Compared to this unknown defiler, the King of Corpses naturally believes more in the undead king Orcus. He is a veteran demon lord. At his peak, he was equal to the demon prince Demogorgon and the dark prince Graz'zt. The three giants at the bottom of the abyss.
Although he is now at a low point in his life, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. He is still unmatched by ordinary demon lords, let alone a person who has just entered the divine realm.
Even if the Defiler occupies most of the Bone Plains, he only occupies a small part of the 421st floor. He cannot be called a demon lord and is at best a secondary demon lord.
The only problem now is that the immortal king's character is notoriously difficult to fathom. No one knows whether he will react or when he will react.
Don't wait until he reacts, he will have already become a sacrifice for the Defiler to control the Bone Plains.
Fortunately, the undead king is not the only option. There is also a ghoul king who is eyeing the Plains of Bones. He is also a divine being.
Although he is now in a state of betraying the undead king Orcus, the King of Corpses believes that this situation will not last long. After the blood lord's condition recovers a little, the King of Ghouls will soon Maybe he will take the initiative to return to his arms.
It is not how loyal the Ghoul King is to the Undead King, but the best choice based on divine power.
Ghouls are also a kind of undead. They also belong to the undead priesthood and have no resistance to the undead king.
The King of Gnolls, Yeenoghu, annexed the King of Ghouls. He had no good intentions from beginning to end, but coveted his thirsty priesthood.
This matter even affected the Plains of Bones, and it was not the four high-ranking undead lords who united to be powerful enough to fight against the Ghoul King.
Rather, the King of Gnolls consciously restricted the King of Ghouls from completely annexing the Plains of Bones to prevent betrayal.
Whenever the Ghoul King attempted an all-out war on the Plains of Bones, Yeenoghu would send his own gnoll armies to invade Dorisson's territory.
In fact, every time the Plains of Bones began to counterattack the White Kingdom of the Ghoul King, it was not necessarily because they were powerful enough to suppress Dorison.
But the King of Gnolls caused too much pressure and loss to the King of Ghouls.
In the bottomless abyss, enemies and allies are always changing. I can take shelter under the wings of the Ghoul King and borrow his power to fight against the Defiler. I believe he does not want to see a monolithic bone. Plains, this is extremely inconsistent with his interests.
Everyone has his own calculations and interests.
Imran, the King of Skeleton Dragons, discovered that he had always been the most miserable one. From beginning to end, he had no right to choose and could only passively accept, or be forced to accept.
This time is no exception.
As soon as the burning army retreated, the giant bone killing army surrounded them again. They did not rush to attack, but waited quietly for something.
For the Skeleton Dragon King, this silent waiting is the most painful.
"What exactly do you want to do? Attack or not? Surrender or not?" The King of Skeleton Dragons couldn't help but roared angrily at his old rival, the King of Bones.
The King of Giant Bones shrugged humanely and said: "You asked the wrong person this question. I am also someone else's subordinate now. I am just following orders. If you are willing to surrender, I can introduce it to you. , I believe that my God is kind and willing to accept your allegiance."
"Okay." The Skeleton Dragon King responded happily.
The giant bone collar and the dragon bone collar are not only similar in ability, but there is not much difference in strength. Putting aside external factors, the outcome of the two sides is about 50-50.
But now that the opponent has the blessing of a divine being, his strength has skyrocketed, and he has been fighting back and forth with the Burning Flame Army for two rounds.
On the other hand, he has been suppressed and beaten violently by the Burning Flame Army in recent times. Although he takes advantage of being in his own territory, he can continuously replenish the lost troops.
But the problem is that what is lost is the elites that they have trained for many years. What they recruit are just common goods, and the quality of the troops has seriously declined.
However, external forces will not be able to be used in a short period of time.
Surrendering to this divine being and accepting transformation seems to be the only option left.
Judging from the current situation of the Giant Bone King, this choice does not seem to be particularly bad.
“But there is one condition.” The King of Giant Bones said with ill intentions.
“What conditions?”
“You have to carry me back to the Giant Bone Territory and meet my god.”
“You are humiliating me!” The Skeleton Dragon The king roared angrily, clearly intending to use him as a mount.
The King of Giant Bones said righteously: "This is the fate you must face. Even if you are unwilling to bow your head now, you must do so when you become a believer in my god..."
Boom!
Before the King of Giant Bones finished speaking, his body fell to his knees uncontrollably.
It was as if a big hand was holding him down invisibly, the bones all over his body were squeezing and cracking, and finally his upper body was lying on the ground.
It was like a kneeling ceremony to the King of Skeleton Dragons.
"My God, I was wrong. I will never dare to do it again." The King of Giant Bones begged loudly for mercy.
"Only this time, if you dare to pretend to be a public servant again, you will not be lenient next time." Gavin's cold voice echoed in the air.
Although he himself is not here, his strong will has already enveloped this place.
The King of Bones' request to ride on the King of Dragon Bones was not from him, but was for personal benefit, in order to humiliate the King of Dragon Bones.
This is not simply due to the countless years of war and dispute between the Giant Bone and the Dragon Bone Territory.
