Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 392 Sphinx
So Levi waited for two days, until the leader of the caravan had left, but Khalida still hadn't returned.
Of course, he did not sit idle during these two days.
Donna, Cindy and others went out on their own and took on a large number of tasks in the tavern. With their current strength, it was basically no difficulty for them to complete ordinary tasks.
This is especially true with the help of Sonia and Sefa.
Their levels may not be very high, but they have traveled far and wide, are knowledgeable, and have considerable adventure experience.
Moreover, one of them holds a legendary whip, and the other is proficient in multiple types of magic, so they can be very useful assistants in battle.
The reason why they were so active was not only because they were planning to go to Thorn Town with Levi and visit his Mage Tower.
Moreover, it is because the two of them have received too many benefits recently, and they would feel guilty if they did not contribute.
This not only allowed many subordinates to reap a lot of spoils, but also gained a large amount of experience points. In particular, the blood elf spellbreaker Nochon and the elegant spirit Qiufeng, who had higher potential, were able to successfully advance.
Nochon can now combine the effects of the Blade of Wisdom and Magic Feedback. The magic blades he projects can also consume the opponent's mana and cause additional damage.
This can give you an extra advantage when dealing with both mage and warrior type enemies.
He also learned a new skill - Arcane Curse, which can cause targets in a small range to continuously lose a certain amount of mana.
Combined with magic feedback, his future fighting style will be quite distinctive.
Regardless of whether the opponent is a mage or a warrior, he will prioritize draining the opponent's mana before moving on to the next step of the battle.
In comparison, Yaling-Autumn Wind seems to be much inferior in terms of growth and potential.
However, the new skills he acquired are somewhat similar to those of Nuo Chong.
By expending magic, he can add special psychic damage based on his Charisma score to his sword or bow.
If the target's Charisma is lower than his, his attack will be strengthened to a certain extent.
In short, he's better at dealing with enemies that are uglier than him.
Considering that most low- and mid-level monsters of the evil camp, such as ratmen, goblins, or zombies, have charisma values that are almost non-existent, his combat effectiveness has been improved.
As for Levi himself, he and the new tomb technician, Harpros, created a large number of Death Guards, which basically used up about 80% of his gold coins and related resources.
There are all kinds of finished products, but the main one is jackal type.
Because through the actual combat in the past few days, they still performed the best in most battles.
Their attributes in all aspects are not particularly outstanding, but they are comprehensive and have no obvious shortcomings. It is no wonder that they are the most common constructs in the Tomb Kings' troops.
Moreover, most constructs cannot gain experience points or advance through combat.
The only way for them to become stronger is by replacing their limbs or weapons with stronger ones.
However, the experience points of the enemies killed by them will not be wasted. Some of them will be obtained by the commander they are bound to.
So Levi found a very good way to help Sally and Alyssa, the tomb machinist Harpros, and even the blood elves such as Yaling-Qiufeng and Nochon to increase the speed of gaining experience points.
That is to assign a few Death Guards to each of them.
Compared to these, the cost of temporarily lowering the magic limit and the need to replenish magic points from time to time is not worth mentioning at all.
Levi also made some other types, but the most precious and powerful one is undoubtedly the Sphinx of level 7.
It took him more than ten hours, hundreds of units of materials and gold coins, and a hero's spirit to create this super big cat.
It can be said that not counting other things, the cost price alone has exceeded one thousand gold.
And its strength is indeed worthy of such a high price.
The Sphinx is about 12 meters from head to tail, and the diameter of one of its large claws is more than one meter, making it look very powerful.
Unlike the others of its kind that have appeared so far in Tomb Kings, this big cat is very basic and does not possess any special abilities.
It doesn't have a fire-breathing mouth, a poisonous scorpion tail, or any other messy fighting abilities. It is just a primitive big cat that mainly uses three attack methods: giant claws, pounce, and tail sweep.
But Levi felt that this primitive and pure Sphinx definitely did not mean weakness.
What's the point of doing all that nonsense? Even if it can spit fire or release poison, can it compare to the fireball cast by a professional wizard like me?
On the contrary, in order to equip those parts, the other properties of the Sphinx will be affected accordingly.
However, there may still be some gap between it and the most famous and strongest known Undead Sphinx under the Immortal Emperor Settra.
Because the other party is the force that currently possesses the strongest and most methods of creating the Guardians of the Gods.
He simply replaced the Sphinx's two forearms with a pair of huge guillotines several meters long, installed a scorpion tail made of gold and stone, half a meter thick, behind its buttocks, and three pairs of small wings on its back.
Both in terms of functionality and combat ability, it is much stronger than the ordinary Sphinx.
Levi is not sure yet how many tons the Sphinx weighs, but when it walks, it is indeed earth-shaking.
