Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 229 Regaining Lost Ground
About a quarter of an hour later, the battlefield finally calmed down. In fact, after all the opponent's chosen heroes were killed, the strength that the greenskins could exert was very different from before. It did not take so long to simply defeat the opponent.
But in order to expand the results of the battle, they chose to annihilate as many enemy forces as possible. If they kill more now, perhaps they will face less pressure in the next battle.
So it took a little time for many cavalry and air force units to pursue, and even Levi himself rode on a griffin to join in the pursuit.
As long as there is no big dive, acceleration or sharp turn, this kind of aerial mount has almost no bumps. In addition, Levi casts auxiliary magic such as mage armor on himself, and there is only a slight breeze coming towards him, which makes him feel very comfortable.
But on the contrary, the greenskins who were being chased and beaten by him were not so comfortable. Since the ranged troops were given special attention and the remaining ones who escaped were all melee enemies, they had no ability to fight back at all.
After chasing for five or six miles and completely killing all the enemies, Levi ordered his troops to return.
During this whole process, Levi also further discovered the characteristics of the greenskins.
Just as Master's intelligence mentioned, although the green-skinned archer boys are not qualified archers, their melee combat capabilities are quite good. Each of them is a melee expert, and their abilities are even stronger than their own long-range capabilities.
This directly resulted in the fact that even in a surprise attack, the Legion's sub-skys were unable to quickly defeat their opponents in a one-on-one fight. There was no way. As a level 3 soldier, their ability to fly already gave them a great advantage, which resulted in them being significantly weaker than melee soldiers of the same level in other aspects.
But fortunately, with the command of the heroic unit Mastiff-Shou Yakong, after spending some time, they successfully defeated the opponent.
Next came the greenskin cavalry units. According to Simon and others, the boar cavalry had strong charge power, but their straight-line sprint speed and turning ability were obviously inferior to those of war horses. So they were very confident that they would be able to win if they encountered similar enemies next time.
As for the others, they were the bear goblins that Levi paid special attention to.
In the process of chasing the other side, he soon discovered that although these guys looked big and strong, they still retained the cunning and cowardice unique to goblins.
If the battle goes against them , they will start to move thousands of miles away, running faster than each other. They are also very cunning and will let their companions take the blame for them, or deliberately do some small tricks to trip them. This makes it the most time-consuming to hunt them down.
However, once we catch up with them, it is very easy to kill them, because they are covered with hair and will directly turn into human torches when attacked by fire. The success rate of ignition is almost 100%.
In comparison, those snake people were really tough. After being hit by Levi's ice storm, there were only a few of them left. But when the main force began to flee, the remaining snake people still held on to the end and launched a desperate charge towards the direction of Donna and others.
It's just that their general strength is not good enough, so there is no need for help from others. Elegy rushed forward alone wielding two big swords and easily killed all the opponents in minutes.
When Levi returned to the battlefield, the system's prompt finally came. It was another great victory, and many low-level subordinates were advanced on the spot.
As for the others, Levi was most concerned about the night elf hunters. Before being recruited by Levi, they already had some combat experience, so they advanced quite quickly.
So while the others were cleaning up the battlefield, he called over a female hunter who had advanced to level 4 and observed her carefully.
Then he discovered that in addition to the improvement of the opponent's basic attributes, the most important thing was that the ricochet skill had changed.
Originally, their moon blades could only bounce once, and the attack power of that bounce was halved, but now they can bounce twice in one attack. The initial attack power is 100%, the first bounce is 66%, and the second bounce is 33%. Roughly speaking, this skill can almost double their damage output when hitting an enemy with 0 defense.
Although it is almost impossible to perform so perfectly in actual combat, if there are enough female hunters and they all activate their catapult skills, it would be much more lively. Just thinking about it, Levi feels that they have great prospects.
Next is her new skill - taming sentinels. She can choose any small bird to tame, and then release it to serve as a sentinel when needed, to investigate the surrounding environment or provide vision, etc.
If there were no Inspector Sub-kong, this skill of theirs would be pretty good. After all, they wouldn't mind if any ordinary birds died. But now that there are professional scouts like Inspector Sub-kong, Levi feels that there is not much necessity for it.
After all, ordinary birds can't tell him what class the enemy is or how many there are, so it can only be said that something is better than nothing.
There were no other special advancements for the subordinates, but Elegy's contribution in this battle surprised Levi a little. When Reiner and the others were not taken into account, she easily defeated Risadiran and Chariot and won the third place.
