Volume 8: The Road to the Ancient Dragon Chapter 384 City Building Plan
Roar! A roar of a giant dragon was heard far away in the wilderness at night.
The dragon's roar instantly boosted the players' morale. Fighting with the BOSS, the feeling was completely different and they felt very safe.
The Storm Dragon King flapped his wings, soared into the air, and instantly flew hundreds of meters into the sky.
In dragon form, Murphy's eyes could easily see through the darkness and he could see his surroundings more clearly, and he immediately took a breath.
Before, they had only seen vague figures in the darkness and had not thought much of it, but at this moment they were surprised to find that there were tens of thousands of undead around them, densely surrounding the small village where they were.
What surprised Murphy even more was that such a large battle scene did not trigger any plot events.
This is a bit unbelievable. Is it possible that there is no BOSS among so many undead?
Without time to think, Murphy directly used his ultimate move!
Dragon Thunder Storm!
Thunder suddenly rumbled in the sky, and red lightning struck towards the place where the undead were most concentrated. Every time lightning fell, it could harvest the lives of several undead creatures.
Morgan Lisa was also casting firestorms and all kinds of destructive magic with great pleasure. The two huge turrets output power crazily, knocking down the undead in large numbers.
Murphy was having fun using the Dragon Thunder when suddenly a black shadow landed on his back and severe pain came from his left wing.
It was a giant bat-like monster.
Gargoyle!
It turned out to be this thing. Murphy immediately understood what had happened to the Dragon Rider who had disappeared before.
Gargoyles are professional air combat units. They have weak ground attack capabilities and no skills such as breathing, but they are extremely strong in aerial melee combat.
Murphy had to interrupt the spell, and tore the gargoyle off its wings with one claw, and bit off the gargoyle's head.
However, more gargoyles gathered around in an instant and bit Murphy madly.
The gargoyles have extremely high attack power. Even if the Storm Dragon King has hundreds of points of armor, the sharp claws of these monsters can still tear through the dragon's scales and continue to cause damage.
Holy shit! This thing does a lot of damage.
Murphy tore them left and right, killing three or four in an instant, but for the undead who won by numbers, it was just a drop in the bucket.
In just a dozen seconds, he lost four to five thousand HP.
And there is a tendency for more and more people to gather.
If the tearing continues, the sailboat might really fall into the ditch.
Ten thousand thunders from the sky!
[Ten Thousand Thunders: You can absorb the power of thunder from nature to restore mana and charge your next Dragon Thunder ability/Thunder Breath, which can increase the power of your next thunder skill by up to 100%.
You can also actively activate this effect to trigger a small thunderstorm, causing 1-999 lightning damage to enemies within a 300-yard range. This effect can only be used once a day.
Boom! The red lightning instantly cut through the night sky, spreading in all directions like blood-colored lines. The lightning instantly illuminated the night sky, and with just one strike, dozens of gargoyles were killed.
The gargoyle's body fell down with a crackling sound.
However, more gargoyles appeared in the surrounding sky and attacked again, almost covering the entire sky.
When Murphy saw the situation, he immediately called for help.
Aidan Deron the Stormbane (Storm Dragon King): "Dragon riders, come closer to me, your master needs your support!"
Hundreds of Dragon Riders that had been in a state of correction immediately took off into the air and fought with these gargoyles.
For a moment, the sky and the ground were in chaos.
As expected, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. The participation of hundreds of dragon riders in the battle immediately balanced the situation.
In terms of melee ability alone, the Storm Drake is actually a little bit inferior to the Gargoyle. Fortunately, there is a knight on the dragon's back to fight together, plus the range advantage of Thunder Breath, and they are engaged in a bloody battle for a while.
Murphy felt a pain in his heart as if blood was dripping as he watched the bodies of the Dragon Patrolmen and Gargoyles falling continuously. These were all his old capital, all trained with real money. Without considering the value of the knight recruits, the upgrade cost of a Dragon Patrolman alone would be more than 20,000.
No, we can't just waste time here. The key is that there are so many undead and there is not even a BOSS. There is almost nothing to gain except experience. There is no point in fighting like this.
Let’s retreat first.
Thinking of this, Murphy did not hesitate and roared suddenly.
'Stormbane' Aidan Deron (Storm Dragon King): "Mortals, it is time to end this meaningless battle. Retreat immediately. I will cover you!"
After Murphy roared, he dived down and breathed out thunder close to the ground. The red thunder blasted a passage among the undead.
After climbing, there was another dive, and this time Murphy landed directly on the ground.
The dragon car advances!
A giant dragon weighing hundreds or thousands of tons was charging forward madly. Although Murphy did not have any melee talent, a dragon was still a dragon. The impact force of the brainless dragon chariot alone was enough to create a path through the pile of undead.
As soon as they saw a breach in the encirclement, the presidents immediately began to order a retreat.
“Retreat, retreat, retreat!”
"Close combat to clear the way!"
"Master, blast me!"
"Cover, cover!"
A round of magic volleys was fired, and then the melee professions among the adventurers rushed towards the gap, and the others followed closely behind.
