People fight and become emperors in advance

Chapter 10: First Visit to the Warcraft Mountains
In the Warcraft Mountains, Warcraft are rampant and dangerous. If a person walks alone, he or she is likely to be targeted by the Warcraft.

Therefore, except for some skilled and brave mercenaries, most of the mercenaries who go into the mountains go in groups.

Chen Xiao was not in a hurry to join a team. He stood by the street and waited quietly for half an hour, watching teams gather mercenaries and leave, and employers appear one after another.

Unfortunately, there is no recruitment for Wanyaozhai's herb-collecting team.

In Chen Xiao's imagination, it should be easier to find the cave if he follows the route of Wanyaozhai's herb-picking team into the Monster Mountain Range.

"One more fighter above six stars!"

The mercenary who intended to hunt down Firefox waved his money bag and scanned the crowd with his sharp eyes.

In the small Qingshan Town, apart from the several large mercenary groups, low-level fighters make up the majority. The six-star threshold is indeed a bit high, so this person has been recruiting for so long but still hasn't gathered the required number of people.

Seeing this, Chen Xiao no longer hesitated and walked forward through the crowd.

"I!"

The mercenary standing on a high place heard the sound and frowned slightly.

"Little brother, you are probably not yet an adult. I want a fighter above six stars!"

The mercenary emphasized the word "fighter".

Obviously, he didn't believe that Chen Xiao could have such strength at his age.

Explanations are too pale, facts speak louder than words.

Chen Xiao glanced around and soon saw a tree as thick as a bowl beside the street.

Without any nonsense, Chen Xiao strode forward, took a deep breath, and the ice-blue fighting spirit, like a layer of faint light curtain, covered his palm.

After a brief silence, Chen Xiao let out a low shout, and with a fierce force in his palm, he struck the tree trunk hard.

"Click."

With a crisp cracking sound, the tree, which was as thick as a bowl, fell to the ground with a creaking sound, splashing dust under the astonished gaze of everyone.

"how?"

Chen Xiao looked at the mercenary on the high ground.

The mercenary grinned and jumped down, patting Chen Xiao on the shoulder twice.

"Good guy, it's you. Here's your reward."

Pay first, do the work later. This is the rule for most mercenaries. After all, no one knows whether they can come back alive. If they get paid in advance, they can leave it to their families if they have families.

As he spoke, the mercenary took out two gold coins from the bag and left them before handing them to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao looked puzzled. He had been watching for a full half hour and had not seen the other party withhold anyone's wages.

He needed an explanation for being treated specially.

"Don't misunderstand, little brother. I, Wang Meng, am very satisfied with your strength. However, you smashed my tree. Two gold coins are just a token of my appreciation. Isn't that too much?"

The big man spread his hands, as if asking the people around him to judge.

The mercenaries nodded in agreement.

Chen Xiao burst out laughing.

"Well, it was indeed my fault."

"That's right, but there's still some preparation to do. Hurry up and everyone follow me into the mountains in a quarter of an hour."

Patting Chen Xiao on the shoulder again, the big man raised his hand and called the other five recruits forward.

Chen Xiao took a glance and saw four six-star fighters and one seven-star fighter.

As for Wang Meng, his strength is comparable to his, and he is considered a skilled mercenary in Qingshan Town.

The five mercenaries shook their heads. This was not the first time they had done something like this, and they had already made all the necessary preparations.

Chen Xiao had nothing on him and didn't need to make any more preparations, so he also shook his head.

"Okay, then let's hurry up and go straight into the mountains and try to come back early, otherwise we won't be able to find any girls."

Wang Meng made a rather vulgar joke, which caused several mercenaries to smile and nod in understanding.

Chen Xiao laughed dryly and didn't interrupt.

In this world where entertainment is extremely scarce, the daily entertainment of low-level mercenaries is probably only alcohol and sex.

Respect and understand.

…In the silent forest, a group of seven people walked quietly, their vigilant eyes constantly scanning the dark places in the surrounding trees, their hands tightly grasping the weapons at their waists, ready to deal with any emergencies.

When they reached an area with a relatively open view, Wang Meng took out a simple map from his waist and opened it.

"Our destination is this valley, where fire foxes often appear. Although these guys are second-level, they never gather in groups except when mating, making it very convenient for us to attack them."

"Well, little brother, this should be your first time entering the Warcraft Mountains. Let me explain a few more. The second-level Warcraft Fire Fox has strength comparable to that of a low-level Star Fighter. However, the Fire Fox's attack methods are relatively ordinary. It is more skilled at speed..."

