Chapter 23 A hair-thin dragon bloodline
For example, the simplest building in the divine realm is the warehouse.
On the surface, it looks like a warehouse covering only 100 square meters, but in fact, the interior is an independent space. According to the level of the divine domain buildings, it may be 100,000 square meters, 300,000 square meters, or even 1 million square meters.
Adding the height which is equal to its length and width, a warehouse that appears to be only one hundred square meters in size may have a storage capacity of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of cubic meters.
This kind of magical divine building is extremely rare, and most of them are built by themselves.
This requires a very powerful wizard who has mastered very advanced runes, similar to the way a wizard tower is built, using a large amount of precious magical materials to build the outer shell, and then sealing an independent space fragment or demiplane in the building, giving the building special abilities.
After the building is completed, some source materials need to be incorporated to change the characteristics of the building and transform it into a special divine domain building.
Strictly speaking, this thing is similar to creating a military system from scratch, but the difficulty is much lower than creating a military promotion system.
The existence of building this special divine domain building or creating a magical system of military promotion has a very awesome name, called Magic Pattern Constructor. It is a legendary extraordinary profession that requires mastering a vast amount of knowledge in more than forty or fifty disciplines.
Mo means magic.
Pattern refers to the rune system, and the combination of the two is the magic pattern array.
Construction refers to the utilization of magic pattern construction.
Strictly speaking, magic pattern constructor is just a general term. In fact, the role of this profession is not only to build divine domain buildings and develop a military promotion system, but also includes something that all war lords, powerful heroes and professionals dream of - magic pattern construction.
This is a very magical thing. The magic pattern constructor can condense super-complex magic arrays into a palm-sized space, and then load it onto powerful professionals, thereby exerting super-powerful additional bonus effects.
A standard basic strength magic pattern construct can increase the user's strength by more than 30%.
A standard basic agility magic pattern construct can increase the user's reaction speed and running speed by more than 30%.
And this is just the basic structure, which has very low requirements on the carrying capacity of the user. Any professional knight above level five or six can easily carry five or six, and some with excellent talents can carry more than ten.
Imagine a knight loading ten basic power magic runes at once, increasing his strength by more than 300%. What does this mean?
so……
Well, this is too far-fetched. This profession is for true super geniuses and normal people don’t even need to think about it.
He didn't need to think about these things. To reach the minimum requirements, an average magician would need to study for more than ten years. He didn't need to think about them now.
What he needs to consider now is to get good grades in the upcoming assessment by his tutor.
Quickly ordering the troops to take their positions, Li Qing stood on the city wall, took out two Gnoll Cards and activated them. A large amount of white light fell and turned into groups of ugly Gnolls.
Without his orders, the archers began drawing their bows the moment the kobolds appeared .
This time, less than half of the archers took action, and the other half who had been promoted to second-level imperial senior archers did not take action.
Li Qing has a little bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He feels uncomfortable seeing that his subordinates have different levels. He plans to promote all archers to second-level troops first.
There are only twelve archers to share so many ogres, so the combat experience increases very quickly.
Before a round of killing was over, they had already reached the promotion criteria.
Fifteen minutes later, Li Qing took out two Gnoll Cards and activated them again.
There is no need to divide the troops this time. All archers who have been promoted to the second level can attack at will, and there is no need to focus on the Kobold Throwers first.
After fighting for so long, the archers on the city wall have already become skilled in dodging the bullets below.
The strength of the second-level archers has been qualitatively improved compared to the zero-level ones, especially the five elite archers, whose strength and reaction are twice that of ordinary templates. One arrow can directly nail a first-level kobold excavator to the ground.
One is a level 25 elite imperial veteran archer, and the other is a level 10 ordinary kobold digger.
The difference in strength is huge, and as long as you hit the main parts of the body, it will basically kill instantly.
By the time the archers on the city wall had finished killing a wave of people, the ogres had pushed open the unbolted outer city gate and rushed into the city gate passage. After passing through the soldier caves on the left and right sides of the city gate, they finally engaged in a head-on battle with the infantry guarding the inner city gate.
Fifteen elite-quality second-level imperial veteran infantrymen wearing full chain mail and holding iron shields stood at the front, surrounding the entire city gate.
They carried the load in front, while the other infantrymen stood behind with their swords raised and thrust into the shield wall.
From the city gate, there was a constant sound of dull hammering of wooden sticks on shields, the sound of sharp blades tearing flesh and blood, and occasional screams.
