There are many types of insect beasts. In the process of fighting with them, humans have gradually developed a detailed classification system. According to the strength of insect beasts, they are divided into ten levels.
The Steel Soldier Insect belongs to the lowest level of first-level insect beasts.
It is worth mentioning that the level division of swordsmiths also refers to this system. For example, apprentice swordsmiths correspond to levels one to five. Those whose soul sword casting progress is less than 20% are first-level apprentice swordsmiths, and 20%
Those between ~40% are Level 2 apprentice swordsmiths, and by analogy, Level 6 are real swordsmiths.
Nowadays, the Steel Soldier Insect poses almost no threat to Lin Ze, so he estimates that his strength level is at least level two. As for whether he has reached level three, he will have to fight to know.
According to the map, Lin Ze walked cautiously towards the square. When he was still four to five hundred meters away from his destination, he discovered traces of the Steel Soldier Insect.
At the same time, a rustling sound came from behind a broken wall ahead.
Lin Ze immediately hid behind a boulder and quietly poked his head out to look at the situation not far away. Under his gaze, two cheetah-sized steel soldier insects Shi Shiran walked out from behind the wall, looking around with four scarlet eyes.
As the sharp-edged legs moved, they chipped the stones under their feet.
The two Steel Soldier Insects were completely unaware of Lin Ze's presence and just patrolled around, stopping from time to time, opening their sharp mouths to bite the steel bars exposed in the rocks, chewing them up and swallowing them.
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Steel ranks first in the diet of these guys, followed by humans.
Lin Ze squinted his eyes and looked around, and found that there were many huge stones scattered nearby, turning the ruins near the square into a small maze-like existence.
The Steel Soldier Insect is not good at climbing. If he really fights, the environment will be more favorable to him. Unexpectedly, he will fall into the siege of the Insect Beast.
As his mind raced, Lin Ze quickly had a plan in his mind. He quickly lowered his body, held his breath and concentrated, and mobilized the energy in his body to inject it into the white knife.
The translucent hazy air flow soon wrapped around the sharp blade.
After condensing the blade, Lin Ze adjusted his breathing slightly, then rushed out of the shelter with a single stride. With his eyes wandering around, he immediately locked the position of the two steel soldier bugs, and in a few steps he quickly rushed to the nearest steel soldier bug.
, before it had time to react, the glinting knife tip had already sunk into its head, harvesting its life.
The other steel soldier insect reacted at this time, raised its head and let out a sharp hissing sound. The sound spread far away in the empty ruins. Not long after, the same sound came one after another in the square in the distance, as if in response to something.
Start tweeting.
This place is not far from the square. Once a battle breaks out, the Steel Soldier Insects will inevitably call out to their companions. Lin Ze has already anticipated this, and does not panic when he sees this. He calmly kills the remaining Steel Soldier Insects and absorbs all the soul energy.
Finally, I had some time to look into the distance.
The flying dust slowly rose and floated from the field of vision.
The densely packed Steel Soldier Insects rushed in like a raging tide, knocking away the stones and broken walls blocking the road and smashing them into pieces. Their momentum was astonishingly violent. Lin Ze made a rough count and found that the number of the attacking Steel Soldier Insects was at least thirty.
head.
After approaching the ruins lined with boulders, the speed of the insect swarm slowed down. They immediately noticed Lin Ze standing struttingly in the center of the ruins, and they opened their huge sharp pincers and rushed towards him.
There are two huge boulders of human height sandwiched between the two sides. The boulders stand facing each other several meters apart, forming a natural door that can only accommodate two steel soldier insects to pass through at the same time.
The steel soldier bugs had low intelligence and didn't care about the surrounding terrain at all. They just rushed through the boulders and the formation was in chaos.
What greeted them in front was the cold and deadly light of the sword.
Tsk! Tsk!
The two steel soldier bugs that rushed forward were killed instantly, and the sword light did not stop, flashing in the void one after another, taking away the lives of the steel soldier bugs that rushed forward blindly.
The death of his companions immediately angered the insect swarm. As more and more Steel Soldier Insects rushed closer, the two boulders blocking the road were quickly knocked open, the gap widened, and a large number of Steel Soldier Insects swarmed in.
