Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 84: A sharp rise in strength
After another night, the number of high elf soldiers belonging to the chosen heroes in the village had obviously increased a lot, and there were more types than yesterday.
They were no longer the uniform shield-bearing spearmen of yesterday. There were also archers, rangers holding dual swords, white-covered Lothern spirit wolves, and so on. There was even a chosen hero who brought a Lothern Sea Guardian.
As a Tier 3 soldier, he holds a spear in one hand, a shield in the other, and a bow and arrow on his back. Not only does he look very handsome, but from the information collected on the forum, they are really strong.
Because they are not considered heroes chosen by God, all pure-blooded high elves possess a very unique and enviable racial talent.
Martial: When HP is above 50%, attack power +2, defense power +6.
The high elves' built-in equipment is already good, and with this passive skill, they are even more resilient than dwarves of the same level.
Moreover, this function is common to all members, not only spearmen and Lothern Sea Guards, but also fragile soldiers such as rangers, and even ranged units such as archers. This is extremely useful at the current stage and greatly improves their survivability.
This also made most of the God-chosen heroes, including Levi, understand why the high elves only had militia from foreign races at the beginning. Because if there really were level 0 high elves, then according to the setting, they would definitely have this martial talent, which would be too buggy.
In addition, some people did not use their military merit points to recruit soldiers, but used them to improve their military ranks. Then everyone discovered that this rank could actually improve leadership, which is definitely precious for the chosen heroes.
Although the improvement is not significant and the points consumed are high, everyone believes that the military rank system has great potential in the future. Moreover, it is just a type of title and does not occupy any equipment slots, which makes it even more attractive.
At the same time, a small update was also carried out last night, and many races have added some optional subspecies.
For example, the dwarves now have hill dwarves and mountain dwarves;
The elves now have three new subraces: aquatic elves, blood elves, and half-elfs;
The gnomes now include forest gnomes and deep gnomes.
The elemental creatures have some more elemental bloods, their appearance is more like humans, and they are also born with the ability to master the power of the elements in their blood. This should be able to slightly improve the serious shortage of elemental gods.
As for humans, there are more birthplaces to choose from, including the city-state alliance - the Estalia Kingdom, the mercenary kingdom - the war dog Tyrell, and so on.
Compared with the previous initial selectable races, their initial attributes, talents, skills, and even the types of soldiers that can be recruited in the novice village may be slightly different.
All in all, this continues to enrich the background information to a certain extent, and also enriches everyone's choices, because according to the announcement, the soldiers can also be recruited by the chosen heroes of other alien races.
And probably in order to encourage the newly arrived God-chosen heroes to catch up with their predecessors as quickly as possible, the system also rewarded them with a little extra money after they appeared. Although it was not much, only 100 copper coins, it did represent a certain tendency.
This also made Levi more alert. He had to go to the Rocky Highlands immediately and kill as many jackals as possible. Otherwise, when he had Donna and others under his command, he was still surpassed by others. Then he would be a waste.
However, his work over the past two days was not in vain, especially yesterday, after selling the temporarily useless spoils and enchanting the chosen heroes, he really reaped a lot of rewards.
So he first went to Green Blade Village to complete the enchanting task in the tavern, and gained gold coins and a scroll of level 1 magic - Magic Trap.
Its effect is to create a temporary invisible magic trap with a radius of two meters centered on the user. If an enemy breaks in during this period, based on the opponent's attributes and the user's intelligence, the enemy may be tripped or even hung upside down.
This is a defensive magic, but I don’t know what its specific effect is. Unfortunately, there is only one scroll, and Levi can’t use it to do experiments.
Then he drank several bottles of magic potions and enchanted the white equipment of Cindy and others. He also replenished Donna's leadership troops in Green Blade Village. He also had twenty more half-elves under his command, and the number of the entire army suddenly expanded to more than fifty people.
This also made Levi slightly change his previous view. Even the gray-quality heroes who were called useless by Donna actually had their own meaning of existence. They could be used to command troops.
Even if the attributes are poor, as long as they can become heroes, they will more or less have some command talents, which is better than a bunch of soldiers running around.
Because of Donna's request, all her subordinates are half-elf ranged troops, including half-elf longbowmen, half-elf archers and half-elf hunters. Since she said she wanted it to be purer, Levi simply let her take charge of the ranged troops.
He also specially bought her a small space ring with 50 grids, which was specifically used to carry arrows, and this really cost him a lot of money.
There is no way. As the number of long-range archers in the team continues to increase, the rate at which they consume arrows is getting faster and faster.
