Chapter 243
According to his citizens' info, these cities had roughly around 4 million population, mainly players. Each city had 4 strong NPCs. Ibro took nearly 6 hours to summon over 10 million skeletons.
These skeletons were advanced class skeletons. Ibro didn't stop his technique, but that army started to move. 100 death knights helped with 100 cultivators moved with this army.
Ibro had revised the plan of assault with them. This time, he came well prepared. He had huge amounts of catapults and siege ladders, so he didn't need to use his previous risky maneuver.
Ibro then continued to summon skeletons. Every 6 hours, a new army was formed and started to move towards its goal. Ibro took nearly 3 days to completely form 10 armies.
During this period, 8 cities had already fallen in his grip. Each time a city would fall, Erond moved to this city and organized the matters there.
He followed Ibro's footsteps as he tried to use diplomacy and convince these people to join Ibro's banner with content. At the end of the fourth day, all the cities were captured successfully.
Ibro gained much more resources to add to his small base. He also didn't stop using his technique even for a second. The gains of these battles were a lot, especially for weapons and other types of equipment.
Many players died at these battles. Ibro then ordered Erond to start arming his army with these items. In a few hours, his army had gained a huge boost and was ready to phase two of this plan.
This time, Ibro moved north. He flew to the front ahead of his marching army. His next target was another city cluster that had only 6 cities. He repeated the strategy.
This time, he was attacking these cities from two directions with huge armies. The fall of these cities was so rapid and the gains were immense.
He didn't stop though, as he continued to move north for the second time. He attacked this time a group of 15 cities. This group was slightly distanced from each other and wasn't clustered like other cities.
It took him nearly 4 days to capture all of them. He now had under his control 32 cities. He also had finished the first phase of his plan.
His second phase depended upon the reaction of the surrounding cities. Although he chose cities with no nearby cities to it, he couldn't risk moving without any Intel.
He stayed in the last city while waiting for any news. The news took another 2 days before it reached him. The surrounding northern cities had gathered a huge army trying to retake the cities he conquered.
Ibro opened his detailed map of the world and began to study it. He had marked on it the number of cities gathered to hit him. This time, there was a middle-rank city in this mix.
Around 30 cities had united against him. They had gathered massive armies and fanned to 5 different directions. Ibro guessed their targets.
They wanted to hit 5 important cities which were located in the middle of his stretched territory. He smiled, this was within his anticipation. He then started to issue some orders.
He divided his huge army into 10 armies. 5 armies moved to intercept these 5 armies, and the other 5 armies started to move towards distant five locations.
These armies were a threat, but also an opportunity. These cities had gathered most of their fighting power and a lot of their high ranking NPCs. That meant their back cities were vulnerable right now.
Ibro moved using the high speed of air travel to reach the back of the resistance army. He landed at the heart of these 30 cities. His eyes were set over all of them. He started to summon skeletons nonstop.
This time, he didn't need 6 hours to form an army; 2 hours were more than enough. He was facing defenseless cities right now. Speed was his hardest challenge right now.
Every 2 hours, an army would move to hit a city. 30 cities took less than 1 day to fall. This was due to another tactic Ibro used here. After the city fell, Erond moved to call the citizens then the army at it would divide into two parts.
The major part would move to capture the nearest city and the smaller part would remain to defend it. That helped in raising the speed of conquering this region by folds.
During this day, news of the five battlegrounds had reached their ears. Ibro didn't need his incoming 5 armies anymore, so he sent a message to them to change their route.
5 united armies joined the 5 battles one after another. That made these battles easier and finished faster. At the same time, Ibro built defensive lines behind these armies' backs.
His enemies were trapped now. This battle took around 2 days to finish. Ibro gained a massive amount of equipment that he didn't even have any place to store them.
He distributed these items over his armies. Now he had added 30 cities to his rule with a middle-rank city in the mix. This war news had spread throughout the world.
Everyone here knew about Ibro's threat and began to eye him as a dangerous opponent. What confused the players' community was the way Ibro dealt with the conquered cities.
Ibro didn't know that many players were lurking in these cities. They felt curiosity towards him, so they meddled in the NPCs and witnessed everything.
These events were posted on the forums, which caused a huge stir. Ibro's fixed speech which was said by Erond had even been recorded and posted on the forums. contemporary romance
Players here didn't believe it at first, but when this speech was recorded, they couldn't refute it. The reality was obvious to all of them. This undead enemy was, in fact, another player who came from another planet.
That discovery caused an earth-shattering reaction in their real world. Ibro didn't know that, as he was now caring about how to face the incoming threat.
The north overlord had already known about his deeds, so he started to act. Ibro's provocation had been met with a huge army formed of 10 advanced cities with their small cities.
That army was huge. The overlord himself led it. This was the news Ibro knew from his scouts. From the info that came, he marked the location of this huge army.
This army was directed towards his first claimed city. Ibro understood this overlord's hidden intentions. He smiled; he had already put plans to counter this plan.
Ibro then ordered his armies to fall back with full force towards the first city. He only left some soldiers enough to safely keep these cities.
The huge army that came from the north was taking the opposite direction to these cities Ibro had captured. That wasn't a coincidence at all but planned from the start by Ibro.
He knew the main routes between the overlord stronghold and his first city. He guessed which routes his enemies would take, so he moved in the opposite direction.
Ibro's huge armies of skeletons movements weren't hidden from the overlords' eyes. The overlord was completely confident in his ability to win this war.
Ibro, on the other hand, had moved to another location and started using his death summon technique without stop. He knew that his biggest card in this war wasn't this technique, but it would cause some distraction for him.
The overlord's army needed 4 days to reach the outer parameters of his first captured city. At the beginning of the third day, Ibro returned to his city with the help of Erond.
His actions had delayed the response of the overlord and disturbed his initial plans. This made the northern overlord delay his movement as he needed to gather more soldiers.
This delay had given his city a chance to repair itself and be ready to combat. The citizens now were more accepting of Ibro's presence, as many reports told him this fact.
He knew that when these citizens lived for some time under his rule, they would remove any hatred or rejection from their hearts. Ibro's return was in secret, as everyone knew he was already in the city.
His armies had long returned to the city and started to fortify it and the surrounding terrain.
"Now, what are the latest reports about our enemies?"
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