At this time, the setting sun has completely set, and only a little light from the edge of the distant mountains is still providing better than no illumination to the earth.
On this dim grassland, the most eye-catching thing is the overturned and burning caravan vehicles, which are used as bunkers to resist, but there are only less than twenty caravan guards left, and some of them are running back and forth with torches and weapons, shouting.
In order to destroy their last line of defense and carry out plunder, there were seventy or eighty horse-riding bandits.
And just when the number of caravan guards who were still able to fight continued to decrease and even took the initiative to flee, a small force of about thirty or forty people appeared near the battlefield around the woods. Its commander was a man wearing a white robe and chain armor with a head on his head.
A knight wearing a visor and carrying a scimitar at his waist.
"Infantry, advance, shooters, line formation." The unit commander ignored the obvious numerical gap and issued the order without hesitation.
More than twenty infantrymen wearing thick leather armor, holding iron swords and wooden shields began to advance towards the battlefield, while the same number of archers wearing fur coats and holding longbows lined up behind them. Some were even impatient.
Start projectiles on the battlefield from a distance.
The bandits obviously also discovered this team, leaving some people to continue attacking the caravan, while most of them turned their horses and rushed towards the infantry queue heading towards them.
The troop commander who stayed behind and rode on horseback did not react at all. He watched the group of horse-riding bandits resist the fire of the archers and finally rushed into the infantry group and prepared to kill them. Then he raised the scimitar in his hand.
"Cavalry, charge!"
Da da da, boom boom boom——
The sound of horse hooves sounded like a dull thunder, and about thirty cavalrymen and horses, all wrapped in green armor, surged out from the shadows behind him, with lances and rifles held high in their hands that were already charging.
The raised armor-piercing sword looked murderous under the light of the fire.
The horse-riding marauders, who were simply riding without any decent protective gear for either their men or their horses, had just had time to cut down a few infantry in front of their horses when they were completely swept away by the torrent of green cavalry.
A smarter robber evaded the cavalry attack and forced his way past the infantry in an attempt to break through the line of archers who only had bows and arrows in their hands. However, just when he was about to ride his mount and collide with the archer in front of him, the archer showed that he got what he wanted.
With a smile on his face, he picked up the two-handed sword behind his back and chopped him off the horse directly.
At this time, the troop commander seemed to have lost interest in the one-sided battlefield and turned to look at the woods not far away.
"Now that I think about it, it's really not something that ordinary people can do such as increasing their intelligence."
Stephen Strange took off the visor on his helmet and said with a slight sigh.
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【Battle victory.】
[Enemy: 50 killed, 20 injured, 10 fled]
[Friendly troops: 20 killed, 15 injured, 2 fled]
[Our army: 0 killed, 33 injured, 0 fled]
[The team has an average share of 1400 experience, and ‘6’ soldiers can be upgraded. 】
Sherlock glanced at "0 killed", then stopped paying attention to the specific information, and instead opened the troop panel to "upgrade" the six soldiers.
Among the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield to collect trophies, four infantrymen and two shooters suddenly had golden light on their bodies. Then their armor and weapons were changed and strengthened to a certain extent. One of the infantrymen even directly took off from the spot and sat down.
On the back of a horse that suddenly appeared, the surrounding soldiers didn't notice anything was wrong at all, and even congratulated them cheerfully.
This is normal. After all, the fallen robber turned into black mist and disappeared, scattering the items on the loot list everywhere. What was even more strange was that it didn't attract anyone's attention, right?
[Stephen’s dominance +1, now 215]
At this time, the leader of the caravan guard came over holding his injured arm.
"Thank you, strange and kind-hearted gentleman, you saved our lives. What is your name?"
【I am Stephen from the Strange family.】
Sherlock looked at the options and read accordingly.
"I will tell the people I know about your heroic deeds, Lord Stephen." The caravan leader saluted and limped away.
[Your relationship with the ‘handsome’ Tali Song is +6, now 12]
[Stephen’s persuasion +1, now 127]
Due to too many experiences, Sherlock was too lazy to point out "Where am I convinced?"
