Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 253: Moving Forward
As for the rest, it’s the problem of the Silent Shadow.
After asking a few random questions and comparing the information with Lucia's, Levi finally began to truly recognize the other party, because what the other party said was almost exactly the same as what Lucia said.
After making a rough determination, he decided to send out troops immediately, with the other party leading the way, to sweep through the nests of the war lizardmen and the undead.
In order to prevent the other party from having any improper thoughts, he also asked Cindy, Donna and others to watch him. In case he really had any ill intentions, Cindy could kill him in the first place.
Seeing that Levi had almost finished these things and the large army began to move, Nar came over with Alduin.
In fact, they had already finished checking the body, but Levi had been communicating with either a vampire or a ghost before, and it seemed that there was some big secret, so it was difficult for them to come over.
Both of them are lawful good. If they really face vampires, it would be bad if they couldn't control their words and actions and disrupted Levi's plan.
Of course, this was also because in the previous battles, Levi had fully demonstrated his true alignment and his amplification of evil, and even many celestial creatures came together to help, making them completely trust him.
If it were someone else, they wouldn't just sit there and do nothing.
After exchanging a few pleasantries and praising both sides for their heroic performance in the battle, Levi pretended to be silent, and then said cautiously: "Naar, Alduin, in order to fight against evil, I really need your strength this time."
He then omitted Lucia's personal information and the involvement of the Spider Queen Rose, and told her the rest about Dracula and the drow's actions.
After hearing this, Alduin felt his blood boiling. He said without hesitation: "Levi, leave it to me. In order to fight against evil, I have no choice but to do it!"
Compared to the excited Alduin, Nar had a serious expression, not only because the matter was indeed serious, but also because she heard that Levi seemed to have something unfinished, and there might be more hidden secrets.
But no matter what, as a member of the Harper Alliance, discovering evil and stopping it in advance is their code of conduct.
So she nodded directly: "Me too, in order to better fight against evil, after returning to the ground, I will pass on the information as soon as possible and seek reinforcements from the Harpers."
Naturally, Levi expressed his gratitude first, and then like many other God-chosen heroes, he couldn't help but become interested in the leader of the Harpers.
Since the establishment of this organization, they have disrupted countless plans of evil forces and have even offended more than one or two evil gods. Although they have experienced many twists and turns, they are still very active and obviously have a strong backing.
Nar smiled and didn't take it seriously. In fact, this was not the first time she had been asked such a question.
"For confidentiality's sake, I can only say that in addition to the lucky lady, we have a solid backing."
Levi was a little surprised. It turned out that Lady Luck was blessing them.
Lady Lucky Tymora and Maiden of Doom Benshaba, these two goddesses are one chaotic good and one chaotic evil. Although their godhood levels are not high among the gods, they are the ones that almost all mortals, even the gods, are unwilling to offend.
After all, this kind of probabilistic thing is really unreasonable.
It is said that there was once a legendary wizard who offended the Maiden of Doom, and then he died due to the backlash caused by a low-level magic.
There are similar rumors about the Lucky Lady. The unknown people who are favored by her may become successful overnight by discovering some unexpected treasure.
Even gods with great powers cannot grasp such probabilistic things, so they will also rush to please them.
For example, Talos, the powerful god of storms and destruction, was rumored to have been trying to please the medium-powered Maiden of Doom for many years, and he behaved in a very polite manner, without any of the frenzy of the chaotic evil camp.
The gods of the lawful camp will mainly show their favor to Lady Luck. As for the gods of the neutral camp, even if they do not try to please her deliberately, they definitely do not want to offend these two goddesses.
For many God-chosen heroes, choosing to believe in them will gain special passive skills, luck/bad luck, which will have a certain impact on the critical hit rate, critical hit damage rate, spell casting success rate and many other aspects involving probability for both sides.
Some people even swear that becoming a devout believer of the Lucky Lady may have an impact on the drop rate of items, but this has not been confirmed so far.
The time that the chosen heroes of God have been in this world is too short. Even if they try their best to spend money, it is not easy to be promoted to devout believers.
Because to God, a little money is of no importance at all, and there is more than one high-level magic that can create gold.
It is worth mentioning that these two goddesses were once another goddess named Taiji. After she was killed by the evil god, her good and evil incarnations were separated. Therefore, they are as hostile as water and fire.
From Levi's point of view, it might not just be because the two camps and clergy are in opposition to each other, but more likely, they actually want to defeat each other and then replenish their own strength?
As for the other backer that Nar mentioned, since he can be compared with the goddess of luck, he is at least a demigod or a god.
But that was not something Levi could guess. After all, not counting other races like dwarves and elves, the number of gods in the multiple pantheons of humans alone added up to over a hundred.
