My Players Are So Fierce-Chapter 406

Dawn arrived quickly.

As the first ray of sunlight scattered into the mountain forest, under the expectant gaze of Knight Valand, Joy Stick, who was covered in bruises from the terrifying horse hooves, rode a majestic Shadow Mane warhorse and proudly stepped out of the mist under the watchful eyes of his equally disheveled brothers, standing tall at the sacred pool in the mountain forest.

That spring water extending from the mountaintop reflected the morning light, as if draping these warriors who had just completed their cavalry assessment in a robe of radiant light, making them extraordinarily splendid.

Countess Sharon also arrived here before the ceremony began.

After all, the Winged Cavalry was legally her family’s “private property.” However, when Sharon and Knight Valand saw that particularly majestic warhorse under Joy Stick’s mount, their expressions changed simultaneously. Obviously, the identity of this old horse that Brother Stick had tamed at the cost of more than a dozen broken bones was not ordinary.

Not only the Winged Cavalry captain and Sharon, but some mountain folk elders also whispered when they saw this horse.

“Isn’t this—”

The Osprey Knight exclaimed, while Knight Sunny said quietly:

“Yes, you’re not mistaken, it’s the ‘Shadow King’! The old count’s warhorse, the lord of Shadow Mane warhorses, and also the mount of each head of the Seicomere family. It must have sensed the rise of Seicob territory!

This made it willing to submit to others just to contribute its strength to its second homeland!

Ah, the Shadow King’s loyalty still shines so brightly even after 400 years of trials.

Its return is a symbol!

Without a doubt, the Seicomere family and the Winged Cavalry Legion will rise again!”

“Holy shit! Brother Stick is awesome! Your horse is a whole circle bigger than ours! So cool!”

The Tiger Leopard Cavalry brothers all successfully tamed their Shadow Mane horses and celebrated joyfully, but when they approached riding their newly tamed Shadow Mane warhorses, all those horses would automatically lower their heads before the Shadow King.

This scene of tribute further highlighted Joy Stick’s leadership position in this group, making him even more satisfied, so he added three more carrots for his new warhorse. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

However, Kind-Face Giant Shark Uncle and several other unfortunate brothers returned empty-handed, feeling somewhat disappointed. But this contract wasn’t a one-time thing, they could try again in three days.

There were three chances in total, and if none worked, it meant they really weren’t suited for the Winged Cavalry profession.

Watching Joy Stick ride the Shadow King walking towards the forest sanctuary, Countess Sharon’s eyes were full of emotion. She seemed to see her father’s heroic figure inspecting the territory while riding the Shadow King, but Brother Stick’s drastically different physique brought Sharon back to reality.

The young countess just quietly watched and didn’t make any other moves until the forest blessing was completely bestowed upon the warriors.

This was the final step of the Winged Cavalry trial.

The Osprey Knight had said from the beginning that the Winged Cavalry wasn’t simply a mortal troop type, part of this cavalry unit’s combat power came from the blessing of the forest spirits.

This ritual was naturally sacred for native NPCs, but for players, it was equivalent to getting a permanent enhancement BUFF.

However, to respect the emotions of the surrounding NPCs while increasing immersion, those who had obtained Shadow Mane warhorses followed Knight Sunny’s command, dismounted by the sacred pool water at the most holy place of the ancestral forest, and knelt on one knee.

The elders wearing deer antler masks held wooden bowls, chanting ancient songs as they drew water from the sacred pool illuminated by sunlight and passed it to them.

Just drinking this cup of water would grant the blessing of the forest spirits.

For others, this process was easy.

But Brother Stick had some trouble, as he was a vampire, and under such intense morning sunlight, he was almost ignited.

He was already gritting his teeth to endure.

But the powder dispersing from his body like flying ash indicated that his current state was really bad.

“Drink!”

Knight Valand also knew they couldn’t wait any longer, so he simply skipped the long speech he had prepared, and with one command, the recruits all drank the blessed water together.

