The Era of Gods

This method of using NPCs of various races to consume life lasted for a month and a half. It was not until the various heroes and leaders who came later that they personally killed all the demons near the gate of the foreign land that they established a firm foothold nearby. The army passed through the foreign gate to establish a base.

The establishment of the base opened the prestige of the expeditionary army. The first batch of thousands of players with a level of over 50 entered one after another. They all chose to stay in the base of the expeditionary army with prestige, even Lin Xiao was no exception.

The reason is very simple. After opening Outland, the fortress system is opened. Any player who brushes Gaia's reputation to Respect, and the Expeditionary Army's reputation to Respect, is eligible to build his own fortress, and recruit NPC soldiers from the Expeditionary Army by consuming reputation and demon mark nourish.

The so-called fortress is divided into bases. Use the prestige to exchange the core cornerstone of the fortress to go to the depths of the outer domain. After laying down the cornerstone, you can build a fortress that belongs to the player personally, and recruit various functional NPCs and combat NPC soldiers.

Functional NPCs refer to various merchants, such as leather armor merchants and blacksmiths, hotels that bind hearthstones, flight points connecting other fortresses and the general base of the expeditionary force, general merchants who sell potions, merchants of various spell-casting materials, and learning professions trainers, and even career mentors who learn spells, etc.

The newly recruited function NPC only has basic functions, but you can occupy some special resource areas or collect resources, or upgrade the core of the fortress, upgrade the NPC, make it have higher abilities, or sell some special products that are only available in this fortress.

Fortresses are similar to some small towns or outposts in the game, which can be used for players to resupply, transfer, or even stay for a long time.

Players need to pay taxes for transactions here, which is also one of the sources of income for the fortress. Generally, one-tenth of the total amount of goods purchased and sold by players from NPCs is the income of the fortress owner.

In the outer domain, it is a safe area for players to rest. Housing is also provided for players to rent or buy. Players can store things that cannot fit in the package in the room.

But this depends on whether the fortress is strong or not, because the fortress must be built in a dangerous area. Not only will it face the attack of the demons in the outer domain, but it will also face the destruction of the children of nightmares. Gone.

So whether a fortress can attract a large number of players to stay here for supplies depends on whether your fortress is strong enough.

Therefore, fortresses are not something that ordinary players can play. At least one team is required to build a fortress together, such as a guild, and very few people build a fortress alone.

As for combat NPCs, it naturally refers to all kinds of NPC soldiers, including elite NPC soldiers, including any race. Generally, players who choose NPCs of the same race have advantages in terms of recruitment price and conditions.

These NPC fighters can also increase their level through combat, and they can also collect resources to forge NPC-specific equipment enhancements, and even upgrade their ranks, such as upgrading ordinary soldiers to elite templates, and even strengthening elite or leader templates.

In theory, a small soldier can also become a super powerful hero NPC under strict conditions.

But theories are generally just theories, and basically impossible to become reality.

Lin Xiao was very interested in this, discussed it with his girlfriend, and decided to come out and do it alone.

The reason why they are not with the guild is because there are quite a lot of players in the guild who want to exchange fortress cores. Everyone can see the future of the fortress system. Those who can enter Huiyao are elites. It is difficult for them to convince anyone, even Lin Xiao He has shown his strength before, and they also recognized that he is strong now, but recognition is one thing, and wanting them to be younger brothers is another.

I obey you, but it doesn't mean I want to be your younger brother.

Coupled with the fickleness of people's hearts, he may not be at ease if he really wants a bunch of people to be his younger brothers, so he discussed it with his girlfriend and decided to quit the club and do it himself. Anyway, the cohesion in the guild is just that way, so I don't expect them to help.

The next step is to gain reputation, and continue to receive repeatable tasks of killing demons from the expeditionary army. Every time you kill a certain number of demons, you can get a certain reputation.

Both he and his girlfriend are mages, and she chose her core family, the Skywraith Wings, a sub-legendary race mutated from her original core family, the Thunder Wings. It is estimated that the template refers to angels, so the appearance is very inclined Angel, very beautiful but also has a super talent for casting spells.

There are two types of Skyfury Wings, Silver Wings and Gold Wings. The Silver Wings have a stronger thunder talent than the Thunder Wings, and the Gold Wings have inherited the divine power of angels.

Shen Yuexin chose the Wrath of the Golden Winged Sky, so her specialization was sacred, which is equivalent to the combination of a mage and a priest. The original talent tended to be fighting, and after reuniting with Lin Xiao, she washed away the original talent and replaced it with Auxiliary type, that is to say, she is now equivalent to a priest with high combat effectiveness.

As time went by, the demons near the base of the expeditionary army were killed by them. The powerhouses from the main plane used magic to transform the barren terrain nearby, and built a super-large fortress. Teams of NPC soldiers fought against each other. Under the leadership of the army, they left the expeditionary fortress and established outposts nearby.

