Chapter 41: Unimaginable Loot
With the two most important heroes killed in the battle, Chu Zhong immediately lost his will to fight.
Without saying anything, he quietly moved his troops to the rear and led the remaining main force to retreat.
He didn't even say anything harsh, he just looked at Li Qing deeply, turned around and left.
Success or failure depends on one's own ability.
I tried to trick Li Qing first, but failed. This is because I am not as skilled as him. There is nothing I can say.
All we can say is to preserve a part of our manpower and withdraw, then keep a low profile for a while to train and recruit new soldiers, and then take revenge next time.
Li Qing did not chase them, not for any other reason, but mainly because the scene was too chaotic. There were still more than 400 gnolls and kobolds there, so there was no chance to continue chasing them.
Standing on the city wall, he watched the gnolls command the kobolds to surround and kill the fifty or so soldiers who were left behind.
During this period, Li Qing was not idle either. Long Shoushi kept spitting out rays of breath from time to time, and together with Xie Zhu, he sniped the werewolf undead warriors.
This thing is very threatening and needs to be cleared out in advance.
The power of his breath ray was not much different from the first attack of the fiery ray of Chu Zhongzhong's mage hero just now. It could melt half of the undead warrior's head with one breath.
Every time he breathed out his dragon's breath and melted a large amount of muscle on the face of the undead warrior, revealing the charred bones, Xie Zhu's fine steel armor-piercing arrows would arrive as promised and pierce his head.
Although undead creatures like this have no vital points, the control center is indeed in the head.
Once the head is forcibly destroyed, although the person will not die for the time being, he will no longer be able to control himself and will fall to the ground, struggling unconsciously.
Three minutes later, the remaining three werewolf undead warriors were sniped and killed, and Li Qing immediately recalled Long Shou.
Six minutes later, Chu Zhong's last soldier was killed in battle.
The remaining gnolls also shouted excitedly, and under the leadership of the gnoll hero Larson, they rushed towards the city wall with high morale.
"There are still a hundred or twenty or thirty gnolls, over two hundred kobolds, and a gnoll hero!"
"No, his condition is not right?"
Li Qing looked at the werewolf hero Larson, whose magic patterns were almost burning and whose pupils were covered with bloody murderous intent. He felt that he seemed a little abnormal.
I don’t know if it’s because he has killed too many people, or because of the influence of the magic patterns on his body, but he now seems to be unable to control his enthusiasm.
Under normal circumstances, seeing the high city walls and without any siege tools, no leader would be able to rush up like that.
But regardless of whether it is affected by the magic patterns on his body, this is a good thing for Li Qing.
Trying to attack a city without siege weapons is just courting death.
Larson, his body burning with blood, was now even faster than before. When he was about five meters away from the city gate, he leaped suddenly and slashed towards Li Qing on the top of the city gate tower with a span of nearly ten meters.
"Does this magic pattern add to his strength?"
Li Qing took a step back, and Long Shou blocked in front of him and swung his sword to strike back.
"clang!"
A long tremor sounded, and Long Shou staggered back several steps. Larson was also bounced back to the bottom of the city wall because there was no place to bear the force.
Li Qing leaned out from behind the guards and looked at the huge gap on the two-handed sword in Long Shou's hand in surprise, with a look of horror on his face.
"Such a huge improvement in strength?"
He remembered clearly that Larson's previous jump could only reach about six or seven meters, but now he could jump from five meters away from the city wall, and when he jumped onto the six-meter-high wall, he still had enough strength to fight with Long Shou. This meant that his current jumping distance was at least twice as far as before.
It's incredible that the strength increased so much in such a short time.
He was almost certain that Larson's sudden increase in strength was due to the influence of the magic pattern on his body.
At this moment, an incredible idea had already arisen in his mind.
Could the magic pattern on Larson's body be the legendary magic pattern construct?
Thinking of this, Li Qing's heart suddenly became uncontrollably excited.
Logically speaking, this is almost impossible. How could such a small tribe have something like a magic pattern construct?
but……
It would be different if this gnoll tribe was part of a larger plane before it was broken, and if this tribe was a large gnoll tribe in ancient times.
The magic pattern construction can increase the power by more than 20% even the worst individual parts.
The magic pattern structure on Larson in front of him seems to be a set, and the combined bonus will be very high.
Of course, from the current point of view, this set of magic pattern structure should be incomplete, or damaged.
Normal magic pattern constructs will only increase the strength of the construct loader and will never affect the user's mind.
But no matter whether it is good or bad, as long as it is a magic pattern structure, it is priceless.