If Levi hadn't specially rented a very spacious courtyard, an ordinary tavern would not be able to accommodate it.
In terms of attributes, its strength and constitution are both over 40 points, but the health and attack power it actually possesses are by no means comparable to those of an ordinary human with 40 points of strength.
Because every point of its constitution corresponds to 100 points of health.
Combined with some other miscellaneous specialties and skills, a level 7 Sphinx has more than 4,800 health points, 100 defense points, 80 magic resistance and more than 240 attack points.
At the same time, it also has a small-scale trampling attack. Even if the target is not directly stepped on, the surrounding targets will suffer 35%-55% of the attack.
As for skills such as anti-infantry, resisting charges, siege fighters, spreading fear, and ramming, they are also in series.
It can be said that just looking at its panel data, no matter how many ordinary level 5 infantrymen there are, they are basically meaningless to it.
Because they can hardly break its defense, but its counterattack may directly take the opponent's life.
It is indeed a war beast that has consumed a large amount of materials and the spirit of heroes to create.
Its only weakness is probably that it needs to be bound to a high-level spellcaster of at least level 10 as a commander and to provide mana, etc.
Otherwise it will just fight on instinct, or follow the last order it received.
Because it was so huge, even though Levi wanted to put it into the space ring, he did not formally activate it.
But when it was officially completed, it still attracted a lot of people to watch, and even the generals of the city of Lahmia came to check it out in person.
There was no other way. The big cat itself was more than 4 meters tall, and Levi had specially made a cage sedan on its back for riding, which had both strong defense and gorgeous appearance.
In this way, no matter whether it is magic units such as Sally and Alyssa, or lawbreakers such as Nochon, once they are in it, the enemy's ordinary infantry will not be able to reach them at all when forming a battle formation.
Some Tomb Kings would also equip some archers on them, but Levi thought that was a bit of a waste.
But no matter what, with its size, it is impossible not to attract attention.
Of course, this was also done intentionally by Levi. He wanted to attract the attention of the city of Lahmia and even Khalida.
He was indeed partially successful. The generals of the ancient tomb even offered three thousand gold coins on the spot to buy it, and said that if he was not satisfied, the price could be negotiated.
If they can keep this price up, Levi can become a millionaire just by selling this.
But the person he wanted to see the most, Khalida, still didn't show up, so Levi could only decline politely. He didn't create it just to make money.
Fortunately, on the third day after he arrived in Lahmia, reliable intelligence finally appeared.
Before leaving, Khalida seemed to have talked to herself many times, saying that she heard the voice of the Serpent God who had been dead for who knows how many years.
The reason why Khalida went to the Temple of Bones was probably because she wanted to use the power left by the Lizardmen there to resurrect the Serpent God through some large-scale magical ritual.
And this information actually came from Maltis.
She also used some special techniques.
Because she is currently an ownerless hero, she can still issue tasks to many chosen heroes like other natives.
So by chance, a God-chosen hero who wanted to recruit her gave her the information he had finally obtained, and then Levi got the advantage.
Levi could only sympathize with the guy for half a second, and then he led his men to march south at full speed.
With this information, he was able to roughly figure out some clues.
Now, most of the remaining Egyptian gods are half-dead, except for Sobek who has been killed by the high elves.
Only Set, known as the "Lord of the Jackals", was doing well because he also held the priesthood of the desert, and was gradually showing a tendency to surpass his brother, the God King Osiris.
Moreover, Set had previously used the alias of "Zehir" to rob a large number of snake believers from the heart of Horus, offending another snake god - Melshok.
It is obvious that he is also actively seeking the position of Serpent God within this pantheon.
In this case, how could a snake god who had been dead for a long time and had long been completely abandoned by his believers be resurrected?
Or maybe he wanted to devour the divinity in Khalida and replace it, and be reborn from the ashes, just as the God of Tyranny - Bane once did.
Or, there is no such thing as a serpent god.
Someone deliberately set this trap in order to stir up disputes between Khalida and Kuja, and even to seize the divinity in Khalida's body!
In any case, for Levi, this is a rare opportunity to show goodwill to Khalida.
So he went all the way, straight to the Temple of Bones.
Less than twenty miles away, Luna reported that there was smoke and dust rising from the rear, and a group of chariot troops of the Tomb Kings were galloping at full speed, and their target seemed to be them.
Judging from the smoke and ground vibrations, the enemy should have more than 500 chariots , as well as two to three hundred skeleton cavalrymen and skeleton horse archers.
Although the strength of the Tomb Kings' Skeleton Chariots is almost the last among all factions and races, often only at level 3, but to be able to gather such a number, the opponent is indeed very powerful.
As for those skeleton cavalry and the like, relatively speaking, they are not worth mentioning.
There is indeed no problem in using them as scouts or to harass troops, but if they are attacking, they may not be able to break through the defense if the Silver Guards stand still.
