Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 103 Mobile Shooting
After untying the knot in her heart, little Queen Janet's mood was obviously much better. The most obvious thing was that it didn't take her long before she was able to chat in private with big Loli Cindy.
Levi also learned more information about the Bee People Tribe and the Underdark from the other party.
Although Janet was born relatively recently and was a little silly, and even had very little experience, she was not as good as the big loli Cindy, but there were some real battle-hardened veterans among the soldier bees, and most of them followed the old witch and fought their way out of the Underdark.
Then Levi discovered that the cunning old witch had lied to him.
If what she said before was true, she led the entire bee tribe to resist the enslavement of the drow elves, killed a large number of enemies, and only then successfully escaped.
But in fact, according to the more honest soldier bees, most of those they killed were just troglodytes, cave harpies and other low-level servants and slaves belonging to the drow elves.
The average strength and potential of these two races are very low, so they habitually rely on other powerful races such as the Gray Dwarves, Beholders, Naga, etc. The Drow Elves, a race that can be called the overlord of the Underdark, is of course one of their best choices.
As for the drow elves who were actually killed by the bee people, they can actually be counted on one hand.
Levi thought this was normal.
After all, the pure-blooded elves basically start with level 2 troops, and there are at least dozens of level 3 and 4 troops. There is also no shortage of super beasts such as dragons, phoenixes, and hydras in the tribe. How can a small bee tribe resist them?
Even though they have level 3 soldier bees, if nothing unexpected happens, this is basically the limit of what they can achieve.
Most of them originally had no status among the drow elves and were not taken seriously, which is why they were able to escape so smoothly.
However, Levi also obtained a very important piece of information, that is, the drow elves seemed to be caught up in the war, which led to the weakening of the strength of the troops originally guarding them, which gave them such an opportunity.
This immediately reminded him of the hundreds of corpses in the warehouse of the Gnoll camp that day, most of which were dark cavemen.
At that time, he was a little puzzled. To create so many corpses, it might be necessary to slaughter an entire village of cave dwellers to gather so many. The kobolds did not seem to have such strong power.
But now it seems that it was most likely a reward from the black dragon behind the kobold.
Further speculation is, has the black dragon already officially declared war on the drow elves?
If this is true, then it is good news for Maple Leaf Village and many other novice villages. At least they will not have to face a powerful black dragon that seems to intend to become a god in the short term.
Moreover, during the escape, the soldier bees hardly ever saw the old witch take action. She just pointed out the direction to move forward many times, allowing them to escape smoothly.
Combined with what happened before, Levi couldn't help but make a bold guess: the old witch's strength should not be that good, right?
Unfortunately, after Levi asked several times indirectly, he found regretfully that both the bee people and the little witch Janet said that the old witch rarely went out or was busy with the many affairs of the bee tribe, and she had no chance to get in touch with the black dragon.
Even on the surface, it seemed that she was really just dissatisfied with the oppression of the bee people. She seemed to see her own past in the bee people, so in the end she did not hesitate to rise up in rebellion and then fled to the surface together.
Levi could only keep this matter in mind for the time being and wait for an opportunity to find out the truth.
As for the ugly big mushroom cap on Janet's head, it turned out to be the last gift of a race.
A race of mushroom people, who were slaves of the drow elves like the bee people, were wiped out during the escape. The last mushroom person gave the hat to Janet, and Janet decided to wear it until she met other mushroom people and gave it to them.
After hearing the story behind it, Levi completely gave up the idea of taking it from the other party. Although he was interested in its properties, he couldn't bear to destroy Janet's dream.
Nowadays, it is rare to find innocent little girls like her or Cindy. They should be taken care of more.
In the next half day, Levi also witnessed the combat effectiveness of the bees led by Janet. It can be said that they were indeed a flying force, and they changed the battle strategy almost immediately.
When encountering gnolls, they can use their high speed and flying advantages to quickly pounce on those relatively fragile gnolls who use crossbows and other weapons.
With Levi's combat attributes and the support of Queen Janet's skills, the bees can kill about one-third of the opponent's life with an air charge. Among the same level, this combat power is indeed very good.
And more importantly, their entanglement can directly silence the enemy's ranged units. After all, when they are constantly being beaten, those jackals have no intention of attacking and can only flee everywhere in order to avoid these annoying bees.
In addition, Janet also has a skill called Swarm Disturbance, which summons a bunch of magical bees that have low actual lethality but look scary. It can also reduce the enemy's hit rate when using physical attacks in a short period of time.
In this case, Donna and other ranged units can easily shoot the jackals to death one by one.
Of course, during this process, the bees must also act with caution.
The biggest advantage of the bees is their aerial charge. Once they stay still or fall to the ground, their combat effectiveness will be instantly reduced. Even a level 2 drone may not be able to defeat a level 1 jackal.
