Chapter 110: The Scourge Lord and the Stalemate
"Is the situation so complicated?"
"But that's normal!"
The Snake Man King's Capital is now the gathering city of all the snake men on the surface of this plane. There are probably 200,000 to 300,000 snake men in it, including many powerful snake men, and a large amount of resources and treasures.
Whether it is the Scourge Lord or the Human War Lord, if they can break through the Serpent Man Capital, the benefits they will gain will be huge.
The Scourge Lord had ideas, and the War Lord apprentices also had ideas, so they all gathered together.
Two Scourge Lords, the combined teams of three War Lords, and the Serpent King's capital; none of the two sides had the strength to contend with the other two at the same time, thus forming this strange balance.
Not to mention that this plane also has several Scourge Lords, a large number of Scourge heroes, and a joint team of apprentices.
The plane is not large, and it is not difficult to find other support. If the stalemate continues, it will easily lead to a huge melee between several Scourge Lords and dozens of human War Lord apprentices.
"So, should I go somewhere else and not get involved in this mess?"
The next day, Li Qing took Long Shoulong Fa to the base of the joint team where Zhao Dingzhen was. There were some things he had to find out in person.
The dragon eagle traveled at an extremely fast speed and soon arrived at the castle and the inner divine domain built between the mountains.
From high above, one can see the dense war fortifications and the densely packed army in the city. Many five-star mentor apprentices and a dozen ordinary students have joined together to assemble an army of nearly 80,000 to 90,000.
It is also because many lords of the divine domains have their own divine domains, otherwise such a large army would be dragged down by the logistics alone.
Li Qing is definitely not able to defeat them now. Eighty or ninety thousand troops from the Divine Realm and eighty or ninety thousand undead are not the same concept.
Once he entered the divine domain, he could connect to the local area network, and he contacted Zhao Dingzhen directly.
Not long after, Zhao Dingzhen came out to greet him. The two shook hands and walked into the city while chatting.
Zhao Dingzhen did not ask Li Qing whether he wanted to join the joint team. He probably knew that this matter was indeed easy to argue about. The two came to Zhao Dingzhen's residence in the city, got some food, and chatted while eating:
"If you don't want to join the joint team, then I advise you not to get involved here."
"The natural disasters gathered here are too strong. We have three joint teams with a total force of 200,000, but we are not very confident and have not dared to take action until now."
Li Qing took a sip of wine, ate some food, and asked:
"Let me check the situation first. By the way, do you know the location of the other Scourge Lords?"
Zhao Dingzhen nodded and said:
"We also know the locations of two Scourge Lords. One is in the west of the plane. There is a city where snakemen and alien races live together. As the plane changed drastically, a large number of snakemen migrated there. Now there are nearly 200,000 alien races gathered there. A Scourge Lord is currently attacking that place."
"There is another one in the northwest of the plane, and it is currently confronting the chief team under my mentor's name."
"As for the other three Scourge Lords, their locations are still unknown. They are either confronting other joint teams or have already started a war, or they are not on the surface but have fled underground."
"You can pay attention and avoid these Scourge Lords. Go to other places to look for those wandering Scourge Heroes. With your strength, you may be able to kill one or two of them and keep the harvest for yourself. It will not be too bad."
Li Qing smiled and said:
“That’s what I thought.”
Although it is slightly different, it is indeed the same idea.
In the early stage, he would definitely not get involved in the melee between the three joint teams and the two Scourge Lords. He planned to establish a fixed base at the ruins of the Serpent Man Fortress, and then look for some lone Scourge heroes nearby to kill them.
Accumulate some strength first, and when your strength is further improved, or when a melee begins, you can decide whether to get involved or not.
Then he walked around the city but did not see Miss Gu. Zhao Dingzhen said that she had gone out a long time ago and had not returned yet.
After hearing this, Li Qing inexplicably lost interest and had no desire to continue shopping, so he said goodbye to Zhao Dingzhen.
After returning from Zhao Dingzhen, Li Qing sent out three of his men who could fly to conduct reconnaissance, while he himself used local materials to build a city wall by hand, preparing to cut the canyon in half and build a city here.
It took him a whole week, and with the cooperation of the Lava Crystal Dragon, he completed the construction of two sections of the wall, one section at each end of the canyon, cutting the entire canyon in half.
The city is 27 meters high and was built in the same way as the inner city walls of the divine domain were originally constructed, with three layers of 100-meter-long walls lying on a three-meter foundation.
