Long Live the Call of Heroes

A few minutes later, Donna and Elegy realized that they were some ogres when they saw more than two hundred fat men several meters high walking towards the dwarven fortress in the distance.

Elegy immediately looked at Maltis who was sitting on horseback in surprise, "How did you find them?"

They obviously came back together, why did she discover these ogres after not seeing each other for a few minutes?

Maltis didn't say much, just pointed to the sky, where several carrion vultures were circling.

After seeing this scene, Li Wei couldn't help raising his eyebrows. These things are scouts commonly used by Khalida's subordinates. How come Maltis also has them?
He remembered that ordinary death knights seemed to be able to summon ghouls at most, and those who had some spare money might choose to buy a few gargoyles, but it seemed that they had never heard of one that could control carrion vultures.

He could only sigh secretly once again, Maltis was indeed not an ordinary death knight.

Well, after the battle with the nearby greenskins is over, our own strength is almost enough, so we can go to deal with that ghost dragon - Black.

It's just that I don't know how much the separated part of consciousness can remember about Maltis.

After nodding to her, Li Wei blessed himself with the mutant dragon wing technique, and then flew towards the leading ogre.

Ogres have always judged their strength by their size and appearance. The bigger and more ferocious, the stronger they seem to be. This may help the next negotiations.

As the distance kept getting closer, he quickly found a guy who was obviously stronger than ordinary ogres in terms of height and waistline.

The opponent has big arms and a round waist, like a small giant. With every movement of him, the flesh all over his body trembles.

In the eyes of humans, this may not be beautiful, but in the eyes of ogres, he will undoubtedly be very majestic, especially now that he is riding on the body of a giant woolly rhino, it looks even more extraordinary.

It's just that when he noticed the other party's gaze, Li Wei felt that he seemed a bit superfluous, because the guy actually looked at his wings and drool
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Li Wei canceled the magic with a wave of his hand, indicating that it was fake, and then he took out the giant meat in the space ring with his backhand.

After being reminded by Warlord Scorpion, he, Elegy, Donna and others have been deliberately collecting through various channels in the past few days, and now they have saved a lot.

Then he saw the big guy in the lead, his eyes were worth it in an instant, the saliva was more like a waterfall, rushing down, soaking his chest in the blink of an eye.

Li Wei couldn't help but smiled with satisfaction, the intelligence of the Scorpion Warrior was indeed reliable.

He didn't talk nonsense, picked the smallest piece and threw it over: "Come on, big guy, let's inspect the goods first, and then decide whether you are willing to accept my employment?"

Regardless of whether it was poisonous or not, the ogre swallowed it in a few mouthfuls, and then he smashed his mouth, as if he wanted to savor it.

But soon he discovered that this little meat not only failed to satisfy his hunger, but made him even hungrier.

"Skinny, bring all the meat here, that ogre warlord-Brout Big Mouth, and those foodies under my hands, all will help you fight!"

Although the other party's tone was not very friendly, Li Wei didn't take it seriously. Thin pole is a very typical ogre word, which does not contain any derogatory meaning, but is simply used to refer to other races other than ogre .

After all, no matter if they were green skins or dwarves, they were all skinny compared to them.

He just waved his hand behind him, and the elegy he had prepared in advance immediately caused some silver light guards to bring out a large amount of meat.

Of course, the giant meat was specially prepared for the leader Brout, and the rest were just some ordinary meat.

But even so, the ogres were very satisfied. They didn't care about other things, and they started to light a fire, boil water, set up a pot, and prepare to cook in the open space outside the fortress. The whole process was done in one go.

Among the things ogres are best at and like most, eating is ranked first, and other robbery or fighting are second.

Li Wei also cast a dragon's breath technique by the way, lighting a fire for the ogres, which can be regarded as a little show of his strength.

This trick is still very useful, coupled with the fact that meat is constantly being delivered next to him, and the short-mouthed Brout, who eats people, soon stopped using the word thin to describe him, and he began to ask for his name. , which is a very good start.

