So in the next two days, Michaela began to implement the plan, and Levi did not sit there, he led his troops back to the Underdark to try to find more traces of the bear goblins and snake people.
It’s not known whether it was because of the large-scale migration of snake people who believed in Zehir (Seth) that the original strength of the Underdark was seriously affected.
A large number of evil races began to run around like flies that had been driven away, making their lives definitely not boring, as they fought dozens of battles, both large and small.
While harvesting a large amount of spoils, many of her subordinates were promoted or upgraded. Cindy also showed her power with the Angel Cloak. Even though the ground in the Underdark was not high from the top of the cave and could not fully demonstrate the power of this equipment, her mobility was greatly improved.
With the people, hammer and summoned angels, she can form a small but powerful team.
In the process, she also successfully mastered a new ability from the field of power, that is, magic armor.
As the name suggests, this magic is somewhat similar to enchanted weapons, but the former can only target weapons, while the latter can be effective on both armor and shields, and the effect is still very good.
She then made a covenant with new celestial beings, and after gaining the authority to summon a fifth-level guardian angel, she also gained the authority to summon a fifth-level battle angel.
As the name suggests, this kind of angel is better at attacking, and it also has a move called Feather Blade Storm, which can use its feathers to stimulate energy and shoot them out like a bunch of darts.
This move may not seem very powerful at first glance, but it wins because of the large number. If it is used against enemies with low defense or a small group of weaker enemies, it is still very powerful.
The only limitation is that they cannot use it continuously in a short period of time, because angels' feathers are also limited. Once used continuously, they will most likely become bald chickens, thus temporarily losing their greatest advantage - the ability to fly.
Levi also relied on his increasingly powerful magic to kill a large number of enemies, successfully reached level 10, and learned a very special 4th-level magic.
Dimension Anchor, an active skill, consumes 60 magic points. A green ray shoots out from your hand, casting a special magic field on the opponent. During the duration of the magic, all cross-plane movements of the target are blocked. The success rate is based on the level and intelligence of both parties, and the duration is 10 seconds/per level.
In short, once the spell is successfully cast, teleportation scrolls and teleportation magic that several demon heroes had used before can no longer be used. They can only choose to escape by other means, or simply stay where they are and fight to the death.
Although it is not offensive at all, it is a powerful magic that cannot be ignored.
With Levi's current level, he can last for 100 seconds. If he fights against a demon hero in the future, he will never have to worry about spending a long time and almost defeating the enemy, but the enemy just teleports away.
At the same time, as he reached level 10, the system also prompted him that he could accept advanced tasks for the mage title and prepare to advance to a more advanced mage profession.
After asking Michaela, Levi learned that generally one can start preparing for advancement at level 10. After advancement, not only will the life and magic growth at each level change, but one will also gain some new abilities.
However, the requirements for high-level professions are often more numerous and higher, and even the indigenous people find it difficult to meet all of them.
Therefore, if you really can't find a profession that meets the requirements, Black Castle can also provide a general mage advancement with a lower threshold, that is, the archmage.
You only need to reach level 15, master five level 5 spells and one level 7 spell, and spend some money to successfully change your job.
Of course, this does not mean that the Archmage is worse than other advanced professions. There are many different advanced professions, and many of them specialize in a certain direction. Their advantages and disadvantages will be equally obvious.
For example, Mikaela's job transfer to Fire Elemental Scholar specializes in fire magic. When she releases fire magic, she will gain additional magic penetration and damage bonus effects, and her own resistance to fire magic will also be improved.
But comparatively speaking, it would be much more difficult for her to learn or cast other types of magic, and she might not even be able to cast them at all.
For example, she would never be able to use Levi's ice storm. Even if she forced herself to use it, it would turn into a fire storm.
Maybe some advanced professions are particularly powerful in some aspects, making the archmage seem mediocre, but it is definitely not the weakest.
Those who choose to become archmages often need to endure the difficult period between levels 10 and 15. Compared to those mages who are well prepared and can change their job immediately after reaching level 10, they are indeed slightly disadvantaged during this period.
