Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 15: Undercurrents

In the next few days, Yu Bin lived his small life in the Anglis Mountains, while taking a group of younger brothers to explore the situation around the territory little by little, while urging the skeletons and zombies transformed from the core of the territory to build more and more houses.

As more and more corpses are transformed, Yu Bin's army is getting stronger and stronger, those human crossbowmen, crossbowmen can only be transformed into skeleton archers, only strong crossbowmen can be transformed into skeleton hunters, and the same is true for halberders, who can only be transformed into skeleton soldiers, while halberders can be transformed into zombies without dropping ranks.

After a few days of exploration, Yu Bin also roughly grasped the situation around the territory, as part of the Great Hengduan Mountains, the Anglis Mountains are still very rich, surrounded by a large number of broad-leaved forests, which can provide sufficient timber resources, including even rare tree species, which means high-grade wood. As a mountain range, there is naturally no shortage of stones, the only problem is that Yu Bin does not know how to prospect and has no mining equipment, so he can only sigh.

More interestingly, he even found a lake in a col a few kilometers away, fed by snowmelt from several surrounding mountains, and after Yu Bin personally inspected it, he was able to determine that there were some gem deposits at the bottom of the lake, indicating that there were exposed veins of gems in one of the surrounding mountains, which are often accompanied by a variety of associated deposits, such as mercury sand and crystal mines.

As for copper and iron veins, it takes professional prospectors to find, but Yu Bin believes that the Unglis Mountains, which have never been explored, will not lack these things, this is a virgin land, and only a little investment can be used to obtain great benefits.

Of course, good news is often neighbors to bad news! Unexplored means that the wild monsters here have also not been cleaned up, and many powerful monsters often like to occupy feng shui treasures as their lair, Yu Bin wants to develop these treasures, he must first clean up these monsters, which is not an easy task.

As an independent world that follows the simplest laws of nature and has a complete biological chain, almost all levels of monsters can be found here, from the small hare and squirrel that can't even provide experience, the big enough to dominate one side, and even the hero-level wild monster Yu Bin has encountered it once from afar, and he was so frightened that he turned around and ran, and marked the area with extreme danger.

The construction of Naxxramas is also advancing in an orderly manner, although there are no drawings, and functional buildings cannot be built, but under Yu Bin's planning, the simple roads and walls have been done, and the stones that were rewarded before have been consumed, and there is still some wood, during this time, some civilians who were transformed were sent by Yu Bin to the nearest forest for logging, although it was inefficient due to lack of equipment, but it was able to provide some resources for building houses, It's better than leaving these civilians with nothing to do!

Seeing that his level was getting higher and higher, and he was about to reach level ten, Yu Bin had to start thinking about the future.

It's not a problem to return to the undead, one of the big advantages of the player over the NPC is that it can withstand a certain degree of death, it's really not good, Yu Bin just found a group of wild monsters to commit suicide, and then it will naturally be resurrected in the nearest undead border city from here, and the gold coins awarded to Yu Bin at the beginning are as much as five thousand, which is enough for Yu Bin to use the teleportation array to reach any city in the territory of the undead.

What gave Yu Bin a headache was that when he returned to the Undead Clan, what should he do with the territory of Naxxramas? So far, Naxxramas has never naturally given birth to an undead civilian, let alone has enough wisdom to manage this territory instead of Yu Bin! Of course, not enough time is also an important reason why civilians have not yet been born, but Yu Bin can't waste time all the time, according to the experience of his previous life, there are already some lucky people who have obtained the ring and successfully entered the Entagri Continent through the ring, and continue to waste their time here, which is obviously not conducive to Yu Bin's future plans.

After thinking about it, the only way to do this is to let these civilians and soldiers rest in the territory, and completely stop any logging and exploration, so as not to attract any monsters, in case the entire territory is broken because of this, then Yu Bin is really going to cry to death.

Fortunately, the undead are easy to feed, they don't need food or water, if they want to change to human territory, maybe it means that the next time Bin comes back, all the civilians in the entire territory will starve to death! This is also one of the reasons why Yu Bin chose the undead, from the experience of the previous life, the territory of the elves is suitable for the local tyrants, the territory of the human is suitable for the rich second generation, the territory of the demons is suitable for the petty bourgeoisie, and the territory of the undead is the first choice of the poor.

When the last bit of experience slot was filled and the level was raised to level ten, Yu Bin settled all the civilians and soldiers, and simply issued a few instructions through the territory core, which were too complicated to be handled by the territory core, after all, this was just an energy generator, not an Intel processing chip!

