his own strength and the strength of his alliance, the deputy named Mabuse couldn't help but feel proud, and he wished he could jump up to the top of the city and twist it three times.
However, although I have similar thoughts to Mabuse...
After all, it is a third-level city, and some of the defensive buildings that have been prioritized for upgrade have already been in place. It should not be a problem to withstand the next siege organized by players in the defensive battle, right?
In that case...why did Xue Lan mobilize so many people to bring so many machines?
To scare people?
I just want to think about it, Xue Lan is a popular person around Liu Yun, and the Dark Lord does not dare to make rash judgments. If he offends the other party, he might easily be tricked by Liu Yun...
This is the rumored confidante!
Although I don't know how credible this kind of gossip is, the Dark Lord doesn't want to test the law himself.
"What's the fuss about?
When Miss Xuelan asks you to move it, hurry up and stop nagging and stealing!
By the way, when did Miss Xuelan say she would come online?
We've been busy driving for almost an hour, she should come over and take a look, right?"
"Oh, it said that the online time has run out. You have to wait until after midnight... Hey! There is still half an hour~
Haha~
Boss, do you seem to care about Miss Xuelan? Could it be..."
“Oh!shit!
God bless~
Mabuse, can't you keep your mouth shut?
Do you know how much trouble this would cause for us if outsiders heard it?
Aren't you afraid that Leader Liuyun will tear your broken mouth apart?
I told you in advance that if you anger Liu Yun, don’t expect anyone in the alliance to protect you..."
"Uh...boss!
I...I was wrong...
Oh!
The boss is in trouble!
The brothers replied, saying that it was the people from the Bone Society who made the move!"
Mabuse couldn't help but be startled by what the Dark Lord said. He hadn't even finished the half-sentence of admitting his mistake. Suddenly there was an earth-shattering wolf howl, which scared the Dark Lord so much that he couldn't help but tremble~
However, after listening to Mabuse's words, the thread that had been tense in the Dark Duke's heart for a long time was finally broken~
Still here...
"Hell~
You actually dare to come?
good!
Since they are not afraid of death, there is no need for us to be polite!
Mabuse. Immediately notify all brothers to come online, except those who have asked for leave in advance. Anyone who does not arrive within half an hour should stop hanging around in my land from now on!"
Gritting his teeth, the Dark Duke was also aroused and began to order the whole city to enter a state of combat readiness. All "idlers" must leave within half an hour. If anyone is willing to obey the arrangement and join the city defense force, it is mainly the wizard who is remotely
Those who attack the troops will be re-rewarded at the rate of 10 gold coins per person per hour~
10 gold coins is indeed a small amount of money in the early stages of the game, but now...for a rich and handsome man with luxurious equipment, it is not even enough for them to repair their equipment once, and even an ordinary player can repair it in a day as long as they are more diligent.
You can safely earn this amount, so you want to hire people to fight at the expense... Especially if you fight in a battle where there is no guarantee of resurrection, and you will be directly downgraded if you die, you can imagine how unattractive it is.
But this is nothing more than a tactful expulsion order issued by the Dark Lord~
The opportunity to choose is given to everyone. As for how to choose, everyone is free. Anyway, those who do not accept employment will be "evicted" after half an hour. As for such an "eviction law"... It's hard to say, anyway.
I hope everyone will be more conscious.
And if there are really people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for this price, then the Dark Duke will definitely welcome them.
Although the opponent's strength does not seem to be very strong and there is no need to hire large-scale foreign aid, but there is always a little more combat power. After all, it can be just in case...
The Duke of Darkness began to step up adjustments to the city's defense system. All public hand crossbows, high-quality equipment and various rare consumable props were registered and distributed one by one to enhance the strength of the players.
Various war machines are also undergoing final confirmation, especially the mobile ballistas. Since the number is so large, if you want to exert its due power, I'm afraid you have to adjust the attack angle in detail...
...
The entire Dark City here was boiling, and to everyone's surprise, on the other side, the Bone Society from Garswood... changed direction halfway?
No!
wrong!
Not in disguise!
They are...
With the continuous reports from the peripheral sneak tracking members, the movements of the Bone Society were revealed without reservation in front of the eyes of all the commanders of the Dark Archduke.
The opponent turned and advanced westward in a peculiar position...
What the hell~
What's going on?
Are these people... going to go deep into the Great Basin?
"Ha~
Could it be that these guys have noticed our movements and amazing defensive power, so they temporarily decided to change course and go to the Fostel Basin to avoid us?"
Someone in the command channel immediately shouted in surprise.
"Idiot~ Why are you happy?
If the other party doesn't come, it means we don't have to kill him... This is military merit given to us!
You just ran away like that and you can still laugh? What an idiot..."
This man was obviously a war maniac. When he saw that the enemy seemed to be running away, he was not only unhappy, but even depressed.
"wrong!
Reports came from the front line, saying that... there were many NPCs appearing in front of the Desolate Bone Society!
Damn it!
It's a group of bandits running around in Fostel!
Oh my god~
Some people said...some people said they saw the sign of the 'Skull Crusher'!
Damn it~
What's going on?
Aren’t the Skullbreakers always committing crimes in Garswood? How did they get in touch with the people of the Bone Society?”
As more and more intelligence comes back from the frontline positions, a shadow can't help but flash across everyone's heart!
"The Skull Crusher"...this name is well-known in the world of Fostel!
As a powerful bandit group with unknown origins, they have been well known from the first day they appeared!
What is especially unbelievable is that...the main "bully target" of this large bandit group is actually a veteran with a much stronger national power than Solna and is stronger than Garswood!
Various videos of burning, killing and looting in Garswood once made the name "Skull Crusher" a notorious presence in the game!
Especially as more and more players gather on the border, some players even claim to have been captured by these guys~
It's a pity that there is no conclusion yet, and even so, the Skull Crusher is one of the few in the Fostel Basin that is so cruel that it can even cause lung tissue~
I really don’t know how these gangsters who smashed, smashed, and looted got in touch with the Bone Guild from Garswood this time.
