Chapter 175 The Aquila Archer and the Secret of God
Chapter 175 The Sky Eagle Archer and the Secret of God
Early in the morning, Levi led his troops to prepare in advance to welcome the arrival of the high elf army. Since Reiner had specially reminded him through magic communication before, of course he had to seize this opportunity.
He even originally wanted the guild members to come with him, but after careful consideration, he gave up the idea, because if all the guilds went, they might directly recruit the entire army of high elves, and he didn't want to
Therefore, bringing any other unnecessary trouble to Reiner is tantamount to cheating the other party.
And to be honest, he and most of the people in the guild are not close to this level yet.
So in the end he only told a few people, the Sun Knight, the Light Forger, and the thief Qian Thio who had recently joined the guild and was also considered his friend.
After getting this information, they expressed their gratitude to Li Wei one after another. At the same time, they also very smartly said that they would not follow Li Wei, but would stay at a later place and pretend to meet by chance.
As for the ordinary people in the guild, they are arranged in several nearby villages. Although they are not as good as them, they still have a lot of advantages over others.
And now even the aboriginals couldn't find fault with it, so everyone was happy for a while.
Soon as time passed, a small fleet appeared in sight. Even if the specific equipment and faces could not be seen clearly for a while, Li Wei could almost be sure who was coming by looking at the shape of those warships.
Must be a high elf.
Because various races and factions are still quite identifiable in many aspects.
For example, the Sigma Empire is basically the flag of their respective country plus the symbol of the god they believe in;
The Kingdom of Knights is basically the emblems of various nobles, as well as knights, Pegasus, and even the symbols of the Lady of the Lake and the Holy Grail that they believe in;
The undead are basically all kinds of skulls that look very eerie and terrifying, the greenskins are rough and primitive, and the tomb kings mostly use the ancient Egyptian style, such as pyramids, deserts, scorpions and the like;
The wood elves are basically flowers, trees, or animals, while the Cathay dynasty is mostly decorated with dragon patterns. After all, they believe in the dragon gods of Cathay;
Dark elves tend to display their iron-blooded and ruthless signs very intuitively;
And even without the white-based dragon flags soaring in the flames, just looking at these luxurious, beautiful, and even somewhat exaggerated warships, most people are almost completely sure that they can only
From the high elves.
As the distance got closer, Levi also completely confirmed the identity of the other party. He was indeed a high elf, but a trace of doubt gradually arose in his heart.
Not to mention the huge war eagle statue erected on the bow and the obviously shining protective magic on the entire hull. Why do the appearances of these warships look so silky?
Is it a huge whole?
At this time, Donna next to her sighed and said: "I heard that all the warships of the high elves are carved from a whole giant tree. I didn't believe it at first, but after seeing it in person today, I feel
The rumors are not false."
Her sigh also solved part of Levi's doubts. Even Donna said this, so it was probably the truth.
However, there are often hundreds of elves on every ship in front of us. There are also some ballista-like war instruments at the bow and stern of the ship, occupying a quite large area. So what is the original size of these giant trees?
It's truly a magical world. Everything is possible!
Soon the warship slowed down, and then the high elves landed one after another, and Levi also took the initiative to meet a guy dressed as a commander.
Compared with other high elves, he holds a sword and shield, and his attire is more gorgeous, especially on the cheeks of his helmet. He also has a pair of extra armors like phoenix wings. It is obvious that the decorative significance is more than the actual combat significance, and it also makes him more gorgeous.
People will never ignore his existence.
"Sergeant Levi Goethe, I have met the Commander."
At this time, Li Wei felt that it would be more convenient for him to take a military position.
As expected, the commander's expression improved significantly: "Oh, are you the Levi that Mr. Reiner mentioned? Sure enough."
After a slight compliment, the commander told him bluntly that due to the needs of the war, military merit was not required. As long as the camp was lawful neutral or lawful good, and the money was sufficient, all the high elf regular troops who appeared in front of him could be free.
Conduct recruitment.
Li Wei immediately expressed his thanks and took the other party's list.
Then he discovered that compared to the previous options for recruiting using military merit points, the types of troops in front of him were undoubtedly much fewer, with less than ten types in total.
