Volume 4 Chapter 500: Hunting Ritual and Crystal Vanguard
"You have obtained a special relic of a lost god. Due to the long time, most of its power has been lost, and its contents are also unclear."
"You need to go through a special hunting ritual to gradually replenish its power so that it has greater potential. The current replenishment rate is 0%."
After reading the general introduction, Levi was somewhat excited.
Because he felt that this might not just be ordinary divinity, but more likely a fragment of priesthood or knowledge of a field, and most likely in the animal field.
Previously, Paine also had an animal domain, but this domain was further subdivided into several categories.
The domestication and enslavement of animals is mainly to strengthen the overall strength of the force, and the owners are generally responsible for logistics.
Summoning and transforming into animals directly enhances the power of small-scale battles.
As well as hunting animals, the most famous are the hunter gods of several major races such as humans, elves and dwarves.
Even Mala, who had previously been an enemy of Levi, possessed this kind of ability.
Once it is truly completed, it will undoubtedly be a significant supplement to our own combat effectiveness.
The following is a more detailed introduction to hunting rituals. Generally speaking, it is nothing more than killing the enemy, taking a symbol from his body as a sacrifice, and performing a simple sacrificial ceremony.
Almost all churches have rituals of offering sacrifices in an attempt to please the gods, especially sacrificing high-ranking figures of hostile forces, who are particularly loved by the gods.
For Levi, as long as it was not a forced living sacrifice, or a sacrifice of souls and blood, this kind of ordinary sacrifice was completely acceptable.
But he still remained alert because he couldn't be sure yet whether its original owner was completely dead.
When the completion degree is close to 100%, he may have to ask gods such as Lilith and Illidan to support him.
He also learned that the reason why King Lamizazi came to hunt the Queen of Reproduction was precisely to complete this thing.
They were gifts given to him by the Immortal Emperor. The Immortal Emperor had always only wanted to return to being a normal human being, and he had no interest in becoming a god.
In addition, King Lamizazi is probably the strongest and most loyal among the many descendants of the Immortal Emperor, so it fell into his hands.
King Lamizazi recently discovered its true use, and wanted to take it a step further with it.
Unexpectedly, in their first official battle, they were completely defeated by the Queen of Reproduction.
However, he did not gain nothing. In the process of fighting against the Queen of Reproduction, he also killed some enemies and finally came to a conclusion.
The race of the hunting target does not matter; the key is that the opponent's strength must meet certain standards.
As for the troops, they must be at least level 6. If they are elite units, the charge points will be higher.
If it is a hero unit, it must be at least level 10.
All in all, the threshold is still not low, and it is very difficult to quickly improve the completion rate in a short period of time.
King Lamizazi had used up all his troops before, and although he was defeated miserably, he also killed many enemies. As a result, the one in his hand is currently less than 5% complete.
Levi estimated that if he wanted to slaughter a level 6 giant or an Arachnari giant spider, he would have to kill and defeat thousands of them.
Under normal circumstances, this might take several years and would be considered a long-term job.
But now that the Four Gods of Chaos have resurrected, many demon lords in the Abyss have also become agitated, and a large number of demons have frequently appeared in the world, it has become relatively easier to do.
After adjusting his state slightly, Levi suggested that he escort the other party back to Bag City first.
But King Lamizazi did not agree, because he still had illusions about his subordinates and wanted to check if there were more survivors.
Levi thought about it and decided that since the person had been found, it wouldn’t matter if he delayed a little longer.
So he sent the Rat Master and the Shadow Elementals to continue the search, and he turned to look at the other side, where the father and daughter were chatting animatedly.
Although he initially used the opponent as a cover to lure the Queen of Reproduction to take action, it turned out that the Punisher's strength had indeed improved to a great extent during this period of time.
Because the demons and devils have been somewhat agitated recently, Sigmar has taken the initiative to dispatch the Celestial Legion to attack several times, and the Punisher has performed very well, and has grown into a level 15 hero as a result.
The stronger the soldiers are, the higher their level will be after becoming heroes. He is a very obvious example.
Hearing this, Levi also thought of the little female dragon, Catherine. In many recent battles, she no longer simply used fog magic for assistance, but bravely rushed to the front line to fight.
So what kind of requirements does a powerful race like her need to meet in order to become a heroic unit?
The Punisher laughed when he heard this: "It's actually very simple to say. It means defeating enough strong enough enemies."
