Volume 2: The Road to Dragon Feast Chapter 69: The Giant Sword Man is Born
He slept till dawn, and when he woke up the next morning, Murphy looked at the sun outside the window, and the feeling of anxiety and fear had disappeared.
Men need to become stronger, gain power, and take everything into their own hands. Now is not the time to relax...
Murphy finished his breakfast silently, entered the game, assembled his troops, and started looking for snakemen to level up.
Throughout the day, Murphy continued to lead his soldiers to kill snakemen to level up. The levels of these snakemen were mostly around level 20-40, and they had rich experience points. Since they had no armor, it was very easy for the kingdom's crossbowmen to kill them with a volley of fire. There was no tactics, they just rushed up in a swarm.
As long as the number of monsters lured out at one time does not exceed fifteen, they can basically be easily dealt with.
Murphy tried his best to avoid casualties of soldiers. It took half a day to get from here to the city of Alterac, and a whole day to go back and forth. If too many soldiers were lost, it would be a hassle to go back and mobilize more troops.
Without soldiers, he alone wouldn't be able to deal with these snake people.
The boring and bloody battle lasted until after three o'clock in the afternoon. A white light flashed on Murphy's body, and he finally reached level 10.
[System prompt: You have reached level 10. You have finally taken a solid and firm step on the road to becoming a hero. The hero expertise system has been activated. You can check this system in the character menu.]
Murphy thought it was finally here.
He checked it out hurriedly. He didn't have a deep understanding of the hero template, but he knew the meaning of the two keywords, hero expertise and hero skills.
'Hero Specialties' is a system equivalent to 'Boss Talents'. Every time a hero advances a level, he or she can gain a hero specialty.
The biggest difference between the talents of a boss and a hero is that since the boss itself has relatively few skills, the talents are mostly specific skills, while the skills of a hero are generally acquired through learning, so the hero's expertise is mostly passive effects, providing various auxiliary supports.
In addition, every time a hero's rank is upgraded, the hero player can also obtain a 'Hero's Soul'. Using the 'Hero's Soul', ordinary skills can be upgraded to hero skills, and the skill effect can instantly achieve a qualitative leap.
For example, the Paladin's resurrection spell. Ordinary resurrection spells can only be used after the battle is over, and can only save one person at a time.
But if it is upgraded to a hero skill, it can instantly revive six units, and can be used in battle. It can be used at critical moments in the plot campaign to instantly pull up six high-level adventurers, or six high-level soldiers and elites, which can often have the effect of reversing the situation of the battle.
A Legendary Tier 5 hero can possess five 'Hero Souls' and twenty-five Hero Specialties.
Murphy is only at Bronze Level 1 now, so he only has one 'Hero's Soul' and one 'Hero's Expertise' to use.
He is not planning to click on the 'hero skill' yet. This thing is the foundation of one's survival, and he must think carefully about it and have a particularly useful skill.
Now he only has three skills, and two of them are basic combat skills. The only relatively eye-catching one is the Storm Blade, but it is not good enough for him to feel that he can entrust his life to it. After all, once this thing is chosen, it is fixed. If he wants to change it, he needs to go to the Temple of the Goddess of Destiny to complete tasks and brush the Goddess's Tears to wash it. The drop rate of that thing is extremely low, and it is basically out of stock.
So you have to be absolutely sure before making a choice.
Hero specialties can be selected immediately.
Hero specialties are usually generated by the system based on the player's previous gaming experience. If the player does nothing at this stage and drinks all day, he may obtain specialties such as "Drunkard" or "Drunken Master".
If the player rides a horse and shoots arrows every day, he may trigger specialties such as "Expert in Archery" and "Expert in Horseback Archery".
It can be said that as long as players want to develop their characters in a certain direction, they must put some thought into expertise.
In addition, if the player has a special identity, background setting, special title, or profession, it is possible to unlock corresponding expertise.
The three specialties that Murphy unlocked at this time are:
1. Guardian (combat expertise). You have learned the essence of blocking and guarding during the long battles with swords and shields. The physical strength consumed when you block enemy attacks is reduced by 30%, and you are immune to imbalance. You can now learn shield-related combat skills.
2. Low maintenance cost (Leadership expertise). As you lead troops into battle, you gradually learn how to maintain a troop and how to gain their trust. The leadership value you need to recruit soldiers is reduced by 1 point. This effect is invalid for level 1 soldiers.
