Chapter 428: Fighting a war requires economic considerations
Zhang Yang turned his gaze to the iceberg behind him, and dozens of plans flashed through his mind.
There are three fastest, most convenient and most effective solutions.
The first is the mana-based fireball technique, which is his best skill. Using the soul force field plus a small amount of spiritual power can cause the greatest killing effect. It is feasible in the short term, but if these monsters are still endless, his spiritual power reserves will be in danger.
Then the second one is to rely on this iceberg and take the method of ice enchanting weapons and equipment to increase the ice damage of soldiers' weapons, but this is still slightly insufficient, and the effect of ice enchantment is also a double-edged sword, which has a great impact on soldiers.
Finally, the third one is to cultivate more powerful dragon blood warriors. As for the source of the dragon blood, well, isn’t it ready-made?
"Then let's do it all at once, Xiaolong. I'll lend you my dragon blood today, and I'll repay you tenfold one day. Hmm, how about the favor of not killing me? Are you touched?"
Thinking of this, Zhang Yang ordered all the soldiers to take off their weapons. He then cut off a cube of ice with a side length of 5 meters, picked up a dragon blood warrior's giant axe and placed it on it.
Then Zhang Yang engraved the simplest ice symbols on the four sides of the ice block, communicated with the soul force field, and injected 0.1 units of spiritual energy. In an instant, the four ice symbols were activated and burst out with dazzling light. After just a few seconds, the cubic ice block completely turned into a white mist and was injected into the giant axe.
Enchanting successful.
But Zhang Yang just smiled bitterly and shook his head after looking at it. Damn, the power was too strong. The ice overflow caused by four ice talismans plus 0.1 unit of spiritual energy had a temperature of nearly minus eighty degrees Celsius. Even with a strong physique like that of a dragon-blood warrior, he would get frostbite if he touched it. Moreover, if he could not communicate and use it flexibly, he would not be able to bring out the true power of this quasi-magic weapon.
"Whose axe is this? Come here."
Zhang Yang called over a dragon blood warrior, and after a little thought, he went to the sleeping dragon and cut a small piece of blood crystal. This was the real dragon blood, but the icy property of the blood prevented it from appearing in liquid form.
The blood crystal was directly swallowed by the dragon-blood warrior. Almost in an instant, the poor guy was frozen from the inside out into a big lump of ice.
Zhang Yang's reaction was equally quick. His hands had patted the dragon-blood warrior thirty-six times in a row. Each pat injected 0.01 units of spiritual energy. Just like that, after just a few seconds, the dragon-blood warrior who had turned into a big lump of ice became like a cooked shrimp.
"Crap, there's more spiritual energy!"
Zhang Yang hurriedly cut another piece of dragon blood crystal for the unfortunate fellow to swallow, thus keeping his condition on the safe line.
Soon, the dragon-blood warrior let out a low roar, and a layer of fine dragon scales appeared on his body surface, then disappeared. Finally, a series of dragon soul talismans appeared. At this point, the dragon-blood warrior's transformation was perfectly completed.
There is no specific data, but judging by the rough level of strength, he has at least A-level strength. There is no hidden danger in picking up the enchanted giant axe at this time.
Zhang Yang was overjoyed. This transformation was very profitable for him. Including the weapon enchantment, he only needed to spend two blood crystals and 0.46 units of spiritual energy to obtain a dragon blood warrior with A-level strength.
Next, he cut off a large piece of blood crystal in one breath and transformed the remaining dragon blood warriors one by one.
Half an hour later, all 12 dragon blood warriors led by Bob completed the transformation.
Just when Zhang Yang was preparing to enchant other soldiers, a monster resembling a giant scorpion suddenly appeared among the monsters outside, but with a human head, four arms, and holding four weapons.
As soon as this scorpion monster appears, it ruthlessly kills and devours other swamp monsters.
This immediately scared some of the swamp monsters and made them retreat, and then this group of scorpion monsters crashed into the confinement magic circle.
