Final Lord

Chapter 155 The Fire Guard
At the foot of Yanyang Mountain, Wang Bufu stood looking at the fully armed human villagers before him.

Their attire is somewhat similar to that of spearmen, but there are also many differences.

They wore not rifleman helmets, but double-layered linen hoods. The outer layer of the hood was coated with a fire-retardant paint made of a mixture of clay and egg white, cracked into a scaly pattern. Copper rings were inlaid at the openings in the ears to prevent the heat waves from burning the cartilage of the auricles.
Their armor was covered with a tortoise-shell-like compound, a mixture of bitumen, molten glass, and some unknown substance. Three rows of iron rings were sewn onto the front of the armor to hang copper water bladders and flint scrapers.

They also carried a variety of firefighting equipment, including oak back frames, fireproof greaves, and portable buckets.

This is the Firefighting Guard, the most basic fire prevention and disaster relief unit among humans.

Firefly Guard

Normal level 2

Attributes:……

Special Ability: Fireproof Armor: Reduces fire damage by 80%. Morale will not decrease due to fire damage.

Survival from the Ashes: After taking fire damage, the rate at which health regeneration is doubled.

Humans are made of flesh and blood and feel pain from the burning of flames. Naturally, they would fear flames, but the Firefighters do not; they are natural-born firefighters.

As followers of the god of fire, bathing in flames only brings them pleasure.

A member of the Fire Guard stood there and was attacked by a second-tier fire mage, but the fire mage couldn't kill him.

These five hundred-plus Fire Guards were hastily trained by Wang Bufu after his first failed attempt to conquer the Blazing Corpse King. They will fight alongside the main force of the territory in this battle.

This was the first time that the new Gru territory and the old villagers of Shengyang Village had cooperated, and it was related to whether the human forces could gain a foothold under his command in the future. Therefore, Wang Bufu attached great importance to them.

Although their primary task was to extinguish the flames unleashed by the Blazing Corpse King's special ability, rather than engaging in direct combat, logistical work is still work. How can that not count as fighting side-by-side?

"Let me put this out there," Wang Bufu said, pointing to the ground. "You all volunteered to participate in the training. I've already provided you with enough resources for your training, the experience points allocated to you, and the compensation for your families."

If you enjoy the benefits, you have to risk your life!
The battle will begin soon, flames will ignite, and monsters may spawn again at any time on Sunny Mountain.

I don't care if the monsters have splattered on your faces or whether you can handle them. As long as you're not dead, even if you're on your last breath, you have to crawl to the fire and put it out for me.

Anyone who shirks their duty and holds back in this battle, even if you die, your family will never have an easy life.

On the contrary, if you complete this mission well, you will definitely have a place in the high-level leadership of the Gru territory in the future, and your family name will have to be changed to your given name!

Did you understand?

"Understood!" the young men of the human race answered loudly, their morale soaring!

Wang Bufu raised his fist, clenched it, and shouted, "Fight!"

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

"Move out!" he commanded. All the human soldiers grabbed their firefighting tools and ran towards Sunny Mountain. They needed to deploy defenses at potential fire locations before the troops went into battle.

Wei Yi took out a small notebook and asked curiously, "Brother, I'm a little curious, the attributes and special skills of this Blazing Corpse King don't seem outstanding, so why do we have to be so careful?"

Wang Bufu looked at Yanyang Peak and said, "The actions of the dominant demons follow a pattern."

Generally speaking, the stronger the domineering monster, the larger the territory it occupies.

But look, the Fiery Corpse King's stats aren't great, not even as good as the Drowned Poison Mother, yet it occupies the largest peak in the entire Sunset Mountains, Sun Peak. This suggests there's something fishy about the Fiery Corpse King.

"It has at least two stages, like the Copper Mother Tree, and might even have three or four stages. How can I not be careful? Our territory's troops are with us, so we are responsible for them and absolutely cannot underestimate them."

"Oh, I've got it." Wei Yi wrote down carefully: "When monsters act abnormally, there must be something fishy going on. Careful observation will not lead you astray."

"Bone Core Burst: After a 10-second cast time, the self-destructing lava core triggers a massive explosion, dealing 1000-20 points of true damage to all units within a 15-kilometer radius. The further away the unit, the lower the damage."

The explosion will randomly generate 40-50 will-o'-the-wisps. The Blazing Corpse King cannot be killed until all the will-o'-the-wisps are destroyed.

The Fiery Bone King summons the will-o'-the-wisps as they devour them. The will-o'-the-wisps slowly return to the Fiery Bone King. For each will-o'-the-wisp devoured, the King recovers 10% of his health.

"Look at these two special effects, does it remind you of anything?"

“It feels quite strange.” Wei Yi said with a serious expression, “As long as the will-o’-the-wisps are not completely extinguished, the Blazing Corpse King will not die. If I were the Blazing Corpse King, I would definitely try to hide all the will-o’-the-wisps as far away from the battlefield as possible, making them as hard to find as possible.”

How could you summon the will-o'-the-wisps back? If you summon them back, won't they be discovered?

"You've hit the nail on the head." Wang Bufu was very pleased. "Monsters generally don't have useless special skills. There must be something wrong with these two contradictory special skills."

We once used the Blazing King, and the speed at which the ghost fire flew was so fast that even the Cat Sand Beast couldn't catch up. Only Heska, as the Hurricane Hawk (Transcendent Rank 3), could catch up. Moreover, it set fires wherever it flew, creating fire points everywhere.

Such powerful will-o'-the-wisps! If it were me, I would definitely let them fly around wildly, ignite all the surrounding trees, and turn the entire battlefield into a sea of ​​inferno.

But it insisted on summoning the will-o'-the-wisp back to eat it.

This shows that these will-o'-the-wisps are of unimaginable importance to the Blazing Skeleton King, and are definitely not just about restoring life.

I suspect that the second stage of the Blazing Corpse King is related to the number of ghost flames it devours. Before entering the second stage, the more ghost flames it devours, the stronger it becomes.

The difference between the upper and lower limits of monsters controlled by this mechanism will be huge. The lower limit might only be a slight increase in attributes, while the upper limit could be a direct jump from Extraordinary Tier 3 to Extraordinary Tier 6.

I realized this, which is why I chose to leave. Because at the time, our preparations were insufficient to intercept all the will-o'-the-wisps.

A light shone in Wei Yi's eyes, and she quickly picked up her pen to start taking notes.

Out of curiosity, Wang Bufu turned her notebook over.

The cover reads: "Brother's Quotes".

It reads below:

My senior brother uses my brother's things, and everything my brother owns is mine.

Wang Bufu's face darkened, he slapped Wei Yi's forehead, and laughed and scolded, "You think you're so smart, you little rascal."

"Hehe. Brother, you're really capable. I can't go wrong learning from you."

Look, I've memorized everything you taught me.

A king must have the bearing of a king… There are no high or low professions, only commanders who don't know how to utilize their abilities.”

(End of this chapter)