Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 14: Territory Building
Although it is said that it is waiting for Naxxramas to produce civilians by himself, it does not mean that Yu Bin doesn't have to do anything, just sit stupidly.
As a world with complete rules, it is impossible for such a thing as a population being born out of thin air on the continent of Entagre, even if it is a new undead, it needs corpses as a foundation, otherwise it will really become a big change of life.
The population growth of most life races follows the most basic fertility rules, even if the player establishes his own territory, if he wants to increase the number of civilians, he must either absorb immigrants or wage wars to increase the population of the territory, and at the same time, these civilians will automatically form families and give birth to newborns according to the fertility rules.
The undead are more special, as a race that has died physiologically, the undead do not need to eat or drink, as long as there is enough soul power to support the soul fire not to be extinguished, the undead can exist for thousands of years. Therefore, there is no such thing as immigrants for the undead, because their requirements for living materials are far lower than those of the living races.
The increase in the undead population can only be done in one way, that is, the corpses that have obtained soul fire through the influence of the power of death, these "natural" undead tend to have high intelligence, in addition, some necromancers will occasionally use spells to summon the undead from the corpses of the battlefield, and these summoned undead will also gain soul power, thus giving birth to soul fire, but the undead born in this way rarely have enough self-awareness, They must draw on the power of death over a long period of time to grow the fire of their soul until a clear self-awareness is generated.
In addition, there is another race that is also more special, and that is the demons. As a member of the living race, demons are not physically male and female, so there is almost no way to give birth (some special types of demons are not included), each demon is originally a demon hatchling born from a lava pool, and each demon hatchling will automatically devour its surrounding kinders after birth, until it gains enough strength to break through the boundary, and what kind of demon larvae these demon hatchlings who have obtained the opportunity to evolve will become in the future depends entirely on what kind of bloodline they trigger in their body when they break through the boundary.
The appearance of the player must also abide by these rules, just like Yu Bin, his identity is an undead born after a soldier who died on the battlefield was affected by the power of death, and if he chose a human or an elf at the beginning, then Yu Bin will have another suitable identity, which may be an orphan abandoned in the wild, or a newborn elf born from a certain world tree.
These different identity origins have become the basic template that each player has himself, so it is likely that a player will have a greater advantage in the early stage because of luck and obtaining an excellent basic template. In fact, this kind of natural "rich second generation" was not uncommon in previous lives!
Straight to the point! Even if it is a newborn undead, it is not something that can be had for no reason, if Yu Bin really does nothing, then it is very likely that it will be a few weeks, or even a few months, before the first civilian will appear in Naxxramas, this is because the core of the territory is relatively strong, and the death power that can be provided is more abundant, if it is according to the ordinary situation, it often takes years or even decades for an undead to be born naturally, otherwise, the entire Ntagri Continent would have been overwhelmed by countless undead.
Of course, if Yu Bin is a necromancer, he can also summon the undead through some spells, but unfortunately, the current Yu Bin is still a clean "newborn", and he doesn't even have a profession, let alone any skills!
But these did not hinder Yu Bin, since he had chosen the Undead Clan and had painstakingly completed the Orange Epic Crusade in order to obtain the territory as soon as possible, how could he be troubled by this question.
To put it bluntly, if you want to generate new undead, you only need two conditions, one is the corpse, and the other is enough death power!
As for the corpses, there are many human soldiers in the entire hero cemetery, and there are at least hundreds of human soldiers who were killed by Yu Bin as an experience baby before, these are all corpses, and they are freshly baked, with quality and quantity!
As for the power of death, isn't it simple? Yu Bin glanced at the territory core above his head, isn't this a ready-made source of death power?
Now Naxxramas is poor and white, there is nothing, and the territory core naturally does not need to consume any power to support the buildings in the territory, anyway, this thing is idle and idle, and it can be regarded as its contribution to the territory when it is used to spawn a few civilians, as for the death power lost because of this, it can be replenished by the automatic recovery of the territory core. In the wilderness of the Anglis Mountains, Yu Bin has no need to be afraid of other lords attacking him, nor does he have to worry about any wild monsters to loot, here is the nearest undead border, and the straight-line distance is thousands of kilometers, as for the monsters in the wild? A sacred griffin can be used here, so you can imagine what level of monsters will be around this area!
