Apocalyptic Lord: Heroes of Might and Magic Descend

Chapter 69 Discovering the Dragon's Lair

Attack 9, Defense 11, Strength 3, Knowledge 6

After equipping the Black Demon Sword, Lin Mo's attack power increased again.

Lin Mo was so excited because he had unknowingly acquired three of the four components of the 'Cursed Armor'.

Including the Black Magic Sword I just got, the reward for being the first person in the world to clear the Tomb of the Warriors was the Undead Shield, and the skull crown I'm wearing now was obtained by Santi's exploration.

In other words, once you find the final component, the Bone Breastplate, you can synthesize the Cursed Armor.

This thing is incredibly powerful. In battle, it first unleashes four layers of negative magic on the entire enemy team, effectively reducing their combat power by more than 70%.

This combination of treasures is especially suitable for the Necropolis faction.

"So, let me think, where is this last bone breastplate again?" Lin Mo didn't even open the treasure chest in front of him right away, but scratched his head to remember.

However, he seemed genuinely unaware of this news.

After all, he couldn't be omniscient and omnipotent. Besides, some information could only be revealed by certain lord heroes in the tavern, or by some insider information obtained from the tavern owner.

The exact locations of such combined treasures have only been revealed in very small numbers.

For example, the first thing Lin Mo obtained was the [Undead Amulet].

"Speaking of which, I'm only missing the 'Vampire Cloak' from the 'Ghost King Cloak' combination treasure. Why am I always missing just one more?" Lin Mo's heart itched at the thought of this.

But I have no way to stop this dry, itchy skin.

We can only search slowly.

After calming down, Lin Mo continued to explore this treasure area, opening the treasure chest in front of him and choosing gold coins as usual.

Having previously used my atmospheric perception, I was fairly certain there were no more treasures here, but there seemed to be a large area ahead. Since I was already here, I figured I should definitely check it out.

Mounting his horse, galloping wildly, and after passing through a wide passage of more than two hundred meters, Lin Mo immediately spotted a very distinctive building ahead.

It was a small, golden hill, about ten meters high, with a cave entrance at its base. Upon approaching, Lin Mo saw a notification: [You have discovered a dragon's lair. Would you like to explore it?]

Dragon's lair?

Lin Mo was stunned at first, then overjoyed.

It was truly a case of "searching high and low without finding it." His strategy was to directly produce the top-tier unit, the Black Dragon, from the dungeon, but unexpectedly, he discovered another dragon's lair in the area surrounding his territory.

After conquering this place, there will be a yield. When combined with the upgradable high-level dragon lair in the dungeon, the red dragons in the outer dragon lair can be transformed into black dragons.

This is equivalent to double the output.

Lin Mo could already foresee just how terrifying the production of black dragons would be in the future.

Most importantly, by capturing the dragon's lair now, we can immediately recruit the "Red Dragon".

The Red Dragon is the unupgraded version of the Black Dragon, and its attributes are slightly weaker. The most important difference is that the unupgraded Red Dragon is only immune to magic of level 1 to 3, while the Black Dragon is immune to all magic.

That means it doesn't accept any magic.

Of course, this feature has both advantages and disadvantages; it all depends on how it is used.

As I always say, for Lin Mo, there are no strongest soldiers, only the strongest heroes.

Sometimes, even a level 1 skeleton soldier can defeat a level 7 black dragon.

Lin Mo is now considering whether or not to take over this dragon's lair right now.

"Generally speaking, the guards of the recruitment nests for this type of Tier 7 unit are all of this nest unit type, in groups of 3, stacked together. The strength of the Crimson Dragon is even weaker than that of the un-upgraded Angel. If all the skeletons are stacked together and fought head-on, they should be able to kill them instantly!" Lin Mo's current number of skeletons is approaching 700.

Stacked together, and with the added boost from his own hero's four-dimensional attributes, the skeleton soldiers' combat power is not much different from that of a level 2 unit, so winning is not a problem.

"However, the Crimson Dragon is faster and will inevitably attack first. Moreover, because it's dragon breath, it has a penetrating effect, so even if I use bait, it will be difficult to prevent it from directly attacking my main skeleton army... In that case, the losses will be considerable..."

This was Lin Mo's only worry.

But since things have come to this, there's no point in saying more; he simply doesn't want to wait any longer.

Although the Crimson Dragon's attributes aren't great, that's only compared to the Black Dragon and other level 7 units. Putting those aside, it's still a level 7 unit.

During this time period, taking the Crimson Dragon out and releasing it during battles, its height of over ten meters and massive size are far more intimidating than skeleton soldiers.

This is even more intimidating for people with poor cognitive abilities.

"I hit them!"

Lin Mo didn't plan to wait any longer, especially since he was completely confident that he could conquer this "dragon's lair".

So he regrouped the skeleton soldiers and charged straight into the dragon's lair.

Inside was a large underground cave, which could be described as glittering with jewels. There is no doubt that dragons love to collect things that glitter.

On top of the numerous gold coins, a crimson dragon spreads its wings, which are over ten meters long, and lets out a terrifying roar.

It was indeed awe-inspiring.

Comparatively speaking, the skeleton soldiers, who were blessed with "Attack Acceleration" and "Stone Skin Protection" by Lin Mo, looked like a few small beans. If someone who didn't know any better saw them, they might even find them quite comical.

That's practically suicide.

However, if you look closely at the stacked stats above the skeleton soldier's head, you'll find that this skeleton soldier is very "tough" and very "strong".

Even with the attack speed boost, the speed only reaches 7 points, while the opposing Red Dragon has an initial speed of 11 points.

There is absolutely no comparison.

So, according to the combat rules of the New World units, the red dragon with the number '3' written on its head flew over and unleashed a dragon breath at the foremost skeleton soldier.

boom!

The flames and the terrifying impact that followed instantly blasted the '1' cannon fodder skeleton soldier into dust.

On the other side, there are a few cannon fodder. Lin Mo is completely gambling on which one the Crimson Dragon will attack.

As long as you don't criticize your own key players, it's fine.

Fortunately, due to its location and distance, the Red Dragon chose to use cannon fodder as its attack.

This gave Lin Mo's main skeleton army the opportunity to attack first.

"kill!"

At Lin Mo's command, 680 skeleton soldiers, wielding their iron swords, charged forward without fear and swung their swords at the Crimson Dragon's thigh.

Without the boost from Lin Mo's four-dimensional attributes as a lord hero, this number of skeleton soldiers might not have been able to kill three red dragons with a single sword strike.

After all, the difference in troop levels is too great.

With the addition of 9 points of attack power, it was as if each skeleton soldier had been strengthened, which was almost a several-fold increase. So this sword directly cleaved the three red dragons to the ground.

The evil dragon head still roared unwillingly, emitting flames and a pungent sulfur smell, before crashing heavily to the ground, causing the ground beneath its feet to tremble three times.

This was a glorious victory.

[Soul Spell Transforms into a Skeleton Soldier!]

There's no other way; this is how it's done according to the conversion ratio, without distinguishing the level of the dead units.

Therefore, for a lord hero with the ability to summon spirits, fighting against low-level and numerous enemies is a snowballing way to amass troops.

Immediately afterwards, a notification that pleased Lin Mo appeared.

[You have captured this dragon's lair. Do you wish to recruit the Crimson Dragon?]