Chapter 2749: Smelting

On the plains in front of the Aier Great Forest, a giant crater with a diameter of three kilometers appeared. Due to the high temperature in the crater, the air inside seemed to be distorted, and magma-like fluid filled the lower part of the crater.

The Elf race's most elite troops, the Morning Glow troops, suffered more than half casualties here. The three Elf Elders commanding this unit all thought they were going to suffer a crushing defeat today, when the enemy troops suddenly retreated.

Looking down from above, one could see the two armies separating rapidly, one side retreating toward the Aier Great Forest, and the other side retreating toward the direction of the New Moon Fortress.

The battle started very suddenly and ended even more suddenly. The Morning Glow troops, having suffered more than half casualties, retreated back into the Aier Great Forest. Many years ago, this was actually their border line, while fortresses like New Moon, Ancient Tree, Moonlight, and Flame Valley actually originally belonged to the Chaos Legion. It was only after the Elf race rebuilt the Chaos Legion's fortresses that these fortresses came into being and were renamed.

At this time, with the edge of the Aier Great Forest as the boundary, in the near future, the two sides were bound to launch a final decisive battle. In this battle, if the Elf race won, the main defensive line located behind the Chaos Legion would be breached.

At this time, the Six-Race Alliance had not fully attacked the Chaos Legion's main defensive line in the "Chimney Mountain" area, the main reason being that none of them wanted to anger the Wolf Cavalry Legion.

Su Xiao's Wolf Cavalry Legion was different from the troops of the Six-Race Alliance. The troops of the Six-Race Alliance all needed stable supplies from the rear, while the Wolf Cavalry Legion was different; they relied on spoils of war to support themselves—no, it should be that the current Wolf Cavalry Legion supported the entire Chaos Legion.

Therefore, capturing Chimney Mountain behind the Chaos Legion had no strategic value and would not cause material impact on the Wolf Cavalry Legion. Not only that, the Wolf Cavalry who had lost their homes would become an isolated army, and what they would do then, only heaven knew.

The four parties—the Northern Territory, the Dwarf race, the Barbarians, and the Lizard race—all didn't want to bear this risk, so they were all watching. As long as the Wolf Cavalry Legion was defeated, Chimney Mountain would cease to exist in a short time.

As for the most powerful Duoyin, the reason they were watching was very simple: whether the Elf race won or the Wolf Cavalry Legion won, the Duoyin Empire could benefit. As for the friendship with the Elf race as allies, among these great powers, there was no such thing.

The weather, which had been rainy all morning, had cleared up by noon, and the air was filled with the unique fresh scent after rain.

The New Moon Fortress stood on the plains. The bloodstains and charred marks here had been washed clean by the rain, and Wolf Cavalry were stationed on the city walls.

There were also quite a few Wolf Cavalry patrolling inside the fortress, plus the arrival of the War Treants, making this fortress exceptionally lively. This was a rare moment of leisure after many days of bitter fighting.

Most of the Gray Orcs were on both sides of the inner river in the center of the fortress. The Gray Orcs, who hadn't bathed for years, were now bathing in the inner river, which was over ten meters wide. The river water flowing slowly past turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Gray Orcs bathing collectively wasn't because they loved cleanliness, but because Bubu Wang had recently frequently received "complaints" from the mount wolves. For the mount wolves with keen sense of smell, the smell on the Gray Orcs was really a bit strange, and it was a bit pungent to the nose.

Therefore, there was the scene now: hundreds of thousands of Gray Orcs were either soaking in the river water scrubbing their bodies, or standing on the stone roads on both banks, holding wooden buckets in their hands.

Among them, Orc Hero Worpol was the most ruthless; he was sitting in a large iron bucket, filled with water, and there was a fire burning underneath.

In the center of the fortress, there was a magnificent stone building with a pointed roof and vines climbing the walls, very much in the Elf race's architectural style.

At this time, Su Xiao was on the third floor of the stone building, checking the battle report compiled by Bahar. After attacking the Ancient Tree Fortress earlier, he had left 50,000 Wolf Cavalry there to guard the supplies, and now, these supplies had all been transported to the New Moon Fortress.

Excluding grain-type food, the captured dried meat-type food was quite a lot. Counting the previous ones, it was enough for the Wolf Cavalry to eat for about half a month. The military ration problem was temporarily not a worry.

