Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 8: A Difficult Quest (1)

The western part of the city of Diar is deserted like a cemetery, although the whole city itself is almost a cemetery.

Yu Bin walked lonely on the stone paved road, and was looked at with mockery by the passing undead from time to time.

Of course, anyone who sees a guy who doesn't even have a cloak to cover his body appear on the streets of Wangcheng can't help but take a few more looks. It's like in reality, a beggar wearing only a pair of shorts walks down the streets of Wangfujing in Beijing, and the city is quite tolerant without the undead soldiers coming to drive Yu Bin away.

Yu Bin didn't care about these glances, because he knew that his current self was not worth the hands of these undead at all, and it was even impossible to waste a little more time on him.

Pushing open the stone gates, the Crusade Sanctuary is different from other professional buildings, there are no guards or mentors here, only countless crusade scrolls of different colors neatly arranged on a half-human-high stone platform.

There is no limit to receiving a Raid Quest, as long as the player picks up the scroll, it means that the Raid has been received, and only when the player fails the quest, another copy of the same quest scroll will reappear in the Raid Sanctuary.

Yu Bin walked to the deepest part of the main hall, and unlike the other stone platforms full of scrolls, the exquisite stone platform made of obsidian in front of him only had a single scroll emitting a faint orange light.

"Raid Mission: Hero's Graveyard (Orange Epic)"

"Thousands of years ago, the most powerful empire of mankind, the Griffin Dynasty, almost unified the entire human race, and after gaining dominance within the human race, they launched a war of extermination against our undead, and the long and tragic war finally dragged the Griffon Dynasty down and split into the current twelve human kingdoms."

"From the beginning of this war, the heroes of mankind were buried in the cemetery of heroes deep in the Anglis, and this tradition continued until the end of the war, and after nearly a hundred years of war, the number of heroes whose bodies were placed there has long been a figure that even humans themselves cannot determine."

"These people who believe in hypocritical light, relying on the so-called light guard, resist the embrace of death."

"Now, with the great will to die, go and turn that damned cemetery into our domain!"

"No one can escape the end of death!"

The mission introduction is very brief, Yu Bin opened the scroll, carefully read it three times, and made sure that it was no different from his previous life.

However, although the mission introduction is simple, the difficulty of the mission is actually very high, and this is the most difficult crusade mission after all.

Human beings are born to believe in light, especially the so-called heroes in human beings, and most of them have absorbed the power of light for a long time, so it is difficult for the corpses of these heroes to be corrupted into undead by the power of death after death. In order to protect the corpses of these heroes, human beings have built a hero cemetery to store the corpses of these heroes, which is full of rich light power.

And this is exactly what the undead are extremely disliked, and the undead who give up their lives and embrace death have no good feelings for all life races. Therefore, the cemetery, which is full of light power, has naturally become a thorn in the side of the undead, not to mention that once it is successfully corrupted, the corpses buried in the cemetery are the best trophies, and the human heroes who have been resurrected by the power of death will be transformed into cruel and ruthless death messengers, wielding the blade of death at everything they once desperately protected, bringing despair and pain.

But this is not good news for players, especially undead players who want to complete the mission.

First of all, the Hero's Graveyard is shrouded in the power of light, and any undead unit that enters it will face a huge penalty bonus. This is also the main reason why undead players in previous lives only completed this quest in the 6th year of the game.

Secondly, the Anglis Mountains are located in the western part of the Great Hengduan Mountains in the middle of the continent, very close to the territory of the undead, far from the territory of humans, therefore, in order to protect this place, humans have arranged a fairly strong guard force.

Finally, due to the long-term shrouding of the power of light, the environment around the entire Hero Cemetery is inclined to the light attribute, even if the undead player destroys the human soldiers guarding here, if they want to complete the corruption, they have to face those wild monsters outside the cemetery who have been exposed to the power of light for a long time, and if you want to corrupt the entire Hero Cemetery, it is not as simple as pressing a button to read a note, or you have to be undisturbed for several hours.

Therefore, this orange crusade mission of the undead can be said to be the most difficult task to complete among the four major races, which was also unanimously agreed by almost all players in the previous life.

