Five months later, Lin Xiao officially placed the core of the fortress into this valley.
A fist-sized crystal-like core was lowered, emitting a layer of crystal light that quickly spread out, soon forming a shadow of a two-story house.
The light and shadow condensed into a small building made of translucent crystal-like material. This was the core of the fortress. As long as this house was destroyed, the fortress would be breached.
The fortress core that had just been put down was only level zero and had only a few simple functions.
First, you can recruit a few NPCs with simple functions, such as those who sell sundries, repair equipment, and the fortress quartermaster.
The second one is to change the surrounding range rules so that monsters can no longer be refreshed within the range.
The third one is that it becomes the player's resurrection point and the location bound to Hearthstone. Now this broken floating land only has his fortress. Human players who died on this broken floating land used to be resurrected randomly, but now all of them are resurrected here.
A level-zero fortress cannot yet exchange demon marks for NPC subordinates, which is a function of a first-level official fortress, not to mention the teleportation array that can only be built by a third-level fortress.
It takes 100,000 gold coins to upgrade a level 1 fortress, and that's it.
It is very simple in itself, and there is almost no threshold for upgrading. The biggest problem is just the monsters that are affected and want to destroy the fortress.
Lin Xiao is already confident about this and has been preparing for it for the past six months.
He took out the tokens given to him by several races that had been blessed and freed from the control of demonic power, and sent messages to the three powerful indigenous races that he had helped before, namely a tribe of infernal centaurs, a group of hellish ogres, and a group of more than a dozen Chimera races that were at least enhanced elites and had three leader templates.
Those who have been able to survive in the Shattered Floating Land of Purgatory surrounded by demons are all powerful races, and each of them has a leader who is over level 80.
Including the bear monster leader, Lin Xiao can get additional help from a total of six leaders above level 80. With the strength of their tribesmen and Lin Xiao himself,
half a month after putting down the fortress core, Lin Xiao upgraded the fortress to level one and quickly exchanged all the demon marks accumulated since leaving the expedition fortress for NPC subordinates, including a purple demon mark for a leader elf archer.
The moment the fortress was upgraded, all demons within a ten-kilometer radius of the fortress began to riot, rushing towards the fortress as if attracted by something.
The demons within a radius of ten kilometers to twenty kilometers were also affected. Some of them also rushed towards the fortress, while others remained indifferent.
But what Lin Xiao was most concerned about was the huge Demon City in the distance. This Demon City was just about 20 kilometers away from the fortress and was right on the edge of the secondary impact. At this time, many demons inside were already getting restless.
Sitting on the flying mount and staring into the distance, after a while he saw groups of demons leaving the Demon City and heading towards the fortress, Lin Xiao actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Although many demons were affected, we did not see a large number of BOSS-level demons appear, which is relatively the best.
He watched until the first group of demons leaving the Demon Fortress was approaching the fortress before he turned around and left.
Just as he turned around, Lin Xiao suddenly saw a message flashing under his eyes. He checked and found that it was sent by Gu Cheng. He clicked it and saw:
"Brother, are you still in this floating land? Recently, a large group of Nightmare Sons came. They have united to destroy a companion's fortress. We want to unite and help each other. Are you interested?"
This is not good news!
Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment and replied,
"I am currently building a fortress and am facing the threat of monsters attacking the city. How about we talk about it after the fortress is upgraded to level one?"
Soon the other side responded:
"You picked a location so quickly? Where is it? I'll come take a look when I have time."
"Near the demon fortress you once abandoned."
"???"
Gu Cheng only replied with three question marks. It was obvious that he knew where it was, but he just couldn't believe that he would choose here.
He chuckled and said,
"You heard it right, it's right there."
Gu Cheng sat there in silence for a long time. Two players beside him looked at him. One of them, a man in a mage robe, knocked on the table and asked:
"What's the matter?"
He looked up with a very strange expression on his face, as if he didn't know what to say. After a long while, he said:
"I met a desperate guy who actually built a fortress near the central demon fortress in the Shattered Floating Land of Purgatory."
The other two were also stunned for a moment, and one of them asked,
"Is this the place you gave up after weighing the pros and cons for a long time?"
Gu Cheng nodded:
"That's it. He is now ready to advance to the first-level fortress."
"Oh! Then he's dead!"
Another man in mail armor shook his head and said:
"I've also seen that place. The most suitable place to build a fortress is about 20 kilometers away from the Demon Fortress. Once the fortress is built, it will definitely attract the demons in the fortress. As long as a small part of them is attracted, the fortress can be easily flattened. By the way, how strong is your friend?"
Gu Cheng recalled and said,
"He is very strong. Although I didn't see all of them, I saw that he had several subordinates who were like the leader templates during those few days of contact."
