My talent panel can be increased

Is the core effect the aura passive?

The passive boost from the War Aura is immense, greatly increasing the combat power of teammates within 100 meters. If the aura is used properly, even three thousand soldiers might be able to survive a day under the attack of eighty thousand enemy troops.

But how to command soldiers, how to get them to fight for themselves, how to prevent low morale and desertion, and how to find more soldiers are all problems.

It’s difficult!

But this is not impossible. With enough strategy and talent, one can make good use of the war aura to survive for a day.

The Spirit Realm Trials for those with a special talent in mental abilities work like this: generally, the trials provide a way to pass through wit and strategy. Even without sufficient strength, one can complete the task by using clever tricks. It's just that the difficulty is very high, and it's hard for ordinary people to complete.

In addition, he also obtained bronze armor with significant attribute boosts, a bronze spear with no equipment effects whatsoever, and the Detection spell.

The bronze spear is trash, but that's normal. Ye Mingqiu's strength is mental, not physical, so the trial won't give him a weapon with high enough strength. After all, this isn't a trial that tests personal bravery.

The bronze armor has a strong equipment effect, with high four-dimensional attributes, good defense, and a significant increase in maximum health, which greatly increases survivability and prevents him from dying from unknown area-of-effect attacks in battle.

"Whoo~"

Ye Mingqiu let out a long sigh and released a detection spell on the soldier beside him.

【Brother (Level 1, Normal)】

[Race: Human]

[Attributes: Strength: 8, Agility: 7, Constitution: 8, Spirit: 4]

These are soldiers with templates!

Ye Mingqiu frowned and used his detection technique on each of the other soldiers one by one.

There are templates available.

There are still templates available.

Why are they all just plain templates?

Are there no ordinary people among the soldiers?

Soldiers with templates can be mini-bosses in the normal level of TM trials, but in the hell level dungeons, they are just ordinary soldiers!

These soldiers have decent base attributes, with strength, agility, and constitution all around 6-8. In other words, without the bronze armor bonus, Ye Mingqiu's base attributes might not even be as good as these ordinary soldiers.

No wonder the bronze armor has such a high attribute boost; it turns out the base difficulty is just too high.

Judging from the spirit and morale of these soldiers, they are not elite troops at all, but just ordinary soldiers. If nothing unexpected happens, the enemy soldiers are probably of similar level. Eighty thousand soldiers of this level are a chilling thought.

According to Xia Qingxue, the demon boss she encountered in the difficult-level trial only had a strength and agility of over 10. She didn't know exactly how high it was, but under the siege of 80,000 soldiers, it probably wouldn't have survived for long.

More importantly, an army cannot consist only of ordinary soldiers; there must also be stronger elite units, archers, elite troops, and even generals, kings, and gods in this world.

This is hellish difficulty!

Then

What should I do?

city ​​gate

The flames of war turned the sky crimson, and the bronze beast head swayed menacingly in the smoke and dust.

The iron-clad city gate, over three zhang high, was shattered by the battering ram, and splinters of wood mixed with iron fragments rained down on the crowd. The foremost siege soldiers had half their heads severed, and blood mist mixed with splinters of wood drifted in the air, staining the battlefield.

Thousands of soldiers surged into the city gates, their roars and shouts rising in waves. The guards at the city gates fought bravely, but were powerless and were slaughtered by the enemy.

The city had fallen, and morale was low, but the guards at the city gates fought back fiercely, as if making a final stand against their enslaved fate.

"Kill me!!"

Suddenly, a thunderous roar erupted, and the aura of war instantly enveloped the city gate guards. Not far inside the city, a young man clad in bronze armor and wielding a bronze spear was leading a hundred-man force toward the city gate at top speed.

The heavily armored warriors who poured into the city charged forward, fearlessly attacking the young man.

Detection technique!

Ye Mingqiu directly released a probe at the enemy's heavily armored warriors and found that these guys' basic attributes were indeed higher than those of ordinary warriors. They had a base strength of 10 points, a constitution of 12 points, and an agility of 8 points, making them veritable battlefield tanks.

