Chapter 113 Strategy for the Scourge Lord
Li Qing only left about a thousand troops and a hundred dragon vein snake people to guard the home, led by An Erqiu.
The remaining more than four thousand troops, four hundred dragon vein snake people, and the lava crystal dragon will follow the army.
The lava crystal dragon and the bone mammoth were first taken into the divine domain, and the army was directly teleported to the wizard city-state through the large teleportation array in the dwarf tribe.
When he walked out of the portal, what he saw at first glance was a huge underground space with a super wizard tower connected to the dome in the middle. Earth, fire, wind and water surrounded the tower, and dazzling light illuminated the entire underground world.
This is an ultra-large underground space with an inner diameter of twenty to thirty kilometers. However, it is not natural. Instead, it is formed by hollowing out and splicing several adjacent underground spaces.
There is a city inside the huge space, and the surrounding empty land has been cleared and turned into fields to grow food.
This huge city should have been peaceful and harmonious, but with the invasion of natural disasters, everything changed.
This huge underground space is quiet, but at the junction of this underground space and another underground space, there is a huge passage. At the entrance of the passage, there stands a tall wall. A large number of humans and troops of various races are resisting the undead attack from another underground space.
Li Qing came out of the portal and immediately scouted the surrounding situation.
It can be clearly seen that the other underground space was newly dug. Before he came, the old wizard of the Mage City-State did not hide it from him and told him that the city-state originally planned to dig out the rock and soil between the main underground space and the other underground space, and dig several huge passages to connect them into one.
Unexpectedly, when they had dug out a passage, the Scourge suddenly invaded. A Scourge Lord descended into the underground space next door, and a large number of undead poured out of the portal.
The Mage City-State also reacted quickly. With no less than twenty mage towers in the city-state joining forces to use the fossil-to-mud spell and the fossil-to-mud spell, and then the shaping spell, they built a super wall thirty meters high in one day, which blocked the attack of the undead.
Li Qing could only say that this was outrageous.
Whether it is the undead or the mage city-state.
With more than twenty mage towers, the strength of the mage city-state was beyond his imagination.
However, the strength of the Scourge Lord on the other hand is also extraordinary. He also has a powerful mage group under his command. With the support of the Scourge Lord, they can actually withstand the pressure of the mage city-state head-on and occasionally provide support in destroying the city walls.
The corridor between the two underground spaces was over a thousand meters wide and three or four kilometers long. Both sides deployed a large number of troops to fight back and forth there.
Today, the undead attacked, and the mage tower in the city-state used its strength to blast the undead back.
Tomorrow we will push back all the way, and when we enter the boundary corridor, the Mage Tower will be unable to provide support, and we will be pushed back by the Scourge Lord using an endless stream of undead.
The two sides have been in a stalemate for more than two months, and neither side can do anything to the other for the time being.
But the situation is relatively unfavorable for the Mage City-State.
After all, they have to rely on human lives to hold on, unlike the lives of the undead which are worthless.
Most of these Scourge Lords have already conquered some planes. It’s hard to say about other things, but they can transform as many skeleton zombies as they want.
Just like this plane fragment in front of us, all the races on the surface and underground add up to at least two million. After deducting various losses, it is not excessive to have millions of skeleton zombie cannon fodder.
So at this stage, the Mage City-State can hold on with the support of the other two human city-states, but it does not mean that it can continue to hold on forever.
That's why he has been uniting all forces and doesn't even mind foreign visitors like Li Qing.
Up to now, all the war lord apprentices who came to the underground are now concentrated in the Mage City-State. There is even more than one apprentice who has expanded his own divine domain here, just outside the Mage City-State.
As soon as Li Qing entered the city, he sensed the existence of a local area network in a certain divine realm.
First, let Xie Zhu apply to the city-state for an open space outside the city to build a temporary camp, where the troops will be temporarily stationed.
Then he asked Long Shou and Long Fa to lead three hundred dragon vein snake people to join the battle first to gain some experience.
He has high hopes for this group of dragon-veined snake people. With dragon blood, they can break through the limit of level five and advance to level six or even level seven.
Although it doesn't require many harsh conditions to be promoted to the sixth-level extraordinary like a hero, it is not that easy either.
Of course, the Dragon Vein Snakeman is a type of soldier rather than a hero. After being promoted, he is called a sixth-order advanced soldier, not an extraordinary strong man. The soldier cannot be called a strong man, nor does he have extraordinary characteristics, but his strength is definitely much stronger than when he was at the fifth order.
