After Ellie spent the 1,000 gold coins that Zhao Hao hadn't covered yet.

Airplanes!

Brilliant silver light spilled from the sky, enveloping the two Pegases.

A few seconds later.

The two Pegasus have changed dramatically.

Dressed in tight black leather armor and holding a long sword, a short black cloak hangs down behind him, looking deep and dangerous.

Zhao Hao clicked on the list of attributes.

Since Ellie is his hero, even if the Shadow Swordsman is not directly under his command, he can still directly check the attributes.

[Eighth-Order Shadow Swordsman] (Attributes after the hero's blessing are in parentheses)

Health: 1200

Attack: 11 (14)

Defense: 8 (9)

Kill: 70-110

Speed: 8

Abilities: Shadow Imitation, Shadow Jump

Maintenance Cost: 150 gold every 4 weeks.

Shadow Imitation: With each attack, one-third of the caster's shadow has a chance to deal the same damage to the main body.

Shadow Jump: Can jump in visible shadows within a 30-meter radius, and can only be used once every 10 minutes.

"It's horrible!"

In the end, Zhao Hao could only give this evaluation.

After changing from a seventh-order Pegasus to an eighth-order shadow swordsman, his attributes actually did not change qualitatively.

Doubling health does not count as boosting.

This is because melee classes will have much higher health than flying classes.

Just like the health of a third-order dwarf is as high as 400 points, which is only one-third lower than that of a seventh-order Pegasus, the current health is at most average among the eighth-order melee troops.

The attack power has changed from 9 to 11, which can only be described as a small increase.

The damage is a decent boost, barely worth the gold spent.

With only these two improvements, it is naturally a 'strategic' evaluation of the exclusive class.

But it's the ability that counts, and that's the scary part.

Shadow mimicry can increase the output by one-third, not to mention that this is still a passive ability, which means that there is no consumption, as long as you attack, there is a chance to trigger.

Shadow imitation alone can make a qualitative change in the combat power of the Shadow Swordsman, not to mention the ability to shadow jump.

The jump distance within 30 meters, even if there is a premise of 'visible shadows', cannot hide the power of this ability.

Whether it is used to attack or escape, it can be called extremely powerful.

Think about it, if you attack with a shadow jump, you can find an opportunity to rush through the enemy's defense line and attack the back row, which is terrifying.

If you use it to escape, a jump range of 30 meters in an instant is enough to get yourself out of danger.

Luckily, there's a 10-minute cooldown limit, otherwise it's similar to a champion class's abilities.

When both powerful abilities are concentrated in one class, it certainly makes it terrifying.

At least in Zhao Hao's opinion, the role of the Shadow Swordsman is far greater than that of Pegasus, except that he can't fly.

Another point is the difficulty of recruiting Shadow Swordsmen.

Not only can it be trained with Pegasus, but it can also be trained with fifth-order wood elves and sixth-order elves, which is very important.

The yield of the seventh-order Pegasus is very low, but the yield of the Wood Elves at the middle level is more than several times that of it.

A class whose role is to catch up with the transcendent (Tier 9-10) and whose difficulty to obtain is only the backbone (Tier 5-6) is indeed eligible to be evaluated as 'Strategic'.

Not to mention the Shadow Swordsman under Ellie's command, she can increase her attack and defense by an additional 1 point for every 5 levels, and increase her speed by 1 point at level 20, and after her level increases, the Shadow Swordsman will definitely become an ace army.

Closing the attribute interface of the Shadow Swordsman, Zhao Hao at this time was eager to immediately train the remaining 8 Pegasus in the two magic springs into Shadow Swordsmen.

With 10 Shadow Swordsmen in hand, normal combat would be no more difficult for Ellie.

"Let's get those two sawmills first!"

Zhao Hao is going to take down the remaining resource points first.

The team began to advance towards the sawmill.

But they stopped halfway through, for a group of greenskins stood in front of them, looking at them with greedy eyes, as if they had found food after being hungry for days.

[Goblin]: First-Order Creature, Level 12.

The scrawny green humanoid has a large head on top of it, and the provocative ears, hooked nose, and jagged canine teeth make up a face that is unbearable to look at.

He was only the height of a man's chest, and the weapons in his hands were either crude stone axes or wooden spears, which looked a little funny.

The other party is also the most famous race in the hero world.

The famous is not the strength, but the weed-like vitality and reproduction of the other party, no matter where you see the other party, you don't need to be surprised.

The centaurs didn't encounter these guys just now, which means that they came to hunt them on purpose.

The other party's recipe is extremely broad, and any living being is on the other party's recipe.

"There's a goblin lair around~!"

Seeing these goblins, Zhao Hao's first reaction was not fear but excitement.

Goblins are not very strong, but their greedy nature allows them to collect everything they find.

Everything from leftover food scraps eaten by beasts to precious treasure chests in the wild can be found in each other's lair.

Especially treasure chests!

Chests can often be found in Goblin Lair.

Of course, this will only happen in goblin nests that have been around for a short time, and if they have been destroyed, the chance of being harvested is almost zero.

And this is the Shattered Star Islands, and this goblin lair is naturally impossible to be 'visited' by other players, so the chance of harvesting is definitely not small.

"Kill them!"

Thinking of the treasure chest, Zhao Hao ordered directly.

Now even if these goblins don't get in the way, he can't let go of the other party, and the treasure chests can't be grasped by these goblins, so it's better to do it yourself.

Whew, whew!

The two shadow swordsmen rushed out with all their might, like two hunting cheetahs.

￥A#@！

The goblins let out strange screams and attacked in a chaotic manner.

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The two Shadow Swordsmen engaged in a massacre.

Due to the large difference in attributes, every blow of the Shadow Swordsman is an instant kill, and at the same time, he uses the speed advantage to fight and retreat, so as not to let himself be in a state of encirclement.

The Shadow Swordsman is not Freya, and there is no way to avoid breaking the defense in the face of the goblin attack.

Don't look at the health as high as 1200, but if you really want to be besieged by goblins, this amount of blood can't last long, so you have to fight and retreat.

As long as they are not surrounded by goblins, with the combat power of the Shadow Swordsmen, it is not difficult to deal with these goblins at all, and it only takes a few minutes to slaughter them.

And during the battle of the Shadow Swordsman, Zhao Hao kept looking around.

Soon, he found the clue.

Throwing down the two fighting Shadow Swordsmen, he led the team to find the goblin lair a hundred meters away from the side.

Of course, it's called a 'lair', but this kind of living den is not the same thing as a lair that recruits troops.

A recruit class's lair is a contract place where classes are recruited to the hero's side from elsewhere, and this nest is where they live.

A jumble of branches and rocks formed a nest that occupied hundreds of square meters.

The smell that comes to the nose makes people subconsciously want to retreat.

If it weren't for the treasure chest, Zhao Hao wouldn't have approached this kind of place at all.

Soon, he found the other party's 'warehouse'.

A garbage dump several meters high.