MTLNOVEL Chapter 514, My Dear Friend_1
Next stop, the military camp.
The Skeleton Conversion Field was automatically processing the carcasses of some beasts.
The meat from beasts hunted during patrols would be stripped to be used as food, and their bones would be directly thrown into the conversion field for transformation.
Fang Hao glanced at the locations of the other buildings.
The military camp area seemed a bit cluttered.
Additionally, each time of recruitment, the hundredfold increase effect would apply.
Such a concentration would make the movement of the troops quite difficult.
After considering, Fang Hao moved the location of the buildings a bit to the east.
This considerably increased the distance from the other military camps.
This way, the hundredfold recruitment increase would not cause overcrowding like before.
Once the location was settled upon, he opened the Book of Lords and found the Blueprint.
[Bound Spirit Tower: Sturdy Wood 2200, Fine Stone Brick 5200, Cast Iron Block 850, Metal Parts 1200, Shadowstone 35, Death Trace 5.]
Confirm construction.
A purple light instantly flared up.
Bit by bit, the light assembled itself into the shape of a tower.
Finally, as the light dissipated, a complete tower appeared before his eyes.
It was a stone tower, roughly five to six stories high, with grey-white walls and wooden doors and windows.
Around the tower, a stream of mist would occasionally drift by, wrapping around the tower.
It was as if the tower was binding tormented souls.
[Bound Spirit Tower]
[Category: Special Building]
[Faction: Undead]
[Recruitment: Bound Spirit Guardians]
[Bound Spirit Guardians: Wriggling Spine 7, Death Trace 4, Star Silver 2.]
(Description: A tower bound by tormented spirits, when midnight falls, one can hear the painful wails of countless disgruntled souls.)
Just as he expected, the Bound Spirit Guardians had emerged.
When they encountered them in the underground palace, he had noted them very clearly.
These 7th-tier Bound Spirit Guardians, despite their skeletal appearance, were intelligent.
Being intelligent and unintelligent were completely different statuses.
Unintelligent skeleton soldiers could only execute simple commands, but having intelligence meant they would possess judgement.
On patrols, they would not just blindly slaughter all living creatures that enter the territory.
And upon encountering enemies, they would bring back information.
Without any delay, Fang Hao immediately began the recruitment.
[Hundredfold increase triggered, recruiting Bound Spirit Guardians 101.]
Started by recruiting 100 to see how it goes.
It was as if a curtain of light had been ripped open, allowing a group of Bound Spirit Guardians to appear in the flat open space before him.
Just in time, a squad of Skeleton Warriors on patrol passed by. The difference between the two was immediately apparent.
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Compared with the regular Skeleton Warriors, the Bound Spirit Guardians' skeletal frames were more robust, with a blackish hue, and they had longer arms.
The hollows of their eye sockets glowed with a ghastly blue flame.
As the momentary confusion passed, the Bound Spirit Guardians' gazes all landed on Fang Hao.
With a bit of hesitation, they all saluted him.
"Greetings to the great Immortal Lord,"
The voice of the Bound Spirit Guardians was a low, gravelly sound, clearly different from the voices of living creatures.
When they all spoke together, they sounded quite imposing.
"Yes, welcome to the team," Fang Hao declared loud and clear.
Then, he immediately checked the attributes of the Bound Spirit Guardians.
[Bound Spirit Guardians (Tier 7)]
[Faction: Undead]
[Racial Traits: Undead, Hollow Skeleton, Weakness to Light.]
[Skills: Cleave, Protector, Lingering Wraith.]
[Innate Abilities: Advanced Single Hand Knife Mastery.]
[Cleave]: A heavy strike filled with the resentment from souls, adds an extra 15% physical damage; if the target is a living creature, the wound is hard to heal.
[Protector]: Protects specific areas/persons, increases defense by 18%.
[Lingering Wraith]: When the unit dies, the resentful souls in the body will harass everything within a 5-meter radius and inflict random negative statuses like fear or morale loss on living targets in the area.
(Description: Bound Spirit Guardians are outstanding warriors from the Gold Eating Queen's elite troops who retain all their discipline and combat skills from their mortal lives. In battle, the Bound Spirit Guardians formed an unyielding armored army. In numerous battles, they caused their enemies to bleed on the battlefield, and countless enemies fell under their unwavering will and sharp weapons.)
The attributes of the Bound Spirit Guardians were quite good, albeit not outstandingly so.
Among the skills, aside from Cleave being an attacking skill, [Protector] seemed to lean more towards defense, or a bodyguard type troop unit.
It could protect an area or person and offered an 18% defense boost.
This made sense upon thinking, Bound Spirit Guardians were originally tomb guardians in the underground palace.
The last skill, named [Lingering Wraith], induced negative statuses on targets within a 5-meter range upon death.
This skill had not been observed at the underground palace.
Whether it's useful or not still required future validation as they had always killed their enemies from a distance back in the palace.
Fang Hao looked at the scantily dressed Bound Spirit Guardians, and began to make gear for them.
He found the blueprint for the [Storm Fine Iron Set] and started manufacturing it.
Currently, the best set at his disposal was the [Temple Guardians Set]; only the fine iron required for it did not suit mass production.
Whereas only the chest piece of the [Storm Fine Iron Set] needed two pieces of fine iron, the rest of the parts just utilized regular materials.
It consumed less material.
A large number of sets appeared out of thin air, scattered all over the ground.
"One set per person," Fang Hao instructed.
The Bound Spirit Guardians started to move, picking up the gear from the ground and putting it on themselves.
Fang Hao then found the [Fine Iron Crescent Blade].