"She is now at level 6, so go and kill the level 6 elites, or level 7 soldiers, on your own."
"If three are not enough, kill five. If that's still not enough, keep killing. As long as you don't die, there will always be a chance to be promoted to a heroic unit."
"The same applies to low-level soldiers, except that they may have to kill more, and the chance of breaking through is significantly lower."
"Besides that, it is naturally the grace from God. For them, making ordinary people heroes is just a trivial matter."
Levi raised his eyebrows and did not comment. What he said seemed to be of little use to Catherine's current situation.
The Punisher is a special celestial creature that has a restraining effect on evil races such as demons. It is completely understandable that he can kill powerful enemies by crossing levels.
But Catherine's abilities are mostly auxiliary. If she is asked to fight alone, unless the opponent is a giant that cannot fight in the air, her winning rate is really not high, not to mention the time it takes. It is still more reliable to rely on Lilith.
However, compared to most mortals, the races with better talents and strength are less interested in gods. Dragons like Catherine don't seem to have much faith in the Dragon God...
The Punisher left with a big laugh. After Levi waited for a while, King Lamizazi, who was a little discouraged, reappeared in front of him.
His attempt ended in failure because the mummies were of no use to the giant spider, so almost all of his men were killed.
After comforting each other a little, they started to return to Bagh City.
They chatted for a while on the way, and when they were about to arrive at the city of Bagh, Levi also reached a more in-depth cooperation with King Lamizazi.
The two sides mainly exchanged what they had and what they didn't in terms of constructs.
Levi can provide the opponent with a certain number of dragon golems, scarabs, and eagle guards, all of which King Lamizazi cannot manufacture.
Next came some dinosaurs, but King Ramizazi did not use them for himself. Like most Tomb Kings, he did not like to have living animals in his troops.
It was actually prepared for the heroes chosen by God. There was a vast desert around Bag City, and no dinosaurs could be seen at all.
If he could give dinosaurs as mission rewards, many God-chosen heroes would definitely be tempted, after all, rare things are valuable.
Hearing this, Levi couldn't help but nod secretly. This trick was indeed very feasible.
King Ramizazi responded with gargoyles, various golems including iron, copper, gold and diamond, a level 6 snake girl, and the signature of Bag City - the Bag Bone Giant.
The rest is fine, Levi has basically understood them all.
The key lies in the 5th-level gold golem and 6th-level diamond golem. In addition to being a more powerful version of the original ordinary golem in all aspects, their resistance to magic is also greatly improved.
Furthermore, the rust effects in metal magic and lightning magic will no longer be their weaknesses.
However, the materials required to make them will be countless times more than those of ordinary golems because they require gold and diamonds.
Although not all the raw materials are made of them, even if only a layer is plated on the surface, it will cost at least hundreds or thousands of gold coins.
So even in the hands of King Lamizazi, there were not many.
It’s not that he doesn’t have the money to build it. All Tomb Kings are poor. But for him, this is completely unnecessary.
With the money to build a diamond golem, he can easily awaken hundreds or even thousands of mummies and skeleton soldiers. Under normal circumstances, the role they play is definitely much greater than that of a diamond golem.
Because the enemy is not a fool. Once recognized, who would be stupid enough to keep attacking the diamond golem with magic?
They don't move very fast and don't have ranged attacks, so just go around them and leave them to melee troops to deal with.
But Levi felt that this special type of soldiers would be very reliable when guarding certain key locations, such as the gates of the meeting halls in various towns, the core areas of the Black Ark, etc., so he pre-ordered some.
But he still had a question. Logically speaking, these two types of golems should be the secret of the mechanical department. Where did King Lamizazi get them?
Back then, many great wizards of the Department of Mechanical Engineering tried their best to hunt down various intelligent creatures because they wanted to create advanced creations such as the Snake Lady and the Thunder Titan.
At one point they were even so arrogant that they thought they were creators like God.
Therefore, they not only offended many forces in the main world, but also angered the gods.
So the final outcome was not surprising. All the famous wizards were killed, the entire force completely fell apart, and all the high-level troops and precious information were either abducted or destroyed by the gods.
After that, the mechanical department existed in name only, so their presence in the main world was actually very weak.
King Lamizazi actually possesses the skills to create these two types of constructs. It is not known whether he is a survivor of that year or obtained the other party's relics by coincidence.