The moment the water entered their mouths, it transformed into a peculiar gas that filled their bodies, like inflating a balloon, causing all players including Joy Stick to start “expanding.”

On their character interface, there were flashing prompts:

【’Forest Spirit/Avalon’s War Trampling’ has been acquired!

Blessed ones gain Strength +2, Endurance +2, Agility +1, Perception +1.

This blessing effect only takes effect when near forests, plains, jungles, and other natural terrains while riding a Shadow Mane warhorse.

Blessed ones acquire talent 【Mountain Folk: Your build is closer to mountain folk descendants, +1 to defense rolls when suffering physical attacks, and gain natural resistance equal to current level X2.】

Blessed ones acquire talent 【Trampling Hooves: When you perform a charge action as Winged Cavalry in preferred terrain, you will carry 【War Trampling】 and 【Never Defeated】 status, morale is locked and charge success rate judgment +3!】

Blessed ones acquire talent 【Half-Giant’s Contempt: When your target’s size is smaller than the combined size of you and your Shadow Mane warhorse, the target’s probability of being stunned and knocked back by charge +3, and applies 【Panic】 effect when executing charge action.】

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“Holy shit! This enhancement!”

Although the players knew that Winged Cavalry was Transia’s “champion unit,” they really hadn’t expected that successfully changing to Winged Cavalry would come with so many BUFFs and three new talents that were useful enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

Although these talents only take effect when in “natural preferred terrain,” such a limitation is hardly worth mentioning compared to the professional characteristics of Winged Cavalry.

“I finally understand why 500 Winged Cavalry charging together could easily tear through a line of 20,000 gnolls. This profession was simply born for charging and trampling.”

Brother Stick commented in the team channel:

“Quick quick quick! Take screenshots and post these awesome talents on the forum. Lord Murphy gave me a cavalry formation of 300 people, we can’t gather enough just by bringing in our old brothers in reality. We must absorb fresh blood from outside. Such awesome professional features will definitely attract a bunch of meta players.”

“Nice! Already posting.”

The nearby Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Lin made an OK gesture.

He had a feeling that this post about decoding Winged Cavalry would definitely cause a huge stir on the forum.

Just the super features of this advanced profession already crush a series of advanced professions discovered so far. It truly deserves to be Transia’s “champion unit”; this strength is really worth it! Unfortunately, the difficulty of changing to Winged Cavalry is really too high.

The suffering they went through in the past 25 days, probably most players couldn’t persist.

After all, everyone plays games for fun, there’s really no need to torture themselves like this.

Moreover, although the professional features of Winged Cavalry are awesome, if you let a Winged Cavalry challenge a Tomb Guard at midnight, they might not necessarily win.

Its advantage lies in the unstoppable formation-breaking ability brought by the superposition of characteristics during group combat. There aren’t many advantages in single combat or dueling scenarios. From this point of view, the development team has done quite well with profession balance so far.

After seeing that all warriors had received the forest blessing, Countess Sharon finally flapped her wings, stepped forward, and touched the familiar cloud mane of the Shadow King.

The majestic Shadow King warhorse seemed to recognize little Sharon too, allowing her fingers, already blessed by midnight, to touch its forehead, and even stretched out its rough tongue to lick Sharon’s fingers.

Such intimacy made Valand and Sunny sigh.

After all, Sharon spent a long period of her childhood on the Shadow King’s saddle; this mischievous little one had even peed on this Shadow Mane warhorse’s back.

“Warrior, you have received the blessing of the forest, now you must serve the ancestral forest and Seicob territory.”

While stroking Shadow King’s cloud mane, Sharon turned back to Joy Stick, whose height had already exceeded 2 meters and whose build had become muscular like being inflated, looking just like a bodybuilding champion, and said softly:

“Just a few days ago, while you were training hard, something very bad happened in the forest. We’ve been concealing this news as we can’t let the mountain folk know, otherwise they would definitely cause a big commotion.