After this little episode ended, Levi proposed to divide some of the spoils between the two of them, but as expected, he was firmly rejected.
He did not insist, and instead gave Alduin some simple magic scrolls and potions, etc., which would be helpful in the upcoming battle. Alduin naturally accepted them with a smile.
When it was Nar's turn, Levi thought about it and decided to give the remaining seeds to her.
Only in her hands can they play the greatest effect, and to some extent this also shows his sincerity to the other party.
As expected, Naer was surprised at first, then surprised. She couldn't help but asked, "Levi, why do you have so many seeds in your hand?"
Levi immediately explained with a smile: "You may not know that many members of the Night Elves have become loyal believers of the Moonbow Goddess, so many of their troops and resources have begun to be opened to the High Elves. Although these seeds are still valuable, they may not be as valuable as you expected."
Naer suddenly realized it, but she couldn't help feeling complicated.
Family members know their own business. If Levi didn't tell her these things, given her love for seeds, perhaps if he gave her a few more, he could completely win her over.
With his wisdom, he should definitely realize this, but he didn't do so. Instead, he chose to be honest with her. As a result, she felt that she owed him more favors.
In fact, Levi certainly knew this, but if he wanted the other party to become his partner or subordinate who fought alongside him, he felt that honesty was the most important thing.
When he first read Water Margin, what he hated most was Wu Yong, who was a swindler and used all means possible.
These methods are naturally very normal for enemies, and they can be used to deal with his next partners and subordinates. He will never learn from that guy.
As they moved forward, Levi kept checking the map given by Lucia and found that the Shadow of Silence was really working hard this time. He did not play any tricks at all, but sincerely led them to choose the simplest and safest path.
They didn't encounter any monsters on the way because they had all been killed by Dais and his troops long ago, so they quickly and smoothly arrived at the War Lizard Tribe.
After arriving, everyone found that the place was unexpectedly simple.
It was a huge, dirty and dilapidated cave. Before they even entered, they could smell the stench of rotting bones emanating from inside out. It was probably even more dilapidated than the ogre's nest that Levi had seen at the beginning.
Levi turned to look at Alduin. Since you keep saying you've been here, do you want to lead the way? Anyway, he didn't want to go through this hole at all.
Although he was also very disgusted, after noticing Levi's eyes, Alduin had no choice but to bite the bullet and offer to lead the way.
There's nothing he can do about it. Who made him make such a boast before?
This made Nar and the others around them laugh, but there was absolutely no way she would go in his place.
Then Zhou Miyin and dozens of other infantrymen also cooperated with him to go in and search.
This was not Levi's request, but after many of his subordinates gradually came to the fore, Zhou Miyin, as a frontline infantryman, became less and less outstanding.
So he began to find ways to improve the situation. The most obvious thing was that he would often take the initiative to undertake various tasks, such as cleaning the battlefield and doing the dirty work like the current one.
Levi was very happy to see this situation. He still held a hero's spirit in his hand. If Zhou Miyin performed well enough, it would not be impossible to give him a chance to become a hero.
But not now, he has not grown to his limit yet. Using the Hero's Spirit prematurely would be an overdraft of his potential.
About a quarter of an hour later, Alduin, with a gloomy face and some unknown filth stuck on his body, ran out first, followed by Zhou Miyin and a group of infantrymen holding some trophies in their hands.
According to them, the area of the cave is not small. It is somewhat similar to a big tree with many branches. There are no enemies inside. Apart from some rotten corpses, there are also some wood, stone and other materials, as well as some lizard man eggs.
Levi took a look and found that most of them were level 1, with only five being level 2.
In this game, probably to make it easier for the chosen heroes to hatch and utilize them, many animals and humanoid monsters seem to be egg-laying.
He totally despised these things. Not to mention that they were very weak, the fact that they were a chaotic evil camp was enough to make him completely abandon them.
But this is not the key point. Zhou Miyin reported to him that in the deepest part of the nest, there is a God-given building - the War Lizardman Totem, which can recruit a small number of War Lizardman warriors and War Lizardman warriors every week.
They didn't take action just now, but came back specifically to ask him how to deal with it.
A troglodyte tribe formed around a troglodyte totem? Would it be like the original Spartan village, where the original members were all soldiers who emerged from a god-given building?
But at this point, it doesn't matter anymore. With the combined efforts of himself, vampires and demons, this tribe of lizardmen has been completely destroyed. He directly ordered Zhou Miyin to lead his men to plunder and destroy.
So Zhou Miyin led his men back and brought back some resources in a few minutes. Now Alduin and Nar were slightly relieved. They could finally stop worrying about the threat from the Lizardmen for the time being.
Soon the team set out again and headed straight for Dais's lair.
