Chapter 90: Chapter 72: Steel Ants… The All-Natural Siege Weapon

’So that’s how it is?’

’These Kobolds have it pretty good, don’t they?’

’They can withstand the blessing of a Void Evil God and get an Ancient City as a free base?’

’Just like the Chaos Faction in a Middle-earth Warhammer mod!’

’Pure cheating!’

After a pause, Qin Feng suddenly turned to Diablo, his gaze as sharp as a blade.

“Diablo, how much do you know about these Kobolds?”

Previously, Qin Feng had Diablo proactively blow the Bone Whistle. His original intention was to first have a friendly exchange with the Kobold forces entrenched underground and discuss whether they could gain mining rights to the ore districts in their territory in exchange for a share of the profits.

Then, he would find an opportunity to subjugate this Forest Tribe and make them a new Kobold legion under his command.

But as it turned out…

The moment these guys showed up, they wanted to eat people.

They even seemed to eat the other Sub-human creatures from the Forest Tribes.

And the names above their heads were a glaring, bright red.

So, Qin Feng couldn’t be bothered to waste any more words on them. He directly attacked and killed the leading Kobold, then began the now-infamous slaughter.

Therefore,

until this very moment,

Qin Feng still had no idea what the Kobold tribe’s situation was.

He had only seen that Diablo didn’t speak up to stop him from making contact, so he had subconsciously assumed they were like the Wolfman Tribe—a green-named faction that was relatively friendly toward players…

Diablo instantly guessed Qin Feng’s thoughts.

“My Lord.”

“You want to know about the past conduct of these Kobolds, don’t you?”

He ran a finger over the Bone Whistle carving on his chest, his tone laced with a rare confusion.

“To be honest,”

“I’m also very surprised.”

“These Kobolds have lived in the bottomless underground for years. They have occasional contact with the other Forest Tribes on the surface, but they’ve never made enemies or had conflicts of interest with any forest faction.”

He paused, then looked up at the magnificent underground city in the distance, his eyes full of vigilance.

“The crucial point is, I have never heard of Kobolds having a habit of eating people.”

“That’s why I felt safe contacting them with the Bone Whistle.”

“Otherwise…”

“…no Sub-human Warrior from any Forest Tribe would tolerate the practice of treating intelligent beings as Food. They would immediately unite, dispatch troops to attack all the underground Kobold Villages, and annihilate every last one of them.”

Qin Feng nodded in understanding.

“Mm.”

“That’s what I thought, too.”

“These Kobolds were probably a normal Forest Tribe a long time ago.”

“They only started acting strangely recently.”

“As for the reason for their sudden change… I actually already know what it is.”

“Beelzebub!”

“Beelzebub!”

“An evil deity from the Void, known as the God of Gluttony!”

“They somehow learned of this Evil God’s existence, then began to worship it as their tribe’s guardian deity. They used that ’Evil Curse’ you mentioned to try and summon it.”

“As it turned out, not only did the summoning ritual succeed, but it also allowed them to receive its blessing.”

“By simply devouring the flesh and blood of living creatures…”

“…they can permanently obtain the power contained within that flesh and blood.”

“That’s why any edible creature has now become the Kobolds’ prey. The only reason they haven’t charged to the surface to attack the creatures in the forest is because they can’t adapt to the Strong Light Environment…”

Diablo looked astonished.

“What!?”

“My Lord!?”

“I’ve never heard any of this! Is this information you received from a divine revelation!?”

Qin Feng thought for a moment, then nodded.

“Something like that.”

In truth, it was just the description function of the Lord System. It contained information already known to the player, supplemental content that could be quickly obtained through other means, and even false information that was hard to verify—like the “text traps” in some story-driven games, which required the player to judge their credibility for themselves.

For example,

the reason Qin Feng was able to recognize the dense Void Runes scribbled all over the Kobold Village…

…was because he had seen something similar long ago in the Lost Secret Realm.

Furthermore, MC, who enjoyed explaining things to newcomers, had seen that Qin Feng seemed interested in these Spells and had told him some of the general background and lore about the Void.

