Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 235: Rift Demon and New Magic
At this time, the subordinates had almost finished cleaning up the battlefield, and Levi and his men were preparing to divide the spoils a little, and then retreat immediately to meet the 5,000-strong army with boiling blood.
But before they could actually set off, the Inspectorate sent a message saying that a small group of demons were approaching rapidly. Not only were they all air force, but their target seemed to be very clear, which was exactly where they were.
Levi suddenly felt something was interesting. According to the information provided by Cai Jin before, and after verifying it with the information from the Lightcaster, he could confirm that the most active area of the demons should be located in the central area of the three large gathering places, which is more than a hundred miles away from here.
This is also the reason why they didn't see any demons appearing along the way, except for the greenskins and some ordinary wild monsters.
But now suddenly a demon is approaching. Could it be that it is the demon hero whom he had offended before, who has sensed his presence through some special magic, and is running over to try to take revenge?
But the information sent by Supervisor Yakong later confused him again, because the number of the enemy was not large to begin with, and they even split into several groups halfway, with some demons turning to other directions.
He was a little confused at first, but he soon figured it out. These demons might have sensed the large-scale blood and death, so they came here from hundreds of miles away to try to perform a sacrificial ceremony!
Unfortunately, they were still too slow. By the time they arrived, the corpses and blood had already been refreshed by the system.
After confirming that the other side only had dozens of Quasai demons and a few fly demons, Levi immediately and decisively ordered the Lightforged to retreat with the main force first, while he personally led Xiaotian and Yakong to rush forward.
Although we are hoping that the demons can tie down the greenskins' forces, now that we have encountered them, it is better to kill them.
Because the best situation is that the greenskins and demons fight each other constantly, then both become weaker, and then are killed by their own side, rather than one side being obviously stronger!
Since they were running in both directions, they met each other very quickly. Compared to Levi who was already prepared, the demons were obviously caught off guard and were almost completely solved by Levi's ice storm.
The Quasers are just level 1 demons with negative resistance to ice. Even though Levi has not yet mastered the relevant elemental expertise, with the support of his many expertise and equipment, they are still not able to resist.
But the remaining few fly demons were obviously stronger, even more powerful than the ones Levi encountered in the Rocky Highlands. They were probably advanced ones. For a while, small magic spells such as mage armor, acid balls, and flaming arrows appeared one after another, which was quite fierce.
Unfortunately, once the ice storm came, all their little magic became dim, forcing them to only cast magical protection on themselves, leaving them with no energy to launch attacks.
But even though Levi showed considerable strength, they still did not give up resistance. On the premise of saving their lives, they summoned some flying monsters with evil characteristics, and even one fly demon directly summoned another fly demon.
This really surprised Levi a little. If every fly demon could summon its own kind, and then their own kind summoned new kind, then they could do this infinitely. This trick would be too powerful.
So he deliberately slowed down his attack and just let Xiaotian and Yakong temporarily surround the opponent, wanting to give the fly demon more opportunities to attack.
Sometimes, just killing the opponent is not enough. He would like to take the opportunity to learn more about the opponent's abilities and prepare for the next larger-scale battle. Especially in this kind of absolute advantage situation, he is not afraid that the opponent will turn the tables.
Unfortunately, the fly demon disappointed Levi. He didn't know whether its ability was limited or it simply didn't want to summon. In any case, it did not summon some new fly demons, but instead summoned several colorful, evil giant elemental bats.
After thinking about it, Levi asked Xiaotian to command a part of the Legion Yakong to launch an attack, hoping to force the opponent a little, and preferably squeeze out all of the opponent's strength. He himself also released the summoned monsters to further oppress the opponent.
As the light flickered, several eagles appeared one after another. What surprised Levi a little was that one of the eagles was obviously much more gorgeous in appearance than its other companions. Its feathers were metallic silver and looked very beautiful. The feeling it gave Levi was very similar to the Yakong or Gaidin tribe.
Sure enough, when he opened the attribute panel, he found that the other party was indeed an eagle with the template of a celestial creature.
When he first learned this magic, the system had told him that based on his alignment, he had an 8% chance of summoning a monster with celestial characteristics. But up to now, he had to use it at least a hundred or eighty times before he succeeded for the first time. It seemed that the probability could only be used as a rough reference and could not be fully trusted.