Chen Xiao never said that this was his first time entering the Warcraft Mountains, but for these old hands who have been here for many years, they can easily tell from many details.

That forced vigilance is qualitatively different from their instinctive vigilance, and this cannot be faked.

"This is the general situation of the Firefox. To facilitate the encirclement and killing, everyone should tell me what they are best at and their respective fighting spirit attributes. I will formulate a plan for the encirclement and killing."

Plan before you act, and you will gain success when you know when to stop!
Everyone understands this truth.

"I'm good at using a knife with the metal attribute, so the killing power should be stronger." The seven-star fighter mercenary fiddled with the scimitar at his waist and said coolly.

"I am also metal."

"I have wind attribute, so I'm faster."

"Wood attribute. I have a entanglement skill that should be very useful against the fire fox."

"Metallicity..."

Chen Xiao fell to the end. Seeing several people looking at him, he immediately said, "Ice attribute, best at... defense!"

Hearing this, several people were surprised.

I had seen him try his hand at attacking in the town before, and his attacking power was no worse than any of theirs. I had thought that Chen Xiao would be good at attacking, but I was wrong.

Wang Meng nodded slightly. "I'm also a gold-attribute. You know what? Our team is pretty logical. So, when we get to our destination, Old Jiang, you're fast, so you'll be in charge of driving the fox away. The three of us gold-attributes will fight head-on. Old Wang, with his wood-attribute, will assist from the side and restrict the fire fox's movements. And Brother Chen, guard the valley exit. We can't let the fire fox escape!"

After a brief preparation by the experienced mercenaries, a siege plan was officially finalized.

Everyone nodded in agreement. This plan played to their strengths and avoided their weaknesses, so there was nothing wrong with it.

Without further delay, the group put away the map and, led by Wang Meng, accelerated towards the target valley.

At the outermost edge of the Warcraft Mountains, almost all the active beasts are first-level Warcraft. Although the combination of seven people cannot be said to be rampant, it is enough to make those Warcraft automatically retreat.

The journey was smooth and after about half an hour, the seven people finally reached the target valley.

"Shh!"

Wang Meng, who was at the front, let out a soft hiss, and the six people behind him immediately stopped their feet and fell silent.

Chen Xiao raised his head slightly and looked into the valley, and saw a beautiful red monster drinking water beside a stream in the valley, completely unaware that the crisis had arrived.

"We're lucky! We spotted one right after arriving. Let's proceed according to the plan!"

Wang Meng smiled in a low voice and waved his hand slightly. All the mercenaries except Chen Xiao stepped lightly and slowly moved inside from both sides of the valley.

A second-level monster that is not good at attacking. Seven people made a plan and still needed to be so cautious.

This is not due to excessive caution, but rather that Warcraft generally have more advantages than humans of the same level.

Take this fire fox for example, it is equivalent to a one-star human fighter. If it were not bad at attacking, if seven fighters dared to attack it, at least half of them would be taken away, or even all of them would be wiped out.

Chen Xiao, who is responsible for guarding the valley entrance, has a relatively simple task. If the others can succeed, they may not even have a chance to take action.

This allowed him to carefully observe the mercenaries' actions and learn from their experience.

Under Chen Xiao's gaze, the six people acted like thieves. They would stop to observe the Firefox every few steps. Seeing that they were not discovered, they continued to grope forward.

The total distance was only about two hundred steps, and it took the six people more than ten minutes to get within thirty meters of the fire fox.

Just at this moment, the fire fox walking in the valley seemed to notice something, suddenly raised its head, and looked at both sides of the valley vigilantly.

The six old mercenaries reacted extremely quickly and dodged in time, so they were not seen by Firefox.

However, the vigilant fire fox still kicked its feet and leaped to the right side of the valley without hesitation, trying to cross the valley and temporarily leave this place that made it feel threatened.

"We've been discovered, take action!"

Wang Meng drew out his sword with a clang and shouted loudly, and the wood-attributed mercenary quickly jumped out.

"Fighting Skill: Entanglement!"

Along with the mercenary's low roar, his emerald green fighting spirit suddenly shot out, showing the characteristics of wood-attributed fighting spirit, like a green vine passing over the top of the fire fox, turning at an angle, and wrapping around the fire fox, making it impossible for people, no, for the fox to defend against it.

This mercenary is a fighter. If he reaches the Dou Ling level and can condense his Dou Qi into objects, this entanglement technique will definitely be more difficult to deal with.

(End of this chapter)