Chapter 3: The Undead
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Ever since he hunted his first prey, the two-horned deer, and sold the fresh prey to earn three silver moons, Donald has been excited to devote himself to the cause of hunting monsters.
Hurriedly confessing to the butler, Donald hurried out of town to join his jackals and once again stepped into the dangerous forest.
This time, with the summoned creatures in front of him, many situations were foreseen, and Donald's journey through the forest became much easier, and he didn't have to look ahead and backwards, and his travel speed was greatly increased.
Not long after, having penetrated deep into the area of low-level demonic beast activity on the outskirts of the forest, Donald and his summoned creatures encountered the raid of the first demonic beast.
Suddenly a dark brown shadow flashed in the bushes, and the jackal, which was walking in front of it vigilantly, froze, and then howled violently, and tore at the attacking creature.
Donald looked closely, but it was a dark brown serpentine creature like dead wood and rock, which bit the jackal's front leg and hung on it.
"This is the second-level Demonic Beast Stone Snake?" This discovery made Donald feel a little frightened and happy. If he had walked in front, it would have been estimated that he had already been successfully attacked at this time, and he was not far from death.
The attack power of this kind of monster is not much higher than that of ordinary grass snakes, but their natural camouflage color is undoubtedly a good sneak attack, and for hunters walking in the mountains and forests, what they are afraid of is not face-to-face with large monsters, but the sneak attack of small things like stone snakes.
Being able to occupy the level of a second-level demonic beast with a relatively weak ability, the stone snake must have its uniqueness, that is, its hard body surface and the toxins that can instantly paralyze its prey, although it is not instantly fatal.
Fortunately, there are summoned creatures in front, if you can't find the disguise of the stone snake at all, you can only wait for death in this forest.
Wiping a cold sweat, Donald pulled an arrow from his back with a tense face and stepped forward.
Once an ordinary beast or even a demonic beast with a strong physique is bitten by a stone snake, its body will stiffen and fall into a paralyzed state in a few seconds, but his jackal is a life embodied by an energy body, and although the paralyzing toxin is powerful, the impact on summoned creatures is mostly weakened, which is also the reason why jackals can maintain their mobility.
"This stone snake's defense is really strong!"
Seeing that the snake had been bitten by a jackal for so long, and that there was no wound on the snake's body, and that it still bit the front leg of the prey and did not let go, Donald exclaimed at its tenacious vitality.
However, with the weakness of the stone snake that everyone knows, Donald has a way to solve this guy easily, thinking that a second-level demon core is about to arrive, and it is so easy to come, Donald can't help but want to laugh.
After approaching the jackal, he ordered the jackal to fix the body of the stone snake with his mouth and claws, Donald stepped on the tail of the stone snake with one foot, pinched the snake's neck firmly clamped to the jackal's leg with one hand, and the sharp arrow in his hand pierced through the gap in the snake's mouth that bit the jackal's front leg.
"Die!"
After a few snorts, the stone snake with a long arrow fell off the jackal's front legs, rolled on the ground a few times, and struggled for a while before standing still.
It turned out that over the years, there were quite a few people who had entered the forest and died under the mouth of the stone snake, and this little thing was good at sneak attacks in secret, and it was much more dangerous than many more advanced magical beasts. However, it has a great weakness, that is, although the stone snake has strong defenses on the surface, it is relatively fragile inside, and as long as it avoids its sneak attack, it can be easily solved. Didn't you see how easily Donald could kill him with just a wooden arrow made of iron arrows!
Having dealt with the prey briefly, Donald frowned as he looked at the jackal with the wounded front leg. Because it is a creature that is temporarily summoned, it is the existence of an energy body and not an entity that is permanently summoned, so after a while, the wound has automatically recovered, but the jackal's expression is slightly weaker, and its size seems to be slightly reduced compared to just now.
"That's it! I can't give up the magic core in exchange for the magic beast, and it is much safer to hunt with one more summoned creature!"
Somewhat reluctantly taking out the remaining first-level magic core that had not yet been warmed up, Donald summoned a summoned creature again.
This time he summoned a sharp-haired beast, which is one of the common first-level wild monsters in Warcraft, the same level as the jackal, but this monster is similar to the back spikes of a porcupine, which can give it the means of long-range attack, and its own defense is also stronger than that of jackals.
Summoning a second helper, Donald headed deeper into the forest.
It wasn't long before Donald found himself in an unfamiliar area.
In front of me is a small jungle with dry and withered yellow vegetation, compared to the lush and lush forest when it came, it is like a sick ringworm area in the big forest, and as soon as you step into it, you can faintly feel an uncomfortable atmosphere.
