Volume 7: War and Peace Chapter 24: Confidence (2)
In addition to these "regular" troops, Naxxramas also has some "special" troops!
First up is the Spider Legion led by Ahorn Kne, now known to players as the "Mother Spider"!
When Yu Bin dug a pit for the spider goddess Rose in Mosso Black City, Athokne died in the hands of Vidara, and then was resurrected by the Soul Suppression Bead, known as one of the heroic combat powers in Yu Bin's hands. At the same time, with the return of the Black Dragon Queen Nessestra to power, the once glorious Spider Cult was also destroyed, and some of the captured spider girls and surviving spider eggs were given to Yu Bin by Nessestra, becoming the first members of the Naxxramas Spider Demon Legion.
Subsequently, in order to maximize the effect of these spider girls and spider eggs, Yu Bin exchanged for the Spider Crypt from Kel'thugad, a recruiting building that can be used to recruit Tier 2 Crypt Spiders. The crypt spider is an undead creature transformed by the psychic academy with the large poisonous spiders that live in the silver pine forest, Keldaron and other areas, and through the use of the corpse of the large poisonous spider to resurrect the undead, it becomes an undead spider monster, and the dean of the psychic college, Gardin, has transformed these spider monsters to a certain extent, not only strengthening the physical strength of the crypt spider, but even making the poison sacs in the bodies of these big spiders and the organs that make spider silk start working again, It has the ability to pull low-flying creatures to the ground through cobwebs.
And when Azakne took the spider girls into the spider crypt to start cultivating new spider demons, a wonderful chemical reaction occurred between the two, and the spider eggs brought back from Mosoblack City were under the influence of the power of death, and a new variety of spider demons was born, this creature called the dark demon spider by Yu Bin was similar to the corrupt crocodiles encountered in the swamp, and still maintained a certain degree of life characteristics while being affected by the power of death, which made these dark demon spiders not only able to adapt to the environment of Naxxramas, And still has the ability to lay eggs.
Therefore, now Naxxramas can actually produce two spider classes, the first is the standard Crypt Spider and the corresponding evolutionary species, this Tier 2 class Yu Bin's only desirable advantage is that it can be used for air defense, and it is still very easy to deal with low-flying classes such as gargoyles, griffins or pegasus. And the other is the spider demon that hatches from the spider eggs laid by the dark demon spider, under the special cultivation of Ahorn Kene and the spider girls, these spider demons are also at least 4 rank troops, and can eventually evolve into ebony spiders and death spider guards.
At the same time, Azerkenne and the spider girls also had some changes, Ahorn Kne, who was resurrected by the soul suppression bead, regained the ability to lay eggs, and the spider eggs laid by her and the spider girls can hatch into dark spider spirits containing the power of death, and after special training, they can even evolve into life-spinning spider girls, which is also one of the reasons why Yu Bin's spider demon army is growing larger.
Up to now, the Spider Demon Legion under the command of Azerknes not only has more than 5,000 Tier 2 Crypt Spiders (the ultimate evolved variety of Crypt Spiders), but also more than 2,000 Ebony Spiders and Death Spider Guards under his command, and more than 30 Shadow Spider Girls and Soul Weaver Spider Girls are tending to more than 1,000 spider eggs in the four spider crypts of Naxxramas.
The entire Spider Demon Legion is responsible for the daily patrol work of Naxxramas, which is also a representative feature of this city, and it is estimated that this special Spider Demon Troop can be seen here in the entire Entagre Continent.
Another kind of "special" army is the war apparatus of Naxxramas!
Compared with other players' territories, Yu Bin's Naxxramas has a much higher proportion of civilians with special skills due to the characteristics of the territory, and Yu Bin has snatched a large number of blueprints from NPCs after many adventures, which makes Naxxramas have the ability to make war equipment very early.
