Chapter 66: 20,000 Kobold Monster Cards
Before the ordered monster cards were delivered, there were some preliminary preparations. He had to cut down all the surrounding trees and clear an area to fully expand the divine domain.
Only then will there be enough space to expand the castle and build an arena around it.
If you don't do this, there will be no place to put the ogres summoned by the monster card.
After the divine domain is expanded, the edge overlaps with the main plane and there is no boundary. If there is no wall to block it, the monsters will either attack the town or turn around and escape into the plane once they are summoned.
"Mr. Li Qing, what do you need so many dog-headed corpses for?"
On the Divine Domain Network, a classmate named Nalan Kang from the same mentor traded a total of two thousand dog-headed man corpses and asked a question by the way.
Li Qing responded with a smile:
"I heard that there is a faint trace of dragon blood in the body of the dog-headed man. I want to use the blood refining method to try to refine the dragon blood of the dog-headed man to see if I can get a trace of it."
Nalan Kang was stunned for a moment, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he said:
"That's a good idea, but has it been successful?"
“Not yet.”
"Then I wish you success soon."
"Um!"
After closing the communication, Nalan Kang said with a chuckle:
"You're just dreaming. With your apprentice's level, you can't even think about refining dragon blood without more than 100,000 kobold corpses. Moreover, if your level is not high enough, the dragon blood you refine won't be pure enough. At most, you can create an impure dragon blood sorcerer with limited combat effectiveness."
Li Qing's idea was very simple. He wanted to give them a heads-up first and let everyone know that he was purchasing dog-headed man corpses on a large scale to extract dragon blood.
In this way, when I can produce some dragon blood essence after a while, everyone will only be surprised and envious, but will not think of anything else.
Unknowingly, a month had passed, and with the efforts of many subordinates and the people of the territory, the trees around the castle had finally been almost completely cut down. The total distance extending outward was more than 600 meters. A large amount of felled trees were piled up outside and there was no time to deal with them for the time being.
After the cleanup was completed, Li Qing ordered all his subordinates and the students staying in his castle to return to the castle. He entered the core tower of the Divine Realm, took out the Divine Realm Expansion Card and threw it away.
As his mind moved, the card collapsed, and in an instant a dazzling light exploded, turning into countless tiny lights that sank into the void.
The next second, countless bright lines suddenly appeared in the void at the edge of the divine domain, quickly forming a layer of barren land covered with broken grass and short wooden stakes, extending in all directions.
"Is this Lord Li Qing expanding the divine domain?"
The apprentices of the heroic professions stood on the city wall and looked outside, with envy in their eyes.
They are all apprentices, but their status is not on the same level as Li Qing.
In their view, those large numbers of brilliant light lines were entangled together, weaving the earth and space like weaving a towel. A large amount of new space and land in the divine realm were woven out in this way, which was very magical.
The newly opened up divine space and land were all barren, meaning there were no plants and no nutrients in the soil; even the most tenacious weeds could not grow.
The Lord of the Divine Realm must spend time and manpower to slowly transform it and cultivate it into land that can grow plants.
But the problem is not very big, and the solution is very simple. Let it rain more or release water artificially to wet and soak the soil, then get a lot of plant ash and sprinkle it on it, throw a lot of cut down plants on it to cover it, and let it rot naturally.
If you repeat this process several times, the land will naturally have a certain fertility.
Then it takes more work to cultivate the land into fields, and after several rounds of cultivation, a piece of farmland is basically ready.
At the current stage of the development of the Divine Realm, it is not very convenient to do so, nor is there any need. Anyway, Li Qing has farms and pastures in the Divine Realm, so there is no need to cultivate land within the Divine Realm. These tracts will be used to expand the castle in the future to build a larger city and buildings.
As for the current stage...
After the divine domain is fully expanded, Li Qing will collect all the wood that was cut down before clearing the area, decompose it into pieces of high-density wood, and then use the wood to build a giant slaughterhouse.
Yes, this arena is also called the Kobold Slaughterhouse.
There was not enough stone to build a large stone city, so we had to use wood instead.
Anyway, we are just keeping some ogres in captivity. Even if they are weak, they can be contained by wooden walls.
The planned slaughterhouse is exactly one hundred meters long and wide, almost as big as the original divine domain. It is surrounded by layers of ten-centimeter-thick high-density solid wood boards, and the strength of a single layer is no worse than that of a normal city gate.
The five-meter-high wall, the stands, and the city wall at the gate were built one by one.
