After Xiao Lang killed dozens of enemy soldiers in a row, his level had risen to level 4, his experience was 140/880, and his upper limit of qi and blood had risen to 130.

Received the standard leather armor, which was a set of half-body leather armor, Xiao Lang specially put it on to find an enemy soldier and tried it, the damage was slightly reduced, but it was still not enough for Xiao Lang to resist two damages, so its value was almost zero for Xiao Lang.

What's more important is that it greatly reduces Xiao Lang's flexibility, originally Xiao Lang relied on speed to maneuver with enemy soldiers, so reducing flexibility is impossible for Xiao Lang to accept.

Sold to the quartermaster, he couldn't exchange for battle merits, he could only exchange for 20 copper plates, plus Xiao Lang got 10 copper plates in the trial mission, Xiao Lang now has 30 copper plates.

However, the copper plate is meaningless to Xiao Lang now, the recovery products of the Xinsheng Village can only be bought by relying on military merits, and the medicines on hand of the player are not rich, so it is impossible to take them out and sell them, so the copper plate has not been found to be of any use for the time being.

But fortunately, thirty copper plates are easier to carry than a set of leather armor.

Now Xiao Lang's mind is on the [Branch Mission], it can be seen that the sooner this branch task is done, the more valuable the reward will be, if he is already an [Elite Soldier], or when he is no longer short of more than a hundred points of military merit, the reward of this task will become a chicken rib, after all, the reward of [Blood War] is to directly promote the rank to [Elite Soldier], not to reward military merits.

(If Xiao Lang does not successfully complete the task, then the reward of [Blood War] will be converted into combat merit as appropriate)

The current military merit in Xiao Lang's hands is 185, which seems like a lot, but in fact, if Xiao Lang directly raises his military rank to [ordinary soldier] (requires 50 points of military merit), or even [elite soldier] (needs to consume 100 points of military merit on the premise of ordinary soldiers), his military merit will only be 35 points, and he can't even exchange a standard saber.

Since Xiao Lang has just started the game now, his energy is not bad, so he tried the same time first, but he also did not receive the task.

found that in front of the ten enemies, after killing the sixth enemy soldier, he was still unable to catch it.

Returning to the novice village, Xiao Lang thought for a while, adjusted the experience distribution of the two exercises in the exercise column to 50%, and then began to go out of the city to hunt enemy soldiers.

Because whether it is "Basic Exercises" or "Xiaoming Mountain Introductory Swordsmanship", it is not a clever martial arts, and Xiao Lang's efficiency in killing monsters is really not low, so four hours later, the two exercises were promoted to the full level by Xiao Lang, and the exercises disappeared from the exercises column.

The role of "Basic Exercises" is unknown, but Xiao Lang can feel that his strength has improved somewhat, but it can't be displayed on the panel, and the effect of "Xiaoming Mountain Introductory Swordsmanship" is to directly prompt Xiao Lang to get [Swordsmanship Introduction], but Xiao Lang can't feel it, probably because Xiao Lang has been using a saber, so it has no effect.

Xiao Lang found out in the process of killing monsters, with his current military rank, military merits can only reach 300 at most, and the excess is about a dozen points that will be directly erased, if it weren't for Xiao Lang who felt that there was really no place to store it for what hemostatic grass or what entertainment products, he would definitely not be so wasteful.

In fact, only high-end players like Xiao Lang will have this happy trouble, because they can kill several enemy soldiers at the same time, so the combat merits they get are far more abundant than other players, even so, for example, Xiao Lang, accumulated these 300 points of military merit, or because he was highly mentally concentrated to kill the enemy soldiers for nearly 10 hours, on average, an hour is only 30 points.

One can imagine how hard-won this feat.

After completing the mission of the third stage of the Path of Glory, since his military rank is still [Recruit], there is no follow-up mission for the time being.

And his standard saber finally came to an end, and Xiao Lang took advantage of the situation to replace it with a rewarded iron sword.

Item Name: The Iron Sword of the Finesse

Weight: 5

Durability: 150/150

Evaluation: The workmanship is quite good, and the materials are quite elegant.

Xiao Lang casually held two sword flowers, which were indeed much easier to use than the saber, but Xiao Lang also found that according to his experience of fighting with the ten enemies so many times, even so, he only had three or four points of certainty at most to kill them.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Lang went to the quartermaster and spent 50 points of military merit to upgrade his rank to [Ordinary Soldier], and spent another 20 points of military merit to exchange for the combat skill [Continuous Slash].

【Skill】

Skill Name: Consecutive Slash

Skill Effect: One attack deals two damages, 80% and 70% of normal damage respectively

Skill Description: Consumes 5 mana and has a cooldown of 20 seconds.

Notes: This is a common attack technique for soldiers.