However, he did not panic. He charged forward while unleashing his talent [Psionic Enchantment]. A pale blue light enveloped the bronze spear, giving it an additional 5 points of attack power and making it even more powerful.

Facing several heavily armored warriors charging towards him, wielding machetes, Ye Mingqiu directly swung his bronze spear horizontally, unleashing unparalleled power.

基础力量4.4+30%灵能充盈+30%神勇无双+5青铜铠甲+1战场光环＝13点力量！而在无双被动的加持下，最终力量判定是19.5！

The force of crushing!

"boom!!"

A burst of violent power erupted, and several heavily armored warriors were sent flying by a single spear thrust, utterly helpless.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Mingqiu seized the key weakness and pierced the throat of the nearest heavily armored warrior with his spear, pulling it out amidst the enemy's ferocious gaze.

I killed someone!

The first experience was not good. A strange feeling welled up in Ye Mingqiu's heart, but the battlefield did not give him any extra time to experience and understand. More heavily armored warriors continued to roar and charge, their roars seemingly about to shatter his eardrums.

There was not a single second to mourn the killing. Immediately arriving on the battlefield were endless waves of enemies, roaring, shouting, brandishing their weapons, and charging forward with their lives on the line.

The terrifying battlefield atmosphere permeated Ye Mingqiu as well. The frenzy of the battle masked his discomfort. His eyes widened in fury as he brandished his spear at the enemy, shouting, "Kill them all!!"

At that moment, he forgot who he was. He only knew that he was on the battlefield, and that all those standing in front of him were enemies. To kill or to be killed was the only law of war.

I won't go into detail about the protagonist's basic attributes in the main text.

Life: 299

Psychic Power: 80

Strength: 13 (4.4 + 8.6)

Agility: 10.2 (2.6 + 7.6)

Constitution: 9.9 (3.0+6.9)

Spirit: 16 (10+6)

Chapter 22 A bloody battle to the end

"Hoo! Hoo!"

With heavy breathing, the tip of the bronze spear dripped the blood of the ninth heavily armored warrior. The setting sun stretched the shadow of the shattered city wall, like a winding trail of blood on the ground.

“Shoot!”

A roar of commands came from Zhou Jun's ranks.

Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, falling like meteors.

We absolutely cannot tough it out!

Ye Mingqiu's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and with lightning speed, he grabbed a heavily armored warrior's body with one hand and used it to block in front of him.

The armor and arrows clashed with a clanging sound. Suddenly, three white feathers pierced through the heavily armored warrior's body, hitting Ye Mingqiu directly in the chest and slamming into the bronze armor with a crisp sound.

With the heavy armor warrior's damage reduction, the bronze armor's defense +5, Ye Mingqiu's own constitution of 9.9, the war aura's fixed damage reduction of 5 points, and the Divine Valor passive's fixed damage reduction of 2.9, the three white feather arrows successfully dealt massive damage.

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0! -0! -0!

That power is truly terrifying!

It's probably an elite-level marksman!

Soon, the rain of arrows stopped, followed by heavy footsteps. Ye Mingqiu decisively discarded the heavy armored warrior and squinted at the front.

Twelve armored warriors wielding halberds formed a tortoise-shell formation and steadily approached. Ye Mingqiu immediately cast a detection spell on one of the armored warriors.

[Armored Halberd Warrior (Level 1 Elite)]

[Race: Human]

[Attributes: Strength: 12, Agility: 10, Constitution: 12, Spirit: 6]

Upon seeing the stats of the halberd-wielding armored warriors, Ye Mingqiu couldn't help but curse them under his breath as monstrous. These halberd-wielding armored warriors would be boss-level even in the difficult-level trials, yet in the hell-level trials, there were twelve of them at once! A full twelve! And they were only one wave!

Sure enough, running away is the simplest way to survive.

However...

If I run away, the trial rewards will definitely be greatly reduced, right? If I do that, will I still be able to get the Heroic class? Will I still be able to catch up with and surpass that guy?

I have my own goals too!

"drink!!"

Ye Mingqiu suddenly roared and plunged his bronze spear into the crack between the blue bricks in the ground. The spear shaft bent into a breathtaking arc, and his back, under the bronze armor, arched like a cheetah.