“We must get it!”
"No matter what the cost!"
Li Qing made up his mind.
The leader of the gnolls was knocked off the city wall by the dragon guard, and could not use his heroic skill "jump slash" for a while. He could only rush to the city wall and chop the wooden timbers with his sword. A large number of ogre gnolls also rushed up from behind and chopped with their swords, or ogre throwers kept throwing stones, and all kinds of "bang bang" chopping sounds were heard from below.
But a city wall is a city wall. It is made of re-synthesized thickened solid wood boards. It is a dream to think that you can split it in a few strokes.
Taking advantage of this gap, Long Shou lay down on the city wall and gathered his strength, then he blew out a conical dragon breath. A large amount of flames fell and spread along the left and right sides of the city wall, and the ogres who were crowded together were burned and screamed.
With this blow, at least seventy or eighty kobolds and a dozen gnolls who were crowded in front of the city gate were drowned and burned to death on the spot.
Li Qing was deeply moved when he saw this scene:
"Sure enough, the magician is the king!"
A powerful wizard is truly a god-like presence on the battlefield.
The only pity is that there are too few powerful mages.
This profession is powerful, but it is very difficult to get promoted. Accumulating mana is a purely slow process and it is basically impossible to increase it quickly.
And magic power is only a part of a powerful wizard. One also needs to learn and master a vast amount of wizard knowledge and expertise. It takes many years just to learn this knowledge.
In addition, many of the mage professions are extremely expensive.
Therefore, the cost of training a mage is really very, very high, but it is necessary to train him.
The dragon guard used a few consecutive breaths of dragon to burn nearly half of the kobolds and gnolls to death, before extinguishing the frenzy of these gnolls. Even the gnoll leader Larson became a little more sober.
However, due to the influence of the magic pattern structure, he was unable to fully wake up for a while and was still frantically hacking at the city gate in front of him.
A gap was cut into the ten-centimeter-thick solid wooden city gate, and the gate hole and the defenders outside the gate could be seen.
But it was just a gap, far from being a hole big enough to accommodate Larson.
The key is that the remaining gnolls and kobolds can no longer support him to expand the victory.
Long Shou's breath has the same usage restrictions as the hero skills of Chu Zhongzhong's mage heroes, but he has the essence of flesh and blood and pure soul essence to restore physical strength and consumed energy, which the mage heroes do not have.
So he could continue to spit after five consecutive puffs.
After spraying out ten conical dragon breaths, Long Shou swallowed another essence of blood and flesh, picked up his sword and jumped directly down from the six-meter-high city wall.
Li Qing also loudly ordered:
"Open the city gates and counterattack!"
Ten breaths of dragon have killed most of the gnolls and kobolds. There are not many defenders left, so what is there to defend?
The infantrymen who were waiting on the city wall rushed out of the city gate. The remaining fifty or sixty gnolls and dog-headed men outside the city were all injured. Under Anerqiu's command, the infantrymen formed two rows and rushed forward.
The gnoll hero was in the middle of a fierce battle with the dragon guard.
At this time, Larson's body was covered with charred burn marks, and there were five arrows stuck in his back, three ordinary arrows and two fine steel armor-piercing arrows from Xie Zhu, which were directly inserted deep into his body.
But at this time, Larson was affected by the magic pattern construct, and his sense of pain was greatly weakened, and it seemed that he had no weaknesses at all. He could still suppress Long Shou with five arrows on his back.
Yes, even though he was seriously injured, Larson's strength was still much higher than Long Shou's, and his speed was getting faster and faster. He was fighting madly and tirelessly, and even Long Shou could hardly bear it.
But no matter how tall he is, Long Shou's physical strength is there, and it is impossible to kill him in a short time.
But at this moment, Larson no longer had time to kill Long Shou.
In less than two minutes, the remaining gnolls and dog-headed men were swept away by Anerqiu's infantry and archers, and then all the troops turned around and surrounded the two parties fighting at the city gate.
But they only surrounded them from a distance, more than ten meters away, and did not attack.
Li Qing stood on top of the city gate tower, opened his hands and a vortex quickly expanded, and shouted to the people below:
"spread!"
The dragon guard who was fighting with Larson immediately rolled backwards to avoid the attack. Then a stone ball with a diameter of more than two meters and covered with spikes fell from the sky and hit the unprepared werewolf leader.
A weight of more than ten tons fell from the roof of a two-story building, and Larson was crushed to the bottom of the stone without any resistance.
But one could still hear the roaring sounds coming from below, the outstretched hands and feet were still struggling, and the stone ball was shaking from the huge force.
