An hour later, Lin Xiao said goodbye to the human player of the game named Lonely City after adding him as a friend.
The information I learned from him was similar to that from Bigsas, but more detailed. After all, Bigsas had already built a fortress, unlike Gucheng, which had not yet built a fortress and was looking for a suitable location everywhere. The more places he visited, the more he knew.
According to Gu Cheng, this piece of void is located in the middle of the Outland territories occupied by humans and the Sons of Nightmare. On one end is the Hellfire Plains occupied by humans, and on the other end is the Bone Wasteland occupied by the Sons of Nightmare. The Void Storm is located in the central area.
It can be predicted that in the future, as players' levels and equipment improve and their strength increases, this place will slowly develop into a battleground for two major forces and the battle will be fierce.
In Gu Cheng's words, establishing a stable fortress here in advance will definitely make a lot of money in the future.
Lin Xiao spent 10,000 gold to buy a map from Gu Cheng, which included all the places he had explored in the past two years, including some places that he had examined as suitable for building fortresses but ultimately abandoned for various reasons.
He planned to take a look at these places to see if there was one suitable for him.
Just because a place is not suitable for Gu Cheng doesn't mean it is not suitable for him. After all, there are many places that Gu Cheng cannot occupy due to his lack of strength, but his strength is strong enough, so those places that Gu Cheng thinks are too dangerous are good places for him.
The place purchased from Gucheng is extremely detailed, not only marking what monsters spawn nearby, but also their levels and characteristics.
Lin Xiao searched carefully and found two places that looked pretty good.
One of them is on the edge of a floating land, where there is a mountain range and a canyon in the mountain range. There is a Void Consortium stronghold at the entrance of the valley leading to the void. The other end leads to the interior of the broken floating land, with only a narrow valley passage of twenty to thirty kilometers. The location of the lonely city mark is at the exit. As long as they occupy that place, it is equivalent to occupying the exit to this void floating land. In other words, the sphere of influence covers the entire floating land, which can be said to be very critical.
But this place has a huge flaw, that is, there is a flying monster called Void Ray active in that area. It is a large flying creature with an elite template level between level 72 and 73. It can shuttle through the void and is the favorite mount of Void Raiders. Every once in a while, Void Raiders and even people from the Star Consortium will come to capture these Void Rays as mounts.
The Void Raiders are a powerful force that can be hostile to the Star Consortium. They are one of the most powerful forces in this void area and they love plundering the most. If you build a fortress here, you will have to face the occasional sneak attacks from the Void Raiders, as well as the battles between the Star Consortium and the Void Raiders.
Being sandwiched between two big forces
is not a pleasant feeling, and it is very easy to be affected by the big forces and destroyed.
The second location that looked good was located in the center of a super-large broken floating land deeper in the void. It was a huge ruin left over from ancient times and a huge gathering place for demons.
According to the information obtained by Gu Cheng from the Star Realm Consortium, it used to be one of the bases for the demons to invade this world. The former Void Demon Commander stayed there for a period of time. Even though the main force of the demons has long since withdrawn and the demon commander who is comparable to a true god has long left, there are still a large number of demons left there, including a top demon who was exiled to this destructive world because of a mistake.
Gu Cheng didn't know the specific level of that demon, and he had never seen one either. He only learned from the information he got from the Star Consortium that that top demon was once the commander of a void demon army.
The commander of the regular demon army that respects the strong must be extremely powerful and is definitely not an ordinary lord template.
The reason why the lonely city is specially marked here is not because there are many demons nearby, but because there are two large group copies and five five-person copies in this ruin.
The levels of all five players are 70+, there are two modes: normal and heroic, and the most difficult one has epic difficulty.
Five-player characters above level 70 can instinctively produce epic equipment of T4 or above, and epic difficulty can produce epic equipment of T5 level, which is an important source of equipment for players in the mid-to-late stages.
Not to mention the two large group dungeons, one is a 25-person group dungeon of level 70+, which can produce T6 epic equipment, and the other is a 40-person super group dungeon of level 70+, which can produce T7 top-level suits and has a certain probability of orange legendary equipment appearing.
Orange equipment!
Think about the effect of the only orange accessory "Will of the Dead" that can be exchanged for the undead in the Sha'tar Ruins, and you will know how powerful other orange equipment is.
Apart from anything else, these few copies alone are totally worth any risk.
But Gu Cheng did not dare to go, the reason being that he did not have enough strength.
Without the help of any players, how can I possibly hold on here alone without any support?
You should know that when the player places the fortress core and officially builds the fortress, the power from the game rules will change the rules within the fortress, and monsters will no longer refresh in the fortress area. This will trigger a series of changes, thereby alerting the surrounding monsters and destroying the fortress.
