Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

The two walked down the stairs hand in hand and came directly to the territory storage box.

Today's storage boxes have hundreds of storage compartments, all of which are filled to the brim.

Zong Shen didn't pay much attention to it before, but now he realized that his net worth was so rich. The wealth of the territory could be seen from the full storage box.

This does not include the resources stored in [warehouse], [cellar], and [thatched shed].

Today's territory's basic resource reserves are in the order of millions.

This amount of resources is still terrifying.

He searched in the storage compartment and found the strange totem Vereesa had mentioned. .

With a thought, he focused his attention on the totem.

[Evil Totem (Special)]

[Quality: Special]

[Sturdiness value: 49792/60000]

[Armor value: 135]

[Magic Resistance: 130]

[Effect: Evil Sacrifice: Offer sacrifices to the evil god, including but not limited to blood, flesh, and soul. The minimum sacrifice quality must not be lower than the ordinary level. The higher the quality, the better the evil feedback you get, and you can gain strength or It is a variety of evil energy items that simultaneously increase goblin reproduction ability by 50% and reduce the chance of group degeneration by 15%]

[Range: 10 kilometers in radius]

[Skill: Evil Goblin (can gradually transform the Goblins near the totem into Evil Goblins, up to 3 per week. The attributes of Evil Goblins are higher than those of ordinary Goblins of the same level and level) Lin is 30% higher, and the transformed evil goblins cannot reproduce)

Evil God's Deterrence (offering sacrifices, emitting the evil god's deterrence, regional goblins and other evil races have a great deterrent effect, and at the same time, it will cause nightmare trauma that lasts for a week to enemies whose level does not exceed level five, and they will be affected by evil spirits when they fall asleep. Invaded by will, if you cannot resist it, you will be transformed into a puppet of evil intention, with a shock range of 500 meters)]

(Evil things, if you have enough flesh and blood sacrifices, you may consider making evil sacrifices, maybe you can get some fancy things)

After seeing this thing, Zong Shen couldn't help but think of the weird [Crossbow of Evil Intent] and [Wrath of the Evil God], which were the goblins' new gadgets to deal with him before.

The whole body is made of flesh and blood, it can automatically detect and track enemies, and its damage characteristics are also very weird.

Nine times out of ten, it was obtained through [Evil Sacrifice].

However, this [Evil Intendant] is really of no use to Zong Shen.

There are no goblins in his territory, and he has no good impression of those greenskins.

Moreover, among the goblins of the same level, their combat effectiveness is only at the level of a crane.

When I have the opportunity to pick up corpses on the battlefield in the future, I might be able to get something with special effects through [Evil Sacrifice].

If you can avoid using words, try not to use them.

He doesn't like the big eyes at all now.

Those weird foreign gods with evil intentions are not something that can be taken advantage of at first glance.

After making up his mind, Zong Shen took out this thing and put it in his personal storage compartment.

Rather than placing it in a territorial storage box, it is most reliable to keep it under his personal care.

After checking the totems, he sorted out the items he found from the Wildhoof Centaur tribe.

The first is the treasure chest. There are a total of 3 gold treasure chests, 7 silver treasure chests, 11 bronze treasure chests, and 14 black iron treasure chests. From the proportion and number of treasure chests, it can be seen that no lord has explored the Wildhoof tribe yet.

This also proves that those centaurs are indeed the dominant players in the region.

It just happened to be that Zong Shen made a profit across the region.

In addition to treasure chests, there are also all kinds of fancy weapons and equipment.

But the quality was very poor, and most of it came from traveling merchants, horse bandits, and scattered mercenaries that the centaurs robbed. Apart from these equipment, Zong Shen didn't bother to collect the wooden spears and the like.

As for magic items and various props, there are almost none.

Only four excellent-level [Shadow Runes] and two [Centaur Mark (Purple)] were found.

Each [Shadow Rune] can be used five times to summon [Shadow Ball].

This [Shadow Ball] can last for 5 minutes and fire shadow arrows at a rate of 3 seconds, causing 80 points of shadow magic damage to the target.

It's good to use as an auxiliary to deal with single enemies. After all, the damage type of shadow magic is similar to that of chaos damage, and both can ignore armor.

Calculated this way, 8,000 points of damage can be dealt in 5 minutes.

The premise is that the target will not escape or move.

You must know that after the [Shadow Ball] is summoned, its position cannot be changed.

In addition, [Shadow Ball], like other summoning magic, will be affected by the [Dispel] effect of the same level.

If encountering [Dispel] or [Purify], the sphere will disintegrate and dissipate.

As for the [Centaur Mark], it is used to summon centaur warriors to assist in battle.

It can only be used once and can summon two centaur shadow wizards, two centaur assassins and two centaur forerunners to help in the battle.

The level is LV35, the level is Commander level, and it lasts for 15 minutes.

Apart from these two items, there is nothing more to gain.

Centaurs are too poor in magical artifacts and magic props.

Finally, there is the dinar, which basically comes from daily robberies.

They immediately piled the dinars in a straw shed.

The total amount of Ling Ling totaled 1,329,725 dinars. Zong Shen estimated that these guys must have lost a lot.

