Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor-Chapter 582 - 20 New Construction of Undead Strategic Treasures_2

Lin Rui was instantly invigorated! As long as he inputs dark spiritual energy and tier five spiritual gems, he can continuously recruit the Phoenix Battle Group Black Knights!

This means that even using spiritual energy from Witch Demons, Death Mages, and even Natasha, Audrey can continuously rally Black Knights.

Lin Rui paid special attention to the Phoenix Battle Team Badge: Phoenix Wings, a brooch-shaped badge printed with the phoenix, symbolizing evil, bloodshed, and corruption.

Lin Rui had a significant number of soldiers in his domain try it out; the spiritual energy required by the badge could be triggered by soldiers with alignments of chaotic evil, lawful evil, chaotic neutral, and evil neutral, such as the chaotic evil of the Enchanting Demon and the lawful evil of the Undead, which could recruit these dark soldiers.

The recruited Black Knights possessed not only the six traits: [Guiding Qingxiao Operation: Damage reduction fixed at 20%.], [Star Field Army: Reflect 20% of received damage.], [Adaptive Defense: Provides specialized shields absorbing 20% of Life Value based on enemy unit's damage type (physical or spiritual energy). ], [Warrior's Soul: 25% of lost Life Value is converted to physical defense, 25% to spiritual resistance.], [Blade of Fear: Black Knights siphon 50% of skill-induced damage value as life, and slow opponents by 80%.], and [Swordsmanship Mind: Swordsmanship attack causes spiritual damage based on Wisdom Value* Swordsmanship Level, and greatly increases attack speed using Wisdom Value as a coefficient.].

Finally, its core traits appeared.

[Decaying Domain: Elite-level Trait: Black Knights exude an inherent decaying aura, twisting and endangering their surroundings. Enemies entering the Black Knights' domain will experience a persistent weakening of physical attack speed, dropping by 5% per second, and every attack by Black Knights reduces the physical attack speed by an additional 5%.]

[Shadow Shield: Elite-level Trait: Black Knights can form a basic shadow shield with 1000 Defense Value by gathering dark energy. This shield absorbs malice and curses from enemies to strengthen themselves, nullifying opponent curses, while each curse doubles the shadow shield strength. Absorbing the curse grants an additional 15% physical defense and spiritual resistance within 15 seconds for each curse, making them even more impregnable.]

[Shadow Ghost: Elite-level Trait: Black Knights excel in using their allies' shadows and dark light for mobility, disallowing enemies from locking onto them. They swiftly move in battle, vanishing within dark rays, confusing and frightening foes. A battlefield of twelve Black Knights increases evasion rate by 5%. When 120 Black Knights are present, evasion rate rises to 10%, enemy critical strike rate increases by 5%. When 1200 Black Knights are present, evasion rate rises to 20%, enemy critical strike rate drops by 10%, and critical damage decreases by 50%.]

Objectively speaking, this soldier type is ridiculously powerful.

Not only does it have adaptive defense to increase shields, but also the core shadow shield, enhancing defense and rendering opponent curses ineffective.

This means that slow skill, weakness skill, and other curses aimed at reducing their attack, attack speed, or even defense do not take effect. Instead of weakening their combat power, curses enhance their physical defense and spiritual resistance, making them even more indestructible.

Fortunately, the Golden Pansy Domain's army lacks negative curse abilities and doesn't rely on methods like curses and aging enemies in combat. Otherwise, it would be exactly what the Phoenix Battle Group Black Knights hope for. If such a situation arose, while the enemy fought harder, this battle would increase family troop casualties significantly.

Its core skills [Decaying Domain] and [Shadow Ghost] complement each other perfectly.

Once entering combat, the Decaying Domain slows down enemy troop attack speed, while increasing their evasion value.

The slower the enemies' attack speed, the less effective against evasion capability. Moreover, opponent critical strike rate and critical damage dramatically plummet; without relying on attack speed, these can't increase effectively.

Even the troops of the Golden Pansy Domain find it quite challenging during combats due to lowered attack speed and critical strikes. Chopping these Phoenix Battle Group Black Knights feels exceptionally tough, as they are incredibly strong.

These two traits activate passively with highly notable effects.

From Lin Rui's perspective, the combat strength of these Phoenix Battle Group Black Knights has reached very near the rare level.

Possibly what differentiates them from rare level is lacking an extremely powerful trait, like the Dark Temple Warriors, whose surrounding soldiers undertake exceedingly high damage reduction for them.

However, enriching elite-level traits sufficiently, the elite-level combat strength need not be weaker than rare-level. They now possess nine traits at tier five. When added to Audrey, enhanced by various strategic artifacts, traits can exceed ten.

With complete support from various battle banners and artifacts, a single Black Knight might not lose in combat strength to a rare-level soldier. And when arrayed in formation, the scale of the Black Knight army showcases even greater combat prowess.

This will undoubtedly become the absolute main force under Audrey's command!

Knowing that the Black Knights exhibit formidable combat strength even without a powerful commander proves problematic for the Golden Pansy Clan's army.

Once scaled down, strongly ruled by Audrey's command value, under the command attribute and strategic trait enhancements, their force may rival the main human army of the Golden Pansy Domain.

The forces under Audrey's heroism finally possess the might to contend with the armies of other heroes. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Since the undead derive negligible benefits from Lin Rui's commander bonus, Lin Rui needs to use strategic artifacts to further strengthen them.

Audrey's strategic artifacts are relatively fewer.

Lin Rui reviewed the strategic artifacts dropped in this battle.

[Strategic Treasure: Cursed Armor: The curse is an angry prayer; once released, it becomes an eternal nightmare, ruthlessly destroying all, even escaping it is impossible for the strongest. During melee, undead automatically apply curse skill[Evil Curse Possession]as well as[Great Calamity]to targets, lasting until the battle ends.]

[Evil Curse Possession: Enemy maximum attack power is reduced to equal minimum attack power, minimum attack power -10%.]

[Great Calamity: Enemy luck value -20% (influences critical strike rate, evasion rate, etc.).]

[Strategic Treasure: Death Mask: Under the cover of the death mask, fear becomes your weapon. Gazing into the eternal dark eye, it conceals endless despair and pain. Physical attack power +10%, attack speed +10%, each frenzied attack and bite convert 20% of inflicted damage to life for oneself.]

[Strategic Treasure: Book of the Dead: The Book of the Dead is considered a vessel of death and knowledge, possessing portals and connectivity to the Realm of the Dead. It brings the wisdom and experience of predecessors to the holder, empowering them with strong magical power and insight. Within its pages, the wisdom of spirits flows eternally. Commander's army soul value +5, wisdom value +10, can select 3 targets daily, increasing their current tier advancement experience value by 5%. After undead soldiers die in battle, they corpse explode within 5 meters around them, dealing spiritual damage equating to 15% of their life value and deducting 5% spiritual energy of enemy units in accordance with damage value.]

Lin Rui saw that these three items were all dropped by Matthew, suited for the undead's power system.

Though not extremely strong, they pragmatically enhance the overall combat power of the undead army.

The first cursed armor weakens enemy combat strength, the second death mask boosts own endurance, and the last Book of the Dead, if unable to win, simply self-explodes.

Objectively speaking, in this setup structure, engaging the undead in melee isn't a recommended choice. Combat becomes very frustrating with difficulties inadequately unleashed; roaring to smash the opponent, suddenly they corpse explode, not only enveloping attacks within range but also draining spiritual energy value.

Lin Rui directly gave these three strategic treasures to Audrey, complementing her previous traits, further fortifying the undead in resilience and annoyance.