From bows and crossbows and arrows to trebuchets, in addition to some special war equipment that cannot be manufactured, the craftsmen of Naxxramas can produce most of the war equipment, especially small ballistas and simple trebuchets are the most popular, becoming the most expensive and popular military products of Naxxramas, due to the bonus to war equipment in the characteristics of the territory, the average price of small ballistas produced by Naxxramas is about 5,000 gold coins, and the simple trebuchet is sold at a high price of 30,000 gold coins! And the cost of these products is less than a third of the selling price!
Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary players, this ability to mass-manufacture war equipment can bring rich wealth to Naxxramas, but only military insiders can understand, which means that Naxxramas has a complete and systematic military equipment manufacturing line, and in the event of a war, Naxxramas can rely on his own ability to provide military supplies of sufficient quantity and quality for his army, without having to buy from other cities because of insufficient production capacity!
However, few people know how much Yu Bin paid to achieve this result! Since the establishment of Naxxramas, he has tried his best to enrich all kinds of craftsmen, not only cultivating himself, but also pulling strong people everywhere through the relationship between Andrew and Sinestra, which has achieved the current results!
So far, the war equipment hoarded in the Naxxramas warehouse is enough to satisfy Bin to fight a million-level battle, with more than 3,000 ballistae of all kinds alone, supply trucks, transportation offices, improvised trebuchets, etc. are also stored in hundreds of thousands!
If the military strength mentioned above is difficult for outsiders to understand, then there is another kind of military strength that can be seen by players at a glance and clearly!
That's the Order of Knights to which Naxxramas belongs!
Widely known to players is the "Black Blade Knights" established by Yu Bin, this knight group composed entirely of undead players has now expanded to nearly 7,000 people, not only including the cavalry troops that fought in the Las Gad region that terrified the Pharaoh Alliance, and even more than 2,000 heavy armored cavalry, more than eighty percent of the entire Black Blade Knights are composed of fourth-order players, and the leader and deputy head of the cavalry regiment are the hero-level Rasouvios and Kurdira Weavers, looking at the entire player group, In addition to the newly established Holy Maiden Guard, which other territory has the capital to let two hero-level combat forces work for themselves!
These military strengths alone are enough for players who want to wrestle with Yu Bin to weigh how many catties and taels they have, and if you take into account the economic strength of the territory, I am afraid that even those super large guilds will not dare to make the decision to start a war with Yu Bin easily.
Thanks to Naxxramas's unique geographical environment, Yu Bin is like having an endless cornucopia, and he doesn't have to think about financial problems at all. At a time when the current players' territories are generally still on the right track, and the input and output are gradually becoming balanced, Yu Bin's Naxxramas has already begun to make a full profit!
The daily income of 300,000 gold coins counted by Maltan is only the commercial tax of Naxxramas, in addition, the gold and silver mines that have begun to be officially mined can also bring Yu Bin a net income of nearly 100,000 gold coins every day, plus all kinds of low-level resources and materials produced and sold by Naxxramas themselves, the average daily commercial income of nearly 500,000 gold coins is very easy!
In addition to commercial income, Naxxramas also sells all kinds of military supplies to player lords and NPC lords of other chaotic factions every day, from consumable arrow potions to various armor weapons, and even war equipment is on the saleable catalog, and even some low-level soldiers, as long as you can afford gold, you can buy them from Naxxramas! And the soldiers with territorial characteristics and the lowest blue qualifications not only make the player lords salivate, but even some NPC lords do not hesitate to spend a lot of gold! These military supplies alone are enough to bring Yu Bin more than 300,000 gold coins every day!
Coupled with the additional income brought by those players who want to become residents of Naxxramas (the regulations formulated by Yu Bin stipulate that only by reaching a certain level of contribution can you spend money to buy the long-term residency of Naxxramas, and the way to increase the contribution degree is to directly donate money and materials, but also to help the territory farm lord dungeons and train low-level soldiers), it can be said that the current Naxxramas has truly achieved the level of earning millions a day!
What can these coins be used for?
Able to do many, many things!
For example, buy Town Cores from NPCs! Since Raphael opened the territory construction rights of Burion Province to Terran players, the chaos faction has also begun to officially relax the restrictions on players to establish territories, as long as the player's contribution is enough, they can buy town cores from the lord of their city and build their own villages within the management area of their city. And such a town core used to build a village will cost at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions of gold coins!
