Based on the data collected by Zong Shen before, some useful information can be analyzed.
Zombies and fanged worms account for almost 95.2% of the total number of monsters spawned in the crypt, the proportion of gargoyles is about 4%, and the ghost banshees are 0.8%.
Therefore, zombies and fanged worms are the real main force in the crypt, and they take the lead every time.
Based on this ratio analysis, the huge group of cave monsters is actually not as scary as imagined.
After all, even the crypt zombies and fanged worms whose strength has been increased to level 6 are just weak chickens.
However, with the cooperation of various monsters, there is absolutely no problem for these crypt monsters to sweep across an ordinary territory. Just like the territory in front of them, in fact, the confrontation between the two has just begun.
Once the one hundred and eighty gargoyles in the sky start to move out, and the ghost banshee also starts to use its control skills, it means that the battle has officially begun.
As for now, it can only be regarded as a warm-up stage, with cannon fodder opening the way first, but even so, this lord still looks like he is facing a formidable enemy.
The defense and layout of his territory are quite good, especially the circular moat about five meters wide, which plays a great role. Coupled with the attraction mechanism of hatred value, the monster's main attack direction at this time happens to be a reserved
The entrance is about three meters wide.
The two sides of the entrance extend out for five or six meters, and are completely isolated by horses and trenches. If monsters want to attack, they can only enter from the front of the entrance due to the setting of the hatred value.
This layout is similar to the corridor that blocks the exit in Zong Shen's crypt front line. It also uses the monster's hatred value attraction mechanism to limit the terrain.
With this comparison, the rankings among the lords become more clear.
Zhang Zihao's territory is incomparable to the guy in front of him in every aspect.
If Zong Shen had been guarding this territory yesterday afternoon, it would have been easier to annihilate the tens of thousands of cave monsters.
Zong Shen's side had just had a night's rest and was in peak condition.
They cut and strangle the crypt monster from behind like mowing grass.
The accompanying Howie has already joined the territory since he was purchased by Zong Shen, but he has not yet sworn surrender and cannot have lord-level authority.
At this time, Haoyi was standing next to the masters in the back row, looking at the huge group of cave monsters in front of him with a shocked expression. He watched Zong Shen take the lead in the charge and lead the soldiers directly into this place like a sharp knife.
Among the strange crowd.
Quantity contrast and contrast can easily bring visual shock.
"This...there are so many undead monsters here."
"There are also some rare crypt creatures..."
"The army of the Alonwa Kingdom just sat back and ignored it?"
Howie was shocked and confused. There were such large-scale undead monsters and cave creatures in the kingdom's territory, but there was no royal army or local troops to eliminate them?
This kind of situation occasionally happens in the mainland. In addition to the few resting places of the undead on the mainland and the cave creatures that live underground all year round, there will also be incidents in various parts of the continent every few decades or hundreds of years.
Some dusty undead lairs appear in the world, or there are inexplicable riots by underground creatures.
However, those undead lairs and crypt tribes can only number in the hundreds or thousands at most. After they ravage a few villages, they will be wiped out by the kingdom's army and knights.
A group of crypt monsters of this size is extremely rare, and logically it should have attracted the attention of the kingdom long ago.
Howie felt very confused. He had not sworn allegiance and no one had told him about the Crypt Challenge. He did not know many things about the territory.
But this did not prevent him from observing the battle between Zong Shen and the others. He had seen the city army of Goti Castle fight against the rogue bandits.
Most of the army at the first level of the city is composed of second-level warriors, with a small number of third-level warriors and a single digit number of fourth-level warriors.
Generally, a relatively peaceful and peaceful state city like Goti Castle, which is located in the hinterland of the kingdom, usually has only 300 to 500 permanent soldiers stationed under its jurisdiction, which is enough to ensure the defense tasks of the state city and the villages under its jurisdiction.
Larger cities have some standing armies of seven to eight hundred, but very few states have thousands of armies on standby. Of course, this does not include some special states located in border areas or adjacent to some foreign races.
city.
Most of those border cities are strategic-level fortress cities with a standing army of 1,000 to 3,000 troops. There are also branches of the Kingdom Knights and major regional knights active in the border areas.
