BXBX NOVEL Chapter 296: 230: Hero’s Altar? Recruitment, Healing, Revival, Job Changing!
Zheng Cheng immediately ordered, “All shield and sword guards and heavy armoured cavalry, head to the wall to guard, follow Sha Dai Er’s commands!”
“Yes! Lord!”
Two hundred shield and sword guards and two hundred heavy armoured cavalry promptly, under their respective captains’ lead, charged towards the city wall.
“Greetings, Lord…”
Facing Zheng Cheng then, were fifteen hundred laborers!
If it weren’t for the population limit enforced by the homeland crystal, he could recruit another thousand people!
The leading laborer looked pale, and the others seemed to be malnourished.
Zheng Cheng waved his hand, and a large pile of special food ingredients appeared in front of everyone.
One-star Black Skin Worm Heart.
Two-star Black Insect Shell.
Three-star Spotted Spider Web Sac and Blood Mosquito Blood Bead.
Four-star Scarlet Centipede Poison Pearl, Tri-snake Bile.
Five-star Tornado Mantis Tender Wing, Tank Earth Dragon Tongue Meat.
Within a week, he had killed at least thousands of alien beasts of different star levels and saved a large amount of special food ingredients.
The quantity of one and two-star special ingredients was not much, but due to time constraints, the quantity of four and five-star ingredients was the most!
The Scarlet Centipede Poison Pearl added 4 points of agility, 1 point of constitution, and 1 point of toxin resistance, with a consumption limit of twenty pearls.
The Tri-snake Bile added 4 points of spirit, 1 point of strength, 1 point of toxin resistance, with a consumption limit of twenty biles.
The Tornado Mantis Tender Wing added 6 points of agility, 2 points of strength, and +1 floating ability, with a consumption limit of ten wings.
The Tank Earth Dragon Tongue Meat added 8 points of constitution, +1 defensive power, with a consumption limit of ten tongues.
With so many special ingredients, he could satisfy these laborers’ basic attribute requirements to train them as Griffon Knights!
Zheng Cheng… is going to form a powerful Griffon Knight team!
“This food is prepared for you all. Everyone, in order of one, two, three stars, consume these special ingredients!”
“Special ingredients?”
The laborers looked at each other in confusion. As the lowest ranking and weakest laborers on the desolate planet, they had no idea what special ingredients were.
But they didn’t reject Zheng Cheng’s command. After all, they were happy to have food to eat.
“Thank you, Lord!”
“Thank you, Lord!”
Thousands of voices rose in gratitude. These people immediately lined up to receive the food.
These laborers had at least one virtue, that was to queue orderly to receive food without any commotion.
“What kind of food is this? It looks like bugs…”
“Stop talking nonsense! If the Lord asks us to eat, just eat…”
“My stomach… feels like a current of warmth is flowing…”
“So does mine!”
“My strength… my strength has increased! What miraculous food!”
“Eat quickly…!”
The murmurs kept coming. Zheng Cheng nodded slightly, pleased with the laborers.
Loyalty was rising visibly at a fast pace.
It broke through the crucial 90 mark very quickly.
Once a soldier’s loyalty reaches 90, they’ll be faithfully devoted and won’t betray.
Zheng Cheng had long noticed that loyalty rose quickly for lower-ranking soldiers.
As long as they were provided with food, shelter, and respect, they would soon pledge their loyalty.
On the other hand, the higher-ranking soldiers needed to see one’s ability, strength, and their corresponding treatment for their loyalty to increase.
Thus,
Zheng Cheng had given up on the idea of giving these special ingredients to the high-ranking soldiers and instead started training these one-star soldiers!
Given time, as long as there are military buildings, he could quickly cultivate these one-star soldiers into six-star soldiers!
And they would also… be loyal to him, and follow him till death!
While the laborers were consuming the special ingredients, Zheng Cheng once again chose to upgrade the arrow towers, bunkers, and city walls in his territory to LV6!
Once the upgrade is complete, the defensive buildings will be more robust!
He then went outside the hall where a large pentagonal structure of over a hundred square meters appeared, marked with special patterns.
The building consisted of five large stones forming a pentagon. In the center of these stones was a distinct array pattern.
On these stones, various special symbols were marked.
A Shield, a Long Sword, a Bow and Arrow, a Staff, and… a tilted Hourglass.
“Could this be… Knight, Warrior, Archer, Mage? What does the last one represent?”
Zheng Cheng wondered and recalled Sha Dai Er’s words hesitantly, “Constitution, Strength, Agility, Spirit… and Hero of the Mysterious System?”
He placed his hand on the Hero Altar, and a virtual page appeared in front of his eyes soon.
[Name: Hero Altar]
[Attribute: Special Building]
[Star Level: None]
[Ability 1: Recruit heroes. Six-star heroes require ten thousand units of six-star Alien Beast Souls, (368/10000) with a recruitment limit of ten.]
[Seven-star heroes require ten thousand units of seven-star Alien Beast Souls (0/10000), with a recruitment limit of five.]
[Eight-star heroes require ten thousand units of eight-star Alien Beast Souls (0/10000), with a recruitment limit of three.]
[Nine-Star Level Hero, requiring the consumption of 10,000 units of Nine-Star Level Alien Beast Spirits (0/10000), limit of recruitment is two persons.]
[Ability 2: Healing heroes. Can consume the spirit of alien beasts to heal heroes’ injuries, where the healing consumption depends on the stars, levels, and severity of heroes’ injuries.]