The first thing that Yu Bin used to transform was that priest, who could become the big boss of the hero cemetery, even if this priest didn't have too much intelligence, at least he should have the same elite template as the griffin, but unfortunately, as a beast, the corpse of the sacred griffin could not be transformed into a humanoid undead unit, at most, it could become a special undead class like the bone griffin, which was of no practical use to the current Naxxramas.
Under Yu Bin's control, a gray mist poured out from the core of the territory at the top of the bone bench, winding down the body of the skeleton statue, and little by little it submerged into the corpse of the priest who was dragged over by Yu Bin, under the influence of the power of death, the corpse wearing the priest's robe gradually changed, the skin that lost blood gradually turned gray, the muscles gradually dried up, and the bones and joints inside were obviously exposed, only wrapped in the outer layer of skin, which looked like a dried corpse.
It took several minutes for the gray mist pouring out of the core of the territory to finally disappear, and the corpse of the priest who had been in the form of a human had been transformed into a freshly made mummy, and the priest's robe had become tattered, looking like a tattered sack draped over a beggar's body.
A blue light gradually appeared from the corpse's eye sockets, eventually filling the entire skull until it coalesced, which meant that the corpse had finally ignited the soul fire and had been successfully transformed into an undead!
"Greetings, my master, Dogil is at your command!" The newborn undead priest slowly stood up from the ground and bowed his head to Yu Bin to salute, oh, you can't call him a priest now, his identity is a corpse witch! Dorgil the Witch!
Although he changed from a fifth-order priest to a fourth-order corpse witch, this result was still unexpected by Yu Bin, who originally thought that he could only transform into a third-order ghost at most. Of course, there is still bad news, due to the reason that he has just been transformed into an undead, the corpse witch Dorgil has not received any training, and naturally has not mastered any academic and technical skills, as for the knowledge he originally mastered when he was a priest, it has long been forgotten due to the washing away of the power of death.
In other words, Dorgil is a tabula rasa corpse witch, not only does he not have any spell skills, but he doesn't even have the ability to fight, Yu Bin wants to make him a real corpse witch, either let Dorgil go to a certain undead city to learn the knowledge of the undead, or wait for this guy to open his mind and master the use of death power, the former is meaningless, Yu Bin has the time and money to buy a corpse witch back, regardless of the level of wisdom, it is not impossible to buy a corpse witch from those undead lords, And the latter, hehe, Yu Bin just wants to say, expecting these brainless undead to comprehend by themselves, I really don't know if it will be thousands of years later!
And for such a useless guy, the death power in the core of the territory has already consumed one-fifth! Yu Bin, who felt deeply disappointed, could only make fun of his suffering, glad that he had not been hot-headed before and transformed with the sacred griffin, if he spent such a huge price to get out of two wastes, then Yu Bin really didn't know if he would be able to play well next!
Fortunately, it's not too late to make amends! This time Yu Bin chose to transform the four guards, this time the transformation time is much shorter, and the consumption of the transformation is also within Bin's tolerance, the four guards were transformed into four zombie warriors, the level is still the same as before death, and the strength is slightly reduced, the movement speed of the zombies is far less than that of the guards, except for the amount of blood, it can be said that it is useless!
After these two attempts, Yu Bin also understood the mystery, using the territory core for transformation, the undead units obtained are definitely not as good as before their death, the more advanced the unit, the greater the reduction in strength after transformation, and the more death power is consumed!
In the end, Yu Bin chose the corpses of some spearmen and crossbowmen as the materials for transformation, because the strength is really low, these corpses can't even maintain their original rank after transformation, the spearmen are transformed into skeleton soldiers, and the crossbowmen are transformed into skeleton archers!
