An hour later, Lin Xiao added this human player called Lonely Town as a friend and bade him farewell.
His understanding of the situation was similar to Bigzas', but more detailed. After all, Bigzas had already established a fortress, unlike Lonely Town, who had yet to establish a fortress and was currently searching for a suitable location. He had traveled to many places and knew many things.
According to Gu Cheng, this void was located between the Outer Realm territories occupied by the humans and the Nightmare Children. On one side was the Hellfire Plains occupied by the humans, and on the other side was the Bone Wasteland occupied by the Nightmare Children. The void storm was located in the center.
Shi Feng could foresee that as players' levels and equipment improved in the future, the void would slowly develop into an area where the two major powers would fight over.
In Lonely Town's words, establishing a stable fortress here in advance was a sure-fire way to make a fortune in the future.
Lin Xiao spent 10,000 Gold to purchase a map from Lonely Town. The map contained all the places he had explored over the past two years, including some that were suitable for establishing a fortress but had ultimately abandoned due to various reasons.
He planned to take a look at these places and see if there were any that were suitable for him.
Just because Lonely Town wasn't suitable for him didn't mean it wasn't suitable for him. After all, Lonely Town wasn't strong enough to occupy many places. On the other hand, he was strong enough. Hence, these places that Lonely Town thought were too dangerous were actually good for him.
The map he purchased from Lonely Town was extremely detailed. Not only did it list the monsters that spawned nearby, but it also listed their levels and characteristics.
After carefully searching through the map, Lin Xiao discovered two locations that looked pretty good.
One of them was located at the edge of a floating continent. There was a mountain range in the middle of the mountain range, and a canyon that led to the void was where the Void Corporation's stronghold was located. The other end of the canyon led to the interior of the floating continent, and there was only a narrow passage about 30 kilometers long. Lonely Town had marked the entrance to the floating continent. Occupying that place would be equivalent to occupying the entrance to the floating continent. In other words, their sphere of influence would cover the entire floating continent.
However, there was a huge flaw in this location. A flying monster called the Void Ray was active in the area. It was an Elite flying creature between Level 72 and Level 73. It could travel through the void and was the favorite mount of the Void Raiders. Every once in a while, Void Raiders and even members of the Astral Consortium would come to capture these Void Rays and use them as mounts.
The Void Raiders were one of the most powerful forces in the Void region, and they loved plundering. Building a stronghold here meant that the Void Raiders had to deal with sneak attacks from the Void Raiders from time to time, as well as battles between the Void Raiders and the Void Raiders.
Sandwiched between two great forces …
This was not a good feeling, and it was very easy for them to be affected by the great powers and be destroyed.
The second location, which seemed to be a good location, was located in the center of a super-large shattered continent in the depths of the Void. It was a huge ruin left behind from ancient times and a huge gathering place for Demons.
According to the information Lone Cheng obtained from the Astral Consortium, this place was once one of the Demons' main bases when they invaded this world. The former Void Demon Commander had once stayed there for a period of time. Even though the Demons' main forces had long since retreated, and the Demon Commander, who was comparable to a True God, had long since left, a large number of Demons still remained. Among them was a Peak Demon that had been banished to this destroyed world for committing a mistake.
Lone Cheng did not know the Peak Demon's exact level, nor had he ever seen it before. He only learned from the Astral Consortium that the Peak Demon was once the commander of a Void Demon Legion.
The commander of a regular Demon Legion, which respected the strong, was definitely very powerful. He was definitely not an ordinary Lord.
Lone Cheng had specifically marked this location not because there were many Demons nearby, but because there were actually two large team dungeons and five five-man Instance Dungeons in these ruins.
The five-man Instance Dungeons were all Level 70 + and had two modes: Normal and Heroic. The most difficult mode was Epic.
The five-man Instance Dungeons above Level 70 would naturally drop Epic equipment of T4 and above, while the Epic difficulty would drop Epic equipment of T5. This was an important source of equipment for players in the mid to late game.
Not to mention the two large Instance Dungeons. One was a Level 70 + 40-man Instance Dungeon that could drop Epic equipment of T6, while the other was a Level 75 + 100-man Instance Dungeon that could drop Epic equipment of T7 and had a certain probability of dropping Legendary equipment of T7.
Orange equipment!
Just think about how overpowered the only Orange accessory that could be exchanged for in the Shatar Ruins, 'Undead's Will', and how powerful the other Orange equipment were.
Not to mention other things, just these few Instance Dungeons alone were completely worth the risk.
But Lone Cheng did not dare to go. The root of the problem was that he was not strong enough.
Without the help of other players and without any support, how could he possibly defend this place?
It should be known that when players put down the Stronghold Core and officially established a Stronghold, the power of the game's rules would change the rules of the Stronghold. Monsters would no longer respawn within the Stronghold area. This would cause a series of changes that would alert the surrounding monsters and cause them to destroy the Stronghold.
