"Rosen, when you encounter this guy in the competition, you have to teach him a good lesson for me. If you avenge me, I’ll even call you boss!" Xu Chen said while wiping the blood off his face.
"Call me boss first and let me hear it." Rosen replied.
"Come on, wait until you avenge me first." Xu Chen said with a pout.
Rosen shifted his gaze from Xu Chen to Tang Xichen. He had no intention of avenging Xu Chen, but he was definitely going to avenge Tang Xichen.
Li Shangde had the audacity to touch Tang Xichen’s hair by her ear; Rosen wouldn’t dare do such a thing, and besides jealousy, he was irritated by it.
Even though Li Shangde was just a ten-year-old kid, you can’t tolerate such a bratty kid, right?
All participants were teleported to the competition venue.
As a flash of white light passed by, Rosen found himself at the bottom of a cliff.
"Xichen isn’t beside me; he should be at a nearby resource point. I need to find him quickly."
"But, why did I appear in the abyss?"
Looking up, he saw that the cliffs on both sides were dozens of meters high. If someone pushed rocks from the top, they could easily bury him.
Rosen then looked forward, seeing in the abyss a gold mine and the Undead Race Main City.
One setting not clearly explained in the competition is that one’s main city could randomly appear.
In other words, Rosen once had three types of main cities: Beastman, Naga, and Undead Race, any of which could appear.
This time, it was the Undead Race Main City that appeared.
"I haven’t studied the Undead Race Main City much, so this time I’ll have a slight disadvantage."
"But that’s okay, I have enough time initially, and with the Mavi Cloak, I can stand undefeated in the beginning."
Rosen approached the main city, seeing the gold coin resources had almost been collected, he summoned more undead laborers from the main city to gather the wood in the abyss.
As the resources accumulated, he took advantage of the time to upgrade his barracks. Rosen continued along the abyss, observing the surroundings.
There are no wild creatures in the Lord Dominance Competition, so Rosen mainly observed nearby resource points and enemy territories.
After walking for a while, the Goddess of Vengeance summoned a hundred Xiaohai.
Rosen also reached one end of the abyss, which was blocked by fallen rocks.
Moreover, he hadn’t found any enemy territory along the way, not even a shadow of the enemy.
Thus, Rosen had to turn back, and upon returning to the main city, he found that the resources were sufficient to upgrade the first barracks.
The width of this abyss is only twenty meters, meaning larger buildings can only be upgraded one at a time, while smaller buildings can be upgraded two or three in parallel.
In other words, his construction method is essentially fixed; buildings must be placed vertically.
Fortunately, one end of the abyss is closed, so there’s no need to worry about enemies appearing from behind.
In other words, he only needs to defend the other direction of the abyss.
Of course, if enemies appeared above the cliff, Rosen would be helpless, as his main city initially appeared at the bottom of the abyss, an unchangeable disadvantage.
"I can only hope enemies won’t appear above the cliff, though over time, enemy targets will definitely appear and discover my territory."
Rosen also considered that he must make future plans on how to overcome the disadvantage of being vulnerable to attacks from high above the abyss?
"It seems unsolvable. The Undead Territory doesn’t have buildings capable of resisting attacks from above."
"However, there is a method to hide my territory: summon the Abyss Lord Hero, who can release black fog to conceal the territory."
This is a barely acceptable solution.
Even if attacks from the cliff cannot be prevented, at least the enemy won’t immediately know the location of the main city, otherwise, if the main city is destroyed, it would be game over for him.
After upgrading the barracks, Rosen waited for some time, and summoned five undead archers to guard the main city.
Then, he continued exploring in the direction he hadn’t searched before, hoping to find more resource points, merge them into his territory for development, and quickly upgrade to Tier 3 main city to summon the first hero.
After traveling for five minutes, Rosen discovered a second gold mine.
This gold mine appeared in the abyss, five hundred meters from Rosen’s territory.
There were no signs of the enemy around, so Rosen returned and summoned more laborers, confidently sending them to the gold mine.
Then, he had a dozen Xiaohai guard this gold mine while he continued to explore with the remaining Xiaohai in that direction.
Similarly located within the abyss.
A territory had already upgraded its barracks and summoned fifteen units.
This was a ghost soul territory with the main city of Fengdu Ghost City, and the barracks were varied; the lord summoned only one type that could summon undefeatable units.
The barracks looked like a dried well, but upon closer inspection, one would find it was Sadako’s well from "The Ring."
The dozen Sadakos summoned were kept below the well, and whenever a Tier 1 unit approached, they would crawl out of the well and drag the Tier 1 unit into it.
The well absorbed the corpses of Tier 1 units to replenish its health.
The lord of this ghost soul territory was a Lord of the Crooked Teeth.
The Lord of the Crooked Teeth had just explored one direction of the abyss and found that the end was a valley, where they discovered an enemy territory but didn’t see his allies.
"My ally must have appeared above the cliffs, which is troublesome; in such terrain, it’s impossible for us to join forces; the height difference is too great."
He couldn’t even reach the top of the cliff, and if he took the long way around, this time, his territory might already be attacked by other lords with their troops.
"Now I need to explore the other side and check the situation, just in case there are other territories in the abyss, giving me a two-front attack."
He needed to confirm the security of his situation in the early stages. If there were hostile territories in the abyss, they would undoubtedly need to be eliminated first.
As he searched in that direction, he encountered a corner and turned it, his face changing instantly!
He saw a dense mass of shadows on the opposite side!
"Damn, damn, damn! Where did so many units come from? There are at least a hundred, right?"
The Lord of the Crooked Teeth was slightly dizzy; it was the first time he saw someone upgrade and summon over a hundred troops so early on.
"What to do, what to do? If they attack, I definitely won’t hold up!"