Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 320: Development and Intelligence of the Legion of Terror
In the next two days, Levi concentrated on developing the city of Ostak and had restored it to its original prosperity to a certain extent. Even races from the neutral, good and even evil camps had rushed over from other places.
As the dominant race in the Underdark, the drow have oppressed many forces and made many enemies. Now that Levi has captured this place, it may be an opportunity for change for many races.
So there were a constant stream of outsiders coming every day, and even the gray dwarves sent messengers.
They could fight and make peace with the Drow from time to time, so naturally they could also do business with Levi.
Levi did not refuse the other party. In the beginning, the chosen heroes mainly relied on many battles to obtain spoils and gold coins, but at his current stage, in addition to fighting, he can also get what he wants through various transactions.
In fact, Bitao Village, which was developed the earliest, is already making a lot of profit every day.
The scale of Ostak City is much larger than that of Bitao Village, and the geographical environment is also very good. The speed of making money in the future will definitely be many times faster than there.
With the help of the dwarves, the city walls had long been repaired, many ruins had been cleaned up and rebuilt, and the celestial creatures once again coordinated defense as agreed.
At first, Levi was a little disgusted with them because they were only willing to act as guards and were unwilling to take the initiative to attack.
But now it seems that if the celestial beings can send out corresponding garrisons every time he captures a village or a town, in the long run, the support from the celestial beings to him will be too great.
However, there should be a certain upper limit. Otherwise, if he occupied hundreds or thousands of villages, wouldn't the celestial beings have to send out tens of thousands of troops?
Temples of the four gods, Moonbow, Lilith, Illidan and Eilistraee, have also been built one after another, and they have also sent out priests, priests and other clergymen. If necessary, they will also assist in defending the city.
Lotus also brought the Red Brotherhood into the city. After getting in touch with Levi, she became the most successful among all the leaders of the Red Brotherhood. Naturally, she would not let Levi wait too long for such a thing.
Pamela of the Moon Singer once again summoned some of the benevolent drow to settle here and join Levi's army.
Although after joining Levi's army, they often have to participate in wars frequently, but if they continue to stay in other areas, they will face the enemy's encirclement and suppression.
The drow lost a city. They may not be able to take it back from Levi for the time being, but they will definitely retaliate against them more fiercely.
So in comparison, it is safer to stay in Levi's team, and this is also a way for them to repay their gratitude.
Lisadilan led the Tan people to move here, and the old witch also quickly followed with the bee people and the troops of Blood Glory, further strengthening the defense of the city.
The Sun Knight also helped him acquire some architectural blueprints, such as those of dwarf thieves, dwarf warriors, human archers, etc. Although most of them were of lower class and had mixed races and factions, they could still be used for daily patrols in the city.
Cai Jin also decided that all of them would temporarily stay and develop near the city of Ostak, and went to visit the two vassal forces on behalf of Levi.
The dark ants obediently accepted their fate and said that they would continue to be their vassals, regularly handing over supplies, providing manpower, etc.
But because their own strength is very weak, basically the same as the old witch's bees, the only difference is that one is a flying soldier and the other is an ant-man who is good at digging and hiding underground, so the help they can provide to Levi is also very limited.
However, Levi never refuses anyone who comes to him. Even if he doesn't like it, the Sun Knight and Qian Thief will not refuse it.
As their strength continues to increase, what bothers them now is no longer gold coins, or rather, it is not just gold coins. More often than not, they cannot recruit soldiers even if they have money.
Even though the ants are weak, if they act as cannon fodder, they are at least stronger than ordinary skeleton soldiers, right?
The harpy tribe was a bit stupid. When they heard that the owner of Ostak City had changed, they wanted to break away from the master-servant relationship. But then they were beaten up by Cai Jin and the others and finally became obedient again.
However, Levi didn't care much about them because they were as weak as the ants. It was said that they were driven by the drow to fight with a force of mind flayers dozens of miles away last month. Now they really have no power.
But even at this point, they still dared to turn against Cai Jin. I can only say that they are really idiots.
Then Pamela and the others also performed a special purification ceremony to purify all the God-given buildings that could recruit drow, and the troops that appeared now would all be from the good camp.
But they have no control over whether it is lawful, neutral or chaotic, and can only rely on luck.
