Chapter 71: Surrounded
Of course, he didn't worry too much about it. No matter whether it was normal or not, it was a good thing for him anyway.
After all, the value of fine loot is definitely much greater than a bunch of useless loot. If possible, he hopes that this strange luck can continue like this.
Five pieces of loot in total.
The Fire Warlock card must be used. It just so happens that there is still a hero spot in my own divine realm, and I just happen to be short of a hero right now.
A two-star magic hero is actually pretty good, and he can also fuse a ray of original light with a large number of other treasures to raise the rank of the new hero.
For example, if you get a dragon bloodline, add a warlock professional hero transformation card, and a ray of original light, you can directly create a dragon vein warlock.
By then, we will have the Dragon Vein Fighter Long Shou nearby, and the Dragon Vein Warlock in the magic system, the two will be invincible together.
It is worth mentioning that this kind of hero transformation card is only useful for the subordinates' troops and cannot be effective for the two professionals Xie Heng and Xie Jin.
The reason is that they are both professionals of the Human Destiny Civilization and their ranks are fixed. If they want to become heroes, they must offer precious treasures to the Eternal Tree as sacrifices to gain favor or divine grace, and use these favors in exchange for destiny, so that they can upgrade their ranks and become heroes.
The same goes for war lords. If a human destined hero can obtain enough divine grace, he can also become a war lord the next day.
Yes, it is God’s grace.
There are only three possible outcomes of offering sacrifices to the Tree of Eternity.
One is that the sacrifice is too rubbish and is punished.
One is that the sacrifice is qualified, but the value of the sacrifice is not too high. In this way, you will get different points of favor, which can be exchanged for various good things, such as expanding the area of the divine domain, etc.
The third type is when the sacrifice is of extremely high quality, and the Eternal Tree is very satisfied, so it will bestow divine grace.
The effect of divine grace is very powerful. You can obtain treasures beyond the imagination of ordinary people, including the original and pure divine nature that can make you deified on the spot. The divine domain of the war lord is also a kind of divine grace.
Precisely because divine grace is so precious, although theoretically one can become a war lord, in reality this is extremely rare.
Unless some gods really like a younger generation, they might be willing to pay this price.
But in fact it is just a possibility, and there are only a few that have been heard of in history.
At least Li Qing wouldn't have such an idea.
Perhaps when he becomes powerful in the future, and his professionals have served him for dozens or hundreds of years, worked diligently and made great contributions, or made great achievements, he will spend some favors to help them become destined heroes.
But forget about the War Lord's destiny, it's basically impossible.
The second item is the Lord Guard card for your own use. This card can be summoned out at certain times and used as cannon fodder.
There are a total of six fourth-order soldiers and sixty third-order soldiers in the three rounds. They are a strong elite force and are very effective in attacking tough situations.
He would keep the War Magic Scroll Card in his hand for the time being and give it to An Erqiu when he got back. He and Xie Zhu were the only two heroes in his hands who could lead troops into battle independently, but he pledged allegiance to him earlier than Xie Zhu, so he naturally had priority.
As for that one hero skill point.
Li Qing pondered for a long time and finally decided to give it to Long Shou.
There is no way. My strength is limited by my magic power, and my level-up speed is not as fast as that of Long Shou, who follows the bloodline system.
By now, he had accumulated enough mana to advance to the fourth level, but his combat experience was only at the third level.
It is better to strengthen Long Shou's power immediately rather than save it for your own use.
Dragon Guard is the strongest card he has now. Next he might have to deal with the Snake Mage. The current Dragon Guard is a bit of a stretch and he may not be able to win.
Adding a hero skill point, whether adding a new bloodline talent or strengthening an existing bloodline talent, can greatly improve his strength.
He summoned Long Shou and activated the hero skill point card. The card collapsed into a ball of clear light and sank into his body.
Then Li Qing opened Long Shou's attribute panel and saw new selectable skills appearing at the hero's skill points.
When you click on it, three options appear.
They are all old acquaintances, namely Dragon Breath LV3, Dragon Scale LV3, Dragon Wing LV2, and no new options have appeared.
According to past rules, new options will appear when Long Shou is promoted to the sixth level, and at that time there is a high probability that a very powerful option will appear - Transformation into a Dragon.
Whether a Dragon Vein Warlock or a Dragon Vein Fighter, regardless of the strength of their bloodline, they will get this option when they reach the sixth level of the extraordinary rank.
