Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 745 - 643: The Change of Victory

After the battle, the Ogre race began to completely withdraw.

Their aggressive expansion surrounding them was completely wiped out by Kane and his team.

Life that survives world destruction, or races, are tenacious and seek survival.

As for what actions the Ogres might take next, it remains unknown, we can only wait for them to move again.

Or wait for Kane and his team to prepare to annihilate them completely.

Kane formally named the Knight Territory as Lantern Territory, using the name of the Guild.

Simple and direct.

This battle brought them great rewards; the Lantern Territory itself had no civilians, composed entirely of soldiers from the Lantern Knight Order.

Whether planting or harvesting, both require the Lantern Knight Order to work, while also taking care of external defense and attack.

Previously, too much work was burdening them, leading to a shortage in numbers and no advancement in strength.

After this battle, Kane and his team gained several thousand ordinary people from various races, all of whom were willing to join them.

These people finally made use of all the land in the Lantern Territory, as winter in this area is coming to an end, and spring is approaching.

These people came at the perfect time.

Kane's current task is building towns for these refugees.

Of course, he is not doing it entirely by himself, but using Origin Skills and spending large amounts of Magic Power, quickly creating a framework for a small town with stone and wood structures.

As for the sealing of walls and roofs of the houses and the interior decoration, he left it for these citizens to handle themselves.

This is a strategy Kane has always used when building residences for ordinary people, speeding up house construction, saving sixty to seventy percent of work, reducing Kane's Magic Power consumption by more than half.

After all, building the large framework doesn't require much effort and Magic Power; instead, the interior decoration demands more Magic Power and effort.

This also gives these people a sense of involvement, quickly fostering recognition of the territory.

The surrounding land of the territory also began full-scale cultivation, still entrusted to the idle Longbei and auxiliary robots from the Platinum Country.

These are not the most important matters; the crucial thing is to persuade the surrounding soldier territories, urging them to voluntarily join Kane and his forces.

Kane really desires these soldiers.

Though the Ogres were beaten back, they haven't disappeared, merely temporarily dormant, resorting to defense instead of assault.

However, Kane and his team cannot overlook this and relax since more than half of the "breeding grounds" producing food for the Ogres were destroyed in Kane's sudden raid.

The external battle was a complete failure too, intercepted by Kane and his team, causing significant loss.

This vengeance is fully established, but for Kane and his team, it matters not, as they are determined to annihilate this race.

Annihilating such a major race, the Mist is certain to reward generously.

But Ogres, after all, need to consume medicine and drink, and the food is usually humanoid races nearby; they may not exclude eating other intelligent beings if starving enough.

The only method Kane and his team could think of is, the Ogres would likely have soldiers form squads to ravage outside, looting and escaping quickly.

Acting like bandits, slowly wreaking havoc on the surroundings, rather than large-scale attacks, thereby alleviating their internal food pressure.

Bonona and the others use this reasoning to warn all powers around the Ogres, urging them to be cautious and establish outposts at borders to guard against Ogre raids.

As for why they heed Kane and the others' warning.

After all, Kane and his team indeed saved some nearby forces and drove back Ogres that posed a severe threat to their lives.

With influence, the reputation of Kane's territory would at least be friendly, if not respectful within the area.

Not to mention other soldier forces from the same Dungeon; born for war, even their logistics now face difficulties.

Plus the external threat of Ogres, many smaller soldier forces began to waver, seeking to join Kane and his team, aligned with several leading forces already negotiated with them.

Through the relentless efforts of Polona and others, many soldier forces are willing to join them.

Altogether, 6 small soldier forces fully merged into Kane's territory, combining their territory ranges to enlarge Kane's territory by threefold.

Though the territory increased threefold, the effective area hasn't expanded much, as those soldier territories didn't have advantageous geographical positions.

At least they now possess some mountains and rivers, introducing significant natural resources; whether there are minerals or not, Long Beduo needs to busy himself finding out.

Now, Kane's team finally has forces besides the Lantern Knight Order, greatly relieving the defensive and alert pressures of the Body Movement Knight Order.

With these soldiers joining, the Knight Order can now stay together as an essential cavalry, ready to rush to battlefields that need them.

Currently, Kane's team has around 2000 Lantern knights, most of whose strengths are at the Silver Peak, with a minor portion at the Silver Bottleneck period.

Next are the newly joined soldier forces.

In total, the 6 forces contribute 7000 soldiers since they are small forces, each having over a thousand soldiers.

But among these soldiers, 5000 only have Copper strength, with only 2000 reaching Silver. Soldiers at the peak and bottleneck are rare, mostly generals and officers.

