Chapter 65: Soul Dust
The threat of the bone dragon made Roger's face gloomy all the time.
Unlike the great devil he encountered in that manor, the current bone dragon has the blessing of Archduke Josephine, who is as high as the tenth level of hero, and Roger does not have a phantom archer army by his side.
In fact, even with the Phantom Shooters, the problem is very difficult.
Because skeleton creatures like bone dragons are born with the attribute of -20% damage of long-range arrows, and the ignorance of arrows by bone dragons has reached -30%.
No matter how strong the Phantom Shooters are, they are still Marksmen! I still use bows and arrows!
Compared to the bone dragon, which is not afraid of arrows, dragons such as the red dragon in the dungeon are better to deal with for phantom shooters.
However, now Roger doesn't even have a phantom shooter by his side.
What a headache, where can I find the eighth-order combat power now?
Tuna's strength is enough, but it's up to her to fight the vampire archduke.
Isn't that for me to do it myself?
"Is there anything else you'd like to ask?" Melina's faint words rang in Roger's ears.
Roger, who was in distress, suddenly became an agitated spirit, raised his head suddenly, and stared at Melina with blazing eyes.
"There's one more thing I'd like you to help me, Ms. Melina."
Melina's translucent body floated slowly; "Do you want me to hold back that bone dragon? I can give it a try, even if it's to repay you for your kindness. ”
Roger raised his eyebrows suddenly, and there was a hint of joy on his face.
The strength of the Wailing Banshee, who has been promoted to the eighth order, is of course inferior to that of the real eighth order undead ace class Bone Dragon, not to mention that Melina's injuries are not light. But according to Melina, the bone dragon was also injured when fleeing Kahada City, and with Melina's eighth-order strength and the spirit characteristics of the banshee, it was no problem to be entangled with the bone dragon for a while.
What's more, Roger doesn't plan to let Melina take on the bone dragon alone, he is ready to play with Melina when the time comes.
A top-tier hero and an eighth-order wailing banshee are barely enough to withstand a bone dragon.
"Oh, by the way, that's what we're left of after we've defeated those wailing banshees." Roger pulled out a small bag from the space bar. When I opened the bag, I saw that there were some very inconspicuous gray-black beads. The beads are very dull on the outside, but there are faint misty gray-white air currents flowing back and forth in them.
“…… Are these the soul beads of the sisters? Melina gently took the bag and looked at the beads in a silent daze, her expression was very sad.
Unfortunately, the undead have no tears.
Melina slowly hugged the pouch to her chest and lowered her head silently.
Roger sighed and turned to leave the tent.
In fact, of course, Roger knew the soul beads, which were the soul crystals left behind by the defeat of high-level ghost classes and monsters, which were of great benefit to alchemy life.
However, these soul beads in Melina's hands are not actually the products left over from Roger and his troops to exterminate the wailing banshees, but the products of the wailing banshees after he took the druid elders to use natural magic to forcibly appease the painful and twisted souls of the wailing banshees.
Each soul bead contains the suffering soul of an elf.
Now Roger doesn't have the energy to purify the undead power and resentment in these soul beads, so he gave these soul beads to Melia.
For the injured Melia, the undead power and resentment on these orbs are her best tonic, which can help her quickly recover from her damaged spirits.
And Melia's slow absorption of the power and resentment of the undead is not only better than the druids using natural magic to dispel them, but also causes less damage to the spirits in the soul beads.
After thoroughly purifying these soul beads, when they return to the Emerald City, these elves will be able to return to the embrace of the Tree of Life and return to nature.
Randomly finding a clean place to sit down, Roger counted the harvest of this battle.
The first is your own losses.
Even with three large-scale attacks from the Undead Slayer, there were still quite a few undead classes left, and the Storm Elemental, which was responsible for fighting the Bone Griffin, lost eleven more in this battle. But this is actually not a lot, and the thunder elements who have been releasing cold arrows in the back have all fallen nineteen in the confrontation with the Great Corpse Witch.
The rock elementals responsible for holding back the vampire counts still fell five even under Tuna's leadership, but this was already the least loss.
The biggest loss was the flame elemental responsible for fighting against the resentful spirits and the wailing banshees after the thaw, and the two flame elemental forces that originally had nearly two hundred fell thirty-five in this battle, so Roger simply organized the remaining flame elementals into a single force. Even under the protection of the Flame Elemental, nine of the Ice Elementals, who were not good at melee combat, fell.
The Elemental Legion, which had six hundred elemental soldiers at the time of departure, is now less than five hundred, and thinking about the troops that he will have to deal with next with the vampire Grand Duke, Roger's head hurts a little.
However, relative to the losses, the results of this battle were brilliant.
After defeating the undead army, which was much stronger than his own in terms of overall strength, Roger also reaped a lot of loot.