All we can say is that her fighting style determines that she is most suitable for dealing with greenskins, a race that likes head-on confrontation.
Unfortunately, the greenskins were still very poor this time. Even if they killed several God-chosen heroes and heroic units at once, most of the loot they dropped was not worth Levi's attention.
Moreover, the chance of dropping Hero's Spirit fragments in the battle between the God-chosen heroes is far lower than killing other natives. Levi didn't get any fragments this time, and in the end only had two pieces of trophies which were barely acceptable.
One is a green quality scythe called Extraction. Its attack power is normal, but it has a rare blood-sucking ability.
If the attack causes more than 3 points of damage to the enemy, the holder will recover 3 health points.
Although the value is very low, it should be liked by some warriors. It’s just that it’s rare to see someone using an exotic weapon like a sickle, and I don’t know when it can be sold.
The second thing was more outrageous; it was actually a rune unique to dwarves.
Previously, military merit points could be exchanged for runes, and Levi could understand that there might be transactions between the natives. After all, they were both lawful races on the side of justice. Even if there were some conflicts, facing the large number of evil races, the high elves and dwarves had to maintain a certain degree of cooperation and transactions.
But this time, the runes were found on the greenskins, which definitely meant only one thing: they had fought with the dwarves and then stole them from their corpses!
It seems that not only are the high elves surrounded by enemies, but the greenskins' rear is also not stable.
They originally bordered the high elves, ratmen, ogres and other tribes. The demons seemed to have opened an abyss rift in their territory. Now they are at odds with the dwarves, so they will be busy in the future.
But anyway, it's Levi's now.
Luck Rune (Green) (Wonderful Item) - +1 Luck.
A very brief description and a very low value, but the green quality itself explains its value. As one of the hidden attributes, luck will always be welcome.
Next was a pile of very ordinary weapons, which could basically only be sold for money. Levi was too lazy to look at them anymore and planned to let his subordinates count them first and then give some to Reiner.
Although he probably doesn't think much of these things, whether he wants them or not is one thing, and whether I give them or not is another.
After temporarily dealing with this matter, he saw Reiner squatting in front of the corpse of a snake man. He didn't know what magic scroll he used, but it had been such a long time and the corpse hadn't been refreshed, so Levi simply went over to join him.
"Is there something wrong?"
Reiner shook his head: "I just find it hard to imagine why these cold-blooded snake people appear here and why they fight side by side with the greenskins."
Apart from fighting among themselves, the many snake-men kingdoms in the blessed land of Horus would at most go north to fight the dragonborn, humans, monkey-men and ogre mercenaries of the Cathay Dynasty.
But they almost never go to other places, and they are cold-blooded by nature and do not trust any race, not even other snake people.
Snakemen and beastmen wouldn't get together, so how could they get together with greenskins? So now he really didn't understand the situation.
In contrast, the appearance of some bugbears in the greenskin army was not something unacceptable, because the bugbears, like their gods, were accustomed to standing behind the strong.
On the surface, they appear to be extremely brutal and brave, and their actual combat capability is indeed the best among all goblins, but they are definitely not lacking in the cunning that is unique to goblins.
Levi didn't know how to answer this question, so he could only smile and say, "Not only snake people, there are also ogres and cat girls in their team."
Reiner nodded and just took note of the matter for the time being, not going into it any further. No matter how incredible the thing was, it didn't seem so outrageous when it happened to the God's chosen hero.
What he needs to pay more attention to now is the formation that the greenskins had arranged before. Things seem to be developing as he expected...
After cleaning up the battlefield, Levi and Reiner set out again without wasting too much time. They did not forget the purpose of their trip today. Defeating this group of greenskins was just a small episode.
As they continued to advance, they encountered more and more enemies. From time to time, small groups of greenskins appeared in their sight. Even if there was a huge gap in strength , they would often charge forward with howls, which fully demonstrated the greenskins' warlike nature.
Then they turned into corpses. With such a huge gap in strength, they didn't even have a chance to escape.
At the same time, they also received intelligence saying that they encountered enemies in the other two directions. It seemed that the greenskins had originally planned to launch a small-scale attack today, but the enemy was unlucky and happened to encounter them all.
Although the average strength of the troops in the other two directions was not as good as Levi and his men, they had a huge advantage in numbers. The Lightforged had three to four thousand troops under their command, and Master's troops were a little smaller, but among them there were many golems that were very resistant and capable of fighting, so they easily repelled the opponent.