Levi immediately exclaimed, "Wow!" Although this is the one with the lowest threshold among them, it is not something that an ordinary magician can possess.
He is now level 10, and he hasn't mastered even one tier 5 magic. Even if he can master one for every level he reaches, he will barely have 5 by level 15. In that case, he still needs a tier 7 magic.
Michaela said that the conditions for advancement to other professions may be more stringent. How stringent will they be?
He is now level 10, and Donna and Elegy will be there soon. If Cindy can successfully advance to level 7 and become a hero, she may even catch up. Everyone needs to prepare for the advancement, which may be more difficult than dealing with ordinary equipment or subordinates.
Then Michaela changed the subject and said that in addition to this, there are some special cases, that is, before reaching level 10, it is also possible to obtain a relatively rare advanced profession in advance, but that is either a real talent or the favor of the gods.
Levi immediately thought of Diana's maid of Elegy. This profession named after the goddess was almost certainly an advanced profession, which slightly alleviated his burden.
But he had no clue for the time being, because apart from himself, there seemed to be no relevant information on the forum, and their levels were not high enough...
He couldn't count on exchanging military merits for rewards. The many rewards that had excited him at the beginning of the regional mission now seemed not so precious. Many of the more valuable things were even reluctant to be used by the natives themselves.
The most obvious example is that there are no 6th-level troops, and there are no troops higher than 4th level in the troop building blueprints. There are no phoenixes, dragons, high-level magic, advanced expertise, etc.
This directly eliminates the existence of the "Shilipo Sword God". Even if you have accumulated military merits for 100 years in the Novice Village, don't think you can easily exchange these high-value items through military merits.
Military merit is versatile, but not omnipotent. The more valuable things are either to kill stronger enemies or to participate in large-scale missions. But now it seems that Levi has begun to make progress in both aspects.
After two days of fighting, Levi had almost figured out the Scarlet Knight's chessboard.
Basically, the stronger the enemy, the more enemies you kill, and the smaller your losses, the more charging points you will get, so the battle evaluation is not particularly important.
What's slightly different from the system's battle evaluation is that even if it is a crushing game, when 500 of your own people massacre 100 enemy soldiers, the chessboard will gain a certain amount of charging points.
It seems that in the eyes of the Crimson Knight, this kind of upright victory is also a kind of military strategy.
This made Levi very happy. Basically, every time he fought, he had a slight advantage. As long as the quality and quantity of the enemy troops were good, he could get about 10 points of energy.
So two days later, he successfully upgraded the chessboard to blue quality. Not only was the charging limit increased, a new attribute was added, leadership +1, and the strength and number of soldiers he could summon also changed accordingly.
With enough charge points, he can now summon up to 16 soldiers, 8 knights, 2 bishops and 1 chariot.
After many attempts, he was certain that the so-called soldiers and knights on the chessboard were just nicknames, indicating that their strength was level 2 or 3, and it was not true that they could only summon soldiers or knights.
Based on his experience of summoning many times so far, stone golems shaped like chess pieces such as soldiers or knights, various animals such as owls, eagles, falcons, dogs and leopards, as well as heroic warriors, etc., are all likely to appear as summoned creatures.
This range is quite wide. If we have to say what they have in common, it is probably that they are all light red in color.
The leopard has red fur, the Einherjar's armor is red, and the stone golem is also painted red. It seems that the Crimson Knight really likes the color red.
Unfortunately, the number of charging points required for the next advancement suddenly increased 100 times to 10,000 points. Even if Levi fought more frequently, it would be impossible to improve its quality in a short period of time.
At the same time, the development around Blood Glory was also going very smoothly. The reinforcements of the dwarves arrived as promised and stationed in the small village.
In addition, Qian Ce and others have also gained a firm foothold. Now the three villages are in a three-way balance of power and can support each other.
Well, actually this is not quite accurate. Qian Thief wanted to get close to the dwarves, but the dwarves were not very fond of these guys who were generally in the evil camp.
If Qian Thief really encountered an enemy, it would be almost impossible for the other dwarves except Shudun to go to support him.