The Wailing Banshees' orbs have been handed over to Melina first, and they are sure to be sent back to the Emerald City. And those resentful spirits have left a lot of soul dust behind.
These soul dust and soul beads are actually the same kind of thing, and they are all the essence of the soul. However, compared to the soul beads, the soul dust is obviously much lower-grade.
But something is better than nothing, soul dust can improve the wisdom of alchemy creatures, or spiritual qualifications, so that the awakening probability of alchemy creatures is greatly increased, and it is a rare strategic material.
The use of soul materials such as soul dust is still the product of the research that the necromancers did not part ways with the orthodox mages.
As we all know, most of the alchemy creatures in the mage lineage are composed of various alchemy puppet troops. Classes such as the Iron Golem, Gargoyle and even the Titan Golem are quite proud of mages.
However, although the alchemy puppets are more productive than the alchemy creatures, the low intelligence of the puppet cores of the alchemy puppets has always troubled the mages.
As a result, the mages who had not yet separated from each other at that time worked with the necromancers of the necromancer school to study various ways to improve the intelligence of the puppet. One of the schools studied the souls of alchemic creatures, and eventually discovered that alchemic creatures were essentially no different from normal life, but they lacked the same soul as naturally formed undead creatures such as ghosts.
The soul of an alchemy life that can be awakened is more complete than that of an alchemy life that cannot be awakened.
The original goal was to study the puppet core, but in the end, the flaws of alchemy's life were studied, and the mages' off-topic skills were also first-class......
In any case, when the mages announced the results of their research, the major forces now prepare some materials to compensate for the soul defects of the alchemy creatures before summoning alchemy life.
What the elves have prepared is a cypress branch that can slowly recover the soul trauma, and after recovering the soul trauma of the alchemy elves with a large number of cypress branches, they will officially wake up the alchemy elves.
Now every alchemy elf of the elven clan actually has the potential to awaken.
However, no matter which method is used, it is actually not as good as supplementing the lack of soul by using soul materials such as soul dust, and using soul materials such as soul dust as auxiliary items can make alchemy creatures awaken 100%, but the length of time is different.
In addition to the soul dust, the rest of the materials such as vampire fangs are actually not bad, but for Roger, who is not an undead hero, these materials are also given to the dwarven craftsmen as forging materials.
And from the two vampire heroes, Roger also harvested several strategic treasures.
However, many strategic treasures such as the "Cursed Scepter", "Vampire Cloak", "Amulet of the Dead" and other strategic treasures used by undead heroes are of little use to Roger, but there are still some general-purpose strategic treasures that can still be used.
"Strategic Treasure, Magic Talisman."
"Effect: Mana Regeneration: Restores 2 additional points of your Strategic Mana every day."
"This treasure is faintly connected to a source of magical power."
"Strategic Treasure, Golden Bag."
"Effect: Endless Nuggets: Pour out 750 Mana Gold Coins per day."
"Endless riches!"
Although they are not useful in battle, these special strategic treasures are still very useful, and Roger happily accepts them.
In addition, the battle also allowed Roger to gain a lot of strategic experience, which allowed Roger's Hero's Proof to be upgraded to level 6 and a hint of "Mana +1".
Faced with the prompt to level up a strategic skill or gain a new secondary ability, Roger chose a secondary ability of witchcraft: Mystic Training.
Mystic Training (based on Sorcery): Reduces the amount of strategic magic consumed by heroes when performing strategic magic by 20%.
This secondary ability allows Roger to reduce his strategic mana cost by a lot, and if he had had this secondary ability, the cost of casting Undead Slayer would have been reduced from 72 to 58. This may not seem like much, but the saved strategic magic can already allow Roger to perform one more gas strategic magic chain lightning!
Roger, who had completed the promotion, noticed that the [First Arrival on the Battlefield] mission in the [Hero Mission] was finally completed, but the prize made Roger very helpless.
"Strategic item, apprentice wand."
"Effect: Apprentice Mana: Increases equipped's hero mana +2."
"It's just a magic hero's apprentice's cane, but it's surprisingly easy to use!"
Roger, who was casually equipped with the apprentice's wand, looked at the prompt of "mana +2" in the system panel, but he was not happy at all.
"Although this strategic treasure is indeed good, but as the first battle recognized by the system, I defeated two heroes at one time, or won more with less, is it just such a reward?" Roger is really a little helpless, the system is not a good object to be reasonable, who knows which god in the heavenly realm will issue this task reward?
However, looking at the apprentice's wand, although he knew that this was actually reminding himself not to be complacent, Roger still had a depressed face: "There is a big bat in the back, give me some good things, even if it is to borrow me temporarily......"
PS: That's a chapter for today. Well, put together an outline.