Chapter 993: Strengthening the Godhead

While actively developing internal affairs, Gavin did not relax the collection of intelligence.

It mainly came from two aspects. On the one hand, it was the newly surrendered undead lords, and on the other hand, Gavin himself went out to conduct on-site aerial reconnaissance based on the intelligence in his hands.

When the internal affairs of the territory were almost sorted out, he also had a general understanding of the Bone Plains, at least he had mastered the basic division of forces here, and he was no longer in the dark.

Since the death of the previous Skeleton King, the Bone Plains has not been able to produce new demon lords. At present, most of the area is divided by four high-level undead lords, namely the Corpse King, the Giant Bone King, the Burning Queen and the Skeleton Dragon King.

From their titles, we can see the specialty of their territory.

The Corpse King is a lich, and the specialty of his Corpse Territory is zombies, corpse witches, corpse demons, Boda corpses and mummies, etc. These undead still have some flesh and blood.

The Giant Bone King is a giant undead, and the place where he is located is a large tomb of giants. The specialty here is various giant skeletons.

The Burning Queen is a powerful Burning Flame Spirit, and her territory is high in various spirit-like undead.

There is no need to say much about the Skeleton Dragon King, who is a undead transformed from the skeleton of an ancient dragon. His territory is a large dragon tomb, where there are a large number of dragon undead.

Ever since the Demon Lord of the Bone Plain, the Skeleton King, was eaten alive by the King of the Gnolls, Yenogu, they have been very interested in unifying the Bone Plain and becoming a new demon lord.

However, they have not launched a war of unification, not only because they check and balance each other, but also because they have a common powerful enemy outside - the Ghoul King Dorisan, whose Death White Kingdom surrounds the Bone Plain, and it is said that the area is twice as large as the entire Bone Plain.

His ghoul army, which is always hungry, regards the Bone Plain as its own dinner plate, and from time to time they want to rush up and have a feast here.

The four high-level undead lords joined forces to barely resist the invasion of the Ghoul King, and never let the entire plane fall completely into the hands of him and his master, the Gnoll King Yenogu.

It is precisely because of this reason that the Bone Plains has a tight layout outside and loose inside.

A large amount of soul power has been absorbed into the territories of the four high-level undead lords. The undead army is stationed at the border of the Bone Plains, and fights with the ghoul army from time to time.

Although there is no evidence, Gavin is 100% sure that there is a more powerful existence behind these four high-level undead lords. Otherwise, let alone Yenogu, the Ghoul King, even Doreson, the Ghoul King, is enough for them to digest.

This more powerful existence is probably the Undead King Orcus, who is known as the founder of the Undead Spirit. The first undead in the multiverse is his handiwork. He has a natural right to rule over the Undead Spirit. This place once belonged to his territory, and the Ghoul King Doreson was once his servant.

Even if he doesn't have the power to take it back now, he won't allow it to fall completely into the hands of the enemy.

Gavin's killing territory is located in the middle of the Bone Plain, northeast, adjacent to the Corpse King. Gavin, according to his habit, completely reversed the direction given by the Skeleton Lord and mapped the Bone Plain.

The plague zombie lord in the northeast is likely to be a low-level lord of the Corpse King.

For safety reasons, Gavin did not move him, but locked his eyes on the inside of the Bone Plain, which was more seriously hollowed out. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. When a little accumulates, it is still very considerable.

Compared with the high-level undead lords whose territories are hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, Gavin's territory of 1,800 square kilometers is completely in the starting state. It is best to avoid them honestly and pick the weak ones.

He first picked the low-level undead lords who only occupied one or two soul pools.

These low-level undead lords have no power to fight back, and basically a set of combined punches can take them down.

A skeleton lord led a corps of skeleton soldiers to launch a feint attack from the front to attract the attention of the low-level undead lords, and then five skeleton minotaur lords led their soldiers to attack from the flank and tear the formation apart.

