Of course, the biggest role of the dungeon is to gather popularity and attract a large number of players to the fortress for activities and supplies.
As the number of players increases, various benefits will naturally be generated, and small amounts can add up to a lot.
The newly opened dungeon was named Demon Barracks, a level 70 five-player dungeon. Considering the supplies on hand, the number of monsters in it was not as many as before, only about two hundred, and the rest were all background panels that could not be attacked.
There are only five types of monsters, the largest of which are the demon soldiers, with a health of about 24,000, equivalent to a warrior, and possessing three skills: charge, thunder strike, and slash.
There are a small number of demon warlocks with about 22,000 health points. They have three spells, namely summoning elite hellfires of the same level, soul chains to link players together so that if any player is damaged, other linked players will also receive 20% additional damage, and group shadow arrows, which deal about 2,000 damage.
There are about the same number of demon wizards as demon warlocks, with a health of about 22,000. They also have three skills: group fire rain, fel fireball with a single-target damage of about 3,000, and mind control that controls the player for fifteen seconds.
There are not many of them, and they are usually demon guards guarding the door, commonly known as door gods. They have a health pool of about 35,000, which is equivalent to an enhanced version of the demon soldiers. Both their attributes and skills are enhanced, and they have an additional skill of terrifying roar that frightens surrounding players for five seconds.
As well as a very small number of Demon Centurions, which are enhanced elite templates with a health pool of around 110,000, equivalent to an enhanced version of the Demon Guards, and have the ability to command the surrounding demons.
That is to say, once you attack the Demon Centurion in advance, the Demon Centurion will summon all the demons in the room to besiege the player.
Then Lin Xiao adjusted the distribution of these monsters. There are actually no requirements for this copy. Theoretically, you can put all the monsters at the door, and the players will be beaten to a pulp as soon as they come in.
But in reality it is impossible to do so. The main function of the player fortress copy is to attract popularity. It is necessary to maintain a certain degree of difficulty while attracting players. How to achieve this relatively reasonable is a big problem.
Like most five-player dungeons, this one has very few bosses, only four.
They are the enhanced versions of the Centurion boss at the door.
The second and third brothers together form a combination of a demon warlock and a demon wizard.
The final boss is the Demon Warlord.
Regarding the rewards from the dungeon, Lin Xiao asked Gu Cheng and Bigsas, and joined a mutual aid group chat obtained from them, and asked other legion players.
Because human forces have not yet arrived in this part of the void, the regional channel cannot be opened, and players can only open private channels and communicate with each other privately.
This private channel can only communicate with players in this area and cannot contact human players in the Hellfire Plains. It is a channel they use specifically to help each other.
Contrary to Lin Xiao's expectation, there were more than a hundred people in the channel, almost all of them were Legion Fortress players. Most of them had built their own fortresses, and many had their own copies. Although most of them were copies found locally and not created by themselves, this was a ready-made reference. After obtaining first-hand copy information from them, Lin Xiao readjusted his own copy, especially making the mechanism a little looser and weakening the skills of the demon warlock and demon wizard.
The original version seemed a bit too disgusting. The demon warlock cast a soul link and then a hellfire and then a group shadow arrow. The demon wizard mind-controlled a player. Before, it was prioritized to control the healer, and the healer healed and cast Rain of Fire. This combination was even more disgusting than the BOSS.
Now not only is the power reduced a lot, but the mind control no longer prioritizes controlling the healer. Instead, it randomly selects a healer, and the weight of controlling the healer in the first round is reduced to 0, giving players a sense of urgency but still being able to fight.
The monsters in the dungeon only drop some simple materials, with only a very small chance of dropping some green equipment. Only a few bosses will drop level 70 blue equipment. The first three bosses will drop one piece each, and the last boss will drop two pieces.
The difficulty has dropped dramatically, so the rewards are naturally low. Blue equipment is just right for low-level players.
In addition, Lin Xiao is also planning to open up heroic and epic difficulty levels for dungeons in the future.
The heroic difficulty is directly adjusted to the original disgusting version. The first three BOSSes will each drop a blue item of better quality. The final boss will definitely drop a purple item and a blue item, with a chance of dropping an additional blue item.
As for the epic difficulty, Lin Xiao has not figured out how to do it yet. At this stage, there is not even a single player, so there is no point in thinking too much.
But one thing is certain, no matter how difficult or disgusting the game is, the rewards must be attractive, the kind that make players feel extremely excited and unable to stop.
After building the fortress, Lin Xiao took his newly recruited men out for training every day. He trained the newly recruited men first, and transferred two blood essences through the Cube of Fortune every month.
Yes, now that his level has been raised, he can transfer two at a time.
Lin Xiao passed another small note to his real body, asking him to prepare the things for the promotion template for him as soon as possible.
As his men became stronger, the enemies they faced became more formidable, especially recently when he received news from time to time about Gu Cheng and his men joining forces to fight a group of Nightmare Sons, the sense of urgency in his heart became stronger and stronger.