Because the goddess Eilistraee herself is of the chaotic good camp, the believers she recruits are of all three types. The purification that Pamela accomplishes with the help of her power can naturally only reach this level.
Levi was not disappointed at all, because he had never intended to use the drow as the main force. Because they were small in number and could not benefit from his military rank bonus, their strength was still far inferior to that of the Silver Guards and Avalon.
So he just recruited some soldiers from them and used them all to defend the city.
In fact, he had originally planned to organize the drow mages who were good at poison magic and summoning spiders, and some drow priests into a small team and put it under the command of the newcomer Alyssa.
As a former priestess of the Snake Cult, this girl also has certain combat and command experience. With a little training, she should be able to stand on her own.
But after he communicated with Pamela and others, he gave up this idea.
Because when the drow are exposed to the sun, they will not only suffer severe sunburn and affect their vision, but all their attributes will decrease to a certain extent, and even their talents and magic powers will mostly become ineffective.
It can be said that an ordinary drow is half useless once he arrives on the surface world.
Only some drow who have undergone long and special training, such as members of the Moon Singers, are immune to some of the effects.
Because they have always longed for the surface world and sincerely look forward to reaching the surface one day, they will deliberately use various passages to train their resistance.
At the beginning, they still needed the help of magic and special props, but after more than ten years of hard work, they can basically adapt to the sunlight, will no longer be burned, and their eyesight and other things are basically normal.
They originally liked to dance at the entrance of the passage in the moonlight, but now they can dance in both sunlight and moonlight.
Of course, some more special abilities, such as demonic fire, will still be seriously affected, but on the surface world, they basically don’t need these abilities.
For this reason, Levi couldn't give Alyssa some drow subordinates, so he turned to some of the other side's archers who used poisonous arrows.
Among the large amount of supplies seized, various types of poisons also accounted for a large part. Alyssa herself was also good at using a bow and arrow, so Levi decided to use this to see their actual combat performance and to exercise her abilities a little.
Although she is not a qualified magician, she can be entrusted with important tasks if her command ability is good enough.
It's just that Julia really dislikes her. She is not as open-minded as Cindy.
But it was not a big problem, because after a brief discussion and obtaining everyone's opinions, Nar, Lisadiran, Julia and Lily would be the next few generals to stay in Ostak City, with the old witch and Rowan of Blood Glory as their assistants.
Once separated, the two of them would not be able to fight side by side frequently, and even if they disliked each other, it would not cause much conflict.
In fact, Julia was a little hesitant at first , but when she heard that Lisa Dillan would also be in the city next, she immediately changed her attitude and even showed a little joy.
This also made Levi see something. Julia seemed to have some unusual thoughts about the teacher who had taught her horse archery skills...
But one of them is an elven noble and the other is a human commoner, and Risadilan's focus has always been on his girls from Avalon. It may not be so easy for Julia to achieve her goal.
But this has little to do with Levi. As long as it doesn't affect the normal battle, he doesn't bother to pay attention to such things.
He is still a single guy himself, why is he worrying about other people's relationship problems?
As for the many slaves in the city and the prisoners in the prison, after careful screening, Levi gave limited freedom to some of the more docile cavemen and gnolls.
Some of these guys had participated in the defense of the city before, but when the situation became unfavorable, they not only ran away, but also locked themselves up again very consciously, as if they were afraid that Levi and the others would kill them all.
It can only be said that when facing a truly strong person, they are still very obedient, and can even be said to be very qualified lackeys. As long as you are strong enough, they will not betray you.
The situation is similar for those gnolls. They were originally from the lawful evil camp, so it stands to reason that they would not easily defect to the lawful good Levi.
But when Levi asked the transformed Alduin to take a group of freshly-recruited Dragonfang Soldiers for a walk, these guys immediately turned into the most loyal bootlickers.
The gnolls claim to have the blood of dragons, so they rush around to curry favor with others. Although they are not dragons now, Alduin and the Dragonfang Soldiers are still much stronger than them. Naturally, they have no reason not to express their submission.
As for the huge difference between Alduin and their camp, that is not a problem.
Levi therefore decided to leave some Dragon Tooth Soldiers in the city, not for fighting, but simply to intimidate these dog-headed men.
