I Became a Progenitor Vampire

Chapter 239 The Lion of the Barren Wasteland, Varun’s Change (8600-word chapter)

Craig returned to the Dwarf Valley with countless supplies under Li De's orders.

Rebuilding the lion tribe is the task given to him by the great crown.

Craig is well aware of the rules of survival on the barren wasteland. The original lion tribe survived by relying on powerful forces.

But after the last war, the lion tribe has lost its original spirit, and he must find another way.

The task of rebuilding the Lion Tribe is not easy, but he will complete it no matter what the price is paid, absolutely.

On the third day after Craig returned to the barren wasteland, Li De returned to the Dwarf Valley again after dealing with the backlog of government affairs.

It was mid-September now, and he had to get the Dwarf Valley on track.

Because once it enters October, the orcs may start to invade.

At that time, the City of Dawn did not have much energy to deal with the Dwarven Valley.

He wouldn't even use too much power to guard the Mythril veins, because the new round of population plunder will be the most important job this winter, and there is no one.

Everything in the City of Dawn is based on population.

Not to mention other things, even the power of faith he desperately needs must be solved by gaining a large population, otherwise he can only defend a golden mountain without the power to dig.

Within a month, the valley of the dwarves has changed drastically under the development of the city of dawn.

The dwarf city that had collapsed due to the war was almost razed to the ground.

More than a dozen huge cyclops swept across the wreckage of these buildings and unearthed huge mines, successfully digging into the mithril veins below.

The current dwarf valley is a pure construction site, and the Cyclops has acted as the absolute main force here, with more than two hundred human miners and dozens of blood races working in the middle.

The bare gray boulders, yellow mud, and huge footprints are no different from the construction site. The only difference is that there is no modern machinery here.

There are almost no traces of the dwarf city in the Dwarf Valley. Only the faint beams and building debris revealed in the gravel piles also show that there was civilization here.

The city that the dwarves couldn't bear to demolish was taken care of by the cyclops.

"Under the crown of the ancestor," Stanley, wearing a black priest's robe, immediately stepped forward to greet Li De, who was standing on the grass outside the construction site and stopped watching.

After the dwarves and orcs were arranged, Stanley returned to the valley of the dwarves to preside over the overall situation.

Because of the threat that the orcs and dwarves may launch attacks at any time, there must be an upper-level figure with sufficient weight and wisdom to control the overall situation.

Stanley, who is outstanding in wisdom and strength, is undoubtedly a very good candidate for the subordinate whom Li De admires very much.

"How is the development of Mithril veins now?"

Li De, wearing a dark blue mage robe, was standing on the open space next to the valley. He looked curiously at the long queue, pushing the wooden bucket, like an ant in order to transport the dirt and gravel out of the mining team.

Stanley's expression suddenly appeared ashamed, and his tone fell a little bit low.

"Under the crown, the difficulty of mining mythril veins is beyond our imagination. So far, less than 10 tons of ore are produced every day, and we have only extracted 3 pounds of mythril..."

Li De turned his head in surprise, 3 pounds of Mithril?The weight of a pound is not much different from that of the earth.

This month, with such a strong support from the City of Dawn, only 3 pounds of Mithril was extracted??

Although Mithril is extremely precious and rare, it is also out of proportion to the investment.

If 30 pounds is about the same.

"Have you encountered any problems?"

"Our number is too small... and the texture of the mithril veins is extremely hard. Ordinary human miners can't dig the ore at all. They can only mine with powerful Cyclops.

Moreover, the veins are buried deep underground, and a lot of soil and gravel need to be cleaned up to be dug.

Now ordinary human miners can only do the work of cleaning up dirt and gravel, and only the cyclops are actually mining.

And because the developed mine is too small, it can only accommodate two cyclops."

Hearing this, Li De had a black line on his face, and he could not calculate it. The reason that affected the efficiency was that the ore was too hard to dig...

I xx you oo...It's really life is the master of drama.

The cause of this unlucky stove made his eyelids jump.

"Have you thought of a solution?"

Stanley's face was even more embarrassed.

"Unless a large number of professionals are mobilized, at least level 5 or higher fighters are required to mine, otherwise it will be difficult to improve efficiency even if all the cyclops can mine."

