Chapter 88: Single Duel
Seeing that neither party was talking, Li Qing did not wait any longer. He cleared his throat and said:
"Since Hodge is here, let's be frank. I remember you said before that we can choose between single combat and legion battle. Is that true?"
Hodge suddenly looked embarrassed, because he had said this to someone else before, and now someone else was saying it back to him, which was very embarrassing.
But admitting defeat was impossible. As one of the apprentices of a five-star mentor, how could he escape without a fight?
He admitted that this Li Qing was very powerful. His troops were all elite, and he could even form a large brigade of fifth-level soldiers. He would definitely not be able to win in a legion battle, so...
Hodge smiled slightly and bowed:
"That's true, but that's only for them. You, Li Qing, are very powerful, so I don't dare to be so arrogant."
He first complimented Li Qing a little, and then stated his purpose:
"Our soldiers have been trained with great effort. It would be a pity to lose them in a civil war. How about a hero duel? Best of three!"
After he finished speaking, Cao Wenyuan immediately curled his lips and said disdainfully:
"Tsk, you are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong!"
Hawking raised his eyebrows, without even looking at Cao Wenyuan, but just looked at Li Qing with a smile.
Li Qing smiled slightly and said:
"Don't worry, I told you to choose, so I'll let you choose. If you choose to fight alone, that's fine too."
He waved his hand, and Long Shou and Long Fa came over. Li Qing patted Long Shou and Long Fa on the shoulders and said with a smile:
"I will send these two men to fight, who will you send?"
Everyone showed a hint of surprise, and Hodge was also surprised:
"You're only going to send two? What about the third one?"
Li Qing nodded and said:
"Yes, these are the only two strong ones under my command. But don't worry, I understand the best of three games. We will forfeit the third game. As long as your men can beat either of them, you will win."
Hodge...
"Fuck, this guy is even more pretentious than me!"
The corners of Hodge's mouth twitched, and he clasped his hands and said:
"In that case, I won't be polite."
Li Qing smiled and said:
"You're welcome. Use whatever skills you have. My two subordinates are very powerful."
"day……"
Not only Hodge and his men, but also Cao Wenyuan and others were speechless.
After retreating, he and Zhang Jishan and others gathered around and asked in a low voice:
"Mr. Li Qing, your two subordinates?"
Li Qing smiled and said:
"Don't worry, we will win!"
After he said this, everyone was speechless.
The two groups separated, leaving a large space in between. Li Qing looked at Long Shou and said:
"You go first!"
Long Shou nodded and walked towards the central duel arena.
Just after taking a few steps, his body expanded rapidly, and his clothes quickly torn to reveal an extremely strong body covered with fine scales. With a hissing sound, a pair of dragon wings stretched out from his clothes, and with a light flap, he flew lightly into the air.
Everyone's eyes followed Long Shou as he flew into the air. Many people opened their mouths wide with surprise on their faces.
"Dragon Vein Fighter?"
Hodge's expression immediately fell. He pondered for a while and said to a swordsman holding a two-handed sword behind him:
"You go first and give him some buffs!"
Then he asked Li Qing opposite him:
"My subordinate can't fly. Can I give him the flying skill and some buffs?"
Li Qing smiled and nodded:
"As long as he is not given the summoning axis of extraordinary creatures, it will be fine."
Hodge...
Then, several mages gathered around and bestowed a series of buffs on the two-handed swordsman.
At this time, Cao Wenyuan and others could not bear to see it, and whispered to him:
"Brother Li Qing, you are too easy to talk to. How can you prepare so much for your opponent in a one-on-one duel? And why don't you give your subordinates a series of buffs?"
Li Qing nodded after hearing this:
"Yeah, can you help add some?"
…
To be honest, if it weren't for the hundreds of fourth-level heavy infantry and dozens of elite dragon-scale armored cavalry standing there, they would definitely wonder if Li Qing was setting a trap for them.
After a series of BUFFs were added, both sides entered the field.
Apprentice Nalan Kang was also a part-time referee. After the ten-second countdown, the two-handed swordsman with colorful buffs flashed towards Long Shou.
Long Shou flapped his wings behind him and pounced forward with the same colorful buff.
A moment later, the two light balls collided heavily with each other. There was an ear-piercing sound of metal clashing, and one figure stood still while the other was blown back dozens of meters.
The figure flying backwards in mid-air flashed and split into five figures, rushing towards the dragon guard in the air from different directions.
Long Shou remained motionless upon seeing this, allowing the five figures to approach, and five sharp two-handed swords slashed down at the same time.
