"Brother Yun, there is a group of people hiding over there."
A player pointed at Lin Xiao and others hiding on the other side of the sentry post and asked with an inexplicable gleam in his eyes.
The one called Brother Yun was a handsome human with silver hair. He glanced at the army hiding below the high ground where the sentry post was located, and then looked at his men with doubt in his eyes:
"What do you want to say?"
There was a hint of danger in the subordinate's eyes and he lowered his voice and said:
"Those who follow the same fortress legion route as us are our competitors. Do you want to trick them?"
Brother Yun glanced at his men and turned his head away without saying whether it was okay or not.
His subordinate smiled, waved to someone nearby, and whispered in a low voice.
Soon, a dozen NPC soldiers on the outpost wall began to consciously lure some demons to the other side. While attacking a small group of demons and making them extremely angry, they turned to the other side of the outpost. The small group of demons were lured around a corner and saw two scouts hiding on the other side of the corner.
It happened that at this moment, the soldier on the sentry post who had lured the demons had disappeared. The demon, having lost his opponent, saw the NPC scout at the corner and rushed up with a strange cry.
Lin Xiao, who was behind the scout, discovered the demon and the soldiers on the city wall who were seducing each other when the demon appeared. He also saw which players these NPCs belonged to. These NPC soldiers could clearly distinguish whether they were simple NPCs or NPCs recruited by players.
He narrowed his eyes and sneered,
"No matter when or where, people's bad nature will never disappear, Yun Xin, right? I will remember you."
"Prepare for battle!"
There is no way to run away, and there is nowhere to run, so you can only fight. You can get support from the NPCs in the outpost.
At the command, many NPC soldiers immediately took their positions, with warriors holding shields in the front row, archers in the back row, and mages and priests at the ready.
Soon, the Demon Overlord sent nearly a thousand demons under the leadership of a level 75 enhanced elite demon centurion to charge over. Lin Xiao looked from afar and saw that most of them were ordinary template demons, with dozens of level 70 elite demon warriors, and several level 72 or 73 demon captains and demon warriors.
The level 75 enhanced elite demon has more than 300,000 health points. It is usually a BOSS that requires a team to kill. With so many demon subordinates, Lin Xiao paused the staff in his hand, and a ray of lightning fell on the front-row warriors, adding extra lightning damage to their weapons.
At this time, Lin Xiao had already felt the limitations of pure thunder magic. It had high burst, but in terms of control and restriction, it was really not as good as ice magic or earth magic.
If he were just playing alone or doing dungeons, that would be great, but for someone like him who wanted to be the leader of a fortress legion and command hundreds or even thousands of NPC subordinates, this expertise wouldn't be that great.
"Or find an opportunity to change your specialization? Or take on a second specialization as a part-timer?"
He remembered that after the opening of Outland, template upgrades and part-time second specializations were available, but the conditions for achieving them were very harsh.
First of all, the level must reach the upper limit of the species level. For example, he needs to upgrade to level 70, but if it is a murloc, he only needs to upgrade to level 45.
This is not difficult. After entering the Outer Realm for so long, he is almost reaching level 69. Level 70 is just a matter of time.
The second point is that you need to reach the revered reputation with a large faction, such as humans, elves, or expeditionary forces.
The third point is that you need to raise the reputation of a faction to Exalted. For example, if you want to specialize in fire spells, you have to raise the reputation of a fire spell faction to Exalted.
Achieve these three and then complete an extremely complex and demanding task chain.
Before the Outer Domain was opened, there was a hardcore player who met the prerequisites and took on the quest, and he almost completed the quest chain, but he was stumped at the final stage. At that time, that person posted the last few steps of the quest chain on the world channel. Lin Xiao had seen it, and it was indeed extremely harsh.
You need to prepare several extremely rare items and kill several super BOSSes within a limited time in the large team mode, including super BOSSes such as dragons.
It is not difficult to defeat the BOSS, but the difficulty lies in the limited-time mode, which requires a super strong team to kill the BOSS without being wiped out and in a race, which is very difficult.
Anyway, after reading these tasks, Lin Xiao decided to wait until he was strong enough before trying again, or to try another method.
As shown in the system, after the Outland is opened, there will be other promotion templates or part-time ways. The simplest of these is merit exchange. Several places will be issued every year within the expeditionary force reputation system.
While he was stunned for a moment, the demons and the first wave of his men had collided head-on. The soldiers rushed forward fearlessly in the face of the demons.
In a flash, the dense green health bars in the front row began to turn yellow and red, and the various healing spells of the many priests in the back could not pull them up.
Seeing that the front row was about to fall, Shen Yuexin cast a large-scale healing prayer, raising the health of the soldiers in the range.
"Crack."
A thundercloud with a coverage area of up to sixty yards enveloped the battlefield, and dense lightning fell like rain. With the bonus of talent, each lightning could cause thousands of damages, and dense damage numbers flashed on the screen before his eyes.
An ordinary demon has only about 6,000 HP. A large number of injured demons died in two rounds. After four rounds, a large space was cleared in the front row.