3. Primary Storm Awakening (Bloodline Expertise). The bloodline of the Storm God in your body has initially awakened, your lightning resistance is increased by 10 points, your lightning and wind skills are more powerful by 10%, and you have a higher chance of triggering hidden quests related to the Storm God (this expertise is a hidden profession, one of the prerequisites for [Storm God Envoy]).
This... Murphy studied it carefully and thought that these three specialties were more tricky than the other.
Especially the Guardian, he doesn't plan to play a tank. The long sword and shield are only used in the early transition stage. In the later stage, he plans to switch to a greatsword warrior. He didn't expect that he would have to waste a specialty slot. Fortunately, it is one of three choices.
The low maintenance cost specialty should be the specialty of lord-type players, because they have a prince background. Although the name of this talent is not very good, the effect is indeed outstanding. It is equivalent to reducing the population consumption of all subordinates by 1 point. Now I have 35 points of command value, and can only lead 17 level 2 soldiers and 1 level 1 soldier, but if I click on this talent, it is equivalent to leading 35 level 2 soldiers, or 17 level 3 soldiers and one level 2 soldier. The combat effectiveness is directly doubled.
His main damage now still comes from his minions. If he chooses this talent, he will definitely be able to dominate the early stage.
Relatively speaking, the last 'Primary Storm Awakening' has little effect on him. Lightning resistance is currently useless, and as for wind and electricity skills, he probably only has Storm Blade. This skill is originally used for finishing off the enemy, and increasing damage by 10% is not very meaningful.
If I wanted to pursue a magical career, this talent would be perfect, but unfortunately I am a melee barbarian.
Well, that's your pick - low maintenance.
Murphy didn't click it immediately. He wasn't going back to the city to recruit soldiers yet, so it would be useless to click it. He decided to wait until he got back.
Another good news is that I can finally lift the dragon-slaying sword in my hand.
Murphy first increased his strength points to 50 points, including the 10% increase in strength attribute from the Highlander's talent, for a total of 55 points of strength. Then he took out the dragon-slaying greatsword from his bag, grasped the hilt and slowly raised the weapon.
"Good, I can finally lift it."
Murphy could clearly feel the changes brought about by his increased strength. The giant sword that he could not even lift before now only had a little difficulty holding in his hand.
The improvement of strength attribute is also reflected in appearance. The muscles that were originally just solid have now become well-defined and full of power. Murphy suspects that if he continues to increase his strength, he will sooner or later become a muscular man like the Sword of Dawn.
There is already a trend towards this now, but he is not too resistant to it.
Looking at the nearly two-meter-long and majestic dragon-slaying sword, Murphy was about to try it out a few times to feel it, and then he sadly discovered that he was overweight.
He added most of his attribute points to strength, resulting in his endurance attribute being only 10 points for a beginner, or 100 points of load.
This sword alone weighs 90 kg, and with the armor included, it is definitely overweight.
Fortunately, he still had 5 free attribute points that were unused, so after thinking about it, he added them all to endurance.
This way, his load capacity increases to 150 points.
At least it can move.
However, after running two steps with the giant sword, Murphy realized that it was still not working. It was too slow, just like an ordinary person jogging. He could not jump or run fast. Moreover, it consumed too much physical energy . He didn't have much physical energy to begin with. This state was really dangerous.
The load must be reduced to a medium load, and the total weight of the equipment on your body must be less than 105.
The weight of this sword is as high as 90 points. In other words, he can wear equipment of a maximum weight of 15.
Murphy checked the weight of the North Wind Knight suit.
Armor 18 weight, pants 12 weight, helmet 7 weight, gauntlets 5 weight, boots 7 weight.
It seems that you can only choose between two combinations: pants, helmet, gauntlets and boots.
After thinking about it, Murphy decided to put on his pants first. At least it wouldn't look so shabby.
This gives a total of 102 weight points, and at least there will be no speed penalty.
Bare-chested and barefoot, carrying a two-meter-long giant sword, Murphy stood in the fierce snowstorm of the Alterac Mountains, thinking to himself, with this look and this momentum, who else can compare with him?
Fortunately, I have Highlander blood, which gives me 30 points of cold resistance, otherwise I would be frozen to death in this pose.
"Your Highness, why don't you put on your clothes and run slower?" Razidanan advised.
Murphy shook his head. "No, as a giant sword man, you must be able to run and jump, move flexibly, and wait for opportunities. It doesn't matter if your defense is low, you can make up for it by moving. I'm an expert. As long as I don't get hit by monsters, I'm not afraid of low armor. If you don't believe me, I'll show you. Hey, go lure out a snake man, and I'll show you the power of a giant sword man."
