Volume 19, Chapter 50: Poaching
I heard the princess say that she could use this psychic network to directly kill creatures within the coverage area. I immediately asked her to demonstrate, but the princess said helplessly: "No, there are two prerequisites for using this ability. The first is me. Being within the coverage of the psychic network, the second is that the target must be near me, at least I must be able to see him. Also, the power of this killing method depends on the number of aurora beasts connected to the psychic network. If there are only three or five If so, the power may not be as powerful as my direct attack, but as the number of connected Aurora Beasts increases, the power of this attack method can continue to increase."
"Can it be increased infinitely?"
"That won't work. The upper limit of its power is limited by the Aurora Beast's teleportation ability and my own control. However, currently, the main bottleneck should be the Aurora Beast's transmission ability. If there is only one Aurora Beast as the relay between me and the psychic network, Then the attack power will be limited by the conduction of this Aurora Beast."
The princess explained it to me all the way, and I finally understood what she meant. In fact, the princess's method of attack is to extract the psychic energy from the psychic network, and then form a mental shock to hit the target's soul. Because the energy source of this impact is the princess and all the aurora beasts connected to the network, the intensity of the final psychic impact cannot be understood simply by using psychic impact. According to my understanding, it is emitted in this way. Instead of calling it mind shock, it would be more appropriate to call it mind storm. Originally, the princess was a spiritual master, and her own spiritual strength was much higher than that of ordinary creatures. However, after the psychic network is connected, the princess's spiritual energy will be greatly increased. This impact of the spiritual energy of all creatures in the entire network is so powerful that a single creature cannot stop it.
But, just like the princess said. Although theoretically the attack methods of this network can be infinitely enhanced, in fact it still has limitations. The first is that the princess must be able to control this energy. In this attack mode, all aurora beasts are energy providers, and the princess herself is equivalent to the launcher. If the energy is so powerful that the princess cannot control it, then it is natural. Not to mention how to attack. In addition, the transmission capacity of nodes near the princess is also a problem. In this attack mode, we can understand the princess as a light bulb. The brightness of the light bulb depends on the voltage, but the voltage that the wire itself can withstand is also limited. No matter how big the voltage generated by the power supply on the other side is, as long as it is directly connected The wires of the light bulb can't handle that voltage, so it's useless to use a higher voltage. In the same way, if the energy of the entire psychic network must pass through a certain aurora beast to connect to the princess, then the most powerful attack that the princess can release is nothing more than the transmission limit of the aurora beast plus the princess's own energy. But if the princess is surrounded by densely packed Aurora Beasts, the situation will be completely different.
In any case, the power of this skill discovered by the princess is absolutely terrifying, and although the restrictions exist, I think it shouldn't be a big problem, because if there are really Aurora Beasts nearby on the battlefield, they should all be concentrated there. Together, it is unlikely to be separated.
While the princess was explaining to me the new skills she had discovered, the two aurora beasts that were outflanked from the sides that I had seen in the psychic network had successfully merged with the injured aurora beast. There are far more than three Russians who are chasing the injured Aurora Beast, so even if two Aurora Beasts arrive, the scene is still a situation of more and fewer Aurora Beasts, and the Aurora Beast is in an extremely disadvantageous situation. However, there were two uninjured Aurora Beasts, and they had no clamps on their bodies, so they could barely contain the group of Russians by relying on their super high movement speed.
"Haha, it's our turn to be lucky today." A Russian man saw two Aurora Beasts suddenly running out. Instead of being scared, a Russian looked extremely excited.
The Russian next to him also smiled when he heard what this man said: "Yes, yes, today is really our lucky day. Not to mention that we met an injured Aurora Beast on the way and escaped, but here we are again. We bumped into two. According to the rules agreed in advance, the aurora beasts we caught will be used by the people in our guild first. With these three aurora beasts as magic pets, the combat effectiveness of our guild will at least increase a lot. .”
