Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Dragon's Breath of Flames
"Huh? How dare he open the fifth round of challenges? ”
Zhang Jishan, who was making final preparations for the fifth round of assessment, saw Li Qing, who was originally ranked fourth in the rankings, suddenly jumped to the first place, showing that he was in the fifth round of challenges.
It is not surprising that someone dares to challenge the fifth round, and in his opinion, at least three or four of the many apprentices will continue to challenge, and both himself and Cao Wenyuan will try to challenge the fifth round.
But in his mind, Li Qing is not one of those who may challenge the fifth round.
Before leaving the academy, he had already roughly figured out the general family history of more than a dozen apprentices under the name of his mentor, and an apprentice like Li Qing, who had a strong talent but a very ordinary background, was not in his eyes.
Although the four-star talent is good, at the normal growth rate, it will be at least two years before you want to pose a threat to yourself, and it can be ignored now.
He didn't expect that this classmate, who should have been ignored, would be so kind that he dared to start the fifth round of challenges, which was a difficulty that he didn't have much confidence in.
Not only him, but the other apprentices who were ready to try it didn't have much confidence, and they were also surprised that Li Qing suddenly began to challenge, and....
"No, I have to prepare to start, otherwise I will be opened up too much time gap, and even if I win, I won't be able to get the core of the Divine Domain Building."
Although he didn't think that Li Qing could successfully complete the fifth round of assessment, and even thought that Li Qing might just want to see it and give up later, it also reminded him that the starting advantage in the competition with Cao Wenyuan was still quite important.
From beginning to end, he regarded Cao Wenyuan, and only Cao Wenyuan was his biggest competitor.
Li Qing has an average background and talent, and he is also an apprentice in the later stage, so he didn't pay attention to it at all.
Two minutes later, Chief Zhang Jishan was also ready to start the fifth round of assessment.
Less than a minute later, the second Cao Wenyuan was also ready to start the fifth round of assessment.
Gongsun Jin and Chu Zaizhong hesitated again, but they still didn't decide to continue.
As for the other apprentices, some of them did not even complete the fourth round of assessment, so it was naturally impossible to continue.
In the canyon, Li Qing stood in the rightmost corner of the city wall, and here he could see the black skeleton of the canyon seven or eight meters wide on the other side of the corner surging like a tide, which was daunting from afar.
"If I don't cheat like this, I can't stop it at all."
"But I can cheat, others can't cheat like me!"
Li Qing looked at the transparent light curtain in the upper right corner, which showed that the other apprentices had already started the fifth round of testing, and his brows furrowed.
Obviously, in terms of real strength, he is probably worse than them, at least he really doesn't dare to cheat.
"However, this is only temporary, with the golden finger, coupled with my talent, I will soon surpass them!"
Li Qing exhaled lightly, his eyes were firm, and he took a step back.
The thin click quickly approached, and soon a large number of skeletons were seen rushing to the corners of the canyon, swooping down on the walls like a tidal wave.
Li Qing stood on it and looked down, and there were skeletons all below, densely packed and creepy.
But....
He looked at the defensive weapons prepared on the city wall, and coupled with the restricted environment, it was not difficult to defend against this wave of skeletons.
In fact, there are not many defensive weapons, except for the rolling stones, there are only some wooden long-pole weapons that were improvised before.
It was mainly for the infantry, after all, the city wall was four meters high, and their own long swords could not reach it, and it was impossible for them to go down to fight, so they could only be equipped with other defensive weapons.
The weapon is very simple, a prismatic log ball with a diameter of one meter, connected by a thick rope in the middle, and when you do it, you directly tie the thick rope to a stone and bury it in the wood, and wait for the wooden ball to be synthesized and directly sealed inside.
During the battle, several infantry worked together to push down the wood embedded with stones, and with the strength of the bones of these skeletons, which were only a few levels old, as long as they hit the neck bone, they would definitely not be able to bear it and break, and hit it head-on......
"Click!"
Four prismatic wooden balls rolled down the platform at the edge of the women's wall, and suddenly there was a series of crisp sound of brittle bones breaking.
Then, every four infantrymen joined forces, slowly dragging the wooden balls up.
Anyway, the skeleton can't break through the city wall, so it can be dragged slowly.
In addition to these, he also made many long-handled wooden hammers, the handle is five meters long, the hammer head is not large, only about 30 centimeters, an infantry can control, a hammer can basically smash the head of a skeleton soldier.
Although the efficiency is not high, it can play a role.
The most important thing in it is Ryumori, who alone can control a prismatic wooden ball.
Handle the ball with one hand and smash it down, and then easily lift it up and smash it again alone.
