Chapter 38 The Price of Power

After a battle that persisted for twenty minutes, it finally came to an end. *very literary* ~***

The dark jungle is covered with a fierce animal body, and some black -winged birds hanging on the tree dripping blood from the air, dripping ticking into the human neck. It is uncomfortable.

The number of ferocious beasts is actually not many. The combined number of shadow beasts, dark apes and black-winged birds does not exceed 700. However, these low-level ferocious beasts with four difficulty levels rely on their tenacious vitality and complicated skill combinations. Infinitely superimposing the terrifying characteristics of various special attacks made the Broken Blade team and others in a hurry.

You must know that this is the Broken Blade team with the help of Megatron. In terms of individual strength, the Broken Blade team may only be regarded as the middle level, but with Megatron, it is not an exaggeration to be considered the peak.

For this reason, Shen Yi also had to lament, no wonder there was never such a thing as sweeping the wilderness in the fourth difficulty area.

This is indeed something not easy to do.

But he doesn't worry about it.

Compared with other four-difficulty adventurers, the Broken Blade team also has two advantages. One is that they have just entered the four-difficulty, and the other is that they still have a big universe plan.

In the future, if they can build the ultimate battleship before entering the fifth difficulty, then it may not be impossible to sweep the wilderness indiscriminately at the fourth difficulty-although no one has ever done it before, but sometimes the completion of a miracle is itself The smooth road to the same miracle.

After killing all these ferocious beasts, he was given an A-level weapon and a book of exercises, all from the Dark Walking Demon Ape.

Dark Claw, attack power 76, comes with shadow strike special effect, attacking shadow parts causes extra damage, and at the same time it is equivalent to increasing the hit rate. However, this weapon is special and limited, so it doesn't make much sense.

Originally, they could get a reward by exploiting the corpses, but due to an agreement with the Dragon Tooth Team, the corpses of the Dark Walking Demon Ape and the Black-winged Bird had to be handed over to the Dragon Tooth Team.

The exercise book is an ordinary ground movement technique, and the Broken Blade team has no special needs for terrain techniques, so they don't care much about this book.

Speaking of it, it is not bad to get such a harvest in 20 minutes. The problem is that after such a big battle, everyone's mental power is almost exhausted. It is absolutely impossible for a battle like this to happen again in a short time.

When fighting in the low-difficulty area, you can fight seven or eight battles like this a day, and sometimes even two or three in a row. Even if you only get one C-rank or B-rank in a single battle, it is no less than three or five in a day. Therefore, it is not difficult to earn millions of dollars by sweeping the wilderness in more than 20 days.

But a fight like today,

Never more than three times a day.

This is not just a problem of lack of mental strength, but as the degree of danger increases, people's own mental state is unbearable.

The tension brought about by low-intensity battles is small, and the mental willpower exercised by adventurers can still bear it, but the mental tension brought by high-intensity and heavy-duty battles is far greater than that of low-intensity battles. In this tension, it is easy to tire and feel bored. Like Hong Lang, they like to tease in battle, not only because of their nature, but also to relax their minds and relieve fatigue.

Do not think that adventurers should get used to fighting and danger.

Nothing in the world should be done.

Unless you want to die, no one can really get used to danger, only morbid and numb adaptation, and some people even become perverted because of it.

When playing SS, everyone still has good expectations in their minds, and they can forcefully suppress the discomfort through the longing for hope. To deal with these battles where only one or two gains are made out of a thousand, the fighting spirit in their hearts is not mobilized, and they are exhausted. Feelings come naturally and easily, which are not controlled by personal will. .

In other words, unless they can change this state, in terms of income, the Broken Blade team entering the fourth difficulty area may be lower than when they were in the low difficulty area before.

In fact, this kind of thing is normal on the fourth difficulty, but to Shen Yi, it is unacceptable.

Since there can be millions of income in the low difficulty area, higher difficulty must and should have higher income!

This is not the principle of the city, but it is Shen Yi's principle.

Improving mental power is easy to solve. In terms of spiritual power, there are also exercise books similar to the source of life. Shen Yi intends to make up for this aspect this time, but in terms of greatly increasing combat power and widening the gap in strength, it is not Lao Meng is more important.

In the previous battle, only the Terminator was used as cannon fodder in front, and the strength was obviously not enough.

However, after this battle, Lao Meng has a large number of dark apes that can be used to make undead soldiers, and his strength can be improved a lot.

