Chapter 90: Grinding Monsters and Leveling Up

Next, the city wall where Gao De and the others were stationed experienced several waves of offensive from Dire Bats one after another.

However, as the battle continued and the number of times they took action increased, everyone gradually became familiar with the attack patterns of the Dire Bats, and their responses became more and more relaxed.

During this period, the apprentice magic users of the Seventh Team took action six or seven times in succession.

Gao De participated in three of them, all relying on the longer range and outstanding lethality of 【Fire Arrow+】 to successfully kill three Dire Bats.

Added to the one shot at the beginning, the progress of obtaining the origin of Dire Bats had reached (4/7).

The situation looked stable and improving.

But changes often happen in an instant.

Another wave of new Dire Bat swarms rushed toward the section of the city wall defended by Gao De.

And in this wave of Dire Bats, the four leading ones were clearly a size larger than the other Dire Bats, and the color of the fur covering their bodies was also deeper.

The arrows shot by the archers landed on these four Dire Bats, actually bouncing off as if they had hit gold or iron, unable to penetrate their bodies at all.

"It's a 1st Circle Dire Bat!" Lilo frowned.

0-Circle Dire Bats could barely be injured by ordinary arrows.

But once an earth-vein creature reached this rank of 1st Circle, it would possess extremely strong physical resistance.

Basically, only spells or alchemical weapons could cause substantial damage that posed a threat to them.

Dang dang dang! These four Dire Bats took the lead in charging and fighting, hard-headedly topping the arrow rain and rushing out a path.

Seeing this scene happen, the apprentice magic users of the Seventh Team all changed their expressions.

They didn't think their cantrips could threaten a 1st Circle earth-vein creature.

Moreover, even without the 1st Circle Dire Bats, under the leadership of the four 1st Circle Dire Bats, the number of Dire Bats approaching the city wall had already reached nearly one hundred.

This number was not something they could block.

This was the first time the Seventh Team had encountered a crisis in this defense.

"What should we do?!" Those with poor psychological quality had already begun to lose their footing and were at a loss.

This kind of panicked emotion was very easy to spread.

"Don't be afraid, high-circle magic users will take action!" Lilo noticed the change in everyone's emotions in time and shouted to "stabilize the military heart."

It was also at this moment, as Lilo's voice fell, that Gao De felt an invisible and powerful energy fluctuation suddenly surge from the tower behind.

On the city wall, a tower was built every certain distance, and alchemical weapons were loaded on the tower.

Of course, Bremen City clearly didn't intend to use alchemical weapons in this defense.

It was the magic users who took action!

Gao De subconsciously looked back and vaguely saw figures in magic robes flashing inside the tower that looked like a fortress standing on the city wall.

The next moment, in front of the section of the city wall defended by the Seventh Team, on the advancing route of the Dire Bat swarm, a cloud group composed of countless tiny daggers formed.

These daggers flickered with cold light, constantly circling, flying, and rotating in this fixed area, drawing trajectories, as if a dagger storm had blown up.

The Dire Bats couldn't react at all and faced this dagger cloud head-on.

The daggers drew silver trajectories on the bodies of the Dire Bats.

Whether it was the 4 leading 1st Circle Dire Bats or the nearly one hundred 0-Circle Dire Bats, they were no different in front of these rotating magic daggers.

Every bat was hit by several daggers at the same time.

Every Dire Bat that was hit let out a miserable scream.

Their bodies were torn apart under the cutting of the daggers, and flesh and blood splashed.

They tried to run away or dodge, but the speed and number of the daggers far exceeded them, spreading at an extremely fast speed. Soon, there was blood and remains of Dire Bats everywhere in the air.

This wave of offensive that made all the magic users of the Seventh Team change color was easily resolved just like that.

"Is this the true power of spells..." Gao De muttered to himself in his heart: "I just don't know what circle spell it is, 1st Circle, or 2nd Circle?"

He also finally understood why the 0-Circle spells, which clearly had outstanding power in his eyes, would be crowned with the slightly teasing title of "cantrip."

It wasn't because 0-Circle spells were too weak, but because the power of upper-circle spells was too strong! The gap between magic users and apprentice magic users was still too large.

After this most threatening wave of offensive was also resolved by the high-circle magic user hiding in the tower, the situation returned to stability, and no more accidents happened.

These Dire Bats that flew out from the forest, after continuing their offensive for nearly half an hour, were finally basically disintegrated.

The remaining scattered Dire Bats could no longer organize a large-scale offensive and scattered into the wild forest outside the city and disappeared.

The battle ended.

Gao De looked at the ground full of bat corpses and broken wing fragments outside the city wall, and then looked at the several city guards on the city wall who were injured, and couldn't help but sigh.

These Dire Bats were already considered extremely easy-to-deal-with earth-vein creatures.

Because they didn't have long-range attack means, and didn't possess supernatural power, they just had tough bodies, using their lives to hard-headedly top the arrow rain and charge the city wall.

It felt a bit like moths to a flame, seeking their own death.

But even so, there were still many city guards who were scratched or bitten by "fish that slipped through the net" that broke through the defensive line but were too late for magic users to handle.

According to what Lilo said, Dire Bats carry deadly diseases, so one could imagine what the ending of these scratched city guards would be.

At the very least, they would lose more than half their lives.

But battle is like this; wanting to not die or get injured is almost impossible.

"Everyone was a stranger before this, and had never fought together. Being able to complete the mission without too many personnel casualties in the first battle is already quite good."

But Lilo, who led the team, was clearly very satisfied with this result and spoke directly in praise.

This made the apprentice magic users of the Seventh Team, who were temporarily gathered together, feel very useful.

They had both received real material rewards and obtained a certain amount of emotional value; everyone was in a very good mood.

"The situation during city defense was complex and urgent, and it was impossible to accurately count the number of Dire Bats you participated in killing..."

Lilo said this, paused, his gaze swept across everyone's faces, and finally said:

"But don't worry, the extra rewards promised in advance will definitely not be less for you."

"Later, you go to the registration staff yourself to report the number, and we will settle the rewards for you according to the participation killing number you reported."

"I believe everyone will not report falsely." Lilo laughed.

Actually, even if they reported falsely, there wouldn't be too much difference.

After all, a Second-Rank apprentice magic user, at most, could cast ten or so cantrips, and their mana would be dry.

And in the city defense battle just now, although no one would count how many cantrips each apprentice magic user cast, they had a rough idea of the number.

So even if everyone played tricks and reported more, they wouldn't dare to report too much.

But Lilo saying this made him look very generous, making everyone feel exceptionally comfortable.

And for Lilo, anyway, this money wasn't paid by him; it was all paid by the official.

Even if this money wasn't issued to these "wild magic users" who participated in the defense, it wouldn't fall into his pocket.

Since that was the case, why not be generous, at least he could get a good reputation among everyone.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 91 =====