Chapter 0236: Expedition
Chapter 0236 Expedition
At the moment when the Sea of Bones erupted in Eternal Night, the Butcher returned to the Undercity with the necromancer Platayatong Guò Hearthstone. After a brief greeting to the Holy Light Skull Hiberil, the two of them planned to return to the Sleeping Land through the Gate of the Guò Plane.
Of course, before leaving, the two of them went to the Soul Hall to have a look. The altar in the center of the Conjuring Hall shone with a little ghostly light, the bone dragon Gu Li was re-solidified, and the long process of condensing the soul body had just begun, and the whole process took about 4 days, and the 300 soul crystals spent were reimbursed by Li Xun's designated public funds, after all, it belonged to the death in the line of duty.
At this time, the bone dragon Gu Li did not have any consciousness at all, and was in the stage of collecting and gathering souls, so the two of them did not stay too long and stepped straight into the portal to the sleeping place.
The place of slumber at this moment is the time of hustle and bustle.
A large number of high-level Graveyard troops withdrawn from Eternal Night City have been filled to the Sleeping Place, which also gives Skeletron Prime, who is deploying troops, much more on hand. When the butcher and necromancer Plataya came out of the portal, they were directly stopped by the excitement in front of them.
Once upon a time, the undead represented death, coldness, and silence, which is also the main color of the undead world. But today, the Sleeping Lands broke that rule. The entire central square is relatively calm except for the teleportation area where he is located which is firmly guarded by the death knights, and the rest of the area is full of surging "people" tides.
As the main force of the expedition, the Knights of the Black Blade occupied the southeast corner of the square, and the undead knights sitting in rows on top of the skeleton war horses held high their swords of cold light, and the soul fire from their eyes was red or purple, all of which were equally threatening. Roughly counted, 5 in a row, 5 in a row, and 14 in front and back.
Next to the Knights, occupying the southwest corner, is the newly formed mage regiment. Because the difference in level is too large, and there is no strong figure to lead, it seems a little scattered and lazy. Their original direct leader, the Demon Wizard, has already confirmed that he will not participate in this expedition due to another mission, so the necromancer Plataya, who returns in time, will most likely be honored to be the temporary leader of this mage group.
A team of more than 80 spellcasters, even if there is no other class of troops, it is also a heavy weight that makes people look at it, not to mention that each member of this mage group has carried out a personal deployment of troops before departure, low-level members are equipped with bats + abomination as standard, and high-level members are equipped with bats + necromancers, this alone has doubled their strength, and it also takes into account high mobility.
This expedition of 6,000 miles, of course, requires a large number of escort troops, which is composed of a mixture of 800 vampires, ghosts, ice banshees, and ghost killers, taking into account many functions such as reconnaissance, assassination, safari, and cruise.
Most of the area north of the square was occupied by the native mercenaries who had been called in. After a snowballing development, there are about 100 mercenaries registered in the Sleeping Land, and the level of these guys is very different, but there are many tricks and novel methods, and many indigenous undead have already pulled up their own small teams in the early stage of great development.
Therefore, the entire square is the largest territory they occupy, but if you look closely, it is enough to be dazzled. It has everything from high-level necromancy to lowest-level skeleton warriors, and there are even many mutated undead who others can't name.
In order to cooperate with this expedition, a large number of war following missions have been released in the mission hall. All Graveyard Heroes, Foreign Heroes, and Mercenaries participating in this mission will receive a 100-point base merit reward, and a temporary war mission will be randomly released after arriving at the first outpost. Once the war is completed, everyone involved will be promoted by one rank.
As can be seen from the quest previously released by the quest Iron Man, it is still the war quest with the most generous reward points, so the indigenous undead mercenaries gathered in the Sleeping Land some time ago have all taken over this expedition mission. Of course, the most attractive thing for them is the rank reward, they usually get enough merit in small fights, and even the armament of themselves is insufficient, and how can they be willing to spend merit points to improve their rank.
You can see the future development trend of the task hall, and the high merit tasks in the later stage will limit the rank threshold, and if you don't mention the military rank now, if you have a good task in the future, you can only watch others eat and drink spicy, and you are helpless no matter how greedy you are.