Level 2 are spearmen, spearmen (with shields), rangers, archers, and archers (light armor);
The third level is the Lothern Ocean Guard, which is divided into two versions: shield-wielding and non-shield-wielding versions, but they are both units that can be used at both distance and distance with spears and bows.
As well as the Silver Guards that Levi had seen at the Lightcaster before, they are regarded as enhanced versions of the spearmen. In addition to their attributes being strengthened to a certain extent, the most important thing is that their shields and armor are enchanted, which improves their ability.
It has a certain amount of magic resistance, which will definitely have additional special effects when fighting against the demon army.
Of course, as a price, as they are considered a rare unit, their recruitment price and maintenance fee are also higher.
Finally, there is another rare unit, the Skyhawk Archer, which has only thirty places in total.
Compared with ordinary archers, they have two very practical special skills, mobile shooting and anti-infantry.
These two skills are not ordinary skills. It is already good for ordinary soldiers to have one of them, but these guys have two at once. Even Li Wei suspected that he had seen it wrong when he saw it for the first time.
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But then he was overjoyed, because these guys had completely crushed all the half-elves in the team!
In comparison, even though their recruitment fee is as high as 1.2 gold, and the maintenance cost is more than double that of half-elves, in Levi's opinion, it is still worth the money.
Apart from this, there are no war beasts, no cavalry or chariots, and no air force in the list, but the total number that can be recruited is not small, a thousand people.
But although it seems like a lot, you have to know that there are hundreds of high elves' chosen heroes nearby. If it is divided equally, each person can only get a few places. Even those who come late will not only not be able to choose, but may also come away empty-handed.
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This time Levi indeed owed Reiner a favor. Of course, the Sun Knights also undoubtedly owed Levi another favor.
Without any hesitation at all, he readily recruited all 30 Skyhawk Archers. Then, after only hesitating for a moment between the Lothern Ocean Guards and the Silver Guards, he chose to recruit 20 Silver Guards.
Although the former can be far or near, they are not particularly good in both aspects. They are even slightly inferior to level 2 archers in terms of bows and arrows. Similarly, their defense is far inferior to the Silver Guards.
If they are subordinates of aborigines who are not short of money, their existence will indeed cause headaches for all enemies, but for the God-selected heroes with limited funds, they just look fancy, but in fact in most cases
However, the performance is inevitably somewhat unsatisfactory, mainly because the cost is relatively expensive, resulting in low cost performance.
Fortunately, she just received some military skills from the Sun Knight yesterday, otherwise Donna's leadership skills may not be sufficient.
Although Li Wei owes some money after recruiting so many new subordinates, he believes that with their strong strength, they will be able to pay it back in a short time.
Perhaps because he sensed Levi's relief, or perhaps Reiner's name played a certain role in it, the commander actually took the initiative to tell Levi that there was no need to be too anxious.
Because this batch of reinforcements is only the first batch, there will be a second batch tomorrow, also with a thousand people, and as long as we persist, the number of reinforcements will be even greater.
Levi felt a little surprised. It was clear that the demon army had captured his own Black Fortress, and the high elves were busy retaking the lost territory. How could there be so many spare troops?
After chatting along the topic for a while, he realized that in the southern overseas seas, in addition to the three large islands occupied by the dark elves, lizard people and Amazons, there were also many small islands on which the high elves had previously arranged
Many outposts were set up to guard against the invasion of dark elves, and dark elves would frequently attack these outposts.
But now that the two sides have ceased fighting, these garrisons are of no particular use for the time being. In addition, due to the emergence of the abyss rift, the demon army directly threatens the hinterland of the colony. In order to protect many villages, the acting lord decided to temporarily withdraw some of them.
strength.
However, since every village seriously lacks half-elves with command potential, and towns are unable to send them out, this burden falls on many God-chosen heroes.
This is why you can recruit these troops at will without having to earn military merit points. In the future, high elves from other kingdoms will come to help you, and there will be more troops to recruit.
Although this place is very far away from the Ulthuan Ring Island in the homeland of the high elves, after taking a boat across the three large islands in the south, bypassing a land occupied by various races such as lizards and ratmen, and continuing to the west, there
There are also colonies belonging to other kingdoms of the high elves, such as Dawn Fortress, Twilight Fortress, etc., occupying more land and islands.
