Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 424 Li Wei's Rhythm

In short, after nightfall, Li Wei finally finished his investigation. At this moment, he still did not rush to set off. Instead, he went to a corner of the warehouse near the city wall, ate some food, replenished his water, and then fell into a deep sleep.

He is currently full of physical strength, but his mental energy is being consumed at a great cost. After half a day of investigation, his mental energy, which was originally 45 points, has been depleted to 30 points.

Of course, this one investigation raised his scout destiny to 46.
Around 3 a.m., Li Wei slowly woke up, his mental energy only recovered to 37 points, but that was enough.

Without saying a word, he took out food and ate heartily. After he was full, he took out a three-star defense card, activated it, and increased his normal defense by 4 points, bringing it to 51. It also increased his stamina by 10 and his strength by 1.

So he had to eat a big meal again, and by the time he had recovered, it was almost 5 a.m.

At this point, Li Weixian activated a five-star "One Hand Covers the Sky" item card for himself. Within the main city of Fengxi, the targeted effect of Neanderthal spellcasters would be almost completely disrupted, but this might not be the case outside the city.

Therefore, these special prop cards, which can be used in family meetings, play a huge role at this time. One card can be effectively maintained for 10 to 30 days, but it will weaken over time.

However, it is best to use it again after ten days.

[You have used the five-star special item card – the "Covering the Sky with One Hand" card. This is actually a special magical structure that can block some malicious spying spells, but it will also affect your faction's confirmation of your battle record!]

[Friendly reminder: During the first three days when this item card is at its most powerful, the All-Heavens Mercenary Alliance will be unable to confirm your combat gains and will not be able to count them towards your mercenary points. The farther away you are, the weaker the effect will be. You may also be able to appeal to the main quest administrator in the quest city after the battle.]

I'm appealing!
That's exactly the effect we wanted. Otherwise, what would he do with a card that costs 10,000 gold coins?

Li Wei smiled inwardly and calmly left Fengxi City under the cover of night. According to the map, Gale Fortress was more than 400 miles east of Fengxi City, with half of the journey being plains and the other half being mountains.

Normally, this road isn't too rugged; in fact, it could be described as quite flat and wide. However, the Neanderthal scouts are clearly exceptionally capable, and recently they have almost completely obscured the area.

Send a large army to sweep through, but we can't find it.

I could work myself to death and still not find it.

Send out a small group of scouts; five scouts have already died, and that's the worst kind.

Therefore, road traffic between Windbreak City and Gale Keep is now completely cut off.

All the material support and troop reinforcements depended on another barony, which had a portal connecting it to Windrise City.

This baronial territory is less than 150 miles from Gale Keep.

Unfortunately, this baronial territory was defended by the legions stationed in the capital.

The subtleties here are quite interesting.

This is probably why Viscount Windbringer is so eager to open up transportation between Windbringer City and Gale Fortress.

As Li Weiyi pondered this, he hurried along, avoiding both main roads and side paths as usual. Instead, he kept his distance from the main roads, running for twenty or thirty miles, only taking the highest points along the way where the vegetation was most lush. The more rugged the terrain, the more he liked to travel.

Its main features are safety, speed, convenience, and most importantly, low physical exertion!
He set off at five in the morning, and by seven o'clock, as the sun rose, he had arrived about thirty miles from Gale Fortress and could see it in the distance.

Along the way, he didn't find many clues, which only showed that the opposing Neanderthal team was quite professional and elite.

Li Wei felt that unless he was incredibly lucky, he shouldn't expect to run into them.

But he didn't intend to deliberately look for them; there was no need.

So after the somewhat hazy sun rose, Li Wei once again disappeared into the withered and decaying vegetation; it was late autumn.

However, this does not affect Li Wei's actions for the time being.

He was like a wild horse that had broken free of its reins, not going to Gale Fortress at all, nor looking for the Neanderthal scout team that the mission required to be eliminated. Instead, he didn't even have a specific target, and his main goal was to let his horse run wild and have a good time.

He himself didn't know where he was going to run to...

And so, he ran straight until nightfall the next day. Li Wei had already covered nearly three thousand miles, which was exhilarating. He didn't even stop for long along the way.

Because the physical exertion is only 25% of the normal amount, this is really important, really amazing, and really incredible.

Enjoyable.

Of course, after running three thousand miles, his stamina finally dropped from 840 points to 750 points.

On the contrary, his mental energy, which had not been fully restored before, was now at full capacity.

Feeling refreshed, Li Wei seemed to have forgotten his original purpose. He casually found a grassy spot to crawl into, ate and drank, and recovered his strength. An hour later, he continued on his way. This time, he finally took out a map and checked it. It was alright, pretty much the same. He seemed to have arrived at the rear of the Neanderthals, not at the bridgehead, but near one of Viscount Fengxi's fortresses that had been captured before.