For dwarves, alignment and first impressions and so on are really important.
Even though they tolerated the presence of Qian Thief and his men and did not actively attack them, they were already giving Levi face.
So after several attempts, all ended in failure. Qian Thief finally gave up helplessly and started to develop in other directions, for example, capturing more villages or strongholds of evil forces.
It was too depressing for them, with more than ten God-chosen heroes and over a thousand soldiers, to stay in a small village. Especially these villages in the Underdark were much poorer than ordinary villages in the surface world.
Levi thought about it and decided to go with the flow and let them go out to capture several small strongholds. He also tried to use them to attract the attention of many evil forces, especially vampires.
The vampires even tried to recruit the Sun Knights who had captured Silent Manor, so these guys should be no problem, right?
If there were no God-chosen heroes among the vampires, it would be almost impossible for them to know the relationship between themselves and Qian Thief and others.
Moreover, now that they have the reinforcements from the dwarves and Moonbow Temple, Blood Glory would be able to protect itself under normal circumstances even without Qian Thief and his men.
Especially with the addition of the Moon Singer's Sword Dancer, they found several paths leading to the surface world. If necessary, the witch Tiva Leonidas from Bitao Village might send troops to support them.
After a brief discussion with Qian Ce, he indeed agreed. For this reason, Levi deliberately acted with Qian Ce, taking over the village they occupied at the beginning, making an appearance of being as hostile as water and fire, and now he was just waiting for the vampires to take the bait.
If there is a God-chosen hero among the opponents, or if those vampires see through this plan, then it won't be a big problem, as it's just an idle move anyway.
It would be best if they succeed, but failure doesn't matter either. It won't hinder Qian Thief and his men from continuing to capture cities and territories. There are so many evil races in the Underdark, not just vampires.
At the same time, after the surrounding situation gradually stabilized, Levi also signaled to Alduin and Rowan that they could also try to expand their power to the surrounding areas.
Although Nar's previous hope of reinforcements from the Harpers was dashed due to the recent frequent unrest in the entire main world, they still had a lot of soldiers available.
Naturally, they would not reject Levi. Rowan did so because he was Levi's subordinate and obeyed his orders. Alduin did so out of hatred for evil.
For a lawful good paladin, there are few people in the entire Underdark that he cannot kill, except for dwarves and the drow who worship Eilistraee.
The drow of the Moon Singers are also very happy to see this situation. When they try to return to the surface world, they will not only have to face their vicious fellow tribesmen, but also many evil races are inevitable.
More importantly, those guys are evil to begin with. Even if there was no hatred between them before, killing them is a just act.
But there are some who are even more enthusiastic than them, and that is the Lotus of the Red Brotherhood.
After Levi introduced her and the Moon Singer to each other and facilitated the deal, Lotus obviously tasted the sweetness.
Now, many spokespeople of other Red Brotherhoods have severed their ties with the Goddess of Wealth and turned to the Moon Bow Goddess, so they need to rebuild many purchasing and shipping channels, etc.
Although she was the first to take the lead in joining the Moonbow Temple, and many of the temple's resources and policies were clearly tilted towards her, it still took a certain amount of time and effort.
Because many of the interests of the original colonies have already been divided, the arrival of the Red Brotherhood means that someone has to give up their original interests, which requires time to coordinate.
But with the help of Levi, she quickly managed to handle all of this. The many specialties of the Underdark were in short supply in the surface world, which improved her identity and status in the Red Brotherhood to a certain extent.
It is no wonder that she urged everyone to expand as quickly as possible to obtain more specialties from the Underdark.
Seeing that everything was on track, Levi could now feel more at ease to track down and encircle the bear goblins and snakemen in the Underdark.
Unfortunately, there has not been much progress for the time being. On the one hand, it is because the number of the enemy here is indeed not large, and their whereabouts are relatively secretive. On the other hand, as the size of Levi's troops gradually increases, the threat posed to the many indigenous people is also increasing.
In the Underdark, no matter where they went, the evil forces would either flee early or show vigilance and hostility, leaving him basically no chance to gather intelligence.
