Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

Chapter 200: They don't need any strategy, just sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy

At Tara Plain, Xiao Mu and Xiao Hui, along with their undead forces, arrived at the location of the lake based on the intelligence they had gathered.

"The real hobgoblin kingdom is hidden beneath this lake," Xiao Mu said gravely.

"These hobgoblins must be really dumb. This is the most desolate place I've ever seen, and there's a lake here? It's like they're begging to be discovered. What were these ugly hobgoblins thinking? It's an insult to our intelligence," Xiao Hui couldn't help but scoff.

"Let's see if we can get in. If not, we'll break through by force," Xiao Mu suggested, walking over to inspect the area. However, being clueless about magic, he couldn't discern anything.

Xiao Mu couldn't sense the barrier's presence at all and was shocked when he actually touched the lake. He had expected to encounter the barrier immediately, but it seemed that without knowledge of magic, he couldn't even detect it.

In the end, it was the necromancer and lich who discovered the way to enter.

The necromancer and lich looked at Xiao Hui. "We need dark elements."

Xiao Hui nodded without hesitation. Although Xiao Mu's light elements could achieve the same effect, both were undead, making dark magic more compatible.

The necromancer and lich began casting spells together, and soon, a barrier appeared before them.

"Attack," Xiao Hui commanded, gathering dark elements and punching the barrier. It cracked instantly, revealing a large opening.

Before the hobgoblins inside could react, the siblings and their undead forces quickly entered.

Inside the barrier, a city was under construction, nearing completion. Outside the city were numerous makeshift hobgoblin camps, complete with arrow towers and watchtowers.

In the middle of these camps, a large bonfire burned, around which hobgoblins danced wildly.

The basin was vast, large enough to build five cities simultaneously. The walls around it were dotted with caves, likely used for storage.

In addition to the surface arrow towers and watchtowers, the high walls were lined with black ballistae.

The defenses didn't seem lax, but the hobgoblins' relaxed demeanor betrayed their complacency. Long hidden under the barrier, they had let their guard down.

The siblings and their undead forces descended through the barrier's crack, landing steadily on the ground. The hobgoblins dancing around the bonfire froze, and the world seemed to fall silent.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The hobgoblins panicked, grabbing their weapons and charging at the undead. Alarms blared throughout the basin.

Arrow towers and watchtowers responded quickly, with magic and arrows flying towards the intruders. The ballistae on the walls also turned to target the enemies below.

These attacks were nothing more than a nuisance to the undead. Besides the siblings, Arthur, and Riven, all the undead present were Monarch level.

Xiao Mu and Xiao Hui were stunned as ten domains unfolded simultaneously. They had never seen such a sight.

In an instant, all attacks were blocked, and the attacking hobgoblins were annihilated. Even the distant watchtowers, arrow towers, and ballistae were destroyed by massive bone spikes.

Xiao Mu took out the fortress Essence Shard, clicked to build, and threw it onto a large patch of empty ground.

A massive magic circle covered the earth, and a towering undead fortress emerged.

In Undead City, a Monarch level Reaper Guard saw the second rune on the main fortress's wall light up, indicating the undead fortress was complete.

The Reaper Guard immediately commanded the undead army to charge into the main fortress, entering the massive black teleportation array.

In the basin, countless undead of various types poured out from the five teleportation gates within the fortress.

The siblings and several Monarch levels floated in the air, silently observing from behind the fortress.

The hobgoblin guards outside the royal city were bewildered as a giant fortress suddenly appeared before them.

Undead swarmed up the bone stairs inside the fortress, climbing the walls like locusts and jumping down. Flying undead emerged from the gates, taking to the skies.

The undead fortress activated its shield upon appearing, and the central undead tower began its assault.

The hobgoblins were stunned, watching in disbelief as the fortress spewed forth enemies.

The hobgoblins' response was slow compared to the undead. The royal city behind them was still mobilizing troops, while the scattered hobgoblins outside numbered only a few thousand, unable to match the relentless undead.

Slow-moving skeletons climbed the turrets, using their bodies as cannonballs. The undead seemed to instinctively know how to operate the cannons.

Inside the turrets, other battlements were filled with skeleton archers, their arrows glowing blue, enhanced by liches to be stronger than regular skeleton archers.

The fortress automatically adjusted the cannons' angles. Since the cannonballs were undead, accuracy wasn't an issue.

Boom! Boom!

White cannonballs shot towards the hobgoblins' rear. The skeletons' bodies, though fragile compared to stronger beings, were incredibly tough to the hobgoblins.

The big cannon and scatter cannons fired in unison, skeletons crashing into the hobgoblins. As they landed, Skeleton Soldiers and Skeleton Warriors wielding bone blades attacked the surrounding hobgoblins.

The already faltering hobgoblin army fell into chaos, further disrupted by the airborne undead. The hobgoblins had no means of defense.

The undead, fearless and relentless, poured from the fortress, jumping from the walls and flying out, quickly numbering in the tens of thousands. They advanced towards the hobgoblin royal city, overwhelming everything in their path.

"This is terrifying. They don't need any strategy, just sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy." Xiao Hui exclaimed, her mouth agape in astonishment.

"Maybe it's a case of quantity turning into quality?" Xiao Mu suggested, equally shocked by the undead's combat prowess.

No wonder the Lord Alliance suffered heavy losses. The undead feared no death, and with so many liches and necromancers, the rate of summoning new undead outpaced the enemy's ability to kill them.

"We need to join the fight. Our goal is to advance to Monarch level. We can't just stand here and watch. If the undead kill them all, what will we have left to kill?" Xiao Mu urged, feeling they needed to act before it was too late.

The siblings, along with Arthur and Riven, joined the battle. Their mission was not just to destroy the hobgoblin kingdom but to advance to Monarch level.

Azure, John, and the other Monarch level undead continued to observe from the air, their target being the hobgoblin kingdom's Monarch levels.

Inside the undead fortress, a specter floated above the teleportation gates, monitoring the situation and determining if support was needed.