After traveling about two hundred miles, a dark fortress appeared before him.

This fortress is of a very high level, with even the city walls being level four, a circumference of three kilometers, and an internal magic mine, demonstrating its formidable defensive capabilities. Yet, it has now been breached by the Neanderthals.

This made Li Wei wonder if he could withstand the fierce attack of the Ni people if it were his own territory.
No, first of all, we must not give the Neanderthals the opportunity to build a bridgehead.

Li Wei approached silently, dodging one trap after another. Indeed, the location of this fortress was quite important. The supply of the Neanderthals could not be transported out of thin air; it also required wide roads for transportation. Therefore, they could not simply abandon the fortress after taking it over.

Therefore, it is necessary to station troops here.

The magic mine here is emitting a dark blue light, while a magic wave, like a fan-shaped searchlight, is slowly sweeping around the fortress, reaching a distance of up to five kilometers.

This is a three-star magic mine, and a spellcaster has also moved in.

Note that the dark blue magical wave is invisible to the naked eye. Li Wei's perception is too strong, and there are no other sources of radiation at night, so he can only vaguely see it.

As for how to deal with this sweeping magic wave, Li Wei had a lot of experience. He simply took out a magic cloak, which was standard equipment for spellcasters. Li Yue had woven it for Hathaway, and Hathaway had deployed Sequence 3 magic on it before giving it to him.

With this, you won't be detected by this warning magic wave from 500 meters away.

The same applies to other reconnaissance magic.

Li Wei made his way forward with ease, avoiding at least three layers of trap formations along the way. This was the biggest characteristic of the Ni people: they were cunning and rich. These precious traps were placed densely as if they were free. Moreover, several dog whistle traps were deployed between every few groups of traps, and they would immediately howl as a warning if anyone dared to break through them.

Therefore, Li Wei dared not disassemble them. Otherwise, these would be excellent resources. They were all enchanted with steel, and taking them back would save his territory at least two hundred units of magic.

As they silently infiltrated, Li Wei was quite apprehensive. The traps were cleverly and deliberately set up, clearly the work of a true master trap master.

Fortunately, Li Weidao was one step ahead, and they managed to hold their own.

When he reached a distance of 500 meters from the fortress, he stopped. At that moment, the fortress was pitch black, as if no one was there. An ordinary person might actually believe it, whether they wanted to or not, because they couldn't hear or sense the presence of any living person.

But Li Wei was different; he could even hear the faint breathing of the Nepalese guards, who were indeed an elite force.

Li Wei silently discerned and pondered, gradually forming a complete picture of the fortress in his mind.

He wasn't in a hurry at all; instead, he kept moving around, using changes in position to determine his location.

It wasn't until almost six hours later, when dawn was breaking, that he finally completed the internal layout of the entire fortress.

And the Nepalese garrison here was identified.

There were roughly twenty people.

Perhaps twenty-five people.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

At this moment, Li Wei was fully aware of his upcoming attack. He calmly moved to a certain position and, depending on the weight of his footsteps, slowly drew back the Five-Star Enchantment Resonance Bow. On the bowstring was a Five-Star Demon-Slaying Arrow, the most powerful kind.

At this moment, he couldn't see the Nyon target at all, and it was 500 meters away. However, the buff from the rare hunter card, the resonance of the four life points, and the resonance of the enchanted bow itself directly increased the damage to 800%!

That is, the base damage is 328 + 328 × 800%, and the damage is close to 3000 points.

And that's not even counting the 1200 damage from the Five-Star Demon-Slaying Arrow itself!
In an instant, all sound ceased. The nun spellcaster who had just stood up and taken a step inside the fortress, and was exposed to Li Wei's arrow, was struck by the arrow.

If time could slow down tenfold at this moment, one could clearly see circles of colorful ripples lighting up on the spellcaster. Two full-length Sequence 3 magic runes, plus five Sequence 2 magic runes, along with the magic warning and a set of medium armor, were all torn apart, twisted, pierced, and destroyed in this instant!

A three-second lock-on allows you to penetrate weaknesses and create a magic-piercing sniping effect; the five-star magic-piercing arrow can directly tear through a Sequence 3 magic emblem.

This anti-magic structure doesn't care how much damage the magic emblem itself can block.

Instead, it goes straight for the core structure of protective magic. Whether you can block 10,000 or even 100,000 points of damage is irrelevant to me; that's just the operating logic that can block normal attacks.

understand?
So it was useless. In that instant, the defense of the suspected second-tier Nymph spellcaster was shattered, and his head instantly became the most dazzling firework of the New Year.

(End of this chapter)