Chapter 4: A single cent can defeat a hero

  "Finally level 2." Xiao Yu's mood was excited for a moment, and he immediately began teaching the Sword Saint new skills.

  "Learn Invincible Slash." Xiao Yu gave the command, and instantly, a skill mark for Invincible Slash appeared in Jian Sheng's skill bar.

  Invincible Slash (Level 1): Deals a powerful slash attack to the opponent, causing 80 points of damage plus weapon damage. Consumes 10 points of Chi. Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

  After reaching level 2, the attributes of the Sword Saint also changed.

  Sword Saint Attributes:

  Grommash Hellscream

  Race: Beastmen.

  Level: 2

  Attributes: Strength 22, Agility 34, Endurance 27.

  Skills (learned): Gale Step (Level 1), Invincible Slash (Level 1)

  By observing the changes in this attribute, Xiao Yu understood that at present, every time the Sword Saint upgrades a level, the basic attribute points increase by 2 points of strength, 4 points of agility, and 2 points of endurance. This is the basic attribute increase for each upgrade.

  "Basic attributes have been increased, and I've also learned Invincible Slash. With this, the problem of insufficient attack power should be solved." Xiao Yu had high expectations for Invincible Slash as well. This was the first truly offensive skill.

  This sword is really too bad, the attack power is too low. Xiao Yu checked the current attack power of Jian Sheng's sword and it was only 8-9, which was also too weak.

  He decided to quickly build a blacksmith's shop, so that he could upgrade the Sword Saint's broken sword later.

  At this moment, a swift wind leopard rushed over from afar. Xiao Yu was greatly shocked and immediately used the Swift Wind Step to hide herself, letting Jian Sheng deal with it.

  At this stage, Xiao Yu's strength is too weak, and Gale Step is indeed a good survival skill.

  The Sword Saint seemed to also yearn for a try at this Invincible Slash skill, seeing the hunting leopard's eyes filled with a bloodthirsty and violent look, he quickly launched his Gale Step, his agile figure like a gust of wind rushing towards the direction of the hunting leopard, then leaping high into the air, fiercely striking down at the hunting leopard.

  Whoosh...

  A sharp whistling sound cut through the air, a bright arc of sword energy flashed by, and the Sword Saint's Invincible Slash struck the leopard's neck. The leopard let out a mournful cry, its neck was immediately slashed open with a huge gash, its head twisted to one side, it seemed that it wouldn't survive.

  "What a powerful and invincible slash, haha……" Xiao Yu saw the hunting leopard fall down, immediately ran out, looked at the deep wound on the leopard's neck and felt excited. The few leopards they encountered before were quite troublesome to kill, but now they could be killed with just one sword.

  Xiao Yu ordered Jian Sheng to use the Invincible Slash to cut down a tree to test its power. As a result, a tree with a trunk as thick as a bowl was directly cut off by the Invincible Slash, with a smooth and neat cutting surface.

  Xiao Yu was very satisfied with the power of Invincible Slash.

  Jian Sheng learned a new skill, Xiao Yu can also learn, so he added another skill point to this invincible slash.

  It's just that his physical quality is very poor now, the attribute points are too low, and he hasn't practiced swordsmanship much, so this Invincible Slash can't exert too much power.

  Jian Sheng can cut down a tree as thick as a bowl with one sword, but he can only cut off a branch as thin as a child's arm. Wu Di Zhǎn also requires the user's own attribute strength to exert its power.

  Seeing that it was already late, Xiao Yu also stopped being greedy and took the Sword Saint back to the base.

  Level 2 to level 3, experience is needed 2000 points, for the time being it can't be upgraded. Xiao Yu also knew that the more you go back, the harder it will be to upgrade levels.

  If upgraded again, learning that fatal blow can increase some damage, and Sword Saint will be even more powerful.

  When he returned to the base, Xiao Yu was surprised to find that the beastman soldiers had been produced. Ten over two meters tall, sharp-fanged, green-skinned beastmen stood at attention in front of the barracks, looking at Xiao Yu and saluting together, shouting: "Master."

