Chapter 10: Military Promotion
After all the dog-headed men died, Li Qing let out a long sigh.
He immediately ordered the people of the territory who were hiding in the wooden houses to come out. The men cleaned the battlefield, collected all the corpses and piled them aside, while the women boiled water to bandage the wounds of the wounded.
After assigning the tasks, Li Qing left the divine realm and appeared in the classroom.
Then he discovered that there were already six people in the classroom who had come out earlier than him and were looking at each other.
When they saw Li Qing who had just appeared, they just glanced at him and then withdrew their target, without even looking at the hostility in the eyes of the others.
Obviously, for them, only the top few are competitors. Those behind are not competitive, so they naturally will not be hostile.
"Nana's..."
The strength of this group of competitors is even stronger than Li Qing imagined. There are six in this group alone who are faster than him, and this is just one of the groups.
Since each tutor will only select a dozen or so, even if it's fifteen on average, his chances are not high.
In the end, Li Qing did not get any promise from his tutor. He just registered his name and grades and left.
If nothing unexpected happens, there's basically no hope.
Unless the number of students whose scores are better than mine after three days is lower than the expected number of students, the tutor might consider me.
But it's just a consideration. There are many people with similar scores to mine, so I may not necessarily choose him.
After leaving this floor and returning to the first floor of the Mage Tower, Li Qing pinched his brows and did not continue to accept the assessment of the second instructor. Instead, he quickly opened his personal terminal and prepared to purchase a batch of promotion runes to replenish the lost troops.
There was nothing weird going on. I just bought ten Imperial Infantry Cards, but I didn't upgrade them to Elite Promotion Cards.
The main reason is that they have no money, and the casualty rate in the early stage is too high. The elite troops are only a little more durable than ordinary troops. If it is a battle of the scale just now, the elite troops will be beaten to death just by staying in the front row, which is not much different from ordinary infantry.
All the merchants trading on the campus network are located in the college town, so delivery is very convenient.
Less than an hour after Li Qing placed the order, ten Empire Recruit Promotion Cards were delivered, costing 20,000 yuan.
He took out five Empire Recruit Promotion Cards, found five strong white-named farmers, quickly completed the promotion, and replenished the troops to their original state.
During the assessment period, do not increase the number of Divine Realm troops at will, so as to avoid a surge in the difficulty of the assessment.
After the promotion, Li Qing asked the veterans to take the new recruits to familiarize themselves with the divine domain, and he himself came to the side of the divine domain's high tower, where there was a pile of dog-headed men's corpses piled up into a small hill.
There was basically no loot. Only the first-level or higher Kobold diggers were covered with some thin fur. Ordinary Kobolds were naked, and their weapons were stone sticks, bone sticks, and wooden sticks, which didn't even have recycling value.
The only useful thing is the pile of corpses, the meat can be peeled off and dried for storage.
However, Li Qing did not have this idea. There was no other reason, it was just time-consuming and laborious, and the profit was not much.
Of course, the most important thing is that I am not short of food now, at least I am not short of food during the college stage.
so……
Li Qing thought for a moment, then walked to the pile of corpses, stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly. A vortex appeared in the palm of his hand, and a powerful attraction surged out. The piled up dog-headed man corpses quickly floated up and sank into the vortex.
Soon, all sixty dog-headed man corpses were thrown into the space in his palm. Li Qing moved his mind and began to decompose these corpses.
Soon the space in his palm was covered by a blood mist, which then quickly disappeared. The sixty dog-headed men's corpses were gone, replaced by a blood-red crystal as big as a fist, and a ball of light as big as a finger hanging on the edge of the crystal.
The crystals are the essence of the flesh and blood of these sixty dog-headed men, and the finger-sized sparks are the residual soul essence of the sixty dog-headed men.
"it is as expected!"
This golden finger can decompose anything, and it also has functions such as refining and synthesis. This means that no matter how many extraordinary subjects he studies in the future, he can use this to process materials, which is equivalent to having a super comprehensive laboratory.
"Blood and flesh essence!"
Li Qing's consciousness fell on this blood-colored crystal. Just as he was about to consider how to use it, he suddenly sensed that there seemed to be something in this blood and flesh essence...
"This is?"
There was a faint sense of majesty, which made him feel a little scared involuntarily.
Fear could not affect him, it was too weak, but this endless breath of fear did emanate from this crystal of flesh and blood essence.
"Is it possible?"
Li Qing suddenly thought of a legend.