Therefore, even though he obtained the sixth hero skill point, because he failed to be promoted to the sixth-level extraordinary level, his new expertise is still of the conventional type.
Li Qing glanced at the three options, thought for a moment, and chose Dragon Scale LV3.
Dragon Scale LV3: Activates the power of dragon blood , grows a layer of hard dragon scales on the body surface, reduces all damage by 40%, is immune to status spells below six levels, and reduces the duration of all negative status by 60%.
In addition, the hero skill points come with an optional specialty, which is a matching item. The few hero skill points that Li Qingcun has also come with an additional specialty.
Li Qing's eyes fell on the three specialties of Dragon Scale LV3. He was about to choose Dragon Scale damage reduction as usual, but he found that there was a golden specialty among the three specialties refreshed this time.
Option 1: Dragon scale damage reduction effect +5%.
Option 2: All negative status durations are reduced by 10%.
Option Three: Fire Immunity (Mythic)
"nice one!"
There was no need to hesitate, Li Qing immediately chose the third option - fire immunity.
It makes sense that dragons are immune to fire-related spell effects.
It was just an extra hero skill point, not a rank upgrade, so Long Shou's strength did not increase, but his dragon scale talent was upgraded to LV3, which greatly increased his survivability, especially his fire immunity, which was an epic enhancement.
From now on, when facing enemies that use fire as their main means of attack, they will be directly defeated by blood, such as fire elements.
After completing the selection, Li Qing was in a good mood and more confident about the upcoming battle.
After waiting for only one day, he ordered his troops to set out again the next morning, targeting another snakeman town.
Although he didn't know why the snakeman city not far away didn't support him, it didn't affect his plan.
If you support, kill the Snakeman Archmage.
If there is no support, they will keep attacking the nearby snake towns to see who can hold on first.
This time the target was located in a town more than thirty kilometers west of the Snakeman city, more than fifty kilometers away from the town. The team set off directly along the main road without paying any attention to the Snakeman overlord not far away.
However, when he was less than five kilometers away from the town, Xie Jin, who was exploring the way ahead, quickly returned and shouted from afar:
"Boss, the main force of the snake people is gathering in front!"
When he came over, he took a breath and said loudly:
"It's not that the snake city didn't support us, but they sent a large army to intercept us."
Li Qing immediately ordered the team to stop and asked:
“What’s the scale?”
"It's very large, you can't see the end at a glance. It's all regular troops, with a large number of regular snakemen wearing plate armor, gnolls and lizardmen servants, and two large giant lizards with armor and mounts. They are probably two war beasts."
"Two war beasts?"
Li Qing pondered for a moment and gave a decisive order:
"It seems that they have made preparations. They can no longer move forward, so they are preparing to retreat to the town and defend it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly sensed something and looked behind him. Suddenly, a huge beam of light fell from the sky in the direction of the town several kilometers away, and then the shadow of a huge old snake man emerged, staring at Li Qing with cold eyes.
"Snake Man Mage!"
Li Qing immediately realized that there was no way to escape, and decisively ordered:
"Everyone prepare for battle!"
After saying that, he rode his horse to the front of the army, stretched out his hand and made a fist. A huge vortex appeared in front of him, and then a huge black shadow fell from the sky to the ground, making a loud noise and causing the ground to shake.
A square wall that is ten meters high, ten meters wide and ten meters long.
This was just the first section. He then continued to summon out sections of identical city walls.
Fortunately, there are farmlands everywhere and the ground is relatively flat, so slight differences don’t have much impact. It’s just that the city wall is slightly high and crooked when it is lowered, but it doesn’t affect its placement.
Fourteen sections of the city wall were taken out in one go to form a small city with a side length of 60 meters and a width of only 30 meters. All the troops entered the temporary city and climbed up the 10-meter-wide city wall to take their positions.
By the time they finished all this, the enemy vanguard had already penetrated the mist and appeared in their sight.
This is an extremely large regular army, definitely the elite troops under the command of the recent snake noble, and it stretches as far as the eye can see from left to right.
In the middle of the huge team, there were two huge shadows rising and falling and slowly approaching. They were two giant lizards with a wooden backpack on their backs. In front of the backpack was a row of crossbow carts, and behind them stood many archers, crossbowmen, or javelin throwers.
As the distance got closer, Li Qing saw that the giant lizard's back building actually had two floors. The lower floor on the left was for crossbows and long-range archers, and on the upper floor stood a snakeman noble wearing gorgeous armor. On the right stood a beautiful female snakeman mage whose enchanting figure could not be concealed even by her gorgeous robes, and next to her were well-equipped snakeman guards.
