Era of the transmigrating earth-Chapter 2154: The Expected Alliance

With a new vast territory in hand, Du You’s points have once again become plentiful. Next up is the production of violent soldiers, as well as creating some powerful undead creatures.

After all, things that reach the seventh-tier level can’t be directly produced using violent soldiers’ methods; at least materials are required. It’s just like the elemental soul back then, and now the corpses of strong individuals are the same.

Developing slowly, Du You isn’t in a rush at all. His enemies won’t slowly increase and grow stronger.

If they feel threatened, his enemies will definitely increase explosively, and then launch a one-time assault.

After a period of time, several nearby cities suddenly announced they were joining forces to confront the evil City of the Dead. Subsequently, large numbers of troops began to gather, and the news was delivered to Du You immediately.

"They’ve joined forces? I wonder how many eighth-tier powerhouses there will be this time."

"This is expected, we’ve been prepared for this long ago. According to their City Alliance, the total number of eighth-tiers in these cities should reach twenty-three, perhaps there are some we haven’t discovered."

Lin Yucha looked at the information while writing and drawing. After the two sisters returned, the intelligence work in this area was handed over to them. "But according to their usual style, they will definitely leave people to defend, and they can’t trust each other absolutely. Therefore, the number that can actually strike us in the end will be at most between ten and twelve."

Du You gently nodded at the information in hand, acknowledging Lin Yucha’s analysis.

"Then, won’t they continue to unite with other cities?" Lin Yushi said with a laugh from the side.

Lin Yucha rolled her eyes in exasperation; her sister had stopped using her brain again. "They usually exist as individual cities, constantly in conflict with each other, so it must have taken a long time to discuss joining forces."

"If they are to unite, it will only be with this group. If they want to join other cities, they will definitely have to contact others, leading to more disputes. So even if someone wants to join, it will undoubtedly be delayed for a long time."

Du You spoke up, "Not necessarily. For example, if they suffer a heavy loss at once, and the nearby cities feel threatened, they might easily decide to join the others."

"Maybe, but at that time, their priority will be self-preservation."

Lin Yucha thought for a moment and then said, "Let’s completely take out these attacking powerhouses this time, and they’ll face a dilemma, allowing us to take the opportunity to develop and strengthen the underground."

Du You’s eyes lit up. This was indeed a good strategy, as long as they could delay long enough.

The underground City of the Dead was almost fully constructed, needing only further improvements. Once controlling a territory, they could search further distances to find powerful Magical Beasts and create formidable undead creatures. Moreover, Du You had also been researching methods to directly control these Magical Beasts.

After all, direct control saves much more time than making them undead. They also needed methods to capture Magical Beasts; direct attacks often led to uncontrollable damage.

It seemed there was still a lot to do. The underground and aboveground were quite different; forming city alliances in the underground was almost impossible, even if they understood the stakes.

So, the underground could develop explosively, but not the aboveground.

The aboveground was restricted by cities feeling threatened and uniting step by step, while the underground development was constrained by city construction. Cities must cover all areas.

Given this, rapidly achieving explosive development in this world wasn’t easy.

A few days later, the opposing troops finally completed their assembly and then advanced step by step. Their speed wasn’t fast as they were building roads as they advanced.

There were original roads, but this action involved widening them, for reasons unknown.

"Sister, what exactly are they doing? Isn’t this extremely time-consuming? It seems their progress is slowing down."

Lin Yucha thought for a moment: "Perhaps they are just stalling for time. Besides that, there shouldn’t be any other intentions. Our Scouts have been investigating the surroundings, and any news would’ve been sent back long ago."

Those Scouts had many Doppelgangers among them, so there was no worry about the enemy using control methods to manipulate them and provide false information.

Moreover, at this level of combat, it’s largely determined by the upper class, with the soldiers merely following orders. If any strong individuals can emerge from the lower levels, it would benefit them.

The main reason they brought regular troops to battle was indeed for such possibilities.

"Why would they want to stall? Wouldn’t this just give them ample time to prepare? Even if they don’t know our situation, coming so slowly makes it easier for us to prepare or escape."

Lin Yucha furrowed her brow and could only come up with a guess after a long while: "I think, perhaps their alliance encountered some issues. After all, deploying forces to attack us requires coordination, right?"

As Lin Yucha suspected, the city lords in the rear were arguing frantically.

Some thought it was just Undead, dismissing them and suggesting a few strong individuals would suffice, without all the fuss. Others, with only one eighth-tier in their city, emphasized their safety and refused to act carelessly.

Some cities insisted the enemies were too strong, requiring more caution and alliances with more cities.

Others argued about logistics or demanded compensations from other cities for sending more powerful forces.

Initially, they thought the coordination issues would be resolved during the army’s assembly.

Unexpectedly, the army was dispatched without any resolution. They lacked unified orders and couldn’t even coordinate who would take action.

So a group of them argued incessantly at the back, while the armies at the front thought of any possible way to stall for time.

Someone proposed that large troop movements needed better roads, as the current ones were unsuitable. Thus, the army turned into a road-building team, broadening paths with their logistics crew, unsure how long this would take.