There was no surprise. Half of them were second-level infantry and the rest were all first-level infantry. Their rank alone was not inferior to that of the ogres. Among the ogres of the same rank, the ogres were at the bottom. With the support of archers, there was no way they could win.
At the end of this battle, all infantrymen have been promoted to the second rank.
As for Li Qing, he has already used up 14 Kobold cards and has 6 left.
Li Qing paused here.
Because even if all the remaining 6 cards are used up, if the combat experience is divided equally, no soldier can be promoted to the third-level troop.
But if we only train a small number of them, we can allow several soldiers to be promoted to the third level.
The combat effectiveness of the third-tier soldiers is much stronger than that of the second-tier soldiers, mainly because their equipment will change from chain mail to scale armor.
In fact, the material of chain mail is similar to that of scale mail, but chain mail is made of iron chains. It is very effective in protecting against sword cuts, but not against arrows and spears.
Scale armor can not only protect against cuts, but also block arrows, making it relatively more comprehensive than chain mail.
So, Li Qing glanced at the infantrymen, thought for a moment, and ordered five elite veteran imperial infantrymen to stand in front of the inner city gate.
The remaining infantry also followed in groups of five, ready to provide support at any time.
Then……
He came to the city gate, thought for a moment, then drove two thick wooden stakes into the ground at the gate, then got a thick wooden board larger than the city gate and dug four holes on it .
Then he took out some crude iron and decomposed it in the space in his palm, removing the impurities to make it fine iron, and then molded it into small iron rings and connected them to form a long iron rope.
Four long iron chains were made in one go, one end was hung in the four holes above the thick wooden gate, and the other end was raised to the top of the city gate tower. Eight soldiers were sent there to slowly pull up the thick solid wooden gate.
After getting ready, Li Qing took out a Kobold Card and activated it.
This time, archers were not allowed to attack, as they did not dare to summon too many at once.
The kobolds rushed to the city gate, and five elite veteran imperial infantrymen stood ready with shields.
A few seconds later, the seven or eight dog-headed men in the front row who entered the city gate were squeezed hard by their companions behind them and were hit hard by their swords. Suddenly, bursts of fighting sounds were heard in the city gate.
At the same time, Li Qing, who was standing on the city gate tower, immediately shouted to the soldiers on the city wall:
"Lower the gate!"
The four iron chains were quickly loosened, and the thick wooden planks, four meters long and wide, slid down rapidly along the space between the city wall and the wooden stakes. The ogres who were struggling to squeeze forward in front of the city gate were panicked.
"boom!"
Amid the roar of numerous broken bones, the city gate was sealed, dividing the dog-headed crowd into two.
Only about one-fifth of the kobolds entered the city gate, and the rest were all blocked outside the city wall.
The twenty-one ogres had their retreat blocked, and after a panic they had to face their opponents.
But without backup, their morale plummeted.
The level 3 Kobolds in the front row can be killed one by one with one hit, and the same result happens to the slightly stronger Kobold Diggers.
Most of their attacks were blocked by shields, and those that were occasionally unblocked and hit the chain mail caused some impact on the infantry, but were unable to anything to the elite template's second-level veteran imperial infantry.
This is not a game, there is no such thing as forced damage. If the defense is not broken, it is not broken, and no damage can be caused.
The weapons of the kobolds are all blunt weapons, and there is no way they can pierce the lock rings without a sharp spear. Except for the second-level kobold leader, it is quite painful when it hits the body and can shake the bones and internal organs.
But they have very few chances to hit it.
In less than two minutes, all the ogres in the city gate were killed, and the five veteran infantrymen didn't even have time to catch their breath.
After a two-minute rest, Li Qing ordered the soldiers on the city wall to pull the four iron chains to raise the gate again. The dog-headed people who were crowded at the door and knocking on the gate rushed in again.
Then the gate, which had risen halfway, dropped directly down to block the rest of the way out.
Just like the previous scene, the gnolls that came in were killed within a few minutes.
Repeat this process over and over again.
Li Qing was fully focused, and once he found that any soldier was about to give up, he immediately ordered the reserve infantry to take over.
There is no rush to upgrade, and these elite subordinates cannot die.
It took five trips back and forth before all the gnolls were killed.
The five veteran infantrymen were covered in blood, all suffering varying degrees of injuries, but were not seriously injured.
Still not promoted, but it’s not a big problem. I still have five Kobold cards on hand, which is definitely enough.
After resting for half an hour, eating something and drinking some water to restore my strength, I continued.
Continue with the same process as before.
