Volume 1: Hell-Grade Lord World Chapter 167: The Powerful Phantom Legion

"Kebus, ride my bipedal dragon beast to the Forest Garden and bring back a City Heart as fast as you can. I've already spoken with Pan; he will send a Tier 1 City Heart from Longfeng City to the Forest Garden."

Once he had made his plan, Jack made arrangements immediately.

The reason he sent Kebus to transport the City Heart was simply because if Kebus encountered enemies while traveling alone, he could transform into a swarm of mosquitoes to attack or escape.

He was the safest person among Jack's subordinates.

Of course, excluding Kebus, Shadowflame was actually the fastest flyer.

The problem, however, was that Jack needed a large City Heart brought over, and Shadowflame alone couldn't carry it.

Therefore, Jack immediately thought of Kebus.

With the speed of the bipedal dragon beast, flying to the Forest Garden and waiting for Longfeng City to deliver the City Heart would take about a single day to get everything done.

During this single day, Jack could use the time to properly rest and reorganize his troops.

He could also take a moment to study the illusion legion mentioned by the fellow named Wallace just now.

As Wallace finished speaking, his own illusion simply vanished.

Jack was left holding only that blue crystal ball.

At the same time, Jack learned how to use this crystal ball.

Whenever Jack needed it, he just had to channel his mana into the crystal ball, and the illusion legion stored inside would directly appear on the battlefield.

As Wallace had described, this illusion legion was composed of the original Thousand Needles Forest troops combined with the retired Elven forces.

There were a total of 3 Gold Dragon units, with 20 Gold Dragons in each unit.

5 Green Dragon units, with 30 Green Dragons in each unit.

7 Unicorn units, with 50 Unicorns in each unit.

7 Treant units, with 60 Treants in each unit.

2 Dryad units, with 120 Dryads in each unit.

1 Ancient Tree of War unit, featuring 13 Ancients of War and 5 Ancients of Lore.

2 Moon Stag units, with 200 Moon Stags in each unit.

1 White Tiger unit, consisting of 137 White Tigers.

3 Silver Pegasus units and 6 ordinary Pegasus units, with 300 Pegasus Knights in each unit.

7 Huntress units, with 1,000 Huntresses in each unit. One of these units was entirely mounted on Hippogryphs, two units were entirely mounted on Moon Glaive Panthers, and the remaining units all possessed the ability to turn invisible in the forests and under the moonlight.

There were 6 spellcaster units. The Priestesses, Druids, and Mages that Jack had previously seen through illusions were only a small fraction of them.

Among them were 1,096 Priestesses in the Priestess Corps, and three Druid Corps: 1,237 Earth Druids, 1,544 Raptor Druids, and 1,653 Tree Keeper Druids.

There were two Mage Corps: 1,171 Elven Mages and 1,321 Elemental Mages.

Additionally, there were eleven Elven Archer units, including nine regular archer units with 1,200 archers each, and three specialized archer units: 1,176 Glint Archers, 1,451 Golden Archers, and 1,233 Arcane Archers.

There were twenty Elven Sword Dancer units, including fourteen regular sword dancer units with 2,000 members each, two advanced Blade Dancer units with 2,500 members each, and three advanced Wind Dancer units, which were another evolutionary path, with 2,500 members each.

There was also one Glint Sword Dancer unit with a total of 2,431 members.

There were thirty-one unassigned Wood Elf units with 3,000 members each, plus another 2,145 scattered Wood Elves that were not counted.

Next were the miscellaneous troops.

The number of miscellaneous troops within the illusion legion was also quite large.

There were a total of 10 Dwarf units and 20 Centaur units, with 3,000 members each.

There were 22 Wild Wolf units, 19 Jungle Goblin units, and 13 Satyr units, with 3,500 members each.

There were 30 units each of Pixies, Flower Sprites, Dryads, Harpies, and Faerie Dragons, with 4,000 members each.

Additionally, there were various miscellaneous elite units with fewer than 500 members, such as Owlbears, Chimeras, Golden Eagles, Man-eating Flower Trees, Jungle Mantises, and Sprite Dragons.

Adding everything up, this legion was roughly the size of four or five legions.

Furthermore, this legion was led by specialized heroes.

Every single unit within it had two heroes.

Finally, at the head of it all were three Tier 15 main heroes in overall command.

As long as this force was deployed on the battlefield, it would undoubtedly be a devastating weapon, capable of wiping out seven or eight undead legions in one fell swoop without any problem.

However, this item could only be used once.

After a single use, the crystal ball would be gone.

And the legion illusions stored inside would vanish as well.

What Jack needed to do now was to find a way to preserve this legion.

While waiting for Kebus to retrieve the City Heart, Jack carefully studied the condition of this illusion legion.

He pondered how such a powerful legion could be preserved.

Earlier, Wallace had mentioned that the illusionary power of the Thousand Needles Forest was drawn from the edge of this lord world.

In other words, in this Thousand Needles Forest, there were fine materials that could be used to synthesize illusions.

Jack thought for a moment and said to Lester, "Send out the wood spirits under your command and have them chop down some trees and bring them back."

Lester was just about to agree when Jack added another sentence.

"Be careful on your way; don't wander blindly deep into the forest, as those parts might be fake."

Lester had just witnessed Jack's actions against the illusions and knew that there must be some illusions hidden within the forest.

If he accidentally walked into them, it would be the end of it.

Therefore, when Lester arranged for the wood spirits to go out and work, he specifically instructed them accordingly.

Soon, the wood spirits chopped down and brought back some trees.

Jack utilized his synthesis abilities there, examining the attributes of these trees.

In the end, Jack truly selected some quite suitable trees.

Just as Jack had initially guessed, the trees growing closer to the edge of the lord world carried more or less a trace of illusionary effects.

This was primarily produced by absorbing the spatial power at the edge of the lord world.

Jack selected the one with the most vitality from among them.

His plan was to use this to synthesize with the blue crystal ball.

Inside the blue crystal ball were the illusions of the original legion.

The reason it could only be used once was that the energy supporting the illusions to charge into battle was only that meager amount.

But what if this illusionary energy could be replenished?

Could that mean he could use this illusion legion indefinitely for free?

One had to know that the manpower of this illusion legion was a part of the elven forces that had fled here back then.

Every single one of them was an elite existence.

Moreover, their numbers were not small at all.

If they could be used continuously, it would be an absolute jackpot for Jack.