Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 460: Stone Troll Tribe

Quickly, Li Yue, Javier, Seth, and Jocelyn, the four of them, each led ten Heavy Cavalry and went exploring in four directions, agreeing on an exploration distance of fifty li.

In terms of strength, there was no need to worry.

Not to mention Li Yue, a Third-Tier Dawn Knight.

Javier, Seth, and Jocelyn, as the earliest Riverside Knights, had now all completed All-Attribute Level 3 Awakening and became Tier-3 Night Knights! Of course, if their Riverside Knight titles were drawn away, they would immediately be beaten back to their original forms.

A full set of Five-Star Enchanted Heavy Armor, Four-Star Warhorses, and Sequence Three Magic Crests. Unless they encountered a pervert like Li Wei, otherwise, as long as the enemy couldn't instant-kill them, they would deal terrifying blows to the enemy!

This kind of plain terrain was simply uniquely endowed by nature for them.

Furthermore, Li Wei also summoned Adai at this time.

The current Adai was no different from an ordinary little crow. It looked foolish and clumsy, with extremely strong camouflage.

In fact, besides Li Wei, no one else knew that Adai could already At Will Change size.

As for exactly how strong Adai's current strength was, Li Wei wasn't too clear either. Let it be.Anyway, Adai wasn't going to escort Li Yue and the others, but was utilizing its state as a little trash with no sense of existence to scout the surroundings.

After arranging this circle, Li Wei then began to open the map function that came with the Troubled Times Pioneering Card. As a fourth-tier Favored Official Start, he was gifted 50 square kilometers of clear map.

But as expected, 50 square kilometers sounded like a lot, but in reality, it wasn't big.

Especially since this was a completely flat plain terrain; the naked eye could even see hundreds of li.

So on this map, besides verdant grass, there were lush trees. The scale was quite good, able to zoom in to a minimum of one hundred meters. Pity it wasn't a real-time map, otherwise that would be equivalent to having satellites in the sky.

Then Li Wei took another look at the locations of the four major Tyrants. Pulling the map further away, the four skull icons quickly appeared before his eyes. Good Heavens, they were all quite far. As expected, as a Fourth-Tier Mage, the starting location Jiang Xinran chose was quite good.

Li Wei roughly calculated. The furthest skull icon was at least five thousand li away from his current position. The closest skull icon was also over two thousand li away.

Then there was Jiang Xinran's location. Hm, it wasn't considered far from him, because it was impossible to exceed a radius of five hundred li.

It seemed to be in the southeast direction, a straight-line distance of about 300 li. Good Heavens, that was a mountainous area, with mountains and water! A geomantic treasure land, ah. Very envious.

Then looking at the other three Rebellious Officials and Treacherous Sons teammates.

The little trash Lu Ziming was in the due east direction, about 300 li away from Li Wei, and wouldn't exceed 100 li from Jiang Xinran.

The former Black Wolf, now Fred, was in the northeast direction, about 350 li away from Li Wei, and also around 400 li from Jiang Xinran. This was one of the further ones.

Finally, it was Duke Will's son, David. Good Heavens, right behind Li Wei in the southwest corner, less than one hundred li from Li Wei's starting location.

Quite good. The Rebellious Officials and Treacherous Sons were all in position.

Hm, wait. About six hundred li north of Li Wei, there was a Traitorous General! Then seven hundred li to the west, there was also a Treacherous Official. Wasn't this density a bit high?

If the other party had also teamed up, the risk of war would be very great, ah.

Just while pondering, several messages emerged.

[Insurgent Faction Leader Jiang Xinran consumed 200 points of Faction Contribution and issued this month's Faction Main Quest.]

[Monthly Faction Quest One: All Faction members please explore the surrounding terrain and landforms as much as possible, in order to form a larger shared map. During the Month-End Summary, the Nine-Star Council will adjudicate and give rewards.]

[Monthly Faction Quest Two: All Faction members please search, capture, and annihilate those Routed Soldiers fleeing everywhere as much as possible. The more the better.]

[Monthly Faction Quest Three: All Faction members please select your respective camps as much as possible and make preparations to prevent enemy attacks.]

[Monthly Faction Quest Four: Troubled Times Prestige is very important. All Faction members please farm some Troubled Times Prestige as much as possible. Explanation: Two-thirds of the obtained Troubled Times Prestige will be contributed to the Faction, and one-third will be kept for oneself. For example, the eighteen warlord coalition subjugating Dong Zhuo, and the three heroes fighting Lu Bu at Hulao Pass obtained 90 Troubled Times Prestige. Among them, 60 points belonged to the eighteen warlord coalition, and 30 points belonged to Liu, Guan, and Zhang.]

All of this was Déjà Vu, ah!

Li Wei took a rough look and then paid no more attention to it. This kind of Insurgent Faction alliance of theirs was actually only somewhat useful in the first few years of the mission. Wait a few more years, and it would be time for Survival of the Fittest. Of course, if the Faction Leader was a heaven-sent genius, expanding and strengthening it, creating brilliance again, then naturally it would be 'good to enjoy the shade under a large tree'.

A Times of Chaos of 100 years. It was hard to say how the future would be.

