Chapter 1024: Collective Turn

Compared to this unknown defiler, the King of Corpses naturally trusts the undead king Orcus more. 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, and no one knows whether 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 currently 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 recovers a little, the King of Ghouls is likely to take the initiative to return to him. in the arms.

It's not how loyal the King of Ghouls 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.

Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, had no good intentions from beginning to end when he annexed the King of Ghouls. Instead, he coveted his Hungry 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.

Instead, the King of Gnolls consciously restricted the King of Ghouls from completely annexing the Plains of Bones to prevent a major 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, they were not necessarily powerful enough to suppress Dorison.

Rather, the King of Gnolls caused too much pressure and damage 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 their own calculations and interests.

Imran, the King of Skeleton Dragons, found 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 Flame Army withdrew, the Giant Bone Killing Army surrounded them again. They did not rush to attack, but quietly waited 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 this question to the wrong person. 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 our God is kind. 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 elite that he has trained for many years, and what is recruited is just a common commodity, and the quality of the troops has seriously declined.

However, external forces will no longer be available 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 a condition." The King of Giant Bones said with ill intentions.

"What conditions?"

"You must carry me back to the Giant Bone Territory and meet my god."

"You are humiliating me!" The Skeleton Dragon 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 like there was a big hand 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 as if he was paying a kneeling salute 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.

"Just this once, if you dare to pretend to be a public servant again, you will never 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 authorized by him, but was for personal gain, in order to humiliate the King of Dragon Bones.

This is not simply due to the countless years of wars and disputes between the Giant Bones 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.

Their large size determines that the resources they need for survival are very large, and they need to occupy vast land to support themselves. This contradiction in survival cannot be reconciled.

And enslaving the other party is a great honor in the behavioral codes 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 which the chromatic dragons are the most important, and the chromatic dragons take the red dragon as their model. The King of Skeleton Dragons was transformed from the skeleton of a red dragon.

The Giant Bone King's current behavior has no meaning other than increasing variables.

"Sir Imran, you don't need to do anything, you just need to wait for my arrival!"

Gavin's voice sounded again, "As long as you are willing to be loyal to me and accept my transformation, I will guarantee all your original territories and rights, and I will not go against your will and let you become anyone's Mounts, including me! Because I have a more suitable carrying tool than you!"

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 Giant Bones who had just climbed up from the ground: "As a servant, you must have the consciousness of being a servant. Don't be too smart for nothing. In the end, you will shoot yourself in the foot."

The King of Giant Bones flicked the non-existent 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 King of Giant Bones responded naturally, "I already realized how extraordinary my god was when we first fought. I just cooperated with his plan to completely disrupt the situation in the Bone Plains, and for him Unifying the entire Plain of Bones and laying a solid foundation, don’t you see that everything is within reach now?”

The Dragon King of Bones suddenly fell into silence, because for a moment, he had no way to tell whether what the King of Bones said was true or false.

After all, the situation is here.

After swallowing the dragon bone collar, 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 Plains of Bones would be a natural thing.

Gavin, who was far away in the 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.

When the time comes, 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 turn 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 handiwork 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 did not even have this, there would be no possibility of becoming big, and he would have been uprooted long ago. It happened 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 ideas, and various interests are intertwined. Just balancing these ideas and interests will take up most of the lord's energy.

Arbitrary behavior 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 promoted by high-level undead lords or shaped by them.

It is no exaggeration to say that their will is the will of the entire territory, so they can easily turn around without rebellion, even if the reason is extremely absurd.

This incident inspired Gavin a lot, because this incident is not only limited to the Abyss, but can even extend to the entire lower and even upper planes, that is, all the divine planes.

There, he only needs to consider those divine powers. The territory or kingdom of God under his rule, and even the believers, must be highly assimilated with him. His voice is the voice of the entire territory, and his will is the will of the entire territory.

Such control over the killing territory and the strengthening of divinity and divine power are definitely not unique to him.

