Chapter 149: Practical bat Training

  Upon hearing Matthew's orders, Old John didn't act immediately; instead, he sought out the training master, Arnold.

  After the two discussed the situation for a while, they cluded that the lord's idea had signifit potential and practical value.

  However, before taking a, Old John gathered all 1,000 soldiers at oy gate.

  Even if something ued happened, like the murlocs rushing in, they could easily hold their ground.

  Then, Old John dispatched a squad of heavily armored soldiers, who charged through the gate's narrow opening.

  These heavily armored soldiers, mostly made up of barbarians, possessed strength and defense far beyond what the murlocs could handle.

  With shields raised, they pushed forward, while their bdes effortlessly cut down wave after wave of murlocs.

  The murlocs charged forward, shrieking, but their pitiful bat power didn't match their bravery.

  Their shabby ons couldn't pee the defenses of the heavily armored soldiers; at most, they only spttered the soldiers with blood.

  After firming the murlocs' weak bat capabilities, Old John finally rexed a out a sed unit posed of veterans and new recruits.

  The rge number of murloitially imposed psychological pressure on the soldiers.

  But this pressure was far from life-threatening.

  After a brief adjustment, the veterans became fident, and the new recruits overcame their nervousness, gaining valuable experien real bat.

  Seeing that the training was effective, Old John and Arnold were reassured.

  However, they didn't rush to send more soldiers out. Instead, they carefully monitored the time.

  Each training team was only allowed to fight for half an hour before being rotated out, and they ehat the veterans outnumbered the new recruits.

  As a result, even though the fighting was intense and some soldiers were injured, not a single soldier died.

  After roughly three hours, every soldier had undergone a rotation, and a new round of training began.

  From initial tension to eventual desensitization, most of the recruits quickly developed a "steel-hearted" attitude.

  Oher hand, the piles of murloc corpses outside the walls steadily grew, f a small hill.

  For safety reasons, Old John and Arnold ged the battlefield looving to anate to tihe training.

  Starting with simple formations, the soldiers' military skills quickly improved as they progressed to more plex maneuvers.

  The effectiveness of the training attracted many onlookers.

  Seeing the soldiers fighting so valiantly, sying so many murlocs without suffering signifit injuries, the previously anxious citizens rexed.

  Ralph, seizing the opportunity, promptly announced:

  "Everyone take a half-day off; wages will still be paid, and all goods are 20% off!"

  With the assurahat the murlocs posed no major threat, people immediately took advantage of the opportunity to explore and see how Bay City had grown and ged.

  As the stant kill notificati in Matthew's ears, he chose to mute them temporarily, leaving only a summary report while he focused on his task.

  Before him sat a on adventurer's paralysis potion!

  But don't misuand—he wasn't pnning to use it against the murlocs.

  A potion costing nearly 20 gold s per bottle could only paralyze a few dozen murlocs.

  Using it to deal with the tens of thousands of murlocs would cost tens of thousands of gold s—an astronomical expense.

  Besides, it would be pointless.

  The murloc Tidewalker, a high-tier enemy, had signifit influence over the murloc horde.

  Even if all the low-tier murlocs were killed, the Tidewalker could simply retreat upstream or downstream of the Silvermoon River aurn with even more murlocs.

  After a few cycles of this, Matthew would be bankrupt!

  This paralysis potion was reserved specifically for the murloc Tidewalker!

  Alongside the paralysis potion were several iing ingredients.

  Murloc scales.

  The heart's blood of a Sahwa murloc.

  High-tration nutrient liquid.

  Phantom fruit, a low-tier magical pnt. Wheen raw, it induces powerful halluations. It be used to make "halluogenic potions" and costs 20 silver s per fruit.

  Devil's vials, a mid-tier magical pnt. They emit a strange fragrahat intensifies when mixed with blood. ing them leads to addi, and they are used to make "cealment potions" and cost 5 gold s per pound.

  These ingredients had limited uses on their own, but bihey could produce remarkable effects.

  Matthew began by grinding the murloc scales into powder and mixing them thhly into the high-tration nutrient liquid.

  He cut open the fragrant phantom fruit, dripped in the heart's blood of a Sahwa murlod let it sit for half an hour.

  Then he mixed it all into the paralysis potion and tiirring.

  Finally, he filtered the mixture and added powdered devil's vials before mixing it vigorously once more.

  The process was simple, but when Matthew finished, he had failed.

  Could he really i a new potion with just ory?

  Impossible!

  Unfazed, Matthew discarded the failed batd began again.

  After three secutive failures, Matthew memorized every step and decisively opened his status s:

  "Ding! Do you want to spend 1,000 experience points to perfect the new potion recipe?"

  Without hesitation, Matthew firmed!

  That afternoon, Matthew busied himself in the b, preparing a special surprise for the murlocs.

  It wasn't until te at night that Matthew emerged from the b, breathing in the cool night air uhe blood-red moon.

  In his hand was a bottle of colorful liquid.

  "Delicacy Potion (Murloc Edition)," one of the many potions created by pyers. When ed, it makes the drinker more "delicious."

  That's right—it makes the user more "tasty!"

  Ange, who had been waiting outside the b, looked on expetly.

  Seeing Matthew nod, she let out a sigh of relief.

  Ange realized that, at some point, she had developed unwavering faith in her lord.

  "The lord solve any problem!"

  "This time will be no different!"

  Matthew, oblivious to Ahoughts, would have probably advised her with a serious tone:

  "Blind personal worship is a dangerous thing!"

  Now, though, Matthew wasn't in a rush. He enjoyed a leisurely dinner and patiently reviewed Liana's assigs.

  Afterward, he returo his study.

  Two mier, his phantom proje walked out, apanying Ange back to the city walls.

  As they he wall, they were greeted by the cmor of thousands of murlod the shouts of soldiers.

  Matthew spotted a squad of blood-soaked soldiers returning from the gates.

  Each soldier's armor was stained with murloc blood and grime, and they looked quite battered.

  However, their spirits were high—despite their fatigue, their eyes burned with determination.

  Ange quickly spoke:

  "This is the fourth rotation. The battle just ended."

  Matthew g the soldiers' aplishments for the day.

  They had sin a total of 14,000 murlocs. On average, each soldier had killed over 10 murlocs, earning Matthew a total of 20,000 experience points.

  "What a pity. To seize this development opportunity for Bay Territory, these murlocs will have to be eliminated."

  FAL