By the time Lin Xiao had made all preparations to officially set off, he already had 21 chiefs and 4 lords, 5 enhanced elites, and 241 elites under his command. There were not many ordinary cannon fodder NPCs, only 352. The extra ordinary demon marks were all sold. He did not need too many ordinary NPCs, he planned to take the elite route.
The 21 bosses are a stealth, four boss priests, two ice mages, two fire mages, two thunder mages and two arcane mages, four boss shooters, and the number of boss warriors remains unchanged at four.
But there are three super warriors with lord templates, and one celestial mage with lord template, while all five enhanced elite templates are warriors.
The leader template has so many more than the lower-level enhanced elites, so only he who can cheat can do this. Other players are considered very powerful if they have a subordinate with a leader template.
A troop of just over 500 men left the expeditionary fortress, and under the watchful eyes of the players along the way, they slowly left the expeditionary fortress's sphere of influence, crossed the sentry post at the edge of the fortress, and continued to move forward.
Two days later, the team crossed the expeditionary force's range of influence and the surrounding environment suddenly became harsh.
When the gate to the alien world was first opened, the area was full of lava and evil energy, and the air was filled with hot poisonous gas. It was only after the mages from the main world purified the air and transformed the earth that the area was completely transformed and things became somewhat normal.
Now that we are far away from that area, the red and barren land we see before us is the reality of this alien world.
This world has been destroyed by demons. It is not clear whether it is completely destroyed or not. At least from his current point of view, this world has been destroyed. Ordinary people cannot survive in this environment.
When leaving the expeditionary fortress, Lin Xiao prepared a large amount of daily necessities. He was ready for a long journey of several years.
The roads were full of demons, most of which were roaming wild monsters, native creatures transformed into demonized creatures by the power of demons. Regular demon soldiers were rarely seen, and even harder to see organized demon barracks.
In fact, it was difficult for Lin Xiao to understand why the major races in the main world spent so much money to join forces to enter this obviously destroyed foreign world. What resources could this world have?
Why would they spend so much money without resources? Was it just because of the influence of the master in the dark?
This may be just one of the reasons, there are definitely other reasons.
But he couldn't get the answer, because it was difficult for players to intervene in the world of indigenous NPCs, and even if they occasionally intervened to communicate, they could not obtain these deep mysteries.
At least after the expedition fortress was established, many leaders of various ethnic groups and heroic lords entered the depths of this foreign land. There has been no news since then and no one knows what they are doing.
In the second month after leaving the expeditionary fortress, the team encountered a super evil energy Molten Fire Giant with a body of 100 meters and a level of 81 Lord Template when they were crossing a huge lava swamp mixed with green evil energy. It should be an extra-large Molten Fire Elemental or a Fire Giant that was corrupted by the devil's evil energy. It drilled out from a large lava lake in the middle of the swamp and attacked them.
This time, his first lord-level BOSS, the Astronomican Mage, demonstrated his powerful astral magic. He locked the super evil molten giant with an astral chain. A group of leaders and three lord warriors controlled and besieged it, and it took half an hour to kill the lord-level super BOSS with more than 13 million health points.
A purple demon mark and a T5 plate belt were dropped, named the Ring of the Molten Giant King. The giant's ring can be used as a belt for humans.
And a purple epic quality heart of the Molten Giant King, which can be decomposed into precious materials for enchantment, or made into an accessory or equipment. Of course, if given to an ordinary fire element or lava element, it can be upgraded to a Molten Elemental leader based on the leader template.
After passing through the lava swamp, the team came to an even more barren wasteland.
This should be a hilly area, but the small red hills were all cracked, with broken gaps and potholes everywhere. In the middle of the hill he saw a sword mark that was more than ten meters wide, forty to fifty meters deep and one kilometer long. He guessed that a long time ago, a shocking battle had taken place here between the natives of the outside world and the demon army.
Judging from the sword marks, it can be inferred that there were definitely demigod-level or above beings in this foreign land. Only demigod-level or above beings could create such terrifying traces of power.
The level of demigod is estimated to be above level 90. According to the increasing difficulty of the upgrade, it is estimated that he will not be able to reach level 90 in a hundred years.
There are many monsters wandering in the hills, most of them are scorpions, centipedes, wild boars, snakes, insects and other creatures with strong survival ability. After being demonized, their size is enlarged dozens or even hundreds of times. Their levels are similar to those in the expedition fortress, also above level 55, and occasionally there are elites mixed in.