While the ogres were busy, Levi also used the giant meat as bait to successfully sign a very favorable employment contract with Brout at a relatively low price.

He will pay a lot of meat and some gold coins as compensation, and will provide them with a certain amount of food every day.

Brout needs to lead his younger brothers to fight for Li Wei until Li Wei allows him to leave, or the casualty rate of his troops exceeds [-]%.

But the ogres probably don't care either. They travel far and wide in foreign lands to help races such as humans, dwarves, and elves fight. Essentially, it's just for food. As long as there is food, other things are not so important.

They were negotiating the employment contract here, and the ogres on the other side were preparing to cook. During the whole process, ogres kept taking the opportunity to steal food.

And every time, Brout was able to grab the opponent with great precision, and then without saying a word, he even would rather give up the negotiation with Levi temporarily, but grabbed a big wooden stick at his waist, rushed up and beat the opponent violently. There was a series of muffled "bang bang" sounds from his head.

Seeing this scene, the dwarves who rushed to hear the news were all speechless.

The specific combat effectiveness of these ogres is still unclear, but their ability to resist beating is definitely very good, otherwise they would have been beaten to death by their boss.

It's just that ogres are not smart in the first place, and they are not far from being fools if they are beaten so hard every day.
However, Li Wei knew that the other party was restrained, because Brout claimed to be a typical ogre tyrant, and his current level was 12/7.

According to Li Wei's understanding, the opponent should belong to the kind of violent fighter with high attack and high defense, but the attack speed is relatively slow. If he really uses all his strength, his younger brother may not be able to withstand it.

In addition to nearly 3 rank 4-5 ogre bull fighters, Brout also had more than [-] rank [-] lead sprayers, and eight grinders riding giant rhinos.

Although the number is not large, once this sixth-tier unit weighing tens of thousands of catties launches a charge, the walls of ordinary villages and towns may be knocked down by a wave.

Li Wei is very satisfied with this. His troops have tended to be perfect in other places, but they have been relatively weak in two aspects, one is war equipment, and the other is shock cavalry.

Now, thanks to the generosity of the dwarves, and the addition of Braut, both are made up.

At the same time, these two aspects are also where the high elves are relatively weak.

Their siege equipment is only one kind of eagle claw ballista, and the top ground cavalry is the dragon prince cavalry, but if they go head-to-head with the crusher, it is just courting death.

Of course, apart from the excellent resistant infantry, the many powerful archers headed by Avalon, and the large number of mages and priests, the high elves are really most powerful in their air force.

The number of giant dragons may not be particularly large, but the ice phoenix, flame phoenix, arcane phoenix, and a large number of griffin knights and sky lion knights are all quite strong.

Not to mention the larger number of Sky Slayers and Giant Eagles, as well as the almost strongest Tier 6 flying cavalry in the main world-Tar Gavor Griffon Knight.

The ground cavalry of the high elves can only be said to be usable, but they are not particularly strong. The real cavalry powerhouse Lilith's Bator Kingdom is based on knights.

Moreover, the battle armor worn by the Dragon Prince's cavalry was all forged in the volcano, with powerful fire resistance. What they are really good at is actually fighting against enemies with fire attacks such as demons.

It's just that the ogres also have several obvious weaknesses. They don't have any air force at all, and the long-range arms seem to only have lead sprayers, but if this thing wants to deal with the air force, it's just a dream.

While arranging food and letting the ogres eat a big meal, Li Wei asked each other for news.

The other party had been wandering in the depths of the badlands, so he should have a better understanding of the current situation of the green skins, right?
Sure enough, Brout did not disappoint him: "The green-skinned bald men have already gathered together, and they move together in tens of thousands at every turn, and those idiots such as trolls and giants are also accompanying the army. I couldn't find a suitable opportunity to start."

Li Wei almost didn't hold back. The green skins are indeed bald, but aren't you ogres?