Then, it is to put the things that should be carried into the space bag, this small cloth bag that looks like a sachet is the bag used to hold the death crystal, the ordinary cloth bag cannot preserve the death power in the death crystal for a long time, only the space equipment with independent space can maintain the power of the death crystal from dissipating. This small space bag is just the most basic space equipment, providing less than a cubic meter of independent space for storing items.

Sure that nothing was left behind, Yu Bin found a fourth-order rock bear who looked like he had just been woken up, took the initiative to meet it, and was slapped back by the black blind man who was getting up and waiting for his resurrection!

Well, I don't have any equipment on my body, and I save money on repairing equipment! Yu Bin gave a thumbs up for his wit!

At the same time, in the province of Lit, northeast of the city of Diar, a wasteland of sparse dark plants and jagged rocks was a thick cloud thousands of meters in the air, and a small city loomed in it.

This is a small air fortress, on the continent of Entagre, the camp of order dominated by humans and elves and the chaotic camp dominated by undead and demons have always been in a state of hostility, the war between the two sides has continued intermittently since the establishment of the camp to the present, after two entire eras of the continent of Entagre, for their respective beliefs and interests, the two camps are engaged in confrontation all the time, or open or covert military operations and intrigues emerge in an endless stream, more than a hundred years, as little as a few months, There will be a faction war, the difference is only in the size.

The daily war has given birth to a large number of new technologies, in order to win the victory and completely destroy the enemy, whether it is the orderly camp that believes in light and nature, or the chaotic camp that believes in darkness and death, they are constantly researching all kinds of deadly weapons, or a new magic, or a new war machine, in short, whether it is a human being who shouts light and freedom, or a demon who screams about destruction and dictatorship, they are sending more lives into the abyss of death with what they have in their hands!

The birth of the Aerial Fortress also originated from this, this technology was first developed by the hands of elves, these long ears with special talents for magic thousands of years ago, in order to completely occupy the sky, gathered the best scholars and craftsmen of the entire race, and built the first aerial fortress on the continent of Entagre, and relied on this strategic weapon to occupy a great advantage in the war. But the balance of power between the two camps has been established since two epochs ago, and a single weapon cannot shake it all.

Relying on a large number of bone dragons and gargoyles, the undead who exerted their numerical superiority finally completely destroyed the elves' air fortress, and the principle and manufacturing method of this strategic weapon were thus mastered by the undead, and finally spread out, after thousands of years of development, the power of this weapon is increasing, and the variety is increasing.

And this small air fortress in front of you is obviously not built for war, the entire fortress does not have heavy walls and dense arrow towers, nor does it open a powerful strategic magic shield, and there are not many buildings in the fortress, compared to those war fortresses full of recruiting buildings and training grounds, this small air fortress is more like a small town.

At this time, the air fortress was quietly hovering in the dark clouds, overlooking the wasteland below, and the huge bone dragons and small gargoyles formed an aerial formation, patrolling around the fortress according to a certain route. On the walls of the fortress every ten meters, there is a large corpse witch, these corpse witches are the advanced evolution of ordinary corpse witches, good at using a variety of death-based spells, the most feared is their death suspicion, this kind of spell full of death and shadow energy can envelop a large area, inflicting a lot of damage on the enemies inside, is the favorite of the undead to defend.

At the center of the fortress is a five-story tower powered by a large pure black crystal, this special type of fortress core not only supports the entire fortress, but also imbues the tower with the power of death, this kind of death-like environment is something that any undead who want to improve their strength can only dream of.

Now, only the top floor of the tower is in use, and in the room directly below the core of the fortress, five powerful undead are sitting around an obsidian round table, discussing something. If you look closely, you'll see that the eight legs of this obsidian round table are all made up of a complete angelic corpse!

This fortress belongs to the Council of the Dead, and only the Council of the Dead, which is enough to compete with the royal families of the three major undead empires, has the capital to use the corpses of angels to make furniture!

Unlike human beings who mainly believe in light and spirits who believe in nature, most of the undead do not have a clear belief, although the power of death allows them to be resurrected, but perhaps they are free from the shackles of the body, and the undead who re-observe this world through the fire of the soul do not have a firm belief goal as they did in life, some undead believe in death, believing that death is the end of all things, while some undead believe in the soul, believing that only the soul is a symbol of freedom, and there are also many undead who do not believe in anything, They only believe in their own power, believing that everything in the world is a manifestation of power, and that the so-called gods are only beings with greater power.

Therefore, although the entire undead clan belongs to the three major undead empires, they are also divided into several forces according to their different beliefs. The oldest of the three empires, the Dia Empire and the nascent Felta Empire, are in the same vein, their royal family is a staunch believer in death, while the royal family of the Sa Anlote Empire, which has always been divided with the Dia Empire, believes in the power of souls and shadows, so the Dia and Felta Empires are full of temples and priests of the Grim Reaper, and the Sa Anlote Empire is the preferred settlement for necromancers who pursue the power of souls and shadows.

