We're Already In Close Combat And You Still Say You're A Mage?

Heitan stepped forward and asked:

"Can you open up your main abilities conveniently? I need to know your strength."

Xu Bai opened up his intelligence attributes and mana to the black tank.

These two items are the most important attributes of a mage, and they are also the most direct criteria for judging whether a mage is strong or weak.

Heitan was a little surprised when he looked at Xu Bai's intelligence attribute of 21 points and mana value of 303 points.

This is already much higher than many mages in their guild, and basically on par with those top mages who spend a lot of resources to train.

It's hard to imagine that this is a lone ranger.

"You and Rose's mages should work together to clean up the strange beasts that have climbed up the city wall. The rest of us from the Black Gate will be in front."

Most of the people in their black sect are engaged in close combat, so they naturally have to protect the mages at this moment.

Xu Bai didn't say much, nodded in agreement, turned around and walked to the mage camp at the rear.

Since someone is acting as a melee combatant and a tank in front, he should not show his melee combat strength yet.

After receiving Alaire's guidance, Xu Bai's marksmanship improved rapidly and was no longer what it used to be.

Sometimes, fighting cannot only rely on brute force, but also relies on skill.

With Xu Baikai's start, Heitan asked the remaining Sanren if they were willing to cooperate, and naturally no one refused.

At this time, no one will have trouble working with the team.

...

It didn't take long for everyone to arrange their formation.

The beast tide has arrived within the range of the steam machine guns above the city wall.

Everyone on the wall was nervous for a moment, staring closely at the smoke and dust in the distance.

In an instant, the beast tide in the distance was approaching the city wall.

Xu Bai saw clearly the appearance of the strange beast.

The alien beast is about three meters long, with protruding bone spurs on its back and joints. Its body is scaleless and hairless, and its skin is covered with thick dark brown cuticles. Its dark purple eyes reveal a ferocious light.

At a cursory glance, alien beasts were rushing towards the city wall all over the mountains and plains, probably numbering in the millions.

Within sight, there are dark brown strange beasts everywhere.

Seeing the surging tide of beasts, the gunners in front opened fire immediately, and the sound of high-pressure steam pushing bullets out of the chamber was heard.

Not only the section of the city wall defended by the walkers, but also the explosions made by high-pressure steam pushing bullets were heard on the city walls in other directions.

The steam machine gun shoots out steel jets, like a meat grinder, tearing into pieces the alien beasts that come within range.

For a moment, purple-red beast blood splashed in the beast tide below, and the alien beast at the front was instantly smashed into pieces and turned into corpses.

The beasts at the rear did not flinch at the death of their companions, but stepped on the corpses and continued to rush towards the city wall.

But the number of beasts is too much.

In the blink of an eye, the alien beast broke through the blockade of the fire network, rushed under the city wall, and entered the blind spot of the steam machine gun's range.

Since the outer layer of the steel wall is entirely made of metal and has no focus, the alien beasts were unable to climb up for a while.

As more and more alien beasts rushed under the city wall, a high slope made of alien beasts slowly formed under the city wall, and the alien beasts behind began to climb up on the bodies of their companions.

The high slope made of flesh and blood of the alien beasts is rising little by little.

"Throw the mage's skills directly down!"

Hongyu, who was always paying attention to the battle situation, shouted, and the mages released their skills to clean up the high slope of flesh and blood composed of alien beasts.

Various chanting sounds and charged lights filled the city wall, and in a blink of an eye, skills and spells were overwhelmingly hitting the beast tide below.

Xu Bai also threw several frost traps down.

He was soon stepped on by the alien beasts, and ice crystals exploded among the beasts.

After hitting it with so many skills, the slope of the alien beast below immediately dropped several meters lower, and the momentum of the attack obviously stalled.

But except for the walkers, the other defensive troops on the steel wall do not have extraordinary power and cannot use skills to clean up the alien beasts.

However, since they can defend the steel wall from being breached, they naturally have their own methods of dealing with it.

I saw a group of soldiers wearing black heat-insulating gloves appearing on other sections of the city wall, constantly throwing thin iron buckets downwards.

These thin-skinned iron barrels are filled with steel balls and filled with high-pressure steam.

The thin-skinned iron barrel will explode when it collides with an alien beast. The high-pressure steam inside will add terrifying kinetic energy to the steel balls mixed inside and the iron sheet of the iron barrel, exploding in all directions and cutting into the bodies of nearby alien beasts.

The high-pressure steam inside the thin-skinned iron barrel is temporarily filled. Only when the beast tide rushes close, steam will be poured into the iron barrel through the steam pipe, and then immediately thrown down, causing an explosion.

If filled in advance, the steam inside will cool down after a while, and these thin-skinned iron barrels will be useless.

Every time one of these thin-skinned iron buckets is thrown down, a large number of strange beasts fall down.

At this moment, seen from a high altitude, densely packed alien beasts were impacting the high steel wall like waves hitting the rocks on the shore, but were repelled by the human defenders on the wall.