According to legend, kobolds are descendants of dragons. According to legend, some super-large kobold tribes and some magical kobolds have an extremely small chance of awakening the dragon veins in their bodies after advancing to the third-level kobold priests, thus being promoted to extremely powerful kobold dragon vein warlocks.
But under normal circumstances this is just a legend. Even a giant kobold tribe with a population of tens of thousands cannot produce a kobold dragon vein warlock.
For this purpose, a special war lord conducted an interesting experiment, raising a race of kobolds in a conquered plane.
After hundreds of years of reproduction, the total number of kobolds in this plane exceeded one million, and a large kobold kingdom was established.
But with such a large number of dogs, no kobold priest has ever been seen who could activate the rare dragon bloodline and become a kobold dragon vein warlock.
However, although the experiment failed, it was not a complete failure.
In the later stage of the experiment, the war lord sent troops to slaughter millions of kobolds in the entire plane, and sent a research team including hundreds of experts in bloodline studies, mutation studies, alchemy and other extraordinary disciplines to purify the flesh and blood of these millions of kobolds.
Finally, after more than two years of complicated procedures, more than a dozen highly concentrated dragon bloodlines were successfully extracted.
The experimental results showed that the kobolds did have dragon blood and could be considered dragon descendants, but the blood concentration was too low, so low that it was pitifully low. It took millions of kobolds to extract just a dozen dragon bloodlines.
With dragon blood of this purity, wanting to awaken the dragon vein on your own is not just a pipe dream, it is also a daydream.
Those recorded kobold dragon vein sorcerers basically strengthened the dragon veins in their bodies through other means, so that it was possible for them to awaken. It is impossible for a kobold's own dragon vein to awaken on its own.
Li Qing extracted the essence of the flesh and blood from sixty dog-headed men's corpses, and the aggregated dragon veins were so few that they were almost undetectable.
Now the question is, how should we utilize this dragon vein and blood essence at hand?
Or to put it another way, should we continue to refine the dragon blood, accumulate a certain amount, and create a dragon vein sorcerer?
Yes, it is to transform the Dragon Vein Warlock, not to make a Kobold Dragon Vein Warlock.
Since they are both dragon vein sorcerers, why not fuse the dragon vein into a human professional and transform him into a human dragon vein sorcerer?
The Kobold Dragon Vein Warlock has its limits, and it is difficult for him to be promoted again.
If a professional is transformed into a Dragon Vein Warlock, his strength will definitely be stronger than a Gnoll Dragon Vein Warlock of the same level, and their IQ alone will be on a different level.
"take it easy!"
There isn't enough capital to do it now.
But it can be considered as an option and you can try it again when you have enough capital in the future.
Anyway, monsters like Kobolds are cheap and in plentiful supply.
Next, Li Qing readjusted the defense facilities in the divine domain. The idea he came up with after field observation during the previous assessment could speed up the process of annihilating the enemy.
It was already afternoon when he came out of the divine realm. After lunch, Li Qing went straight to the Black Stone Tower to start the second assessment.
The second three-star instructor that Li Qing originally signed up for was the female instructor Shangguan Qin, but she was later persuaded to withdraw. Before choosing a new instructor, he decided to pass the exam with the two-star instructor Nie Yang first.
Familiar process, familiar but different classroom, and two different red-robed senior students.
Just like before, they entered the divine domain. Five minutes later, a beam of light crashed down from the edge of the divine domain. The light disappeared, revealing... 50 kobolds.
“Is this the difference between a three-star mentor and a two-star mentor?”
The difficulty has been significantly reduced. Not only has the number of Gnolls dropped by 10, but the key is that these 10 are all first-order, level 10 Gnoll Diggers, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced.
“It’s stable!”
When the ogres rushed into the adjusted stone wall passage, Li Qing immediately ordered the civilians behind the three-meter-high stone wall to push down the stone balls covered with spikes that he had specially reshaped using space.
He adjusted the new stone wall to be three meters high and two meters wide, and then filled it with spiked stone balls with a diameter of one meter.
When the ogres rushed into the long passage, sharp stone spikes with a diameter of one meter fell from a height of three meters, and immediately there were shrill screams and horrifying sounds of breaking bones from below.
Fifty kobolds were squeezed in a passage more than ten meters long and were crushed by this wave of rolling stones. Less than twenty survived. Then, arrows rained back and forth from the sky, the infantry advanced from the front, and the cavalry went around the edge from behind. In less than a minute, all the kobolds were killed without any loss to themselves.
