Chapter 29: Dragon Guard's Flame Breath
"Huh? How dare he start the fifth round of challenges?"
Zhang Jishan, who was making final preparations for the fifth round of assessment, saw at the first moment that Li Qing, who was originally ranked fourth on the ranking, suddenly jumped to first place, and it showed that he was undergoing the fifth round of challenges.
It was not surprising that someone dared to challenge the fifth round. In his opinion, at least three or four of the many apprentices would continue to challenge, and he and Cao Wenyuan would both try to challenge the fifth round.
But in his mind, Li Qing is definitely not one of the people who could challenge the fifth round.
Before leaving the academy, he had already roughly figured out the family backgrounds of the dozen or so apprentices under his mentor. He did not take apprentices like Li Qing, who had great talents but ordinary backgrounds, seriously.
Although the four-star talent is good, according to the normal growth rate, it will take at least two years for it to pose a threat to me, so it can be ignored for now.
He didn't expect that this classmate, who he should have ignored, was so bold as to start the fifth round of challenges, a difficulty that he didn't have much confidence in.
Not only him, but also several other apprentices who were ready to try did not have much confidence. They were also surprised that Li Qing suddenly started to challenge, and...
"No, I have to get ready too. Otherwise, the time gap will be too big. Even if I win, I won't be able to get the God's Domain Building Core."
Although he did not think that Li Qing could successfully complete the fifth round of assessment, and even thought that Li Qing might just want to see it for himself and would give up later, this also reminded him that the starting advantage was still quite important in the competition with Cao Wenyuan.
From the beginning to the end, he regarded Cao Wenyuan as his biggest competitor.
He didn't take Li Qing, an apprentice with ordinary background and late-stage talent, seriously at all.
Two minutes later, Chief Zhang Jishan was ready to start the fifth round of assessment.
Less than a minute later, runner-up Cao Wenyuan was also ready to start the fifth round of assessment.
Gongsun Jin and Chu Zhongzhong hesitated again, but still did not decide to continue.
As for the other apprentices, some of them had not even completed the fourth round of assessment, so it was naturally impossible for them to continue.
Inside the canyon, Li Qing stood at the far right corner of the city wall. From here he could see a large mass of black skeletons surging like a tide across the seven or eight meter wide canyon on the other side of the corner, which looked terrifying from afar.
"If I hadn't cheated like this, I would have been totally unstoppable."
"But I can cheat. The others can't cheat like me!"
Li Qing looked at the transparent light screen in the upper right corner, which showed that several other apprentices had already started the fifth round of tests, and frowned.
It was obvious that in terms of real strength, he was probably worse than them. At least he wouldn't dare to go up without cheating.
"But this is only temporary. With the golden finger and my talent, I will soon surpass them!"
Li Qing let out a light breath, his eyes determined, and took a step back.
The dense clicking sounds approached rapidly, and soon a large number of skeletons were seen rushing to the corner of the canyon and rushing onto the city wall like a tide.
Li Qing stood on top and looked down. There were skeletons everywhere below, packed so densely that it was creepy.
but……
He looked at the defensive weapons prepared on the city wall . Considering the restricted environment, it was not difficult to defend against this wave of skeletons.
There were actually not many defensive weapons. Apart from rolling stones, there were only some wooden pole weapons that had been hastily made.
It is mainly used for infantry. After all, the city wall is four meters high, and their swords cannot reach it. It is impossible to let them go down to fight, so they can only be equipped with other defensive weapons.
The weapon is very simple, a round prismatic wooden ball with a diameter of one meter, connected by a thick rope in the middle. When making it, just tie the thick rope to a stone and bury it inside the wood. After the wooden ball is synthesized, it is directly sealed inside.
During the battle, several infantrymen worked together to push down the wood embedded with stones. With the strength of the bones of these skeletons, if they hit the cervical vertebrae, they would definitely not be able to withstand it and break. If they hit them head-on...
“Crack!”
Four prismatic wooden balls rolled down the platform along the edge of the parapet, followed by a series of crisp sounds of bones breaking.
Then every four infantrymen worked together to slowly drag the wooden ball up.
Anyway, the skeletons can't break through the city walls, so we can just drag it out slowly.
In addition to these, he also made many long-handled wooden hammers. The handles were five meters long and the hammer heads were not big, only about thirty centimeters. One infantryman could control it, and one hammer could basically smash a skeleton soldier's head.
Although the efficiency is not high, it can at least work.
The coolest one among them is Long Shou, who can control a prismatic wooden ball by himself.
