Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 173: Speculation and Planning
A few hundred meters after leaving the village, Donna seemed to be relieved suddenly: "Huh, Levi, did you find it just now?"
Levi glanced at the many Spartans in front of him, led by Leonidas, and said, "Are you saying that something is wrong with the village and its villagers?"
"Well, I think this village may not have been born naturally, nor did it use the heart of the village, but it was because of the God-given buildings that slowly developed to where they are today. In addition to the Colosseum, there must be other God-given buildings in the village, and more than one."
Donna said all of her deductions in one breath.
Levi nodded slightly: "I have similar speculations, but no matter what, at least they are very friendly to us."
As he said this, Levi pointed to the sky.
It is said that except for a very small number of evil gods who choose the bottomless abyss where there are many demons, most gods live in another world above the main world.
Because their power is too great, every move they make is likely to cause serious damage to the fragile main world, so they usually use the power of their own sects and believers to achieve certain goals in the main world.
The situation like before where the abyss rifts were opened one after another and the gods projected their images to join the battle was actually very rare.
But Donna still frowned: "But most of the people we worship on Paradise Island believe in goddesses..."
Her main belief is Diana, the goddess of bravery and fearlessness, followed by Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom. Other goddesses are less popular, and there are almost no male gods.
Levi shrugged. "Maybe it's because he saw that you also believe in his twin sister, the goddess of hunting - Artemis?"
He didn't have any psychological burden. The other party was so proactive in giving him benefits, either because he saw the potential in Donna and himself, or because he was trying to bribe him and others. Anyway, no matter what, the benefits had already been obtained.
The Arrow of the Scorching Sun is not only powerful and has great growth potential, but also has such low consumption. It is the most cost-effective skill he has ever seen or heard of.
With Donna's current strength, it would be no problem for her to shoot dozens of arrows in succession. Moreover, this special arrow can still produce good results even when encountering enemies like demons that are resistant to fire. It is truly a blessing from God.
Unfortunately, after the gladiatorial contest ended, the stone statue quickly returned to the ground, leaving Levi no chance to observe it up close.
But despite this, he also had some speculations.
According to common sense, the statues of the gods must be placed outside as much as possible so that more people can see them and attract believers. However, although the Colosseum clearly has such advantages, they still hide them and do not seem to want outsiders to see them. This is obviously very abnormal.
Therefore, Levi believes that the attempts of Apollo and other gods to spread their faith are likely to be unwelcome by the elven gods. After all, strictly speaking, this place is still a colony of the high elves.
That's why they are in the situation now. Now both sides have a way out. Even if the elves and gods knew about it, they would pretend not to see it, because the Spartans' territory is too small and it doesn't matter at all .
The blessing that the other party gave to Donna just now might be because Donna believed in the gods of the same faction as them, but on the other hand, it might also be a way to win over and test a high elf like him?
Of course, this is just his own guess at the moment. Although he is very unknown, he is still a god after all. He would not fall to the point of currying favor with him. Maybe he simply likes Donna?
Although still somewhat confused, Donna relaxed her brows: "Well, anyway, it's over now. But Levi, after what happened today, I feel that I am strong enough to participate in the trial that the goddess prepared for me, and I also have something to tell you."
"Oh? Tell me, is there anything I can help you with?"
Levi soon learned that Donna originally had a very good friend on Paradise Island, almost like a real sister. She was a ranger who was good at archery and animal taming, and she was a warrior who was good at battle axes and riding. She was a hero and she was a combat hero, and their strengths were basically on the same level.
Originally they had agreed to fight side by side, share the good and the bad, but unfortunately, during a hunting competition held on Paradise Island, some unexpected situations occurred on the other side.
First, she had the misfortune of encountering a Tyrannosaurus Rex that she was completely unable to resist. Then, when she was seriously injured, she was mistakenly killed by a fellow tribesman who mistook her for a wild beast.
Fortunately, she had some background at that time and had been blessed by the goddess, so although she died, she was able to keep her soul. And Donna learned in a subsequent trial of the goddess that as long as she obtained the spirit of the hero and completed another trial, she could resurrect her best friend.
Now that everything is ready, Donna feels that she is strong enough to try the trial.
And if she succeeds by chance, there is a great chance that she can bring her best friend over to work for Levi together. They have been together since childhood, and have shared and faced everything together. Her sisters will definitely listen to her words.