The ordinary eagle is a Tier 1 troop, and its attributes in all aspects are actually quite poor. However, the Celestial Eagle has transformed into a Tier 2 troop. Although its attributes have not been improved much, it has gained additional magic resistance and the opportunity to use Evil Break once, which is a significant enhancement overall.
If you can summon a celestial lion or celestial shark, the opponent will most likely be strengthened into a 4th-level troop. Coupled with the enhancements of other specialties and equipment, it will be useful.
The system also reminded him that because he summoned the Celestial Eagle, the next time he summoned an eagle, there would be a 16% chance of summoning it instead of an ordinary eagle, and the chance was doubled.
Of course, if it dies in the process, the chance will return to the original 8%.
Although the mere tier 2 troops are of no use to Levi now, it is better than nothing. After all, it is a free enhancement.
If it could survive and advance successfully, perhaps it could add another type to his summoning list.
While he was thinking about it, Xiaotian on the other side had already killed all the summoned creatures of the fly demon and forced the opponent into a desperate situation. Then Xiaotian followed Levi's previous order and surrounded but did not kill them. Instead, he looked at Levi first and asked about the next course of action.
Before Levi could speak, several fly demons took action first.
They looked at each other, and seemed to realize that they could not escape the disaster today, so they flapped their wings rapidly, making a series of irritating "buzzing" sounds, and then desperately began to turn in a small circle on the spot. Well, maybe in their opinion it was dancing.
Their speed was so fast that disgusting mucus oozed out of their bodies and their wings cracked. At the same time, bursts of black and red light began to emerge from all over their bodies.
Levi immediately took back what he was about to say, and at the same time he ordered Xiaotian and the others to retreat temporarily, because the fly demons in front of them were obviously treating themselves as sacrifices and trying to use some special sacrificial ritual!
However, he had no intention of stopping them. These fly demons were at most level 4 troops, not even elite units. Even if he used the sacrifice ritual, what kind of enemies could they summon?
Moreover, they are not fighting alone, there are nearly a thousand friendly troops not far behind them. Even if they summon a level 6 bone dragon, he has the courage to fight with them.
Of course, he didn't just wait there stupidly, but together with Xiao Qi, he summoned a lot of Holy Light Sub-sky.
Although these little guys are of low rank and have extremely weak vitality, which can be broken at the slightest touch, after summoning them many times in the past few days, Levi discovered that their strong light rays are even stronger than expected.
The main thing is that this type of attack can penetrate most magic shields or damage reductions, and can produce unexpected results when dealing with many types of enemies.
A few seconds later, several fly demons howled in unison, and then their entire bodies exploded from the inside out, turning into disgusting green juice all over the sky. Then the juice quickly condensed into a ball and transformed into a continuously spreading green energy gate.
During this process, Levi had enough time to interrupt the other party, but in order to figure out the methods of the fly demons, he still resisted the urge to take action immediately, and just asked Xiaotian and Yakong to retreat further away.
At the same time, he also signaled a legionnaire to collect the spoils, because along with the death of several fly demons, he saw two things falling down together.
As for himself, he prepared to start chanting magic.
At present, most demons have a high resistance to fire, but a low resistance to ice. In this case, it is naturally most advantageous to use ice storm.
After several seconds, a six or seven meter long creature that looked like a cross between a spider and a fly, with a head like a vulture, slowly emerged from the hole.
Its real strength is still unclear, but its attitude can be described as arrogant.
Even though he already knew that demons looked all kinds of strange, after seeing each other, Levi still felt a little disgusted. He no longer wanted to study each other's abilities. He just wanted to kill each other as soon as possible!
There was no need for any movement at all, as six or seven Holy Light Sub-Skys had simultaneously used their innate abilities, and energy rays like those constructed from sunlight shot straight over, instantly creating multiple bleeding holes on the enemy's body.
Levi also released the ice storm at the right time, and immediately dense ice flakes hit the opponent on the head.
Although according to the description of magic, the ice storm can cause one blunt damage and one cold damage, but when the enemy is too large, it will not only be attacked by one piece of magic ice, like now!