The attacks of these scorpion monsters were much more powerful. Zhang Yang immediately sensed that the consumption of the confinement law was increasing rapidly, which was not a good thing.
"Damn it, if the tiger doesn't show its might, you think I'm a cat!"
"Get out!"
Zhang Yang immediately rushed out with 12 dragon-blood warriors, and then the moment he rushed out of the confinement formation, two fireball magic circles quickly formed in his left and right palms. In less than a second, two fireballs larger than water tanks flew into the air.
“Boom boom!”
After two loud bangs, the area within 500 meters centered on the scorpion monsters was completely cleared. At least four-fifths of those scorpion monsters were killed, and the battle space that Zhang Yang had been expecting was finally cleared.
"Swordsmen, charge!"
Following an order, 25 elite Pendor sword cavalrymen rushed out like lightning, the ebony sabers in their hands brought with them the afterimage of death. With a single sweep, the remaining scorpion monsters were all beheaded.
The horses kept speeding up and they harvested another round of monster heads before Zhang Yang ordered them to retreat.
The number was still too small. Facing the dense and countless waves of monsters, 25 elite sword cavalrymen were less than a drop in the bucket.
"If I had five thousand elite sword cavalrymen right now..."
Zhang Yang couldn't help but start fantasizing, but the reality was still cruel.
After quickly killing all the scorpion monsters, all the soldiers retreated again. However, the power of the transformed dragon blood warriors was quite good. Wielding the giant ice axe with such domineering power, even the scorpion monsters were no match for them.
What's even more gratifying is that after the transformation, their bodies have become highly resistant to the invasion of toxins.
This proves that the three-pronged transformation plan is feasible.
Zhang Yang did not dare to relax at this time, and immediately set up a dragon soul altar on the ground. The fact that the 12 dragon blood warriors could complete the transformation so quickly had a lot to do with the fact that they already possessed dragon soul talismans. After all, the blood of that dragon was extremely invasive, and he was worried that the other soldiers would not be able to withstand it.
This time, Zhang Yang was not stingy with his spiritual power. He set up a dragon soul altar on the ground that could transform 40 people. He then allowed Robert, Norton and ten other guards, 25 Pendor elite sword cavalry, and five adventure heroes to get dragon blood transformation first.
Moreover, this transformation was different from the one at the Nudal Ridge. Zhang Yang spared no expense and consumed 5 spirit stones to push the dragon soul talismans on everyone to the third level.
The triple dragon soul talisman is very powerful, and its biggest benefit is that it increases the toughness of the body.
The 12 dragon-blood warriors before only had two layers of dragon soul talismans on their bodies.
Half an hour later, all the soldiers who had undergone the transformation of the Dragon Soul Talisman woke up. Although there was no precise data, Zhang Yang felt that their strength had increased by at least 30 points this time.
This is the effect they have not taken the blood crystal.
After Zhang Yang gave them blood crystals to clear their meridians with spiritual energy and improve their physical fitness, the dragon soul talismans on their bodies would be upgraded to the fourth level.
At this time, even if they did not wear armor, their skin could withstand being cut by a dagger, but of course not being stabbed.
"You can officially change your name now."
Zhang Yang heaved a sigh of relief after seeing these soldiers whose strength had broken through from B or B+ to A+ in a short period of time. He also consumed 10 spirit stones for this, so he had to change the name to a more striking one.
"The Dragon Blood Warrior is still called the Dragon Blood Warrior."
"The Sarleon Guards, you can call them the Dragon Blood Guards."
"Pende's elite sword cavalry can be called the Dragon Blood Sword Cavalry."
"And the adventure hero can be called the Dragon Blood Heavy Cavalry."
Zhang Yang gave orders loudly that the transformation of the infantry was fine, only requiring strengthening of the body and enchanting of equipment, but the cavalry must strengthen their mounts at the same time.
Fortunately, both the golden-armored elf horse and the death knight's warhorse have been cultivated and strengthened with magic power, so their physical fitness is extremely strong and they can directly consume dragon blood crystals.
