Chapter 64: The Mentor's Call
With a crisp "clang" sound, Long Shou slipped and blocked the ogre's blow on the head. The other two Modao soldiers quickly moved around to the left and right, raised their swords and started to kill.
A four-star hero and two fifth-tier elite soldiers besieged him, but an ogre equivalent to a fourth-tier ogre was no match for them. He followed in the footsteps of his brothers in front of him and had his arms removed cleanly.
"The first infantry squad takes on target number four, the second infantry squad takes on target number five, the third infantry squad takes on ..."
Li Qing calmly issued a series of orders surrounded by his subordinates. Many subordinates and soldiers took their positions according to his orders and resisted the influx of ogres head-on.
The most powerful ogre leader was resisted head-on by Long Shou, assisted by three Mo Dao soldiers, while Xie Zhu waited for an opportunity to accumulate strength.
Li Qing raised his hand and threw a spider web on the ground. The charging ogre leader was immune to the spell effect with his powerful strength, but was still slowed down. Long Shou bumped into the slowed ogre leader, and the three Modao soldiers went around him as before.
Contrary to their expectations, the ogre leader was smarter than they thought. He immediately became alert and yelled to his ogre companions on both sides. Two ogres approached him.
Li Qing immediately cast spells continuously, and two spider webs that were larger than normal spider webs flew out and covered the two ogres.
The ranks of these two ogre warriors were far inferior to those of the ogre leader, and they were unable to escape from Li Qing's divinely enhanced spider web technique and were trapped in place.
The two Modao soldiers raised their swords and swung them, and blood suddenly appeared on the ogre leader's shoulder, and the bone was visible.
The angry ogre leader let out an angry roar, a layer of blood began to appear all over his body, his body expanded rapidly, he raised his huge mace and smashed it down fiercely, while Long Shou held his sword across his body.
"clang!"
The huge metal knocking sound shook his eardrums. Long Shou's face turned red and he involuntarily stepped back a few steps and sat down on the ground.
The ogre leader swung his mace and strode forward, hoping to take the opportunity to smash his opponent to death with one blow, but two Modao soldiers suddenly jumped more than four meters high and slashed the ogre leader hard at the same place as before.
There was a bone-chopping sound that made one's teeth ache, and the ogre leader trembled all over, turned around and swept across with his stick.
With a loud "clang", a Modao soldier flew five or six meters into the air and fell to the ground, rolling several times.
The angry ogre strode towards the opponent who had been knocked flying. Li Qing immediately stretched out his finger and cast the flash spell. A dazzling light exploded in front of the ogre leader's eyes, and it subconsciously closed its eyes.
At the same time, he pointed his finger, and a green lizard tongue flew out and wrapped around the ogre leader, making him unable to move.
At this moment, Xie Zhu, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, finally seized the opportunity to release the arrow in his hand that had been accumulating strength for a long time.
There was a flash of light, and the ogre leader tilted his head back. He immediately covered his face with his hands and pressed down a finger-thick steel armor-piercing arrow that was stuck somewhere on his face, and let out a painful roar.
At this moment, the Mo Dao soldier who had not yet raised his sword to accumulate strength saw his opportunity. While the ogre leader was covering his face and unable to see, he suddenly leaped and slashed, twisting his body in the air and turning around to use the force to slash horizontally.
All I saw was a flash of bright knife light as it slashed across the ogre leader's neck. With full force, the knife directly cut off the ogre leader's cervical vertebrae. The blade penetrated more than half of the neck, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
"Focus your fire!"
Li Qing rubbed his hands together and a beam of hot rays spurted out.
The dragon guardian opened his mouth and spewed a tiny ray of dragon breath at the ogre's injured neck.
Xie Zhu once again took out a fine steel armor-piercing arrow and shot it into the ogre leader's neck.
At Li Qing's command, several other Modao soldiers retreated in front of them to defend, to prevent the ogre leader from fighting a desperate battle before his death.
It took three heroes and three fifth-tier soldiers to besiege and barely kill the ogre leader.
After the death of their leader, the remaining ogres remained determined to fight, and instead attacked them even more angrily.
However, at this time, all of Li Qing's troops, regardless of their level, were equipped with pseudo-dragon leather armor, which had super strong defense. Even if a first-level infantryman was hit by an ogre's stick, he would only be injured, and would not die as long as he was not hit directly on the head.
When they had time, they killed the remaining ogres one by one.
An hour later, the battle ended as the last ogre fell to the ground.