This trick worked every time, and even if the low-level undead lords realized this trick, they had no way to crack it.

Because most of their subordinates did not have so many intelligent undead, they could not mobilize troops to block the flank attack.

They could not block it either.

The skeleton minotaur had the size and strength advantage over ordinary skeleton soldiers, and now the ones who broke through the formation were all heavily armed elite soldiers, one could fight ten masters.

Unless the low-level undead lords led their elites to fight in person.

But the problem was that he could only stop one of them, and there were still four!

Not to mention, there was the main force of 10,000 skeleton soldiers led by the skeleton lord pressing in front, and there were also a large number of four-armed skeleton elite soldiers mixed in, which were also harvesting weapons on the battlefield.

After capturing four new soul pools in a row, two of them were completely bare skeleton soldiers, with no special troops at all. The low-level lords were just two relatively powerful skeleton soldiers.

Looking at the attributes, they were not even as good as the skeleton minotaur lords that he had promoted from a group of dwarfs.

Gavin directly removed them and replaced them with the skeleton minotaur lords he had selected.

Apart from anything else, the appearance of these skeleton minotaur lords was intimidating enough, and their combat effectiveness was also satisfactory. They could be regarded as fierce generals, and they were very useful in leading troops to charge into battle.

The other two soul pools do have special troops, and they are troops that Gavin is very familiar with. When he saw them, he even felt a little familiar - Shadows.

His ghost army is based on their high-level version, the real shadows.

He naturally knows the potential of this unique undead.

But now in the bottomless abyss, these shadows have no chance to devour the souls of their original owners and transform into real shadows, let alone grow into night shadows in a short time.

This does not mean that this kind of undead is useless.

Their power-absorbing attack is a terrifying negative energy attack in front of flesh and blood creatures, which not only loses vitality, but also has the special effect of reducing strength.

In front of the undead, it becomes a means of treatment to help them restore vitality.

In addition, their excellent ability to hide their bodies and a certain degree of physical damage resistance make them excellent undead priests. Mixing with those melee undead will greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the entire army.

When attacking these two soul pools, Gavin saw it with his own eyes.

Those weak skeleton soldiers became extremely tenacious. As long as they could not be focused on, the ghosts would make them lively again.

This ability is a perfect match for the powerful Skeleton Tauren. It is not necessary to pair one Skeleton Tauren with one Shadow. Three or four Skeleton Taurens with one Shadow are enough. After all, those elite soldiers have the blessing of killing and can restore some of their strength through killing.

With the new soldiers, Gavin had to experiment again to see the properties of the Shadow Elite and Super Shadow.

As a result, they opened two new abilities.

The ability of the Shadow Elite is called Shadow Fusion, which can be temporarily integrated into the bodies of those undead spirits. During the fusion period, it can use its ability to absorb negative energy to restore the vitality of the fused undead, and the number of recovery is the same as that of the power absorption attack.

This ability confirms the name of the Undead Priest. It can hide in the bodies of those friendly forces when it is threatened and strengthen the combat effectiveness of the friendly forces.

The ability of the Super Shadow is an upgraded version of this, called Shadow Occupation.

It can not only get into the bodies of friendly soldiers, but also try to occupy the enemy. Once successful, it temporarily controls the enemy.

Unless the shadow leaves on its own initiative or is expelled with exorcism magic, the only way left is to destroy the controlled soldier, but this will not directly harm the shadow, and it can turn around to control other soldiers.

This ability is quite powerful, directly turning it into a soldier that combines control and healing, and its role on the battlefield is no less than that of the Super Skeleton Minotaur.

Unfortunately, the one who pulls the legs is always the killing power. Even elite soldiers have to be sent out with their fingers, let alone super soldiers.

Gavin made a new round of adjustments to his own soldiers based on the actual situation.

The killing skeleton soldiers with full life dice were completely abandoned by Gavin.

Their strength is undeniable, but they occupy too much killing power, which is not as good as having a few more super soldiers.