These two races are generally weak and not good at fighting, but they can still complete small tasks such as mining, digging holes, transporting materials and cleaning up garbage very well.
And because they were still slaves, Levi didn't have to pay them any wages. He just needed to provide them with food, water, and a place to live, which was enough.
Levi mostly dealt with the other stupid or reckless guys by the Sun Knight and Cai Jin. Those who were really disobedient had to be killed on the spot to avoid wasting food.
For example, those gray dwarves who spoke rudely and tried to play tricks on Levi.
After Levi recruited Alyssa as his subordinate, they were still making trouble. Levi asked Cindy to give them a good beating on the spot, also to show Alyssa next to him.
Even though he is in the lawful good camp, if he really starts fighting, he is no worse than the drow.
While developing the city, Levi also led his team out several times, severely beating up the forces of several evil races around him, and even destroyed two villages.
All I can say is that you should never overestimate the bottom line of these guys in the Underdark. He obviously defeated the drow before occupying the town, but there are always some guys who are blind.
They were either simply stupid or wanted to try their luck, so they had to come and cause trouble. Naturally, Levi could only send them to death.
Some of the small forces were fine, but when a group of Kou Tao fishmen were completely defeated, all the surrounding forces instantly quieted down.
Because these guys used to fight with the drow all year round. Although they were defeated repeatedly, they were at least real opponents, rather than enemies who were bullied and crushed by the drow.
Now that they were defeated so easily by Levi and his men, the other small forces immediately realized that this was definitely not an opponent they could afford to provoke.
During this process, Donna's new leopard successfully advanced to level 3 and accumulated a lot of experience points.
Now Donna has three kinds of big cats under her command: tigers, lions, and leopards, and they are all quite strong.
However, Levi did not take advantage of the situation to pursue and destroy the opponent in one breath.
On the one hand, the lair of these Kou Tao fishmen is in a super-giant lake dozens of miles away. Without a navy, they are unable to completely wipe it out for the time being.
Even if he really wants to cause trouble, he has to wait until Levi can lure those big crocodiles under Sobek over.
There is a turbulent river on the east side of the city of Ostak. Although it is not a swamp, it is also suitable for their survival. They can also help each other with Levi and others, so they have no reason to refuse.
On the other hand, if we keep these Kou Tao fishmen, they might actively crash into the walls of Ostak City every now and then in the future, giving money and experience to the subordinates defending the city.
It’s not that they are really that stupid. Generally speaking, humanoid races that have their own racial gods have some brains.
However, in the dark areas where food and other resources are relatively scarce, war is sometimes a necessary means to reduce the population.
Just like the Skaven, goblins, kobolds and other races with relatively weak average strength but strong reproductive ability, they all use similar methods.
The battle was won and we gained a lot of resources and food, which is a good thing.
Although the battle failed, we have lost a lot of big mouths to feed, which is also a good thing.
If you're quick enough, you might even be able to drag back a few corpses from the battlefield to use as food, which would be great!
At the same time, Levi also learned more information about the Snake Cult from Alyssa.
According to her, in addition to the corrupted nobles, the Snake Cult also has a small hidden force, which is also the elite of the sect.
Their name is the Legion of Terror, and their leader is a female death elf - Maltis.
Unlike other members, the Legion of Dread is small in number, with only about a thousand people in total, but all of them are elite and are said to have been trained by the Old Black Dragon himself.
Among them, the Dread Legion infantry are all level 3, the stronger Python Knights are level 4 cavalry, and the Horned Viper Vanguard are level 5 cavalry.
Although they cannot enter the Underdark, this elite force can display considerable combat power in the surface world.
What's more important is that in addition to the leader being a death elf, there are also some terror knights and necromancers among them.
Yes, they have some undead people, and when they encounter some tough opponents, the Snake Cult will send them out, often leaving no one alive and packing up all the corpses and taking them away, so there is almost no relevant information from the outside world.
They also have a motto: Use fear to conquer, all glory to Aziz Dahaka!
This phrase later became the motto of the Snake Cult, and all members would recite it silently or shout it loudly when launching attacks and massacres.
And these undead actually come from the Silver Blood Army.
