The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 68 Archer Skill Inheritance Statue

"How boring! It's so annoying to just sit here and wait for the orcs to attack every day!" Roland lay listlessly on the city wall, counting the bushes below. Right now, Roland felt like he was just waiting to die.

Every day is a day of high tension. No one knows if the orcs will suddenly march on and besiege the city. Los Sannier and Swiftstream are now brightly lit every night, and countless torches covered with pine resin are planted 500 meters outside the city to prevent orc attacks.

"System check-in..." Roland said weakly, the check-in rewards lately were just too... useless! Yes, they were really useless! Roland had used up all the firewood needed for the entire winter in Swiftstream City in just a few days of check-ins...

"Check-in successful! Congratulations, host, you have obtained the Archer Skill Inheritance Statue!"

"Holy crap! The shipment's been delivered?" Roland immediately perked up.

As we all know, there are many kinds of skills for professionals, such as basic skills and inherited skills. Basic skills are memory skills that are engraved in one's bloodline after changing jobs. These skills are relatively mediocre for ordinary professionals. However, the difference in strength between professionals of the same level is due to the inherited skills of each profession. These skills are usually passed down from various factions. For example, the Knight Temple in the City of Rapids in the game has the only knight skill on the continent - Rapids Rush! To learn this skill, you need to go to the City of Rapids.

In the game, the cost of learning inherited skills for troops is a major expense for each lord and a resource that various factions compete for.

"Let me see what skill it is?" Roland rubbed his hands excitedly, his consciousness entering the system space, where he found his archer inheritance skill statue.

Multishot: Consumes a certain amount of Battle Qi to condense into a Battle Qi arrow. After being launched, the arrow splits into three Battle Qi arrows. Learning Requirements: Tier 2 Archer. (No skill cooldown)
Wild Shot: Increases draw speed by 25%, stamina by 25%, and stamina recovery speed by 10%. Learning Requirements: Tier 1 Apprentice Archer. (Passive Skill)
A life-sized archer statue appeared in Roland's eyes. As soon as Roland stared at the statue, he received information about the skills within it.

"Wow! A divine skill for archers!" Roland exclaimed in disbelief upon seeing the Multishot. This thing could be considered a divine skill for archers! An archer's combat power mainly comes from the bow and arrow in their hands. Special arrows can multiply an archer's strength. There are not many skills that consume battle qi for archers, and even fewer skills that consume battle qi in large quantities. What archers need more is sufficient stamina so that they can draw their bows more times.

Multiple arrows can quickly convert the archer's unexpendable battle qi into multiple times the combat power, so that the archer's battle qi is not rendered useless.

"I remember the skills of the Battanian archers now are: projectile shot, running shot, charged shot, swift hand, lock-on, and long-range vision!" Roland thought to himself.

The result was a real headache for Roland. Apart from Swift Hand, Lock-on, and Charged Shot, which required Battle Qi, none of the others did. The Battanian archers' combat capabilities hadn't been developed at all. Of all these skills, Charged Shot probably consumed the most Battle Qi.

"It seems we need to build an Archer's Temple!" Roland stared into the city of Swiftstream, searching for a suitable location.

Skill inheritance statues only take effect in a temple or a specific environment. Temples are the easiest and most convenient to use. All you need is a spacious hall with a six-pointed star array engraved in it. Place the inheritance statue in the array to activate it.

It's easy to understand, simple, clear, convenient, and fast. Most importantly, it's cheap! With available space and an earth mage, Radil can afford to build the temple and inscribe the magic runes all by himself. There's no need to go through other activation methods.

Thinking of this, Roland summoned his bodyguard Caslo and asked him to inform Old Master Radil to come over for a meeting.

"Did I forget something?" Roland looked at the somewhat crowded tent and pondered quietly.

"System! Check Swiftstream City!" Roland shook his head and stopped thinking, feeling that he should check the system page to find anything he had missed.

Swiftstream City:
Area: One kilometer in radius.

Building units: 1 dilapidated lord's castle, 80 crumbling houses, 20 shabby houses, intermediate magic-inlaid city wall, stone well, blacksmith shop, barracks.

Commanders: Caslo (Tier 3), Reno (Tier 4), Radil (Tier 4)

Special Personnel: Ivy (Tier 3)
City Defense Officer: Marcus (Tier 4)
Political Officer: Lance (Second Rank)
Troop strength: 2110
Holy Knights: 100 Tier 2 Knights. Lagrange City Guards: 100 Tier 2 Warriors.

Battanian Shooters: 100 Tier 2 Shooters.

Dovenian Heavy Swordsmen: 100 Tier 2 Swordsmen.

El Niño Ranger: 10 Tier 2 Rangers.

Swiftflow Legion: 1500 Swiftflow Infantry

Recruit 200 light infantrymen.

Population: 894 (183 civilians who can be trained)
Commentary: The lonely king led his surviving people back to their homeland and built this city with high walls. The city has few inhabitants, but everything is developing in a positive direction. The city's military is strong enough to defend it, but it still cannot withstand the emerging darkness alone. The good news is that the city has finally welcomed its own city defense officer and political officials. Note: War has arrived, but the newly crowned king seems unprepared.

Abilities: 1. As the only territory of the Kingdom of Lagrange in Middle-earth, she will attract the remnants of Lagrange. The system will guide a wave of wandering Lagrange civilians to her territory every day, hoping that the lord can properly settle them.

2. Allow the recruitment of local civilians to train swift infantry.

"Oh my god! Damn it... I actually forgot about the El Niño Rangers in the south..." Roland immediately had several black lines hanging down his head.

To monitor whether the orcs had crossed the river, Roland sent his Elnino Rangers, who served as his personal guards, to the south to establish outposts. Now that war is about to break out, no one has even notified them...

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"Uh, I've been too busy... I haven't had time for them," Roland said, forcing out a few words as he looked at Renault's strange expression, showing no intention of admitting that he had forgotten about the small army under his command.

"Pfft! Hahaha!" Verway couldn't help but burst into laughter as he looked at Roland's flushed face. He was willing to swear on the faith of the grassland elves that Roland had definitely forgotten about this group of people.

"Sorry, I just couldn't help it... Hahaha!" Verway laughed again. This eccentric lord actually managed to forget his own army; he was truly a breath of fresh air in the world of lords! He wondered what those wind-blown, sun-exposed rangers thought when they found out they had been forgotten by their lord. The more Verway thought about it, the happier he became.

"Your Highness, you truly bring us new amusement every day..." Renault's expression twisted, clearly trying to suppress a laugh, as if he were suffering internal injuries from holding it in...

"Laugh if you want to..." Roland covered his face, leaned back in his chair, and immediately gave up struggling.

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After they finished celebrating, Roland, with a dark face, ordered Renault to send knights to inform the Elnino rangers to withdraw. They had already suffered enough from the hardships of the past few days, and what was even more outrageous was that they had been forgotten by their own lord...

"Lord Radil, I have a task for you!" Roland said sternly as he looked at the mage Radil who had entered the tent. He hoped that his archers could learn the inherited skills before the war, so that with the help of the rain of arrows created by the Battanian archers, they would be greatly aided in both defense and counterattack.

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