The more state troops there are, the heavier the burden will be on the state. Not counting training costs, the state army’s armaments, military pay, food consumption, and material consumption are not a small amount every month. They are all borne by the state.
Solve it yourself, Jucheng will only provide certain help in recruitment and training.
Howie understands this very well. Although Goti Castle is comfortable, its armament expenditure is also not small. The annual sharecropping tax seems to be a lot, but one-third needs to be used to meet the expenses of the state army, and another three-thirds.
One requires the repair and construction of infrastructure inside and outside the city, as well as in subordinate villages.
The remaining one-third is at the disposal of the Viscount, and is used for family expenses, as well as paying salaries to maids, housekeepers, and managers like Howie.
In this way, there will be basically no balance in the income from the sharecropping tax.
However, this is not all of the Viscount's income. As a Viscount, he also runs a textile factory and owns two caravans. A lot of cotton is grown in the villages under his jurisdiction. The Viscount's subordinate textile factories will purchase it uniformly and then roughly process it into cotton.
cloth.
Then the two Goti caravans purchased some local products and cotton fabrics and took them to the giant city of Vabell to sell them and make a certain profit, so Viscount Ector's net worth was still very rich.
Nowadays, most of the states and cities in the entire continent are hereditary territories distributed by nobles. At the very least, they are baron-level figures. For example, Viscount Ector has a relatively high title.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is because the Ector family is also a big family in the Kingdom of Nord. The full name of Viscount Ector is Ector.
·Ken is one of the children of the Ector family, and Goti Castle is a reward from his father. In fact, the Ector family owns two giant cities and thirty-seven state cities in the Nord Kingdom.
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Therefore, compared with Viscount Ector, Zong Shen is a real mud-legged person.
This kind of behavior of establishing a territory with nothing is not without precedent, but it is much more difficult to develop and even takes a lifetime. People often work hard for decades and finally become someone else's wedding dress.
At this time, Howie silently watched the battle ahead. So far, judging from the current combat effectiveness, Zong Shen and the others are still very strong. With a team of dozens of people, they dare to attack thousands of cave monsters.
Launch a challenge.
In his opinion, even the elite knights of the kingdom would not necessarily take such risky actions.
Next to Howie, the fire mage Parks was holding up his staff and chanting an ancient magic spell. This spell was very long and took ten seconds to finish.
The ruby on the top of his staff emitted red light. Not far ahead, a magic circle with a diameter of ten meters appeared on the ground twenty or thirty meters deep into the monster group.
"Gudong Gudong..."
The ground surged, bright red flame runes appeared, and the magic circle finally took shape!
The area covered by the magic circle instantly rose into flames more than ten meters high!
The flames were very violent clustered flames, with a golden-orange color overall. From dozens of meters away, you could feel a billowing heat wave coming from the front. Judging from the color of the flames, the temperature inside them reached at least 1,200 degrees Celsius.
Flame Storm lives up to its name. It instantly sets enemies within range on fire, causing burning damage to their heads. Moreover, there happens to be a Crypt Hero hidden in this area!
Judging from the entire group of cave monsters, this guy's position was at the rear, which was originally the safest position. Unexpectedly, someone from the clan killed him halfway, and he was stabbed in the eye.
And what a coincidence, the location where Parks used Flame Storm happened to be in the area where it was located.
After a few seconds, a figure covered in flames emerged from it.
It is tall and tall. In order to hide its figure, it had been hiding among the monsters with its back bent.
Now that he was so burned by the flame storm, he no longer cared about hiding. He stood up straight and rolled and crawled out of the scope of the flame storm.
It was more than two meters tall, wearing a suit of armor made of bones, a horned skull helmet on its head, and holding two pale white bone swords. It was covered in fire, and its head was continuously suffering from burning injuries.
The level of Crypt Hero is not high, and Flame Storm can cause considerable damage to it.
At this time, Zong Shen and the others were attacking and killing on the other side, dozens of meters away from where the Flame Storm was exerting its power.
When Zong Shen discovered that a hero was forced out of the monster group, Zong Shen quickly patted Bajie on the head, turned around, activated Blood Fang Crash, and rushed towards the crypt hero.
