ps: I was delayed yesterday due to something, and I was told that I would make up for it in a burst today, but the result... Oops, it was so late, I don’t know if it’s too late today, Xiaolong will try his best to write the first chapter first.

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The Dark City of the Dark Duke is located in the northwest of the Kingdom of Solna, very close to the northwest corner to be precise, adjacent to a large basin called "Fostel".

The Fostel Basin is vast in area and is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Solna, Ptolemy, and Garthwood within the undead forces. It has always been a place with the most chaotic security and barbaric forces running rampant.

The reason why this place attracts so many large and small forces to stop here is actually because of the large amount of "black iron ore" abundant in the Great Basin.

As a special type of iron ore, black iron ore only has inferior darkness, and the strengthening effect of undead power is not that rare in itself. However, a small amount of mixed "stygian iron" ore crystals are among the most precious metals in the undead realm. The undead tribe

The main force of the regular army: Black Samurai. The official weapons equipped by the heavily armored warriors of the Black Knight series are almost all forged from the extremely rare Stygian Iron, which can greatly strengthen the strength of these high-level and high-quality undead and transform them into

Got to be even scarier!

Of course, the reason why those big city lords are able to obtain such a large amount of Stygian Iron is related to their ongoing trade agreements with the Undead Secret Realm. The Undead Secret Realm generally has a large gap in the types of resources and the demand for medium and low-grade resources.

However, compared to the main material world, the reserves of special and rare resources there are surprisingly huge. They have always been the main materials that the owners of large and medium-sized cities are jealous of.

Compared to those large and medium-sized powerful lords who have opened the "Alien Trade Agreement", this small amount of profit is naturally not a big deal.

But for those undead gangs who have no established strongholds and have to wander around and plunder, the Fostel Basin is a big piece of meat they cannot miss. Even if it is rich in black iron ore, for many

The undead forces with average strength are also of great benefit.

To be able to gain a foothold in such a place, the Dark Lord and the others really went through a lot of trouble, and they probably lost no less than three million Union coins in compensation for this!

Even so. In the end, they only established an initial stronghold at the town level. It can be said that if they had not accidentally received the help of Liu Yifei and his Plague City, the Dark Duke and the others would have been able to upgrade their territory to a formal territory [1

level city] level also requires a lot of time, manpower and material resources, and the gap in interests involved before and after this is even more huge and unimaginable~

Nowadays, the Dark City is already one of the few third-level territories on the edge of the Fostel Great Basin! Although the territory has not yet been fully built, under the active efforts of the lords and players, the prosperity of the Dark City has been greatly improved.

A good foundation, and the surrounding conditions are even better, making many player lords in the northwest region of Solna almost crazy with envy...

Thanks to the fierce competition of the Dark Duke and the others, they now control five resource deposits around the Fostel Basin!

One place for timber, two places for stone mines, two places for black iron ore...

If we look solely at the benefits from resource extraction, the Dark Duke's Dark City can even equal Liu Yifei's Level 5 Plague City!

A large amount of black iron ore is produced every day, even if the part that needs to be paid as tribute to the superior NPC lord is discounted, the profit is still astonishing! The additional 10% of basic attributes are not covered. Nowadays, in the undead realm, the high-quality equipment that can be obtained is not available for the time being.

Mention. If it is hand-made by players, more and more "customers" have begun to request "made from black iron ore" or even "made from slug iron"!

In this way, taking advantage of the current skyrocketing price of black iron ore, the Dark Lord and the others have actually made a large sum of money, making up for a considerable part of their huge initial investment in one go...

Lord mode. In the final analysis, it is still the way for rich people to spend a lot of money to build a territory. As long as the location of the territory is well chosen and there is a foundation to support the prosperity of the territory, it is absolutely unreasonable to lose money~

For example, after the "Dark Iron Ore" sign was launched, the number of players stranded in Dark City every day reached more than 40,000...even more powerful than the players in local medium-sized system cities!

Because there are so many people who want to secretly mine black iron ore and then turn around to make money~

With the large flow of people, the profitability of various service buildings in the territory, such as blacksmith shops, tailor shops, taverns, hotels, etc., has gradually increased, bringing thousands of gold coins in net income to the Dark Lord every day...

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However, as the old saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind!

Even though there are two gold-lettered signs of "Liuyun" and "Plague City" behind it, there are still many guys appearing around Dark City recently who seem to want to take advantage of this gold mine in the hands of the Dark Archduke~

Fortunately for the player group, Liu Yifei's current reputation is not an exaggeration. Although he suffered some setbacks in the southern border two days ago, the popularity of the "Uncrowned King" in Solna is already great enough to stop children crying at night.

Not to mention that Liu Yifei's banner has not yet fallen. Even if it does, no one would dare to provoke the entire Plague Alliance...

Just kidding~

Eight powerful player lords formed a behemoth that almost monopolized the entire Kingdom of Solna, including a plague city, three third-level city territories, and four second-level city territories...

Who dares to provoke such a perverted alliance?

Not to mention the small territory of Solna, I am afraid that no player group dares to jump out and challenge openly in the main material plane of the entire game world!

This alliance has at least the ability to organize a local regional battle!

Without the joint efforts of at least two medium-sized system cities, it would be even more difficult to completely remove them~

Therefore, what has always caused the Duke of Darkness to be frightened recently is actually the pressure from NPCs...

