Throne of the Warlord

Chapter 45

The battle at the city wall was completely over after 10 minutes. Long Shou sprayed five dragon breaths in a row, and the remaining gnolls and kobolds were defeated. Some fled, and some fell down and surrendered.

Those who escaped were ignored, and those who surrendered were disarmed and killed.

But the battle is not over yet, because those who escaped fled to the stone palace in the center of the tribe, where there are still some remnants.

At the same time, Li Qing's powerful soul sensed the disgusting breath of death coming from the direction of the stone hall.

The troops were divided into two, and the tents and wooden houses were inspected one by one, and the fish that slipped through the net were eliminated.

Cleared all the way to the center of the tribe, the troops regrouped.

The Stone Palace is located in the center of a large square. There are no buildings in a large area around it, only open space. There are many strange stone statues on the edge of the square. They are neither gnolls nor humans, but a strange shape that Li Qing has never seen before. Monster statue.

The stone hall is not big, and the surface is severely eroded by wind, but there are no moss and vines.

There are some complicated and strange pictures depicted on it, but the wind erosion is too severe and the picture is too distorted, Li Qing can't see what is painted on it after looking at it for a long time.

Of course, his attention was not here, but inside the stone palace.

The stone hall is not very big, but from the structural point of view, there must be an underground floor, that is to say, the main body of the stone hall is underground.

So many jackals and kobolds can hide in it, the scale of this underground is probably not small.

A small tribe of gnolls, and this building
It can only be said that their ancestors were indeed rich.

But that was in the past, with the shattering of the plane, the leakage of the source, the power level of the plane has been declining year by year, and now it can't even accommodate the sixth-order extraordinary level, and even the leader is only third-level. What kind of threat can this pose?
With a wave of Li Qing's hand, five infantrymen walked in front with their shields raised, stepping into the stone hall.

Li Qing didn't follow, the leaders were An Erqiu and the three Xie family brothers, they brought forty men in, Long Shou stayed outside and stood by his side.

Li Qing didn't stay idle outside either, and sent people to transfer more than 100 peasants from the city wall over, and asked them to demolish the village of the wolf tribe.

Tents, wooden houses, stone walls, etc. are all disassembled and piled up in piles, and then collected in the palm space, decomposed, and reassembled into raw materials such as plant fibers, wood fibers, stones, and metals.

The more basic materials like these, the better, and they can be picked up at any time when needed.

When the stockade was demolished in half, two archers came out of the stone hall and reported to him:
"My lord, Knight An Erqiu found a strange thing underground, please go and have a look."

Li Qing nodded, and led Long Shou and ten subordinates into the stone hall.

Go down about 20 meters along a slope that goes deep into the ground, and come to the basement floor of the stone hall. Two soldiers lead them forward, pass a stone gate, and come to a rather large square. The blood-red stone pillar was crowded with the corpses of jackals and kobolds.

A lot of blood flowed out, flowing along the stone cracks in the floor to the central blood-colored stone pillar.

The shape of this stone pillar looks like several weird creatures hugging each other.

An Erqiu ran over and said in a low voice:
"I didn't encounter any enemies all the way down. When I got down to this floor, I found that all the jackals and kobolds were dead. It was strange that there were no wounds on their bodies, but all the blood flowed out and seeped into the ground, along the direction of the stone pillar. , even the flesh and blood are slowly absorbed by the floor."

Li Qing frowned and looked at the square and the blood-soaked stone pillar in the center of the square.

The powerful soul perception does not perceive any special existence, the only special thing is this stone pillar.

In his powerful soul perception, a faint fluctuation slowly spread around the stone pillar.

A large amount of blood flowed to the stone pillars along the grooves in the square, and it seemed that the stone pillars felt like they were about to come alive as they absorbed a large amount of blood.

"This thing, won't it come alive after absorbing enough flesh and blood?"

Li Qing squeezed the center of his eyebrows and said to Long Shou:
"Look at it with fire."

Without saying a word, Long Shou opened his mouth to gather strength, and sprayed out a mouthful of flaming dragon's breath.

When the flame dragon's breath burned the blood and corpses on the ground, many of the surrounding men suddenly covered their heads and screamed.

"Everyone retreats to the upper floor of the stone hall."

Li Qing stared at the stone pillar wrapped in flames. At the moment when the corpse and flesh were burned, he felt a strange wave coming from the stone pillar.

"There's a real problem."

Li Qing thought for a while, then took out a three-meter-long wooden pillar from the space in his palm and threw it on the ground:
"Knock down this pillar!"

Long Shou immediately stepped forward and picked up a wooden pillar with a diameter of nearly [-] centimeters. Together with the three Xie family brothers, they aimed at the stone pillar and slammed into it.

