Chapter 268 Dragon Knight is a popular profession
The defeat of the Death Lord made the undead in the territory seem to have lost their backbone, and most of the low-level undead became confused and wandered around the land.
Those who are lucky will be recruited by high-level undead, while those who are unlucky will be eliminated by the Laurenfrost family.
Over the past few days, due to the presence of Mo Cheng and the Skeleton Legion, Cotton Castle has established an outpost defense line.
In other words, this is the only defensive outpost that the human coalition can currently hold.
At the beginning, Mo Cheng spent a lot of effort to make the people of the Laurenfrost family understand that the Skeleton Army was not the enemy. Although Commander Brady sold face to Mo Cheng, he also kept silent about letting the Skeleton Army enter Fort Cotton.
After all, a lot of people have just died on the front line due to the undead creatures. Now that the Skeleton Legion is allowed in, let alone the security risks, the morale and thoughts of the soldiers under his command must be considered.
Not all types of soldiers are like skeletons and do not need to consider morale factors.
If Mo Cheng had not spent a lot of effort to rescue a group of seriously injured people, the other party probably would not have listened to him.
After all, on the battlefield, if the reinforcements and the enemy look too similar, the soldiers will not be able to tell who to kill.
We cannot expect soldiers to have enough knowledge to distinguish the difference between Skeletons and Undeads.
Mo Cheng had no opinion on Brady's approach. After all, he knew very well that his Skeleton Legion was not a defensive corps. If Brady really let the Skeleton Legion enter Fort Cotton, then Mo Cheng would have to worry about how to command them to play defense.
So he simply ordered the Skeleton Army to stand guard five kilometers away from Fort Cotton. Skeletons do not need rest, food or water, and they do not even have the feeling of discomfort like regular creatures do when they stay in one place for a long time.
They stood there quietly like statues, without any movement except for sending out the Talion Empire's heavy cavalry for guarding and exploration from time to time.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers felt relieved, but Brady didn't say anything about it.
He knew very well that if the dragon that controlled this army was willing , it would not be a big problem to capture Castle Cotton.
Mo Cheng did this just to reassure people and send a friendly signal.
Obviously, the senior members of Brady and Lauren Frost's family also received this signal.
When both parties are well-intentioned, subsequent cooperation can be carried out smoothly.
A few days later, the soldiers set out tremblingly following a group of skeleton soldiers, and returned two days later with good news.
They explored and destroyed a ziggurat that produced the Necromancer's Sky.
The skeleton soldiers suffered minor losses, and none of the soldiers died.
This made Brady's eyes burn with excitement. He knew better than anyone what this meant. The veterans led the new recruits, and returned from the battle with almost no injuries. In this way, the soldiers would grow the fastest.
If we use an analogy that Mo Cheng understands, it would be like a group of new recruits parachuting into the Battle of Stalingrad, and each of them has five hours of safety time.
Or to use a perspective more suitable for gamers, a group of low-level recruits were taken out by elite soldiers who had experienced many battles to gain experience.
After that, every day soldiers followed the skeleton soldiers out, either to sweep out the low-level undead wandering around, or to annihilate smaller groups of undead.
The improvement of the soldiers was visible to the naked eye. The effect of elite soldiers training new recruits exceeded Mo Cheng's expectations. The defensive strength of Fort Cotton also became stronger with the passage of time.
Having been led by the skeleton soldiers so many times, the soldiers not only have no fear of these fluorescent and ferocious skeletons, but sometimes they will even say hello or make a joke when they see familiar ones when they go out together.
Even Mo Cheng wondered how they knew which skeleton was which.
As time went on, the soldiers followed the Skeleton Legion and continued to go out. Not only did they clean up the area around Fort Cotton, but they also made this place a complete outpost for the human coalition forces.
Since the other two fortresses had been breached by the Undead Legion, the human coalition could only set out from Fort Cotton as an outpost.
At the same time, as more and more support arrived from the rear, Fort Cotton began a round of expansion. At the same time, the role of the Skeleton Legion was also noticed by the generals and nobles who followed.
This method of having elite soldiers who are not afraid of death lead new recruits, which not only allows the new recruits to grow at the fastest speed, but also eliminates the need to worry about the death of veteran soldiers.
The sacrificial skeleton has enough power to awaken those skeletons from death again.
A month later, the expansion of Fort Cotton was completed, and support from the human coalition forces also arrived.
That night, the Laurenfrost family held a celebration banquet in Castle Cotton to celebrate their success in resisting the offensive of the Undead Legion, and also to celebrate the fact that the human coalition had finally captured an outpost, laying the foundation for advancing into the heartland of the Vahlan Empire.
Even Mo Cheng was invited. He was too lazy to deal with people during this period. It was rare for him to enter a dungeon, so he naturally had to make the most of it. So after leaving enough defense forces for Cotton Castle, he led the Skeleton Army directly into the undead territory to wreak havoc.
Although the Death Lord was killed by him, there was no great chaos in the cities within the Undead's territory. Those who once belonged to the Death Lord's subordinates became independent one after another. Although they could not unify the entire Undead territory, they also appeared to be princes.
This made it even harder for Mo Cheng to attack these guys' cities. When the Lord of Death was still around, when a city was attacked, reinforcements would arrive quickly. Even if Mo Cheng failed to capture the city, he could turn around and destroy the reinforcements.
But now those cities have no reinforcements, so they are able to retreat and give Mo Cheng no chance to kill.
After working in the Heart of the Undead for nearly a month without achieving any results, Mo Cheng returned to Castle Cotton in frustration.
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As Castle Cotton continued to send troops to destroy the psychic towers that created the Undead Sky Curtain, the sky around Castle Cotton could already distinguish between night and day.
At night, Fort Cotton is brightly lit.
Mo Cheng sent away another group of nobles who came forward to get to know him. He touched his face, and maintained a polite smile for so long that he felt his face numb.
The cause and effect of Fort Cotton could not be concealed for long, or it was impossible to conceal it at all.
The appearance of the giant dragon, the killing of the Death Lord, and the elite Skeleton Army...
All these things that showed enough benefits were enough to make Mo Cheng be approached by those nobles one after another.
Some wanted to borrow the Skeleton Legion for training, some wanted to discuss the secrets of the Dragon Clan, and some simply wanted to win over Mo Cheng.
Some were even more extreme, some introduced unmarried women from their families to Mo Cheng, trying to have a dragon knight appear in their family.
