224 Chapter 191: The Temptatious Underground World
When Richard heard this, he could not help but deeply looked at Karu.
He admired the old gray-haired man's view of the big picture and liked to take the initiative.
It was very in line with his style of doing things.
It was also why he had always placed Karu in the administrative position of Twilight City.
"You're right. Twilight City has never been a defensive style.
"This time, I'll go to the west to investigate."
Xina's words made Richard not only see the risk.
He also noticed the enormous benefits.
"A large number of wyverns. What did this mean?
"Skeleton blood dragon! Crown-level soldier!
"Weren't these wyverns the best prey?"
Moreover, a 4-stars dragon-hunting crossbow required a dragon fascia above level 15.
More importantly, the wyverns came from the underground world.
It meant that he could explore a new map.
This represented a prodigious benefit.
Even the mithril needed to repair the extraordinary hunter was in the underground world...
After Richard figured out the key, Richard's initially heavy mood gradually softened.
The dangerous wyvern had now become his prey.
It was even an opportunity for the entire Twilight City to develop.
Karu held his chest and lowered his head.
"Yes, Lord."
After Richard made his decision, he immediately asked the troop to assemble.
This time, it was mainly to investigate, so he didn't need to lead too many troops.
Mainly a flexible air force.
But at the same time, he immediately put the troop on martial law to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack.
The large-scale movement of the Twilight City troops quickly attracted Onyx's attention.
He asked a few residents. But he couldn't have an accurate answer. He only knew that someone was injured.
He immediately came to ask if Richard needed help.
Richard didn't stand at the ceremony either.
"Dungeon clan attacked my people. Their injuries were highly profound. If there is a medicine that can treat their injuries, I can buy it from you."
Without saying anything else, Onyx took out two bottles of golden potions.
"These are potions the Solan City's Sun Temple produces. They contain holy water that has a powerful recovery effect. It might help the lady warrior.
"As for buying them, there's no need. You saved my life last time!"
When Richard heard this, he patted Onyx's shoulder and asked someone to bring them to Xina to consume.
Then, he looked at Onyx and said, "I need to go out for a while. I hope you can help me if enemies are attacking Twilight City."
As he spoke, he gestured to the god's ancient tree. Poisonous wasps outside the territory surrounded this twisted human-faced giant tree.
"The god's ancient tree will fight with you."
Onyx smiled bitterly.
How could he not hear that Richard was secretly warning them?
If they did not obey, that terrifying giant tree would also send them to death.
However, he was counting on Twilight City to make him rich. So he did not have any thoughts at all.
He patted his chest and said frankly.
"Don't worry. I will not let you down."
Richard did not say anything more. After he looked for Karu to warn him for a moment, he came in front of the assembled troops.
All the dark gargoyles were present. At the same time, the undead soldiers of four squads mounted already on the dark gargoyles' bodies.
The rest of the troops stayed behind to guard the territory.
Without saying another word, Richard waved his hand.
"Let's go!"
After he gave the order, he turned over and rode on the skeleton blood dragon. He commanded the undead dragon to swiftly fly across the yellow sand.
Beside him were four squads of dark gargoyles that the undead soldiers of the Axes of the Dead mounted.
Around them were eight teams of pure dark gargoyles.
Gray and Gunter, the two A-rank mummy heroes, were spread out on either side.
Xina has not mentioned the exact location.
But with the general direction and a net-like aerial search, the troop found the gravel area two hours later.
Richard commanded the Skeleton Blood Dragon to hover above.
When he looked over, he found that the area was so vast that he could not see the end of it from hundreds of meters above the ground.
Three to four meters high boulders covered the ground. They were separated one by one and rarely connected.
Some of the boulders were more than ten meters high, expansively obscuring his line of sight.
When he thought of what Xina had said, the other party used magic to cover himself, and he could not help but frown.
He was not afraid he would not be able to find the enemy. He was afraid of alerting the enemy.
Especially, Richard did not know the enemy's exact strength.
After he thought for a moment, he looked at the two mummy heroes.
"Gray, Gunter, each of you will lead four teams to search.
"Be careful. The enemy has used magic to cover himself. It may not be so easy to find him."
"Yes, Lord."
He gave the order, and the troops moved immediately.
Richard seemed to have thought of something and slowly closed his eyes.
The next moment, his perception spread out.
There was a large amount of sand in the crevice under the rock.
As long as there was yellow sand, it was the range of his perception.
He was like a human-shaped radar that drove the skeleton blood dragon to fly forward.
He quickly searched everything in front of him.
Half an hour later, Richard's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened.
His eyes burned as he looked at an area of boulders more than 15 meters high, two hundred meters away.
From the outside, boulders filled that area. At most, it was a little bigger than the surrounding boulders. There was no problem.
However, from his perception, several people walked around in the area of boulders.
The other party stepped on the gravel!
Just as Xina said, magic covered their tracks.
They couldn't even sense the breath of life.
If he couldn't sense the movement of the gravel, he wouldn't have noticed it if he flew over its head.
Richard opened the system map and marked the location.
Then, he decisively commanded the skeleton dragon to go around the area from the side.
He used the whisper crystal to inform the troops to meet up. He led the large group in another direction and did not return the same way.
After he left this colossal area of rubble, Richard looked at the two heroes and said.
"The dungeon race is building a fortress using the cover of magic."
Gray turned its head and looked at the area of rubble. In its empty eyes, the fire of its soul scorched.
"Lord, do we need to send troops to attack immediately?"