"boom!"

The stone pillar shook violently, but it did not fall.

Li Qing found that when the wooden stake hit the stone pillar, the sound was as soft as hitting flesh and blood.

"Come again!"

The wooden pillar retreated two meters and slammed into it again.

This time, there was a crackling sound from the bottom of the stone pillar, and it broke and fell down.

Almost instantly, everyone's eyes fell on the fracture, and found that the inside of the fracture of the stone pillar was surrounded by stone, and the edge was covered with entangled flesh and blood, as if the stone pillar was slowly being activated.

He didn't see the imaginary necromancer, and even now he hasn't felt the breath of death.

"Is there no necromancer, but"

"strangeness!"

Even if there is no necromancer, how did the jackal undead puppet come from before?

But then again, the stone pillar in front of him is indeed absorbing the flesh and blood of the corpse to activate it.

If there is enough flesh and blood from the corpse, the stone pillar will gradually turn into flesh and blood, and then... it may be resurrected as a powerful monster.

Obviously, the flesh and blood of these corpses is not enough to bring this stone pillar back to life.

Judging by the number of corpses and the degree of flesh and blood, even at the peak of the Wolfman tribe, the flesh and blood of the corpses probably wouldn't be enough to revive this thing completely.

Judging from the appearance of this thing, this stone-pillared monster is obviously not of the same race as the Wolf man.

In other words, this stone temple might not have been built by the wolf man.

It was just a group of jackals who discovered the stone temple and the stone pillar inside, and gathered into a tribe under the influence of this unknown force.

However, whether it is or not, it has nothing to do with Li Qing.

He directly opened the space in his palm, and sucked the broken half-flesh stone pillar into it.

The moment the half-flesh stone pillar was taken away, he suddenly felt an invisible wave explode from the center of the stone hall, quickly extending to the entire wolf man tribe, stop after expanding to the edge of the tribe, and then return like lightning.

After the invisible wave was withdrawn, the entire wolf man tribe seemed to be a little gray after being stripped of a layer of color.

And the invisible wave returned in less than three seconds, forming a ball of light above his flesh and blood stone pillar, exactly the same as the ball of light gathered after the leader of the wolf man died in battle.

Li Qing rubbed his hands excitedly, this thing should be the spoils of war for destroying this gnoll tribe.

The world law of the new era will gather loot after defeating a strong enemy.

Reaching out to hold the ball of light in his hand, the ball of light quickly transformed into a small box with an exquisite crystal shell, attracting the attention of many people.

Li Qing opened the box without hesitation, and found six cards inside.

An Erqiu rubbed his hands excitedly on the side, and said:

"Boss, what's in here? Can you see it?"

Li Qing shrugged:

"Of course you can watch it!"

Take out the six cards from the box and spread them out in front of them.

I don't know if it's because the leader of the gnolls has gathered treasures, but the rewards for destroying the gnoll tribes are a little worse than he imagined.

It's a good amount, with six cards, but the quality is a bit lackluster.

The first one is a one-star hero card, which can transform any professional into a hero.

The second card is a Gnoll card, which contains 100 Gnolls, half male and half male. After activation, 100 Gnolls can be summoned in God's Domain.

The third is a kobold card, which contains 500 kobolds, half male and half male.

The fourth card is a Gnoll promotion card that can be used 50 times. Starting from a level 5 Gnoll, it can be promoted to a level 14 Gnoll Warrior, a 24-level Gnoll Warrior, and a 34-level Gnoll Leader.

The fifth card is a kobold promotion card that can be used 100 times, which is the promotion route for the kobold leader.

The sixth card is a one-time item card—Death Sacrifice, which contains a one-time sacrificial circle. After summoning the sacrificial circle, you can sacrifice the life and soul of the sacrifice to a certain ghost The existence of the sacrifice, and then determine the reward according to the quality of the sacrificial offering.

Obviously, this death sacrifice is related to the magic circle under the stone hall in front of him, maybe the magic circle under this is the sacrificial circle.

Li Qing thought for a while, put away the death sacrifice card and hero card, then walked to Xie Zhu and said:

"I have clear rewards and punishments. You three brothers are very effective in this operation. I said before that I will give you a benefit. Now you can choose to choose two of these four cards."

"Of course, if you don't want this, I will prepare another benefit for you when I return to the Mentor's Castle."

Xie Zhu thought for a while and asked:

"May I know what the benefits are?"

"A large counterweight trebuchet, an arrow tower, 20 subsidies."

"Well"

Xie Zhu was silent for a while, and said:

"I want to choose two cards."

Li Qing nodded:

"Okay, which two do you want?"

