Chapter 230: The Missing Ten Thousand Demon Rocks
System Tip: You have entered an active area of Magical Wind, reducing all mana cost by 5%, increasing power by 5%, and increasing magic error rate by 10%.
Almost at the same time that Levi received the system prompt, the sound of the clear spring was also a spirit: "Levi, we are close to the Ten Thousand Demon Rock!" β
"Well, be careful." While admonishing the other party, Levi thought to himself, just getting close to the Ten Thousand Demon Rock has already triggered such a system prompt, it seems that the legend that the Ten Thousand Demon Rock is formed by the convergence of magical energy is very likely to be true, but this doesn't seem to be all a good thing, what kind of consequences will the magic mistake be?
As Levi and the others continued to advance, they soon encountered the forces of the beastmen, hundreds of bad horned beasts, led by some big horned beasts with antlers on their heads, howled and rushed over, and at the same time, thirty or forty harpies fluttered out of the woods next to them.
Those bad horned beasts and harpy banshees are also counted, nothing special, but these big horned beasts are different from ordinary wandering squads in the wild.
Although they are slightly rusty, the weapons in their hands and the armor on their bodies are made of metal, and their attack and defense power are obviously one level higher than those of ordinary counterparts, and the proportion of elite units among them is a bit amazing, almost 3 percent, this is some real battle-hardened beastmen.
Coupled with the fact that they far exceed the number of ordinary wandering squads, ordinary players are afraid that they will be directly destroyed in one face, but fortunately, whether it is Levi's or Qingquan Liuxiang, they are not ordinary players!
"Qingquan, these harpies will be handed over to you, and the rest of the melee troops will be dealt with by my subordinates."
"Okay, no problem!" Qingquan Liuxiang immediately patted his chest in response, and then he also began to command quickly, nearly half of the troops under his command were ranged units, and most of them were wood elves known for their archery skills, and it was not a problem to deal with these harpy banshees.
In fact, Qingquan Liuxiang didn't brag, and with his command, the harpy in mid-air fell down like dumplings one by one.
And probably also wanted to show his strength a little, with a whistle, four eaglets more than half a meter long, with emerald green feathers, looked very cute, under the command of a special class wearing a beast skin cloak, rushed directly into the sky, and launched an attack on those eagle banshees, and their strength turned out to be good, all of them were 2nd order troops, and the leading one was a 2nd order elite, and ordinary eagle banshees were not their opponents at all.
"Haha, Qingquan, is this how you spy on the Ten Thousand Demon Rocks? These eaglets look pretty cute. β
"Ah, you found out, but yes, I just want them to participate in the battle a little more so that they can advance as soon as possible."
Levi smiled, he still didn't let the dwarven beast tamer call his thunder eagle out, otherwise that fourth-order elite would be a bit of a bully.
Although the number of beastmen is very large, but they are not Levi's opponents, as Huames charged from the side, directly killed the leading beastmen, the remaining beastmen were quickly killed by them, but after his subordinates cleaned up the battlefield, Levi had an unexpected discovery.
"Why did we kill the Beastmen and drop an Imperial piece of armor? Oh, there's a dwarven axe, can't all the equipment on these beastmen be looted? β
Qingquan Liuxiang thought for a moment: "Probably, after all, the beastmen themselves don't seem to have the ability to forge weapons, they basically rely on robbing other races to change weapons and equipment, otherwise they can only use those inferior weapons made of stones, wood blocks and bones." β
"Oh, it's almost the same as uncivilized primitive people, no wonder they are numerous, but they are basically reduced to wild monsters."
"Haha, that's right."
On the next road, Levi and the others encountered several more Beastman troops, each time there were more than 10 squads, and the equipment dropped was also varied, in addition to humans and dwarves, there were even greenskins, undead, halflings, and even wood elf equipment.
"It looks like there are a lot of beastmen here, but other races are at war!" After dividing a few pieces of equipment, Qingquan Liuxiang sighed a little.
"I don't think it's going to be that simple, forget about the rest, do you think the halfling will take the initiative to come here and die? Do they have that guts? β
Qingquan Liuxiang thought about it, and finally couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: "It seems that this is really the case." β
As the player's strength continues to improve, they know more and more about the aborigines, and in the Beastman disaster that they have just experienced, the performance of the largest halfling city in the entire Old World-Mutter really makes the players speechless.
Other besieged cities are generally given players a chance to exercise, or there happens to be other foreign invasions and so on, so they did not send a large army to exterminate the beastmen at the first time.
But the halflings were different, they really used almost all their strength from the beginning, and a large number of aborigines participated in the battle at the first time.
But even so, under the onslaught of the beastmen, their city gate was still destroyed, and if it weren't for the desperate fighting of the players, they would have almost been broken by the beastmen!
Not because of anything else, purely because their strength is too weak!
Even in the end, thanks to the arrival of reinforcements from the Imperial Province of Ivey, they were able to successfully repel the beastmen who were besieging the city, and the elders of the halflings were greeted by the Imperial reinforcements for a while, and the humble ones were even a little unbearable.
