Chapter 40 The pace of expansion!
Time transitions to the fifth day of the mission.
Zhao Futu had already cleared out seven or eight nearby nest sites. At this time, he had a total of 324 cavemen, 60 harpies, 7 evil eyes, 103 medusas, and 5 minotaurs.
Only, 3 manticores.
During this period of fighting, Zhao Futu discovered a very interesting phenomenon!
That is, when he recruited captured dungeon creatures after the battle, he found that the chance of recruiting cavemen was particularly high, but the chance was much lower when recruiting other creatures. Similarly, Medusa hero Melina
The same is true, her success rate is very high when recruiting Medusa captives, but very low when recruiting other creatures.
According to Zhao Futu's estimation, this should be related to the hero's specialties and racial characteristics. He even doubted that if he changed his job and became an official hero template, he would suddenly realize the heroic talent of a 'caveman'.
If this is really the case, it would be very deceptive!
As for recruiting creatures of other races, basically no success has been achieved so far, and I don’t know if it is because of racial exclusion.
Another thing that must be mentioned is!
When Zhao Futu attacked the third lair, his elementary diplomacy skills paid off.
At that time, he led the army to attack a harpy's nest. There were about sixty or seventy harpies in it. Because he had a large number of long-range soldiers at his disposal, most of the wild creatures Zhao Futu attacked were melee-type wild creatures.
Originally, he was ready to order an attack that day, but at that moment, a harpy witch suddenly flew in front of him, and then the cold notification sound from the nightmare space sounded:
"Contractor No. 1013. A group of harpies are afraid of your bravery and request to join your army, but you must pay 6,000 gold coins!"
"Y/n accept?"
"Yes!" Zhao Futu agreed without hesitation.
As a result, a group of harpies appeared in his army. Some died in the subsequent battles, and in the end these 60 were left.
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Compared to the charging harpy, when Zhao Futu attacked the ninth target, what happened in front of him was more in line with his interests.
Because, before he could attack, the cavemen in front of him couldn't wait to surrender, and then the cold sound of the nightmare space sounded again:
"Contractor number 1013. A large group of cavemen admire your bravery and request to join your army!"
"Y/n accept?"
"yes!"
As Zhao Futu chose to agree, the number of cavemen in his team immediately grew again.
The number of cavemen in this batch was as high as more than 200. Zhao Futu suddenly had nearly 600 cavemen. Unfortunately, these were only the lowest level of troops. It was okay to deal with skeleton soldiers of the same level, but against skeleton soldiers of the same rank.
Slightly more advanced creatures can only be filled with the human sea tactic. After such a long period of exploration, Zhao Futu has roughly figured out the strength of the creatures at each level in the dungeon.
Putting aside those advanced professionals, elites, and leaders, they are just ordinary level creatures.
About three cavemen are as strong as one harpy, five cavemen can defeat one evil eye, ten cavemen can challenge Medusa, and about twenty cavemen can resist.
Minotaur. About a hundred cavemen can fight against a flightless manticore. As for dealing with red dragons and black dragons, even thousands of cavemen may be useless.
In fact, it is very rare for ordinary cavemen to successfully kill a manticore, and it is rare in almost a hundred years!
However, the huge population base still gives cavemen other abilities. For example, they have a relatively high probability of producing elites. Basically, a caveman elite will inevitably appear in a nest with a population of more than a hundred, and the strength of a caveman elite
Basically, it is equivalent to a creature between the third and fourth levels. If it is a caveman leader, then its strength will be between the fifth and sixth levels, and there is a high chance of mastering a hero skill.
so!
In the real-evolving plot plane, sometimes it is impossible to measure everything by rank. Otherwise, it will easily capsize in the gutter!
"There are too many prisoners in the lair! It looks like a lot of them will be consumed!" Zhao Futu looked at the mine in front of him and murmured.
I have to say, there are so many mines in the underground world!
This is already the fifth mine he has occupied, and it is also the kind of mine that has been developed and can harvest ore on the same day as manpower is put in. In addition, there are many undeveloped ones in his territory that need
It took a while to mine the mine. He strongly doubted that the underground city he occupied was built on a mine vein, otherwise it would have required so much ore.
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Due to the unexpected affinity for cavemen, the number of cavemen residents in Zhaofutu's territory also began to increase.
