Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 207: The Iron-Skinned Butcher
After discussing some details with the priests of Moonbow Temple, Levi led his troops to leave Bitao Village and officially marched towards Ashridge Town.
Not only the Red Brotherhood needs to discuss and consider carefully, the priests also cannot make the decision on this matter, because the Moon Bow Goddess has never gained believers among humans on such a large scale before.
Moreover, the reputation of the Red Brotherhood is not very good. After all, the industry they are involved in is mainly the buying and selling of prisoners, so the priests need to pray seriously and wait for the response from the gods.
Since the speed of time flow between the main world and the divine world is different, neither Levi nor they know when there will be a definite answer.
So Levi was too lazy to wait any longer. Anyway, both the Moonbow Temple and the Red Brotherhood had bases in Ashridge Town. Even if he went there, he would not completely lose contact.
Moreover, he is essentially just a middleman. After revealing this point, his existence is not as important as imagined.
Of course, if this matter can really succeed, Yuegong, as a goddess, will never forget his contribution. Except for a very small number of gods in the chaotic evil camp, most gods can definitely be said to be clear about rewards and punishments.
On the one hand, this is because gods usually encourage mortals to serve them in this way. On the other hand, it is probably because what mortals ask for is usually meaningless to them.
Not counting his many elite subordinates, Levi's troops this time have more than 200 people, including long-range shooters including the Avalon sisters, Sky Eagle archers and half-elves, totaling nearly 100 people. They are the main output of the team.
As for the ordinary level 2 archers who were taken away from the village to accept the task of training new recruits, Levi left them in the village and handed them over to Diva for command, or simply served as temporary village garrison.
Although their strength is still acceptable with the help of Donna, Levi still needs to spare some leadership to prepare for the new types of soldiers he may encounter next.
There are five priests from the temple. Although they are not combat priests like Cindy and are relatively fragile, they are very important and are targets that need to be protected.
Next came the 20 night elf hunters. Levi mainly asked them to carry out reconnaissance work under the leadership of Julia and in cooperation with the supervisory archons. So far, they have performed well.
If they have to point out shortcomings, it is that they cannot enjoy Levi's military rank bonus, and they don't match Julia's fighting style very well.
Julia has now gradually transitioned into a mounted archery unit. Although she can't hit every target within a hundred meters, she is almost there.
But the attack range of the female hunters was only a pitiful few dozen meters, which meant that in most cases, Julia was the only one shooting and they could only watch.
After finally waiting for the enemy to enter their firing range, Julia decided to lead the team to evacuate because the enemy was too close...
Everyone, including Levi and Julia, was aware of this problem, but they had no solution for the time being because the team did lack cavalry archery reconnaissance troops, so they could only go to Ashridge Town first.
If there is a suitable opportunity, replace them and keep them in Bitao Village. Their special attack methods are very useful when fighting against skeleton soldiers and other miscellaneous soldiers.
As for the final melee troops, there are mainly only two types, 50 Silver Guards and 20 Caledo Sentinels.
The number of people is a little small, but the average combat effectiveness is very good. In addition, Levi can also summon many celestial creatures to help in the battle, so the overall strength of this team is still very good.
However, even though they put all their efforts into fighting several battles, they didn't know whether it was due to the efforts of the God-chosen heroes or the strength of the natives, but they found that they didn't encounter many enemies as they moved forward.
Even if we occasionally encounter them, they are basically small groups of demons or greenskins, and at first glance they are the kind of defeated and routed army.
This made Levi feel a little emotional. It seemed that during the time he stayed in Bitao Village, the situation outside had changed to a certain extent, and everyone was working hard.
But even if he was given another chance, he would definitely make the same choice.
Because with just a little bit of development and construction, the benefits that Bitao Village can bring will be endless, and to be honest, he hasn't been delayed much.
What's more, he was confident that even if they were delayed for a little while, their strength would definitely be better than 99% of the God-chosen heroes!
The closer Levi got to the town of Ashridge, the fewer enemies he encountered, and the more frequently he encountered the chosen heroes of God. However, everyone basically just kept moving forward, because there were really no monsters to kill in the wilderness.
