Little Lord's Dark Castle
Chapter 338 Ogre Tribe
Chapter 338 Ogre Tribe
During the first half month of the cold wave, the development of the territory has not stopped. During this period, four important things happened.
The first thing is that Chu Xin completed the deciphering of the four storage rings.
The magic restrictions on these rings are not ordinary, and they all have the strength of six or seven stars. He was able to lift them, thanks to a new ability after being promoted to a five-star lord.
After being promoted to a five-star lord, Chu Xin will be blessed by the entire territory within the scope of the territory, and the spiritual power mobilized will reach an astonishing seven-star level.
At the same time, relying on his excellent mind control ability, he forcibly pinched a screw drilling machine constructed entirely of mind, and drilled several important magic nodes prohibited by magic, and only then was he able to open the four rings.
Relying on the resources in the ring, Chu Xin equipped the territory with high-end combat power.
Friday obtained a set of six-star cursed armor, which not only possesses strong defensive capabilities, but also has a large-scale evil curse field, which can cause all targets entering the field to suffer multiple curse effects such as stamina loss and weakness.
The weak point of this cursed field is that the cursed field does not distinguish between friend and foe, including the wearer himself, who will also be affected by the curse. It is no wonder that Kleiman has been burying it in the corner of the storage ring.
But now, for Friday, this tasteless effect does not exist, because the evil curse field does not work on undead.
This set of cursed armor should have been tailor-made for undead creatures from the very beginning.
Several undead bosses under Friday's command also changed their guns one after another, and the daggers of Shadow Skull were also replaced with the pair of six-star soul-draining daggers used by Hansam, which possessed many special abilities such as destroying demons and devouring souls.
Kleiman put it away right after the duel, fearing that it would be taken away by Chu Xin, but in the end, the pair of daggers fell into Chu Xin's hands.
Shadow Skull's current strength has reached six stars, and its concealment ability has been greatly improved compared to before. It can jump continuously with the help of shadows, and its assassination ability and escape ability are top-notch.
This pair of soul-draining daggers made up for its lack of attack ability very well. With its current strength, the assassination success rate of opponents of the same star level is quite high.
The King Kong Skull got a huge iron rod made of Shen Xing mother iron, its weight almost doubled compared to before, and even the magic-weave mech couldn't stand it with one stick.
Bone Arrow obtained a six-star high-quality longbow with various special effects such as piercing and swiftness, and Wende, who was the most trusted on Friday, was rewarded with a two-handed sword of six-star peak quality.
In addition, there was a batch of four-star and five-star equipment that Chu Xin threw to Yinhe for distribution.
It's a pity this time, Xiaoqing didn't find a suitable dagger, so he could only use the original Qingfengliuyue.
Its strength just broke through to five stars last week, and the soul-deterring snake pupil was further strengthened into the pupil of the soul, which can directly imprison the soul of the target.
As for Rosa, she was still in the state of bloodline awakening and hadn't woken up from it, but the power emanating from her was becoming increasingly astonishing, and it seemed that the one awakened this time was a remarkable bloodline.
It is worth mentioning that this time Chu Xin harvested a large number of magic scrolls, and he successfully replaced several major spells in Ryan's magic book.
There are two types of non-attribute magic pages, one of which is engraved with flickering. This is the ability that originally belonged to Kleiman's apprentice's magic book. It can instantly move to any position within ten meters, which is an extremely strong life-saving ability.
It was successfully transferred to Ryan's magic book and became permanent magic. As for the five-star magic book with only three pages left, it had already been completely scrapped.
The other one is engraved with the sheep-changing spell, a very interesting spell that can force the target to become a sheep, but it will be released immediately after being attacked, which is more suitable for control.
The wind spell page is engraved with the guardian of the wind, a five-star single auxiliary spell, which has the ability to deflect attacks and accelerate at the same time.
The fire magic page is engraved with lava monsters and five-star summoning spells, but it's a pity that this guy's name is not Malphite.
The thunder spell is engraved with the Dark Light Thunder Armor, a six-star defensive spell, which summons a thunder armor, which not only has defensive power, but also can launch lightning to counterattack the attacker, both offensive and defensive.
