Everyone is a hero, but I am a second-year player.

Anyi: "Zero, put your left hand down and extend your right hand."

Ruby: “?”

An Yi took out a key from his pocket and threw it in a direction: "Zero, go pick it up."

Zero blinked, then turned around to pick up the key and handed it to An Yi.

Ruby: "Don't treat Zero like a dog! He's still mine after all!"

An Yi shook her head: “No, I was just testing her ability to respond to instructions.

Did you notice that she would think about the content of the instructions herself?

Sit and reach are specific instructions that she understands.

But she also understands 'come here' and 'go get it back', isn't that amazing?"

"...Oh! Of course!" Ruby's face suddenly turned from cloudy to sunny, and she regained her proud expression, "This is a work I'm proud of!"

Something flashed through An Yi's mind, and she suddenly had an idea: "Zero, speak."

Zero blinked, as if thinking again, and finally shook his head.

"what?!"

This time even Ruby opened her mouth wide and looked at Zero in surprise.

This kid can still shake his head?!

"Can't she speak?" asked An Yi.

Ruby scratched her head awkwardly: "Because the interior is not done properly...Zero, open your mouth."

Zero opened his mouth dully.

Ruby walked over to Zero and lifted her face with her hands towards An Yi, allowing An Yi to see the structure inside her mouth.

The teeth, tongue, and all the structures of the oral cavity are very obvious, but... the root of the tongue is covered with red flesh.

If a normal person were like this, they would not be able to eat at all.

“She has no vocal cords and can’t breathe, so she can’t talk.

But I have made a puppet that can talk! The butler in my shop can talk!

It’s just that No. 0 didn’t have time to refine it!

I've put a lot of effort into my appearance!" Ruby seemed to be worried that An Yi would doubt her ability, so she quickly explained.

"Appearance?" An Yi thought and glanced at Zero.

Ruby's face turned red again: "Mr. Sword Hero is so lecherous!"

An Yi: “?”

What did I do again?

32 I was pissed off by a stupid doll! (4k)

"I've read in the Brave Handbook that assisting in defeating demons can also earn experience points, right?

So I want to use the puppet to fight on my behalf and then upgrade it.

It would be dangerous if I went to the battlefield alone." Ruby explained to An Yi.

In fact, it was not planned in advance, it was just a spur of the moment decision.

Seeing my current appearance inspired my desire to create.

Originally it was just a collection, but last night they suddenly talked about going to war, so she thought... since it's already been done, she might as well let "Zero" go to war.

"Really? Then we have no choice but to take it with us." An Yi nodded as she looked at the doll that looked exactly like Ruby.

According to his own understanding of experience points, if the distance is too far, no experience points will be allocated.

No matter if you have an amplification skill given by your teammates in the previous minute or the previous second, as long as it exceeds a certain distance, it will become invalid and your teammates will not receive assists.

But that's under normal circumstances.

Ruby is also a "support type" hero, that is, a hero who does not need to go to the battlefield at all and stays in the rear to provide help.

Just like Noer, no matter how far away she is, as long as a brave warrior gets recovery through her food, she can still share a certain amount of experience points.

Although the experience points are reduced, they can still be obtained without fighting.

If you are not a support type hero, you will never gain experience points in your life if you do not fight.

As for how to determine assists, the mechanism is actually very flexible and complex.

For example, the Fullmetal Hero was beaten up without doing anything, and he provided no real help to the crusade, so he did not get any assists.

But if you help other heroes to bear the damage and actually help other heroes to defeat the demons, you will get assists.

However, this "help" is actually difficult to define and can only be judged by the system.

Helping to carry things is also helping, because carrying things makes the heroes' combat more flexible.

But in fact he did not participate in the battle, and did not even kill or injure a single demon.

So is it considered an assist or not?

This can only be judged by the system.

"What about toughness? How much is the toughness?" An Yi asked.

"Only 5 points... because the attributes are not enough, I need to add some magic..." Ruby sighed.

"It should be enough to defeat ordinary goblins.

I'll add a little more magic power after the upgrade." An Yi said.

"Okay!" Ruby nodded.

In fact, from An Yi's point of view, Ruby's physical attributes are more than enough.

Wasting your points for more dolls is completely putting the cart before the horse.

Because the nature of the puppet itself is half-deficient.

If she wanted to strengthen the doll by adding points to its physical attributes, then... why didn't she fight herself?

