Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 440: Embryonic Form of the Imperial Guard

At this time, Li Wei picked up another two Five-Star Class Cards from the Cloak. One was a Five-Star Hunter Card, and one was a Five-Star Fisherman Card.

It unexpectedly didn't drop a Ranger Card; truly heartbreaking!

Next was a set of Five-Star Enchanted Light Armor. It didn't have too much damage; quite good.

Just these alone, the market price had already exceeded two hundred thousand gold! But it didn't stop there. This Neanderthal Archer was obviously a wealthy owner. After all, being able to force Li Wei into having to take out a 5-Star Enchanted Tower Shield to block a sure-kill arrow was sufficient to prove his strength.

This guy wasn't weak; it was just bad luck that he encountered Li Wei, that's all.

"Good Heavens, 45,000 Barbarian Gold Coins! Now this is good stuff!"

Li Wei whistled cheerfully. Compared to Standard Gold Coins, the greatest difference of Barbarian Gold Coins was that the interior of Barbarian Gold Coins contained a wisp of pure Mana. 45,000 coins could roughly extract 450 units of pure Mana, which could even be used to build a Mage Tower.

And this was also the most primary reason Li Wei wanted to open the Purple Card.

He stored these Barbarian Gold Coins into a Resource Card, handful after handful. Hm, it could only be done manually. Because there was no Tax Department to complete the tax, he couldn't use his personal account. It was impossible for these Barbarian Gold Coins to turn into golden light and disappear with a single thought.

Finally, Li Wei obtained another five 5-Star Heaven-Veiling Cards and two Four-Star Resource Cards. The use of the former went without saying; under a magical background, whoever used it said it was good.As for the Resource Cards, the vast majority inside were semi-finished components used to produce Traps, or Traps that were already assembled and could be used just by deploying them. Neanderthals loved Traps the most.

Li Wei also liked them.

However, he was always quite curious. To be honest, the overall combat power of the Neanderthals was not weaker than this side. Why did they like to carry so many Traps on them so much? Moreover, as long as they set up camp and as long as they were defending, they uniformly paved the ground all around with Traps, as if they were patients suffering from some persecution paranoia.

Was it because the Magical Continent Fragments on the Neanderthals' side were overly dangerous?

Having this thought pop up in his heart actually made Li Wei also have a tiny bit of persecution paranoia.

Hm...

Looking at the other Resource Card again, there were quite a few supplies inside: Life Potions, stamina Magic Potions, spiritual Magic Potions, Life magic bandages, twenty tons of clean water, 1-star Rock Flatbreads x50, Neanderthal liquor? x30, frozen Two-Star quality large fish x10, frozen large shrimp x50, some kind of frozen beast meat? Or was it Tyrannosaurus Rex hind leg meat? x500 kilograms. Various unrecognized 1-star vegetables, bizarre mushrooms, unrecognized bugs, bug eggs, pupae, and massive goose eggs?

F*ck, it was quite abundant.

The food problem could be temporarily solved.

Including Li Wei's own food.

Because high-quality food was more hunger-resistant.

For example, 1-star quality meat porridge. Drink one bowl, and as long as you didn't work, you wouldn't be hungry for a whole day.

Next, Li Wei also didn't need these refugees to do anything. The mountains were blocked by heavy snow; what was there to do?

So supplying one meal of 1-star meat porridge a day would roughly allow them to endure past it.

It was worth mentioning that this kind of Neanderthal Rock Flatbread held an important position, just like the large bread, large steamed buns, and large meat buns on the Sapiens' side.

Li Wei had already opened Rock Flatbreads from Neanderthal Purple Cards more than once. A single piece of this thing was as large as a square table for eight, incomparably hard, and it was unknown how it was baked. But if you smashed it into pieces with a Hammer and soaked it in meat broth... aiyowei, it was indeed very delicious!

Otherwise, how could it be said that Sapiens and Neanderthals were relatives? Even their dietary habits had such Tacit Understanding!

