Chapter 180: Entering the Mountains and Searching for the Stone Giant's Stronghold
There was a crackling sound and the flames were burning continuously, and the entire wolf stronghold was gradually engulfed in flames.

And it is spreading rapidly and is showing signs of expansion.

There is no way, because the camps built by the gnolls are mainly made of wood.

It contributed the largest output space to the Fiery Sea of ​​Fire Tower. After a few attacks, the sea of ​​fire spread and soon ignited various buildings.

With a breeze, the fire quickly spread into a large area.

As for the jackals, they had just gathered at the front of the camp to defend the city.

Now they were forced by the flames, with nowhere to retreat. As they watched the flames sweeping over them, they had no choice but to rush into the golden maze.

If we go in, we will at least have a chance to fight to the death.

If you don't go in, you'll be burned to death.

A small number of jackals also managed to escape through the back door of the camp.

However, they encountered the iron zombies that had been lying in ambush here. Under the pressure of numbers, they were quickly submerged in the tide of zombies.

There were also some who were slow and did not have time to escape and were trapped in the sea of ​​fire.

The horrific flames and thick smoke enveloped them, leaving them with nowhere to escape.

Even though the jackals are of a high level, facing this large-scale fire, they are no different from one-star goblins.

After all, he is only at the third or fourth level, still a mortal body, and cannot withstand the raging fire.

Mo Yu didn't expect that the effect of the fire attack would be so exaggerated.

No wonder water and fire were powerful weapons in ancient wars.

Here, the gnolls pouring into the golden maze are searching for the correct passage in the golden maze.

Soon, they collided with the skeleton spearmen pouring into the golden maze.

Amid the fierce fighting, the werewolf troops struggled to push the team forward.

Mo Yu was not in a hurry. He operated the defense tower and completely cleared out the jackals and their camps outside the maze before turning his guns around.

Swish!
The golden maze disappeared.

That’s right, Mo Yu took back the golden maze.

The blocking effect of the golden maze is certainly good, but it also limits the performance of the defense tower.

The existence of the wall still has a certain shielding effect against the attacks of the defense tower.

In order to improve the killing efficiency and defeat the monsters in this stronghold more quickly, Mo Yu decisively withdrew to the golden maze.

In the open ground, the gnolls reacted quickly and launched an attack down the mountain.

But Mo Yu had already prepared a big gift, otherwise he would not have withdrawn from the golden maze with full confidence.

With the sound of bones rubbing against each other, countless skeletons rushed towards the werewolves.

There are not many skeletons, only about tens of thousands.

This narrow space at the foot of the mountain was packed tightly together.

Skeleton spearmen, skeleton sword and shield soldiers, skeleton archers...all kinds of skeleton soldiers.

The insignificant number of the gnolls were instantly submerged in the sea of ​​skeletons.

"Comfortable."

Mo Yu felt very relieved when he saw the jackals struggling hard in the sea of ​​skeletons.

Anyone who has used the Sea of ​​the Dead knows the true nature of this thing.

It feels disgusting when I see others using it, but when I use it myself, it smells really good.

An epic skeleton summoning tower with a very fast summoning speed of 300 skeletons per minute, and these skeleton soldiers are equipped with their own weapons.

The gnolls had a hard time resisting.

There are also other defense towers that ignore enemy and friendly attacks, and the werewolves are suffering.

They were unable to prevent a decent counterattack because once they gathered in small groups they would immediately be subject to the concentrated fire of the defense towers.

Under such circumstances, the Jackals suffered casualties at an extremely fast rate.

During war, as long as the formation is maintained, the rate at which soldiers are killed or injured is actually not very fast.

Many times, after fighting for half an hour or an hour, the casualties are often no more than a few hundred.

But if the formation collapses, the rate of casualties will increase to an extremely terrifying level.

The gnolls right now are like this. Although they are still resisting, they are caught in this melee, with enemies all around them, and they have no way to defend themselves.

At most, he will drag a few more people down with him before he dies.

But Mo Yu didn't feel sorry at all. They were all summoned creatures, and they died faster than they were summoned.

After more than ten minutes, the Skeleton Sea gradually became quiet.

This is a sign that they have lost their target.

This means that the trapped jackals have been completely wiped out.

[Reminder: You have destroyed a four-star gnoll stronghold, and obtained 4 battle points, 12 territory reputation points, and 1 four-star stronghold treasure chest.]

When the prompt message appeared, Mo Yu was certain.

