Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 13 Defense Mission
[Mission Objective: Build fortifications for the shelter (0/1)]

[Clear the threats around the shelter (0/1)]

[Mission Reward: Command of the Sailors of the Breaking Waves]

"Accept the mission."

After Wang Yue chose to accept, the boatswain immediately followed him.

The yellow health bar above the NPC's head turned green, and he temporarily became Wang Yue's follower, and would attack if he encountered a threat.

"This follower is already level 10, what mission can be difficult for me?"

Wang Yue only took a quick glance at the task and knew what she had to do. The first goal was to collect and manufacture, and the second goal was to kill monsters.

Henchmen are different from summons. They are not cannon fodder that can be killed with two swords. Their strength is the same as that of ordinary monsters.

Even elite-level henchmen may appear in missions, but such missions are often very difficult.

"Boatswain, let's go strengthen the defense first."

The boatswain, the living dead, raised his hand and circled his fingers.

Outside the shelter, there was already the foundation of a defensive structure, which was a circle of earthen trenches and wooden sticks fallen on the ground.

"Do you need me to build a wooden fence?"

Relying on the advantages of the carpenter's secondary profession, the system has displayed [Wooden Fence] at the fortifications.

Wang Yue took a wooden stick and drew the shape of a fence on the ground to show the boatswain the defensive structure he wanted to build, but the living dead seemed to be severely zombified and did not respond at all.

"Kid, do as you wish."

At this time, the Skull-Headed Sith jumped onto Wang Yue's shoulder and acted as an overseer.

With someone affirming his idea, Wang Yue immediately started construction.

"The shelter is as big as a football field, and it would be very difficult for me to do it alone."

Wang Yue didn't need to worry about the wood. There were 100 pieces of undead wood materials in his package, which should be enough to make a fence.

"Goudan, you and your men line up in front of me."

Summons are the best laborers. Giving them the carrying work can alleviate most of the work pressure.

Wang Yue first exhausted his mana and summoned two [Basic Skeletons] one after another, so that he had five tireless free laborers gathered around him.

"Brother Sailor, can you help me chop wood?"

His only weapon was a rapier, which he had already suffered once before when making a tent.

Wang Yue thought that it would be boring for the boatswain to follow her all the time.

The harpoon in his hand was so rusty that only one blade remained. It looked more like a long-handled knife, very suitable for chopping wood.

"Where is the enemy?"

The boatswain tilted his head and continued to repeat his classic lines.

“It is your enemy.”

Wang Yue called up the package system and clicked on one of the pieces of wood to confirm the removal. Then the dark trunk of the undead wood appeared beside them.

He held the wood with difficulty and slowly placed it under his feet.

The boatswain watched the timber rolling toward him, his head lowering as the distance shortened.

"Shh."

The long-handled knife cut through the air and landed on the black bark.

When the boatswain raised his hand, the wood did not move at all, and a slight crackling sound came from inside the wood.

Wang Yue kicked the wood, and the cylindrical wood broke into a pile of long strips.

"For monsters, level 10 is the first stage. Upgrading to the first stage is a qualitative leap, so it is normal for them to be stronger."

Although some of the wood strips were of different lengths, a batch of materials was processed in such a short time. Wang Yue had made up his mind that he would not let the boatswain go until he had cut 100 pieces of wood.

"Then I'll start working too."

The biggest advantage of a secondary profession is automated management. You only need to issue a command to start production.

[Woodwork in progress: beginner fence]

Beginner fencing is one of the most basic woodworking skills and can be learned directly without drawings.

After using the secondary occupation's skills, Wang Yue saw a virtual image of a fence. This was the game system guiding the player in the operation.

"The thick ones are used as stakes, the thin ones are used as battens, and then a few holes are made for the stakes and then the stakes are inserted. Oh, I understand it completely now."

Wang Yue dug a hole in the ground with her bare hands and put the thick tree stump into it.

He used [Bone Spurs] to give the final fine touches, allowing each piece of wood to be inserted into the stump.

It only takes 3 minutes to successfully assemble a tree stump, and by the time he is done, his carpentry proficiency level will increase.