However, even with so many such great difficulties, it is impossible to hide the lucrative rewards of this task.

First of all, the easiest and most effective way for the undead to corrupt a place is to turn that place into the territory of the undead, therefore, one, or even several city cores are essential, and the criterion for completing the task is only to corrupt the entire cemetery, and it does not say who owns the town established in this place after the corruption is completed, therefore, this is the first and biggest reward of this task. In fact, undead players who completed this quest in their previous lives also got a town that was completely their own. Just such a town that belongs entirely to the player is already a sky-high reward, you know, in the previous life, even before the world changed, players who owned the territory could be said to be rare, even fewer than those with racial talents.

Secondly, once this mission is successfully completed, it will be considered a sacrifice by the Great Will to Die, which is the huge number of human heroic corpses buried in the Hero's Cemetery.

Finally, completing this task will be regarded as a major contribution to the undead race, after all, a large number of high-level undead and undead heroes born after being corrupted will definitely greatly increase the strength of the undead, therefore, the rewards from the high-level of the undead race will not be less, as for what it is, it depends on the completion of the task.

This is also an important factor in why Yu Bin chose the undead race. Compared with the orange crusade missions of the other three clans, this "Hero's Graveyard" is the only opportunity to give Yu Bin a territory, and with the territory, he can develop the troops, and with the troops, he will not be driven around by other players like ordinary players. When the time comes, whoever provokes himself will directly pull the troops out to fight, which will definitely deter those guys with bad intentions.

After receiving the task, the next step is to select the army, according to the record in the task scroll, Yu Bin can receive a certain number of soldiers from the barracks in the royal city of Diar to assist him in completing the task, and the number of soldiers that can be received depends on Yu Bin's own command ability.

Since Yu Bin is still a rookie at level 0 and level 0, although his personal attributes are much higher than those of ordinary players, his command ability has nothing to do with his attributes, and only soul strength can affect the level of commander value. Yu Bin, who has 122 soul energy points, can only command troops that do not exceed the upper limit of his soul energy at most.

This is also a feature of the undead, low-level undead soldiers have little intelligence, so if they want to command these low-level undead soldiers, undead players can only use their soul fire to directly control them, and give orders such as forward, attack, defense, etc. through soul power, and the higher the level of the undead soldiers, the stronger the strength, and the higher the soul power required to control them.

The other races are much more relaxed, except for some mechanical or constructed soldiers, even the lowest-level human soldiers, the farmer, have the most basic level of intelligence, and can judge whether to attack or defend on their own, so human players can control a large number of low-level soldiers in battle in the early stage.

With such a comparison, maybe everyone will think that the undead are not weak in the early stage. In fact, there are pros and cons to the undead this way of commanding through soul control, the disadvantage is that the number of soldiers that the undead player can control in the early stage is small and weak, and it often takes up a large part of the undead player's mental energy to command, and it is likely that the gains in the battle outweigh the losses. The advantage is that through soul control, players can superimpose some of their attributes on the undead soldiers they control, thereby enhancing the strength of the soldiers they control, and some powerful undead players can even make a lowest-level skeleton enough to fight a knight face-to-face without falling behind.

The rank and title of the undead player determines the extent to which they can strengthen the undead soldiers under their control, taking the current Yu Bin as an example, since he is still a civilian, he can only stack 5% of his own attributes on the soldiers he controls.

Of course, it is not only the undead who have the means to strengthen the soldiers, in the tens of thousands of years of conquest history in the world of Entagre, each race has long developed a set of army systems that are most suitable for themselves, humans can improve the combat effectiveness of the members of the legion through various legion flags, orcs can also improve the combat effectiveness of individuals through a wide range of anger, not to mention the blood of vampires, the battlefield howl of werewolves, etc.

To get back to the point, although the current Yu Bin has 122 soul energy, he is already a leader among players, but by the standard of an undead commander, this soul energy is not even a beginner! It only allows Yu Bin to control up to 12 skeletons! (1 skeleton requires 10 soul energy to control!) )

The question is, what's the use of this? Originally, it was known as the skeleton that could count down among the soldiers of various clans, with a brittle body, weak attack, and thin blood, and it was famous for falling down at the touch of a button, and it can be said that it is useless except for the number.