Roughly speaking, Beast Blood Boiling lost nearly three thousand troops in just this morning. This made Reiner feel emotional. It turned out that manpower was the hard truth. If his side was stronger, he would even want to attack one by one and take back all the fallen villages.
Unfortunately, he could only think about it now, because due to the rampage of demons before, the military forces in various places were stretched thin. Even if he managed to capture those villages by chance, he would be unable to deal with the counterattack of the greenskins.
Levi next to him couldn't help but sigh, because he was a little disappointed that they didn't encounter any green-skinned God's Chosen Heroes who tried to intercept them on the road. This was a difficult problem, as it meant that the other side was probably gathered in the village waiting for them.
Although the greenskins are not very good at construction, their geographical advantage is still an important part that cannot be ignored in siege warfare and battles on plains.
In this way, it didn't take long before they arrived at a fallen village fairly smoothly.
Looking at the heavily guarded village and the at least thousands of garrison troops in it, Levi was very surprised, because compared to the village where Reiner was stationed before, the defense of the village in front of him was far worse, even far worse than the village that was previously occupied by demons.
The enemy's defenses were all wooden fences and chevaux de frise, with less than ten arrow towers in total, and there was no deterrent at all. Even for the greenskins, this kind of defense was too crude.
If we were in their place, even if we weren't good at construction, we could at least increase the number, right?
Moreover, at a rough glance, there doesn't seem to be any particularly powerful type of troops among them. Levi believes that if the enemy does not have reinforcements, his side can easily win the battle.
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Reiner: "The defense of this village doesn't look very strong, should we try to attack it?"
In fact, Reiner was even more surprised. "This shouldn't be the case. Every time I came to scout, they would have deployed 3,000 to 5,000 garrisons in each village, without even half a dozen ordinary villagers. How come there are so few this time?"
Levi narrowed his eyes immediately: "Could there be some problem behind the Red Cloud Tribe?"
In fact, after seeing the military strength of the village where Reiner was stationed, he had always been wondering how he had managed to hold out for so long.
Even though the village was heavily defended, the greenskins had an army of tens of thousands. Even if they outnumbered them ten to one, they would definitely have enough forces to take down the village.
Or even if they were reluctant to do so for the time being, they could always surround Reiner first, and then send troops to continue marching southward to plunder other villages with weaker defenses.
Not to mention that they were afraid of the Vorag Fortress. Not to mention how long it would take from receiving the intelligence to officially sending out troops, the distance of more than ten miles alone could not be reached immediately, which gave the greenskins enough time to retreat.
If the greenskins could be smarter, it would not be impossible for them to set a trap, capture the reinforcements of Fort Vorag, and then attack Fort Vorag in one go.
If it really succeeds, they will definitely benefit greatly.
The Black Castle fell to the hands of the devil, and eventually even the gods themselves took action, which shows that even the gods attach great importance to an important stronghold of this level.
Although the status of Vorag Fortress is much inferior to that of Blackburg for the High Elves, considering the hatred between the High Elves and the Greenskins, it is almost certain that the Greenskin Gods will give them some rewards.
But in fact they did not do so. After occupying several villages, they seemed to become quiet all of a sudden, and even gave Reiner the opportunity to send troops to participate in the Battle of Black Castle.
This made Levi unable to help but have more associations. Perhaps the greenskins were not unwilling, but unable to!
When he asked this question and thought about the many unreasonable things before, Reiner felt that this possibility was indeed very high, but he still had many puzzles.
"But according to our intelligence, there is only one abyss rift in the Red Cloud Tribe. It shouldn't be something that the greenskins take so seriously, right?"
Levi made an irresponsible guess: "Maybe the blood sacrifice ritual of the demons there was a great success, so the demons are getting more and more numerous and stronger as they fight?"
Regardless of whether they are on the enemy or our side, once they die, they will all become sacrifices. Unless they are killed instantly, the devil's blood sacrifice will be very, very disgusting.
But Reiner's eyes lit up. Indeed, the high elves had highly developed magic of all kinds. Ever since the temples of the goddesses Lilith and Moonbow took the lead in taking out the silver magic circle for purification, many temples also began to try to use similar methods. So it seemed that overnight, the devil's sacrifice ceremony became almost completely ineffective.
But there is absolutely no way that the greenskins can treat demons in the same way, not only because they don't have systematic magic, they don't even have enough priests!
If we reason in this way, everything makes sense. The greenskins would come south from time to time to have a few small battles with us. It is very likely that they just wanted to tell us that their army is still there, but in essence this is just a bluff!