And calling giants stupid is like how smart you ogres are.

It is said that the smartest ogre in the world is the legendary hero-Gold Tooth Tyrant-Gresu, but the evaluation of him by the outside world is that he is almost comparable to human beings
This evaluation, it is really not particularly good, humans have never been known for their intelligence, let alone, they are simply incomparable with elves.

The reason why humans can have their current status in the main world is mainly because they have no obvious shortcomings.

Not as strong as greenskins, not as intelligent as elves, not as skilled as dwarves, not as reproductive as goblins or ratmen.

But on the other hand, their intelligence is much higher than that of green skins, their reproduction speed is far faster than that of elves and dwarves, and their average combat effectiveness is even higher than that of goblins.

Coupled with being diligent and studious, when facing a real enemy, he is often willing to show his face. In order to survive, he can temporarily abandon the past hatred, join forces with the former enemy, and especially likes to form groups and so on.

The most important thing is that their lifespan is not short or long, and it often takes decades to cultivate a certain degree of piety and contribute a lot of power of faith to the gods. Even if they are not killed by the enemy, they will be Aged and died, and then turned into a soul, becoming the guard of the gods in the kingdom of God.

This is very comfortable for the human gods, so they are far stronger than other race gods in terms of overall strength and growth speed.

The greenskins have less than 10 gods in total, and the dwarves also have more than a dozen, but humans have a full three-digit number of gods, and the powerful gods alone are more than the overall number of dwarf gods.

If they were not divided into many different camps for various reasons, but united together, there would be no other races in this world to speak for.

The reason why the elves and gods are so strong is because of the accumulation of countless years in the past, but people of insight, such as Lilith and the God of Storms - Marselan, have all gone to the humans to open their vests.

While thinking wildly, Levi collected more information from Brout.

After so many days, the green skins also gradually changed their fighting tactics.

After they capture a place, they often don't destroy it, but occupy it on the spot, and even give priority to strengthening the defense facilities, obviously intending to completely turn it into a greenskin territory.

Although most of the surrounding places abandoned by the dwarves are small villages, the environment is still much better than the original bad land of the green skins.

And after the initial chaos, those little groups of wandering greenskins in the wild basically gathered together. Almost any low-level village had to have thousands of defenders, and there would only be more towns.

At the same time, there are wolf cavalry on the ground, and harpies and rocs in the sky as scouts. Once there is an enemy situation, reinforcements will arrive soon.

The reason why Brout is so clear is because he likes to eat giant meat the most, so he once tried to sneak attack a few giants that were left alone.

Then he was besieged by overwhelming green skins, otherwise his original number of troops would have been several times larger than it is now.

In most ogre armies, there will be some goblin-like Gnobras, both as cannon fodder and as backup food.

But after that battle, although the main force of Brout escaped, Gnobla was all dead, so they are really starving now.

After hearing this, Li Wei couldn't help but frown a little.

The greenskins are used to looting and destroying after victory, and they used to make a living by hunting in the badlands.

At the same time, they don't pay special attention to patrols or scouts. They prefer to rush in a swarm and get done.

But now that they have changed their past practices and acted in a disorganized manner, except for the instruction of the green-skinned army god Inavo, does this mean that they are actually trying to change from a chaotic state to a state of chaos? Neutral or lawful alignment?

What else do they want to do next?Founding?
In this case, the threat of green skins may be even greater than originally estimated.
Then Li Wei inquired about the Ratman's information. Although the Ratman's current main attack direction is many human forces, it is not absolute.

Naer, Lisa Dilan and others in the Underdark region sent a report saying that there was a small-scale infestation by the Ratman recently.

Under certain circumstances, the Ratman hardly marched on the ground. They preferred to march through the Underdark, or simply through the many tunnels they dug themselves, as well as the sewers, etc., which inevitably caused friction with many forces in the Underdark.

