Chapter 200: The Target of the Illithid Warlord
Although it is planned to let Zhuo Shaohang take over the priesthood of dinosaurs, he will not take over immediately. Li Qing will take over first. When his strength reaches a certain level in the future, at least he will become a true demigod and have his own priesthood. Only then will the priesthood of dinosaurs be transferred to Zhuo Shaohang.
Zhuo Shaohang himself is a demigod. At his peak, he was definitely a high-level demigod, only one step away from becoming a god.
Although this step is a world of difference, it is really not far away.
If he were allowed to take over the dinosaur priesthood early on, with his experience, there is a high possibility that he would be directly deified.
When the master is weak and the servant is strong, complications are likely to arise.
Even if there is an oath to guarantee loyalty, what about his subordinates after a long time?
The dinosaur priesthood includes many different types of dinosaur branches. Some powerful branches such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, and Deinonychus are qualified to carry a true god. In theory, the dinosaur race can carry the existence of a pantheon.
So for the sake of safety, Li Qing must ensure that he is strong and stronger than his subordinates.
They did not stay here for long before their subordinates sent them reconnaissance information one after another. Five of the seven teams found traces of the dinosaur tribe or the lizard war lord within a radius of 5,000 kilometers.
One of them even directly discovered a huge lizard war fortress, and was discovered and hunted by the other side.
Fortunately, they all mastered the power of space and teleported away early.
A month later, Li Qing summarized the information collected by his men and came to a conclusion that surprised him.
"There is a very powerful Illithid War Lord who is driving more than five Illithid War Lords to conquer the dinosaur people in this area."
He pinched his chin and thought for a while, then immediately sent a message to An Erqiu, asking him to prepare a group of elite space dragons.
Nowadays, space dragons must be above level seven to be considered elite. After experiencing many previous battles, most of those who survived can reach this level.
He found a total of two thousand space dragon descendants above level seven and gave them an order to completely open up the map. Some of them started from Savage City and explored the surrounding areas, some started from Dragon City and explored the surrounding areas, and the remaining half came to their side and explored towards the east of the plane.
Only by knowing both yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. He must first explore the plane and find the base camp of the Mind-thirsty War Lord.
If I'm not mistaken, they should have a base camp similar to Savage City in this plane.
It is possible that it was not built very long ago. It certainly could not have been built during the time of His Highness Chunyu An. It could only have been built after the death of His Highness Chunyu An. However, after so many years, it should have reached a considerable scale.
It may even be a powerful mental fortress of a lich war lord.
In order to defeat them, their main base must be destroyed as well.
While exploring, Li Qing also asked An Erqiu to make preparations and assemble a troop on standby without affecting the defense of Savage City and Dragon City.
Li Qing did not just sit there and wait. He used the information collected by his men to build a small base in a very hidden valley, and then summoned Dai Lirong to stand by.
However, when he sent his men to scout the surroundings, his actions were discovered by the mind suckers.
From time to time, we receive reports that space dragonborn are being besieged by elite teams led by mind-thirsty heroes while sneaking through the primitive jungle. This shows that the mind-thirsty war lords have discovered their traces and have made targeted preparations.
Fortunately, they sent out a large number of people, and each of them had the ability to teleport. If they found something wrong, they could flash away and escape, making them difficult to catch.
By the time Li Qing received the news, only less than five space dragons were missing.
As time went by, many subordinates slowly explored the plane and discovered more dinosaur tribes.
Especially in the south of the plane, there is also a large-scale dinosaur tribe.
The location of Savage City is in the northwest of the plane. The area between Savage City and Dragon City belongs to the western and northern diagonals of the plane, and the area where many illiberal war lords have been discovered is located in the eastern part of the plane.
As for the southern part of the plane, Li Qing had previously planned to go around from the north to the east and then to the south, but he has not yet seriously explored it.
The information obtained from the subordinates showed that there were dinosaur tribes in the south that were no less powerful than those in the east of the plane, and there were more plains, rivers and lakes in the south of the plane.
The terrain in the east is not much different from that in the south, except that the water network is not as dense.