When Reiner thought of this, he immediately had an idea: "Yes, Levi, what you said is very possible. Before, my troops were seriously insufficient, so even if I had any doubts, I couldn't get any confirmation. But now that you are here, we have the possibility of counterattack!"
Li Wei also laughed: "So, should we fight this village or not?"
"Of course we have to fight!" Reiner nodded vigorously: "Levi, I will follow your command this time. Give me the mission!"
Levi also smiled slightly: "Okay, in that case, I won't be polite. You and Lisadilan and the others go to scout the surrounding area to avoid being attacked from the front and back by the greenskins' reinforcements, and wait for my signal. As for the attack here, leave it all to me!"
Reiner naturally would not refuse Levi's proposal, so in less than half an hour, they had successfully attacked the village. The process was so smooth that it was even a little incredible.
Levi rode the griffin directly into the sky, and then from a high vantage point, using his expertise in spell range enhancement, he released micro meteors within the maximum range, demolishing all the opponent's arrow towers. Then Donna began to lead the archers in shooting.
As her level got higher, the boost to the archers became stronger and stronger, so after only two rounds of arrow rain, the greenskins in the village who had originally planned to passively defend could no longer hold on, and directly opened the wooden door which had more decorative significance than practical use, and howled and attacked Donna and others.
Then they died faster.
The cavalry units including Reiner and Simon, which had been waiting for a long time, launched a charge from both sides. Like two sharp guillotines, they directly chiseled two huge gaps in the greenskins' positions.
Then Xiaotian and the Yakongs descended from the sky and attacked the greenskins from behind. Many celestial creatures also took advantage of the situation to attack. They easily defeated the greenskins without much effort and then rushed directly into the village.
However, there were still many chosen heroes in the village, so after knowing that they were surrounded, they began to fight back desperately using the relatively complex terrain in the village, almost refusing to give up an inch, which fully demonstrated the bravery of the greenskins.
It was precisely because of their resistance that some time was wasted, otherwise the battle would have ended earlier.
After almost killing the enemy's main force, Levi deliberately left behind two God-chosen heroes and an indigenous hero, hoping to try to get some information, but the opponent seemed to have been warned, so there was no useful information at all, and they just kept talking foul. Levi could only let Bayoru kill them all with an axe.
Bayoru had been following him for quite some time, but after many battles, he was not very satisfied with his opponent's performance. This was mainly because his movements were relatively slow. In most cases, he could only attack with the flying axe he carried with him, so it was difficult for him to gain experience points...
But after all, he was a veteran of many battles and had enough experience, so Levi gave him this opportunity.
Killing a God-chosen hero can be equivalent to a lot of experience points of ordinary soldiers. Killing an indigenous hero can bring even greater rewards. Ordinary soldiers can be directly promoted to elites, and elite soldiers have a chance to improve one of their skills when they advance. Levi can be said to have done his utmost to treat Bayoru.
At the same time, this is his last chance. If his performance is still unsatisfactory after this advancement, Levi may need to consider sending him back to Bitao Village to accompany the witch Tiwa and others.
His slow movement won't be a big drawback then, because his opponents will be transformed into even slower skeletons and zombies.
Then Levi turned to look at Reiner: "Are we going to occupy or plunder this time?"
They originally just wanted to test it out, but who knew these greenskins were so weak in fighting?
They actually captured a village with just a tentative attack, and this led to a lot of speculation, which forced them to change their strategy slightly.
Reiner thought about it and decided that according to their previous discussion, they should choose to plunder at this time, just grab a handful and leave, just like they did with the demons outside the Black Castle a few days ago.
But if the greenskins are already unable to take care of themselves and they don't have to worry about a large-scale counterattack by the greenskins, then in the long run, the rewards of occupation will definitely be higher. However, this will further disperse the already scarce military forces.
Really, this was the first time he felt a headache because the enemy was too weak. If the greenskins still fought as hard as before, he wouldn't have to worry about such a problem...
Seeing that Reiner seemed a little embarrassed, Levi couldn't help but smile slightly. As expected, even though he had always performed very well, Reiner was still a warrior who used his hands more than his brain. He was not omnipotent.
"How about this, Reiner, let's occupy it first. If you are worried about the manpower, that's not necessary. The Lightforger is already a lieutenant, and Master is almost there too."
Levi was willing to help them a little within his ability, and without sufficient benefits, how could he trick them into being cannon fodder?
Reiner suddenly realized: "Yes, if they perform well, they can be granted the village as a territory in advance!"
