Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor-Chapter 597 - 30: The Strict Military Formation, Stretching for 10 Miles
[Ding, the new cycle begins, this cycle is the Diplomacy Week, all Lords and heroes acquire diplomatic skills, when encountering wild units, there is a chance to pay certain fees based on the disparity in military power to recruit them into your army.]
Lin Rui found Audrey just as the new cycle started.
Lin Rui paid special attention to the effects of this cycle; it really benefits the Explorers. Regardless of strength or wealth differences, it can enhance oneself. For those less powerful, who originally couldn’t defeat enemy forces, there is a chance to recruit some wild units to break the stalemate.
Take an ordinary Explorer, for example, who might encounter a wandering, lonely Wild Mage like Audrey in the forest, successfully recruiting a Rare Level mage girl—their entire life revitalized. Isn’t this a stroke of destiny? Clearing monster nests, seizing unit camps, all become much smoother thereafter.
And for the strong, it’s an extremely convenient way to become stronger.
Imagine, for an elite Explorer like Lin Rui, whose wealth is the most impressive worldwide, to what extent his wealth can inflate his strength?
The number of soldiers he can recruit entirely depends on how far he can explore in one cycle, seeing how many wild units.
However, for Lin Rui, he had long passed the period of recruiting just anyone he met; now, he focuses more on the core of the system.
If he encounters Vampire Mages or Rare Level Knights, he might not hesitate to spend lavishly, but should he meet Assassin’s Guild or Ranger Camp or Jackal Wolfman Camp, he wouldn’t even cast an extra glance, just fire a cannon, then send cavalry to clean up the spoils.
The reason for this confidence is that he truly lacks no armies now.
In front of the Underground City entrance, the array of elite heavy-armed Undead Army stood in strict formation, banners sprawling out for dozens of miles!
A sweep of the eye reveals a black, fierce, solemn army, filling the mountains and valleys of this territory, with one orderly phalanx after another standing solemnly, arranged in intervals, banners fluttering, endless and vast!
Audrey excitedly hooked her arm around Lin Rui’s, puffed her chest proudly, and said: "Father, how is it? How is it? Isn’t my newly established army neat in formation and stern in array, looking much more elite?"
More elite, you say? This is indeed transforming completely!
What was Audrey’s army before? Ghouls, Desolate Tomb Guards, Skeleton Archers, Skeleton Spearmen, Zombies, Stone Tomb Spirits, Corpse Witches, Banshees, and even Death-Weaving Spiders and Horror Wolves.
Whether powerful or not we’ll set aside for now, but with such a colorful and complicated array of units, none could carry the banner of a central pillar.
It’s worth noting that quantity itself represents a kind of quality. Hundreds of Desolate Tomb Guards vanishing before the battle even begins—Lin Rui couldn’t value them even if he wanted to see their brilliant performance.
Now, things are entirely different!
Audrey joyfully introduced, "Phoenix Battle Group Black Knights, I’ve raised up three divisions, over thirty-six thousand men! Regardless of whether my Command Value can support them, they each possess the [Shadow Ghost] trait: With over 1200 Black Knights on the battlefield, everyone’s evasion rate +20%, enemy critical strike rate -10%, critical strike damage -50%."
"Couple this with [Shadow Shield] ignoring curses and [Decaying Domain] reducing enemy troops’ attack speed, they can provide a solid line of defense on their own!"
"And the basic main force, Skeleton Fear Demon, I’ve raised six divisions!"
"Additionally, Historical Heroic Spirits, cleaning out monsters in the Silent Sewer, I’ve raised five squads, plus the sacrificially converted Dark Temple Warriors, also forming a battalion!"
This indeed is strong. Though there remains quite a gap with Matthew, she alone can annihilate dozens or even hundreds of Lords atop the Azure Star’s territory rankings. Her military force alone can rank in the power leaderboard top ten, possibly even top five.
In the battle against Matthew, Audrey indeed reaped seventy percent of the benefits.
Lin Rui curiously asked, "Just how many Witch Demons did you recruit to maintain your army?"
Audrey laughed heartily, "Hahaha! Roughly speaking, over a thousand or so, just slightly more than a battalion. Considering Matthew had tens of thousands of Witch Demon great army during the battle."
Tens of thousands divided by a hundred, isn’t that just over a thousand?
Goodness, this truly is Matthew’s foundation, all returning exclusively to Audrey in one swoop.
Lin Rui glanced at the Epic-level Witch Demon King Matthew Luther, standing beside Audrey, holding the Magic Staff, feet on the Bone Dragon—even Matthew himself had become an Undead subjected to Audrey’s domination.
Truth be told, it’s indeed pitiful.
Lin Rui wanted to observe the situation of Audrey’s army further when suddenly the sky became dark blue, the entire Silent Sewer flashing with thunder!
Terror-filled monster roars echoed clearly from afar, full of anger and killing intent, resonating through the clouds, rising and falling.
Violet immediately said, "Bad news, Lord, seems Emperor Setra has returned!"
Just as the words dropped, silhouettes of Death Gods appeared, bluish-gray Death Gods cloaked in tattered gray cloaks, with eyes shining green, indiscriminately launched attacks upon appearance. The soldiers struck had no capacity for resistance, life harvested in moments.
"It’s an instant death ability!"
Fortunately, these Death Gods seem to respawn randomly, indiscriminately slaughtering all hostile units within the Silent Sewer, appearing and disappearing instantly.
