Mount & Blade: Wind of War

[Flail of Trickery/Savage Bite]

[This war flail is a magical item created by the Witch of the Wasteland to further strengthen her Guards. Because it is made of the remains and debris of the dead, it gives the user powerful power while also casting a kind of obscure curse on the user. ]

[Enchantment effect:]

[Cruel Strike: When the actual strength attribute of the attacked person is inferior to that of the attacker, the "Cruel Strike" effect is triggered, which can instantly break the shield, armor, and break the defensive balance of the attacked person. ]

[Note: The more fragile and weaker the person is, the more cruel and violent he should be treated and tortured. ]

This is the second enchanted weapon that Rhodes has obtained since enchanting the Ancient Cross Sword. Its combat attributes are extremely powerful. Although it does not seem to have any dazzling magical effects, anyone who has really been on the battlefield can understand how terrible these three attributes of "instantly breaking shields, armor, and breaking the defensive balance of the attacked person" are.

At least, it is one level stronger than the "incomplete sword of power" in Rhodes' hand.

"No wonder my shield was smashed in an instant. If I hadn't reacted quickly enough and the other people hadn't supported me in time, I would have been killed in an instant."

The forging process of making this flail weapon was very rough. After it fell into his hands, Rhodes discovered from a close observation that the three heads of the flail were composed of broken shields, iron armor and hammers. The three chain heads were of different sizes, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of using it.

The iron chain connecting the chain heads was wrapped with many black and gray dead hairs. Although the attributes were indeed powerful, just looking at this weapon, Rhodes seemed to hear the whispers of ghosts in his ears and felt uncomfortable.

"Except for those who have already done everything to pursue power, I'm afraid no one would be willing to use this weapon."

"Its curse effect should be to constantly erode a person's sanity, but it seems that it is not impossible to overcome it."

Putting down the weapon, Rhodes then shifted his gaze and attention.

[Broken Blood Pattern Heavy Armor]

[This heavy armor is a magical item created by the Wasteland Witch to further strengthen her Guards Corps. Normally, damaged blood-marked heavy armor will be automatically repaired within the witch's territory, but this one seems to have been deliberately destroyed. 】

[Enchantment effect:]

[Life erosion (damaged): Equipping this heavy armor can activate life potential and convert part of the vitality into attack power. In addition to consuming the wearer's vitality, the blood-marked heavy armor has the defensive power of heavy armor, but only makes the wearer feel the weight of light armor. 】

"Good guy, stimulants from the magic world? And the kind that you can't stop taking until you die." As long as you look at the item for a while, rows of block characters will appear above the item that only Rhodes can recognize and understand in this world. Through these messages, Rhodes also understands the origin of the gnoll leader.

However, although these two magic items are good, even if Rhodes doesn't want to use them, he doesn't want to give them to his men. Selling them can also sell for hundreds of gold coins, but they are not actually the biggest magic item gains in this battle.

The biggest magical item harvested in this battle was a bone tooth necklace made of animal tendons, with a crystallized vertical pupil in the middle of the necklace.

[Heart of Blood]

[The item for the transfer of the Spell Knight. If someone is willing to go to the wilderness and take out the heart of the Witch of the Wasteland, he can obtain the hidden extraordinary profession of the Fallen Knight inheritance. ]

"Fallen Knight, I remember that this extraordinary inheritance is very powerful. It was once sold at a high price at the regional trade fair."

When playing the online version of Mount and Blade, although famous heroes were rare, they were not the only ones. Although famous heroes such as Cress and Fatis were rare, they were just rare and not the only ones. However, the same hero, after choosing different training routes, finally obtained different comprehensive strength limits, which may even be far apart.

For the same Cress, some people tend to train him in the direction of a pure auxiliary hero, while others train him into a perfect assassin. The former is more stable. Cress will not leave the team easily and will not die in battle. He can continue to provide great value to the team, while the latter will bring Cress's combat potential to the limit, and he will always perfectly assassinate the enemy's main general and retreat unscathed.

That is to say, two lords who were originally equally powerful may end up in a one-sided massacre just because one of them has the perfect assassin Cress and the other does not.

Without the main general, and the other side has a military force of equal strength, no army can hold on.

Of course, the perfect assassin Cress is a heartbeat. If this type of training direction Cress fails accidentally, the player may directly lose more than one million RMB. If you add the top-grade equipment of the formed Cress, two million RMB may not be enough. Therefore, the auxiliary hero training route is the first choice for civilian players, and the assassin hero training route is the first choice for local tyrant players.

Of course, the above is just an example.

Although holding the "Heart of Blood", the Curse Knight is also a powerful profession, and the Fallen Knight is an even more powerful profession, but if Cress is transferred to the Knight route, it is still too non-mainstream, and it is difficult to perfectly bring out her potential, and this hero may be useless.

Those who are suitable for this knight career path are people like Fatis and Airen. Airen is arrogant and conceited. After being harmed by his stepmother and expelled by his father, he abandoned his past beliefs. His state of mind and experience can bring out the power of this dark knight path. As for Fatis... Just like what the Buddhists say: Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot, the light that comes out of the darkness is purer, and when the originally noble soul falls into darkness, it is more desperate and irreversible.