This made Levi understand that these evil guys basically had to be subdued and frightened first before they could sit down and talk to each other.
After another battle with the Kou Tao fishmen and a temporary rest, Levi decided to order a return to the surface even though it was still early.
Because he still had one thing to do today, which was to meet Cai Jin, whose blood was boiling.
The Moon Bow Temple has agreed to hand over the purification array to the other party, and Cai Jin has also sent a message saying that there is something they want to discuss with him, which makes him need to take it seriously.
Since the agreed location was not far away, Levi successfully met the other party quickly.
After not seeing her for many days, Cai Jin's strength has obviously become stronger. The most obvious thing is that there are more colorful harpies in her troops. That basically means that they have advanced and have initially mastered the power of the elements.
There were more bear goblins and a few snakemen behind. Levi was not curious about the former because Cai Jin had said before that in order to get the vice presidents to work hard, Beast Blood Boiling took out some architectural drawings and everyone had a share.
But the snake people are more new. Did she recruit them herself, or does Beast Blood Boiling have a similar channel?
But Cai Jin was even more surprised, because Levi was getting stronger much faster than her. Not only was his army getting bigger, but it was also getting more elite. An ordinary three or five God-chosen heroes might not be enough for him to kill in half a quarter of an hour, right?
Although they met very rarely, since both sides had common interests and enemies, Levi did not exchange excessive courtesy. He first handed over the silver purification array that had been agreed upon to the other party. After the money and goods were settled, he directly asked about the snake people.
As expected, this was exactly what Beast Blood Boiling had given to these branch presidents. Originally, he wanted to keep it all to himself, but seeing that the situation had changed dramatically within a few days, the threat from the demons had grown greater and greater, and the high elves had launched a thunderous counterattack, capturing or destroying dozens of villages and gathering places of all sizes in one fell swoop.
The indigenous people suffered heavy losses, and their God-chosen heroes were not much better off. At least one-third of the members of the Beast Blood Boiling Group were wiped out, including several vice presidents.
Although they have monopolized the entire Red Cloud Tribe and all the God-chosen heroes who do not join them are excluded or forcibly driven away, allowing them to enjoy many resources of the Red Cloud Tribe alone, but now the disadvantages are gradually beginning to emerge.
That is their disadvantage in numbers, and some of the guys who were once driven away and hold a grudge are now taking the opportunity to come back for revenge.
They also had to fight against demons on the front battlefield and guard against all kinds of despicable sneak attacks from the ratmen. Under such circumstances, their situation became worse and worse, and many people began to strike.
In order to keep them fighting, Beast Blood had no choice but to grit his teeth and offer more rewards, including the building blueprints of the bear goblins and a special channel to recruit snakemen through a sacrifice ceremony.
At this point, Cai Jin deliberately glanced at Levi, because anything related to sacrifice was basically the work of demons, devils or evil gods behind the scenes.
But Levi was not surprised. These snake people should all believe in Set, who was notoriously cruel, so it was natural for him to make some sacrifices.
He pondered for a moment and temporarily ignored this question. He himself didn't have much information about these snake people, so it was impossible for him to share it with Cai Jin.
"Why does he have so many architectural drawings? Do you really have no relevant clues?"
Cai Jin's eyes flickered , but for some reason, she finally chose not to hide it.
"There are indeed some clues. He seems to have gained something in the northwest of the Underdark, which may involve a powerful indigenous person. However, he is keeping a close eye on that aspect, and he has a lackey guarding it, so we have not had the opportunity to investigate carefully."
Northwest?
Levi suddenly realized that there were some powerful forces blocking the way, such as the Dark Naga, the Mind Flayer, and the Medusa, so a mere two days was not enough for him to explore the entire area of ​​the Underdark below the colony.
The surface area of ​​the colony is about 30,000 to 40,000 square kilometers, which is basically equivalent to the size of a Taiwan Province, two BJ cities, or five or six SH cities.
The dark area below it was actually several times larger because it had more than one layer. The hundreds of people under his command could not even create a big wave in the dark area.
