Lin Xiao stared at him expressionlessly for a dozen seconds before grinning and walking past him.
He had no time to put on an act here. How tiring would that be?
In any case, this person was his subordinate. Whether he did it on purpose or not, whether he did it on purpose or not, he would take responsibility for it.
After resting with his girlfriend for a while, he went up to the sentry wall and entered the battle against the Demons.
A thundercloud cleared a group of Demons, and his body flashed with a golden light. He had leveled up.
He immediately tried to communicate with his true body, but the barrier grew thinner and thinner. At this moment, he could already feel the existence of the Tesseract and his true body. He had a feeling that when he reached Level 70, this barrier would disappear. At that time, he would be able to officially communicate with the Tesseract and his true body.
When that time came …
Lin Xiao's lips curled up slightly. If you make me suffer, I'll teach you a lesson.
A temporary loss was not shameful, as long as it was not permanent.
Cheating was also not shameful. If you have the ability to cheat, then you have the ability.
Standing on the high platform, the Demons below could not come down at all. With powerful NPCs blocking the entrance, he could use his high burst power without worry.
After reaching Level 69, he did not focus on killing the normal Demons. Instead, he focused on the Demon Warlord in the center from afar. He continuously cast Chain Lightning, Lightning Strike, and Lightning Strike. Lightning Strike and Lightning Strike had high burst power, and he would cast them as soon as their Cooldowns were over.
This Level 76 Demon Warlord was a Commander. It had over 800,000 HP, and its high Defense and Resistance reduced most of the damage.
Lin Xiao's attacks from over 100 yards had angered it, and it led the Demons to launch an all-out attack on the sentry gate.
Fortunately, there was more than one Chieftain NPC inside the Sentry Post. The Sentry Commander was a Level 75 Chieftain with 600,000 HP. He wore thick armor and was a melee class, and he blocked the Demon Warlord head-on.
The other player was a Level 75 Great Mage with a commander template. He was also a Level 75 Great Mage with around 500,000 HP. He stood on top of a tall tower protected by a group of elite warriors, and his casting range was even further than Lin Xiao's. He continuously summoned prismatic ice crystals that were several meters tall and bombarded them with astonishing power.
Although the Demon Warlord was powerful, it wasn't realistic for him to attack a sentry post that was easy to defend against two powerhouses of the same rank.
More than ten minutes after the Demon Overseer fought, most of the demons died in battle, including the two centurions. The Demon Overseer began to retreat as he fought.
After fighting for so long, this guy still had a little over 100,000 HP left. He was still alive and kicking.
The two powerhouses in the sentry post were in pretty good condition. Under the full healing of the Priests in the back, the commander tanked the Demon Warlord's remaining HP. However, they didn't dare to chase after it.
The expeditionary army headquarters' current strategy was to continuously weaken the strength of the surrounding demons. The sentry post's responsibility was to plant a nail in the demons' territory. Eliminating demons was the responsibility of another combat system, and it had nothing to do with the sentry post.
However, although the Sentries wouldn't chase after them, the same couldn't be said for the players. The two Stronghold Army Style players who had been conserving their strength decided to lead their troops out at the same time, and the other players followed suit.
However, Lin Xiao didn't follow them. It wasn't that he looked down on them, but it was rather unrealistic for this group of players to surround and kill an injured Demon Warlord.
Not to mention that the Demon Warlord still had a group of remaining demon subordinates, there was also a centurion and many demon warriors and elite soldiers. Just the Demon Warlord's strength alone was enough to defeat them.
Field BOSSes were different from dungeon BOSSes.
Dungeon Bosses had already been set up with mechanisms, and they were easy to kill.
Field Bosses didn't have all kinds of messy mechanisms, and they didn't even have aggro mechanisms. The ordinary NPC soldiers they recruited could understand all kinds of complicated verbal commands, not to mention the Demon Warlord's intelligence.
He dared to conclude that they would have to run back with their tails between their legs in less than half an hour.
From the flight point of the Eagle Sentry post, he rode a Griffin back to the expeditionary army's stronghold and exchanged for two more squads of soldiers.
This time, he didn't exchange too many. He only exchanged the remaining six green Demon Imprints for six elite NPCs, two Warriors, two Ice Mages, two Priests, and the remaining fourteen ordinary NPCs were all Warriors.
Too many squads would be too bloated, so he made do with two squads for now. He would first reach Level 70 and use the hack.
By the time he returned to the Eagle Sentry post, two days had already passed. NPCs couldn't ride flying mounts. Sure enough, they discovered that their pursuit two days ago had failed. The Demon Warlord's strength was not something they could resist.
Neither players nor NPCs were a match for the Demon Warlord. Even the elite NPC Warriors, as long as they weren't Level 60 or above, were 100% crushed. One slash of the Demon Warlord dealt 10,000 HP in an instant.
The Demon Warlord's speed was much faster than theirs. This wasn't a game that forced the Demon Warlord's speed to be the same as the players'. The Demon Warlord's body was five to six meters tall, and its high Attributes were higher than the players', so it was still faster than the players' legs. No one could stop it, and it could kill a player with a single slash.