Next, Li Wei did not send out any more Soldiers to explore the surroundings. He even directly forbade the ten Cooks of the Logistics Camp who wanted to go out to gather wild vegetables.

The twenty-four-hour Magic Shield gifted at this start absolutely had its reasons! A Mid-Magic- World was not To Joke about. Whoosh, nearly a thousand people swarming out caused no small commotion; it would very likely attract unknown powerful magical monsters! In short, let's explore a bit first.

This wait was a full two hours! Li Yue, Javier, Seth, and Jocelyn, these four teams of men and horses returned smoothly. Their round trip didn't just explore four directions, but a full eight directions, basically able to get a general idea.

"Li Wei, I discovered a Six-Star Stone Troll, just forty-five li to the southwest! This thing looks very inconspicuous. Above the ground, it only exposed less than one meter high, looking like an ordinary large stone. Under normal circumstances, a dozen or so people passing by, or even the galloping of a dozen or so Cavalry, cannot alarm it. But if it's a larger scale crowd, such as several hundred people passing by, constructing a Fortress, excavating foundations, or even both sides fighting and killing, then it will definitely be alarmed."

"This thing is very difficult to deal with, high defense and thick health, and can also summon relatives and friends! If the battle cannot be ended within three minutes, then one will definitely be ganged up on by a group of stone men."

"In addition, I deeply suspect that this plain, which looks very fertile but has no large dangerous magical monsters, is very likely the lair of a Stone Troll Tribe!"

The intelligence information Li Yue brought back was extremely important! This was also the reason Li Wei would rather wait a few more hours.

"Stone men are good, ah! I like smashing stones! Right, Thomas!"

Zhao Xuanxuan said playfully.

"Xuanxuan might really be the nemesis of these Stone Trolls. But if things were truly this simple it would be great. This isn't a game. What I said before: if the battle cannot be ended within three minutes, the Stone Troll will engage in Gathering Friends. But what I didn't say is: if we kill this Stone Troll within three minutes, then its relatives and friends will all angrily jump out from the ground, launching a pursuit against us for days and nights! In short, this is an extremely difficult magical race!"

"Of course, the best way to deal with them is to avoid them! As long as a certain distance is maintained, then even if brains are smashed open nearby, it won't wake them up. There is also this: within the group of Stone Trolls, there might often exist a Seven-Star Stone Leader! This is an existence that even those Neanderthals are very unwilling to provoke."

"For us to actually bump into them this time shows that our luck is truly not too good. But it's also possible that the magic bullet detonated by the Neanderthals' Great Shaman triggered some special changes, causing the Stone Troll Tribe to increase drastically."

After Li Yue finished saying these, even the eager-to-try Zhao Xuanxuan was silenced. She might not be afraid of one stone man. But if a dozen or so stone men launched a charge at them, that scene would truly be too terrifying! Especially since these stone men were very suitable for dealing with conventional troop types. Whether Infantry or Cavalry, or Archers, Heavy Cavalry would all be ineffective. Once large amounts of casualties appeared, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Wei pondered for a moment. He also wasn't anxious, but asked, "If I want to finish them off, and also want to avoid major casualties, what should be done?"

His words weren't just asking Li Yue, but also asking everyone. It was more like giving a test question to the group of mid-to-high level personnel under him.

At this point, many people immediately figured out the flavor of it.

Li Yue, as the commander of the Blazing Legion, and having rich relevant experience, naturally did not decline to shoulder the responsibility. She immediately spoke up, "If we want to kill all these Stone Trolls, it's actually not without a chance! This first point is that we need to find out all their locations. Because these Stone Trolls are all hidden underground, ambushing quite covertly. If we cannot determine their locations at the very beginning, and then are suddenly attacked by them, it will be very passive for our side."

"Second point, even if our side determines their locations, we must also have a way to divide and conquer them. That is, pull Aggro—lure away one group, intercept and kill one group. This requires Skill Breeds Courage. Of course, even so, we should have at least fifty people here competent enough for the ability to pull Aggro. The speed of the Heavy Cavalry is enough to kite them."

"But the problem lies in that the Stone Trolls are a rather intelligent magical tribe. As long as enough Aggro cannot be generated, they will at most chase for a distance and then give up. Therefore, we need to achieve the third point: having the ability to solo-kill a Stone Troll, and completing the ability to pull Aggro. In this aspect, I believe I am competent. But this again involves the first point: how to confirm the locations of other Stone Trolls?"

"If I don't know the locations of other Stone Trolls, even for me, once I fall into an ambush of Stone Trolls while pulling Aggro, I'll be in deep trouble. So the first point cannot be bypassed!"

"And even if we can bypass the first point, and there are no problems with the second and third points, then we need a fourth point. We need a second person who can pull Aggro, solo-kill a Stone Troll in the shortest time, and divide the Stone Troll Tribe into two! This way, after the total number decreases, we dispatch Zhao Xuanxuan to deal with one, have Thomas hold back one, and the others focus fire on one! Only in this way can we rely on this method to wipe out the Stone Troll Tribe. Even if any single link among these has a problem, it will be a massive disaster!"

"And can we ensure nothing goes wrong, and coordinate with Tacit Understanding?"

(End of Chapter)