...

The battle has been going on for nearly half an hour.

In order to ensure the continuity of spells and skills, the mages have drank several bottles of potions to restore mana.

Except for Xu Bai, he only prepared recovery items that could restore life, but not recovery items that could restore mana.

At the moment, he can only reduce the frequency of skill release, relying on the double recovery and mana consumption reduction effect of the talent Elemental Apostle to ensure that his skills continue to be released.

Elemental Apostle (SS-level talent): You naturally have an extremely keen perception of natural elements. An additional 25% of mana is added, the mana consumption is reduced by 25% when releasing spell-type skills, and the mana recovery speed is doubled after entering combat. When casting chanting skills, it can be cast directly without chanting.

...

The battle continues.

The alien beasts seemed to be endless. Even though the steam-filled thin-skinned iron buckets and the skills of the mages never stopped, the high slope they formed was also rising little by little.

At this time, the high slope of flesh and blood had reached a height of 100 meters, which was level with the city wall. The strange beasts behind began to step on the bodies of their companions and rush towards the top of the wall.

"Switch to D formation!"

"Nanny is optimistic about my blood volume, so I'm in front, ready for hand-to-hand combat!"

Seeing that the alien beast had pounced on him, Heitan shouted.

He took out a shield and giant hammer from the storage space and rushed forward.

In an instant, he shot away most of the alien beasts that climbed up the city wall, and the gunners who took over the steam machine guns from Black Gate were able to retreat safely.

The other melee walkers stepped forward one after another, preparing for hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, hand-to-hand combat was already taking place on the wall. The mage and gunner retreated quickly while releasing their skills at a longer distance to block the subsequent beasts that rushed up.

This will not only reduce the pressure on teammates in close combat, but also avoid accidentally injuring teammates.

This is reality, there is no such thing as immunity to friendly damage in the game.

With so many people standing on the wall, it was thanks to the high steel wall that it was not only a hundred meters high, but also nearly 30 meters wide, so no one was squeezed out of the wall, and the battle formations of the Black Gate Guild and the Rose Guild were able to be used.

Seeing the scene of hand-to-hand combat between the walker and the alien beast in front of him, Xu Bai threw a detection skill at the alien beast not far away whose abdomen was peeled open, its internal organs were spilled on the ground, and it fell to the ground and was on the verge of death.

The detection skill comes with Xu Bai's personal terminal after he becomes an official walker. There is no consumption and no need to upgrade.

However, if there is too much difference in a certain physical attribute or level between our side and the enemy, the detection skill will not work. What will the detected enemy information be? ? ? .

Let’s use an analogy.

For example, Xu Bai's strength and constitution attributes are both 20 points, while the enemy in front of him has 25 strength points and 19 constitution points.

If Xu Bai puts out a detection at this time, will the detected enemy's power attribute be invisible? ? ? .

Physical attributes lower than Xu Bai's will be fully displayed as 19 points.

Another example is that the enemy is one level higher than Xu Bai, and is the second level.

So if Xu Bai puts a detection, all the attributes of the enemy will be invisible? ? ? .

However, there is a way to deal with this situation, which is to purchase specialized detection equipment.

This kind of detection equipment can obtain all the enemy's information in a special way.

But Xu Bai had previously practiced gun skills in the fighting skills training hall and when he wandered around the item trading area, he encountered someone selling detection equipment.

It was a bronze-level detection equipment, sold at auction.

The final transaction price was as high as 2,400 Origin Coins.

You know, in the last trial, Xu Bai worked hard to earn 600 origin coins.

People who bought it didn't feel it was expensive, but felt they were making a lot of money.

This is enough to show that detection equipment is rare and expensive.

At this time, the detected alien data has been displayed on Xu Bai's personal terminal.

Ordinary astral alien beasts (first level)

Level lv.2

Basic attributes:

Health: 6.7%

Body Energy: None

Strength: 10+2

Physique: 13+2

Speed: 11+2

Intelligence: 3+2

Charisma: Lower astral beings have no charm.

Luck: Lower astral beings have no luck.

Mother Queen's Will (Active) lv.10: The Mother Queen of Alien Beasts can unconditionally control all alien beasts.

Beast Tide (Active) lv.3: After forming a beast tide under the will of the Alien Beast Queen, bonuses can be obtained based on the number of alien beasts in the current beast tide.

10,000 Alien Beasts: Obtain the first layer of buffs and increase movement speed by 5%.

100,000 Alien Beasts: Obtain the second layer of buffs and increase health by an additional 20%.

1 Million Alien Beasts: Obtain the third layer of buffs and increase all attributes by 2 points.

Currently, all 3 layers of buffs have been obtained.

(The alien beast queen that has descended on this planet has a limited load capacity, and the maximum command limit for the beast tide is 1 million.)

Group loyalty (passive): Ordinary alien beasts have no intelligence and rely only on animal instinct to make sacrifices for the group.