Several tall arrow towers were erected around the arena, with archers guarding them.
The defense of this competition field alone is comparable to that of an ordinary small city.
After the competition field was built, Li Qing couldn't wait to prepare for military training.
However, Li Qing struggled for a long time on how to train his troops.
There are only two ways to improve your own strength. One is to take the elite route and concentrate on strengthening a small number of elites, and concentrate on cultivating the most elite ones at hand.
The other route is to take the conventional route and develop the troops under your command comprehensively.
A single soldier is not very strong, but if there is a group of high-level elite soldiers, they will be very strong together.
Especially Li Qing's strategic talent adds a lot to them, and he also has a heroic treasure and three war spells, which are very powerful when combined.
This really gave Li Qing a headache.
After struggling for a long time, I finally decided to take the elite route.
The reason is very simple. Li Qing considered that he could manually synthesize pseudo-dragon leather armor, and the defense of his subordinates, even the new recruits, would leap to the level of fourth-order heavy infantry. At this time, training the lowest level of all his subordinates from the first level to the second level would not achieve a qualitative improvement.
Although twenty thousand gnolls are a lot, they are not much when distributed equally.
If we only train elites, it will be different.
Apart from anything else, Long Shou only needs 10,000 gnolls to be promoted to level five or above in one go.
Is it a problem for a hero with a strength of level five and a rarity of four stars to fight against a level six hero with a rarity of less than two stars?
Moreover, he could also take out a ray of original light, combined with a large amount of accumulated dragon blood, to enhance the life and soul essence of Long Shou, and become a five-star hero in one fell swoop.
In other words, if he takes the elite route, he can cultivate a dragon hero who is comparable to an ordinary extraordinary strong man.
"No, there is another group of elites."
To reach level five, Long Shou only needs to kill about 10,000 ogres. The remaining 10,000 are not enough for him to be promoted to level six, but they can be used to train a group of elite soldiers.
"Okay, that's it!"
Two hours later, Li Qing gathered many of his men in front of the arena's audience stands and told Long Shou his plan.
After Long Shou heard this, he knelt on one knee in front of him and said in a deep voice:
"Please rest assured, Lord, I will complete the task!"
Li Qing nodded, reached out and grabbed the two-handed swords held by the two soldiers beside him and handed them to him, saying:
"Go ahead and show me your bravery!"
Long Shou grabbed the two-handed sword with one hand, stood up, saluted to Li Qing, turned around and jumped down along the edge of the stands.
Li Qing walked to the edge of the stands, took out a Gnoll Monster Card and threw it. The card collapsed and turned into white light that fell all over the sky, quickly transforming into Gnolls scattered across the arena of tens of thousands of square meters.
Long Shou, who was in the middle of the group of dog-headed men, raised his sword and slashed horizontally, cutting two dog-headed men in half, with blood spurting all over him.
The killing activated the ferocity in the hearts of the wild gnolls, and the fact that there was only one dragon guard gave them courage, and they shouted and rushed towards the tall figure in the center of the arena.
“Tsk tsk!”
"It's too awful!"
"A tiger among the flock of sheep!"
The three Xie Zhu brothers stood in the stands and looked at the bloody scene below, and couldn't help but smacking their lips.
Li Qing heard them and looked at them, then said:
"You can also go up and shoot arrows, or you can go down and join the battle. If you get tired, ask someone to pull you up."
The three of them were surprised and smiled. Xie Heng pulled out two one-handed swords from his back and was about to go down, but was stopped by Xie Zhu. He walked in front of Li Qing and suddenly knelt down on one knee to bow to Li Qing.
Li Qing said seriously in surprise and understanding:
"Sir Li Qing, please forgive my rudeness. After this period of adventure together, we all agree that Sir Li Qing has extraordinary abilities and strengths. I am impressed by your personality charm. The three of us brothers are willing to join you and serve you!"
This was within Li Qing's reason. After he finished speaking, Li Qing asked in a serious voice:
"Think carefully. Once you pledge allegiance to me, you will advance and retreat together with me. I will persist to the end in this expedition and face the invasion of the Lord of the Scourge head-on. It will be very dangerous and there is a risk of falling. Think carefully."
Xie Zhu replied almost without hesitation:
"We have made up our mind. We are willing to stand together with your Excellency the Lord!"
Li Qing smiled:
"Very good, I accept your allegiance!"
