As the team was walking in a dark and silent underground tunnel, Liu Yifei suddenly used his powerful Black Death Staff to knock the large carapace of Misha who was following him.
"Lord, do you have any orders?"
Misha immediately responded in the soul channel.
"Misha~
It's been some time since you left the underground world and the Evil Beetle clan, right?
Sample?
Have you ever thought about regaining the throne?
By the way, after you have been with me for so long, I seem to have never asked you whether you lost the throne before, and is it troublesome to regain the throne?"
"This... isn't too troublesome~
It's just an ordinary duel for the throne within the clan.
The challenger issues a duel invitation to the superior, and the clan king cannot avoid any duel invitation from the front under the rules of the World Goddess.
The duel between the two is absolutely protected by the goddess of the world, and everything must be carried out openly.
This is the same for any race, no matter how evil the race is, when they challenge for the throne, the duel between the two sides is fair and just.
The victorious party will gain the throne, while the losing party will be subject to various punishments such as expulsion.
then......
It was also because of an accident that my strength was somewhat damaged, especially my soul space, which consumed a lot of soul energy when I fought with a strong man before. Therefore, my subordinates took advantage of it and took the opportunity to drive me down.
took the throne.
Originally, the other party wanted to kill me by the way, but under the protection of a group of my personal guards, I rushed out, and then wanted to wait until I recovered before killing me again.
I just didn't expect that I would encounter the lord unexpectedly and eventually become your subordinate.
If you want to regain the throne, the procedure remains unchanged, you just need to return to the ethnic gathering place, challenge again and win~"
"Is that so? That's quite convenient. How about we take charge of the Scarab Clan by the way?"
Liu Yifei suddenly said with great interest.
"Uh... I'm sorry for your rudeness~ Sir, can I ask why you are suddenly so interested in the little evil beetles? In my opinion, at the beginning, the evil beetles were not interested in the lord.
You have quite a few uses for it.
But today, the scale of the Plague City is getting bigger and bigger, and the accumulation of strength is increasing day by day. It seems that a small evil beetle clan no longer means much."
Although Misha was just asking, Liu Yifei seemed to feel a slight resistance from the other party.
Haha, Liu Yifei still has some concerns about this big bug. Although this guy has been with Liu Yifei for the longest time, he can be said to be a well-deserved "old minister" of Plague City.
But this guy has always had second thoughts in his heart and has never truly surrendered to Liu Yifei.
For example, other spiritual or quasi-spiritual powerhouses in Plague City were either "trained" by Liu Yifei, or recruited by Liu Yifei through various plot missions.
However, their personal information is disclosed to Liu Yifei, the superior lord. Although Liu Yifei can check it in the list of subordinates in the territory information.
But this Misha...
Haha~
What was announced was only some rudimentary information, such as the names of various mastering skills, and other information such as basic attributes, blood volume, and academic mastery. It is all a mystery so far.
Apart from anything else, this point alone makes it clear that its mind is not in a normal state.
In the past, Liu Yifei was still very concerned about this matter and always thought that one day he would completely regain Misha.
But as the strength of Plague City expanded later, Liu Yifei had more and more capable generals. As a result, Misha, who was the first to "join", was continuously marginalized~
So far, Misha has only served as the "guardian" of the corpse mercenaries in the Plague City. In addition to being able to teach a few of its skills such as "cave building" and "underground raiding" to the corpse mercenaries, they can continue to fight.
Pure cannon fodder has become slightly more strategic value, but has no more outstanding performance, and this is also the result of Liu Yifei's deliberate creation.
But it's different now, because Liu Yifei suddenly, the beetles who can teleport and walk on the ground are obviously very good scouts.
When on the battlefield, if you arrange a small group to where the enemy's boss is, wouldn't you be able to keep track of the enemy's whereabouts at all times?
This is a really useful feature...
"Haha~ I don't mean anything in particular. I just think that since you were once the king of the evil beetle clan, you must have more feelings for this race, right?
Anyway, you seem to be somewhat frustrated in the Plague City right now, and you don’t have the fighting power available to you.
If possible, simply regain the kingship of the Scarab Clan and then drag them all back to the Plague City.