And because there are often earthquakes and the like that change the terrain of a small area in the Underdark, even the local tyrants here, the drow from the Moon Singers, dare not guarantee that they have complete control of all the information.
Similarly, for Levi and his friends, many places in the Underdark are still full of mystery and unknown, and the northwest is one of them.
But if the information is true, there is a high probability that the crazy bear goblin demigod is in that direction.
"Who is that so-called lackey? How strong is he?"
Cai Jin snorted: "This is also one of the reasons why I want to discuss this with you in person. It's that guy Lang Du."
Levi suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly. It was true that enemies always gather together.
This Wolfsbane was none other than the love rival who had killed Lisadilan. He was the culprit who directly caused him to be deprived of all his military positions. He was originally on his kill list, so now he had even more reason to kill him.
Cai Jin had previously said that he would provide him with intelligence clues about the opponent to facilitate their assassination, but he did not expect that it would be presented in this way.
However, Cai Jin said before that all their vice presidents have their own thoughts. Now it seems that this Langdu can be entrusted with an important task by Beast Blood Boiling, which means he may have been completely bribed.
After thinking about it, he simply kicked the ball back: "So, what is your plan?"
Cai Jin was obviously prepared for this: "Because we can't crack the demons' sacrificial ritual, the pressure from the demons is getting greater and greater. You elves also took the opportunity to launch a large-scale counterattack, which brought us even greater pressure."
"Especially this time, you attacked the coast and prepared to outflank us from behind. This made Beast Blood Boiling restless. I have direct evidence that Beast Blood Boiling will withdraw troops from places with less defensive pressure to support the front line."
"This includes Swineherd Town and the Wolfsbane people who have developed in the Underdark. This is your chance."
Levi narrowed his eyes subconsciously: "Such important information..."
Although most of this was within his and Michaela's expectations, it was still somewhat strange coming from Cai Jin's mouth.
After all, up to now, apart from the trade of the silver magic circle, they had only had some verbal agreements, but she told her so easily.
"Hehe, you don't have to doubt it. My ambition is small, and my territory is in the barren land in the far north. Unless you high elves swallow up the Red Cloud Tribe, it will not affect me."
Levi raised his eyebrows. Are you ambitious?
What a joke! If you had less ambition, you wouldn’t have accepted Beast Blood’s invitation and come here with others to monopolize the entire Red Cloud Tribe.
But he still felt that Cai Jin might be too optimistic. Of course, the natives of the colony looked down on the rotten land of the Red Cloud Tribe, but the heroes chosen by God had always been indifferent to meat and vegetables. If they were really pushed all the way to the northernmost part, Cai Jin would not be able to cry at that time...
However, he still expressed his gratitude and said that if he had the chance, he would ruthlessly kill their common enemy - Wolfsbane.
Well, things may not necessarily develop as he speculated. Since the Greenskin God of War passed down those three simple formations, it means that he does have some ideas. If the Red Cloud Tribe is really in a life-and-death situation, he should not sit idly by, right?
Cai Jin nodded in satisfaction. She then reminded, "By the way, the Beast Blood Boiling Army has undergone new changes recently. There are more Bugbears among them, including stronger Crazy Bugbear Warriors. They don't look like they have advanced in battle."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because they are crazy, and crazy people cannot survive in a large-scale battle, let alone appear in such a large scale."
It was precisely because of the existence of these special crazy warriors that she was able to vaguely grasp some truths. Behind the boiling blood of the beasts, there was indeed a strong man or a powerful force supporting them, and they were with Langdu and the others.
Levi suddenly became cautious. He had not been able to find any trace of the bear goblin demigod until now, but he obviously existed. The mad warrior and the mad god really complemented each other.
Seeing his expression, Cai Jin was a little surprised: "Why, do you have relevant information?"
Levi hesitated for a moment, then asked directly: "Cai Jin, do you want to live as a harpy forever?"
Upon hearing this question, Cai Jin immediately had a headache: "Of course I don't want to, but what can I do? I don't want to reincarnate. Apart from becoming an undead, changing races usually requires divine power."