Specifically, the planet of this second game is a relatively real, but not so real world.
At that time, after he gained control of "Stephen Strange", he did not feel like he was in command. Although there was no delay in his actions, the feedback he received was quite immature, as if he was wearing thick clothes or
Wearing insulated gloves, etc., even if you are accidentally shot in the face by an arrow from the green forest bandit, it will only be as bad as being hit by a paper ball, and it will not be as scary as losing a large amount of "health".
As for the attributes of "Incarnation", it is similar to what I reasoned, but more complicated. The "Strength" attribute governs fighting, melee weapons and forging, "Agility" is attached to reconnaissance, long-range weapons and stealth, and "Speed" will give running
, riding and boating increases, "intelligence" can increase the effectiveness of management, tactics and engineering, while charisma manages transactions, persuasion and command, and the most outrageous attribute is endurance, which can increase first aid, surgery and healing.
But if you think about it carefully, surgery, a job that often takes more than ten hours, does require endurance.
In conventional thinking, endurance should increase health, but this attribute is dispersed to special abilities that will only appear after reaching a certain level after using skills such as fighting, running, and healing multiple times. Without corresponding abilities, everyone's
"Health points" are all "100 points".
How low is this attribute? Take the "Enhanced Scimitar" equipped by Sherlock as an example. Its attack power is... 72 points.
The strong can only protect themselves from being easily defeated by equipping themselves with heavy armor and damage reduction capabilities - such as the armor on those "Imperial Armored Cavalry".
These cavalry were "evolved" from those infantry "Imperial Guard recruits" who "gained experience".
Experience can be obtained by defeating enemies, and these soldiers are recruited by finding "important people" in various towns and villages - such as the "handsome" Talisson who just appeared. These important people will only provide one or two at the beginning.
Soldiers are only the initial type of soldiers. You must constantly improve your relationship with them to increase the quantity and quality of recruitment.
Completing the tasks of these important people can improve the relationship, but they often do not send tasks for many days, so Sherlock came up with an idea: quietly follow the caravans out of these villages. As long as they are attacked by bandits, they will be killed when their losses exceed
Half of the time, if you reach the level of "save his life" instead of "thank you for the help", you can get the highest degree of relationship and reputation improvement.
Recruited soldiers need to be paid and consume food every day. If their morale is too low due to unpaid wages, lack of food, or frequent defeats, they will actively flee from the team.
Sherlock tried to communicate with them, and his reaction seemed to be no different from that of ordinary people, but he turned a blind eye to problems such as "upgrading" and "death to ashes" that happened to them. At the same time, no matter how big the battlefield was, "Strange's" voice was not loud.
Large "commands" can be accurately received.
By the way, after improving the ability of "surgery", which "increases the chance of death for soldiers who fall in battle," Sherlock's soldiers have not been "dead" in battle for a long time.
If you think about it carefully, if you don't have high intelligence, you won't be able to upgrade this skill. Wouldn't the other contestants have been recruiting, dying, and recruiting again in a continuous cycle, and a battle of this scale would directly go bankrupt, right?
[Successfully rescued the caravan, and the Strange family gained ‘3’ reputation points. 】
It seems to have met the standard... Sherlock looked at the new news,
For the main mission "Build a Family", in addition to recruiting 100 soldiers and obtaining 20,000 Baileys, you also need to obtain 50 reputation points to advance to the second level. Family reputation can be obtained by fighting against robbers, completing town tasks, participating in competitive competitions, etc.
Increase, for Strange, who has full intelligence and no enhanced combat ability, the last one is just to make him feel uncomfortable.
[Task: ‘Build a family’ has been completed. 】
[Number of companions that can be recruited +1, additional family troops +1, maximum number of troops +30]
[Can open a workshop +1, can operate a caravan (fleet) +1]
【Qualified to become a mercenary.】
[‘Mycroft’ has reached adulthood and sent a letter requesting to join you in your adventure. 】
So, if you are not well-known and unknown, your younger brothers and sisters will not be able to find you if they want to find you?
[Accept the mission: Become the overlord of one party.]