As a Zerg race, your individual intelligence is somewhat weaker than that of humanoids and beasts, but you should have greater advantages in population size and growth, right?
This will not only make up for Plague City's current lack of a large number of low- and medium-strength units, but also give you an extra fighting force. This is not an option for us, so I would like to ask if we can try to regain the throne.
"
Hum~
As expected, he had already planned to annex all my clan.
Evil and greedy necromancer
Liu Yifei had just finished speaking, but Misha thought so bitterly~
In fact, why did Misha not long to regain his position as the king of the race?
It itself does not actually have the strength of the spiritual level. It is just because of its past experience that its intelligence authority has been greatly improved, but this does not improve its absolute strength.
The beetles are not a powerful war creature, so it is not easy to break through the mortal body and reach the spiritual level.
However, as the king of the clan, he enjoys the protection of the rules of the world goddess, so his strength can be raised to a level above the spiritual level.
And many royal power bonuses can make Misha's strength approach the legendary level.
For Misha, who currently lacks strength and power, why doesn't it want to restore its past glory?
Of course, in addition to this, there is another problem
That is, when its strength is qualitatively improved, especially when its soul authority is increased, Misha will be able to obtain permission to attack the "soul contract"
It was "designed" by Liu Yifei to capture it from the beginning.
Misha had no intention of joining anyone, and he didn't think highly of Liu Yifei, so he was never "loyal" to him. What Misha thinks about most every day is when he can defeat Liu Yifei and regain his
free.
But the terrible thing is that it has been staying in the Plague City, watching the development and growth of the Plague City day by day.
This made it more and more frightened.
Because although the challenge to the throne is strictly protected by the World Goddess, in terms of "captives", the World Goddess does not have too strict protection. If Liu Yifei really wants to fight it, he can send other subordinates to fight. As long as Liu Yifei sends
If his subordinates defeated Misha, he would not be able to escape the constraints of the contract.
If Misha passes the chance to break free from the contract during this promotion, then he will have something to wait for next time~
If nothing else, the next time its soul authority is significantly improved, it will probably be when it truly breaks through the legendary realm. But it will be too scary for Misha~
With its relatively simple brain, it doesn't have the slightest idea of the legendary level's strength...
Liu Yifei's original generals alone were enough to make Misha have no courage to challenge. The Insect King raised his head and looked at the "monsters" surrounding their team that looked like the killer stars of hell.
At this time, a bad idea popped up.
Damn bastard~
Why do you always get so many inexplicably powerful subordinates?
After all this time, do we have to pass up the opportunity to break free from the contract? It’s really abominable...
The Insect King couldn't help but think bitterly~
However, an idea is an idea, but it needs more reasons to shirk it:
"This...I understand what Lord Lord means~
It's just that compared to when I was captured by the lord that day, my strength has only slightly improved.
The main reason is that the decline in strength in the previous period was too obvious. Although I never stopped working hard afterwards, I only restored my strength to its original level.
And the guy who was able to beat me back then... I'm afraid he's improved even more this time around, so it's not a very good time now."
"Is that so? But after this time, it won't be the right time for us to come to such a deep underground world next time~ Are you sure you want to take this opportunity?
If it is due to lack of strength...
Just like you did last time, we can first try to consume your competitor's strength through other ways, and then you can take advantage of the opponent's exhaustion to attack again. Wouldn't this be much better?"
"Well... Lord Lord's method is theoretically feasible, but the restrictions are not small. Let me think about it again. I will reply to Lord Lord as soon as possible..."
Traveling in an empty and dark space is quite boring. After talking to Misha about regaining the royal power, Liu Yifei couldn't help but fall into boredom again.
At times like this, he could only open the built-in forum to read the posts on various game forums. Naturally, Liu Yifei's recent focus was still on the tragic wars taking place throughout the Tower Clan.
The land of the Tower Clan is covered in heavy snow. In some areas, the thickness of the snow can even reach the player's waist.
When venturing to such a place, most players will need some very special auxiliary props or buffs to enable them to walk on the snow. Otherwise, even on their own terrain, they will still be trapped in the snow blockade and unable to move.
For the Talou people themselves, the endless mountains, feet of thick snow, and severe blizzards that will suddenly come at any time are all harsh living environments that must be overcome. Even the locals are like this. The underground environment for the first time.
