The team soon arrived at one of the intersections on the map. The road circled around from the front, leaving a deep valley in the middle.
The valley is filled with gold and blue crystals.
The resources are astonishingly abundant.
But in the valley also roam terrifying monsters, their bodies covered with thick stone shells, resembling statues, each with a different shape, some like soldiers in armor, others like deformed demons.
[Ancient Ruins Dweller: Level 10, Normal, HP 2000/2000]
...
A level 10 unit with 2000 HP, Su Bai could easily wipe it out with a single skill.
However, most of the soldiers he could control at this time were only level 5.
This battle is very challenging.
"It's not that we can't fight..."
Su Bai first observed the terrain.
The entrance to the valley was narrow, requiring only three warriors to completely block it, and he assigned 15 melee units to each of his squads.
A rotating defense can definitely last a long time.
Each team consists of five apprentice mages of level 4 or above and five archers.
It won't be difficult to whittle down these monsters using ranged attacks.
What exactly is going on?
You'll only know if you try.
"Fireball, release!"
Su Bai took direct command of the battle.
The mage lured the monsters away, and five fireballs struck different monsters. But after they were damaged, all the monsters in the valley were instantly alerted.
"Hatred is inherently one."
Su Bai remained calm.
The valley entrance was barely wide enough for three trainee warriors to stand, while the monsters were much larger, allowing only two to pass at a time.
And that was indeed the case.
The monsters that surged in all ended up getting stuck behind the mountain wall, with only two managing to overcome the obstacles and reach the trainee warrior.
Their attacks immediately landed on the front row.
-200!
-200!
...
The level 10 monsters did indeed deal a lot of damage, but this batch of trainee warriors were all already level 5 or higher, and they had changed their equipment, so they had 730 HP.
A person can withstand a maximum of three attacks.
It can still hold up.
And at this time.
The apprentice mages and archers in the back row have already begun to exert their strength.
Fireball! -80!
Scattering! -25! -25!
...
The first-level archer's scattering skill can attack two units simultaneously, and five archers can deal 125 damage to each of the two monsters in one round.
The output is not low either.
The mage's damage is even higher.
Fireball is a small-area skill, and even in such narrow terrain, it can damage two monsters at the same time.
One round of fireballs can take away 400 points of their health.
Quite considerable.
With the combined output of the front-line warriors, only four rounds of attacks are needed to take down two monsters.
"Switch!"
Su Bai quickly called out.
After the monster's second round of attacks, one person was hit twice, and their health dropped to 330 points.
This is already very dangerous.
Although he could withstand one more attack, Su Bai promptly replaced him to prevent the monsters from focusing their attacks on the target and causing further losses.
The remaining two trainee soldiers each had 530 health points remaining.
It can withstand being targeted by multiple enemies.
After three rounds of attacks.
The two monsters at the very front were killed because they were a step too slow. Su Bai then replaced one of the low-health trainee warriors.
He glanced at the rewards he had gained from killing the two monsters.
[Gained: Experience +100!]
...
Guarding monsters doesn't give resource rewards, but resource gains become secondary at this point.
Experience is the most important thing.
These monsters guarding medium-sized resource points give a generous amount of experience, 100 points per monster, and it's a fixed benefit for the entire team!
"A trainee warrior only needs to kill 20 monsters to level up!"
Su Bai's spirits lifted, and his mind raced.
Based on the current speed.
For every two monsters he kills, he has to replace two trainee warriors, so the rate of killing and attrition is roughly equal.
However, the trainee soldiers who are replaced can recover their health by resting.
It regenerates approximately 36 health points every 5 seconds.
From 330 HP back to over 400 HP.
It will take 15 seconds.
This is more than enough time for the 15 trainee soldiers to rotate again.
and.
Low-level archers don't need that much experience to level up.
After killing two monsters, all five archers leveled up to level 2, doubling their damage output.
The higher the output efficiency.
The fewer attacks the front-line warriors need to withstand.
After defeating three waves of monsters, the newly recruited archer has already reached level 3, and the damage from its scatter shot has increased to 75 points. The damage it deals in one round is now on par with that of a trainee mage!
At this point, after each wave of monsters is killed, the front-line warriors only need to withstand two attacks.
Efficiency has been greatly improved.
Using a team of level 5 units to challenge a level 10 monster—a seemingly impossible task—was actually accomplished by Su Bai!
[Tianwen: Holy crap, they've already invaded! Don't they have any sense of decency?! Didn't we agree not to bully newbies?!]
[Tianwen: @Hailang, @WangTianba, you two bastards actually teamed up! How shameless!]
Several messages suddenly flashed across the battlefield channel.
"Um?"
Su Bai raised an eyebrow slightly.
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