MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1054 - Chapter 1054 Chapter 1054 Forming an Air Force

Chapter 1054: Chapter 1054 Forming an Air Force Chapter 1054: Chapter 1054 Forming an Air Force The lady-in-waiting accepted the purse Li Yao handed over and said, “According to the rules, if you hire followers, we need to retain one-third of the payment as commission, but only disciples of the queen can hire Dark Rangers from the general’s ranks. The queen doesn’t care about this bit of money, so the entire commission will be given to you. Then, on this day every month, he will pay you the agreed-upon payment.”

Li Yao nodded, indicating his understanding, and looked at the Dark Rangers gazing at him eagerly from below. His own eyes turned blue as well.

Li Yao didn’t even look at the detailed files, but instead assessed the rangers’ potential.

Just like with worm eggs, the color of their names indicated their potential and quality.

Dark gold, naturally, was the best, but Li Yao never even considered this, as dark gold-level probably was only common for the likes of the queen herself.

Most of the qualities that appeared before Li Yao were excellent, with only a small portion being ordinary white.

Of course, ordinary quality doesn’t mean one can’t become a formidable boss, but it requires a fortunate encounter and a high price, like the Lich King, who could elevate ordinary people to faction leader status with his power.

But Li Yao didn’t have such capabilities. The better the quality, the less likely there are bottlenecks, or the bottlenecks are very challenging.

For ordinary quality to reach leader level already takes great fortune and an immense effort.

However, with superior quality, just follow the regular training, and they can easily become leader-level. That was the gap.

Li Yao quickly scanned them all and saw that the majority were of excellent quality, indicating they could easily become leaders and qualify as guards.

There were also a few with superior quality, who were mostly at leader level already, and then a very few with epic quality, for whom it wasn’t impossible to become faction-level bosses if they developed smoothly.

Looking over them, Li Yao saw there were actually ten of epic quality. He chose four with unique skills from these ten leaders, then started selecting soldiers. Li Yao chose only the top-tier superior quality soldiers, quickly amassing two hundred fifteen, and the lady-in-waiting then gave them their payment.

Two hundred people knelt on one knee to pledge their loyalty to Li Yao, who completed the oath of fealty ceremony and was very satisfied.

The lady-in-waiting nodded and said, “I’ll remind you once more, although they are loyal to you, casualties are inevitable in normal combat. But I warn you, you cannot treat them as cannon fodder to be squandered, nor can you purposely send them to their deaths. Otherwise, you will never be able to recruit new Dark Rangers again.”

Li Yao replied, “Of course, Dark Rangers aren’t meant for head-on clashes. Rest assured, if they feel I am deliberately sacrificing them, they can disregard my orders and return here.”

The lady-in-waiting nodded in satisfaction and then addressed the Dark Rangers, “Even so, we High Elf warriors are not cowards who shirk back, for the general, for the glory of the High Elves. Now, you can leave.”

“Wait, hold on,” Li Yao stopped the lady-in-waiting, “Sister, don’t you think we’re missing something?”

“What?” The lady-in-waiting was confused.

Li Yao said, “They are guards, after all. They should take some bats with them.”

“You wish,” responded the lady-in-waiting with a chuckle, “Do you know how hard bats are to tame? You can have bats, but it’s the same rule: two hundred Gold Coins each.”

“Damn it, aren’t you ripping me off here? That’s more than two hundred people, and there goes another twenty thousand Gold Coins.”

“Stop crying poor, as if I don’t know how much wealth you guilds have brought back already. It’s just because it’s you; if it were someone else, I wouldn’t sell for two hundred, not to mention two thousand Gold Coins. These are not for sale. Here’s what we’ll do, you give me twenty thousand Gold Coins, and I’ll equip your four leader-level Rangers with leader-level bats, alright?” The woman spoke seriously.

Li Yao painfully transferred another twenty thousand Gold Coins, equipping two hundred dark Rangers at the cost of nearly fifty thousand Gold Coins. Probably only Li Yao could afford to spend so much money like this. Of course, no one else could buy such an excellent type of troop. All of them were silver-ranked dark Rangers, which was incredibly powerful. With the bats equipped, they became an air force under Li Yao’s command, and together with the aerial forces of the Worm Tribe he was about to produce, there was finally a small scale to his forces.

Li Yao personally selected the bats himself. These were mounts, and NPC mounts at that, currently of no use to players who managed to get their hands on them.

Li Yao personally distributed the mounts, and the Rangers immediately developed a great fondness for him. After all, the person they were to follow was at the very least very wealthy and wouldn’t mistreat them.

Li Yao chose Lili, the one with the best talent and strongest skills among them, as their leader, then left the Royal District and took them into the Frame Space of the Broodmother, which was spacious enough for them to train inside.

Next, Li Yao directly used his Hearthstone to return to his garrison in the sandbar and began to study and ponder over the troop types of the Mantis Monsters.

Yes, the nest for the first-tier Mantis Monster combat units was complete, with a maximum number of 5000, which was a very impressive quantity.

Li Yao checked out the basic troop types that the first-tier Mantis Monsters could produce.

Mantis Breakers, Mantis Hunters, Mantis Defenders, Mantis Devourers, and Mantis Whippers.

Mantis Breakers possessed strong magic immunity and could devour magic, making them the bane of magic. However, they were super fragile, so Li Yao gave up on them, as he didn’t need such high-end Breaker forces yet.

Mantis Defenders had amber Armor, which made them quite durable. Their two mantis Blades had turned into Shields, which was not what Li Yao hoped for, so he abandoned that idea.

Mantis Devourers could generate Mantis Servants by consuming corpses, but with Li Yao’s Parasitism, Dark Arrows, and dark Rangers, he basically had these covered, so he didn’t need them and gave up.

Mantis Whippers were the ranged units of the Mantis Tribe, capable of releasing toxins and special natural Magic, but with the dark Rangers at his disposal, he didn’t need them and gave up.

In the end, Li Yao chose the Mantis Hunters, the so-called aerial assassin unit, with high attack, high movement speed, and high evasion. Except for being fragile, they hardly had any other drawbacks,

In fact, they weren’t much different from the workers, just with enhanced wings, blade Toxin, and assassination skills. The cost of production wasn’t cheap but wasn’t expensive either, thirty-five energy units.

Li Yao made his decision and produced one hundred units, almost emptying his energy reserves.

Li Yao closed the interface and sighed, “When will I have a real army of thousands? Right now, this is really hard work.”

In fact, at the mentor’s side, players were encouraged to recruit elite officers rather than soldiers. Although there’s a limit to the number, there’s no limit to the number of wild troop types you can have as long as you can afford and obtain them. Nobody cares how many forces you amass.

Li Yao knew that during the main storyline quests, the world would undergo vast changes, and that was when various wild troop types would appear. Of course, whether they could be recruited or not would depend on the players’ own abilities…

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