Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 166 Spartans
Early in the morning, after parting with the merchant Tros, the Sun Knight and others, Levi very contentedly put away a ring. This was a gift from the merchant, as a thank you for his care for him and for helping him settle down in the manor.
Explorer's Ring (Wonderful Item - Green - Exquisite):
It comes with an active skill - Detection, which consumes 3 magic points and conducts a detection on a target within a diameter of 50 meters. Based on the intelligence already obtained by the team and the difference in strength between the two sides, more detailed information can be detected, including but not limited to the opponent's camp, faction, race, occupation, class and other attributes, talents, characteristics, etc.
Note: If the target is stronger than you, there is a chance that you will arouse the target's vigilance or even hostility during the exploration process.
Requirements for use: None.
Just having one skill attached to it makes it a green quality item. Levi thinks that in addition to the fact that the detection effect is indeed very strong, the bigger reason is that its consumption is extremely low and there are no requirements for its use.
Unfortunately, the distance of 50 meters is not far enough. Archers can easily shoot an arrow a hundred to eighty meters away, and the newly acquired Reaper crossbow has a range of more than 300 meters.
If the straight-line distance between Levi and the enemy is less than 50 meters, then a charging cavalry or monster-like enemy may reach him in one or two seconds. By then, even if he has found out all the information about the enemy, the timeliness will be greatly reduced.
But no matter what, Levi was still satisfied with this. Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle. If you can use the ring to detect the enemy's weaknesses before the battle, you will definitely be able to gain the upper hand.
Or even if it can't be used this time, it will definitely be useful next time, but I don't know how much use it can actually bring.
After all the troops arrived, Levi led his team straight to the northeast.
He had two tasks today. One was to try to recruit some Spartan soldiers from a certain village to replenish his own troops based on Richie's previous intelligence. The other was to complete a collection task along the way.
After quite a while, he finally collected most of the castanets and got the information about the last one.
Although it is still unclear what the mission reward is, the extremely tedious collection task has fully aroused his curiosity.
And according to the intelligence, today's enemy is a little different from usual. Fortunately, he has made certain preparations for this and cleared out all the magic scrolls of the old wizard.
Although it cost a lot of money, they successfully captured the Silent Manor yesterday and successfully built a village. As the one who contributed the most in this battle, in addition to receiving thanks from almost everyone, Levi also received a large amount of rewards. Even if he bought all the old wizard's scrolls, he still had some left.
He continued to move forward according to the instructions on the map, occasionally encountering small groups of demons on the way. However, as they were enemies he had already dealt with several times, Levi could now easily deal with them.
He even tried out the new magic he had learned a few times, and the effect was as good as expected. If he was besieged in the future, he would be able to escape more easily.
Soon they were approaching their destination. Even though he had heard Richie talk about it before, as the distance got closer, Levi couldn't help but feel a little surprised. This was because the style of this small Spartan village was completely different from that of an ordinary high elf village.
Not only is their architectural style more classical, but more importantly, apart from a few watchtowers, the village does not have any fences, gates or other similar defensive facilities.
Levi can be 100% sure that they were definitely not destroyed by the previous war, but these guys never built them at all!
At a glance, this village was built completely on flat ground and had no geographical advantages for defense. For a moment, Levi was confused as to what the other party was thinking.
You know, even for the guild headquarters that was just established yesterday, Levi, the Sun Knight and others all decided to give priority to building defense facilities, not to mention other ordinary villages.
But this Spartan village is completely different. Is it because the leaders of the village are all idiots, or is this the Spartan style?
Just like Donna, always offense first?
"Haha, Levi, even though we haven't met yet, I'm starting to like them a little bit."
Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this: "Oh, you like their muscles?"
As they continued to advance, one could clearly see some Spartan warriors with muscular bodies, spears in one hand and shields in the other, bronze helmets covering their faces, naked upper bodies, and only a pair of shorts on the lower body, occasionally with half a cloak.
And they probably deliberately applied some special oil on their bodies, which made their muscles look a bit dazzling under the sun. It really attracted people's attention, and even Cindy next to them blushed a little.
Donna waved her hand: "Of course not. Muscles can be trained easily, but true wisdom is extremely rare. We Amazons are not fools who only believe in muscles, otherwise our priests would not have such a high status."
Then she raised her fist again: "Besides, when it comes to muscles, I have some myself!"
Levi looked over from the side, and then he was instantly moved. Under the reflection of the sunlight, Donna at this moment looked like a golden Valkyrie. He felt that he might not forget this scene for months.
Cindy's face, which was already red, became even redder when she saw Donna's appearance. Even Janet, Julia and others stared with their eyes wide open. They had to admit that Donna was really popular with both men and women at this moment!
Soon, some people from the village came forward to greet them, and there was no hostility towards them, thanks to Levi and the spearmen in the front row.
Strictly speaking, a fairly large area nearby is nominally the territory of the High Elves. Naturally, these Spartans would not fail to recognize these High Elves. After all, their long pointed ears are their most obvious racial feature.
At the same time, Levi also noticed that, in addition to the fact that they generally did not wear armor and fought with shields and spears, no one in the entire village used bows and arrows.
Coupled with their village's attitude of not building any defensive measures, Levi could only secretly give them a thumbs up. Putting aside their strength, these Spartans are really brave.
However, in this world full of many evil and powerful alien races, they will definitely pay a heavy price for this.
The most obvious thing is that this village is almost the same size as Maple Leaf Village, but looking around, its population is probably less than one-third of that of Maple Leaf Village.