Besides necessary supplies, the current stock of dried fruit-type food was 920 units, and alcohol-type was 295 units. The former was occasionally distributed to the Wolf Cavalry. As for alcohol, unless a great victory was achieved or a decisive battle with a certain party was imminent, drinking was strictly prohibited, and those who disobeyed would be killed without mercy.

In the current New Moon Fortress, there were a total of 500,000 Wolf Cavalry. That's right, Su Xiao had mobilized the reserve Wolf Cavalry troops to supplement the frontline combat power.

Su Xiao wanted to use these 500,000 Wolf Cavalry to breach the Aier Great Forest. As long as he could win, he would gain many benefits.

With the current troop strength, if they were to launch a hard attack on the Aier Great Forest, even if they captured it, it would be lucky if 100,000 out of the 500,000 Wolf Cavalry survived. The forest terrain was the Elf race's home field, and besides, the Elf race's troop strength was still strong.

Su Xiao sat on a small wooden bed, checking the existing titles: 【Old Hunter】, 【Natural Resonance】, 【King Without a Crown】, 【Looting Heaven and Startling Waves】. These four titles could not be moved.

The remaining titles could all be smelted. Among them, 【Traveler's Elegy (★★★)】, in its title attributes, had such an attribute:

Title Effect 2: Can resist one Charisma attribute judgment.

Su Xiao once thought this ability was very useful. He certainly knew that his own Charisma attribute was a shortcoming, but after wearing 【Traveler's Elegy】 for a period of time, he discovered that this title was useless; it couldn't block Charisma judgment at all.

This title ability had an intensity upper limit. People who could perform Charisma judgment on Su Xiao far exceeded the limit of this intensity.

Su Xiao had to first smelt 10 three-star 【No-Characteristic Titles】. This was what he had obtained in the Sand Emperor world. Using 5 titles of the same star level to smelt could obtain a title of a higher star level with a 100% probability. He had already experimented with this many times.

Actually, using 2 three-star titles to smelt also had a probability of obtaining a four-star title, but Su Xiao had never done so. It wasn't a 100% success rate, so he didn't feel it was reliable; even 99% had the possibility of stepping on a mine.

Activating title smelting, a circular disk appeared before Su Xiao's eyes. The disk was overall a dull metal color, covered with magma patterns. In the five corners, there was a groove in each, and the groove in the center of the disk was the largest; this was where the main title was placed.

Ding, ding, ding~

5 three-star titles were embedded around the disk. The smelting of the no-main-title began. Smelting three-star titles required consuming 50 Soul Coins each time.

Su Xiao first smelted 10 three-star titles and successfully obtained 2 four-star 【No-Characteristic Titles】.

Counting the four-star titles obtained previously, at this time, the four-star titles reached 10. For Su Xiao, obtaining these titles was truly not easy. After witnessing the process of Charisma-type contractors obtaining titles, he knew that obtaining titles was not his area of expertise. If Charisma wasn't enough, then use combat power to make up for it.

The smelting of 10 four-star titles began, 100 Soul Coins each time. When the smelting ended, Su Xiao obtained 2 five-star 【No-Characteristic Titles】. At this time, his five-star titles had reached 6.

War Overlord · Main Title (★★★★★)

Elf Death Enemy · Secondary Title (★★★★★)

Elf Tremor · Secondary Title (★★★★★)

Blood Commander · Secondary Title (★★★★★)

No-Characteristic Title · Secondary Title x2 (★★★★★)

Su Xiao placed the War Overlord in the center of the smelting disk, and the other 5 secondary titles were placed in the five grooves around it.

【Yes/No to perform this title smelting. If performed, it will consume 500 Soul Coins.】

The cost was very high. Fortunately, Su Xiao still had 806 Soul Coins. Before entering this world, he had earned quite a lot by selling potions. The benefits of Alchemy were beginning to gradually manifest.

Title smelting began. The fire patterns on the disk before Su Xiao's eyes became more intense. The energy within the five secondary titles around it, after being converted by the smelting disk, converged toward the War Overlord in the center.

【Prompt: To complete this title smelting, it will take 4 hours and 21 minutes.】

Nearly four and a half hours—this was not good news. During this period, his side's Wolf Cavalry could not receive the War Overlord's buff.

"Worpol."

"Here."

Worpol, who was guarding outside the door on the first floor, immediately pushed the door and entered. During wartime, he was the vanguard; normally, he was Su Xiao's guard. Although he felt that Su Xiao didn't need his protection at all, the attitude still had to be there.

