Chapter 111: Transaction with the Underground Race
Having experienced cheating more than once, including strengthening the war lizard into a lava crystal dragon, Li Qing now has a lot of experience in cheating using the palm space.
Although it is impossible to strengthen this white-bone mammoth with the blood of a giant dragon and most methods cannot be used on it, it does not mean that cheating is impossible.
The simplest and most brutal way to strengthen is to strengthen the soul and the skeletal body.
He took out a full hundred pure soul essences and put them into the core of the white bone mammoth, strengthening it in a simple and crude way.
Then recast the bone mammoth.
The original white-bone mammoth was only six meters tall and twelve meters long. This was because the soul of the original white-bone mammoth could only control a body of this size.
Now that the soul core is fully strengthened, the body that can be controlled and driven naturally begins to expand.
Without saying anything, Li Qing directly synthesized a giant white bone mammoth that was ten meters tall and thirty meters long.
Bones are very hard, with steel bars and high-toughness fibers embedded inside, almost like load-bearing columns.
The entrance and exit of the space in his palm was not big enough. It was only ten meters in diameter and could only be ten meters at its highest. If the exit was big enough, he would have tried to make a giant white bone mammoth that was dozens of meters tall and as tall as a mountain to see what happens.
The finished giant mammoth skeleton has a solid structure. The internal bones are all connected into plates, and the external ribs are connected into board walls. There is a cave space for soldiers inside and shooting holes on the sides.
There are many slots on the top, which can fix various crossbow carts and even light catapults.
The front bone is three meters thick, with thick steel plates embedded inside, making a huge all-steel ram that can directly hit the city gate.
With this, we won't even need a catapult in the future. Just send this thing together with the Lava Crystal Dragon to directly break down the city gates and walls.
It is worth mentioning that Li Qing also has a crazy idea. He wants to first see how the battle performance of the strengthened white bone mammoth is. If it is very strong, he plans to take out a ray of original light to strengthen its core soul.
Then make a super bone monster.
The kind that are made separately, any bone in it has a diameter of ten meters and is hundreds of meters long. A leg is made up of several parts with a diameter of ten meters. The overall height is hundreds of meters, and it is a super big thing with a length of three or four hundred meters.
But now it is just an immature idea, and I don’t know if it can be done, after all, the technical difficulty is too high.
He didn't know whether a core that was fused with a ray of original light could control such a large thing, nor did he know whether such a large body could be put together.
Time flies, and before I knew it, another month has passed.
Xie Zhu, who was sent abroad, brought him a piece of news that surprised him greatly.
Along this wide underground passage, which is wide enough to accommodate hundreds of people walking side by side, about two to three thousand meters down, there is a huge underground space.
There were many underground passages connecting this underground space. After trying several routes, they found the correct passage. They walked back and forth for seventy or eighty kilometers and came to a large underground space on the next level.
In this lower underground space they discovered a large tribe of subterranean dwarves being attacked by a Scourge hero.
They did not act rashly, but just observed from outside this underground space.
However, he was discovered by the dwarves before he had observed for long, and then something surprised Li Qing.
Instead of attacking them, the dwarves sent an envoy to contact them and hire them to fight against the undead heroes.
This was quite surprising, and Xie Zhu was also surprised at the time.
I have been in this dimension for so long, and all I have done when meeting aliens is kill. I have never had such a calm and peaceful communication.
Xie Zhu thought about it at the time and did not refuse. He took his subordinates to participate in the war between the dwarf tribe and the undead.
With the help of the one hundred dragon-veined snakemen accompanying the army, all of whom were spellcasters, they performed very well on the battlefield and won the attention of the dwarf tribe, who proposed an alliance.
Xie Zhu didn't dare to make this decision, so he sent a team back to ask Li Qing for his opinion.
After receiving the news, Li Qing was stunned for a while and decided to go down and take a look.
This is a completely new and unimagined path.
If this large dwarf tribe is reliable enough, it means that he doesn't need to chop them all the way down, and perhaps he can gain some benefits in another way.
Two thousand troops were left to guard the home, the lava crystal dragon and the giant mammoth were left at home, Li Qing brought the dragon guards and dragon methods, three hundred dragon vein snake people, about two thousand five hundred regular troops, and the team sent by Xie Zhu into the underground passage.
This passage is the largest passage for the underground united tribal kingdom to attack the surface, and is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of troops to march smoothly.