Additionally, the Sapiens' side had aged old broth that could be passed down for several generations; the Rock Flatbreads on the Neanderthals' side could also be passed down for several generations.

These were all recorded in the book "Three Thousand Questions of Neanderthal," which Li Wei had spent 500 gold to buy back then.

In short, the food crisis had already been solved.

The remainder was the heating crisis. How about if it truly didn't work out, he just took those 1-star and 2-star logs in his Resource Cards and burned them as firewood?

Li Wei bared his teeth in a smile. Forget it, if it truly didn't work out, he would just place one Fire Crystal in each wooden cabin.

Next, he called Chris's group of five out. Although he didn't want to admit it, they were indeed the tallest among the dwarfs—the most outstanding ones so far.

Especially seeing that they had all become his die-hards, he couldn't just ignore them.

In this deep winter, other things couldn't be done, but training could not be relaxed.

"My Lord, we also want to participate in training."

At this time, as Chris's group of five was called out, over a dozen Soldiers suddenly followed them out from the wooden cabins. They were previously Garrison Soldiers of Gale Fortress, belonging to third-line troops—the kind that had already been filtered out once or twice. Swaying around at Three-Star for a lifetime, not worrying about food or clothing, and not having any pressure; loafing around was quite nice.

But now, perhaps influenced by the United As One buff, or possibly due to the changes brought by Sanity +1, they all suddenly became proactive and upward-striving!

Li Wei couldn't help but laugh out loud. Actually, how could there be so many geniuses? It was merely being a bit stricter on oneself, being a bit ruthless to oneself, having some great willpower and great perseverance, not fearing enduring hardship and suffering, accumulating thickly and bursting forth thinly... and ultimately, one succeeded.

This was exactly what a so-called genius required!

"Fine! Who else wants to train together?"

Li Wei shouted a phrase. As a result, with a whoosh, over two hundred people squeezed out at once! Almost all men still in their prime and over ten years old came out. There were also quite a few robust women, and even some old men were squeezing out.

This scene gave Li Wei himself a fright. No way, the United As One buff was this badass?

The effect of Sanity +1 was this good?

At this moment, Li Wei actually had a feeling of being in his hometown, where the atmosphere everywhere was: 'Youth Knows Not The Value Of Early Study Until White Hair Brings Regret For Late Reading', 'With a skill to rely on, one will not worry about food or clothing', 'A Young Idler An Old Beggar', and 'Live to old age, learn to old age'!

Being foolish and stupid was not to be feared; what was feared was not being able to keep up in terms of cognition.

Li Wei wanted to persuade a portion of people to go back. There wasn't much food to begin with, and training required sufficient food for replenishment.

But, looking at those pairs of eyes... those were all his die-hards! Although he looked down on them, they were still die-hards! Sigh!

"Don't rush, everyone! There are too many people, you can't train together. Starting from today, you will be divided into four groups. Each group will train once every four days. Well then, remember which group you are assigned to..."

Li Wei shouted, persuading a portion of the over three hundred people who ran out to retreat. Those too young wouldn't do. Those too old—it wasn't that they couldn't, but cost-effectiveness had to be considered! Ultimately, it was settled on those above 15 and below 45 years old. Sigh, at worst, it was just a matter of opening another two Purple Cards!

There was no need to refuse. Additionally, it wasn't asking them to all become Warriors; doing other things was also fine. Study! Live to old age, learn to old age!

Ultimately, 280 people were selected. They belonged to the absolute prime youth of this batch of refugees. Men were the majority, but there were also women. Everyone was treated equally without discrimination; there was no preferential treatment.

On the first day, 70 people trained. But Li Wei wasn't busy training them; rather, he propped up the large cauldron, took out a Rock Flatbread, a frozen large fish, some green vegetables, mushrooms, and additionally added some bugs that hopped about lively like peeled shrimp. This thing looked disgusting, but tasted incredibly fragrant when eaten.

