Chapter 992: Roads are also useful in the abyss
One point of killing divinity corresponds to one thousand points of killing divine power.
Gavin can now control more than 8,000 first-evolved soldiers, and the second-evolved soldiers are directly halved. For the sake of convenience, Gavin calls them elite soldiers and super soldiers respectively.
In short, it is to further upgrade and iterate the original killing skeleton soldiers.
It is unrealistic to want to make all the soldiers in the territory super soldiers, because while the killing divine power increases, the area of the territory will continue to expand, and there will be more soldiers.
No matter how it develops, ordinary soldiers will eventually be the main force.
When studying new soldiers, the undead in the territory were not idle.
Gavin used his authority to select five skeleton minotaurs with extraordinary life dice. After evolving them into super soldiers, he further promoted them to low-level lords.
Skeleton Minotaur Lord
Life: 90 (Hit Dice: 14D12)
Attributes: Strength 22, Agility 14, Constitution -, Intelligence 9, Perception 8, Charisma 12
Special Abilities: Undead Creature Characteristics, Immunity, Killing Blessing (14 points), Road Blessing (14 points), Trampling (Strength Extraordinary Bonus), Lord Ability
Even with the Lord Ability, Double Divine Blessing and Secondary Evolution, these Skeleton Minotaur are barely qualified as Lords. Within the territory, they can only lead 4,000 soldiers, and only 2,000 are left outside the territory.
But the value is that they have their own fierce combat power. If they are equipped with 500 Super Skeleton Minotaur each and some other ordinary soldiers, they can kill people everywhere, whether in the territory or in the surrounding areas.
Gavin was not in a hurry to occupy more soul pools, but sent these five Skeleton Minotaur Lords to kill everywhere and collect more killing power.
The two skeleton lords and the skeleton cavalry lord acted as logistics ministers, either transporting troops for them or supporting them from the rear.
Although the skeleton territory has a steady supply of troops, from the perspective of cultivating troops, it is best to maintain victory.
Gavin's energy is mainly used in the study of the soul pool, which is similar to the magic network.
It is the magic network of the bottomless abyss, but the display method is slightly different.
What they show is only the entry-level and most basic ability.
If you regard it as everything, then your achievements are destined to be very limited.
The situation of the soul pool is more serious than that of the magic network, because the killing power is an external force, and there is still a big difference in the degree of fit.
After all, strictly speaking, the killing power should be attributed to the power of hell, and it is more compatible with the nine layers of hell.
Now even if it is forced to control, a lot of power is used for control, and the power that can be mobilized is naturally reduced.
If you can enhance control and reduce consumption in this regard, the power you can mobilize will be greater.
The transformation method is also very simple, that is, to use the soul net spread throughout the territory by the soul pool.
This soul net is like a tree root vine, expanding on its own, disorderly, some places are densely rooted, and some places have only a few roots.
Whether from the perspective of land use or the speed of energy return, this situation is extremely unqualified.
Like a spider weaving a web, Gavin began to weave this soul net.
The initial progress was not very smooth.
Gavin clearly felt the existence of resistance in it, which was a large-scale rejection. Those soul powers did not listen to him.
Until he immersed a part of the killing power into the soul net and began to control it from the root, they immediately became honest and obedient, and changed the direction of travel according to Gavin's wishes.
"It works!"
After completing the preliminary experiment, Gavin couldn't wait to observe the changes in the soul pool.
The area of the soul pool expanded outwards, and the number of summons per unit time increased by one - from eight to nine every ten minutes.
This means a lot.
This shows that there is still a lot of potential for the number of skeleton soldiers summoned per unit time in the soul pool. It was originally calculated according to the diameter, but after Gavin's transformation, it was directly calculated according to the area.
Because the area he transformed was not too much, just a little more than 20 square kilometers, accounting for less than one-fortieth of the entire territory.
When Gavin completes the transformation of the entire territory, even if it does not reach the theoretical value (62/10 minutes, 8928/day), it can at least reach 80% or 90%, and the recruitment speed will be six or seven times the current speed.
This situation is completely within Gavin's expectations.
Because it involves the issue of the recovery efficiency of soul power.
At first, Gavin thought that the soul pool was a fallen soul transformation pool, and every new skeleton soldier here corresponded to the death of a fallen soul in the multiverse.
As he got to know the Abyss better and his control over the Plains of Bones got stronger, he found that his previous understanding was too one-sided.
The Abyss does not give birth to its own souls. All souls here come from the corruption of souls in the material or upper planes.
But the defeat of the soul fires of those undead does not mean their own demise.
They were absorbed by the land under their feet and condensed here again, and then a strange scene appeared where wild skeletons grew directly from the land, and there was a soul pool.
The Bone Plain is a huge soul storage place, where souls are buried like mineral deposits, and the soul pool is a unique mining tool.