Under normal circumstances it certainly wouldn't be possible to do it so quickly, as it would take a long time just to dig the foundation. But this time they asked the Lava Crystal Dragon to help, letting it lie where the foundation was to be built for a while. With the terrifying firepower it emitted, it slowly melted the ground, forming a lava pool several meters deep, and then threw the city wall down.
The city wall was immersed in the lava pool, and after the flatness was adjusted, the lava crystal dragon left, and the lava pool cooled naturally.
After the lava pool cooled, the base of the city wall was naturally embedded in the rock, and the foundation was extremely solid.
There are three sections of 30-meter-high city walls. Excluding the three-meter foundation, the total height of the city walls is 27 meters, which is higher than the inner city walls of the divine realm.
Once the city wall is completed, the defense system will be considered a success.
The twenty-seven-meter-high city wall is a defense that even a ten-meter-tall abomination can’t get in because it doesn’t have the ability to jump high.
With this super city wall, only one or two thousand troops are needed to easily resist tens of thousands of undead.
A week later, Long Shou, who was out on reconnaissance, brought news of a group of undead heroes.
Just one day later, Xie Jin also discovered another undead army in another direction more than 70 kilometers away from the local area.
That night, Li Qing gathered two thousand civilians, took out one thousand imperial infantry and one thousand imperial archers to load, and added two thousand new recruits. The total force was close to five thousand.
After replacing their weapons and super synthetic leather armor, he took most of the army, including half of the new recruits, and set off that night.
To the southeast, about sixty kilometers away, an undead hero built a large camp there.
This place is about seventy or eighty kilometers away from the Serpent King City. I don't know whether it is a single Scourge hero or a Scourge Lord specially sent there to intercept the human war lords nearby.
Before the main force arrived, Long Shou went there in advance to conduct a thorough reconnaissance and patrol the surroundings.
Without any logistical troubles, it took only three days to reach the destination, and then they launched an attack on the camp without any pause.
There was no need for even a trebuchet or siege vehicle. The Lava Crystal Dragon took the lead in rushing towards the bone wall outside the camp and smashed it into pieces with one head. Then it opened its mouth and sprayed a breath of dragon's breath into the camp along the gap created.
The main force advanced in formation and arrived at the gap opened by the lava crystal dragon.
However, perhaps because the undead garrison underestimated him or wanted to turn the passive situation into active, they actually took the initiative to open several gates, and a large number of undead came from other directions, preparing to surround his several thousand troops.
Li Qing first cast a light of war to illuminate the battlefield, then used a magic shield to put on light shields for the forwards, and a magic lightning to kill a large number of skeletons.
The CD of war magic is usually either ten minutes or more than ten minutes, but different types of war magic can be cast continuously.
The troops followed the Lava Crystal Dragon and rushed into the Bone City in one breath. A large number of undead bypassed the Lava Crystal Dragon that had already rushed into the city and gathered between the two.
In addition, the city gate not far away opened, and a large number of undead rushed in to go around, and the encirclement from both sides was about to take shape.
but……
"The Dragon Vein Mage Group is preparing the fireball spell, the target is right in front!"
An Erqiu's loud voice rang out.
The gathered Dragon Vein Snake Man wizards all began to cast spells, and one person condensed a blazing fireball and threw it forward.
“Boom boom boom!”
Countless fireballs flew out, like heavy artillery fire, and the nearly two thousand undead gathered in front of them were blown to pieces on the spot, leaving only two abominations and scattered undead alive.
Then, under the command of Anerqiu, the mage group turned around and another wave of fireballs focused on the rear. Even the bone wall was shattered by a wave of bombing.
A dragon vein warlock can easily cast more than a dozen fireballs without resting. If it is a fourth or fifth level dragon vein warlock, casting twenty or thirty fireballs will not be a big problem.
Nearly four hundred dragon vein snake people united together, and their firepower output was extremely ferocious.
The Lava Crystal Dragon rushed straight to the center of the camp, tying down most of the large units such as the abominable resurrected beasts. There were not many large units that could be transferred to besiege the legion.
Under the heavy bombardment of the Dragon Vein Warlock, they could not get close to the main force at all.
After the main force rushed into the camp, Li Qing, who was with the army, took out arrow towers and sections of city walls for the ranged and dragon vein snake people to stand on, and a small city with a diameter of only one hundred meters and a height of ten meters appeared inside the undead camp.
…
“It’s just outrageous!”
"That's too shameless!"
Even though An Erqiu and others have seen this situation many times, they still feel it is outrageous every time they see it.
The next step is to defend the city and consume the enemy's resources.
