Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Price of Strength
A big battle lasted for twenty minutes and finally came to an end.
The dark jungle was littered with the corpses of fierce beasts, and some of the dead black-winged birds hanging from the trees were dripping blood from the air, dripping and dripping in people's necks.
The number of fierce beasts is actually not much, and the shadow beasts, dark demon apes and black-winged birds combined are not more than seven hundred, but these low-level fierce beasts of four difficulties, with their tenacious vitality, complex skill combinations, and the terrifying characteristics of infinitely superimposed various special attacks, have also made the Broken Blade team and others scramble.
You must know that this is a Broken Blade team with Megatron's help, in terms of individual strength, the Broken Blade team may only be considered a mid-level, but with Megatron, it is not an exaggeration to be considered the peak.
For this reason, Shen Yi also had to lament, no wonder there was never a so-called sweeping wilderness in the four difficulty areas.
This is indeed not an easy thing to do.
He wasn't worried about that, though.
Compared to other four-difficulty adventurers, the Broken Blade team also has two advantages, one is that they have just entered the four-difficulty level, and the other is that they still have a big universe plan.
In the future, if they can build a final-tier battleship before they enter the fifth difficulty, then the indiscriminate sweep of the four-difficulty wilderness may not be impossible - although no one has ever done it before, sometimes the completion of a miracle itself is a smooth path to the same miracle.
After killing all these fierce beasts, he was given an A-level weapon and an exercise book, all of which were given from the Dark Demon Ape.
Dark Claw, with an attack power of 76, comes with a shadow strike effect, attacking shadow parts to deal extra damage, and at the same time increasing the hit rate. However, this weapon is special and limited, and it is of little significance.
Originally, they could have been paid for exploiting the corpses, but due to the agreement with the Dragonfangs, the corpses of the Shadowwalking Demon Ape and the Blackwinged Bird had to be handed over to the Dragonfangs.
The exercise book is an ordinary earth technique, and the Broken Blade team does not have a special need for terrain techniques, so they don't care much about this book.
Speaking of which, it is not bad to be able to get such a harvest in twenty minutes, but the problem is that after such a big battle, everyone's mental power is almost exhausted. A fight like this will never happen again in a short period of time.
When fighting in a low-difficulty area, you can fight seven or eight battles a day, sometimes even two or three in a row, even if you only gain one C-level or B-level in a single battle, it will not be less than 350,000 yuan a day, so it is never difficult to sweep the wilderness in more than 20 days and earn millions of dollars.
But a battle like today's is by no means suitable for more than three times in a day.
This is not just a matter of lack of mental strength, but as the degree of danger increases, people's own mental state is unbearable.
The tension brought by low-intensity battles is small, and the mental will exercised by adventurers can bear it, but the mental tension brought by high-intensity and heavy-load battles is far greater than that of low-intensity battles, and if people are trapped in this tension all day long, it is easy to get tired and get bored. Like Hong Lang, they like to laugh in battle, not only by nature, but also to relax their mood and relieve fatigue.
Don't think that adventurers should get used to fighting, get used to danger.
There is nothing in the world that should be.
Unless you want to die, no one can really get used to danger, only morbid and numb adaptation, and some people even become perverts/perverts because of it.
When fighting the boss, everyone still has good expectations, and they can forcibly suppress the discomfort through the longing of hope, and deal with these battles where there are only one or two harvests in a thousand, and the battle spirit in the heart is not large, and the sense of fatigue is naturally easy to emerge, which is not controlled by personal will.
In other words, unless they can change this state, in terms of income, the Broken Blade team that enters the fourth difficulty will only be lower than when they were in the low difficulty area before.
In fact, this kind of thing is normal in the fourth difficulty, but for Shen Yi, it is unacceptable.
Since there can be millions of gains in the low difficulty area, higher difficulty must and should have higher returns!
This is not the principle of the city, but it is the principle of his Shen Yi.
Improving mental power is easy to solve, and there are also exercises similar to the source of life in terms of spiritual power, Shen Yi plans to make up for it in this regard, but in terms of greatly improving combat power and widening the gap in strength, it is Lao Meng who is more important.
In the previous battle, only the Terminator was supported by cannon fodder in front, and the strength was obviously not enough.
However, after this battle, Lao Meng has a large number of dark demon apes that can be used to make undead soldiers, and his strength can be improved a lot.
The problem is that Lao Meng also has his own calculations in his heart - he, like Wen Wen, wants to keep these soldiers who can be brought back as treasures.