There are already discerning indigenous undead who can see that the so-called merit points are purely for the service of later military ranks, and the further they develop, it is estimated that everything will be linked to military ranks, and military ranks are the only real indicators of an individual's social status in the cemetery system. If you don't take advantage of the fact that you haven't limited the task requirements now, and make a little more money to rush your rank, it will be really difficult to do it later.
Now there are four or five formed fixed teams in the sleeping place, and of course there will be no shortage of "old men" with a little insight among these teams.
The final reward for the war mission is to upgrade the rank by one level, and if the foundation is different, it can be the difference between heaven and earth. It only takes 100 points for a corporal to become a sergeant, but it is 200 points for a sergeant to become a sergeant. In line with the spirit of being cheap and not taking advantage of the loss, many small teams have taken out some of the "treasures" they accumulated some time ago in exchange for meritorious service, and made a final effort to impact the rank.
All of a sudden, the tradable items in the Sleepy Lands Market had tripled in just a few days, and there were some real treasures among them. Under Li Xun's instructions, Skeletron also intervened in the market, scooped up a lot of treasures from it, and took down all the "strange things" that could not be seen for the time being.
Of course, these "strange things" have a lot of moisture, or some mutated metal ores, or bone fragments of some unknown creatures, or more likely just strangely shaped stones, which will not have much effect, but as long as they hit a useful one, they will become real treasures in Li Xun's hands. And all he needs to pay is some invisible and intangible merit points, and these merit points will quickly flow back into his hands.
However, Li Xun's careful thinking was severely warned by the task iron man. This kind of fictitious speculation of meritorious points is occasionally harmless when the system is not perfect, but once the military rank system is popularized among the forces of the cemetery, the top management of the cemetery will come forward to crack down on this speculative behavior of speculating on meritorious points, after all, the stability of the system is the first priority of a mature system.
The return of the butcher and necromancer Plataya comes just in time. Skeletron will lead the expedition directly, with the Butcher temporarily taking over his position as Acting Lord and Plataya taking over as the head of the Mage Regiment. Plataya is currently a lieutenant rank, which is the highest among all the indigenous undead, and he is still a level 14 high-level undead, and his strength is enough to subdue all the members of the mage group, so the process of taking over the mage group is extremely smooth.
But the arrival of Arthas, the head of the Knights of the Black Blade, was not so smooth. All the undead knights concocted by the cemetery have always been killing machines that only know how to take orders, and as long as Arthas is given enough soul permissions, there will be no problems. But now the Knights of the Black Blade has a lot of foreign undead knights who have been captured and subdued, and these guys who already have a hazy sense of autonomy need Arthas to slowly submit them one by one. After all, Arthas is only level 7 now, and the soul power of this level is not enough to deter these inferior people.
Originally, the most suitable leader of the escort force was the Phantom Maiden, but now she has become the master's full-time bodyguard, so she can only be directly commanded by Skeletron.
The class of the undead, though strict, has not yet produced a bureaucracy. So there is no so-called pre-war declaration, there is no expedition ceremony, and after the expedition team is basically in place, Skeletron stepped onto the ghost dragon that his master had equipped him, and with a wave of his hand, the whole team was pulled out.
At the forefront of the line is the majestic and cold Knights of the Black Blade. Arthas rode out of the sleeping place on a high-pitched "nightmare" that pulled the wind, and groups of undead knights followed in a neat formation, the sound of heavy and dense horse hooves resounded through the sky, and a cloud of smoke gradually extended into the distance.
The mage regiment is fully equipped with flying mounts bat demons, coupled with a large group of mixed troops escorting, dense all kinds of undead blocked the entire sky, sweeping away like dark clouds.
As for the indigenous mercenaries, most of them are equipped with their own mounts, either flying or running on the ground, noisy, and desperately chasing after them at the end of the team. In order to save money, many mercenaries often have five or six of their subordinates lying on their stomachs, and this overloading behavior slows them down, and the tail of the follow-up troops of the expeditionary force drags longer and longer. The team has changed from bloated and swollen when it first set off to a sparse and sparse now, not like a cemetery hero on a dangerous expedition, but like a broken settlement that went out to flee.
An hour later, the resting place, which had been roaring with joy a moment ago, returned to its usual tranquility, and the heavy iron door creaked and began to close, leaving only a narrow door on one side of the gate, and entering a state of moderate alert.
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