Donald later learned that such an area is called a withered land by the majority of adventurers, and most of them are places where negative energy gathers, and it is difficult for normal plants and creatures to grow here, so it will present a barren scene. And once a beast or monster dies here, or after the soul of a dead hunter or adventurer rests, the corpses left behind are susceptible to negative energy infection and mutation over time and become undead creatures.
Two figures wandered in the distance, their vision blurred by the withered trees. Donald thought it was another adventurer or hunter, but when the other party got closer, Donald realized that it was a person?
"The gods are above, why is there even skeletons in this world, isn't it possible that the creator god here has also played stand-alone and online games produced by the earth?"
Rao is his series of bizarre experiences of time travel, rebirth, and the summoning ability of the Book of Truth, and he can't help but be greatly shocked by the appearance of this skeleton, and he is basically unable to vomit.
In fact, in this high magic world, because of the abundance of elemental energy, negative energy is naturally the same, especially in canyons, jungles, or dark cemeteries where the sun does not see the light of day, it is easy to breed undead creatures. It's normal to see the undead in the wild.
Such undead creatures have no souls, some are just soul fires with simple consciousness, which are worthless compared to a magical beast that is a treasure, and he is not the kind of necromancer who manipulates dead corpses, so Donald didn't plan to fight them at first.
However, the two skeletons felt the breath of the living, and the two red lights in their empty eye sockets shook violently, and they actually raised the rusty sword in their hands, which was almost invalid, and let out a silent cry, attacking Donald.
If Donald exits the wasteland as soon as possible, the skeletons that can't sense the breath of the living will stop. Undead creatures generally do not leave their old nests, and only in places with abundant negative energy will they instinctively feel comfortable.
Therefore, as long as you get out of this area, you can quickly get rid of the entanglement of the undead.
Generally, adventurers encounter undead creatures in the wild, and most of them will take a detour, not as a last resort, and will not take the initiative to provoke these undead. Because there is basically nothing to be gained by destroying them, and some of the negative energy carried by undead creatures also carries plague viruses, which are extremely harmful to the human body, and it is difficult for ordinary warrior classes to expel them on their own, except for spellcasters, unless there are priests and mages who cast magic or spell purification for him.
If you don't get to the nearest temple or altar in time, you will be fatal.
Therefore, unless the undead were powerful adventurers during their lifetime, they may still have some valuable possessions and equipment left on them. In this way, driven by profits, adventurers will be willing to deal with the undead.
But Donald thought about it, he might encounter undead creatures in the future, and as a living person, his position must be hostile to them, so it is better to feel their strength now, and he can deal with them in the future.
Donald then shouted orders for the two minions to attack.
"Up, remove these bone racks for me!"
The jackal has the strength equivalent to the first stage of the black iron warrior, and it is very brave to pounce on the two skeletons and tear them up, and after a while, the thigh bone of one of them is removed, but the attack of the newly summoned sharp-haired beast basically has no damage to the skeletons that leak all over the body, and can only wave the flag and shout on the side.
Through Donald's observation, it was found that this human skeleton was probably the same strength as an ordinary human man in the prime of life, but the skeleton had lost its flesh and blood, and its mobility was far inferior to that of a living person, and it was obvious that they were sluggish and stiff in their movements.
Skeletons have the advantage of not being afraid of death, and even if they are broken bones, they will reunite after a night of negative energy.
So after the jackal dismantled the two poor skeletons, Donald immediately picked up his iron sword, ready to destroy the soul fire in the opponent's skull and completely deal with it.
However, after getting closer to the skull, the hint of the Book of Truth came to mind.
"Found that you can absorb the power of the soul, do you want to absorb it?"
Donald was shocked, then overjoyed.
"It turns out that the power of the soul needs to destroy the enemy before it can be absorbed by the Book of Truth, and this undead creature is actually one of the sources of the power of the soul!, so if I kill people, will it be the same?"
Thinking of this, Donald shook his head violently, and immediately dispelled this thought. Killing undead creatures is basically to eliminate harm for the people, and there is no psychological burden, but killing people is different! Having lived in a civilized society for nearly 30 years, it is impossible for him to kill people for no reason simply for the sake of his soul power.
"It's better to kill a few more skeletons, they're all undead creatures anyway, and when the soul power is enough, I can create my own subordinates!"
If there is the first undead, there will definitely be a second, and the undead in the impression generally appear in groups. Donald ordered the Jackal to go ahead and the Furry Beast behind, escorting him deeper into the wasteland.
Permanent summoning requires different costs depending on the level of the creature itself.