There is a famous saying about this behavior - monster attacking the city.
Placing any fortress core will trigger a certain scale of monster siege. The strength of the monsters that appear depends on the level and type of monsters refreshed around.
Think about the strength of the monsters around this fortress, how can the isolated city withstand them?
Lin Xiao couldn't stop it, but that didn't stop him from going over to observe in person. After all, the value of these five five-person small volumes plus two large group volumes was too high. He was still unwilling to give up before he saw it with his own eyes.
Two months later, he and his girlfriend arrived at the nearest small fragment of the super-large floating land fragment called Purgatory. The Star Consortium had a base here, and they needed to take a large void ship from here to cross the void and enter the Purgatory floating land.
The reason why a teleportation array is not used is because there are too many demons remaining on the Purgatory Floating Land, and the void is filled with dense evil energy and violent void energy. Establishing a stable teleportation and receiving array there requires not only a large number of mages to stabilize, but also a strong army to garrison.
It is not cost-effective for the Star Consortium to build a teleportation array. It would be better to use large void airships for transportation, with a trip every three months.
To be honest, even using an airship is not cost-effective. The freight fees from the passengers accumulated in three months are barely enough to cover the cost of one trip. If it weren't for maintaining the business of the Star Realm Consortium, this route would have been abandoned long ago.
When Lin Xiao arrived, there was still more than a month before the next shift. He spent time taking on some missions from the Star Realm Consortium and accumulating some Star Realm Consortium coins to make up for the travel expenses.
A month and a half later, a void craft hundreds of meters long appeared at a secret outpost hidden in the depression at the edge of the broken floating land. Ten minutes later, the void craft left behind hundreds of people and hurried away.
Lin Xiao and his men climbed out of the pit and happened to see a group of level 70 demonized centaurs, led by a level 73 enhanced elite centaur leader, fighting with a group of demons less than a hundred meters outside the pit.
Seeing them suddenly appear, the demonized centaurs and demons stopped their attacks at the same time and rushed towards them excitedly.
Ten minutes later, the remaining dozen or so demonized centaurs and demons fled, and Lin Xiao simply packed up the spoils and left.
Three days later, they appeared and hid in a small mountain range. Lin Xiao was alone, sitting on a red-backed two-legged flying dragon bought from Bigsas, and flew into one direction.
There are too many monsters on the ground. This floating broken land is simply the home of demons. Since landing, I have encountered scattered demons or demonized creatures almost every few steps. I have been killing people all the way.
The average strength of the demons here is one level higher than that of the Hellfire Plains. The ordinary demon warriors in the Hellfire Plains are level 60, the elite demon warriors are level 70 elites, the demon captains or demon warriors are enhanced elites at level 72 or 73, the demon centurions are enhanced elites at level 75, and the demon warlords are leader templates with a level above level 75.
Here, ordinary demon warriors are level 65, and elite demon warriors are level 75 elites.
The Demon Captain or Demon Warrior is a level 75 enhanced elite.
Demon Centurion is a strengthened elite above level 75.
The Demon Warlord is a leader-level creature that is at level seventy-eight or seventy-nine, only one level away from level eighty. He is extremely powerful.
Flying forward along the route on the map given by Gu Cheng, they soon saw the destination that Gu Cheng mentioned, a huge ruin that far exceeded the Shatar ruins and Alcolon ruins they had seen before. On the ruins, a huge green semicircular ball of evil energy was upside down in the center of the ruins like a bowl, and densely packed demons were entering and exiting the ruins.
Even though they were thousands of meters away, one could still feel the terrifying aura emanating from this huge green evil energy shield.
According to information from the Star Consortium, those copies are inside.
He tried to urge the Redback Wyvern to circle around the huge ruins, and then circled again at a very high altitude at a farther distance, carefully observing the group of demons gathered below.
After a while, they went to a place that Gu Cheng said was very suitable for building a fortress. It was a mountain range about 20 kilometers away from the giant evil energy shield that was probably dozens of kilometers in diameter. The location was in a basin in the mountain, which had been occupied by a group of powerful demonized bear monsters as their lair.
After circling over the gathering place of bear monsters, he saw a leader-level bear monster that was exactly level 80. From a distance, a lightning ball that was thicker than the others shot into the sky thousands of meters high with a long lightning bolt.
Then Lin Xiao, whose level had been reduced to level 72 and whose health was only over 8,500, died suddenly on the spot along with his mount. From the corner of his eye he saw a damage surge of up to 50,000.
You have to know that his Star Spirit talent can reduce spell damage by 50%, which means that the normal damage of this ultra-long lightning ball that spans a distance of thousands of meters is as high as 100,000.
"This damage is outrageous!"
After being resurrected in front of his girlfriend, Lin Xiao complained a lot.
(End of this chapter)