Richard didn't bother to waste his time thinking about the name. Since the cave demons had been calling this place Ghent, he just used it.
The dungeon is different from other castles, and also very different from the image in the game.
In the special terrain, Ghent did not have a city wall in the traditional sense. Instead, a thick stone wall was laid along the cave like tiles.
The layout is somewhat like the last stronghold of mankind in The Matrix.
The internal layout of the cave has also changed drastically, with several buildings appearing out of thin air.
"Congress Hall: Provides you with 4,000 gold coins every week.
Advanced Dark Cave: The first-level soldier lair in the dungeon, which can provide 20 hell cavemen every week.
Advanced Hall of Silence: The fourth-level soldier lair in the dungeon can provide 4 Medusa Queens every week.
Advanced Evil Eye Pillar: The third-level soldier lair in the dungeon can provide 6 evil eyes every week.
Advanced Manticore Lair: The den of level six soldiers in the dungeon, which can provide one poisonous manticore every week.
The Mother of Sandworms: Hidden level 6 troop lair, which can provide a giant sandworm every week.”
"Five tauren kings have joined your team."
"Five manticores have joined your team."
After checking the list of buildings in the new city, Richard couldn't help but frown.
Ghent City's start was nothing short of luxurious, but Richard was still a little dissatisfied.
The main reason is that the effect of using Dungeon Heart did not meet his expectations and did not match his European emperor's temperament.
The five high-end buildings are independent of the Congress and provide gold coins every week, so the price/performance ratio is pretty good.
In Richard's eyes, the high-level hidden caves were just for fun.
Twenty hell cavemen are produced in a week, which is only slightly stronger than those caveman warriors outside. Twenty of them bundled together in the underground are not enough to kill one caveman. If they don't save a certain number, it is almost impossible for Richard now.
like water off a duck's back.
Among the five random high-end buildings, one has the lowest cost performance.
Instead of following Richard's idea of directly creating a high-level dragon lair for him to recruit black dragons, there was only the Manticore Lair, which was unsatisfactory.
The final random high-level troops sent did not include top-level troops, only a few Tauren and Manticores were given.
The Minotaur King's combat power is comparable to that of an ordinary Troglodyte. The Scorpion Lion can suppress an ordinary Troglodyte, which is actually not bad.
If your expectations are too high, you will be easily disappointed.
However, several high-end buildings satisfy the prerequisites for the construction of dragon lair.
There was no need to worry about how much resources were consumed. After a few seconds, the dragon lair was built, and the first red dragon was recruited by Richard.
Fortunately, the space in the dungeon is large enough, and the ten-meter-long red dragon does not feel constrained when walking a few steps in the city of Ghent, if it does not fly.
It’s just that there are some differences between reality and the game. Although the red dragon can move in the dungeon, it is difficult to get the best use of it. After watching the red dragon carefully fly in a circle, Richard decided to wait for the advanced dragon lair to be built and upgrade.
From now on, bring the black dragon from the dungeon to the surface for use.
However, the giant sandworms produced in special buildings are obviously more suitable for the environment here.
These disgusting-looking creatures are covered in milky white, are nearly ten meters long, and are about a little over a meter in diameter at their thickest point. They have no limbs and rely entirely on their bodies to move, like large earthworms.
No facial features can be seen on the head, but there is a big mouth full of fangs that takes up the entire head.
When the mouth is open, it can even reach more than twice its diameter.
If you are sucked in by this big mouth and take a bite, the smaller ones will be swallowed immediately, and the larger ones will have to eat large pieces of meat with these sharp teeth.
Recruit all the troops in the creature's lair, and then mix them with a few poisonous scorpion lions and minotaur kings.
Ghent also has preliminary defensive capabilities, which can at least buy Ziyue City on the ground some reaction time.
Without any further delay in Ghent, Richard quickly led his people back to Magma City.
By the way, Gengs was ordered to bring some of the cave demon elites to the surface.
