Players are engaged in various monster killing tasks, and the growing player lords from all sides are also busy accumulating strength and breaking through bottlenecks.
Even due to the launch of the "Lord Knowledge" system after the game version upgrade and the modification of some settings related to academic skills, even the strategic map, which has gradually lost popularity a while ago, has recently gained a second spring. Every day, people in various system cities
The hero hall was packed with people, and at first glance they were players completing strategic missions.
Compared to the calm situation in the outside world, everyone in Plague City has ushered in another stage of intense preparation for war.
After coming out of Mokmora's hut that night, Liu Yifei gathered everyone again for a meeting that night, picked up the important news and told everyone about the severe situation that would be faced behind the Plague City.
Especially regarding the terrifying thing like the Chaos Demon, Liu Yifei emphasized it to everyone again and again~
This is definitely the first time this thing has appeared in front of the player community.
Otherwise, it would be so outrageous, as long as it appears in the game normally, there would be no news at all on the forum~
The only reasonable explanation is that they became the first people to "eat crabs", and the most terrible thing is that this crab is obviously thick-skinned and extremely strong.
Crab claws will inevitably cause head injuries and bleeding.
While continuing to emphasize the importance of continuous military training, Liu Yifei also began to assign relevant combat tasks.
Among all the people, Liu Yifei and the little assassin actually have the lightest lord tasks, followed by Lone Hunting Doll, and then Suoklan and Xiaocao, while the dark witch Xuelan and the masked warrior Wu Huangquan are the actual ones.
The busiest people in the world, because now they have to take charge of all kinds of trivial matters in the territory of Plague City, they have completely become Liu Yifei's housekeeper.
Judging from the workload, the most suitable candidates for continuous reconnaissance missions are actually Liu Yifei and the little assassin. However, out of some selfish motives, Liu Yifei finally handed over this arduous task to Lone Hunter Doll, and left Lone Hunter Doll temporarily.
Some tasks that need to be busy are handed over to the hands of the little assassin.
The reason for making such an arrangement was mainly because with the help of the old lizardman village chief, the lonely hunting doll successfully released the original two storm crows and captured two six-legged flying lions as war pets.
For the Lone Hunter Doll, this is equivalent to improving its combat effectiveness by a large margin out of thin air.
With a six-legged flying lion, the Lone Hunter Doll can already "take off to fight". Although the original Storm Crow can also fly, it is difficult to fly with people on its back, so once a fight breaks out with the Lone Hunter Doll, she herself
You will still become the target of enemy fire.
However, the six-legged flying lion can carry a standard-sized person into the air to fight, so the gap is huge, especially since the hunter is still half an archer. As long as he thinks of getting some props or equipment,
If she has two levels of riding skills, she will be completely tough.
And with two six-legged flying lions, it's really incredible. With the exchange of turns, the ordinary hunter Gu Hunter Doll instantly becomes a "mid-air unit".
It was also because of this consideration that Liu Yifei assigned the Lone Hunting Doll to investigate and alert the Fire Ax Tribe. After all, Gregory was too big to get close to him, and the six-legged flying lion could move freely as a battle pet, and the hunter
It has stronger survivability in the wild, and it would be a waste not to use it.
Of course, there is no bad news~
After actual testing by the old lizard man, the six-legged flying lion is not considered a sixth-level creature, but because its blood does contain the blood of the manticore, its strength is a little higher than that of ordinary fifth-level creatures~
The young lizard man tamers in their tribe are not qualified to tame the six-legged flying lions. They can only rely on the old lizard man to tame and capture some every day. However, they can increase their efforts to tame the cave spiders.
Because dwarves are obviously capable of the unique mount "Giant Spider", so the young dwarves in Gruhar Village don't have to worry now. As long as they are strong enough, they can get a powerful enough mount at any time. Compared to Sawtooth Crocodile
, burrowing spiders that can spin silk to capture prey and build burrows to lurk have more strategic value.
Now the little assassin is mainly responsible for this matter. He leads the lizardman trainers to catch crypt spiders on a large scale to the west of the Storm Outpost every day, striving to clear this entire place as soon as possible~
The entire territory was in an orderly situation, and there was no panic due to the impact of the impending war.
At this time, great news came from Tower Shield.
