Lords of Hegemony: Conquer from the Mermaids

Chapter 40 Preparing for War
When the system prompt sounded, Meng Zheng was inspecting the training of the mermaid soldiers.

With the addition of one hundred people and the increase in the population of the mermaid hatching pool in recent days, the Canghai tribe now has a population of 398, and the mermaid soldiers have expanded to fifty, including ten Kuangtao war guards and 40 mermaid militia.

After these days of supplying spirit stones and practicing diligently, every merman soldier has the combat power of Yellow Rank 3 and can be officially transferred to become a regular soldier.

The Crazy Waves War Guards had already broken through to Yellow Rank 4 yesterday. Currently, under the leadership of Jiang Tao, they are constantly looking for monster groups to fight and kill in order to improve the power and coordination of the battle formation.

The day before yesterday, Meng Zheng successfully fused 10% of his blood with the help of the East China Sea spring, becoming a Yellow Rank Six existence in one fell swoop. After his strength increased, in order to familiarize himself with the power of his body as soon as possible, he would come to the barracks whenever he was free these days and train with the soldiers.

The Mermaid Militia Barracks, as a system building, has the special effect of quickly restoring the mermaids' physical strength and speeding up their training progress.

After continuous hard exercise these days, Meng Zheng has grown a lot taller. Now he is only a head shorter than Jiang Tao, and is estimated to be more than four meters tall.

As the strength continues to increase, the body of the mermaid will continue to grow. This is something Meng Zheng has known for a long time.

After all, they are a special race. If their bodies are too short, they will be at a particular disadvantage when fighting against large creatures.

You should know that in the ocean, the size of ordinary ferocious beasts is generally only a dozen meters, and it is not impossible for some of them to grow to a thousand or even ten thousand meters.

Although he is strong enough, he can defeat any monster, no matter how big it is.

However, when the overall strength ceiling is not high, the difference in size can often determine the outcome of a battle.

Just click on the attribute panel of a mermaid militia:
Name: Tang Yu
[Identity]: Mermaid militia of the Canghai tribe
Occupation: Soldier
[Kung Fu]: Naval Combat Technique
[Level]: Yellow Level 3

[Equipment]: Hydraulic catapult, bone spear, sea bamboo water shield
[Skills]: Water Pressure Blast, Continuous Impact, Swimming Stab

[Consumption]: 10 units of food/day

This mermaid militia is one of the best in the mermaid team. Not only has his strength improved rapidly, but he also has a very good grasp of various tactical reactions and combat points.

He is Meng Zheng's current main observation object, and he intends to train him to become the next combat captain of the tribe.

Due to the lack of job transfer buildings, all the mermaid militiamen, although they have the combat power of the third level of the yellow rank, cannot become formal soldiers. This time, Meng Zheng decided to take these guys out to see the world.

After training for so long, they have never experienced a battle. This is absolutely not good for the improvement of soldiers.

Secondly, the tribe does not have enough resources for cultivation. More than 700 spirit stones have already been consumed by these mermaid soldiers.

These days, it was all thanks to Lan Che's practice bubble house and the spiritual energy emitted from the East China Sea spring that their practice speed did not decrease.

However, for the Yellow Rank Level 3 militia, this supply is no longer enough. They can only maintain their own cultivation level from declining, and cannot further break through their cultivation level.

Jiang Tao's ten Crazy Wave War Guards were only able to break through to the fourth level of the Yellow Rank after Meng Zheng simply took out an extra two hundred spirit stones to supply them. After they were unable to break through, they were led by Jiang Tao to attack the monster groups, fighting to support themselves and obtain resources for cultivation.

He summoned a patrolling Yaksha and asked, "How's General Jiang Tao doing lately? How many monster hordes has he defeated?"

"Your Majesty, General Jiang Tao has already cleared the front half of the eastern lake ditch. The supplies there are already on their way, and Lord Jiang Bin has also rushed over."

The Eastern Lake Ravine was a deep, abyssal sinkhole stretching for a thousand miles. Meng Zheng had yet to fully explore its depths. Every time he delved a hundred miles deeper, a powerful suction force suddenly appeared. Without the necessary precautions and Li Gen's supervision, exploring this lake ravine would have cost countless lives.

However, this lake contains very rich spiritual energy, which has attracted many monsters to settle around it.

This also makes the eastern lake ditch extremely dangerous. I originally wanted to put it on hold, but now with Li Gen, a great master of the Xuan level, here, what are we waiting for? Let's push it forward quickly.

In this way, Jiang Tao brought ten Kuangtao warriors and made trouble around the lake without restraint.

As long as the Crazy Waves War Guards can defeat them, Jiang Tao will run over and defeat them until the entire monster group is wiped out.

Jiang Tao himself has the powerful strength of the ninth level of the Yellow Rank, and none of the monsters in the first half of the lake can compete with him.

Now with Li Gen here, the survival rate of the Crazy Wave Guards has been greatly improved. They have been able to improve their strength and become familiar with the Crazy Wave Hundred Battle Formation through constant battles.

"How many treasure chests have been seized?" Meng Zheng asked about the thing he was most interested in.

"My lord, I heard that there are already five treasure chests, and they are on the way." The patrolling sea yaksha knew very well what Meng Zheng wanted to know, so he had already found out and hurriedly replied.

"Well, very good!" Meng Zheng was very satisfied. The annihilation of the monster group would bring all kinds of rich supplies, not to mention the monster's own leather armor.

The most important thing is the specialties and treasure chests left behind by the monster community. If you seize specialties of high enough value, you can definitely improve the overall strength of the Canghai tribe in a short period of time.

As for the treasure chest, it can open up all kinds of treasures, and even obtain important resources that the Canghai tribe urgently needs.

Basically, there are more or less spirit stones in every treasure chest. With spirit stones, the tribe can train more soldiers and build special buildings.

The day before yesterday, Jiang Tao was lucky enough to find a large number of precious resources and materials in the treasure chest he brought back, and he built the Water Spirit Guardian Array that the territory needed most in one go.

Because of this, Meng Zheng was finally relieved. He no longer had to worry about the territory being breached due to inadequate defense when monsters attacked the city.

It also liberates the tribe's top combat forces. They no longer have to stay in the tribe every day, but can go out to explore and fight, enriching the tribe's combat options.

"Assemble!" Waving the trident in his hand, Meng Zheng burst out with strong momentum, causing the entire barracks to tremble.

During these days of training, Meng Zheng became thoroughly familiar with his own abilities, and under Li Gen's careful guidance, he made great progress.

Lord Great Disaster God is very dedicated. Relying on his own powerful strength, he travels between two places every day. During the day, he guards the Crazy Wave Guards and attacks the monster groups.

At night, he returned to the Canghai tribe to guide Meng Zheng in his practice.

As a mythical figure, Li Gen is extremely experienced in combat and can easily find the shortcomings of Meng Zheng.

And give Meng Zheng improvement suggestions in real time, so that Meng Zheng can quickly become familiar with his own strengths and perform perfectly.

(End of this chapter)