Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 107 Military Position System
After saying goodbye to the three hands with a smile, Levi casually learned the spirit sword technique and gave the animal shrinking technique to Donna. Looking at her obviously eager to try, he immediately understood her intentions.
"Donna, do you want to go check out that Shadow Claw?"
Donna hesitated for a moment, but finally shook her head decisively: "That guy looks very cunning, don't believe everything he says, Shadow Claw may not be that easy to deal with."
"Besides, darkness is very beneficial to the undead. If an enemy like the high-level vampire mentioned by the Lightforger appears, it will be quite dangerous for you."
She could see clearly that even though Levi's level and equipment were gradually improving, a low-level mage was still very vulnerable without magic protection. If a level 3 or 4 vampire really attacked him, he could be killed with just a few claws.
Levi shrugged, not feeling embarrassed at all. In fact, he also thought so. The fragility of low-level mages was well known, and this was not his own problem.
Unfortunately, he had contacted many natives including the village chief these days, but had no news about his advancement and talent. They all said that there were no such strong people in the novice village, and he might need to go to the town.
Otherwise, if they could possess the common talent of the high elves - martial arts, this would greatly change the situation.
After all, in the early stages, especially for a mage, 6 points of defense is still very useful, and a green robe is only a few points.
After giving Donna some money and asking her to take her subordinates to rest first, and signaling them to meet up at the tavern later, Levi took Cindy, Zhou Miyin and others to complete several tasks.
Since the opening of regional missions, the number of missions targeting gnolls in the surrounding villages has increased rapidly. Although the mission rewards are mostly some basic equipment, money, experience points, reputation, etc., which are completely different from the things that can be exchanged for military merit points, it is just a side job anyway, so just consider it as making extra money.
Then he found that after so much hard work, he finally raised his reputation level in Maple Leaf Village to respected.
"Your reputation level in Maple Leaf Village has been raised to Respected. From now on, you will enjoy the following rights in Maple Leaf Village:
You have the right to take priority in accepting tasks and take the initiative to meet with the village chief;
You will enjoy a 5% discount when you purchase supplies, conduct consumption activities, etc. in taverns and various stores;
When you purchase permanent properties, you will enjoy a 10% discount, and the village will recruit a butler and a maid from the village for you (salary and daily expenses are still provided by you);
When you conduct recruitment activities in the military camp, you will enjoy a 5% discount, and you can recruit Maple Leaf Village's unique soldiers in limited quantities. The current one is the 2nd-level soldier - Old Hunter, with a limit of 5/5 per week.
(The above offers cannot be combined with each other)”
This series of information really helped Levi expand his thinking. A 5% shopping discount may seem insignificant, but if it continues for a long time, it can still save a lot of money.
And if he has enough energy, he can use this 5% discount to resell it to other God-chosen heroes. As long as the quantity is large enough and the total price is high enough, he can make a lot of difference.
At the same time, the right to purchase real estate is also very good. At the beginning, he naively thought that the recruited subordinates would have no other major expenses except for daily supplies and wages usually every seven days.
Some evil players might even send their subordinates to die on the sixth day, so they naturally don't have to pay them wages.
But after these days of experience, he found that the truth was far more than that.
In addition to supplies such as herbs and bandages, and the upgrading of weapons and equipment, there is another very important item, which is the daily camping expenses.
It was fine when there were only a few people, but now there are dozens of people in the team, plus the Flame War Goose and two ordinary war geese.
And ordinary soldiers can be placed in the barracks specially prepared by the village for rent, but you can't let girls like Donna and Cindy sleep in that kind of place, right? Of course, they have to be arranged in a tavern with a better environment.
Therefore, the daily expenses cannot be ignored, and as the team size continues to expand, the expenses in this regard will increase.
But now there is a new solution, which is to buy your own property, so you naturally don’t have to pay for accommodation anymore.
I just don’t know how big the area of this kind of property is, and whether it is enough for dozens of people to live in.
However, Levi did not take any action for the time being, but instead recruited the five old hunters first.
As Tier 2 archer-type soldiers, their attributes are similar to those of the half-elves, except that their skills are slightly different. They have the skills of walking through the forest and hunting beasts. As the name suggests, they slightly increase the movement speed in the forest terrain and increase the damage to beast-type enemies, which is not bad.
Levi planned to throw them all to Donna directly. Although she had said before that she wanted to command a single race of troops, he had already seen that she would never refuse such a small matter.
Then he bought a book on elementary riding from a familiar God-chosen hero and prepared to give it to Simon, and also bought a book on archery to give to Janet, and then he rushed to the quartermaster's office.