If there is no special situation, Gavin will only fill those lords with it to strengthen their combat effectiveness, and the rest will be carried out as needed.

Gavin equipped seven Skeleton Tauren Lords with two hundred Super Skeleton Tauren and one hundred Super Shadows each, and the rest were filled with Skeleton Soldiers and Shadows in a ratio of three to one.

Then, based on two Skeleton Lords and two Shadow Lords, they were reorganized into four legions in a one-to-two manner.

One Skeleton Lord was paired with two Skeleton Tauren Lords, and the missing one was temporarily filled by the Skeleton Cavalry Lord.

The two Shadow Lords were naturally from the two Shadow Soul Pools. They were real Shadows, only one step away from Night Shadows. Now they were blessed with Super Soldiers, and they were very fierce.

What Gavin valued most was their strong ability to lead troops brought by their high charm. They were all eight thousand in the territory and four thousand outside the territory.

The Skeleton Tauren Lord led two thousand troops in the territory, and only one thousand outside the territory.

In order to facilitate the mobilization, these legions are led according to the combat outside the territory. If the enemy really comes to kill, as long as there are troops in the territory, it is very convenient to replenish.

Another thing worth mentioning is that when the killing divinity is infused to ten points.

The territory awakens a new ability-divine enhancement.

You can choose to enhance the territory, and there are three directions for enhancement.

1. Evolution of soldiers. This type of soldiers recruited in the territory will automatically evolve into elite soldiers (equivalent to one killing and swallowing evolution). If this type of soldiers has been enhanced once, it will be promoted to super soldiers. It will not occupy the killing power. However, if it is used for killing and swallowing evolution, the killing power occupied after advancement will be equivalent to normal evolution.

2. Enhancement level. The level of all types of new soldiers recruited in the territory will be enhanced by an additional level.

3. Random summoning. The soul pool will have a certain probability of summoning undead spirits that are not fixed in the soul pool.

It is not a full selection of three, but like attribute enhancement, you can only choose one of the three.

This made Gavin entangled for a long time, and he was hesitant to make a choice.

Because these abilities are super practical.

Needless to say, the first one is one, and the name of elite is well-deserved. It can directly increase their combat effectiveness, one against three.

When the number of troops led by your own low-level undead lord is not strong enough, improving the elite level of the troops is a very effective solution.

The second one is even more powerful. It can improve the professional level of all recruits, and it can be accumulated.

If it can be accumulated to a certain level, it is not a dream for the entire territory to be all extraordinary in the future.

The third one depends on luck. It can break the current limitations and may randomly produce something good.

After repeated considerations, Gavin first eliminated the third option.

This is too random. No one knows what the random probability is and whether the random things are useful. Compared with the first two, this one is the least helpful to him at present.

It is still difficult to choose between the first and the second.

The first one is obviously a short-term choice. In the later stage, when he has more killing power, this effect will become much smaller, but it is the most helpful at present.

Because the second one is a late-stage ability, the larger Gavin's territory is, the more troops he has, and the more cumulative enhancements he has, the stronger this ability will be.

Now it doesn't feel particularly obvious. After all, the gap between level 3 and level 4 skeleton soldiers is not very large, at least not as obvious as advanced soldiers.

Gavin finally chose the immediate benefits-advanced soldiers.

The initial stage is the most difficult, and strengthening the current combat power is the most important.

When I grow up, the resources in my hands will increase significantly, including this godhood enhancement.

This is obviously the same as the godhood enhancement followed by the gods. Ten points of godhood can condense a godhood. As long as I keep accumulating the divine power of killing, this enhancement will continue.

After determining the enhancement ability, it is extremely simple to choose which type of soldiers.

It must be skeleton soldiers.

The reason is very simple, quantity.

No matter in which territory, skeleton soldiers are basic soldiers, with the largest number, accounting for at least 70%.

Those special soldiers with fewer numbers can be filled by evolving the killing power.