However, although the Ratmen shouted loudly, they were not arrogant enough to really declare war on the whole world, so they did not provoke too many forces, and were more of a small-scale temptation.

On the contrary, it was because of this harassment that the connection between Naer and the shield dwarves, Moon Singer, etc. became closer.

In contrast, things are a little bit worse on the ground, and even the colony where Imrik himself sits has been affected to a certain extent recently.

Castle Black and Cinder Ridge Town have magic protection and army garrisons, so there is basically no problem, but several of the small villages on the outskirts have been destroyed.

Mikaela wrote that Imrik was so angry that he decided to issue a long-term bounty on the ratmen.

However, he didn't have the energy to send regular troops to do this for the time being, because the dark elves across the sea had already formed an alliance with the sahuagin, sea queen's pirates, etc., and officially declared war on him yesterday.

When mentioning the Ratmen, Brout was full of anger: "Those little hairy things are not only unpalatable, but they are also sick and poisonous. Many of my subordinates will die after eating them." Have loose bowels."

"I tried it again on the road today. They are indeed sour, smelly and poisonous. If I hadn't caught some green skins that fled back from the direction of Iron Peak Castle, I might not have made it here."

Li Wei's heart suddenly moved: "The defeated army in Iron Peak Fort? Do they have any flags?"

Most of the greenskins marched to the north and west, and occasionally some went to Bafeng Mountain to fight in groups, but the greenskins who marched eastward and besieged Iron Peak Castle seemed to be only one famous warlord, Evil!

As for the ratmen, it should be the plague on them. With the physique of the ogres, they won't suffer too much damage, but it's inevitable that they will suffer for a while.

Brout tapped his bald head: "Yes, their flag seems to have a green leather mask face on top, and a pair of red fangs underneath."

Li Wei was overjoyed immediately, this is indeed the symbol of the vicious Chiya tribe!
Originally, because the green skins were extremely powerful, there was no useful information coming from there recently. Edan still had a group of elite air force and war pig cavalry under his command, and the scouts he sent were basically killed by the opponent.

Out of careful consideration, Li Wei did not let Luna take the huntresses there. On the plain, the speed and power of the war pig cavalry were not comparable to the huntress' little leopards.

He hasn't had much time these days, so he originally planned to discuss with Khalida today whether he can send troops to investigate.

As long as Evil is killed and his army is defeated, the threat to the west of Lamia City will almost disappear, and Khalida can also send a fleet with peace of mind to fight against the dark elves and sahuagin with her.

I didn't expect to get this information from Brout by accident. This is really luck, and I can't stop it.

Let the ogre eat first, and Li Wei immediately found Khaleda and the owner of this place, Kazrik.

After the two people heard it, of course they all agreed.

Khaleda is now standing on the same front as Li Wei, and the interests of both parties are also the same. It is a matter of course to make this choice.

Even if it wasn't for the fact that she really needs to leave some troops here, she would like to take the whole army to Iron Peak Fort.

Now she decided to take away all the cavalry, chariots and graveyard knights, totaling [-], and it was useless for them to stay here anyway. The daily reconnaissance mission of the fortress was enough for those dwarves who were chosen by the gods.

Then there were [-] guards of the gods and [-] guards of the ancient tomb, with a total force of [-], and they went to Iron Peak Castle with Li Wei.

As for the remaining troops, they all stayed here and were commanded by several generals and priests to assist the dwarves in their defense.

Even she has already planned it out. Whether she stays or leaves with Li Wei, they are actually just consumables.

These losses will be worthwhile as long as the evil can be defeated, the friendship of the dwarves won, and the West completely safe.

And Kazrik is the son of the dragon slayer, and Iron Peak Castle is his hometown. If it weren't for his too few troops, he would have personally rushed to the rescue.

Although he can't go there in person now, when Li Wei made this decision, he immediately decided to send a team of iron dragon hand artillery to help out.

They will be very effective against green skins who generally have little armor and little magic resistance.

