Of course, the biggest use of the dungeon was to attract players to the fortress and replenish their supplies.
Once the number of players increased, it would naturally generate all sorts of benefits. Accumulating a little would make a lot.
The new dungeon was called Demon Barracks. It was a level 70 five-man dungeon. Considering the resources, there were not as many monsters as before. There were only about 200 of them, and the rest were just background characters that could not be attacked.
There were only five types of monsters. The most numerous were the Demon Soldiers. They had about 24,000 health points and were equivalent to Warriors. They had three skills: Charge, Thunder Strike, and Chop.
There were not many Demon Warlocks. They had about 22,000 health points and three spells: Summon Elite Hellfire of the same level, Soul Chain to link the players. If any player was damaged, the other linked players would also receive an additional 20% damage. There was also AOE Shadow Arrow that dealt about 2,000 damage.
There were about the same number of Demon Sorcerers. They had about 22,000 health points and three skills: AOE Fire Rain, Evil Fireball that dealt about 3,000 damage, and Mind Control that could control the players for 15 seconds.
There were not many of them. Usually, the Demon Guards that guarded the entrance had about 35,000 health points and were equivalent to the strengthened version of the Demon Soldiers. Their attributes and skills were all strengthened, and they had an additional skill that could frighten the players around them for five seconds.
There were also a few Demon Centurions. They were Enhanced Elites and had about 110,000 health points. They were equivalent to the strengthened version of the Demon Guards and had the ability to command the surrounding demons.
In other words, if the players attacked the Demon Centurions, they would summon all the demons in the room to attack the players.
Lin Xiao then adjusted the positions of the monsters. There were no requirements for this dungeon. In theory, one could place all the monsters at the entrance and beat the players up the moment they entered.
However, it was impossible to do that. The main purpose of the dungeon was to attract players while maintaining a certain level of difficulty. How to do it reasonably was a big problem.
Like most five-man dungeons, there were very few bosses in this dungeon. There were only four bosses.
They were the first boss at the entrance and the strengthened version of the Centurion.
The second and third bosses were a combination of Demon Sorcerer and Demon Sorcerer.
The Tail King was the Demon Warlord.
In terms of the dungeon's rewards, Lin Xiao asked Lonely Castle and Bigzas. He also asked the other Army Style players in a group chat that he had obtained from them.
As the human forces had yet to arrive in this void, the regional channel could not be activated. Players could only use private channels to communicate with each other.
This private channel could only be used to communicate with players in this region. It could not be used to contact the human players in the Hellfire Plains. It was a channel that they used to help each other.
Out of Lin Xiao's expectations, there were actually more than a hundred players in the channel. Almost all of them were Army Fortress players. Most of them had already built their own fortresses, and many of them had their own dungeons. Although most of the dungeons were discovered locally and not created by them, this was a ready-made reference. After obtaining first-hand information about the dungeons from them, Lin Xiao made some adjustments to his own dungeons. In particular, he loosened up the mechanics and weakened the skills of the Demon Warlocks and Demon Sorcerers.
The original version seemed to be a little too disgusting. The Demon Warlock would cast Soul Link, then cast Hellfire, followed by AoE Shadow Arrows, and the Demon Sorcerer would use Mind Control on a player. Previously, the priority was to control the healer, and the healer would cast Rain of Fire. This combination was even more disgusting than the Boss.
Now, not only was the power reduced, but the priority of Mind Control was also not to control the healer. Instead, it was randomly chosen. Moreover, the weight of controlling the healer in the first round was reduced to 0, giving the players a sense of urgency but still able to fight.
The small monsters in the dungeon only dropped some simple materials, and there was a very small chance of dropping some green equipment. Only a few Bosses would drop level 70 blue equipment. The first three Bosses dropped one each, and the last Tail King dropped two.
With the difficulty greatly reduced, the rewards were naturally lower. Blue equipment was just right for the low-level players.
Other than that, Lin Xiao was also preparing to open up Heroic and Epic difficulty dungeons in the future.
The Heroic difficulty was directly adjusted to his original disgusting version. The first three Bosses would each drop a blue equipment of better quality. Tail King would definitely drop a purple equipment and a blue equipment, and there was a chance of an additional blue equipment.
As for the Epic difficulty, Lin Xiao had not thought about how to do it yet. At this stage, there was not even a single player, so there was no point in thinking too much.
However, one thing was for sure. He could do it as hard or as disgusting as possible, but the rewards had to be attractive, the kind that would make the players want to die.
After building the Stronghold, Lin Xiao brought the newly recruited subordinates out to level up every day. Every month, he would transfer a portion of Bloodline Essence to them through the Tesseract of Fortune.
Lin Xiao also sent a small note to his real body, telling him to prepare the items to upgrade his template as soon as possible.
As his subordinates became stronger and stronger, the enemies they faced became more and more powerful. Especially recently, he would occasionally receive news of Lonely Castle and the others joining forces to fight against a group of Nightmare Children. The sense of urgency in his heart grew stronger and stronger.