  Xiao Yu was very satisfied with their performance, and it was clear that they were extremely loyal to themselves. Observing these green-skinned beastman soldiers, although slightly shorter than Grom, they were still much more robust than ordinary humans. Each beastman was almost as wide as two Xiao Yus, with arms thicker than his thighs, possessing powerful explosive strength, and a casual slap could probably send Xiao Yu flying.

  Such a soldier, brought onto the battlefield, can be imagined to possess incredibly strong combat capabilities, and it's a conservative estimate that one of them could take down three regular human soldiers.

  The only thing that made Xiao Yu dissatisfied was that these beastmen's weapons were all a rusty broken axe, and there was no armor on their bodies, as if they had come from a remote rural tribe.

  Xiao Yu inquired about the system and indeed had to wait until the blacksmith shop came out before they could make armor and weapons for them.

  With ten soldiers, Xiao Yu felt that his confidence had increased a lot, but these ten soldiers were still of little help against the large army of Karu in this battle.

  According to Xiao Yu's understanding, Kalu's territory was not small in scale. The regular army had 20,000 soldiers, although it didn't mean that all of them would come over. At least several thousand could come, and the most soldiers Xiao Yu had in the castle were only four or five hundred. Adding a few beastmen soldiers to that number made them no match at all.

  Even if beastman soldiers are strong, they can at most take on three or four enemies, but they can't handle a dozen or hundreds.

  Xiao Yu calculated that there were at least 400 to 500 beastman soldiers, and with the cooperation of the city's soldiers, they could defend the city and defeat Karu.

  However, four or five hundred soldiers would require forty or fifty thousand gold coins.

  Where can I find these coins?

  They also need to build a den for them as soon as possible and solve their food problem, which is another huge expense.

  It's okay, Xiao Yu inquired about the system and found out that as long as there were burrows, the beast tribe could obtain food inside without having to search for extra food, just like in the game. This made Xiao Yu breathe a sigh of relief.

  Otherwise, such a group of tall and sturdy men will definitely not eat less.

  "Go back and ask how much gold is left in the castle. With such a large territory, there should be some savings. As long as there are 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins, I can recruit beast tribe soldiers to resist Karul." Xiao Yu thought so, and let Grom and ten beast tribe soldiers guard the camp, while he rode his horse back.

  Xiao Yu rode his horse back to the castle quickly, but because it was dark, the castle had already closed its doors.

  "Open the door, open the door! I haven't returned yet, adults, and you've already closed it." Xiao Yu shouted upwards.

  The soldier above saw that it was Xiao Yu, and immediately opened the city gate to let him in. Because he knew that not long after, Kalu might bring troops over to fight, so for the past few days, the steward Xiao Hong had ordered the city gates to be closed earlier.

  Xiao Yu rode his horse all the way back to his residence and told the little maid who served him, "Go call Hong Shu over."

  Xiao Ya Tou is cleaning up the room. Originally informed that this city master may not come back today, unexpectedly Xiao Yu ran back again.

  Xiao Yaohua put down what she was doing and immediately ran out to call Xiao Hong.

  Xiao Yu paced back and forth in the room, thinking about how to recruit troops and build a base next.

  Although we have a base in Warcraft, the current situation is not optimistic. To stabilize the situation, there are still many things to be done.

  Money is now the most important thing, with money, it can develop rapidly. He asked Xiao Hong to come over, mainly for the sake of money.

  After a while, Xiao Hong appeared outside Xiao Yu's door and said respectfully: "Young Master, what are your orders?"

  In Xiao Hong's opinion, Xiao Yu riding out on horseback today must have been running away, but unexpectedly Xiao Yu actually came back in the evening.

  Seeing Xiao Hong, Xiao Yu hastily invited him in. Looking at this old man with white hair and dull eyes, Xiao Yu knew that he had worried too much about this territory, especially when encountering such a prodigal son.

  "Cough, cough..." Xiao Yu saw Xiao Hong's unangry gaze and wooden expression, and didn't know how to start speaking. From past memories, this good-for-nothing was always finding excuses to ask the old steward for money. That money, however, was all spent on drinking and pleasure.

  "Hong Shu, you also know that our territory is now facing a huge crisis. Although it was caused by me, I want to think of a way to make up for it as much as possible. Kalu will send someone to attack in a month, so I want to hire some mercenaries to defend the territory. So... "

  Need money, must still find this old steward. Looking at the old steward's worn-out uniform, Xiao Yu felt a twinge of guilt. He also knew that the domain didn't have much money left, if there was even a little bit of money, as a steward, he wouldn't dress like this.