And his meaning is also very obvious, if Li Wei can go to rescue Iron Peak Fort, these troops will be completely handed over to him.

Anyway, there are already dwarf engineers fighting with Li Wei, so he can command them very well, and Li Wei doesn't have to worry too much.

Naturally, Li Wei thanked them. Ordinary Iron Dragon Artillery Soldiers are already very rare, and these are veterans who have experienced many battles, so they are even rarer.

After staying here for a few days, he has roughly figured out that if the iron dragon hand artillerymen continue to advance, they may be qualified to use a special weapon called the troll's hammer.

Li Wei also took a look at it himself, and then he felt that in a sense, that thing can be understood as a small rocket launcher, or RPG for short.

The empire claims that steel, faith and gunpowder are the three cornerstones, and so do the dwarves.

Even because they discovered and used gunpowder earlier, as well as the many special circumstances of their own race, their dependence on gunpowder is even higher.

Iron dragon hand cannons are good at dealing with large areas of miscellaneous soldiers, and their advantages and weaknesses are also very obvious, that is, once the enemy's fire resistance is high, they will be useless immediately.

Troll Hammers are different, as you can tell from the name, they are specially used to deal with trolls, ogres, and larger enemies.

The proportion of fire damage attached to the attack is small, and more depends on the explosive damage of ammunition.

Their ammunition is pointed and cone-shaped. They will try to penetrate the enemy's armor with the help of the impact of the explosives, and then explode in the opponent's body. When encountering an enemy with low defense, it will often turn into a huge blood hole.

It's a pity that it's the same as another shortcoming of the iron dragon hand artillery. The technology of the dwarves is still not perfect, and their maximum shooting range is also short, often less than half of that of ordinary archers.

Although except for the butcher and the ranger, the other arms of the dwarves are generally equipped with heavy armor, the crossbowman, the musketeer, and these two special long-range units are no exception.

But for Li Wei, unless the opponent is a stupid monster, it will still be very uncomfortable if he encounters an enemy with a large number of archers or legal troops.

This disadvantage is difficult to reverse with conventional strategies or tactics.

The reason why this is true for Li Wei is that the dwarves usually don't fight on the plains at all, and more than [-]% of their battles are on defense.

When they are in various shooting spots, they naturally don't have to worry about this problem.
But no matter what, Li Wei still expressed his thanks, and then took the ogres who had already eaten and drunk, and marched towards Iron Peak Castle together.

Almost no more than ten miles away, they discovered many small-scale routs one after another. How arrogant they were when they launched WAAAGH before, how embarrassed they are now.

When they saw the tens of thousands of troops of Li Wei and Khalida, they all hated that they had lost two legs, and ran away desperately.

But in front of Khalida's graveyard knights, they could not escape successfully.

Even though their performance in the previous battles was not satisfactory, they are still a Tier 5 unit after all, so it is no problem to hunt down these low-level green skins.

Brout also personally joined them with the Smasher, but from Levi's point of view, he seemed to be enjoying it more.

Because often when they randomly swing their big wooden sticks that are several meters long, those green skins are like baseballs, they are easily knocked away for a long distance, and then rolled on the ground many times before they can barely stop.

But at that time, even if they didn't die, they would immediately meet the super giant woolly rhinoceros weighing tens of thousands of catties, and be directly trampled into a fuzzy mass of meat.

Then Brout would be the first to laugh, and the other ogres would follow suit.

Seeing their heartless appearance, Li Wei was speechless for a while, and then admired.

Sometimes, ignorance is also a blessing, at least they don't have so many worries.

But soon Levi noticed that even the most greedy ogre did not try to eat green skins.

He couldn't help being a little suspicious at the moment, even though the ogres had just had a meal, the characteristics of their race determined that they would never have a day when they were completely full.

Even though according to insiders, the green-skinned meat is dry, astringent, hard, and has a stench, but the ogres shouldn't care about this, right?

So he simply asked Brout directly.

