Chapter 26: The Mentor's Test 1
The strategic talent has not been selected. Li Qing checked and found two options, both related to dragons.
One is called Dragon's Roar.
One is called Dragon Bloodline, also called Dragon Power.
Dragon's Roar LV1: Hero's strategic skill, emits a dragon's roar to motivate subordinates, movement speed +50%, attack speed +50%, attack power +100%, morale is always full, immune to fear, hypnosis and charm, lasts 60 seconds, cooldown 24 hours.
Dragon Power LV1: Hero strategic skill, increases subordinates' extra vitality by 20%, extra recovery by 20%, extra resistance by 20%, and extra endurance by 20%.
One attack and one defense, one active and one passive, both are very powerful.
Li Qing held his chin with his hand and thought carefully.
Be careful about this, because hero talents are different from skills, which can have multiple talents. You can only choose one talent, and it cannot be changed later unless something unexpected happens.
To put it bluntly, this will determine whether this hero will take the offensive or defensive route in the future.
Without hesitating for too long, Li Qing considered that it was too difficult to upgrade soldiers. The stronger the vitality and endurance, the higher the survival rate.
As long as you can survive, there will be a higher probability of being promoted to a higher level.
What's more, this is a passive effect and can be effective all the time.
After completing the selection, Li Qing turned his gaze to the combat attributes of the Dragon Vein Fighter.
His profession is Dragon Vein Fighter. Although his level has dropped from level 35 to level 15, his template has also changed from an elite template to a hero template. With the heroic talents and skills, his strength has not decreased.
The levels of templates from low to high are: waste, ordinary, elite, elite, horror, lord, legend. It is said that there are higher level templates, but most war lords will never see them in their lifetime.
The hero template corresponds to the lord-level template, but the hero's vitality is generally not as good as those of powerful wild monster lords.
However, with excellent equipment, powerful heroic skills and talents, battle experience gained from hundreds of battles and powerful techniques, some strong heroes can single-handedly challenge wild monster lords.
Combat attributes include hero talents, hero specialties, and hero skills, none of which have been selected at this time.
Li Qing first looked at the hero's talent. There was only one option, called Dragon Bloodline.
Dragon Bloodline LV1: Increases the hero's vitality by 200%, 200% extra recovery, 200% resistance strength, 200% extra stamina, and immunity to hypnosis, fear and charm.
The hero's feats have not been chosen, and cannot be chosen now, because feats must be determined based on existing abilities.
Li Qing clicked on the hero skill and had three options:
Archery Expertise LV1: Improves arrow accuracy , +30% damage, +30% maximum range.
Dragon Breath LV1: Activates the original power in the dragon's bloodline. After a short period of charging, it sprays flaming dragon breath in the front range. The dragon breath has two forms: cone and ray. Each spray consumes 15% of the maximum physical strength.
Cone: Maximum width 5 meters, maximum distance 12 meters, lethality is 100% of its maximum attack power.
Ray: 5 cm in diameter, maximum distance 50 meters, lethality is 300% of its maximum attack power.
Dragon Scale LV1: Activates the power of dragon blood, grows a layer of hard dragon scales on the body surface, reduces all damage by 20%, and is immune to spells below the first level.
Obviously, the Archery Specialization comes from his predecessor being an archer, and the other two hero skills come from Dragon Bloodline.
Two passive skills and one active skill.
After careful consideration, Li Qing chose dragon scales.
As I said, only if you can stand firm can you produce output.
This hero is positioned as a defensive hero, so he will go down this path to the end.
Moreover, hero skills can be selected multiple times. You can choose a new skill or upgrade the original hero skills every 10 levels.
After selecting the hero's skills, I looked at the hero's specialties and saw three options.
Option 1: Dragon scale damage reduction effect +5%.
Option 2: Dragon Scale gains 20% additional damage reduction against slashing attacks.
Option 3: Dragon Scale gains 20% additional damage reduction against piercing attacks.
The first one has little effect, but reduces damage across the board, including all physical and magical types.
The other two have higher damage reduction, but only target a single attack method.
There was nothing to worry about, so Li Qing directly chose the first option, which reduced the overall damage by 5%.
When he chose the heroic talent of dragon blood, the dragon vein fighter whom he named Long Shou swelled a little, and his surging blood was about to overflow.
Then select the heroic skill Dragon Scale, and the dense runes on the body surface will begin to change, and tiny red dragon scales will condense on the body surface.
It is obvious that this dragon bloodline comes from a red dragon.
The dragon scales are not large and do not look thick, but their defensive power is very strong. As a top-level supernatural power, its current defense is no less than that of armor.