Li De shook his head.

Now the City of Dawn is not lacking in high-end combat power. He even has a level 18 bone dragon, so he won't be afraid of fighting at all.

But now the foundation of the City of Dawn is extremely weak, and the normal development of a force should be the pyramid mode.

The number of lower floors is much greater than that of upper floors.

But because of his rapid development, the bottom-level combat power of the City of Dawn is now scarce. Only a few hundred blood races and the 600 human army of the newly formed King's Blade can count as the bottom-level combat power.

But these low-level powers are extremely incompatible with the high-end powers he possesses.

He didn't urge Li De to fight a high-end power showdown with the enemy at all, but he felt painful when he encountered something that required foundation.

Where did he get hundreds of level 5 and above professionals to mine here?

There is a dark covenant, but he can't let these uncontrollable forces come to the mithril mine, and unless the people of these underground forces are crazy, how can they go mining.

Li Degang wanted to speak and immediately patted his head, shook his head a little funny, what did he do in the Dwarf Valley?

Supervise the progress of the Mithril Mine, and Craig will rebuild the Lion Tribe.

Are the orcs of the Lion Tribe just ready-made miners?He originally planned to let the orcs mine... almost forgot about the business.

These two-edged, powerful orcs are definitely the best miners.

Dwarven Valley is in a barren wasteland, there is not much here, but there are many orcs.

After finding the key point of the problem, Li De relaxed and waved his hand indifferently.

"Stanley, prepare to arrange for the humans to withdraw. Only the Cyclops will be left here.

We can use orcs to mine ore."

"Orc?" Stanley was taken aback.

"You mean directly enslaving the orcs?"

"Enslave? No, I am not interested in enslaving orcs, what I want is...rebuilding the lion tribe!"

Li Deji was a bit playful, "Have you met Craig?"

Stanley nodded, "Of course, when Dylan delivered a large amount of supplies three days ago, he also brought Craig and hundreds of orcs.

At that time, the Cyclops almost clashed with his orcs."

After speaking, his brows wrinkled slightly.

"But he didn't stop in the Dwarf Valley. After getting down from the magic word bat, he took hundreds of orcs and went out of the valley without knowing where he went.

I didn't snoop too much because of your message."

Although he was once an enemy, Li De heard the news that this 16-level werewolf is now his own, he did not pay much attention.

And judging from Craig's actions, the other party was obviously carrying a task, and Stanley did not dare to inquire about Li De's orders.

"Well, Craig was arranged by me.

I want to rebuild the lion tribe and let the orcs become the master of the dwarf valley again.

At that time we don't need to invest too much energy here, the orcs will work for us."

"Under the crown, there is only Craig a tribe controlled by the orcs, I am afraid it will not be too big", Stanley shook his head, "Craig's strength is not enough to support a big tribe."

Although Stanley didn't look down on this 16-level werewolf who was directly seconded, he didn't have too much expectation.

If the opponent was Karp, the orc king, he wouldn't say a word, but the fighting power burst out by the 18th-level Karp impressed him. Craig was far behind, and the two were not of the same grade.

Li De's expression is a bit playful, "Of course it's not only Craig, but at most half a year, when the king of the lion tribe, Karp will also come."

Stanley's expression relaxed, and he immediately let go of his heart.

"In this way, the rebuilding of the Lion Tribe will not be a problem."

Li De's eyes were deep.

"The Dwarf Valley will be our nail in the barren wasteland in the future, and the Lion Tribe will also become a sharp blade in the hands of the City of Dawn."

The orcs will not cause any harm to the city of Dawn in a short time, but Li De always likes to control the initiative in his own hands.

The distant mountains are not far from the human empire and the orc empire. The human empire already has the Scarlet Mage Tower and the Dark Covenant. On the contrary, the strong orc does not have any power tentacles, which does not fit his character.

The layout has always been considered for the distant future...

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On the barren wasteland, Craig looked at the small tribe with no more than a hundred people in a simple tent with hundreds of blades, with a very cold expression.

"Brown, lead people to surround them. This tribe belongs to the Lion Tribe now!"

Behind him, a werewolf warrior who also wore a huge wolf head stood and nodded cruelly.