The problem is that Lao Meng also has his own calculations in his heart - he, like Wen Rou, wants to keep these soldiers who can be taken back as treasures.

So this time Shen Yi gave Lao Meng both the exercise book and the Dark Claw for the first time. He didn't want any of the benefits this time, but said: "Our strength in the fourth difficulty has not yet reached the level where we can kill all the way. At this point, if you want to get a better return, you must first make more investment. The same is true for you, if you want to get a better corpse, you must first be willing to give up what is in front of you."

Lao Meng looked at the weapon and exercise book that Shen Yi handed him, and took it with a smile: "In every battle, I send half of the undead army out to cooperate, and the remaining half will not be brought out, what do you think? "

Shen Yi frowned: "Two-thirds, keep one-third, you collect hundreds of them every day, and you can have thousands of troops in a month. These are all four-difficulty-level ferocious beasts. Being brought to the world of difficulty three by you, isn't it rampant?"

"It's not that simple." Lao Meng shook his head: "No matter how powerful a life is, its strength will drop a lot after becoming an undead. But the most terrible thing is that high-level undead need the feed of low-level undead life. I need Prepare rations for my bone dragon troops. Ordinary rations will not be put in their eyes, only the undead transformed from this four-difficulty level beast will meet their taste."

"The undead also need to eat?" Everyone was puzzled.

Lao Meng nodded: "Of course, but it is not used to wrap the stomach, but to devour the soul fire to strengthen itself. High-level undead are different from low-level undead. After becoming undead, there will be an upgrade process. They are not very powerful at first. However, they can improve themselves by devouring their own kind, keep upgrading, and finally become a powerful existence. Intermediate undead can grow by themselves, but at a very slow speed, while those low-level undead only need a little soul energy from the user to satisfy their needs. Need. I just need to use some undead with self-growth potential to meet the growth needs of advanced undead."

"Provided by the applicator? So your appearance is not only due to erosion, but also..." Shen Yi was more concerned about the last sentence.

"Yes..." Lao Meng Youyou sighed: "This is the price I have to pay, so I am getting weaker and weaker. Do you know? My current physique, a little physique only has 6 points of life."

This was his biggest secret, but it was the first time he told Shen Yi.

"Damn it, you never told me this. But your current constitution is 98, and your vitality is still 980 points."

"That's used to deceive people." Lao Meng chuckled a few times, and suddenly opened his skill bar, and a skill was displayed on it: camouflage **.

This skill can show others the attribute ability that you only want others to see, but it has no effect on sub-artifacts and so on. When this ability is used for the first time, you can gain the ability equivalent to the ability you demonstrated. The higher the ability you demonstrate, the shorter the duration.

This is a skill from Heroes Invincible, but unlike the real Heroes Invincible, this skill is actually quite powerful. Not only can you disguise your real attributes, but you can also temporarily possess the disguised attributes, greatly improving your strength, just by increasing the rate The larger the value, the shorter the duration. But after the real combat power has dropped, the camouflage attribute can still exist for a long time, which makes anyone misjudge Lao Meng's strength.

No wonder this guy always jerks at the beginning, and then shrinks back immediately.

"So it's like this..." Shen Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, then said to Fatty, "Fatty, give Lao Meng the life suit first."

The fat man was about to take off his equipment, but Lao Meng shook his head: "No need, although I paid the price, I got more. My strength is not improved by my own combat power, so it is mainly through equipment. Don't worry, my The protective equipment will not be worse than your life suits. So let me see that the real life force is less than 600 points, but even if it is Shen Yi, you want to kill me, hehe, it is not so easy. But... Anyway, your I appreciate the kindness. For the sake of being a good friend, I promise you that only one third will be left for each battle."

Speaking of which, he has revealed a piece of equipment: Lich Armor, with a defense of 34, with its own skill Undead Reincarnation, which can be reborn through undead corpses and undead soldiers. The maximum number of uses per mission world is three, and the current number of uses is 13. This equipment can only be used with undead occupations and lich physique.

Everyone has been fighting together for so long, although they are always united for their own interests, they gradually develop feelings for each other. Although they are not as good as their respective teammates, Lao Meng finally no longer keeps some secrets.

His undead reincarnation skills are quite powerful, as long as he encounters a fatal attack, he can directly reincarnate through corpses or his own undead soldiers, which is equivalent to the ability of rebirth, but it is limited to only necromancers whose physique has been seriously affected.