However, at least they added significant forces to Kane and his team, allowing them to defend such a large territory.

Moreover, the soldiers include Archers, Shield Bearers, and Long Spear Fighters, giving Kane and his team more troop combinations.

After saving civilians during this time, the civilian population within the territory reached around 45,000.

Humans account for about half, the rest consisting of various races like Beastmen, Half-Beastmen, and Elves.

The comparison between the number of square meters and the number of soldiers in their territory can be said to be completely militaristically indulgent.

However, logistics are still able to provide support perfectly, especially with the support of the Platinum Country's hundreds of thousands of people and its vast national territory.

Not to mention that resources for clothing and food have long reached a level of extreme saturation. As long as desired, factories can start up immediately and quickly provide.

Unless Kane's soldiers and residents combined exceed hundreds of thousands, there's no need to worry at all.

Moreover, the research institute of the Platinum Country is constantly researching and revamping various civic facilities.

Kane sat in the central fortress office, in front of him was still the real-time map given to him by the Mist.

The scouting range hasn't expanded because Kane ordered the Dark Servants to scout all surrounding forces one by one.

He didn't let them explore externally.

Then he put away the map given to him by the Mist, and instructed Yoyo to project the real-time map monitored by the air cruise monitor.

The real-time map drawn by the surveillance monitor was much clearer, since it was just this vast surrounding area.

Kane and his people now have a very well-organized plan for their territory.

Kane and their territory are in contact with both the ogre beastmen and the other side faces some large military forces.

However, relations between them are fairly friendly, so Kane only deployed a small wave of troops there for simple garrisoning.

More newly joined soldiers and knight orders have been deployed at the border of beastmen and ogre territories.

The back of their entire territory is a small mountain range, preventing attacks from other places.

The guild's explorer squad is mostly stationed at the border of the ogre territory.

Though the ogre territory had pulled back, for the time being it was as Kane and his people expected, as they intermittently sent out small squads to harass their territory.

Other surrounding forces are even more frequently harassed and plundered for population.

In response to this situation, Kane and his people can only do what they can.

Moreover, these explorer squads from the guild will bring some soldiers to sabotage the ogre territory.

This allows them to harvest a lot of magic stones and also accumulate some contributions, hoping for more rewards once the Mist's missions are fully completed.

With the existence of these explorers, the ogre territory is generally the one getting beaten. Even if they come to harass, it doesn't take long before they are caught before they can do anything.

Against the ogre, whether soldiers or explorers, they are completely annihilated without leaving even one.

With the advantage of the real-time map, enemies are always under their watch.

And the center of the territory is undergoing massive construction.

Finally, having completed these tasks, Kane can rest for a while and breathe easy.

Even though he likes being a hands-off boss.

But sometimes Kane also has to do some paperwork, reviewing and confirming some major strategic aspects.

After finally completing the accumulated paperwork, Kane immediately disappeared from the office and arrived at the guild hall.

The guild hall had returned to its usual level of bustle.

After chatting with a few people for a while, Kane entered his personal space.

At this moment, Kane's personal space had already expanded to 100 square meters, only needing some Silver Magic Stones, which Kane is not lacking now.

Lying on the soft and comfortable Cloud Bed, Kane closed his eyes to rest for a while, then summoned the [Book of Adventure].

A small bag appeared in his hand, containing 4 Golden Magic Stones.

It was already clear what he wanted to do.

But Kane was contemplating how many magic stones to use to extract skills and how many to upgrade skills.

Logically, this should have been done a few days ago.

However, a few days back Kane rashly rolled the dice and ended up with a black dot.

So he had to halt skill stone extraction and upgrading, and spent several days doing paperwork and planning the development of the Lantern Territory.

Today, it was time to roll the dice again.

According to Kane's pattern, after rolling a black dot last time, it's unlikely to roll another black dot. Normally, it should at least be a red dot.

This is the experience Kane has gained over the year with the Angel Dice skill.

Thinking of this, magic power surged from Kane's hand, and an 8-sided die appeared in his hand, a phantom of an angel appeared on it.

Kane threw the dice out, and it kept turning on the ground.

It slowly stopped, and sure enough, it was a red dot.

Not just one dot, but a red three dots.

Luck was bursting.

Kane immediately decided to use three magic stones for extraction and only use the remaining one for upgrading.

Without any hesitation, Kane took out three magic stones from his pocket and held them in his hand, then pressed his other hand on the extraction array on page 1 of the opened [Book of Adventure].

With the rotation of magic power, extraction began.