"Yes, Lord Craig,"

After speaking, 120 orc warriors who wore a complete set of armors and each armor was a rare level stood up, and the long swords in their hands shone with cold light.

The battle started so suddenly.

Facing a group of evil wolves besieged, this small tribe of hundreds of people fell in just ten minutes.

When Craig left, the team behind him had grown to 200 people.

In the barren wilderness, strength has always been the guarantee of survival.

Without power, all are lambs.

Five days later, it was the two days when Li De came to the valley of the dwarves.

Craig returned to the Dwarf Valley.

At the same time, there were more than 600 orcs following him.

This is what this 16-level werewolf warrior has gained in the past few days.

Craig's expansion is full of traces unique to orcs, savage and rough, primitive and direct.

When Li De saw Craig, especially when he looked at the hundreds of orcs with him behind him, his face was very exciting.

In just a few days, hundreds of orcs were brought back, and these orcs were all 4 to 8 level fighters, and their aura was fierce and brutal, and each of them was obviously an orc soldier who had experienced bloody battles.

The fur clothes on these orcs couldn't cover the scars on their bodies, and the muscles held up the rough clothes high, and they looked primitive and ancient.

"Craig, these men have been gathered by you out these days?"

Seeing the surprised Craig expression on Li De's face was a little proud, "Under the crown, these are the tribes I conquered.

Now they all belong to the Lion Tribe!!"

Then Craig described how he led troops to conquer other orc tribes in the past few days, and finally quickly expanded to the current scale.

After hearing Craig's excited words, Li Defei did not say anything to praise, but was silent for a long time.

Looking at Craig, who seemed to think this was a normal operation, felt a bit of a headache.

Although he knew that the orcs were upright, or thoughtless.

But I didn't expect... the other party was more exaggerated than he thought.

He directly led his troops to hit the door, killed them in resistance, and gathered them in surrender...mmp, is this rebuilding the tribe?This is not to copy the family butcher?

Stanley, who was next to him, had a strange expression when he saw this scene.

I was deeply moved in my heart. I am worthy of being an orc, and the development forces can be barbaric to such a degree and haven't taken it seriously.

This kind of thing can only happen in the barren wasteland.

"Craig, there are many ways to recruit..."

Li De looked at himself, a 16th-level temple warrior, and for the first time felt a headache to reason with his subordinates.

"If you do this, not to mention the low efficiency, and it is easy to make your subordinates feel resentful, which is not conducive to the formation of the tribe."

Craig looked at Li De blankly, "Under the crown, the barren wasteland has always annexed tribes like this...Whoever has the strongest power has the most people and the most extensive land.

The lion tribe also developed to the size of tens of thousands of troops under the absolute power of Patriarch Kapu..."

Li De suddenly didn't know how to speak. Although he didn't like this primitive and wild way, it was a mode of survival in a barren wasteland.

He can't deny right or wrong. After all, the poor living environment has created the rules for the survival of the fittest, and the powerful leader is more capable of leading the tribe's people to survive.

But when he came, he naturally wouldn't let Craig continue to do such silly and nutritious things.

"No, Craig, we still have many ways."

Li De looked at Craig's puzzled eyes and slowly spoke.

"What does the barren wasteland lack the most? What do the orcs want most?"

Craig's eyes lit up, "What I want most is food, what I want most is food and armor!"

Li De nodded, fortunately this guy is not stupid.

"Yes, isn't this year's food particularly scarce?"

"Yes, if it were not for the extreme shortage of food this year, Patriarch Kapu would not easily order an attack on the dwarf tribe."

Craig practiced and nodded, the giant wolf head now inexplicably seemingly naive.

"Then now you have 2000 sets of armors and weapons in your hand, and you have 5000 people to eat for half a year, what can you do?"

"Under the crown...I..." Craig was taken aback, then looked at Li De blankly.

Of course, if you have food, you can store it, and you can equip your tribe with weapons and armor.

But he felt that his idea didn’t seem to be what Li De wanted, so he stammered for a long time before daring to speak.

Li De shook his head dumbfoundingly when he saw this scene, and directly explained without selling it.

"You can choose a group of smarter subordinates and let them spread news to the surrounding tribes. The lion is recruiting tribesmen...

As long as they pass the test of the Lion Tribe, the entire tribe can be merged into the Lion Tribe, and each warrior can receive a set of armor...