Levi certainly expressed his strong support for this. Although he now has a large number and variety of subordinates, apart from Donna, there is no one else who can really take on the heavy responsibility.
Donna's existence is of absolute significance to the archer unit. With or without her, the archers' combat effectiveness will be completely different. However, there is no such existence among the warriors, and the absence of either one will not have much impact.
If her best friend is really as strong as she said, then even if she is a combat hero who cannot enhance the troops, it will definitely be of great significance.
However, for some reason, after listening to her story, he always felt that there was a conspiracy.
How come it happened that the Tyrannosaurus was encountered by her best friend? And how come it happened that when it was seriously injured, it was immediately encountered by its own species and mistakenly killed as a ferocious beast?
This was planned in advance, right?!
So he thought about it and asked, "Donna, is your companion usually envied and jealous by the tribe?"
Donna blurted out subconsciously: "Of course, she is beautiful and has a good figure. Although her temper is not very good, but..."
But she soon realized what Levi really wanted to say, and her face changed instantly: "You mean, it was not just an accident?"
If she had originally stayed on Paradise Island, she would not have thought so much after hearing Levi's words, and even if she did think about it, she would only think that the other party was trying to sow discord between her sisters.
But since following Levi, although the time is less than one percent of her time on Paradise Island, she has learned a lot.
She had never thought about it in this direction before, but now that Levi reminded her, she immediately felt that the accident was full of things wrong.
Levi shrugged: "This is just my guess, so did the murderer get any punishment in the end?"
It would have been better if he hadn't asked. After he asked, Donna's face looked even worse. "Because casualties are inevitable in competitions, and an elder acquitted her, she didn't receive any punishment in the end, and even won a place in that competition."
Levi blinked: "I guess that elder and she are also related by blood or master-disciple relationship?"
Come to think of it, he seems to have never asked this question before: how do the all-female Amazons give birth to offspring? Could it be that they were all recruited from the God-given buildings?
Donna took a deep breath and said, "The gods have gifted us with a special magical instrument, so we Amazons don't need men to give birth to offspring, and all offspring will only be female. She is the blood relative of that elder, or you could say, his daughter."
Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, so this was divine insemination to some extent?
And since they are mother and daughter, it is only natural that there is such obvious favoritism.
"So what are you going to do next?"
Although her heart was greatly shocked for a moment, Donna managed to remain calm: "I will save her first, and then try to find out the truth of that year. Then no matter what she does, I will stand by her side."
Then she looked at Levi with hopeful eyes.
Levi laughed: "Of course, I will stand by your side."
All along, he only wanted to become stronger and explore more unknown worlds. Until he saw the devil's flying castle a few days ago, he initially determined a bigger goal, which was to get his own flying castle.
It would be nice if we could establish a second goal now, and maybe the second goal would be easier to achieve. After all, the price of the flying castle is too high, and Amazon's Paradise Island is only separated by a sea.
At this time, Cindy, Janet and others next to them also spoke up, expressing their willingness to follow Levi and Donna to find out the truth of the past.
Donna was naturally a little touched, but she was not in a hurry, because there were still many more things waiting for them to do, and with their current strength, let alone whether they could discover the truth of the year, they might not even be able to go to Paradise Island smoothly.
After all, there are not only a large number of monsters of various types in the sea, but also navies and pirates from different races. The fleet she was in encountered a group of undead pirates, and then the entire army was wiped out. Only she survived, and that army was even stronger than Levi's current army.
After sorting out this information temporarily, they officially started their return journey, and then encountered several waves of demons on the way. Levi also took the opportunity to see the strength of the Spartans. Many times, you can't just look at the surface data, but also the actual combat ability and combat wisdom.
After successfully defeating his opponent, Levi's expression did not change much. The opponent's actual combat power was average, without any surprises, but it did not disappoint him. It was just that when facing demons that generally had fire attacks, they were overly brave, and the chance of casualties was far greater than that of the Jade Brave Halberd Soldiers who were also at the third level.
Even when Cindy, Janet, and the bard performed healing magic together, there were still casualties.
In general, in Levi's opinion, they are not particularly outstanding troops for the God-chosen heroes who pursue minimal casualties. They are more suitable for bullying weak enemies rather than challenging strong enemies. They can be used, but at most they can only be used for a slight transition.
But if they are enemies, they will be particularly difficult to deal with.
