SSS-Class Ranker Return

Chapter 188

Intercept (1)

claps claps.

As the contracts piled up one by one, the corners of Lokan’s lips went up.

Among them, there were people who were willing to give up on purchasing the skillbook by taking out debt, saying that it was too much work, but the story changed when Lokan declared that he would collect the recipe as well. Everyone was crying and had no choice but to sign the contract to eat mustard.

You can memorize it, but if you do that to the person who generously gave you this vision, you have no reason to suffer any kind of retaliation.

‘Are you ready for the least amount of time now?’

After seeing them all swap master skills, Lokan felt a little relieved.

Compared to other races, there were still shortcomings in the number and quality of troops, but this was enough to endure and rub.

No, if you do it well, wouldn’t it be possible to target the gap and attack the enemy?

The proportion of knights is high, so if you do a siege, difficulties will arise, but once you cross the wall, it was a power worth trying, and in preparation for that, some master skills with wide-area effect were passed on.

“The enemy is moving.”

As he was grasping the power of his allies like that, Delas’s tense voice was heard as he stared at the magic screen.

There was a change in the magic screen that could detect the movement of enemies over a certain number.

“Is it a troll?”

As expected, it was a troll camp.

It will take a considerable amount of time to move because it is quite a distance, but the level of the enemies was also formidable, so be careful.

“Again, it’s moving.”

They weren’t the only ones. The orcs that were farthest away also began to move, and there was a response from the Golden Lion camp.

The armies of the most militant dwarves began to move face to face.

Not only them, but also other races were not out of the castle, but it was clearly marked to concentrate their forces.

It appeared that the dots that marked the corps not only grew bigger and darker, but also gathered and scattered like trembling.

“What would you do?”

“Wait.”

Lokan, who had been staring at the magic screen for a while, did not loosen his guard and ordered him to wait.

He once ordered the restoration of the High Master and Masters, changed the layout around Kazantia, and took one more action.

[Clear the surroundings] [Quest]

Before the war begins, clear up the monsters around Kazantia.

-Differential rewards according to the number of monsters hunted

[Preparation for Mercury][Quest]

Before the war begins, help with the necessary work on Mercury.

-Differential compensation according to the amount of work required when helping with tasks necessary for defense, such as building walls, manufacturing siege weapons, and installing ships

It was just the start of the quest.This was to actively utilize the users who have been steadily flocking to the area after Lokan activated the effect of increasing the experience and drop rate in the Kazantia region.

“Oh, I see.”

Dallas knew the intent right away. Although the necessary labor for Mercury was necessary, they themselves became an information network.

Enemies will have to pass through their hunting grounds or gathering places in order to attack here.

Even if they were resurrected and forcibly returned to Kazantia, it would be possible to understand the speed of the advance, etc.

“Shall we start working?”

While they were making time, Lokan also started working. He manipulated the territory management window to make the defense a little more solid, and at the same time used the masters hired by the two high masters.

First of all, the shield magician.

He could use money to raise the durability of the wall, but he could not raise the resistance. Therefore, the most powerful thing in the siege had to be magic.

Not small range magic such as fireball, but large magic for siege. To defend it, you need a barrier magician.

Lokan, who used his power to draw an anti-magic barrier and endowed with magical power on the wall itself, did not stop there.

He stacked them over and over again, each time the cooldown of the skill returned, until his mana was allowed.

Although the price of the magic materials needed to draw the Great Magical Barrier was not high, the tax on the land he owned was more than enough without robbing his personal wealth.

It was the fortification magician who actually spent the money.

“Aww, Hamaro is a money eater.”

There were quite a few things that the fortification magician could do. Even without reinforcement stones, up to +3 can be solved only with mana, and in addition to reinforcement using reinforcement stones, durability enhancement, attack power enhancement, and defense enhancement can be additionally achieved.

He could earn quite a lot of money just by using this guy, but that kind of money didn’t mean much to Lokan now.

“Enhance, strengthen, strengthen.”

Therefore, what he reinforced was the ‘material’.

Materials for siege weapons. Even if you cast a strengthening spell to increase the attack power of the finished weapon, it has an effect, but if you reinforce and assemble each material one by one, a greater strengthening effect will occur.

Because the mana consumption was so great, the money to supply mana potions was broken, but the effect was certain.

“The trap is”

“It’s almost over.”

And the Sheep Master. He laid traps around the castle.

It was unreasonable to push in, even if it was a master level, because they put their skills into each one and spread them with powerful ones.

When it became the first line of deterrence and dragged on time, it was possible to start the battle with some damage if the elementalist master threw a powerful magic with the spell-type users.

“Just to prepare well for a sniper.”

Unless you get shot by those with a longer range than magic.

To that end, Lokan strengthened the defense by setting many of the conscripted soldiers as shield soldiers.

With this, the preparations for the battle were completed to some extent.