"Hey, the third middle school is just the beginning. Our goal is to let everyone in the guild get an Aurora Beast Demon Pet." The person who spoke before said excitedly: "This Aurora Beast is not only extremely powerful in combat, but also has anti-invisibility capabilities." Ability, the most important thing is that this guy is fast and can be used as a mount. As long as all our elite troops are equipped with Aurora mounts, we will not be affected by their harassment tactics next time we invade Chinese territory. By then, with the speed advantage of this Aurora Beast, why don’t we attack wherever we want?”
The person next to him also echoed: "Yes. With the speed advantage, we will only be able to 'harass' the Chinese in the future. How can we be as big-headed as last time by their elite team! This time their If the elite team dares to cause trouble with us again, we will use the Aurora Beast Cavalry to kill them until they come back."
The two Russians were happy to say it, and I was also happy to hear it. Don't forget that I can now share the senses of all Aurora beasts in the network through the psychic network. These Russians thought that Aurora Beast couldn't understand human speech, so they didn't shy away from it at all. Unexpectedly, even though Aurora Beast couldn't understand, I could hear their voices through Aurora Beast's ears. In this way, if their words were heard by Aurora Beast, it would be equivalent to being heard by me.
Now that I have figured out the reason why the Russians captured Aurora Beast, I can't let them get their wish. Just like those two guys, the aurora beast has super speed and terrifying anti-reconnaissance capabilities. If there were aurora beasts in the Russian team during the last invasion, it doesn't need to be many, just thirty or fifty, then all our harassment plans would have been ruined. Firstly, the Aurora Beast warned that our harassment team could not get closer at all. Secondly, even if it did, with the speed of the Aurora Beast, this team would probably never be able to escape again. Therefore, the Aurora Beast is simply the nemesis of guerrilla warfare. This powerful creature cannot be obtained by the Russians under any circumstances.
While the two aurora beasts were fighting with the Russians, the eight aurora beasts around me and I had already rushed less than two kilometers away from the battlefield. However, in the end, it was not us who arrived on the battlefield first, but another wave of Aurora Beasts.
Due to the activation of the psychic network, the Aurora Beasts now all know the current situation. It can be seen from the fact that Aurora Beast has this kind of shared psychic network that Aurora Beast is a very united species, otherwise they would never have evolved an ability that only large groups can use. For example, tigers in the jungle have always been solitary. If they meet once in a while, they might get into a fight. It makes no sense for them to have a spiritual network.
Aurora Beasts have extremely high unity, so the psychic network has an incredible effect on them. It was fine that they didn't know the situation before, but now they find that outsiders are planning to capture their own kind. How can the Aurora Beasts sit still and wait for death?
Just before we rushed to the battlefield, more than ten Aurora Beasts had already joined the battle group one step ahead of us. The Russians were very happy to see the Aurora Beasts appearing one after another. After all, according to their agreement, whoever caught the Aurora Beasts would be equipped by their guild first, and if the guild's equipment was full, the extra parts If you transfer it to other guilds, you will get a commission. Driven by such interests, Aurora Beast is no longer a World of Warcraft in the eyes of the Russians but a pile of walking crystal coins. However, although the Russians really want to get the Aurora Beast, they have not become stupid. At first, they were happy to see the number of Aurora Beasts increasing because they knew they could make a fortune by catching these Aurora Beasts. However, when the number of Aurora Beasts gradually exceeded the upper limit of the number they could deal with, these people began to become anxious.
There are only seventeen people in this group of Russians who are chasing the injured Aurora Beast. To deal with the uninjured Aurora Beast, it takes about two elite players like them to barely hold one, and to capture it, it will take at least three to four Talent works. If we follow the distribution plan of two people holding one end, and leaving three people to capture one by one, then these seventeen people can handle at most eight aurora beasts at the same time. Of course it was no problem to chase down an injured Aurora Beast at the beginning, but it was no problem if two more came out later. After that, three or four others appeared one after another. Although they were a little in a hurry, they were still able to control the situation. However, when the eighth Aurora Beast appeared, the smiles on these people's faces disappeared.
Although according to the best situation, these seventeen people can control eight aurora beasts, that is the best situation after all. Of course, one of the eight Aurora Beasts was seriously injured, so it can only be counted as a little more than seven. However, even seven are enough to worry these people. If two Aurora Beasts ran out halfway, it was a coincidence, and the appearance of three or four more Aurora Beasts later could be understood as a small probability event, but the appearance of the third wave of Aurora Beasts was obviously abnormal. Encountering so many Aurora Beasts one after another, these Russians are now thinking about one question - "Did we run into the Aurora Beast's den?"