Since the regional mission of Stoney Highlands was opened, the quartermasters in Maple Leaf Village have officially appeared, and there is more than one. They are in charge of different categories. For example, the quartermaster in front of Levi is in charge of various war machinery. He had consulted him for relevant information before.
As soon as he saw him, the quartermaster smiled and even took two steps forward to greet him: "It turns out that it is Lord Levi who is here. I wonder what you like?"
Levi clearly felt that the other party's attitude had changed significantly. Even though he was a hero chosen by God, the other party's attitude was not so friendly before. After all, there were quite a few heroes chosen by God in the village.
He knew that this must be related to the fact that his reputation level had been raised to respected. Although the system did not mention this, it did exist.
His eyes swept dozens of meters behind the other party. Catapults, ammunition carts, cargo carriages, troop transport vehicles, these war machines did not require military merit points, but only needed to spend money to purchase them.
Moreover, the facilities provided by each village are slightly different. For example, Green Blade Village has crossbow carts and medical tents, and several villages near the water have things like sampans and small sailboats, as if to encourage everyone to fight with murlocs and the like. Although the effect is not good at all, it is at least better than swimming.
Unfortunately, he was not wealthy enough, and he had to keep some funds for emergencies. Most of the war machines in front of him were just for his eyes.
"I need to upgrade my military rank first."
Although the quests in the Stoney Highlands area are open to all lawful races, there are some things that are not open to outsiders and are only open to high elves, such as the high-level military position system.
Recruit - Veteran - Sergeant - NCO - Lieutenant - Marshal - General, this is the military rank system of the high elves that has been announced so far.
After spending twice the points, humans can only be promoted to sergeant at best, while half-elves need to spend 1.5 times the points to be promoted to non-commissioned officer at best.
As for the subsequent levels, you must be a pure-blooded high elf, and other alien races, such as dwarves, gnomes, halflings, etc., forget it, you won’t even be able to be a private.
In addition, high elves also have titles, but it is said that one must have their own territory, so no one knows much about this now.
With such strict restrictions, there must be some particularities. In fact, there are indeed other people who choose to be promoted in the military rank, and then they suddenly discover that this military rank system is really powerful.
To some extent, it can even be said to be similar to an additional battle skill, because it can also comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of the high elves and half-elf subordinates in the team. At the same time, this is also another way to improve leadership in addition to attributes, skills and equipment!
New recruit, health +5, magic +5, consumes 100 military merit points.
Veteran, Health +10, Magic +10, Leadership +10, consumes 200 military merit points.
Sergeant, Health +15, Magic +15, Leadership +30, Health +10 for all high elves under your command, Health +5 for half-elves, consumes 500 military merit points.
These are the first three levels of the military rank system known so far. Because only after being promoted to sergeant can you see the next non-commissioned officer bonus, no one has figured it out yet.
After all, the military merit points required to become a sergeant are too many. Adding the consumption of the first two levels, it is almost enough to recruit 5th-level soldiers, or even exchange for a hero recruitment order. At this stage, no one is that rich.
But it is conceivable that the bonuses for high-level military positions will definitely be higher, and even if there are bonuses for other skills, no one will feel surprised, after all, the cost is also very high.
Despite this, Levi could also conclude that everyone would be keen on advancing in military rank in the future.
Because attribute points are so valuable and leadership is scarce, the effects of increasing life and magic limits are very practical at any time, so when it is difficult to upgrade in the later stages, you will inevitably choose to upgrade in other directions.
Moreover, he could even conclude that even after this regional mission was over, there would definitely be more ways to gain military merit, and there was even a high probability that it would be related to killing the God-chosen heroes of the enemy camp!
However, despite being very curious and excited, Levi did not plan to spend too much for the time being. He only promoted him to a second-level veteran. This amount of points could be earned back by killing seven or eight small patrols of jackals. The overall impact would not be significant.
As he officially became a veteran, the attribute bonus was immediately displayed, and at the same time a system prompt popped up.
"You have successfully joined the military system of the High Elves - Kingdom of Caledor. From now on, after you leave the game, you can choose to entrust your character to any unit under the Kingdom of Caledor, including but not limited to town garrisons, guards, patrols, etc."
“When encountering an enemy, the escrow character will fight as you normally would, but will not use any non-renewable one-time consumables unless authorized by you (you can authorize each one-time consumable separately).”
“After winning the battle, you will normally receive spoils of war including experience points, money, and equipment, and in addition to the basic military merit points, you may also receive a certain amount of additional military merit points as a reward.”
"If you die unexpectedly in battle during the trusteeship period, you will lose 10% of your current level of experience and enter a level 0 soul weakness state, which means that all attributes are temporarily reduced by 10% for 2 hours."
"In any case, your character will enter the location you specified in advance to rest after 12:00 midnight, and this hosting state will end."
"You can unlock more functions by continuing to advance your military rank."