After listening, Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and his eyes quickly moved to Maltis.
He felt that he had not obviously offended anyone during the few days he had been in Lahmia.
Although Donna, Cindy and the others did grab a lot of missions, the Sphinx also attracted a lot of attention, which might have attracted greed or hostility.
But if it really is hatred, I'm afraid Martis is the most likely suspect.
Being able to obtain such secret information, the God-chosen hero she used must have a very high status and position in the city of Lahmia.
But Martis remained expressionless: "He took 10 gold coins from me."
Cindy next to him blinked, somewhat confused, but Levi instantly understood what she meant.
After receiving the money, it means that the other party recognizes her task reward, so the matter is naturally settled.
But now the other party obviously realized that he had been deceived, so he chased after us with such a fierce momentum, probably intending to have a fight with us.
So Levi nodded: "Okay, then leave it to me. If the other party still pesters me, let them see how powerful I am!"
Under his command, his subordinates quickly found a small hill surrounded by forests on both sides and began to set up their battle formation.
Although the Tomb Kings' Bone Chariots have very low health points and weak defense, when they actually launch a charge, their power is still quite considerable among the same level.
In other words, any normal tank will not be too weak in power when charging.
Now, under the command of the God-chosen heroes, with the blessing of their battle attributes, battle skills and battle treasures, their strength will be further enhanced.
In addition, their numbers are so large that we cannot completely underestimate them.
Therefore, Levi would naturally find ways to reduce the threat posed by the opponent's charge.
The rise of lowlands to highlands is a convenient condition that can be easily utilized.
This is certainly not enough to completely offset the power of their charge, but Levi does not rely on just this one trick.
This time, the outermost guards responsible for attracting enemy fire are no longer the Silver Guards. Instead, they are round, beast-shaped scarab Death Guards that are over one meter tall and several meters long.
Although these guys are level 5 constructs, their attack power is relatively weak among level 3 constructs, but their biggest advantage is that their defense and magic resistance are quite strong.
In the gaps between the scarabs, there are a large number of silver guards, making the entire formation look like a giant steel hedgehog.
Elegy, Alduin, and the new ogre Leslie were all mixed in.
Later on came the Drow Guards, the Dragon Guards, Sonia, Sefa, a small number of priests and other relatively fragile troops.
Even if all the druids followed Donna and floated in the sky for safety reasons, the ground troops still needed some priests to assist.
As for Luna and other night elves, they were hiding in the rainforest as usual, and Donna was still hanging high in the sky.
Therefore, the number of their troops does not seem to be that large, which can easily lead the enemy to be careless and underestimate them.
While his subordinates were busy, Levi was busy casting a large number of magic spells. In the open space in front of the scarab, there were not only endless quicksand traps, but also poisonous scorpion guards were sent over.
Possessing the ability to dig underground, they can easily set up ambushes below.
Next came a large number of celestial creatures.
Although at this stage, the Death Guards seem to be more resilient than them, every time a Death Guard dies, he needs to spend some resources to rebuild it, but the celestial creatures only need magic points.
The price-performance ratio between the two is not at the same level at all.
Moreover, only by fighting more battles would the celestial creatures be able to send out more and stronger troops for him to summon.
In addition to their disgust and hatred for evil creatures, these guys also value face very much.
If they were beaten badly by the enemy and suffered heavy losses many times in a row, they would most likely send out stronger celestial creatures for Levi to summon in order to save face.
They were almost done with their work, and the chariots in the distance were approaching rapidly. When Levi saw that they had no intention of slowing down, he knew that this matter would definitely not end well.
At this time, Martis took the initiative to ride out and said, "Levi, leave it to me."
Although the original intention was to help Levi, this incident was caused by her after all, so she needed to try to solve it.
She had clearly told the other party her purpose and gave him the reward as agreed, but he now showed such malice. It was really wrong. She wanted him to understand something.
Levi understood what she meant, but he just chuckled and shook his head: "No, please forgive me for refusing."
"If the other party was an indigenous person, I would never stop you, but he is a hero chosen by God, and it is not worth our risk."
The natives of the Tomb Kings attach great importance to honor. Even if they are going to fight with real swords and guns in the next moment, they will often treat each other with courtesy in the previous moment.
Some Tomb Kings would even agree on the time and place of the decisive battle before fighting, and even inform the other side of the number of troops and types of troops they would carry, which was quite gentlemanly.
But God's chosen hero...
All I can say is that, although there are many people with good character, such as Stump, Sun Knight and Master, etc., you should never overestimate their bottom line.
Seeing Levi so determined, Martis didn't say anything else. He just nodded slightly and retreated back to the formation.
Although her expression remained unchanged, she felt somewhat touched in her heart.