“Puff!”
One of the swords was extremely powerful, tearing open his thick dragon scales directly, causing blood to spurt out. The other four swords hit his body, sending out sparks, but were not powerful enough to tear open the dragon scales.
This move is probably the hero skill of this two-handed swordsman. The four phantoms are not just illusions, but actually have certain attack power.
Long Shou, who had deliberately put the sword to the test on himself, reacted immediately, opened his mouth and let out a demoralizing roar, a gust of air pushed the four phantoms away, he backhandedly swung the sword to block the two-handed swordsman, opened his mouth and a vortex of flames emerged from his throat, and a breath of dragon's breath blew towards him.
In the past few months, Long Shou and Long Fa have not been idle. While Li Qing is studying, they are also studying.
Dragon Guard learns various warrior skills, and Dragon Law learns various spells.
The swordsman's figure flashed and disappeared out of thin air.
The next second, he appeared behind Long Shou and slashed at his back with a sword, tearing a long gash on the hard dragon wings.
Long Shou's head turned suddenly, and dragon flames spurted out from the sky. The two-handed swordsman had no time to escape and was submerged by the dragon's breath.
Several magic shields on his body were shattered one after another, and he almost broke out of the range of the dragon's breath when the last layer was shattered.
Then his figure flashed again, and five identical figures quickly appeared. The original four phantoms disappeared out of thin air when the new phantom appeared.
Then he rushed down again using the same trick, but this time the Dragon Guard did not wait for the Spider to be saved. Instead, he gathered his strength again and blew a breath of dragon breath over.
The raging flames instantly engulfed the five figures. The four phantoms disappeared in an instant, and the real bodies fell rapidly, but the dragon's breath also moved downwards and followed the burning.
After a few seconds, the figure's falling speed increased, and finally with a "bang" it fell to the ground in a charred mass.
Hodge immediately shouted loudly:
"We give up!"
Long Shou moved his head, and the remaining dragon breath sprayed horizontally onto the ground beside him.
Hodge waved his hand, and a group of his men came forward to drag back the charred but not dead men. After a quick check to see that they were not dead, he breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and bowed to Li Qing, saying:
"I lost this battle."
"The dragon bloodline of your subordinate is extraordinary, at least five stars, right?"
Li Qing smiled without saying anything and waved his hand. Long Fa strode forward, let out a low roar, stretched out his dragon wings and flew up.
"My subordinate is also a dragon vein sorcerer. If you don't have subordinates who can deal with him, it's better to admit defeat directly."
"No, I can still fight."
Hodge waved his hand, and a figure in a black robe walked over behind him.
Li Qing took a closer look and said curiously:
"My subordinate is a dragon vein warlock with high magic resistance. Can you send a mage?"
Hodge smiled slightly:
"You won't know until you fight."
At this time, the man in black robe had taken off his black robe, revealing a body covered with dark green bumps, flesh particles and small pits... let's just call it a human.
He looked up at Long Fa and began to mutter something. Then, thick dark green smoke spurted out from the black holes on his body, covering a large area. A strange, creepy sound came from inside.
After more than ten seconds, the sound disappeared and the thick smoke quickly shrank inward, soon revealing a flying dragon that was about eleven or twelve meters long.
This thing is covered with dark green scales, and its surface is covered with a thick layer of poisonous smoke. Its wings are like skeletons and its tail is like a scorpion's tail.
Poison Dragon (Druid), Hero, Tier 5.
Then Hodge waved his hand, and several mages came forward to cast a series of BUFFs and defensive spells on the poisonous dragon.
After doing all this, the glowing poisonous flying dragon spread its wings and flew into the air, pouncing towards Long Fa.
The dragon flapped its wings and rose rapidly into the sky, then opened its mouth and let out a conical breath of dragon's breath that covered the sky.
The range of the LV5 conical dragon breath is thirty meters wide and ninety meters long, directly enveloping the unprepared poisonous flying dragon.
Almost instantly, a scream of shock and anger came from the flames, and soon a figure covered in flames rushed out from the right side of the flames. Everyone looked closely and saw that the series of colorful BUFFs on the poisonous flying dragon had all disappeared, and even the layer of poisonous smoke on its body had been purified, leaving only a burnt body.
The specialty of Dragon Breath LV5 is Purifying Breath, which can immediately purify all beneficial effects on the target, with a maximum purification limit of five rings.
It will also add a purification afterglow effect to the target, and it will not be able to gain any benefit effect below the fifth ring within three seconds after purification.
