MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1052 - Chapter 1052 Chapter 1052 The Splintering Nest

Chapter 1052: Chapter 1052: The Splintering Nest Chapter 1052: Chapter 1052: The Splintering Nest “Several factions have long known that behind Blood Moon lies the projection of the Demon God Andariel, otherwise why do you think the factions are opening up followers?” Li Yao said.

Just as Li Yao said, if they weren’t incapable of taking action themselves, they certainly wouldn’t allow players to become more powerful. Now that players can recruit followers or mercenaries, it’s essentially the beginning of recruiting military units. But, now each regular army has to defend their key positions, and also send out troops to clear out the monster surge brought by Blood Moon.

The Demon God Projection must be dealt with by players; otherwise, facing more powerful world-class bosses, the Demon God would definitely spare no effort in increasing the power injected into the projection, which is something none of the factions would like to see.

Moreover, outside of the players, aside from the regular armies, there are many civilian militias and forces that are independent of the army. Although many of the followers initially recruited or employed come from official sources, even more are meant to be recruited by players from these independent forces, so that they can contribute to the major factions.

After all, in the eyes of the high-levels of the three major factions, they have stabilized their own factions, and these people enjoy a comfortable life without contributing to the faction, which is not permissible. However, they can’t force people to join the army and fight to the death, so naturally, players are needed to control them, even though they hadn’t planned on opening this opportunity so early.

However, the chaos caused by the Demon God Projection and Titan’s Relics hastened their decision.

Li Yao didn’t explain all this in detail; as someone who had been reborn, he naturally knew that this was just the beginning of the events. The real upheaval would come after the main storyline quests were truly launched, and the world would be a different place by then.

That would be the true arrival of the players’ era.

“Although the Cathedral’s backyard is filled with spider demons and spiders, all toxins, because of the emergence of recruitable followers, players are now focused on completing follower quests, trying to obtain more exceptional followers to complete dungeons, so the prices of herbs and potions are not too high,” Sister Li said with concern.

“No problem, just keep stockpiling them. It’s interesting that everyone is actively working on followers,” Li Yao sneered coldly. Followers who die in battle will not be resurrected; they are a one-time consumable.

Besides the limited number of free followers obtained by completing tasks, all others cost money, and the price is very high–essentially blood money–and it naturally won’t be cheap. Moreover, the higher the grade and the stronger or more rare the race, the more expensive they are.

He knew all too well that without a complete set of equipment to provide those units with resistance to toxins, potions alone would be useless and casualties would be heavy.

What’s more important is that the backyard is open to everyone. There are definitely a lot of people trying the normal difficulty, and such massive consumption will likely deplete the market supply of herbs and potions in little more than a day.

That’s when Starfire will truly make a fortune.

“Since the follower quests have been opened, we will pause our combat for half a day. Distribute the rewards and benefits of the two battles, so our people will have enough money to recruit sufficient followers.”

Li Yao had originally planned to go directly to the second guild, but he hadn’t expected that everyone would clear two areas so quickly. However, this didn’t affect Li Yao’s plans.

Sister Li nodded, then immediately began to arrange rewards in the guild’s meritorious service channel, allocating permissions, and so on, while Starfire’s members were full of excitement.

This time, the gains were too great. Not to mention the share of the spoils, the guild’s rewards and subsidies also made them quite some money, and they also learned about the follower quests. With this money, they could better recruit followers.

Li Yao didn’t rush to find the queen but teleported to the main encampment of the sandbar. In the basement of the Lord’s mansion, Li Yao lifted the floor tiles and released the Broodmother.

“Split the nest.”

Following Li Yao’s order, two thousand units of energy were consumed, and an entrance appeared as several bricks moved. Li Yao took a look.

Split Insect Nest

Grade: Golden Legend

Rank: Fourth Order, Low-Level Racial Chief

Ownership: Soldier Nest, Energy Conversion Pool

Space: 200*200 (can be expanded by the soldiers, but the scale cannot exceed ten times the size of the Queen’s Frame Space.)

Li Yao remembered to block the entrance with floor tiles, then released a thousand parasitic defective worker bees, allowing them to temporarily work for three days before using them to synthesize normal soldier breeds.

Li Yao had less than a thousand soldier bees left. After some thought, he began to calculate what type of soldiers to produce.

Li Yao considered three types of soldiers. The first was the An’Qiraj Tank, which had immense strength and, like ants, could lift objects several dozen times their own weight. Moreover, this type of soldier was huge and could carry a lot of weight, but their obvious disadvantage was their slow movement speed.

The second type was the Azjol Worker Spider, which had the special ability to dig tunnels and store and transport supplies. They were an excellent resource transportation unit with higher intelligence among the races, but the cost was too high. Silver Essence required fifty units of energy, and synthesis needed ten parasitic worker bees. Li Yao, given his current finances, couldn’t make many of them.

So after much consideration, Li Yao chose the third type of soldier, the Mantis Transporter.

They were a kind of Mantis Monster. Though frail and weaker than the An’Qiraj Tanks, with less intelligence and carrying capacity than the Azjol Worker Spiders, they could fly and possessed a not insignificant fighting ability.

The key to synthesis was that it only required five parasitic worker bees.

Moreover, if synthesizing an elite Mantis Transporter only needed a single parasitic worker bee, Li Yao didn’t hesitate to forgo the elite, going directly for the Silver Essence. Although the elites were cheaper to produce, they were far inferior in all respects.

Li Yao originally had over eight hundred parasitic worker bees, but as a result, he ended up with just over a hundred Mantis Transporters.

These Mantis Transporters’ bodies were silver, covered with an exoskeleton like amber, and their forelimbs were like blades, fierce in appearance, not looking like mere laborers at all.

Li Yao noted that their combat ability was not weak; after all, they were Silver Essence. In critical moments, they could act like combat troops.

Li Yao observed that the energy left was a little over four hundred. Although a thousand parasitic worker bees were expanding the nest and throwing the underground material into the conversion pool, the energy conversion was too slow to be of immediate use.

While heading to the Undercity Royal District, Li Yao studied his main combat troops, ultimately settling on the Mantis Monster, for no other reason than because Mantis Monsters could fly.

Even among the three major factions, flying units were extremely precious and scarce, and among players, except for Hunter’s pets, there were hardly any flying combat units.

Moreover, after several battles, Li Yao realized that flying units could play a role several levels beyond their combat capabilities in the current situation.

Without hesitation, Li Yao built the First Order Mantis Monster Combat Soldier Nest. Ten thousand units of energy disappeared, and it took over a hundred soldiers one hour to build the nest…

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