The ugly monster immediately let out a howl full of pain and hatred, and then Xiaotian also shouted: "Sir, it's the fifth-level soldiers-the Rift Demons. They are best at using Plague and Touch of Weakness!"
As soon as he heard his words, Levi knew that this ugly monster called Rift Demon might have some blood connection with the Fly Demon, because the fly demons just now had also used the same magic.
The former is a kind of magic that can weaken attributes and cause continuous damage, while the latter can further weaken the enemy's attributes through physical contact. If it is a one-on-one fight, these two skills will directly destroy the warrior on the spot and he will not be able to exert most of his abilities.
However, there were dozens of Legionnaires on the scene, and the battle strategy of the fly demons just now was completely ineffective. They should retreat temporarily after being hit by the magic, and continue fighting after the duration is over.
Similarly, this rift demon will also face the same tactics.
Levi's eyes widened, and four holy rays flew out one after another, causing certain damage to the rift demon, and also marking the beginning of another battle.
Under Xiaotian's command, dozens of Yakong formed several smaller formations and besieged the rift demons from different directions.
Once they suffer serious damage or are hit by the opponent's magic, they will immediately withdraw from the battle temporarily. This results in the rift demon, although it looks ferocious, actually having difficulty achieving any results, as its attack power is not strong enough to kill the sub-skys instantly.
Coupled with the continuous attacks from Levi and the Holy Light Yakongs, this ugly monster was killed on the spot in less than half a minute, which even made Levi feel a little bored.
As a tier 5 troop, this opponent is really not as oppressive as the Iron Cavalry Demon Pathfinder.
Fortunately, Legion Yakong quickly brought back two trophies, which comforted Levi a little.
There are two magic spells. The first one is called Touch of Weakness, which is the little magic that the Fly Demon and the Rift Demon had used before. But to Levi, it is pure waste.
Because it requires the caster to touch the enemy personally, or a pet of a certain level that has learned to transmit contact spells to touch the enemy, for the magic to take effect. But no matter whether it is Levi or Xiao Qi, it is absolutely impossible for them to let the enemy get so close to them.
The second magic, however, was particularly outstanding, because it was summoning monsters (intermediate level), and Levi learned it on the spot.
Originally, this magic had three lists, which could summon monsters of level 0, level 1, and level 2 respectively. After being upgraded to the intermediate level, two more lists were added, which could summon monsters of level 3 and level 4 respectively.
And if the caster summons monsters from the first three lists, their number will get an additional bonus. The lower the monster's class strength, the greater the number. This can be regarded as a disguised compensation for those mages who do not have the special expertise of Summoning Specialization - Monster Summoning.
Levi took a look and found that there were about a dozen level 3 monsters, among which the more useful ones were the ferocious lion, ferocious leopard, ferocious shark, ankylosaur, etc.
They become very powerful starting from level 4. The ferocious tigers, ferocious bears, war elephants, killer whales, sonic dolphins, and the big peng that appeared in Caijin’s team before are also among them.
Coupled with his equipment and expertise, they can already demonstrate a certain level of combat effectiveness, so his time was not wasted in vain.
After feeling satisfied, Levi planned to take Yakong and others to reunite with Cindy, Simon and others.
At the same time, he also confirmed that the curse on Legion Yakong was easily purified by Cindy, and even the guardian angel summoned by Cindy could easily deal with it.
Based on this inference, in a one-on-one fight, the Rift Demon would probably be beaten by the Guardian Angels who are also at Level 5. If the Fly Demon summons it again next time, Levi will have a better way to deal with it.
Of course, if it wasn't necessary, he probably wouldn't give the fly demons this opportunity.
Not long after he flew, he suddenly received a very unexpected system prompt.
"Based on the comparison of both sides' strength and casualties, this battle is evaluated as a hearty victory, with an experience value multiplier of 120%. The top five contributors (Donna, Elegy, Avalon...)"
After a quick look at the battle records, I found that except for the Elegy, all the other units with higher contributions were ranged units, while the enemy was a ragtag army of greenskins and goblins, with a total number of about six or seven hundred.
He did not see the name of the enemy's chosen hero in the battle record. Instead, there were several elite black orcs and big orcs. The opponent should be an army from the greenskin natives.