His defense is the defense reduction added by the hero's strategic talent and the 25% damage reduction of the dragon scales, plus the defense of the dragon scales themselves, which is comparable to that of armor.
In other words, after choosing this ability, Long Shou no longer needs to equip bulky armor.
“Boom!”
A heavy bell rang in the divine domain, and soon all the troops gathered in front of the tower.
Seeing Long Shou standing next to Li Qing, the soldiers and the followers of the gods not far away all showed expressions of surprise and envy.
Li Qing drew the long sword from his waist and found that Long Shou was too tall.
However, Long Shou immediately knelt down on one knee. Li Qing was satisfied with his agility, tapped him on the shoulder with his sword, and said loudly:
"From now on, Seize Sheng Long Shou as a knight and appoint him as the chief knight of the territory and the chief of law and order."
Knights represent a leap in status and are the lowest level of nobility.
As a hero that he had personally trained, and of a rarity of four stars, he was worthy of the status of a knight.
The Knight Commander is a position. Although he is the only knight in the territory, he has the right to lead troops out.
The Sheriff is one of the main positions within the territory.
After being promoted to a hero, Long Shou's IQ has improved significantly and he is no longer as dull as before.
However, although he has the power now, he is not yet a qualified commander. He has never led troops before and has no knowledge or experience in commanding operations. He needs further training.
Next, Li Qingqing called on his subordinates.
The five cavalrymen account for 10 people, the dragon guards account for 5 people, the remaining 5 third-level elite imperial infantrymen plus 15 second-level senior imperial infantrymen account for 20 people, and the remaining 15 people are 4 elite template third-level imperial elite archers and 11 elite template second-level imperial senior archers.
After completing his choice, Li Qing left the divine realm and reappeared in the auditorium.
It took some time for Long Shou to get promoted, and by the time he came out, everyone else was ready.
No one was paying attention to him at this moment, as all the apprentices' eyes were fixed on a light gate behind their instructor that was maintained by two professional mages.
"Behind is the entrance to the challenge maze. I have added your permissions. After entering, you will appear directly in the maze. You have half an hour to prepare and build defenses. The challenge will begin in half an hour."
Cao Wenyuan glanced at Zhang Jishan, who smiled and strode towards the portal that led to the mentor's divine domain building challenge maze.
When the two entered one after another, Li Qing also felt Gongsun Jin's provocative gaze.
He shook his head silently and walked into the teleportation portal without hesitation.
Behind the light gate is a small canyon with a total width of less than 20 meters. There are very high ridges on both sides, covered with gray rugged trees.
There was a pillar of light rising into the sky in front of the canyon. When Li Qing looked at the pillar of light, he naturally knew in his heart that that was where the monster appeared.
Without hesitation, Li Qing quickly opened the gate to the divine realm, and the troops that had been prepared quickly walked out of the gate to the divine realm.
Without waiting for the troops to form up, Li Qing ordered them to march to the other end of the canyon.
This position is not good, he needs to find a suitable position to establish a defense line.
As he walked, Li Qing checked the specific rules of challenging the maze.
This divine building is probably a small broken plane sealed in a maze. The space inside is very large and has been modified, and the terrain inside is very complex.
Precisely because of its complexity, the terrain in some places is naturally suitable for defense where the outnumbered are used to defeat the larger force.
Less than a hundred meters ahead along the canyon, it made a big turn to the right, and less than twenty meters ahead the canyon turned in another direction. During this time, the width of the canyon was also changing, sometimes expanding and sometimes shrinking, and the terrain on both sides was also changing. Occasionally, you could see high platforms on the left and right of certain areas, which were suitable for placing archers on them.
But Li Qing was not satisfied with any of these. It was too narrow and there was no room for buffer in this section of the canyon.
Once the infantry line of defense was breached, it would collapse.
Going down the canyon for about twenty minutes, the narrow valley suddenly split apart and became open.
The canyon suddenly becomes very wide here, forming a basin about two to three hundred meters wide. In the middle, there are two high stone platforms of different sizes that divide the valley into three parts.
“It’s nice here!”
Li Qing immediately decided to stop here and ordered the archers to go to the highest stone platform in the center.
Go directly up the slope along the edge of the high stone platform, and then the infantry will guard in front of the slope.
The five cavalrymen stayed behind the stone platform and waited for an opportunity to charge.
This terrain is not the best, but he doesn't have time to choose slowly.
Once the troops are in place, all that's left is waiting.
Ten minutes passed in a flash. When half an hour came, a series of data appeared in the corner of Li Qing's eyes. He took a closer look:
"First wave, 50 level 6 wild wolves!"