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At the same time, due to the increase in rank, the quest bar also prompted Xiao Lang to go to Captain Fenwu to receive the new main quest.

Fortunately, if the effect of this [Combo Slash] is to swing the weapon twice in a row, thus causing two stages of damage, then the effect on Xiao Lang will be greatly reduced, after all, as long as Xiao Lang consumes some more operations, he can still complete the slash, and he doesn't even need to consume mana.

And now this [Combo Slash] is equivalent to exchanging 5 mana points for half of the attack power, and for all players, there will be a big improvement in output.

And with this combat skill, Xiao Lang finally had a grasp of completing the [Branch Mission].

If the output goes up, the natural time will be shortened, and if the time is shortened, the physical strength will naturally be saved.

Originally, Xiao Lang wanted to complete the branch task under the rank of [Recruit], because that would be equivalent to a reward of 150 points of military merit, but when Xiao Lang found that he couldn't do anything, he decisively chose to be promoted to the rank, which meant that the reward for the branch mission shrank by 50 points.

Xiao Lang can also choose to continue to kill monsters and upgrade, after the level is high, this task will always be completed, but the problem is that there is no point in doing that, it is estimated that the erased military merits are enough to exchange the military rank for [Elite Soldier].

Xiao Lang went to Fen Wu Lieutenant to take over the main quest, it is worth mentioning that although that NPC is still Fen Wu Lieutenant, but the appearance is different from what Xiao Lang has seen before, it seems that the NPC in the game also needs to rest. As for the mission, it's still a type of killing enemy soldiers, but this time it's about killing at least two enemy captains.

At the same time, I looked through other items, and it took 100 points of combat merit to exchange for [Elite Soldier], and you can learn the combat skill [Brave Strike], and there are one or two more things that can be exchanged for [Equipment] and [Recovery Items], but it is still not of great use, and this time Xiao Lang didn't even have the idea of exchanging some of them.

The only estimate that hasn't changed is [entertainment], but in the same way, Xiao Lang has no idea of exchanging anything.

After packing up, Xiao Lang deliberately left some time to rest for a while before walking out of Xin'an City.

Facing the ten enemies again, Xiao Lang was very different from the first time in terms of mentality and state.

That time, Xiao Lang was holding the mentality of trying it out, dragging his tired body and fighting with them, but he was beaten back to the city by them.

And this time, Xiao Lang was completely sure that he would kill them all.

But even so, Xiao Lang still killed several groups of enemy soldiers first, after all, it takes time to get used to new weapons and new combat skills.

After killing more than a dozen enemy soldiers alone, triggering and taking over the branch tasks, Xiao Lang reopened his posture and led out ten enemies, this time, Xiao Lang did not rush to attack, nor did he wait for these ten enemies to line up in formation, but wandered around these enemy soldiers, constantly using his sword to inflict damage on these enemy soldiers.

The time when the ten enemies form a military formation is a time for them to have an open space, and it is the time when the player can easily deal damage to them.

This is Xiao Lang's experience, he had the attitude that it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, and every time he tried to concentrate the damage on one enemy soldier, in order to eliminate one first.

However, with Xiao Lang's output, he can't eliminate one before the other party forms a military formation, even if he learns [even slashing], it is far from enough, after all, even if it is empty, people don't stand still and let you kill.

And as long as these ten enemies form a military formation, dying a few will not affect the operation of their military formation, so often in the end, Xiao Lang will spend a lot of time and physical strength in order to eliminate an enemy soldier, not to mention that in order to pursue damage concentration, Xiao Lang also needs to constantly move to attack enemy soldiers whose positions are constantly changing.

This time, Xiao Lang did not pursue the concentration of damage, but hit whoever he met, and cooperated with [Consecutive Slash], causing a total of about 300 points of damage during the time when the ten enemies were in formation.

When the other party has formed a military formation, Xiao Lang will not stand stupidly in the encirclement of the other party, but constantly move in position to prevent himself from being attacked on all sides.

When the output position is not good, Xiao Lang uses a flat slash, and once he finds a flaw, Xiao Lang immediately uses [Combo Slash], causing a lot of damage.

In general, Xiao Lang's output efficiency has increased by 20%, but due to the change of tactics, Xiao Lang has not killed even a single enemy soldier so far.

The good news is that almost every enemy soldier has less than 120 health.

I saw an enemy soldier rashly slashing at Xiao Lang with a heavy knife, and Xiao Lang dodged sideways, and this guy's recklessness caused his back to be completely open to Xiao Lang, and his companions couldn't keep up for a while, unable to protect him.

Xiao Lang slashed his cervical vertebrae with a [continuous slash].

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With another flat slash, the enemy soldier finally fell to the ground.