The lion tribe has enough food to survive this winter. As long as the orcs who take refuge in the lion tribe can ensure food supply this winter, no one will starve to death.

In addition, our Lion Tribe only recruits 5,000 orcs, and now it has recruited 2,000 people. If it is full, it will not be recruited this year."

Compared with the primitive and rude methods of threatening by force, Li De prefers to adopt efficient methods.

How much time does it take to fight one by one?How much power do I have to lose?It's not worth it.

Craig has reported to him about the lack of food this year. Even such a powerful force as the Lion Tribe lacks food. You can imagine how those small tribes are living.

I'm afraid that most of the orcs are desperate for the coming Winter Moon.

After all, not every orc can go to the human border to plunder food when the winter moon comes, and more orcs still rely on their usual reserves to survive the cold winter.

At this time, when these orcs are facing despair, a powerful tribe that can provide food and armor is willing to accept them. Will these small tribes be tempted??

There are at least two hundred thousand orcs living on this piece of land near the valley of the dwarves, and a small part of them is enough to take refuge in.

Li De does not need much, only a few thousand people can restart the Dwarf Valley.

After the news is released, if an orc hears the news and prepares to start a war to plunder food, it would be more to his taste.

The 18th-level Bone Dragon, the 16th-level Bronze Cyclops Corso, and the 15th-level Dawn Bat King Castro, these three terrifying behemoths are now in the Dwarf Valley.

At that time, you can directly experience the way the orcs expand their power.

As long as Karp does not appear as a powerful orc king, Li De will not care at all.

According to Craig's information, hundreds of kilometers around the Dwarven Valley are the territory of the Lion Tribe, and there are no other large tribes here.

So he has nothing to worry about.

Hearing Li De's words, Craig's mind turned around, and he nodded in surprise, "Under the crown, your wisdom is comparable to the God of Creation!!!"

The wolf head inexplicably made Li De feel a little happy at this time, very like... Erhu???

Although this 16th-level werewolf has a straightforward character, he is not stupid, but the barren wasteland's behavior makes him hardly think of this way.

Here, fist is the only way of communication.

"Arrange people to do it. In addition, we must highlight that we have fewer people to recruit and will soon be recruited to highlight the sense of urgency.

and also......"

Li De patiently taught Craig how to spread the news. In the end, the werewolf happily summoned his subordinates and explained what Li De taught him.

Then hundreds of orcs left the Dwarf Valley with Craig's mission.

Li De looked at the orcs resting on the turf, and was keenly aware that there seemed to be no group of orcs brought out from the city of dawn among these orcs.

Because when these orcs saw him, there was no fear in their eyes.

He didn't believe that the captured orcs had never seen him driving the bone dragon across the battlefield.

After asking Craig about this doubt, Li De took a deep look at the werewolf's words.

"Mianxia. Because the orcs I brought out knew about the city of Dawn, I was afraid that the other party would leak the news, so every time they fought, they rushed to the forefront. These days, they all went to see the god of death."

Craig's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about something normal.

Li De couldn't help nodding slightly, he was indeed a temple warrior who was absolutely loyal to him, and everything he did was based on his interests.

In fact, he didn't care either. Those orcs were all brought in and out with their headgear. It was impossible to know the location of the city of Dawn.

The distant mountain range stretches for nearly 100,000 miles and spans several empires. In such a huge mountain range, I want to find the city of dawn without the slightest clue, I am afraid that every few decades are dreaming.

There will also be no brain-dead forces to do such thankless things.

After arranging the matter, Li De was in a much better mood.

"Under the crown, the human miners have all been transferred back to the city of dawn, and now only the cyclops are left.

Do we need to keep them here??"

Li De shook his head. The huge size of the Cyclops has many advantages that humans cannot match in terms of production. It is also an important production tool in the City of Dawn. It is undoubtedly a waste to keep it in the Dwarf Valley.

Especially when he plans to build tap water in the City of Dawn.

"Keep five of them, and take the rest of the cyclops back together.

In addition, Harrison was notified to bring a few dwarves from the construction department to teach how to mine the mithril vein.

Our current efficiency is too low."

The current mining speed is simply horrible. Li De expects to continue mining at this speed, let alone the whole people wearing Mithril forged equipment.

