Mount & Blade: Wind of War

In the night, after having dinner with everyone.

Rhodes carried the iron-spine point steel gun on his back and went to the depths of the forest to discuss and study fighting spirit training and martial arts improvement with Fatis.

Rhodes recently figured out a way to stand still with a gun to improve his gun feel. He hopes that Fatis can make effective suggestions to improve the direction.

Alleyn is holding a book and studying, which contains two combat skills that are most suitable for fallen knights to practice: Shield of Darkness and Sword of Corruption.

The Dark Shield, after being cast, can cover the surface of the caster's body, swallowing all the elemental energy of earth, water, fire, and wind to enhance defense. When the swallowing reaches the upper limit, it will burst out at once and cause spell damage to nearby enemies.

A very powerful fallen knight combat skill, which comes from the stone tablet in the harpy witch's secret vault. After completing the cultivation, Alleyn will at least no longer be knocked over by a creature like the Flame Horned Demon with one blow, although the two defeats of Raymond and Alleyn were both due to a certain degree of chance.

The Sword of Corruption can form extremely corrosive magic poison on the sword body after being cast.

The quasi-vindictive energy converted from magic power is far inferior to the real vindictive energy in terms of blessing power and killing and destructive power. The reason why fallen knight job-changers can have more combat power than most extraordinary job-changers is that On the learning and mastering of these magic skills.

However, these magic skills cannot be mastered out of thin air after changing jobs. It requires the fallen knight to invest a lot of time and energy in learning, and it also requires quite high intelligence attributes. In terms of talent, there are no more requirements. Being able to complete the job transfer shows that you have talent in this area.

The more Alleyn studies, the more he feels the power of the profession given to him by Lord Rhodes, but at the same time, he also feels that to truly obtain this power, it requires a lot of time and energy investment.

In addition to these three people, Raymond is practicing archery, Kress is practicing throwing, Caitlin and the elf girl Likiya Qiusha are meditating, and even Janice, Yannick, and Remo Michael are practicing respective martial arts.

When the demonic tide rises, the extraordinary path:

First-level soldiers/apprentices, regardless of their martial arts skills, are actually no different from ordinary people. Even if such a person is a knight who can gallop on the battlefield with his horse and lance, he is still just a soldier. , but after certain training, a certain foundation has been established in all aspects of physical and mental fitness.

Second-level transcendent, mastering fighting spirit/magic power, which comes from magic and transcends worldly cognition. Although it may not be much stronger than the previous self, it has the possibility of being infinitely powerful, so it is called transcendent. .

A third-level swordsman/mage has mastered extraordinary energy and can skillfully use various skills based on this. A third-level swordsman can kill a heavy armored cavalry or three infantry with a crescent slash energy burst. Ordinary powerful warriors may be able to achieve the same results by coincidence, but for extraordinary people, this is already their normal level of performance.

Currently, Rhodes, Fatis, Caitlin and the elf girl Likia Qiusha of Lonely Mountain Castle are at this level. Although they have combat power that exceeds that of ordinary people, they do not exceed it by much. Raymond, Clay Si, Alleyn and the others are at the second level. After the third level, there are also the fourth level heart source will/perfect system, the fifth level legendary venerable, the sixth level human saint, the seventh level immortal epic, the eighth level immortal demigod and other extraordinary levels.

But in the last life when the holographic virtual horse-and-blade war wind was developed, Rhodes was already in his nineties, very old. He had only cultivated to the fourth level. Before the version was updated, the strongest players had only upgraded to the fifth level. Level legendary venerable realm.

It is said that everyone below the legendary level is just a miscellaneous soldier. The difference in strength between the first and fourth levels of extraordinary people is only a relative strength gap, not an absolute strength gap. However, at the fifth level of the legendary venerable realm, basically no one can succeed in cross-level challenges under normal circumstances. .

At the same time, the upgrades between soldiers and heroes are different. The difference lies in the investment of resources, the difference in potential, and the huge gap in the final results.

Although soldiers can also possess some magical properties and master some magical skills, this kind of possession and mastery is often single and lacks potential.

The night attack began with the violent shooting of the Hellfire Ballista:

【Hellfire Ballista】

[Enchanting effect:]

[Fireball Launch·Continuous Fireball Launch 1: You can launch fireball attacks with pure energy, or enchant the crossbow bolts. You can launch three crossbow bolts with pure energy in a row, or enchant the crossbow bolts.