"A group of Level 50 to 60 players challenging a Level 75 Boss that ignores most crowd control and aggro. They're really seeking their own deaths!"
The players who had gloated over Lin Xiao's misfortune were now well-behaved.
In the words of some people:
"We're all noobs, so let's not make fun of each other."
Following this, with the Eagle Sentry post as the center, Shi Feng and his girlfriend would go out early and return late every day, leading a group of subordinates to level up.
The EXP gained by NPC soldiers was different from players' pets. They couldn't gain EXP from monsters killed by players. They had to deal damage themselves.
This didn't mean that they had to kill monsters. Instead, the damage they dealt was calculated according to the damage ratio.
For example, if they killed a Demon together with Lin Xiao, if they dealt 30% of the damage, they would receive 30% of the total EXP the Demon provided. It was very simple.
Hence, they could only slowly train their soldiers one step at a time. Relying on a group of players to train them wouldn't work.
Fortunately, NPCs required far less EXP to level up than players. Shi Feng had needed ten years to reach Level 69. If these Level 55 NPCs reached Level 70 based on the amount of EXP players needed to level up, they wouldn't be able to train many soldiers. Even if they spent hundreds of years, they wouldn't be able to train many soldiers.
Lin Xiao divided all his subordinates into two teams and focused on killing some scattered Demons.
These scattered Demons weren't regular Demon soldiers. Their levels were between Level 55 and 65. Occasionally, they would encounter some higher-level or elite monsters.
However, they weren't greedy. They only looked for small groups of monsters that they could take down. If they encountered a large group of monsters, they would turn around and run.
Ever since entering the Outland, Lin Xiao had suffered a few huge losses. This severely damaged his confidence and made him realize that this world wasn't a game. It wasn't easy to survive in this world. If he wasn't careful, he would still die.
As time passed, his EXP continued to increase, and the level of his subordinates also slowly increased.
From Level 55 to Level 56, and then to Level 57, he felt a sense of accomplishment as he watched them level up.
Compared to his cautiousness, the other two Army Style players near the Eagle Lookout had the support of large teams. They were rich and had always maintained their teams of around a few hundred people. Their training method was also very wild. They directly attracted a large group of Demons to kill them, not caring about the large number of NPC soldiers that died in every battle.
Or rather, they did it on purpose. They used a portion of the NPCs as cannon fodder to train another batch. In any case, they used this method to train a group of seventy to eighty Elites above Level 60. They were getting stronger and stronger.
The good thing was that although they didn't have a good relationship with each other, they would only scheme in the dark and wouldn't dare to attack them openly.
At the very least, they wouldn't dare to do so within the expeditionary army's area of control.
The reason was very simple. The Central Sentry Tower had the ability to monitor a large area around the Sentry Tower. The Garrison Mages wouldn't care about indirectly cheating others, but directly attacking their allies was not allowed.
Therefore, they could get along peacefully at this stage. Once they finished training their troops and left the expeditionary army's area of control and entered the Outland, it would be completely normal for them to directly kill you for some benefits or resources.
Half a year later, the fourteen surviving soldiers had all reached Level 60, and he was still half a level away from Level 70.
He had no choice. He couldn't focus on farming. The Demons that he found were all Level 50 and 60, so the experience was not much.
He then tried to expand the size of his troops. He once again increased the size of his troops to a company of a hundred people. However, twenty-seven of them were Elites.
He finally understood that Normal NPCs were really cannon fodder. Even if they were trained, there was no value in training them. Although NPCs could be upgraded, the cost of upgrading them was not low. Rather than that, he might as well train Elite NPCs from the start.
Time passed in a blink of an eye.
The other two Army Style players felt that they were strong enough and couldn't help but leave the Sentry Tower and head into the depths of this world. He was still training his troops there.
Unknowingly, a year and a half had passed. One day, a dazzling golden light suddenly shot up into the sky from a high ground with barren red rocks. Then, Lin Xiao's laughter could be heard. Looking at the Level 70 displayed on the interface, he was filled with emotions.
After a total of thirteen years, he finally reached Level 70.
The first thing he did was to sense the Tesseract and coincidentally feel the existence of his real body. Coincidentally, his real body was using the Tesseract to synthesize a card.
Feeling the will of his Descending Star Soul Crystal System appearing in the Tesseract out of thin air, Lin Xiao's real body immediately realized that the will of his Descending Star Soul Crystal System had reached Level 70. He immediately stopped synthesizing a card and communicated with the will of his Descending Star Soul Crystal System.
Not long after, he took out twenty crystals that were emitting a faint golden light. Half of them were crystalline while the other half was golden.
He had prepared for this long ago. He used the blood essence of the Grade 7 Great Naga to refine them. Considering the harshness of the rules of that world, he added a little bit of Creation Energy into each half to see if there would be any special effects.
Lin Xiao's incarnation was overjoyed when he found out about these things. His consciousness wrapped around the twenty crystals and kept them.
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