In addition, at the beginning of the establishment of the chaotic camp, in order to better deal with the camp war, the Dia Empire and the Sa Anlote Empire (the Felta Empire had not yet appeared) temporarily compromised and established the Council of the Undead to unify and coordinate all aspects of the entire race.

Now, as the five highest members of the Council of the Dead, they have gathered in the aerial fortress Ark of Death to discuss the corruption of the Heroes' Graveyard.

"I didn't expect someone to complete this task so quickly!" A skeleton with an upper and lower jaw without a trace of flesh and skin, and it is unknown how he made a sound after losing his vocal cords.

"Can't you be sure who did this task?" As if two rusty iron rods rubbing against each other, a lich sitting at the round table asked without the slightest emotion.

"I heard that it was a newborn undead, and someone saw him enter Diar's crusade temple!" The other lich let out a hoarse voice, "It's hard to do it now! ”

Compared to the typical undead appearance of the others, the necromancer sitting at the head of the round table was a standard human appearance, he was Andrew Yasen, who served as the chairman of the Council of the Dead, and he said in a calm tone: "Put away your thoughts, Gismat! Even if it is true that a newborn undead has completed this task, we must abide by the contract we made with the three emperors, and it is witnessed by the will of death! ”

"Don't crush me with the will to die, Andrew! Do you think I'm the only one who will lose face? Gismat, the corpse witch, stared at the expressionless Andrew with those empty eyes, "No, it's the entire council that is disgraced!" Am I wrong? ”

"Is that what you're looking at? Death Knight Thurman! You've always been like this, what's the use of asking you to be this councilor! Is it an ornament? The other lich shouted disapprovingly at Thurman, the Death Knight who had been silent on the other side.

Thurman, who was wrapped in heavy armor, remained in that position from beginning to end, as if he couldn't hear anyone talking to him, until the other party was about to get angry, and the death knight said word by word: "I obey the contract, since all this is under the watchful eye of the will to die, no matter what conclusion is reached, it is the choice made by the supreme will to die!" ”

"And what about you, Nahara?" Speaker Andrew asked the skull Nahara.

"Hehe, it's none of the business with me!" Skeleton Nahara shrugged his shoulders indifferently and waved his hand, "Anyway, the contract is clearly written in black and white, I'm not like some people, I can't afford to play and can't afford to lose!" ”

"You!" Gismart slapped the table hard.

"Isn't it?" Skeletal Nahara said in a mocking tone, "You and Rhodes can do it yourself if they want!" Isn't all this saying now just trying to pull us along and take the risk? ”

The lich Rhodes replied coldly, "Pull you guys? Have you forgotten what's buried underneath? If all this falls into the hands of the royal family, will it be only me and Gismart who will suffer? No, it's the whole council! And now you want to sit on the sidelines? ”

"But it hasn't happened yet!" Death Knight Thurman used only one sentence to silence Rhodes.

Andrew, who had been smiling as he watched the two lichs jump up and down, stopped Gismat's speech: "Alright, no more superfluous nonsense!" Let's vote! ”

"Don't you need it? Now it's clearly two to two, Andrew, whichever side you support will have the majority! Nahala leaned back in her chair and said nonchalantly, "But there is one thing I said first, no matter which side you support, it is impossible for me to participate in this matter anyway, it's a big deal that I won't be this councillor!" ”

"Same!" Thurman expressed his position in just two words.

"Well, it looks like that's all I have to do! Gismat, Rhodes, in order not to anger the will to die, and also to avoid a third re-election of the Supreme Council in ten years, I have to support the opinion of Nahara and Thurman! ”

The skeleton Nahala clapped her hands happily: "Aha! Choose wisely! I'm kind of fond of you, Andrew! If you're not so hypocritical! ”

Thurman nodded to Andrew without saying a word, and then disappeared from his seat.

"So, that's the end of this meeting!" Andrew stood up and bowed slightly to the other three, smiled and raised the staff in his hand and waved it lightly, and disappeared.

"Goodbye! Two cowards who only play with intrigues! Before leaving, Nahara did not forget to sarcastically mock the two corpse witches.

"Now it's just you and me! Rhodes, you don't want to watch those things become toys for those old things, do you? ”

Rhodes fiddled with the ring on his hand: "This is the decision of the council!" Gismat! I won't agree to your plan without the support of the entire council! ”

Seeing that Rhodes also left the room, Gismat's eyes instantly turned from blue to scarlet, and he smashed his fist on the obsidian tabletop, and the powerful force smashed a crack in the magically reinforced tabletop: "Coward!" Sooner or later, I'll make you regret it! ”