Earth spells are engraved with the wrath of the earth, six-star battlefield spells, which can cause small-scale ground fissures. Whether it is used for siege or battlefield attack, it is a good ability.
Ryan's magic book was successfully strengthened into an artifact. With it, Chu Xin became extremely rich in magic methods.
The second thing is that the troop lair in the territory has been successfully strengthened, and the production of troop has increased significantly.
This is a new function unlocked by Chu Xin. It can sacrifice the lairs of troops of the same star level, strengthen the lairs of existing troops in the territory, and increase the output of troops in the lairs of troops.
Troop lairs can currently be strengthened up to three times. For the first time, you need to consume one troop lair of the same star level. For the second time, you need to consume two lairs of the same star star. For the third time, you need to consume four. times, up to eight times the original output.
In the past half a month, all the troop lairs that Chu Xin obtained in the dungeons and stronghold boxes were used for strengthening.
In the end, the Sound Shooting Battalion was strengthened twice, and the output of units quadrupled, and 40 soldiers could be recruited per week; the Dark Moon Werewolf was strengthened once, and 20 soldiers could be recruited per week; the Giant Eagle was strengthened three times, and 192 soldiers could be recruited per week. Only; Sarleon warriors can be strengthened twice, and 48 can be recruited every week.
This also led to a great increase in the size of the troops in Chu Xin's territory. The number of Dark Moon Werewolves and Shesheng Battalion finally exceeded [-]. The giant eagles quickly formed a large scale, and the air force was unprecedentedly strong.
It's a pity that the lair of the six-star unit has never been obtained, and the magic-weave mech camp has not been strengthened in any way. So far, there are only 48 units, which has not yet broken through the [-]th barrier.
The substantial increase in arms also brought about a large amount of food and grass consumption, and Chu Xin had to stuff most of the arms into the barracks.
The third thing is that when the corpse king's territory was successfully wiped out on Friday and controlled a large number of areas, the territory unlocked the development function.
Chu Xin successfully established a sub-base in the Broken Wind Continent, which is the undead world explored by Friday.
The sub-base also inherits many functions such as construction and hiding in the territory. The only thing lacking is that the number of buildings is too small, but the advantage is that there are many people, and a large number of undead wander in the territory.
There is no change of seasons in the world of the undead, and there has been no rest during the period of Friday, continuously exploring the world of the undead and expanding the scope of the territory.
The number of undead troops under its command has exceeded [-]. If it is counted as ordinary undead of miscellaneous brands, the number has already exceeded [-], and it can be regarded as a small prince.
But there is still a long way to go before becoming king. There are rulers in the undead world, and the strength of eight stars is far from what Friday can shake now.
However, when the decisive battle officially starts on Friday, Chu Xin will be able to lend a helping hand.
The fourth thing is about the dungeon. The two major war training dungeons, the Battle of Sishuiguan and the Road to Escape, have accumulated enough dungeon record points, and Chu Xin successfully exchanged them for the reward items he needed.
Rigid body talents, advanced pathfinding skills, advanced reconnaissance skills... These talents have greatly strengthened the strength of Chu Xin and his followers such as Xiaoqing and Friday.
At the same time, the golden villain also loaded three high-star dungeons, one five-star dungeon, and two six-star dungeons, but none of them has been cleared until now.
The main reason is that the troops in the dungeon are extremely strong, and Chu Xin is not willing to consume the troops in the territory to pass the level, so the progress has been stagnant.
In fact, in the process of exploring the dark land later, he encountered a large number of dungeons that could be loaded, but because the number of dungeons that had not been cleared reached three, the golden villain could not continue to load.
Chu Xin is not particularly anxious in his heart, this winter, there is still time, and he is going to play slowly.
For this cold wave, the territory has made adequate preparations. Whether it is food or heating, there are not too many problems, so Chu Xin does not have any pressure in his heart.
The arrival of the cold wave actually had little impact on forces with a certain scale and civilization like them.
But those alien beasts and alien races will appear much more anxious.
Most of them failed to store enough food in time. Under the pressure of survival, they had to search for prey everywhere to make a living.