The team didn't encounter any big boss in this area, but they passed through the broken hills safely and came to
a road that was about two kilometers wide, winding left and right with no end in sight. Looking down, thick fog was rolling, like a bottomless abyss that cut off the road in front.
Here the space became chaotic, and from time to time one could see rubble floating up and down out of thin air. In the abyss, there were many stones of different sizes rolling in the thick fog. This scene reminded Lin Xiao of the edge of a shattered plane he had seen before. The crystal wall of the plane was shattered, and the land of the plane was exposed in the void, corroded by the void energy and became desolate and barren. Large chunks of earth were peeled off and floated into the void and were shattered.
Lin Xiao looked up at the sky. There was no sun or moon in the dim sky. There were only bright auroras across the void. These auroras were the source of light in this world.
"Could it be that this plane has really been broken?"
Even if it's not broken, it's probably almost broken.
The road ahead is blocked, so you can only turn and walk the other way.
After walking along the right side for almost a month, the cliffs and abysses became fewer and fewer, until they came to an abrupt end less than ten meters wide and were blocked by a solid mountain peak. The team passed through here and entered an endless barren plain.
There was not even a tree to be seen on the extremely barren plain, let alone grass, except for countless demons.
To be honest, if I hadn't brought enough water and food with me, I would have turned back halfway due to lack of food and water.
Less than two days after entering the plain, he discovered a demon camp. Lin Xiao and his girlfriend, who were bored to death along the way, excitedly ordered their subordinates to prepare to attack the camp.
Two hours later, the troops rested for a while in a military camp filled with demon corpses before continuing on their journey.
On the eleventh day after entering the plains, he unexpectedly found a player named Xifeng Rixia, a level 68 elf stealth player, two or three months away from the expeditionary fortress. The normal upper limit of the elf level is only level 65. The fact that he was able to reach level 68 and dared to run so far without dying shows that he is an elite player.
It was rare to run into players, so they chatted along the way.
From what he said, he didn't run so far, but accidentally activated a one-way teleportation array and teleported to an unknown place.
That place was very far away, beyond the resurrection range of the Expedition Fortress. He died several times and was resurrected randomly, and was not resurrected to the Expedition Fortress bound to Hearthstone.
I had no choice but to wander around and it took me more than a year to finally find him here.
After asking him about his experience, Lin Xiao had an idea. He used the route back to the expeditionary base plus one thousand gold to buy a map from him. It was a map of the places where he was teleported and the places he had been to during his wanderings in the past year.
Xifeng Rixia readily agreed, and after the transaction was completed, he couldn't wait to go home.
Lin Xiao couldn't wait to check the map he got from the trade, and found that Xifeng Rixia had been to more places in the past year than he thought, and the map was also more detailed than he thought. Not only had he been to many places himself, but he had also heard from previous exchanges that he had seen living natives from this foreign land during his wanderings, and he had exchanged more information from these natives to expand the map. There were many places Xifeng Rixia himself had not been to.
According to the map, his current location, including the location of the expeditionary fortress, is in a super large map called Hellfire Plains, which is much larger than the map of the main world.
It sounds incredible, after all, he has been away from the expedition fortress for several months, but in fact he has not left this big map yet.
This huge map called Hellfire Plains is one of the seven remaining parts of the entire Outland world. It is also one of the most barren places and one of the largest battlefields for resisting demons.
The plain where he was now was called the Blood Wasteland, which was the edge of the largest battlefield where the indigenous people resisted the demons. Countless lives were killed here at that time. The bottomless abyss several kilometers wide that separated the Blood Wasteland from the other side was the main battlefield of the decisive battle. The strong indigenous people and the strong men in the demon army fought there. The strong indigenous people joined forces to kill a demon army commander, which triggered the wrath of the demon supreme commander, who shattered the entire world into pieces with one blow, forming the current continent composed of several giant fragments floating in the twisted void.
The Hellfire Plains are located to the east of the Broken World, and the alien gate opened in the main world is located at the easternmost part of the Hellfire Plains.
He is now on the west side of the plain. If he continues westward, he will enter the ruins of the former indigenous kingdom, where the undead are rampant. Their endless hatred for the devil cannot be forgotten even in death. The undead will attack the devil madly. As long as a devil is refreshed, it will be attacked by the undead there, so it is one of the few places without devils or demonized creatures.
I heard from Xifeng Rixia before that if you kill enough demons, after entering the ruins of Shattar, the relationship with the undead will be cold, but you will not be actively attacked.
According to past experience, if one could find a strong undead among the ruins, perhaps one could unlock a reputation system unique to the local undead.
(End of this chapter)