"Sort them from high to low. Pass the cut wood strips to me from thick to thin."

The skeletons were arranged in an assembly line, at the end of which was a boatswain who was constantly chopping wood.

But while assembling and processing wood takes time, chopping wood only takes a moment.

The boatswain quickly cut down all 10 pieces of wood, and Wang Yue had to stop the team because he had only finished the second wooden pile.

"Brother Boatswain, I know you are strong, but please chop slowly."

The boatswain nodded, seemingly understanding, so Wang Yue returned to the front of the team to continue assembling the fence.

A wooden stake is needed every 1 meter, and a total of 400 wooden stakes are needed to surround the shelter. Not counting the time for polishing the materials, it will take 400 hours just to assemble these 20 stakes.

"A happy life can only be achieved through hands-on work."

[Carpentry proficiency improvement]

[Current proficiency level: 12]

Even though his carpentry skills improved by 10 levels in half an hour, making 400 wooden stakes was a pain that Wang Yue could not bear.

"If this continues, it will be no different from 996. I am a creator, how can I work for NPCs in the game?"

After completing 10 wooden stakes, Wang Yue stopped and signaled everyone to stop what they were doing.

"Come here, I'll tell you something."

He hooked his hand at Goudan and asked him to come to the unassembled wooden stake.

There is an essential difference between contracted summons and ordinary summons. Wang Yue feels that she should train such intelligent servants more.

"The first time I saw you, I realized that you were different."

Wang Yue originally wanted to pat Goudan's shoulder, but unfortunately, because he was not tall enough, he could only pat Goudan's chest.

"See the wooden strips in front of you? Just do this, that, and this... Do you understand?"

He demonstrated the methods of wood processing and assembly in front of Goudan, but it seemed like playing the lute to a cow.

Although Wang Yue knew that he was not a good teacher, he felt that the omnipotent AI should be able to understand.

"Do you understand? How about I demonstrate it again?"

Goudan stopped where he was and stared at Wang Yue, his pair of wise skull eye sockets invisible in darkness.

You have to know that the skull has no brain. Although it has a hard skull, once the skull is broken, there is nothing inside.

"Isn't he really an idiot?"

Just when Wang Yue was about to give up the idea and continue to perform herself, Goudan, who had been standing still, began his performance.

He first lifted a thick wooden strip and pounded it into the soil, poked the wooden stake with his bony fingers to dig out a groove, and finally inserted a thin wooden strip into the groove to connect it to the previous wooden stake.

"Not bad, not bad. From now on, you will be my number one warrior."

Wang Yue felt very happy that someone was taking over her job.

He immediately asked the boatswain to speed up the cutting of wood and quickly processed 100 pieces of wood.

Before leaving, he did not forget to give instructions to the other five [Basic Skeletons], asking them to continue cooperating with Goudan, while he led the boatswain to the north of the [Shelter].

……

"I believe these 100 pieces of wood will be enough to keep them busy for a while."

The moon was high in the sky outside, and Wang Yue noticed that the upper limit of his stamina bar was decreasing again, and the long-lost feeling of hunger came again.

"Luckily, I have a lot of bone fragments."

He took out a bone fragment from the package and cast a spell again to fill his stomach with dark energy.

【Dark Energy Extraction】

The [Basic Bone Fragment] in his hand turned into black smoke and was inhaled into Wang Yue's nose. This time, the extracted energy made him feel cool instead of cold.

"Much better, it seems my body is slowly getting used to the feeling."

He finally understood why the necromancer always held the bones in his hand, so that he would not starve.

It didn't take too much time to extract the energy. When the upper limit of the stamina bar was restored, the fatigue caused by the work just now also disappeared.

"Will it be more effective if I just chew the bone slices with my mouth?"

But there were other people following him, and Sith was guarding his shoulder, and he didn't want to be misunderstood by the NPC because of his strange movements.

……

After cheering up, Wang Yue came to the northernmost wooden house. Unlike the other closed wooden houses, this one was open.

Before Wang Yue even had time to go forward to check, the people in the room had already walked out.

[Dead Chef: The chef on the Breakers knows most of the ingredients in the world]

【grade:??】

"The food in the cabin has become damp. Please come back tomorrow."

