Volume 5: Protracted War Chapter 135: The Battle to “Secure the Throne” (1)
The current situation can be described as a dilemma both internally and externally. How can one describe it with just one word "chaos"? The three witch kings pose a direct threat to me, forcing me to deal with them with all my attention. Every day, I am constantly busy subduing corpse witches to quickly expand my power and build a ruling area that can be controlled by me to curb the invasion of the three witch kings. The "Witch Killing Federation" is doing its best to hunt down the three witch kings, trying to replace them before me and prevent me from dominating the corpse witch clan. On the surface, whether it succeeds or not, it is looking for trouble with the three witch kings, which may relieve the pressure on me, which should be something I am looking for now. However, Qiu Shui Chang Tian and others chose to intervene at this time, which made the development of the situation more variable, which may endanger the interests I have obtained or want to obtain.
To be honest, I don't have the ambition to dominate the Corpse Witch Clan and bring the four great Witch Kings under my control. At most, I just want to change my hat and get the Titanic's "First Witch Crown", which should increase my mental power several times to further enhance my own strength. As for the second and third Witch Kings, as long as they don't provoke me and hinder me from doing things, I don't bother to deal with them if it's not necessary, so as not to stir up too much trouble. The system also thinks that I'm too "ostentatious" and sends out the "law enforcers" who protect the Corpse Witch Clan to trouble me. The risk of challenging the "law enforcers" is too great, and there is not enough interest to drive it. I don't want to do such a thing that is not worth the loss. Even if the three great Witch Kings are approaching step by step and putting pressure on me, it is just to restrict my development. As long as I can subdue enough Corpse Witch Corpses to defend the "Blood Pool" area and stabilize my position, and at the same time do my duty, avoid trouble, and don't give them an excuse to destroy me, I will fight back in time.
However, the intervention of the "Witch Killing Union" has disrupted the situation. If the position of the Witch King falls into the hands of colleagues who have no friendship or even a strong sense of competition, it is really not a good thing for me. At least before I have a firm foothold, the location of the "Abyss" is not clear, and I have the ability to kill the first Witch King Titanic, I don't want other forces to get involved in the territory of the corpse witches and hinder my plan. After all, people's hearts are unpredictable, and dealing with players will make things much more troublesome. What if the "Abyss" is controlled by other undead wizards, wouldn't I have to say good things to them and ask them to help me pass through? Or if they know the existence of the blood witch clan, or even the secret of the blood lich's "first embrace", it is hard to guarantee that they will not be tempted? Even if the "First Witch Crown" falls into the hands of others, it will make me, the "world's number one undead wizard", feel uncomfortable.
I used the "Blood Pool" as the center and tried my best to expand my power. Every day, I could subdue at least 6,000 corpse wizards, including several to a dozen corpse wizard kings. At the same time, I sent Xiaobai and fifty-three ghost kings to explore the location of the "bottomless abyss" by taking advantage of their invisibility and undetectable characteristics. After all, the relationship is tense now, so I have to be cautious. I don't want the three witch kings to notice the "invasion" and give them an excuse to make trouble. At the same time, I also paid close attention to the actions of the "Witch Killing Union". I used the relationship of Long Xingtian to learn about the general situation and strength of the "Witch Killing Union" from one of its members. There were a total of 38 undead wizards who joined, among whom Qiu Shui Changtian, Tianxing and eleven others had been promoted to level 7 undead wizards, and were able to subdue the terrifying bull knights, but the number was not large, and it was estimated that it would be a bit difficult to subdue them, and their strength should be lower than mine. Their main force is naturally the Horror Giant Bear Knights, with a total number of no less than 200,000. In addition, there are about 40,000 to 50,000 Horror Tiger and Mad Lion Knights. They are indeed the more powerful characters among the Undead Wizards, and are obviously much stronger than the Dwarf Wizard with a lofty ambition and the Moonlight Box who started later.
There is strength in numbers. Thirty-eight undead wizards have gathered 250,000 terror knights, who are powerful enough to fight against millions of corpse wizards. Moreover, they are under separate command, unlike me who needs to divide the troops into several locations. One person controlling an army of 20,000 must be much more flexible and will fight more efficiently. As long as they can find the exact location of the Witch King and launch a surprise attack, it may cost a considerable price, but there is also a great chance of killing the Witch King. No wonder Qiu Shui Changtian and Tian Xing jumped out and showed an attitude of openly challenging me.
After a few days of observation, I became more and more worried that the "Witch Killing Union" would succeed and seize the position of the Witch King. Although they seemed aggressive and determined to take the position of the Witch King, Qiu Shui Chang Tian and his men were actually very cautious. They did not rush to attack and lead the army of terror knights to invade the territory of the corpse witches. Instead, they divided the thirty-eight undead wizards into five groups, led by the five bone kings, to form five military groups. They maintained close contact with each other and took a lot of time to practice cooperation to increase the efficiency of the attack. At the same time, they sent many "scouts" to go deep into the territory of the corpse witches to explore the location of the Witch King. Including some vampire bats, both low-level black bats and high-level blood bats, as well as some devouring ghost kings and many ordinary devouring ghosts. Although the "Yinfeng Valley" is located in a remote area, it is not an extremely secret place. To this day, many undead wizards have entered. Unlike me, who was restricted by my status as the fourth wizard king, they could act freely and were not afraid of being discovered by the three wizard kings. They commanded their subordinates to wander recklessly over the corpse wizard territory all day long, not entering the range of the corpse wizards, without worrying about being attacked, and conducting a carpet search. They might find the location of the wizard king at any time. They also relied on their larger number and the division of labor and cooperation to make faster progress. If it were me, even if I could send out a large number of reconnaissance troops, I would not be able to conduct careful monitoring and identification. In such a vast corpse wizard territory, with countless corpse wizard clusters of different sizes, if I were not careful, I might miss the location of the wizard king.
There is still no solution to the trouble in the "Dead Space", and there is another disturbance in the "Resistance Alliance". Because of the successive failures, Long Xingtianxia's position as Speaker has suffered a great impact and is already in jeopardy. If this planned action fails again, he will probably have to step down.