Ruby now has 10 points of strength, 20 points of agility, 10 points of toughness, and a little endurance, so she can really go to the battlefield.

Her dolls lack half of their attributes, proving that they are not suitable for the battlefield.

Even in the previous life, the role of [Thousand Heroes] was reflected in the support aspect.

Compared to the physical attributes, it is more important to increase the magic power.

Opening the system interface and taking a look at Ruby, you can see that her magic power is almost at the bottom. It is not lower than 10% so she is not hungry.

"Eat well and replenish your magic power. It's time for me to set off." An Yi reminded Ruby.

"Ah... yes!" Ruby was a little caught off guard by the sudden concern.

"Zero, follow me." An Yi ordered Zero.

Zero blinked, then took a step closer to An Yi and stood there without moving.

Anyi looked above her head, then turned and walked out of the room.

Zero waited until An Yi walked about two steps away and immediately caught up.

An Yi looked back, nodded secretly in her heart, and finally left the room.

Zero followed quickly, and maybe because he was a puppet, his steps were very big, which looked a bit weird.

Ruby rushed over, "Zero! Stop taking such long steps! Walk like a normal person!"

Zero stood there in a daze, then continued to follow An Yi, this time with a much smaller pace, but...

Because An Yi walked very fast, Zero followed behind her with strange small steps, making a clattering sound.

Ruby almost fainted from shame at the thought of this guy in her face, "Zero!! You can just run and catch up!"

Number Zero was stunned again, then he took two steps and ran towards An Yi.

But...his hands weren't moving at all!

He straightened his upper body and ran towards An Yi.

It looks even weirder!

Ruby: “Ah…”

I was pissed off by a stupid doll!

I should have debugged it earlier!

Before An Yi went down the stairs, she looked back at Ruby in the corridor and said, "Go back and have a rest. I will teach her well."

Ruby lowered her head and hands and sighed: "Okay... Then I'll trouble Mr. Sword Hero..."

"Don't keep calling me the Sword Hero. My name is Anyi Karl."

After saying this, An Yi took Zero downstairs.

Ruby stood in front of the door for a long time, and then suddenly recalled what An Yi had said just now -

"Is it because you treat me as a friend?"

At that time, Ruby answered hurriedly, "Ah... ah, yes! Yes, yes, yes! It's because I regard the Sword Hero as a friend!!".

In fact, she didn't even think about friends or not, it was simply because she didn't know who else to turn to except An Yi.

Rather, she had no one else to rely on except An Yi.

We are not at home, you can leave everything to your brother.

As for Miluko...

If I ask her to do something like this, wouldn't it be too cruel for her?

I can already imagine her returning to the team with her doll, stammering and unable to speak for a long time.

If we ask An Yi, at least he can explain the function of the doll to the people in the team.

"Are we... friends now...?" Ruby murmured to herself with a smile as she watched Anyi's figure disappear around the corner.

……

An Yi returned to the place where the expedition was being prepared, and unexpectedly, there was a group of people there.

A group of people with animal ears.

The orcs appeared here for unknown reasons, standing in groups opposite the expedition team.

At the front of the expedition were Likolina and Layton, in front of them were Arya and Noel, who were probably acting as translators, and on the other side were the orcs.

There was no tense atmosphere between the two sides, and the orc seemed to be conveying something to Arya and Noel.

In order to speed up, An Yi clamped "Zero" on his waist and rushed over at full speed.

He didn't put it down, and walked to the front of the crowd with Zero in his arms, despite everyone's puzzled gazes.

Licolina, who was originally talking to Noer and the others, turned around and saw An Yi coming over with someone in her arms.

"An Yi?! You went and tied up Miss Ruby?!" Licorina was shocked.

"Why do you want to tie me up?" An Yi asked back.

Licorina: "I don't know, An Yi must have your reasons for doing this, right?"

An Yi: "Why can't it be the Thousand Heroes who asked me to bring her here."

Licorina: "Ah? Miss Ruby wants to join the expedition? Her level is too low, isn't it?"

An Yi did not answer, but looked at the orcs, and then asked Nuoer: "What is the situation now?"

Noel, who had been staring at Ruby with hostile eyes, finally came to her senses and quickly replied:

"Ah, Master Sword Hero! It's like this! The beastmen said they have something for us!

They wrote something overnight... um... something that could be shown to the orcs!

It seems to mean that if you see other orcs, show that thing to them. "