When a Russian player asked this question, the leading player immediately cursed: "Idiot, the Aurora Beast is a light creature. This is the Cursed Forest, a standard dark area. How can a light creature build a building in a dark area?" Nest? These should be aurora beasts attracted by the fragrant fruit."
Another player asked while resisting the attack of the Aurora Beast in front of him: "But is this too much? Now this is the upper limit of what we can fight against. What if we encounter a few more?" "
This player got the nickname Crow Mouth after today, because less than two seconds after he finished speaking, before their captain could even answer him, a player suddenly jumped out of the jungle next to him. Eight Aurora Beasts.
"Damn, we're dead now!" The Russians were dumbfounded as soon as they saw the eight aurora beasts running out. If seventeen people wanted to capture the Aurora Beast, they could not exceed eight Aurora Beasts at most. Now including the injured one, there were already sixteen Aurora Beasts on the scene. What is the result of seventeen people dealing with sixteen aurora beasts? You don’t even have to think about the answer.
"Run!"
Just when the captain shouted to run, there was a sudden shaking in the jungle. Three aurora beasts suddenly jumped out from behind them, and then jumped out from the jungle to their left and right. More than ten aurora beasts. The number of Aurora Beasts on the scene exceeded the thirty mark in an instant. Let alone the escape of these seventeen people, even if they unite to resist, they will never last for thirty seconds.
When I and the group of aurora beasts around me rushed to the scene, the group of Russians had been torn into pieces of meat, and the injured aurora beast had also been cured by my companions using a healing halo. hurt. With our joining, the number of aurora beasts in this area has reached thirty-nine. Such a large group of aurora beasts, let alone encountering traps, can fight even if they encounter a small army.
"What do you want to do now?" I asked those aurora beasts in my spiritual network.
The Aurora Beasts communicated with each other for a while, and soon reached a will to fight to the end. Obviously the intelligence of Aurora Beast is not that of a beast, because beasts usually have no ability to associate. Aurora Beast can realize that if they just leave now, those who come to catch them will definitely come to harass them again. Although they successfully rescued their companions this time, what will they do next time? They could not guarantee that they would not lose their companions every time, and it would not be a long-term solution to continue fighting like this, so they unanimously decided to take advantage of this opportunity to completely defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, so that the opponent would no longer be able to spy on them.
Now that the Aurora Beasts are determined to beat up those Russian players, I will just continue to follow them and cause trouble for the Russians. Although the Aurora Beast's detection ability is very strong, it is stronger when conducting detailed reconnaissance within a certain range. If it is a very large-scale reconnaissance, my ghost bug is actually faster.
After releasing all the large groups of ghost bugs, I told the group of aurora beasts to find as many companions as possible to help. As soon as these aurora beasts called out in the spiritual network, hundreds more aurora beasts immediately came to where we were. The area was concentrated. Judging from the psychic network, there are probably only this many Aurora beasts in this nearby area, because as the Aurora beast herd approaches, we have never found any new Aurora beast signals on the network.
When all the nearby aurora beasts gathered near us, I counted the number of aurora beasts in my spiritual network, and found that there were more than 580 aurora beasts in this group, and according to the meaning they conveyed, All those who appear here are adult Aurora Beasts, and there are many small Aurora Beasts in their nests. In other words, the number of Aurora Beasts nearby is at least over a thousand.
Imagine that there are over a thousand Aurora Beasts alone in this area, and these guys are existences above a thousand levels. With such a high density of high-level monsters, you can imagine what this national barrier means to ordinary players. What. Monsters that could be bosses in other places are actually more numerous here than miscellaneous soldiers. Most people entering here are simply looking for death.
When all the aurora beasts gathered together, my little scouts finally discovered the information we needed. At this time, two aurora beasts walked out of the herd, which were several times larger than the other aurora beasts. The giant Aurora Beast.