Levi was a little bored, so he began to experiment with the newly summoned large elements one by one, wanting to become more familiar with their fighting methods.
He had previously summoned the elements of water and wind, and now it was the turn of earth and fire.
Then he discovered that their combat effectiveness had also improved significantly.
The new abilities of the large earth element are called Advance and Siege. The former allows it to cause certain damage to any enemy that stands in its way while moving or charging, and has a low chance of knocking the opponent to the ground depending on the level and strength difference between the two sides.
Although he felt that under normal circumstances, there would be few enemies that could not dodge its charge, after all, its speed was too slow, but if multiple large earth elements were summoned at once and they charged directly towards the enemy position, would the enemy dodge or not?
The latter allows it to deal extra damage when attacking buildings and war machines, which is also very good, especially when combined with its spell range enhancement expertise, it may give the enemy an unexpected surprise at any time.
The new abilities of the large fire element are called lighting and throwing fireballs. You can tell their meanings just by looking at the names. Compared with the other three elements, its improvement is not much. It is more like making up for its shortcomings. However, it is still a tier 4 soldier after all, especially with his blessing, it is still very powerful.
While conducting the experiment, the team continued to advance. When they were less than 10 miles away from Ashridge Town, an inspector Yakong suddenly sent back a message.
Levi was also slightly stunned after seeing it. It was not that the other party had discovered any powerful enemy, but he saw a rather strange scene, and even the message was a little unclear.
Out of curiosity, Levi ordered his subordinates to slightly adjust the direction. He felt that with their own strength, even if any unexpected situation occurred, they could easily crush the opponent.
Thinking of this, he began to continuously cast summoning magic. Now that the number of his own melee units was less, he would have to rely more on these summoned creatures. Moreover, participating in more battles and killing more enemies would also help him to build good relationships with the celestial creatures.
Soon they arrived at their destination. From a distance, they saw about thirty ogres, over three meters tall and covered in fat, cooking. Some unknown meat was hung on the simple wooden racks next to them. It seemed that they were busy at the moment.
Judging from their appearance, they should be the third-level troops - Ogre Bull Warriors.
About twice the number of miscellaneous soldiers, who looked like goblins but were covered with muscles, were camping by a lake.
They are useless and a subspecies of goblins. Since the ogre race is too powerful, they serve as low-level soldiers among them, a bit similar to the half-elf soldiers in the High Elf Novice Village, with levels ranging from 0 to 2.
Unlike ordinary goblins who are timid and cowardly, no matter how many enemies there are or how strong they are, as long as the ogre gives the order, they will fight until all of their enemies are killed, and they will hardly surrender.
Of course, this is not to say that they are very brave, but simply because they have no brains, they basically have no emotion of fear.
So even though in the ogre society, in addition to being miscellaneous soldiers and slaves, they also serve as reserve food, they still enjoy doing it.
In addition to setting up camp, there were also some losers holding fishing nets and other things, constantly taking something out of the lake.
In fact, if it were just this, it would not be considered a special event. Although this is not the territory of the ogres, these fat guys who are willing to do anything for food often walk out of their tribes and work as mercenaries all over the world. They don't even need money, just food.
But as the team got closer, Levi gradually understood why Inspector Yakong felt strange.
Because the lake is not only very small in area, only about 100 square meters, calling it a lake is an overstatement, it should be called a small puddle.
Moreover, there seemed to be no water source around, which made the environment very bad. Many giant insects such as palm-sized flies and mosquitoes were flying around.
Of course, they cannot pierce the thick skin of the ogres. Instead, they will be slapped to death by them, and then caught and thrown into their mouths as snacks. However, they still have a certain killing power against the cowards.
But despite this, the Nubula still seemed very excited, because every time they moved, they could harvest a lot of things, which were the corpses of humanoid creatures. Roughly speaking, at least hundreds of them had been fished out from the shore.
Levi and Donna looked at each other and both felt something was not right. There were so many corpses hidden in such a small puddle. There must be something hidden. They just didn't know whether they were elves, humans, or some other race when they were alive.
And Levi had some vague guesses.