Especially now that there is a large-scale invasion of demons, if they continue to insist on not making any changes, even if they are powerful, their end will probably not be good.
But that was not something Levi should worry about. The only reason he came here was to replenish his troops.
After understanding Levi's purpose, the village chief, who was also holding a weapon but had a white beard, agreed readily and gave Levi a task.
Any chosen hero can try to recruit Spartans here once every seven days, but they don't particularly value money. The condition for recruiting them is to prove yourself with strength. They only believe in the strong.
Therefore, they will use the strongest monsters and their number that Levi will defeat in the next day as reference conditions and open up the recruitment rights for some of the Spartan-specific military units.
Spartan young infantry, elite infantry, heavy infantry, legion infantry, guards infantry and gladiators are all the arms currently open to the public. Among them, the strongest guards infantry is a level 3 arm, and gladiators may be level 2 or level 3. All arms have a low chance of being elite units directly.
Levi, who had already been informed by Richie, certainly had no objection to this. At the same time, after looking around, he roughly understood why the village was so deserted even though there were so many excellent soldiers to choose from, and there was not even a single God-chosen hero to be seen.
Apart from the need to complete tasks before recruiting, this village only has three types of buildings: several watchtowers, residential houses, and a circular venue in the center that looks like some kind of stage or arena.
You don’t even have a building like a blacksmith shop, a pharmacy or a grocery store. The chosen heroes can’t even replenish supplies if they want to. Who would be stupid enough to stay around here often?
However, this actually gave Levi an idea. It would be great if he could lure them all to his own guild.
But he was not stupid enough to speak now. If he thought about it, he would know that if the Spartans really surrendered to others so easily, they would not have developed such a tough style.
Unless it is a real life-and-death moment, they will definitely not be willing to surrender, and then it depends on the actions of the demons.
Perhaps, he could first contact the Sun Knight and ask him to send someone to keep an eye on the area, and then rush out to be a hero in times of crisis?
After accepting the task, Levi prepared to leave immediately, but before leaving, he noticed that some villagers seemed to be walking towards the center of the village, holding bouquets of flowers in their hands.
He couldn't help but ask casually: "Is today some kind of festival for you?"
Following his line of sight, the village chief couldn't help but laugh: "No, it's not a festival, it's just that our monthly gladiatorial contest is about to begin."
Levi immediately became interested. This thing sounded like some kind of special mission!
"Oh? Then can we participate?"
The village chief was embarrassed when he heard this: "Uh, sir, this is actually an internal activity of our village. In addition to experience points, the winner of each round will receive some prizes. The final champion will receive a mysterious grand prize prepared by the village. There will also be some risks in the battle because we all use real guns..."
Levi immediately waved his hand and said, "I understand. I won't make it difficult for you, the village chief. How about this? To show my sincerity, I will donate some bandages, healing potions and other supplies to the village. Then, according to the number of people participating, each person will pay an additional amount. How about that?"
As soon as the words came out, the village chief's face instantly improved a lot. The other party had already said this, if he still refused, it would be too disrespectful.
Although ordinary Spartans are stubborn, obstinate and extremely rigid, as the village chief, he is certainly not like that, because he no longer represents only himself, but also the entire village.
And to be honest, the young men in the village often complain that it is boring to fight with their own people. Now with the appearance of these outsiders, perhaps the situation can be changed a little.
So he nodded very readily: "No problem, we probably need some time to prepare, and discuss with the village elders how to charge outsiders. If you want to send your men to fight, come back to me before 12 noon to sign up, and I will count the number of people!"
Levi also nodded with great satisfaction. He took out some supplies and gold coins from his pocket and handed them to the other party as a deposit because he had already received the task!
Gladiatorial Contest - Real Gun Duel: With the permission of the village chief, you can send all your subordinates who use spears, lances, and halberds as weapons to participate in the gladiatorial contest, and they can only use them to fight during the contest.
The gladiatorial contest will be conducted in multiple rounds according to the number of participants. The winner of each round will receive a certain basic reward. At the same time, the more victories and the more enemies defeated, the more experience rewards will be obtained.
If one of your subordinates wins the championship of the gladiatorial contest, he will receive an additional mysterious reward, and your reputation level with the village will be randomly increased to friendly 50%-80%. In addition, you will also receive hidden benefits when recruiting subordinates in the village.
Note 1: During the gladiatorial contest, you may not use any magic, potions, pets, mounts, summons, or other auxiliary items.
Note 2: If you surrender voluntarily or your health value drops to 10%, you will be considered eliminated and will not gain anything in that round, but the rewards you received previously will not be affected.
Note 3: The Spartans participating in the gladiatorial contest will try their best to avoid killing, but your subordinates may still die in battle due to accidents.
Simply put, this is to give the warriors a chance to engage in a head-on group fight, which is in line with the Spartans' straightforward character.
At the same time, even if the Spartans were extra careful, because the spears had no eyes, bleeding, injuries and even death were very common. After all, after a life-and-death fight, it was impossible for them to perfectly control their strength in every strike, and sometimes critical hits were uncontrollable.
But despite this, Levi still decided to send people to participate in the battle. Even if it was just a one-round elimination, it would be good to gain some experience points.
Moreover, he believed that with the current strength of this village, the highest was only the third-level Spartan Guards and Gladiators. He was afraid that by the time of the finals, most of them would probably be his subordinates...
However, I can't be so careless. This village must have some unique features to have been able to survive safely until now without any defensive facilities. The types of soldiers I have seen may not be all they have. If I want to achieve good results, I still have to think about it seriously!