They, less than three thousand people, easily reached the upper underground space. The team paused here for a while. Li Qing used the light of war to illuminate the entire underground space and discovered many underground creatures.
Even figures that looked like aliens were found in some holes in the stone walls.
The team paused for a moment and continued walking down along a large underground passage marked by Xie Zhu.
The rugged underground passage is very difficult to walk on, with bends and turns all the way. The straight-line distance from here to the next level may be only a few kilometers, but the turns have stretched the road to seventy or eighty kilometers.
When we arrived at the end of the passage, a delegation of underground dwarves was already waiting there.
With just one glance, Li Qing knew why this large tribe of dwarves could communicate with each other and not fight each other as soon as they met.
Because this is a pure group of mountain dwarves, not the underground gray dwarves in other planes recorded in the travel notes.
Gray dwarves tend to be relatively evil, and are extremely wary and disgusted with surface races, including humans.
Mountain dwarves tend to be orderly and kind, and have good relations with races such as humans and elves, so there is a possibility of forming an alliance with them.
Normally, mountain dwarves live among the mountains on the surface. They like to dig holes in the mountains to mine, build their own kingdoms, and rarely enter the underground world.
However, the surface of this plane fragment was occupied by snake people. The snake people, who were evil by nature, found it difficult to coexist with other races. In the many towns captured by Li Qing, other alien races either became vassals of the snake people or slaves.
Apparently, this tribe of mountain dwarves fled to the underworld to escape slavery at the hands of the Serpent Men.
The communication with the dwarf reception group was very pleasant. At this time, the dwarf tribe was facing the invasion of the Scourge heroes and did not have much time to test it. Based on the concept that the undead were the common enemy of life, they quickly reached a cooperation agreement.
Li Qing helped them fight the undead on a hired basis, and in return the dwarves provided them with a large amount of metal as a reward.
Including conventional metals such as iron ore, copper ore, silver ore, etc.
Special resources such as tin mines and coal mines.
And rare metals such as fine gold and secret silver.
The underground minerals are rich and the dwarves are good at mining. This large dwarf tribe has a total of nearly 30,000 people. The mining range is not limited to this area, but radiates to an area with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. A lot of ores have been accumulated over the years.
Unfortunately, there are not many rare metals, namely, fine gold and mithril.
They used most of the refined gold for themselves, or made it into refined gold weapons and sold them to other underground tribes in exchange for various supplies.
The mithril was sold to the mages of the major clans underground.
To be honest, the most valuable thing Li Qing obtained from the dwarves was not the mines, but the information about the entire underground world.
The entire underground world is divided into five layers. The underground tribes are jointly distributed on the first, second and third layers. The fourth layer is too dangerous and is occupied by various powerful monsters, including the legendary mind flayer. It is said that there is a mind flayer kingdom on the fourth layer underground.
The fifth floor was empty, with nothing in it.
Because of the collapse of the plane, the fifth layer and the layers below have been peeled off with the collapse of the plane, so now the fifth layer is the edge of the plane and there is nothing.
It is worth mentioning that the Underworld Tribal Union is composed of large tribes like the Dwarf Tribe, but there are no pure underground races such as cavemen, drow elves, gray dwarves, etc.
There are only four major ethnic groups on the surface: dwarves, humans, orcs, and gnolls, as well as slave races such as kobolds and goblins.
The original underground race had already been strangled by the four major ethnic groups, with only a few remnants escaping to the fourth underground layer.
Establishing contact with the dwarves means establishing contact with the entire underground tribe alliance, and obtaining some good things from them without going to war.
In the past, war wouldn’t have mattered.
But now that the natural disaster has invaded, it would not be appropriate to continue to fight our way through.
Of course, another reason is that the underground terrain is too complicated. These tribes all live underground and have only a few exits. As long as the underground passages are blown up and the road is blocked, it will be difficult to deal with them.
In addition, the underground passages are very narrow. Except for a few large passages, most of the places cannot accommodate the lava crystal dragon, which greatly reduces his combat effectiveness.
When Li Qing's main force arrived, this Scourge hero who was attacking the dwarf tribe became in trouble.
With a large number of dwarf warriors as the front row cannon fodder, hundreds of dragon vein snakemen can cast spells in the rear without any worries.
The fireballs bombarded back and forth, and countless skeletons were blown into pieces.
