novelraw Chapter 331 - 337: The Birth of the Human Legion
Chapter 331 - 337: The Birth of the Human Legion
Although the territory of Deserted Valley Town is not large, it still covers over a hundred kilometers. Areas with Spirit Realm towns generally have dense and rich resources nearby, which Hang Yu’s team finds difficult to fully develop and comprehend in a short time.
Recruitment is the same!
It is more stable to have 100% control over the troops.
But the materials consumed for soldier production are immense, making it a bottomless pit at this stage!
Hang Yu cannot afford it personally, and even for the entire team, it’s a heavy burden.
Deserted Valley Town does not know what situations and challenges it will face next. Instead of slowly producing soldiers themselves, they might as well allocate half of the soldier recruitment quotas to other forces or individuals, allowing them to produce soldiers. At the same time, keeping everyone in Deserted Valley Town would strengthen the town.
This way.
The number of troops in Deserted Valley Town will increase in the shortest time.
Everyone will have control and usage rights over the soldiers they create. They can level up and fight bosses with their troops, but they can’t take the soldiers out of the territory.
These soldiers are produced in Deserted Valley Town.
They belong solely to Deserted Valley Town!
No individual has the right to take the soldiers away.
The Lord can only do so under specific conditions.
Such as situations like territorial wars, where they can take the troops out of the territory.
No matter if the soldiers were created by themselves or not, the greatest privilege of the Lord is having unified management rights over the garrison, especially during wartime. They can forcibly requisition all soldiers to protect the territory and town.
Hang Yu shared the hunting grounds, resource fields, and recruitment rights with others.
This is also a very effective way to retain people.
The more fixed assets you have in Deserted Valley Town.
The harder it is for you to leave Deserted Valley Town.
If one day you decide to go elsewhere or want to break away independently.
You would have to give up your existing hunting grounds, resource fields, and troops.
Of course.
As the Lord.
Hang Yu can also offer some rebates.
For example, when the time comes for someone to leave, they can reclaim the soldiers’ ownership at half price, allowing the person to recoup part of their investment, encouraging more individuals to develop in Deserted Valley Town and contribute to its prosperity.
Clearly.
For the benefits proposed by Hang Yu.
The group present could not refuse.
Firstly, the benefits and resources Hang Yu offered are indeed tempting.
Secondly, Deserted Valley Town is a well-equipped camp, not only offering a very comfortable and safe environment but also a very convenient geographical locale, with more than twenty kinds of Spirit Realm steles.
If they don’t settle in the town.
Do they go back to the cave base?
Therefore, for such arrangements by Hang Yu, teams big and small expressed satisfaction, and the majority also accepted Hang Yu as the Lord.
Hang Yu asked, "How many materials for soldier production did we recover this time?"
Xu Tianhua replied, "Less than two hundred pieces each of Dull Soul Crystals and Inheritance Crystals. Adding what we collected in the cave last time, the total is nearly three hundred pieces."
The soldiers created within these territories have a high chance of dropping Soul Crystals and Inheritance Crystals.
They occasionally drop one or two pieces of equipment.
Which can be decomposed to recover some materials.
Aside from that.
It’s very noteworthy.
The Storage Stele in Deserted Valley Town is stocked with the jackals’ inheritance.
Due to human occupation of the camp, all those stored items in the Storage Stele have been divided among humans.
Deserted Valley Town is too small!
The number of jackals isn’t very high.
The jackals’ occupation lasted for a short time.
Thus, the inheritance isn’t substantial, with about one or two hundred Soul Crystals, Inheritance Crystals, and several hundred pieces of various materials, alongside some untreated equipment, a small amount of green materials, and skill stones.
Hang Yu distributed a small portion of these materials to others.
The vast majority remained for his own team.
Hang Yu asked Old Zhao to tally the counts, with the team allocating: 287 Dull White Soul Crystals, 243 Dull White Inheritance Crystals, over 1100 pieces of Cold Iron Ore, over 900 pieces of Fire Copper Ore, over 800 pieces of Black Iron Wood, over 450 pieces of Mithril, over 220 pieces of Refined Gold, in addition to 4500 White Crystal Stones, about 200 pieces of jackal soldier equipment, and a dozen various First or Second Tier Skill Stones.
"Let’s summon a batch of soldiers first."
Hang Yu said this.
Which piqued the interest of others.
Jiang Nan couldn’t help but say, "The Spirit Realm should have no native humans. Does our summoning behavior count as creating people? And could there be Awakened among them?"
Hang Yu said, "These summoned subspecies soldiers are different from those bred from the demise and decomposition of high-level races; they are unlikely to awaken self-awareness or higher intelligence and are merely machine-like obedient warriors."
Jiang Nan nodded, "I wonder what the strength of these subspecies soldier types is like!"
Hang Yu smiled slightly, "You’ll soon find out!"
After a brief ponderance, Hang Yu considered that the size of the territory’s army isn’t infinite. Currently, Deserted Valley Town can only host a force of two thousand. Upgrading the town’s residential buildings would increase the total military population, but the number remains limited.
And this touches upon an issue.