At the same time, there is still hatred and war between giants and dragons that has been passed down for countless centuries and spread to countless planes.
As long as the two are in the same plane, especially the material plane, they rarely coexist peacefully with each other. Most of them are wars that last for countless years until both sides are injured or the other side is destroyed.
The huge size determines that the resources they need to survive are very large, and they need to occupy vast land to support themselves. This survival contradiction cannot be reconciled.
Slaving the other party is a great honor in the behavior books of both parties.
This deep-rooted thinking pattern has not completely changed even after they became undead.
But this matter conflicts with Gavin's interests.
The greed and arrogance of the dragons are deep into their bones. Among them, the chromatic dragons are the most popular, and the chromatic dragons take the red dragon as their model. The king of the skeleton dragons is composed of a red dragon skeleton. Transformed.
The current behavior of the King of Bones has no meaning other than increasing variables.
“Your Majesty Imran, you don’t need to do anything, you just need to wait for my arrival!”
Gavin’s voice rang again, “As long as you are willing Be loyal to me and accept my transformation. I will guarantee all your original territory and rights, and I will not go against your will and let you become anyone's mount, including me, because I am more suitable than you! The carrying tool! ”
In order to match the credibility of the words, amidst a roar, a shadow aircraft swooped down and passed by not far from the Skeleton Dragon King at the fastest speed.
The blast speed of nearly 400 kilometers per hour directly washed away the last worries of the Skeleton Dragon King.
For giant dragons, the most unbearable thing is not who they are loyal to, but the countless creatures who always want to ride them, and regard this as a kind of glory and a symbol of strength.
The King of Skeleton Dragons said sarcastically to the King of Bones who had just climbed up from the ground: "As a servant, you must have the consciousness of being a servant. Don't act too smart for nothing. In the end, you will shoot yourself. "
The giant bone king flicked the dust on his body and smiled nonchalantly, "If not, how can we prove the wisdom and power of my god?"
"You really know how to put gold on your face." The Skeleton Dragon King sneered, "You won't tell me that you were not captured, but made a wise choice by yourself."
"Indeed!" The Giant Bone King responded naturally, "I already realized the extraordinary power of my god when we just fought. , I just cooperated with his plan to completely disrupt the situation in the entire Bone Plains and lay a solid foundation for him to unify the entire Bone Plains. Don’t you see that everything is close at hand now? "
Skeleton Giant? The Dragon King suddenly fell into silence, because for a moment, he had no way to tell whether what the Giant Bone King said was true or false. After all, the situation is here.
After swallowing the Dragon Bone Territory, he will become the most powerful lord in the Bone Plains.
Even if the King of Corpses and the Queen of Flames join forces, it will be difficult to fight against them, not to mention that the contradiction between the two is difficult to reconcile.
When the time comes, which side this divine being chooses to help will be the final winner.
Eating the entire Bone Plains will be a natural thing.
Gavin, who was far away in Giant Skull Castle, did not expect that things would develop so smoothly, completely in the direction that was most beneficial to him.
According to their original plan, the King of Bones came here as a conspiracy to sow discord and intensify the hatred and conflict between the Queen of Flame and the King of Corpses.
Even if Queen Burning Flame doesn't listen to their deception, it will sow the seeds of distrust among them.
At that time, he only needs to drag the King of Corpses all the way to death, desperately weakening his strength, and the Flame Queen may change the direction of attack at any time out of hatred.
As soon as she turns, the situation will deflect in her direction.
Who would have thought that Queen Burning Flame would put her personal hatred above everything else, making the entire war situation much simpler.
Then again, this approach is very abysmal. Everything here is not very rational to begin with, and even the interests are not exactly the same as normal.
If you use ordinary people's thinking to predict the behavior patterns of the creatures here, you will often make wrong judgments.
Just like the plan to make full use of the hatred between the Queen of Flame and the King of Corpses, it was not the work of Gavin and his shadow officers and counselors, but the letter of submission of the King of Bones.
Before this, both Gavin and the Shadow Officers and Advisors were quite dissatisfied with this plan. After all, rationality is the most basic quality of a lord. If he does not even have this, there is no possibility of making it big. , has been uprooted countless times.
If placed on the material plane, this idea is not wrong.
After all, in a huge territory with a population of millions, this represents millions of different thinking, and various interests are intertwined. Just balancing these ideas and interests will take up most of the lord's energy.
Arrogance is the source of destruction.
But in the Abyss, especially the Plains of Bones, this idea is not correct.
Most of the undead have no will of their own, and those middle and lower-level undead lords are either single-handedly promoted or shaped by high-level undead lords.
It is no exaggeration to say that their will is the will of the entire territory, and they can naturally turn easily without rebellion, even if the reason is extremely absurd.
This incident inspired Gavin a lot, because this incident is not limited to the bottomless abyss, but can even extend to the entire lower plane and even the upper plane, that is, all the planes of divine power.
There, all he needs to consider are those divine beings. The territory under his rule, the Kingdom of God, and even the believers must be highly assimilated with them. His voice is the voice of the entire territory, and his will is the will of the entire territory.