That is, after an internal decision in their Star War Soul Studio, their boss finally made the decision to continue to deepen the scale of cooperation with Liu Yifei and Plague City, and agreed to the overall strategic merger of the two parties.
As for the specific details of the cooperation, Liu Yifei will have to discuss it in detail with some of the cadres in charge of these matters in their studio every day after he goes offline.
In the game, Tower Shield first moved a group of players to the territory of Plague City under the instruction of their boss.
This group of people is what Liu Yifei has been waiting for for a long time, that is, many senior associate professional players.
From the Dickwell Kingdom, Liu Yifei used his accumulated achievements to collect many good things from the city lords of Glory City and White Rock City, one of which was a large number of craft drawings.
Of course, due to the adjustment of the system version, the gap between mercenary equipment and player equipment has now been eliminated. As long as it is equipment, everyone can use it. However, this has little impact on Liu Yifei, because all the equipment he collected
It is the manufacturing process drawing of "war machinery"
The preciousness of these gadgets is self-evident.
Because except for the original NPC lords, it is impossible for players to obtain these manufacturing methods. Even if you train the carpenter's deputy job to the expert level, you still can't learn some war machines that senior carpenters can build~
This is called "technical confidentiality".
With these blueprints and techniques, every time a blueprint is consumed, it means that Liu Yifei has an extra rare talent who can manufacture war machinery.
Of course, such a good Liu Yifei and the others would not dare to post casually.
After all, the player is a living creature and a floating population. If you teach him a way to make money today, he may change his job and find another place to work. Even if he doesn't work, he may still find a place that can give him a higher salary.
I'm not saying that all players are so ruthless, but there are definitely some realistic people among them.
The recruitment purpose of the Star Wars Mercenary Group is just to avoid causing trouble. You can’t say that you still control people and don’t let them make money, right?
There is no such truth in the world~
So regarding these drawings, Liu Yifei definitely didn't dare to shine. He could only say that he was looking for those people who were originally from the studio and were ordered to join the game to play sub-professionals and assist in the development of the mercenary group to discuss how to learn to build war machinery.
problem.
But unfortunately.
All war machinery, such as catapults, crossbows, and catapults, are made of wood. The main sub-job required is a carpenter, and some important parts require a high-level engineering deputy job.
It’s easy to find people who practice engineering, but there are really too few who practice carpentry~
The game has indeed entered an era of oversupply, which is a great thing for all sub-professional players.
Because only when there are more materials and the cheaper the raw materials are, can they consume a lot of raw materials to increase their deputy level~
But this is only for deputy jobs in a general sense, and there are some relatively unpopular deputy jobs, such as carpenters, whose spring has not yet come~
When will a carpenter start to shine again?
That is when the player lords develop and grow one after another, have territories and cities, need to build various special buildings on a large scale, and need to produce a large number of war machines on a large scale, then the spring of carpenters will come.
at the moment?
It was definitely the twelfth lunar month of winter.
The Star Wars Mercenary Group has been very committed to collecting all kinds of rare talents. Whether it is combat professions or sub-professions, as long as they are advanced and rare talents, they strongly welcome them~
But even so, there are nearly two thousand people in the entire mercenary group, and Liu Yifei is stunned that he can't find a "carpenter" above a senior level. This shows how scarce this deputy position is right now.
After talking to Tower Dun about this matter, they also realized the huge role of carpenters in the later stage, especially since Liu Yifei also had so many craft drawings in his hands, which will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the terror of his carpenters in the short to medium term. "
Profitability
What you can build, others can’t build. This not only means that you have stronger combat power than others, but also means that you have infinite room for profit. It is also a seller’s market, with absolute huge profits~
Tower Shield's method was to adjust the secondary positions of the three professional players assigned by the studio from the original potion emergency wash points to all carpenters.
In the game, blacksmithing, potion, and tailoring are the three categories with the most sub-job players. Blacksmithing and tailoring also involve equipment and repair issues, so there is still some profit margin, but the profit margin of pharmacists is really compressed infinitely.
Unless you can have a very special formula that no one else has, and can make medicine that others can't make, at least most people can't make, otherwise the leveling up of pharmacists nowadays is basically free of charge.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to immediately let the three professional players in the club become carpenters. Moreover, these three people are already members of the studio, and their loyalty is guaranteed. There is no need to worry about the follow-up matters.
