God-level Hero-Chapter 80 - 77 Entering the Pool of Radiance

Chapter 80 -77 Entering the Pool of Radiance

In the rumbling roar, the scene shifted, and a world of green and white appeared.

—Boom! The enormous body of the Flying smashed into the water, creating giant waves. Amid the violent rocking, Da Fei assessed the surrounding situation.

The white was water shining with white light, the green was thick tree roots gleaming with green light. An endless water forest was formed by countless tree roots entwining. The forest stretched upwards like a giant net draped from the Underground Sky, which resembled a green starry sky, emitting a faint green glow.

In the forest, there was water; in the water, there was the forest. The huge body of the Flying was like a small boat on this forest waterway.

—Task Hint: You have arrived at the Pool of Radiance. The epic quest “Purifying the Pool of Radiance” officially begins. Please kill all the monsters in the Pool of Radiance.

At this time, a large area of red dots on Da Fei’s small map resembled dense clouds. This was the radar effect of the God-level Reconnaissance Technique.

Da Fei’s eyelid twitched in surprise. Were there really so many monsters? He quickly pulled out his telescope and scanned the tree root forest, taking a sharp breath. Countless huge beetles, as large as dogs, were crawling on the roots! Were these all monsters?

—Juice-sucking Demon Worm: Attack? Defense? Life? Damage? Attack Speed? Move Speed? Special Skill: Flying Creature.

Damn! Never mind the power of these bugs, just their sheer number made Da Fei suspect their ammunition wouldn’t outlast these beetles! And this was just this area; who knew how many more there were in other regions? Was this purification asking him to kill all these bugs cleanly?

At this moment, Catherine jumped down from the cockpit, “Captain, there’s no wind at all. Our ship can’t move! Captain, please give the next command.”

Action? Where to? Thousands of monsters were right on the tree roots nearby, no need to move. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, since they were here, it’s time to start with these bugs.

Da Fei waved his hand, “Prepare for battle, eliminate the insects!”

Catherine laughed heartily, “Got it!” In an instant, the Jungle Hunters on either side of the ship’s rail began changing formation, forming a hundred-man square.

—Jungle Hunter: Attack 6, Defense 5, Life 14, Damage 5-8, Attack Speed 13, Move Speed 13, Commander Value 2, Recruitment Price 410 Gold Coins, Special Skill: Double Shot, Piercing, Precise Shooting, Arrow Formation, Melee Penalty.

This was the Level 3 Soldier Jungle Hunter, the pride of the Elf Clan, undoubtedly the strongest Level 3 Soldier. Its damage value and recruitment price rivaled those of Level 4 Soldiers. Its special skill, Double Shot, had already surpassed the damage standard of Level 4 Soldiers. In one month’s production, once the Jungle Hunter attacked, it had the imposing manner of a seventh-level long-range soldier Titan. Moreover, its inherent Piercing skill made its special skill Double Shot extraordinarily effective, and Double Shot maximized the Elf Clan’s high luck trait. Therefore, in battle, the Jungle Hunter’s formation was like a rainbow of light rising and falling, dazzling to the eyes.

Furthermore, the Jungle Hunter’s high Attack Speed of 13 was every other race’s long-range unit’s nightmare. Even if the opponent was the neutral Mage Academy’s strongest long-range soldier Titan, it was likely to be shot down by the Jungle Hunters in the first round of assault. In short, once the Jungle Hunters fought without restraint, defeat was guaranteed.

However, the flaw of the Jungle Hunters was also evident; their low blood was heartbreaking, and they weren’t immune to spiritual magic. Compared to Titans, with their abundant health, high defense, and full immunity, there was still a qualitative gap.

Now, as the first battle was at hand, no carelessness could be allowed. Da Fei had 4 Free Skill Points left. Previously, while studying as a navigator, he learned one level of Archery; there wasn’t much to say about these 4 points, they all went to upgrading Archery.

—System Prompt: You spent 1 Skill Point to learn Intermediate Arrow Skill, increasing the damage of heroes and long-range units by 20%.

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—System Prompt: You spent 1 Skill Point to learn Master-Level Archery, increasing the damage of heroes and long-range units by 50%.

Of course, apart from the Elven Academy’s three long-range units where archery was a required course, other races’ long-range units were rare and not powerful; learning archery wasn’t worthwhile. But when Archery reached Master level, it could combine with Master-level War Machine Science, and the sub-skill Crossbow Master to create a new machine-learning sub-skill: Triple Crossbow!

—Triple Crossbow: After mastering precise archery, heroes gain insight to maximize the function of the crossbow cannon, firing three arrows in one shot. The cost is that the durability of the crossbow cannon will continue to decrease. (Note: Sub-skill combinations require both disciplines’ main skills to reach Master level to appear. How can you play with interdisciplinary combinations without graduating from any current disciplines?)