Even the top combat power of level 15 or higher in his hand can't wear Mithril equipment.

Especially the big guys like Corso, Castro, and Bone Dragon. If you want to forge weapons for them, you need a huge amount of Mithril.

Professional things still have to be taught to professional people. Dwarves have never been trusted before, so mining veins completely excludes dwarves.

Although the dwarves have not fully integrated into the City of Dawn, at least they don't think about rebellion every day. It is time for them to contribute to the City of Dawn.

"Yes, under the crown."

"Go down"

Li De waved his hand casually.

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In the next few days, Li De has been monitoring the progress of Craig's reorganization of the Lion Clan in the Dwarf Valley. This is his key project and must be seen in a short time.

In addition, he will regularly go offline for a few hours every day to deal with the Crimson Moon.

Now the Scarlet Moon is in the running-in period, and there are many things to be solved.

But fortunately, because of his high salary and Zhao Yue's hard work, few of the original management team left.

Therefore, the club that has just been acquired by him is generally stable, which has reduced a lot of trouble for him.

And as most of the employees of Scarlet Moon have experienced "Glory", their original resistance to this game that has not yet been publicly tested immediately turned into a yearning.

The mentality of being quite critical of Li De disappeared, and no one can escape the true fragrance law.

Even those two game players who have not been laid off can't help but feel moved. Facing this epoch-making virtual game, it is too fake to say that it is not.

There is no better understanding of the opportunities contained in them than as professional players.

On the contrary, these players are envious of those preparing for "Glory"...

At the same time, under Li De's promotion, Zhao Yue, the assistant to the president, also succeeded in ascending the position of vice president, truly embarking on the top of the company.

And Li De gave her a crazy task after thinking deeply.

He needs Zhao Yue to recruit no less than 500 professional players from the e-sports school before the launch of "Glory".

And every professional player needs to sign a contract with Scarlet Moon for at least ten years.

In addition, the data analysis department has expanded from more than one hundred employees to three hundred, and at the same time, it has invested 10 million RMB to speed up the establishment of a data analysis center.

Under several heavyweight orders, Zhao Yue immediately saw Li De's determination.

"Glory" will be the place where the crimson moon will show its ambitions.

Li De didn't explain too much about this, but just told the other party to complete the task.

At the same time, he also asked Zhao Yue to pay extra attention to whether there were managers who had established large-scale guilds who wanted to change jobs.

Zhao Yue naturally responded unconditionally.

Through Li De's series of operations, this mature plump mature woman understood that her boss really wanted to make a big wave.

She is also happy to watch this club that has spent ten years of youth truly becoming one of the top ten clubs in China.

Working harder for this has made Li De a lot easier.

After coming to the valley of the dwarves for the tenth day, in late September, it was only a few days before entering October.

Li De met an old acquaintance.

Warren Wildhammer.

This dwarf captured by him gained most of his freedom by forging the perfect armor for Corso and Castro. During this time, he lived comfortably in the City of Dawn.

At least Li De thinks so.

In fact, it was true, even Warren had to admit that the city of Dawn, a city ruled by vampires, was really the most comfortable city in which he lived in three hundred years.

The city here is clean and tidy, without the slightest mess.

There are no people who urinate and defecate or even litter on the street, and the sewers never give off a disgusting stench.

After nightfall, there are no underground forces to blackmail the streets, and you can still feel extremely safe in the city in the middle of the night, without worrying about evil beings suddenly appearing in front of them.

Every resident here is kind and enthusiastic, and he never discriminates against dwarves, and even Waren has already mingle with a few neighbors because of the wine.

Basically every day after get off work, I gather with a few human friends for a few drinks.

Warren liked living in this city.

Here, he could feel that he was alive, really alive, not a dwarf master who went crazy for the tribe.

So when the city hall recruited people who knew how to mine the veins of Mithril, Valen took the initiative to sign up.

This is also because he likes to go to the square to enjoy the cool and chat...In this process, it is inevitable that he has taken many ideological education classes.

Every inhabitant of the city of dawn should contribute to our common home.

Regardless of race, regardless of age, regardless of gender, regardless of strength.

Anyone who is a resident of the City of Dawn can contribute their own strength.

