Absolute Death Game

Before a military unit goes into battle, morale can generally be maintained at a relatively high level, typically around 100 points. Once it falls below 60, however, the possibility of disintegration arises. When a unit suffers casualties, for every 1% of troops lost, morale decreases by 2%. This means that a unit of a hundred men may disintegrate after losing twenty. Experience tales at NovelBin.Côm

But now, with the support of the "discipline" morale type, losing twenty men only reduces morale by thirty-two points, leaving an eight-point margin before disintegration. This must be one of the advantages of having different types of morale, and it seems there might be others.

Nevertheless, this served as a reminder to him that he didn’t need to wipe out every single Black Mountain Bandit attacking the village; inflicting sufficient casualties to cause disintegration would suffice.

What pleased him most was that the grade of the troop had changed from gray to white, at least it looked a bit more respectable now.

"You’ve done well, Old Han."

"You bet, I’ve even mastered ’Troop Training LV1’. But if I want them to perform well in battle, intensive training is still necessary."

Xiao Buli said, "Then I’ll leave the training to you. We have three days, do your best."

However, Han Wenhuan expressed his difficulty, "But if I focus on training, I won’t be able to level up and get equipment." Xiao Buli could tell what the young man was thinking just by looking at his expression. @@novelbin@@

"Don’t worry. I’ll get you a set of equipment later, guaranteed to keep you from falling on the battlefield," Han Wenhuan then chuckled and agreed, turning back to train the soldiers with interest.

Xiao Buli turned to the others and said, "You all should do the same; you must strengthen your abilities during these three days. Oh, Old Li, have you identified the items I sent you?"

Whenever Xiao Buli had some free time these past few days, he’d been sending items into the game. He had sent quite a few things, mostly blueprints and books.

Li Shuren shook his head, "I did identify them, but the problem is I can’t learn them. Take ’The Art of War by Sun Tzu’ for example."

The Art of War by Sun Tzu: A knowledge-based book, long-term reading can seemingly improve one’s military literacy.

Requirements to learn: intelligence 18 points.

"18 points in intelligence, which is the equivalent of 180 in reality. How many people could reach that level?"

Hearing this, Xiao Buli was somewhat at a loss for words. "What about the blueprints?"

The blueprints were even more outrageous, like this one for the flintlock gun.

Thunderbolt Gun: This blueprint is for a very strange weapon, appearing to possess extremely powerful lethality.

Requirements to learn: Forging LV10, Carpentry L5, Mechanical Techniques LV3, Alchemy LV3, intelligence 15 points.

This requirement on intelligence is a bit lower, but those prerequisite skills are overwhelmingly difficult to obtain. Xiao Buli thought for a moment but found no solution. Similarly, in his bag, there was also ’Classic of Mountains and Seas’, requiring 20 points of intelligence to learn. With such a high requirement for intelligence, how is one supposed to meet it?

It seems necessary to find a way to gather some intelligence-boosting equipment, wondering if such equipment even existed.

Xiao Buli nodded, "Let’s leave it at that for now. I have to go back to Mystic Hollow Palace for a bit. Xiao Ge, are you coming with me?"

Xiao Ge shook his head, "Forget it, I haven’t even mastered the One-handed Sword specialty. I’ll pass on going there for now."

Accepting his response, Xiao Buli set off on his own.

He continued to use Cloud Thunder Leap to rush in the direction of Mystic Hollow Palace. Half an hour later, he arrived once again at Mystic Hollow Palace, checking the proficiency of the Cloud Thunder Leap; it was almost at LV3, but still not sufficient. This skill would prove very useful in the future, so he must seize every opportunity to practice it more.

His reason for returning this time was to purchase some life-saving items, not for himself but for Gu Shaobang and the others. After all, warfare is perilous and unpredictable, and since you can’t log out during battle, should the situation go south, he wouldn’t want his brothers to fall there.

He already had one Mystic Hollow Palace Teleportation Talisman in his possession. Purchasing three more would suffice.

With three hundred twenty Contribution Value points at hand, he could exactly afford three Teleportation Talismans. After making the purchase, he was out of Contribution Value points again. Xiao Buli mused on how quickly he was going through them; he would have to consider taking on more tasks.

After acquiring the Town-Return Talismans, Xiao Buli prepared to train his skills. Many of his abilities had room for improvement, but the most urgent to upgrade was undoubtedly the Void Summoning Art.

This type of spell differed from offensive, defensive, and auxiliary spells in that low levels were almost useless. However, at higher levels, the potency and control over Summoned Beasts could be extraordinarily powerful.

Since this skill was exclusive and couldn’t be improved with battle experience, it was normally quite challenging to level up. However, Xiao Buli wouldn’t be deterred.

Xiao Buli headed straight for the Beast Pen where many animals were kept; some were there as prey for predators, like the long-eared rabbits. He decided to use these rabbits for his training.

After summoning and dismissing his horse, he began training his skill, which entailed a simple routine: seal a rabbit, summon and kill it, seal another, and kill it, repeating this process. When he had killed the thirtieth rabbit, a system notification appeared on the screen.

System Notification: After continuous practice, your Void Summoning Art has advanced to LV2.

(That went a bit faster than I thought), Xiao Buli pondered internally.