"Unfortunately, my extraordinary foundation is the Fiery Sword Art and the Holy Light Qi Mentality. Otherwise, my personality is quite suitable for this dark knight career path."

When Rhodes counted the spoils of this battle and thought about it, his trusted guard Raymond came to him with a heavy face, hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong, Raymond, what happened again?" Rhodes glanced and asked.

"My lord, I'm afraid Mad is not going to make it." Raymond's face was painful, even the joy after winning the war was dispersed a lot. Because, if it weren't for his weak strength, Mad might not have died in the battle.

Although the battle between Redwood Town and the Gnoll Tribe was an undoubted glorious victory, due to the huge gap in actual combat power between the two sides, casualties were inevitable.

Due to the early warning of the wandering knight Fatis, the Redwood Town militia took the initiative and led by Rhodes to destroy the Gnoll's nest first. In this battle, the first hand hit the second hand, and the sixty Redwood Town militiamen surrounded and killed more than thirty female Gnolls. There was basically no loss, but it increased the murderous aura of the Redwood Town militia, allowing many recruits to see blood in a real sense and improve their combat power.

In the subsequent defense and ambush, the Gnoll army was actually severely reduced in combat power. They first forcibly occupied Hak Town, and then heard that their nest was attacked, and immediately returned hundreds of miles to help. The negative impact of fatigue and anger was very large, but they were not noticed in time after being angered by Rhodes.

But even so, with nearly seventy gnoll warriors and thirty wargs, if the Redwood Town militia fought head-on, even if they tried their best, under normal circumstances, it would probably be an ugly and miserable victory in the end. Even if they could defeat the gnoll army, most of the Redwood Town militia would die.

And this link was resolved by Rhodes using ancient military tactics and taking advantage of the time and place: the ice wall fortifications were a stroke of genius, which made people like Fatis who were familiar with military works sincerely amazed. As for Raymond and Cress, they didn't think anything of it. This was due to ignorance and fearlessness caused by lack of experience.

But even if it was almost a complete victory, war losses were inevitable, especially the Redwood Town veterans who followed Rhodes to defend the fortifications. Three of them died in the battle and almost everyone was injured. This is also the reason why elite troops often suffer huge losses in wars: if they are not elite troops, they can't withstand the intensity of the attack and strong pressure.

However, in the previous battle, Mad, who was arranged by Rhode to be the leader of the ambush, was not going to die in the battle. When the ambushes on all sides appeared with roars, the morale of the jackals collapsed completely. When Mad was besieging the jackal leader, Raymond was not strong enough, and he could not kill him even with the siege. The jackal leader seized the opportunity, broke his shield with one blow, and swept away most of his life with a flail. Now he only has one breath left. With the medical standards of this era and the current medical standards of Redwood Town: he is definitely dead.

"Mad."

Rhode also has an impression of this soldier. He is one of the first two people to be promoted to the second-level spearman. In daily training, he is also a very hardworking warrior, so he has a good impression of him.

"Take me to see him, and see him for the last time." At this time, Rhode's left arm was injured. Although it did not affect his movement, the little girl Cress standing next to him hurried over to help him when Rhode wanted to stand up.

"No need to be like this, I'm not that fragile."

At this moment, the militiamen of Redwood Town were assassinating the remnants of the enemy who were not yet dead on the battlefield and picking up spoils. Since Rhodes ordered them to chop off the heads of all the jackals, this was also a lot of work.

There was also a part of them who were taking care of the wounded on their side.

The person who was trying to rescue was the wandering knight Fatis. Although his medical skills were only to tie up the wounds to prevent the wounded from dying from excessive blood loss, this was already the highest level of medical skills among the people present.

"My lord, you are here."

Seeing Rhodes coming, Fatis stood up and bowed to him. This battle made Rodhart completely win Fatis' respect.

Whether it was the exquisite military strategy or the courage to move forward as a lord, these made Fatis believe in his heart that as long as the man in front of him did not die and developed, he would definitely be a powerful lord in the future.

"No need to be polite at this time. Let me see my soldiers."

In this battle, three people died, two were seriously injured, and more than ten were slightly injured. One of the two seriously injured was soldier Mad. At this moment, he was about to fall into a semi-comatose state, but when he saw the lord he was loyal to, Rhodes, walking towards him, a light flashed in the man's eyes. He even struggled to stand up. Seeing this, Rhodes hurried over to hold him down.

"Master, am I going to die?"

"...Don't talk nonsense, Mr. Fatis will do his best to save you, and I look forward to your brave performance in the future."

"Master, I don't regret following you out. I have never had a full meal since I can remember. It was you who gave me my first full meal, and you who let me know what pork tastes like, as well as chicken and cheese... cough cough... It was you who made me a glorious warrior and arranged for me to marry a wife, a good woman... cough cough." Mad's breath was getting more and more exhausted. Even Rhodes, who didn't know any medical skills, could see that he was about to die.