Ever since the chaos started in the Xerseis Fortress in the southern border, the Forstel Basin has also started to become chaotic!

Although in the past, uncontrolled undead bandits roaming and committing crimes in the border areas of various countries have never stopped. But recently, they have become extremely violent. Even the boss of the Dark Lord was furious because the resource strongholds at three edge locations in the country were seized.

, directly issued a conquest order!

Any adventurer, mid-level or lower-level lord who can eradicate the border bandit organization will receive high rewards!

The other rewards were just that. What really made the Dark Duke unable to stop was... the rewards for "intermediate lords" actually included another town-level territory quota!

Fuck~~~

Since becoming a lord, the Dark Duke has also begun to pay more and more attention to collecting various information about the lord, and he naturally knows about the restrictions on players not being able to privately expand their territory within the country~

Unless you are outside the Land of the Dead...

For example, Liu Yifei's territory is far away in the Sighing Mountains. It is simply far away from the sky and the emperor, and the terms of the ghost clan cannot control him. Or, except for the situation where other racial forces seize territory and transform it into a ghost clan stronghold, in addition to the situation of his own clan

Within the territory, the spacing restrictions of territories should follow the following rules: village-level territories are separated by one kilometer, town-level territories are spaced by three kilometers, small city-level territories are spaced by ten kilometers, and medium-sized city-level territories are spaced by thirty kilometers.

Therefore, when the kingdom or the entire race cannot continue to develop, the titles and resources of "Lord" and "Territory" are absolutely extremely limited. Not only will you become stronger if you grab one more early, but you will also become stronger if you grab one more for others.

One less...

A town-level territory quota...that means that as long as the Dark Duke is strong enough, he can continue to extend his control deeper into the Fostel Basin!

As long as you find a place with a good location...even if it is only a town-level territory, with the support of the Dark City behind you, it will not be difficult to achieve amazing prosperity there~

And for the Dark Duke, who wants to become bigger and stronger and become the "second brother" of the lord in Solna. Such a good opportunity must not be missed!

But just when he excitedly received the military order and stated that he would eradicate at least two of the enemy's bandit groups within a month, more than a week has passed, and the Dark Duke has not captured even his first prey!

Although mission failure only requires a little "appropriate" punishment, for the Dark Lord, this is still a very troublesome matter~

Especially when a large number of his former subordinates were borrowed by Liu Yifei...

To be honest, he still has a lot of complaints about this~

Anyway, in the eyes of the Dark Lord, Liu Yifei's strength has long exceeded their limits and imagination. Although this guy always seems to be unhurried and unhurried on the surface, it is easy for people to put down their guard, but with the other party

The more contacts there are, the more thoroughly the Dark Lord will be able to see this person!

This is a nasty guy who likes to keep a lot of trump cards, and then constantly surprises his "enemy" during the fight!

That is to say, unless you are his enemy and beat him to a state of serious injury and near death, it is impossible for you to know how many cards he still has in his hand and how long it will take before he launches a desperate counterattack.

A moment, a second, or the moment when this thought occurred?

Such guys are so scary. For the Dark Lord, it is difficult for him to understand these mysterious Eastern companions. He thinks they are all wonderful~

However, even so, just the strength revealed by Liu Yifei and Plague City was enough to make the Dark Duke stunned~

In comparison, he really felt that his subordinates were not going out to fight with Liu Yifei to gain military merit, but simply going to die as cannon fodder...

In this case, why waste his troops? It's better to leave it to him so that he can send more manpower to search for the bandits...

It's just that the Dark Lord only dared to think about such thoughts~

The entire Plague Alliance was "pushed" by Liu Yifei single-handedly, and it is the absolute core of power!

Other player alliances may be able to use democracy, voting, voting and other fun methods, but here in the Plague Alliance, it can only be Liu Yun's word!

Others can propose, discuss, and elaborate~

But as long as Liu Yifei decides...

Then there is no need to discuss~

Everyone can only cooperate and cooperate!

Although this method has not made any big mistakes so far, and it has really reduced a lot of disputes and troubles in the Plague Alliance. But sometimes, it still makes the Dark Lord silently feel a little unhappy.

"Hey... the war in the south is going on endlessly. I don't have a clue about this matter. There's really quite a lot of shit..."

Seeing his men busy transporting various supplies and war machinery in the territory, the Dark Lord complained somewhat depressedly.

The area around the territory is already in danger. It seems that there are always some strange guys spying on the territory in every corner. However, all of this is not as serious as the "crisis" that broke out yesterday!

Nearly two months ago, the "Desolate Bone Society" that occasionally showed its true face during the "declaration of war" finally revealed its brutal fangs this time!

What no one expected was that...these people actually came from Garswood, located in the hinterland of the undead forces in the north of Solna, a truly established power among the undead forces...

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In the game, there is indeed the concept of a so-called "powerful country" or even an "empire" and the distinction between strength and weakness.

Although Solna is a strong figure among the player group like Liu Yifei, it is the weakest among the entire undead clan in terms of national strength... As an emerging kingdom that Toradre and Solna jointly cultivated,

This country has existed for less than two hundred years, and its level is only slightly better than the human Kingdom of Dickwell~

In this way, it will have a more or less all-round and invisible impact on players as "citizens", such as the number and strength of monsters in the territory, the abundance of resources in the territory, etc.~
To be continued...