Lord Game: I Have 100 Million Talents-Chapter 78 - 67: The Village Guard Team Begins to Exert Its Power, and the Secretly Rising White Wolf Empire
Having made up his mind, Qin Feng immediately summoned Meikai, telling it to leave his party and take this new order to the Ratmen of the Withered Leaf Tribe.
Regarding this,
Meikai indicated it was no problem.
The situation was just as Qin Feng had expected. The southern Ratmen were different from the northern ones; they had no resistance to moving. As long as they had food to eat, clothes to wear, and a place to live, they were content.
With this, there would be a total of five villages around Qin Feng’s territory.
Among them, the Withered Leaf Tribe, having successively annexed three southern Ratman Tribes, now boasted a population of nearly 1,000. This made it a Level 2 village, capable of recruiting 20 Ratman Warriors and one Leader Level Ratman each week for a total cost of 440 Dinar.
Furthermore,
even though Qin Feng had personally destroyed their elite force of over a hundred members,
the village still had more than fifty Ratman Warriors, plus over a hundred soon-to-be-adult reserve warriors—it was just that their weapons and equipment were too shabby, inferior even to those of the Golden Deer Tribe’s Ratman Warriors.
As for the Northern Ratman Tribe, all their able-bodied forces combined could probably form a hundred-man unit, plus less than a hundred reserve recruits.
The remaining Ratmen were mostly either young ones still growing or ordinary adult Ratmen who had never shown any Combat Talent and were naturally unskilled in fighting.
Making them pick up weapons and fight would be no different from ordering a pack of wild Fire Foxes to charge—it would be purely throwing their lives away.
So it was better for them to just stay in the village and handle production, processing, and forging.
’Hmm... 200 reserve Ratman Warriors at the Zero-star (White) level, 150 Ratman Warriors equivalent to Zero-star (Green) level, and 7 Leader Level Ratmen equivalent to Zero-star (Blue) level.’
’This is the entirety of the armed forces the Ratman Villages can currently muster.’
’Although they can’t defeat the Divine Chosen Army under that player named "Gale," and are only equivalent to about 40% of the combat effectiveness of the hundred-man Warrior Legion he detached,’
’But according to MC, they’re more than enough to bully some newbie players who have no idea how to play this game.’
’And besides,’
’a force of over three hundred...’
’Even if they just serve as cannon fodder to hold the front line, they can keep the enemy busy for quite a while, creating plenty of damage opportunities for the elite troops in the rear.’
’And this isn’t even their growth ceiling...’
Just as he was thinking this, system notifications suddenly flooded his screen.
[Warning! Your Village Guard Team No. 1 (Captain: Awakened Fire Fox) has been attacked!]
[Warning! Your Village Guard Team No. 1 (Member: Fire Fox) has been attacked!]
[Warning! Your No. 1...]
Holy shit!?
Who’s attacking my slacker squad!?
Qin Feng’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly waved over Ashes, who was conducting Reconnaissance in the air, and told it to have the Spiritual Owl back at the base rush to the scene. He wanted to see which reckless Red-Name Influence was launching such a dishonorable sneak attack.
However, before Ashes’s Owl Spirit Body could activate its "High-speed Movement" skill, a "Victory" notification popped up from the system, along with a post-battle statistics panel similar to the "Commanding from the Headquarters" feature in Mount & Blade 2.
[Members Deceased in This Battle: 0]
[Members Seriously Injured in This Battle: 1]
[Members Lightly Injured in This Battle: 3]
[Battle MVP: Awakened Fire Fox (Killed 3 enemies)]
[Enemy Units Captured in This Battle: 2 (Steel Ant, Demon Beast)]
...
[Captured Unit: Steel Ant]
[Life Value: 12/80]
[Mastered Skills: Hard Steel Shell (Permanently and significantly increases self Physical Defense Power, and grants immunity to all attacks that cannot penetrate its Physical Resistance)]
[Power Assessment: Zero-star (Blue)]
[Description: A type of Demon Beast that lives in the underground ore veins of the Northern Forest. Due to its particular fondness for eating ore—the more precious, the tastier—it followed the delicious scent of the Black Crystal Stone in your territory, dug a tunnel from the ore vein to the surface, and emerged on its own... They possess an extremely hard shell that is difficult to penetrate with ordinary weapons, but their resistance to Magic is zero, and they are not fast movers.]
’We won?’
’So quickly?’
’Is this the power of a noble Mage?’
Although curious, Qin Feng did not turn back toward his territory.
He simply patted the Desert Giant Wolf’s head, urging the beast, which had stopped on its own, to continue racing toward the Wolfman Tribe. At the same time, he listened intently, waiting for a long-distance message from the Owl Spirit Body controlled by Ashes.
Relying on the heaven-defying escape skill "High-speed Movement," Ashes’s Owl Spirit Body took less than five minutes to swiftly cut through the treetops and hover steadily above the riverbend where the incident occurred.
It immediately relayed the detailed course of the unexpected event to Qin Feng’s ears verbally.
What happened was very simple.
The Fire Foxes were by the riverbend catching fish, while the accompanying Forest Wolves were carrying the day’s catch back to the territory.
Suddenly, several dark Steel Ants shot out from the riverbed silt. Without hesitation, they opened their massive maws and lunged at the unsuspecting Fire Foxes.
Fortunately, the Fire Foxes, though taken by surprise, were smart. They didn’t counterattack directly in the water. Instead, they immediately retreated to the riverbank.
But the Steel Ants relentlessly pursued them onto the bank.
And so, the Awakened Fire Fox, captain of the Village Guard Team, acted decisively. It opened its small mouth, condensed a Fireball the size of a ping-pong ball, and with a BOOM, smashed it onto the shell of the foremost Steel Ant.
The Fireball Technique then triggered a massive explosion the instant it hit the Steel Ant’s shell. Crimson Fire Elemental Energy spread rapidly like a ripple, instantly melting through the shells of three adjacent Steel Ants and killing them at full health.