"Let's go back first. We'll come back when we're ready. This is going to be a tough battle."
Richard was very decisive.
After he returned to the territory as quickly as possible, he went straight to the front yard of the Lord's mansion and looked at the troop lairs in front of him with burning eyes.
Today was July 11. The system refreshed the troop lairs three days ago.
Because the time of the "Shining Era" was fixed. Every month was 28 days.
So, every month's 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd were Mondays, when the system refreshes troop lairs.
He delayed the recruitment because he didn't have enough resources.
These few days of accumulation had already earned enough resources for recruitment.
Without hesitation, he used up all the resources he had accumulated over the past few days and recruited all the troops he could.
Elite troops -- mummy guardian 150→250, axe of the dead 100→150
Rare troops -- bandage mummy 0→42,
Scorpion warrior 50→57
Giant axe death knight 30→72
Sand condensation archer 100→200
Mad sand mage 75→100
Cursed pharaoh 25→30
Rare troops -- dark gargoyle 120→140, undead soldier 40→45,
Glorious troops -- Heavy sword warriors 20.
Crown troops -- Skeleton blood dragon 1, skeleton demon 5.
He did not recruit the sand condensation archers, giant axe death knights, bandaged mummies, and guardian mummies last time, so this time they could recruit two weeks of production, slightly more.
The several resources were still the sand condensation archers and the two rare troops with the highest levels.
After a round of recruitment, he had spent more than 600,000 units of resources and 100 units of gems.
The losses the previous attack on the Dark Temple had caused starkly replenished this time.
After Richard gave the newly recruited troops the divine skill of Sand Transformation, he instantly gathered the rarest troops and above.
A dense mass of black filled the small square in front of the Lord's mansion.
There were nearly seven squadrons.
Their strength was unprecedentedly strapping.
Richard glanced at them and nodded in satisfaction.
This troop was an elite troop that he had personally forged. And they had achieved countless battle merits.
"Gray, Gunter, and Baal, the three of you will immediately bring the newly recruited troops out to sweep the map and level up. I need everyone to level up to level 5 and above.
"At the same time, there is no need to bring back the corpses you obtained from the hunt. You can directly recruit the blood-colored mummy. We need cannon fodders.
"I will only give you three days. On July 14, send troops to the dungeon race."
"We will listen to your orders!"
The troop quickly left under Richard's will.
The dungeon race was already building a fort.
How could they allow others to sleep beside their beds?
Once the other party gained a foothold, Twilight City would face danger head-on.
These dungeon race members were not people who loved peace.
Destruction, plunder, and conquest were their natures.
Just as Karu had said, to draw the flames of war to the enemy's territory was countless times better than to wait for their attack.
The territory developing quietly for the past few days tensed up because of this news.
However, with the support of the high people's hearts, they continued to do their jobs without the slightest bit of chaos.
In fact, because of the external threats, the cohesiveness of the territory had increased significantly.
The following day, on July 12, Xina woke up.
Richard immediately went to visit her.
He looked at the girl on the bed whose life aura had gradually stabilized. His heart calmed down quite a bit.
It had to remove the seal in her body. It had to release her true fighting strength.
The losses this time would be immeasurable if this high-level hero died in battle.
"Lord Richard..."
When she saw Richard rush over, Xina's gaze softened a lot.
"Rest in peace. I've already found the dungeon clan's fortress.
"Twilight City is safe enough. No one can harm you in this territory."
Warmth filled Xina's heart.
"You don't have to worry. Scars are glory and honor to the Krina Tribe."
As she said this, she seemed to have thought of something. Her weak tone became more serious.
"Perhaps, you need information about the dungeon tribe now..."
Richard nodded.
"There's no need to be anxious. Speak slowly. Don't affect your injuries."
Xina said in a weak voice.
"After I left Twilight City, I tracked a group of wyverns and found the fortress they were building.
"It took me a lot of effort to sneak through the enemy's weak points.
"I learned that the forces that built the fortress on the surface were a defeated dungeon race.
"They had about three companies of level 10 rare soldiers -- wyverns and three of them were glorious-level soldiers.
"Two companies of level 9 rare-level soldiers -- evil eyes.
"Three squadrons of level 8 rare-level soldiers -- half-snake-people.
"Apart from that, they control more than five squadrons of caveman slaves.
"The one controlling this dungeon clan force is a level 13 half-snake-people dungeon clan hero.
"I didn't fight with them. After I sneaked in, I followed the underground passage and came to the real underground world..."
Richard was deep in thought.
The strength of the dungeon race was indeed not bad. But it was still within the acceptable range.
After he returned to his senses, he became very interested in the underground world that Xina had mentioned.
"What's the difference between the underground world and the surface?"
"The underground world's environment is dark. Poisonous insects and snakes are everywhere... Other than that, there is an extreme shortage of food. There are a lot of hungry monsters.
"It is ten times more difficult to get food underground than in the desert. Most of the beasts and monsters are poisonous and inedible.
"At the same time, they are ten times more dangerous than on the surface."
Richard was deep in thought.
"Is there an underground city in that area?"
"There is an underground city ruled by the underground barbarians. They are fighting against the grey dwarfs.
"The war between these two forces caused those dungeon races to escape to the surface."
Richard became more interested.
"Have you heard about the mithril?"
Xina thought for a moment and said uncertainly.
"It seems that the gray dwarfs control mithril mine.
"This is the information I got after I captured a half-snake-person. I didn't pay attention to it at that time. So, I couldn't confirm its authenticity..."
Richard's eyes immediately lit up.