After most soldiers die in battle, their bodies will be refreshed by the system, and their souls will go to the realm of the gods or hell. Basically, only a few special races such as the undead or ogres can store corpses.
Ogres are unlikely, as they never save food and never seem to be full, so they eat whatever they have on the spot.
Considering that this place is called the Plain of Bones and was once the territory of the undead, the correct answer is actually obvious.
Thinking of this, Levi decided to move on and at least confirm the race of the corpses before deciding what to do next.
At this time, the ogres also noticed their arrival, and an ogre with iron-gray skin, who was obviously taller than his other companions, stood up.
"Elves? It's not time for us to sell our meat yet!"
As he spoke, he hit the shield tied to his big belly hard, and with a wave of his right hand, he cut off the thigh of a corpse and threw it into his mouth to chew it.
Although all kinds of turbid liquids were splashed everywhere, he ate happily, and the ogres around him were full of envy and jealousy.
There were even more than one ogre with large amounts of disgusting mucus flowing down from the corners of their mouths. They were all obviously greedy, but whether it was because of the majesty of their leader or for other reasons, they did not move for a while and just stared at their leader.
But witnesses like Cindy and Janet were disgusted because they immediately realized where the meat they were talking about and the things hanging on the shelves came from.
Although its name is Ogre, they never imagined that it is a real cannibal!
Although Donna also felt uncomfortable, she just silently gave orders and asked her subordinates to prepare for battle, because in her opinion, the ogres seemed to attach great importance to these unexpected spoils. If they refused to let Levi send people to check, there was a possibility that a battle would take place next.
Levi thought the same, but he did not act impulsively. He just ordered the troops to pause because he felt that the enemy might be a little difficult to deal with.
He looked at the mess of small bags tied around the man's waist , and then looked at the dozen or so people behind him who also had iron-gray skin and weapons in their hands that looked more like kitchen knives than machetes - the Iron-Stomach Ogres, a Tier 4 soldier. He was almost certain of the man's identity.
Although there are few God's Chosen Heroes who choose the Ogres, because they occupy a very vast territory, there are quite a few God's Chosen Heroes who come into contact with them, especially in Zhendan. Many people will do business with them or hire them, so relevant information is not too scarce.
"I am Levi, the God-chosen hero. Judging from your appearance, you are a butcher from the Ironskin Tribe?"
Ogres have many tribes, large and small, and their rise and fall are very frequent. Until now, no one has ever truly counted the number of their tribes.
However, some of the most famous tribes can often stand for hundreds of years, and may also have some special features. For example, this ogre suspected to be from the Ironskin Tribe has very good resistance to physical attacks.
As for the butcher, it is one of the special professions of the ogres. Although the ogres do not have a systematic magic inheritance, they have a big stomach god with a very strange origin, who is also the only god who still leaves his true body in the main world.
Probably taking into account the IQ of ordinary ogres, the Big Glutton is very tolerant to its believers. Many ogres may do nothing but eat, but suddenly they realize special powers and can use powers similar to magic or witchcraft by swallowing special items from various prey.
Because eating is the top priority for ogres, and casting spells also requires some special parts, so they call this profession a butcher, which combines knocking down enemies, slaughtering enemies, cooking, eating and casting spells.
Similar to this are the Fire Belly tribe. It is said that they are accustomed to cooking and eating in the crater of a volcano, and the strong ones among them can even drink magma directly.
Although it is not known whether it is true or not, it is a fact that the Fire Belly can use fire magic.
Of course, whether it is Iron Stomach or Fire Belly, their numbers are extremely rare and they are generally heroic units.
"Haha, that's right. No matter what kind of corpse it is, once it falls into the hands of us butchers, it can all be turned into excellent food. These corpses will become our sacrifices to the Big Gourmet God!"
The butcher from the Iron Skin Tribe laughed and swung his machete, chopping a corpse next to him into pieces.
Seeing this scene, Levi shook his head in his heart. With your appetite as ogres, you can swallow living enemies alive, and you can even gnaw on corpses that have been buried for who knows how many years. What good food can you make?
But of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to say it out loud, otherwise, even though most ogres were simple-minded, they would probably be angry.
