Chapter 43: The Sacrificial Circle
The battle at the city wall was completely over after ten minutes, and the dragon guard sprayed down five dragon breaths in a row, and the remaining gnolls and kobolds were routed, some fled, and some fell down and surrendered.
Those who flee do not care, and those who surrender are disarmed and killed.
But the battle was not over yet, for those who fled fled to the stone temple in the center of the tribe, where there were still some remnants.
At the same time, Li Qing's powerful soul sensed the aura of death coming from the direction of the stone hall that disgusted him.
The troops were divided into two and inspected the tents and wooden houses one by one to clear the fish that had slipped through the net.
Cleaned all the way to the center of the tribe, the troops were regrouped.
The stone hall is located in the center of a large square, and there is no building in a large area around it, only open space, and there are many strange stone statues on the edge of the square, that is, they are not jackals or humans, but a kind of monster statue that Li Qing has never seen before.
The stone hall is not large, and the surface is severely eroded by wind, but there are no plants such as moss vines.
There are some complicated and strange pictures depicted on it, but the wind erosion is too serious, and the picture is too distorted, and Li Qing can't see what is painted on it after looking at it for a long time.
Of course, his attention was not here, but inside this stone hall.
The stone hall is not very large, but from the structural point of view, there must be a basement floor, that is, the main body of this stone hall is underground.
There are so many gnolls and kobolds that can hide in it, and the scale of this underground is estimated to be not small.
A small tribe of gnolls, and this kind of building
It can only be said that their ancestors were indeed wide.
But that was in the past, with the plane shattering, the origin leaking, and the plane power level declining year by year, to now even the sixth-order transcendent level and above cannot be accommodated, and even the leader is only the third-order, what threat can this have?
With a wave of Li Qing's hand, the five infantry raised their shields and walked in front and stepped into the stone hall.
Li Qing didn't follow up, and the three brothers of An Erqiu and the Xie family took the lead, bringing forty subordinates in, and Long Shou stayed outside to guard his side.
Li Qing was not idle outside, and sent people to transfer more than 100 people on the other side of the walled city, and let them start to demolish this gnoll tribe stockade.
Tents, wooden houses, stone walls, etc., are all dismantled and piled into piles, and then collected into the palm of the hand, decomposed, and reassembled into plant fibers, wood fibers, stones, metals, and other raw materials.
The more basic supplies like these, the better, and you can pick them up at any time when you need them.
When the stockade was halfway dismantled, two archers came out of the stone hall and reported to him:
"My lord, the Knight of Anerqiu has found something strange underground, please come and take a look."
Li Qing nodded, and led Long Shou and ten subordinates into the stone hall.
Descending about twenty meters down a slope deep into the ground, they came to the basement floor of the stone hall, and the two soldiers led them all the way forward, crossed a stone gate, and came to a rather large square, and saw a blood-red stone pillar in the center of the square, and the side was crowded with the corpses of jackals and kobolds.
A large amount of blood flowed out, along the stone cracks in the floor to the central blood-colored stone pillar.
The stone pillar looked like several strange creatures hugging each other.
An Erqiu ran over and whispered:
"I didn't encounter any enemies all the way down, and when I got down to this level, I found that all the gnolls and kobolds were dead, and strangely enough, there were no wounds on their bodies, but all the blood flowed out and seeped into the ground, along the stone pillar, and even the flesh and blood were slowly absorbed by the floor."
Li Qing frowned and looked at the square, as well as the blood-soaked stone pillar in the center of the square.
The powerful soul perception does not perceive any special existence, the only special thing is this stone pillar.
In his powerful soul perception, a faint wave slowly spread around the stone pillar.
A large amount of blood flowed along the trench in the square towards the stone pillar, and it seemed that as the large amount of blood was absorbed, the stone pillar had a feeling of coming back to life.
"Isn't this thing going to come back to life after absorbing enough flesh and blood?"
Li Qing pinched his eyebrows and said to Long Shou:
"Burn it with fire."
Long Shou didn't say a word, opened his mouth to accumulate strength, and a mouthful of flame dragon breath sprayed over.
When the Flame Dragon's Breath burned the blood and corpses on the ground, many of the surrounding subordinates suddenly covered their heads and screamed.
"Everyone retreats and retreats to the upper floor of the stone hall."
Li Qing's eyes were blazing staring at the stone pillar wrapped in flames, and at the moment when the corpse and flesh were burned, he felt a strange fluctuation coming from this stone pillar.
"There's a problem."
Li Qing thought for a while, took out a three-meter-long wooden pillar from the space in his palm and threw it on the ground:
"Knock this pillar down for me!"
Long Shou immediately stepped forward and picked up the wooden pillar with a diameter of nearly fifty centimeters, picked it up with the three brothers of the Xie family, and collided with the stone pillar together.