In the end, these war horses that had been fused with dragon blood crystals became even more powerful than the soldiers.
After the transformation, the soldiers' height can exceed two meters, their weight is over 120 kilograms, and their health points are between 200 and 300 points. However, the physique of these war horses has increased even higher, close to three meters, and their weight is over one thousand kilograms. Their health points have also exceeded 1000 points. They can already be called behemoths. If they were in the original world of Pand, no type of soldier would be able to control them.
"From now on, your name will be Dragon Blood Warhorse!"
"attack!"
An hour later, Zhang Yang issued another attack order.
This time, 12 dragon-blood warriors charged to the front holding giant ice axes. The axes were swung, bringing up bursts of frost, freezing the limbs of the monsters, which were then chopped off and killed. In an instant, a battle space of 20 meters long and 5 meters wide was cleared.
Ten Dragon Blood Guards rushed out from both sides to stabilize the position, which was also to facilitate the retreat of their own cavalry.
The real trump cards and killers are the 25 Dragon Blood Sword Cavalry and 5 Dragon Blood Heavy Cavalry.
As they started running, the ground rumbled. Each cavalryman was like a tank, faster and more powerful. The terrifying impact of the dragon-blood warhorse alone was enough to create a blood line dozens of meters long in the dense group of monsters.
The powerful explosive power from the dragon-blood warhorses meant that they didn't have to worry about being surrounded. What's more, the knights on horseback were equally powerful. When they swung their swords, it was like a bloody rain.
After 30 cavalrymen plowed the field three times, the originally dense tide of monsters was wiped out cleanly as if a large piece was pushed away by a barber's clipper.
But they themselves are not affected too much by the toxins.
Such brutal fighting power made Zhang Yang couldn't help but cheer. The consumption of those 10 spirit stones was really not in vain.
"Kill them all!"
Zhang Yang also rushed out. Although these swamp monsters were disgusting, the black crystals they dropped could be accumulated over time. At the moment, there were no other powerful monsters, so naturally he had to kill these disgusting things in one fell swoop, well, at least he had to kill them all off.
So he was no longer stingy with his spiritual power, and huge fireballs flew out, killing at a very fast speed. Of course, he also released a soul force field and paid close attention to the situation around him. If he found anything wrong, he would retreat immediately.
The killing lasted for twenty minutes. Zhang Yang threw out a hundred fireballs, killing nearly 100,000 swamp monsters, while the remaining soldiers divided up 50,000 of the spoils.
Among them, 12 dragon blood warriors slaughtered about five thousand monsters.
10 Dragon Blood Guards slaughtered 3,000 monsters.
Old Alec and the other remaining soldiers divided it into one thousand.
The rest are all the results of the battles of the 30 modified cavalrymen.
At this point, the seemingly endless swamp monsters have finally been wiped out, but perhaps this was only the first wave.
However, this is enough, because a total of 150,000 black crystals piled up into a small hill in the confinement array, which represents some kind of resource.
Zhang Yang ignored his spiritual fatigue and immediately began to study the function of these black crystals, which was actually not that complicated.
He first violently crushed the black crystals one by one, and then injected spiritual energy or added ice according to the proportion, so that he could get another kind of energy item.
Finally, he got a formula.
That is, use one hundred black crystals, crush them, remove the impurities, and then add 0.01 units of spiritual energy, and you can immediately get a blue crystal the size of a quail egg.
As for how to use blue crystal and what its function is, it is also very simple.
Embed a blue crystal into a giant axe that has almost exhausted its icy power, and in an instant, the giant axe will be restored to its original state. This is very cost-effective.
You should know that the normal consumption of an enchanted greataxe is 0.1 unit of aura + 125 cubic meters of ice.
But now it only requires one blue crystal, reducing the consumption by 90%.
Zhang Yang was overjoyed, as he finally saw a glimmer of hope in farming.
(End of this chapter)
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