Chapter 6: Target, Level 2 Village!
Luoyun Village?
A Level 2 village?
When Ma Chao saw the location his lord had selected, a trace of surprise appeared on his face.
Under normal circumstances, after completing the beginner mission, new players would choose a nearby Level 1 village to attack as practice. At the same time, they would use it to farm experience and raise the level of both the lord and the generals under their command.
Even when new players attacked a Level 1 village, they would usually suffer heavy losses, let alone attacking a Level 2 village.
A Level 2 village came standard with one minor leader and two hundred mountain bandits.
In terms of numbers alone, that was twice the strength of a Level 1 lord.
Attacking such a place would not be easy.
Ma Chao wanted to speak up and remind him, but after glancing at Xiao Wen's expression, he said nothing.
The army of one hundred men marched out grandly from the starting territory. Before leaving, Xiao Wen even specifically recycled the two buildings he had constructed in the starting territory before departing.
This territory was merely a random territory assigned after choosing a faction. Compared to the main city territory Xiao Wen had in mind, it was still lacking by quite a bit.
The territory he wanted was not here.
It was that Level 2 village!
Other people painstakingly constructed buildings, raised their construction value, and upgraded to a Level 2 village.
But this great lord was different.
Did his starting territory need to be developed step by step?
No.
He could just go and seize one directly!
Besides...
Speed was the essence of war.
If he wanted to gain an advantage in the game, he had to be fast in the early stages, and he had to keep being fast!
Xiao Wen clearly remembered that in his previous life, the first players to conquer Level 2 and Level 3 villages would both trigger server-wide announcements and gain prestige.
At the same time, they would also receive random equipment draw chances.
For this draw, the worst possible reward was still Profound-tier equipment!
According to the equipment grades currently announced by the game officials, from low to high, they were: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Yellow-tier, Profound-tier, Earth-tier, Heaven-tier, Peerless-grade, and Immortal-grade.
These were the nine grades of equipment. Among them, Peerless-grade and Immortal-grade equipment were extremely rare. At least in Xiao Wen's previous life, he had never seen any.
As for equipment in the four tiers of Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow, they all belonged to sealed, growth-type equipment. They needed to be unsealed according to the wearer's own strength and potential.
This was determined by the game's built-in balancing mechanism.
However, once these sealed pieces of equipment were gradually unsealed, or even completely unsealed, the skills attached to the equipment would merge with the general himself, making the general even stronger.
Before long, they arrived outside the Level 2 village.
When Xiao Wen reached this place, the system notification sounded beside his ear.
Warning! The target ahead is a Level 2 village with powerful strength. Player, please proceed carefully and act according to your ability.
The notification rang in his ear.
Xiao Wen ignored it outright. He had the hundred-man army stop outside Luoyun Village's scouting range, then took out the parchment scroll and marked a terrain point on the right side of Luoyun Village.
Gourd Mouth terrain!
“General Ma.”
A cold light flashed in Xiao Wen's eyes as he turned his head to look at Ma Chao.
Ma Chao knelt on one knee and replied at once, “This general is here!”
“General, please lead ten men to challenge them. Seize their village banner and lure the mountain bandits into this place. The remaining ninety men will set up an ambush on both sides of the entrance. Once the mountain bandits enter the Gourd Mouth, attack them from the front and rear, and wipe them out!”
“This general accepts the order!”
Ma Chao cupped his fists and replied.
After speaking, he lifted the Profound Heaven Sky-Piercing Spear and summoned ten militia to follow behind him. Then he urged his horse forward, pointed the spear in his hand toward the front, and charged straight ahead with the ten soldiers without the slightest hesitation, his sharpness fully revealed.
Although there were only ten soldiers behind him, under Ma Chao's lead, those ten soldiers were forcefully given the momentum of thousands of troops and horses.
Ma Chao arrived near Luoyun Village and looked at the mountain stronghold banner fluttering in the wind at the village entrance.
He sneered, raised the spear in his hand, pointed it straight at the mountain bandits guarding the village gate, and shouted, “You petty rats, do you dare fight this general?”
The moment those words left his mouth, the mountain bandit guarding the gate in front of him was stunned.
Then he looked at Ma Chao with a cold smile, picked up a large saber from the entrance, and sneered.
“Brothers, some blind fool has come looking for trouble! Cut him down!”
With that cold laugh, he directly raised the large saber, strode forward, and led several brothers toward Ma Chao.
However, before he could even reach Ma Chao, Ma Chao shook the reins. His legs tightened around the horse, and Claw Yellow Flying Lightning beneath him transformed into a stream of light and shot forward.
The spear in his hand thrust straight out, piercing through the mountain bandit before him with lightning speed.
Its momentum did not decrease. It pierced through several people in succession, stringing them together like candied hawthorn skewers, and charged all the way to the fence at the village gate.
Health -999.
Health -999.
...
By the time Ma Chao reached that spot, he could faintly see the mountain bandits inside the village being alarmed. A dense black mass of people rushed out.
The spear in his hand swept out, snapping the mountain stronghold banner at the village gate in one strike.
Holding the village banner and dragging it along the ground, he pulled the reins and directly led the ten still-dazed militia away.
The banner dragged across the ground, raising dust into the sky.
One mountain bandit after another rushed out. Looking at Ma Chao's departing figure and the battle flag he was dragging in his hand, their eyes widened in fury, filled with bloodthirsty light.
The stronghold's banner was the face of the entire stronghold.
If the bosses above found out that their banner had been stolen and even dragged along the ground in humiliation, then they would no longer need to guard this village.
Only death would be waiting for them!
“Take back the banner!”
“Kill!”
...
The sound of battle cries erupted.
The mountain bandits chased after him one after another, stirring up a cloud of dust behind them.
Two li away, at the hidden position near the Gourd Mouth, Xiao Wen looked at Ma Chao “fleeing in panic,” then looked at the village banner in his hand. A smile appeared on his face as he sighed emotionally.
The village banner really was the best aggro-pulling point against NPCs in the early stages of the game!
Ma Chao carried the village banner and charged into the Gourd Mouth.
Before long, the mountain bandits of Luoyun Village surged up behind him one after another. Their eyes had already turned red from killing intent, and without hesitation, they rushed into the Gourd Mouth terrain, intending to kill Ma Chao and take back the banner.
However, just as nearly two hundred people charged into the Gourd Mouth, Ma Chao, who had been fleeing ahead, pulled the reins and turned around.
With a savage smile on his face, he charged straight toward the mountain bandit army.
At the same time, the ninety militia lying in ambush on both sides of the entrance also attacked one after another. They struck from the rear, cutting off the mountain bandits' retreat.
For a time, battle cries rang continuously, and the clash of weapons sounded again and again beside their ears.
Xiao Wen's expression remained calm as he quietly watched this battle that had no suspense whatsoever.
A Level 2 village might be unreachable for ordinary players.
But to him?
It was nothing more than this!
...
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