Chapter 384 - 358: The Abandoned Village Deep in the Forest
The second blood sacrifice began.
—— System Prompt: You used the "Blood Sacrifice" special skill of the Spiritual Eagle Flute, contributing a certain amount of Life Limit to enhance the strength of the Spiritual Eagle. The current optimal blood sacrifice amount is 100 Life Value points. Would you like to proceed with the optimal blood sacrifice?
Ah, damn! Da Fei spat out old blood! Can’t you tell me what the hell is optimal blood sacrifice amount? 100 Life Value, that’s half of a normal gamer’s life! How much blood to draw next time? I’m not playing this game again! Don’t tell me 100 points of blood only exchange for one Skill Point and some Life Physical Strength!
Da Fei took a deep breath, endured it! Time is money, progress decides success or failure, for this large industry of mine, and Little Fei is really worth nurturing. I’m going all out!
Blood sacrifice!
After the blood light, a white light flashed.
—— System Prompt: Congratulations! Under your blood sacrifice, your reconnaissance spirit eagle, Little Fei, has grown! Little Fei’s Attack +1, Defense +1, Damage +1, Life +10, Stamina +10, Mana +10. Obtained 1 growth Skill Point.
—— Growing Reconnaissance Spirit Eagle (Little Fei): Tiny Spiritual Elite Creature, Attack 7, Defense 1, Damage 2-3, Life 19, Mana +15, Command Value: 0, Attack Speed: 15, Stamina: 46/46. Special Skills: Flying Creature, God-level Reconnaissance Technique, Plane Surveillance, Long Sky Eagle Strike.
At this moment, Da Fei’s face was full of tears!
What the hell! It really only gave me 1 Skill Point and a few points of blood! How many 100 Life Value points does a person have in their life? This is seriously a game only a tycoon can afford to play! I get it, this is clearly telling me that the skills Little Fei learns must be Divine Skills! Must be that one Skill Point equals a normal skill at Master Level! Otherwise, it doesn’t justify this heart-wrenching effort!
Nothing more to say, this time I’m going to sweep the entire field!
Little Fei soared into the sky again, and this time, Da Fei clearly felt its size seemed to have increased a little bit! Yes, definitely a bit larger! Good, bigger is better! Larger target area, the eagle strike skill can strike more at once!
Now, Little Fei circled the field, the surrounding woods’ crows erupted with deafening noise and rose into the sky, the entire deadwood forest’s sky seemed covered by a massive black cloud. And Little Fei was like a scarlet phantom flashing through the black cloud, where it passed countless crows fell like raindrops!
This was the power of Little Fei after being enhanced by the hero, in front of these crows with 0 attack and defense and less than 1 damage, it was like a super BOSS, only it could kill tirelessly without being swarmed and can’t hold up.
In the end, in the Heroic Creation Era, the existence of Stamina made it possible for the weak to defeat the strong. Especially in the national war battlefield during public beta, the Chinese players’ overwhelming army tactics and fatigue fortress defense strategy often left the opponent’s main heroes exhausted and returning with nothing. This was a game balance measure, to prevent a super hero from easily razing and destroying the opponent’s cities and nations.
And now, Da Fei quietly watched Little Fei slaughtering, supremely anticipating its growth in battle. Now it could only be hoped to grow in battle, blood sacrifices and such, Da Fei couldn’t genuinely afford it anymore. Even if it didn’t grow, it was fine, as long as this vast flock of crows was cleared, it also ensured the logging team’s safety for a period. At worst, just battle again tomorrow.
And Little Fei didn’t disappoint Da Fei, just as the crow cloud above the forest was thinning out, a flash of white light, and Little Fei grew again!
—— System Prompt: Congratulations! Your reconnaissance spirit eagle, Little Fei, grew in battle! Attack +1, Life +2, Stamina +2. Comprehended new special skill: Gliding.
—— Gliding: reduces reconnaissance spirit eagle’s speed by 50%, while also reducing stamina consumption by 50%.
Da Fei burst into laughter! I was just worried about Stamina, it really came just when I needed it! What is this called? Testing the need in actual combat! Reducing stamina consumption by 50% means reconnaissance range, battle time increases by 50%, now this feels like a real eagle!
Nothing more to say now, Little Fei’s small potential is formed, the remaining crows aren’t enough for it to level up, keep going deeper, keep pulling monsters, keep clearing the field!
Wait a minute! Just as Da Fei was about to proceed deeper, he suddenly felt something was amiss. Moving forward meant getting further and further away from the logging team at the rear. If an unexpected situation arose, like more crows than imagined, or a BOSS appearing, wouldn’t I be left alone like an idiot?
Moreover, didn’t I say I wanted to clear this entire forest? Clearing straight ahead would surely miss out on the experience from the crow groups on both sides. So, the correct field-clearing order should be starting from the sides, maintaining a distance with the main force while ensuring it’s all taken out in one go, yes, start from the left.
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Now, the ordinary crow groups posed no threat at all, the remaining threat was the BOSS. So now Da Fei began considering the BOSS.
According to the game’s usual style, the BOSS was either a giant crow, or a Mercury Lake Monster, or perhaps one or even a group of Undead Wizards, any situation would be tough to handle, no, it was likely not possible to handle at all!