Excluding those captives who were unsuccessfully recruited as slaves, the number of residents in Zhao Futu Underground City has reached more than a thousand, which means that he can now obtain an additional head tax income of about 1,000 legal gold coins every week. Relatively speaking,
From being deserted at the beginning, the entire underground city became much more lively in just a few days, but it also became much more chaotic and dirty.
The most representative point is that there are more lumps and lumps on the streets.
And there are more and more creatures fighting in the streets!
As a last resort, Zhao Futu could only form a security team in advance, led by a minotaur, assisted by a Medusa, harpies responsible for investigation, and a team of cavemen as errand boys.
As a fifth-level unit, the Minotaur is more than capable of maintaining law and order.
As for those creatures that dared to excrete lumps of objects on the street, Zhao Futu caught them and whipped them half to death without saying a word, and then dropped them at the city gate and hung them all night.
When everyone got up the next day, they saw that the poor guy was dead!
From then on, no one dared to excrete lumps of stuff on the street. Although the caves where the cavemen lived were still very dirty and messy, at least the interior hall and the core streets were very clean and tidy.
Yes, no one likes to go to the dark cave where cavemen live anyway, so it doesn’t matter how dirty it is. At most, a mushroom ring will be built there to isolate it.
Dungeons have a benefit.
That is, there are many creatures that are proficient in mining and forging. Cavemen are born to be hard workers, and minotaurs are born to be blacksmiths.
Although these two guys look stupid, the cavemen's mining skills are comparable to those of the dwarves. It's just that these guys don't like mining as much as the dwarves. Their nature is to eat, be lazy, and sleep. Like ghosts, there are no humans.
If you force and supervise them, the cavemen will be able to collect only a small amount of ore for their own use. Therefore, if you want the cavemen to improve their work efficiency, it is absolutely right to prepare whips and an overseer.
Minotaurs look big and thick, but no one would imagine that they are natural blacksmiths.
Although the level of forging is a bit technical, limited to forging axes and armor, it is still an ability after all!
In the entire dungeon, the only one who can handle the weapons in hand is the Minotaur.
After all, they use two-handed battle axes!
The reason why I mention this is because in Zhao Futu's territory, after accumulating resources for a day or two, a blacksmith shop was finally established.
The role of the blacksmith shop after it is established is obvious.
That is, the caveman in Zhao Futu's hands finally has a decent weapon.
Taking advantage of the fact that he still had a large number of slaves, Zhao Futu expanded the blacksmith shop and tried to popularize the equipment as soon as possible. If the equipment of the cavemen could be made better, wouldn't it be able to support them more when they were used as cannon fodder?
There is another benefit after establishing the blacksmith shop, that is, Zhao Futu can spend 2500 law gold coins to make a powerful ballista.
This kind of ballistae is quite powerful. It can kill a second or third level creature with one arrow!
As for fourth- and fifth-level creatures, they may need a little more character.
Because he still had to build other buildings, Zhao Futu was not willing to spend 2,500 law gold coins to buy a ballista in the end.
After spending so much, he only had about 12,000 gold coins left in his hand.
As for the architecture of the underground city, it has also become as follows:
"Night City [Dungeon]." (Status: Occupied successfully.)
"Origin: Heroic Invincible Plane."
"Item type: Dungeon."
"Use Effect 1: Recruit creatures!"
"Use effect 2: Increase gold coins."
"Own buildings: Fortress, Interior Hall, Blacksmith's Shop, Market, Dark Cave, Bird Pavilion (unfinished), Medusa's Lair (unconverted), Minotaur's Lair (unconverted)."
"Special effect [Law Blessing]: When the dungeon is under special threat, you can activate the power of the law inside the dungeon once!"
"Evaluation: This is a dungeon that has been abandoned for a long time. It once became a nest for wild creatures. If you want to restore it to normal operation, you need to spend a lot of law gold coins to repair it. But the lucky thing is that,
It itself has existed as a nest for wild creatures for a long time. If you have enough resources, you can directly convert their nests into corresponding military recruitment buildings!"
[Tip: This dungeon is blessed by the power of the law of the nightmare space! All its building consumption will be reduced by 50% of resources, and the power of the law extracted from the nightmare space will directly transform all town residents, automatically mastering the relevant extension capabilities, and at the same time
Its repair, construction, and production time will be greatly reduced!】
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"We still need a first-level magic guild to establish a parliament."
Zhao Futu looked at the dungeon in front of him that had changed drastically in just a few days, and said excitedly: "As long as the parliament is established, you can get 2,000 gold coins every week!"
Chapter completed!