Next to Chu Xin's territory, such a huge ogre race wandered.
For some reason, when the other party wandered near Chu Xin's territory, he actually settled down, leaning against the rocky mountain that his territory had turned into, and using it as a base, he explored around.
The territory is currently disguised as a steep rocky mountain, which is very desolate and bare.
But even so, they were spotted by this group of ogre races. I really don't know whether to say they were unlucky or lucky.
The strength of this ogre tribe is not weak. The strength of the race is generally around three to four stars. The strength of serious ogre fighters is about five stars, and a small number of elites have reached six stars.
It seems that there are two ogres with seven-star strength hidden in it. One should be the leader, and the other, Chu Xin, is not sure.
He couldn't detect the specific information of the seven-star ogre in the opponent's dense formation.
The ogre tribe was very large, at least five or six thousand in number, so Chu Xin never took the initiative to provoke them.
The main thing is to attack them, the risk is greater than the reward, even if they are all wiped out, at most a six- to seven-star war treasure chest will be obtained, but there is no territory to dismantle.
Moreover, the ogre tribe is very poor, and they don't want to carry a lot of cattle and sheep like the Hasak tribe. Chu Xin really has no interest in doing anything with them.
The ogre always thought that this side of Chu Xin's territory was a desolate rocky mountain, and did not explore here, and never found Chu Xin's territory.
Therefore, the two sides have always maintained a relationship where well water does not violate river water.
But now, this balance was actively broken by the ogre.
Just now, a few ogres broke into Chu Xin's territory and broke through the disguise of Yunmeng Realm. They were surprised to find that this rocky mountain was fake!
This rocky mountain turned out to be a region like a fairyland.
As the lord, Chu Xin immediately noticed the intruding ogres and shook his head regretfully.
I wanted to be a peaceful neighbor, but now it seems impossible.
In the view of the watchtower he inserted, he had already seen those ogres hurriedly returning to the tribe, and the entire ogres tribe became restless in an instant.
In fact, Chu Xin could have made these ogres disappear without a sound, but he didn't. Instead, he let the fish swim back to their nests.
Next, it depends on the ogre's own choice, whether to bring the fish to bite the bait, or continue to live in peace.
Facts have proved that the opponent chose to attack, the entire ogre tribe moved, and a vanguard team with a number of [-] was quickly assembled.
Chu Xin watched silently as the ogre vanguard marched into the territory. He didn't have too many worries in his heart. With the territory's current defense and strength, it would not be a big problem to eat this ogre tribe.
Since the other party took the initiative to attack, he had no choice but to deal with them reluctantly.
A duel in the wild may lose a lot of troops, but if it is a territorial battle, Chu Xin will be much more relaxed. He has too many things to rely on.
There are not only many defensive towers in the territory, but also one or another ability blessing, this is his home field.
Just in time, Chu Xin also wanted to test the territory's current city defense capabilities, and by the way, add some fun to this boring winter.
After the establishment of the territory, no troops have been able to attack the territory, and they have never had the opportunity to experience the powerful defense capabilities of the territory.
The ogre vanguard went all the way in, and soon saw the city dominating the surface. Judging from the architectural style, it was obviously a city of the human race!
All the ogres instantly became excited. They seemed to have smelled the delicious flesh and blood of human beings. There must be a lot of people in such a huge city.
It's just such a huge city, their small vanguard doesn't have the ability to capture it.
Immediately, the vanguard sent people back to report the news, while the rest of the people quietly dispersed and began to explore the situation around the city.
To the left, there is an open land of the dead, which exudes a disgusting atmosphere, and there seems to be a strange power in it.
To the right, there are stretches of water, with only narrow passages in the middle, which is very inconvenient to walk on.
The ogre who explored on both sides quickly fed back information. The ogre vanguard captain heard the reports from the two teams and had a general idea of the situation in his mind.
Outside the territory, the ogre tribe, after hearing that there was a human city hidden in the stone mountain, the whole tribe was shocked.
The entire ogre tribe is now starving, and a place like this falling from the sky couldn't be better for them.
Without any hesitation or any tentative thoughts, the ogre leader immediately organized all his tribesmen to gather and rushed towards the city.