Only in this way can we explain why the skeleton soldiers in the Bone Plain are endless, just like leeks, one crop after another.
This also corresponds to the endless reincarnation of the Abyss and the Nine Hells. This is not only the place where those souls are imprisoned, but also the place where they suffer. They will encounter endless reincarnation here until the last trace of wisdom and the last mark are worn out and disappear.
In the material plane, falling into the abyss or hell is a very vicious curse. Yamen Khan wanted to punish Gavin in this way.
But it didn't go as planned.
Gavin's ability to make trouble far exceeded Yamen Khan's estimation. Not only can he play well in the East Region of Despair, but he can also make huge waves even in the Abyss or the Nine Hells.
At the same time, Gavin also keenly perceived a hidden message.
The soul fire stored in the same territory is not infinite.
If you are defeated one after another in a defensive battle, it is better to say that the soul fire will be dissipated and absorbed on the spot.
As long as you send troops fast enough, you can still fight a war of attrition.
You may even become stronger and stronger, because the soul fire of the enemies you destroy will be dissipated in your territory.
As long as the soul pool is not seized by the enemy, there is still a chance to make a comeback.
But if you lose one after another when leaving the territory to fight an offensive war, and lose troops in other people's territories, some of the souls will be absorbed by other territories, and the total amount of souls in your own territory will be lost.
In the end, it is very likely that the soul fire will be exhausted.
This hidden information is very important and involves the use of future strategies and tactics.
Is it a defensive counterattack in your own territory?
Or an unscrupulous offensive war of attrition?
What is your bottom line for consumption?
What is the bottom line of the enemy?
What is the bottom line for his future killing and devouring evolution? This method of soul fire merging is equivalent to squeezing the territory's explosive potential in advance.
Now that he has realized this problem, he naturally wants to find ways to verify it.
The verification method is also very simple.
The Skeleton Hound Pool is still an enclave independent of the territory. Everything here is not connected to the territory, including the total amount of souls.
Gavin directly sent two skeleton lords to bring all the skeleton hounds there to the main territory and destroyed them all on the spot.
This experiment can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
It can test the speculation about the potential of the territory and ensure that the experiment is true. Soul resources will not flow out. It is nothing more than plundering from the enclave to the main territory.
It's just that this experiment takes a long time.
Everything in this enclave is shared with the main territory, naturally including the speed of recruiting troops per unit time. Here, it still maintains the most basic one every ten minutes. It takes a full ten weeks to recruit 10,000 skeleton hounds.
And the souls stored underground are definitely not just 10,000.
It might take a year or so to complete this experiment.
Let alone a year or so, even ten weeks would be too long for Gavin, and he would be able to do a lot of things during this period.
But at present, he couldn't think of a good way, so he could only make three preparations.
While experimenting, he prepared strategies and tactics according to his guesses, and at the same time further transformed the territory to expand his advantages.
Let alone reducing his troop explosion speed by five or six times, even two or three times, it would be quite amazing. In a war of attrition, he would have a steady stream of troops, especially in his own territory.
According to the rejection of the Bone Plains, the future would not be a matter of whether he would expand his territory or not, but he might face a situation of being attacked by all.
The undead of the entire Bone Plains would be his enemy, come to attack him, and even spread to the entire Abyss.
This matter is closely related to his own strength. The stronger he is, the stronger the counterattack he will cause.
This is related to the fact that the will of the abyss is just a dead thing, and it will only react according to the current situation, just like Gavin tried to control the soul pool with the divine power of killing divinity.
If it is intelligent, it knows how to use the power of thunder to nip the unsafe hidden danger in the bud - directly send a well-known demon lord to lead a million-strong army to kill.
Gavin ran away with his tail between his legs, which is the wisest choice.
Since the idea of transformation is correct, then we have to find ways to speed up the transformation. After all, his territory will continue to expand, and it will be faster and faster - in the future, every bit of killing divinity will make the territory expand at a speed of more than 300 square kilometers.
After thinking about it, if we want to make a breakthrough in the transformation speed, we have to start with the divine power.
The divine power that I have is not just the killing power.
I don’t know if my road divine power can play a unique role when it is injected into it?
In a broad sense, everything that produces transportation belongs to the road.
Regardless of whether the transported materials are a little different, this is a soul channel.
Gavin tried to inject a little road divinity into the soul channel of the skeleton soldier.
Boom!
With the infusion of this little bit of road divinity, Gavin felt that he had opened a new door, and his control over the soul energy in the territory directly stepped onto a new level.
These soul energies were controlled, and they would naturally become tools in his hands, weaving according to his wishes.
All Gavin needed to do was to engrave the drawings of road construction on the soul pool, and those soul powers would automatically start construction.
One branch after another began to expand in all directions along the main road, like a spider web. Although the expansion speed was very slow, it was a full-blown event, and the overall speed was still higher than Gavin's manual operation.
