Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 462 With Ease
Six transformations: one level two, two levels three, and three levels four, encompassing land, sea, and air.

This rare Druid card is indeed excellent. It almost expands the scout route to a much larger area. This is what a top-tier scout should be.

Li Wei felt a slight sense of emotion, then glanced at his own rationality. This special attribute was a luxury, but it was just right to be used in this situation.

He immediately used ten free attribute points to raise his normal perception from +7 to +12. With the additional 2.5 from the Ranger codename, his perception was instantly raised to its current limit of 14.5.
This is an extremely alarming number at this stage.

Therefore, the side effects were quite significant. For a moment, Li Wei almost thought he had entered a distorted spacetime, because the subtle changes brought about by the surge in perception were like countless miniature Cthulhu legions launching a fierce attack on him. A strong sense of drowsiness overwhelmed him, and he needed to sleep for several days and nights to recover.

However, Li Wei was not worried, because the next second, several lines of golden information appeared.

[You seem to be caught in some uncontrollable illusionary transformation. Your senses are surging, which may lead to a 3-5 day period of weakening. Do you want to alleviate this situation by sacrificing your sanity?]

[Note: The Rationality attribute is a special attribute. It is extremely effective in suppressing illusions, sensory center disorders, mental shocks, and mind-reading. However, after each use, Rationality takes longer to recover and requires engaging in more enjoyable activities, such as appreciating beautiful scenery, beautiful women, eating delicious food, reading books, or watching the sunrise with one or more ladies.]

[You have expended five points of sanity, you have been immune to all anomalies, and your senses have been restored.]

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Yes, that's it.

The next second, Li Wei winked at Hathaway, who was still puzzled, and quickly changed out of his heavy armor and into a five-star enchanted light armor. Heavy armor is suitable for battles of a larger scale because there are more enemies and the margin for error is higher.

However, for reconnaissance, light armor is more convenient.

Additionally, when activating certain Druid transformation spells on larger targets, heavy armor will cause a slight delay, while light armor will be completely smooth. However, this requires having enough empty resource cards in reserve to facilitate the instant recycling of armor, weapons, and other equipment.

The next second, Li Wei stepped out of the light blue magic shield and casually walked in one direction. After passing a rather tall bush, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight.

However, this was not Li Wei using the Forest Whisper stealth skill that comes with the Dawn Ranger card; it was merely a display of a top-tier scout's superb stealth and concealment skills.

Often, you don't even need invisibility skills to disappear from everyone's sight.

Li Wei wasn't in a hurry to find the stone troll's location. Instead, he walked leisurely through the wilderness, occasionally gathering herbs and plants with faint magical power. Sometimes he would stop, grab a handful of soil, and carefully sense it. He felt that he was truly at the peak of his mastery at this moment.

Whether it's the five-star Farmer card, the four-star rare Hunter card, the four-star rare Lumberjack card, the four-star rare Scout card, the one-star rare Druid card, or the third-tier Dawn Ranger card, they are all organically combined. Although the synergy isn't perfect, it's definitely above average.

Even this passing grade allowed him to feel a powerful sense of control. With each step he took, the plants and animals within a hundred meters radius, the magical fluctuations in the soil, and all sorts of traces and subtle details would calmly appear in his mind.

Yes, it's no longer the kind of process that requires mental effort to analyze, memorize, or model. This process is mentally taxing because it doesn't belong to you; you have to actively try to understand it.

But now things are really different. With the passive support of various talents and skills, all of this seems to have become a natural part of Li Wei's life, his instinct.

That's why it reflects from the heart and doesn't consume any mental energy.

This feeling captivated Li Wei, as if he were a master strolling through his own backyard.

Therefore, finding those stone trolls was just a side effect.

One, two... five, seven... ten, good heavens, this group is quite large, including a Seven Star Stone Troll leader. They are distributed on average within a radius of fifty miles.

The stone troll that Li Yue had discovered earlier was located in the very center. It was a trap, a trap used by the stone troll for hunting.

This trap is also very clever, covering almost all of the prey's escape routes, so what does it mean when they say they are sleeping? They are hard to disturb, clearly because the prey is too small and too few to even fill a tooth gap.

Of course, Li Wei and his team's starting location wasn't too bad; it was just outside the trap zone.

Under normal circumstances, if someone in the team is experienced enough to recognize the stone troll in the center of the trap, then they can escape smoothly by moving silently in the opposite direction in batches, without any conflict with the stone trolls.