Therefore, this time, Shen Yi gave Lao Meng the exercise book and the claw of darkness for the first time, and he didn't ask for any of the benefits this time, but said: "Our strength in the four difficulties has not yet reached the point where we can kill all the way, if we want to get a better return, we must first make more investment." You are the same, if you want to get a better corpse, you must first give up what is in front of you. ”
Lao Meng looked at the weapons and exercise books handed to him by Shen Yi, and took them with a smile: "In every battle, I put half of the undead legion out to cooperate, and the remaining half will not be taken out, what do you think?"
Shen Yi frowned: "Two-thirds, keep one-third, you collect hundreds of them every day, and you can have thousands of troops in a month, these are all fierce beasts of the fourth difficulty level, and you are brought to the world of three difficulties, isn't it rampant?"
"It's not that simple. Lao Meng shook his head: "Even if it is a powerful life, its strength will drop a lot after it becomes an undead." But the worst thing is that the high-level undead need to be fed by the lives of the low-level undead, and I need to prepare rations for my Bone Dragon troops. Ordinary rations will not be placed in their eyes, and only the undead transformed into this four-difficulty level beast will suit their taste. ”
"The undead need to eat too?" everyone wondered.
Lao Meng nodded: "Of course, but it's not used to wrap the belly, but to devour the soul fire and strengthen itself." The high-level undead are different from the low-level undead, there will be an upgrade process after becoming undead, they are not very strong at first, but they can improve themselves by devouring their own kind, constantly level up, and eventually become a strong existence, the mid-level undead can grow on their own, but the speed is very slow, and those low-level undead only need a little soul energy from the caster to meet their needs. I just need to use some undead who have the potential for self-growth to meet the growth needs of high-level undead. ”
"Applicator provides, so your appearance is not only due to erosion, but also ......" Shen Yizhi was more concerned about the last sentence.
"Yes......" Old Meng Youyou sighed: "This is the price that must be paid, so I am getting weaker and weaker. You know? My current constitution only has 6 health points with one constitution. ”
This is his biggest secret, but it is the first time he has told Shen Yi.
"Hell, you never told me that. However, your constitution is 98 now, so why is your vitality still 980 points. ”
"That's a cover-up. Lao Meng laughed a few times, and he suddenly opened his skill bar, and there was a skill displayed on it: Camouflage Da/Fa.
This skill can show others the attribute ability that you only want others to see, but it has no effect on secondary artifacts, etc. When you first use this ability, you can get the same ability as you demonstrate, and the higher the ability you demonstrate, the shorter the duration.
This is a skill from hero invincibility, but unlike the real hero invincibility, this skill is actually quite strong, not only can you disguise your true attributes, but you can also temporarily have the attributes after camouflage, greatly increasing your strength, but the greater the increase, the shorter the duration. However, after the real combat power is withdrawn, the camouflage attribute can still exist for a long time, which makes anyone misestimate Lao Meng's strength.
No wonder this guy always starts with a jerk and then immediately shrinks.
"So that's ......" Shen Yi lowered his head and thought about it, and said to the fat man: "Fat man, give the life suit to Lao Meng first." ”
The fat man was about to take off his equipment, but Lao Meng had already shook his head: "No need, although I paid the price, I got more." My strength is not improved by my own combat power, so it is mainly through equipment. Rest assured, my protective gear will be no worse than your Life Suit. So don't look at me, the real vitality is less than six hundred points, but even if Shen Yi wants to kill me, hehe, it's not that easy. But...... Anyway, I appreciate your kindness. For the sake of your friends, I promise you that you will only keep a third of each battle. ”
Saying that, he has shown a piece of equipment: Lich Armor, Defense 34, comes with the skill Reincarnation of the Undead, can be reborn through undead corpses and undead soldiers, the maximum number of uses in each mission world is three, and the current number of uses is 1/3. This equipment requires an undead class and a Lich Constitution to be used.
Everyone has been fighting together for so long, although they are always combined for interests, they have gradually developed feelings, although they are not as good as their teammates, but there are some aspects of the secret Lao Meng finally no longer kept.
His undead reincarnation skill is quite powerful, as long as he encounters a lethal attack, he can be directly reincarnated through corpses or his own undead soldiers, which is equivalent to the ability to reincarnate, but it is limited to necromancers whose physique is seriously affected.
In addition to the Lich Armor, Lao Meng showed a Lich Life Box, which is also a very powerful life-saving prop, and it is also reincarnated after death, but it does not need corpses, but directly returns to the city to be reborn. If it dies in the mission world, it will be judged based on the progress at that time whether the reward will be deducted, but it will not be erased, and the arrears are allowed, and the total number of uses is three.