"No wonder they have the guts to try. If there are four or five bosses who have reached level 75 or above, with the help of a favorable location and a bit of luck, it is possible to succeed."
"Tsk tsk, as the saying goes, fortune and wealth are to be found in danger. The value of that place is indeed worth the risk."
The wizard raised his cup and took a big sip, then shook his head and said,
"We have all thought about that place, but we don't have enough strength to defend it. If your friend can defend it, it will be a great success in the future."
"What about this joint operation?"
Gu Cheng looked at his two friends.
The mage smiled and said:
"Wait a moment. The monsters' siege won't last long. Wait until it's over. If he can successfully defend the city, it'll be his share. If he can't, then there's nothing else to say."
"That's fine."
Demon-suppressing fortress.
Lin Xiao named his newly built fortress the Demon-Suppressing Fortress, which means to suppress the nearby demon fortress.
Standing on the top of the fortress, which had been transformed into a tower more than 20 meters high after being promoted to a first-level fortress, I saw that fierce battles were going on at both ends of the valley, and the two exit passages were crowded with monsters.
Lin Xiao divided his subordinates into three parts: one part guarded the rear, one part guarded the passage facing the Demon Purgatory Fortress, and a small part was in reserve.
After the fortress is upgraded, this valley including everything in the valley becomes part of the fortress. For example, the walls and gates at both exits of the valley are recognized by the system as having defense and health points, and will be broken once the health points are exhausted.
I have to say that the terrain of this valley is really great. It is surrounded by mountains and has only two passages. We just need to defend it.
Before, Gu Cheng and others did not dare to choose this place to build a fortress because there were too many demons. There were probably millions of demons gathered in the demon fortress called Purgatory and its surroundings. Even if only a small part of them were attracted, there would still be more than 100,000 demons, plus other demons around. In fact, if Lin Xiao had not cheated to get the Ring of Light and attracted several demonized tribes around, they would normally have to face the attacks of these powerful tribes.
A total of nearly 200,000 demons and demonized creatures are really not something that ordinary players can stop, even with the advantage of terrain.
Only he dared to take a gamble because he had more than thirty leaders and five lord-template BOSSes. Except for him, no one else could build a fortress here at this stage.
The level 75 Lord-class Star Mage summoned endless silver void energy to form lightning that poured down like a rainstorm. One wave of damage was as high as eight or nine thousand, and it poured down continuously. The dense damage almost filled the screen, and coupled with the blizzard and rain of fire mixed in it, most ordinary demons could not last more than a second in the void rainstorm.
No matter how many cannon fodders there are, they are useless if they can't even get close to the city walls.
In the early stage, Lin Xiao was not worried at all. What he was worried about was the part of the regular demon army behind him.
It was a regular demon army whose basic warriors were all level 75 elite templates. It should be part of the only regular army of the Void Demons left in this world.
The regular demon army has a legion commander, who is usually a lord above level 85, and one or two lieutenants, whose levels are above level 80. Their templates are usually also lord templates.
Below that are at least ten and at most twenty warlords. The warlords of a regular demon army are generally leader templates above level eighty.
From this, we can calculate that a regular demon army should have more than 100,000 soldiers, all of whom are elites above level 75.
Of course, what was behind the cannon fodder at this time was definitely not a complete legion, but a division and a half, with about 15,000 people, but there were two governors and a legion adjutant in it, which was his biggest threat.
Well, just a threat.
The biggest role of these 160,000 to 170,000 cannon fodder is to allow all subordinates to upgrade by one level. Among them, many chief mages gained the most benefits. A star mage and an ice mage upgraded by two levels in total, and their levels jumped to level 78, which is only one step away from level 80.
The wall at the entrance of the valley has collapsed. There are too many enemies. Even if only a small number of them rush up to attack each other, their durability will be exhausted.
After the war, corpses piled up like a mountain in Taniguchi, and countless lights representing spoils of war connected into a sea.
Even if only one tenth of these corpses contain loot, that would still be a huge amount. Even if they were all garbage, you could still make thousands of gold just by selling the garbage. The truth is definitely not that they are all garbage, as there are also some small BOSSes among these cannon fodders.
There was no time to pick up the spoils at this moment, because the regular demon division was already approaching.
Lin Xiao transferred his subordinates from the other side of the valley entrance over here, ready to defend this place to the death.
Compared to the disorganized charge of these cannon fodder wild demons, regular demons are countless times more powerful. Hundreds of elite demon warlocks summoned hellfire at the same time, and meteorites burning with green flames fell from the sky into the valley mouth, officially starting the final decisive battle.
Hundreds of demon wizards surrounded a general and jointly condensed an extremely thick green light to freeze a leading ice mage. The evil energy gushing out of the ice mage's body could be seen at a speed almost visible to the naked eye. He was quickly corrupted and degraded by the demonic power.
(End of this chapter)