After all, they were extremely careless about dinars and could only collect them by the way.

He didn't know why these centaurs were so violent. They were obviously very intelligent, but their group cohesion was not strong, and they didn't know how to farm or trade, so it was difficult to have peaceful exchanges.

Only the centaur spellcasters seemed slightly calmer.

But he behaves like a mad dog in battle.

Therefore, in Zong Shen's impression, the centaur ethnic label is crazy!

After slightly confirming the quantity and type of supplies, Zong Shen put all the treasure boxes together.

After these two waves of losses, his dinars have reached nearly 10 million.

Deposit it into the [Lord of Greed's Money Bag], and the monthly interest will be quite a lot based on the monthly interest rate of 0.8%.

The money was saved and he could spend it when he went to the giant city.

In addition, Howie can also wear the [Hiking Merchant's Emblem] and [Hiking Merchant's Backpack] and [Pascal Contract's Big Bag], and ride a flying tiger or Eagle Sauce to other cities to purchase supplies. .

Currently, the daily food consumption in the territory is a huge amount.

There is no long-term supply from nearby villages alone.

Bosbon does have enough supplies to maintain the territory's current material procurement needs.

But as the territory continues to grow, more purchasing points will eventually need to be opened.

Of course, to completely solve this problem, we must carry out free civil reforms and agricultural development.

Everything has to wait until the defense challenge is over!

Anyway, if Zong Shen is rich and willful, he can always go to the aborigines to purchase.

After counting the supplies, Zong Shen took Luna to inspect the living area.

Two residential areas have been built here.

One area is the previous [Double-Story Stone House] area, and across a stone road is the new area.

Basically, they are still [domestic houses] and [single-story stone houses].

The planning is still very neat, and each residential area is divided into several internal streets.

In the future, a road network can be opened up to connect more areas.

In the open space further outside, the kobold chief Dutra is temporarily living here.

Mariel arranged for two new logistical heroes to take hundreds of farmers to build a [thatched shed] here as a temporary base for the kobolds.

Since the entire defense matrix has been relocated, additional patrols have been deployed tonight.

There are two squadrons of Wolf Cavalry guarding the living quarters.

The long-range shooters also stopped mobilizing and formed two mixed squadrons to take turns assisting in patrolling.

Especially the night elves' troops, they are natural sentinels in the dark night.

Use the method of increasing patrol strength to make up for the lack of defense matrix.

Make sure that these days of shrinking defense are foolproof.

All the arrangements are basically in line with Zong Shen's wishes.

By tomorrow, all the buildings except the city wall circle should be completed.

At that time, Zong Shen will be able to see a different central circle of territory!

There are many defensive arrow towers in it, and various functional buildings are guarded in the middle.

Three major defensive circles and city wall circles stand side by side, and griffins and manticores swim in the sky.

Feihu, Xiaoheizi and Yingjiang are also here!

There are a large number of warriors guarding the ground.

Epic defense buildings and incomplete wonders plus a large number of defense towers of various levels and types form a multi-dimensional defense circle with a terrifyingly high attack density.

In addition, with the Lord's Fortress as the central point, Mariel and Howie were worried that the enemy would surprise them from underground.

A large number of stone pavements were laid, especially around the defense matrix.

These stone pavements have a certain degree of solidity, and most importantly, they can serve as early warning and slowdowns.

Prevent enemies from driving underground and destroying key defense nodes.

Burrowing into the ground is difficult to avoid unless there is a high-level earth solidification magic circle.

As for the Lord's Fortress, there is no need to worry. The foundation below is more than ten meters long. The first floor of the fortress is even three meters above the ground. The entire fortress is integrated. Even if you attack from underground, you have to break the same solid value to break through.

With the current resource reserves, the consumption of laying stone pavement is nothing.

After the challenge is over, these stone pavements can be moved to the planned stone roads and will never be wasted.

During this period, Zong Shen also met Mariel for a short while.

Marier told Zong Shen the current defense situation of the territory and possible loopholes.

"In other words, the only shortcoming and uncertainty currently lies underground?"

On the outside of the central circle, at the defense matrix reconstruction site, more than a dozen bonfires were raised, and hundreds of farmers were hammering with construction hammers.

The shadow of the building gradually became more noticeable after the move.

There is no need to consume resources to rebuild after relocation, but the construction process and time are inevitable.

Zong Shen walked side by side with Mariel, hands behind his back.

Luna mounted the Sentinel Black Panther and explained to the kobold chief about the follow-up plan for the mine.

Hearing Zong Shen ask, Mariel nodded.

"Yes sir."

"Judging from the current defense density of the territory, the strength of the defensive circle on the ground is undoubtedly the strongest."

"Your painstaking preparations have not been in vain. I have discussed it with Howie, Vereesa, Colby, Favid, Doris, and Joan of Arc. According to the ground defense, the current territorial troops are all Can’t get in.”

"This is true even if the black dragon, griffon and manticore are added."

"The Tower of Chaos and the Giant Crossbow Tower also pose a great threat to powerful single enemies."

"Including heights from 200 meters to 350 meters in the air, they will also be protected by defense towers."

