Chapter 15: Murder is nothing more than that
After two nights of ambush without waiting for his prey, Astelli Bloodaxe was in a bad mood.
Is it that his ambush is too rough and is discovered by the other party, or is the other party just passing by and doing something? This feeling of being watched as a prey is really bad, and I can't help but want to be angry, and I want to do something that can make me happy! But now I have to suppress myself, the team is already a little unstable, and I only tell the people below that I need to be on high alert but can't tell them what is on guard? This kind of unknown torture makes people feel restless, and all kinds of complaints that no one usually dares to say can also rush into Astelli. The Bloodaxe was in his ears, which undoubtedly pushed his tyranny level, and just as he was glaring at the blood-red eyes as he picked a target among the grumbling fools, the fireworks alarm went on.
The Asteri Bloodaxe is ambushed near the enemy's most likely outpost, and Avor was ambushed on his way back from the outpost, indicating that the enemy was constantly watching over the area. But now the fireworks alarm is issued by the nearby sentry on the left, about 2 miles away from here, and there are also 80 people in ambush there, led by the remaining berserker One-Eye, who should be able to entangle each other.
Not daring to hesitate, Astelli Bloodaxe quickly gave the order, and the team gathered and rushed to the sentry post that sounded the alarm.
As soon as he walked near the attacked sentry post, the fireworks alarm at the far guard post behind him also rose into the sky.
With a wave of his hand, Astelli Bloodaxe ordered the team to move on, and he turned back to look through the gap in the leaves at the fireworks signal rising in the distance, and his heart was in doubt, and a bad premonition rose in his heart, and he had been tricked.
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Li Xun stood in front of the sentry, commanded 4 skeletons to drag 6 corpses to himself, and finally spent a few minutes to perform the "undead superbirth" to transform all 6 corpses into skeletons, looking at the 9 skeleton warriors and 1 skeleton general standing in front of him, Li Xun nodded with satisfaction, his combat team is constantly expanding, congratulations!
Now Li Xun is already a level 4 mage, originally only at the level of a level 3 mage, relying on the quick casting of spells to coax Master Colon and Master Link Ke, only to obtain the title of level 4 mage in advance, finally to this day is worthy of the name!
As for the attribute points that have been upgraded to level 4, Li Xun of course points on the spirit, and now the growth of knowledge can be achieved by reading books, so there is no need to waste free attribute points on it, and to improve the spirit, you can expand your spiritual power, double and extend the effect of your spells, otherwise the skeleton team will not change from the upper limit of 5 to the current upper limit of 10.
The strategic skills that appeared: curse master, basic learning and basic logistics, after a brief consideration, Li Xun chose basic learning. The direct change that the curse master can bring is that the "Curse of Weakness" has changed from a single magic to a group, which has little significance, and the three extended skills in the learning skills are all drooling: "Magical Intuition" can steal spells from the casters around you with a certain probability, "Understanding" can directly double your mana, and "Scholars" can exchange spells by teaching each other. For Li Xun, who is planning to go black on the bright road of mage, which is a good thing that cannot be let go, and he learns early and benefits early. Li Xun is simply a love of death spells now!
It only took a skeleton's feint to transfer Astelli Blood axe, and then a strong attack to get the front point of the sentry, among which the skeleton general's performance is particularly eye-catching, a skeleton will cover half of the sentinels, its black bone knife seems to be constantly changing, cutting to the enemy actually has a soul effect, can make people's soul and body uncoordinated for a short time, the effect is to freeze in place and wait for someone to cut, but with the skeleton general's almost 1 and a half meters of terrifying broadsword, a knife down the human body two halves, stiff is really not much reflected.
This is his first baby with special effects, you must cherish it, Li Xun looked at the skeleton general who showed his might with pity, and his eyes were tender for a while.
Now that the two tasks he left here have been completed, Li Xun is not nostalgic, and leads his skeleton team straight to the mountains and forests. Hmph, the next time you come, Astelli Bloodaxe, it's time for you to be a stepping stone to my rise!
Alone, Li Xun found the housekeeper who stayed behind in Dayan Village, and returned directly to Sir Hanwick's Green Castle, where he was warmly entertained. When Sir took little Jack's chain, his hand trembled, and he put it on his face for a long time before telling the butler to take it back and give it to his wife, telling her that little Jack had hope.