At the same time, Van Cleef also commanded the dragon blood giant warriors to move slowly.
Fight and retreat at the same time, heading in the direction we came from.
"Keep the formation! Keep the formation!" Van Cleef shouted loudly. The lord has a leadership bonus, which can improve the morale and command efficiency of the soldiers. There are countless undead around. Once the formation is destroyed, the entire army is likely to be destroyed.
Fortunately, the morale of the extraordinary soldiers was high. Even when surrounded by a large number of enemies, they still maintained a stable morale, fighting and marching, always maintaining the three human-shaped sword formations.
On the south side, there is a commando team consisting of hundreds of adventurers.
They found that Murphy was helping the ground troops to clear the way, and the dense gargoyles attacked them again.
Aidan Deron (Storm Dragon King): "Phoenix, get on my back!"
Phoenix responded, leaped up, and landed on the broad back of the Storm Dragon King.
Her agility is probably at least 40 points, and there is no imbalance at all.
Murphy suddenly jumped into the air and rushed forward against the gargoyles. He had to rescue his dragon knights from the melee.
Phoenix knelt on one knee to keep his balance.
Holy Light Blade!
The blade was immediately filled with dazzling holy light power.
Break the evil!
With a swing of the sword, the crescent-shaped sword energy split the two gargoyles into four.
Flame of Holy Light!
A white holy flame burned on his body, and the gargoyles dared not approach him.
It turned out to be a good choice to form a team with two Holy Light professions.
With Phoenix's close protection, the threat of the gargoyle was immediately reduced a lot.
Breath of Thunder!
He spewed lightning crazily, blasting the gargoyles out of his control in droves, and rescued the dragon knights who were caught in a tough battle. The dragon knights followed behind him and soon gathered into a large group.
The battle lasted for more than ten minutes. The expeditionary force fought and retreated, moving southward until the team bypassed the corner of the mountain and entered a half-open valley. The undead suddenly retreated like a tide.
Murphy was a little surprised. There were still a lot of undead in number. It was hard to say which side would win if the fight continued. The key point was that undead were supposed to have no reason. Their inability to hate the living would make them fight until one side was completely destroyed. The only possibility for them to retreat at this time was that someone was controlling them from behind.
Although they had temporarily escaped from the battle, everyone did not dare to stay and retreated all the way to the mine they had discovered during the day before stopping.
The view here is wide, and you can retreat to the mine when necessary. It is a good place to defend.
The team stopped here.
Murphy waited until daytime, sent out a few dragon knights, and confirmed that there were no undead around, only then did he feel relieved.
The presidents of the heroic lords' guilds of the expeditionary force gathered together and took stock of the losses. The losses that night were quite heavy, with more than 80 Dragon Riders killed in battle. Taking into account the previous losses of several scouts and the losses at sea, the total number of casualties was almost 100.
Twenty thousand yuan each, that’s two million yuan.
Although this air force unit is useful, its loss is very painful.
Not many dragon-blood giant warriors died, and the healing power of cute big breasts was indeed amazing.
As for the adventurers, they were protected by the dragon-blood giant warriors, and only about twenty of them died during the breakout.
But it is also a loss. After all, if you die, you can only return to the Eastern Continent to resurrect.
Murphy looked at the results of the inventory and frowned.
It turns out that opening up a new map is not that easy. I suffered such a huge loss on the first day.
If we want to continue exploring this continent, we will have to deal with these undead spirits. Should we give up exploring the north?
There were no undead on the east and west sides, but Murphy had a feeling that there must be something special deep in the area where the undead appeared.
Looking at the adventurers who were resting around him, Murphy sighed. It was a pity that there was no resurrection point here, otherwise he could have let the adventurers go for physical reconnaissance.
Van Cleef (Baron of Moonbrook): "Lord Aidan, what should we do next?"
"I'm trying to think of a solution. Guild leaders, do you have any suggestions?"
Several guild leaders looked at each other and spread their hands.
"There's no way. There's no resurrection point. If we die, we die. What else can we do? How about we take another route?"
"By the way, how can we develop this unreleased map? Do we have to wait for the new expansion pack?"
"It's too troublesome not to have a resurrection point."
Resurrection point... Murfei suddenly had an idea. In fact, it is not necessary to wait until the new expansion pack is released to open the resurrection point.
To put it bluntly, this game has a high degree of freedom and is influenced by player-driven initiatives.
To put it bluntly, the reason why there is no resurrection point is because there is no town stronghold of the official camp here.
Resurrection points can only be established near towns where official camps are located, which is obviously a luxury for this undeveloped and desolate continent.
Only lords have the authority to build towns.
Wait a minute, am I not the lord?
Murphy opened the territory management system. He currently had two territories under his name, Songmu Town and Longshang Castle.
Next to [View Territory], there is indeed an option of [Develop Territory].
[Open up territory: Open up new territories for your kingdom, build a stronghold, and clear out the monster groups on the map to expand the territory of your kingdom. Only lords are qualified to open up territories.