It was not difficult. Their strength was stronger than that of this tribe. They had war spells and all members were equipped with pseudo dragon skins. After one battle, four unlucky guys died on the spot from being hit on the head, and the rest only suffered minor injuries such as fractures, and they just needed to rest for a while.
This alien tribe is just used for training, to see the effects of war spells and pseudo-dragon leather armor.
After confirming the effect, we will think of ways to do something big.
The men spontaneously cleaned up the battlefield, collecting corpses and supplies. Li Qing picked up two balls of light and found a rock to sit on. The three Xie brothers also sat beside him to rest.
Li Qing saw that the three brothers were full of worries and seemed to be hesitant to speak, so he smiled and said:
"Is there anything you want to ask?"
Xie Zhu laughed and said:
"Indeed, Lord Li Qing just took the war magic book, right?"
"um, yes."
"hiss!"
Although the three of them had guessed it long ago, they still found it incredible when he admitted it himself.
At this time, the three of them had a lot to say, but they didn't know what to say. Thousands of words finally turned into two words:
"Awesome!"
A glorious victory, gaining a lot of combat experience and spoils.
There is no need to count on supplies. This werewolf tribe doesn't have much iron, except for some stones and wood. There is no need to count on these.
A large number of corpses were collected and refined into blood and flesh essence.
The dog-headed man still routinely extracts the dragon blood inside, a little bit adds up to a lot.
The two trophies come from destroying the tribe and killing the ogre leader respectively. The gnoll leader is a hero and did not drop any trophies, but the ogre leader is not a hero but has the trophies because of his powerful strength.
Count the spoils on the way back.
1 x 10 Ogre card.
1 x 200 Gnoll card.
1 x 500 Kobold Card.
1 x 50 Gnoll Promotion Card.
1 x 100 Kobold Promotion Card.
1 Hero Skill Card - Bloodlust, when used on yourself, increases movement speed by 20%, increases strength by 50%, suppresses pain by 50%, lasts for 30 seconds, and has a cooldown of 12 hours.
"Poor!"
Most of these cards are useless, only the Ogre card and the hero skill card Bloodlust have some value.
There is no such thing as a promotion card for ogres. The worst ogre is equivalent to a third-level soldier. This is equivalent to directly obtaining 10 third-level soldiers, which is not bad.
But overall, this harvest is normal. After all, it is not difficult and not too dangerous.
After cleaning up the battlefield, it took three days to return to the base castle.
Li Qing activated the Ogre Card immediately and summoned 10 ogres to raise on the ranch.
No one knew which dimension these ogres were summoned from. Like their fellow ogres, they were filthy, rude and barbaric, but obedient.
Li Qing asked them all to take a bath, and strictly ordered them to take a bath regularly, not to urinate or defecate at will, not to kill the livestock raised in the ranch at will, and made several sets of pseudo-dragon leather armor for each ogre to protect the vital parts.
Then a high-carbon steel mace was made for each ogre, which ensured their strong fighting power.
In addition, each person was given a javelin tube containing ten short javelins.
After they were equipped, Long Shou and An Erqiu were asked to train them in some simple combat skills and command commands.
Ogres start as third-level soldiers, and their promotion ceiling is fifth level. There is a chance of them being promoted to sixth-level two-headed ogres, or even higher-level ogre warlords. They have thick skin and strong muscles, and are very good for the front row and attackers.
The only drawback is that their IQ is not high, so you can't raise too many of them.
As for the hero skill card, Li Qing thought about it and decided to keep it as a reserve for the time being.
This hero skill can only be used on yourself and cannot be bestowed on others. Li Qingzhu is a mage, so this skill is of no use to him.
The remaining cards were of no use, so he sold them directly to his mentor in exchange for 300 human and 50 Imperial Infantry Promotion Cards.
In this way, he has accumulated 550 standard imperial infantry promotion cards, 500 standard imperial archer cards, and 100 standard imperial cavalry cards.
They were all purchased before and saved for use when needed.
We don't need too many troops for the time being. Too many barracks won't be enough to accommodate them, and we can't afford to maintain them.
Now he still has a large number of new recruits who have not been promoted. Instead of getting a large number of new recruits, it is better to train the current batch first. One hundred third-level elite infantrymen are definitely much stronger than five hundred new recruits.
After the troops rested for a week, Li Qing opened the map again and began looking for the second target to attack.
The positioning is similar to the previous wave, and the difficulty will not be too high. After all, the main focus now is training.
Half a month later, Li Qing led his troops more than 70 kilometers to the east and destroyed a tribe of orcs with a population of nearly 300.