The city army is even more unbearable~
The dispute between the dungeon race and the tower race is no longer a day or two. At least in the stand-alone background of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, the two races are absolute natural enemies.
If calculated according to the background of this game, then the duration of this hatred will be added to tens of thousands of years of experience.
If any kind of emotion can remain unchanged for tens of thousands of years, the only result will be to make the individual affected by this emotion extremely crazy and paranoid.
At least if Liu Yifei is the leader of the dungeon camp, and they have planned for a long time and are fully prepared, Liu Yifei would rather attack the more powerful human camp than touch the tower clan.
At least on the territory of the human race, they don't have to worry about the impact of the harsh living environment and can arrange their troops as safely as possible~
The current dilemma in the dungeon obviously made Liu Yifei feel that his original idea was becoming more and more sensible.
The raid in the dungeon was really exciting at the beginning. Even Liu Yifei thought that the other party had considered all the situations and was fully prepared to overwhelm a tower kingdom in one go.
It's a pity that in recent days, the underground city's offensive has not been as smooth as their previous ones.
Since conquering the Kingdom of Mercury, the army in the underground city seems to have loosened up a little bit. At least the troop mobilization is not as frequent and active as before. The situation has become increasingly relaxed and stalemate.
What's even more funny is that I don't know if it is a natural situation or a man-made disaster.
When a certain black dragon comprehensive regiment in the dungeon (including a large number of mid-to-high-level creatures) tried to bypass the frontal battlefield and sneak attack on the rear of the Tower Clan resistance army, a violent snowstorm suddenly fell in the area.
As a result, although the black dragon, which was able to achieve a large amount of magic immunity, was not greatly affected, the other combat creatures on its back could not help but die collectively.
Some were directly frozen to death, or some were simply blown away by the violent storm and fell off the dragon's back.
At that time, there was still a stalemate between the two armies on the ground, and as the defender of the capital city was defeated, the Tower Clan naturally spared no effort in encouraging the players.
And when a large number of prepared players below suddenly started to rain "monster rain" from the sky, you can imagine the surprise and excitement~
First, everyone understands that an enemy sneak attack was defused; secondly, the monsters who fell down are not sure whether they were lucky or unlucky. It may be because the snow helped them buffer, or they themselves are really strong.
, even if the world falls, you won’t die~
In short, none of them were instantly killed, but they all fell into a state of fainting or serious injuries.
At this time, don’t expect players to know what is called military law and discipline~
The players screamed and rushed forward one after another, and began to massacre the powerful regular troops who had no power to restrain them.
Those meritorious deeds, harvested one by one, are simply a real-life version of "pie in the sky".
In order to save the elite soldiers of the same race who were brutally massacred, the underground city army had to launch a forcible attack when the sneak attack troops were severely damaged and the combat plan was difficult to realize.
In the end, they were counterattacked by the tower side for a while, and even the dungeon general who was on the position at that time was almost killed by the opponent's three ** divisions...
"Brother Yun~Brother Yun~ It seems... I have found the sound of a large number of creatures moving around in front of me."
Liu Yifei was looking through various battle report videos and discussion posts with enthusiasm, when suddenly the little assassin in front sent a message.
Although the marker bug of the evil beetle can point out the general direction of the opponent, to be sure, Liu Yifei still let the little assassin go to the front to explore alone, while Liu Yifei in the rear corrected the little assassin from time to time under the instructions of the crippled evil beetle boss.
direction.
And now it seems that the little assassin has finally found the trace of the other party...
As the tauren described before, the regular army in this underground city is quite powerful.
In addition to a regiment of terrifying black dragon troops, there is also a spiritual powerhouse standing guard, as well as a small number of Minotaur troops and Squint and Medusa troops.
Basically, all the main troops in the dungeon are present.
The combat effectiveness of such a unit is extremely terrifying, especially those fifty black dragons. Even tens of thousands of low-level troops may not be enough to kill them~
So it's no surprise that they were able to defeat a tauren village with ease.
Even for Liu Yifei, who has not yet mastered a high-level mercenary unit, although there are many masters in Plague City, if possible, he would not be in a head-on conflict with these opponents.