This poisonous flying dragon had at least six or seven kinds of buffs on its body. Not only were all of them purified with its breath, but even the layer of poisonous mist that it carried with it was purified.
But this is not a big problem. The key point is the burning damage of the dragon's breath itself.
LV5 dragon breath. Plus, Long Shou is a level 5 super five-star hero. His basic attack power is stronger than that of this poisonous flying dragon. It is impossible to resist a breath of dragon breath.
It was because he rushed too fast. If he had been a little slower, it would have been burned into a roasted dragon.
This poisonous flying dragon was no match for the Dragon Guardian. Now all its buffs were wiped out, its strength dropped drastically, and it was no match at all.
Later on, the Dragon Guardian didn't even breathe dragon breath anymore, but kept casting various spells to play with his opponent.
It's not really playing around. He just learned these spells not long ago and is not yet proficient in them. He also has no serious opponent to practice with. This time he has a truly powerful opponent.
Ordinary spells are much stronger than normal spells with the blessing of dragon blood, especially combat spells.
Ordinary fireball magic is not only more powerful with the blessing of dragon blood, but also has a larger explosion range.
Long Fa used his greater speed and flexibility to increase the distance between them and continuously bombarded the poisonous flying dragon with spells. Seeing that his men could only take the beatings and had no power to fight back, Hodge knew that he would lose this battle.
He had no intention of waiting for a miracle and quickly raised his hand to admit defeat.
Calling back his men, he clasped his fists and bowed to Li Qing:
"Today I am inferior to you in skills. I admit defeat. This city is yours."
Li Qing clasped his fists in return:
"Thank you!"
Hodge waved his hand to signal his men to return, and soon the troops set out again.
"That's pretty straightforward!"
Li Qing looked back at Cao Wenyuan and others and said:
"Now that he's gone, let's discuss how to attack the city next."
Several people laughed and said:
"Since you are the master, it is up to you to decide."
"Then I will take the responsibility."
Li Qing did not make any false excuses, but simply agreed and said in a deep voice:
"If, as you said, there is no great wizard in the city, then there is no need for any tactics. We can just attack the city head on."
"Next, we will each send out 300 people as the siege force. I will also send out 300 people. The rest of the troops will be led by their own troops and will be arranged later depending on the situation."
At this time Zhang Jishan said:
"There's no problem with a frontal attack, and losing some cannon fodder is no problem, but we don't have many siege engines, and even if we lose all the cannon fodder, we may not be able to get in."
The other apprentices also nodded, and one of them said:
"We brought some siege equipment with us, but they were gradually damaged during the siege battles. We don't have any craftsmen to make them now, so we only have two broken ladders and three broken siege vehicles. The siege ram broke down a long time ago, and there are only six catapults left. We do have a lot of ladders."
“So bad?”
Li Qing said in great surprise:
"With just these few siege weapons, you want to attack a city that has more soldiers than you?"
For the first time, he felt speechless.
He attacked the city of Hashim with a small force because he could cheat and had siege equipment ready-made, with as many as he needed.
They couldn't cheat and could only attack the city seriously. Without sufficient siege equipment, they could only pay with their lives.
No wonder they haven’t been able to capture it after fighting for so long. I can only say that they are too rubbish.
Shaking his head, he waved his hand and said:
"Let's follow the plan just now. Leave the siege weapons to me."
The next step was for everyone to mobilize , among which 300 cannon fodder were separately selected and organized into an army, which was commanded by Li Qing himself.
After experiencing many battles, Li Qing's strategic level had already risen to the ninth level. One of the extra three strategic attribute points was added to attack, adding the original one point to 2 points, +10% attack.
Plus the 20% acid bonus from the hero's treasure 'Bundle of Lizards', the attack power is still quite impressive.
Add the other two points to the speed, and now there are 4 points in total.
One point of speed adds 5 points of troop movement speed, 4 points for a total of 20 points.
The basic movement speed of a normal adult is 100 points. Because the Imperial Infantry is equipped with weapons and armor, their speed is not faster than that of a normal adult, which is also around 100 points.
An extra 20 points of speed is equivalent to an increase of one-fifth of the speed, which is a very obvious bonus.
While the troops were in position, Li Qing first measured the distance, and then, in front of the surprised eyes of Cao Wenyuan and others, he opened the space in his palm, took out a number of counterweight catapults and accessories and placed them at the standard attack range of the catapults.
The stones used in his counterweight trebuchet are of standard shape, size and weight, so the throwing distance is also within a fixed range.
He had used this thing many times before, and he had already determined the throwing distance. Now he just had to measure the distance.
