Chapter 937 - 883: Advancing Toward the Crab Sea
Perhaps the game considered that large creatures are not suitable to board a player’s ship, so when Da Fei opened the Ghost Dragon Cliff’s barracks, he immediately saw a medium-sized human-shaped troop with a long tail and bony wings — the Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunter.
— Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunter: Attack 21, Defense 18, Damage 15-23, Life 200, Command Value 5, Attack Speed 12, Special Skills: Undead Creature, Short-Range Glide, Aquatic Combat, Bone Spear Throwing (includes 5 bone spear ammunition), Hibernation.
— Short-Range Glide: The bone wings of the Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunter have the ability to glide within the battlefield, but cannot march through gliding.
— Hibernation: The Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunter can completely extinguish its own Soul Fire to cope with unfavorable environments. In hibernation state, the Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunter’s status and bone spear consumption can quickly recover.
Da Fei’s eyelid twitched; this form looked like a skeletal Lizardman with a pair of bony wings! Its attack and defense damage, command value, and life value were entirely at the level of a sixth-order troop. From the special skills, this troop is completely a versatile type that can fight on sea, land, and air, along with long-range and self-healing abilities!
However, its shortcomings are also obvious, which is that being versatile means being inept at everything, as each skill has its limitations. It can’t compare with the Sea Demon, a truly "flying creature," "ocean creature," and "long-range shooter."
But precisely because of this approximation, it suits the Undead Race for large-scale mass production, turning quantity into quality, converting ineptitude into versatility, making it the main battle force to beat! More importantly, these troops are aquatic combat units, and the Sea Monsters’ absolute advantage over surface ships is no more.
There’s nothing more to say; recruiting them all is a must. As for those position-taking rubbish Bone Dragons, don’t even think about it.
So Da Fei used all his 10,000 Command Value to recruit 2,000 Sea Dragon Skeleton Hunters. These 2,000 skeleton hunters were densely packed across 11 pirate ship decks, finally solving the pirate manpower problem.
It’s just that Yasoro actually managed to carry all this 10,000 command troop load, which truly surprised Da Fei. Could his Command Power actually exceed 10,000? That’s at the level of a Lieutenant General! Or perhaps, being a faction leader gave him a Command Power bonus?
Anyway, for NPC faction heroes, managing a few troops like this shouldn’t be a problem. It all depends on his attack and defense attributes, whether he can utilize the fighting power of these troops. By the way, does he even have any equipment, given his bare chest exposure? Should I sponsor him a bit?
At this moment, Yasoro impatiently signaled: "Ready to strike?"
Why are you so cocky! Okay, anyway, sitting idle is just sitting idle, so let’s strike. Whether he has equipment or not, as the superior, I should at least express my goodwill for friendship and loyalty. Not to mention, after I leave, he’ll need to independently establish his territory, so poor equipment won’t do.
Da Fei beckoned and said, "Yasoro, come over here first, I have a few good things for you!"
Hearing there were gifts, Yasoro’s flagship immediately approached enthusiastically, then flaunted by swinging a grappling hook to leap onto the Radiant Wings’ deck, proudly smiling, "City Lord boss, what’s up?"
What are you grinning about! Any skeleton soldier here can outdo you. Da Fei sighed, "You’re heavily burdened with responsibilities, so I’m giving you a set of equipment, hoping you’ll steady yourself!"
— System Prompt: You have gifted the Blood Armor Battle Dress, Blood Armor Cloak, Blood Armor Boots, Blood Armor Battle Helmet to the Nether Sea Pirate leader, Blood Hook Yasoro.
Blood Armor Battle Helmet: A-grade strategic treasure, +15 Attack, +15 Defense, all troops’ life +5%.
Blood Armor Battle Dress: A-grade strategic treasure, +25 Defense, all troops’ life +10%.
Blood Armor Cloak: A-grade strategic treasure, Morale +3, all troops’ life +1%.
Blood Armor Boots: A-grade strategic treasure, +5 Defense, troop move speed +10%, all troops’ life +2%.
That’s right, this is the loot from when Da Fei activated the Divine Punishment City barrier during the final Dragon Slayer battle in China’s Divine Punishment City, sweeping the battlefield, beheading the dragon and several tens of thousands of besieging Demon Army heroes, to instantly obtain the spoils of war.
Honestly, aside from the percentage life increase, these items are considered the lowest among A-grade equipment, so Da Fei never cared for them. Except for using the helmet himself, he gave the rest to Vice Heroes. As for now, might as well give them all away.
As expected, Yasoro looked excited after receiving the equipment, "Boss, is this all for me?"
Catherine coldly said, "So? An A-grade, ever seen it before? Ever played with it?"
Da Fei raised an eyebrow. No way? Is he really so impoverished that he doesn’t have an A-grade?
Yasoro scoffed, "Are you kidding? Have you ever seen me lacking good stuff?" Then he extended a hand, "Boss, isn’t there a missing component?"
Da Fei asked surprised, "What missing component?"
Yasoro replied annoyed, "This is obviously a Blood Armor five-piece set, missing a glove to activate the set properties. Giving me four pieces purposely torments me, doesn’t it?"