After the death power in the core of the territory was exhausted, Yu Bin obtained the first batch of subordinates, a total of twelve skeleton soldiers, six skeleton archers, four zombie warriors, and a tabula rasa corpse witch, plus the two skeleton hunters who survived before, well, just counting from the heads is a bit large, but the combat effectiveness can really be said to be miserable!
What's more, since the transformed are all human soldiers, the transformed ones are naturally undead soldiers, not civilians, and they are useless for the construction of the territory, and because they are transformed with the core of the territory, they are not even recognized by the system as the undead units born naturally by Naxxramas, and of course they cannot enjoy the blessing of the characteristics of the territory.
Sighing, Yu Bin reluctantly retired the twelve skeleton soldiers, that is, canceled their status as soldiers, so that these skeleton soldiers would become ownerless civilians and automatically belong to Naxxramas. Coupled with the corpse witch Dorgil, Yu Bin was finally able to pull up some people to carry out the construction.
The first thing to build is to live in people's houses, don't think that the undead really don't need to rest, after a long time of work or battle, the soul fire of the undead will be weak, and the death power in the body will be reduced, if you ignore it, you will eventually die completely because of the dissipation of the soul fire, the way to avoid this result is also very simple, you can let the undead rest regularly, and you don't even need to provide them with food and water like humans, so that they can feed very much!
But rest can't be said to let them find a corner anywhere and lie down and pretend to be dead, that's not called rest, that's called polluting the environment! Having a sheltered house is at least a benefit for these undead civilians, and the higher the intelligence, the higher the requirements for this aspect.
And the single-room houses around the original cathedral have collapsed in the process of corruption, and these buildings are obviously not as solid as the cathedral, otherwise, where does Yu Bin need to build his own houses, just use them directly!
Of course, strictly speaking, the facilities used by the undead to provide rest and accommodation have special construction drawings, including various grades and functions, the lowest and most common is the tomb, a pit lying a person, in addition to being able to rest, there is no additional help, a little better is the psychic tower, not only can rest, but also has the effect of gathering the power of death, the undead resting in the psychic tower will speed up the recovery of the soul fire, and it is even possible to further strengthen the soul fire, so as to awaken higher wisdom, And the highest level is all kinds of palaces, the area is different in size, the common point is that it is powerful, very powerful!
Yu Bin is now self-made, except for a vote of the lowest level of wood and stone, there is not even a single architectural drawing, naturally there is no ability to build a psychic tower, and digging a tomb is too much, not to mention anything else, the next rain is enough to make the civilians lying inside half dead, this is not the territory of the undead, the Anglis Mountains are not shrouded by the perennial clouds of the undead clan, rain is a normal thing, and these natural rains contain a small natural power, which can be used to nourish the earth, For the undead, these natural forces are real poisons, and although they will not completely die if they are drenched, they will consume additional death power.
Let the corpse witch Dorgir and the twelve skeletons incarnated as construction workers start to work in full swing, while Yu Bin himself leaves the Hero's Cemetery with the other soldiers, exploring the surrounding terrain and landforms while leveling up by hunting wild creatures. He didn't leave any soldiers to defend Naxxramas, and the iron fence around the Hero's Cemetery was not damaged in any way, and with this ready-made protective measure, Yu Bin was happy to make the best use of it!
As for returning to the undead clan, Yu Bin can only wait for him to be promoted to level ten and be able to take office! In the depths of this inaccessible mountain range, there is neither a post station nor a teleportation array, relying on his own two legs, not to mention whether he can safely cross the small half of the Anglis Mountains, the time it takes alone is enough for Bin to veto this idea!
This is also a problem that Yu Bin has to face, Naxxramas is established in this kind of place, the advantage is that it will naturally not be threatened, except for wild monsters around, there is not even a person who can speak a complete sentence, and naturally it is impossible for anyone to attack the city! The disadvantage is that it is inconvenient to enter and exit, and Yu Bin can't spend a long time running through the entire mountain range to build a territory every time! You must know that the Anglis Mountains are only a part of the Great Hengduan Mountains, and the entire Great Hengduan Mountains are almost as vast as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in reality, which is the largest and most wild area on the Entagre Continent.