As for the other soldiers, the more advanced it is, the stronger the combat power, and the higher the soul power that needs to be consumed, for the current Yu Bin, it is completely beyond the scope of his ability, and there is no need to even think about it!

At this moment, Yu Bin finally understood why those guys in his previous life had to wait until the fifth year of the game to complete the orange crusade mission.

But Yu Bin was not willing to give up like this, and finally chose 2 skeleton archers (80 soul energy) and 4 lowest-level skeletons (40 soul energy).

Take out the quest scroll from your humble tattered backpack (snatched from a monster while crossing the Great Plains of Dia), this orange epic raid scroll is also a teleportation item, otherwise it would have been an almost impossible task just to lead the army through the Great Hengduan Mountains and into the depths of the Anglis Mountains.

"Raid Mission: Hero's Graveyard (Orange Epic) begins!"

"You will be teleported 1 kilometer outside the Heroes Cemetery in the Angles, and your troops will be teleported with you to the target location!"

"Once the teleportation is complete, the garrison of the Hero's Graveyard will be aware of your invasion, and you only have 48 hours to complete this raid! Beyond the time limit, humanity's powerful reinforcements will arrive! ”

"The items provided in this mission have been distributed directly to your backpack, please make sure you have enough space in your backpack!"

With the prompt of the system, Yu Bin was once again surrounded by the white light of the teleportation, and when the teleportation was completed, Yu Bin found that the surroundings were no longer cold military camps, but the depths of the Anglis Mountains that had not yet been eroded by the power of death. It is surrounded by broad-leaved forests that are common in the Angles, and although the trees are sparse, they are thriving.

There are two more quest items in that tattered backpack.

"[Corrupt Skull]: You can temporarily corrupt an area within a radius of 5 meters into a place of death, and if you fight in this area, the undead troops will not be penalized, but because the death power contained in this corrupted skull is not strong, it will not cause any damage or penalty bonus to the enemy. Duration 2 minutes, cooldown 5 minutes. ”

"[Death Core (Enhanced)]: A city core that has been specially strengthened with a large amount of death power, and by activating this item, an area can be permanently transformed into a land of death. If the renovation is interrupted, it will cause the transformation to fail. (Quest Only)"

The appearance of the Corrupted Skull was a fist-sized skull, and Yu Bin couldn't tell what kind of race it was. Effect is to create a safe combat area, although it only lasts for two minutes. The core of death is a dark black crystal, which seems to be the key prop of this mission.

2 skeleton archers and 4 skeletons stood quietly behind Yu Bin, waiting for his orders.

Turning his head to look at the six little arms and legs, Yu Bin couldn't help but smile bitterly, although he knew that he couldn't fight hard, but this really made people have no confidence to win.

[Skeleton] (Level 0): The lowest cannon fodder of the undead clan, the undoubted cannon fodder, the meaning of his existence is to use his fragile bones to block other undead for a while.

Strength 1, Constitution 1, Agility 1, Intelligence 0, Spirit 0.

[Skeleton Archer] (Level 0): Do you think that with a bow and arrow, you will be able to escape the fate of cannon fodder? No, you're still cannon fodder, but now you're a cannon fodder with a little bit of value.

Strength 3, Constitution 2, Agility 2, Intelligence 0, Spirit 0.

These were the only troops Yu Bin had at hand, and the soldiers in the world of Entagri had different qualifications ranging from ordinary to legendary.

The qualifications of the soldiers determine what form they can evolve into, so each lord will try to keep the high-quality soldiers in his hands, because they will be the main force of the lord's war.

Taking the lowest-level skeleton of the undead clan as an example, as a 0-level class, the skeleton can be upgraded to level 60 at the highest, and the evolution form is five from low to high, divided into two branches, from the most basic skeleton to the strong skeleton and then to the skeleton soldier, and then it is subdivided into melee skeleton warriors and ranged skeleton archers, and the highest can evolve to skeleton warriors and skeleton hunters.

