Volume 9: Outbreak Chapter 7: Naxxramas (1)

As the first snowflakes fall in the north of the continent, stretching for thousands of kilometers, there are mountains and mountains everywhere, and the large Hengduan Mountain Range, which is full of strange peaks and secluded paths, has also taken off its verdant green clothes and put on a plain dress.

As part of the Great Hengduan Mountains, Mount Anglis, which is close to the north side of the entire mountain range, was also hit by a cold snap from the north, and the rain clouds from the misty sea brought more than 20 days of rain to the Anglis Mountain, forcing wild animals who were rushing to stock up for food to survive the winter had to brave the icy rain to walk through the forest.

The rain also caused a lot of trouble for Naxxramas. The abundance of natural forces in the rain forced Yu Bin to suspend work at most of the resource collection points, while keeping an eye out for the stagnant water in the city to avoid the collapse of some buildings due to backfilling.

Originally, this was not something that Yu Bin needed to worry about, but it was only less than four years since the establishment of Naxxramas, although the development is extremely rapid, but after all, manpower and time are limited, so many aspects have not been paid enough attention, such as the water supply and drainage system.

Because the undead are not as dependent on water as other life races, and they hardly produce any excrement, the water supply and drainage systems of many undead cities are very rudimentary. But on the land of the undead, relying on the thick death clouds in the sky, natural rain is almost unlikely, and even if it occurs occasionally, the raindrops will be affected by the death cloud in the process of landing, and the force of nature will be neutralized by the death cloud in the cloud, and will not cause any harm to the undead in the end.

However, Yu Bin's Naxxramas is not the same, because the city is built deep in the Angelis Mountains and cannot be protected by the clouds of death, so it is constantly exposed to the threat of bad weather, and has to spend additional death forces to prevent the forces of nature around the city from regaining lost territory.

This is also the reason why the size of the territory of Naxxramas has not exceeded 30 square kilometers to this day. The urban core that Yu Bin has spent all kinds of effort and effort to integrate over the years is theoretically enough to support a large city with an area of more than 80 square kilometers. However, on the one hand, the town core needs to consume a lot of death power to fight against the surrounding forces of nature, and on the other hand, the mausoleum located deep underground in Naxxramas still needs to be continuously suppressed by the town core, so that the death power that can be used to supply the city's development has so far only accounted for about half of the total amount that the town core can provide.

There are pros and cons to this, and although Naxxramas was unable to expand its territory on a large scale for various reasons, it also avoided the destruction of Naxxramas. There are countless powerful creatures and races inhabiting the entire Great Hengduan Mountain Range, and it is precisely because Naxxramas cannot unscrupulously spread the power of death to the surroundings that they do not regard Yu Bin's territory as a threat, after all, for the entire Great Hengduan Mountain Range, Naxxramas is just a small speck of dust.

However, as groups of players use the city as a base and continue to advance and penetrate deeper into the Angles Mountains, and even the entire Grand Hengduan Mountain Range, the friction and confrontation with those powerful creatures and races will inevitably intensify little by little, and eventually turn into a bloody war.

But in a short period of time, Yu Bin doesn't need to think about this problem yet.

Since returning from the Wanyuan Plain in mid-June 342, Yu Bin has been in Naxxramas for more than three months. This was the first time he had stayed in Naxxramas for an extended period of time since he entered the world of Ntagre, and before that, he had been like a diligent worker bee, constantly bringing back the rewards of his adventures to the territory, and then set off non-stop. Although the entire development of Naxxramas is still under Bin's control, it is difficult for him to penetrate this control into every corner.

Fortunately, during this period of time, the changing situation on the continent forced Yu Bin to give up his original plan to go to the land of bones, and stayed in Naxxramas, while paying attention to the development of the situation, he calmed down and sorted out the situation in the territory.

Today's Naxxramas is no longer the dilapidated and decrepit heroic cemetery it once looked like, but a fortress with high walls and deep pools.

From the very beginning, Yu Bin did not position Naxxramas as a city focused on economic development, and he was well aware that the Great Hengduan Mountains, although rich in resources, were not a safe haven, on the contrary, they were more dangerous than anywhere else on the mainland. Powerful monsters from the depths of the mountains, hordes of demonic beasts roaming the mountains, and even the fresh air that fills the mountains and forests are enough to pose a deadly threat to the city. Therefore, Yu Bin's goal is to make Naxxramas an impregnable fortress, and if possible, he also hopes to turn the city into a floating fortress, thus completely cutting off the threat from the Great Hengduan Mountains.

In order to achieve this goal, Yu Bin continued to collect a strong urban core on the one hand, and on the other hand, through various architectural plans, he built the entire Naxxramas into a fortress-type city dominated by military affairs.

Because Naxxramas is located on the side of the Anglis Mountains, although there is land leveled by the Griffon Dynasty to build a heroic cemetery, with the expansion of the territory, Naxxramas has now expanded its scope to the slopes behind it, and at least a tenth of the area is located on the steep slopes with large elevation differences, which makes the defense of the entire city obviously problematic.

To this end, Yu Bin abandoned the thick stone walls commonly used in undead cities, and instead referred to the defense plan of modern cities. That is, the long-range early warning system, supplemented by a large number of long-range firepower, plus a simplified, easy-to-dismantle and maintainable city wall and multiple moats, formed the defense system of Naxxramas.

The entire defense system is divided into three layers, the outermost layer is based on various resource collection points distributed in the field, mixed with a large number of ground sentinels and air warnings, forming a control of the surrounding situation, and the small-scale enemy will constantly harass and mislead them after discovering them, and eliminate them in the wild, and the larger beast groups will divert them and put them into the second layer of defense network.