Liu Yifei thinks it is a blessing to have such a reserve carpenter, but the problem is that it is very difficult to level up a carpenter. It won't be long before he can train the carpenter's deputy job.
But at such an important time, the little assassin came up with a dirty trick
For example, for a blacksmith, when he is a blacksmith apprentice at the beginning, he can increase his skill proficiency by doing chores such as repairing and forging metal ingots, but what about a carpenter?
For example, if a piece of wood is broken and needs to be repaired, will their proficiency increase if they mend it?
This suggestion greatly reminded Liu Yifei
They now have small bed crossbows, motorized crossbows and various types of supply vehicles. They are all made of wood. They can cut off some of their durability and let the three newly transferred carpenter apprentices have a try...
..It actually works. It really increases skill proficiency.
This was so amazing that everyone around me was so happy~
Let's just leave this matter to Tadun. It would be best if we can quickly find three useful senior carpenters for Liu Yifei in the next week~
Compared with the smooth sailing in territorial affairs, matters related to the war have strangely fallen into a quagmire.
Liu Yifei had already gone to Toradre to inquire, but he didn't expect that the answer given by Toradre was almost the same as that of the old dwarf, which meant that there was no good way to deal with these strange energy creatures.
Liu Yifei originally thought that the properties of creatures like Chaos Demons should be very similar to elemental creatures. However, after Toradre's explanation, Liu Yifei realized that they were completely different.
In terms of their appearance, chaos demons and elemental creatures do have many similarities. For example, they both have no physical body, and they both have a considerable reduction effect on physical damage, etc.
However, the system of elemental creatures is classified under the four major sources. It is the "power of elements" under the "source of the universe" and is one of the eight secondary powers in "order".
And what about the Chaos Demon?
There is no comparison, there is no "order" at all, it is purely a collection of chaotic energy.
Of course, Toradere is not without good news at all.
It is true that chaos demons in their natural state are difficult to deal with, but since they are chaos demons, it means that they cannot be controlled and guided by clear goals.
Through Liu Yifei's description, Toradre deduced that the demon embryos of the Chaos Demon were actually artificially "transformed".
Then these chaos demons can clearly accept the orders of the caster, which means that during the transformation process, they were forcibly integrated with the minimum "order" by external forces: that is, they obey the orders of the caster.
As long as there is order, it means that these transformed chaos demons have escaped from the state of true disorder, which also means that they may have weaknesses and cannot fully understand these new types of chaos demons based on past knowledge~
In this regard, Toradre requested to get some samples of magic embryos for study. It happened that Liu Yifei had left a pot of magic embryos at the elder Mokmora's place before. So Liu Yifei went to get the copper pot.
, and threw it directly to Toradre, please think of a solution~
In the end, Toradre also promised:
If those incompetent dwarfs hiding in the mountains really dared to go to Plague City to cause trouble, he would not sit idly by and ignore them.
Of course, it is true that he appreciates Liu Yifei, but Toradre is not active enough to block his troubles. The reason why he said this is entirely because the Plague City is the holy city of the ghost clan, and its security cannot be compromised.
As the king of the kingdom to which the nominal Plague City belongs, Toradre naturally wants to protect the Plague City when necessary.
It's just that Liu Yifei didn't know what price this kind of "assistance" would cost him. If it wasn't inevitable, Liu Yifei didn't think he would go so far as to ask Toradre to take action...
On the other hand, the "movements" on the Fire Ax Tribe's side are also very strange.
Liu Yifei confirmed that he could not hide the fact that he killed an opponent's "hunting" unit that day.
In fact, Liu Yifei didn't really want to hide it~
Although the existence of the Chaos Demon makes Liu Yifei quite afraid, this is just a thing that can scare Liu Yifei. In addition to the Chaos Demon Embryos, there are only 20,000 beasts and dwarves controlled by humans.
The battle prowess of the number, these still can’t scare Liu Yifei~
Instead of letting the opponent continue to hide in the mountains and accumulate troops, Liu Yifei really wanted to lure him out and kill him before his strength expanded again.
The reason why we don’t go straight into the raid...
It's just that Liu Yifei considered an away game issue.
Starting the fight on the opponent's territory will ultimately result in a loss of geographical advantage, and because the distance is too far, his vampires, undead and other powerful troops are not very suitable for pulling them all.
As many as 20,000 regular troops...are undoubtedly a bit of a fantasy.