But compared with the thousands of demons, these casualties were nothing. The most important thing was that they were fighting in the field at this time, and the combat power of human NPC soldiers was not as good as that of demons.
The regular recruited NPC warriors are at level 55, and the regular demon soldiers are at level 60. They are both ordinary templates, but the demons not only have racial bonuses to health and attack power, but are also five levels higher, making them completely invincible.
At the thirteenth second, the first batch of warriors began to die one after another, and even the priest's blood could not be restored.
Fortunately, the battle here attracted the attention of the outpost, who had noticed it when the demons divided their forces. Most of the players on the outpost walls were indifferent, and the two competitors were even gloating. However, the NPCs were fair. In addition, the pressure on the other side was reduced after the demons divided their forces, so they immediately dispatched a team of soldiers here, including several powerful ice mages, who cast blizzards from the outpost walls to slow down the demons.
Lin Xiao immediately seized the opportunity and ordered his men to fight and retreat, keeping a certain distance from the demons and flying kites around the sentry post. At the same time, he continued to use thunderclouds and blizzards alternately.
While slowing down, he also burst out with high bursts, and quickly cleared out wave after wave of demons.
"I need to level up my mage NPC!"
Ice mages are really good, but newly recruited ice mages cannot slow down enemies on a large scale like blizzards. They must be upgraded to level 60 before they can be equipped, even for elite mages.
NPCs are different from players.
With the support of several ice mages on the city wall, they barely blocked the demon attack. Wave after wave of ordinary demons suffered from the double damage of blizzard and thunderclouds, including several elite demons.
When about two hundred ordinary demons died, the demon centurion of the commander-in-chief could no longer sit still. He picked up the several-meter-long sword and launched an attack himself.
In this situation, Lin Xiao had no way to retreat. If he ran away from the sentry post and could not get support from the mages and archers on the city wall, he would die faster. He had no choice but to fight.
Letting his girlfriend take temporary command of his subordinates, he cast a lightning shield on himself and rushed towards the main force of the demons.
At level 68, he has 340 extra intelligence points thanks to his talent. With normal upgrades and equipment additions, he now has nearly 700 intelligence points. The Lightning Shield causes lightning damage to melee attackers equal to the caster's intelligence*0.6, which is 420. Add on more than 400 spell damage bonus, for a total of 870 spell damage.
Rushing into the demon group, a lightning force field covering a range of 60 yards appeared, stunning the enemies within the range for two seconds and then paralyzing them for four seconds. Then a wave of chain lightning learned at level 60 exploded, and another wave of thunderclouds came down, killing all the ordinary demons within the range in just two seconds.
The remaining elite demons were in a paralyzed state and could attack but could not move, and were killed by the continuous thunderclouds and blizzard.
At this time, the demon centurion had already rushed over and charged at him from a distance. The huge body of five or six meters tall came in a flash with terrifying pressure. The huge force directly knocked him more than ten yards away and fell to the ground in a dizzy state.
One yard is equivalent to 0.9 meters, and ten yards is nine meters.
Fortunately, the demons nearby were cleared out, otherwise I would have fallen into the group of monsters and been hacked to death in minutes.
A group of soldiers rushed up and protected him behind them. The demon centurion came up with a four-meter-long sword and killed the soldiers one by one.
The attack power of a level 73 enhanced elite is already ridiculously high, and it is too overwhelming for a level 55 ordinary NPC. It is 100% certain to crush them and kill them instantly with one strike.
But there were a few seconds of buffer for Lin Xiao to wake up from the dizziness. He immediately used a lightning attack to stun the Centurion on the spot, turned around and ran. Two elite warriors quickly rushed up with shields raised, but were swept away the next second. His health of over 10,000 was instantly reduced by two-thirds, but fortunately he did not die.
"It's totally unstoppable!"
Lin Xiao was speechless. The level gap was too big. Most of the ranged shooters and mages were directly immune to the fireballs and ice arrows. Even if they were hurt, it was only a few dozen points of damage, which was just a drizzle compared to this guy's health of nearly 300,000.
If the siege can be sustained a little longer, there are more problematic demons than them.
There were only a few mages on the city wall providing support, and they were unable to control so many demons. After the demon centurion broke through the defense line, the remaining demons rushed forward.
Three minutes later, Lin Xiao was dusty and resurrected from the altar at the Eagle Outpost resurrection point. His girlfriend stood by the altar and stepped forward to hold his hand to encourage him:
"Don't be discouraged, it's just a temporary failure."
His girlfriend could fly, and after making sure that they were beyond help, she flew directly to the sentry platform for refuge. Since he couldn't fly, there was nothing he could do but die in battle.
He felt much better holding his girlfriend's soft little hand, and said while holding it in reverse:
"Don't worry, this loss is nothing, I can accept it."
Looking up to the other side, Yun Xin came over surrounded by several of his men. He looked at Lin Xiao with an apologetic look and said:
"I'm so sorry, my men were trying to lure the demon away to relieve the pressure at the outpost's main gate, but I didn't expect you to be there."
(End of this chapter)