Chapter 5

Two days later, Galen and others returned to the village. At the same time, they brought back twelve prisoners and three carts full of grain. It seems that the quantity is enough for hundreds of people to eat for more than three months!

"Welcome back, warriors. It looks like a good harvest!" Alan smiled.

"Fortunately, I didn't lose my life!" Galen smiled on his firm face. "There are 58 thieves in total, 37 killed, 15 prisoners, and only six escaped. There is no threat."

"It's a pity that the money robbed by these thieves didn't know where to go. We searched the whole bandit regiment and found more than 300 gold coins." Galen added with regret and handed a bag of gold coins to Alan.

"Well done!" Alan took the gold coin and praised it. Now the territory is full of waste, and food and gold coins are scarce resources. Even these captives are valuable human resources. Counting the 12 prisoners before, there are now 27 free workers in the village!

And with more than 300 gold coins, Allen already has more than 700 gold coins, one step closer to the second hero.

"How are the casualties?" Allen asked.

The answer this time was Alex: "brother Galen rushed up first. We just killed the escaped thieves, so no brothers were killed, and only five people were slightly injured."

Allen nodded again with satisfaction. It seems that he still underestimated Galen's combat effectiveness. A pair of fifty-eight can kill the other side.

"Let's have a rest. Tomorrow we'll set out to explore the wilderness area."

Early the next morning, Allen ordered his men and horses to set out towards the wilderness area. The entourage included Galen, all members of the bodyguard except the five wounded, a total of 18, and 10 prisoners.

Although these prisoners who used to be thieves failed to cultivate fighting spirit, they are all strong and strong. It is entirely competent for them to carry some dry food, tents and tools to be used in the field.

As for the remaining 17 prisoners, Allen asked the remaining five bodyguards and more than a dozen healthy villagers to take them to the woods near the village to cut trees and mine timber. There are five guards of first-class soldiers and more than a dozen young villagers, and they are not afraid that they dare to rebel.

"Galen, did you use the two skills of fatal strike and judgment when you fought with thieves that day?" Allen asked Galen when he was bored on the way.

Galen nodded, "yes."

"Will you demacia justice, that is, the one who drops a huge sword from the sky and attacks the enemy?" Allen asked excitedly.

"Yes," Galen replied, "but it can't be used until level 6."

Alan smiled. It seems to be the same as the setting in the hero League game.

"How long will it take you to get to level six?"

"According to the current cultivation speed, it will take more than half a year," Galen replied.

Worthy of being a hero summoned by the system! Allen thought that it would only take half a year from level 5 to level 6. This talent is enough to shame the top talents on the mainland.

"But if you can kill more people or monsters, the time should be shortened," Galen continued.

"Killing people or monsters can also improve their strength?" Allen asked in surprise.

"Well," Galen nodded, "I've killed some thieves these days. I feel much stronger."

Galen's words made Alex and other bodyguards and thieves and captives stare at him. No wonder this one is so bloodthirsty. It turns out that killing can improve his strength!

Alan did have a sudden realization. It's the same reason as killing monsters in the game to get experience points to upgrade! It seems that it is a right decision to bring Galen to explore the wilderness area. If Galen can kill more monsters, the upgrade time should be shortened.

If only I could kill monsters and upgrade myself! Allen looked at Galen with envy. Allen felt very helpless about his mediocre cultivation talent. It is estimated that it will take two or three years to become a third-class soldier.

It would be great if you could find a natural material and earth treasure that can increase cultivation talents or directly promote people. If you know that your strength can be improved by one level, the levels of all heroes summoned in the future will be increased by one. This benefit is huge.

The village of TRU was on the border of the Empire, so Allen and his party soon stepped into the wilderness. From the moment they stepped into the wilderness area, everyone was nervous involuntarily.

After all, the wilderness area is notorious, and no one knows what unknown danger it will encounter.

However, it is probably because it is located at the edge of the wilderness area, so it is not like people's legend that monsters walk everywhere. Allen and others have been wandering nearby for a long time. Ordinary animals and beasts have seen a lot, but they have never found the figure of monsters. Of course, they don't dare to go too deep, just wandering in the peripheral areas.

Far away, a forest appeared in front of Allen and others. After approaching, Allen found that it was a tree he had never seen before.

The tree is about two or three meters tall, with a large trunk, black body and large leaves, and some of them are like Wutong leaves on earth.

Allen didn't care about the forest, but Alex ran all the way to a tree, stroked the trunk with his hand and observed it carefully.

"Master Allen, it's ebony, it's ebony!" Alex shouted excitedly.

"Ebony?" Alan asked. He didn't know what ebony was.

"Yes, ebony!" Alex said excitedly, "the hardness of wood is comparable to pig iron, but the weight is only one tenth of the same volume of pig iron. A section of ebony tree trunk can sell at a high price of hundreds of gold coins in the market! There are at least hundreds of ebony trees in this forest. We are rich, young master Allen!"

Alan's eyes brightened after hearing Alex's words and came forward to carefully observe the ebony tree: "where do you usually use ebony on the mainland?"

"It's useful in many places," replied Alex, "but most of them are made into weapons, such as gun barrel, shield, armor, etc. The Kingdom of harilo has a heavy armored infantry fully equipped with ebony shield and armor, which is very powerful."

Wearing armor and shield made of black iron wood is equal to having heavy armor defense, but it is extremely light and powerful.

Allen knocked on the trunk of the black iron tree with his hand: "the hardness is comparable to pig iron? It's difficult to mine? How can ordinary people cut it down."

"What the young master said," said Alex, "if you want to mine, at least level 3 soldiers can do it with sharp axes, and the efficiency is very slow. It's good to cut down a tree in a day. Moreover, it's easy to process into shields. If you want to process into armor, at least senior blacksmiths can do it with the help of two or three level 5 or above soldiers."

Alan was a little disappointed. Things are good, but they can't be used for the time being! Even if you want to cut down and sell money, it's troublesome. Do you want to leave Alex or Galen here and slowly cut down the trees?

"I'll try." Galen came forward waving his huge sword.

Galen's hands began to shine blue, and then waved his huge sword, which was horizontal at the root of a black iron tree.

There was a sound of metal and iron attack, and Galen's huge sword sank into the trunk for more than three inches.

Alan's eyes lit up and there was a play! According to Galen's speed, it doesn't take an hour to cut down a black iron tree!

"Is your sword all right?" Allen asked. If Galen's sword was destroyed by cutting down trees, it would not be worth the loss.

Galen handed the sword to Allen, and saw that the blade was as sharp as ever without any damage. Allen couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, it was produced by the system. It must be a high-quality product!

"Mark this place on the map first, and let Galen cut down two and take them back when we go back to the village." Allen said proudly.

"Roar ~ ~"

Just as Allen and others planned to leave the forest and continue to explore, a beast roar came from the depths of the forest.

Galen and the guards immediately stood in front of Allen and stared nervously at the depths of the woods.

A moment later, a blue black figure jumped back and forth on the black iron trunk two or three meters high and quickly approached Allen and others.

When the black figure reached the edge of the forest, he jumped down from the tree trunk and landed more than ten meters in front of Allen and others, shouting at the people.

Allen saw the monster clearly. Some of it looked like a cheetah on earth, but it was much larger. Its body surface was covered with thick cuticle, as if wearing armor. The fingernails on its four claws were sharp. Allen had no doubt that it could easily tear a person to pieces.

When Allen looked at the monster, a set of data suddenly came to mind.

Armored Leopard

Grade: Grade 6

Strength comparison (with host): Invincible

Danger level: extremely dangerous!