111. Air elementals are in the way, second hero is Miss Fish :(, ran to 7 heroes, guild without the arrow so I'm taking a decent beating in the max crypt, but it gives +1 speed, can see several hives and a block of 20+ crosses, cutting off 2 roads.
112. Running along the only road, collecting crypts. Found another external dwelling of Pit Lords. Decided to give Dace the books.
113. Dace level 5 with Earth magic, another external dwelling of Pit Lords. Collected 10k gold.
114. Found another 2 hives, 6 total! Anticipating a good exit. Leveling Dace, waiting for the Magogs to start taking the hives. Collecting external dwellings of Pit Lords.
115-117. First 2 hives taken by Dace, then the rest are collected by chain, but almost all are mini and at level 6. Dace replenishes mana.
121. Picking up the remaining hives — many of them dropped — Wyvern half-stack. Dace with 30 mana against ordinary Efreet.
122. 70 Efreet with Haste — they fall easily with Slow, then a couple of fights for junk wasting mana, and I choose the right direction — manage to get into the tower to replenish mana.
123. Scouted the area and saw how mediocre the center is: armor class artifacts everywhere, Captain's Hats, bags of gold, etc. Need stats — I hit nearly 90 Necro Skeletons for a box of 20k XP and a breastplate for spell power, they give the Log. Already have Pathfinding.
Then I just eat the center — luckily it's big. The opponent's horde — Sultans, so I managed to collect almost everything. Found a Chalice, Hat level 5, several hives. Found a Dragon Utopia — gave me sword and wings. TP home, take 4 Dragon Utopias. Stats 26 36 33 20.
At the start of month 3, Crag Hack comes out with 38 attack and 15-20 in other stats. Checked for the Orb — doesn't seem to have it. Fly back into the center and attack. There are 25 Monarchs, a few Thunderbirds, 5 Behemoths, 6 Angels, Cloak from +3, I have 75 Wyverns, 10 Nagas, about 5 birds and chaff. Also a 1000-damage Lightning Bolt. Such a Photon Bulwark doesn't lose. Thanks for the game.
PS: opened the respawn, counted from all hives — 92 Wyverns. Also 5 Dragon Utopias — better than the center in every way) :D
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