"The second wave will appear 10 minutes after the first wave ends!"
In addition, there is a ranking list on the other side, which shows the level of test that the seventeen apprentices are currently taking. At this time, they are all preparing for the first wave.
The first wave is not difficult. The wild wolves are just ordinary beasts. No matter how many of them come, they can't do anything to him.
About ten minutes later, Li Qing heard a wolf howl coming from the front of the valley, and then a large group of wild wolves with gray and black fur rushed over.
"Infantry formation!"
"Raise your shield!"
"Archers ready!"
"Shoot!"
Twenty arrows that had been charged for three seconds fell from the sky and shot into the wolf pack. Standing on the high platform, Li Qing could clearly see at least ten wild wolves falling.
The second and third level archers can basically kill the zero level wild wolves instantly.
Twenty imperial infantrymen formed a dense formation and guarded the slope. The wild wolves rushed up and pounced, hissed and bit, but they were completely unable to do anything to the infantrymen who were covered in chain mail or scale armor.
The sword rose and fell, blood flashed, and screams of pain continued.
In just over two minutes, the first wave of fifty wolves were all slaughtered.
He was gone before he even started warming up, and Long Shou had already fired a few arrows before he could exert any strength.
Kill all the wolves and get 5 points.
Li Qing quickly ordered his troops to collect all the wolf corpses, then opened the space in his palm and sucked all the corpses in.
The wild wolf had no extraordinary bloodline and was a pure beast. He did not think of decomposing it. He just used the space in his palm to collect it first, and when it was over, he took it back to the divine domain. He let his followers peel off the skin and make wolfskin clothes, and cut the meat as food.
He was not afraid of being exposed, as he had demonstrated this thing long before, and his instructor knew that he had a space-related treasure.
As long as he doesn't do anything stupid and show off his overly magical functions in front of outsiders, nothing will happen.
It's your ability to have such treasures. Other people's parents can give a family subsidy of 10 million yuan per quarter. What's wrong with my parents giving me a space to store treasures?
More than ten minutes later, Li Qing heard a strange sound coming from the valley entrance again.
Looking up, I saw the prompt saying that the second round would be 100 gray-scale murlocs, most of which were level 4, and 30 level 11 murloc warriors.
"Difficulty..."
“It’s rising quite sharply.”
Although this wave is not taken seriously, according to the growth rate of the first and second waves, the difficulty after a few waves may be a bit exaggerated.
The strange sound was not audible a few seconds ago, but five seconds later, a large group of strange-looking fishmen could be seen rushing towards the valley entrance.
"Archers ready!"
"Shoot!"
The rhythm is the same as the previous round. The level 0 murloc is not as strong as the wild wolf just now. It can be shot one by one with one arrow. Only a level 1 murloc warrior can withstand a non-lethal arrow and survive.
After two waves of arrows, the murlocs engaged in battle with the infantry.
Just like the previous copy, there is no difference because there are 30 first-level murloc warriors.
The battle was also ugly, with the murlocs and infantry crowded together and hacking at each other.
However, one side had armor and shields, while the other side had flesh and blood, so the battle was completely one-sided.
The battlefield has always been bloody and cruel. No one has ever described the battlefield as beautiful. Fighting is also ugly.
After an ugly fight, all the fishmen were chopped to the ground, and the blood dyed the ground red.
His side was basically unscathed, with no one injured except for a few unlucky ones who had bones aching from the continuous hitting.
In the era of cold weapons, good equipment means crushing the enemy.
This is not a game. There is no such thing as forced defense breaking. It is also not the stupid TV show where the armor looks very high-end, but is easily cut through like paper with a casual knife.
That's bullshit.
Real steel armor has very strong defense. A heavy infantryman wearing full plate armor is like a small tank on the battlefield. If you want to deal with such a heavy infantryman, you can only use heavy weapons to shock him to death instead of hammering the armor. Generally, heavy weapons can hardly damage the plate armor.
Or you can attack from below and make him fall.
The heavy infantry's armor is very heavy, and once they fall down, they are basically unable to get up on their own.
It is impossible for a normal sword to cut through plate armor, even ordinary enchanted weapons cannot cut through it.
Of course, the above premise refers to ordinary battles below level six, without the interference of supernatural powers.
In this world of extraordinary power, many low-level magics can easily deal with heavy infantry in full plate armor.
Kill all the murlocs in the second wave
Looking at the ranking list again, I was ranked sixth, which meant I was the sixth apprentice to complete the second wave of challenges.