The lava crystal dragon was rampaging in the camp, knocking meter-tall abominations to the ground. Its breath caused chaos in the camp, and countless undead were burned to ashes.
By the time the Scourge heroes felt something was wrong and wanted to retreat, it was already too late.
The Dragon Guardian and the Dragon Mage stared at the Scourge hero with familiarity, and would intercept him if he ran away, and then kill him with the help of the Lava Crystal Dragon that rushed over recklessly.
In less than two hours, this army of Scourge heroes was defeated.
Quickly clean up the battlefield, kill some of the defeated undead, and ignore those that escaped.
In the third hour, the troops began to return.
After returning to the base, no accidents happened during the time when the main force was away.
I spent a day upgrading my subordinates and counting the spoils.
As the main source of firepower, the Dragon Vein Snakemen are now all at least level three, nearly half are level four, and nearly a hundred have been promoted to level five. Their firepower output is already very ferocious.
In addition, the Lava Crystal Dragon, as the core combat force, finally upgraded to a higher level and broke through after experiencing so many wars.
From the original level 69 of the sixth stage, it has been promoted to the current level 70 of the seventh stage, and the size has increased on the spot.
The original length of 26 meters has now reached nearly 30 meters.
There are four pieces of loot, namely a Skeleton Behemoth Card, a box of rare magic materials, a three-star hero transformation card, and 2 hero skill points.
The Skeleton Monster Ka is a mammoth monster made of bones. It is six meters tall and twelve meters long. Its entire body is made of bones. There is space inside the skeleton and a pair of huge mammoth tusk rams that can be used instead of siege vehicles.
A box of rare magic materials contains a large amount of rare magic materials such as fine gold, secret silver, and magic gems.
Li Qingqing clicked on it and found that the combined amount of refined gold and secret silver was enough to make two more steel golems.
There is no need to mention the three-star hero transformation card.
Put two hero skill points directly into divine power.
Divine power LV2: Strength +200%.
Feat +1: Strength +25%.
Expertise +2: Strength +50%.
The first three levels are very simple, they simply increase strength and have no other special abilities.
Two days later, Li Qing led his troops out again and killed another natural disaster hero he discovered.
Gain 30 class upgrade cards, 2 hero skill points, and a Lich class card pack, which includes a series of necromancy spells, life box crafting methods, Lich transformation rituals, and more.
After the two battles, Li Qing had killed a total of five Scourge heroes. Even if he didn't achieve any more results, he could still gain 10 points of favor from the Eternal Tree.
After killing these two Scourge heroes, there will be no lone Scourge heroes nearby.
The other Scourge heroes were either recruited by the two Scourge Lords or were very close, so he had no chance to attack.
So after thinking carefully for a while, Li Qing decided to change his approach.
He spent another half a month collecting a large amount of remains of the snakeman fortress. On the outer side of the newly built fortress, he built another wall close to the original one. In other words, he added a layer ten meters thicker and wider next to the original wall, and then raised the two walls by ten meters each, reaching a terrifying height of 37 meters.
Then, leave a group of troops here to guard, adjust the main force, and start exploring the underground world.
It is impossible to leave, as this area is home to two Scourge Lords, a large number of Scourge heroes, and the Serpent King's capital. The opportunities contained therein are unimaginable to ordinary people. How can he be absent from such an exciting situation?
But since there is no fighting at this stage, he cannot fish in troubled waters.
It's impossible to just wait here, so let's change direction and go to the underground world.
The 37-meter double-layer city wall is so safe that even if a million undead troops came over, they would be helpless.
On the second day after the city wall was built, Li Qing sent Xie Zhu to lead a force of about 500 people into the underground world along the passage at the bottom of the canyon.
Of course, he didn't need to do this kind of preliminary exploration himself.
The purpose of subordinates is to do work.
After the troops set off, he returned to the divine realm and began to create iron golems and rock golems.
We have been marching every day during this period, and it is difficult to complete three meditations. There is no time to make a golem.
After so many battles, more than twenty rock golems were lost. We have to take time to repair and replenish what needs to be repaired.
In addition, the subordinates must be further armed and strengthened.
First, activate and use the giant bone beast card.
Then use magic to take out the control core hidden in the skull, which is a special bone in the skull of the mammoth, and the soul fire is housed in it.
Then the mammoth's skeletal body is disassembled and a new skeletal body is remade.
At this time, the role of high-strength bone synthesis, which previously seemed a bit useless, came into play.
After decomposing the skeleton, re-synthesize a Giant Mammoth Skeleton according to the new composition formula.