Levi took a quick look and simply skipped it. He didn't feel comfortable letting his character wander around. Although it wasn't as weak as level 1 soul weakness, which would leave the character weak for a whole day, losing 10% of the experience points after dying was still quite damaging.
Moreover, he even suspected that, with his current popularity in the neighborhood and on the forum, once he found out that his character was being taken over, some jealous guys would probably directly leak the information to the God-chosen Hero of the enemy race, or simply take part in the battle themselves?
Don't doubt it, human nature is always worse than you think.
This thing is really suitable for those guys who have just upgraded, are penniless, and are not afraid of death at all.
It’s useless to die anyway, your experience points won’t drop below 0%, but if you’re not dead, any loot you get is pure profit!
However, there is still room for anticipation for other features that will be unlocked as your military rank continues to improve.
"And one more light ammunition truck."
He had already planned it out. The Flame War Goose would be responsible for pulling the cart, and the trainer would act as the coachman. If there was an emergency, he would first let Donna use the animal shrinking spell on the Flame War Goose, and then he would grease its feet. The speed at which the Flame War Goose pulled the cart was probably unmatched by anyone in the entire team. It was simply perfect.
"Okay, the original price is 10 gold coins. Since your reputation in this village has reached the level of respect, you will enjoy a 5% discount. The current price is 9.5 gold coins."
"no problem!"
Light ammunition cart (war machine): attack power 0, defense power 5, health value 250, loaded with arrows 0/20000, movement speed depends on the person pulling the cart.
Levi paid the money very happily and decided to fill it up immediately, and then let Zhou Miyin take it to the place where his subordinates were resting.
Before leaving, when Levi saw Zhou Miyin looking hesitant, he knew that the other party must have something to say.
He couldn't help but laugh and said, "What's wrong? I don't plan to let you pull the cart all the time. You don't have to worry about that, and your horse will be found soon."
Although even the lowest-grade young horses were not cheap, they caught several mount wolves, which was enough to make up for the loss, and they could even make some profit. After all, mount wolves were much rarer in comparison.
Zhou Miyin scratched the back of his head: " Sir, I am not worried about this. If you let me pull the cart, there must be a reason." "I was just thinking, if you still need to recruit subordinates in the future, maybe I can recommend my fellow tribesmen."
Levi became interested after hearing this: "Oh? How strong are they?"
Based on what he knew so far, the troops of the Zhendan Dynasty, at least the primary troops, were somewhat similar to the high elves in that they all deployed a defensive formation after the battle began, first attacking from a distance, waiting for the enemy to slowly run over, and then killing them one by one in front of the melee troops with extremely strong defenses.
The difference is that the high elves are blessed with martial arts, while the Cathay Dynasty relies on the skills of yin and yang harmony.
The former has a relatively high bonus, but requires health points above 50% to take effect. The latter has a smaller bonus, but is applicable throughout the entire process. It can be said that each has its pros and cons.
Moreover, most of the soldiers originating from the Zhendan Dynasty have a natural peace effect and can coexist with non-evil lawful races without suffering any morale penalties. This greatly facilitates the creation of mixed forces.
There are now many God-chosen heroes from there on the forum, showing off to everyone the many special types of troops they have seen in a large town in the Zhendan Dynasty.
There are shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and clam girls in the water; there are monkey soldiers, tiger men, and bear generals in the mountains; there are crow men and crane soldiers who can fly, and there is even the famous black and white ball - the iron-eating beast - the panda, which is a monster.
Normally, even if you visit a zoo in real life, you can only look at it from afar. But in the game, you not only have the opportunity to get close to it, but you may even be able to use it as a mount in the future. How can this not make people ecstatic?
However, the Zhendan Empire is quite far away from here, and there are many evil alien races in between, such as greenskins, ratmen, ogres, chaos dwarves, earth elves, etc. Zhou Miyin is just a descendant of a Zhendan caravan that once fell here, and Levi does not have particularly high expectations for their strength.
Because Zhou Miyin had said before that they were now an independent small force, with only a stronghold on a small hill. If they could only rely on the barren land around them to survive, how many powerful troops could they afford to support?
Unexpectedly, Zhou Miyin, who had always been shy and cautious, unexpectedly showed confidence this time: "Sir, please rest assured. Although I have now advanced to a level 2 Jade Warrior Spear Soldier, there are at least hundreds of people in the village who are stronger than me!"
Stronger than him? Considering that most people born in the Zhendan Dynasty are born with the hidden characteristic of humility, there are at least hundreds of tier 2 soldiers, which is indeed worth seeing.
"Well, in that case, you should write back like Sam did. Anyway, you have been with me for a few days and you should know my character. I will never treat them unfairly!"