Li Wei didn't act himself. He called over a few aunties who were routinely responsible for cooking and commanded them on production. Previously during the rapid march, there was no way, no time, and no conditions. Now that there was time and conditions, of course they had to learn! It didn't matter if they didn't boil it well. With Two-Star and 1-star materials, no matter how it was boiled, what came out was still 1-star meat porridge.

After it was done boiling, Li Wei let all seventy people participating in the training eat a large meal.

For training, nutrition had to keep up.

Subsequently, after eating their fill and resting for half an hour, Li Wei distributed a two-meter long wooden stick to each of them. Then he took out the training manual of Vale Academy. Starting from the most basic movements... in a single word: train!

After training long-pole Spearmen, they then moved on to train melee sword and shield coordination. After training sword and shield coordination, they trained dual-wielding.

The purpose wasn't to master how many kinds of weapons, but to master the body as much as possible, become proficient with the body, achieve accurate exertion of force, understand how to exert force, and ultimately ensure that no matter what kind of weapon, they could achieve mastery through a comprehensive understanding of all aspects.

It sounded like a very high requirement. Yes, it was very high for Ordinary People. But for Class Holders whose starting point was Three-Star or dual-star, this was truly just basic operations.

Of course, Chris's group of five needed to have specialized training subjects, and they had to follow the training every day: and that was deploying Traps! Deploying them outside the camp. In one breath, Li Wei took out a thousand 1-star and 2-star Traps, letting the five of them think of a way to deploy them themselves. Just figure it out themselves! Their respective Hunter Fates were almost at forty; could it be they still couldn't settle this?

And when a day of training ended, dinner was still 1-star meat porridge that they could eat their fill of and eat well.

To everyone's delight and satisfaction.

Days passed one by one like this. Li Wei taught very earnestly, and the people participating in the training were also incomparably earnest. They truly cherished this opportunity very much. If they hadn't been strictly ordered to stop, they would probably want to practice every day.

Unfortunately, the training effect wasn't too good. The foundation was too poor. Aside from being hardworking and earnest, it was hard to even find a merit to praise them for.

However, half a month later, Li Wei still silently opened another Purple Card. Because he felt he somewhat underestimated these people.

Although he explicitly ordered one training every four days, their attitude was truly out of the ordinary.

How to say it? It belonged to the kind where if they weren't allowed to study, they would still hide under the blankets with a flashlight to study. They had all started learning to play guerrilla warfare with him. Very crazed and demon-like!

So what reason did Li Wei have to refuse?

Then let the training officially begin! Changing from training once every four days to round-the-clock training!

Next, he re-divided these 280 people into groups, excluding Chris's group of five. He first pooled enough fifty people who were considered the most robust in all aspects, with the best height and arm length, to serve as the Archer team.

Routine training with bows and arrows, and dual-wielding weapons.

Then he selected one hundred and fifty people to serve as three Heavy Armored Infantry teams.

The final seventy-five people served as the Spearman team.

Dividing into groups like this was somewhat more formal, but the things they had to train and study would also be more.

Not only did personal martial force have to be considered, but team coordination was also highly stressed.

This was an entirely new subject matter. Li Wei actually didn't understand it very well either. He would conveniently grope around to explore it now.

Additionally, he was truly somewhat expectant now.

As long as these two hundred and eighty die-hards could be trained up, the significance would be vastly different!

Setting other things aside, in the Blazing Territory, apart from those nine Riverside Knights, could the Loyalty of the other Soldiers towards him reach an average of 50?

The fundamental source of motivation for those heavy Cavalry and Fortress Garrison to obey commands, fight according to orders, and heroically slay enemies on The Battlefield was—at least eighty percent of it—to protect their homeland!

This point had to be admitted!

Because this was what conformed to logic and conformed to cognition.

On the contrary, it was these die-hards of his right now that were the most rare to come by, the most Rare, and the most impossible to replicate!

(End of Chapter)