Can you withstand my attack with a power rating of 19.5?!

As the spearhead ricocheted through the air, the enchanted bronze spear unleashed unparalleled power, shattering the front-line shield array into pieces like a clay pot struck by a giant hammer.

Shards of shattered shields embedded themselves in the eye sockets of soldiers behind them. Amidst screams, Ye Mingqiu leaped up, stepping over the corpses of those who had fallen before him. His spear blade traced a perfect silver arc, and three heads wearing leather helmets flew towards the moat simultaneously.

"Whoosh!"

At the same time, the sound of bowstrings rang out again, and the flying arrowhead gleamed with an eerie, ghostly blue—it was a poisoned wolf-tooth arrow.

Was it a sneak attack?

Those grotesque shooters are disgusting!

Ye Mingqiu parried with his spear, but the wolf-tooth arrow was too fast, passing through the spear and striking his shoulder directly, causing terrifying damage.

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0!

Ok?

Looking at the damage, Ye Mingqiu suddenly realized a problem. He had a constitution of 9.9, bronze armor with +5 defense, war aura with a fixed damage reduction of 5, and the passive skill of Divine Might with a fixed damage reduction of 2.9. So...

How much damage does a ranged shooter need to deal to successfully break my defense?

It seems like a lot of damage is needed.

He is a mentalist, and a mentalist without any skills, so he will have slightly more survival protection during the first trial, such as the defense and fixed damage reduction of the bronze armor.

If that were all, the final effect wouldn't be so outrageous; it's impossible for enemy arrows fired from a distance to not penetrate the defenses.

but!

Ye Mingqiu possesses the talent of unparalleled bravery, which grants an additional 30% constitution and a fixed 1% damage reduction. It is precisely because of this constitution that the fixed damage reduction of 2.9 turns arrows that would otherwise just break through the defense and deal a few points of damage into arrows that do not break through the defense at all.

Breaking through defense and not breaking through defense are two completely different concepts. Breaking through defense means that you can kill the archer with a barrage of arrows or poison arrows. If you can't break through defense, then the archer is useless.

Of course, the premise is that you can't be shot into a place without the protection of bronze armor, otherwise you will definitely lose health.

Oh~!

Ye Mingqiu suddenly revealed a sinister and terrifying smile, and roared as he charged towards the enemy army.

The setting sun sank into the eaves of the city tower, its crimson light staining the world with blood.

Ye Mingqiu's bronze spear pierced the collarbone of an elite centurion, his cold gaze watching him suffocate as he slid helplessly from the spear tip and crashed heavily to the ground.

This is the last one.

He sat beside the pile of corpses, one leg bent and the other straight, panting heavily. Blood and sweat flowed through the gaps in his bronze armor, freezing into purple ice, which he shook off forcefully to avoid affecting the battle ahead.

[Hint: Your long weapon proficiency level has been upgraded to level 2]

Oh, it's leveled up. It's been fought its way through, and I don't even know how many enemy soldiers it killed, I can't even count them all.

In the distance, the bugle sounded again, and a new wave of enemy troops was gathering. He had not killed all 80,000 enemy soldiers, but only slaughtered one wave of them. There would be a continuous stream of enemies to follow.

Fortunately, the battlefield aura was powerful, doubling his stamina recovery speed, psionic energy recovery speed, and life recovery speed. In addition, his [Psionic Energy - Limit Break] talent provided a 50% increase in psionic energy recovery, which allowed him to have enough psionic energy to sustain him in using the [Psionic Energy - Enchantment] amplified spear.

The bronze spear's base stats are weak. If it weren't for the [Psionic Enchantment] which greatly boosted its attack power, Ye Mingqiu's kill speed would be cut in half, or even more. If he couldn't kill the enemy quickly, the enemy would inevitably attack him. If he took too many hits, he might get hit in a vital spot and be in big trouble.

"General, they're coming again."

Not far away, a soldier with a severed arm, also covered in blood, looked into the dark distance and said in despair.

"Oh."

"Can we hold out?"