Of course, due to the long distance, numerous sea beasts, pirates, and many other bad weather conditions such as strong winds and waves, those reinforcements will obviously not arrive too quickly and will take a certain amount of time.
But what is even more inspiring is that there is a legendary archmage, the Supreme Guardian of the White Tower of Hoth - Teclis, who is fighting the dark elves on the coast of the Lustria continent, about a few thousand miles away.
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At present, the acting lord has sent a distress signal to him, and the other party has agreed. Once he wins, he will come at full speed for reinforcements.
For a legendary mage, although this distance is not within reach, it is not far at all.
However, the dark elves there are not miscellaneous soldiers, but are commanded by a dark elf hero of the same legendary level - Loxia Corrupted Heart. Even with Teclis's powerful strength, it is estimated that it will still take half a month.
Both sides can completely solve each other.
Levi secretly noted the time.
Although the demon army is huge in number, up until now, not counting those abyss demon gods, there has never been a real powerful god. There is news that Black Castle only encountered their overwhelming superior strength and was attacked by air raids.
, that’s why it was captured so quickly.
It seems that this legendary archmage of the high elves may have been a turnaround arranged by the system.
Looking at the admiration on the commander's face, there is no doubt that the legendary mage named Teclis has an extremely huge influence in his heart. It seems that even the abyss and rifts in the sky are no longer a problem.
However, he had never heard any information about the other party before, and even the name was the first time he heard of it.
So he asked tentatively: "As long as Tigris can come, everything will change?"
The commander nodded without any hesitation: "There is no doubt that almost all high elves think that he is the strongest mage among mortals!"
"But why have I never heard of it before?"
The commander's face suddenly became a little embarrassed. After hesitating for a long time, Li Wei roughly figured out that it turned out that the Dragon Prince was too arrogant because of his original character, so even though he was one of the few legendary heroes among the high elves, in Austria,
Suan Circle is not particularly popular.
At least it is far inferior to Teclis, and Teclis's twin brother, another legend, the guardian of Ulthuan, Tyrion, known as the Dragon of Cosque.
It is precisely because of this that the Dragon Prince traveled thousands of miles overseas in an attempt to expand the territory on his own and prove it to the high elves of the other nine kingdoms.
Judging from the results, the Dragon Prince was indeed successful. He developed several towns here and dozens of surrounding villages. In addition to defeating the legendary hero of the southern dark elves, he also had the energy to deal with the surrounding people.
The greenskins, ratmen and other evil alien races launched a crusade. Not only did they win every battle, they almost never met an opponent.
At the same time, in the process of this hard struggle, his character was also tempered and improved to a great extent.
The combination of the two, the other nine kingdoms' compatriots gradually changed their attitude towards him, so they also sent some troops. This is one of the reasons why the colonial military types are so rich and colorful.
For the high elves, no matter which kingdom conquered the colony, other kingdoms have the responsibility and obligation to coordinate defense together, because the high elves are a whole, and these colonies also represent the glory of the gods.
But because of envy and jealousy, as well as the conflicts accumulated over the years, the Dragon Prince still hated the two legends whose names started with Thai characters. Because of this, their names were basically not spread in the colonies.
Even if the Dragon Prince had not returned to his homeland to recuperate due to serious injuries, and the colony had been attacked by an army of demons, even if the acting lord, who was also a mage, highly respected Teclis, it would have been almost impossible to invite him over.
Levi couldn't help but sigh, but then he realized another question: "The acting lord seems to be absolutely sure of the truce with the dark elves?"
As we all know, the races in the evil camp basically have few good things. This is not only reflected in their attitude towards the same race or foreign race, but also in the fact that most of them are untrustworthy, so it is not surprising that Li Wei has such doubts.
Now that the acting lord actually trusts the truce agreement between the two sides so much that she even dares to withdraw all the troops from the frontline outposts. Isn't she afraid that the dark elves will tear up the treaty and occupy all the outposts in one fell swoop?
Just think about it and you will know that those outposts may occupy a small area and the fortifications may be crude, but once they are really captured by the enemy, if they want to get them back, they will have to pay several times the price.
Upon hearing this question, the commander immediately smiled, a smile full of confidence: "Yes, the acting lord is absolutely sure."