What Liu Yifei didn't expect was that the other party actually kept calm after realizing that his troops were being attacked by unknown forces.
Are they searching to find out who attacked them?
Liu Yifei didn't think the other party would be so stupid.
Moreover, according to the feedback from the Lone Hunter Doll, the opponent's "hunting" operations have not been reduced due to the loss of a hunting team. Instead, they are more anxiously busy catching wild beasts separately. Sometimes a hunting team even has to go out for a whole day.
, will not return to the tribe with the prey until very late.
The final madness?
This is the only thing Liu Yifei can guess...
Every day, he listened to the lonely hunting doll reporting on the situation of various hunting teams that left early and returned late. Liu Yifei couldn't hold it anymore.
Damn~
These little dwarfs are so brave
They have obviously lost a number of people, but they still dare to be more blatant. Aren't they afraid...
Eh?
Thinking of this, Liu Yifei couldn't help but be suddenly surprised.
This thing is too weird. If you look at the other party's behavior from another angle...it seems a bit like deliberately leaking flaws to lure the enemy into taking the bait.
Could it be that the little dwarf and the others are still planning and waiting for the men who sneaked up on them to take action again, and then capture them in one fell swoop?
Liu Yifei doesn't think this possibility exists at all.
After all, there is at least one strong man with spiritual level strength in the opponent's team. God, do they have any hidden trump card? For example, if they have a group teleportation move, then they want to reinforce the attacked side the moment the opponent appears.
What a good idea~
But every time he thought about the big fish swimming around, even though Liu Yifei had guessed that it was a trap, he still had the urge to try it.
Don’t you want to take advantage of the situation?
In fact, Liu Yifei can continue to use his tricks.
There are a lot of troops ambushing around, and then you can lead them first, and then lure out the opponent's reinforcements and then surround them~
At least it shouldn't be a big problem for Grigory to single out a dwarf leader. The others, except for the magic embryo, will be much easier to deal with.
Just when Liu Yifei couldn't help but want to take action, on the fifth day, on the morning of the fifth day, he learned from the Fire Ax Tribe that the other party finally made some movement.
Liu Yifei had just gone online this morning, and there was a lot of noise in the friend channel. When Liu Yifei opened it, it turned out that it was Lone Hunter Doll, Xue Lan, and the little assassin who were all looking for him.
After asking, after waiting for several days, most of the opponents finally started to move and were heading towards them~
The situation when Lone Hunter Doll went online for investigation in the morning. I wanted to contact Liu Yifei at that time, but he was not there yet, so I had to contact Xue Lan and the little assassin first. If Liu Yifei didn't come up again, the little assassin would probably have to go offline to contact him.
He did.
"Finally starting to move? How fast?"
"It's not that fast. After all, we are a large group of people. We have been walking for almost two hours. We are still a little way away from the magic lake."
So slow?
Liu Yifei was stunned~
He secretly thought that the little dwarf's legs were short and his walking speed was unimaginably slow.
However, now that the enemies have begun to take action, Liu Yifei could not continue to take his time, and immediately rushed to Gruhar Village and reported the situation to the elder.
However, since the last "long talk" with Liu Yifei, the elder's energy seemed to have been consumed a lot, and he slept longer on weekdays~ Even after Liu Yifei reported such important news to him, he just called
Two small snores signaled it, which made Liu Yifei sweat profusely~
Is this a vivid example of how you can sit firmly on Diaoyutai?
Liu Yifei couldn't help but feel yy~
I don't know whether this kind of behavior is a great contempt for the enemy or a great trust in Liu Yifei, his "comrade". In short, Liu Yifei is speechless~
However, seeing that the great elder did not express any special expression, Liu Yifei also told Old George the news.
When Old George first heard that the Fire Ax Tribe was taking action, he was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't dare.
But he soon woke up~
And this time he no longer had the hesitation he had before, but instead had a look of resentment on his face.
Thinking about it, not only did he "control" all the young soldiers in the village led by Old George, but he also almost included Old George in them. This obviously touched the old man's bottom line. Even if the Ni Bodhisattva is still a bit rustic, this
The second oldest George seemed to have no intention of thinking about the feelings of the same clan anymore.
However, Liu Yifei was very worried about Old George's current resentment. Is there still his treasure in the opponent's team? If faced with it, Liu Yifei was not sure whether the old man could still make such a big determination.