Even Alyssa had some suspicion that their leader, Maltis, had a high chance of being closely related to the Silver Blood Army.
Levi was a little surprised after hearing this. Isn't the Silver Blood Army controlled by Dracula?
Clearly, when Dracula and Old Black Dragon were fighting, the Silver Blood Army also joined the battle as Dracula's reinforcements, but they secretly supported Old Black Dragon's Snake Cult? They were betting on both sides!
I didn't realize that, during the previous war, they performed the worst among the many undead forces, but they also had their own little calculations behind the scenes.
Levi couldn't help but become a little more vigilant, because he originally thought that the other team was really a stupid teammate, but now it seems that they might be pretending to be stupid and eating the tiger.
But at the same time, he seemed to understand a little bit, why until now, Teclis and Imrik had not become demigods, but instead Illidan took away the fragments of the old black dragon's divinity.
Illidan was deified again by killing the Demigod of Fear of the Bugbears. Fear also exists in the priesthood. Listening to the motto of the Legion of Fear, it is very likely that the old black dragon also wants to develop in this direction, which can serve as a tonic for him.
As for the fragments of Visharoon's divinity, they were most likely taken away for research by Moonbow and Lilith, and even Corellon and others behind them.
Because the fragments of Velsharoon's divinity must contain knowledge related to magic, death, and undead.
At present, there is no true god of magic in the High Elf pantheon. They only have a moderately powerful god of wisdom, learning and arcane - Hoth.
Their goddess of death had also disappeared long ago, leaving only a gatekeeper of the underworld with little presence and weak divine power.
This is obviously a bit lame for such a large pantheon as the elven pantheon.
A sufficiently powerful God of Death is able to provide his priests with many abilities in the realm of death.
For example, the 4th-level anti-death barrier is a very typical magic.
It is not easy for ordinary wizards to learn this magic, but priests may be able to learn it directly from the God of Death.
But the half-baked gatekeeper of the underworld of the high elves obviously cannot do this. As proud elven gods, can they always tolerate this situation?
So Levi speculated that they must be studying the fragments of Visharoon's divinity at this moment, and trying to perfect Hoeth's priesthood to make him a true god of magic. At the same time, they might also try to create a new god of death.
Even if she is not as powerful as the missing goddess of death, she cannot be a half-baked one with weak divine power. To the proud elven gods, this is simply an insult to the priesthood of death.
However, there is also a legend that says Corellon is actually the elves' god of magic and lord of war.
However, due to the betrayal of the Spider Queen Rose and the siege of many evil gods from other pantheons, his body was injured and his priesthood was severely affected, and he has never been able to fully recover.
Therefore, his current external priesthoods are mainly the protector of elves, art, music, crafts, poetry, bards, warriors, etc., which are a bunch of priesthoods that are of little use in combat .
But because he is the God King of Elves and has a solid foundation from the past, he is still one of the most powerful gods in the world.
If Teclis and Imrik, or other elves could be deified, they would probably develop in the three areas of magic, death, and war, right?
As a hero chosen by God, he knew that he had to perfect his troop lineup to achieve all-round coordination. How could the elven gods not know this?
After wiping out another group of evil Nagas, when Levi returned to the city to rest, he felt that it was almost time. He had already made a name for himself through many battles, and the surrounding forces had basically been subdued.
The only thing that still poses a certain threat now is a gray dwarf town eighty miles northwest.
But firstly, the road is quite long and their short legs are unlikely to run so far. Secondly, in the middle is the town of the shield dwarf Dusser and his people. Even if the gray dwarves really want to take real action, the cities of Ostak will never be raided.
Moreover, the Sun Knight, Qian Thief and Cai Jin have recently been focusing on the city of Ostak, attacking the surrounding evil forces of all sizes. However, for long-term development, they will have to seize the town sooner or later.
By that time, the gray dwarves might be a good target, and he wouldn't have to worry about them anymore.
So Levi thought about returning to the surface world.
After staying in the Underdark for so many days, he and his subordinates began to miss the sunshine outside.
Moreover, Michaela said that the Dragon Prince, Imrik, had already prepared some troops for him to recruit, and the quartermasters had already sorted out the spoils obtained from the old black dragon, waiting for him to exchange them.