Just like the divine power of killing divinity, this construction speed was obviously related to the amount of road divinity Gavin poured into it. The more it poured into it, the faster the construction speed.
The magical use of road divinity is far more than this.
There was a brand new ability on the soul pool - the gift of skeleton paving.
Granting Skeleton Paving (Supernatural Ability) - You can grant the Paving as a spell-like ability to a skeleton. This skeleton must have more than six life dice. Skeleton Paving is a third-level spell and can be used three times a day.
Skeleton Paving: This ability can open a skeleton road in the Bone Plains, six square meters per life dice. If there is a road here, the paving area will fluctuate to varying degrees according to the original road conditions, with a maximum of sixty square meters/life dice.
There is no need to say more about this. It is Gavin's job ability, but after being integrated with the Bone Plains, it has become a skeleton version.
Gavin didn't even think about it. He blessed the two skeleton lords at the first time. Their abilities tend to be logistical assistance, and they have enough intelligence. In the future, leading the undead road construction team to pave the skeleton road will be handed over to them.
At the same time, a group of skeletons with high life dice were selected to stand by. As long as the skill is cooled, they will be given the Skeleton Paving at the first time.
The first road constructed by the skeleton road construction team is from the Skeleton Warhorse Pool to the Skeleton Minotaur Pool, along the underground soul channel.
Here, the road has no second use, just to prepare for war.
These two soul pools are Gavin's foundation and the most important assets here. As long as he protects them, he can rest assured.
Building roads is just the beginning. If possible, Gavin will also build a war fortress to wrap them up.
The material is naturally the bones of the Bone Plain, which are everywhere.
These bones are not satisfactory in hardness, but they can make up for it with thickness.
He is now mainly lacking an excellent construction team-casters who are proficient in bone manipulation.
He and the dog demon do have such an ability, which can manipulate the secondary bones to shape those bones according to their wishes, but they are the top forces in the entire territory, with a lot of tasks, but no time to build walls.
Gavin is more optimistic about the corpse undead like the corpse hound and the death patrol, which also have the ability to manipulate bones.
Swallow those bones into your body for absorption and compression.
Since they can inhale, they can also spit out.
If they press the corpses into usable bone bricks and spit them out, the rest of the things will be simple!
The most powerful thing about the paving technique is that the number of people who master this divine technique will increase over time, and the number of roads paved every day will also increase.
Even if there is no road on the Bone Plain at all, everything is calculated according to the lowest value, and the progress is still quite amazing, in just ten days.
The 15-kilometer road between the two skeleton pools was opened.
At the moment the skeleton road was opened, Gavin clearly felt that the soul channel that was originally buried deep underground had moved up and directly merged with the road.
The flow speed of the soul energy integrated into the road has obviously become faster. The number of summons per unit time in the two soul pools connected by the road has increased by 1 at the same time, reaching 12 per ten minutes respectively. The rest is naturally the credit of the soul channel expansion.
Skeletons are naturally the best storage and transportation channel for souls.
The integration of the two seems to be a matter of course.
And the two complement each other. Just now was just the benefit that the road brought to soul energy.
The infusion of a large amount of soul energy also brings a magical effect to the road - when the undead in the territory walk on it, their speed will increase by 30%.
This is quite powerful.
The undead are different from creatures. They have neither fatigue nor willpower, so there is no so-called burst, only a constant speed. This external magic bonus will be real.
It means that the speed of troop transport in Gavin's territory is more than twice that of other territories. Don't forget that there is also the bonus of the convenient road itself!
Although the Bone Plain is in a plain state as a whole, there are also many bone hills and bone grooves formed by bones. Although they will not become natural dangers, they are definitely not easy to walk.
As long as there are obstacles, the speed cannot be fully improved, and the undead are no exception.
The third benefit of the skeleton road was shown when the second skeleton road was completed.
This road leads to the Skeleton Hound Pool.
Just like the first road, when the road connects the two soul pools together, the soul channel automatically floats up and merges with it.
The Skeleton Hound Pool, which was originally an enclave, was automatically merged into the main soul pool.
The missing territory was automatically replenished.
But this time, Gavin has one more choice.
He can choose whether to expand the territory with the Skeleton War Horse Pool as the center, or expand it outward with the Skeleton Hound Pool as the base point, or directly expand it with the second road as the center.
This makes Gavin's territory development more diversified.
The area does sound amazing when expanding in a circle, but it is not necessarily beneficial.
After all, the distribution of soul pools is not very regular.
It is possible that there are several densely distributed in a small area of hundreds of square kilometers, or there is no one in thousands of square kilometers.
Development will be greatly restricted.
But if he has this, Gavin can perfectly integrate the two divine powers of killing and road.
The killing power opens up the territory in front, and the road power connects it to form a whole. At that time, it can even form a new tactic by transferring the killing power. (End of this chapter)