Although MC hadn’t gone into detail about the various Evil Gods that existed in the Void at the time…

…as long as Qin Feng went and asked him, given his knowledge of this “Lord Game,” he would have immediately been able to guess that the Kobolds were Evil God Believers who worshiped the God of Gluttony, based on their current “cannibalistic” traits.

Thus,

the Lord System had automatically displayed this important information in Qin Feng’s “Evil Curse description.”

It also conveniently completed and updated the panel information regarding the Kobolds.

“As expected of you, my Lord!”

“You’re incredible!”

After a pause, Diablo gazed at the Ancient City encircled by massive walls in the distance, his tone suddenly turning grave.

“But… what should we do now?”

“All the Kobolds are hiding inside this Ancient City, protected by indestructible ancient walls. With just the few of us, there’s no way we can take it, right?”

Qin Feng looked out at the distant city and saw that the Kobolds had all gathered on the city walls. Piles of countless stones were stacked beside them. It seemed they were preparing to use the tactic of “throwing stones” to kill any enemies who tried to storm the city.

In addition,

mixed among the Kobolds were the Kobold Shamans and Kobold Warlocks he had encountered earlier.

Each of them wielded at least one type of attack Magic.

They could easily intercept enemies below the walls.

“Mm.”

“We can’t take it.”

“We’d at least need to build siege equipment like Cloud Ladder Vehicles or Siege Hammers first.”

“And we’d have to figure out a way to transport them underground…”

Suddenly,

Qin Feng’s gaze froze.

He had noticed that the bricks of the massive city walls were interspersed with the unique crystalline fissures of an ore vein. Embedded in the dark cyan crevices of the rock were unknown mineral crystals, and a faint blue stream of light seeped from the depths of the fissures, like the lifeblood of a mineral vein flowing within the walls.

’Huh?’

’What’s this?’

’A city wall made of Crystal Ore?’

’Crystal Ore?’

’Wait!!!’

’I remember!!!’

’Steel Ants!!!’

’Can’t those things chew an ’entrance’ right through the massive walls protecting this Ancient City!?’

’Holy crap!’

’It seems like it would actually work!’

And it wasn’t just this special type of wall made from crystals. Even player-built walls made of ordinary Stone couldn’t withstand Steel Ants—strange Demon Beasts that were naturally able to chew through and consume all kinds of ore!

At worst, they could use their specially structured teeth and saliva to dig a tunnel from underground straight into the Ancient City, allowing his Divine Chosen Army to sneak inside!

’In short!’

’There are plenty of ways!’

’As long as I have a large number of Steel Ant soldiers!’

’Because those things are natural-born siege weapons!’

“Diablo!”

“I already know how to take this Ancient City!”

“But I need time to prepare!”

“Let’s head back for now. We’ll send more people to guard that ore region we found earlier. Don’t let these Kobolds hiding in the Ancient City sneak out and harass the team of miners Long Zhongyi is calling to help us with Mining!”

“Then, once I’m fully prepared, we’ll officially begin the siege and annihilate all of these Kobolds who enjoy worshiping Evil Gods!”

Diablo asked hesitantly,

“Then?”

“My Lord?”

“Aren’t we going to request aid from the other Forest Tribes?”

“These Kobolds are now Evil God Believers who worship an evil deity, they devour the flesh of other intelligent beings, and they’re connected to the Evil Curse that destroyed the Elf Kingdom to the north… They’ll surely be more than willing to help us!”

Qin Feng shook his head.

“No need.”

“These Kobolds are extremely weak in combat.”

“We can handle them ourselves.”

The main reason was that calling in other Forest Tribes for help would not only reduce Qin Feng’s own “Bloodthirsty” kill count, but it would also steal the personal Experience Points that all the Divine Chosen Soldiers under his command would gain from the battle.

In the final battle settlement, the King of War would also drop corresponding Divine Chosen Spoils based on the total number and quality of enemies killed by Qin Feng and his army.

Therefore,

given that he could easily defeat these newbie Kobolds,

Qin Feng felt there was no need to wait for allied units on the map to wear down the enemy’s effective strength first.

He could just charge in and engage.

Then use the F1+F3 method to wipe them out.

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