Chapter 21: Conspiracy of Revenge
As he walked out of the auction house, he roughly calculated that he had spent 10 diamond coins and hundreds of gold coins, which was just for buying bow and arrow type weapons. What a waste of money! Now, Xiaoying's total assets were only left with over 10 diamond coins. Fortunately, the ring was a divine artifact, and the items inside wouldn't drop even if he died. Xiaoying had already made up his mind to cause trouble for the Wandering Gang and didn't plan on returning alive anyway. After all, his level was low, so losing once wouldn't be a big deal. He hurriedly went to the government office to look at the quest to eliminate the San Jue Shan bandits, and the reward was 2400 reputation points and 3600 merit points, as well as several important maps. There was no restriction on who couldn't take it, so he quickly accepted the quest and then took the most important "SS" level task. He immediately used the transmission array to head to Xiangyang. This wasn't a time to be frugal.
Arrived at Xiangyang, first reset the rebirth point there, then took the teleportation array to Hongnong. To prevent the people of the Xiao Yao gang from sending someone to guard the Luoyang rebirth point 24 hours a day in anger, and risk being killed by the NPC soldiers to attack Xiao Ying. It is very likely that Xiao Ying will be deleted. Then went to the barracks to recruit 100 light cavalry (recruitment fee: 50 silver coins/person, equipment: 50 gold coins/person), 100 archers (recruitment fee: 20 silver coins/person, equipment: 1 gold coin/person), and 50 sword shield soldiers (recruitment fee: 10 silver coins/person, equipment: 30 silver coins/person). Also went to the granary to buy 200,000 grain, and bought some basic building blueprints for villages and towns from a player-run general store. Now Xiao Ying's total assets are only 700 gold left, almost being sent back to the liberation era in one go, it's simply burning money. However, most of it was spent on grain and cavalry, don't know what the consequences will be, bought more grain, just in case can't mix it up, then return to Evil Shadow Village, wait for development, and then come back to kill.
250 troops would definitely be annihilated, unfortunately, Xiao Ying didn't have the time to wait, otherwise, he could train them all into his special elite soldiers, and their combat power would increase several times. However, Xiao Ying was also broke, and training special soldiers was extremely expensive, requiring at least three months in an NPC city, or a year in a player's town. Specialized training camps were faster, but still very slow, for example, training cavalry from the basic militia (10 copper per head) would take about half a year in a regular camp, while it would only take 1-3 months in a specialized cavalry camp.
He then went to the official government office and accepted a mission to eliminate a group of 100 bandits near Sanxian Mountain, so he set off towards Sanxian Mountain. Now it's hard for players and NPCs to tell each other apart, and Xiao Ying had also made up her mind to minimize contact with players, so there was nothing to entangle with. The 250-strong army marched forward in a majestic manner, and the leveling team that was bought with money was indeed powerful. The army gave 20% of their experience to the player, and by the time they reached Sanxian Mountain, Xiao Ying had already leveled up to level 12.
The hundred-strong bandit gang was not difficult to defeat, the small fries were around level 10, similar to ordinary soldiers, and the big leader was only level 20. However, there were no players who took on this task because the reward was likely insufficient to compensate for the losses. The reward was one junior castle building blueprint (which can be used to build a stronghold outside of village or town ranges), 100 gold coins, 100 reputation, and 200 merit points. But Xiaoying's goal was not them anyway, so it didn't matter, just an excuse. Under Xiaoying's disregard for losses, all troops charged forward, cavalry charged, archers and swordsmen followed closely, and they were all annihilated in less than half a time unit. Xiaoying had leveled up by 1.5 levels and was now around level 13-14. Xiaoying's army was also tattered and scarred, looking like they had just come out of a fierce battle.
After the war, they settled accounts and obtained several thousand grains of food, more than a dozen war horses, over a hundred weapons, and several hundred gold coins. However, they lost 30 or so cavalrymen (including 30 or so war horses), 20 or so archers, and 10 or so swordsmen. No wonder nobody came to fight again; it was not worth the cost. Still, their income and expenses were more or less balanced, and they also gained experience. Afterwards, Xiao Ying didn't order the army to regroup, and instead set up camp on the road to Sanxian Mountain, waiting for the arrival of the Xiangyang Gang. Then, with the remaining 60 or so cavalrymen, they swept through the area in all directions.
The next day, on a small hill, I finally saw the arrival of a dense army in the distance, estimated to be around 300,000-400,000 strong. The black mass of people stretched as far as the eye could see, and I must say that seeing such a majestic and powerful army made my blood boil with excitement. Xiao Ying quickly descended the mountain and gathered his troops, pretending to have just lost a battle, and retreated towards the carefree and unmatched army of Pang Da.
"Halt, friend ahead!" Xiaoying was stopped by their vanguard as soon as she approached them. Is it necessary to be so cautious? You have hundreds of thousands of troops, while Xiaoying only has a few hundred, what can they possibly do?
"Friend! What's...?" Xiaoying had just stopped, and someone came riding alone, seeing Xiaoying's army in such a miserable state, couldn't help but ask with some doubt and sympathy.
"Ugh... what bad luck, I took on a quest to wipe out a band of thieves and spent all my savings to organize an army of over a thousand men. Just as we finished the task and were about to head back, we got beaten up like this! The result of all that effort is probably going to have to start all over again!" Xiao Ying sighed, pretending to lament and complain, then paused and asked with a mix of envy and curiosity: "You... what are you preparing for? I've never seen such a massive army before, it's so impressive!"
"Haha……friends are not simple, one person can pull up such a large army! The task is completed, the army will be pulled up soon, and the remaining troops are all elites!" That person was also quite generous, comforting warmly, paused for a moment and continued: "We also received the mission to suppress bandits!"
"Suppress bandits? You didn't say, I thought you were going to attack the NPC city! With so many troops, it's enough to take down a small country!" Xiao Ying exclaimed in feigned surprise, then leaned in close to the person and wrapped his arm around their shoulder, saying intimately: "I'm telling you, brother, I've played for so long but never participated in such a large-scale war. Can't I just join in on the fun?" The other person didn't seem to mind Xiao Ying's sudden closeness, nor did they pull away.
"Haha……If the massive cold weapon war is indeed a rare big scene, it's really addictive. If you want to join in, there's no problem, many players have already joined on the way. But let's get the ugly words out of the way first, you can only fight on the periphery and cannot follow us inside, otherwise don't blame us for being ruthless! The man laughed loudly as if it was expected, and seriously expressed his opinion, meaning that you can go and have fun, but you can't compete with us for the BOSS!"
"Hehe... thanks bro! Got it! Got it! We're not rookies, we understand the rules!" Xiao Ying smiled happily and repeatedly assured.
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