  Unexpectedly, the old steward did not have any of his usual nagging and advice this time. This time, the old steward simply nodded woodenly, with a hint of despair and sigh in his eyes, and then turned and left.

  Before long, the old butler came back, holding several heavy bags in his hands.

  "These are the last savings of our territory, I left a part for the five ladies as travel expenses, and the rest is all here. Young master, take care on your journey, I and Long Hui will stay here. We have followed Lord Saohuang for so long, we're old too, and don't want to go anywhere else." The lord that the old steward was referring to was not Xiao Yu, but his father, Xiao Zhan Tian.

  The old steward's words clearly indicated that he had given up all hope for the territory and had already begun to disperse personnel. He believed that Xiao Yu returned only because she was in a hurry to leave and didn't bring any money, so by nightfall she had no choice but to return again. Therefore, he had prepared all this money in advance.

  "This... Uncle Hong, you have to believe me, I really have a way to save the territory, don't let Aunt and the others leave, I'm sure I can defeat Kalu." Xiao Yu looked at the old butler's gloomy gaze and urged. He now had the Beastmaster base, as long as he had some time, it would definitely develop.

  The old steward nodded slightly, neither affirming nor denying, and bowed his head: "Young master, take care of yourself, I'll withdraw."

  After finishing speaking, Xiao Hong then retreated and went out.

  Xiao Yu let out a helpless sigh after Xiao Hong left. Everyone in this territory had already given up on him.

  It's no wonder they're like this, the previous Xiao Yu was too despicable.

  "Damn it, this good-for-nothing son of a bitch has left me with such a mess to clean up." Even Xiao Yu himself was furious with the old Xiao Yu.

  Xiao Yu didn't have time to think about it too much, and immediately poured out the gold coins, roughly counting them and estimating a quantity. He needed to plan how to quickly develop the base.

  In the end, Xiao Yu determined that these gold coins were probably over 4,000 but less than 5,000. A territory was left with only this little money, which was really enough to make one feel distressed.

  Four thousand gold coins can summon forty beast tribe soldiers, but it's still far from enough. Even if the beast tribe soldiers are strong, one against five is the limit.

  "Damn it, money is really a problem for heroes. I never thought it would be like this." Xiao Yu, who was used to his otaku lifestyle, had never been in such an embarrassing situation before.

  In the past, he didn't spend much money, and it was all spent on games. Being frugal was enough to get by without having to worry too much about money. However, now the amount of money needed is too great, and he doesn't have any way to make a fortune either.

  "Where can I get the money?" Xiao Yu didn't sleep well that night, pacing back and forth in his room until dawn, when he finally lay down on the bed for a short nap.

  Early in the morning, Xiao Yu got up and quickly ran out of the city with several bags of gold coins.

  Lao Guan Jia Xiao Hong also got up very early, silently watching Xiao Yu leave in the distance, without saying a word. Then, he went to the main hall of the lord's manor to see several young madams.

  "A few young ladies, let's go. If we don't leave now, it will be too late." At this time, in the lord's hall, Long Hui, the captain of the guard, was persuading Xiao Yu's five sisters-in-law.

  "Let them go, I'm already a member of the Xiao family. Wherever they go, it's all the same to me. At worst, I'll just die here. Especially you two, Fourth Sister and Fifth Sister, you're both still young and unmarried, don't waste your youth here." said Qian Yin, Xiao Yu's elder sister-in-law.

  "Hmph, I'm not leaving. Does he think I'm that good-for-nothing son? I'll stay and fight it out with Karu to the end. Let Wu Mei leave instead, he's after her, can't let him get his hands on her." said Xue Shan, Xiao Yu's fourth sister-in-law, dressed in military attire, with an icy demeanor.

  "All of you sisters don't have to worry about me, if that Ka Ru insists on taking me away, I'd rather die than bring shame to the Xiao family." said Xiao Yu's fifth sister-in-law, Xi Wen.

  "Alas, don't be stubborn. If something happens to you, how can I face the late lord?" Long Hui was in a dilemma.