In private groups, there are battles between humans and Nightmare Sons almost every day. Most of them are one-on-one duels, and occasionally there are large-scale wars between groups. In particular, there are several Nightmare Sons who have built fortresses in the floating land of Bunar and the adjacent floating land called Allen. Two human fortresses have been breached, and they broke through a fortress of the Nightmare Sons.
Bigsas's fortress is located on the Bunar Floating Land. There is a teleportation array leading to the hinterland of the human side. The location is extremely critical, and the most intense fighting is taking place there now.
After recuperating for a few months, seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly tense, Lin Xiao could no longer stay out of it. He told his girlfriend to guard the fortress and continue training the troops, and he took a small number of his men to leave the fortress to support Bunar Floating Land.
Anyway, his girlfriend now has the second authority in the fortress. Except for the inability to disband the fortress, she has all other permissions. Even if he is away for a long time, she can still fully control the fortress, including upgrading the fortress.
After several transfers at the nodes of the Star Consortium, Lin Xiao returned to the node town of Bunar Floating Land. When he came out of the teleportation array, he saw several Sons of Nightmare in the town. Four Sons of Nightmare troops, with a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 500, were stationed outside the town. He immediately asked the group, and a player named Bloodthirsty Keller immediately responded:
"You should retreat immediately, or stay in the town and don't come out. Don't respond to their provocations."
At this time, Gu Cheng also responded:
"There may be a big war between us and the Nightmare Sons recently. More Nightmare Sons will arrive in the next few days. You must not go out. Stay in the node town. They can't do anything to you there."
"By the way, you can just stay there and check on the situation of the Nightmare Children. If any new Nightmare Children arrive, tell us."
After reading the information, Lin Xiao looked at the several Nightmare Sons' armies outside the town, thought about it, and decided to listen to them.
Although, he didn't think that these four Nightmare Sons' troops were that strong.
But the situation is unclear now, so it's okay to hide for now. Anyway, the town is the territory of the neutral force Star Realm Consortium. As long as the Son of Nightmare does not want to offend the Star Realm Consortium and still wants to use the Star Realm Consortium's teleportation array, he must abide by the rules.
In less than half a day, two more Sons of Nightmare arrived with their troops, joined the Sons of Nightmare in the town and never left.
Several Sons of Nightmare initially provoked and mocked him as a human who still stayed in the town. When they found that he ignored them, they stopped, but they still sent people to keep an eye on him.
This stay lasted for four or five days. There were more and more nightmare children in the town, and the number had exceeded sixty.
These Sons of Nightmare have at least two hundred subordinates, and as many as five or six hundred. The largest one has as many as eight hundred subordinates. Although most of them are ordinary template cannon fodder, they are still manpower, and there are elites among them. On the way, Lin Xiao saw that the subordinates of a Son of Nightmare were all elite templates, and among them there were several powerful leaders who were about ten meters tall. He guessed that they should be the top elites among the Sons of Nightmare, just like the human genius or peerless list.
By the time all the Sons of Nightmare arrived, there would be more than 35,000 NPC soldiers stationed outside the town, and they would have enough strength to forcibly capture this node town of the Star Realm Consortium.
But again, they didn't dare.
Until now, Lin Xiao had no way to escape.
Well, except Hearthstone Go Home.
There is no such thing as random teleportation here. The space of this broken floating land group called Void Storm is disordered. There is only one end of random teleportation, which is to be caught in the void turbulence and torn into pieces.
Every morning when he woke up, he saw several Sons of Nightmare looking at him provocatively. He propped up his chin and looked at them, staring at each other, but neither could do anything to the other.
About a week later, the Sons of Nightmare, which had gathered nearly seventy people, no longer paid attention to him. The huge team left the node and headed in one direction.
Lin Xiao immediately passed the message to others. Soon, the teleportation array in the city lit up. More than 20 human players were teleported in from other places, including Gu Cheng. More than 20 people gathered and Gu Cheng said,
"If nothing unexpected happens, they should be attacking the fortress of Bigsas. They want to seize the ancient teleportation array in the Undead Crypt and cut off our retreat."
Bloodthirsty Keller said:
"There are already more than a dozen people on Bigsas' side. They should be able to hold them off for a while. We will wait for a few hours and then set out. We will then attack them from both inside and outside."
"What if they didn't attack Bigsas's fortress but waited for us on the road?"
Lin Xiao asked this question.
Gu Cheng nodded and said,
"It is possible, but we have air forces. We can expand the search range and find them in advance."
"So if they have props to hide themselves, normal reconnaissance can't find them, right?"
"Don't worry about that. There are tools to hide yourself, but there is definitely no tool that can hide so many subordinates. If there is a tool, it must be a divine weapon, which is impossible at this stage."
"Then go ahead!"
Lin Xiao is quite active. He hasn't accumulated any honor points for such a long time. This is a good opportunity.
(End of this chapter)