Farewell to Horn.
Kane left the command room of the fortress.
Using the ruby lapel pin on his collar, he contacted his teammates and joined them. By this ti, Kreya and the others were already wandering around the fortress.
The soldiers they brought along were already settled, as Horn had allocated a large area specifically for their soldiers, allowing them to recruit more if needed.
When Kane found Kreya and the others, he discovered they were looking at sothing.
"What are you looking at so intently?" Kane asked.
Kreya pointed ahead.
Kane looked in the direction Kreya pointed to, only to see the various soldier recruitnt stations, with recruits in brand new armor coming out.
"What’s so interesting about recruiting soldiers?" Kane asked curiously.
"Are you thinking of recruiting so new soldiers?"
Kreya nodded and then shook her head, "We just checked our war credits, and we can indeed recruit more soldiers, but that’s not what we’re focused on. Wait a mont and you’ll see."
Kane looked carefully, and after a while, a soldier carrying a crossbow erged from the recruitnt tent for ranged soldiers. Compared to those carrying crossbows and the crossbown Kane and his team had recruited, this soldier’s crossbow was much larger.
Upon closer inspection, Kane noticed a bullet box-like feature beneath the crossbow, which he deduced was a repeating crossbow.
"A new soldier type?"
Upon hearing Kane’s words, Kreya nodded.
This was odd; recruiting soldiers in the dungeon indeed varies based on the location and the conquered area, sotis yielding higher-level soldiers. However, the records didn’t ntion the fortress would introduce this unique soldier type.
But now, there is indeed a new type. This fortress is crucial for every Explorer in the early stages since such information couldn’t possibly go unmarked.
So why wasn’t it ntioned?
Either the dungeon has changed, or Kane and his team have t so hidden condition.
However, there’s no need to verify this information since the dungeon is about to disappear anyway.
"Let’s go in and take a look." Kane suggested to Kreya and the others, and then headed towards the soldier recruitnt tent.
Upon entering, Kane and the others found no difference from the soldier recruitnt tents they had visited before.
A Records Officer was sitting on a chair, and upon seeing Kane and the others enter, asked, "Are you officers here to recruit new soldiers? Here’s the recruitnt token."
Saying this, the officer handed over a wooden token, listing the types of soldiers available and the war credits required for each type.
Alongside Archers and Crossbown, a new soldier type was listed.
Repeating Crossbowman 5
The new soldier type was indeed Repeating Crossbown, and surprisingly, their recruitnt cost was the sa as that of Heavy Cavalry, which seed slightly overpriced.
At this point, Kane checked his accumulated war credits.
He took out the Jade Token from his space equipnt and scanned the insignia on his chest.
Kane
Centurion
Troops: 195/200
War Credits: 2355
Unexpectedly, five soldiers had died, but he had accumulated quite a lot of war credits.
Kane had nearly exhausted his war credits last ti, but now he earned more than 2000 again. It’s undeniable that Kane’s knowledge of chanical structures and his origin skills produced devastating hot weapons for these soldiers.
Kreya and the others, on the other hand, gained the most credits not just from Kreya but from Lulu, who fought alongside Kane on another front.
Together, with their led soldiers, they virtually wiped out another 4000 enemy troops.
The number of enemies defeated by Horn’s soldiers was very minimal, perhaps less than 100.
Kreya and the others had to compete against over 4000 soldiers for kills, so it was quite normal that their number was less compared to Kane’s team.
Once again, Kane tapped on his military rank.
This upgrade required a hefty 700 war credits, significantly more than last ti, which required only 500.
Nonetheless, Kane went ahead with the upgrade.
Though the Centurion rank remained the sa, its original silver edge beca a golden edge.
The number of soldiers he could lead increased from 200 to 500.
anwhile, Kreya and the others also upgraded to the silver-edged Centurion rank.
"Would you like to recruit now?" Kane asked after turning around.
In the end, only izike decided to recruit. His war credits were limited, so he continued his rank promotion, recruiting over 100 Repeating Crossbown, nearly exhausting his war credits.
Kane thought for a mont and recruited 200 Repeating Crossbown, planning to use the remaining credits to recruit over 100 Bow Riders.
Afterward, they went to other recruitnt tents, but there were no new soldier types available.
Kreya replenished over 100 Heavy Cavalry, Lulu similarly replenished 100 Light Cavalry, and Longbei added 150 Sword and Shield Soldiers (with spears).
Since Longbei’s Sword and Shield Soldiers had suffered the most casualties, only about 50 remained after all these battles.
As for the remaining issues, they didn’t need to worry too much, as they appointed a captain to manage their soldiers individually.
They returned to the allotted section of the fortress camp.
A spacious two-story stone house served as their temporary residence.
Soldier tents were spread around, with guards stationed at the entrance.
The soldiers saluted upon seeing Kane and the others approach.
Returning to their room.
The room’s dinsions still didn’t suit Kreya’s figure.
Ultimately, with Lulu’s magical alteration, it beca suitable.