This kind of control over the killing territory and the enhancement of divine power are definitely not unique to him.
But it is possessed by all the gods. The enhancements they possess are even far superior to their own. After all, their control over many powers is indirect, and their use of divine power has not reached the extreme. This is clearly demonstrated on the road.
When Gavin took full control of the Giant Bone Collar, officially chose to take root here, and injected a little bit of road divinity into it, a new door opened to Gavin.
Originally, the skeleton road construction team laid the skeleton road on the ground, and then the soul fire channel below automatically floated up and actively integrated into it, making the soul fire flow smoother and also endowed these skeletons with The path has a certain magical power.
When the undead of the same origin walks on it, the basic movement speed will be increased by 10%.
Undead that are not of the same origin will have their basic movement speed reduced by 10%, and the soul fire originally used to provide acceleration has become reverse resistance.
Even so, the enemy still has to leave.
Even if there is a reduction effect, it is still a road, and the speed of marching on it is higher than that of marching on the rugged skeletal plain, one foot deeper and one foot shallower.
This kind of bone road is a pioneering existence in the Plain of Bones, and there is no other branch of this family.
Let’s not talk about whether those high-level undead lords in the past had this intention and wanted to create their own path in the Plains of Bones.
Even if there is, it does not have this ability and conditions, because the undead are best at destruction, not construction.
This is not simply because most of them have no intelligence and needs, but also because it is related to their twisted and incomplete souls. Their aesthetics are completely different from ordinary people.
They find beauty in horror, gloominess, distortion and incompleteness, especially the latter, which is in perfect harmony with their incomplete souls.
This is not only reflected in the Bone Plains, but also in the material plane. In any place dominated by the undead, within a few years, they will completely lose their splendor and become desolate and collapsed. It has become a place of terror that no one should enter.
This is related to the large amount of negative energy filled in the undead's body, and for special materials such as flesh and bone that are very compatible with it.
It has shown the effect of strengthening and long-term preservation. For example, the bones in the Plains of Bones have not only not decayed after countless years of erosion, but on the contrary, many of them have been immersed in a negative energy environment for a long time. Its intensity became higher, and concepts similar to ten-year, hundred-year, thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year-old bones appeared.
The corpse of Obiris Demon Lord belongs to the ten thousand year skeleton category. The four senior undead lords, except for the incorporeal Flame Queen, the other three belong to the category of thousand year skeleton.
The older the bones are, the higher the degree of integration with negative energy. With the same soul, the undead created will have higher hit dice and stronger attributes.
Century-old bones are already harder than ordinary steel.
At the thousand-year or ten-thousand-year level, it will have powerful damage reduction capabilities, just like the Night Shadow Body. Only powerful magic or orderly light spells can restrain this effect.
But if placed on many ordinary substances, negative energy will show a powerful corrosive effect.
This kind of corrosion is different from the material level destruction caused by strong acid. It is more like an aging agent, accelerating the passage of time on it, achieving the effect of one year, ten years or even a hundred years.
It is also this characteristic that makes undead farming exist only in plans but not in practice.
The negative energy leaked by the undead is a kind of poison to most crops. At the least, it will prevent the crops from sprouting, withering, and reducing yields. At worst, the land will be polluted and no grass will grow.
Fortunately, otherwise, for the serfs of evil organizations like the Seer Kingdom or the Zhentarim, it would be a disaster, and they would be directly transformed into undead.
After all, no matter how low the consumption of serfs is, they still need food, rest, and life, old age, sickness, and death. The undead are once and for all. As long as they are not destroyed, they can be driven endlessly.
Those profit-seeking businessmen and spell casters calculate the cost of this transaction very clearly.
Gavin’s crazy bone-climbing technology here is not a good thing in the long run.
Because once they are used on a large scale in the material plane, a series of serious consequences will arise.
First of all, the skeleton shells fired by the skeleton cannon are driven by negative energy, and the area covered by the explosion will be eroded by negative energy.
Before special purification, there will be no grass growing here. Over time, it will even become a place prone to undead incidents.
Of course, this situation is not unique to the Skeleton Cannon. Other large-scale elemental magic or magic weapons will bring corresponding side effects. It is just a matter of strength and weakness, and not all of them are malignant.
For example, after an area is ravaged by terrifying fire magic, the fire element here will seriously exceed the standard. Although the summer is unbearably hot and the crops are prone to drought and death, if winter comes, the place will be similar to In geothermal areas, crops can continue to grow.
For another example, areas that have been bombarded by earth magic will become crisscrossed with ravines, making it difficult to distinguish between stone and soil, and even high-quality cultivated land will turn into harsh wasteland.
Even if there is an excess of positive energy that is beneficial to all things, it is not entirely a good thing. It will cause cancer-like growth, resulting in weeds that cannot be removed no matter how hard they are. Crops grow lushly, but they may not necessarily produce more food. After all, energy itself is disordered.
In short, among the major elements, negative energy damage is the most serious and the most difficult to control. (End of this chapter)