He held the ball with one hand and smashed it down, then easily picked it up and smashed it down again by himself.
Over and over again, each strike would create a big hole, and the killing efficiency was very high.
There are indeed a large number of skeleton archers in the Skeleton Sea as the instructor said, but the skeleton archers behind this corner have no room to play at all. There are not many archers in the small space in front, so there is not much threat.
As for the third-level Undead Knight hero, he will be stuck behind the Sea of Undead and will not be able to get through for a while.
However, it can be felt that these undead are already preparing to use that tactic. Large numbers of skeletons are rushing to die. Countless skeletons have been shattered under the city wall, and a thick layer of bone racks has been accumulated.
But this is not a big problem. To complete the project of filling the city wall, a lot of skeletons are needed.
Although individual skeletons are large, they do not take up much space after being smashed. If one wants to lay down the layers of broken bones to reach a height of four meters, one would need at least several hundred or even nearly a thousand skeletons.
Li Qing has now prepared three layers of defense, which can take out at least two thousand+ skeletons.
Besides, there are many sections of city walls in the space in his palm, and he can build two more lines of defense to trap more than a thousand skeletons.
In the end, there are still more than a thousand skeletons left, and we can give it a try even without the city walls.
But then again, I probably never thought that someone would cheat in an assessment like this.
“Really…”
"A good survival challenge for you to play as a city defender, with five layers of city walls..."
Even Nie Yang and several teaching assistants felt a little amused when they saw this scene, but they did not say anything to stop it. The dozen or so apprentices behind them had strange expressions on their faces, but since the instructor did not say anything, they naturally would not say anything.
Ten minutes later, the broken bones under the city wall had filled up to nearly two meters thick. Large numbers of skeletons continued to come to their deaths. The pale skulls under the city wall were only one meter away from the top of the city wall, and the soldiers could reach them with their swords stuck in the gaps of the parapet battlements.
“It’s really fast!”
Li Qing looked back at the back of the city wall, considering waiting for a while before retreating to the second section of the city wall.
However, something happened that Li Qing did not expect.
Something happened that he had not considered before.
That is... the dragon guard has been upgraded.
It wasn’t very difficult to upgrade the first few levels, not to mention that his killing efficiency was so fast.
After killing hundreds of skeletons in one breath, he was already at level 18 and had accumulated 94% of the experience, enough to reach level 20, thus being promoted to a second-tier hero, gaining one hero skill point and one hero expertise point.
When Li Qing heard Long Shou's sudden shout and the sudden surge of his aura, he was stunned for a moment before he reacted.
Then he quickly checked Long Shou's attributes and a smile appeared on Li Qing's face.
Instantly unlock selectable hero skills.
Hero Skill: Dragon Breath LV1: Activate the original power in the dragon's bloodline, and after a short period of charging, spray out 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.
Second-level hero specialty - Dragon Breath Enhancement.
Option 1: Dragon Breath cone power +30%, ray power +100%.
Option 2: Maximum width of dragon breath cone +2 meters, maximum distance +5 meters.
Option 2: Maximum distance of Dragon Breath Ray +20 meters, penetration +1.
There is no need to consider, given the environment at this time and place, the new hero skill must be chosen as Dragon Breath.
As for the enhancement of the hero's expertise, choose the second option to increase the range of dragon's breath.
Hero: Dragon Guard.
Occupation: Dragon Vein Fighter.
Level: Level 20.
Basic skills: Running LV4, Archery LV3, One-handed LV4, Two-handed LV1, Long pole LV1, Throwing LV1.
Advanced skills: Dual wielding weapons LV1.
Hero talent: Dragon bloodline LV1.
Heroic feats: Dragon scale enhancement +1, Dragon breath enhancement +1.
Hero skills: Dragon scale LV1, Dragon breath LV1.
In addition to adding a new hero skill, Long Shou gained several new skills in this test, namely two-handed weapons, pole weapons, throwing, and an advanced skill - dual wielding weapons.
The levels are all LV1, which are new skills acquired by oneself.
It is worth mentioning that for indigenous heroes like Long Shou, who are not from the Destiny Human Race, there is no such thing as skill points when upgrading. They can only improve their basic skills through various practices and combat.
After the advancement was completed, Long Shou slowly stood up, and his joints kept cracking.
He leaped to the far right of the city wall, and rushed to the edge of the canyon. He clasped his ten fingers together and inserted them into the stone wall to stabilize his body. He turned and looked in the other direction of the 90-degree canyon corner. Dense undead filled the entire canyon, stretching to the end.
