Five months later, Lin Xiao officially placed the Fortress Core in this valley.
The fist-sized, crystal-like core was placed down, releasing a layer of crystal light that spread rapidly. Soon, it formed the shadow of a two-story house.
The shadow condensed into a translucent, crystal-like building. This was the Fortress Core. As long as this building was destroyed, the Fortress would fall.
The newly placed Fortress Core was only Level 0 and had only a few simple functions.
First, it could recruit a few NPCs with simple functions, such as selling sundries, repairing equipment, and the Fortress Army's quartermaster.
Second, it could change the rules of the surrounding area. Monsters would no longer spawn in the area.
Third, it could become a spawn point for players and be bound to Hearthstone. Now, this was the only Fortress on this broken continent. Human players who died on this broken continent would respawn randomly in the past, but now they would all respawn here.
A Level 0 Fortress could not exchange Demonic Imprints for NPC subordinates. This was a function of an official Level 1 Fortress, not to mention the teleportation circle that could only be built in Level 3 Fortresses.
Upgrading a Level 1 Fortress required 100,000 gold coins, and that was it.
The upgrade itself was simple. There was almost no threshold. The biggest problem was the monsters that wanted to destroy the Fortress.
Lin Xiao was already confident of this, and had been preparing for this for half a year.
He took out the tokens given to him by a few races that had been freed from the control of the Demonic Power and sent them to the three powerful native races that he had helped before. They were a Purgatory Centaur race, a Hell Ogre race, and a dozen or so Chimera races that were at least Enhanced Elites and had three Leader templates.
The races that could survive on the Purgatory broken continent surrounded by Demons were all powerful races, and they all had Leaders above Level 80.
Including the Bear Monster Leader, Lin Xiao could obtain the help of six Leaders above Level 80. In addition to their races and Lin Xiao's own strength …
Half a month after placing down the Fortress Core, Lin Xiao upgraded the Fortress to Level 1. He quickly exchanged all the Demonic Imprints he had accumulated after leaving the Expeditionary Army Fortress for NPC subordinates, including a purple Demonic Imprint for a Leader Elven Archer.
The moment the fortress leveled up, all the demons within a ten-kilometer radius around the fortress began to riot, as if they were attracted by something and rushed toward the fortress.
The demons within a radius of ten kilometers to twenty kilometers were also affected. Some of them were also rushing toward the fortress, while others were indifferent.
However, what Lin Xiao was most concerned about was the huge Demon City in the distance. This Demon City was about 20 kilometers away from the Fortress and was just at the edge of the secondary influence. At this moment, many Demons inside were already restless.
Sitting on his flying mount, Lin Xiao stared into the distance. After a long while, he saw groups of demons leaving Demon City and heading toward the fortress. Surprisingly, he heaved a sigh of relief.
Although many demons were affected, no large groups of Boss-level demons appeared. Relatively speaking, this was the best outcome.
Only after observing the first batch of Demons leaving the Demon Fortress approaching the Demon Fortress did he turn around and leave.
Just as he turned around, Lin Xiao suddenly saw a message flashing right under his nose. He checked to see that it was a message from Gu Cheng. He tapped it open to take a look.
"Brother, are you still on this floating continent? A large group of Nightmare Children recently arrived. They've already joined forces to destroy one of their companions' fortresses. We're thinking of joining forces to help each other. Are you interested? "
This isn't good news!
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment before replying, "I'm building a fortress right now.
It's facing the threat of a monster siege. Let's talk again when the fortress reaches Level 1. "
Gu Cheng quickly replied.
"You've chosen a location so quickly? Where is it? I'll come and take a look when I have time. "
"It's near the Demon Fortress that you abandoned."
“？？？”
Gu Cheng only replied with three question marks. It was obvious that he knew where it was, but he couldn't believe that he would choose it.
He chuckled and said, "You're right.
"You didn't hear wrong. It's right there."
Gu Cheng sat there in silence for a long time. Two players beside him were looking at him. One of them, a man wearing a mage robe, knocked on the table and asked,
"What's the matter?"
He looked up with a strange expression on his face, as though he didn't know what to say.
After a long time, he said, "I met a guy who doesn't care about his life. He's actually building a fortress near the Demon Fortress at the center of the floating continent."
The other two were also stunned. One of them asked,
"Is it the place that you gave up after considering for a long time?"
Gu Cheng nodded.
"It's there. He's already preparing to upgrade it to Level 1."
"Oh! Then he's dead for sure! "
The other man in chainmail shook his head and said, "I've also seen that place.
The most suitable place to build a fortress is about twenty kilometers away from the Demon Fortress. Once the fortress is built, it'll definitely attract the Demons in the fortress. Just a small portion of them will be enough to flatten the fortress. By the way, how's your friend's strength? "
Gu Cheng recalled and said, "He's very strong.
Although I didn't see all of them, I saw that he has several subordinates that are in the leader mold just from the few days I spent with him. "
"No wonder he has the guts to try it. If four or five leaders reach level 75 and above, with the help of the terrain and a bit of luck, it's not impossible to succeed."
