Chapter 13 Escort Mission

  On the 7th day of the week, after experiencing yesterday's battle, Lin Tian became somewhat silent, less frivolous and more stable and calm.

  Under his command, more than half of the divine warriors had died in battle, leaving only 20 level-1 long spear soldiers, 50 flower spirits, 30 level-2 archers, and 10 dwarves. In the hero's space, there were also 100 peasants and 100 small sprites who did not participate in the battle (even in yesterday's brutal fight, they endured without using them. In fact, even if they joined the battlefield, their effect would be very limited). Due to insufficient troops, a certain house now lacks a sense of security, and out of desire for troops, a certain house entered the system to prepare for the construction of third-level troop buildings, only to discover something different.

  The three-tiered barracks of the Elf tribe are normal, but the Human tribe has two buildable options: "Guard Camp" and "Swordsman Camp". The system is as stingy as ever, without giving any usable hints. Lin Tian carefully recalled his memories of playing games in the past, remembering that Heroes III had Crusaders with a dual-wielding skill, while Heroes V had Guards with the ability to reduce friendly troops' ranged damage taken. It seems that the change lies here.

  "Constructing Human Tribe 3rd Swordsmen Camp - 3000! Recruiting 30 swordsmen - 1500!"

  "Constructing Spirit Tribe's 3rd Tier Spirit Target Range - 3000! Recruiting 30 Spirit Archers - 1500!" Remaining 36,000 gold.

  Human Tier 3 Swordsmen, continuing the style of Heroes III, about 1.8 meters tall, iron armor, iron helmet, and iron greaves, with a neat and tidy appearance like an iron fortress. A long double-handed great sword signifies that they are offensive-type warriors who value advancing forward! Undoubtedly, if you choose to recruit from the Guard Regiment, they will definitely be defensive-type defensive warriors equipped with swords and shields.

  The swordsman looks quite majestic, but in a certain dead house's heart, they are nothing compared to the female elves next to them...

  The 3rd-tier Elf Archer, continuing the beautiful design of Heroes of Might and Magic III, wears shiny high-heeled war boots that tightly wrap around her slender legs, making them look delicate and lovely. With their petite stature, they appear to be small birds perched on people. Each of their faces is like a masterpiece of art, exuding beauty and charm. They wear silver armor with lavish golden trimmings and decorations, which prioritize aesthetics over defense, revealing their fair and resilient skin. Holding elegant Elf bows with high-quality bowstrings made from beast tendons, they can intimidate human archers to death. Especially noteworthy is the lower-body equipment - a short silver war skirt that exposes their flat abdomen and cute navel, not to mention the large section of smooth and tight thighs revealed between the short skirt and high-heeled boots... Just by looking at a certain someone's infatuated expression, it's clear that he has been completely captivated by these beautiful female elves!

  How embarrassing! Son of a...!

  Lin Tian did not summon this batch of new warriors to guard himself, and even put other warriors into the heroic space, leaving only 20 Huā Yāo exploring around.

  Is he trying to get himself killed? Has the confidence of the newly recruited soldiers gone to his head or something?

  Of course not! That's because yesterday he was in a good mood and agreed to escort the 14 surviving elf slaves back to the Elf Forest.

  Mission: Escort. Escort the surviving elf slaves back to safety! Completion will reward 1000 experience points and 1000 gold coins. Failure will deduct an equal amount of experience and gold coins.

  This was Lin Tian's first encounter with a quest, and he had always thought that the Hero System had cancelled the quest system because when he tried to accept quests from the Mercenary Hall before, they were not recognized by the system. Unexpectedly, he received an escort quest here, and there was even experience reward, which made him a bit entangled.

  The improved system does not explicitly display the experience value, but only uses an experience bar to represent it. When this progress bar-like experience bar is filled up, you can level up. As for how much 1000 experience values are, you can only guess.

  Because they entered the spiritual forest's sphere of influence, Lin Tian gathered all the human warriors and dwarves. This is because on this continent, dwarves and elves are not one family, but two completely different races. He didn't want to be mistaken for a slave hunter by the conservative elves and get killed. If possible, he himself wanted to hide in the heroic space, as the elven hunters' arrows don't distinguish between people. The flower fairies were kept because they were close to the forest and one family with the elves; on the other hand, they could also protect themselves and show that they were harmless. All the elven slaves had naturally been untied, but Lin Tian didn't have the ability to remove the magical restraints from their bodies - he wondered if learning water-based healing magic in the future would be able to remove them (in the game, healing magic has an additional function of removing a negative effect; high-level emergency tents also have this ability).

  A wooden arrow was inserted in front of the flower demon who was scouting ahead, which meant more obstruction than direct combat. This made Lin Tian breathe a sigh of relief. In the spirit language, he said loudly: "We have no malicious intentions, we rescued a batch of spirits from the poisonous slave-catching team and are now escorting them back to you!" Perhaps it was the system's preferential treatment for crossers, as long as Lin Tian had heard the language before, he could understand and learn it immediately. Earlier on the road, he had specifically approached these spirit slaves to learn the spirit language. Now, although there was still room for improvement in writing, basic communication was no longer a problem.

  Several tattooed elf hunters flashed in the dense forest ahead, these elves only painted extra tattoos when fighting or engaging in military activities, this is their ancient tradition. Lin Tian raised his hands to indicate no malice and signaled for one of the elf slaves to go and negotiate with them. Before long, more than 20 elf tribe members emerged from the dense forest, including an old tree person who suddenly removed its disguise and climbed up from not far away on Lin Tian's left side, this giant over 6 meters tall sudden action scared a certain house that was close at hand but completely unprepared...

  These elven warriors took away a dozen or so surviving elf slaves.

  Hint: Escort mission completed, gained 1000 experience and 1000 gold coins.

  Hint: Obtained a small amount of reputation among the mainland spirit tribe, current status upgraded to indifference.

  Experience pole advanced about 40%, this kind of real progress feeling, made Lin Tian feel refreshed. The remaining gold in the treasury is 37,000.

  What does the reputation of the mainland spirit tribe mean? Some otaku guessed that it might be a friendly degree, and after improvement, it's still just cold. Before that, it must have been hostile, right? Is it possible to attack the beautiful elf girls at will after their reputation is higher in the future? Haha! The damn otaku has entered YY mode again.

  The result is that the elves politely ask guests to stop, then turn and walk away in unison! Otherwise, they will be met with bows and arrows...

  This shattered the delusions of the dead househusband who still imagined himself being welcomed by the beautiful spirit mm, so I'd better go and conquer my own spirit archer mm first! They are much more beautiful than you guys, if I were to summon them all out, you village girls would definitely be so ashamed that you'd die from it. A certain man muttered to himself.

  Mission accomplished, no regrets!

  Kill him!