In addition to being able to purchase Town Cores, the gold in the player's hand can also be used to hire other players and even NPCs to help them in battle! As the governments of the world began to fully open up the exchange of gold coins and real currencies, just like the exchange ratio formulated by Yu Bin at the beginning, the final exchange ratio was maintained at about 100 US dollars for 1 gold coin, and 1,000 US dollars is enough to hire players who are not very good to serve them for a day (if you die in battle, you need to pay additional death compensation, which is generally twice the employment fee), which means that only ten gold coins are needed to recruit a third-order player to fight for a day!
Millions of gold coins are enough for Yu Bin to hire a legion of 100,000 players!
That's the power of capital!
That's why Yu Bin didn't hesitate to take a huge risk to establish Naxxramas at the beginning of the game, otherwise, not only would he not be able to have such a strong military strength now, but he would not even be able to compete with those super-large guilds with financial resources!
Not to mention those guilds that have real investment institutions or direct capital injection from the government, just the Guild of Angel Covenant, which does not rely on external investment, can use funds that are not comparable to Yu Bin. Don't look at some guilds led by Spirit Sword Villa to harass and destroy the shops of the Angel Covenant everywhere, causing Bell and the others to have to find a way to find Raphael, in fact, this destruction only affects some skins, even in this case, the entire Angel Covenant still smashed countless gold coins into the province of Burion, and it took less than three months to complete Yu Bin's two-year development progress!
According to the news revealed to Yu Bin by Raphael, with the gradual completion of the infrastructure construction of the province of Burion, the available liquidity of the entire Angel Covenant is also steadily rising, and it is still possible to take out tens of millions of gold coins in one go without breaking the muscles and bones!
That's the strength of a large guild! Not to mention those super-large guilds with national backgrounds!
In fact, this is also the norm for wars between players in previous lives. Due to the limitations of the development of the territory, few players can raise the level of the territory all the way to the top, and as the level of the player group reaches the fifth level, it is difficult for the low-level troops produced by the territory to have a large enough role in the war, and they are more used as cannon fodder to consume the opponent's materials, which makes the vast majority of player lords not care about the recruitment function of the territory, and instead focus on hiring players to fight. In this regard, super-large guilds with large conglomerates or national backgrounds have a natural advantage, and the territories of small guilds and ordinary players can only be attached to large and super-large guilds in the end, becoming the logistics base and financial resources in the hands of these behemoths.
For example, the Pharaoh Alliance, which fought against Yu Bin in the Lasgard region, was just a loose alliance of four large guilds, which could mobilize hundreds of thousands of players, although it was not a war, and the Pharaoh Alliance did not need to pay employment fees to these players, but it would cost a lot of money to organize such a large number of players, not to mention the daily expenses and compensation afterwards!
Therefore, don't look at Yu Bin's Naxxramas in all aspects, it is the territory of crushing other players, but when there is a real war, it is difficult to say how much help this gap can bring to Yu Bin, and the gap in financial resources alone is enough for those super large guilds to erase the distance between them and Yu Bin!
This is also one of the reasons why Yu Bin keeps taking risks! He knew very well that he could not compete with those super-large guilds in terms of financial resources, so in addition to constantly developing his territory and allowing his army to occupy a qualitative advantage, he also indirectly established a large number of hunting regiments through the hands of the Devouring Serpent, which were not only able to serve him when necessary, but also equivalent to taking away some combat players from those super-large guilds, and after coming and going, it was likely to affect the number of players that those super-large guilds could eventually hire.
And Yu Bin's early detonation of the camp war also has this consideration, compared to the super-large guild needs to use gold coins to hire players to fight, the NPC lord is much simpler and rude, once the conscription order is issued, no matter what identity you have, you have to obediently go to the barracks to obey the order, on the one hand, it will make those super-large guilds have no energy to start wars against other players' territories without authorization, on the other hand, they are also fighting for the control of ordinary combat players, further diluting the potential of super-large guilds to start wars!