"Bang!"
The stone pillar shook violently, but did not fall.
Li Qing found that the wooden stake hit the stone pillar, as if it was hitting the flesh and blood, and the sound was very small.
"Come again!"
The wooden pillar stepped back two meters and slammed into it again.
This time, there was a crunch at the bottom of the stone pillar, and it broke and fell directly.
Almost instantly, everyone's eyes fell on the fracture, and found that the inside of the stone pillar fracture was made of stone, and the edges were full of entangled flesh and blood, as if the stone pillar was slowly activating.
He didn't see the imaginary necromancer, and even now he didn't feel the breath of death.
"Isn't there a necromancer, but"
"Strange!"
That is, there is no necromancer, how did the jackal undead puppet come from before?
But then again, the stone pillar in front of him is indeed absorbing the flesh and blood of the corpse and activating it.
If there is enough corpse flesh, the stone pillar will gradually turn into all flesh, and then. It is possible to be reborn as a powerful monster.
Obviously, the flesh and blood of these corpses are not enough to bring this stone pillar back to life.
Judging by the number of corpses, and the degree of flesh and blood, even when this gnoll tribe was at its peak, its corpse flesh and blood was estimated to be not enough to completely revive this thing.
Judging by the appearance of this thing, it is clear that this pillar-shaped monster and the gnolls are not the same race.
Or rather, this stone temple may not have been built by the gnolls.
It's just that a group of gnolls discovered this stone hall, as well as the stone pillar inside, and gathered into a tribe under the influence of this unknown force.
However, whether it is or not, this has nothing to do with Li Qing.
He directly opened the space in his palm and sucked the broken half-flesh stone pillar into it.
The moment this half-flesh stone pillar was taken away, he suddenly felt an invisible wave explode around the stone hall, quickly extending to the entire Gnoll Tribe, stopping after expanding to the edge of the tribe, and returning like lightning.
After the invisible fluctuations were withdrawn, the entire gnoll tribe seemed to have been stripped of a layer of color.
The invisible fluctuation returned in less than three seconds, gathering into a ball of light above his flesh pillar, exactly the same as the ball of light that the gnoll leader had condensed after his death.
Li Qing rubbed his hands excitedly, this thing should be the trophy to destroy this gnoll tribe.
The law of the world in the New Era, after defeating a strong enemy, will gather the spoils of war.
Reaching out and holding the ball of light in his hand, the ball of light quickly transformed into a small box with a delicate crystalline shell, attracting the attention of many people.
Li Qing did not hesitate, and directly opened the box, and there were six cards inside.
An Erqiu rubbed his hands excitedly on the side and said:
"Boss, what's in here? Can you see it? ”
Li Qing shrugged:
"Of course you can!"
Take out the six cards in the box and spread them out in front of them.
I don't know if it's because the leader of the jackals, LinkedIn, has condensed the treasure, and the reward for destroying the gnoll tribe is a little worse than he imagined.
There are quite a few of them, with six cards, but the quality is somewhat unsatisfactory.
The first is a one-star hero card that can transform any class into a hero.
The second card is a Gnoll card, which contains 100 Gnolls, half male and half female, and can summon 100 Gnolls in the God's Domain when activated.
The third is a kobold card that contains 500 kobolds, half male and half female.
The fourth is a Gnoll promotion card that can be used 50 times, starting at level 5 Gnoll and progressing to level 14 Gnoll Warrior, level 24 Gnoll Warrior, and level 34 Gnoll Leader.
The fifth card is a kobold promotion card that can be used 100 times, which is the promotion route of the kobold leader.
The sixth is a one-time item card - Death Sacrifice, which contains a one-time sacrifice circle, after summoning the sacrifice circle, you can sacrifice the life and soul of the sacrifice to a certain existence in the underworld, and then determine the reward according to the quality of the sacrifice sacrifice.
Obviously, this death sacrifice is related to the magic circle under the stone hall in front of you, and it may be that the magic circle under this is the sacrificial magic circle.
Li Qing thought for a moment, first put away the death sacrifice card and the hero card, and then walked up to Xie Zhu and said:
"I have clear rewards and punishments, you three brothers have an obvious effect in this operation, I said before to give you a benefit, now you can choose to choose two of these four cards."
"Of course, if you don't want this, when you return to the Mentor's Castle, I will prepare another benefit for you."
Xie Zhu thought for a moment and asked:
"Can I know what the benefits are?"
"A large counterweight trebuchet, an arrow tower, and a subsidy of 200,000 yuan."
"Hmm"
Xie Zhu was silent for a moment and said:
"I want to choose two cards."
Li Qing nodded:
"Yes, which two do you want?"
