While actively engaging in internal development, Gavin did not relax his intelligence collection.
It mainly comes from two aspects. On the one hand, it is the newly surrendered undead lord, and on the other hand, Gavin himself takes action and conducts on-the-spot aerial reconnaissance based on the intelligence in his hand.
When the internal affairs of the territory were sorted out, he also had a general understanding of the Bone Plains. At least he had mastered the basic division of forces here, and he was no longer blind.
Since the death of the previous King of Bones, the Plains of Bones has not been able to give birth to new demon lords. Currently, most of the area is divided between four high-level undead lords. They are the King of Bones and the Giant. The Bone King, the Flame Queen, and the Bone Dragon King.
It can be seen from their titles that they are the specialty arms of their territory.
The King of Corpses is a lich, and the specialties of his corpse territory are zombies, corpse witches, corpse demons, boda corpses, mummies, etc., which are undead that still have some flesh and blood.
The King of Giant Bones is an undead giant. The place where he is located is the giant's large tomb. The specialty here is various giant skeletons.
The Queen of Burning Flame is a powerful burning body flame spirit, and her territory is highly productive of all kinds of spiritual undead.
Needless to say, the King of Skeleton Dragons is an undead soul transformed from the bones of an ancient dragon. Its territory is a large dragon tomb, where there are a large number of undead dragons.
Ever since the Demon Lord Skeleton King of the Bone Plains was devoured alive by the Gnoll King Yeenoghu, they have been very interested in unifying the Bone Plains and becoming a new Demon Lord.
However, they have not launched a unification war for a long time, not only because of the mutual checks and balances between them, but also because they have a common strong enemy outside - the Ghoul King Dorison, whose Dead White Kingdom surrounds the Bones. The area surrounding the plain is said to be twice as large as the entire Plain of Bones.
His army of ghouls, who are always hungry, regard the Plains of Bones as their own dinner plate, and they want to rush up and have a feast here from time to time.
Four high-ranking undead lords joined forces to barely resist the invasion of the Ghoul King, and never let the entire plane completely fall into the hands of him and his master, the Gnoll King Yeenoghu.
It is for this reason that the layout of Bone Plains is tight on the outside and loose on the inside.
A large amount of soul power has been absorbed into the territories of four high-level undead lords. The army of undead soldiers are at the border of the Plains of Bones, and they fight with the ghoul army from time to time.
Although there is no evidence, Gavin is 100% certain that there is a more powerful being standing behind these four high-level undead lords. Otherwise, let alone Yeenoghu, the king of gnolls, even Dorison, the king of ghouls It’s enough for them to digest.
This more powerful being is probably the undead king Orcus. He is known as the founder of the undead. The first undead in the multiverse is his handiwork. He has natural dominance over the undead. This place once Once his domain, the Ghoul King Dorison was once his servant.
Even if he does not have the strength to take it back now, he will not allow it to completely fall into the hands of the enemy.
Gavin’s killing territory is located in the northeast of the middle of the Bone Plains, adjacent to the King of Bones. Gavin followed his own habits and completely reversed the direction given by the Lord of Bones, and mapped the map of the Plains of Bones. .
The plague zombie lord in the northeast is most likely a low-level lord affiliated with the King of Corpses.
To be on the safe side, Gavin did not touch him, but focused his gaze on the interior of the Bone Plains, which was severely hollowed out. No matter how small the mosquitoes were, they were still flesh, and when they accumulated into large numbers, they were still very impressive.
Compared to the high-level undead lords whose territory is measured in hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, Gavin's territory of 800 square kilometers is completely in its infancy, and he avoids them honestly. A soft pinch is the way to go.
He gave priority to those low-level undead lords who only occupied one or two soul pools.
These low-level undead lords have no power to fight back, and can basically be defeated with a combination of punches.
A skeleton lord led an army of skeleton soldiers to launch a feint attack from the front, attracting the attention of low-level undead lords, and then five skeleton tauren lords led their troops to launch an attack from the flanks, tearing apart the formation.