Only then did the players know that after a long time, the halflings really have no hidden power, and the reason why they, a race with all the crispy and the highest class of the 4th order, has survived until now is because they have long been the most loyal licking dog in the empire!
So Levi said that the halflings didn't dare to come here and take the initiative to fight the beastmen, which was really true, because they only sent them to death when they came, which the halflings themselves knew better.
System Hint: You have entered a highly active area of the Wind of Magic, reducing all mana cost by 10%, increasing power by 10%, and increasing magic error rate by 20%.
Just when Levi was a little surprised at how the value of the system's prompt was getting higher and higher, Qingquan Liuxiang suddenly pointed to a dense forest in the northeast with some excitement: "Levi, we have arrived, just in the depths of the dense forest, last time I found a large number of beastmen in it, and the Ten Thousand Demon Rock is among them!" β
Levi immediately put aside his doubts: "Okay, the melee troops adopt a defensive formation and move forward slowly, Dahl, pull my treasure out of the rock sheep chariot!" β
"Yes, sir!" The barbarian warrior Dahl immediately responded, and then soon, the four walls of the entire chariot were disassembled, and a pile of metal utensils was carried out by a small group of dwarven warriors, and after simple assembly, two war machines more than two meters long appeared on the rock sheep chariot, which was a bed crossbow!
After seeing it clearly, Qingquan Liuxiang was dumbfounded: "Damn, this is a bit cheating, right?" This thing is a tool used by the dwarves to defend the city, do you use it to fight the beastmen? β
He'd seen with his own eyes the power of the Blackstone Castle's bed crossbows, those extremely violent war machines, even shot through the bodies of three or four beastmen with a single arrow, and then nailed them to the ground!
"Haha, you misunderstood, Qingquan, this is a specially ordered item, in order to be used in this kind of scene, the dwarves can only reduce some power to facilitate transportation, it's not so exaggerated, it's just some gadgets."
Although he said this, the smugness on Levi's face was not concealed at all, this was ordered by him from the Brute Hammer Clan, two rock sheep chariots:
One is to increase the defense and speed, and it is used to ride the dwarven beast trainer and Sienna to speed up their movement and reduce the consumption of stamina. Of course, ordinary soldiers still don't have this treatment;
In addition, this chariot can be equipped with two bed crossbows, and with the exquisite craftsmanship of the dwarves, even if it weakens a certain amount of power, they are stronger than the original ones placed in Oak Village and the Far Wanderer camp, in terms of data, they have an attack power of up to 60, and they can almost kill most ordinary 3rd order troops in seconds, which Levi spent a full 500 gold coins to prepare for this battle!
"I believe in your ghost."
Of course, Qingquan Liuxiang wouldn't believe it, he only knew that these bed crossbows, which fired giant arrows thicker than quail eggs, would definitely not be a gadget! However, he is also more and more confident in the success of this operation.
Levi and the others kept a very vigilant state to advance, they originally thought that as soon as they entered the dense forest, they would be besieged by a large number of beastmen, but until they advanced several hundred meters and came to a very abrupt black wasteland, they still did not encounter any enemies.
"Levi, please stop."
"Qingquan, what's going on? This is what you said earlier about the forest full of beastmen? And where is the Ten Thousand Demon Rock? β
"I, I don't know," Qingquan Liuxiang showed a panicked expression for the first time, as he realized that the matter was now seriously out of his control, "Obviously, yesterday's terrifying-shaped, like a giant skull, the Ten Thousand Demon Rock is still standing here, and those minotaurs are guarding here!" β
Levi frowned, he believed that the other party should not tell such a big lie, there must be something unexpected here, maybe it was related to the inexplicable decrease in the number of beastmen before.
"Huames, take the cavalry troops forward to reconnoitre, be careful."
As Hua Meisi stepped forward with the cavalry troops, the black soil couldn't stop splashing, and Levi also saw the white bones buried below, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, because many of the bones obviously belonged to humanoid creatures.
With so many bones buried here, this thing must be the work of the undead, right? Thanato's news has already arrived, and almost all of the undead who are busy exterminating the watchman village have set up a recruiting base in the cemetery!
"Levi, there's a big crack here!"
Listening to Hua Meisi's exclamation, Levi knew that there was no danger ahead for the time being, although Hua Meisi sometimes seemed to be easy to be stupid on the surface because of her naΓ―ve personality, but she would never be stupid about everything about fighting.
"It's a big crack."
Looking at the huge crack that was more than ten meters wide and nearly a hundred meters long, Levi couldn't help but be a little surprised, this crack was like an entrance to hell, and it was even whirring in the wind.
"Wait, the wind?"
Levi immediately bent down to check the traces around the crack, and then he turned his head and confirmed with Qingquan Liuxiang: "Qingquan, is that Ten Thousand Demon Rock you saw before a big thing with a diameter of more than four meters?" β
"Well, due to the presence of the Harpy, my Emerald Feather Flying Eagles are not too close, but according to my speculation, the part of the Ten Thousand Demon Rock exposed on the ground is almost half as tall as an ordinary bighorn beast, and the part that may be buried in the ground may indeed exceed four meters!"