"Gnoll Cards and Gnoll Promotion Cards."
"Okay!"
Li Qing did not hesitate to take out two cards from them and handed them to Xie Zhu.
At this point, the cost of employing the three Xie brothers has been settled.
Next, Li Qing gave an order, and his subordinates began to dismantle the stone hall, and such a large stone was all materials.
Then he returned to the temporary camp not far away, took all the people over, and put away all the temporary camps.
Li Qing didn't leave to go back immediately, now there were twelve or three days left before the second month's big class, and it would only take two or three days to go back, and there were still ten days for him to plunder resources.
He rebuilt the makeshift camp within the Gnoll tribe, then sent troops to protect the people and began cutting down the surrounding primeval trees.
This tree is very thick, one or two meters in diameter, all of them are high-quality wood, and you can cut down some more for backup.
Anyway, there were only ten days left, and he didn't bother to go to other indigenous tribes, so it would be better to prepare more.
Just in time to tear down the base town in the God's Domain Ranch and rebuild it.
For the rest of the work, Li Qing spent most of his time in the Divine Domain building.
A large amount of wood is pulled in, decomposed through the space in the palm of the hand, and then formed into strong wooden boards, wooden squares, wooden pillars, and then built by his subordinates.
Small rooms can be integrated into the palm space and then put out, large houses and factories are too big to exceed ten meters in diameter, and the inner diameter of one hundred meters inside the palm space can be accommodated, but the exit is only ten meters in diameter and cannot be moved out.
In order to make room for the interior of the Divine Domain, Li Qing moved all the residential areas of the people of the Divine Domain to the base town in the Divine Domain Ranch.
Anyway, the space in the Divine Domain Ranch is larger than that of the Divine Domain, there is enough land, sufficient water, and there is no problem with temporary residence.
In fact, many Warlord apprentices did this in the early stages, moving the people of the God's Domain to the God's Domain Ranch or God's Domain Farm, until the God's Domain expanded enough to live.
After the people moved into the ranch, Li Qing only needed to enclose the core tower of the Divine Domain and the Divine Domain Ranch with a high wall, and then build a wall around the entire Divine Domain.
Then, extend the walls at the four corners of the Divine Domain to the edge of the Divine Domain.
In other words, the outer city wall of the entire Divine Domain is like a 'mouth' shape protruding from the four corners, dividing the perimeter into four areas.
The double defense encloses all sides and is basically enough in the early stage.
Of course, this was just a plan, because the outer city wall he planned was twenty meters high and ten meters wide, and it needed a lot of stones, and at this stage, the entire Divine Domain was not enough to store stones.
In addition, the specifications of the city wall are large, and the foundation groove must be dug and built in many sections, and the efficiency is slow, and there is no way to do it in one step, so you can only build the inner city wall first, and the outer city wall will come slowly.
Coming out of the realm of the gods, he was accompanied by more than 200 men and women, each carrying hoes, shovels, hammers, saws, and other tools, and some pushing carts.
Their task is simple, dig the earth.
Anyway, he can turn dirt into stone, so he doesn't have to dig directly because it's too hard and hard to dig.
Dig out the dirt and pile it into a hill, suck it into the space with your golden finger, and then turn it into stone.
It can be said that the more this thing, the better, and if it accumulates enough in the future, and then cooperates with the transformation of essentia into the soil of the Divine Domain, it can expand the internal space of the Divine Domain.
The expansion of the internal space of the Divine Domain is essentially the process of plundering the external material to fill the interior, but in addition to the substance, some essentia is needed to broaden and stabilize the space of the Divine Domain.
Of course, the space for expansion in this way is only to simply expand the area of the Divine Domain, and the essence of the Divine Domain will not become stronger.
In order to make the essence of the Divine Domain stronger and be able to accommodate a more powerful upper limit of strength, other conditions are needed.
Time passed unconsciously, and on the morning of the eighth day, Li Qing ordered his subordinates who had dug up the valley of the Gnoll tribe to gather, dismantle the camp and prepare to return to the Mentor Castle.
There were still four or five days to go, and he was going to take a detour when he was going back, to see if he could encounter some more ferocious beasts to make Long Shou move up the ranks.
After the previous battle, these eight heavenly dragons took some of their subordinates out from time to time, killing a lot of ferocious beasts, and now the level has 29 and most of the experience, and there are still some ways to upgrade to level 30 and be promoted to a third-order hero.
The team travels north along the valley and after some distance leaves the valley and turns right.
The jungle was still as dark as ever, but after half a month, they had become accustomed to this darkness.
In order to attract the ferocious beasts to attack them, Li Qing deliberately collected most of his troops, leaving only twenty of his subordinates.
Less than a kilometer out of the valley, a ferocious beast targeted them.
(End of chapter)