Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge-Chapter 796 - 490 Invading the Territory of Pan Shi City’s Jurisdiction_2

The path of invasion had almost turned into one of recruitment.

Not many battles were fought, and with minimal losses, the corps actually grew considerably in strength through recruitment.

Before the invasion war began, each of the five forces comprised nearly over a hundred thousand troops.

After the war started, the troops under each command directly expanded to two hundred thousand.

It really was growing like a snowball.

As for the surrendered mid-and lower-level officers or clerks of the City Lord’s Mansion, they were mostly imprisoned and sent to Tianxiang City.

The stationed soldiers were directly absorbed, dispersed, and reformed into new units.

Originally, the garrison should have been over ten thousand, but with the issue of eating away at the pay, only more than five thousand old, weak, sick, and disabled remained.

Though their strength looked to be between the Second and Third Tier, the actual combat power was barely at the Second Tier.

After eliminating the old, weak, sick, and disabled, the five thousand garrison units directly reduced to just over a thousand and were then reformed into a new corps.

As for the remaining over three thousand, those guilty of crimes were executed!

The rest were given a payment and became subjects in the towns, working to create value for Zi Liyuan.

The army relentlessly advanced, with troops gathering more and more, capturing towns one by one.

Soon, the entire road west to Pan Shi City was free of any town forces blocking the way.

The five forces converged under Pan Shi City, totaling over a million strong.

In contrast, inside Pan Shi City, though it appeared the garrison added up to four or five hundred thousand, in reality, the true fourth-tier army only included the three hundred thousand professional troops dispatched by the old witch.

The remaining tens to hundreds of thousands were mostly just second-tier fillers, with only the low-ranking officers managing them being at the Third Tier.

Unapologetically speaking, although those stationed were not entirely old, weak, sick, or disabled, their combat effectiveness was extremely worrying.

Their equipment was not of their own merit, it was plain white and green excellent gear. Besides gray tattered ones, this was the lowest-grade gear possible.

With such gear equipping the soldiers, it was imaginable how much wealth the officials and noble clans inside Pan Shi City had embezzled.

If it weren’t for the three hundred thousand professional troops glaring behind these stationed ones, each of the garrison would have dropped their weapons and fled.

Their monthly pay was paltry, the gear was shit, and they still wanted them to risk their lives.

For what?

These garrison soldiers were exchanging glances, ready to surrender without a fight when the real attack came!

Loyalty?

Was it more important than their lives?

Or the significant pension they might get?

They feared their pension would barely reach their families before it was siphoned away by those beasts above.

Worse, their wives and children might get cheated, sold into slavery by those animals!

Indeed, those guys did slave trading discreetly, but the frontline soldiers were the first to notice the issues!

Outside Pan Shi City, tents stretched for miles.

Zi Liyuan sat at the main seat, with Mo Yi and Dilys occupying subordinate positions beside him.

The entire tent had twelve Lords of [Land of the Dead] seated within.

"No need for words, you hundred-plus million troops only need to follow behind and capture people, the stationed soldiers should be recruited if possible."

Compared to the garrisons of Tianxiang City and its smaller towns, Pan Shi City’s situation was vastly different.

However, Zi Liyuan could understand.

In Tianxiang City’s region, the east and southeast coasts faced the threat of the Sea Clan and Sea of Realms orc invasions.

Hence, towns within Tianxiang City’s region recruited battle-ready fourth-tier soldiers, and the equipment was at least mediocre with a mix of green and blue.

But Pan Shi City lay inland, belonged to the heartland, enveloped by the old witch’s territory, so there was no external threat.

As a result, the corrupt officials here went even further.

That was why even seven days ago when it was known that Tianxiang City’s vast territory was lost and seized by the Death Lord, towns under Pan Shi City’s jurisdiction neither recruited soldiers nor requested reinforcements.

It was not that they didn’t want to, but they had no means.

So, the officials below all fled, leaving the city and garrison behind.

Consequently, when Zi Liyuan dispatched the army, advancing in five directions, very few resisted. Most opened the gates and surrendered upon seeing the advancing army.

Crisp and straightforward.

After all, who they kneeled to didn’t particularly matter.

They just wanted not to be killed for nothing.

Thus, the old, weak, sick, and disabled soldiers became subjects, and those guilty were taken to the execution place, their heads rolling.

Furthermore, any noble clans within the cities, once evidence was found, were directly eradicated.

However, some benevolent families existed. These entities, as long as subjects and alien residents were willing to protect them, would be treated leniently.

Someone would carefully investigate the family to see if anyone had violated the law.

Generally, every family had some bad apples, so the benevolent ones only had a few wrongdoers executed, and the rest were pardoned.

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Wherever the army of the Land of the Dead passed, they quickly captured a great deal of various resources and materials.

The gains from Tianxiang City and Pan Shi City directly caused the Lords of the Land of the Dead to see a surge in various strengths.

And such plentiful resources brought even more advantages to Zi Liyuan.

Previously, only Zi Liyuan and Mo Yi managed to gather enough resources to upgrade the Lord’s Mansion to LV40.

But in this instance, Shen Yurou, Liu Yiqing, Fan Qinger, and Wang Tie all upgraded their Lord’s Mansions to LV40 as well.

With cultivation techniques provided by Zi Liyuan, coupled with their naturally strong abilities and deep accumulations, they easily broke through to the Sixth Tier Legendary level.

Of course, the strongest in individual power was still Liu Yiqing, the War God.

And the least contributing was Fan Qinger, who, as a Life Profession Alchemist, fully transitioned to logistics support.

With Shen Yurou’s help, various alchemy products greatly alleviated the logistical pressure of [Land of the Dead].

Now, Fan Qinger was more than just in the life professions.

She combined the intelligent robots provided by Shen Yurou with alchemy to create powerful alchemical puppets.

Compared to purely mechanical robots, alchemical puppets followed the path of combining magical and mechanical aspects.

For instance, a Titan Magic Puppet that possessed fifth-tier Epic peak strength and could control some lightning.

However, the production was very challenging, now manually crafted, impossible to mass-produce, and required many high-level materials.

It had to be said, any professional who broke through to the Sixth Tier Legendary level underwent a transformation.

Even life professionals could wield significant combat power.

Fan Qinger created twelve Titan Magic Puppets and obtained a suitable fifth-tier Array Plate from Mo Yi.

These twelve fifth-tier Epic peak puppets, using the Array Plate in battles, could contend with an initial sixth-tier Legendary opponent.

"Mo Yi, you’re in charge of attacking the city. Leave none of the three hundred thousand professional troops and over five thousand epics, and ensure no noble clans inside the city escape."

"No problem, I just want to test the power boost of the Life-bound Grand Array now that it had an Artifact Spirit."

Mo Yi nodded, a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes.

Seven days were spent crafting the Artifact Spirit Banner, now with the spirit integrated into the Blood River Demon Soul Formation, this Great Formation would see a significant power surge.

Indeed, Pan Shi City, as a main city, was very suitable to test the power of this Life-bound Grand Array!

"After breaching Pan Shi City, I need to immediately exploit the rare mineral deposits in the Pan Shi City area, so you must speed up your occupation."

Zi Liyuan’s gaze swept over the twelve Lords.

Among these twelve were the most rapidly developing, strongest, and highest potential Lords in the Land of the Dead.