While winning the victory, Donna and her team suffered almost no casualties. The course of the battle was actually very clear. The greenskins were probably very aggrieved, as they were kite-flying by Donna and her troops until they died.
This made Levi feel a little relieved, and at the same time, he also gave rise to a sense of pride. Now, Donna can almost stand on her own!
But then his expression turned serious. According to previous inferences, the probability of Donna being attacked was actually very low. Now that such a situation had occurred, the biggest possibility was that there was a problem in the Temple of Arcane!
Levi immediately passed the intelligence to the Lightforged, and he himself rode at full speed and headed straight for the village.
Since the greenskins on the road had almost all been killed before, they traveled quickly without encountering any enemies and soon returned to the original gathering place.
Then he immediately saw several Sky Eagle Archers and Avalons who were on guard on the arrow tower, as well as the troops of the Temple of Arcane, whose numbers were obviously smaller and whose morale seemed a little low.
Before he could open his mouth to ask, Elegy and Donna both came out and gave him a very bright smile. Seeing them like this, Levi completely dispelled the vague worries that had existed before.
He immediately expressed his gratitude to them with a smile. It was indeed rare that they still achieved such a victory even though he was away, their cavalry was not there, and their troops were crushed by the enemy.
The two Amazons waved their hands at the same time, not taking it seriously. At the same time, they hinted to him with strange eyes that there were more important things waiting for him than to inquire about the course of the battle.
Levi's heart suddenly moved, and then he saw Master, who was obviously frustrated and haggard, pushing the door out of another room and greeting him with some frustration.
As soon as he saw the other party's appearance, Levi knew that he might have lost miserably, otherwise he would not have ended up like this from always being successful.
However, looking at the number of troops outside, the Temple of Arcane only lost 20% to 30% at most, which is indeed a serious blow, but there is no need for Master to have this expression, right?
When asked, Master immediately started to complain bitterly. In fact, he was not at all sad about the loss of his troops.
Because he knew that as the war against the demons came to a temporary end, and with the continuous arrival of reinforcements from other kingdoms, it would become increasingly convenient for the many God-chosen heroes to replenish their troops.
The real reason why he became like this was that he was abused by a green-skinned shaman.
Before, he had fought with the green-skinned magic profession more than once. The opponents basically either used some simple earth/fire/water/wind magic, or inserted a few totem poles on the ground, and then performed some magic tricks and cast some buff or curse magic.
But in general, compared to the flourishing magic of humans and elves, the types of magic used by the greenskins are too monotonous.
For elves, there are more than 100 types of first-level magic with a wide variety of functions. This was also the most important reason why Master was determined to form a pure magician guild.
In comparison, all the magic of the greenskins combined may not even be half of this number, so Master had always despised the magic of the greenskins.
Then he was taught a lesson this time. A greenskin shaman only used 3 moves to defeat a group of elite mages in the Arcane Temple so badly that they were at a loss.
One is to "explode your head", making it impossible for them to successfully cast any mid-level or high-level magic that requires casting.
A simple and swift, yet powerful "Mao Ge's Gaze" made them, who could only use low-level magic, completely unable to compete with the opponent;
Finally, the opponent can summon some wolf-shaped ghost soldiers, which can not only run rampant in broad daylight, but also be invisible when not attacking, cross low obstacles to a certain extent, etc., and have a very high critical hit rate when attacking. This is too great a threat for mages with low health points like them.
But due to the wizard's arrogance, they still refused to believe in evil and insisted on competing with each other, which made almost all of them embarrassed and defeated one after another.
In addition, they were careless and relaxed their reconnaissance, which led to a successful sneak attack from the side by two greenskin patrols.
Then the greenskin shaman timely activated the greenskins' unique "WAAAGH" ability, and directly defeated them in one wave, causing them to suffer a great defeat and lose a lot of golems.
In fact, if the other side had not had fewer troops and the greenskin shaman had been more cautious and had not chased too far, they would probably be in an even worse situation than they are now.
Levi thought about it and thought, isn’t this just a more powerful version of the green-skinned shaman he met before?
Probably because they were always well protected by the many golems and rarely encountered enemy attacks, so basically none of Master and his companions had the expertise to concentrate on casting spells. The green-skinned shaman was of a higher level and intelligence, so it was no wonder that their spells were interrupted every time.