The reason is to recruit for the upcoming war.
In fact, he was worried about letting the cave demons escape from his control during this period of time.
After all, it is a saint and a group of high-level soldiers. If the opponent is not angry and is driven out of the territory by Richard, he will attack Ghent while Richard returns to the ground and cause damage to Ghent. That kind of loss is absolutely difficult for Richard to do.
Endurable.
Although facing a great king right in front of us, the possibility of Gent's rebellion attacking Ghent is very low, but we have to guard against it.
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magma city
Diabo's original meeting hall
Those red decorations that can drive people crazy have been removed by Richard.
The red carpet turned into plain slate, and most of the shining gems were removed.
Except for the lofty throne, the entire hall no longer had the nouveau riche feel it had when Diabo was there.
Completely in accordance with Richard's aesthetics, it creates a simple, concise and majestic feeling.
Yin Lisi and Gengs still felt a little strange and uncomfortable when they entered the hall.
Especially when I saw the Thousand-Eyed Mordorwu standing in the hall.
Being stared at by Duowu's thousands of pairs of eyes, a huge sense of crisis hit them, and Gengs and Yin Lisi almost had the urge to run away.
Fortunately, reason still prevailed over instinct, and now we are all working under Richard, so we are not enemies.
Duowu just glanced at them and turned away.
"I have decided to conquer Mao Ge. Do you have any suggestions?"
As soon as the saints in Magma City arrived, Richard said something that made them unbelievable.
Except for Lucifer and Gengs, the remaining three holy-level demons were shocked and confused.
Who is Mao Ge?
A powerful man at the level of a great king, a supreme being who has ruled the Southern Region for thousands of years.
From the time they were born to their growth, as long as they can remember, Maoge has been the sky of the Southern Territory, the most powerful Ziyue Demon in existence that they know, and the four generals under his command. Now he should be the general in the three realms.
The nearly invincible demon army has conquered countless races and worlds.
Even if he is as powerful as Diabo, he has never disobeyed Mao Ge and will honestly make sacrifices to Mao Ge every year.
All the forces in the Southern Region have always been like this.
The scene was quiet for a moment, and then Yin Lisi, who had the most flexible mind and the best information, reacted.
He immediately replied:
"Sir, if you take action, Mao Ge will definitely not be your opponent."
"However, Mao Ge also has three high-level demons from the Realm of Realm, more than two digits of ordinary holy-level leaders, and an army of millions of demons that fight all year round."
Yin Lisi first spoke up to Richard, but in fact she didn't know which one was stronger or weaker between Richard and Mao Ge.
However, excluding the factor of the king-level masters on both sides, there is a huge gap between the forces under Magma City and Mao Ge.
Don't look at the fact that Richard almost completely took over the entire power of Ziyue City, and even forced the largest tribe around, the Thousand-Eyed Demon Clan, to surrender.
But in fact, these combined are not worth one-tenth of Mao Ge's men.
The army of millions of demons under Mao Ge are not the low-level siege cannon fodder recruited by Duowu, but an army composed entirely of middle- and high-level demons.
There are also several special elite legions, and saint-level masters will be crushed if they fall into them.
In Yin Lisi's opinion, it is very irrational to take the initiative to attack Mao Ge at this moment.
Gengs did not answer at the side, but after Yin Lisi finished speaking, he nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with the other party's statement.
"Hey, General Yanmo died here, do you still expect to live in peace with Lord Maoge?"
However, Duowu, who was forced to come by Lucifer, raised a different opinion and also pointed out the issues that Yin Lisi avoided.
Fire Demon Carlson died at the hands of Richard.
Although Lord Maoge doesn't care about the conflicts between the various forces in the southern region, he only needs to pay tribute on time.
But that was a situation where the following forces did not offend him. The current situation is that the Fire Demon General Carlson, one of his four generals, died at the hands of Richard.
Will Mao Ge continue to ignore it as before?