Sir Having wiped away his tears, he regained his majesty and inquired in detail about the mage's adventures, including a sneak attack on 3 sentry posts, an ambush of the 2 leaders of the Bloodaxe Thieves, a night visit to the Bloodaxe camp where he secretly met with Little Jack, and a sentry under the nose of Astelli Bloodaxe.
Of course, proper spring and autumn brushwork is also a must. For example, when I saw Little Jack at night, he was described by Li Xun as very thrilling and helpless, so he could only give Little Jack a simple treatment for his illness and sneaked out in a hurry; After all, the skeleton has already appeared in the thief group, and if you don't say it now, the other party may be poked out when you face each other on the battlefield in the future, so it's better to get vaccinated now.
Sir Hanwick nodded his head again and again, letting himself suffer a lot, and the blood-axe thieves who had lost face were also ravaged in front of the mages he hired, which really relieved him, and made him realize the horror of the mage group. A 4th-order mage, a low-level mage, actually kneading the enemy at will on the enemy's territory, Astelli Blood Axe, a high-level berserker, was actually killed by someone's right-hand man, and his eyebrows were shaved, but he couldn't find a chance to retaliate, then if there was a middle-level mage or a high-level mage, wouldn't it be possible to slaughter the city and destroy the town alone!
Thinking through this, Sir Hanwick strengthened his determination to befriend Master Li Xun, and hurriedly took out the other 1,000 gold coins promised, and asked the mage to stay in the castle to rest temporarily, and he would regroup the team in the shortest possible time, contact several nearby lords, and this time he must destroy the Blood Axe Thieves.
In the days that followed, the entire Green Keep was mobilized, and one by one, the heralds rushed into the distance, visiting all the lords who had been attacked by the Blood Axe Thieves with the latest battle reports and requests to regroup the combined forces. And Sir Hanwick also issued a conscription order in his own territory, rapidly expanding his team from 300 to 900 people, and constantly building weapons and armor stomach day and night.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Li Xun, who completely abandoned all clutter and enthusiastically devoted himself to the frenzy of learning second-level spells. After 8 days of madness, Li Xun happily mastered 5 practical second-level magic:
Levitation requires mana: 6 to float yourself, allied creatures, or items up to 100 pounds/level
Invisibility requires mana: 6 to make the recipient invisible, and attacking the enemy directly will cause invisibility to be removed
Cobwebs require mana: 6 sticky cobwebs with a radius of 20 meters, and those who fail the reflex test are entangled
Shadow Spray requires mana: A filiform shadow erupts into a 5-meter radius at a target point at 10 points, causing damage and stun mobs in the area
The Blazing Orb requires mana: 10 points to generate a fireball with a diameter of 2 meters that rolls and explodes, dealing fire damage
These are the 5 second-level spells specially selected by Li Xun, and he has mastered them in a short period of time, which will have a direct impact on the upcoming big war, and what Li Xun needs now is a group attack spell and a group control spell that can bring a lot of damage. These spells are in Li Xun's hands, and after they are systematized and digitized, the damage to the enemy will also be maximized.
Just when Li Xun was immersed in the enthusiasm for spell learning, the Green Castle also had a earth-shaking change. In response to Sir Hanwick's call, several nearby lords responded by sending their own private troops, and even Naya City sent 500 city guards again, and finally all the soldiers and horses merged to form a combined army of 2,700 men.
For a while, the outsiders of the Green Castle shouted and neighed, the tents were lined up, the banners of the nobles and knights of various colors fluttered in the wind, and several baggage carts loaded with black bread and dried meat slowly advanced towards the temporary campsite that had just been built.
Li Xun, who was alarmed by the noise outside, opened the wooden window, looked at the team condescendingly, and frowned. Chaos, really chaos, although a joint force has been formed, and on the surface it is under unified command, but the private soldiers from different places are still divided by region, each forming a different small team, and will only obey the direct orders of their respective leaders. Compared to the Bloodaxe Thieves, it feels like the combined forces are more like miscellaneous soldiers, no wonder they were so easily defeated by an ambush last time. Such a team is only suitable for fighting a favorable battle, and has an advantage, each fierce as a tiger, and bravely fighting for the first, but once it falls into the downwind, it will inevitably fight for a way out, and perhaps more will die under the sword of its own people than the enemy.
It seems that the burden on his body is really heavy, and he must go up to suppress the thief group, otherwise it is really a big question whether such a team can help him exterminate the thief group!