How to allocate the distribution of soldier types!
From a personal utility perspective, Mage Soldiers and Healing Soldiers are the highest.
But the entire Deserted Valley Town can’t just be Mages and Healers, right? The town would be too vulnerable if attacked!
Hang Yu must set a limit on the allocation ratio of each soldier type and then strictly distribute them to others according to this ratio to ensure the health of the troops.
Considering the materials at hand.
First summon twenty Infantry and Archers, as well as ten Mage Soldiers and Healing Soldiers!
Hang Yu sacrificed the relevant materials in front of the Recruitment and Summoning Stele. The next second, a shocking scene appeared. The Spirit Realm Stele lit up, and about ten minutes later, the first soldier was produced.
When everyone saw the appearance of the human soldier, they all widened their eyes!
This is indeed a human soldier!
The exterior is authentically human!
He is muscular and robust, about 1.9 meters tall, with a full set of soldier armor, holding a soldier’s shield in his left hand and a soldier’s longsword in his right hand.
Perhaps because he was summoned by Hang Yu.
Therefore, with black hair and black eyes, there was a resemblance to Hang Yu in his brows and eyes.
This looked just like... Hang Yu’s long-lost brother!
After this human soldier was summoned, he immediately took a big stride forward, knelt on one knee, and said in standard human language (Chinese): "Greetings, Lord!"
Zhang Xiaoqiang was startled, "Hey, you can actually speak human language?"
The human infantry stood up expressionlessly.
Then walked behind Hang Yu.
He ignored Xiaoqiang.
It’s not that the soldier is aloof, but rather that this subspecies creature is actually very low in intelligence, just like encountering an NPC in a game. All actions and language follow a very simple pre-set program and pattern.
Unable to adapt.
Incapable of adaptation.
Whatever you tell it to do, it will do.
They are absolutely loyal, they have no emotions.
But they cannot understand too complex commands, nor can they perform overly complex tasks.
Jiang Nan curiously walked over, poked the soldier’s face, and immediately frowned: "Hmm, it feels a bit stiff, like it’s a puppet wearing human skin."
Hang Yu smiled: "It’s not wrong to think of it that way. It’s not a complete life form. In some sense, there’s not much difference between it and a puppet or marionette."
"What about the other soldiers?" Jiang Nan curiously looked around.
"Haven’t you played real-time strategy games? It takes time to build soldiers. Ordinary Infantry and Archers can be summoned in ten minutes, but Mage Soldiers and Healing Soldiers will take a bit longer."
Diana asked curiously at this moment, "Hang, can you show us the attributes of this soldier?"
Hang Yu said, "Of course, I can send the attributes to you!"
......
[Human Infantry].
Level 10 Bronze Elite.
Basic Attributes: Life Energy 230, Spiritual Power 120, Strength 14, Agility 12, Divine 8, Will 8, ...
Basic Equipment: Human Soldier’s Sword, Human Soldier’s Helmet, Human Soldier’s Armor, Human Soldier’s Boots, Human Soldier’s Shield (Bound, cannot be removed or replaced.)
Inheritance Skills: Soldier Inheritance (First Tier Inheritance, accompanying skills: Level 3 Soldier Charge, Level 3 Soldier Defense, Level 3 Soldier Slash).
......
Chris said: "His attributes are already quite impressive, comparable to a wild Level 10 Bronze Elite Monster, plus he has a full set of Level 10 dark white equipment and a complete first-tier inheritance. In a one-on-one, he’s not weaker than most of the members in our team."
Luke also nodded: "It’s just a pity he lacks intelligence!"
Indeed, his strength is on par with an Elite Wild Monster!
Purely comparing attributes, he’s even stronger than the majority of the people present...
Of course.
A mere comparison of levels and attributes cannot represent actual combat strength!
Humans have wisdom and can use external devices, but such small soldiers cannot.
Small soldiers are subspecies life forms.
But not perpetual motion machines.
They, like humans, need to consume energy.
Humans mainly consume Spiritual Food, while soldiers, besides food, can also consume Spirit Realm Crystal Stones to directly replenish the spiritual energy needed for physical activity and equipment loss.
Such a soldier.
Typically needs to consume one White Crystal a day.
Otherwise, their strength will decline, and over time, they might even starve to death.
At first glance, it doesn’t sound too expensive?
But multiply that by several thousand, and it definitely isn’t a small number!
However, the benefits are obvious; soldiers can be sent out to farm Monsters, can aid in combat, protect the homeland, or be used for territorial expansion. Without a strong enough army, it’s simply impossible to survive and protect oneself in Deserted Valley Town.
A territory can never be without an army!
Besides being of great importance to the Lord.
It’s also invaluable to the other people present!
Besides Infantry with high defense and good health, there are Healing Soldiers, Mage Soldiers, and Archers to choose from.
If the team can recruit a few batches of such soldiers at the current stage, farming bosses will be much easier. The soldiers cannot be taken back to the real world, but they can be placed in offline mode when logging off, letting them farm Monsters in designated areas within the territory. There’s no big problem in self-sufficiency and they can even bring stable income!