Another month later, he continued to lead his troops to the northeast and destroyed a tribe of a thousand people where orcs and gnolls lived together.
Then, Li Qing found that there was no target.
There are no easy targets within a radius of 200 kilometers from the castle. They have all been wiped out by other war lord apprentices, and the rest are all tough targets.
However, he did not need to worry about this problem now. One day in the fourth month, he received a message from Nie Yang through the Divine Realm group, summoning all the war lord apprentices to return to their mentor's castle.
There are mainly two things. One is the settlement of the last big class, and the other thing has not been discussed yet.
The last round of classes was supposed to be about calculating the performance of the two months of development, but because two students, Mo Wenxi and Zhang Xiyi, died, one student suffered a huge loss and was basically useless, and the instructor had to deal with their funeral affairs, so it was delayed for a while.
It was not until the fourth month, when all the apprentices under the instructor's name had opened their divine domains, that Nie Yang contacted them and began to calculate the results of this class.
Li Qing thought about it and decided that all the heroes would stay at home, so he would only return with two Modao soldiers and twenty subordinates.
There is no need to worry about safety. Thanks to the efforts of the war lord apprentices, there are basically no wild alien indigenous tribes in the plane now.
The team set out and headed south along the river. Three days later they arrived at Chu Zaizhong's Divine Domain Castle. By this time, five apprentices had already returned to gather here, but Chu Zaizhong was not there. He was the closest and had returned early.
The mentor's airship would come once a day and fly directly here to pick them up.
Chu Zhong's castle has the most heroes and professionals moving around, and there are a lot of people on the streets, at least much more than Li Qing's castle. There are taverns, restaurants, hotels, blacksmith shops, and all kinds of shops.
Li Qing walked on the street and saw many fully armed professionals, most of whose levels were between level 10 and 20.
They can also form small teams to train in the wild. Although they cannot deal with large alien tribes, they are small in number and only have a few people to share experience. They do not need hundreds of subordinates like Li Qing to share combat experience, and the upgrade speed will not be too slow.
It just so happened that there was a large tribe of mermen near Chu Zhong’s castle, which was a very good place for training.
After waiting for less than two hours, the instructor's airship arrived. A total of seven war lord apprentices boarded the airship one after another and began to return.
A week later, the airship returned to the mentor's castle.
In the auditorium, fourteen apprentices gathered together. They hadn't seen each other for several months and felt a little strange.
Not long after, the instructor arrived and everyone stood up to greet him.
Nie Yang stretched out his hand to signal everyone to sit down, and said in a deep voice:
"There is one thing you should know. Mo Wenxi and Zhang Xiyi have died in the battle, so the teacher's last class has been delayed until now."
"However, the settlement still only counts the first two months of the development. After observation, the person who ranks first in this development performance is Li Qing, with a total score of 321 points. The second place is Cao Wenyuan, with a total score of 68 points. The third place is..."
"tutor."
Nie Yang looked up and saw Cao Wenyuan raising his hand. He paused and asked:
"Do you have any questions?"
Cao Wenyuan immediately asked:
"Students do have doubts. How could Li Qing get more than 300 points?"
Nie Yang smiled and said:
"You were able to accumulate 68 points because you joined forces with other students to destroy an alien tribe with extraordinary creatures. You contributed the most and earned 50 points. The remaining 18 points were accumulated from other causes."
"Li Qing was able to score 321 points because he destroyed a snakeman town and killed a supernatural creature all by himself."
As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned, followed by disbelief.
"This is impossible!"
"He could destroy a Serpent Town all by himself?"
"It was scanned by the Black Stone Tower of the Academy. It is indeed real."
"This is impossible……"
Cao Wenyuan sat down in his seat and kept saying it was impossible, but he didn't ask any more questions.
Like all the apprentices present, they said it was impossible because it was too outrageous. They had planned to attack those snake towns before, but they were scared by the fate of Mo Wenxi and his companions.
It is precisely because their end is so terrible that they are unwilling to believe it.
But the academy's Blackrock Tower monitoring plane has confirmed that it is real, so they have to believe it even if they don't want to.
Li Qing sat in his seat with an expressionless face. He smiled at his instructor's praise and did not respond to the complicated looks from other apprentices.
"According to the points ranking, the first place in this class is Li Qing, Cao Wenyuan is second, and Zhang Jishan is third."
"All three students will be granted temporary rights to redeem advanced items, with varying degrees of authority based on their rankings. You can choose to redeem items later, but please hand me the list before you go back, so as not to waste the opportunity."
