He had no idea how strong the approaching Transcendent Master would be.
If they had a dragon beast pet like Big Brother and Second Sister, he really would be no match for them. Not every Transcendence Realm beast pet had a strength stat above eight thousand; some fell below that. But what if the one coming was a defense type or support type?
Of course, the Northern Barbarians were no fools. How could they send a support type to command an army?
With eighty thousand people digging secret caves at once, the sheer scale of the undertaking and the complexity of the terrain were something else. Cave after cave had been dug into a maze. Even if the Northern Barbarians stormed in, the sight of a military camp filled with secret caves above, below, left, and right would surely give them a headache!
Aside from making the terrain complicated, the results were pretty good. They had actually unearthed two Fire Spirit Crystals in a single day, both from the same cave. Their luck was off the charts.
Those two Fire Spirit Crystals would allow another twenty thousand people to strengthen their skin. After this, Jiang Hao would have to consider making Enhancement Potions a controlled resource. Only those who made major contributions to the army would qualify to use them, or eligibility could be exchanged for a certain amount of military merit.
This would not only improve the army's cohesion and competitiveness, but also highlight the potions' preciousness. After all, scarcity made things valuable.
This time, all the reserves from the Beast Tamer Battalion and the Ordinary Battalion got to soak in medicinal baths.
Thirty-two thousand Beast Tamers, thirty thousand elite ordinary soldiers, and five thousand reserves made up the Self-Defense Army's entire fighting force.
Mountain rain was coming. Everyone