A four-star stronghold, 4 conquest points, and 12 territory reputation points, exactly four times as much.

It seems that the two rewards, conquest points and territory reputation points, are fixed items, and rewards are obtained based on the star level of the stronghold.

Considering the difficulty of this gnoll stronghold, it is not particularly difficult.

Come to think of it, Mo Yu achieved a crushing victory by relying on the advantage of the defensive tower.

But for other lords, although the difficulty is not high, the attack will definitely result in casualties, not to mention other things.

Once the military strength cannot keep up, it will easily lead to the territory's strength declining instead of improving.

Therefore, this week will be a very brutal elimination.

A powerful lord will seize this opportunity to develop and become stronger.

The weak lords could hardly make any progress and were naturally eliminated in the general attack a week later.

It can be predicted that after this week, there will be many more adventurer players who abandon their territories.

"We need to further speed up the development of our territory. Only by always maintaining our advantage and standing at the forefront can we survive in this increasingly cruel world."

At this moment, Mo Yu had a vague understanding in his heart.

He put away the Skeleton Summoning Tower, and the skeleton soldiers present lost their summoning source and instantly turned into a pile of broken bones and ascended to heaven on the spot.

The Fire Wolf stepped forward and began searching for spoils among the bones.

They have lost count of how many times they have been reduced to battlefield cleaners.

[Reminder: You opened the four-star stronghold treasure chest and received the following rewards: Mechanical Workshop Construction Blueprint, Primary Ice Gem*5, Blood Werewolf Recruitment Token.]

Mo Yu opened the treasure chest of the stronghold, and there were still three items.

[Mechanical Workshop Construction Drawings]: A functional mechanical workshop can be constructed to provide a place for mechanical processing. It requires a junior engineer to operate and use it. Construction requires 3000 gold coins, 5000 mana, 1000 wood, 1000 stone, 40 squares of building space, and a construction time of 32 hours.

[Primary Ice Gem]: A gem containing abundant ice elements. It can be inlaid on equipment to impart special frost effects.

[Blood Werewolf Recruitment Token]: Can recruit a team of 12 fourth-order rare-level blood werewolves.

It is obvious that the quality of the loot from the four-star stronghold treasure chest is much better.

Fourth-tier rare soldier recruitment items, mechanical processing workshops...these things are all pretty good.

Mo Yu put away his things and checked the situation on the battlefield.

The Jackal stronghold has now been reduced to ruins by fire, and there is a high probability that there will be no valuable items.

In the stronghold, the most important reward is the stronghold treasure chest.

It is difficult to gain any other spoils, at most you can just steal some clothes and armor.

After all, stronghold monsters don't drop loot.

This is obvious at a glance. If the loot is dropped, it will at least emit some faint light, which Mo Yu will be able to see.

Bang!

A fire wolf came running over and dropped what it was biting. It was a sawtooth short knife, a weapon used by gnolls.

This is the only loot that can be found on the battlefield.

Based on the principle that even a small amount of money counts, Mo Yu did not let go of these small trophies.

While commanding the Flame Wolves to clean up the battlefield, he was waiting for Teemo's arrival.

That two-star human base was not far from the territory. It would only take about an hour for so many people to walk back.

Then Teemo traveled light and it should take about half an hour for him to get here.

According to the time calculation, he should be here soon.

Sure enough, speak of the devil and he will appear.

On the distant horizon, a small man was running towards them at a rapid speed.

"Have you...finished the beating?"

Timo panted and looked at the ruins of the battlefield in front of him, feeling a little regretful.

I rushed all the way, but I still didn't expect to catch up.

Although I may not be able to take part in such a battle, it's good to take part.

"It's okay, there will be opportunities later." Mo Yu rubbed his head and said with a smile.

According to the reconnaissance of the shadow scouts, there are several strongholds entering the mountains from here.

Let Teemo call back the Goblin Scouts and Shadow Scouts, while Mo Yu disassembles the Jackal's serrated dagger.

These serrated daggers are all shaped weapons. From the shape, they are suitable for use by werewolves, but other races are not used to using them.

So, either convert it into iron ore for recycling, or convert it into a defense tower.

Mo Yu chose the former. After all, the conversion efficiency was too poor, and the converted tower would only be an ordinary first-level tower.

It takes at least thousands of them to form an epic defense tower to have some effect.

He was more inclined to recycle it into iron ore, have it forged into sophisticated equipment by the forging department, and then transform it.

It took more than half an hour for the Flame Wolf to finally clear the battlefield.

