Chapter 11 of 100

Chapter 11

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Heroes are a rare breed; only a very few units are born as heroes, and these are known as natural-born heroes.

Most heroes start out as ordinary units of various types. After evolving and upgrading, they have the chance to become heroes by enhancing their strength by two levels. If they enhance their strength by three levels, they automatically become heroes. Once they reach the eighth level of strength, even a seventh-level unit that has only been upgraded by one level will become a hero. Seventh-level units recruited directly from buildings are classified as elite units. As for eighth-level units recruited from buildings, they are heroes from the moment they are recruited.

There is another method: the Hero Altar, a special building. Regardless of the type or strength of the unit, it can evolve into a hero by entering the altar and paying a fee. However, such hero altars only exist in legends, and in reality, almost no one has ever seen one.

From this, it is clear that while there may be many heroes, the higher the level, the rarer they become.

Regardless of the race of the hero, they can transform their body into human form. During battles or when needed, they can also revert to their original form.

A fourth-level low-tier dwarf hero, upon inspection, is a natural-born hero who has been upgraded by one level. Racial talent: Naturally Strong, each level increases the health of the dwarf troops by 10%.

The following are his skills:

- Basic Reconnaissance: Can detect the number of enemy units.

- Reconnaissance range is doubled (each level of reconnaissance skill doubles the reconnaissance range).

- Basic Offensive Skill: Increases the melee physical attack damage of all allied units by 10%.

- Intermediate Defensive Skill: Reduces the melee physical damage taken by all allied units by 10%.

Using Advanced Reconnaissance, Liu Siyi used the Eye of Insight to immediately grasp the strength of this dwarf hero from a great distance. This dwarf bear rider hero has the strength of a unit exceeding the fourth level.

Generally, elite units have the strength to rival the next higher level of ordinary units, and heroes are even more powerful, though this also depends on the hero's abilities.

Through the Eye of Insight, Liu Siyi knew that this dwarf hero had not learned the rune skill, meaning his troops would not cast rune magic. Moreover, the rune elder did not appear to be carrying large resources like wood or stone, so he could not cast innate rune magic, which was somewhat reassuring.

The role of a hero in a team is very significant. Through comparison, Liu Siyi also noticed the differences.

In this world, no matter how powerful a hero's martial prowess, it is only the individual who is strong and cannot enhance the attack and defense of the team. There is no effect like in games where first, second, or third-level units, under the enhancement of a hero, have attack and defense capabilities surpassing those of seventh-level units.

Even without such full-team enhancements, the power of a hero cannot be ignored.

Upon becoming a hero, the hero will unlock their racial talent, which is random but most likely the strongest talent of their race. For example, the dwarf bear rider hero in front of him has a racial talent that increases the health of all dwarf units by 40%. If it were another talent, it would likely be related to the bear rider, possibly increasing the attack and defense of the bear rider, increasing speed, increasing health, or increasing resistance to magic.

Of course, the talents of a few heroes may also be related to their specialties, such as increasing movement speed or casting a certain spell.

A hero's racial talent can only enhance units of the same race. Other non-dwarf units do not receive any enhancement.

After becoming a hero, the hero can gain skills related to themselves and can also learn various skills, which will enhance the team. For example, learning offensive skills can increase the attack power of the entire team. Similarly, learning defensive skills, resistance to magic, luck, and morale will also enhance the team.

A hero's ability to carry artifacts can also enhance the troops. In this world, not only heroes but also ordinary units can carry artifacts. However, only artifacts carried by heroes can enhance the troops, and this depends on the attributes of the artifact.

For example, a javelin artifact increases melee and ranged attack power by 3 and increases the attack power of all allied ranged units by 10%. If carried by an ordinary unit, the javelin's attributes would only affect the unit carrying it, not the other units of the same type or other types.

Heroes, on the other hand, can fully utilize the attributes of the javelin.

Of course, any unit has the ability to use artifacts, but it depends on the type of unit and the type of artifact. For example, it would be impossible for a thunder eagle to use a javelin.

Heroes can establish factions, which is a rule of this world.

Comparing Liu Siyi to this hero, Liu Siyi appeared in this world as a first-level mutated elite unit. If he hadn't exploited a loophole in the rules and had no particularly good luck, he would have had to wait until he reached the sixth or even seventh level to become a hero. Currently, Liu Siyi is still just a wild unit.

Upon becoming a hero, one automatically gains a space to store gold and various resources. Liu Siyi, however, can only carry resources by hand.

Heroes can occupy cities, buildings, and mines. Even if Liu Siyi were to capture a city now, he could only plunder its resources. He cannot recruit units from the buildings or occupy the mines to gain their resources.

Heroes also have the ability to draw magic maps, which Liu Siyi cannot do. He can only remember the reconnaissance range in his mind or draw it on a map.

In short, the advantages of heroes are enormous, and I won't list them all here.

Liu Siyi is currently a first-level high-tier mutated elite unit. He believes that as long as he fights a few more battles, leveling up will be easy. Moreover, if he has good luck, he might learn Advanced Wisdom upon reaching the second level, allowing him to leave this world.

When Liu Siyi first spotted the wall nest, the distance between them was about 150 kilometers, and he was about 50 kilometers from the dwarves. Now, the distance between them is only about 10 kilometers, while the dwarves are nearly 80 kilometers from the wall nest.

Upon inspecting the strength of the dwarves in front of him, Liu Siyi dared not attack rashly. He had considered using a hit-and-run tactic to gradually wear down the strength of the dwarf troops, but after some thought, he ultimately abandoned the idea. This would not be very effective and could easily alert the enemy.

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