Who knows the disgust on Braut's face: "It turns out that the goblin brain is delicious, and the Squig beast also tastes like chicken. The green-skinned meat is a little bit worse, like some moldy dried mushrooms, but it can barely fill you up." abdomen."

"But since they set off this super big WAAAGH, their meat has become worse than troll meat."

Speaking of this, Brout became even more frowning.

Not only is troll meat notoriously unpalatable, but because trolls have regenerative abilities, it's possible for them to continue to regrow once it's in the stomach.

The legendary goblin in the green skins - the big belly king - Gulu, it is said that because he once ate troll meat, he forcibly stretched his body to the size of an ogre.

Although the powerful digestion ability of the ogres allowed them to eat the meat of the troll, they would not be willing to eat the troll if they had a choice.

In fact, human beings are often their best prey, because not only are they numerous, their meat is relatively delicious, but their average strength is also weak.

That's not how the ogre race got its name, but it certainly lives up to its name.

Of course, that was a long time ago. As the gods discovered the benefits of humans more and more, they naturally would not allow ogres to eat people in large numbers.

They began to bestow magic, divine arts, various combat skills and knowledge, and the current human beings are far from what they could match before.

Moreover, to the east of many ogre kingdoms is the famous Cathay Dynasty. After so many years, it is unknown how many ogre kingdoms have been destroyed because of their disobedience.

In addition, the God of Big Stomach, which the ogre believed in, was directly beaten up by the Dragon God of Cathay for similar reasons.

Now his body remains in the main world, always in a half-dead state, always reminding other ogres not to offend the Cathay Dynasty.

Up to now, it would be an exaggeration to say that the ogres are frightened. The ogre is hungry, and the official Cathay caravan is also able to snatch it, but at least they have a little vigilance against humans indirectly, and they are no longer as unscrupulous as before.

Elves and Dwarves are also hard to deal with, so Greenskins and Goblins are a very good choice under normal circumstances.

But now the green skins are not only stronger, but the meat is much more unpalatable than before, which makes Brout very painful.

That's why he rushed over as soon as the skinny girl waved her hand, and why Li Wei gave him some giant meat, so he wanted to sign an employment contract directly.

He is not stupid, if he fights with the elves, he will have more meat to eat immediately!
There is still such a situation?

Li Wei wasn't sure for a while whether this had something to do with the power of thinking that the green skins possessed, because there was no record before that whether the meat of the green skins was good or not.

But without waiting for him to think about it, Sefa suddenly approached, seeing her frowning, Li Wei immediately knew that there must be an emergency, otherwise she would not have this expression.

"what happened?"

Saifa said with a little worry: "The sphinx sent me an urgent request for help, and I hope I can help it now."

Li Wei frowned a little: "It turned out to be such a time."

During the crusade against the Silver Blood Army before, Li Wei got a scroll from the priests that could conclude a contract with the Sphinx, and finally he gave Sepha this opportunity.

She soon successfully signed a contract with the other party. In exchange for providing some magic materials every month, the other party will make some gadgets to strengthen the combat power in the desert, as well as several low- and middle-level magic scrolls to her.

At the same time, Sefa has to protect it when it is in crisis, otherwise, regardless of whether it is dead or not, the contract will be terminated afterwards.

But now they are on the way to look for evil guts, let Saifa go by himself, he must be worried, let him follow, who knows when the things over there will be over?
But after thinking about it quickly, Li Wei finally decided to follow.

The life and death of the sphinx is actually not important, and the gadgets it made are not important to him.

What he really wanted was the specific coordinates of the other party's location.

With the coordinates and the power of magic, he can easily go there in the future.

He still remembered that there was a name on Kalida's enemy list and his prey list - the Lord of the Cursed Scarab - Prince Apophis.

The sphinx undoubtedly lived in the desert. It was not clear which Tomb King was closer to it, but no matter where it was, it was definitely much closer to the Beetle Prince than Lahmia City!