When Lin Ze saw that the situation was not going well, he retreated early, relying on the ruins of the wall to fight guerrilla warfare with the Steel Soldier Insects. The white sword covered by the sword was extremely sharp, and even the Steel Soldier Insect's shell was comparable to steel.
If he couldn't stop, often when the light of the sword passed by, a steel soldier insect would fall to the ground.
About ten minutes later, with the death of the last Steel Soldier Insect, the originally dilapidated ruins became even more messy as if a strong wind had passed by, with collapsed and crushed stones everywhere.
Lin Ze calmed down his somewhat rapid breathing, and without caring about rest, he picked up the white knife and began to absorb soul energy.
After the insect beast dies, the soul energy will gradually drain away as time goes by, and will completely dissipate in about an hour. Therefore, after killing the insect beast, you must seize the time to absorb it.
After a lot of work, Bai Dao increased his steel attribute soul energy by 0.34%, bringing the total amount to 0.44%.
"A total of 36% of the steel attribute soul energy is required to cast the Red Lotus. At this rate, it will take half a month at the fastest to absorb it." Lin Ze thought to himself.
The casting time of a soul knife is usually measured in years. If a trainee swordsmith can successfully cast a soul knife within one year, it is already considered outstanding, and this is only the lower-level knife-casting formula. The intermediate and upper-level knife-casting formulas cost
longer.
Therefore, the progress of soul knife casting was increased to 36% within half a month. This speed is already shocking in the Blackstone Inhabited Area. However, Lin Ze is not satisfied with this. After all, 15 game days are still too much for him.
Too slow.
"We have to hunt down higher-level steel soldier bugs!"
The base of insect beasts is huge, so occasionally individuals that are much stronger than ordinary steel soldier insects are born, and humans name them elite individuals.
In the classification of insect beasts, elite individuals are usually one level higher than ordinary individuals. For example, the elite steel soldier insect belongs to the second level insect beast.
Among elite individuals, rarer and more powerful individuals are sometimes born, which people call king insects.
In addition to being more powerful than elite individuals, Overlord Insects also have the ability to command, and can command elite individuals and ordinary individuals of the same population. Therefore, wherever Overlord Insects exist, there are usually a large number of Insect Beasts gathering.
Whether it is elite steel soldier bugs or steel soldier king bugs, they are much more difficult to hunt than ordinary steel soldier bugs, but in contrast, the steel attribute soul energy contained in these two is also richer.
If enough elite steel soldiers could be hunted down, Lin Ze's ability to absorb steel-attributed soul energy would be much faster.
"According to the signs on the map, there are a lot of Steel Soldier Bugs in the square, and there might be elite individuals among them!" Lin Ze secretly guessed.
Before leaving for the square, he searched the insect corpses one by one and took out the insect cores inside.
Insect cores are an important material for making white knives. They can be exchanged for a lot of credit points if sold to the Knifesmiths Guild. Originally, the carapace of the Steel Soldier Insects was also valuable, but it was too troublesome to carry, so Lin Ze had no choice but to give up.
While Lin Ze was busy getting the insect cores, in the Ding family villa in the Black Stone settlement 18 kilometers away, Ding Beiye was listening to the report of his subordinates with doubts on his face. After a while, he asked:
"You mean, Lin Ze went to the ruins of C7 city by himself?"
"That's right!" the young man in charge of the report said firmly, "I saw him walking out of the North Gate alone!"
"Is that kid tired of living and looking for death?" Ding Beiye couldn't help but look confused.
Even if Lin Ze can deal with six or seven Steel Soldier Insects on his own, there are often dozens of insect swarms in the ruins of the city. If he really encounters an insect swarm, he still can't tell who is hunting whom, and what is the difference between seeking death?
After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out why Lin Ze did this, but no matter what, this was undoubtedly good news for him.
Thinking of this, Ding Beiye's expression became fierce and he said in a deep voice: "Ask Wu Weilin to go to the ruins of C7 city, find Lin Ze and kill him!"
Wu Weilin is a second-level apprentice swordsmith, which is enough to deal with a mere newcomer.
"Master, there's no need for that. Maybe we don't need to take action and that guy will die in the ruins of C7 city!"
"What if he comes back alive?" Ding Beiye glared at his subordinates angrily, "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Just do as I say!"