Now that you are our members, this thorny task can be handed over to you to complete.”

“Please speak, my lord!”

Brother Stick, after becoming a “mountain folk descendant,” even spoke with more aggression. He didn’t know if this was caused by the race change, but he felt he could kill a bull with one punch now.

This feeling was really nice.

Countess Sharon looked around, lowered her voice even more, and said very shamefully:

“Do you remember the forest wood holy grail we used earlier to make a contract with the forest spirit? It was found in the tomb of the first Count of Seicomere family.

However, just a few days ago, that tomb was visited by grave robbers.”

“Ah this!”

Brother Stick was startled, he hurriedly asked:

“Wasn’t that tomb protected by the mountain folk? Why was it visited by grave robbers? Was it done by insiders?”

“No! It’s not.”

Sharon sighed and said:

“Originally, the responsibility of guarding the tomb was assigned to the ‘Mountain Foot’ tribe. They are the best hunters among the mountain folk and view guarding the tomb as a sacred duty. However, recently, as Transia has been searching for vagrants, the Mountain Foot tribe warriors have been largely employed as guides for warriors, which directly led to gaps in their defense system.

Those cunning grave robbers seized this opportunity and, under the cover of a rainy night, sneaked into the tomb and stole a series of burial objects of my ancestor.

The Mountain Foot clan elder has already attempted suicide three times.

Grandma Mountain Foot believes this is a disgrace to the tribe and must atone with death, so you must bring those grave robbers to justice and retrieve the burial objects as quickly as possible, before Grandma Mountain Foot thinks of another way to kill herself!”

“I understand, please leave it to us!”

Joy Stick righteously accepted this task. After Countess Sharon turned and left, he immediately opened a private chat with Meow King and frantically sent messages:

Onboard Joy Stick: 【Meow King! Tell me honestly! Is the robbery of Count Seicob’s tomb related to you guys? I heard Little Hands from your team earlier talking about finding ways to get those burial objects.

Damn, you’re really setting up your brother here, we just changed profession and you want everyone to make a fool of themselves?】

Meow King: 【??? Don’t make wild accusations! We might be close but if you slander us like this I’ll have to sue you for defamation. Only someone born without an asshole would do grave robbing, we’re lawful alignment!

Get it straight, Avalon is watching us from above, who dares to mess around?

Trust me!

This has nothing to do with us.

However, if you’re going to catch grave robbers, we can help.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【? You can help? Why do these words sound strange? You still say you have nothing to do with this!】

Meow King: 【This matter is complicated, can’t explain in a few words, anyway I guarantee we absolutely didn’t do it, our hands are clean in this matter. Anyway, you come to Bataxin first, right in this forest where Seicob territory and Bataxin border each other.

We’re camping here now.

Don’t worry, that group of grave robbers’ whereabouts have been monitored by Tobacco Mulberry all along. You come over and we’ll catch people together. I can guarantee with my personality that we haven’t participated in such evil things at all!】

Hearing Meow King’s such confident answer, Brother Stick also put his mind at ease.

What he feared most was that Brother Meow had his eyes on the burial objects and really did it, in which case he would have to make a difficult choice between duty and friendship.

Ah, if it really comes to that time, hopefully he would have enough courage to face the Winged Cavalry’s pursuit…

Brother Stick shared the 【Punish Grave Robbers】 task with other brothers, then left Giant Shark Uncle and others who were crying without tears to continue the trial in the forest after three days. He led twenty-one brothers who successfully changed profession to receive the Winged Cavalry war armor profession quest from Knight Sunny, then set off towards Meow King’s location.

On the way, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry brothers were still complaining about this profession quest:

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Lin: 【They actually want us to go to Seicob City to find Winged Cavalry who died there and were transformed into undead, defeat them to obtain inheritance armor and inheritance weapons from them.

I really can’t anymore!

This quest is obviously guiding us to Seicob City.