[Ability 3: Can consume the spirit of alien beasts to resurrect heroes who have left their essence on the hero altar, with the basic resurrection requiring consumption of ten times the recruitment spirit of alien beasts. Moreover, the stronger and higher-leveled the heroes, the more alien beast spirits are consumed.]
Staring at the explanation about the hero’s altar, Zheng Cheng’s gaze turned towards the section on recruiting six-star heroes.
10,000 six-star Alien Beast Spirits!
At this moment, his subordinates were fighting against the six-star alien beast known as the Flying Thunder Dragon. In just over an hour, they had already killed more than 300 Flying Thunder Dragons.
If it continues at this pace, wouldn’t that mean he could recruit another hero unit in just two or three days?
Compared to the common troops, the strength of hero units is undoubtedly stronger!
[Please select the type of recruiting:]
Another page appeared before his eyes:
[Physical Type: Heavy Beast Knights, Flying Dragon Knights, Tyrants…]
[Strength Type: Berserkers, Titans, Twin Tiger Fighters…]
[Agility Type: Aurora Shooters, Demon Killer, God Archer…]
[Spiritual Type: Court Magicians, Metallurgists, Cloud Wanderers…]
[Mysterious Type: None.]
Zheng Cheng’s eyes shifted, whether it be Physical or Strength type, there were five to ten alternate heroes to recruit under the six-star heroes.
Next to each hero’s name, there was a simple portrait along with a brief explanation of the hero.
Yet, there were none under the Mysterious type!
He quickly looked at the column for recruiting seven-star heroes.
As expected.
For seven-star hero recruitment, there are several or even more than ten people under the four basic attribute types.
The same goes for the eight-star level.
Only when it reached the nine-star level, there was only one hero under each of the four basic attributes.
However, two appeared under the Mysterious type!
Desert Clergy and Sky Prophet!
Which means, these two heroes’ star level reaches as high as nine stars!
“To recruit heroes, I need to collect a sufficient number of Alien Beast Spirits, at least 10,000 Alien Beast Spirits… Huh?”
Zheng Cheng’s eyes flickered, he found another function at the bottom of the hero altar property description!
[Function 4: Hero Job Transfer.]
[Common troop units under your command can break through their own attribute, strength, and realm limitations for various reasons. This altar can consume the spirit of alien beasts to transfer them to hero units. Achieving the highest level limit by unlocking their genetic constraints and granting a hero template.]
[Spirit of Alien Beasts Consumption: The lowest is 5000 units, the highest has no limit.]
Seeing this ability, Zheng Cheng’s eyes lit up again.
“I can convert common troops into hero units! And the job transfer only requires 5000 units!”
“This is more cost-effective compared to recruiting heroes…”
Zheng Cheng started pondering, “All of the troops under my command, especially team leaders like Zhang San, Niu Jin Dao, and Yang Hou’er, have long broken through the power of regular troops and have met the conditions for job transfer.”
“What I’m lacking now are the spirits of the alien beasts!”
“And most importantly, people like them have loyalty points to me that have already reached 100 points, they swore to follow me to their death, they won’t leak any of my secrets!”
“Recruiting other heroes means I have to cultivate loyalty, it’s not worth it…”
“Unless…” his eyes gleamed, “I recruit a nine-star hero!”
Six hours passed in a flash, in the empty area behind Main City’s Great Hall, adjacent to the forest, a colossal structure was erected.
The Griffin Cage!
The structure towered about a hundred meters tall. On its perimeter were two giant pillars, carved with intimidating griffins.
The griffins had the bodies of lions and the heads of eagles, fearsome wings protruding from their rib cages, with sharp talons and fierce beaks, intimidating in every sense!
“This is just an ordinary Griffin, it’s said that some high-star varieties of Griffin have the power to control elements… with a Griffin knight corps formed, it could even…”
“My Lord!”
Yang Hou’er’s voice rang out. He briskly walked towards Zheng Cheng and said respectfully, “Greetings, My Lord, all 350 of the Eagle Archers in the family plantation have assembled, awaiting your command!”
Zheng Cheng glanced at Yang Hou’er, who was full of valiant spirit, carrying a long bow on his back and a long sword on his waist, and gave a slight nod.
Yang Hou’er was one of his earliest recruited troops. As an expert archer who became an Eagle Archer, his strength soared drastically.
Now, he is about to become a Griffin Knight. His increase in strength is not as simple as one plus one.
“Yang Hou’er, in batches of fifty, step into the Griffin Cage for training and convert to Griffin Knights!”
“Yes, My Lord!”
Yang Hou’er respectfully replied, then asked, “By the way, My Lord, what about the Eagles after we’ve fully converted to Griffin Knights?”
“The Eagles?”
Zheng Cheng was startled; he hadn’t really thought about that.
The eagles of the Eagle Archers were recruited using life crystals; surely they can’t just let them go.
But he quickly came up with an idea, “I’ve recently recruited a batch of laborers. Those with sufficient attributes will be converted into Griffin Knights. The rest can try to bond with the Eagles and aim to become Eagle Knights.”
“In the future, they can take on roles such as messengers or order carriers.”
Yang Hou’er’s expression brightened, and he said respectfully, “Yes, My Lord!”
“Boom…
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a violent rumbling sound came from afar. The ground began to shake, reverberating all the way to where Zheng Cheng and the others were standing.
Zheng Cheng’s face changed slightly, “Is it… a new Alien Beast?”