Lord: My troops can evolve indefinitely.

Recruiting troops requires paying with Source Crystals, which can be directly exchanged for resources.

Two units of common resources like wood, stone, grain, and iron can be exchanged for one unit of source crystal, while one unit of advanced resources such as elemental crystal, mithril, and spirit jade can be exchanged for ten units of source crystal.

The recruitment price for Tier 1 units is generally around 30 Source Crystals, and the cooldown is basically one day.

Tier 2 units require approximately 70 Source Crystals, and the cooldown period is 2-3 days.

Tier 3 units require approximately 150-200 Source Crystals, and the cooldown time has increased to about one week.

The higher the level, the more resources are required for recruitment, and the longer the cooldown period.

It is said that the recruitment cooldown period for ninth-tier units alone is more than a year, and the resources required are countless.

Luo Xuan walked to the tomb of the dead to take a look. The recruitment of the little skeleton required 30 units of source crystals, and the cooldown time was one day.

"It's true what I saw on the forum; they can only hire one person a day."

Luo Xuan thought to himself, but his hands moved quickly. He immediately paid 60 units of food in exchange for 30 units of source crystals, and then recruited the little skeletons for that day.

The reason for paying for food is that Luo Xuan's current troops have very little need for food; only Lilith and the Gray Wolves need some.

Neither the undead skeletons nor the elemental Azathoth need food in the conventional sense.

However, the food obtained from killing monsters each day has already covered this consumption, and there is still some left over.

Looking at the newly formed little skeletons, Luo Xuan thought for a moment and gathered all the little skeletons that had stopped working on the mudflats, and then arranged for them to build their own territory.

The first step is to dig a trench 3 meters wide and 5 meters deep around the perimeter of the territory.

Once completed, Luo Xuan planned to divert water to form a defensive structure similar to a moat.

Afterwards, Luo Xuan also planned to have the little skeletons dismantle the fences and rebuild a wooden city wall using the wood.

Although the little skeletons are not very intelligent, they are hardworking and never slack off.

Since there was no need to pay wages or food, Luo Xuan's idea was to let Lilith direct them to work slowly.

Currently, including the newly recruited ones, the total number of skeletons has reached 6, and Luo Xuan still has 3 points of leadership remaining.

Over the next few days, Luo Xuan will recruit one little skeleton each day, until there will be a total of nine little skeletons.

Luo Xuan told Lilith his idea, and Lilith would be in charge of directing the little skeletons to do their work.

Currently, Lilith has nothing to do because the progress on the harpies in the north is stuck, so she can take charge of commanding.

After Lilith evolved, her intelligence was sufficient to understand Luo Xuan's request.

Furthermore, Luo Xuan would log in every day to check the progress and make timely adjustments.

All Lilith had to do was direct the little skeletons to work while Luo Xuan was offline and resting.

Luo Xuan felt very gratified as he watched the little skeletons clumsily digging in the soil.

After more than a month in the game, he is finally ready to start building his territory.

Seeing the clumsy digging of the soil with bone blades, and some even digging with their bare hands, Luo Xuan didn't say anything.

He couldn't possibly prepare digging tools for the little skeletons and then teach them how to dig over and over again.

Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

Luo Xuan didn't care about their efficiency. He was just idling around anyway, and the undead didn't need to rest. They could work 24 hours a day without sleep or food, making them perfect for the gods.

Over the next period of time, Luo Xuan led Lilith around the territory, telling her the size and width of the trenches that needed to be dug.

As for the depth, Luo Xuan couldn't explain it to Lilith for the time being. He could only wait until later, when he had made some adjustments on-site, and then create a sample for Lilith.

After walking around the territory and marking the areas that needed to be dug, it was already getting late.

Luo Xuan checked the territory and found nothing wrong. He then went to the beach to check on Azathoth before logging off to rest.

The next day, a new little skeleton joined the team, bringing the total number of skeleton engineers to seven.

After recruiting the day's skeletons, Luo Xuan went online and then went to check on the progress of the construction site on the outskirts of his territory.

After a night of digging, although the little skeletons were relatively inefficient and their digging methods were primitive, their tireless efforts were still quite impressive.

In one night, they dug out a tunnel that was nearly 20 meters long and 2 meters wide.

However, the depth is relatively shallow, only about half a meter, and the edges of the excavation are not regular, with pits and bumps, and some parts are even twisted.

However, Luo Xuan didn't care. Anyway, water would be poured in later, and the water would eventually wash it smooth out.

"Lilith, this depth isn't enough; we need to dig deeper."

Luo Xuan pointed to the tunnel he had dug last night and began to speak.

After Lilith understood, Luo Xuan handed the construction site back to Lilith to direct, and then walked towards the sea.

It's worth mentioning that since Luo Xuan temporarily stopped going north to provoke the harpies, Gray Wolf has also been unemployed at home recently. When he saw Luo Xuan going out, he consciously followed him.

Upon arriving at the beach, Luo Xuan waited patiently for a while before finally meeting Azathoth on the shore.

However, Luo Xuan frowned immediately this time – Azathoth was in poor condition.

Normally, due to the battles, Luo Xuan was used to Azathoth being in poor condition, but today its condition was really bad, with less than half of its health remaining.

Under Luo Xuan's questioning, Azathoth quickly revealed the situation.

It turned out that with the addition of the second merman tribe, they initially pushed back the lobster tribe's battle lines with great momentum.

However, as time went on, the relationship between the two merfolk tribes became delicate, especially when the lobster people were completely suppressed and forced back to a small area around their tribes.

They had united because of the Lobster Man crisis, but now that the Lobster Man is about to be defeated, won't there only be two fishman tribes left in the nearby sea?

At that time, the two will become the biggest competitors.

The murloc prophets and elders of both murloc tribes all thought of this at the same time.

Therefore, after suppressing the lobster man, they unanimously began to hinder him, even resorting to underhanded tactics, hoping that he would suffer greater losses in the battle against the lobster man.

However, this action was discovered by both parties by chance, which made things a bit awkward.

At this critical juncture, Azathoth was inadvertently discovered while attacking a patrol of murlocs.

Upon seeing this, both sides realized the gravity of the situation and immediately put aside their differences, then focused all their efforts on capturing Azathoth.