In addition to the energy cost of the corresponding creation**, humanoid sapient creatures below level 2 require fifty units of soul power, while non-humanoid creatures only need ten units.
Due to their inherently strong nature, a regular class that reaches level 2 requires at least 200 units of soul power to create, a level 3 requires at least 500, and a level 4 is as high as a thousand.
As for the creation of heroes and rare units and monsters above level 5, it is necessary to have up to 5,000 units to form a perfect soul to meet the conditions.
A low-level skeleton provides about thirty units of soul power, which means that after absorbing the previous two soul fires, he can now create a permanent Terran farmer, plus a non-humanoid creature.
However, he did not intend to create peasants, because peasants were of little use other than to take care of farms, and even if they could be converted into militias, their combat effectiveness would be very low.
Relatively speaking, the existence below the second level can be said to be very cheap, but basically it is not of great use, so he plans to accumulate enough soul power first, and then create a powerful combat class.
The barren jungle was a small area with too few undead to spawn, and Donald quickly swept it through, finding and destroying only three humanoid skeletons, and the five skeletons were never found again.
The soul fire of the low-level undead provides too little soul power, adding up to just over three hundred units, but it is just enough for him to permanently summon the first second-level class.
It just so happened that he also had a second-level magic core on hand as energy, so Donald didn't hesitate anymore, immediately opened the Book of Truth, and browsed all the options for the second-level class, including field units.
"Undead creatures and undead are taboo in human forces, the orcs and humans have been hostile for thousands of years, and they will definitely not appear, in this world, the night elves are rumored to be evil creatures, so there are only three choices left: the human race, the dwarves and the high elves!"
In the end, Donald chose one of them. The appearance of dwarves and high elves now is too high-profile for him, and it is said that after the great migration of elves, they will rarely come to the northern regions of the continent, let alone the cold northland kingdom. If an elf suddenly appeared, it would definitely attract a large number of onlookers.
So Donald chose the infantry produced by the Terran junior class of the construction barracks.
"It's you, come out! Terran infantry!"
The divine light flashed, completely different from the summoning circle that appeared in the temporary summoning, and a humanoid creature with a high nose and broad eyes, brown hair and eyes, which looked no different from the human males native to this world, appeared in front of Donald.
Looking at the sturdy steel armor on his whole body, as well as the heavy sword and shield in his hand, it is the primary class of the fully armed Terran race, which is equivalent to the hoplites of the strength of the warriors in the middle of the black iron in this world.
"Master!"
Seeing the strong warrior kneeling on one knee to express his loyalty and respect to him, Donald felt a great sense of satisfaction and asked, "Very well! Get up, do you have a name?"
"Master, I don't have a name, everything I have is given by the master, please give me a name!"
After thinking about it, and seeing that the appearance of this infantryman was somewhat similar to that of a certain young man in his memory, Donald said with some evil taste:
"Well, from today onwards, you will be called Clinton! From now on, you will be my infantry captain, the future infantry commander!"
"Yes, great master, Clinton will follow in your footsteps unto death!"
With his first permanent minion, he finally has some assurance of safety in this world. By the way, he also spoofed the former president in his previous life, Donald couldn't hide a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was in a good mood under the protection of the two summoned creatures and the infantry Clinton, and searched towards the depths of the forest outside this barren forest.
With the protection of this hoplite, this trip to the forest will be very rewarding!
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Role attributes
Terran Infantry:
After the massive attrition of the Union army caused by the continuous wars over the years, the addition of many new recruits was timely replenished. Infantrymen with formal swordsmanship training acted as the forward and defensive force of the Alliance. Infantry armed with broad-edged swords and heavy shields can effectively break up enemy attacks.
Soul Level Lv2-1. Growth: 35 points
Growth direction: Guard, Swordsman, Shield Guard
Armament: Stainless steel longsword (1.1-1.2 meters long standard sword, depending on height.) ), standard swordsman armor, steel shield.
Summoning characters costs 130 energy points, of which summoning characters costs 70 points and requires soul power: 200 units.
Capabilities:
Sword Mastery: Can be proficient in hand-to-hand combat with a long sword.
- A stout Lordaeron male who has undergone three years of National Guard training to become a Lordaeron infantry regiment soldier who is proficient in sword fighting.
When the soul level grows to lv2-2 (promoted to veteran), you have the ability to:
Shield Block: You're proficient in the use of shields, and now you can use them dexterously to parry weapons, unload and other skills.
When the soul level grows to lv2-3 (promoted to Master Chief), the class will be activated:
Qi sense: Now you have mastered the use of qi. You can use some warrior tricks.