When the two sides were only about a hundred meters apart, the huge snake army slowly stopped. The snake noble walked to the back building, held the railing and looked at the city that appeared inexplicably in front of him, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
He turned around to look at the female snake wizard beside him and asked:
"When will there be a city here?"
The female snake wizard shook her head and said:
"Perhaps it is a spell unique to these humans. Didn't the Empire discover in many places in the plane that they can summon a city out of thin air?"
“But this one doesn’t look much like theirs.”
No one answered because there was no way to answer it and this was the first time they had seen such a situation.
However, they did not struggle for too long. After all, they had come out in full force to intercept the enemy halfway and had sufficient confidence and assurance.
Hashim, the great noble of the snake people, is the ruler of Hashim City and five surrounding towns and more than thirty villages.
However, with the invasion of foreign humans, villages and towns were constantly plundered, and a large number of people in the territory were killed. Until now, there is only one city and one town left in the Hashim territory, with less than ten villages, and the strength has been severely damaged.
There was no counterattack at the beginning because the invading humans were too powerful, and the kingdom had reached an agreement with the leader of the invading humans not to attack them unless the humans took the initiative to attack.
The reason why they didn't take action later was that the underground tribal alliance located under the continent suddenly became restless for some reason, and there were large-scale attacks from the underground tribal alliance in various underground passages and the largest underground fortress.
Some time ago, the underground passage under the territory of another great noble was suddenly lost, and the mentor city was destroyed by a sneak attack by despicable human invaders, which made him extremely angry.
I was also extremely worried that one day I would follow in his footsteps.
To this end, he raised the territory's alert level, and the main force was in a semi-war state all year round to ensure that it could go out in a short time.
The day before yesterday, he received news that humans were attacking the town of Hawim. He immediately ordered Baron Hawim to hold out for two days, and support would arrive soon.
But unexpectedly, the useless Baron Hawim could not hold out for even a day, resulting in the destruction of the town of Hawim.
Fortunately, these human invaders were greedy . After capturing the town of Hawim, they did not flee. Instead, they continued to prepare to enter another town, giving me the opportunity to intercept them.
Although he didn't know how the human invaders created a new city, he had an absolute advantage at the moment. With the support of Master Kendin, he would definitely be able to eliminate these despicable human invaders.
After a long breath, Lord Hashiway shouted loudly towards the city ahead:
"Evil human invaders, you destroyed my city and killed my people. The great snake king will bear witness. I will kill your subordinates and cut off your head!"
He spoke the language of the snake people, but strangely enough, Li Qing could understand him.
However, he did not respond, but only ordered the troops to prepare for battle.
Although the number of troops was not superior, and the quality did not seem to be superior either, the strength of this snake noble was stronger than he had imagined. At least he had never known before that these snake nobles would actually raise war beasts, but Li Qing was not too confident.
At least it won't show.
He is the lord. If he is afraid, the morale of his subordinates will definitely fall to the bottom.
Moreover, military advantage has never had an absolute relationship with victory or defeat. Although the advantaged party wins in most cases, the weak defeating the strong also happens from time to time.
Even if it may not seem like a big deal, you have to fight first.
Following a long, incomprehensible shout, deafening drumbeats sounded from the snake people's side, and the huge army began to slowly disperse. A large number of vassal troops were ordered by the snake people's officers to disperse to the other two sides of the city to form an encirclement.
At the same time, in the rear, a slow-moving troop was vaguely seen approaching in the dim light.
When the snake army completed the encirclement on three sides, the troops teleported to the snake town in the rear gradually became clear, and they turned out to be a puppet army.
Most of them are clay puppets, about two meters tall, with a shield on their left arm and a long sword at their right wrist. Their bodies are covered with dense rune patterns that form a glowing network that wraps the clay puppet.
The main function of this magic circle is to strengthen the physical strength of the clay puppet and maintain the integrity of the body.
After all, it is a puppet made of mud. Without a magic circle to solidify it, rain alone can destroy it.
The strength of the clay puppet is equivalent to that of a third-tier troop.
Among these clay puppets, there are many rock puppets that are even larger in size and made entirely of rock.
The rock puppet is three meters tall and has no shield. Its entire body is made of stone so it doesn't need a shield. Both of its arms end in two-handed swords, which means it is dual-wielding two-handed swords. It is obviously a combat type at first glance.
The strength of the rock puppet is equivalent to that of a fifth-tier troop.