But that has little to do with Levi, as long as the other party can provide goods steadily.
Even in a short period of time, the number may not be too large. After all, it is impossible for the other party to work exclusively for you.
But the good thing is that, perhaps to make up for the shortage of supply and to express his sincerity in long-term cooperation, King Lamizazi said he was willing to invest in building a teleportation array that leads directly to the Fear Rock.
This is naturally a good thing, although he said it was to facilitate future communication and transactions between the two parties.
But if Levi simply used the teleportation array to arrive in Bag City and then turned around to go to the Orion camp, or other forces, would he stop him?
Unfortunately, King Lamizazi's special bonus skills for constructs are said to be something he was born with, and there is no way he can teach it to Levi. He could only share some of his little tricks with him.
But despite this, Levi still benefited a lot, so both parties were very satisfied for a while.
After arriving in Bagh, Queen Rashut's gratitude goes without saying.
She also seemed very surprised at Levi's swift action. He rescued King Lamizazi safely within less than a day, so the reward she had promised before was not prepared in time.
Levi was not in a hurry and responded casually with a few words. He and the other party temporarily borrowed an army of a thousand people.
Penthesilea, Elegy, Donna, Kerillian and others will take their army and credentials to the Orion camp to bring back the giant stags promised to him by the Twilight sisters.
The army represents the official status of the city of Bage, and is led by the legendary Penthesilea, so this little matter is not a big problem.
He himself followed a Tomb Raider hero to the church of the Scorpion Goddess.
The other party had come to their aid before to express the goodwill of the Scorpion Goddess, so Levi naturally reciprocated the favor and asked the priests to take a little extra care of them.
So even after a fierce battle, they only lost one soldier. They were much better off than the mummy troops who suffered more than 80% losses at the hands of the giant spiders.
Now he plans to visit the other party's church and donate some money or something.
There was nothing unusual at first, and the clergy of the church received him very warmly.
But after he donated a large amount of property and left behind more than a dozen constructs including the Tomb Scorpion and the Poisonous Scorpion Guards, the statue in front suddenly flickered.
The clergy who were originally talking to him were stunned at first when they saw this, and then they didn't care about him at all and just knelt down in ecstasy.
Levi immediately understood that it must be the Scorpion Goddess who was giving the orders.
A few seconds later, a rather old papyrus appeared out of thin air and floated towards Levi.
Levi raised his eyebrows, reached out to take it, and after quickly scanning it, the system prompt immediately popped up, saying that he had triggered a special task.
There was once a loyal priest who was killed while defending the temple of the Scorpion Goddess, but he did not wait for resurrection as usual.
Instead, the entire body and soul were sealed together in a giant scorpion in an ancient tomb, and then buried deep underground.
This might be a conspiracy or a mistake, but he did not complain or despair about it. On the contrary, under special circumstances, he became more devout to the Scorpion Goddess.
Now, no one knows how many years have passed, but he has become an extremely special being: with the body of a giant tomb scorpion, he can cast the unique Nehekara magic of the Tomb Kings.
At the expense of flexibility, the survivability on the battlefield is greatly improved.
Now the Scorpion Goddess felt his piety, so she decided to give him a chance to be reborn.
But he did not continue to serve the goddess, but pledged allegiance to Levi.
Yes, although the Scorpion Goddess did not communicate directly with Levi, she expressed her goodwill in this way.
However, Levi still needs to do something, which is to go to a desert outside the city and dig the other party out.
After finishing the reading, Levi found that the room was silent and all the clergy were looking at him with extremely fanatical and respectful eyes.
There is no doubt that for them, the fact that Levi, who is not a follower of the Scorpion Goddess, can receive such treatment undoubtedly shows that the goddess values him.
What else could Levi say? He could only donate some more things and said that if the other party wanted to develop a new belief, he could go to Fear Rock and try.
Then, without him having to say anything, the other party took the initiative to say that as long as Levi was in Bag City, they would do their best to help him no matter what happened.
Levi didn't beat around the bush and directly asked the other party to take him to the desert. No matter what his specific strength was, he had to dig that guy out first.
Then a quarter of an hour later, accompanied by a burst of yellow sand, several sounds of metal collision were also heard.
After the tomb warriors moved the things out, Levi took a look and found that it was a very typical and ordinary ancient tomb coffin. There was nothing unusual on the surface, and there was not even any magical fluctuations.
