Chapter 34 Departure
Compared to their seventeen war lord apprentices who could study with peace of mind in the early stages, these heroes and professionals who had to pay to go to school had to make money and earn credits while studying. In addition, combat experience was required to upgrade their levels. As early as half a month ago, melee and shooter professionals and heroes had teamed up to go out exploring.
Exploring the wild naturally has risks, and they are not players in the game who can be resurrected.
Therefore, since the mentor's divine domain was unfolded and the castle was put down, more than a month has passed, and no less than ten apprentices have died.
Li Qing came to the city gate square. When he opened the gate to the divine realm, a well-equipped army walked out of the gate.
The professionals around the square suddenly realized what was happening and looked at the team, pointing and talking.
Four elite template third-level imperial elite archers and twelve elite template second-level imperial senior archers.
Five third-level imperial elite infantrymen with elite templates and twenty second-level imperial veteran infantrymen with ordinary templates.
Five elite-template third-tier Imperial Lancers.
In addition, two soldiers, Long Shou and An Erqiu, also followed the army.
The mana of Dai Lirong, Shang Yingxin, and Xia Mang, the three professionals, has not yet met the requirements. They are only at level zero and are too weak. Considering the possible risks on the road, they are staying in the divine realm for the time being and have not come out.
An Erqiu stood in front of the team, looking left and right, pointing at a soldier and shouting at him from time to time, adjusting the order and position of the team.
As the captain of the infantry battalion, he was in charge of commanding the infantry phalanx during this outing.
It didn't take long to adjust. I had practiced it more than once in the Divine Realm before coming out.
After the team was adjusted, Li Qing took out several special torches from the space in his palm, lit them, and distributed them to the soldiers walking in the front, middle, and back of the team.
There is no sun in this plane fragment, and a small amount of unknown starlight can only allow them to identify the sky and trees. They cannot see anything farther away, so they must have a torch.
Of course, the mage's light spell will also work.
But now Li Qing is the only mage, and a light spell can't reach very far, and he can't convert the light spell into a heroic spell to enhance the effect.
There are only a few hero spell slots, and most heroes may only reach level five or six in their lifetime. With these five or six hero spell slots, how could they possibly choose to cast a useless spell like Light Spell?
However, the conditions are not met now. If you become stronger in the future, and if you have the ability to completely conquer a plane and become a true war lord, when you can recruit a large number of heroes, you can arrange for some heroes with average potential to specifically learn some auxiliary hero skills.
The team was ready, and at Li Qing's command, An Erqiu led ten infantrymen to set off first.
Then the central army followed closely, with Li Qing, Long Shou and most of the archers in the central army.
The last five infantrymen and five archers were the rear guard.
Although the troops are so small, they are divided into three parts: front, middle and back.
Except for the large class in the first week, the tutor classes in the following weeks were mostly about Nie Yang telling them about his experiences when he was out for training, and telling them these experiences through stories.
At any time, marching must be carried out according to rules. Many unexpected accidents need to be faced during the march, and the marching rules for different terrains are also different.
Just like this dark plane fragment and the complex jungle terrain, we need to pay more attention.
Fortunately, he has the divine domain, and all logistics are in the divine domain, so he can go into battle lightly.
This is something that will make those heroes without divine realms envious.
It is worth mentioning that forming an army to conquer the outer realms is not the privilege of the war lord, in fact all heroes can do it.
Although they do not have divine domains, they are heroes and can use various types of troop promotion cards to transform into troop types, then lead these troop types to train and upgrade, and then conquer foreign lands.
However, if they were to do so, the difficulty and investment would be many times higher than that of the war lord.
Without the divine domain, they would have to carry a large part of the logistics when they marched.
Including food, bags of rice, vegetables and dried bacon, large pots and pans for cooking and other tools, camping tents, various war weapons and other miscellaneous logistical supplies, and a troop needs to be sent to guard the logistics.
For example, to lead a small force of 50 people, more than 100 civilians are needed to transport various logistical supplies.
But with God's Domain, all logistics can be housed within the God's Domain, which is equivalent to an army carrying a safe rear camp with them, so the army can fight without any worries.
Not to mention, you can hide soldiers in the portable divine domain. From the outside, it may appear that this army has only 50 people, but when you attack, you suddenly find that they have opened the door to the divine domain, and 500 people rush out at once.