Repeatedly, a blow is a big pit, and the killing efficiency is very high.
It is true that there are a large number of skeleton archers in the Skull Sea as the mentor said, but the skeleton archers behind this corner position have no room to play at all, and there are not many archers in the small space in the front, so there is not much threat.
As for that third-order undead knight hero, this will be stuck behind the sea of the undead, and it won't be able to pass for a while.
However, it can be felt that these undead are already preparing to use that tactic, a large number of skeletons are sent to death one after another, and I don't know how many skeletons are broken under the city wall, and a thick layer of bone shelves has been piled up.
However, this is not a big problem, and to complete the work of filling in the city walls, a lot of bone frames are needed.
Although the skeleton is large, it does not take up much space after being smashed, and the layers of broken bones want to reach a height of four meters, and at least hundreds or even nearly a thousand skeletons are larger.
Li Qing has now prepared three layers of defense, which can fill in at least two thousand+ skeletons.
Moreover, there are many sections of city walls in the space in his palm, which can build two more lines of defense and pit more than a thousand skeletons.
In the end, there were more than a thousand skeletons left, and when the time came, they could fight even without the city walls.
But then again, I guess I never thought that someone would cheat like this in the assessment.
"It's really...."
"A good survival challenge for you to play as a defender, and there are five layers of walls...."
Even Nie Yang and several assistant teachers smiled a little bitterly when they saw this scene, but they didn't say anything to stop it, and the dozen or so apprentices behind them had strange faces, but even if the instructor didn't say anything, they naturally wouldn't say anything.
Ten minutes later, the smashed bone fragments under the city wall had been filled with almost two meters thick, and a large number of skeletons continued to come forward one after another to die, and the miserable white skulls under the city wall were more than a meter away from the city head, and the soldiers were able to get their swords stuck in the cracks of the female wall battlements.
"It's really fast!"
Li Qing looked back at the back of the city wall, thinking about waiting a little longer and then retreating to the second section of the city wall.
However, something unexpected happened to Li Qing.
Something happened that he hadn't thought about before.
That is.... Ryumori has been upgraded.
The first few levels of upgrading were not very difficult, not to mention that his killing efficiency was so fast.
After killing hundreds of skeletons in one go, he had accumulated enough experience at level 18 and 94%, and he was promoted to level 20, so he was promoted to a second-order hero, gaining a little hero skill points and a little hero specialty points.
When he heard Long Shou's sudden shout and the sudden surge of breath, Li Qing was stunned for a moment before reacting.
Then he quickly checked Long Shou's attributes, and a smile appeared on Li Qing's face.
Immediately open the optional Hero Skill.
Hero Skill: Dragon's Breath LV1: Activate the original power in the dragon's bloodline, and after a short period of charging, it spews out flame dragon breath in the front area, and the dragon's breath is divided into two forms: cone and ray, and each spit consumes 15% of the maximum physical strength.
Cone: 5 meters wide, 12 meters long, 100% of the caster's maximum attack.
Ray: 5 cm in diameter, up to 50 meters in length, and 300% of its maximum attack.
Second-Order Hero Specialty - Dragon's Breath Enhancement.
Option 1: Dragon's Breath Cone +30% power, Ray +100%.
Option 2: Dragon's Breath Cone Max Width +2 m, Max Distance +5 M.
Option 2: Dragon's Breath Ray has a maximum distance of +20 meters and a penetration of +1.
There is no need to think about the environment of the here and now, and the new hero skill must choose Dragon's Breath.
As for the enhancement of the hero's specialty, choose the second item to increase the range of the dragon's breath spit.
Hero: Ryumori.
Class: Dragon Vein Fighter.
Level: Level 20.
Basic skills: Running LV4, Archery LV3, One-handed LV4, Two-handed LV1, Long Pole LV1, Throwing LV1.
Advanced Skill: Dual-wielding weapon LV1.
Hero Talent: Dragon Bloodline LV1.
Hero Specialty: +1 Dragon Scale Enhancement, +1 Dragon Breath Enhancement.
Hero Skills: Dragon Scale LV1, Dragon Breath LV1.
In addition to adding a new hero skill, Ryushou gained several new skills in this test, namely two-handed weapons, long-pole weapons, throwing, and the advanced skill - dual-wielding weapons.
The level is all LV1, which is a new skill that you can acquire on your own.
It is worth mentioning that there is no such thing as skill points for non-Mandate Terran heroes like Long Shou, and they can only rely on their own various exercises and battles to improve their basic skills.
After the advancement was completed, Long Shou slowly got up, and the joints on his body clicked non-stop.