What puzzled him was that if the other party's body was a giant tomb scorpion, the size was a bit wrong. Could it be that there was something else going on inside?
But no matter what, the target is already in front of him, so Levi began to try to lift the seal for the other party according to the recorded spell.
After a somewhat lengthy spell, Levi shouted the last sentence: "In the name of the Scorpion King, show yourself, Serkhet Skarner!"
After reading it, Levi frowned unconsciously.
Because the Scorpion King, also known as the Scorpion Goddess, whose real name is Serekhet, how come it sounds so similar to this Serkhet?
Is it just a coincidence? Or is it because his name is similar to the goddess's that the Scorpion Goddess noticed him?
But soon he had no time to think about it, because accompanied by a whistling wind, the coffin lid jumped three times and then exploded with a "bang".
Amidst the smoke and dust, a lifelike, crystal clear scorpion walked out.
After seeing Levi, it waved its pincers excitedly, wagged its tail with a poisonous needle like a puppy, and trotted towards him.
But Levi was a little dumbfounded. Wasn't it said that the giant scorpion in the ancient tomb would be used as a carrier?
So what is the situation with this tiny toy that is not even as long as his finger?
It's only a few steps away, and you haven't shortened the distance much after climbing for half a day!
Although he was surprised, Li Wei still greeted the other party immediately: "Hello, I'm Li Wei."
The crystal scorpion - Sekhet, responded immediately. It waved its little claws and danced for Levi on the spot.
Levi resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He began to feel more and more that something was wrong. Compared to Lilith, why did the Scorpion Goddess look like a scumbag?
Fortunately, after a few seconds, the system's prompt finally came. This little guy, which looked like a decoration, had already recognized him as its master.
It is a level 6 combat hero, its race is construct, and its profession is a special crystal vanguard.
Its strength, physique, and intelligence are all above average, but its agility is a little weak and its movement speed is not that good either.
But it has several special skills, one of which is the crystal scorpion armor, which can temporarily create an energy shield for itself, absorb damage and accelerate.
The second is to change its body shape. Just like Bayoru, the elephant man of Hole, it can also adjust its body shape to a certain extent.
But the difference is that as the body shape changes, its height, weight, strength, physique and other attributes will also change accordingly.
What appeared in front of Levi was its smallest size. Based on its current strength, it could enlarge its size up to 10 times.
But it was still a thing that was kicked away by someone, so don't expect it to engage in hand-to-hand combat in the short term.
The third one is the Crystal Stinger, which can fire special stingers, and the opponent will suffer damage and slow down effect .
The last special skill is Crystallization. Its normal attack and Crystal Sting skill can both infuse special crystals into the target.
As the number of stacking times increases, in addition to the enhanced damage and slowing effects, the opponent may also enter a crystallized state and be unable to attack, move or cast spells for a short period of time.
How many times it will take to succeed depends on factors such as the opponent's level, physique, and magic resistance.
Then came some conventional Nehekara magic, such as the protection spell of the Queen of Gods Isis, the magic sword spell of the God of War Anhor, the withering spell of the Lord of Magic Thoth, the punishment spell of the God King Osiris, the bone storm spell of Set, the Father of Jackals, and so on.
These magic spells named after Egyptian gods include attack, defense, and curse, and are quite comprehensive.
But overall, its power may not be inferior to conventional magic such as earth, fire, water, and wind, but it is far inferior in variety.
After all, conventional magic has been studied and improved for countless years by dragons, magic toads, elves and other races with prosperous magic in the main world, and even by the gods, and it is still developing.
But the magic of Nehekara is only used by the Tomb King himself, so it is definitely inferior in many ways.
But now it appears on a finger-long crystal vanguard, which is still very good. At least it is hidden enough and can assist in combat.
And the best part is that it also has a skill called inscription repair, which can heal the construct on the battlefield.
Overall, it is very consistent with what the Scorpion Goddess said. She did not lie to Levi, but just chose to conceal some key points.
No matter what, Levi still had to accept her favor.
There is still a problem now. It is an extremely special construct, and it cannot use many equipment that humanoid creatures can use.
It can only wear small items such as gems, rings and amulets.
As for weapons, armor and other things, they also have to be specially customized for it.
After thinking about it, Levi decided to let it form a team with Harpros, which would also strengthen his team a little. After the Crystal Vanguard becomes stronger, he will see if there is a more suitable position for it.