Boom!

The moment Gavin chose the godhood enhancement.

A blood-red light shot up into the sky, with Gavin's soul pool as the center, and spread wildly to the surroundings.

Wherever it passed, not only the soul pools and skeleton soldiers were stained with red, but even the skeleton road also emitted a unique red light.

This involves the transformation of the entire territory, which means that Gavin has a higher degree of assimilation and control over the territory.

In contrast, the shock to the Bone Plain is stronger.

It spreads in all directions along Gavin's territory.

The power of this shock is not only felt by the lords, but also by the wild undead. The soul fires all lit up, and their eyes turned to the direction of Gavin's territory.

Almost at the same time, they staggered towards Gavin's territory and soon gathered into a mighty army.

However, the most threatening ones are the dozen or so low-level undead lords around, who also set off with the troops they could muster.

This time, they not only received orders from the will of the abyss, but also received corresponding blessings.

The undead creatures in the territory completely broke the upper limit of their ability to command troops, and came out in full force, leaving no one behind.

The wild undead without lords encountered along the way took the initiative to join their ranks.

Gavin also felt it immediately, but he was not surprised. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief, and even couldn't help but smile.

What he was most worried about was that the noise he made was too loud, which would alarm those high-level undead lords and directly send regular troops to strangle him.

He was not afraid of the encirclement of this scale, but full of expectations.

Because this was not a siege on him, but a welfare for him.

The previous experiment of transferring souls through the Skeleton Hound Pool was terminated because the Skeleton Road was opened and incorporated into the general territory in advance.

However, Gavin's experiment had an answer because of the divine power of the road.

He didn't need to use the previous stupid method to test the soul energy in a territory, but directly extracted and transferred it through the Skeleton Road.

His guess was correct.

The soul power in each territory has an upper limit. Gavin only drew 20,000 soul fires from the Skeleton Hound Pool, and the summoning speed of the soul pool slowed down by half. When it was 30,000, it directly increased to five times (per hour/person).

This means that the soul fire of the entire territory has been almost exhausted, and what remains are all new souls that slowly condense.

Gavin named it war potential, that is, the maximum number of recruits.

This war potential is not static.

If Gavin mobilizes a large number of soul fires from the territory and injects them into the Skeleton Hound Pool, not only will their maximum number of recruits increase significantly, but even the quality of the recruits will increase slightly (the professional level of the troops and the number of special troops will increase slightly).

You say that these undeads who come to his territory to attack him are not giving him benefits, what else?

The enemy is powerful, and in a short period of time, the number of troops has exceeded 300,000.

But war is not just about the number of troops, but also about strategic command.

The enemy almost has no such thing, and it is what Gavin is best at.

"First Legion, advance ten kilometers to the southeast of the No. 1 Phantom Soul Pool and snipe the enemy on the spot."

"Second Legion, start from the No. 2 Phantom Soul Pool and snipe the enemy in the southwest."

"Third Legion, engage the enemy directly in front of the No. 1 Phantom Soul Pool."

"Fourth Legion, provide support in the middle."

Gavin sat in the Skeleton Minotaur Pool, observing the movements of the invading enemies through the soul perspective, and then deployed troops.

Because the territory expanded too fast and most of them were unintelligent undead, Gavin was not interested in naming them. Regardless of the territories or the lords of the same type, they were all numbered in the order of first come first served, so as to facilitate mobilization and distinction.

He adhered to the principle of defeating each one separately, leaving the Skeleton Cavalry Pool and Skeleton Hound Pool that he had initially occupied and temporarily ignoring them, and transferred all the troops to the two newly transformed Shadow Soul Pools.

Because these two soul pools were expanded by Gavin's full use of the divine power of the road, they extended their territory by as much as 40 kilometers, presenting an arc belt.

While there were more enemies responding around, the speed of advancing into the territory was also faster, and they were the first to engage in battle. (End of this chapter)