"You commanded a small battle to victory, and gained 286 strategic experience points. The current experience is 628/10000."
"You have five infantrymen who have accumulated enough experience to be promoted."
"You have seven archers who have accumulated enough experience to be promoted."
Li Qing did not get promoted, but left the divine domain immediately after securing victory.
I opened my eyes and turned around, and found that I was the first one to complete the assessment. I looked up and saw the two red-robed seniors looking at me with a little approval. One of them spoke directly:
"Student Li Qing, congratulations on completing the assessment with excellent results. Are you willing to become an apprentice under Instructor Nie Yang?"
Li Qing said with a hint of apology:
"I'm sorry, I still have one assessment to start. I will decide after I finish all the assessments. Under the same circumstances, I will definitely choose Instructor Nie Yang."
The senior student didn't show any displeasure on his face, but nodded and said:
"That's how it should be."
Assessment is the only right of the students at the beginning. The instructors choose the students, and they can also freely choose their instructors. This is a common unspoken rule in all war academies of human civilization.
In addition, the three assessments are also a good thing for new trainees. Three battles can accumulate a lot of experience relatively safely. Just like Li Qing now has twelve soldiers who can be promoted.
If he could complete the final assessment, it would probably allow all his subordinates, except for the cavalry and newly promoted infantry, to complete their first promotion.
Promoted from a level 0 recruit to a level 1 soldier.
Neither the tutor nor the seniors will be angry about this.
The second student came out two minutes after him. In such a short time, the two seniors made the same promise, and this student immediately agreed to become the apprentice of Teacher Nie Yang.
Once you have clearly agreed like this, you will not be able to accept invitations from other mentors in the future. It is considered confirmed.
However, although he successfully became the mentor's apprentice, this classmate still looked at Li Qing with hostility.
They are all apprentices. Those with good grades and performance will definitely receive more attention and resources from their mentors than other apprentices. It would be strange if they were not envious and jealous.
It was quite refreshing to enjoy such envious gazes for the first time, but it was a pity that this was a two-star mentor.
Li Qing would have agreed without hesitation if it was a three-star tutor.
After leaving the classroom, Li Qing immediately returned to the dormitory and entered the divine realm.
First, he gathered all his subordinates together, then looked at the five elite recruits who had accumulated enough experience for promotion and the seven new archers, and said loudly:
"I have seen your performance. Your blood will not be shed in vain, and your fighting will not be in vain. Twelve warriors have gone through difficult battles and accumulated enough combat experience to be promoted."
He strode to the front of the elite infantry, drew his sword and placed it on the soldier's shoulder. With a thought, he mobilized 1 point of energy in the divine energy pool and said in a deep voice:
"In the name of the Lord, I grant you a promotion!"
An invisible energy flew out along the sword's body and penetrated into the warrior's body, stimulating the warrior's internal promotion rune system. The system, which had long been satisfied with combat experience, was activated by this stimulation, and countless white lights poured out from the warrior's body, covering it and turning it into a cocoon of light.
Then walk to the second warrior and do the same thing, spending 1 energy point to promote him.
Before the promotion rune reaches its limit of the fourth-level troops, promotion only requires a certain amount of energy to activate the promotion rune.
It only takes 1 energy point to upgrade a level 0 soldier to a level 1 soldier, regardless of whether it is a normal template, an elite template, or even a legendary template.
After all, energy is just a trigger, and all templates are the same.
Soon the energy at twelve o'clock was consumed, and the promotion ceremony was completed for the twelve soldiers.
As the power of the promotion runes was stimulated, the long-predetermined rune array began to transfer knowledge and skills to the warriors and transform existing weapons and equipment.
Soon the light on the first warrior disappeared, and an infantryman wearing thick leather armor, holding a thick wooden shield in his left hand and a sharper-looking long sword in his right hand appeared in front of him.
Imperial Infantry (Normal): Common melee infantry of the human camp, the most reliable backbone force on the battlefield.
Level:15.
Basic skills: One-handed LV2, running LV2, shield LV2.
Advanced skill : Chopping.
Slash: Charge for 1 second, aim at the target in front and cause 100% additional damage, cooldown time is 30 seconds.
Imperial Archer (Normal): A common ranged soldier in the human camp, the most basic ranged force on the battlefield.
Level:15.
Basic skills: One-handed LV2, running LV2, archery LV2.
Advanced skill: Charged Arrow.
Charged Arrow: Charges for 1-3 seconds, causing 50%-150% additional damage to a single target, with a cooldown of 30 seconds.