Sitting in the living room, Kane began to count the spoils of their recent battles.
The two routes combined with the final fortress yielded over 200 coins, a huge sum.
Several high-quality copper-grade equipnt, and three notable pieces of silver-grade equipnt in total.
Aside from the two weapons Kane obtained earlier, there was also a magic accessory, revealed after the death of a fortress guard leader.
[Ring of Precise Spellcasting]
[Accessory]
[Color: Silver]
[Attributes: Moderate increase of magic strength]
[Skills:]
[Soul Shock] (Each magic damage attack has a certain chance of causing a magic shock effect on the enemy, stunning them.)
[Powerful Spellcasting] (Each spell has a certain chance of receiving a 1.5 tis magic power bonus.)
[Explanation: An invaluable piece of equipnt for combat casters. With this item, you can be invincible in battles.]
The attributes of the equipnt are good, with two passive skills attached, although they are dependent on luck and have a certain chance to activate.
But this equipnt is clearly ant for Lily, and luck is sothing Lily doesn’t lack.
It can be said to be very suitable.
Therefore, there was no need to say more, and this equipnt was directly given to Lily.
The rest of the equipnt can only be considered junk and needs to be dealt with after clearing the dungeon.
Apart from the copper-level magic materials, the silver materials from several battles can fill a total of three silver magic stones.
Plus, from their first battle in the dungeon, they acquired two silver magic stones. In such a short ti, they have obtained five silver magic stones.
Now is just the right ti to carry out skill extraction.
Although Kane doesn’t have any particular skills he desires right now, nor is he lacking any, and the skill stones in Kreya and others’ skill grids are yet to be learned by them.
So Kane doesn’t have much need for skill stones, but keeping these silver skill magic stones doesn’t serve any purpose, better to use them for skill extraction.
He might also extract so attribute-enhancing consumable skill stones, which could improve strength. Why not?
Especially since he currently has a very interesting magic material in hand.
This magic material cos with attributes.
It was dropped by Kreya and the others and picked out by izike.
Being an alchemist, izike doesn’t possess the skill of appraising equipnt, but he is very sensitive to the energy emitted by these materials and equipnt.
He keenly sensed sothing off about the energy radiating from this material, so he singled it out and handed it to Kane upon their eting.
However, the only pity is that this material is not a silver material, but a copper one, which can only be used to extract copper skills.
But Kane doesn’t lack copper magic stones, and if the extracted skill is genuinely good and worth upgrading, Kane won’t be stingy.
[Clover]
[Magic Material]
[Color: Copper]
[Rule: Luck] (During skill extraction, materials with rule attributes can be used as a prir in the array, leaning the extracted skill stone towards rules.)
[Attributes: Slightly enhance magic stone energy]
[Explanation: In legend, the clover is a plant that can bring luck, gathering the faith of countless people to form the rule representing luck.]
The rule attached to this material is the very mysterious and enthralling luck.
Nothing more to be said, Kane rubbed his hands eagerly, longing to extract.
Imdiately, he summoned the [Book of Adventure].
Turned to the page of the extraction array, then retrieved a copper magic stone from the space equipnt and held it in his hand.
Then placed his palm on the extraction array.
[Skill Extraction]
[Do you wish to consu a copper magic stone to extract skills?]
[Yes][No]
"Yes"
[Detected magic material with rule attributes]
[If you wish to use it, please throw the magic material into the array first]
He removed his hand from the array, then picked up the [Clover] material next to him and placed it onto the array.
As the array rotated, the material emitted a faint glow, transforming into particles of soft green light, and surged into the array.
With the array’s turning, the copper magic stone in Kane’s hand also disappeared, followed by the appearance of a stone shard in his hand.
The rune on the shard is in the shape of a clover, which was the first ti Kane saw such a pattern on a skill stone.
Eager to check its attributes.
[Na: Lucky Dice]
[Category: Active Skills]
[Color: Copper]
[Explanation: Spend magic power to condense in your hand a six-sided dice imbued with lucky magic. Three sides represent luck with the numbers 123, and three sides represent misfortune with the numbers 123.
You can then throw the die into the air, and the face landed on a flat surface represents the bonus you will receive.
The red numbers represent luck: 1 point of luck remains unchanged, 2 points of luck receive a 1.5 tis bonus, 3 points of luck receive a double bonus.
The black numbers represent misfortune: 1 point receives an amount of misfortune equal to the current luck, 2 points receive 1.5 tis the current luck in misfortune, 3 points receive double the current luck in misfortune.
The effects last for one hour, and you must wait 7 days before the next toss.]
[Explanation: It’s impossible to obtain luck without cost, but gaining luck simultaneous with expense is feasible. Rember, there’s no free lunch.]
Looking at the description of the skill in hand.
How should one say, it is indeed very useful for the current situation, and it is absolutely worth upgrading to a silver skill.
However, according to the skill explanation, the negative effect gained outweighs the positive effect.
Nevertheless, it is adding luck, and that is unavoidable.
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