According to the guidance of the map, Levi and the others kept approaching the barren valley, and they soon sensed that there was indeed an anomaly here.

"Indeed, Ironwood, you're right, the beastmen here are much scarcer. So, could it be that the Ten Thousand Demon Rock here has been partially cleared? ”

Up to now, players have almost summed up the content of this expansion, basically the refresh speed and number have been greatly improved, and the proportion of elites has also been increased, even if many new players have been added, I am afraid that there will still be no way to kill all the beastmen at the gate of their respective novice villages in a short period of time, because they have not yet understood why the beastmen have changed this way, they only think that the system has done it.

However, Levi didn't think so, because he had already confirmed from the natives that the Brute Hammer Clan believed that it was stimulated by the power of the Chaos Moon, causing a large number of Chaos Force fragments to appear all over the world, which was what the Beastmen called Ten Thousand Demon Rocks.

It was under their influence that ordinary beasts were quickly transformed into brutal and bloodthirsty beastmen.

According to the information that Levi received from the Brute Hammer Clan, it seems that the king of Blackstone Fort wants to take advantage of the current situation to train the newly born Chosen Heroes, and then send them to gradually clear the Ten Thousand Demon Rocks in the wild, destroying the root cause of the surge of Beastmen, so as to greatly weaken the Beastmen and end this chaotic situation.

In fact, it's not the first time they've done this.

Although the beastmen are brutal and bloodthirsty, they are only for civilians, and for the elite troops who are prepared, they are still not enough to see.

Although Levi has not yet confirmed specifically, judging from the various information circulating on the forums and the tasks received by other players, at least the rulers of the other order camps think more or less so, and they also want to treat this beastman mutation as a huge training ceremony.

Of course, the rulers of the Chaos faction think differently.

Like the greenskins, they are just happy that they can fight more, although the beastmen are generally more than the greenskinned chickens, but once the number increases, they can also fight very well.

The undead, happy that they could have more fresh corpses to make their men, wished that the chaos caused by the Beastmen would expand to a larger scale, and that it would be better to fight with the other races.

Anyway, no matter who wins or loses, it will only cheapen their undead in the end, and they can even take advantage of the situation to collect some rare magic materials, after all, the things that make up the Ten Thousand Demon Rock are also called dimensional stone fragments, and that is the favorite of mages, especially necromancers!

The Moore Knight obviously thought of this as well, and he said with a slight frown: "My lord, do you think this time it has something to do with the undead?" ”

Levi shook his head slightly, "I can't be sure, but it's always right to take precautions." ”

To be honest, Levi was actually reluctant to fight against the undead, especially the high-level undead. Because when he was in Moore Garden, the necromancer who raised his hand and killed several of his subordinates in seconds really made a deep impression on him.

Even if Levi's strength has improved a lot now, his subordinates have also become stronger, but even in the face of the original spell, he dare not say that it is guaranteed to be undamaged, which is different from fighting against the beastmen, after all, the other party can use magic.

In the face of magic, even if it is dark and evil necromancy, even if you don't agree with it, at least you must maintain a sense of awe.

As they approached their destination, Levi and the others also discovered that the Beastman Wandering Squad here was indeed much less than in other places, but in terms of strength, it was not bad, and the 3rd order of the Beastman Wandering Squad outside the other novice villages, a kind of horned beast warrior armed with a battle axe, was very common here.

It's just that their class mix is too backward and extreme, all of them are melee troops, and there are basically no ranged units. The Horned Beast Warriors are all aggressive troops, and in terms of defense, they are not even much stronger than the Tier 2 swordsmen under Levi's command.

In the face of Levi's powerful archer troops, as well as the dwarven musketeers who did not have to be as stingy with ammunition as before because their teams were getting bigger and stronger, they were really vulnerable, and few of them could even rush to the front alive, so naturally they couldn't show Levi that their attack power was quite powerful among the same rank.

After a little more time, Levi's party finally arrived at the place marked on the map, known as the Barren Valley.

The overall topography of this barren valley is similar to that of a gourd, the mouth of the valley is narrow, and the interior is very vast, and it is not without resources, but there are no mineral resources that the dwarves value most, so it is named Barren Valley. No way, the dwarves are so willful, who made them too rich.

And just as Levi had expected, there were creatures that weren't shown on the military map, and they had now blocked the entrance to the valley, which was about a few tens of meters wide.

Whirlwinds three or four meters high, mixed with a large amount of sand and dust, moved back and forth at the entrance of the valley very regularly, as if there was life.

Looking at these scenes, Levi naturally didn't dare to venture out easily, because this was obviously not a natural phenomenon, it must be the power of spells, or those whirlwinds themselves were living beings, just like the Flowing Water Elemental and Ice Elemental that Levi had recruited before!

"My lord, it looks like the wind element, and it's relatively advanced."