However, Levi quickly put this matter behind him, because these Spartans were just unexpected gains, and according to what the Silver Helmet Knight Captain Reiner said before, he would have the opportunity to recruit a real high elf army tomorrow.
He was more concerned about the movements of the demons.
Although the number of demons that attacked these times was obviously not large, basically there were only fifty or sixty of them, but except for some level 1 Quasers that served as air force, there were almost no other miscellaneous soldiers, and they were all at least level 2.
This is certainly not a strong enemy for them, but it is quite challenging for ordinary God-chosen heroes at this stage. Even if they barely win, they will suffer heavy losses. Moreover, this seems to indicate that the second large-scale invasion of the demon army is imminent.
So he rushed to Silent Manor as quickly as possible, wanting to borrow some money from the Sun Knight to prepare for recruiting the regular army of high elves tomorrow.
The Sun Knight was not vague and directly met all his requirements. At the same time, he also told him some good news that the matter of the bone horse and corpse horse had been almost settled.
As the strength of the God-chosen heroes continued to increase, the night was no longer as dangerous as before. The God-chosen heroes began to make use of more time as much as possible to explore larger areas, and even stayed up all night to march and fight.
Therefore, even though this low-level undead creature is very afraid of sunlight, it can still be useful, and many God-chosen heroes have expressed interest in it.
And at worst, they could always order some full-coverage vests for them to protect them from the sun, but that wouldn't make them special, so no one would do that unless it was necessary.
At the same time, Lotus of the Red Brotherhood is also very interested in this and is even willing to exchange living horses for bone horses. However, the two parties have not yet signed a real contract because they are still discussing the specific exchange ratio.
Although in the eyes of the Sun Knight, Lightforger and others, the value of a bone horse is definitely not as much as 1 gold coin as a donkey, but things are valuable because they are rare. Apart from here, it may be difficult for Lotus to find someone who can provide a stable supply of bone horses and guarantee that they will not cheat others.
After all, the ones who can make this thing are either vampires or necromancers, and their personalities are worse than each other. Things like integrity and contracts are almost non-existent to them.
Similarly, since helping fight the devil last time, they all knew that Lotus must have a large number of horses and donkeys in her hands, and maybe she even owned a livestock farm herself, so her costs were definitely not high.
So after weighing the pros and cons, both parties want to maximize their own interests as much as possible, so they haven't decided yet. Anyway, they don't lack sales channels for the time being, so there is no rush.
The second good news is that the Bee Tribe agreed to his suggestion. As long as they planted enough flower fields, the bees would move in with their families. It seemed that they did feel the strong threat posed by the demon army, so they became so easy to talk to.
And he has officially started planting. In addition to recruiting a considerable number of professional farmers from the indigenous people, he also spent money to gather a lot of druids, using some catalytic skills to complete the planting faster and smoother.
The Sun Knight then planned to send a large army for escort, and hoped that Levi could participate if he was free.
This is mainly because the hive is too large and the bee tribe is also very large. There are now hundreds of them, big and small. He is very worried that this will attract the attention of the demon army and even other malicious God-chosen heroes.
With the emergence of the demon army, many nearby races have been invaded, so the border is no longer as stable as before, and evil alien races such as Greenskins, Skaven, and Ratmen have begun to appear in the territory of the High Elves.
Although he has a lot of influence in several nearby villages due to his wealth and the support of War Heaven, the strongest and only official guild in the vicinity, his words are of little use to the chosen heroes of other races.
Levi naturally would not refuse. Whether it was for Janet's sake or his duty as vice president, he had to participate in this action.
The third good news is about the Gnoll camp. No one knows what happened there, but the demons seem to be very interested in it, and there are several waves of attacks every day.
Although the number is not large, the frequency is not low. In addition, many demons' attacks carry the power of fire. Therefore, compared with a few days ago, the defense of the ogre camp is undoubtedly much weaker. In addition to the death of a large number of ogres, there are also many poisonous lizardmen and even dragon warriors who suffered casualties.
If the situation continues to develop in this way, the defense of the Gnoll Camp will become increasingly weak. As long as they seize the opportunity, these God-chosen heroes will definitely be able to make a fortune. He has even sent people to take turns to wait, just waiting for the opportunity to arise.
Although Levi was also very interested in this, when he thought about the fact that the black dragon behind the other party had quietly developed an evil sect like the Snake Cult, and it seemed that no one knew about it until now, he felt that things might not be that simple.