As soon as his eyes glanced over, the attributes of this crypt hero appeared in front of him.
【Skeleton War King (Hero)】
[Qualification: Excellent]
[Level: lv4]
[Attributes: (Click to expand)]
[Hunger and satiety: 100]
【Strength: 29】
[Agility: 12]
【Wisdom: 6】
【Charm: 4】
[HP:735/950]
[Chopping damage: 78~81]
[Skill: Corpse Explosion lv4 (detonate an enemy corpse, causing 20% of the corpse's maximum life limit explosion damage to enemies within five meters, cooling time 10 minutes)
Aging Curse lv4 (reduces the target's attack speed and movement speed by 50%, lasting 40 seconds, cooling time 1 hour)
Skeleton Arms Level 4 (can extract bones from corpses and condense them into Skeleton Armor and Skeleton Swords, with a cooling time of 10 minutes, and there can be at most one set of Skeleton Arms at the same time)
Passive skill: Skeleton Transformation Level 4 (Every time the Skeleton War King kills five enemies, he can automatically transform a skeleton warrior from one of the corpses. The strength of the skeleton warrior is related to the strength of the enemy he killed during his lifetime.
, killing undead or skeletonless creatures will not be able to activate this effect)]
(The genuine Skeleton War King is a real skeleton lord, able to lead an army of thousands of skeletons, especially the hero passive transformed by skeletons, which allows him to gradually grow his team during conquests, but this replica and weakened version can
Not even close)
This is the fifth type of crypt hero after the Wailing Lich, Crypt Lord, Death Knight, and Abyss Worm.
The skills are all related to skeletons, especially the passive skill. This thing is a must-have in the Skeleton Sea. The more you kill, the more you will get. Moreover, the Skeleton War King in front of you is still a weakened replica. If it is the original Skeleton War,
The effect of the king's skills is probably much more powerful, and he is the well-deserved Skeleton Lord.
Zong Shen rode Bajie towards the Skeleton War King. Before he could reach it, the Skeleton War King had extinguished the flames on his body and turned around to hide among the monsters.
At this moment, a huge flaming claw suddenly condensed and formed behind it. This flaming claw grabbed the Skeleton War King who was about to escape into the monster group and forcibly dragged it out.
The flames burned blazingly, causing continuous damage to it. This wasn't the end of it. The Lord of Flame grabbed the Skeleton War King directly in the direction Zong Shen came from, and threw it in the open space in front of him. It was a considerate service and sent him away.
Goods delivered to your door.
Then the flaming claw grabbed the monster group again, causing 15 points of burning damage to any place it touched.
When Zong Shen saw the Flame Claw throwing the Skeleton War King in front of him, he slapped Bajie on the head and applied an emergency brake, stopping in front of the Skeleton War King.
He turned over and slashed at the Skeleton War King with two big knives.
"Bang bang!"
【-87】
【-81】
Zong Shen opened his bow from left to right, and struck the skeleton armor with two broadswords one after another, leaving two cracking marks on the bone armor. Under the armor, the body of the Skeleton War King was also a skeleton.
These two knives brought out two damage values that were not low.
Zong Shen is not using any Buff skills now. With the damage bonus of 78 points of strength and the bonus of many passive skills, his normal attacks are also very powerful, especially against such low-level and weakened ones.
Hero of the Crypt is like chopping up melons and vegetables.
The two swords in the hands of the Skeleton War King also struck at Zong Shen. One sword hit the sword in Zong Shen's left hand, making a clanging sound of gold and iron, and the other hit him directly on the shoulder.
【-25】
The bone sword pulled out a spark on his shoulder, leaving a not too deep gap in the violent bear armor, and at the same time making Zong Shen's shoulder feel a dull pain.
Zong Shen's upper body armor value is as high as 55 points, and the Skeleton War King cannot cause much damage to him.
However, this sword reduced the durability of Zong Shen's [Teroka Violent Bear Armor (Purple)] by more than ten points, which made Zong Shen feel a little distressed!
Zong Shen took two steps back, opened some distance, and crossed his swords in front of him.
When he turned his head and saw the gap in the armor's shoulder, he felt a faint pain in his heart!