This trick never works. Even if the low-level undead lords are aware of this trick, there is no way to break it.
Because most of their men do not have that many intelligent undead, they cannot mobilize troops to block the flank attack.
It can’t be blocked either.
Skeleton Minotaurs have advantages in size and strength compared to ordinary skeleton soldiers. Now those who rush into the formation are all heavily armed elite soldiers. One master can pick ten.
Unless those low-level undead lords lead their elites into battle in person.
But the problem is, he can only block one of them, and there are four more!
Not to mention, there are also the main force of 10,000 skeleton soldiers led by the Skeleton Lord pressing right in front, which are also mixed with a large number of four-armed skeleton soldiers. They are also harvesting weapons on the battlefield.
Four new soul pools were captured in a row, two of which were bare skeleton soldiers. There were no special units at all. The low-level lords were just two relatively powerful skeleton soldiers.
Looking at his attributes, he can't even compare to the skeleton tauren lord who was promoted from his own general.
Gavin killed them directly and replaced them with the skeleton tauren lords he selected.
Apart from anything else, the appearance of these skeletal minotaur lords is quite intimidating, and their combat effectiveness is also unsatisfactory. They can be regarded as fierce generals and are very useful in leading troops to charge into battle.
The other two soul pools do have specialty troops, and they are troops that Gavin is very familiar with. When he saw them, he even felt a little kind of friendly - the shadows.
The main force of my own ghost army is their high-level version of the real shadow.
He naturally knows the potential of this unique undead.
It’s just that we are in the bottomless abyss now. These shadows have no chance to swallow the soul of the original owner and transform into real shadows, let alone grow into night shadows in a short time.
This does not mean that this kind of undead has no use at all.
Their power-absorbing attack is a terrifying negative energy attack in front of flesh and blood creatures. It will not only lose vitality, but also produce special effects that reduce power.
In front of the undead, it becomes a treatment method to help them restore their vitality.
Coupled with their excellent ability to hide their bodies and a certain degree of physical damage resistance, they become excellent undead priests. Mixing with those melee undead will greatly improve the strength of the entire legion. combat effectiveness.
Gavin had witnessed it with his own eyes when attacking these two soul pools.
Those weak skeleton soldiers have become extremely tenacious. As long as there is no way to focus fire on them, those ghosts will make them lively again.
This ability is a perfect match for the powerful skeleton tauren. There is no need for one skeleton tauren with one shadow. Three or four with one shadow is enough. After all, those elite soldiers have , has the blessing of killing itself, and can restore part of its strength through killing.
After acquiring new types of soldiers, Gavin had to experiment again to see the attributes of the Shadow Soldiers and Super Shadows.
As a result, they unlock two entirely new abilities.
The ability enabled by the Shadow Soldier is called Shadow Fusion, which allows it to be temporarily fused into the bodies of undead souls. During the fusion period, it can use its ability to absorb negative energy to restore the vitality of the fused undead souls. The same amount as the Drain Strength attack.
This ability confirms the name of the Undead Priest. When it is threatened, it can hide in the bodies of friendly troops and strengthen the combat effectiveness of friendly troops.
Super Shadow's ability is an upgraded version of this, called Shadow Possession.
Not only can it get into the body of friendly troops, it can also try to occupy the enemy. Once successful, it can temporarily control the enemy.
Unless the shadow takes the initiative to leave or is expelled with dispelling magic, the only way left is to destroy the controlled soldiers, but this will not directly harm the shadow, it can turn around and control other soldiers.
This ability is relatively powerful, and it directly turns it into a unit that combines control and treatment. Its battlefield effect is no less than that of the Super Skeleton Minotaur.
It's a pity that the killer power is always the hindrance. Even elite soldiers have to pinch their fingers, let alone super soldiers.
Gavin made a new round of adjustments to his troops based on the actual situation.
Gavin completely abandoned the killing skeleton soldiers that were filled with life dice.