In addition to the Lich Armor, Lao Meng also showed a Lich Physique, which is also a very powerful life-saving tool, and it is also reincarnated after death, but it does not need a corpse, but directly returns to the city to be reborn. If you die in the mission world, the reward will be deducted according to the progress at that time, but it will not be wiped out, the amount owed is allowed, and the total number of uses is three.

Because of Lao Meng's low physique, there are really many ways to save his life. He didn't say it before, and everyone dared not joke about his life. This time he showed his cards, which is a rare openness.

This is also the comprehensive trust that has finally been established after long-term cooperation with the Broken Blade team.

In fact, not every adventurer will pay such a high price as Lao Meng after becoming a necromancer. More necromancers generally only lose a little physique and a little life. But Lao Meng is too crazy in this regard, and he has put in enough hard work and money. As a result, while he is powerful, the price he pays is also extra high.

"What you lose is what you gain." Shen Yi smiled: "Now I feel relieved."

"If you lose something, you have to make up for it." Lao Meng also replied: "Necromancers cannot learn the source of life skills. This is the price we must pay for being strong, but it does not mean that there is no other way." It can be made up."

"Oh? You mean there are other ways to make up for it?"

"Do you still remember the spring water of youth that I used last time?"

"Remember, it can bring you back to peak strength. I now understand what the so-called peak means. It must not only be your weakened strength, but also your weakened physique, right?"

"Yes, but that's just a bottle of temporary youthful spring water. I heard that there is a high-level youthful spring water in the fourth difficulty, which can be permanently improved. This kind of improvement is useless to you, because your physique is already It was improved by exercises, but it is very useful for necromancers, as long as four bottles, I can return to the standard value. I don’t want to break the standard, but even if I can return to the standard, it is not bad for me.”

"Four bottles?" Shen Yi patted him on the shoulder: "I will get it for you."

Lao Meng chuckled: "If that's the case, I'd like to exchange it with the Frost Dragon. My undead army has no shortcomings that cannot be traded."

"Then there's no need, I don't have so many mid-level undead to feed them." Shen Yi said with a smile: "As long as you can contribute more in the next battle."

"No problem, as long as a bottle of youthful spring water and a dragon corpse, I can hand over three-quarters of the undead army to you for squandering!"

For Lao Meng, even if it's just a bottle of high-grade spring of youth, it's worth his all-out effort. He traded his health for powerful equipment, top-notch undead spells, and now he has to use these to get back his lost health.

This is like people exchanging health for money, and then using money to buy health when they are old.

Some "philosophers" who think they know how to preserve health and value life often ridicule this approach, but they don't know that when you are penniless and only healthy, you don't have to trade health for money, what can you trade for it?

Those who can say these words are all self-righteous guys who live a good life and don't know the hardships of the lower class.

If you can't even live well today, why do you think about tomorrow?

If you trade your health for money today, you may buy some of your health back with money in the future.

If you are reluctant to be healthy today, you will not even be eligible to buy back your health in the future.

Of course, there is an exception for selling kidneys.

After the conversation, Lao Meng began to mass-produce the Dark Walking Demon Ape.

Since making undead requires relatively complete corpses, Lao Meng finally made one hundred and fifty demon ape soldiers.

Although it is said that after being made into undead, the combat power of the Dark Walking Demon Ape has dropped a lot, but after all, it is a four-difficulty beast. At about 120 points, he lost his ground running ability and stabbing ability, but still retained a certain amount of agility, and became a fast troop in Laomeng's undead army.

They cooperated with the Terminator troops to attack from a distance and block from a distance, and finally formed a relatively complete offensive system. In this dark forest with thorns and thorns, it once again added weight to the strength of the Broken Blade team.

After that, Lao Meng made some undead black-winged birds, and used them not to fight, but to scout. The canopy of the dark jungle blocks out the sun, and even the satellites cannot shine in. These undead birds can also be used as substitutes to expand the search range.

The production is time-consuming, and it took Lao Meng nearly a day to complete the production, but for the Broken Blade team, the wait was worth it. During this period of time, they made small attacks and killed some scattered beasts, but nothing was gained.

After everything was completed, everyone continued to move forward. After encountering a few more small-scale battles, they finally came to the place where the Warriors once appeared.

"It's here! We were teleported here at the beginning!" Zhang Jianjun said excitedly.

Shen Yi took a closer look, it was an open grassland with a radius of about 20 meters, it seemed that it was only for teleportation, and there was not a single tree growing nearby.

Even without Zhang Jianjun's guidance, Shen Yi could see that this was an unusual place.

The only problem is, he didn't see the teleportation array.