So, for machinery flows, Archery still had its uses. From this perspective, the Elf Clan was actually well-suited for the human’s common Crossbow Gun Turtle Formation, where a circle of long-range units surrounded the crossbow cannons, and melee units, especially Unicorns immune to magic melee, surrounded the long-range units, firing happily. Whether in terms of firepower or protection, it was much stronger than the humans.

However, this would sacrifice the Elf Clan’s mobility advantage, which was absolutely more of a loss than a gain for the Elf Clan. Similarly, for the Hell Race with only one Banshee long-range unit and extremely dependent on crossbow cannons for the opening strategy, Archery was quite a dilemma.

Now, with the skill in place, the arrow formation was ready, and the arrows were strung.

As a master, Da Fei certainly wouldn’t recklessly shoot all the arrows, fearing that the enemy would suddenly charge. In the game, due to the high-speed movement easily dodging attacks, flying troops, especially small high-speed flying troops, were almost unsolvable for conventional forces. Once encountered, to achieve no damage, aim carefully with an accurate shot! Otherwise, flying troops wouldn’t give long-range units a chance to reload.

Moreover, insects often have the attribute of gang fighting, so the current task was to lure them out.

Da Fei instructed a Jungle Hunter beside him to shoot at a beetle on the tree root.

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Swoosh swoosh! Two arrows left the string, -5! The beetle burst open with a splash of white juice.

—System Prompt: Your unit killed a juice-sucking beetle. You gained 4 Experience Points.

—System Prompt: You gained incomplete information on the juice-sucking beetle.

Damn! Such a weakling with 5 blood points!

And at the moment the beetle was killed, all the beetles on and behind the tree roots were alarmed! Hundreds and thousands of beetles flew over in a dark mass! Indeed, they had the gang fighting attribute!

A golden light descended from the sky!

—System Prompt: Your Vice Hero, Selvia, cast the master-level Light Magic “Righteous Power” on your troops, increasing their attack by 15. The magic duration is 1 game day.

Da Fei waved his hand, “Shoot!”

Boom boom! Two layers of arrow rain shot out, looking like white fireworks blooming in the air. The insect swarm burst under the piercing of the arrow rain. With the hero’s attack attribute and skill magic bonus, the Jungle Hunters’ damage more than doubled! Especially Katrina, leading 18 hunters with her all-attack pirate command, flipped the damage by five or six times!

With such high damage, piercing through five or six beetles with one arrow was easy! This was the desired effect! If they directly ambushed the beetles on the tree roots, not only would they not achieve large-scale damage, but they would also provoke the beetles behind the tree roots. Wouldn’t that be caught off guard?

The first battle was easily won, and Da Fei also breathed a sigh of relief. The tree roots cleared of beetles leaked a milky-white liquid like sieve holes.

However, looking at the beetles’ weak blood defense attributes, like those of farmers, and then looking at the mass of red clouds on the small map, Da Fei felt something was very wrong.

Was this task really about clearing these bugs? And this was just a nearby area, which was only a tiny part of the Pool of Radiance map.

Did they have enough ammunition for the entire ship? Plus, there certainly wouldn’t just be these weak beetles, right? How long would it take to clear all the bugs from the entire map? And now, with no wind, the ship wasn’t moving; they had to use the Magic Sail? Would the sail’s magic be enough for Da Fei to clean the area with one go around?

Da Fei felt a sharp pain in his gut! He had assumed that with a powerful hero and a giant cannon, defeating some BOSS monsters would be a piece of cake, and a mere epic quest would be no big deal. But it turned out to be such a situation? If his ship were a pirate’s mast rowing ship, it would be better; now what? It’s more helpless to not be able to use power and more unbearable not to be able to finish using power!

As he pondered, a buzzing sound came from the sky, and Da Fei immediately became alert!

Again, it was beetles! Hundreds of them flew in from somewhere and pounced on the tree roots just cleared, sucking again!

Damn! Don’t tell me these beetles are unlimited? If that’s the case, this is clearly telling Da Fei that the task’s key wasn’t to kill these small beetles! Instead, he had to destroy the insect nest?

That’s it! Once Da Fei figured it out, he pulled out the Blood Eagle Flute and selected “use.” An invisible, misty Flying Eagle soared into the air; in a moment, Da Fei’s small map shrank again, becoming a sea of red. Damn, relying on the small map was getting less and less useful; better to share the vision with the Flying Eagle.

Da Fei controlled the Flying Eagle, heading in the direction the insects came from, experiencing the scenery rushing up like flying in an airplane. The treasure was too useful! Damn, I really wouldn’t want to return it!

Finally, he found it! A massive, wriggling tumor entwined by tree roots with countless tendrils and countless flesh holes, where innumerable beetles flew in and out!

Damn, that’s so disgusting, this must be it! Just wait, I’ll destroy you!

(The Command Power was calculated wrong yesterday, it’s corrected now. Apologies for the busy unit inspection this week.)