In the private group, there were battles between humans and Nightmare Children almost every day. Most of them were one-on-one, but occasionally there would be large-scale battles between groups. This was especially true in the Bunar Void Continent and the neighboring Void Continent called Allen, where several Nightmare Children had built Strongholds. Two human Strongholds had already been breached, and they had already breached one of the Nightmare Children's Strongholds.
Bigsass' Stronghold was on the Bunar Void Continent. There was a teleportation formation there that led to the hinterland of the human side. The location was extremely crucial, and the most intense battles were taking place there.
After recuperating for a few months, Lin Xiao saw that the situation was becoming more and more tense. He could no longer stay out of it. He instructed his girlfriend to guard the Stronghold and continue training the troops, while he left the Stronghold with a small group of subordinates to reinforce the Bunar Void Continent.
In any case, his girlfriend now had the second authority over the Stronghold. Apart from being unable to disband the Stronghold, she had all the other authorities. Even if he wasn't around for a long time, she could still control the Stronghold completely, including upgrading it.
After passing through the Astral Financial Group's node several times, Lin Xiao returned to the node town on the Bunar Void Continent. When he came out of the teleportation formation, he saw several Nightmare Children in the town. There were at least three hundred to five hundred Nightmare Children stationed outside the town. He immediately asked in the group. A player called Bloodthirsty Keller immediately replied:
[Retreat immediately, or stay in the town and don't come out. Ignore their provocations.]
At this time, Lonely Castle also replied:
[There might be a big battle between us and the Nightmare Children soon. More Nightmare Children will arrive in the next few days. Don't go out. Stay in the node town. They won't be able to do anything to you there.]
[By the way, you can stay there and observe the situation of the Nightmare Children. Let us know if any new Nightmare Children arrive.]
After reading the message, Lin Xiao looked at the Nightmare Children's troops outside the town. After some consideration, he decided to listen to them.
Although he didn't think that these four Nightmare Children's troops could be that strong, the current situation was still uncertain.
In any case, the town was the territory of the neutral Astral Financial Group. As long as the Nightmare Children didn't want to offend the Astral Financial Group and still wanted to use the Astral Financial Group's teleportation formation, they had to abide by the rules.
In less than half a day, two more Nightmare Children arrived with their troops. They rendezvoused with the Nightmare Children in the town and didn't leave.
The few Nightmare Children initially provoked and ridiculed him, a human who stayed in the town, but when they realized that he didn't care, they stopped. However, they still sent people to keep an eye on him.
He stayed in the town for four to five days. The number of Nightmare Children in the town increased, and there were already more than 60 of them.
These Nightmare Children had at least 200 subordinates, while some had 500 to 600. The most powerful one had as many as 800 subordinates. Although most of them were ordinary cannon fodder, they were still subordinates. Moreover, there were also elites among them. Along the way, Lin Xiao saw that the subordinates of a Nightmare Child were all elites. Among them, there were several powerful leaders who were about 10 meters tall. He guessed that they should be the top elites among the Nightmare Children, similar to the human prodigies or those on the Exceptional List.
By the time all the Nightmare Children arrived, there were more than 35,000 NPC soldiers stationed outside the town. They already had enough strength to take down the Astral Financial Group's node town.
However, they still didn't dare to do so.
At this point, Lin Xiao couldn't run away even if he wanted to.
Well, except for Hearthstone's return home.
There was no such thing as random teleportation in this place. The space around the shattered floating continent group called the Void Storm was chaotic. There was only one outcome for random teleportation — being sucked into the void turbulence and torn to pieces.
Every morning, when he woke up, he would see several Nightmare Children looking at him provocatively. He would prop up his chin and stare back at them. Neither of them could do anything to the other.
About a week later, the 70-plus Nightmare Children no longer paid any attention to him. The huge group left the node and headed in a certain direction.
Lin Xiao immediately relayed the news to the others. Soon, the teleportation circle in the city lit up, and more than twenty human players were teleported over from other places, including Lonely Castle. After the twenty or so people gathered, Lonely Castle said,
"If I'm not mistaken, they should be attacking Bigzas' fortress. They want to seize the ancient teleportation circle in the Undead Crypt and cut off our escape route."
Bloodthirsty Keller said.
"Bigzas already has a dozen people. They should be able to hold them off for a while. We'll set off in a few hours. When the time comes, we'll attack them from both inside and outside."
"What if they don't attack Bigzas' fortress but wait for us on the road?"
Lin Xiao asked.
Lonely Castle nodded.
"That's a possibility. However, we have aerial units. When the time comes, we can expand our search range and discover them in advance."
"Then what if they have a tool to hide themselves? Normal detection won't be able to discover them, right?"
"Don't worry about that. They have a way to hide themselves, but they definitely don't have a tool that can hide so many of their subordinates. If they really do, it would be a divine artifact. It's impossible for them to have one at this stage."
"Then let's go!"
Lin Xiao was quite enthusiastic. After all this time, he hadn't accumulated many Honor Points. This was a good opportunity.
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