Chapter 473 Degraded to a Free-Roaming Chicken
Leaning inside the tent, Zhou Xu was now resting with his eyes closed.
The process of passing through the energy channel was more strenuous than he had expected. It was not just a matter of physical exhaustion, but also that being in the energy channel gave him a feeling similar to motion sickness.
Zhou Xu was undoubtedly feeling a little uncomfortable with the motion sickness at the moment, but he couldn't fall asleep, so he just leaned there and sorted out his thoughts.
[I didn’t expect to run into that pterosaur rider as soon as I got here. This saves me a lot of trouble. I don’t know if I can tame the pterosaur I captured alive later…]
The existence of the pterosaur riders on the opposite side has always been a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh!
However, due to the lack of air units, they really had no way to deal with the opponent as long as they kept flying high in the air throughout the entire process and did not easily lower their altitude.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu naturally had to think of a solution.
In the previous battle, they were lucky enough to successfully shoot and kill a pterosaur, and later they even picked up the opponent's corpse from the grassland.
It's not like Zhou Xu hadn't tried before, using 'Skeleton Beast Soldier Control' to see if he could control the pterosaur and make it his aerial combat force.
The result was that the pterosaur transformed into a "skeleton beast soldier" was directly downgraded to a walking chicken.
No, it's not even as good as a chicken! The pterosaur's pointed beak and long, sharp claws were made for fighting in the air. Once it landed, they would all become a burden to it.
It couldn't even walk properly, and its combat effectiveness was not guaranteed at all. This made Zhou Xu directly exclude the pterosaur skeleton from the ranks of "skeleton beast soldiers". Considering the power consumption of controlling it, it really didn't have any cost-effectiveness at all.
After this, Zhou Xu naturally had to think of other ways.
Skeleton soldiers are definitely not capable of this. Even if a creature originally had the ability to fly, after being transformed into a skeleton soldier, it would lose its ability to fly due to the loss of structures such as wings and wing membranes.
From this point of view, directly controlling the living "beast soldiers" became the simplest solution.
But compared to controlling dead objects like skeletons, living things have their own will, and therefore require more effort to control.
Taking into account consumption, combat effectiveness, convenience, and the ability to tame, the most important thing is that he must be able to catch these points. Finally, from the limited choices, Zhou Xu chose the crow.
These crows had all been domesticated to a certain degree. Zhou Xu had invested a lot of energy in establishing a trusting relationship with them, making them feel close to him, and thus reducing their resistance to him at the conscious level.
In this way, he could control the crows with less energy.
Even though he was directly controlling a massive flock of crows at that time, in fact, the energy he consumed in controlling the crows was not much during the whole process.
On the contrary, when he used the mantra "Beast Soldier Control" to forcibly control the opponent's pterosaur, his own consumption increased rapidly.
In fact, Zhou Xu had never tried to use the power of mantra to directly control a living pterosaur. Considering the uncertainty involved and out of caution, he mainly adopted his own crow flock plan in previous actions.
After dealing with the green lizardman on the pterosaur's back, he turned around and chanted the mantra, trying to see if he could capture the pterosaur alive.
As it turned out, he succeeded.
The consumption was much smaller than he expected, or it could be said that the power of the mantra in his body was no longer what it used to be.
After all, exercising his mantra power every day is also a compulsory course for him. The continuous accumulation day after day has made him stronger than before.
While sorting out his thoughts, Zhou Xu gradually felt sleepy and simply fell asleep.
Compared to Zhou Xu who was still sleeping soundly at the front line, Soros, the commander-in-chief of the Lizardmen, was not at all at ease as he watched the sky gradually darken. He had an irritation on his face that he could not hide at all!
[What's going on? Why hasn't the pterosaur rider come back to report the situation? ]
Pterosaur riders who are responsible for reconnaissance missions will basically go back and report the situation immediately once they make a discovery.
Even if nothing happened during the day, he would come back and show up at this time.
And now, their pterosaur riders have been missing for almost a day, which makes Soros feel a little foreboding.
[Did that guy do something stupid? ]
Soros didn't think that the Great Zhou had any means to deal with the pterosaur riders, unless the pterosaur riders themselves did something stupid.
No matter what, before the pterosaur rider came back, the worry in his heart meant that he couldn't sleep well. He was so worried that he couldn't close a wink all night.
Looking at the sky which was already getting bright in the distance, Soros's expression was extremely ugly.
At this point, he could basically confirm that something had definitely happened to their pterosaur rider!
But he still couldn't figure out what exactly happened.
In contrast, Zhou Xu slept until dawn.
After a night's rest, Zhou Xu was basically refreshed. While having breakfast, he took a look at the panel of Zhou Chongshan and others.
He had just arrived yesterday and had a lot of things to do, and besides, not everyone was gathered together, so he put this matter aside for the time being.
According to his thinking, after several fierce battles with the Lizardmen, the strength of the generals under his command should have improved.
The facts turned out to be just as he expected. Except for Drogo, the panel attributes of Zhou Chongshan and Silke were also improved!
After the endurance attribute, Zhou Chongshan's bravery attribute has now officially reached the three-star level! He has become the only general under his command who has three stars in bravery, endurance and spirit.
Silk's improvement is mainly reflected in his endurance. His endurance attribute has reached three stars, and currently both his spirit and endurance are three stars.
However, his bravery is still at two stars, and there seems to be no trend of breakthrough at this stage. This shows that apart from the mantras of the grassland elves, his individual combat capability has not yet been able to break through to a new level.
This is related to some of Silk's fighting habits and combat style.
Although a lot of improvements have been made through daily training, it is not easy to make a complete change.
As for Drogo...
His bravery and endurance had already reached the level of two three stars when they first met.
According to Zhou Xu's own assessment of star level strength, it probably wouldn't be that easy to break through from three-star excellence to become a four-star epic powerhouse.
However, even among people of the same star level, there is still a gap in strength.
For now, Drogo should still be the most powerful individual warrior under his command.
(End of this chapter)
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