Volume 4 Chapter 21 Good Luck (1)
After leaving the Wilderness, I felt a little regretful. Although we completed the appraisal of the artifact Heavenly Crystal, we finally came to the Wilderness, but we didn't get any treasures. I heard from Er Qiao that during the internal test, their friend came to the Wilderness, slaughtered all the barbarians, and searched for countless treasures in the tribe. Compared with the ones produced in the outer part of the Wilderness, the quality was better, and there were even equipment of the Holy Spirit level. But their friend came to the Wilderness after reaching level 100 during the internal test. It was good enough for the three of us to escape unscathed, let alone kill all the barbarians. Besides, it's not that we got nothing. We finally got a fragment of Heavenly Crystal!
But now I have only got three of the eight pieces of the Heavenly Crystal, and the real artifact is still a long way off. My wish is to find a treasure for Xiao Yi as a betrothal gift. Given the nature of the Heavenly Crystal, it is not suitable for a magician like her, and I don't care about ordinary things. How can I achieve my goal? Of course, if I can kill an SS-level Boss, then the artifact will definitely drop, but just think about it, if the ultimate Boss is so easy to kill, Fantasy would have closed down long ago!
So I returned to the Thunder Alliance with a mixture of satisfaction and frustration. After the profiteer learned the results of the appraisal of the Heavenly Crystal, he took the initiative to take on the task of finding out the whereabouts of the remaining fragments. Since the second crystal column we obtained was exploded by the Bi'an during the siege, there might be some in other cities, or other monsters might also explode? The profiteer has a wide range of business channels. If someone sells this kind of thing, he can get the news first, so it is most suitable for him to be responsible.
In the following days, I wandered around the Cang Continent, and I would go to investigate wherever there were high-level bosses. After all, I had obtained the Tiger Soul from the D-level Boss, the Tiger King. What if I could get another artifact from another monster?
So in the past half month, countless D-level and E-level bosses have died under Tiger Soul. With my current strength, although I still have to run away when I see C-level and above bosses, it is as easy as eating vegetables to fight against D-level bosses alone. Moreover, I am alone, without any worries and can go deep into dangerous places that are difficult for people to go, and find those monster species that no one has killed. Unfortunately, people's luck cannot always be so good. The chance of getting Tiger Soul is even rarer than winning the lottery, and I don't think I have ever heard of a person winning two jackpots in a lifetime. Although my harvest is incredible because of the cornucopia, I still haven't seen any shadow of the artifact.
Actually, there are quite a few good things... Two pieces of holy equipment "Illusionary Boots" and "Flame Soul Ring", any one of which is worth 600,000 or 700,000 gold coins at the auction? The four pet eggs are all produced by high-level monsters, and they are also rare treasures. There are countless equipment below dark gold. But if you want to blame someone, blame myself for getting the artifact so early, which also raised my vision to a different level from ordinary people. Besides, I always feel that since the Tiger Soul was created by Xiao Yi and I, it would be unreasonable if I didn't give her an artifact-level treasure.
Therefore, even though I brought back countless top-quality products to the alliance and the unscrupulous merchants were grinning from ear to ear, I was still unhappy.
I knew that it would be hard to gain anything by fighting a D-level Boss again. Besides, on this Cang Continent, except for places that were too far away, I had almost killed all D-level Bosses, and they would not be refreshed within this week. They also greatly hindered my leveling. Otherwise, I should be almost at level 60, and maybe I could challenge a C-level Boss, or maybe that would give me a better chance.
Just when I was sighing all day long, suddenly a brother from the alliance came to me, the boss, and asked for help.
It turned out that this brother had received a random task by chance. The NPC asked him to help eliminate the monsters that lurked in a village on the night of the full moon. He went to investigate and got clues from the villagers. This task was quite difficult. Although he was not sure what the monsters were, there were quite a few of them, and it seemed that their levels were very high. It was impossible for one person to complete it alone. Even bringing ten or eight friends would probably be of no help. I'm afraid the gang would have to mobilize a large force to do it.
