This time out of the city, we gained a lot, first of all, the twenty-five newly joined skeleton soldiers.
If we include those who died in the Battle of Treasure House Secret Realm and Dragonfly, there are as many as thirty-three new skeleton soldiers, and Li Ran now has a total of 84 skeleton soldiers.
The castle's military power expanded exponentially.
Secondly, the 800 gold coins obtained from the treasure chest are of great use in city construction and troop recruitment.
Currently, there are no residents or gold mines in Starwind City, so there is no tax revenue or gold increment.
In order to obtain a steady stream of financial resources, the city's economic scale must be expanded. Only a prosperous market allows gold coins to flow, and Li Ran, as a lord, can obtain more tax revenue.
But under the current situation, there are no residents in Starwind City, so discussing taxes is simply water without a source.
Li Ran set his goal to find gold mines.
Before Eureka woke up, Li Ran left the undead camp and came to the garrison, the only recruitment building in the city.
【Garrison Camp】
[God Building/Heart of Recruitment]
[Recruitable Creatures: Lance Guard]
[Currently available number of recruits: 14]
【Weekly output: 14】
Li Ran came to the altar of the gods and recruited all the stock of the garrison in one go. A dazzling light shot out from the heart of the recruitment.
The halo dissipated, and fourteen fully armed spear guards appeared in the training hall.
【Lance Guard】
[Level 1 Advanced Human Creature/God’s Chosen Warrior]
[Attribute rating: strength d agility d magic e physical strength d]
[Price: 30 gold coins]
The Lance Guard is a first-level advanced divinely chosen warrior.
Although the attribute rating is the same as that of the Skeleton Warrior, the half-body plate armor and full-face helmet give him a sense of security at first glance, and the combination of a spear and a large shield is very practical in any scene.
Li Ran left the garrison and walked onto the Central Avenue, followed by fourteen spear guards on both sides.
After returning to the undead camp, Eureka and Hart were already waiting for him.
"Hart, thank you for your hard work."
"Eureka, have you rested?"
Eureka smiled and said: "Sleep well, Lord. I haven't had such a good rest in many years."
Hart said: "After a night of searching, we recruited 18 more wandering skeleton soldiers."
"Brother Ness! Have you discovered anything else?"
Hart came to the map table and held a pen with his skull claws: "After my investigation, the current resource situation around the castle is as follows."
Hart marked a dark forest in the southwest red.
"This is the lumberyard closest to the castle. It is currently occupied by more than a hundred skeleton soldiers. They have their own leaders and cannot be recruited by the effect of the cursed armor."
"Near the lumberyard, there is a cemetery, which is a god building that can recruit skeleton soldiers. If we occupy it, we can recruit skeleton soldiers through sacrifices."
"An hour's walk north from the logging camp, there is an abandoned mine. There are only a few undead inside. It should be put into use after cleaning."
Li Ran stared at the map, feeling excited: "Well done, Hart, we will capture this logging camp today. Starwind City is in urgent need of wood and ore."
After selecting the generals, 60 skeleton soldiers, 25 skeleton shooters and 14 spear guards lined up neatly in front of the city gate.
Li Ran led the troops and first came to the abandoned mine.
After cleaning up the undead inside, it can be put into production soon.
Subsequently, the troops came to the ruins of the village outside the logging camp.
Outside the collapsed farmhouses and courtyard walls, wandering skeleton soldiers can be seen everywhere. Because they have leaders, these undead cannot be recruited by the diplomacy effect of the cursed armor.
After discussing with Eureka and Hart, Li Ran decided to abandon the frontal attack and instead conduct special operations.
Sneak deep into the lumberyard and kill the enemy leader directly!
In this way, hundreds of skeleton soldiers who have lost their leaders can be recruited as much as possible through diplomacy.
The troops quietly bypassed the ruins of the village and sneaked through the dark woods.
After a quarter of an hour of infiltration, Li Ran's troops surrounded the logging camp.
As Hart said, more than a hundred skeleton soldiers were wandering outside the logging camp, protecting it.
The situation inside the lumberyard was still unclear, but because Eureka, a level 6 knight, was holding the battle, Li Ran decided to take the risk and launch a surprise attack.
The troops sneaked up the hillside from one side and the attack began.
Under the command of Hart, the skeleton soldiers charged in a wedge formation.
Li Ran and Eureka led the spear guards to act as arrows, and the skeleton regiment fiercely cut into the outer defense line of the lumber camp defenders.
Soon, the enemy regiments wandering around opened a gap.
Li Ran was the first to climb over the wall and saw the leader inside the lumber camp.
It was a huge humanoid creature suspended in mid-air, wrapped in black rags.
When he turned his head, the hollow eyes under the hood were staring at Li Ran, waving a huge scythe and floating towards Li Ran.
【Corpse Demon】
[Level 6 advanced undead creature]
[Attribute rating: strength b agility d magic power a physical strength c]
Level 6 advancement? Stronger than Eureka!
Li Ran was so shocked that his hair stood on end.
Eureka and the spearmen came to Li Ran.
Hart closed the defense line outside to prevent the enemy troops from entering.
There's only one thing to do now.
"Kill that corpse demon!" Li Ran shouted loudly.
He drew his sword and prepared to fight.
Three spear guards were the first to engage the enemy.
I saw the corpse monster glowing with purple light, and with a wave of its huge scythe, the two spear guards were cut in half.
The solid half-body plate armor was as brittle as paper in the face of psychic attacks from level 6 creatures, and even the large shield was knocked away!
In Li Ran's shocked eyes, the corpse demon pointed with his left hand, and the third spear guard howled miserably, and his soul was directly stripped away!
"The finger of death?"
Li Ran started running because the corpse demon used its flying ability to get rid of the pursuing Eureka and flew straight towards him.
He seemed to have identified Li Ran as the commander of the attackers, and wanted to kill Li Ran first!
Li Ran ran away while forcing himself to calm down.
He began to think about the wight's weaknesses.
Flying creatures are difficult to surround.
Sixth level advancement, powerful attributes.
The god of death blocks the god of death...
"What kind of weakness does this thing have!?"
Li Ran quickened his pace and ran around in the yard.
Thanks to the fact that the zombie's agility is only d, even if it can fly, it's not much faster than Li Ran.
Eureka held up her sword to block the corpse demon, but the corpse demon did not respond. It floated aside in a swish and changed its route.
Eureka was very angry.
The battle reached a stalemate for a while.
The battle outside the lumberyard gradually fell into a disadvantageous position, Hart's defense line became increasingly unstable, and the number of skeleton soldiers killed increased.
This can't go on like this!
Li Ran's mind was racing, and he was running while observing the corpse demon's actions.
He discovered that the wight did not use the Finger of Death when fighting Eureka.
This is very unreasonable.
If he were a zombie, he would give priority to using the Finger of Death to instantly kill the most threatening opponent!
When the corpse demon used the finger of death on the spear guard again, Li Ran decided that his guess was correct!