There is no denying their power, but they occupy too much killing power, so it would be better to have a few more super soldiers.
If there are no special circumstances, Gavin will only fill the bodies of those lords to strengthen their combat effectiveness, and the rest will be done as needed.
Gavin is the seven skeleton tauren lord, each equipped with 200 super skeleton tauren and 100 super shadows, and the rest is filled with skeleton soldiers and shadows in a ratio of three to one.
Then, based on two Bone Lords and two Shadow Lords, they were organized into four legions in a one-to-two manner.
One Skeleton Lord is matched with two Skeleton Tauren Lords, and the missing one is temporarily filled by the Skeleton Cavalry Lord.
The two shadow lords are naturally from the two shadow soul pools. They are out-and-out real shadows. They are only one step away from the night shadow. Now with the blessing of super soldiers, Fiercely tight.
What Gavin valued most was the powerful ability to lead troops brought about by their high charisma, which was eight thousand within the territory and four thousand outside the territory.
The Skeleton Tauren Lord leads two thousand troops in the territory, and only one thousand soldiers remain outside the territory.
In order to facilitate deployment, these legions are led by troops for operations outside the territory. If the enemy really comes to kill them, as long as there are troops in the territory, it is very convenient to replenish them.
Another thing worth mentioning is that when the killing divinity is infused to ten points. A new ability has been awakened in the territory - divinity enhancement.
You can choose to strengthen your territory. There are three directions for strengthening.
1. Evolve arms. This arm recruited in the territory will automatically evolve into an elite arm (equivalent to a killing and devouring evolution). If this arm has been strengthened by a godhead, it will be advanced to a super arm, which will not occupy the killing points. Divine power, but if it is used for killing and devouring evolution, the killing power occupied after advancement will be equivalent to normal evolution.
2. Enhancement level. All types of new soldier levels recruited in the territory will receive an additional level of enhancement.
3. Random summoning, the soul pool will have a certain probability of summoning undead spirits that are not fixed in the soul pool.
It is not that you can choose all three, but like attribute enhancement, you can only choose one of three.
This made Gavin struggle for a long time, and he still did not make a choice.
Because these abilities are super practical.
Needless to say the first one, every one counts as one, the elite name is worthy of its name, it can directly increase their combat effectiveness, one is the best among the three.
When the number of low-level undead lords you lead is not sufficient, improving the elite level of your troops is a very effective solution.
The second one is even more powerful. It improves the professional levels of all recruits and can be accumulated.
If it can be accumulated to a certain level, it will not be a dream for all members of the entire territory to be extraordinary.
The third one is based on appearance. It can break the current limitations and maybe something good can come out randomly.
After repeated evaluations, Gavin took the lead in ruling out the third option.
This is too random. No one knows what the random probability is and whether the random things are useful. Compared with the first two, this one is the least helpful to me at present.
The hard choice is still between the first and the second.
The first one is obviously a short-term choice. In the later stage, when you have more killing power, this effect will become much smaller, but it is currently the most helpful.
Because the second one is a late-stage ability, the larger Gavin's territory, the more troops he has, and the more cumulative enhancements he has, the stronger this ability will be.
Now it doesn’t feel particularly obvious. After all, the gap between the third-level and fourth-level skeleton soldiers is not very big, at least not as obvious as the advanced soldiers.
Gavin finally chose the immediate benefit - advanced troops.
The initial stage is the most difficult, and strengthening the current combat effectiveness is the most important.
When you grow up, the resources you have at your disposal will increase significantly, including this godhead enhancement.
This is obviously the same as the godhead promotion that Shen Zhuan follows. Ten points of divine power condense into one godhead. As long as he keeps accumulating the killing power, this kind of enhancement will continue.
After determining the strengthening ability, choosing which troop type is extremely simple.
It must be a skeleton soldier.
The reason is simple, quantity.
No matter which territory you are in, skeleton soldiers are the basic unit. They are the largest in number, accounting for at least 70%.
Those special units with a small number can be filled through the evolution of killing power.