However, the information collected by his subordinates at the risk of their lives showed that nearly half of the dinosaur tribes in the east of the plane had been defeated by the lizard war lords, and the elite had been incorporated to establish a huge dinosaur kingdom on a large plain in the east.
A country secretly controlled by the mind-thirsty war lord, but nominally ruled by the dinosaur people.
This country is made up of a series of highly densely populated dinosaur city clusters. Each city has hundreds of thousands of dinosaur people, and dozens of cities together have tens of millions of dinosaur people.
What surprised and delighted Li Qing was that, somehow, some psychic war lord had found a staple food that could be grown on a large scale for the dinosaur people, which enabled them to establish a country.
Li Qing immediately became interested and immediately asked his men who discovered the dinosaur kingdom to steal some back.
This is a tuber plant similar to sweet potato or potato. When planted in the ground, it can grow a large number of tubers, some as big as a fist or an egg, and some as big as a watermelon.
Li Qing tried to eat it. It didn't taste good when eaten raw, and it was also average when cooked. It had to be paired with other seasonings before it could be eaten.
However, this thing has a very high starch content, so it is completely fine to use it as a regular staple food.
Commoners eat these plus other foods, while nobles eat meat, perfect.
Seeing this, Li Qing realized that he had fallen into a disadvantage in his exploration of this plane.
The mind-sucking monsters had been prepared early on. It is estimated that they had already slowly conquered the dinosaur people in the depths of the plane before His Highness Chun Yu An died. Now they have controlled tens of millions of dinosaur people. This is a very terrifying force.
Dinosaur people are naturally stronger than humans, and almost all of them are soldiers. With so many of them, as long as one or two million of them are armed, even Dragon City and Savage City may not be able to stop them.
The only problem that constrains them is that the plane environment is too harsh. The entire plane is covered with lush primitive jungle. If they want to transfer several million people from the east side of the plane to the west side, a journey of 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers, this places extremely high demands on logistics.
However, this is also a common problem for normal war lords in their alien plane conquest strategies.
They usually try to occupy as much territory as possible, grab the territory first, and then start to manage the territory. After they are well prepared, they will gather an army to attack other forces.
Or natives, or other war lords who also want to conquer this plane.
Most war lords do not have the ability to quickly transport millions of troops. Such a large number of troops requires several times the logistics. They are not like Li Qing who has giant dragons and tens of thousands of space dragons who can use space gates to teleport troops.
This forced them to fight a positional war and expand step by step.
There is basically no future in the east of the plane. According to reconnaissance, most of the dinosaur tribes have been defeated by the dinosaur kingdom of the mind sucking monster. They were either incorporated or killed. Now there are not many wild dinosaur tribes left in the wild. Even if they are all conquered, the total is estimated to be less than half of the dinosaur kingdom of the mind sucking monster.
The key point is that they were already a step too slow. How could the mind-thirsting war lords just watch them gather the remaining dinosaur people?
There are only two options before Li Qing now.
The first method is to abandon the east side of the plane and go to the south side. The mind-thirsty war lords have not expanded there yet, so he still has a chance.
The second method is to directly mobilize the main force to attack the Dinosaur Kingdom head-on and the Mind-sucking Monster War Lord behind it.
Or use another method and directly mobilize the space dragon and many flying space dragonborn to directly attack the mental fortress of the mind-thirsty war lord.
Everyone can fly. Except for the flying pterosaurs, most of the dinosaurs are useless in battle, so their numerical advantage cannot be brought into play.
The first method is safe, but it takes a long time.
The second method is adventurous and may involve great risks, especially since he is not yet a legendary level player. If he encounters a very powerful Lich King War Lord, he may not be able to defeat him.
"What do you think?"
He threw the question to his many subordinates.
The many men who had gathered looked at each other. After a few seconds, Xie Zhu said:
"I don't think we need to take this risk. We have plenty of time to develop. Our strength will definitely grow faster than theirs. There is no need to rush at this moment. Besides..."
He said to Li Qing with a smile:
"Boss, the biggest problem now is that you haven't reached the legendary level yet. Don't you need to accumulate combat experience? Go to the south and conquer those tribes. There are so many rank 10 and even legendary totems there. You can definitely reach the legendary level if you kill a few of them."