There was a very famous saying for this behavior — a monster siege.
Any Stronghold Core that was put down would trigger a monster siege of a certain scale. The strength of the monsters that appeared would depend on the level and type of monsters that respawned in the surroundings.
Considering the strength of the monsters around this Stronghold, how could Lone Cheng withstand them with his strength alone?
Lin Xiao could not stop them either, but that did not stop him from going over to see for himself. After all, the value of these five Instance Dungeons and two large Instance Dungeons was simply too high. He would not be satisfied until he saw it with his own eyes.
Two months later, he and his girlfriend arrived at the nearest fragment of this super-large Void Continent called Purgatory. The Astral Consortium had a stronghold here, and they needed to use a large Void Airship to cross the void and enter the Purgatory Void Continent.
The reason why they did not use a teleportation formation was because there were too many demons remaining on the Purgatory Void Continent. The void was filled with dense evil energy and violent void energy. Not only did they need a large number of Mages to stabilize the teleportation formation, they also needed a powerful army to guard it.
It was not worth it for the Astral Consortium to build a teleportation formation. It was better to use a large Void Airship to transport passengers once every three months.
To be honest, it was not worth it even if they used an airship. The transportation fees accumulated over the past three months were barely enough to cover the cost. If not for the maintenance of the Astral Consortium's business, this route would have long since been abandoned.
Lin Xiao still had more than a month to go before his next shift. He took the time to accept some missions from the Astral Consortium and accumulated some Astral Coins to pay for the journey.
Half a month later, a hundred-meter-long Void Airship appeared at a hidden outpost at the edge of the shattered Void Continent. Ten minutes later, the Void Airship left behind a few hundred people and left in a hurry.
Lin Xiao climbed out of the pit with his subordinates and happened to see a group of Level 70 Demonized Centaurs led by a Level 73 Elite Centaur Leader fighting a group of demons less than a hundred meters away.
Seeing their sudden appearance, the Demonized Centaurs and demons stopped fighting at the same time and charged at them excitedly.
Ten minutes later, the remaining dozen or so Demonized Centaurs and demons fled. Lin Xiao simply collected the spoils of war and left.
Three days later, they appeared in a small mountain range and hid. Lin Xiao sat alone on a Redridge Wyvern he had bought from Bigzas and soared into the sky, heading in a certain direction.
There were simply too many monsters on the ground. This floating continent was practically the home of demons. Ever since they had landed, they would encounter scattered demons and Demonized creatures almost every few steps. They had killed their way here.
The average strength of the demons here was much higher than that of the Hellfire Plains. The normal Demon Warriors on the Hellfire Plains were Level 60, while the Elite Demon Warriors were Level 70 Elites. The Demon Captains and Demon Warriors were Level 72 or 73 Enhanced Elites. The Demon Centurions were Level 75 Enhanced Elites. The Demon Warlords were Commander-level monsters that were Level 75 or higher.
Here, the normal Demon Warriors were Level 65, while the Elite Demon Warriors were Level 75 Elites.
The Demon Captains and Demon Warriors were Level 75 Enhanced Elites.
The Demon Centurions were Level 75 or higher Enhanced Elites.
The Demon Warlords were Level 78 or 79. They were Commander-level monsters that were only one level away from Level 80. They were extremely powerful.
Flying along the route on the map given by Lonely Citadel, Nie Yan soon saw the destination that Lonely Citadel had mentioned. It was a huge ruin that far surpassed the Ruins of Shatar and Alkoron that he had seen before. On top of the ruins, a huge green demonic energy semicircle was inverted like a bowl in the middle of the ruins. Densely packed demons were coming in and out of the ruins.
Even from thousands of meters away, Nie Yan could feel the terrifying aura coming from within this huge green demonic energy barrier.
According to the information provided by the Astral Consortium, the dungeons were located inside.
He tried to urge the Redridge Wyvern to circle around the huge ruins. Then, he circled even further away at an extremely high altitude, carefully observing the situation of the demons gathering below.
After a while, he went to a location that Lonely Citadel said was very suitable for building a stronghold. It was a mountain range that was more than 20 kilometers away from the huge demonic energy barrier. The location was a basin in the mountain range that was currently occupied by a group of powerful demonic bears.
After circling around the Bear Monster encampment, I spotted a Level 80 Commander-rank Bear Monster. From afar, the Commander-rank Bear Monster fired a Lightning Ball that was even thicker than its body into the sky.
Then, Lin Xiao, who was Level 72 and only had a little more than 8,500 HP, died on the spot along with his mount. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a damage of up to 50,000.
After all, his Astral Talent could reduce magic damage by 50%. In other words, this super long range lightning ball that could cover a distance of over a thousand meters would normally deal up to 100,000 damage.
"This damage is ridiculous!"
Resurrected in front of his girlfriend, Lin Xiao couldn't help but complain.
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