What I said just happened.

Although energy extraction could make Wang Yue no longer hungry, he also wanted to eat something as his stomach had not moved for a long time.

Unfortunately, no matter how Wang Yue asked, the chef kept repeating the same thing. Wang Yue probably had to prepare the ingredients herself to eat.

"This cook doesn't have any cooking tools, so he won't cook for me 'by hand', right?"

Wang Yue thought as she walked, cooking with bare hands is clean and hygienic, and this kind of food is a specialty of a certain country.

He could never forget an overseas trip he had. He had diarrhea for three days just because he bought some handmade smoothie on the street right after getting off the plane. By the time his stomach got better, his vacation was over.

"If this 'chef' also cooks with his bare hands, I would probably become a living dead if I eat it."

"Stupid boy, he is the best chef in the world, how could he let you die from eating?"

Just as Wang Yue was talking to herself, Sith on her shoulder suddenly retorted.

"So you're still alive. I was really shocked."

Wang Yue smiled at Sis.

Now it seems that Sith, who can deal with all kinds of topics raised by Wang Yue, is just like a human being.

In comparison, other NPCs seem too rigid and have completely become puppets of code. Such products are just tools to serve players and cannot bring them smiles.

"To bring smiles to players' faces through games is what I have been working towards."

Just as Wang Yue was sighing, he suddenly looked up at the sky.

The full moon is still hanging at the same height, as if the night will never pass.

"Strange, is this world flat?"

The boatswain following behind him made no sound, acting as a bodyguard along the way.

When Wang Yue reached the border of the shelter, he finally saw the broken ruins in the distance.

[Transmission Node (unrepaired): Build channels leading to different worlds, nodes are coordinates]

"The teleportation point is actually hidden here. It's a pity that it's broken. But once it's repaired, it will be able to function normally."

There are various teleportation points in the game. As long as you consume a corresponding number of [Time and Space Crystals], you can move long distances. They usually appear in the main city or important strongholds.

The node in front of Wang Yue was now nothing more than a ruin covered with stones. He could see that these stones were originally part of some kind of altar, and some of the columns left around it still retained a height of several dozen meters.

"The node in the shape of the altar should be a large teleportation point."

Wang Yue continued to explore, hoping that this node would be as he expected.

In the center of the ruins, only half of the original platform remains, and one circle of the platform is filled with stones, with nothing but soil and stones around it.

"It will take a lot of work to clean up these stones. My skeleton tool man is not easy."

At this moment, the boatswain following Wang Yue suddenly raised the harpoon. Wang Yue was so frightened by his sudden attack that she jumped aside.

The sailor sprinted forward, and in Wang Yue's vision, a blue bubble icon appeared under the health bar of the [Dead Boatswain].

"Can a first-level monster use a third-level skill?"

Wang Yue saw that this was the third-level skill [Tidal Blessing]. The effect was to temporarily grant the weapon ice damage, which would slow down the target after hitting it.

"Information, this skill was mastered before the target was weakened."

"Oh, so it was a skill of the living dead before they died."

The game system Xiao Nuo just came out to provide additional instructions, allowing Wang Yue, who was watching the game, to focus all his attention on the battle.

At this moment, blue bubbles emerged from the ground, surrounding the broken harpoon in the boatswain's hand. The only sharp blade was wrapped in a faint blue light.

Looking at the boatswain's enemy again, Wang Yue snorted.

"Just a bunch of ugly little devils."

[Flame Demon: A flame-attributed demon that likes to hide in the shadows and launch sneak attacks]

【Level: 9】

Orange-colored inferior demons emerged from the shadows of the ruins. Each inferior demon was only as tall as Wang Yue's knees, and they looked very weak.

Imp-type monsters like to travel in groups, and while their stats are half of those of monsters of the same level, having three of them at once can make it difficult for any player to handle them.

"Brother Boatswain, do you need any help?"

Wang Yue pretended to help, but in fact he deliberately followed the boatswain at a slower pace because the monster would attack the nearest target first.

Sure enough, the boatswain sprinting ahead triggered the attack.

Three inferior demons cast spells at the same time, raising their three-fingered inferior demon claws, and orange-red light gathered.