After all, my Tree Elf Army was all defense-centric, and moved slowly. If encountering something like an Undead Wizard who could launch long-range attacks, they’d definitely be sitting ducks, maybe even directly burning to death in the woods. If the BOSS was a lake Water Monster, then even less hope.
What to do if it couldn’t be dealt with? Could this scene be passed without fighting the BOSS? Hold on, wasn’t this scene considered as the new Epic Quest scene newly received?
If it was an Epic Quest scene, the difficulty would surely be extraordinary, unlikely for just my current forces to breeze through all at once, right? That wouldn’t fit the system’s nature of not letting players take advantage. Meaning, I might have to make the most frustrating yet most reliable plan, which was just being a pathfinder, then going back to shout to the NPC main force to clear the field. If that was the case, surely the NPC Kingdom forces would take the lead, and the player lord would become just a laborer again? What the heck! Isn’t this screwing me over!
No no no! Who’s to say there might not be something even more frustrating, maybe in the future this place would become the main battlefield for the Elf Kingdom and the Hell Race, rain of fire and Doomsday Judgment everywhere, so many trees directly burned away, and players couldn’t even get a single one! If that really was the case, it wouldn’t just be frustrating, but heart-shattering!
No, both situations must be avoided with all effort. If unavoidable, must seize the time and think of ways to reap enough benefits, like, organizing a large logging transport team to come over and chop down as much as possible when I get back!
Just as Da Fei’s thoughts spun rapidly in his mind, he suddenly noticed a clearing at the edge of Little Fei’s vision.
A clearing? Da Fei’s brow twitched, what could a clearing in such dense woods mean? Isn’t it obvious, even a novice gamer knows it’s a new discovery!
Ah, so that’s how it is, I said such a large map being just forest and Mercury Lake seemed too plain.
Da Fei hurriedly adjusted Little Fei’s direction to check it out, the field of vision grew clearer, he saw it, a wooden house in the forest, a village!
Da Fei’s brow twitched with amazement! What the heck, there were actually people living here? Why did Tai Da say this is an unknown space? Wait, this village looks obviously abandoned, clearly deserted, right? And why are these houses so tiny? Not a human village, nor an Elf village, must be the indigenous people here! So where did these indigenous people go? All died under mercury poisoning like these trees?
Without a doubt, such a large map wouldn’t place a village here without reason, this is an important scene hint, maybe related to how to pass! Seriously, this system is really sneaky, putting this village in such a remote place. If I didn’t have the Flying Eagle, who could discover it so quickly? Even with the Flying Eagle, if I hadn’t decided to clear monsters in this direction, I wouldn’t have found this village!
Hurry up and ask Tai Da, he should know something.
Now Da Fei didn’t continue to lure more monsters, after quickly clearing the scene, he rushed back to the logging camp.
By now the logging team had already opened a small path in the forest, the felled timber piled up along the roadside forming a small hill, Da Fei’s heart shattered to pieces! All these are my properties! Can’t be moved!
Seeing Da Fei return, Tai Da immediately cast a Regeneration Technique: "Master, you worked hard!"
Da Fei hurriedly said: "I discovered an abandoned village in the forest, do you know what’s going on?"
Tai Da suddenly froze: "An abandoned village? There were people living in this unknown World Tree space? Master, if convenient, please take me to have a look!"
Da Fei quickly said: "There are no crows on this route now, let’s hurry!"
Although there were no more crows, it didn’t mean no danger, so to be cautious, Da Fei took Tai Da using Phantom March through the dense forest. Seriously, wasn’t this the rhythm of playing recklessly with just the two of us? Hope no monsters jump out in the village. Impossible! My eagle shares the God-level Reconnaissance Technique with me, if low-altitude reconnaissance didn’t find anything, there definitely wouldn’t be monsters!
Flying Eagle flew for a while, walking took half a day. Finally, Da Fei arrived at the outskirts of the village.
Before Da Fei could ask, Tai Da immediately responded: "This is a village of the Forest Dwarfs! Also known as Half-Elves, or Hobbits!"
Da Fei was surprised: "Hobbits?" What the heck! You really are worthy as a consultant! Hobbits are the race of that Fodo from "Lord of the Rings," aren’t they? Truly renowned!
Tai Da continued: "Exactly! Forest Dwarfs are a physically small race, they are very clever, friendly, curious, enthusiastic about collecting and exploring, and love cooking. Their dwellings are very delicately neat. They also possess very agile escape skills allowing them to avoid dangers in exploration. However, this race eventually was too weak, too lazy, after the Hell Race’s large-scale invasion of the surface world a thousand years ago, we seldom encounter them, we even thought they were extinct!"
—— System Prompt: You obtained "Forest Dwarf" information!
Da Fei’s brow twitched, giving out information means they aren’t extinct, right? What’s the system’s intention behind offering this scene? Need to use even fingers to think?
Da Fei immediately said: "I think they aren’t extinct, the Hobbits in this village must be hiding somewhere!"
Tai Da nodded: "Master is perfectly right, let’s search for clues in the village!" (To be continued. If you like this story, welcome to Qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)