Moreover, the dragon race was just opened two days ago. If a new God-chosen hero chooses them, guess which novice village they are most likely to appear in?
At least based on the information he currently has, the ogre camp is definitely a very likely alternative answer!
Even though they have just arrived and their fighting power is obviously insufficient, they are undoubtedly smarter than ordinary ogres or dragonmen, and things will definitely change a lot because of this.
After being reminded by Levi, the Sun Knight suddenly realized that this possibility was indeed very high and he needed to formulate a safer plan.
The last piece of good news is that the battle skills that Levi had asked the other party to help him acquire finally paid off.
Relying on his money, the Sun Knight successfully acquired several battle skill books, including one of the basic skills of selecting soldiers that Levi specifically needed. The effect was that when commanding 0-3 level soldiers, the leadership required for each soldier was reduced by 1, and the minimum was reduced to 1. Now, with a few small equipment to improve leadership, Donna could command more subordinates.
After discussing some details, Levi also made some adjustments to his troops.
Although the Sun Knight specially dispatched some God-chosen heroes to stay behind in turns in response to the undead disturbances in the manor, patrols and guards are also needed on normal days. Now Levi decided to send some of his own subordinates over.
At the same time, this is also to better cope with the arrival of the regular army tomorrow and prepare sufficient leadership in advance.
First are the Jade Crane Gunner and the Crane Gunner. Although their attack power is not low as they use guns as weapons, they are a bit mismatched with the archer troops led by Donna. But if they are placed on the arrow tower in the village, their status becomes different and they can produce better results.
Then came the bees. As the enemy's strength grew rapidly, they could not keep up with the pace. Moreover, once they encountered a large group of enemies, they often died quickly. Moreover, as Levi mastered more and more auxiliary magic, the defense provided by their guard skills was no longer important.
In addition, there were too many Kwasers in the demon army, and Janet, as the team leader, became more and more dangerous. So after discussion, Levi decided to let her be a druid and no longer be responsible for any reconnaissance missions. That task should be left to Sam and his friends.
Next are Guang Yakong and the medium-sized wind element, as well as the 5 spearmen (with shields) obtained from the dungeon. Their strength is average, but there is no opportunity for them to show their strength, so they are just placed in the village to fight monsters and deal with some low-level undead to make use of their remaining energy.
Of course, the elite Guang Yakong still remains in the team. At this point, there is no need to say more about the advantages of elite units. He still has certain expectations for this guy's future.
Finally, there is the beast tamer and the group of miscellaneous wild beasts under his command. They are simply too weak. Every time they encounter a large-scale battle, there will always be varying degrees of casualties. They can't play much of a role, and Levi is too lazy to worry about it anymore.
Then he told the Sun Knight that if someone in the guild took a fancy to them, as long as the price was fair and the other party did not worry about the morale of the soldiers after the transaction, he could choose to let them go, which would be a better way out for them.
Next, Donna still led many long-range shooters, Zhou Miyin led the Yuyong troops, Leonidas led the Spartans to act as his deputy, and the elite Guang Yakong joined in to assist the others with the anti-evil magic ring and gain some experience.
Sam led the Halfling Royal War Goose Riders, and Julia led the Horse Thieves, acting together as scouts.
Simon led the Arion cavalry, ready at any time to charge the enemy from the flank or rear, or to chase after the enemy after the battle.
Bayoru still serves as Levi's personal bodyguard, occasionally using his flying axes to gain some experience points. Cindy and Janet are free to do whatever they want, going wherever they are needed. Anyway, with their intelligence, Levi doesn't need to worry about them.
The last one is the Flame War Goose. Although Levi has disliked it for a long time, and he now has enough wealth to purchase horses for ammunition carts, it is also a kind of mount, and it would be a bit of a waste to put it in the village.
Unfortunately, whether it was Donna or Cindy and others, they all rejected this guy who had an eye-catching appearance but whose actual fighting ability was not that good.
Levi can only keep it for the time being. Maybe he can use it to trade with other natives in the future. At least it looks pretty good.
After this integration, the team now looks much more organized and has stronger leadership. However, Levi feels that this is not the end, and a second round of similar actions should begin soon.
Apart from anything else, whether it is the horse thieves, the halflings, or the Spartans, it will probably not take long before they are eliminated.
Compared to the great races with deep heritage like the Cathay Dynasty and the High Elves, the troops from these small races or factions may look good in the short term at the beginning, but their subsequent potential is obviously much worse...