After finishing these things, he can take the three Amazon sisters to Bitao Village and establish a permanent base for them.
But originally he was planning to take them to the north of the Red Cloud Tribe to fight the ogres, but now it seems that the overall strategic thinking needs to be readjusted.
According to Chen Zhui of the End Times, after the death of Old Black Dragon, the true identity of the Snake Cult was quickly revealed to the public, but they were not quickly eliminated.
Because now there are many chaotic evil sects fighting each other.
At first, it seemed that everyone wanted to get rid of the Snake Cult and then take the opportunity to make a fortune. After all, everyone knows that dragons are rich, and with the support of the old black dragon behind them, they have been robbing caravans, selling slaves, and so on for many years. They have done all kinds of evil, so the Snake Cult must be very rich.
But later, it seemed that they started fighting first because they were dissatisfied with each other's share.
In this regard, Levi can only say: The chaotic camp has always been funny, and chaotic evil is especially funny.
Because no one can predict what they will do in the next second, and they really don't hesitate to put their ideas into practice with force.
Since I can't convince you verbally, I'll use physical persuasion!
They thought so and did so.
So the Snake Cult stood there for a while, and was only attacked by a few believers of the good gods. However, the power of the good gods was extremely weak there, and they did not pose much threat to them.
In this extremely chaotic situation, Chen Cui of the Last World, with many dragon people and dog-headed people, forcibly robbed a small village on the border. If Levi had gone there, he would definitely have gained more.
At the same time, I can also find a way to take Cindy to visit the temple of Sigma over there.
The small temple and the entire village where they first met Cindy had been completely destroyed in the large-scale chaos caused by the demons before, so they could only run a little further.
Then Levi also planned to go to a sacred place in the forest there, and it would be best to get a few unicorns as mounts for Donna and the others.
These guys are really some old perverts. They are only willing to be loyal to pure girls and act as their mounts. I don’t know how they can tell the difference.
I heard that there are currently only three temples of gods of the good camp, namely Sigmar, the goddess of nobility and the unicorn demigod - Lurue. I wonder if Lurue has a temple there and whether it has any connection with the holy land in the forest?
Just as he was thinking about it, Levi heard a burst of extremely brisk footsteps, and then the big loli walked in.
He immediately laughed: "Cindy, you are so happy today, have you realized new power?"
Cindy is now level 8. In the two areas of strength and war, she can comprehend up to 4 abilities. The day before yesterday, she comprehended the third ability in the area of war - battle rage, and the fourth ability in the area of strength - tide of power.
Battle Fury: Enhances the attack power, critical hit rate, and critical hit damage rate of yourself or the target friendly unit for a short period of time (the increase and duration are based on level and intelligence).
Tide of Strength: Increases the strength of yourself or the target friendly unit during the next multiple attacks (the increase value and number are equal to your level).
Cindy was originally strong in magic. In the early stage, she relied on a few flying hammers. Now she relies on summoned angels. She occasionally casts some magic such as Spear of Pure Good and Sigma's Comet. Close combat is her weakness.
But now with these two new abilities, her weakest side has been made up for a lot, and she has become more and more all-round. How can Levi not have great expectations for her?
Cindy was a little surprised: "Hey, hey, hey? Brother Levi, how did you know so quickly? I really just realized the fourth ability of the war field!"
Levi smiled. Cindy is certainly not a fool, but sometimes she can be a little silly and cute. Even if you don’t look at the system panel, your joy is already shown on your face. Your little face is like a flower!
Flame Strike: Creates a vertical cylindrical sacred flame, causing half fire damage and half sacred damage to the target. If the target does not leave this range immediately, it will suffer additional burning damage during the duration (damage is based on intelligence and level, and the duration is half of the level).
Well, it feels pretty good, but I don't know what the actual range is. If it's bigger, it might be very effective in melee combat.
After all, sometimes, you can't really dodge when you see an attack, such as cavalry charging at high speed, or a crowded battlefield.
But before he could say more compliments, Cindy couldn't wait to say, "But I'm not here to talk about this. Brother Levi, the dwarves and shield dwarves are here with their war equipment!"
Levi suddenly perked up. The reason why he still stayed here was because he was waiting for the other party to make a decision.
"Let's go out and see how many good things they brought here!"