Although the Aurora Beasts I have seen since I met the first Aurora Beast all have different body shapes, generally speaking, the sizes of these guys are roughly the same. However, the two aurora beasts in front of them were obviously ridiculously large. In fact, the two aurora beasts in front of them are also different in size. The smaller of the two extra-large Aurora Beasts is about 2.6 meters tall at the shoulders. Standing there, it feels like a bus has stopped in front of you. The other one is even more outrageous, with just four legs. It's almost as tall as the one in front. Taking into account the height of his body, the extra-large guy behind him is at least three and a half meters tall. If this guy wasn't in the psychic network, I would have thought he was another creature.
"Hello outsider." After I looked at the two big guys in front of me, the smaller one actually opened his mouth and spoke in human language.
I know that Aurora Beast can think and communicate, but it is the first time I heard that it can speak human language. Although I cannot say that I am surprised, at least it makes me feel surprised.
Probably knowing that his words were strange, the aurora beast explained: "I am the queen of this beast group, and this person next to me is the leader of the beast group, my husband. Thank you very much for everything you have done for us before. If If it weren't for your timely help and warning for us, many of our companions might have been killed by now."
"I'm just helping you by the way. I'm not here specifically to help you. In fact, I have a hostile relationship with the group of people who want to arrest you, so in my opinion, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so helping you can be regarded as helping myself. .”
After listening to what I said, the Queen of the Aurora Beast said: "Anyway, we got help, so we have recorded this kindness, and you don't have to speculate. In addition, I also want to ask you something."
"Please say."
"You said you and them are enemies, so you should know something about them, right?"
I nodded and said: "You will definitely know something if you know it. After all, this is not the first time we have fought against each other. But I don't know what you want to know. Even if I send people to investigate the enemy's situation, I can't say that I know everything." ?"
The other party immediately said: "It's not something too complicated. I just want to find out why the other party is interested in us?"
"Oh, I happen to know this." I explained the situation I heard from the Russians and my own analysis to the queen, and the other party kept nodding along with my explanation.
"So that's it!" After thinking for a moment, the queen turned to the oversized guy next to her and said, "Your Majesty, I think we should consider moving after this battle. The other party's purpose is to capture us and become demon pets. That way Even if we drive them away this time, they will still come back later. If we want them to give up completely, we must drive them away again and again, and in the process, they cannot capture any of us. Once we let them capture Once our members have tasted the sweetness, those guys will swarm in like carrion monsters who found dead bodies. I don't think it's difficult to repel them, but we have to make sure that none of our members are caught. It's impossible to leave. So since we can't do it, we might as well move before, lest we lose the lives of our companions in vain."
Before the Aurora Beast King spoke, I said, "Um...can I ask where you plan to move?"
The Aurora Beast Queen pondered for a while after hearing my words, and then said: "Maybe we will move to the mountains to the west. But that is the territory of the Steel Tooth Beast. If we move there, we may need to compete with them for the territory. , but it’s much better than always having to be wary of those people here.”
"You just moved a little bit west, and the distance hasn't changed much. Don't you think those guys will find you there soon?"
"But there is no suitable place for us to live in the east, nor in the north and south areas. In the territory to the west, we can only deal with the steel-toothed beast. The owner of the territory further away is too strong. Although we can defeat it, the loss will be too great, and we will not be able to deal with it. Not worth it!”
"Have you ever thought about moving to the city?" The little horns on my head finally started to appear.
"What? Move to the city? But there..." Aurora Beast's intelligence is indeed quite amazing, especially this queen, who is simply smarter than many humans. I just said I wanted them to move to the city, and she guessed what I meant. "No, although we are very grateful for your help, we will never agree to you asking us to be your magic pets. We are a species with autonomous consciousness and do not want to become a magic pet whose soul is imprisoned."
"Imprisonment? It's not as exaggerated as you said, right?" After the demon pet is captured, a part of its soul will be forcibly separated and merged into the master's soul. This is why the master's death demon pet will also die together. Also, the level of the demon pet cannot surpass that of the master. This is also restricted by the soul. When the demon pet fights, the master can receive experience points, which also comes from the connection of the soul. However, although from an objective point of view, becoming a demon pet will indeed take away part of the soul from the owner, but when it comes to imprisonment, it is indeed too serious. Of course, what I mean is not to encounter perverted beast tamers. After all, most beast tamers want to increase their loyalty, so being good to your magic pet is a basic condition. ***My own magic pet is something that only a pervert with abnormal brains would do.