"Ever since Malekith failed in the holy fire of Asuryan's trial, was burned to serious injuries, and foolishly decided to abandon the gods, lead his rebels to escape from the Ulthuan Ring, and call himself the Dark Elf
After the Witch King, we have never been on the same level."
"Because we high elves have dozens of gods behind us, but there are no gods behind the dark elves. They are even more pathetic than the original drow."
"Even though thousands of years have passed, this situation has still not changed. Only some gods who are hostile to the high elves, such as the Queen of the Pit Demon Network, and some green-skinned orc gods are secretly supporting it."
The Queen of the Pit Web is Lolth, the Spider Queen, the god of the drow. Even among the many evil gods, she is undoubtedly the most evil and vicious among them.
She was originally the patron saint of elves and the wife of Corellon, the current high elven god king. However, she later betrayed and teamed up with many evil gods to besiege the elven gods. Although she failed, she did not die, and she also had several younger brothers under her command.
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At the same time, unlike most gods, her lair is placed on the 66th floor of the Abyss.
Theoretically, the bottomless abyss is the territory of demons, but after betraying the elves, she openly occupied one of the floors. Not only did she occupy it very securely, she even kept marching into other adjacent floors, beating up the demons around her.
She was in such a state of embarrassment that it was enough to show her great strength.
As for the green-skinned orc gods secretly supporting the dark elves, it is completely understandable.
Not only because the greenskins have a deep hatred for elves, dwarves, humans and many other races that represent civilization and law, but also because after the most powerful elf god Asuryan has been missing for many years,
The gods of the green-skinned orcs had tried to gain some advantage.
Then they were severely beaten by the elven gods headed by Corellon, and even one of the left eyes of the current main god of the orcs, Gexunu (or Gruumsh), was blinded alive.
So since then, the two sides have been at loggerheads. Even if they know they are outmatched, the green-skinned gods headed by Gruumsh will still try their best to cause trouble.
And it can be expected that unless one of the two dies, this matter will never end. After all, Gruumsh was the god's body who was injured in the first place. Under the influence of the powerful divine power, the eye is almost impossible to
Be truly restored.
And even if it can be restored, it is obviously impossible for both parties to treat the incident as if it never happened.
Ordinary greenskins may be generous enough to let such things go, but as gods, their self-esteem and their ability to hold grudges far exceed those of mortals.
After this exchange, Li Wei felt that he had really gained a lot of knowledge, but at the same time, more doubts arose in his heart.
If you look at it from the surface, it is obviously completely possible for the gods of the high elves to completely destroy all the resistance of the dark elves. However, for thousands of years, they have allowed both sides to fight bloody battles, which will inevitably cause him to have more conflicts.
guess.
In some respects, wouldn't the existence of these dark elves be just like the grindstones of Donna and others in Sparta Village before?
It's just that the Spartans were weaker, so they were directly destroyed by the collapse, which allowed Donna to win the championship. The high elves were not only able to defeat the dark elves, but they even had the energy to vigorously develop colonies throughout the world.
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And the dark elves have no intention of weakening at all. Not only do they occupy a large area in the northwest of the world, but the black arks of the dark elves, which are like moving islands, scare almost all races because they often lose money.
He robbed it with others and brought it back to his home as a slave.
From this point of view, the gods of the high elves are probably playing a big game of chess.
It seems that after the betrayal of the drow and the dark elves, which greatly damaged the vitality of the elves, the elves and gods have also learned a little wiser.
I even thought further about those guys who stayed in many forests, formed allies with powerful creatures such as tree men, unicorns, green dragons, etc., and changed their names to wood elves. Are the elves and gods really helpless against them?
Until now, they still believe in the same gods as the high elves!
With this sigh, Levi also saw that the Sun Knight and others pretended to be a chance encounter according to their previous plan, and happened to meet this high elf army.
The commander smiled half-heartedly, obviously understanding something very quickly, but he did not refuse and simply handed over the list to the other party.
This is not only because of Reiner or Levi, but also because he does not reject this kind of behavior. Otherwise, if every chosen hero comes to recruit three or two soldiers and then turns around and leaves, then I am afraid that he will not be able to spend the rest of the day.