The Rise of the Immortals

Anyone who has played real-time strategy games knows that a faction cannot develop without farmers.

To manage Hydra City, whether it's building structures or gathering materials, you'll need murloc slaves to do the work. So the first thing to do is train all the baby murlocs into murloc slaves. Adding that to the existing murloc slaves, you should be able to get a total of 1,000. As for the murloc raiders, they're too weak in combat and are only good as cannon fodder, so there's no need to train them.

Once you have enough merman slaves, have them dismantle all the unnecessary buildings in the city to recycle the materials. This way, you can recover some resources.

Then, naturally, we proceeded step by step, sending some merman slaves to gather resources, while the rest began constructing buildings. Since many buildings did not yet meet the construction requirements, we had to prioritize building what we could.

The Water Elemental Temple, the Water Elemental Hall, and the Hydra's Lair can all be built using common materials, so let's get started.

The Primal Pool requires Primal Water to build, but it is very important because without Water Spirits, the Water Elemental Temple and Water Elemental Hall are just decorations. Without the addition of new recruits, you can't train Murloc Raiders to be the main force of the Legion, so the task of collecting Primal Water must be put on the agenda.

As for the Frost Palace, the Ice Tower, and the Path of Whirlpools, we can leave them for now. They are high-tech buildings, and there's no need to invest too much in them at the moment.

"Now, let's get started," Xiao Yu thought to himself as he walked out of the Temple of the Ocean.

At this moment, an elder fishman slowly swam over.

Luluqi (Elder Fishman): "Great Water Elemental Prince, your radiance is so dazzling, your figure so majestic. I am Luluqi, the leader of the Fishmen, and I offer you my deepest respect. Please issue your decree; our Fishman race will carry it out with all our might. We only ask that you treat us with mercy."

Xiao Yu was thinking, "What nonsense is this? This murloc is talking like a guide." However, he knew that these murlocs were probably enslaved by the Naga and were in awe of the new conqueror, hence their respect. He didn't need to break that respect. He knew that these strange races in the Sky World couldn't be judged by human standards. Races like murlocs and Goblin, who were at the bottom of the hierarchy, were often bullies who preyed on the weak. Even if you spoke to them politely, they might not listen to you. Only fierce and brutal power could make them willingly risk their lives without daring to have any disloyalty. Xiao Yu had played the Goblin template before, so he was very clear about this.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "I will treat you mercifully, you lowly murlocs. If your actions satisfy me, I will spare your lives. Now, let's get to work. There's still much work to be done. Gather your men and demolish all the Naga buildings in the city! Also, train more murloc slaves!"

Luluqi (Elder Fishman): "As you command, great Water Elemental Prince!" After saying that, he hurriedly went to gather the fishmen to get to work.

Hundreds of murloc slaves began dismantling the Naga structures, while simultaneously training murloc babies into new murloc slaves.

Xiao Yu, too, couldn't be idle.

(So, next, let's recruit new the Immortals, shall we?) Xiao Yu thought to himself, looking at the Water Elemental behind him.

Originally, he only had about forty the Immortals under his command, all recruited from the Tower of Amalarui. Later, he added a Big Water Cunt, but that was all. Although he later recruited more than two thousand ordinary Water Elemental players, firstly, these people were too weak, and secondly, they were not united. Many of them joined him just to participate in the story and gain reputation, so he did not recruit members from among them.

But now, the number of elemental beings that meet the criteria for becoming the Immortals has increased dozens of times.

First, of the more than two thousand Water Elemental players he had recruited, nearly a thousand died in the two consecutive battles, leaving more than twelve hundred. These two battles also allowed more than two hundred of them to gain enough reputation to advance to rare or elite templates. These people are all promising talents. After fighting a few more battles, he will definitely be able to cultivate a batch of bosses. When he goes to war with adventurers in the future, he will be counting on them to guard the bosses in the dungeons.

Moreover, after these two major battles, these surviving players have developed a sense of belonging to the Immortals, so it's the perfect time to bring them all into the guild.

In addition, there are nearly three hundred people who came from the Boundless Sea Guild to join him. Most of these people are elite templates, and there are even dozens of players with beginner and intermediate BOSS templates, whom he will also recruit.

With so many people, Xiao Yu couldn't possibly handle it all by himself, so he called over several of the boss's subordinates, including Wotkud, to help out.

Water Elemental Wotkud: "Your Highness, I have bad news for you. Ximeng has been killed in the previous battle."