Long Shou's first reaction was to step forward , raise the sword with both hands, and slash down with force.
One leg was chopped off.
Then the second sword cut off the second leg.
"The outcome is decided!"
Li Qing let out a long breath and a smile spread across his face.
This victory was not easy at all. If he hadn't cheated, he would never have been able to conquer the werewolf tribe on his own.
When the other two hands of Dragon Guardian Larson were chopped off, Li Qing opened the city gate and walked out, took away the stone, revealing Larson who was still struggling.
At this time, Larson's limbs were all chopped off, but there was not much blood flowing from his hands and feet. Even the blood that did flow out was not fresh in color and was extremely sticky, which looked extremely weird.
However, Li Qing was not interested in knowing all this and just signaled Long Shou to go forward and finish off the enemy.
After so many battles, Long Shou's level has risen to 24, and there is less than 10% experience left to level 25. Killing this third-level hero is considered a cross-level challenge, and there will be no problem in reaching level 26.
There are still some defenders in the Werewolf tribe. Let him kill more of them, and it will be no problem to reach level 27 after the battle.
This way, you are only one step away from being promoted to a third-level hero.
When a four -star hero is upgraded to level three, his strength will be greatly improved.
Long Shou raised the two-handed sword full of gaps and rolled edges and slashed it down with force. The head of Larson, who was still struggling and roaring, was separated and the sound stopped abruptly.
Then, Li Qing saw a faint light suddenly appear on his corpse and broken hands and arms, quickly gathered towards his head, and slowly condensed into a ball of light.
Li Qing's face first showed surprise, followed by joy.
"This is……"
"The spoils are out!"
An Erqiu said excitedly:
"Boss, this Gnoll tribe is very unusual. It must have been a large Gnoll tribe in the past."
"should be!"
Li Qing stretched out his hand and grasped the ball of light. The clear light quickly converged and slowly formed a card emitting a faint blood light.
Everyone's eyes followed his movements and moved to the card. An Erqiu rubbed his hands excitedly and asked:
"Boss, what good stuff has this guy condensed?"
Li Qing's eyes fell on the card that had just condensed in his palm. The next second, his pupils shrank slightly, and then he clenched his hand to collect the card, turned around and said to everyone:
"It's a good thing, but it's not convenient to say it out loud."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and An Erqiu shrugged:
"All right!"
Li Qing looked at the three Xie Zhu brothers and said:
"Sorry, it's not convenient to spread this. I'll give you a gift after this operation is over."
Xie Zhu smiled and said:
"Then I'll be welcome."
Although he was very curious, Xie Zhu did not ask any further questions.
After dealing with these, Li Qing shouted to his subordinates around him:
"We have defeated the enemy, but there are still enemies not far away. Everyone, take a break and launch an attack in a quarter of an hour."
After saying that, he turned back to the camp. An Erqiu immediately followed and shouted loudly to the camp:
"Someone come clean up the battlefield and bring in all the bodies."
When Li Qing heard this, his heart moved and he nodded.
It's good to have good eyesight.
Returning to his tent, Li Qing stretched out his hand and flipped it. The card with a faint blood glow appeared in his palm. His eyes fell on the card, and its attributes immediately appeared before his eyes.
Broken God Warrior Magic Pattern Construct Fragment: Imitates the legendary hero God Warrior and gives the loader the power of God Warrior.
Tip: This is just a fragment of the Divine Warrior's magic pattern structure. It has lost most of its effects, and the remaining effects have become extremely unstable. There are certain sequelae, so please load with caution.
Attributes: Loaded with magic pattern construct, strength +60%, speed +30%, pain reduced by 75%, there is a very small chance of obtaining the hero skill - incomplete berserker blood.
Incomplete Berserker's Blood: The Divine Warrior will transform every bit of trauma and pain he endures into a boost to his own strength. Every time he receives a certain amount of damage, his attack speed and magic resistance will be increased by a certain amount, up to a maximum increase of 200% attack speed and 50% resistance.
Tip: Because the magic pattern construction is incomplete, after activating the incomplete Berserker's Blood, the user will gradually lose his mind while gaining powerful strength until the end of the battle.
Tip: You can ask the magic pattern constructor to extract the intact parts from the fragments.
Tip: You can ask a senior magic pattern constructor to repair the magic pattern construction and restore the powerful power of the advanced magic pattern construction.
Looking at the red card, Li Qing couldn't help but reach out and touch it, his eyes full of amazement.
“I didn’t expect that I could condense something this good!”