He drew the sword from his waist with his right hand and placed it on Xie Zhu's shoulder, and said in a deep voice:
"In the name of the Lord of the Divine Realm, Xie Zhu is promoted to Knight, Chief of Defense of the Divine Realm Castle, and Captain of the Archer Brigade."
Then, Xie Jin and Xie Heng were promoted to knights respectively. Xie Jin's position was scout captain, and Xie Heng's position was deputy chief of security and captain of the first infantry squadron.
Including Xie Zhu, Li Qing's Divine Realm has four heroes, leaving only one vacant hero spot.
"We have been together for quite some time. I believe you have a certain understanding of my abilities and potential, but I also have some abilities that you don't know about yet. I hereby promise you that as long as you remain loyal to me for five years, I will give you an unimaginable benefit."
After a pause, Li Qing looked at An Erqiu who was watching on the side and said:
"the same as you."
An Erqiu laughed and said:
"Then I must see it for myself."
"Then you will be glad that you made the right choice."
"of course."
After the seriousness, everyone returned to their usual relaxed state.
It can be clearly felt that after the three Xie brothers formally pledged allegiance, it can be clearly felt that everyone gets along more harmoniously, and the subtle gap that always existed before has disappeared.
This is normal, it turns out they are not one of us.
The promise Li Qing made to them was a ray of original light. If they got along well with each other after five years, it would be inevitable to give them some benefits to enhance their potential.
At his rate of growth, he would surely have been promoted to an official war lord in five years. As his direct subordinate, he naturally needed to improve his potential before he could continue to serve him.
Even if one develops quickly and becomes strong enough, one source of light may not be enough, and one may need to get more good things to train them.
The relationship between the lord and his subordinates is mutual. They pledge loyalty to you with their own lives and property. Isn't this what you want?
It's just that they are relatively luckier. They met Li Qing, the lucky lord, and they can get some help to rise to the top.
Among the four, only An Erqiu and Xie Heng, a weapon warrior, dared to jump down for close combat. Xie Zhu stood in the stands and shot arrows down, while Xie Jin borrowed a crossbow and shot down.
He is a stealth fighter and is not good at frontal combat.
Although the ogres are not strong, there are too many of them below. If dozens of them rush up from a thousand, two fists are no match for four hands. In addition, the ogres are too dense to sneak. With his skills, he will be beaten to death with sticks soon if he jumps down, and it will be useless even if he wears pseudo-dragon leather armor.
As for Li Qing, he was just watching from above.
He has not accumulated enough mana now, so he cannot advance to the third level, no matter how much combat experience he gains.
At the other end of the stands, a group of students who had settled in Li Qing's Divine Domain Castle were envious of this scene, but they were unable to join Li Qing's army. He had long made it clear that his quota of heroes was full and he would not recruit any more.
After madly killing hundreds of gnolls, Long Shou opened his mouth and spit out a breath of flaming dragon. The large group of gnolls gathered in front of him were burned into charcoal by the dragon's breath.
"Don't breathe fire!"
Li Qing reminded from afar.
The dog-headed man's corpse still needs to be refined into crystals of flesh and blood essence and dragon blood, but nothing can be extracted if it is burned into charcoal.
Li Qing did not stay here for too long. After observing for a while and making sure there was no problem, he took out five ogre summoning cards and gave them to An Erqiu, asking him to host them and come back for more when they were all used up.
I returned to the divine tower to continue my studies.
At this time, Li Qing's various theoretical and professional courses had long exceeded the limit of his strength. Many theories required him to approach the level of a sixth-order extraordinary magician before he could try to master them. He had already started learning.
In addition to the mage's property, another key factor in the strength of the mage profession is knowledge.
The more knowledgeable and the fatter the wallet, the more powerful a wizard is. This is a constant truth in both the planes of the Chaos Void Sea and in human civilization.
Most of the time, the reason why people hate learning is because learning is difficult.
Poor students always don’t want to study and avoid studying.
But the top students love to study and they enjoy it without being urged.
Li Qing, who possesses super soul and mental power talents, is a top student. His high learning efficiency makes him enjoy it and he constantly absorbs the knowledge accumulated by his tutors and teaching assistants.
Time passed, and before they knew it, two months had passed before Long Shou finally used up all the ogre monster cards and killed them.
It was also because of the large number of people that the efficiency was high. In addition to several heroes and professionals, he later transferred twenty infantrymen and elite archers who had been upgraded to the third level, as well as the twenty-five knights to join the battle. This was how he was able to complete the achievement of killing 20,000 ogres within two months.