Both of them have thousands of soldiers behind them. When there seems to be unusual movements behind the greenskins, it is more than enough to protect these villages. Moreover, if the villages are given to them, they will definitely be fully motivated.
As for the original ownership of the village, it was not a big problem, because they originally belonged to Lord Dragon Prince Imrik. The Dragon Prince was very happy to see brave warriors and would never be stingy with rewards.
Therefore, if the Lightforged could really make great achievements, such as capturing a village, then all they would have to do was to show their appreciation and produce a written statement, and the village would very smoothly belong to them.
In this way, they not only recaptured the village, but also rewarded their meritorious officials without having to specially dispatch troops to defend it. It was really killing two birds with one stone!
So Levi chose to occupy it directly and asked his subordinates to start searching the village’s warehouses to see if there were any spoils of war.
However, he did not hold out much hope for this. None of the green-skinned God-chosen heroes who had been killed before chose to resurrect in this village. All he saw after entering the village were unfamiliar faces, which meant that the other party might have already made plans to escape.
This is another reason why Levi did not choose to plunder directly, because even if he did so, he probably wouldn't gain much...
As he moved, the system prompts popped up in time. He won another great victory, and many of his subordinates advanced, including Bayoru, who Levi had noticed.
What surprised him a little was that he didn't know whether it was because Bayoru himself possessed such potential, or because he killed three heroes in a row, or whether it was a combination of both factors. In short, the success of his advancement this time was completely beyond Levi's expectations.
"Due to the increase in strength, the hidden blood in the elephant man Bayoru was activated, and his race was changed to Hole elephant man. He gained new skills - changing body shape and elephant high note."
Change body shape: Active skill, consumes 5 magic points. Hole the Elephant can reduce his body size to one tenth of its original size. His height and weight will change accordingly, but his attributes will not be affected. He can spend 5 magic points again at any time to restore his body shape to normal.
Bayoru is more than two meters tall. If he were to shrink to one tenth of his height, he would probably be only about one foot tall. However, his attributes would not change at all. Levi really feels it is a pity. If Bayoru was an assassin-type soldier, then this skill would be considered a magical skill.
But it is not bad now. When he fights on the battlefield in the future, no one will think that this little guy who looks like he can be kicked away actually has a strength of thousands of pounds.
Elephant Man Treble: An active skill. After a little charge, use its long trunk to release sonic attacks to a small cone area in front. The damage is based on the opponent's physique. The higher the opponent's physique, the less damage will be suffered. If the opponent's physique is low, it is possible to fall into a state of temporary deafness.
This skill is a special talent ability that does not consume any magic points, but it does consume a small amount of physical strength each time it is used, and it cannot be used continuously in a short period of time.
Just after reading this series of introductions, Levi heard Bayoru snort, followed by a flash of light. Everyone was very surprised to find that his hair had turned into golden color like the sun. It was not dazzling, but it was enough to attract people's attention.
More importantly, as his appearance changed, Levi also seemed to have a special feeling, just like those celestial beings!
Before he could open his mouth to ask, Xiaotian and the other Yakong had already surrounded him excitedly. Now Levi was even more certain that the other party was definitely related to the celestial creatures.
Soon Levi roughly figured out that the Hole elephant men usually serve as messengers of many kind gods. Although they look very cute when they are small, their strength should not be underestimated.
When Bayoru becomes stronger, he may learn some magic. It is said that the most powerful Hole elephant man has the ability to resurrect the dead, which is at least equivalent to the seventh or eighth level of magic, right?
In short, ordinary elephant men are just slow meat shield type fighters, but Holley elephant men have the potential to become noble wizards. The potential and value of the two are completely incomparable, and Levi's painstaking cultivation has not been in vain.
Reiner next to him also congratulated Levi. Although some parts were not very clear, it sounded impressive just by listening to it.
After laughing, Levi also checked the many buildings in the village, and then he found, as expected, that the village was now almost completely empty. Apart from many broken fences, chevaux de frise and watchtowers, there were only some houses and a tavern left.
It cannot be said that it has no value at all, but it is certainly not worth much.
Soon afterwards, Zhou Miyin and others also reported that the warehouse was also empty. Not to mention equipment or money, there was not even half a unit of materials.
Levi, who had already guessed it, did not feel too surprised. He looked at Reiner and saw the excitement in each other's eyes. This situation further confirmed their previous guess that the greenskins must have fallen into some kind of crisis, so they didn't care about this village and were ready to give up at any time.
So what they need to do now is to communicate immediately with the other two troops. If the situation is similar, all the villages occupied by the greenskins may be recovered at once today!
