Chapter 106
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Chapter 106: An Awkward Skill Book
Facing a wide variety of Military General Skill Books, Luo Ji categorized them into three main types based on his years of experience in strategy war games for easier distinction, troop-commanding, combat, and functional.
Troop-commanding skill books affect the army led by the general, while combat skill books enhance the general’s personal combat abilities.
Functional skill books are more diverse, they don’t fall into the first two categories and have special effects.
They can be incredibly effective when the situation is right, but their usefulness plummets if the circumstances are unfavorable, essentially making them highly specialized.
With these three distinctions, Luo Ji’s choice became clear.
He consistently maintained that an individual’s strength is not enough to influence the outcome of an entire war, so he virtually ruled out combat skill books.
Of course, another reason was the overwhelming variety of combat skills with different effects, which was a headache to choose from.
As for functional skill books, his current conditions are limited, and he doesn’t plan on creating a highly specialized general.
Thus, the answer was obvious, troop-commanding skill books were his top priority.
When it comes to troop command, from a player’s perspective, the first thing Luo Ji thought of was the “Troop Specialization” skill.
This type of skill has certain limitations, but it’s not so specialized as to be useless.
Most importantly, the shield-axemen and archers under Luo Ji’s command are troop types that can be used throughout the entire cold weapon era.
In other words, if he were to buy a “Archer Specialization” or “Shield-Axeman Specialization” skill book, he definitely wouldn’t lose out.
Of course, Luo Ji had already anticipated how expensive the “Archer Specialization” skill book would be.
The shield-axeman skill book might be slightly better because, compared to the relatively few ranged troop units in the cold weapon era, there are many more melee troop units, such as shield-axemen, spearmen, saber-shield Soldiers, and Halberdiers.
You could list a whole bunch off the top of your head.
With a slightly nervous feeling, Luo Ji quickly searched the auction house.
His facial muscles uncontrollably twitched when he saw the results.
There were only two silver-tier archer specialization skill books listed, both with a direct purchase price of 1,500,000 civilization points, with no bidding.
Is this a blatant price gouge or inflation?
Since he hadn’t seen a gold-tier skill book, Luo Ji couldn’t directly say whether this price was more expensive than a gold-tier skill book.
However, judging from the average price of military skill books, this price was definitely inflated.
But from the fact that there were only two books in the entire auction house and the seller’s confident pricing, Luo Ji clearly understood how sought after this skill book was.
To be honest, Luo Ji’s ideal price for this archer specialization skill book was one million civilization points, a price he found more acceptable.
It’s worth noting that within the same type and tier, some relatively unpopular troop specialization skill books cost as little as four hundred thousand civilization points, while others range from six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand.
Luo Ji hesitated.
He decided to check out the shield-axeman specialization skill book.
Buying the archer specialization skill book was a consideration for the long term.
If he only looked at the present, shield-axemen were his main force.
Perhaps due to a quick hand, Luo Ji, who had just deleted archer specialization from the search bar, pressed the search button before he could even type in the new search query.
The entire page refreshed instantly, and as it did, a golden hue caught his eye.
“Gold-tier skill book?!”
This thought flashed through Luo Ji’s mind.
He then looked closer and blurted out.
“Damn it! Slinger specialization?”
In an instant, countless thoughts raced through Luo Ji’s mind.
His eyes caught the direct price, which was one million civilization points.
[System Notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully purchasing ‘Slinger Specialization (Gold Tier)’]
Luo Ji, who had made up his mind in an instant and bought the book, let out a long sigh of relief.
At the same time, other players who also discovered this skill book cursed simultaneously when they saw the gold-tier slinger specialization skill book bought in a blink of an eye.
What was going on?
Such an awkward skill book was bought before they could even hesitate for a second?
Which beast was so decisive?
That was slinger specialization, not archer specialization!
Did they think one million was a pile of waste paper?
That they just bought it in a second?
At this moment, the “beast” those players spoke of was lazily stretching.
He had decisively bought it in a second, the gold-tier slinger specialization skill book.
Undeniably, this was indeed a very awkward skill book.
Despite being the highest gold tier, its effect was to buff slingers, an ancient troop type.
The player who obtained this skill book probably felt like dying at that moment.
If the price was too high, no one would buy it.
If the price was too low, they would be unwilling.
As a result, they listed it for a direct purchase price of one million, which was five hundred thousand civilization points cheaper than the silver-tier archer specialization skill book.
It seemed quite ironic.
If a gold-tier specialization skill book for Archers and Slingers, both ranged troop types, were placed side-by-side and all players had to choose one, most would pick Archers, including Luo Ji, who had just bought the Slinger book in a second.
However, slingers also have their advantages, otherwise, so many players wouldn’t have hesitated just now.
If it were truly useless, they would have simply ignored it, no need to hesitate.
Luo Ji had previously mentioned siege defense as an advantage, but in reality, the biggest advantage of slingers is that they are cheap, or rather, their cost is low.
Do you know how much time and how many resources it takes to craft a bow?
And how much time and how many resources it takes to craft a sling?
Not to mention the difference in value between arrows and stones.
If you’re not a lord, you wouldn’t know how difficult it is to raise troops!
It’s no exaggeration to say that, under current conditions, the time it takes the Armament Department to craft a few bows could be used to equip an entire unit of slingers if they were making slings instead.
The consumption of resources is even more incomparable.
You might exhaust all the current resources in your tribe to raise a one hundred man archer unit, while I can raise a four hundred man slinger unit in minutes with the same resources.
With four hundred slingers against your one hundred archers, do you think I can’t kill you in this situation?