Just think about it, even an ordinary person who doesn't know much about military affairs will know how great an advantage this is.
An Erqiu had just left the city gate, and Li Qing was about to order the central and rear armies to set out, when suddenly three people approached, one of whom raised his hand and shouted:
"Your Excellency Li Qing!"
Li Qing looked over in surprise. The leader of the three said with a hint of humility:
"Sir Li Qing, do you need more people for your team? We have three brothers, two professional warriors, one heroic archer, and eight first- and second-level soldiers. All of them are ready for combat. Don't worry, we have prepared our own food and will follow your team. We will not interfere with your battle."
As he spoke, he pointed to the dozens of people who were parked on the other side of the square, close to the city wall.
There were eight soldiers there, and the remaining dozen or so civilian laborers of levels one and two were the logistics team, and there were also two horse-drawn carriages carrying goods.
One carriage was carrying pots, bottles, jars and tents, and the other was carrying food, with bags of rice piled on the carriage.
"Well……"
Li Qing's eyes fell on the leader who was carrying a longbow that looked quite exquisite. He was a second-level heroic archer.
"May I have your name?"
The man immediately replied:
"My name is Xie Zhu, and these two are my brothers Xie Jin and Xie Heng."
"Are you of the same race?"
"Yes."
"Um……"
Li Qing pinched his chin and thought for a while, then said:
"You can follow me, but only the three of you. Your troops and logistics will stay here."
Xie Zhu's face immediately showed joy, and he nodded repeatedly:
"no problem."
"Mr. Li Qing, can you wait for me for a moment? I will make arrangements for them."
"Go ahead, I'll wait for you for half an hour!"
"no problem!"
The three Xie brothers immediately turned around and ran to their subordinates.
As soon as they left, Li Qing saw several people around him ready to come over.
He immediately clasped his hands together and said loudly:
"Classmates, I'm sorry, this is my first time going out, and I'm not familiar with the outside world, so it's not convenient for me to bring more people. So, let me go out for a while first, so that I have a certain understanding of the outside world, and then I can bring more people next time I go out."
The few people who were about to come over immediately stopped, and one of them also clasped his fists in return:
"Mr. Li Qing, you are too kind. I understand. My name is Guan Xianfeng, and I am a second-level warrior. I wish Mr. Li Qing a safe journey!"
Li Qing smiled and returned the greeting:
"Thank you for the blessing, classmate Guan."
After explaining, no one came over and Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
The secondary reason for agreeing to let the three brothers of the Xie family join is that this second-level hero is a long-range archer. If he joins the team, he can play a very important role.
The main reason is the experience in one month, as well as the joint competition among the six mentors in half a year. It should be noted that among the six mentors, Mentor Nie Yang ranks last, and there are also four-star mentors among them.
The apprentices under the rank of a four-star mentor must be both talented and well-born, and among them there must be direct descendants of war lords like Zhao Dingzhen.
After all, the number of apprentices that two five-star mentors can recruit is limited, and there are so many war lords in the entire Blackrock Realm that the two five-star mentors definitely cannot divide them all, and the remaining ones can only be assigned to four-star mentors.
Although Li Qing is confident in himself, this confidence is based on the premise of being able to recruit more elites.
He must increase his strength as much as possible within these six months.
Heroes like these who have a certain level of strength can be contacted, but considering their own safety, they cannot be allowed to bring troops to join, only they themselves can be contacted.
Li Qing considered taking them on a trip. They could get to know each other on the way, and if their characters were promising, he could try to recruit them.
The apprentices he knew before were not all apprentices. Most of them attended classes regularly. He had never met those like Xie Zhu who went out to gain experience early.
In less than half an hour, the three Xie brothers arrived.
Li Qing asked the three of them to follow in the center of the army, and with a wave of his hand, the troops set out.
Outside the city gate, An Yi Qiu's vanguard troops were waiting outside. They set out again only after seeing them leave the city.
Li Qing pointed at the front army that was setting out again and said to Long Shou who was guarding him:
"You must remember that the distance between the front army and the center army, and between the center army and the rear army must not be too far, otherwise if an accident occurs in any section, rescue will not be able to arrive in time and huge losses will occur."
Long Shou listened carefully and nodded repeatedly.
He was not an apprentice, so he could not go to class and could only rely on Li Qing's own training.