Rapid reproduction (passive): As a natural war race, the reproduction speed of alien beasts has been greatly increased.

The basic attributes of the alien beasts are not very high, but they are mainly due to their extraordinary combat power after forming a tide of beasts.

It's more than enough to deal with ordinary humans without weapons.

But it wasn't enough for the walkers.

Not to mention Xu Bai, whose inherited profession and talent are both S-level and above.

...

The beast tide continues to advance towards the high steel wall.

The dying beast not far away soon disappeared. It was submerged by the subsequent tide of beasts and disappeared among them.

Looking at the surging beast tide in front of him, Xu Bai continued to release frost traps at a fixed frequency.

He no longer needed to look at it at this time. Even if he threw it forward with his eyes closed, some strange beast would surely step on it in the dense herd.

Frost traps continued to explode in the surging tide of beasts, and the sputtering ice crystals wiped out all the alien beasts within the attack range, only to be filled up by the alien beasts behind them.

The battle lasted for nearly two hours before the alien beasts' offensive gradually receded.

"Woo~"

A distant whine sounded from behind the beast tide.

Hearing this cry, the alien beast in the distance immediately stopped charging and retreated like a wave at ebb.

Under the high steel wall, the alien beasts that formed a high slope of flesh and blood for their companions receded layer by layer like collapsed sand piles, leaving the bodies of alien beasts all over the ground.

These strange beasts retreated in a terrifying order, as if someone was controlling them from behind.

Soon, the beast tide disappeared under the distant horizon.

This time the beast wave is over.

The people on the wall looked at the beasts disappearing from sight, finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the ground.

Xu Bai, who was hiding behind and throwing skills, didn't expend much physical energy, but the high-intensity release of skills made his head a little dizzy.

Xu Bai walked to the wall and looked down from the 100-meter-high steel wall.

There is already a layer of dried and condensed black-purple animal blood on the surface of the high steel wall.

Looking around, the ground below that was originally covered with bones was now covered with the corpses of alien beasts.

There was a strong stench and fishy smell in the air, and crows flying from nowhere landed on the pile of corpses and enjoyed their meal.

It won't be long before the corpses of these strange beasts turn into bones again.

Xu Bai opened his personal terminal to check the results of this battle.

"The first round of the main mission has been completed."

"The second round of the main mission has been completed."

"The third ring of the main mission has not yet been opened. It will be opened in two days."

To Xu Bai's surprise, the second stage of the main mission was also completed.

Xu Bai checked the information on the second link of the main mission.

"The second round of the main mission: kill 1,000 strange beasts, the current number of kills: 2,372"

At this time, all the walkers present received a reminder from the Garden of Origin.

"Tip: The trial merit ranking has been updated, please check the latest ranking."

1st place: Mo Xiu (Sanren), 2372 trial merit points

2nd place: Ruby (Rose Guild), 830 trial merit points

3rd place: Agui (Black Gate Guild), 824 trial merit points

4th place: Yu Tong (Rose Guild), 711 trial merit points

5th place: Mu Yu (Sanren), 637 trial merit points

No. 6: Black Tank (Black Gate Guild), 586 trial merit points

7th place: Jiang Yu (Black Gate Guild), 557 trial merit points

8th place: A Li (Black Gate Guild), 493 trial merit points

9th place: Tianping (Rose Guild), 437 trial merit points

10th place: Lily (Rose Guild), 376 trial merit points

...

(No one really wants me to finish writing the top 100)

Xu Bai opened the trial list and found that his name was at the top.

This surprised him.

I was just hiding behind and losing my skills, so how could I be number one?

Although the frequency of releasing skills is not very fast, it never stops...

At this time, the World Contact Channel has exploded.

Jiang Yu (Black Gate Guild): "Is this Sanren Master so fierce? He even killed two guild presidents."

Ruby (Rose Guild): "@黑tan, please post a comment. What do you think?"

Heitan (Black Gate Guild): "I am a melee fighter, can I kill enemies as fast as a mage? And aren't you also being compared? You are a serious mage."

Ruby (Rose Guild): "I'm a girl, can you compare with me?"

Heitan (Black Gate Guild): "You m**."

"Reminder, this walker has been temporarily banned for half an hour."

Antlers: "(laughing) (laughing) (laughing)"

Yu Tong (Rose Guild): "I am right next to this newcomer. He has never drunk a bottle of mana regeneration potion, and he keeps losing skills. He deserves to be ranked first."

...

Xu Bai closed the World Contact channel.

He already has a plan of action for the next step.

Previously on the personnel carrier, he asked the prisoners in this world that the interval between two beast tides was generally not less than half a month.

Moreover, the third ring of Xu Bai’s main quest will be open in two days.

Maybe you can use this gap period to learn about the world and see if you can get some benefits.

After all, he had successfully repelled a wave of beasts, and his status was no longer a prisoner, but an official citizen.

Maybe you can explore this unknown world.