As time passed, the five elite veteran infantrymen guarding the city gate continued to kill people, going back and forth for countless rounds. Finally, after a certain round, they accumulated enough combat experience to be promoted to the third-level imperial elite infantry.
"so hard!"
This is the safest and most advantageous terrain provided by him, providing protection throughout the entire process.
He was sure that other war lord apprentices had more supplies and money than him, and more military promotion cards, but they could definitely not provide such an advantageous combat environment at this time.
After being promoted, the third-level imperial elite infantrymen are equipped with full body scale armor, including helmets, shoulder pads, guards, leg armor, combat boots, a large round shield made of fine iron, and a sharp one-handed sword.
When this batch of promotions was completed, Li Qing still had 3 ogre cards in his hand.
After a brief consideration, he decided to give the next chance to the five elite-level, second-level imperial senior archers.
When the elite template is upgraded to level three, due to the inferior bow, the range and accuracy will be slightly worse than that of the Archer, but the lethality will not be much different.
There was no need to be so troublesome with the archers. They blocked the door and five senior archers with elite templates stood on the edge of the city wall, with two infantrymen guarding on both sides. Then Li Qing activated all the remaining three ogre cards in one breath, filling the small space outside the city wall.
Five elite veteran archers stood on the city wall and shot arrows down. They hardly needed to aim, they could hit the target as long as they shot.
Complete massacre.
It took the five archers nearly an hour, with three breaks and borrowing several arrows from other archers, to kill all the ogres.
There were corpses everywhere under the city wall, blood was flowing like a river, and the corpses of the gnolls were piled up in more than one layer.
The killing was over, and the five elite-template senior imperial archers finally accumulated enough experience and were promoted to third-level imperial elite archers.
Then, more than two hundred civilians cleaned up the battlefield, and hundreds of dog-headed man corpses piled up into a small hill.
Li Qing used the space in his palm to collect all the corpses, preparing to decompose them and extract their blood.
It is worth mentioning that as early as when Li Qing killed all the ogres summoned by the eighteenth ogres card, his personal combat level had been raised to level nine and he had gained 45 skill points.
Then the experience is stuck here and you cannot continue to level up to level 10 to obtain the first hero expertise point.
In order to reach level 10, he must increase his mana to more than 10 points.
Considering that he can only meditate to gain 0.5 mana a day, it will take him 20 days, less than a month, to accumulate 10 mana points.
"Well……"
“It’s still pretty fast!”
It took only 18 days to be promoted, which is much faster than other apprentices.
I can only say that the five-star+ mental talent is good enough.
All the dog-headed men's corpses were put into the space of the golden finger, decomposed and refined. Of course, Li Qing's consciousness was put into it, and he saw that it was empty except for a thin golden stream of light and a ball of clear light.
The Clear Light Ball is the pure soul power extracted from the souls of two thousand kobolds.
The tiny golden streams of light are the dragon blood extracted from the blood of two thousand dog-headed men. It looks quite thick, but in fact most of it is just golden light, and the actual blood is only as thin as a hair.
But no matter how much there is, this is indeed a trace of high-purity dragon blood. In theory, it can be used by professionals or heroes who possess dragon blood to forcibly awaken the dragon blood.
This is the power of his golden finger, which can perfectly extract the weak and almost imperceptible dragon blood from the dog-headed man's blood.
However, ordinary bloodline masters or alchemists are not as efficient as him in extracting bloodline.
If they wanted to extract such a thin strand of dragon blood from him, it would be impossible without tens of thousands of gnolls.
Some kobolds who are too weak, such as level 3, have very low blood levels in their bodies, and it is impossible for them to extract even a trace of it from a level 3 kobold.
Their method of extraction is to prepare tens of thousands of Gnoll corpses at a time and process and extract them on a large scale. It is simply impossible for them to extract them one by one like he does.
So their waste is very huge, and their efficiency may be less than one-tenth of his.
In other words, Li Qing only used two thousand dog-headed men's corpses to achieve the order of magnitude that they needed tens of thousands of dog-headed men to extract.
What’s more important is that even if it is so wasteful, not everyone can do it this way. Ordinary hematology experts are not capable of conducting such a large-scale experiment.
So here comes the question.
This trace of dragon blood in front of me is barely enough to be of use. How should I use it next?
Or to put it another way, is this treasure for your own use, or to train your subordinates?
If you use it for yourself, it is possible to open up a new dragon bloodline for yourself, and then you can change your career to a dragon vein warlock, or a dragon vein fighter, etc.
If used to train subordinates, it can be transformed into a Dragon Vein Warlock or Dragon Vein Fighter.
