Chapter 823: Rapid Development (2)

The treasure chest opened, light blazing in every direction.

But the first data transfer failed…

No worries, that's only natural.

The second data transfer succeeded.

A total of 315 rare materials were obtained.

Everything's ready, begin!

Seven hours passed.

At 10 p. m., Zhao Chi finished his modifications in a dizzy daze.

All 100 two-handed Phoenix Cry Blades were fully modified.

Exit crafting mode.

The clanging beside his ears still rang on without pause.

Ding Dang and the others hadn't reached rest time yet, their hammers striking without stop.

Sparks mixed with smoke flew off in every direction.

The Shadow-Bearing Phoenix Cry Blades had already been carried off by Gu Qing and distributed to the female blade soldiers.

Zhao Chi was mulling over a question.

Should he transfer those 20 female archers into blade soldiers?

In truth, their combat power wasn't low.

Compared with other lords' female archers, there was simply no comparison—the gap was far too great.

Even compared with other lords' male archers, they were still far stronger.

For one, their four base attributes were all 1 point higher.

This meant that in attack, attack speed, accuracy, and so on, they already surpassed human archers, and were even stronger than elven archers.

With Fearless, they could keep firing steadily even when enemies charged right up to them, maintaining accuracy and output.

With Flexible Body, they could twist to shoot from any angle.

No need to mention Bone-Gathering Rebirth.

Night Vision let them perform steadily even at night.

And Overload load-bearing capacity let them carry massive quantities of arrows, giving them tremendous ammo capacity. On top of that, they could also wear heavy armor and fight the enemy at close quarters.

All of it was excellent.

But the one problem was that ranged killing power was inherently lower than melee.

【Name】Iron Bow

【Quality】Standard

【Durability】200

【Attack】10

【Range】100 meters

He didn't know whether this world had been adjusted for balance, or whether it had simply always been this way.

Normally, it took 10 arrows to shoot someone dead.

Of course, that didn't include fatal hits like headshots.

This meant that while these female archers were indeed extremely strong, transferring them into blade soldiers would make them even stronger.

Right now the soldier count was only in the hundreds.

Far too few.

It couldn't even be called strategic depth or unit composition.

100 female soldiers charging in could all reach the enemy.

Moreover, he hadn't bought any bow-type tactics yet, nor any particularly strong bows.

It really was better to specialize as blade soldiers.

Once the soldier count grew larger later, he could consider adding archers back in.

As for ranged damage, he'd just make up for it with javelins.

Zhao Chi picked up the freshly crafted Phoenix Cry Blade beside him, looked at its stats, and grew even more certain of this decision.

【Name】Iron Two-Handed Shadow-Bearing Phoenix Cry Blade

【Quality】Standard

【Durability】400

【Attack】38

【Destruction】15

【Effects】Range +50%, Attack +50%, Attack Speed +5%, Accuracy +5%

The base of this Phoenix Cry Blade was still a two-handed iron sword.

But on top of the original, a great many bonuses had been added.

The most intuitively calculable was attack power, which had gone from 38 to 57.

Two slashes and a person was dead for sure.

Even two slashes could roughly cut through leather armor.

Against a wooden shield, a single slash could smash it apart.

Against iron shields and iron armor with 400 durability, 5–6 slashes were enough to break the armor and the shield.

And with Chain Flourish, it took only 2 Chain Flourishes to chop an iron-armored enemy soldier down to bare skin.

If it's a bow...

I'm afraid even if I fired all 30 arrows in the entire quiver, I still couldn't shoot through the enemy's shield.

Damn it… class change!

Zhao Chi no longer hesitated.

He found those 20 female archers at the training ground and asked for their opinions.

The female archers giggled and laughed, having no objections whatsoever.

"Whatever you say, my lord, is what we'll do."

"Yes, we all listen to you."

"No problem at all — whatever task you give us, we can do it."

"Swords are easy — just charge in and hack away!"

"Mm, our opinion is that we have no opinion."

"Your decision must have been thought through, my lord — we all trust you."

Fine, then — everyone class changes!