Compared to the troglodytes, Dais is obviously much more particular. Although it is not known what the relationship between him and the vampire Tames is, their aesthetic views are highly consistent. From a distance, the manor here and the Silent Manor are almost carved from the same mold.
Moreover, Dice probably specially surveyed the terrain, so even in the Underdark, its scale was not much smaller than Silent Manor, and even the height was not affected at all.
Levi took a quick look and found that the ground was at least forty or fifty meters away from the top of the cave. At this height, even the bloodthirsty sky ghosts and the descendants of the evil dragon could fully exert their combat power.
For him, magic such as ice storm and thundercloud can be performed very smoothly.
Besides, the village is too quiet right now. Even if Dais leads a large army, he can't possibly leave no guards, right?
So he immediately signaled Inspector Yakong and Ratmaster to go for reconnaissance. They had already killed Dais's large army, and he didn't want to fail here.
After a careful inspection, Levi discovered that in addition to the basic city walls, chevaux de frise, arrow towers, barracks and houses, the village even had a tavern, and could be considered a qualified small village.
He also couldn't understand why Dess, an undead, would build houses and taverns. Zombies and skeletons didn't need to rest, and they couldn't drink.
But fortunately, there was a silent shadow beside him, so his doubts were quickly resolved.
It turns out that although this place is occupied by the undead, there are many races in the Underdark, and not all races hate the undead, because some are even more evil than the undead.
Based on Silent Shadow's past experience, except for fools like the Troglodytes who only knew how to fight and plunder, he had seen drow, gray dwarves, beholders, harpies, kuo-toa, skaven, cavemen, even naga and Medusa in the village. The tavern and other places were actually prepared for them.
There had been heroic units among them, but Dais thought that vampires were the most noble and looked down upon them, so he did not try to recruit them.
Silent Shadow could actually think highly of the other party, but the other party looked down on him, and when the Undead traveled with other living beings, there would often be a huge morale penalty, so he gradually gave up, and finally began to try to specialize in ghost-type troops.
Wow, there are so many aliens around here?
Lucia had mentioned before that there were not only undead here, but also other races, but she just downplayed it at the time and Levi didn't pay much attention to it.
But now it seems that the reason why she has that attitude is probably because she is extremely powerful, so she can ignore those alien races. But if it were them...
Levi originally wanted to plunder this place and then destroy it directly, but now it seems that this might be a better leveling point than Silent Manor, and perhaps he could choose to occupy it!
After a brief pause, Levi continued to ask: "How far is this place from Silent Manor? Where is the nearest passage to the surface world?"
Lucia did give him a hand-drawn map, which marked the approximate locations of nearby forces of all sizes, but there was no scale on it, so he couldn't determine the exact distance.
"Well, the straight-line distance is about fifty or sixty miles, but this is the Underdark. It is inevitable that you will have to take a lot of detours whether you walk or fly here. There are also some powerful forces and various monsters along the way, so I am not too sure. The actual distance may be more than twice as much."
"As for the nearest passage, it's probably less than ten miles away."
Levi frowned slightly. The distance was still too far. If a war broke out, he would not be able to handle it.
So he could only turn to seek help from the outside world: "Then do you know which ?"
"I know about this. They are some dwarves. They are probably mining here, so their castle is half above ground and half underground. In addition, they have a very hot temper and are in the good camp, so they have had conflicts with almost all the evil races around them."
"It is even said that they would occasionally send troops to the Underdark to fight, mainly with the Skaven."
"Because those humanoid rats love to steal the dwarves' mineral deposits and food, or to attack lone dwarves. They will even take the bodies of dwarves and their own dead comrades back as food."
"And dwarves are particularly vengeful. If someone offends them, they will always remember it in their hearts and in their little notebooks, and never forget to take revenge."
Silent Shadow described it in great detail this time, because he had really witnessed the excitement more than once.
He had originally been thinking about whether he could get some bargains. After all, the dwarves, a race that loves mining and forging, are famously wealthy.
Unfortunately, dwarves are naturally resistant to magic, and have some special rune weapons, which can basically be understood as enchantments.
For him who was leading the ghost army, the opponents were like some steel hedgehogs, which were difficult to chew. If he was not careful, he would get hurt, so he had to give up in the end.
There are so many monsters in the Underdark anyway, and there is no need for him to keep fighting with those vengeful dwarves. Other cave dwellers or harpies are much easier to deal with than dwarves.
Levi was not unfamiliar with this, because he had a dwarf friend named Stump, with whom he had always kept in touch. He had heard him complain a lot about how hateful those ratmen were.
Although at first glance the name makes Skaven seem somewhat similar to other Beastmen with animal characteristics, in fact the two are completely different. Skaven are much more difficult to deal with than ordinary Beastmen.