Levi's initial space backpack only had 10 slots. He had previously purchased a small space ring with 30 slots from the merchant Tros, but the total only added up to 40 slots.
Based on the calculation that 100 arrows can be stacked per grid, they can only carry a maximum of 4,000 arrows at a time.
This number may seem like a lot at first glance, but if you average it out among dozens of archers, it’s actually not that many. You have to know that once they go out, they basically plan to fight outside for a whole day.
And in fact, they can't all use it to store arrows. They also have to set aside a part to store everyone's daily supplies, battle herbs and bandages, etc.
Although each archer carries two or three quivers, and Donna even has a magic quiver that has a lower chance of making arrows "fly back and forth", the number of arrows is still not enough in actual battle.
Especially Donna herself, who has superb archery skills and can use continuous arrows. Her consumption alone is often more than that of three or five half-elves combined.
But now Levi has equipped her with a small space ring, which can alleviate .
But this cannot solve the problem permanently. A medium-sized space ring with 100 slots is worth 20 gold coins, which Levi cannot afford for the time being. What he wants more now is a light ammunition vehicle that is a type of war machine.
On the surface, that thing looks like a small cart with two wheels, but in fact it also has certain magical effects. It can directly launch up to 20,000 arrows/crossbow arrows/bullets at a time, or 2,000 giant arrows from the crossbow, or 2,000 artillery shells.
And its price is not expensive, only 10 gold coins.
Of course, cheapness also has its disadvantages.
First of all, during the movement, it needs a person with a strength of at least 10 points to pull the cart. Now only Donna, Zhou Miyin and Simon, the swordsman son of Sigmar, are qualified in the team.
However, if there are livestock such as cattle and horses, this problem can be solved to a certain extent, but you will also need indigenous people such as coachmen and grooms, and the cost will increase accordingly.
But if the team has skills like druid or tamer, they can play a similar role and there is no need for a driver.
Secondly, this thing can be destroyed. If it is attacked suddenly on the way and the ammunition cart is smashed by the enemy, the arrows inside will also turn into ashes...
But no matter what, this at least provides an idea. I just don't know if the ammunition cart can be equipped with defensive magic such as mage armor. If it can, then as long as you are careful, it shouldn't be a big problem.
As for Levi's own men, they were basically melee troops, including half-elf soldiers, swordsmen, spearmen, etc., and were roughly divided into several teams.
Except for one team that is specifically used to protect him, the other two teams are led by Zhou Miyin and the newly joined big loli Cindy. He wants to train them more so that they can gradually acquire some command and coordinated combat capabilities.
Elite units not only mean stronger combat power, but also higher potential and wisdom. Furthermore, they are far more suitable to be heroes than ordinary soldiers.
Unfortunately, as the power of the chosen heroes continued to grow, they had more and more money, and there were no special troops left for him to recruit.
I heard from people in the tavern that some militia captains and volunteers were recruited yesterday at noon.
As the chosen heroes became more and more active, many indigenous people who were eager for adventure or money gradually heard the news and began to gather in various novice villages in the hope of finding an opportunity to stand out.
Many of them have the courage to take risks, but before the appearance of the God-chosen heroes, they have not encountered the right opportunities. After all, it is very rare to find people as fanatical as the God-chosen heroes who fight everywhere all day long and give money happily and generously.
At the same time, Levi also took the time to go to the stable. The wolf mount was too uncomfortable to ride, and the Flame War Goose required intermediate riding skills, so he couldn't ride it for the time being. He also had to choose a temporary transitional mount for himself.
Then he discovered that there were not many types of mounts in the village. There were only four types: cows, sheep, horses and donkeys. Among them, sheep were only suitable for small units. The other three types were either used for farming or for hauling goods according to the introduction. There was no real war horse at all.
But even so, their prices are quite expensive. The recruitment price of ordinary tier 2 soldiers is only a few silver coins, but they all start at 1 gold coin each, and saddles and reins cost extra.
However, despite this, Levi still picked a dark horse that he liked. If nothing else, at least it could free up his legs.
Moreover, these mounts have one common advantage, that is, they do not require any riding skills and can be ridden directly after purchase.
Of course, if you already have a certain level of riding skills, you will definitely be able to control them better.
Then he asked Donna and Cindy to choose a mount by themselves. As the two girls with the greatest strength and potential in the team, it was natural for him to give them a little extra care.
And yesterday, he took the little girl Cindy to see the priest of the Temple of Justice, and learned two kinds of divine arts from him for free.