As for WAAAGH, it is the battle cry commonly used by the greenskins and also the racial talent of the greenskins.
After being involved in large-scale melee combat, Greenskins will accumulate a special charge called the WAAAGH value over time.
When the total value reaches a certain upper limit, the heroic greenskin can make all the greenskins on the battlefield enter the WAAAGH state, enhancing the attack power, critical strike rate, charge power, etc. of all the greenskins in a short period of time. It can be regarded as a highly comprehensive super-large gain BUFF.
Of course, it is also very difficult to trigger, because the greenskin ranged units cannot provide any energy during combat, but they will consume this energy.
The greenskin heroes cannot release WAAAGH for melee units alone. Once released, it must cover the entire army. This results in the more ranged units a greenskin army has, the more difficult it is for them to enter the WAAAGH state.
If everyone is in melee combat, it will certainly make it easier to enter the WAAAGH state. However, when the neighbors are strong long-range races such as high elves, dwarves or even humans, this behavior is completely seeking death. If you can't kill the opponent in one wave, the greenskins will die.
So in short, compared to the martial spirit of the high elves, the studious nature of humans, etc., the practicality of the greenskins' racial talents is far less practical.
Not to mention that Levi has never encountered it once, even the indigenous people such as Reiner or Risadiran, who are rich in combat experience, have basically only seen it a few times. Because after they are familiar with the weakness of this WAAAGH, they basically will not give the other party a chance to charge perfectly.
It can only be said that Master and his men were really unlucky this time. Fortunately, the opponent was relatively weak. If they were replaced by the large army led by Cai Jin before, with the support of WAAAGH, it would not be completely impossible to destroy them in one wave.
In addition, they also discovered that these greenskins seemed to have generally mastered three basic military formations, namely triangle, circle and square. After killing a patrol team, they even seized a skill book on military formations.
Levi took it and took a look, and found that it was a simple triangular formation that could enhance the power of the charge. It was not limited to cavalry or war beast units, but also had half the effect on infantry.
At the same time, the learning requirements of this thing are very low, only 6 points of intelligence, and it is limited to races such as greenskins and beastmen.
For many low- and middle-level greenskin natives, this requirement may not be too low, because almost all of them are war maniacs, and they mainly increase attributes such as strength, stamina, and agility, and occasionally add some perception, but they almost don't care about charm and intelligence.
But for the Greenskin Shaman and many God-chosen heroes, this is not a requirement at all, they can all learn it!
Its only drawback is probably that if you want to learn the second formation, you need 9 points of intelligence, and to learn the third one you need 12 points of intelligence.
But it didn’t matter to Levi, because he couldn’t use any of the requirements. What was really important was that it was clearly written above that these three formation skills were specially prepared for the greenskins by the greenskin god of war Inavu!
This has completely confirmed the reason for the important changes in the greenskins. If we can send it back to Ashridge or Blackburg for further investigation, we will surely get a good mission reward.
Seeing that it was Levi's thoughtful look, Master blinked, and finally pushed the thing directly into his arms with both hands very decisively.
Levi was a little surprised: "You are..."
Master immediately laughed: "I just think it can play its greatest value in the hands of talented people."
He wasn't very familiar with Mikaela or Reiner, so even if he gave this thing to them, he wasn't sure how much he could get in return. But he felt that he had a rough idea of Levi, so if he gave it to him, he would definitely not be disappointed!
Levi opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing and just accepted it because he understood what was going on.
And although they had not known each other for too long, he had roughly figured out Master's character, and he was still very straightforward and sincere in his treatment of him.
Since the other party was so generous, Levi was not stingy either. He directly threw the Beast Ghost - Wolf and Touch of Weakness to the other party. It was just a matter of reciprocity.
Master didn't refuse and took it directly. But when he saw the content clearly, he was a little surprised: "Beast Ghost? Is this from other shamans?"
"Yes, that's right. Now it seems that even if the greenskin shamans don't have any decent magic system, they still have some inheritance or records."
Master also nodded in approval, then he chuckled and chose to learn directly: "I'll learn it first. Let me prepare well. Next time I have a chance, I will try to kill that green-skinned shaman and learn his specialty!"
