#79 - Chapter 79 The Call of Hunger
“....”
Watching Li Qi, who had been arrogant beyond compare just moments ago, crushed into pieces along with his army,
the smile on Wu Wei's face finally disappeared.
He wasn't happy at this moment.
In fact, he had suffered a huge loss.
To eliminate the trouble brought by Li Qi, he had spent all the resource points he had just obtained from the Bitter Sea Desert.
Moreover, this was just the initial expense.
What truly gave Wu Wei a headache were the twelve Rampage Demons wreaking havoc on the battlefield.
These fourth-stage monsters, known as Rampage Demons, were essentially 'money-burning machines' that cost money every moment!
And their appearance had completely disrupted Wu Wei's rhythm.
Wu Wei said this because the Rampage Demons had a very peculiar characteristic.
Their attribute values are as follows.
【Rampage Demon】
【Level 47 unit, built from the Abyss Hatchery, no special building required.】
【Cost: 7000 resource points, or equivalent flesh and souls.】
【Attribute Values: Strength 79, Intelligence 2, Constitution 60, Perception 4, Agility 4, Charisma -23】
【Health Points: 840, Mana Points: 0】
【Physical Defense: 24, Magic Defense: 25】
【Passive Skills: Distorted Titan Body, Hungry Summons】
【Distorted Titan Body, Passive Skill】
【Skill Effect: Rampage Demons will have an additional 15 defense points. When health drops to one-third, this value will be doubled.】
【Hungry Summons: Negative effect, and cannot be removed.】
【Negative Effect Description: Every twelve hours, Rampage Demons need to consume 100 units of flesh as food, otherwise, they will permanently lose 90 health points. If the maximum health is less than 90 points, the Rampage Demon will die.】
【Evaluation: Young man, have you heard of the 'price' of power?】
Wu Wei's headache came from 【Hungry Summons】.
Although the appearance of the Rampage Demons was indeed useful, their cost was very expensive.
To feed them, 100 units of flesh were needed every half day, which was 200 resource points per day.
And this was only for one.
Now Wu Wei had twelve of them, which meant that with twelve Rampage Demons, he would lose more than two thousand resource points a day even if he did nothing.
Wu Wei was poor, really poor.
Although he had occupied a lot of territory along the way, looted the wealthy dwarf kingdoms, and plundered the orc clans who lived by plundering, he was still very poor.
Whenever he had just obtained some surplus resources, the war situation would always force him to reinvest all the remaining resources into the war.
And until now, Wu Wei's territory construction was still very rudimentary.
All his possessions, all his resource points, were now these armies in front of him.
Once these armies were completely destroyed, he would have nothing.
He would hardly have a chance to make a comeback.
Even Wu Wei, a madman who craved war so much, gradually felt suffocated because of the endless abyss and the special nature of the demons.
For some reason, Wu Wei always felt that.
From the moment he was sent into the endless abyss, everything seemed to be destined.
It was as if he had not actually controlled the abyss, let alone the demons in front of him.
He was not their lord, nor was he using them.
On the contrary, the one being used was himself!
The demons, and the endless abyss behind them, were pushing him forward at all costs.
Their desire for war had even surpassed Wu Wei himself.
This was the second biggest reason why the smile on Wu Wei's face disappeared.
He seemed to feel that the more he entangled himself with the abyss and the demons, the more countless transparent, invisible chains would bind him firmly to the throne of the abyss.
Forever.
“Is it an illusion, or what?”
Wu Wei remembered the black and red vortex he saw when he first entered the endless abyss, and the vague gaze he had suffered in the endless abyss.
But after thinking for a while, Wu Wei gave up thinking.
He shrugged his shoulders and threw all the previous suspicions behind him.
There was no way, Wu Wei was somewhat different from other lords, and even from many normal people.
This unusual thing didn't count as anything in his eyes.
He was not a scholar, let alone a gifted genius. He was not interested in those invisible and intangible things.
The only thing he was interested in was how to carry out the war in front of him to the end....
Thinking of this, Wu Wei began to redeploy his troops.
He transferred the twelve Rampage Demons to different directions on the battlefield to ensure that all the remnants of Li Qi could be completely hunted down.
At the same time, he regrouped the remaining demons who still had combat power, preparing to completely kill all the warriors of Gu Changqing's alliance who had temporarily survived on the battlefield due to the conflict between himself and Li Qi.
After doing all this, Wu Wei could re-attack other towns in the underground kingdom. These territories that had fallen into the hands of others because of his departure would once again return to Wu Wei's hands.
And he urgently needed these territories to make up for his current war consumption.
However, just as Wu Wei was still deploying troops across the battlefield, Gu Changqing's reinforcements arrived on the battlefield again.
This eldest son of the Gu family, holding the Gu family's beliefs, was preparing to save his troops who were gradually falling into despair.
But he did not know, no, not even Wu Wei himself, nor all the lords participating in this lord trial would have thought.
What kind of disastrous consequences would result from this reckless behavior of the Gu family's heir.
What the lord era possesses is not just war.
Conspiracy and calculation, betrayal and destruction, are also part of it.
And the conspiracy and calculation in the lord era will be nakedly displayed in front of everyone for the first time.
And at this moment, the seed on the corner of Gu Changqing's clothes is secretly sprouting.