It is not only serving the players, but also opening up the territory, and serving as a buffer against the demon's counterattack.

However, if the corresponding players want to build a fortress, they must stay away from the vicinity of the expeditionary force fortress and go to the depths of this foreign world.

According to the regulations, the farther the established fortress is from the expeditionary army, the more important the location is, and the more support it will receive from the expeditionary army. At the same time, there will be a huge bonus when calculating the score in the future, which will force players to enter the depths of the outer domain.

This is very beneficial to Lin Xiao, who has a level advantage. After spending a few months accumulating enough reputation, meritorious service, and demon marks, they exchanged for a fortress core and a squadron of 100 people with a level of 50 The fifth-level NPCs, five of whom were elite NPCs, prepared sufficient supplies, mounted their mounts and led the troops away from the expeditionary army headquarters that had developed into a super fortress, and entered the vast outer domain.

Recruiting elite combat NPCs requires the green demon mark to redeem. The explosion rate of this thing is extremely low, and it took so long to accumulate less than ten.

Ordinary NPC fighters at level 55 only have 3,500 HP, while elites are around 10,000, and their average combat effectiveness is slightly lower than that of ordinary demons.

This outland world is ravaged by the power of demons and chaos, and the energy in the void becomes extremely violent. Players will get a negative BUFF in the wild in this world. There is a certain probability of failure to cast any spell, and the mana consumption and casting time will increase by 50. %.

Only in the area controlled by the expeditionary force, the void energy is appeased by the mage tower built in the expeditionary force fortress and becomes calm, and this negative BUFF will disappear.

Therefore, the land reclamation in the early stage really depended on NPCs with their lives, and the players didn't play any role in it, even Lin Xiao.

Although the level of sixty-eight is quite high, there are a lot of strong demons in Outland, and any enhanced elite above level seventy can drive them around with a group of younger brothers.

The 70th-level enhanced elite can have as little as 100,000 blood, and powerful races such as demons can have 200,000 to 300,000 blood, strong attack power and powerful spells, plus a group of younger brothers, they can't fight at all.

It has been almost half a year since he opened the door and left now. He died at least twenty times, which is not too small. Those in his early fifties ran to the outer domain and died hundreds or even hundreds of times. They doubt life.

Leaving the expeditionary army fortress, many players who were hunting down sporadic demons saw them and knew that they were going to go out to build a fortress, and they all paid attention.

At this stage, there are not many players who dare to go out and build fortresses, and most of them are in the accumulation period.

There are 100 NPC soldiers in this squadron, of which 95 ordinary soldiers, 50 are fighters, 5 stalker scouts, 10 archers, 10 mages, 10 knights, and 10 priests.

Three of the five elites are melee fighters and two mages.

The team configuration is reasonable, even if it encounters a strengthened elite demon, it will have the power to fight. Although it will suffer heavy losses.

All five stalker scouts were sent out to check the surroundings, so as not to bump into a large group of demons without knowing it.

Three days later, Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin ran back to the Expeditionary Army Fortress in desperation with less than half of their men killed and injured.

Just less than fifty kilometers away from the expeditionary fortress, he was discovered by a flying demonized monster. After killing a few small groups of demons in a row, he attracted the attention of a level 76 leader, the demon warlord, who personally led the demon army to fight They launched a siege, and he had to leave half of the troops behind and ran back in despair.

Not at all.

He was forced to come back just after leaving the range of the expeditionary army. Even if he escaped by chance next time, he would still be besieged and killed by demons in a short time.

The girlfriend on the side flapped her golden wings and said:

We need to train a team of elites, and at least a group of elites with a level of sixty-five or above can fight our way out.

I understand.

Returning to the expeditionary fortress, they used the remaining demon marks to recruit a new group of recruits, a total of one and a half squadrons, with the same configuration as before, and left the expeditionary fortress again.

But this time instead of running out, go to an outpost called Eagle Hill on the west side of the fort to gather. There are a lot of NPCs and other players in the outpost. If you encounter a lot of demons like before, you can escape to the outpost for refuge. , so as not to be driven around like before.

Eagle Station is located on a high ground more than 40 kilometers away from the expeditionary fortress. It is surrounded by cliffs. There is only one road around the high ground. As long as the only intersection is guarded and air defense is done, it can be firmly guarded.

When Lin Xiao arrived, he happened to see a large group of about two to three thousand demons attacking the eagle sentry under the command of a demon warlord. Many elite NPC soldiers guarded the pass, and a large number of players squatted on the city wall to control the direction of the crossbow on the city wall. Attack below.

Inside the sentry post, there are two squads of players leading two squads of NPC soldiers on standby.

Like Lin Xiao, they were planning to take the route of the fortress legion, and they were also training their troops. When the main force of the demons attacked and retreated, they would take the opportunity to beat the dog in the water.

Unable to go up to the high ground at this time, Lin Xiao led the troops to hide behind the sentry post, ready to wait for the last bargain.