Because many high-level ratmen are more intelligent than ordinary humans, they can devise all kinds of conspiracies instead of just relying on their natural cunning.
This wisdom also allows various professions to emerge among the ratmen. They even have unique Skaven magic and special magic professions such as the Grey Prophet.
They also have their own independent racial gods.
More importantly, Stump said he had discovered the real secret of the rats: the rats also possessed fairly advanced war machines such as guns and cannons.
Shoulder-mounted rifles, flamethrowers, gas grenade launchers...
Just by hearing the name, you can roughly guess their function and horror. This is completely different from the style of many beastmen who generally use bone and stone weapons.
The only thing to be thankful for is that these weapons are extremely rare even among the ratmen.
Because unlike dwarves or humans who use gunpowder, the ratmen take another path, which is to use a scarce substance called dimensional stone that can continuously emit evil radiation as the energy source for various weapons.
Therefore, for the lawful or good races that are hostile to them, the harm is not particularly great for the time being.
But in this case, maybe after occupying this place, I can seek help from the dwarves...
"What kingdom or clan are these dwarves you're talking about from?"
Dwarves usually live in the mountains in castles. Each castle may have many clans of different sizes, forming smaller kingdoms.
They are not a truly unified kingdom, but they all obey the orders of the Dwarf High King.
It's a pity that there are too many evil alien races in the mountains and underground, which leads to the lack of close connection between the dwarf castles. In the event of a war, it is difficult to send large-scale reinforcements.
In addition, dwarves generally have short legs and almost no decent cavalry. In many battles, even if they won a great victory, it was not convenient to pursue them, and they could only rely on bows, crossbows, muskets and cannons to carry out long-range attacks.
The combination of so many reasons has resulted in the overall situation of the dwarf natives being relatively weak.
In addition, most of the chosen heroes do not like dwarves with barrel-shaped bodies, which has led to their low popularity.
Silent Shadow said uncertainly, "It seems to be called something like Heer..."
Levi immediately laughed: "The Helhain clan?"
He knew that there was actually a clan near the colony that had the strength to actively launch an attack on other alien races. Apart from the clan of Shudun, who else could it be?
Silent Shadow nodded immediately: "Ah, yes, yes!"
Then he seemed to suddenly remember something: "I heard from Dai Si before that there seems to be a Zhendan stronghold nearby, but I don't know the details."
"Dace had tried to send some troops out for reconnaissance before, hoping to develop more descendants, but there were quite a few Taoists in that mountain village, and they were really good at fighting ghosts. Judging from the degree of restraint, their spells are probably no worse than those of the priests' light spells."
"And they can also create zombies, but unlike the cannon fodder of the undead, their bronze guys are much more powerful than ordinary graveyard guards."
Levi suddenly grinned and looked at Zhou Miyin who also had a look of surprise on his face. He couldn't help but laugh too. Could it really be such a coincidence?
In the entire colony, apart from their Zhoujiazhai, are there any other Aurora mountain villages?
Well, if that was the case, he might be able to roughly determine the location of this place. The Spartan village should not be very far from here.
The dwarves, Zhoujiazhai, Yakong and Gadintian tribes’ auxiliary defense forces, plus the Spartans and part of their own forces...
If he could gather so much help, he would be able to thrive even in a dark area full of crises and enemies on all sides.
What's more, he is the vice president of War Heaven. It is reasonable for him to use his power to summon some guild members to develop here, right?
For the God-chosen heroes, having many hostile forces around is actually a good thing, because it means they have more places to kill monsters, level up, and get equipment!
He wanted to say something else, but the information sent back by Supervisor Yakong at this time surprised him. That is, there seemed to be no guards in the entire village.
No, to be more precise, all the guards were killed.
The graveyard guards, who were originally undead, now almost all had their helmets and heads pierced by bullets. The faint ashes on the ground might have belonged to some low-level vampires purified by holy water.
There were also hundreds of tomb ghosts and ghouls, which seemed to have been turned into mummies by some powerful force, with only a layer of skin covering their bones.
There are many more examples like this.
As soon as he saw the way they died, Levi knew that it was most likely Lucia's doing. After separating from him, she made a comeback and slaughtered the entire village guards by herself.
Judging from this, the power she displayed in her previous battle with me was probably less than one-tenth of her true strength.
But that's true, she is able to devote herself to causing trouble for Dracula and the entire Eclipse Alliance, and has actually , so how could she be as weak as she appears?
If she had not been able to successfully reach a cooperation agreement with me before, she probably had a way to safely escape from the battle, right?
No matter she was originally an elf or something else, after being transformed into a vampire, her personality would inevitably be affected. How could she be a simple little girl?
But no matter what, the village now has no guards at all and is completely open to Levi.
"Everyone listen up, march at full speed and occupy the village immediately!"