Yin Lisi hesitated for a moment and said in a hesitant tone:
"Carlson probably didn't report to Lord Maoge and came here privately."
This is not difficult to judge.
Nearly a week has passed since the Balrog Carlson was killed by Richard.
The King of the Southern Territory has not reacted at all. If Fire Demon Carlson comes to take over Ziyue City, it will be Mao Ge's will.
So judging from Mao Ge's domineering style in the Southern Territory, Carlson should have reacted as soon as Mao Ge died, instead of being as calm as now.
"Hmm."
Duowu didn't answer, just snorted twice, disdainful to continue talking to Yin Lisi, a "weak person".
Duowu knew very well that he and Richard had been bound together since the Thousand-Eyed Demon clan moved to Magma City.
The overbearing King of the Southern Territory would not care whether he was forced to join Richard's command.
He will only use the cruelest means to tell all the demons in the Southern Region the consequences of offending him.
If possible, Duowu just wants to stay away from this whirlpool, but now that Duowu has boarded the pirate ship, the only thing he can hope for is that Richard can defeat Mao Ge and become the new master of the Southern Territory.
"Sir, the remaining three generals of Mao Ge are not weak. I can hold off at least one of them."
"Although Mao Ge's army has not all gathered together, there will be at least 300,000 troops around Black Abyss City."
"If the war lasts too long, more troops will gather in Black Abyss City."
"Compared to Lord Mao Ge, our military strength is seriously insufficient."
Being able to fight against Diabo for so long, Duowu is not a fool. On the contrary, he has much wider knowledge and a better understanding of the forces under the Southern Territory Lord.
Compared to Yin Lisi and others who still had illusions, Duowu knew more clearly how serious the consequences of killing Carlson would be.
Although Maoge basically didn't care much about the demonic forces outside Black Abyss City, that was only if he was not offended.
If Mao Ge feels offended, in order to maintain his majesty, the army of Black Abyss City will let the demons in the Southern Territory understand what cruelty means.
Richard's killing of Carlson was undoubtedly a serious act of provocation.
As soon as the news reaches Mao Ge's ears, Magma City will immediately face the attack of Black Abyss City, and no one in the entire Magma City can escape.
Fighting Black Abyss City is just a matter of time.
After Duowu briefly told Richard about the power of Black Abyss City, he focused all his attention on Richard, wanting to see Richard's reaction.
Richard behaved very calmly, without any trace of panic, and held his head with one hand, looking confident.
"Strength is not a problem. We must assemble the troops as soon as possible and be ready. We will send out troops in a week. This time I only want the best troops!"
"Yes, sir!"
"The Thousand-Eyed Demon Clan will fight to the death for you!"
Seeing that Richard had made up his mind, Duowu stopped talking and was the first to jump out and express his support.
It's not that he is very loyal to Richard, it's because he has no choice but to follow Richard.
At least, Richard is also a powerful king-level man, so the situation is not so desperate.
After Duowu expressed his stance, Yin Lisi and Gengs had no room for hesitation and immediately expressed their loyalty.
No matter how fierce Mao Ge's reputation is, it is still far away in the horizon. Where can he compare with Richard who is sitting in the upper position at this time.
In this way, Magma City, which had just experienced the war, mobilized with all its strength, coupled with the demon army brought by Duowu, and eliminating cannon fodder such as the little lemures, they managed to assemble an army of 200,000.
The most basic soldiers here have combat power equivalent to that of low-level knights, which can produce a natural disaster-like effect on the current continent.
But using them to attack Mao Ge's Black Abyss City still seemed a bit shabby.
Richard's decision to send troops seemed a little impatient, but in reality he was not.
Since a battle with the Southern Territory Lord is unavoidable, it is better to fight early than to fight late at night.
Instead of waiting for the opponent to organize their troops to attack, it is better to take the initiative to attack before the opponent can react and catch the opponent off guard.
Besides, the troops under Richard's command are not necessarily weaker than Mao Ge.