Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 88: Enemies at the Bridge
So in the following time, Levi kept repeating the process of searching - killing - and then searching for the jackals, and his military merit points were also increasing steadily.
As they continued to go deeper, the types of Jackal troops began to gradually become more diverse. There were Jackal Claw Warriors with severely mutated claws and Jackal assassins armed with crossbows and daggers, all of which were level 2 troops.
Then there is a type of werewolf cavalry riding on wolves and holding heavy flails or chain hammers. This is a new type of soldier that Levi has never seen in the tavern before, and it is a level 3 one.
However, after fighting two battles, Levi found that this type of soldier seemed to be just a show-off. Apart from having a high health value and a fast speed , its attack and defense capabilities were not very good. It was also completely suppressed by Zhou Miyin, and could not even beat him in a one-on-one duel.
After looking carefully for a few times, Levi discovered the clue. It turned out that after riding on the mount, this kind of werewolf cavalry was not only restrained by counterattack, but also seemed to be recognized as a large unit. Both of Zhou Miyin's skills could be effective on it.
Moreover, the weapons chosen by the werewolf cavalry were also problematic, mainly because their attack range was too short. Even if they exerted all their strength, they could not hit an enemy more than one meter away. This allowed Zhou Miyin to show off his prowess, after all, his spear was almost ten feet long.
There is an old saying: An inch longer, an inch stronger!
After a few times, Levi even began to miss their mounts. Should he kill the cavalry first next time, and then keep the mounts and let Donna demonstrate the violent animal taming methods she learned on Paradise Island?
Anyway, those guys don't look much different from the wolves that the earth elves used to ride on.
After killing another group of gnolls, Donna came over and asked, "Levi, do you think I should continue to accumulate experience points, or upgrade the battle level first?"
Like the chosen heroes, after killing the enemies, half of the troops under Donna's command would be given to her. In addition, she had killed quite a few enemies personally, which made her gain experience points faster than Levi.
Levi glanced at Donna's status. Her combat level is now level 5. To reach level 6, she needs 5,000 experience points, which means she needs to kill 200 enemies herself, or her subordinates need to kill 400 level 2 enemies.
The experience points required for each level of the campaign are 10 times that of the combat level. However, because Donna's campaign level is currently level 0, she doesn't need too much in the early stage.
"Donna, first upgrade your battle level to level 2, learn the first battle skill, and then see."
For every campaign level increase, you will gain 1 free attribute point (campaign) and 20 leadership points, which are very useful.
At the same time, for every 2 levels of campaign level increase, you can also learn a campaign skill from the random list.
Donna now has dozens of half-elves under her command, and half-elves are constantly advancing in battle, which makes her leadership a little stretched. It is indeed time to upgrade the level of the battle.
The same goes for Levi himself. He also wants to upgrade the battle level to level 2 as soon as possible. After all, the experience points required for the first two levels are not much.
Donna nodded and immediately chose to increase the battle level by 1. Then, as Levi expected, she directly focused her attributes on attack.
Amazon’s style is attack, attack, and attack again!
At this time, Zhou Miyin, who had just finished cleaning up the battlefield, also came over: "Sir, we found something that you may have noticed before."
Levi took a look and sure enough, this was the mission item he found a few days ago - the scattered castanets!
He knew from the beginning that this small task would not be easy to complete, but he did not expect it to be so difficult.
From kobolds to goblins to gnolls, he had gone through many races and killed hundreds of enemies. But including this one in front of him, he had only collected 5 clapperboards, while the mission required 17 in total, and now he had less than a third!
However, this did arouse his interest. Generally speaking, the difficulty of the task is proportional to the reward. If it can be completed, the reward will surely be amazing, right?
After killing another group of jackals, Levi had roughly tested the strength of the Flame Goose, but the result was actually not very satisfactory.
This is mainly due to its size.
Its large size and high strength attributes allow it to break through the fragile formation of the Gnolls. With the assistance of Zhou Miyin and the big loli Cindy, it can easily split up a Gnoll patrol and defeat them one by one.
But at the same time, a large size also has some disadvantages in some aspects, that is, it is more likely to attract enemy fire.
Once it appears in the battle, it will almost certainly be targeted by a wave of concentrated fire from the Wolf Man's ranged troops, such as the Poachers.
Because the gnolls are not fools. Although I have never encountered one before, I can tell that it is not easy to deal with just by looking at its size. Of course, I have to try to eliminate it as soon as possible.
And precisely because of the Flame Goose's size and agility, it is actually difficult for it to dodge this kind of attack as flexibly as Donna or others.
This resulted in it being severely beaten even before it encountered any enemy.
Although when facing weaker gnolls, it can still rely on its strong defense and high health to withstand the rain of arrows and rush forward to wreak havoc on the enemy, but if it encounters an enemy of the same level, its large size may make it die faster than ordinary soldiers.
All in all, the Chaos Dwarves' attempt to transform it into a war beast basically ended in failure.
However, the other two level 1 war geese performed quite well. Under the command of the trainer, they would suddenly attack and often tear off a large piece of muscle from the jackal along with the skin and fur. It was very painful to watch. The effect was completely different with or without the command of the trainer .
Unfortunately, the tamer's own combat power is not strong. Even if the two big geese defeat the enemy, he will not get any experience points. This will result in his future upgrade speed being absolutely slow. It is unknown when he will be able to command the Flame War Geese.
Now it seems that I should get an intermediate riding skill book as soon as possible, and then use the Flame War Goose as a mount.
"Sir, we found a wooden bridge ahead, and there is a group of trolls entrenched there!"
Before Levi could respond, Donna frowned first: "Tsk, it's a troll?"
As soon as Levi saw her expression of disgust and fear, he found it interesting. It seemed to be the first time he saw her like this.