He did not expect to develop strong command capabilities. After all, he positioned Long Shou as a heroic general. However, he still needed to have the most basic knowledge of commanding troops, otherwise he would not be able to even coordinate with the troops.
The three brothers of the Xie family followed in the center of the army. As they marched forward, they would occasionally look at Long Shou, who was more than three meters tall, with amazement that could not be concealed in their eyes.
Xie Jin praised softly:
"Is this the four-star hero? He looks so powerful!"
The leader of the three, Xie Zhu, nodded and said:
"Of course, this is a four-star hero!"
After a pause, he shrugged and said:
"You know, according to the standards, I'm only one star."
“That gap is still quite large.”
Xie Zhu: ...
It was still very bright near the castle. There was a huge light source around the castle, which could illuminate up to two or three kilometers away. The trees nearby had already been cut down and the grass mowed.
This is mainly done to prevent violent creatures from approaching and posing a threat to the apprentices.
Plane fragments like these have been floating in the Chaos Void Sea for who knows how many tens of thousands of years. They have been eroded by the chaotic energy in the Chaos Void Sea and have already penetrated into every aspect of the plane fragments.
The land has been eroded by the chaotic energy and is no longer suitable for normal crop growth.
If you want to cultivate land here, you must find a way to purify the chaotic energy in the land.
Trees and weeds are also affected, many fruits are no longer edible, and water also needs to be purified.
All the creatures inside were affected by the chaotic energy and became more ferocious, bloodthirsty and extremely aggressive. Even ordinary wild beasts became ferocious after being eroded by the chaotic energy over a long period of time.
The former indigenous races will also be affected and will become extremely xenophobic and aggressive.
This is also the main enemy that the war lords need to face in the alien plane.
The vanguard team came to the end of the light source outside the castle and stopped when they were about to enter the jungle.
An Yi Qiu took out a map, looked at it, pointed in one direction and ordered to continue moving forward.
He spent more than one thousand yuan to buy this map from a second-level hero who took the stealth route. It was a topographical map of the area around the mentor's castle. The stealth hero had selected stealth and listening, and was like a fish in water in the wild, having explored a large area.
He made maps of these areas and sold them specifically to heroes or professionals who wanted to go out and explore.
An Yi Qiu bought a basic map, which did not include maps of mineral resources and indigenous alien tribes. That was too expensive for him to afford.
According to Li Qing's plan, there was no specific goal for this exploration. The main purpose was to go out for a walk. It would be best if he could encounter some small alien communities.
So the route An Yi Qiu chose was to start from the north of the castle, go north all the way to the edge of the plane fragment, then go around the plane fragment in one of the left or right directions until returning to the other side of the mentor's castle.
As the team moved away from the castle's light source, the torches in the team were lit.
Scattered trees began to appear around, and the soldiers in front needed to take out axes or swords and cut off the weeds blocking the road as they walked to clear a path.
Affected by the chaotic energy, these trees grew abnormally dense, with leaves intertwined. In the light of torches, one could see that the trunks were abnormally twisted. The bark and leaves were generally gray, and the vegetation underfoot was mostly gray as well. There was a faint gray mist in the jungle, and a faint stench in the air.
There are many local insects and ants in the gray-black grass. They are also affected by the chaotic energy and are extremely aggressive. Many of them are highly poisonous.
Occasionally, you can see flying birds among the trees, most of which are very large.
In addition to the sound of soldiers marching, there are occasional strange noises in the team. If a person walks in this jungle, he will definitely feel scared.
But the team was huge, and all of them were soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons. The murderous aura diluted the weird atmosphere.
Li Qing did not do anything special, he did not ride a horse or get a carriage, he just walked with the team like everyone else.
It is difficult to travel in the primitive jungle, whether by horse or carriage, unless you have the chance to catch some powerful war mounts.
But that thing is rare, and there are very few powerful supernatural creatures that can be tamed, and they have powerful strength, so they can't do anything when they see it now.
Although he was walking, Li Qing did not find it difficult. Before setting off, he spent a lot of skill points to upgrade his basic skill of running to level 3, spending a total of 26 skill points.
Compared to LV1 running, LV3 running skill not only improves running speed, increases jumping distance and height, but most importantly, it improves endurance and reduces physical energy consumption while running.