Without any effort, a faint blood light slowly appeared on the dragon scales on Long Shou's body, and soon his entire body was enveloped in blood flames as if it was burning.
He opened his mouth, and the inside of his mouth quickly turned red. Flames gathered inside and quickly turned into a vortex of flames.
After a few seconds of accumulating strength, a stream of blazing flames burst out from Long Shou's mouth.
It was not big when it first spurted out, but it quickly became thicker and bigger after the exit, and soon turned into a fan-shaped flame that sprinkled into the valley below.
The power of dragon's breath is already strong. Without using hero expertise to enhance its power, the power of a hero of a certain level is equivalent to a certain level of spell. Long Shou is a second-level hero, which means that the power of this breath of dragon has reached the second level.
However, these skeletons were not even at the first level. A breath of dragon's breath would cause them to burn on contact.
Bones can be burned with ordinary fire. Dragon breath is the extraordinary breath of the dragon clan. With this breath, the skull covered by the flaming dragon breath was burned into black ashes in less than two seconds and drifted away with the wind.
After strengthening the range, the maximum width of a dragon's breath is 7 meters and the maximum length is 17 meters.
Within this coverage area, there are probably at least two hundred skeletons densely packed together.
One breath of dragon's breath can consume 15% of the dragon guard's physical strength. When the undead behind him are pushed to refill the area that has just been burned, he gathers strength and sprays out another breath of dragon's breath.
After five consecutive spurts, more than a thousand skeletons turned into ashes.
Even for the last breath, Li Qing asked him to adjust the angle and spray it under the city wall, which burned all the bone residues that were more than two meters thick under the city wall.
A strong burnt smell filled the space, making Li Qing on the city wall unable to open his eyes.
Fortunately, the enemy could not climb up the city wall, so there was plenty of time to wait for the smoke to dissipate.
After spewing out five breaths of flaming dragon, although Long Shou still had some strength left, Li Qing did not let him continue. He returned to the city wall to rest and recover his strength.
Long Shou's sudden promotion disrupted Li Qing's plan.
With a large-scale spell like Dragon's Breath, there is no need to retreat at all.
Letting his subordinates continue to guard, Li Qing pulled Long Shou to the back of the city wall. He put his consciousness into the space in his palm and began to decompose the wild wolf meat that had been stored before, extracting the essence of blood and flesh from it.
Since Long Shou is not a dragon vein sorcerer, he does not have mana. The dragon breath he casts is a spell-like spell that consumes his own physical strength. There is no limit to the number of times it can be used, but the physical strength consumed is calculated based on a percentage, so the number of times he can spit per day is limited.
The best way to restore your strength is of course to eat, especially high-energy meat.
But right now, I only have wild wolf meat, which is not considered a high-energy food. If I want to rely on it to restore Long Shou's full strength, I have to eat a lot.
But in another way, the essence of blood and flesh of a large amount of wild wolf meat can be extracted and condensed into blood and flesh essence crystals. This is the highest quality, high-energy food, and is very popular among those top extraordinary creatures.
Even real dragons and other legendary beasts like to eat this kind of crystallized flesh and blood essence, which is considered one of the hard currencies among high-end war lords.
All the previously stored wolf meat was decomposed in one breath and refined into blood and flesh essence, which was only the size of a pigeon egg.
But such a small pill was able to restore more than half of Long Shou's physical strength.
In addition, the space in his palm also stored eleven blood and flesh essences the size of eggs, which were condensed from the two thousand dog-headed men before.
As soon as his strength was restored, Long Shou returned to the battle.
However, he did not continue to spit out flaming dragon breath this time. Now he had no blood and flesh essence crystals to restore his strength. If he exhausted his strength again, he could only wait for natural recovery, which was very slow.
You need to save the remaining physical strength and wait for the Undead Hero to get closer, then use the Dragon Guard burst to kill the hero.
Once the undead hero dies, these undead will lose their command and their threat will drop sharply.
Just as the pressure on Li Qing was greatly reduced and he was preparing to covet the undead hero, the battles in several other challenge spaces had entered a white-hot state.
The first one was Mo Wenxi. After the fourth round of challenges, he decisively changed his troops, recalled all the previous infantry archers, and pulled out a knight hero and 22 imperial cavalry from his own divine domain.
Among them were 9 third-tier imperial heavy cavalry and 13 second-tier imperial lancers.
The hero is a two-star indigenous knight hero, but his rank has been upgraded to the third level, and his combat power is extremely strong.