The first one is the 0th-level divine art - water creation. As the name suggests, this divine art can create pure drinking water out of thin air, and a lot of it.
They had done an experiment together before. It only took 10 points of magic for the big loli to produce about 8 liters of water at one time. The water was no different from what Levi bought in the village store, and might even be cleaner.
Coupled with Donna's magic berry technique, this might come in handy in some extreme situations.
The second is the first-level divine spell - Entropy Light Armor, which summons a colorful armor that covers the entire body. In this way, all long-range attacks such as arrows and rays may fail to aim due to misjudging the target, resulting in attack errors.
Although it is only a tier 1 divine spell, Levi feels that this thing is actually very powerful. It seems that some of his previous ideas were not correct. A low level of magic does not necessarily mean that the effect is poor. For example, hasn’t his Summoning Element (Small) been used until now?
Mage-type units like him are very afraid of the enemy's long-range concentrated fire, but with this magic, plus mage armor and grease his feet, Levi's survivability will be further enhanced.
After mastering two new magic arts, the big Lolita's skill panel has become more and more gorgeous. Now Levi has high expectations for her future. If one day she can become a hero unit, she will surely not be much inferior to Donna, right?
As for the mount wolf, after brief consideration, Levi finally decided to give it to Sam first. He was in charge of reconnaissance all day and it was time for him to run faster.
For people of medium size like Levi, riding a wolf mount is very uncomfortable, but since halflings can even ride a geese, riding a wolf is not a big problem.
Levi also solved his riding problem. Although this kind of universal skill was rare and expensive, he had been enchanting , and he had accumulated some connections, which just solved this problem.
Unfortunately, the intermediate riding skill for riding the Fiery War Goose is extremely rare. Apart from exchanging it with military merit points, no one nearby has ever seen it, so he naturally has no way of obtaining it.
Sam was a little worried at first, because none of them, the halflings, had ever used wolves as mounts. The most they had were war geese, followed by goats and the like.
But soon with the help of basic riding skills, he enjoyed riding. Moreover, the mount wolf also had thick paws, which were similar to those of the halflings in some ways, and were helpful for covert movements, which was just right for him as a scout.
Soon Donna also picked a black horse, and Cindy picked a donkey.
The latter was fine, as she was not too tall, so riding a small donkey was fine for her. However, Donna's long legs looked a little uncoordinated riding such a skinny horse.
But there is no other way. There are only these types of mounts in the village for now. If you want to change them, you can only find an opportunity later.
Young horse (Level 0): Strength 6, Agility 5, Constitution 6, Health 60, Movement Speed 10, Normal load capacity 120 kg.
It seems that the movement speed of this mount is calculated differently from that of ordinary humanoid creatures. What makes Levi a little relieved is that the young horse does not require maintenance costs.
According to the manager of the stable, the young horse is not a special war horse and can be fed with just some grass. Even when it is in the wild, it will actively look for grass to eat.
Of course, the other party also said that if it could be fed some special food with beans and other ingredients, its movement speed and load capacity would be improved in a short period of time.
Although there was no necessity, Levi still bought some, wanting to get some relevant information.
The attributes of Cindy's donkey are slightly different from those of a young horse, but overall they are still on the same level.
At the same time, when purchasing the reins and saddle, Levi also learned that the druid's animal companions and ordinary low-level animal subordinates can actually be equipped with weapons and even armor.
Of course, what they use is different from that of humans. They all require specially customized claws, iron beaks, armor, or other similar items, so they are obviously much more expensive.
But if there are enough resources, their combat effectiveness can be further improved.
But at the same time, the boss also made it clear that ordinary claws are only effective against low-level animals, because the claws of many high-level beasts are comparable to metal, or may even be better.
The most obvious ones are some ferocious animals and the big cat, the saber-toothed tiger Laxili, which has become famous recently and easily slaughtered the troops led by four or five chosen heroes in succession.
According to current intelligence, it is at least a Tier 4 elite, and its attacks have an extremely high armor-piercing effect, which is something that even ordinary green or even blue quality equipment may not be able to do.
Seeing that everyone had their own mount, Zhou Miyin on the other side was very jealous, because he knew that there were two options for the next advancement of the Jade Warrior Spearmen, and one of them was the cavalry unit.
If he can have his own mount now, will he be able to exert even stronger combat power after being promoted in the future?
Levi also learned this from him. He didn't expect that this guy was heading for the cavalry route, but after all this recruitment and supply, he had little money left in his pocket, so he could only let Zhou Miyin queue up behind him.