"Send people to prepare tonight's meal. Make it sumptuous. At dinner, reward everyone with two cups of alcohol."

"Yes!"

Worpol strode away. Among the Gray Orcs, there were none who didn't love drinking.

The reason Su Xiao did this was to intentionally show it to the Elf race. During these four hours, it was his side's weakest moment. The more so, the more he had to show an unscrupulous attitude. Moreover, with the constitution of the Gray Orcs, this level of drinking wouldn't even give them a slight sense of drunkenness.

Besides these, Su Xiao also had Bahar go to the edge of the Aier Great Forest to keep watch. Bahar could just stay in the different space. Once the enemy moved out in large numbers, it would immediately send back news.

Inside the fortress, the Gray Orcs began preparing dinner from one o'clock in the afternoon. The sumptuousness could be imagined. All kinds of rare ingredients obtained from attacking the four fortresses were all taken out to prepare for today's dinner.

The murderous atmosphere inside the New Moon Fortress had faded a lot. The Gray Orcs were all enjoying this rare leisure, their hearts full of anticipation for dinner.

When the sky gradually darkened, the fortress was already very lively. Except for the tens of thousands of Wolf Cavalry guarding the city walls, the others were all inside the fortress, surrounding campfires or temporarily set up long tables, raising their cups and laughing—rough, but from the heart.

Su Xiao was in front of the window, shirtless, sitting cross-legged on a wooden chair, watching the lively scene outside the window.

【Prompt: War Overlord has been promoted to a six-star title.】

Su Xiao didn't check the attributes of the War Overlord, but activated the seven-star title 【Dream Chaser】.

Title Effect: Sacrifice (Active). Can select any existing six-star title. After activating this ability, the Dream Chaser title will be consumed, causing the selected six-star title to be promoted to a seven-star title, significantly enhancing this title's ability (stronger than over 90% of seven-star titles).

The 【Dream Chaser】 title disappeared, and the War Overlord entered a dormant state, lasting for about an hour. A prompt appeared.

【War Overlord has been promoted to a seven-star title.】

After experiencing many battles, Su Xiao finally upgraded the War Overlord to seven stars. He chose to check the attributes of this title.

【War Overlord】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: ★★★★★★★

Title Effect 1: Rapid March Rate (Passive). Marching speed increased by 69% (increased by 24%), and stamina consumption during marching is slightly reduced for soldiers.

Title Effect 2: Overlord Authority (Passive). All soldier-type units under the Hunter's command will trigger the following five buff effects when their numbers reach 500, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, and 300,000.

1. Morale +70 points (can be triggered by 500 soldiers, already triggered).

2. All real attributes +20 points, no Luck attribute (can be triggered by 10,000 soldiers, already triggered).

3. All soldier-type units on your side have their HP limit increased by 45%, physical defense +30 points (can be triggered by 50,000 soldiers, already triggered).

4. All ability levels increased by lv. 10, technique-type and ultimate ability upgrades will be somewhat reduced (can be triggered by 100,000 soldiers, already triggered).

5. Blood · Soul Power (Passive. lv. 55+10): The weapon held will carry a blood-bathing effect and be blessed with Soul-Burning Power. Attacks will carry 120 points of real damage, and at the same time, it will ingest the enemy's life force to recover one's own lost HP (can be triggered by 300,000 soldiers, already triggered).

Prompt: After the above buff effects are triggered, they can be stacked.

Total buff is: Morale +70 points, all real attributes +20 points, HP limit increased by 45%, physical defense +30 points, all ability levels increased by lv. 10, Blood · Soul Power (Passive. lv. 65).

Title Effect 3: Ancient War Beast (Active). When your side's morale reaches the peak of 100 points, you can summon an Ancient War Beast on the battlefield. The Ancient War Beast's size is extremely huge, and its Strength and Stamina attributes will be determined by the number of your side's soldier-type units. If the Ancient War Beast attacks building-type units, it will cause 5 to 9 times the damage and carry strong impact and shattering effects.

Prompt: 400,000 soldier-type units can allow the Ancient War Beast's Strength and Stamina to reach the limit of this world.

Prompt: The Ancient War Beast will exist for 30 seconds and can be summoned once every 5 natural days.

Score: No score for title-type.

Introduction: Before the great army arrives, use the last time to tremble.

Price: Cannot be sold.

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