"Tsk tsk. As the saying goes, wealth comes from danger. The value of that place is indeed worth the risk."
The Mage raised his glass and took a big gulp. He shook his head and said,
"We've all thought about that place, but without enough strength, it's impossible to defend it. If your friend can defend it, he'll make a profit in the future."
"Then, what about this joint operation?"
Gu Cheng looked at his two friends.
The Mage smiled.
"Let's wait for a moment. The monster siege won't last long. When it's over, if he can defend it successfully, we'll give him a share. If he can't, then there's no need to talk about it."
"That's fine."
Demon Suppression Fortress.
Lin Xiao named his newly built fortress the Demon Suppression Fortress. It meant to suppress the nearby Demon Fortress.
Standing on top of the fortress that had transformed into a 20-meter-tall tower after being upgraded to a Level 1 Fortress, Shi Feng could see the two sides of the valley engaged in a fierce battle. The two exits were crowded with monsters.
Lin Xiao divided his subordinates into three groups. One group would guard the rear, one group would guard the passage facing the Demon Purgatory Fortress, and a small group would be the reserves.
After the fortress's upgrade, this valley, including everything within it, had become a part of the fortress. For example, the walls and gates at the two exits had been recognized by the system as possessing Defense and HP. Once their HP was depleted, they would break.
Shi Feng could not help but admit that the valley's terrain was excellent. It was surrounded by mountains and only had two exits. He only needed to defend this place to the death.
Previously, Gu Cheng and the others had not dared to build a fortress here because there were simply too many Demons. The Demon Purgatory Fortress and its surroundings had most likely gathered over a million Demons. Even if they only attracted a small portion of these Demons, there would still be over 100,000 of them. In fact, if Lin Xiao had not cheated and obtained the Ring of Glory to rope in several nearby Demonized Races, they would've had to face the attacks of these powerful Races.
A total of close to 200,000 Demons and Demonized Creatures was not something ordinary players could stop. Even if they had the terrain advantage, they wouldn't be able to hold their ground.
Only Shi Feng, who had over 30 Chieftain ranked Bosses and five Lord ranked Bosses, dared to take this gamble. Aside from him, nobody else could build a fortress here at this stage of the game.
The Level 75 Lord ranked Astral Mage summoned endless silver Void Energy to form lightning bolts that rained down like a torrential downpour. Each wave of lightning bolts dealt as much as 8,000 to 9,000 damage. Coupled with the Blizzard and Fire Rain mixed in, most of the ordinary Demons could not last more than a second in the Void Storm.
No matter how many cannon fodders there were, they were useless if they couldn't even get close to the fortress walls.
Lin Xiao wasn't worried about the Demon Purgatory's early stages at all. Instead, he was worried about the regular Demon Army at the rear.
It was a regular demon army with level 75 elites as their basic warriors. It should be a part of the regular army left behind by the Void Demons in this world.
The Demon Army had one Legion Commander, who was generally a Level 85 Lord, and one or two Vice Commanders, who were Level 80 and above. Their templates were also Lord templates.
Below them were at least ten and at most twenty Warlords. A regular Demon Army's Warlord was generally a Level 80 Chieftain.
From this, it could be calculated that a regular Demon Army should have more than 100,000 soldiers, all of whom were Level 75 Elites.
Of course, it was definitely not a complete army behind the cannon fodders. It was a division and a half with about 15,000 soldiers. However, there were two Warlords and one Adjutant, who were his biggest threat.
Well, just a threat.
The biggest benefit of the 160,000 to 170,000 cannon fodder was that all his subordinates had leveled up. Among them, the Mages who were the leaders had benefited the most. The Astral Mage and an Ice Mage had leveled up by two levels, jumping to level 78. They were only one step away from level 80.
The fortress walls at the entrance of the valley had already collapsed. There were too many enemies. Even if only a small portion of them rushed up to attack, the fortress's durability would be depleted.
After the battle, corpses piled up at the entrance of the valley. Countless lights representing spoils of war connected together like an ocean.
With so many corpses, even if only one-tenth of them had spoils of war, it would still be a huge amount. Even if they were all trash, he could still make a few thousand gold just by selling the trash. However, the truth was that not all of them were trash. There were also some mini-bosses among the cannon fodders.
At this time, there was no time to pick up the spoils of war, because the regular Demon Army had already pressed on.
Lin Xiao moved his subordinates from the other side of the valley, ready to defend this place to the death.
Compared to the cannon fodders' unorganized charge, the regular Demon Army was many times stronger. Hundreds of elite Demon Warlocks summoned hellfire at the same time. Meteors burning with green flames fell from the sky into the valley entrance, officially starting the final battle.
Hundreds of Demon Warlocks surrounded a Warlord and united to form a thick green light to freeze a Chieftain Ice Mage. It was almost visible to the naked eye that evil energy was spewing out of the Chieftain Ice Mage. He was quickly corrupted by the demonic power.
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