This sentence kept circling in his mind, and Warren didn't know why he became like this, but he did find a sense of belonging in this city.

This is a completely different sense of belonging from the Wildhammer tribe.

In the Wildhammer tribe, it is more of a responsibility. He must work hard for the survival of all the people.

But in the City of Dawn, he doesn't need it. He just needs to complete a certain amount of work every day, and then he can receive a generous salary, and he can enjoy wine and food with his friends every day.

He has never been so relaxed.

"Good day, Lord Kachar", Warren bowed to Li De with a respectful expression.

The major event of dwarf forging at this time is nothing short of the uncompromising dwarf image at the beginning.

Li De keenly noticed Varen's change and smiled slightly.

"Good day, Master Warren, the digging of mithril veins will trouble you.

Here in the future will be the most important mineral vein output in the City of Dawn, and in the City of Dawn, only you have the ability to design more efficient mining methods..."

Warren nodded, his expression was proud of being a dwarf, "No problem, Lord Kachar, how many miners do I have?"

Speaking of this question, Li De turned to look at the tent stationed in the valley.

Said lightly.

"Five Thousand Orcs..."

Five thousand orcs??

Warren was shocked, looking at Li De with a little disbelief, "You have enslaved five thousand orcs??"

This is too much of a draft.

The entire dwarf tribe was only in the early 1,000s at its peak, and now it is five times the power of the dwarf tribe to shoot casually.

Although he knows that Li De is strong, every move of the other party can give him a particularly strong shock.

The number of 5,000 orcs benefited from Li De's plan beyond imagination during this time.

Because of the lack of food, seeing the Winter Moon coming again, many orc tribes fell into unspeakable despair.

At this time, news came from the mighty lions that their tribe was preparing to recruit a group of tribesmen, and they could provide plenty of food for the winter. They even had strong armor and warm winter clothes...

This has moved many orc tribes who are not strong, but are only struggling at the level of survival.

It is much better to be sheltered by a strong man than to survive in the barren wasteland with these small tribes.

Coupled with the statement of the Lion Tribe, it immediately attracted a large number of small tribes to vote, with a large number of hundreds and a few dozen.

But under the accumulation of small amounts, more than five thousand orcs gathered in the Dwarf Valley in just ten days.

If it weren't for the last minute Li De asked Craig to raise the threshold, there would only be more people now.

And Craig, a level 16 werewolf warrior, also admired Li De's operation.

According to his idea, it must be the most direct way to conquer, but this efficiency is countless times worse than Li De's.

It is impossible to develop to 5000 people without two or three months.

Because the orcs who were forcibly collected can still be managed at first, but when the number of people later becomes large, it will be different. Those orcs who are initially dissatisfied or contain resentment will become more and more difficult to manage.

There may even be rebellion, escape and so on.

But now that the other party surrendered by himself, there is almost no need to worry about this phenomenon.

Plenty of food, sturdy armor, and warm winter clothes, this super-high level of treatment directly tied the orc's heart.

Coupled with Craig's strength, all the orcs are very convinced, and all this makes this newly rebuilt tribe truly become a tribe.

Although the rebuilt lion tribe is not as powerful as Karp was there, it already possesses a certain strength.

"Except for the 1,000 armies of these orcs, everyone else will be under your command.

There is only one request. Mythril ore must be excavated as fast as possible. The Winter Moon is coming soon, and our army needs stronger armor."

Warren nodded seriously.

"As you wish, Lord Kachar, I will do my best!"

"This is left to you and Stanley. I will leave 5 Cyclops for you to use, and the others will be brought back to the City of Dawn.

In addition, you can report any difficulties at any time.

Before the Winter Moon comes, the Mythril Vein is the most important thing in the city of Dawn"

After speaking, Li De called Stanley and Craig, and formally handed over the construction of the Dwarf Valley to Varen, and both of them obeyed Varen's command in mining veins and rebuilding the city.

As Stanley of blood and Craig of the temple warrior, the loyalty of the two has penetrated into their souls, flowing in their blood, and they naturally obey Li De's orders.

After completing these trivial matters, Li De is ready to return to the city of dawn.

At this time, the blacksmith shop and the mage tower joined forces for the first time and began to build tap water with rocks.