Mariel said objectively.

In fact, even Zong Shen himself felt a little scared when he saw the dense shadows of defense towers.

Thousands of defense towers of various levels and types gathered together, and anyone who came would be shot into a piece of pigskin.

"I know this."

"Defense towers and our warriors ensure security on the ground and in the air."

"The only thing you have to worry about is underground."

Zong Shen said softly, naturally he knew this well.

"Yes sir."

"In addition, the protective shield generated by the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar] can protect the underground."

"With 1 million sturdiness and 120 points of double resistance, it can last for a long time."

"Unless all the main forces of the attacker are active underground."

"But just in case, I still recommend that you find a way to obtain some high-level earth solidification magic arrays to solidify the land around the center circle and increase the difficulty of digging."

Mariel made her own suggestion.

Zong Shen nodded and said with some embarrassment.

“We should start from [the market] and see if we can purchase some.”

"I still have a batch of treasure chests on hand that I haven't opened yet, but it's completely unknown whether I can get the corresponding items."

Hearing what he said, Mariel also knew that what he just said was a bit outrageous.

Zong Shen doesn't have a treasure bag, so he can get whatever he wants.

"I'm sorry, sir."

"I took it too much for granted."

"In the past two days, I will arrange for people to go to the [market] to look for related items."

Zong Shen did not delve into this.

The territory's internal affairs management and construction management all fell on Mariel.

She is not a robot, so something will inevitably go wrong.

Afterwards, Mariel reported on resource consumption and remaining inventory.

Let Zong Shen know what he is doing.

The current resource reserves in the territory should be enough to complete the consumption of the city wall circle and other defensive buildings.

The mines have been shut down for the past few days, and the territory will soon start to rest on its laurels.

As for the income from selling spring water and equipment, it is simply not comparable to the ore materials.

The number of the former is too small and cannot meet the current size of the territory.

In the past few days, it’s time to fight for our laurels.

After the announcement of the defense challenge, all lords were worried about territory defense.

Poorer lords still use the old method, digging trenches and tunnels, adding roadblocks and blocking horses to prevent the enemy from advancing straight in, and increasing the output space of the defensive arrow towers.

Wealthier lords also began to build city walls.

It's just small in scale and built around the lord's courtyard.

Then focus on the center and deploy defenses layer by layer.

The general principle is similar to Zong Shen, but the level of luxury is different.

Thousands of defense towers can scare anyone to death wherever they are placed.

Two hours passed during this inspection.

The Eye of Cthulhu still has about five hours to get here.

Zong Shen was going to take a short rest in the territory.

When she returned to the bedroom in the Lord's Fortress, Luna was already lying on the bed.

The small magic lamps on the wall emitted a white light.

She leaned against the bed, her hands covering her lower abdomen from left and right, her purple hair hanging to the side, as if she was thinking about something.

After Zong Shen pushed the door open and entered, she raised her head.

"Sir, are you back?"

Zong Shen smiled and twisted his neck.

He began to take off his armor piece by piece.

As soon as he got into bed, he was obsessed with Luna.

Normally, Luna would respond positively, but this time Luna pushed him gently.

"Sir, don't..."

Luna closed her eyes and said in a trembling voice.

Hearing this, Zong Shen also stopped moving and leaned against her.

Even if he is a fool now, he knows that Luna should have something to tell him.

"What's wrong Luna?"

Zong Shen looked at her sideways and asked with concern.

"I...I seem to be giving birth to life..."

"Greeding life?"

"pregnant?!"

Zong Shen repeated in surprise.

In fact, the night elves are a rather sexually frigid race.

Especially in the last era, when the Well of Eternity still existed, they had a long lifespan.

Seeking mates and mating solely for the purpose of procreation.

Most night elf men are druids who need to sleep in the Emerald Dream and have no intention of doing so.

But Luna was still very proactive towards him.

The needs in certain aspects are no different from those of normal human women.

But talking about pregnancy still shocked Zong Shen.

Although the territory was developing rapidly, it had not yet reached a point where he could feel at ease.

But he soon regained his composure!

When you have children, you need to protect your territory even more!

He must create a safe home for the next generation.

Hearing Zong Shen ask this, Luna hesitated.

She first looked down at her belly, then looked at Zong Shen with a sad look on her face.

"Sir, the state of the little life inside me is very strange."

"I can't sense much life."

"He seems to be still sleeping, and I can't wake him up."

Luna frowned and told her true feelings.

"what happened?"

Zong Shen felt something was wrong when he heard her say that.

He quickly called the strategy module in his heart.

"Tell me what's going on with Luna!"

This time, the golden subtitles came together and took a few seconds to take shape.

(Congratulations, you are going to be a father)

Due to the rules of the lord system, Luna is still unable to truly become pregnant.

She is in a semi-pregnant state and needs to wait until the defensive challenge is over and the new rules are changed before she can be pregnant normally.

So don’t worry, just focus on the defensive challenges and you will get a cute baby)

After reading the subtitles, Zong Shen finally felt relieved.

He briefly told Luna the situation. As a citizen of the territory, Luna also knew some things about the lord system.

So she figured it out quickly!