Xiao Lang took a step back, flashed two big knives that slashed at his neck, and at the same time swung his sword to the left, which was able to deflect the other knife, and then with the power of this knife, he quickly pulled the sword and moved to the right, blocking the last big knife that slashed at him.

This is the advantage of using a sword, if Xiao Lang is still allowed to use that standard saber, in the face of these four attacks that are almost killed at the same time, Xiao Lang will not be able to dodge so easily, and he will have to use two lazy donkeys to roll, but in that way, the position will be difficult to control.

Facing the military formation, even if there was one person missing, they never messed up their posture, missed a blow, and would no longer attack as if they were stalking, but coordinated their pace and did not leave room for Xiao Lang.

Xiao Lang naturally did not rush over, the ten enemies he faced were military formations, nine people, and they were still military formations, and they could only rely on themselves to find out and kill them, and it was unrealistic to expect them to "accidentally" make mistakes in cooperation.

The nine people sorted out the formation and killed Xiao Lang again, Xiao Lang was waiting for this kind of time, only to see him take a few flash steps, and then moved to the left side of the military formation.

Speed and agility are always the flaws of enemy soldiers, especially when they form a formation, and there is little flexibility to speak of.

But correspondingly, every time Xiao Lang wants to attack one person, the other people will make changes accordingly, although this change usually takes a certain amount of time, but if Xiao Lang's output is insufficient, the time left for Xiao Lang by this change is not enough for him to cause any effective damage to the military formation.

A flat slash was used to feint, and then the [continuous slash] was used on the body of another enemy soldier, this time, Xiao Lang did not have time to mend the knife, and directly retreated, waiting for the opportunity again.

Xiao Lang, who has practiced the "Basic Exercises", has improved his physical strength and is more able to adapt to long-term battles.

Coupled with the increase in output obtained by [Combo Slash], combined with the correct tactics, Xiao Lang finally grasped the initiative by himself.

After seven times of the same method, counting the enemy soldier killed at the beginning, there were only five people left in the military formation, and they finally "learned" to be smart, no longer blindly attacking, but waiting in place, just staring at Xiao Lang, as if looking for some flaw in Xiao Lang.

This is actually the second stage of the ten enemies, holding on, and at the same time, each enemy soldier will recover 15% of their maximum HP.

It is precisely for this reason that Xiao Lang thought that he should concentrate the damage first, so that for other undamaged enemy soldiers, this recovery would be useless, but it turns out that for the sake of these 30 points of qi and blood, it will not determine the success or failure of a tactic.

The military formation changed from offensive to defensive, incarnated into a turtle shell, facing the player, no longer taking the initiative to attack, to prevent the exposure of flaws.

If the player's attack power is insufficient, there is almost no way to face such a shell, after all, it is not possible to rely on flexibility to suppress the opponent's posture.

But now Xiao Lang has full confidence, using his longsword that he is good at, and he has an output skill of [Combo Slash] that increases damage by 50%, facing the turtle shell, just smash it.

I saw Xiao Lang sweeping, blocking the two long knives, bullying the group, and going down with one palm, not to hurt the enemy, but to let the enemy soldier leave the army formation by half a step.

He retreated with the momentum, and when the enemy soldier who left the army retreated, in just half a step, Xiao Lang struck a [continuous slash] and two general attacks, and knocked him to the ground.

With this vacancy, Xiao Lang did not continue to choose to retreat this time, waiting for the remaining four of them to reopen the formation, but suddenly chose to rush forward, the long sword played with the feeling of a dagger, and cut three bloody cuts with the blade, and at the same time, a sword stabbed the throat of one of the enemy soldiers, turning him into experience.

With a hard knife in the back, he lost more than 90 points of qi and blood, Xiao Lang licked the blood from the knife edge, and he did not retreat from the battle, also because he knew that the remaining three enemy soldiers would not have a chance to hit him again.

There were still three remaining enemy soldiers, but Xiao Lang did not give them a chance to form a formation, but stood in the middle of the three of them, willing to sacrifice the opportunity to output rather than block their opportunity to move.

The rest are the ordinary three NPCs, Xiao Lang has one person and one sword, his physical strength is still there, his mana is still sufficient, and it will not be difficult to kill them.

It will take less than an hour, and the last ten enemies, turned into corpses.

[Branch Mission] Bloody Battle (Successfully completed), get the task reward: Rank is upgraded to [Elite Soldier], and the current rank is [Ordinary Soldier].

Xiao Lang finally successfully completed the branch task, grew a breath of turbidity, grinned, and the wound on his back was hot and painful, fortunately, Xiao Lang got used to it, and after all, it was in the game, and it wouldn't take long to recover, even if he didn't use medicine.

"Smack, smack, smack." Just as Xiao Lang was adjusting his breath, a burst of applause rang out. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ps: It's a big chapter, ask for votes and recommendations