So he went to find Xiao Wu, the leader of the Thunder Corps. Xiao Wu didn't object to sending out members to help, but the alliance rules were strict. As a military force, the Thunder Corps, in addition to daily training, had to get approval from me, the leader, for any deployment of more than 500 people (if I wasn't online or out of the communication range of the headquarters, this power would be given to Lonely, unless Lonely and I couldn't get in touch and it was really an emergency, then the leader had the right to make his own decision). So Xiao Wu sent that brother to come to me directly.
After hearing this, I was a little tempted. Generally speaking, random tasks are not easy to come across, and they usually have very generous rewards. But this is not necessarily the case. There are also many cases where you spend a lot of effort to complete the task but get a piece of garbage as a reward. But in general, the more difficult the task is, the greater the probability of getting a top-quality reward. According to this brother, it requires so many people, so it shouldn't be a dummy task. And even if you are unlucky and the prize is garbage, the Thunder Group has been established for so long, and this mission is a good opportunity to test their training results. Anyway, I can't think of where to get a gift for Xiao Yi at the moment, and I have nothing to do, so why not take this opportunity to inspect the Thunder Group?
The day after tomorrow is the full moon night in my dreams. I decided immediately that this mission could not be missed. I immediately issued an internal notice, requiring members of the Thunder Group who could be online the day after tomorrow night to sign up, and select some people from them to form a combat team to complete this mission.
The enthusiasm of the members is still very high. Now the total number of members of the Thunder Group has expanded to about 2,500. As a result, 2,000 people signed up. Of course, we can't take all of them with us. There must be someone left at the branch base (the training and stationing base of the Thunder Group is the territory obtained after defeating the violent group, which serves as the branch of the Thunder League). I ordered Xiao Wu to select 500 people with higher levels, including various professions, to form an elite mixed force to participate in the action that night.
Because I wanted to examine the strength of the Thunder Regiment, I did not give too many instructions. I also told Xiao Wu not to interfere too much. All pre-war preparations were left to the team leader (the Thunder Regiment was organized into a squadron of 100 people), because the command ability of middle-level cadres was also an important part of overall strength.
Xiao Wu was full of confidence. After picking out five squadron leaders, she let them do everything. When we gathered on the third day, I observed that it looked very good. The five teams were arranged neatly, and the team members were full of energy and high morale. I casually asked a few questions about drug supply and tactical arrangements. The five captains answered clearly, how to scout and how to fight, and even preset three different plans. Although they were a little bit ignorant of improvisation, they were all considered carefully. I was secretly happy when I heard it. The biggest difficulty in the development of the Thunder League at present is the lack of staff in the management, but it seems that Lonely and Xiao Wu are well trained. Aren’t these excellent personnel promoted from ordinary members talented after training? They still lack a little practical command experience. Give them a little more time to hone their skills. In the future, they will all be capable people who can be used with confidence!
Now that everything was ready, Xiao Wu, five captains and I led our men and set off immediately, led by the brother who had accepted the mission.
We arrived at our mission destination before the sun completely sank into the horizon.
This is a small natural village with dozens of households, and of course all the residents are NPCs. There are countless such villages scattered in Fantasy, because the Fantasy map is so large that it takes ten days or half a month to walk to some places from the nearest city with a teleportation point. If there is no place to stay for supplies and accommodation along the way, these places will become uninhabited restricted areas. These villages are playing such a role. Generally, there is a small medicine shop in the village that sells some relatively ordinary potions; there is also a blacksmith shop that can repair equipment; there is also a small restaurant that serves as an inn, and other ordinary villagers NPC. There is also a village chief. If you visit him, he will generally tell you some very practical little news about the geography near the village, what monsters usually appear, what local specialties are there, etc.
Don't underestimate such villages. In fact, random tasks often appear in such places rather than in big cities. The probability of their appearance is very low. No one has the patience to visit countless villages like this on the continent one by one. Moreover, the appearance of random tasks is completely random. In the same village, you may not encounter a task when you go there, but a player may come right after you leave, and with a one-minute time difference, he may encounter it.