"The Wolf Man Card and the Wolf Man Promotion Card."

"Row!"

Li Qing took out two cards and handed them to Xie Zhu without hesitation.

So far, the cost of employing the three Xie brothers has been settled.

Then Li Qing gave an order, and his subordinates began to demolish the stone hall. Such a large stone was a material.

Then he went back to the temporary camp not far away, took all the civilian husbands over, and put away all the temporary camps.

Li Qing didn't go back immediately, there were twelve or three days before the big class in the second month, and it only took two or three days to go back, and there were still ten days for him to plunder resources.

He rebuilt the temporary camp in the wolf man tribe, then sent troops to protect the people, and began to cut down the surrounding virgin forests.

The trees are very thick, with a diameter of one or two meters at every turn. They are all high-quality wood, and more can be cut down for spare use.

Anyway, there were only ten days left, and he was too lazy to find other indigenous tribes. It would be better if he had the time to prepare more.

Just in time to demolish and rebuild the base town in God's Domain Ranch.

For the rest of the time, Li Qing spent most of his time building in God's Domain.

A large amount of wood was pulled in, decomposed through the space in the palm, and then synthesized into solid planks, wooden squares, and wooden pillars, and then the hands built the house.

Small rooms can be formed in one piece in the palm space and then placed out. Large houses and workshops are too large to exceed ten meters in diameter. The inner diameter of 100 meters in the palm space can be accommodated, but the exit is only ten meters in diameter and cannot be moved out.

In order to make room for the interior of the God's Domain, Li Qing moved all the living areas of the people of the God's Domain to the base town in the God's Domain Ranch.

Anyway, the space in the God's Domain Ranch is larger than that of the God's Domain. There is enough land and water, so there is no problem for temporary residence.

In fact, many war lord apprentices did this in the early stage, moving the people in the God's Domain to the God's Domain Ranch or God's Domain Farm, and they didn't move out until the God's Domain expanded enough to live in.

After the people moved into the ranch, Li Qing only needed to surround the core tower of the God's Domain and the God's Domain Ranch with a high wall, and then build a city wall surrounding the entire God's Domain.

Then, extend the city walls at the four corners of the God's Domain to the edge of the God's Domain.

That is to say, the outer city wall of the entire Divine Realm looks like a 'mouth' shape protruding from the four corners, dividing the outer area into four areas.

The double defense will surround all directions, which is basically enough in the early stage.

Of course, this is just a plan, because the outer city wall he planned is 20 meters high and [-] meters wide, which requires a lot of stone materials. At this stage, the entire God's Domain has insufficient stone materials.

In addition, the size of the city wall is large, and foundation trenches need to be dug and built in many sections. The efficiency is slow, and it is impossible to complete it in one step. We can only build the inner city wall first, and the outer city wall slowly.

Coming out of God's Domain, he was accompanied by more than 200 male and female peasants, each carrying tools such as hoes, shovels, hammers, saws, and some pushing carts.

Their task is simple, to dig the soil.

Anyway, he can convert the soil into stones, so he doesn't have to dig the stones directly, because those things are too hard and difficult to dig.

Dig out the soil and pile it up into a hill, then suck it into the space with your golden fingers, and then turn it into a stone.

This thing can be said that the more the better, the accumulation of enough in the future, combined with the transformation of the source quality into the soil of the God's Domain, can expand the internal space of the God's Domain.

The essence of expanding the inner space of God's Domain is the process of plundering external substances to fill the interior, but in addition to matter, some source matter is needed to expand and stabilize the space of God's Domain.

Of course, the space expanded in this way is simply to expand the area of ​​God's Domain, and the nature of God's Domain will not become stronger.

In order to make the essence of God's Domain stronger and able to accommodate a stronger upper limit of power, other conditions are required.

Time passed unknowingly. On the morning of the eighth day, Li Qing ordered his subordinates who had already dug up the valley of the Wolf Man Tribe to assemble, dismantled the camp and prepared to return to the Mentor's Castle.

There are still four or five days left, and when he is going to go back, he will take a detour to see if he can meet some more ferocious beasts to raise Long Shou's level.

After the previous battles, the Batianlong Shou went out with some of his men from time to time, and killed many ferocious beasts. Now he has level 29 and more than half of his experience, and he is still a little short of level 30, a Tier [-] hero.

The team went north along the valley, left the valley after a certain distance and turned right.

The jungle was still as dark as ever, but after half a month outside, they were all used to this darkness.

In order to attract the ferocious beasts to attack them, Li Qing deliberately took back most of the troops, leaving only twenty subordinates.

Just less than a kilometer away from the valley, a ferocious beast stared at them.

(End of this chapter)