(End of this chapter)
During the first half month of the cold wave, the development of the territory has not stopped. During this period, four important things happened.
The first thing is that Chu Xin completed the deciphering of the four storage rings.
The magic restrictions on these rings are not ordinary, and they all have the strength of six or seven stars. He was able to lift them, thanks to a new ability after being promoted to a five-star lord.
After being promoted to a five-star lord, Chu Xin will be blessed by the entire territory within the scope of the territory, and the spiritual power mobilized will reach an astonishing seven-star level.
At the same time, relying on his excellent mind control ability, he forcibly pinched a screw drilling machine constructed entirely of mind, and drilled several important magic nodes prohibited by magic, and only then was he able to open the four rings.
Relying on the resources in the ring, Chu Xin equipped the territory with high-end combat power.
Friday obtained a set of six-star cursed armor, which not only possesses strong defensive capabilities, but also has a large-scale evil curse field, which can cause all targets entering the field to suffer multiple curse effects such as stamina loss and weakness.
The weak point of this cursed field is that the cursed field does not distinguish between friend and foe, including the wearer himself, who will also be affected by the curse. It is no wonder that Kleiman has been burying it in the corner of the storage ring.
But now, for Friday, this tasteless effect does not exist, because the evil curse field does not work on undead.
This set of cursed armor should have been tailor-made for undead creatures from the very beginning.
Several undead bosses under Friday's command also changed their guns one after another, and the daggers of Shadow Skull were also replaced with the pair of six-star soul-draining daggers used by Hansam, which possessed many special abilities such as destroying demons and devouring souls.
Kleiman put it away right after the duel, fearing that it would be taken away by Chu Xin, but in the end, the pair of daggers fell into Chu Xin's hands.
Shadow Skull's current strength has reached six stars, and its concealment ability has been greatly improved compared to before. It can jump continuously with the help of shadows, and its assassination ability and escape ability are top-notch.
This pair of soul-draining daggers made up for its lack of attack ability very well. With its current strength, the assassination success rate of opponents of the same star level is quite high.
The King Kong Skull got a huge iron rod made of Shen Xing mother iron, its weight almost doubled compared to before, and even the magic-weave mech couldn't stand it with one stick.
Bone Arrow obtained a six-star high-quality longbow with various special effects such as piercing and swiftness, and Wende, who was the most trusted on Friday, was rewarded with a two-handed sword of six-star peak quality.
In addition, there was a batch of four-star and five-star equipment that Chu Xin threw to Yinhe for distribution.
It's a pity this time, Xiaoqing didn't find a suitable dagger, so he could only use the original Qingfengliuyue.
Its strength just broke through to five stars last week, and the soul-deterring snake pupil was further strengthened into the pupil of the soul, which can directly imprison the soul of the target.
As for Rosa, she was still in the state of bloodline awakening and hadn't woken up from it, but the power emanating from her was becoming increasingly astonishing, and it seemed that the one awakened this time was a remarkable bloodline.
It is worth mentioning that this time Chu Xin harvested a large number of magic scrolls, and he successfully replaced several major spells in Ryan's magic book.
There are two types of non-attribute magic pages, one of which is engraved with flickering. This is the ability that originally belonged to Kleiman's apprentice's magic book. It can instantly move to any position within ten meters, which is an extremely strong life-saving ability.
It was successfully transferred to Ryan's magic book and became permanent magic. As for the five-star magic book with only three pages left, it had already been completely scrapped.
The other one is engraved with the sheep-changing spell, a very interesting spell that can force the target to become a sheep, but it will be released immediately after being attacked, which is more suitable for control.
The wind spell page is engraved with the guardian of the wind, a five-star single auxiliary spell, which has the ability to deflect attacks and accelerate at the same time.
The fire magic page is engraved with lava monsters and five-star summoning spells, but it's a pity that this guy's name is not Malphite.
The thunder spell is engraved with the Dark Light Thunder Armor, a six-star defensive spell, which summons a thunder armor, which not only has defensive power, but also can launch lightning to counterattack the attacker, both offensive and defensive.