In order to avoid any further complications, he said directly: "I am very interested in the bodies you salvaged. Can I send someone to check them out? In return, I can pay a certain amount of meat."
Ogres basically just eat. As long as we reach a consensus on food, there will probably be no major problems in other aspects.
Having said this, he signaled Zhou Miyin to send some meat to the other party first as a token of his sincerity.
Ever since the Sun Knight helped him purchase several space rings last time, he had distributed them to elite troops such as Cindy. They were equipped with a large number of arrows, supplies, etc., just to deal with some special situations.
But this time he miscalculated. Although the other ogres seemed to be interested, the butcher in the lead suddenly stared blankly and seemed to be in a trance after hearing his words for some unknown reason.
Levi couldn't help but frown when he saw this. He waved his hand secretly and released several quicksand traps, and then asked his subordinates to be ready for war at any time.
Generally speaking, it is almost impossible for an ogre to refuse food, even if it is fed by an enemy. What's more, he has not shown any hostility before, so he has no reason to refuse him.
There must be an extremely special reason that can make an ogre ignore the temptation of food for a short period of time.
A few seconds later, before Zhou Miyin had walked far, the butcher suddenly roared, "Don't even think about taking my food!"
After saying this, without waiting for Levi to respond, the butcher took out a handful of bones from his waist pocket, stuffed them into his mouth and started chewing them with a "crunch, crunch" sound.
Levi snorted and raised his hand to release an anti-camp magic circle: "Be careful, be prepared to resist magic attacks!"
Devouring certain foods is the prelude to butchers casting spells. Compared to orthodox wizards, they need to consume special materials almost every time they cast magic, and there are often some special omens before the spell is successfully cast.
Before he finished his words, the butcher had finished casting the spell. An iron-gray arm about seven or eight meters long and more than one meter in diameter appeared in the air above the heads of the melee troops and slowly clenched its fist.
"Zhou Miyin, come back soon!"
"Silver Guards, dodge the magic immediately!"
Zhou Miyin responded quickly and tried to jog back to his own position. At the same time, the silver guards directly below the magic scattered in all directions.
Although they originally possessed a certain degree of magic resistance and were blessed by the anti-camp magic circle, there was no need for them to resist the enemy's magic head-on, especially this kind of magic that seemed to be slow. If they did not try to dodge, they would appear stupid!
Two seconds later, the huge fist slammed down, raising a cloud of dust and causing the surrounding ground to shake.
Even though they dodged the most direct attack, the surrounding silver guards still lost dozens of lives due to the impact of the shock wave and the overflowing energy. Considering their magic resistance at that time, the release speed of this magic was a bit slow, but the power was really good.
But this was the only magic that the opponent could fully release, because with a light shout, Donna and others had already started shooting.
However, the Butcher is worthy of being an ogre hero from the Ironskin Tribe. The damage caused to him by ordinary arrows is almost negligible, especially when shooting at the shield on his abdomen, which is unable to break through the defense, showing extremely strong physical resistance.
Only the magic arrows of the two Avalons could cause considerable damage.
But what really made the butcher scream in pain was Donna's attack. Three golden flaming arrows directly shot the butcher and made him stagger.
He cried out in pain and touched his big bald head in confusion, as if he had no idea what was happening. Then he roared, "Attack! Smash these elves for me! I want to taste their flesh!"
Before, those ordinary ogres seemed a little stupid, not knowing why the butcher would refuse their food. But after hearing his orders, they rushed forward roaring and waving their barbed maces and heavy iron knuckles, looking at Levi and others with eyes full of fanaticism and excitement.
It didn't seem like he was looking at an enemy, but more like he was looking at delicious food.
Levi was originally a little confused as the butcher's behavior seemed a little strange, but soon after seeing the expressions of these ogres, he couldn't help but grin.
It is said that most ogres love heavy cold weapons, not only because of their great lethality, but also because they believe that the flesh and bones after suffering a heavy blow will be more delicious. He didn't quite believe it at first, but now all his doubts have disappeared.
However, considering yourself as food would be the most wrong choice you could ever make!
