Jiang Hao looked at his little skeleton in front of him, feeling a mix of emotions.
In just two hours, its quality was upgraded to Diamond level. Is there anything more overpowered in this game?
But what about myself?
Seeing that my experience points increased by only a dozen or so per second was so pathetic it made my teeth ache.
This is the result of the summoned skeleton commander Lislin's valiant fight against the enemy!
With a mix of trepidation and excitement, Jiang Hao opened the little skeleton's interface. Its attributes and four skills had all seen significant improvements. The fourth skill, Skeleton Summoning, in particular, had been upgraded to summon 10,000 skeleton knights to assist in battle. Furthermore, the requirement for the next quality upgrade had increased from 1 million to 10 million subordinates.
The Skeleton Summoning skill has been greatly enhanced. Each Skeleton Knight can now summon 1,000 Bronze-level Skeleton Warriors to assist in battle. Ten thousand Skeleton Knights, if all use the Skeleton Summoning skill, can instantly form a massive skeleton army of tens of millions.
Thinking of this, Jiang Hao couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.
The requirement of 10 million subordinates can be easily met on this battlefield. Looking at the densely packed skeleton monsters in the distance, Jiang Hao thought, "Luckily I brought Little Skeleton, luckily we came to this place. Otherwise, where would we find so many monsters so densely packed? If we were in a dungeon, I don't know how long it would take for Little Skeleton to reach Diamond level."
However, Jiang Hao couldn't benefit from the experience gained from these monsters.
Fate is truly wondrous!
Jiang Hao chuckled wryly, making fun of himself.
The 10,000 newly summoned silver-level skeleton warriors were still fighting fiercely. Their four-kilometer-long rakes were as swift and powerful as before. After thinking for a moment, he realized that even if he ordered the little skeleton to summon another 10,000 skeleton knights to run over and kill monsters, it wouldn't be much faster. So he didn't order the little skeleton to summon his minions again.
Jiang Hao turned his head, looked at Nok with a hopeless expression, and asked coldly.
"I ask you, why can't we rebuild the Forefront Pass?"
Nok wanted to point towards the front of the city wall, but after glancing at the little skeleton, he immediately withdrew his arm and asked directly.
"You should have seen the front peak pass from the plank road, right? What's it like there now?"
Jiang Hao did not answer his question.
What he saw, Knok must have seen long ago as well.
"What do you mean?"
"How do you think the Qianfeng Pass became like that? It's just a low, small earthen mound. Let alone resisting the skeleton army, even the elderly, weak, women, and children living in Jinling City could probably push a small cart across it."
"That was from cannon fire! The Skeleton Army's cannons! Cannons captured from Jubei City!"
"Unless those cannons are destroyed or their shells are stolen, no matter how the forward pass is rebuilt, it will be doomed."
Jiang Hao felt that Nok was trying to fool him again.
"A skeleton monster... can use cannons?"
"We might not know how to build cannons, but what's so difficult about using them?"
Although he was a necromancer, Jiang Hao didn't know much about the skeleton race. Moreover, he discovered that destroying the skeleton army's cannons, while seemingly simple, was actually an unsolvable problem.
Even if all the cannons here are destroyed, what about those inside Jubei City? Is it possible that the Skeleton Legion has already moved some of the cannons to other locations? Is it possible that the Skeleton Legion has already learned how to build cannons themselves? Are we really going to turn the entire northern ice plains upside down just to destroy those cannons?
It would be better to just wipe out the entire skeleton army!
"Besides destroying the Skeleton Legion's cannons, is there any other way to defend Qiongfeng Pass? As an adventurer, I certainly can't stay here for long to defend the city for you."
Feeling that retaking the Vanguard Pass was going to be a task with no end in sight, Jiang Hao became furious. Ever since arriving in Jinling City, he'd been constantly busy helping these unreliable NPCs, preventing him from even doing dungeons. Now, due to his insufficient level, he couldn't learn his third skill, and due to a lack of skill points, his second skill was stuck. Compared to other players, he had already wasted far too much time.
Zhen Nantian hesitated for a moment, then finally joined the discussion.
"I do have a method, but I don't know if it will work?"
"Speak quickly!"
Jiang Hao and Nok said in unison.
Startled, Zhen Nantian, under the gaze of his two superiors, pointed to the cliffs on either side.
"If we build a giant crossbow platform high up on the cliff and set up several giant crossbows, we can effectively increase the range of the giant crossbows. Although the accuracy will be reduced, if they are loaded with energy crystal arrows, they can be taken down the moment the skeleton army's cannons appear on the battlefield."
"Great idea!"
Jiang Hao and Nok exchanged glances and spoke in unison once again.
Jiang Hao had witnessed the power of the energy crystal arrows before; they were almost on par with energy crystal cannonballs. Most importantly, the giant crossbow's range was significantly greater than that of the cannons. If it were set up high on a cliff, no matter how many cannons the skeleton army brought, they would simply be easy prey.
This is much simpler than searching for cannons one by one.
"The problem has been solved," Jiang Hao said.
"Shall we talk about recruiting adventurers now?"
Nock had no more worries and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"How many adventurers should we recruit? There are 600 starting villages connected to the Eastern Kingdom, which is a total of 6 million adventurers. If we recruit them all, there probably won't be enough room for them all."
Upon hearing this question, Jiang Hao realized it was beyond his ability to answer, so he turned to Zhen Nantian.
"Qiongfeng Fortress currently has a total of over 90,000 people. 10,000 soldiers need to be stationed at Zhongfeng Pass. 60,000 soldiers can quarry stone, and 20,000 soldiers can build walls. The distance from the quarry at Houfeng Pass to Qianfeng Pass is 20 kilometers. In the time it takes an adventurer to carry one brick back and forth, a soldier can quarry four stones. Therefore, the ideal number of adventurers to recruit is 240,000."
Jiang Hao was delighted upon hearing Zhen Nantian's arrangement.
The players recruited here aren't there to help build the city walls; they're just here to move bricks.
When it comes to carrying bricks, Jiang Hao is the best. He's worked on construction sites for several years and has become quite experienced at it. And even without experience, he knows that a person can't just carry one brick, right?
Zhen Nantian is alright at commanding battles, but his math skills are clearly much worse.
Just as Jiang Hao was about to point out Zhen Nantian's mistake, his eyes suddenly caught sight of the bricks on the city wall.
Good heavens, one of these wall bricks is 1.5 meters long and 0.75 meters high!
Jiang Hao looked down again and saw that it was 0.75 meters wide!
Giant stone bricks?
A single brick has about 0.85 cubic meters of volume and weighs at least 2 tons!
Just thinking about those rich kids who can spend hundreds of thousands on a single piece of equipment being recruited to do manual labor here.
Jiang Hao burst out laughing.
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