Earth spells are engraved with the wrath of the earth, six-star battlefield spells, which can cause small-scale ground fissures. Whether it is used for siege or battlefield attack, it is a good ability.
Ryan's magic book was successfully strengthened into an artifact. With it, Chu Xin became extremely rich in magic methods.
The second thing is that the troop lair in the territory has been successfully strengthened, and the production of troop has increased significantly.
This is a new function unlocked by Chu Xin. It can sacrifice the lairs of troops of the same star level, strengthen the lairs of existing troops in the territory, and increase the output of troops in the lairs of troops.
Troop lairs can currently be strengthened up to three times. For the first time, you need to consume one troop lair of the same star level. For the second time, you need to consume two lairs of the same star star. For the third time, you need to consume four. times, up to eight times the original output.
In the past half a month, all the troop lairs that Chu Xin obtained in the dungeons and stronghold boxes were used for strengthening.
In the end, the Sound Shooting Battalion was strengthened twice, and the output of units quadrupled, and 40 soldiers could be recruited per week; the Dark Moon Werewolf was strengthened once, and 20 soldiers could be recruited per week; the Giant Eagle was strengthened three times, and 192 soldiers could be recruited per week. Only; Sarleon warriors can be strengthened twice, and 48 can be recruited every week.
This also led to a great increase in the size of the troops in Chu Xin's territory. The number of Dark Moon Werewolves and Shesheng Battalion finally exceeded [-]. The giant eagles quickly formed a large scale, and the air force was unprecedentedly strong.
It's a pity that the lair of the six-star unit has never been obtained, and the magic-weave mech camp has not been strengthened in any way. So far, there are only 48 units, which has not yet broken through the [-]th barrier.
The substantial increase in arms also brought about a large amount of food and grass consumption, and Chu Xin had to stuff most of the arms into the barracks.
The third thing is that when the corpse king's territory was successfully wiped out on Friday and controlled a large number of areas, the territory unlocked the development function.
Chu Xin successfully established a sub-base in the Broken Wind Continent, which is the undead world explored by Friday.
The sub-base also inherits many functions such as construction and hiding in the territory. The only thing lacking is that the number of buildings is too small, but the advantage is that there are many people, and a large number of undead wander in the territory.
There is no change of seasons in the world of the undead, and there has been no rest during the period of Friday, continuously exploring the world of the undead and expanding the scope of the territory.
The number of undead troops under its command has exceeded [-]. If it is counted as ordinary undead of miscellaneous brands, the number has already exceeded [-], and it can be regarded as a small prince.
But there is still a long way to go before becoming king. There are rulers in the undead world, and the strength of eight stars is far from what Friday can shake now.
However, when the decisive battle officially starts on Friday, Chu Xin will be able to lend a helping hand.
The fourth thing is about the dungeon. The two major war training dungeons, the Battle of Sishuiguan and the Road to Escape, have accumulated enough dungeon record points, and Chu Xin successfully exchanged them for the reward items he needed.
Rigid body talents, advanced pathfinding skills, advanced reconnaissance skills... These talents have greatly strengthened the strength of Chu Xin and his followers such as Xiaoqing and Friday.
At the same time, the golden villain also loaded three high-star dungeons, one five-star dungeon, and two six-star dungeons, but none of them has been cleared until now.
The main reason is that the troops in the dungeon are extremely strong, and Chu Xin is not willing to consume the troops in the territory to pass the level, so the progress has been stagnant.
In fact, in the process of exploring the dark land later, he encountered a large number of dungeons that could be loaded, but because the number of dungeons that had not been cleared reached three, the golden villain could not continue to load.
Chu Xin is not particularly anxious in his heart, this winter, there is still time, and he is going to play slowly.
For this cold wave, the territory has made adequate preparations. Whether it is food or heating, there are not too many problems, so Chu Xin does not have any pressure in his heart.
The arrival of the cold wave actually had little impact on forces with a certain scale and civilization like them.
But those alien beasts and alien races will appear much more anxious.
Most of them failed to store enough food in time. Under the pressure of survival, they had to search for prey everywhere to make a living.
Next to Chu Xin's territory, such a huge ogre race wandered.