Xiao Yu wondered, "Who is Ximeng?" Of course, he wouldn't ask that aloud. Instead, he carefully recalled in his mind that there was a deep-sea elemental named Ximeng among his four bosses. But that guy really had no presence. Was he dead? Well, people always die in wars. Fortunately, it was someone with little presence who died. Xiao Yu didn't care too much. He now had a ton of bosses under his command, no longer the era of the four great warriors.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Ximeng did not die in vain. He died for the rise of the elemental race. His soul will surely return to the embrace of the God of Elements and become a part of this world. He died with a belief: that our elemental race will rise again. What we must do now is inherit this belief. Now, begin recruiting new the Immortals members! Today will be the day our the Immortals rise!"

Xiao Yu skillfully used various slogans from Gundam to boost morale and attract the players.

He and several of his bosses started recruiting, and as soon as they heard that Xiao Yu was recruiting, these players eagerly signed up.

Xiao Yu's earlier slogan was a huge help. "The Immortals —Eternal Life, Forever Existing!" It sounded powerful and high-class, and its appeal was extraordinary.

In a short time, the Immortals gained more than two thousand new members. Apart from a few casual players who preferred to play alone, most of the players who participated in this battle joined the Immortals. Among them, there were more than 450 rare elves and elite templates, and more than 30 BOSS templates.

In addition, there were more than 1,500 elemental creatures with ordinary templates. Of course, Xiao Yu would not turn them away, and he included them all among the Immortals, although they were divided into different levels.

All players at the BOSS level or above will enter the Immortals' Elder Council, obtain the title of [The Immortals' Elder], and serve as members of the guild's decision-making body, holding various leadership positions.

Rare elves and elemental creatures of the elite template have been assigned to the Immortal Legion and given the title [The Immortals' Royal Guard]. They will form the future officer corps of the Immortal Legion.

Those with the standard template will become ordinary members of the Immortals and will receive the title of [The Immortals' Warrior].

Currently, because the number of people is not very large, it is divided into three levels. It will be further subdivided when the number of people becomes larger.

For the next three days, Xiao Yu worked tirelessly on construction and planning.

Hydra City was originally an outpost of the Naga race, so its construction wasn't carefully planned. But now that it's Xiao Yu's own territory, it naturally needs to be properly developed.

First, he demolished all the Naga -exclusive buildings and recovered a large amount of resources. Then, Xiao Yu built a Water Elemental Temple and four Hydra Nests. He only built four Water Elemental Halls because there was no way to do so. Without the water spirits produced by the Primal Pool, the Water Elemental Halls could only be used as population buildings, and there was no need to build too many.

They did build quite a few coral caves, which can only be used as population buildings and are not very useful, but they are cheap and directly increased the population cap to 6000.

In order to obtain rare materials such as Primal Water, Xiao Yu issued the first faction quest in the city to collect resources. Anyone willing to donate materials such as Primal Water, Elemental Essence, and Frost Ore can receive corresponding guild points based on the value of the donated materials.

However, not many people have donated yet. Casual players mostly absorb the materials they get and exchange them for experience. Even if they keep a few particularly valuable materials, they usually sell them at the auction house for game points rather than donating them to the guild. After all, the Immortals have just been established and there is no stage where players can make sacrifices for them yet, so the materials obtained after three days are very few.

Besides building structures, Xiao Yu also began to expand his military force. He didn't have time to slowly cultivate the land and develop his territory; time was of the essence, and he had to launch military operations continuously.

Due to the lack of Primal Water, Hydra City currently only offers three types of combat units that can be directly trained: Murloc Raiders – completely unreliable cannon fodder; various sea monsters – somewhat reliable cannon fodder; and Hydras – very effective cannon fodder.

Without even thinking, Xiao Yu knew which one to choose. He poured all his resources into training the Hydras, consuming a large amount of resources to train 40 Hydras in one go, filling all four Hydra nests (each Hydra occupies 10 people).

Once the city's construction was on track and he no longer needed to manage the lagging developments, Xiao Yu began inspecting his territory around Hydra City, taking the opportunity to kill monsters and level up. After the two previous major battles, especially the one where a Deep Sea Maelstrom wiped out hundreds of Naga, his experience had already increased to almost level 34. With a little more effort, he could reach level 35. For the sake of new skills, Xiao Yu decisively went out to level up again. Naturally, he had to put in extra effort.

As the leader of a guild and the lord of a city, Xiao Yu naturally couldn't act alone. He was accompanied by hundreds of Water Elemental guards and sea monster scouts, making monster hunting incredibly easy and enjoyable. In just one day, he successfully leveled up to level 35.