A total of 342 serrated daggers can be decomposed into 1759 units of iron ore.

Not bad, a small profit.

As for the corpses on the battlefield, they were all physically transformed into ashes.

There's nothing I can do, Mo Yu is just such a kind-hearted person.

After sending the body on the road, we provide a one-stop service, the main feature of which is the rapid cremation, leaving no trace and giving no chance to the Undead Lords.

"Let's go into the mountains!"

Mo Yu put away the map and ordered the team to move on.

The next target is a three-star stone giant stronghold in the mountains.

The way into the mountain is not on this side, but on the other side.

The team didn't walk far before they saw a path leading into the mountains.

The grass and trees on both sides of the road are lush, but most of them are short. Some of the leaves are evergreen dark blue, and some of the leaves are gradually turning yellow.

After entering the mountains, there was no way to inherit the warhorse, so Mo Yu had to put away the warhorse and walk into the mountains.

Not far along the path, tall and short trees began to appear around.

The light around gradually dimmed.

This kind of environment is not good for Mo Yu, but it is like a fish in water for the Shadow Scout.

With them around to investigate, safety is guaranteed.

Mo Yu released a quarter of the shadow scouts, that is, 5 of them, and the rest were taken into the War Gate to rest.

After all, shadow scouts are not perpetual motion machines, and we still need to rely on them to explore the map at night.

The goblin dart soldiers gathered around Mo Yu, huddled in their beds with vigilant eyes.

This gloomy environment made them feel much more anxious than the grassland.

The terrain in the mountains is far more complex than the forests on the plains.

Especially after the road extends inward for a short while, it is submerged in grass and trees.

The team had to slow down its pace.

The shadow scout can quickly cross these obstacles by jumping through shadows, but Mo Yu and others behind him cannot.

Therefore, they could only wield their weapons obediently and fight their way through the thorns.

There was no way, as there were several monster strongholds in the mountains and forests waving at Mo Yu.

Moreover, he also wanted to train himself in this environment.

After all, things won’t always go smoothly in the future, and Mo Yu also wants to try more on how to make full use of the combat effectiveness of his defense tower in such complex terrain.

Because it is a mountainous area, the ground underfoot is not flat.

The demon cat boots on Mo Yu's feet can help hide the sound of his footsteps, but they can't protect his feet from the rough ground.

It's very uncomfortable to walk.

Fortunately, after Mo Yu was promoted to the third-level lord, his physical fitness improved a lot. Although he felt a little uncomfortable, he was able to adapt generally.

We walked forward for nearly half an hour.

Despite the shadow scouts' exploration of the way, the team still inevitably encountered attacks from several groups of monsters.

They are all low-level magical beasts, including animals and plants.

Most of these monsters are good at hiding, some come from the air and some come from underground, otherwise they would not be able to escape the detection of the shadow scouts.

But there were no dangers and all were resolved one by one.

It did consume Mo Yu's summoning times of the War Gate several times.

However, Mo Yu has become much more familiar with this complex mountain terrain.

In the mountains, defense towers can also be summoned.

All that is needed is enough space on the ground, and the defense tower will squeeze out the branches and leaves blocking the way above by itself.

Even if there is a certain angle of attack, the defense tower can still be summoned.

But the tilt cannot be too large. If it exceeds about 30 degrees, the defense tower cannot be placed.

In comparison, it is much better than underground spaces like mines.

In the mine, the low ceiling directly restricts the summoning of defense towers, making it impossible to summon them.

Mo Yu felt that it would be necessary for him to carry a civil engineering team with him in the future.

If the ground is tilted greatly, level it on site. If the ground space is insufficient, clean it immediately. If the height is not enough, dig a hole on top. If there is water, put up a board...

It is necessary, quite necessary.

Mo Yu decided to let Da Zhuang train a team when he returned. After all, they didn't need to be very strong, as long as they could do the job.

"My Lord, we are almost there, just ahead!"

The shadow scout who was exploring the way finally brought good news, and Mo Yu was cheered up.

The team walked forward for a few more minutes and suddenly the view in front of them became bright.

Before they knew it, they had walked out of the forest.

The terrain in front of us goes down to a depression, forming a small valley.

The valley is located between the mountain where Mo Yu is located and the ridge of the mountain next to it, and a large number of rough stone buildings can be seen.

Most of these buildings are large and simple, with stone chairs, stone tables, and stones of different sizes.

We’ve arrived at the Stone Giant’s stronghold!

(End of this chapter)