For some reason, when the other party wandered near Chu Xin's territory, he actually settled down, leaning against the rocky mountain that his territory had turned into, and using it as a base, he explored around.
The territory is currently disguised as a steep rocky mountain, which is very desolate and bare.
But even so, they were spotted by this group of ogre races. I really don't know whether to say they were unlucky or lucky.
The strength of this ogre tribe is not weak. The strength of the race is generally around three to four stars. The strength of serious ogre fighters is about five stars, and a small number of elites have reached six stars.
It seems that there are two ogres with seven-star strength hidden in it. One should be the leader, and the other, Chu Xin, is not sure.
He couldn't detect the specific information of the seven-star ogre in the opponent's dense formation.
The ogre tribe was very large, at least five or six thousand in number, so Chu Xin never took the initiative to provoke them.
The main thing is to attack them, the risk is greater than the reward, even if they are all wiped out, at most a six- to seven-star war treasure chest will be obtained, but there is no territory to dismantle.
Moreover, the ogre tribe is very poor, and they don't want to carry a lot of cattle and sheep like the Hasak tribe. Chu Xin really has no interest in doing anything with them.
The ogre always thought that this side of Chu Xin's territory was a desolate rocky mountain, and did not explore here, and never found Chu Xin's territory.
Therefore, the two sides have always maintained a relationship where well water does not violate river water.
But now, this balance was actively broken by the ogre.
Just now, a few ogres broke into Chu Xin's territory and broke through the disguise of Yunmeng Realm. They were surprised to find that this rocky mountain was fake!
This rocky mountain turned out to be a region like a fairyland.
As the lord, Chu Xin immediately noticed the intruding ogres and shook his head regretfully.
I wanted to be a peaceful neighbor, but now it seems impossible.
In the view of the watchtower he inserted, he had already seen those ogres hurriedly returning to the tribe, and the entire ogres tribe became restless in an instant.
In fact, Chu Xin could have made these ogres disappear without a sound, but he didn't. Instead, he let the fish swim back to their nests.
Next, it depends on the ogre's own choice, whether to bring the fish to bite the bait, or continue to live in peace.
Facts have proved that the opponent chose to attack, the entire ogre tribe moved, and a vanguard team with a number of [-] was quickly assembled.
Chu Xin watched silently as the ogre vanguard marched into the territory. He didn't have too many worries in his heart. With the territory's current defense and strength, it would not be a big problem to eat this ogre tribe.
Since the other party took the initiative to attack, he had no choice but to deal with them reluctantly.
A duel in the wild may lose a lot of troops, but if it is a territorial battle, Chu Xin will be much more relaxed. He has too many things to rely on.
There are not only many defensive towers in the territory, but also one or another ability blessing, this is his home field.
Just in time, Chu Xin also wanted to test the territory's current city defense capabilities, and by the way, add some fun to this boring winter.
After the establishment of the territory, no troops have been able to attack the territory, and they have never had the opportunity to experience the powerful defense capabilities of the territory.
The ogre vanguard went all the way in, and soon saw the city dominating the surface. Judging from the architectural style, it was obviously a city of the human race!
All the ogres instantly became excited. They seemed to have smelled the delicious flesh and blood of human beings. There must be a lot of people in such a huge city.
It's just such a huge city, their small vanguard doesn't have the ability to capture it.
Immediately, the vanguard sent people back to report the news, while the rest of the people quietly dispersed and began to explore the situation around the city.
To the left, there is an open land of the dead, which exudes a disgusting atmosphere, and there seems to be a strange power in it.
To the right, there are stretches of water, with only narrow passages in the middle, which is very inconvenient to walk on.
The ogre who explored on both sides quickly fed back information. The ogre vanguard captain heard the reports from the two teams and had a general idea of the situation in his mind.
Outside the territory, the ogre tribe, after hearing that there was a human city hidden in the stone mountain, the whole tribe was shocked.
The entire ogre tribe is now starving, and a place like this falling from the sky couldn't be better for them.
Without any hesitation or any tentative thoughts, the ogre leader immediately organized all his tribesmen to gather and rushed towards the city.
(End of this chapter)
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