Once a Dragon Vein Snakeman is promoted to level six, many talents that only Dragon Vein Warlock heroes have will be displayed one by one.
For example, dragon scales, dragon breath, and dragon wings are three talents that heroes can choose at the first level. Ordinary dragon vein snakemen must be promoted to the sixth level to obtain them, and their power is equivalent to that of full LV1.
But no matter how bad it is, this is the talent of the dragon clan. Level 1 dragon breath is already very cool. All five hundred dragon vein snake people can fly and can all breathe dragon breath. This combat power directly explodes.
After arranging all this, Li Qingcai came alone to a divine castle outside the wizard city-state.
This castle is not very big, with a diameter of less than two hundred meters. It is placed outside the wizard city-state like a satellite city.
The city gates are not closed and anyone can enter and exit.
When Li Qing arrived, he saw a bluestone table placed in the open space to the right of the city gate, and several people sitting around a row of bluestone steps, drinking tea and chatting.
The familiar feeling made it possible to recognize at a glance that these were several War Lord apprentices.
Li Qing walked over, and a young apprentice subconsciously looked at him with a hint of doubt on his face, and asked curiously:
"Brother, I don't think I've seen you before, are you new here?"
Li Qing walked up and asked with a smile:
"Would you like to sit down for a moment?"
The man swiped his feet and swept an empty stone slab over:
"Of course, please take a seat."
Li Qing sat down, took the cup of tea pushed by the man, thanked him, and said:
"Brother, you have a good eye. My name is Li Qing. I am indeed new here. In less than three hours, the temporary base is over there against the stone wall."
Several people looked at the direction he pointed, and one of them nodded and said:
"Some of my subordinates told me before that someone was building a base over there. It looks like it's you."
He clasped his fists and bowed:
"I'm Zhang Chunyi, welcome to the underground paradise!"
Li Qing clasped his fists in return and asked with a smile:
“Why is it called Paradise?”
Zhang Chunyi smiled and replied:
"Because there is no need for fighting in this underground world, the three human city-states can communicate , and we can directly use food and other resources they lack to exchange for the resources we need. How great is that."
"Well, it is indeed a paradise!"
For war lords who are not strong enough, this road is indeed very suitable for them, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a paradise.
"But unfortunately, now that the wind of chaos has arrived, a Scourge Lord has set his sights on this place. I don't know if the Mage City-State can stop it."
Hearing this, Li Qing became interested and asked with interest:
"My brothers, you came earlier than me. Have you tried to find out the exact location and strength of the Calamity Lord?"
Zhang Chunyi glanced at him and said with a smile:
"Do you want to use decapitation tactics to kill the Scourge Lord?"
Without waiting for Li Qing to answer, he shook his head and said:
"Don't think about it. This is impossible. The place where the Scourge Lord appeared was in the underground space opposite the corridor. There were indeed many passages that could be connected to it, but the Scourge Lord was too powerful. In order to prevent the undead from taking a detour, the passages that led to it have long been blown up and cannot be passed through."
"As for the Lord of the Scourge, his true form seems to be a divine lich. Although he has not yet broken through the sixth level, with the help of divine power, his strength is extremely powerful ."
"It also has a very powerful elite guard, all of which have reached the fifth level. Several of the guard leaders are extraordinary strongmen."
"This lich is very good at making golems, and he has a large army of flesh puppets under his command."
"Divine lich?"
Li Qing immediately noticed the key point and asked in surprise:
"Possessing divinity, could this Calamity Lord be the two special Calamity Lords that the academy mentioned that can obtain destiny points?"
Zhang Chun was stunned for a moment, and another young man beside him laughed and said:
"You're overthinking. He's just an ordinary divine calamity lord, not one of those two special calamity lords."
"Uh... okay!"
The divine lord of natural disasters is still ordinary, which makes Li Qing unable to complain.
But if it's a lich scourge lord, it will be difficult to deal with.
Liches all have life boxes. Their core wills are sealed in life boxes hidden somewhere unknown, so killing this body does not really kill it.
Then they chatted for a while, mainly Li Qing asked them for some information about the underground world, including whether the Mage City-State had spent a lot of money to hire people everywhere this time and whether there were any powerful competitors.
They answered some questions very straightforwardly, but they did not answer some questions directly.