How to interfere with the enemy's long-range forces as much as possible and for as long as possible while avoiding casualties is a very advanced knowledge.
From the current perspective, I don’t know if it’s because of her racial talent, but Janet ’s performance turned out to be quite good.
Although there were still some minor flaws occasionally, because she was a druid and could use healing spells to remedy them, it was not a big problem. When she encountered several teams of gnoll patrols in succession, she did not lose any beemen.
At the same time, with the continuous fighting, the cooperation between the bees and Donna and others became better and better, and Janet became more and more truly integrated into the team.
And in the process, Janet also found weapons that suited her, namely the spear and bow and arrow.
As a beeman, she has four arms and can hold a gun and a bow at the same time, shooting from a distance, and launching an aerial charge in close combat, with outstanding effects.
It's just because she has not received any professional archery training, and has not mastered skills such as mobile shooting, so the hit rate of the bow and arrow is very pitiful. In short, don't expect to really kill the enemy.
But it's not a big problem. The primary archery expertise is relatively easy to acquire, and the mobile shooting skill is dropped by the werewolf hunting masters as expected. At worst, they can just cause trouble for them in the future. Donna also wants this skill anyway.
During this process, Levi also met other God-chosen heroes one after another, and even a few relatively rare female God-chosen heroes. Most of them were attracted by Levi's team, which was not small in size and had a very diverse ethnic groups.
At first they came with the hope of being handed over to friends or even currying favor with them, but soon, after seeing Levi and his men very cleanly and neatly deal with an entire patrol team of jackals without suffering any casualties themselves, they quietly retreated.
Since we have come to the Stoney Highlands, it is naturally for the military merit points represented by the werewolf's head. But looking at the situation now, even if we can get close to him, we will just be working for Levi for nothing. This is not worth it at all!
Levi was also very satisfied. Although he was busy with the kobold camp and the swamp, he did not go to the Stoney Highlands immediately and his progress was slightly slower than others at the beginning, but it was totally worth it.
With such rich spoils of war and the addition of Cindy and others, the speed at which I gain military merit points will probably be three to five times faster than that of ordinary God-chosen heroes!
Today is the fourth day since the regional mission began. In the next three days, Levi is fully confident that he can get the heart of the village he wants.
But now he was a little hesitant. Perhaps that might not be the best choice, at least for him at this stage.
Because even if you get that thing and can build a village by yourself, it will take a long time to develop all aspects of the village, including population, buildings, resources, etc. from scratch.
Do I have to do everything myself? Then how can I have time to go out and adventure and become stronger?
Moreover, there are endless monsters in the wild, and jackals and kobolds are also extremely serious threats. Even if you build a village, what can you use to protect the safety of the village?
Do they have to allocate part of their limited military force to guard the village?
But if the points are too few, then it will not play a defensive role at all. If the points are too many, the team will be weakened. So this is actually a very contradictory thing.
So after several considerations, Levi finally realized that this might not be prepared for a single God-chosen hero. It would be better to have multiple God-chosen heroes working together, with some responsible for adventure, some responsible for internal affairs and logistics, and others responsible for defense and vigilance, etc.
Unfortunately, in this era where everyone advocates freedom, it’s okay to form a team temporarily, but almost no one would be willing to be someone else’s younger brother for a long time.
Moreover, an entire village is involved and the interests involved are huge. Even if someone recommends himself, Levi still has to consider whether the other party is trustworthy.
Of course, there is another better option, which is to employ indigenous people.
But that will also bring new problems, because these things require a certain amount of wisdom to complete well, and the conditions for recruiting them may not be much easier than recruiting heroic units.
Moreover, unlike the chosen heroes of God who can be resurrected multiple times, once ordinary indigenous people die in battle, although it is not absolutely impossible to resurrect them, the cost will probably be quite high.
So as his military merit points continued to increase, Levi kept considering what he should exchange for them.
But no matter what, killing more gnolls is still the only unchanging goal. Even if the heart of the village is not needed, military merit points can be exchanged for a lot of hard currency.
At least until now, it seems that other God-chosen heroes are still unaware of the hidden drawbacks of the Hero Recruitment Order and the Hero Spirit. If one redeems a Hero Recruitment Order and sells it publicly, I'm afraid many people would want to get it even if it means losing everything they have, right?
With this idea in mind, they continued to exterminate the Jackals and gradually began to go deeper. According to the intelligence currently held by many God-chosen heroes, the closer to the core area, the larger the scale of the Jackals.
At the beginning, there are only patrol teams with level 1 as the main force and level 2 as the auxiliary force, but later on, slave-hunting teams or beast-hunting teams will appear one after another. Not only are they much larger in scale, but the number of level 2 troops has also increased significantly, and there are even elite units and level 3 Wolf Man Warlords, Wolf Man Hunting Masters, and Wolf Man Whippers.