Therefore, it can be said that random tasks are impossible to obtain deliberately. You can only encounter them by chance, and the chance is very small. The content of the tasks is varied and varied, from helping a villager child find his lost toys to asking you to assassinate the Dark Emperor (this kind of task is clearly a joke on you. Even if you have reached level 100 and are fully equipped with artifacts, you are just going to die! If you encounter such a task, just shake your head and walk away)! The rewards for the tasks are even more uncertain. Although the higher the difficulty, the more likely you are to get the best rewards, you may help an aunt carry her husband who was injured while hunting back home. When she turns around, she takes out something and says it is an ancestral treasure. It is buried in ordinary people like us. Today, the hero has saved my life and gives it to you in the hope that you can make it shine again. You take it and look at it. It's an artifact! Dizzy!
So usually, anyone who encounters a random mission will be excited to take it on (except for perverted missions like killing the Dark Emperor). Of course, 99.999% of the results will be disappointing. Sometimes the reward is just a word of thanks from the NPC, but you will also often hear news that someone has been rewarded with Holy Spirit equipment, or someone has found a treasure map and a large amount of gold and silver. Of course, gossip is human nature (even men), and once such a thing really happens, it will spread quickly. There is also no shortage of fake news that is revealed by bragging.
But I didn't expect anything good this time. I came here mainly with the idea of reviewing the combat effectiveness of the Thunder Regiment soldiers and conducting actual combat training.
It was not yet completely dark and the mission had not yet begun. Scouts had already scouted the terrain and environment here, and had made tactical arrangements based on the monsters described by the villagers. But to be on the safe side, I took advantage of this gap to visit the village chief in person to see if there were any problems that I hadn't noticed.
The village chief's reply was similar to what the brother told me. On full-moon nights, a large number of zombie-like monsters would appear nearby, looking up at the sky and worshipping the moon, swallowing the moonlight, and dancing. They might be holding some kind of ceremony. When the cockcrows and the sun rises, all the monsters disappear without a trace, but the farmland and animal pens around the village are destroyed. It's okay if the villagers stay in their rooms that night, but if they go out, they will be killed by the monsters and their bodies will be eaten. The villagers are overwhelmed with anxiety and fear, so they ask the warriors to help eliminate the monsters.
This mission doesn't sound special, but those monsters shouldn't be ordinary zombies. As far as I know, only zombie kings have the ability to absorb moonlight.
If it was an ordinary zombie, there would be no need for us to mobilize so many people. However, the zombie king is an E-level Boss. Of course, it is unlikely that so many bosses will appear at the same time. Therefore, I infer that it is a monster of the same type as zombies, but of a higher level.
As for the Lich King, the strength of an E-level Boss is roughly equivalent to that of a level 70 monster, but the Boss has more health and more skills, while a level 70 monster may have higher offense and defense.
The Thunder Corps is the most elite force in the Thunder Alliance. The 500 people who came this time are the best players in the Thunder Corps, with an average level of about 45. More importantly, they are experienced in combat and have good coordination. With their strength, they can now form a team to enter Kunlun Mountain to kill level 60 monsters and level up. Fighting large-scale level 70 monsters at any cost should not be a problem. Therefore, I have nothing to worry about and can only wait and see the performance of the warriors.
Because according to the intelligence the number of monsters would be extremely large, the five squadron leaders decided to adopt a defensive counterattack tactic to avoid excessive casualties. They ordered their men to work before time was up, bringing in stones and wood, and using the houses and fences in the village to build a circle of simple shelters, which they could then use to kill a large number of monsters.
Yes, I nodded secretly. It seems that these captains are not brave men. They know how to take advantage of the environment and have some qualities of commanders.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the afterglow of the sun finally disappeared completely. Night fell on the earth, and a strange cold wind blew from the sky, making us feel chilly in this hot summer. Unknowingly, black clouds appeared in the sky, and it became increasingly dark and gloomy!