In general, they were not opposed to Li Qing's competition, but they were also on guard.
It is worth mentioning that they seemed to have come to the underground world a long time ago, and did not pay much attention to some changes in the surface world. They were not clear about the battle records of the apprentices in the surface world, and did not know the battle records of Li Qing.
It seemed that he was only regarded as the chief apprentice under Master Nie Yang, an apprentice with good strength, and he was unaware of his glorious achievements.
After bidding farewell to them, Li Qing took another tour around the city-state, strolled around another divine castle, visited the town hall of the mage city-state, and visited several mage councilors of the city-state.
I mainly want to ask if they have any refined gold and mithril that can be exchanged, and if they have any special magic techniques that can be exchanged.
The result is yes, but he needs to have a certain record and kill a certain number of undead before he has the authority to redeem it.
Back at the temporary base, Li Qing put his hands on his hips and looked into the distance, lost in thought.
But after much thought, I couldn't think of any reliable way to break the deadlock.
With absolute
But with my own strength, going head-on would be courting death.
Although it was easy for him to kill ordinary Scourge heroes at this time, after learning about the strength evaluation of the Scourge Lord in front of him from the Mage City-State and other War Lord apprentices, Li Qing knew in his heart that he could never fight against any Scourge Lord head-on.
No matter what the environment and terrain advantages are, they cannot be defeated.
There are too many undead that the Scourge Lord can command, at least millions, including tens of thousands of ghosts and tens of thousands of air units. No matter how good the terrain or how elite the troops are, they cannot make up for this gap.
Even with the Lava Crystal Dragon, it couldn't defeat them. Hundreds of ten-meter-tall abominations pounced on them, and the Lava Crystal Dragon would crush them and make them unable to move.
Although the fiery force field of the upper dragon clan is powerful, the force field is not dragon breath, and it cannot burn the abomination to death in a short time.
The key is that this Scourge Lord has both war beasts and flesh and blood golem troops or means that are not afraid of dragon breath.
"I can only borrow the Scourge Lord's troops to gain experience."
The strength of this Disaster Lord is even stronger than Li Qing imagined, and the original plan is no longer feasible.
Next, Li Qing changed his tactics and split the 4,000 troops and 400 Dragon Vein Snakemen into four teams. Each team consisted of 1,000 people plus 100 Dragon Vein Snakemen, and they took turns going to the battlefield to gain experience.
Because they could not destroy the mage towers of the mage city-state in a short time, the undead army could not rush into the entrance guarded by twenty mage towers.
It was impossible for the human city-state to attack the undead side, so the two sides tacitly fought each other in this passage and consumed each other's manpower.
It all depends on which side gives up first. The side that runs out of manpower first will naturally be defeated.
In this regard, the Scourge Lord, who has millions of undead, has a great advantage.
The total population of the Underground United Kingdom is over one million, but the troops that can actually be dispatched only add up to a few hundred thousand, with a consumption ratio of ten to one. In addition, if the dead soldiers are not cremated in time, they will be reawakened by necromancy. This means that the more one side fights, the more enemies it will have, and it will never suffer a loss.
After arranging the tactics and letting Xie Zhu take notice, Li Qing retreated into the divine realm and began making an iron golem.
After responding to the call of the Mage City-State, they had obtained 200 kilograms of refined gold and 100 kilograms of mithril, which were enough to make 20 steel golems.
Although it has been a long time since it was made, for Li Qing, as long as he can successfully make one, there is no possibility of forgetting it later. He easily made an iron golem again.
Among these twenty iron golems, only five wield hammers, and the remaining fifteen are all equipped with adamantine swords.
As time passed, Li Qing became addicted to making the iron golem. As he became more and more skilled, he could complete one almost every day, with amazing efficiency.
In less than a month, twenty iron golems were completed, and the total number of iron golems he had reached 26, enough to form a squadron.
Twenty-six powerful and magic-immune iron golems lined up and advanced. Ordinary skeleton zombies had no way of resisting them, and neither did ordinary armies.
After the construction was completed, Li Qing just came out of the divine realm and received another good news.
After nearly a month of non-stop fighting, more than a dozen Dragon Vein Snakemen that had previously been promoted to Level 5 have accumulated a huge amount of combat experience and have been promoted to Level 6 Dragon Vein Snakemen.
It has thick dragon scales, a pair of dragon wings on its back, and can breathe out powerful flaming dragon breath.