His shield was broken by the trickery flail/wild bite. Although it was only a sweep, the blow was still too heavy, and dark red blood kept seeping out of his chest wound.

Rhodes looked at Mad's increasingly pale face and muttering, and suddenly remembered that he had just been promoted to a higher level, so he seemed to inadvertently draw a virtual stroke with his left hand, summoning a system panel that only he could see in front of everyone.

"Although I originally planned to put points in the strength attribute to further enhance my combat power, I can't just watch such a loyal subordinate die in front of me. Although, what I do next may not make any sense."

Whispering in his heart, Rhodes put the attribute point he just got on his intelligence attribute, raising his 12-point intelligence attribute to the 13th point. If he added intelligence, he could get an extra skill point. Then he put both of his skill points on the "Surgery" option on the system panel, and Rhodes' skills became:

Skills: Iron Bones 4, Power Attack 4, Weapon Mastery 2, Looting 1, Riding 3, Healing 4, Surgery 2, Coaching 4, Tactics 2+1, Persuasion 1, and Domination 3.

The effect of the healing skill is that it can allow your soldiers to recover from injuries relatively quickly.

The effect of the surgery skill is that it can give your soldiers who are close to death an extra 4% chance of survival for each point.

Two points of surgery skill means an extra 8% chance of survival.

"Enough training can bypass the system and directly improve attributes or skills. After this battle, my tactical skills have increased by one." After glancing at his attribute panel, Rhode turned his attention to Madd, who was lying on the snow in front of him.

Even if the survival rate was increased by 8%, it was not a very high survival rate. What Rhode did at this moment was just to do his best and leave it to fate, so that he could have a clear conscience. However, just after Rhode added some skills, he saw that Madd had no reaction and his face was getting paler and paler, and he subconsciously held his palm.

An inexplicable "fluctuation" suddenly appeared in Rhode's body, which made him stunned for a moment. The next moment, the warm current quickly passed through his palm into Madd's body. At first, there was no change, but after a short while, Madd's face, which was getting paler and closer to death, slowly showed a little red blood color, and his state stabilized.

"That feeling just now was... Holy Light!? Holy Light combined with my system skills?" At that moment, a slightly stronger warm current reversed from Mad's palm, and then just when Rhode was startled and wanted to send this power out again, he found that Mad's condition did not deteriorate. The palm that was originally tightly holding his hand loosened, but it was because of the relaxation of the state that caused the muscles to stretch.

"Yes, if the system is my "talent and specialty", then it is essentially the same type of thing as Holy Light. The system skills let me feel the Holy Light, so the Holy Light can in turn strengthen the system skills, which is a natural thing."

"On Earth, if a person changes his growth environment during his youth, that is, "changes the water and soil", he will often grow faster in a short period of time and grow taller and stronger than his peers. It is said that this is because the water and soil of different regional environments bring different trace elements to supplement... If the soul is the same, then my soul traveled from Earth to this world and was strengthened and supplemented in the process, which is also reasonable."

For this question, Rhode did not think too much about it. From his perspective: I died in my 90s, I have enjoyed everything I should eat, drink and play. When I was young, I helped and comforted ragged young ladies on the street. Now even if I participate in the national brain-in-a-tank project, it can be regarded as a contribution to the national scientific research. There is really nothing to complain about. In any case, it is an extremely happy thing to be able to enjoy this wonderful life again.

Therefore, Rhodes' focus is only on the present.

After seeing Lord Rhodes come and visit, the seriously injured soldier, Madd, who obviously only has one breath left, gradually recovered, and his complexion seemed to be a little better. The people around him cheered, but they were stopped by Rhodes who stood up the next moment.

"Take good care of them. When they wake up, tell them that if they can recover from their injuries, they should return to the militia. If they cannot, they should work in the security team. Redwood Town will never mistreat those who have made contributions, and neither will I, Rodhart."

"Yes, sir. We will pass on your words."

When Rod walked away with Raymond and Cress, he did not notice the suddenly enlarged pupils and the look in Fatis' eyes who was standing behind him.

"Just now... I can't be wrong, although it was very weak, but that was... the legendary sacred fighting spirit?" As the world's top knight, Fatis certainly knows something about the legendary fighting spirit.

Ordinary warriors may think that it is just an illusory legend, but after reaching Fatis's level, as the free energy in the world gradually increases, he can feel more and more a certain throbbing and calling in his heart.

"Legend has it that the sacred light fighting spirit of the ancient times has the powerful power of strengthening, defense, healing, and even resurrection! Could it be that I just witnessed history!"

Rhodes didn't know at this time that his unintentional understanding a moment ago was about to scare someone to death. What was more troublesome for him now was the tedious and complicated cleaning and finishing work after the battle in front of him.

It's not just the jackal's nest and the corpses covering the ground. Some Redwood Town militia have returned to report that not far from here, there are a large number of refugees from Hack Town, crying and seeking shelter. Although this is what should be expected, it is also a huge burden.