The Aurora Beast Queen seemed to be very disgusted with the situation where the soul was separated, so after I finished speaking, she immediately said: "You don't need to say this anymore, we will not join."
"You won't go even if you don't have to pay for the soul restraint?"
"How can there be a contract that does not require soul binding?"
"Did I say I wanted to sign the contract?" I said as if you were too anxious: "I am a guild leader and I own a large guild. You may not know that if wild creatures agree, large guilds are You can recruit these creatures to become your vassals. This kind of vassal race can move freely in the city of the guild to which it belongs, and the guild is obliged to provide the vassal with all the conditions necessary for survival. Of course, the race that becomes a vassal must also Pay some price. This price is that the vassal race must arrange a comrade of the same race for each official member of the guild, and when the guild city is attacked, the vassal has the obligation to help defend the city. This kind of vassal race is in our It's called the Guild Guardian Beast, and it's a highly liberalized way of cooperation. How about it? Can you accept it?"
"No." The queen vetoed: "First, the number of our race is too small, and there is no way to guarantee a companion for each of your official members. Second, we are not used to living in the city. We occasionally stay for a few days. It’s fun, but we can’t stand living in the city all the time. Third, and most importantly, if we send our companions to become your members’ comrades, won’t we also have to be controlled by you?”
I also followed the Queen's words and said: "First, the first benefit of a guild guardian beast is that after becoming a guild guardian beast, the number of that race will increase sharply with the blessing of divine power. The population size will be absolutely guaranteed within three days. It is necessary to match each of our members with a comrade, and there can be many more. Secondly, our Frost Rose Alliance is different from ordinary guilds. Our guild has a special building called the Warcraft Lair, which is connected to the inside. An independent space. This space can be adjusted to the most suitable environment according to the needs of the living creatures. In addition to having an entrance and exit connecting our city, this space will be completely independent. Except for the creatures you allow, no dangerous creatures can You can't get in. You can usually live in this space, which can be expanded at will according to the number of your races. As for the city, you can come out when you want, and go back to live if you don't want to. As for the third point, I have already said, yes Become comrades in arms instead of familiars. The Aurora Beasts assigned to our members only need to fight with our members. You can listen to other things whether you like, and the two parties do not need to sign any agreement. Your members are completely free, except that they cannot leave. Outside of the guild, you can even change your comrades at any time."
"Sounds good? What do you think?" The Aurora Beast Queen looked at her husband and asked.
The Aurora Beast King, who had been keeping silent and pretending to be cool, finally spoke, but this guy almost made me faint when he opened his mouth. It was not because of his loud voice or anything, but because this guy's tone was like that of a villager from the mountains. He and his wife are completely opposite. "What about that... I don't know. You know I'm stupid and can't figure these things out. It's okay for you to let me fight. If you have a problem, I'll...!"
"That's it!"
Seeing that the other party was still hesitating, I simply summoned all the guardian beasts I had with me and asked them to show up and explain. With such a group of creatures that had become guardian beasts coming forward to speak out, the Aurora Beast Queen quickly asked for all the details she wanted to know.
Actually, I really didn’t lie to them. Unlike familiars, guild guardian beasts are actually just a vassal relationship, with no strong restrictions at all. Unlike familiars, which will be forced to rewrite their souls after being hatched by their masters, even if they were mortal enemies before, they will be instantly changed after becoming familiars. It will lose hostility to its owner. Of course, the initial loyalty of a demon pet will not be too high, but it will never be the case that it will completely oppose its master from the beginning.
After asking all the details, the Aurora Beast Queen finally nodded and said: "Okay. I agree to join your guild and become a guardian beast."
Almost as soon as the Aurora Beast Queen nodded, I got the system prompt that the guild guardians were increasing. However, if I wanted to have the Aurora Beast Guardians, I had to wait until I brought them back to Isengard. The guardian beasts did not immediately join. will be automatically assigned to each player.