Instead, it is something that all gods have. The enhancements they have are even far superior to his own. After all, his control over many powers is indirect, and his use of divine power has not reached the extreme, which is vividly demonstrated on the road.

When Gavin fully mastered the Giant Bone Territory and officially chose to take root here, after injecting a little road divinity into it, another 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 merged into it, making the soul fire flow smoother while also giving these skeleton roads a certain amount of magical power.

The basic movement speed of the undead of the same origin walking on it will increase by 10%.

The basic movement speed of the undead of different origins will be reduced by 10%, and the soul fire originally used to provide acceleration will become a reverse resistance.

Even so, the enemy still has to go.

Even if there is a reduction effect, it is still a road, and the speed of marching on it is higher than that of advancing on the rugged bone plain with one deep step and one shallow step.

This kind of skeleton road is a pioneering existence in the Bone Plains, and there is no other one.

Let’s not talk about whether the high-level undead lords in the past have the heart to build their own roads in the Bone Plains.

Even if they do, they don’t have the 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 of their twisted and incomplete souls. Their aesthetics are completely different from those of ordinary people.

They regard horror, gloom, distortion and incompleteness as beauty, especially the latter, which is in line 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, it will take only a few years for them to completely lose their brilliance, become desolate and collapsed, and become a place of horror that no one can enter.

This is related to the large amount of negative energy in the bodies of the undead, which is highly compatible with special materials such as flesh and bones.

It has shown the effects of strengthening and long-term preservation. For example, the skeletons in the Bone Plains have not decayed after countless years of erosion. On the contrary, many of them have become stronger because they have been immersed in negative energy for a long time, and the concept of skeletons of ten years, one hundred years, one thousand years and even ten thousand years has appeared.

The corpse of the Demon Lord of Obiris belongs to the ten thousand year skeleton. The four high-level undead lords, except for the Queen of Burning Flame who has no entity, the other three belong to the category of thousand year skeletons.

The older the skeleton is, the higher the degree of integration with negative energy. Under the same soul, the higher the life dice of the undead created is, and the stronger the attribute is.

The hardness of the hundred-year skeleton is comparable to ordinary steel.

At the thousand-year and ten thousand-year level, it will have a strong damage reduction ability, just like the Night Shadow Body. Only powerful magic or order and light spells can restrain this effect.

But if it is placed on many ordinary substances, negative energy will show a strong corrosive effect.

This kind of corrosion is different from the material damage of strong acid. It is more like an aging agent, which accelerates 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 the undead farming only exist in the plan, but not put into practice.

The negative energy leaked by the undead is a poison to most crops. At the least, it will cause the crops to not germinate, wither, and reduce production. At the worst, it will pollute the land and cause no grass to grow.

It is also fortunate that it is like this, otherwise it will be a disaster for the serfs of evil organizations such as the Kingdom of Sel or the Zhentarim, and they will be directly transformed into undead.

After all, no matter how low the consumption of serfs is, they still need food, rest, and birth, aging, illness and death, while the undead are once and for all. As long as they are not destroyed, they can be driven endlessly.

This cost transaction is very clear to those profit-seeking businessmen and spellcasters.

Gavin's crazy climbing of skeleton 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 derive.

First of all, the skeleton shells fired by the skeleton cannon are driven by negative energy, and the explosion area will be eroded by negative energy.

Before it is specially purified, there will be no grass growing here, and over time, it will even become a frequent area for 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's just a matter of strength, and not all of them are malignant.

For example, after a region is ravaged by terrifying fire magic, the fire element here will be seriously exceeded. In summer, it is indeed extremely hot and crops are prone to die of drought, but in winter, this place will be similar to geothermal areas, and crops can continue to grow.

For example, the area bombarded by earth magic will become full of gullies, and it will be difficult to distinguish between stone and soil. The best arable land will also become a bad wasteland.

Even the excess of positive energy, which is beneficial to all things, is not entirely a good thing. It will cause cancer-like proliferation, resulting in weeds that cannot be removed. Crops grow vigorously, 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)