Boom!
The moment when Gavin finished choosing to strengthen his godhead.
A bloody light rose into the sky, centered on Gavin's soul pool, and spread crazily around.
Everywhere he passed, not only the soul pools and skeleton soldiers were dipped in red, but even the skeleton road exuded a distinctive red light.
This is a transformation involving the entire territory, which means Gavin has a higher degree of assimilation and a deeper degree of control over the territory.
In contrast, the shock to the Bone Plains was even stronger.
Spreading in all directions along Gavin’s territory.
Not only the lords, but also the wild undead could sense this concussive power. The soul fires all lit up, and their eyes all turned to the direction of Gavin's territory.
Almost in unison, they staggered towards Gavin's territory, and soon gathered into a mighty army.
But the most threatening thing was the dozen or so low-level undead lords around them. They also set off with the troops they could muster.
This time they not only received orders from the will of the abyss, but also received corresponding blessings.
The undead creatures in the territory completely exceeded the upper limit of their ability to command troops, and they came out in droves, leaving no one left.
The wild undead without lords encountered along the way took the initiative to join their ranks.
Gavin also felt the emotion immediately. He was not surprised by this. Instead, he breathed a long sigh of relief and even couldn't help but smile.
What he was most worried about was that if he made too much noise, it would alert the high-level undead lords and send regular troops to strangle him.
He was not afraid of the encirclement of this scale before him, but was full of expectations.
Because this is not to besiege yourself, but to give yourself benefits.
The previous experiment of transferring souls through the Skeleton Hound Pool was terminated due to the opening of the Skeleton Road and its early integration into the General Territory.
But Gavin’s test already has the answer because of the divine power of the road.
He doesn't need to test the soul energy in a territory through the stupid method before, he can just extract and transfer it directly through the bone road.
His guess is correct.
The soul power in each territory has an upper limit. Gavin only drew 20,000 soul fires from the Skeleton Hound Pool, and the summoning speed of the soul pool was doubled. , when the price is 30,000, it is directly increased to five times (per hour/person).
This means that the soul fire of the entire territory has been almost drained, and what is left is completely new souls that are slowly condensing.
Gavin named it war potential, which is the maximum number of soldiers recruited.
This war potential is not static.
If Gavin mobilizes a large amount of soul fire from his territory and injects it into the Skeleton Hound Pool, their maximum number of recruited soldiers will not only be greatly increased, but even the quality of the recruited soldiers will be slightly improved (the professional level of the troops and the number of special units have increased slightly).
You said that these undead people who come to his territory to attack him are not bringing him benefits, so what are they?
The enemy was so powerful that in a short period of time, their strength exceeded 300,000.
But war is not only about the number of troops, but also about strategy and command.
There are almost no enemies at this point, and it is what Gavin is best at.
"The first legion, proceed ten kilometers southeast of the No. 1 Shadow Soul Pool, and snipe the enemy on the spot."
"The second legion, set off from the No. 2 Shadow Soul Pool , sniper the enemies in the southwest."
"The third legion, attack the enemies directly in front of the No. 1 Shadow Soul Pool."
"The fourth legion is in the center."
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Gavin sat in the skeletal tauren pool, observing the movements of the invading enemies through the perspective of his soul, and then deployed his troops.
Because the territory is expanding too fast, and most of them are unintelligent undead, Gavin is not interested in giving them names. Whether it is those territories or those lords of the same type, they all adopt the order of first come, first served. They are numbered for ease of collection and distinction.
Adhering to the principle of defeating each one, he temporarily ignored the Skeleton Cavalry Pool and Skeleton Hound Pool that he initially occupied, and transferred all his troops to the two Shadow Soul Pools that had just been transformed.
Because these two soul pools were expanded by Gavin by making full use of the divine power of the road, they protruded out of his own territory for up to forty kilometers, forming an arc strip.
The surrounding area responds to more enemies, and at the same time, it rushes into the territory faster and is the first to engage in battle. (End of chapter)