To be honest, I really don’t want to go to that ghost place a second time, the team wipe experience last time has left me with trauma.】

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Zhe: 【Nonsense! You’ve already changed to Winged Cavalry, of course the profession main quest line is about recapturing Seicob City! Do you even need to think about this?

I guess our profession’s higher tier changes are probably all related to this event.】

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Dou: 【No no no, I estimate the last step of the profession quest is to have us charge through the Pioneer Army! That short marshal’s fortress.

Don’t forget, it was that short person who used plague to turn Seicob City into what it is now, that’s the revenge will forged by hundreds of thousands of souls, this matter definitely isn’t over!

I guess maybe after the Black Plague, both sides will have to fight for real.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【What’s there to fear! Wait until we have 1,000 player knights, watch me lead the brothers to smash that damn Pioneer Fortress!

You should know, Transia was only a quarter of the former Portia Federation, if Lord Murphy wants to make a name, shouldn’t he take back all the lost territory?

At that time we not only have to fight with the Pioneer Army, but also fight with the northerners, we need to fight all around to get our money’s worth.】

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Bing: 【Damn, this is too awesome, shouldn’t we quickly find some Paradox war criminals to come in and level the anti-aircraft guns?】

Everyone burst into laughter.

However, this joke did remind Joy Stick.

His Crimson Hammer and Sickle Group is currently the player guild closest to level 2 qualification. Once it reaches level 2 evaluation, he will have the power of “independent recruitment.”

The quite subtle and flexible moral bottom line of Paradox war criminals is troublesome in many cases, but if it’s war, then there really aren’t more suitable “soldier sources” than them.

And his side has cavalry!

Therefore, the Mount & Blade player group and Battlefield cavalry gunner community are also targets that can be recruited. Although there are no gold coin cars and gold coin bullets for them to use, but look how cool this Winged Cavalry is?

Fighting on horseback is also men’s romance.

“Brother Stick, are you busy now? Quickly return to Crimson Citadel or I’ll come find you, I found a big treasure trove here!”

Just as Brother Stick was imagining how to recruit soldiers in the future, a private message from the “angel investor” immediately made him alert.

Hearing Little Rich Brother’s excited voice, Brother Stick immediately asked:

“Where did you get the treasure trove information? Is it reliable? Don’t tell me you bought it again this time, have you forgotten the lesson from Seicob City?”

“No no no, not this time! This time it’s a clue I accidentally picked up while killing ghouls in the sewers, right in the Foul Swamp!”

Little Rich Brother said with certainty:

“The gnoll warlocks hiding there are looking for a ‘lost treasure of King Gnawbone.’ I just asked Hog in Smuggler’s Woods. Blood Claw Chief told me very certainly that the great treasure trove definitely exists!

Trust me!

Once we find this one, we’ll be rich!”

“Foul Swamp?”

Brother Stick hesitated for a moment, then replied:

“My assigned defense area happens to be near there. Speaking of which, the Maginot Line is about to start construction. Little Rich Brother, don’t rush, investigate the clues more, I’ll come over after I finish the Seicomere family’s reputation quest here.”

“Huh? There’s a hidden quest?”

Little Rich Brother immediately became interested, he asked:

“What kind of quest is it exactly? Tell me about it.”

Brother Stick then told him about the Count Seicob’s tomb being robbed, which made Little Rich Brother indignant. He cursed:

“Those bastards! They dare to rob even the tomb of a local hero, they must be caught and beaten severely! Wait for me, I’ll come right over to join in this righteous cause, my manticore can track and investigate.”

“Great!”

Brother Stick’s eyes lit up.

Little Rich Brother’s manticore was indeed in a league of its own among the summoned creatures currently owned by players. This fellow’s combat power and stealth capability were even stronger than a Black Iron rank vampire. With its assistance, those damn grave robbers wouldn’t be able to escape!

However, Brother Stick thought again, is this really not related to the Big Bird Spin Spin Spin team?

Why does he feel there’s something fishy about this whole thing?