“Enemies”

“Orcs and dwarves have joined. There hasn’t been a big battle yet as a search battle, and we’re still receiving reinforcements and being called in. Still, there is no support from the surrounding races. The troll is still moving, and the direction is this way. But as a location is a location, it can also go the other way.”

Fortunately, there was no such thing as a large-scale advance of the enemy.

There were some races that declared war openly, but since it was still the beginning of the war, it seemed that only the troops were moving slowly.

“It will start soon.”

But Lokan, no, anyone could have known. That there will soon be a local war or an all-out war.

“Huh, the trolls just crossed the border. It’s definitely coming our way, not the half-elves.”

And after a while, an army of trolls crossed a certain point.

There were two places they could go to: Kazantia, a human base, and Elham, a half-elf base, and they started moving past the road to Elham.

Since this happened, I had to prepare for a fight on this side as well.

“Then there is no need to wait.”

The moment the battle was confirmed, Rokhan’s eyes lit up coldly.

He hasn’t had to scrape it up until now, but that’s a different story.

Lokan immediately summoned his knights and went into action.

[Intercepting Trolls][Quest]

Intercept the army of trolls advancing towards Kazantia

– 50 silver per troll soldier kill

– 2 Gold per kill of Troll Expert

– 100 gold per kill of the troll master

-Get 1,000 gold per kill of Troll High Master

-When the troll army is defeated, all level rises by 1, rare items are presented, a large amount of experience points, and a large amount of fame is acquired.

While explaining the operation, he also threw baits to the users.

Trolls Intercept Quest.

The rewards for killing Troll Soldiers and Experts were not great, but the bounty for Masters and above was quite large. But considering the difficulty, it wasn’t a lot of money.

The real reward was the reward for defeat.

To be able to receive rare items at level 1 auto-rising, there is no such thing.

‘But only when you can win.’

To be honest, it was a reward with no success in mind, so I didn’t mind betting more than this.

How can you defeat an army of trolls when there are no master level users other than Lokan yet?

Their role was to attract attention and induce distraction.

After confirming that the users were coming out of the castle one by one, Lokan led the High Master and Masters and started moving separately.

“This is Alpha. The enemy’s location has been confirmed.”

“This is Beta. I also checked this.”

But they didn’t come together.

Just like there is a magic screen on this side, they must also have similar objects, so they divided into two or three and moved at a distance.

Communication was not very expensive, so there was no problem with communication.After getting close to the troll army, I used an item called ‘Spy’s Eye’. It was an item that could share a view like a Familiar without moving your body.

Lokan, who confirmed their location through it, looked around the battlefield safely.

‘I don’t even have a chin.’

The battle was already in full swing. Before coming to Kazantia Castle, the impatient users who had to stop them took the lead.

“Aww!”

“crazy! You’re too strong!”

But it’s a no-brainer. The number of trolls gathered there was about 5,000, of which there were two High Masters and nearly 30 Masters.

It was difficult to count the number of class experts at least equal to themselves.

That alone was similar to the main force of Kazantia, but that would not be the whole of the troll power. Even if you leave the attack, you need to defend.

It also tells the difference in power between humans and trolls.

At best, only a few hundred users defeat such people. It was difficult to imagine, even if not only humans, but also users of various races gathered to see the increase in experience and drop rate.

“Bounce! It can’t be done once anyway!”

There were, however, some smart people.

If it sticks properly, it will not be an opponent in either quality or quantity, so it is a guerrilla warfare by pouring out the combination skill with a ranged attack as much as possible and escaping.

Even that didn’t work well for trolls with a high proportion of hunters, but it was the best way to pick up gold per kill.

‘Are you being deceived again, you guys?’

Only those who did not know it and bumped into it were seeing the blood. Even if you’re lucky enough to kill two or three, if you die once, it’s a loss in terms of experience, so you could save yourself. There were quite a few

He seemed to be thinking of troll users and NPCs he had met in other conflict zones.

‘Compared to them, they are the elite.’

But they were different. Even at the same level, they were at the forefront of countless wars, so there was a difference in the level of combat sense, combination, and master skill.

If most of the skills of NPCs in conflict areas are at the low to intermediate level, then most of the frontline are above intermediate level.

There were even those who had skills that were about intermediate or upper-level at random.

So, if we thought the same and bumped into each other, even if we had the ability to catch three, there was a high possibility that we wouldn’t be able to use our strength even once.

“This is Beta. combat lull. It will be cleared up soon.”

Even while watching the scene of a little guerrilla and one-sided slaughter, Rokhan and his NPCs did not move.

There is absolutely no reason to err on the side of things for users who will come back to life anyway.

“Follow it slowly.”

Even after the first battle, they still kept their distance.

Keeping the spies’ eyes, I slowly followed them towards Kazantia.

Several times, while watching the users set up their own strategy and attack, they aimed for just one gap.

“This is Alpha. Prepare yourselves.”

And at the end of the fifth battle, Rokhan picked up the communicator and sent a message.

Aiming for the trolls who started rearranging for the first time, he got up.