The second layer of defense is supported by a number of highly developed resource bases that are closer to the city, plus multiple trenches, scattered watchtowers, and a large number of players whose main activity is these resource bases. Basically, enemies with less than 30,000 clans and an average strength below the fourth order will be wiped out within this defensive network, and the walls of Naxxramas cannot be touched.

As Yu Bin's most concerned and the third layer of defense network that has invested the most effort, it still adopts the form of ordinary city walls and defense towers, but compared with the stone walls of other cities, the circle of walls around Naxxramas is completely made of obsidian and granite, and the outer side is also covered with a layer of steel up to 1 cm thick. The height of the city wall is seven meters, which is enough to form a height advantage over most large-sized demonic beasts.

The defense tower is based on the unique death tower of the undead race, supplemented by some magic towers, the former can launch a powerful undead spell such as death suspicion to the enemy when the corpse witch is stationed, and has a certain bonus to the lethality and coverage of the spell, while the latter can effectively reduce the magic consumption of the magician in the tower and increase the effect of the spell. Coupled with the support provided by the Arcane Saint, these towers are far more powerful than those of other undead cities.

Because of his forward-looking understanding of the future forms of warfare, Yu Bin is very aware that the future wars will inevitably include all-round combat methods, so these defense towers are not limited to the area near the city wall, but are scattered throughout the city, more than 200 defense towers can not only provide strong fire support for the city wall, but also support the air defense system of the entire city.

The city walls, defense towers, plus a large number of high-quality undead soldiers, and players living in the city, these forces are enough to meet the defense of the entire city, plus Naxxramas himself can make all kinds of weapons and consumables, as well as most siege equipment, and there is no need to worry about running out of ammunition due to siege.

The most powerful evidence is that while Yu Bin went to the Wanyuan Plain to participate in the bloody battle, a group of high-level territorial leaders led by Rasuvios and others took the initiative to attract a group of more than 150,000 blue-toothed demon wolves to attack Naxxramas.

Without using heroic combat power, this group of blue-toothed demon wolves caused only minor damage to the city walls under the defense system fully operated by Naxxramas, and almost all of them were wiped out, and the number of people who escaped in the end was less than 10,000. After this defensive operation, Lasovios not only tested the defense system and defense capabilities of Naxxramas, but also harvested the corpses of hundreds of thousands of blue-toothed demon wolves, which not only provided Naxxramas with a large number of raw materials and bones to summon soldiers, but also allowed Naxxramas's soldiers to absorb a lot of experience. And the destruction of the Blue Fang Demon Wolf Clan allowed Naxxramas to gain seven new resource points in one fell swoop.

Since then, more and more chaotic faction player groups have begun to reside in Naxxramas, contributing a lot of wealth and human resources to Yu Bin.

By October 342, Naxxramas had been registered, and there were 530 player groups that had set up a residence (buying real estate) in the city, including 77 groups with more than 500 members, and nearly 100 large and medium-sized player guilds had set up liaison offices in Naxxramas, and even sent some guild members here to level up and hunt, and obtain all kinds of resources needed from the vast and rich Grand Hengduan Mountain Range.

This is only the permanent population that can be counted, if you count the players with greater mobility, the total number of players active in Naxxramas is estimated to exceed 100,000, which is not weaker than Venerberyon City of the Angel's Covenant, and considering the premise that the overall number of players in the chaos camp is obviously smaller than that of the order camp, it can be said that Naxxramas has become an out-and-out behemoth among the players in the chaos camp.

Such a large player base and liquidity have naturally brought about the prosperity of business and the rapid development of the manufacturing industry.

According to Martan's statistics, in the entire first half of the year since January 342, the net profit obtained through the commercial areas set up in the city exceeded 800 million gold coins, and if you count the various siege equipment and weapons sold by Naxxramas to other lords, then the total profit will definitely exceed the scale of 2 billion gold coins. At the peak of the first half of the year, the number of gold coins circulating in the commercial area of Naxxramas exceeded 100 million every day, relying on the rich natural resources of the Great Hengduan Mountains, the city has gradually become an important resource trading place for the undead clan, and even the entire chaotic camp An important resource trading place, and even futures trade has appeared in the city, and has been vigorously sought after by some players.

And relying on the various magical beasts and materials that players hunt from the surrounding mountains and forests every day, the manufacturing industry of Naxxramas is also developing rapidly. So far, four large forging furnaces, eleven medium-sized forging furnaces and more than 70 small forging furnaces have been completed, alchemy workshops, tailor shops, wood preparation shops, tanneries and other processing and manufacturing facilities have been continuously established, at the same time, with the input of a large number of materials, the number and level of the indigenous people owned by Naxxramas are also increasing, the indigenous population has exceeded 70,000, of which more than half are craftsmen of all kinds, these craftsmen cover almost all aspects, from forging to alchemy, from tailoring to enchantment, It can be said that Naxxramas already has a complete set of industrial chains.

Among the aborigines of Naxxramas, there are now more than 30 senior blacksmiths, more than 40 senior carpenters, and even two expert blacksmiths, and three expert carpenters.

This is where a province with full resource output comes in. If Naxxramas had not been built in the depths of the Anglis Mountains, but on top of the undead territory for safety reasons, it would not have been possible to obtain such a diverse and abundant supply of resources. Within the undead, the more important or productive resource points have long been carved up by various large and medium-sized cities, and the only resource points that can be used by players are those with poor reserves and extremely difficult to mine.

The Great Hengduan Mountains are completely virgin land, here, no one comes to compete with Yu Bin for resource points, whether it is the type or reserves, it is completely at the mercy of Bin's selection. So far, there are more than 500 resource points discovered by Naxxramas, and at least more than 300 of them have been developed, which cover almost all aspects and provide sufficient material foundation for the development of Naxxramas.