When she was choosing her race, she wanted to take advantage of the harpies' natural ability to fly. In fact, she did succeed and laid the foundation for her current career.
However, as her strength continued to increase, and as she came to know more and stronger races, she increasingly felt the weakness of this race.
Simply put, she is neither good at literature nor martial arts, and the upper limits of her individual strength and racial arms are extremely low. Under normal circumstances, the arms she can recruit are only level 3. The remaining higher ones need to be trained by her personally in battle.
Even after expending a lot of energy and luckily training a 4th-level harpy, it is basically impossible for it to defeat the 4th-level and flying roc recruited directly from the barracks.
Apart from the relatively larger number of recruits, there are basically no advantages.
Cai Jin noticed that Levi was obviously hesitant and was obviously considering something. She, who had not taken it too seriously before, could not help but become nervous. Now that she knew about Levi's glorious past achievements, what could be the matter that could make him hesitate?
But after a few seconds, Levi finally gritted his teeth and said, "Cai Jin, help me find the crazy bugbear demigod, Skiggret. If you perform well in the subsequent process, you may have the opportunity to change your camp and race."
Cai Jin's eyes widened immediately. She was certainly not a fool, so after connecting all the previous information, she immediately deduced the general situation.
The beast's blood was boiling because it had received help from a demigod?
No wonder he could become so powerful and possess so many military construction blueprints and bear goblin troops.
In this case, Levi's purpose seems to be obvious.
"Levi, you actually want to kill the gods? No, the elves and gods behind you?"
Levi chose his words carefully: "The Elven Gods have enough background. As long as you contribute enough, changing the race will never be a problem."
Even though he had a general idea, he and the indigenous people were too busy to handle everything at once. Many of their strongest indigenous people had either not arrived yet or were busy with other things.
What's more, although they are strong in fighting, they may not be able to do better than local tyrants and traitors like Cai Jin when it comes to finding people.
So after much thought, he decided to selectively reveal the information to the other party. At the same time, in this way, the cooperation between the two sides would definitely become closer.
He was sure that the other party would definitely not want to miss such an opportunity.
As expected, Cai Jin instantly became motivated.
Even if she couldn't change her race, she didn't want to miss the opportunity to attack a demigod. More importantly, if that bear goblin demigod continued to exist, wouldn't the benefits of boiling the beast's blood become greater and greater?
It's been less than half a month, and he has come up with dozens of blueprints and recruited thousands of bugbears. If he is given more time, he might be able to fill the entire Red Cloud Tribe with bugbears? She absolutely cannot accept this!
"Okay, I will immediately send someone to carefully investigate the relevant intelligence."
But she immediately became discouraged: "But even if I can change my race, my sisters, my subordinates..."
"Eat your meal one bite at a time. Greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant."
Cai Jin gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll do my best."
Then she complained again: "By the way, Levi, what's going on with the Lightforger in your guild? Doesn't he know the relationship between us?"
Li Wei smiled and said, "Of course I don't know. Too many people talk too much."
He trusted the wisdom and power of the Lightforged, but his subordinates were not so reliable. With such important information, some people might take risks for the high rewards.
Even though they all know that given the current situation, the greenskins will definitely not be able to defeat the elves, but when it comes to interests, not everyone can remain rational, and they can't help but be optimistic.
Cai Jin was just complaining. Although she didn't want to lose her troops by working for the Boiling Beast Blood, in fact, if the situation was favorable, she would still fight. Otherwise, where would the experience points and spoils come from?
Now that she has talked things over with Levi, if she beats up the Lightforged in the future, Levi won't be able to blame her for it.
After confirming some details, Levi and Cai Jin parted ways. They both had important things to do next.
Cai Jin has to fight against the Lightforged who are approaching step by step, while trying to find out the information about the Bugbear Demigod.
Levi is preparing to attack Zhugen Town. Once they succeed, more than half of the territory of the entire Red Cloud Tribe will become a smooth road for them. The territory and reputation of the colony may be greatly improved as a result, so he needs to go all out!