Unless he can pull all the black dragons into the soul space, if there are only three or four left by accident, then his other middle and low-level biological troops will be completely in trouble.
But right now?
Hum ~
Fifty underworld killers are enough to chop down these black dragons until their limbs become cramped.
The team in the dungeon was walking among the troops. Suddenly, the spiritual-level warrior in the center raised his right hand, and the entire team stopped.
At this moment, the Black Dragon troops canceled the previous arrow formation and changed it to a circular array, constantly circling around the troops below to warn them.
The few Medusas and Minotaurs among the ground troops surrounded the outermost periphery, and the spirit-level sorcerer and the evil eyes were surrounded in the center of the team for protection.
"Who? Who is following us?"
The voice turned out to be that of a female sorcerer.
Unfortunately, her question did not receive any response.
The female sorcerer was obviously very intuitive, and then ordered the black dragon hovering in the sky to launch dragon fire attacks in all directions and in all dark corners.
The originally huge and dark space suddenly lit up with a warm color.
It's just that the temperature radiated from the bright center is not as fascinating as the orange-red color.
On the contrary, it is a hell of fire, a burning sea
The breath like tongues of fire continued to sweep across the ground under the command of the female sorcerer, and then condensed in various dark corners where people might be hiding.
The scorching temperature continued to accumulate, causing the few underground plants around to dry up and turn yellow in an instant. Some of the nearby plants were directly ignited by the radiated heat waves, becoming a small temporary torch in the huge darkness~
The burning is still continuing, and many places have been cleaned two or three times. Some rocks that have been repeatedly burned by dragon flames even show signs of softening and melting on the outside. This shows the power of dragon flames.
However, under the careful command of the female sorcerer.
Not a single hidden ambush target was driven out of the darkness.
Except for a few unlucky wild creatures that turned into a pile of charred barbecue, the dragons' carpet sweep did not achieve any actual results.
Could it be...that it was actually sleep?
The female sorcerer couldn't help but think of this~
"Alarm cleared, move on"
Following the banshee's order, the entire team spread out again, planning to continue on their way to their next planned destination.
However, just when the formation was about to disperse and the team was about to move, sharp sword light burst out from several directions.
The cold front-like sword light even caused the surrounding environment that should have been extremely hot to instantly drop a lot of temperature.
And the female sorcerer in the center of the team, locked by the strong and cold killing intent of all the underworld killers, felt a chill for no reason.
It was the chill that came from her soul when death was extremely close to her.
However, she no longer trembles~
Because the positions where the several sword lights were shining were too close to the banshee sorcerer. It was so close that there were only a few bodies, and the total distance was less than ten meters.
incredible.
This distance is the area that the magician focused on sweeping just now. Why didn't the enemy force them out at that time, but now they are touched in front of the door?
What's even more frightening is that it seems that only the female sorcerer who is the target of the attack can see the violent sword light, while the "guards" around her are completely oblivious and are still carrying out the attack stupidly.
Following her last command: spread out the formation and move on.
At the critical moment, two balls of light burst out from the robe on the female sorcerer's body.
A flash of blue light flashed, and the surrounding area within a five-meter radius immediately became a world of ice and snow.
A strong, pure ice and snow swept across the entire field, immediately freezing all targets in place.
This includes not only the underworld killers who appeared after being enchanted by ice and snow, but also the regular dungeon soldiers who were supposed to be the guards.
Ignore the indiscriminate attacks of the enemy and ourselves within an absolute range?
It's really cruel and ruthless~
Liu Yifei, who was watching from a distance, had thoughts flashing through his mind, but the enemy had already disappeared from the scene.
Fortunately, it was just a short-distance teleportation spell, and the banshee sorcerer appeared again less than fifty meters away from her previous location.
But it doesn't matter, it still hasn't escaped the siege of the underworld killers.
The next moment, the female sorcerer, who had just emerged and was still a little dazed because of the random teleportation trigger, was targeted by three sharp attack auras. The danger has not been eliminated~
There are obviously many enemy ambushes
She subconsciously wanted to open the soul barrier.
However, just at this moment, a strange sound of breaking ground came from under her feet. The sharp-eyed female sorcerer suddenly, at some point, a pair of huge and strong insect-like claws suddenly appeared from both sides of where she was standing.