He leapt to the far right of the city wall, rushed to the edge of the canyon on the side, fastened his ten fingers into the stone wall, and turned to look in the other direction of the corner of the ninety-degree canyon, where the dense undead crowded the entire canyon until the end.
There was no momentum, and a faint blood light slowly appeared on the dragon scales on Long Shou's body, and soon the whole person was shrouded in blood flames as if burning.
I saw that when he opened his mouth, the inside of his mouth quickly turned red, and there were flames in it, which quickly turned into a flame vortex.
After a few seconds of charging, a blazing flame erupted from Ryumori's mouth.
At first, it was not large, but after the exit, it quickly became thicker and larger, and soon turned into a fan-shaped flame and sprinkled into the valley below.
The power of the dragon's breath is already strong, and the power of the hero's several orders is equivalent to several rings of spells without using the hero's expertise to strengthen the power, and the dragon shou is a second-order hero, which means that the power of this dragon's breath has reached the second order.
And these skeletons don't even have a first order, a mouthful of dragon breath goes down, and it burns when touched.
Bones could have been burned with mortal fire, and the dragon's breath belonged to the dragon's extraordinary breath, and in this mouthful, the skull covered by the flame dragon's breath burned from the bones to black ashes in less than two seconds, drifting away with the wind.
A Dragon's Breath has a maximum width of 7 meters and a maximum length of 17 meters after being strengthened.
In this coverage, there are at least two hundred or more skeletons densely packed.
A mouthful of dragon breath can consume 15% of Long Shou's physical strength, and when the undead are pushed to refill the freshly burned area, he will charge up and spray down a mouthful of dragon breath.
Five mouthfuls were sprayed in a row, and more than a thousand skeletons were reduced to ashes.
Even the last bite Li Qing asked him to adjust the angle and spray it under the city wall, and burned all the bone slag that was more than two meters thick under the city wall.
The strong smell of burning permeated this space, and Li Qingkuai on the city wall couldn't open his eyes.
Fortunately, the enemy could not reach the walls, and there was plenty of time to wait for the scorched smoke to clear.
After the five flames of dragon breath were sprayed, although Long Shou still had some physical strength, Li Qing did not let him continue, and returned to the city wall to rest and recover his strength.
Long Shou's sudden promotion disrupted Li Qing's plan.
With a large-scale spell like Dragon's Breath, there is no need to retreat at all.
Let his subordinates continue to guard, Li Qing pulled Long Shou to the back of the city wall, put his consciousness into the space in his palm, and began to decompose the wild wolf meat stored before, extracting the essence of flesh and blood from it.
Long Shou is not taking the dragon vein warlock route, so there is no such thing as mana, and the dragon breath he casts is a kind of spell, which consumes his own physical strength, and there is no limit to the number of times it can be used, but the physical strength consumed is by percentage, so the number of times he can spit out every day is limited.
The best way to recover your strength is, of course, to eat, to eat high-energy meat.
It's just that I only have wolf meat at hand now, and this thing is not a high-energy food, and I have to eat a lot if I want to rely on this to restore the strength of the dragon guard.
But in another way, the flesh essence of a large amount of wolf meat is extracted and condensed into flesh essence crystals, which is the highest quality high-energy food, which is very popular with those top transcendent creatures.
Even true dragons and other legendary behemoths love to eat this flesh essence crystal, which is one of the hard currency among high-end war lords.
In one go, all the wolf meat stored before was decomposed and refined into flesh essence, which was only the size of a pigeon egg.
But just such a small one, it has restored more than half of Long Shou's physical strength.
In addition, there was also eleven egg-sized flesh and blood essence stored in the space in his palm, which had been condensed by the two thousand kobolds before.
As soon as his strength was restored, Ryumori returned to the battle.
However, this time he did not continue to spit out the flame dragon breath, and now he did not have flesh and blood essence crystals to recover his strength, and if he ran out of strength, he could only wait for natural recovery, and the speed was very slow.
The rest of the stamina needs to be kept, wait for the undead hero to get closer, and rely on the dragon guard explosion to kill the hero.
When the undead heroes die, these undead lose their command, and the threat plummets.
Just when the pressure on Li Qing's side was greatly reduced, and he was ready to covet the undead hero, the battles in the other challenge spaces had also entered a white-hot state.
The first is Mo Wenxi, after the fourth round of challenges, he decisively changed his troops, took back all the previous infantry archers, and pulled out a knight hero and 22 imperial cavalry from his own divine domain.
Among them were 9 third-order Imperial heavy cavalry and 13 second-order Imperial lancers.
The hero is an indigenous knight hero with a rarity of two stars, but his rank has been raised to the third order, and his combat effectiveness is extremely strong.