Damn! What kind of people are these! Da Fei retorted annoyedly, "I only have four pieces in total, where’s the fifth? I’ve already given you the helmet I used myself — alright then, since it’s incomplete, return the helmet to me!"
Yasoro chuckled, "You’ve already given it; taking it back is not acceptable. Boss, deliver a complete set next time, will you? Anything else, boss? If not, let’s start the battle!"
Damn you, you make it sound like I owe you now! Da Fei wearily waved his hand, "To battle, to battle, everyone to battle!"
Yasoro burst into laughter: "Thanks for that!" He finished speaking and jumped back to his flagship, starting to call out loudly to organize the ranks.
No matter how you say it, knowing to say thanks means that friendliness is definitely going up. An A-level when four are missing definitely matches his identity as the poor leader.
Now, the fleet is starting its journey to the Crab Sea. Looking at the itinerary on the map, it’s certainly going to take two days plus the round trip battle, four or five days will pass. This sea battle takes a ridiculous amount of time, meaning that we must surprise them in the first fight, make a strong impression, hit them hard, make Samaster completely convinced and courteous.
Although we don’t know how strong the giant crab forces are, one thing is for sure: it’s impossible to encounter a powerhouse like Samaster or Samael. Otherwise, players wouldn’t be playing this. Having gone through the previous battles, especially the Siren Sea Demon war, Da Fei is full of confidence for the first battle.
It’s a pity that the Flying is in closed cultivation, otherwise, I would wreak havoc and feast. But no worries, the Radiant Wings possessed by Renior also has a soul-sucking effect, so this time let’s not let the Flying compete with him, let him enjoy to the fullest.
And speaking of feasting, it’s already 7 a.m., outside the cars are like dragons. Da Fei goes offline to order takeout with braised beef noodle soup and 5 eggs, and then takes advantage of the delivery wait time to complete a series of morning routines.
As he is busy, Da Fei’s phone rings, and he sees it’s Little Li.
Da Fei’s eyebrows twitched and he hurriedly picked up: "Little Li?"
On the other end of the line: "Brother, are you still on a business trip? Can you make it back for the tea gathering in the evening?"
Reminding about the same thing over the phone three times within two days signals how important it is! This is related to Brother’s grand group activities!
Da Fei resolutely said: "Of course, the high-speed train ticket is already bought!"
Little Li: "That’s good, remember to tidy up your hair and beard and clothes."
Da Fei hastily nodded: "No problem. By the way, have you had breakfast yet?"
"I’m making breakfast, brother also remember to eat breakfast, keep it light and not too spicy or salty..."
Da Fei chuckled and said: "Got it, got it!"
Damn, if it’s not spicy or salty or bold, it’s not Brother! After ending the call with Little Li, Da Fei looked at the time, realizing this battle could take four or five days, ending just around 6 or 7 in the evening, leaving basically no time for anything else. So, now’s the chance during these two or three safe hours before departure to get my hair and clothes sorted.
Hence, after finishing the noodles, Da Fei rushed downstairs to the streets’ salons to tidy himself up.
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At this time, a new day came, and Ono Shinichiro, who had only slept for an hour or two, woke up laughing from his dreams, or rather, he was woken by the phone, and it was President Igarashi.
Ono excitedly said: "President, is there more good news?"
President Igarashi laughed heartily and said: "Last night’s battle, our warriors successfully obtained high-end troop types and the decapitation strike +10% chance divine artifact, Milota’s Axe. According to our tests, this decapitation strike and Knight of Misfortune’s 5% critical strike are the same effect, both a one-hit kill, making our highest difficulty challenge of Pandora’s Box 108 Demon Stars extremely possible!"
Ono exclaimed: "I thought our goal was to head to Divine Punishment City after advancing with high-tier troops?"
President Igarashi sighed with laughter: "That’s the crux of the problem, our warriors’ morale is too high, they believe we should strike while the iron is hot, leveraging the divine artifact advantage and gathering all resources from our Mitsubishi Team and all manpower from Japan District to conquer this ultimate scenario, the scale of which is no less than God Slayer, with divine artifacts dropping not just one or two."
Ono asked in surprise: "Is the president suggesting..."
President Igarashi laughed: "Our warriors have been debating endlessly, I decided to ask for Ono-kun’s opinion, Ono-kun is the greatest contributor to our series of major victories, Ono-kun is the most qualified to speak!"
In that instant, Ono was moved: "Thank you all for trusting me, then let me ask: without Absolute Misfortune, do you have confidence to reach the Divine Punishment City scenario?"
President Igarashi laughed: "There are difficulties, but it’s far less than challenging Pandora."
Ono gritted his teeth: "Seize the moment, act now, if this opportunity passes, it may never come again, so let’s take this chance to conquer the ultimate scenario, as long as we gain a large number of divine artifacts, everything will be a breeze!"
President Igarashi laughed heartily: "Alright! Even Ono-kun says so, then the warriors have no objection, let’s complete Japan District’s God Slayer with all our might!"
Ono excitedly shouted: "Japan, victorious!"
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