This time Li Qing was not in a hurry and did not let Long Shou and Long Fa take action. Instead, he asked the dwarves to take them around to the rear of the undead, and let the dragon vein snake people continue to bombard from a distance to gain experience.
It is rare that we don’t have to worry about whether the front row can hold up, or whether the losses in the front row will be too great.
More than three hundred dragon snake mage groups bombarded back and forth countless times. Finally, the undead army could not hold on because of the heavy losses and began to retreat.
At this time, Li Qing's two thousand main forces plus more than two thousand dwarf infantry had already circled to the rear of the Scourge heroes, an underground space with a diameter of about two kilometers, where the Scourge heroes' camp was built.
When the Scourge heroes were preparing to withdraw, the troops rushed out from the back path and launched a surprise attack on the Scourge heroes' camp.
Long Shoulongfa flew to the air in the underground space and sprayed two streams of dragon breath towards the camp, flushing back and forth like a high-pressure water gun.
In this small space, the advantages of the Sea of Undead could not be fully utilized. Instead, because they were too dense and impossible to dodge, they were madly burned to ashes by the dragon's breath that washed back and forth.
There was no need even for ground troops. Long Shou and Long Fa spewed out five waves of dragon breath back and forth, burning the ground to ashes.
The hero of this Scourge army is a seven-meter-tall golden skeleton with powerful melee capabilities, but no spellcasting ability and no ranged capabilities. He can only rely on limited corpse wizards to fight back.
But the corpse wizard could not do anything about the dragon guarding dragon technique which could not only fly but also possessed super strong resistance.
No surprises, another brilliant victory.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Qing built a temporary camp on the edge of this underground space as an outpost.
He planned to use this as a temporary underground base, do business with the major tribes underground, and exchange the most scarce food in the underground for the supplies he needed.
After fighting together with the dwarves to kill a Scourge hero, Li Qing gained the trust of the dwarf tribe. Li Qing sent a delegation led by Xie Zhu and a group of dwarf guides to leave the base and visit the major tribes in the underground world.
Li Qing returned to the base on the surface to prepare to trade supplies.
It is worth mentioning that this time, defeating this Scourge hero will yield a special loot.
In addition to two hero skill points, there is also a hero treasure called the Golden Bone Shield, and a very special item, the terrain card - a small mountain.
Hero's treasure: Golden Bone Shield.
Grade: Low-grade rare item.
Equipment location: Armor.
Passive attribute: Defense +2.
Active skill: Bone Shield. After use, it will add an illusory bone shield to all subordinates. The bone shield has a virtual vitality equivalent to 30% of the subordinate's own, lasts for 30 seconds, and has a cooldown time of 60 minutes.
Terrain Card: Small Mountains.
Attributes: Use to summon five small mountains with a height between 100-500 meters in the divine domain.
This was the first time Li Qing had seen such a thing; it was very strange.
But unfortunately, there is not enough space in the divine domain now, so it cannot be loaded for the time being.
Adding these two points, Li Qing has accumulated a full four hero skill points. Li Qing opened the attribute panel without hesitation and started adding points.
Divine Power LV3: Strength +400%.
Expertise +3: Strength +100%.
Divine Power LV4: Strength +600%, Critical Hit +1, Crush +1, Smash +1.
Expertise +4: True Attack LV1 (Mythic), 10% of your physical attack is true damage that ignores any defense and immunity.
Divine Power LV5: Strength +1000%, Critical Hit +2, Crush +2, Smash +2, Instant Death +1.
Expertise +5: True Attack LV2 (Mythic), 20% of your physical attack is true damage that ignores any defense and immunity.
This true damage can ignore everything and even break the defense of a true god.
The prerequisite is that you can get close to the true God.
There are a few remaining hero skill points, which are not used for the time being.
Wait until you accumulate some more in the future, and then see how much you can accumulate and decide how to use it.
At this point, all four major items of divine talents have been completed, and he has become the legendary hexagonal warrior.
Although he had not made a serious attempt yet, Li Qing knew from the fact that he could easily lift several tons of steel that he was already stronger than Long Shou and Long Fa.
From now on, Li Qing can begin the final preparations for his promotion to the extraordinary level.
The talents have been maxed out, the mana has been accumulated to a certain level, and the experience has been accumulated enough. In theory, you can start to be promoted to the extraordinary level now.