Tanato also made the same judgment, although he had not personally touched this elemental creature before, but he had more or less heard relevant rumors, and had to admit that these high-level elemental creatures were still more tricky, because they did not have the fatal weaknesses of ordinary creatures, and the martial arts cultivated day and night did not have much effect on them, after all, most of the other party did not even have hands, let alone weaknesses such as hearts or heads.

"Well, stop for a while and get the archers ready for the rockets, and the dwarven musketeers ready for them." In the face of such an unknown enemy, Levi didn't want to let the melee troops go up to test first, because that would probably kill them directly.

Tanato immediately ordered to go down, while Levi continued to observe the other party's movements from a distance of several tens of meters.

It didn't take long for him to realize that something was wrong.

If these creatures in front of them that were suspected to be wind elementals were neutral, so even if they were only a few tens of meters apart, they did not take the initiative to attack Levi and the others, which could barely be explained.

However, after observing for a few minutes, Levi found a rather discordant place, that is, where the wind element passed, the turf that was blown up, every time it was the same shape, and then flew into the air at the same angle, and then fell to the ground with the same trajectory, which was a bit abnormal!

Since the entrance to the entire valley was only a few tens of meters, and the speed of those wind elements was also very fast, they had already turned back and forth dozens of times in a few minutes, but their movements were exactly the same every time, which naturally made Levi a little suspicious.

"Hunter John, get the archers on the rockets, pick any enemy for a salvo, and the melee troops are ready."

Although as the battle continues to escalate, the role of the second-order archers is getting smaller and smaller, and the attack power is far less than that of the third-order dwarven musketeers, they also have the advantage that their maintenance costs are much lower than those of the dwarven musketeers, so Levi does not want to give up on them for the time being.

Of course, when the half-elf village is officially established, everything is on track, and he has sufficient funds, Levi may not think so.

With a shout from the hunter John, the rocket archers under his command immediately started shooting, but to his surprise, their shooting did not produce any effect, and the moment those rockets hit the enemy, they disappeared directly out of thin air, as if they were directly devoured by those wind elements!

Hunter John suddenly looked at Levi with some apprehension: "My lord... ”

Levi waved his hand indifferently, and even had a smile on his face: "It's okay, John, it's not your fault. In fact, by the time we get here, you probably don't feel right, so let's skip the process and get to the bottom of the puzzle! ”

At the end, Levi couldn't help but shout loudly.

Of course, he was not facing John the Hunter, or any of his own men, but at the entrance to the valley, where there might be enemies!

"Cursed fellow, even if I gave up fighting for that position and fled here, he still wouldn't let me go, and even hired you cold-blooded killers from the dogs of war?"

With a slightly hoarse male voice, the wind elementals that had been hovering at the entrance of the valley suddenly drifted away with the wind, and then, as if a curtain had been opened, some human warriors dressed like ancient Arabs appeared in the sight of Levi and the others.

In front of them, there were some rudimentary wooden walls and horses that had clearly not been built, and there were even some flames on them that had not been completely extinguished, indicating where Levi's rocket archers had just gone.

Behind them, there were also some simple wooden houses and swaying figures, and it seemed that not all the members of the other party were showing up now.

But the most conspicuous thing was in the mid-air behind them, a muscular man with blue skin, and the most striking thing was him, or rather his lower body, a body made entirely of hazy mist, without legs, but just a mass, like the god of lights described in the fairy tale One Thousand and One Nights!

Underneath the lamp god stood a middle-aged man wrapped in a white turban, dressed in a white robe, and holding a magic staff, who was looking at Levi with an angry face, apparently he was the one who had just spoken.

Levi glanced at the opposing troops, and he immediately had a clear idea.

There is no doubt that this middle-aged man who is suspected of being a mage, as well as the troops he leads, are all from Arabi, further south of the mercenary country, where the Great Desert of Death is on the verge of death, and the wind blows every day with sand, so they dress up like this, so as not to let the wind and sand pour into their mouths.

And through observation, Levi knew that the other party's humanoid subordinates were not very strong, and they were basically 1st or 2nd order troops.

Arabi is also an initial optional race of the order camp, although not many people are willing to choose because of the ugly shape, but there is some information on the forum.

The only thing worth noting is the other party itself, and the big blue man who looks very powerful floating in mid-air.

And according to the words just said by the other party, Levi also roughly deduced the reason why the other party appeared here, it was nothing more than a conflict of interests, and he was the loser in the struggle, and now he mistakenly thought that he and others were the killers sent by those victors, a rather old-fashioned story, not at all new.

It's easy to see why they think they're from the Dogs of War, the killers of the Mercenary Realm, given that it's hard to see a combined force of dwarves, humans, half-elves, and even ogres anywhere else.

It's a pity that the other party's intelligence is still a little behind, and he doesn't know that this world now has a special group of people like God's Chosen Heroes!

"I think you may be mistaken, we're not killers, we're not from the dogs of war, we're only here for the barren valley itself, maybe we can talk."