Furious Shot 2: Can rapidly fire a large number of fireballs with pure energy to bombard the enemy formation. 】

【Remark:】

[It requires a magic source or magic crystal to be charged, and every time the violent shooting is started, the ballista will fall into a month-long exhaustion period. 】

The terrifying continuous fireballs hit the grain warehouse area of ​​Sin City in a parabola. It was not accurate. On both sides of the Hellfire Ballista were two soldiers holding sledgehammers. The Hellfire Ballista provided data. Rhodes personally calculated the shooting angle. As for the soldiers controlling the ballista, they were just two powerful knights.

When Rhodes left, he directly ordered that if the hit rate was less than 80%, the ballista would be smashed directly.

Rhode's order made the Hellfire Ballista not dare to paddle, otherwise the two big soldiers next to him would really smash themselves into pieces. Anyway, this is cannibalism between humans, and the Hellfire Ballista has nothing to do with it. Feeling of guilt, even if it kills demons in hell, it still doesn't feel any guilt.

The rest of the soldiers were charging. The cavalrymen rode their horses and rushed into the lake below the hillside at full speed, while the infantrymen followed the iron chain and slid down the chain with linen. This was definitely an angle of attack that the City of Sin had never expected. Therefore, the deployment of troops in this direction was extremely empty.

"Everyone is liberated, liberated! The City of God's Blessing has broken in!"

Some of the dark armored cavalrymen held a large flag with a deep red background and a cross sword emblem, running and shouting, and some crossbowmen cooperated with each other to rush into the high places in the city and planted the large flags in their hands.

Purgatory transformation is indeed conducive to improving combat power, but it may have certain negative damage to discipline and even intelligence.

At least the City of Sin, which was already lax in discipline, had no way to deal with the attacks that broke out from the city after the purgatory transformation.

The dark armored cavalry waved torches and charged like a fire dragon, without any obstruction. Even if there were sporadic obstacles, they could not effectively delay the cavalry assault.

At the same time, the whole city of sin was in turmoil as shouts resounded throughout the city. The righteous will have many supporters, while the unrighteous will have few. In order to pursue a strong fighting force, Constart took a large number of civilians in the city for blood sacrifice, but he could not sacrifice all the civilians, otherwise what would a group of unproductive thieves eat and drink? How to build the city?

However, every family was sacrificed, but every family could not be killed, which led to almost all the people who still existed hating him deeply.

Such a cruel regime is not completely unsustainable in history, but as long as a resistance force that seems to be reliable appears, a spark will quickly form a prairie fire!

In addition, Rhodes himself tends to be a heroic historical view. Through studying the history of his previous life, he believes that if the entire China had not had His Majesty the First Emperor, the fate of the entire country and nation would have been completely rewritten:

Without His Majesty the First Emperor destroying the six countries, unifying the world, establishing the concept of great unification, and unifying the writing system and the wheels, I am afraid that there would be no subsequent Chinese civilization.

The whole of China may be divided into countless large and small countries according to the will of Westerners, fighting each other endlessly, and never being able to resist the will of the West and being suppressed and exploited forever.

During the Republic of China period, there was no effective rule over Xinjiang, XZ, Ningxia, Gansu and other places; Outer Mongolia was also under the actual control of the northern vassal states, such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanxi, and the three northeastern provinces, and the control was also extremely weak...

Speaking of the Later Zhao during the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms period, the Han people under the rule of the Jie people were even worse than wild beasts. Because the tyrant Shi Hu liked hunting for fun, he did not allow civilians to hunt, and those who violated the rules were tortured to death. Because of his oppressive rule, many people had to hang themselves to end their miserable lives, and such a tyrant lived his life happily, and then died peacefully on his throne.

Why?

Because there was no hero. If there was a person like the First Emperor among the Han people at that time, he could kill Shi Hu and overthrow the Later Zhao with a bowl at the beginning.

Because he had read and understood these historical knowledge, Rhodes almost never believed in the mass view of history.

In the 21st century, where he lives, the proportion of undergraduates in the country is only 4% of the total population, and the proportion of junior college graduates is only about 10% of the total population. In other words, if the country is governed completely according to the concept of democracy, the future destiny of the country will be decided by the majority of elders with primary and junior high school education... The last powerful country that did this was disintegrated by the West.

Heroes belong to the masses, and the masses produce and supervise heroes. The two cannot be separated. This is Rhodes' understanding of Long Live the People.

Heroes and the masses have never been in opposition.