"When you are promoted to Legendary, Mr. Zhuo will be able to unlock all the seals and restore the strength of Demigod, and we can also start working on your promotion to Legendary."
"As long as a few of us are promoted, all these problems can be solved effortlessly."
"Well, sure!"
Li Qing made a decision quickly.
But before leaving, he made a few arrangements.
First, many hidden outposts were left between the east and the center of the plane, and a number of space dragonborn were sent to monitor the outposts. If they saw a large group of mind suckers or a mental fortress passing by, they would immediately gather in Dragon City.
In addition, he also found Long Luo, who was enlightened by him, and brought him to the south of the plane.
This trip is not just about killing, but also about conquering these dinosaur people.
Long Luo can bring them with him and kill the high-level leaders and totems of these tribes. Long Luo can then bring the dinosaur people to take over the defeated dinosaur tribe.
With Long Luo, who is also a dinosaur man, coming forward, the resistance of these dinosaur men will be reduced to a minimum, basically to nothing.
In the tribal era, conquest and being conquered were common occurrences. Often a tribe would change its name due to an accident or be annexed by other large tribes.
Except for the tribal leaders who hold great power, ordinary dinosaur people don't care who rules them.
After only a few months of not seeing each other, Long Luo had already recruited more than two thousand dinosaur warriors and more than six thousand dinosaur civilians. Li Qing packed them up and took them all away in one go. When the time comes, he will use this group of dinosaurs to start a new life, so as to avoid the trouble of starting over again.
More than a month after Li Qing left, six huge mental fortresses were parked above the Dinosaur Kingdom.
The ship in the middle is larger than the other five combined, with a diameter of more than ten kilometers. Its surface is covered with dozens of tentacles over ten kilometers long and covered with spikes. The surface is covered with complex golden patterns, and the material of the Mind Fortress itself is also dark gold.
In the internal network of the Illithids, more than a dozen Illithids Lords gathered together, and a loud voice sounded in the minds of all the Illithids Lords:
"According to the information received by the Hive, the group of human war lords have already left."
Immediately, a War Lord of the Illithids said:
"They teleported away directly. I couldn't locate where they landed. I don't know where they went."
"Stay alert. Also, speed up the conquest of the remaining dinosaur tribes. I need to conquer most of the dinosaur tribes within two years. In the fifth year, I need to assemble a dinosaur army of more than two million and prepare food and fodder."
At this point, the voice became extremely majestic:
"I need my main force to appear at the foot of the human Savage City in the west of the plane within no more than eight years."
"Based on the current conquest progress, the problem won't be too big!"
"Do not disappoint me!"
"Make sure the mission is accomplished."
A week later, Li Qing arrived at the south of the plane and came to a swamp as large as the sea.
It is more like a group of lakes than a swamp.
This group of lakes is more than 2,000 kilometers wide and over 10,000 kilometers long, directly separating the east and south of the plane.
The waters here are all several meters to more than ten meters deep. From time to time, floating islands can be seen emerging from the water, and occasionally a huge expanse of water with no end in sight, or a piece of land can be seen.
There live a large number of prehistoric aquatic beasts in the waters, including prehistoric giant crocodiles, various prehistoric giant pythons, aquatic dinosaurs, and a large number of huge beasts live in some deep lakes.
The ancient dragon flew over the water from high above, and its huge shadow swept across the lake. A large number of ferocious beasts in the water sank into the water as if frightened.
Li Qing did not kill on purpose. Apart from occasionally catching a few prehistoric pythons to chew as spicy snacks, he mostly just kept on traveling.
Less than a hundred miles across the lakes, we saw a dinosaur tribe built on the bank of a river in the lakes.
Li Qing walked around, summoned Long Luo and his tribe, and pointed him in the direction.
When many velociraptors were summoned, they sensed Li Qing's presence and quickly knelt down and bowed to him.
After Long Luo knelt down to Li Qing, he jumped onto a large rock and roared at the dinosaur people below:
"My people, the powerful dragons are watching us, head in that direction and conquer them."
Many dinosaur people seemed to be energized and rushed towards that direction, roaring.