However, for Levi and his men, who had already killed a group of level 3 trolls and the level 4 elite fallen treeman leader, these gnolls were somewhat threatening, but only a little. Their greater role was to bring them military merit points and various trophies.
For example, Levi used the hunting shackles he had accumulated before and Janet's animal soothing skills as a druid to successfully capture two mount wolves.
Just like the first one he got in the swamp, these mount wolves were also useless and could only be used as mounts, not war beasts, but that was enough.
Then he planned to give one to Zhou Miyin and the new arrival Janet.
The young spearman was very excited at first, but he soon realized the pain that Levi had felt at the beginning. It was so painful that he had no choice but to give up. He planned to wait until he returned to the village today, and Levi would buy him a donkey or a young horse.
Janet, who was originally eager to try, chose to give up after seeing Zhou Miyin's mask of pain. After all, she was a flying soldier with wings, so she didn't particularly need them. She was just more curious.
However, Simon, the swordsman Simon, the son of Sigmar, who had been silently guarding Cindy since joining the team, unexpectedly stood up and expressed his willingness to give it a try.
As soon as he saw his appearance, Levi knew that although the other party had no riding skills, he was probably confident.
Sure enough, although he was a little embarrassed at the beginning, Simon soon successfully tamed the wolf mount and rode it back and forth without any pain on his face.
Levi took a few careful looks and discovered that this guy should have a layer of armor in his crotch, no wonder he didn't react.
So he readily gave one to the other party. After all, he didn't buy it with any money, and this would allow him to better protect Cindy.
After chatting for a few more sentences, Levi learned that although Simon did not have the relevant skills, he had indeed studied riding for a period of time, and had even tried to be promoted to the fifth-level soldier unique to the War Goddess Sect - the Flame Sun Knight.
However, after some accidents, he chose to believe in Sigmar and became a rare swordsman, the Son of Sigmar.
Of course, if he wants and has enough strength, he can choose to become a knight later. The Sigmar Sect also has more than one kind of special cavalry, including the Anvil, the Purifying Flame, the Silver Hammer, the Torch, etc.
And because he is a loyal believer of Sigmar, the difficulty of advancing to these special cavalry is much lower than that of other ordinary people.
As a result, Levi paid more and more attention to Simon. If this guy could successfully advance, it would be a very good addition to his own troops. After all, up to now, he did not have any special cavalry around him.
After killing another large group of Werewolf slave-hunting groups, Levi also received a system prompt. After their unremitting efforts, they finally raised the reputation of the Werewolves in Stoney Highlands to the level of mortal enemies.
From now on, once they enter the visual range of any werewolf, the other party will attack them immediately and fight to the death.
Then there's a bracket that excludes special units like heroes.
This thing looks a bit scary, but actually it might be quite beneficial to me right now.
Since arriving at the Rocky Highlands, they have been spending more time searching for the traces of the gnolls rather than fighting them. Now, the gnolls will attack as soon as they see them, which can save them some time.
However, the content in the last bracket made Levi feel a little interesting. Was it saying that the werewolf hero would adopt a more effective combat strategy instead of rushing forward all at once? Or was it saying that there was actually a possibility of reconciliation between him and the werewolf hero?
At this time, Donna on the other side was also very surprised to find that the mobile shooting skill she had been thinking about for a long time finally appeared this time.
In larger groups of gnolls, there are usually three different types of gnolls leading the group.
The first are the Gnoll Overlords. In addition to some bonuses to Gnolls in a small range, they can also use berserk skills, which greatly increase their attack and speed in a short period of time at the expense of defense.
Next are the Gnoll Lasher, who can temporarily enhance the strength of their beasts through whipping.
Finally, there are the Gnoll Hunting Masters that Donna has always been thinking about. Not only are they very rare among the Gnolls who can use bows and arrows as weapons, but they also generally master the skill of shooting on the move!
After killing more than a dozen gnoll hunting masters in succession, Donna finally dropped a skill book. She chose to study it without hesitation.
Mobile shooting, a passive skill. After long-term unremitting efforts, you have mastered the technique of relatively stable shooting while walking or running. Depending on the level of archery expertise, only part of the hit rate is reduced, currently it is 10%.
After acquiring this skill, Donna immediately couldn't wait to find a few gnolls and conduct a brief experiment. It turned out to be quite effective. Several unlucky guys were directly kited to death by her without ever getting close to her from beginning to end.
With her current attributes, skills and equipment, theoretically any opponent who is not as fast as her could suffer the same treatment, even ranged units were no exception. As long as she could break the defense, theoretically she could fight the opponent alone without getting hurt. After all, her bow was specially made and had a longer range than an ordinary bow.
Unfortunately, she now has to lead so many subordinates. Even if she learns this skill, she will not have many opportunities to use it in large-scale battles. After all, those half-elves cannot move and shoot, and they cannot run as fast as her long legs.