In terms of form evolution, the skeletons that are the lowest level soldiers of the undead race are not much different because of the different qualifications, except for the skeletons with white ordinary qualifications that cannot evolve to the top skeleton warriors and skeleton hunters, the skeletons with other qualifications can evolve smoothly, however, because the soldiers with different qualifications have different abilities to improve their abilities through level growth, so soldiers with different qualifications often have a huge gap in the end.

The soldiers on Yu Bin's hand are neither good nor bad, although the level is level 0, but the qualifications are still green and excellent, at least better than the white ordinary level, Yu Bin has no choice but to comfort himself like this. This is also the reason why only six soldiers occupy Yu Bin's 120 soul energy, although the white quality skeleton consumes only half of the soul energy of the green quality, but because it cannot evolve to the final form, it was directly given up by Yu Bin.

However, in addition to these poor attributes, there are actually some advantages to skeletons.

Whether it is a skeleton or a skeleton archer, they all belong to the skeleton series of the undead, so they have the common specialty of the skeleton line.

[Piercing Resistance]: Skeletons are only left with bones, so the effect of piercing weapons on these guys is not as good as expected. Puncture damage taken is reduced by 50%.

[Toxin Resistance]: Very few toxins can work on a pile of bones. Toxin resistance increased by 30%.

[Osteoporosis]: Skeletons are very afraid of heavy weapons, and their damage from assaults is increased by 50%.

Because it is the lowest-level skeleton creature, it only has such a pitiful three specialties, but the 0-level soldier type of skeleton has always belonged to the cannon fodder type role in the undead troops, and Yu Bin is too lazy to care.

In contrast, Yu Bin's own attributes are already too good.

Strength 14, Constitution 18, Agility 11, Intelligence 13, Spirit 22.

Well, one Yu Bin has dozens of skeletons on top, hey!

It's useless to think about it too much, Yu Bin packed up his mood, and is ready to go to investigate how many guards there are in that damn cemetery first, if he doesn't even know what the opponent is, then what is there to talk about completing the task.

Commanding 6 cannon fodder to follow him closely, Yu Bin walked towards the depths of the mountain range. There is no such thing as a mini-map in the world of Entagre, either the player has a good sense of direction, or the player buys the map painted on leather or other things, otherwise, you can only blame yourself for not being able to get lost.

If the player has the ability, financial resources, and status, he can find a way to make a magic map, which is said to be the highest level of magic map, which can roughly show the shape of the entire Entagri continent.

The current Yu Bin naturally does not have such a thing.

Of course, Yu Bin, who has 8 years of game experience and has survived in the New World for 11 years, is not as good as radar in terms of direction, but it is enough to be called excellent.

After walking for less than 10 minutes, Yu Bin saw the towering statue spire in the distance.

Sure enough, it is a place shrouded in the power of light, and the place where Yu Bin is now is still a few hundred meters away from the real hero's cemetery, and he can already feel the throbbing of the soul fire, no wonder the undead players will be suppressed, such a powerful light power, it is strange if it is not suppressed.

It was also from here that Yu Bin began to encounter wild creatures such as elk and hares, which had been affected by the power of light for a long time, and were obviously much stronger than their counterparts in other places.

Yu Bin tried to command the skeleton to kill an elk, almost scaring him half to death. A skeleton was kicked by the elk's front leg and went to 5 health points, and most of the blood grooves were gone in an instant (green quality skeletons, 1 point of physique can get 10 points of life), so frightened that Yu Bin quickly pulled the skeleton back and pushed it himself.

Fortunately, Bin's own attributes are strong enough, with a blood volume of up to 185 points, so that the elk's attack on Yu Bin is not a high damage at all, and this is still when Yu Bin does not dodge.

Since Yu Bin now has the status of commander, the elk gives Yu Bin 30 experience, which he can use to increase his rank and the soldiers under his command. In addition, perhaps because the elk is defaulted by the system to the side of the Hero Cemetery instead of a wild monster, Yu Bin can also gain military merits, albeit only in a pitiful way.

Yu Bin thought about it for a while, and gave up the way of continuing to hunt elk to improve his level, even if he was promoted one or two levels at this stage, it was useless, not to mention that the experience required for players to upgrade was much more than that of soldiers, it was better to save it, and wait to see if he could charge a skeleton into a skeleton archer, at least with multiple ranged powers.