If possible, Levi actually wanted to try to talk to the other party, after all, whether it was the illusion at the entrance of the valley before, or the big blue man in mid-air now, it showed that the other party was not an ordinary person. And everyone is in the same camp of order, and they have a serious conflict with each other for the time being, which is so serious that they have to live and die.

It's just that Levi also knows that this is probably just a delusion, because now he has obviously regarded this place as a base for long-term development, otherwise he would not have built a fence here, and refused to have a wooden house or something.

Sure enough, after listening to Levi's words, the middle-aged man became even more angry: "Do you want to use tricks to make us drop our defenses and get out of here?" I wouldn't be fooled for the same thing a second time! ”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man slammed his staff forward: "Wind Lantern God, follow the orders of my Arabi Warlock Aziz, attack and kill these despicable killers!" ”

With his order, the big blue man in mid-air suddenly let out a roar, and then accompanied by the raging wind, it rushed directly towards Levi and the others from mid-air, and at the same time, those Arabi soldiers also moved quickly, they abandoned the fortifications that were less than half built, and launched an active attack on Levi and the others.

"Well, it looks like we're still going to fight. Thanato, Bloomes, and Ironwood, I'll leave the attack to you, and if it doesn't have to, I want you to spare that guy's life. As for defense," Levi turned to his side, a resolute dwarven warrior with a striking red beard, a shield in one hand and an axe in the other.

He was Levi's biggest gain after letting the Moorish knights recruit soldiers, a dwarven warrior who was also a third-order elite like Temu.

And unlike the two-axe fighter Tiemu, who specializes in attack, although the opponent has an axe in his hand, it is more because of the habits of the dwarves, eighty percent of the opponent's strength is on that shield, he is a dwarven iron guard who specializes in defense, and has additional resistance to magic attacks.

And when he joined Levi's command, he also brought 5 brothers of the same profession, but his brothers were weaker than him, they were all ordinary 3rd order troops, but at this stage, it was enough.

"Can I trust you, Burke Flamebeard?"

"Yes, my lord, you can trust me!" Unlike Ironwood, who looked a little unserious, the dwarven guard replied to Levi very seriously and solemnly.

"Very well, the big blue man in mid-air who is rushing towards us will be handed over to you and your brothers, and I will have the half-blood hunter Dahl, the guard Davi, and the dwarven musketeers to assist you."

"Yes, sir!"

It only took two seconds for the big blue man named the Wind Lantern God to cross a distance of at least fifty or sixty meters and come to the top of Levi and the others.

Just when Levi thought it was going to pounce and attack, the Wind Lantern God stayed in mid-air and made a movement similar to inhaling, and Levi felt a little bad when he was about to do it, this guy didn't look like he was using his fist as a weapon!

"Whew!"

With a whistling wind, more than a dozen light blue wind blades flew out of the wide open mouth of the wind lamp god, and at the same time, the movement of its hands did not stop, and soon several identical wind blades were formed, and they were thrown at Levi together, it seemed that it also knew who was the most important person in the team, or maybe it was the order of the Arabi warlock named Aziz.

Despite Levi's efforts to dodge and his subordinates trying their best to intercept, Levi was still hit five or six times in a row by the opponent.

But after seeing his injuries clearly, Levi was stunned, because the opponent's attack looked very ferocious, but he didn't lose a few points of blood in total, and the other party seemed to be just a fast attack!

However, after taking another look at the situation of the subordinates around him, Levi changed the situation again, because his subordinates were not in a good situation after withstanding the attack of the other party, and the only ones who didn't look so embarrassed were the 3rd Order Elite Iron Guard Burke Yanshu and his brothers, along with the 3rd Order Guards Davy and the half-blood hunter Dahl were not very good...

Why is that?

Levi's brain was running rapidly, and then after seeing the pale cyan wind blade of the Wind Lantern God, he quickly had an idea, this guy uses magic attacks, no, strictly speaking, it is more likely to be a combination of physical and magical damage, so the dwarves who are born with magic resistance will be in better shape, and they will basically not have any losses.

Because thanks to the equipment on his body, Levi not only has excellent physical defense, but he also has 5 points of full magic resistance, which is enough to offset 5 points of magic damage!

Seeing that Tanato's journey was smooth, the ordinary Arabi soldiers under the other party's command had almost no ability to resist, until the other party used a magic and summoned several black-brown stone men to temporarily stop Tanato's advance, and Levi was completely relieved.

He immediately raised the spear in his hand, and was a little eager to try: "The melee troops all retreat, put on guard, give me this big blue one first, and the ranged troops will fire at me with all their might!" ”

The opponent flies high in the air, and the melee troops can only be beaten passively, and the long-range troops are also difficult to hit the flexible opponent, which is really not easy to deal with, so let's change the way.

Since the opponent's priority target is yourself, let yourself act as a meat shield to attract the opponent's firepower!