Before this, she had never behaved like this towards the Gnolls, the Kobold Wizards, or the Chaos Dwarves.
"Donna, why do you seem to be disgusted by creatures like trolls?"
Trolls were not one of the initial selectable races, and Levi had never encountered this kind of enemy before, so he didn't know where Donna's disgust came from for a moment.
Donna frowned. "It's mainly because they're kind of disgusting to fight. Not only because of their appearance, but also because they're really hard to kill outright with conventional weapons."
"Trolls have an innate ability to continuously recover from injuries. Their healing speed can almost keep up with the rate at which they are damaged."
"There is a proverb on Paradise Island: 'If a troll's arm is cut off, a new arm will soon grow from the broken limb; if a troll is beheaded, a new head will soon grow from the shoulders.' Although it is a bit exaggerated, it also shows how difficult they are to deal with."
"Only fire and strong acid can prevent their wounds from healing. Powerful death spells may be able to do more, but there are no priestesses proficient in death spells among the Amazon, so I am not too sure."
"In addition to their brute strength and fury, they are covered in all kinds of mud and decay, and are always surrounded by a pungent stench when they walk. They can also spit out highly corrosive vomit , which is really disgusting. Even the dinosaurs on Paradise Island are unwilling to eat their meat."
"More importantly, even if we win after a tough battle, there is nothing to be proud of, and there are no spoils of war. They will eat almost everything they see ."
Even Donna, who never likes to talk nonsense, said so much in one breath. Levi could see that she really didn't want to deal with those trolls.
However, Levi wanted to see for himself what it was like to meet a strong enemy and defeat him. This was what he wanted.
He comforted her casually, "Don't worry, Donna. I have my Burning Hands, Lesser Flame Orbs, and Burning Arrows. I also have the Flame Goose, and I can summon small fire elementals. In any case, their self-healing abilities won't be that powerful. How strong are the trolls?"
Donna's expression relaxed a little, because when she recalled the disgusting scene when she fought against the trolls in the past, she had forgotten one thing. Now she not only had spears and arrows, but also a wizard who could use fire magic, which was not available on Paradise Island.
"Based on their respective attributes and the environment they live in, there are many types of trolls, including river trolls, stone trolls, ice trolls, swamp trolls, ferocious trolls, war trolls, and many more. But even the most common ordinary trolls have the strength of a level 3 when they grow up. Other trolls even have special talents or skills."
Now Levi could understand a little bit why Donna behaved like this.
It's disgusting, difficult to fight, and there's nothing to gain. It's really a thankless task.
But for Levi, this is not a problem. As a hero chosen by God, he has to challenge all kinds of monsters and be familiar with their strengths and weaknesses so that it will be easier to deal with them next time.
I can avoid it now, but what if I encounter a similar enemy again in the future and can't avoid it? For now, I can just consider it as gaining experience.
Seeing that Levi had made up his mind, although Donna was still a little disgusted, she had no intention of refusing. After all, this was not Paradise Island, and there were so many half-elf soldiers around, so she didn't need to suffer.
But she still reminded: "Levi, trolls are Tier 3 troops. Their strength is not something that ordinary half-elves can resist. They can easily break through melee troops. We need to be careful."
Levi nodded. Even Donna had deliberately reminded him, so he certainly wouldn't be ungrateful.
Moreover, he had witnessed the strength of the Tier 3 troops with his own eyes. There were not only the Flame Goose and Chaos Dwarves wielding Flame Blades, but also the Gnoll Warlords who had slaughtered several God-chosen Hero troops.
When facing ordinary Tier 1 troops, their strength can really reach the point of crushing them!
Soon Levi saw these trolls that Donna disliked so much, and then he found that they were really ugly.
Although they generally maintain human shape, each of them is covered in filth, with disheveled hair, and all have a sturdy body and a seriously oversized belly. At first glance, they look a bit like wild boars, except that they do not have conspicuous fangs.
At this time, there were a total of seven or eight ugly trolls, about three meters tall, gathered in front of a steaming pot with a diameter of two or three meters. Disgusting saliva flowed down their mouths, and even gathered into puddles of water on the ground.
No one knew what kind of delicious food was inside that made them so greedy. They didn't even notice that Levi and his group were approaching.
However, Levi felt that it was probably not a good thing, because in addition to two trolls pulling up the grass on the ground from time to time, or simply grabbing handfuls of soil and throwing it into the pot, as if using it as seasoning, there were also some blood-stained rags and two shoes scattered on the ground.
As we all know, only human-like intelligent creatures wear shoes and clothes out of shame, comfort, convenience, and for defensive reasons. Stupid beasts would not do this.
Therefore, what these trolls are cooking in their pots is actually about to burst out. Most likely, when some unfortunate person crosses the bridge, these trolls will be waiting for him.
This made Levi feel very uncomfortable. No matter whether the creatures in the other party's pot were humans, orcs or half-elves, they were at least humanoid intelligent creatures, and they should not have ended up like this.
After casting the Burning Arrow spell on Donna and the others a few times, Levi summoned a small fire element and a small earth element, and added two auxiliary magics, Mage Armor and Foot Oil, to them.
He used to like the fast small wind element the most, but last time when fighting against the Chaos Dwarves, he found that the small earth element with the passive skill of Earth Protection was really useful in many cases.
As for the small fire element, although it is only a level 1 troop, its combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning when facing a level 3 troll, but its attack special effect is a fire attribute attack with an ignition effect, which is the most restraining of the troll's self-healing ability, and it also cannot let it die easily.
After doing all this, he took out the rusty flame iron badge and called the Flame Goose. Then Levi glared fiercely at the idiots who were still unaware in the distance: "Attack, I will teach them a bloody lesson, so that they will learn to be smart in their next life and know what they can eat and what they can't eat!"