"Okay," Levi clapped his hands, "then I'll know, that Ten Thousand Demon Rock didn't disappear out of thin air, but fell down this crack!" β
"Fell?" At this moment, not only the sound of the clear spring, but even the Huamesi and the dwarves were also very curious.
"That's right, you must all feel the wind in the cracks, which proves that there is a fairly wide area below, and those beastmen must be chasing the Ten Thousand Demon Rock." Levi said with certainty.
And he knew that Wan Demon Rock was definitely not far from the straight-line distance of himself and the others, otherwise he would not have received two system prompts in a row before.
"Alright, Levi, let's go at once!"
Qingquan Liuxiang was still worried that his hunting target was missing, and it would probably take a long time for those wood elves to complete the task given to him, but after hearing Levi's words, he immediately refreshed.
"Well, the whole army is speeding up!"
Following the huge crack, Levi and the others soon came to a new underground world.
Although there is no sun overhead, it is full of glowing moss, lichens, fungi, and even a lot of rocks with a shimmering light, which seems to be a specialty of this underground world, so although the maximum field of view is somewhat limited, it will not have much impact in terms of combat.
While curiously looking at this unfamiliar area that had never been seen before, like a huge underground cavern connected one after another, everyone began to move forward, because when they arrived here, the traces of the beastmen were already very obvious.
Soon Levi and the others made a new discovery, that is, all kinds of beastmen began to appear sporadically on the ground, and the corpses of a humanoid creature that they had not seen in person before.
Judging by the posture of these corpses before they died, it was clear that they were fighting.
Hua Meisi was very curious and picked up a humanoid creature with a bit of a swamp man with a gun, but his facial features were crowded together, and his eyes were seriously degenerated, almost becoming a small dot, so the whole looked very ugly: "Levi, do you know this kind of thing?" β
Because the other party's appearance is so ugly, although she doesn't think that the other party will be intelligent creatures at all, at most they are roughly humanoid, so she will call them things.
"Yes, this is the Chaos Camp, the cavemen of the dark system, and they are also intelligent creatures, well, barely so."
Due to the outrageously ugly appearance of the cavemen, the number of players in this race is very small, and the information is pitiful, and the area they live in is different from most intelligent creatures, they usually live in the underground world, and there is rarely any intersection with the humans on the ground, so there is even less information.
But one thing Levi knew very well was that the cavemen were almost equivalent to the halflings in the Order camp, and the whole clan was a chicken, and there were no too high-level troops.
However, they are better than halflings in that they are cheap in recruiting and maintaining, and they are very easy to obtain in various recruitment orders, and they are born with additional reputation bonuses from other dark races, so it is easier for them to recruit troops from dark elves or gray dwarves.
For many male players, it doesn't matter if they look ugly, as long as they are strong. Therefore, as long as they have passed the initial stage, it is still relatively easy to improve their combat effectiveness, which is one of the important reasons why the number of players of their race has not replaced the caveman at the bottom.
It's just that Levi didn't expect to meet cavemen here, and it seems that he is still a caveman who is fighting with the beastmen, and it is not even clear that it was these cavemen who stole the Ten Thousand Demon Rock of the beastmen!
But not long after following the traces of the battle, Levi and the others soon heard all kinds of strange roars, as well as the screams of the beastmen in front of them, they were obviously engaged in a battle with the enemy, and the group immediately quickened their pace, and at the same time prepared for battle.
Soon, after turning a corner, an unprecedentedly vast underground world appeared in everyone's sight. A slight departure from Levi's previous conjecture, these beastmen are not just fighting, they are engaged in a siege war, and there is a caveman village here!
At a glance, at least eight or nine hundred beastmen, under the command of a tall minotaur armed with a long-handled battle axe, swooped down like waves in front of the village, and among the villages and towns were not only cavemen of all kinds, but also some humanoid ants with weapons, six-legged humanoid ants, and a small number of giant lizards that stood with a pair of hind paws and attacked with their front paws.
Hua Meisi and the others were fine, but Levi's and Qingquan Liuxiang's jaws were about to drop, because they all recognized that kind of giant lizard, this Nima is a dinosaur, and it is also a velociraptor with sharp teeth and claws, two meters faster than two meters in its long tail, and nearly one meter tall!
After observing the battle situation a little, before the two warring sides found out, Levi and the others quickly evacuated back.
Qingquan Liuxiang gasped for breath, but at the same time his eyes were shining: "Levi, could it be that the planning of this game also looks at Jurassic Park?" β
"Oh? How so? β
"Velociraptors in real history aren't that big, they're not even bigger than country dogs!"
Levi raised an eyebrow, a little surprised by what the other man said, "It seems that you really have some research on real historical velociraptors, but don't forget, this is a magic game, and if you see an army of lizardmen, you won't say that again." β
Once upon a time, Levi had accidentally encountered some lizardmen in the swamp, and he would always remember the might of those sky beasts, and there was no way to compare to them with a pterodactyl or something like that!