Global Demon King: Starting as the Abyssal Dragon

g Nu is a person who understands caution.

Although he did accept the three Heroes, he's still not able to trust the three just yet.
They still need to be observed a while longer.

After the probationary period is over, they can be promoted up.

Only this way can Zhang Nu invest in the Shadow Dragon Merchant Company and support them in growing without worry.
Only then can he trust them to go out and devote their lives to him.

After setting up those initial matters, Zhang Nu returned to Darkness Vally via draconian priests.

He decided to use the blueprint and leveling scroll that he just got.

He already had the materials for the Temple of Nature.
After conquering Giantree City, he got quite a lot of life gems and earth gems, more than enough to complete this construction.

As for the location?

He placed it within Darkness City.

[Temple of Nature successfully constructed!]

[All units have gained the Goddess of Nature's blessing!]

The instant the Temple of Nature was successfully built, all of the Demon King's units, be they in Darkness Valley, Giantree City, or even the nearby kobold village gained a buff.

[Goddess of Nature's blessing lv1].
Special status.
Max HP +10%, recover an extra 1 HP and 1 MP per minute.

Instantly, the entirety of Giantree City practically exploded.

The elves all felt the divine buff from the Goddess of Nature.

“What's going on? Why did the Goddess of Nature suddenly descend! What did we do that was so special?”

Elves are naturally the Goddess of Nature's most faithful believers.

The fact that the Goddess's power suddenly enveloped the entire Giantree City certainly made all elves overjoyed.

Many elves even kneeled down and bowed to thank the Goddess's grace.

“This divine power.”

The elves closed their eyes to feel it more carefully.

They all started shouting out in surprise, “It seems to be coming from the direction of Darkness Valley!”

The young city lord, as a future Elf Queen, had sharper and more accurate senses than any other elf.
She was able to speak with confidence, “It's definitely Darkness Valley!”

Now, all the elves were stunned.

The Demon King can't actually be closely associated with the Goddess, right?

Why else did the Goddess of Nature bless the entire population of Giantree City though!

This kind of thing has never happened before.
It's never even heard of in fact.
It's utterly inconceivable!

With that, the last bit of reluctance in the elves' mind completely vanished.

Doesn't the Goddess's mass blessing make it obvious? Giantree City going to the Demon King's side is definitely the will of the Goddess, and thus the Goddess gave her acknowledgement!

Zhang Nu could see the loyalty values of Giantree City's citizens rise rapidly in leaps and bounds.

This way, his position can't even be called stable anymore.

It can be said that if anyone tries to chase him out of Giantree City, the first to stand up in objection would definitely be Nancilia and her fellow Giantree City elves!

Nice!

Zhang Nu looked over the Temple of Nature's effect.

These temple type structures have very powerful effects.

It can actually add a buff to all units while ignoring race or distance.

Buffs have level differences.

Level 1 is only the normal state.

If he wants to increase the level of the buff, then he can make a sacrifice by spending gold.

Zhang Nu learned that if he spends 20k gold as a sacrifice, then it will activate the level 2 buff.
Spending 50k gold will activate the level 3 buff effect.
Finally, the level 3 temple can go up to a level 3 buff at most.

The higher the level of these buffs, the greater the effect by several times.

However, the effect of a sacrifice will only endure for 24 hours.

After the 24 hour period is over, it will revert back to the level 1 buff status unless another sacrifice is made.

While Zhang Nu does have plenty of money, there's no actual need to make a sacrifice every day.

Only when it's necessary, like when there's about to be a battle, is there any need to spend tens of thousands of gold to make a sacrifice.

This way, the entire army's HP would be greatly increased, and they can even automatically regenerate HP and MP too.
So long as this divine buff isn't dispelled or disrupted, the full combat strength of the army is completely incomparable.

Not bad at all!

The Temple of Nature is indeed a great structure!

Then, Zhang Nu bought another batch of undeath gems from Bloody Giant Wang Shi.
He took the leveling scroll and the materials and leveled up the House of Skeletons.

[Note: You've leveled up the “House of Skeletons” to “White Bone Mausoleum”!]

After the successful level up, the level 2 necromantic structure House of Skeletons is gone, and what replaced it is an even bigger, more magnificent, and spookier underground palace made of white bones.
It's name is now “White Bone Mausoleum”.

The White Bone Mausoleum generates an enormous amount of necromantic energy.

Any undead creature that goes in will quickly have their soul fire replenished and become lively and energetic.

As a unit production structure, the White Bone Mausoleum has even stronger summoning capabilities.

The level 2 House of Skeletons had unlocked 1000 skeleton soldiers +100 skeleton commanders + 50 skeleton mages.

The level 3 White Bone Mausoleum had unlocked 30,000 skeleton soldiers + 3000 skeleton commanders + 1500 skeleton mages + 500 skeleton giants + 100 skeleton generals.

This number is kind of unbelievable.

There are two new units unlocked.

The skeleton giant is a level 2 Elite unit.

The skeleton general is a level 3 Elite unit.

There is no Lord level skeleton unit.

The vast majority of undead units have this unique property.
Their summoning cost is cheap, and their upkeep cost is inexpensive too.
They're very suitable for mass human wave tactics.

Well, it's fine if there's no Lord unit.

Zhang Nu doesn't find this point regrettable.

It's not like he lacks Lord units anyways, so what does it matter if he has one more or less.
Rather, he's actually quite satisfied with the skeleton quantity.

A normal skeleton soldier costs 3 gold, so 30k skeletons will only take 90k gold to summon them all.

These guys can very well be simply tossed on a battlefield to act as cannon fodder.

It wouldn't be painful no matter how heavy the losses are after all.
Plus, besides just being cannon fodder, they can also be used as cheap and uncomplaining labor.

Although they're not all that strong, this undead army still has value as a supporting element for the territory.