Not only because of Levi's attitude, but also because he just said "we"...
It seems that from now on, she really can't be so lazy anymore, and it's time to show some real skills!
Soon, seeing Levi's side ready for battle, the groups of chariots still had no ability to slow down at all.
Only a guy at the front, who was driving a metal chariot and looked like a general, shouted angrily.
"Levi, you actually bullied me, Ramses, and used tricks to steal my confidential information. Go to hell!"
Without waiting for Levi to respond, a flash of light appeared. It was unknown what skill he used. The chariot, which was already very fast, increased its speed again and launched a direct attack on Levi and the others.
There were also several guys who were obviously heroes chosen by God, some waving battle flags, some blowing horns, some tearing apart magic scrolls, each showing off their abilities.
As the rays of light dissipated one after another, Levi and his men could clearly see that the speed and agility of at least two hundred chariots had changed.
Some chariots are also coated with various metal colors, and it is obvious that their attack power and defense power have also undergone further changes.
As the chosen heroes of the Tomb Kings faction, they certainly know the biggest drawbacks of these chariots, so they will try their best to make up for their weaknesses.
But if that’s all, it’s far from enough to deal with Levi now!
With a light shout, Levi and Xiao Qi attacked at the same time, using black tentacles, ice storms, spider web techniques and so on one after another.
Cindy used the Holy Glacier, Sally used Flame Tentacles and Fire Wall. According to Levi's previous orders, they no longer needed to kill the enemy, they just needed to try their best to slow down the enemy or split them up.
Sefa released thin streaks of frost on the ground, making it slippery.
This seemed to be speeding up the opponent, but in fact, she also deliberately created some hidden whirlpools, or even translucent protrusions, which would often cause them to lose control directly.
Soon, several tanks either overturned or simply collided with their companions.
Alyssa, the Lawbreaker, and many celestial creatures with long-range attack capabilities also took advantage of the situation to launch attacks. For a while, the enemy's chariots were constantly destroyed or people were killed.
As a troop of only Tier 3, they certainly would not cast life linking arrays on their knights, chariots, and mounts like the high elves.
Therefore, among these three, no matter which one died in battle, the tank would basically be scrapped.
Even though Donna and Luna were holding back and Levi didn't use all his strength, it was still not something these enemies could easily resist.
Seeing the number of their own tanks decreasing rapidly, even those that were not destroyed had their speed basically affected.
Soon after suffering a certain amount of losses, the bone chariot was about to approach the scarab and silver guards in the front, and the quicksand trap had already been activated.
Although because of its own low class, even with the enhancement of Levi's strength, it is difficult to be effective against high-level enemies, but at least it is enough to deal with the chariots in front of it.
Then in an instant, countless chariots and horses were overturned, and a large number of scorpion guards who had been lurking in them also poured out in groups.
The construct, which was also quite powerful among the Tier 4 ones, beat up some Tier 3 chariot soldiers who had gotten off the carriages, and it was also a sneak attack, so naturally it completely crushed them.
At once, more chariots were destroyed, and the mummies or skeletons that had died once fell into death again.
However, it is not necessarily a complete death. If the undead creatures and special heroes like them want to be resurrected, the cost is much lower than that of most living people.
Seeing these scenes, several God-chosen heroes of the Tomb Kings faction could not help but look at each other in bewilderment for a moment.
This is totally different from what they expected?
It was said that the other side had fewer people, so our side could take the spoils and the honor of defeating Levi with a single attack.
And most importantly, has the Sphinx, which has not been activated yet probably because Levi's level or attributes are not temporarily suitable, returned happily to the city of Lahmia?
How come we have lost so many troops before we even get close to the enemy?
Moreover, the opponent's Sky Slashers did not seem to appear. Although our side had made corresponding preparations to restrain the opponent's power, it was still a considerable threat.
So they all looked at one of the guys who was holding a scepter and dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh.
A God-chosen hero named Ramses who is extremely fond of chariot troops and is also the strongest God-chosen hero in the city of Lahmia.
Well, at least that was the case until Levi arrived.
But Ramses also frowned for a moment.
The chariots rely on impact force, so if they are slowed down like this, how can they still be powerful? Especially the chariots of the Tomb Kings, after all, they are driven by skeletons.
Excluding heroic units and various constructs, the Tomb Kings do not have many truly powerful warriors.
Even under Khalida's command, the number of warriors above level 4 barely broke through three digits.
Most of them served as commanders at various levels and it was impossible for them to drive the bone chariots and charge at the enemy.
But at this point, they can no longer retreat, not for the sake of face, nor just for the secret information at the Temple of Bones.
Moreover, because of their loss this time, they must be repaid on Levi's body!
Thinking of this, he took out a blue and white Yuntian battle flag and stuck it on his pure metal chariot: "Follow me and charge!"