But what if someone, by some twist of fate, thinks this place is elegant, full of magic, and teeming with wild vegetables, medicinal herbs, and even hundreds of four-star trees, and insists on building a camp here? After all, the stone troll in the center of the trap is itself comparable to a four-star rock.

There is definitely a five-star quality magic core inside this four-star stone ore.

Overall, it looks pretty good.

Of course, Li Wei was still not at ease, so he spent several more hours exploring the entire area within a hundred miles. He even encountered his ally David a hundred and fifty miles to the southwest. This guy did not come to join Li Wei, but continued to travel southwest and engaged in a great battle with an aerial magical creature that appeared to be at the level of a seven-star being on a hill there.

Yes, this is all what Ah-Dai found out. The battle has been going on for three hours, and nearly a hundred of David's soldiers have died.

However, that seven-star magical creature was almost completely wiped out.

It should be done before evening.

As for why the seven-star magical creature didn't run away, it's because its lair is on that hill.

So, every starting location has an opening boss, right? They just vary in strength.
Around 5 p.m., Li Wei finally returned. A full 10 hours had passed. Everyone on Li Wei's side was crammed into the light blue magic shield, and many were getting impatient.

Some soldiers were trying hard not to complain, which caused their loyalty to drop somewhat.

But good things come to those who wait.

“I have surveyed the area within a hundred miles and have basically confirmed the situation of this stone troll group. There are ten of them in total. One is the leader, with a strength of about seven stars. The remaining nine are all six stars. The six-star stone troll you found earlier was a trap they used to hunt prey. In fact, the entire area around them is full of stone trolls. Their locations are as follows.”

Li Wei quickly activated the map that came with the exploration card, creating a projector on which he precisely marked the location of the ten stone trolls. He then showed this map to all soldiers of squad leader rank and above, which was very important.

"Next, we must finish the battle before dark, because the magical shield we are in will disappear at seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Li Yue, is your tactical deployment complete?"

"Yes, we have prepared three tactical plans. Now that we know the number and location of the stone trolls, we can launch an attack at any time."

“Good. I’m in position number one. I’ll trigger the traps first to lure out all the stone trolls, but it’s possible that I won’t be able to lure them all out. These magical races seem to be quite intelligent to me. They might hide a few, so we must be careful about that.”

"Li Yue, you are in position number two. After I attract most of the Stone Trolls' aggro, you need to appear in time and find a way to kill one of them in the shortest time to attract some of the aggro. Of course, I will focus on the Stone Troll leader with the strength of a seven-star. Everyone, please note that you must not make any rash moves before the Stone Troll leader appears."

"Furthermore, I suspect that the Stone Trolls possess rapid long-range communication capabilities, so I will arrange for Ah-Dai to hand over the hunting pets to you. This will be a large battlefield covering at least sixty miles in radius. We absolutely cannot miss the opportunity or make any mistakes."

"Brace yourselves, the time has come to prove your strength."

After saying that, Li Wei did not discuss the details further with the others. He was only responsible for maintaining the aggro of the number one position and drawing the aggro of the Stone Troll leader. If everyone else still couldn't quickly and effectively annihilate the Stone Troll clan, then that would be too incompetent.

But that's actually impossible.

The reason Li Wei was able to look down on Li Yue and Hathaway was simply because he was stronger, not because they were weaker.

Soon, Li Wei approached the six-star stone troll in the center of the trap again. At this moment, he summoned a five-star warhorse and signaled Ah Dai to go forward and engage the monster.

The next moment, the seemingly insignificant Ah-Dai flew over, and the instant he swooped down to the top of the stone troll's head, a frost was sprayed out like a waterfall, as if an invisible ice dragon was spewing out icy dragon breath. Holy crap, a Sequence 3 ice magic?
Ah Dai, you monster!

In an instant, the ground within a radius of twenty or thirty meters was covered with frost, and the stone troll that had been disguised as a giant rock was immediately enraged. With a rumbling sound, it crawled out from underground. This stone troll was at least fifteen meters tall!
However, at that very moment, a five-star enchanted armor-piercing arrow shot out with a magical, flowing light and shadow, blasting the stone troll's left arm, which it used to support its body, apart from its shoulder joint!

Even a hard rock with a diameter of over three meters cannot stop it!
The rubble turned into hailstones that flew everywhere, causing the stone giant to stagger backward. If its lower body hadn't been still in the mud, it probably would have fallen flat on its face.

(End of this chapter)