[Warning: Flame Arrow]

"The weakness of the inferior demon is its low health. Let Big Brother draw the fire first, and then I will go up and take the head."

Just as Wang Yue was secretly rejoicing, the [Flame Arrow] was already flying towards him.

"What? Why do you hit the handsome ones first?"

Wang Yue felt the temperature rising. He had just been holding the bone spur and preparing to get close, but now the enemy's spell was about to arrive.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Yue immediately chose to run backwards. Although he had to bear the first wave of damage, he was safe after keeping a distance from the second wave.

"Come on, big brother, you are a level 10 warrior."

Just as the flames were about to reach Wang Yue's back, the boatswain also felt the enemy's spell.

He held out the harpoon with both hands, and the water vapor at the tip was spit out by the harpoon, forming a water vapor barrier in front of the sailor, blocking all the [Flame Arrows].

[Damage received: 0 (absorbed)]

"I told you you could do it. I always believed in you."

Finding that the opponent's spell had no effect, Wang Yue immediately turned around and went back.

After the inferior demons released the first wave of spells, three of them jumped together, with their six little hands put together, preparing to cast a new spell together.

"Kill them, don't let them succeed in their magic."

Wang Yue cursed and pointed at the inferior demon, and the boatswain rushed to attack again.

For his own safety, Wang Yue first moved sideways. He picked up the rubble on the ground and threw the stones while running.

[Damage caused: 1]

After all, the Necromancer does not have the throwing skill and can only cause the mandatory minimum damage of 1 point.

However, as long as damage is caused, the mage's chanting can be interfered with. This is Wang Yue's only way to delay the spell.

"Speed ​​is indeed a disadvantage for the living dead."

Even after Wang Yue's interference, the evil spirits' spell was still completed. A hexagram magic circle appeared under the feet of the three evil spirits, but the red light was only faintly visible.

Even if the magic is completed, the effect will be greatly reduced if it is disturbed.

"Don't cast a spell that fails miserably. It's embarrassing."

Seeing that the sailors who restrained themselves were approaching, the inferior demons had no choice but to cast spells by force.

[Warning: Flame Array]

The evil demons shouted "Fire Array" in unison, and the hexagram disappeared from under their feet, and then immediately expanded to the entire [Teleportation Node] area.

Red light covered the entire battlefield, and after casting the spell, the inferior demon raised its claws and pounced on the sailor.

"Although it is a barely completed first-level magic, its power should not be underestimated."

Fireballs appeared out of thin air around them and began to float around randomly. The fireballs did not float very fast, so Wang Yue only needed to be careful enough to avoid them.

But the boatswain doesn't need to be so careful. With the [Tidal Barrier] by his side, the surrounding fireballs cannot hurt him.

Instead, he needed to quickly close the distance and magnify his close combat advantage.

"What a familiar piece of equipment! This harpoon might have once been an epic weapon."

After facing the inferior demon, the sailor who was one level higher used this broken fork flexibly.

The sailor turned the fork tail to whip the lemures' body, and used the fork blade to cut the lemures' skin whenever he had the chance. He always kept a suitable distance, and used the length of his weapon to block the attacks of three lemures at the same time.

"Master."

Wang Yue saw this and was filled with envy. Even without his help, the sailor could slowly kill the three inferior demons.

"The blood volume is very tempting now, it's time to collect the heads."

He seized the opportunity and rushed to the inferior demon, pushing the bone spur into the monster's body with force.

On the mango-sized head of the inferior demon, Wang Yue pounded the handle of the bone spur hard.

[Damage caused (weakness): 10]

The inferior demon, which was already low on health, was finally pierced through the body by the [Bone Spike]. Wang Yue picked up the short monster and threw it away with force.

The health bar disappeared and the inferior was declared dead.

On the other side, the sailor, who was no longer restrained by a lesser demon, turned from defense to offense and quickly killed two lesser demons with harpoons.

With the death of the spellcaster, the magic circle on the battlefield also lost its light, and all the fireballs that had been generated were extinguished in the air.

For thieves, the most annoying monster is the imp.

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(End of this chapter)