Lao Meng due to the low physique, so this means to save his life is really a lot, he didn't say it before, everyone didn't dare to joke with his life, this time he showed the hole cards, it is also a rare openness.
This is also the comprehensive trust that has finally been established after a long period of cooperation with the Broken Blade team.
In fact, not every adventurer will pay such a big price as Lao Meng after becoming a necromancer, and more necromancers will generally only lose a little bit of their physique. But Lao Meng is too crazy in this regard, and he has put in enough hard work and blood, and the result is that while he is strong, the price he pays is also extraordinarily high.
"What you lose is what you gain. Shen Yi smiled: "Now I'm relieved." ”
"If you lose something, you have to make up for it. Lao Meng also replied: "Necromancers can't learn the Source of Life Technique, this is the price we must pay for being strong, but it doesn't mean that there is no other way to make up for it." ”
"Oh, you mean there's another way to make amends?"
"Do you remember the last time I used the spring water of youth?"
"Remember, it can get you back to peak power. I now understand what the so-called pinnacle means, it must be not only your weakened strength, but also your weakened constitution, right?"
"Yes, but it's only a temporary bottle of youthful spring water. I've heard that there is a high-level spring of youth in the four levels of difficulty, which can be permanently improved. This kind of improvement is useless to you, because your constitution has been improved by the exercises, but it is very useful for necromancers, and with only four bottles, I can recover to the standard value. I don't want to break the standard, but even if I can return to the standard, it's good for me. ”
"Four bottles, right?" Shen Yi patted him on the shoulder: "I'll help you get it." ”
Old Meng smiled: "If that's the case, I'm willing to exchange it for the Frost Dragon." My army of the undead doesn't have any regrets that can't be traded. ”
"Then I don't have to, I don't have that many mid-level undead to feed them. Shen Yi smiled: "As long as you can contribute more in the next battle." ”
"No problem, as long as a bottle of youth spring water and a dragon corpse, I can hand over three-quarters of the undead army to you to squander!"
For Lao Meng, even if it is just a bottle of high-grade youth without hard work, it is worth his all-out efforts. He traded his health for powerful equipment, top-notch necromancy, and now he was going to trade it back for the health he had lost.
It's like people trading their health for money, and then buying health with money when they're old.
Some "philosophers" who think they know how to maintain health and value life often ridicule this practice, but they don't know that when you are penniless and only healthy, you don't need to exchange health for money, and what can you exchange it for?
Those who can say these things are self-righteous people who live a good life and don't know the hardships of the lower classes.
Even today is not good, what do you want tomorrow?
If you trade your health for money today, you may buy back some of your health with money in the future.
If you are reluctant to be healthy today, you will not even be eligible to buy back your health in the future.
The exception, of course, is selling kidneys.
After the conversation, Lao Meng began to make a large number of dark demon apes.
Since making the undead required relatively intact corpses, Lao Meng eventually made one hundred and fifty demon ape soldiers.
Although it is said that the combat effectiveness of the Dark Walking Demon Ape has decreased a lot after being made into an undead, but in the end, it is a fierce beast of four difficulties, and the strength of each one is close to the high-level, with a vitality of 2,400 points, and its strength has also been maintained at about 120 points, losing its ability to travel on the ground and the ability to thrust, but it still retains a certain agility ability, and has become a fast force in the old Meng's undead army.
By cooperating with the Terminator troops, attacking from afar and blocking from afar, a relatively complete offensive system was finally formed, and in this thorny dark jungle, the strength of the Broken Blade team was once again strengthened.
After that, Lao Meng made some undead black-winged birds, so that he used them not to fight, but to scout. The dark jungle canopy canopy can't even shine on satellites, and these undead birds can also be used as a substitute to expand the search range.
The production took time, and it took Lao Meng nearly a day to complete the production, but for the Broken Blade team, the wait was worth it. During this time, they killed a few scattered beasts in small sorties, but they didn't get anything.
When everything was said and done, the group continued to move forward, and after a few more skirmishes, they finally arrived at the same place where the Warriors had been.
"This is it! We were teleported here in the first place!" Zhang Jianjun said excitedly.
Shen Yi took a closer look, this was an empty meadow with a radius of about twenty meters, it seemed that it was specially designed for teleportation, and there was not a single tree nearby.
Even without Zhang Jianjun's guidance, Shen Yi could see that this was an unusual place.
The only problem was that he didn't see the teleportation array.