Note 1: Expanding new territories can increase the power value of your faction.
Note 2: To open up new territory you need to build a stronghold/town, which consumes a lot of resources and has a population of preferably 500 residents.
Note 3: To build a new town, you need an architect and corresponding architectural drawings...】
Murphy studied the introduction of territory development carefully and found that it was indeed feasible.
First of all, as a prince, he has the function of being a leader and has the power to open up new territories.
Second, you have money, so you just need to buy the materials. The only trouble is how to transport them.
Third, architects or something - isn’t this a ready-made architectural master in front of you?
Aidan (Prince of Alterac): "Lord VanCleef, do you know how to build a town?"
Van Cleef (Baron of Moonbrook): "Of course, I can take over the reconstruction of Stormwind. Building a city is my specialty."
Van Cleef was the leader of the Stonemasons Guild and already had some architectural drawings of arrow towers, watchtowers, barracks, castles, city walls and the like.
Because he took on the job of rebuilding Stormwind City , he obtained a large number of architectural drawings from the archives of Stormwind Kingdom, and now he can build anything.
"But even if I can build it, it will be useless without craftsmen and materials." Van Cleef said, spreading his hands.
If he were to build it alone, it would take him forever.
Murphy shook his head: "Craftsmen are not a problem. There are craftsmen on board the fleet, and there are more than a hundred of them in total. But materials are indeed a big problem. Does it take a lot of materials to build a town?"
"Of course, a town hall alone would require 38,500 stones and 22,000 pieces of wood. A town must have enough houses for residents to live in, as well as walls, blacksmith shops, inns, churches, stables..."
"Wait a minute, hotel, can you build a hotel?"
"certainly."
“How much material does it take to build a hotel?”
Van Cleef showed the blueprint to Murphy.
【Hotel (special building)
Function 1: Provide drinks and food to increase business output.
Function 2: Provide safe rest service.
Function 3: Provide email services.
Building Description: An inn for resting, where players can log off safely and gain the [Energetic] BUFF, and can provide food supplies.
Adventurers can bind to the inn through Hearthstone and teleport at any time.
Resources consumed: 5000 gold coins, 1000 wood, 1000 stone. 】
Five thousand gold coins, that's only fifty thousand dollars. As for the materials...
Murphy directly opened the task system and issued a task to collect materials. A golden exclamation mark immediately appeared above his head.
Aidan (Prince of Alterac): "Brave adventurers, now that we are exposed to this icy wilderness, we must build a temporary camp to provide safe shelter. For this, I need some building materials."
As soon as they saw that there was a mission to be taken, adventurers immediately came over to check out the mission.
The task is simple: collect 10 pieces of wood or 10 pieces of stone.
The reward is faction reputation and a small amount of silver coins.
Stone can be dug out from mines and is a by-product of mining skills.
Wood can be obtained through logging skills. There are tall coniferous trees everywhere around, so it is easy to get.
While the players were collecting materials, Murphy went to the beach to escort the craftsmen over.
Soon, dozens or even hundreds of players accepted the task, and in less than an hour, all the materials were collected.
The craftsmen were also escorted safely.
"Baron VanCleef, please build an inn."
Van Cleef wondered what it meant to build a hotel in such a haunted place.
But since the prince asked, he had no choice but to start the work. He directed the craftsmen to hammer at the empty space, and soon a hotel rose from the ground.
Everyone was amazed at the sight of buildings rising from a flat ground. It felt quite magical.
Morgan Lisa was a little puzzled, "Aidan, you have so much money, you can't waste it like this."
Murphy smiled slightly, "It's okay, at least I can replenish my food."
At this time, all the adventurers ran to the hotel front desk to buy food, and some ran to the hotel's fireplace to warm themselves.
Some even lay directly on the floor of the hotel.
After two days of walking in the cold wilderness, being able to stay indoors for a while is a good way to relax.
Murphy went straight to the door of the hotel and tested the mailbox, and found that it could be used normally.
Haha, that's no problem.
"Baron VanCleef, if I can provide enough materials, can you build a town for me here?"
Van Cleef looked at Murphy in astonishment, "Of course, but I must remind you that the materials needed to build a town are very large, even the lowest level town."
"No problem. Please make a list of the materials needed for me."
Van Cleef calculated and quickly gave a number.
Murphy took a look and thought that was quite a lot.
However, after silently calculating, he found that it was still within his tolerance.
"Wait a moment."
Murphy said as he directly opened the private message function.
Aidan: Black Shadow, do me a favor, go to the auction and buy some materials for me, and then mail them to me. Money is not a problem, here is the purchase order.
Black Shadow: Oh my god, what are you doing? Building a city? So many materials, so much money.
Aidan: Just build a city, hurry up.
Black Shadow: Okay, I'll get it done for you right away.
Ten minutes later.
Black Shadow: I’ve sent you an email, please remember to check it.
Aidan: Got it.
Murphy opened his mailbox and found that the materials had indeed arrived.
He waved at Van Cleef, "Baron Van Cleef, get to work."
