Can you withstand the power of this sword strike, which has been used twice in the game?

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Just like Noel, no matter how far away she is, as long as a hero receives a boost through her food, she can still share in a certain amount of experience points.

Although the experience points have been reduced, they can still be gained without engaging in combat.

If you're not a support-type hero, you'll never gain experience points if you don't participate in battles.

As for how to determine an assist, the mechanism is actually quite flexible and complex.

For example, the Steel Hero got beaten up without doing anything and didn't contribute to the battle, so he didn't get any assists.

However, if you are present and take damage for other heroes, and genuinely help them defeat the demons, you will receive an assist.

However, this "help" is actually difficult to define, so it can only be determined by the system.

Helping to carry things is also helping, because taking things away makes the heroes' battles much more flexible.

But in reality, they didn't participate in the battle, and didn't even kill or injure a single demon.

So, is it considered an assist or not?

This can only be determined by the system.

"And resilience? How much resilience do you have?" Annie asked.

"Only 5 points... because my attributes aren't enough, I need to put some points into magic..." Ruby sighed.

"It should be enough to just hunt down ordinary goblins."

"Let's add more magic after we upgrade," Annie said.

“Okay!” Ruby nodded.

From An's perspective, Ruby's physical attributes were already sufficient. (4#◆3（≮#〇±'）)

Wasting your points for the sake of creating more dolls is putting the cart before the horse.

Because the attributes of a doll are inherently half-loss.

If you're going to increase physical attributes to strengthen the puppet, then... why doesn't she fight herself?

Ruby now has 10 points of Strength, 20 points of Agility, and 10 points of Resilience. With a little more Endurance, she'll really be ready for the battlefield.

Her dolls have half the attributes, proving that these dolls were never meant for the battlefield.

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

It's more important to increase your magic power than your physical attributes.

If you open the system interface and glance at Ruby, you can see that her magic power is almost depleted; it's not below 10%, so she's not hungry.

"Eat well and replenish your magic. I should get going," Annie instructed Ruby.

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

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

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

An Yi looked up at the top of her head, then turned and walked out of the room.

Zero followed An Yi after she had walked about two steps away.

An Yi glanced back, nodded to herself, and finally left the room.

Zero quickly followed, taking a large stride, perhaps because he was a puppet, which looked a bit strange.

Juruby rushed over immediately: "Zero! Don't take such big steps! Walk like a normal person!"

Zero stood there for a moment, then continued to follow An Yi, this time taking much smaller steps, but...

Because An Yi was walking very fast, Zero followed closely behind with strange little steps.

Ruby was so ashamed at the thought of this guy wearing her face that she almost fainted: "Zero!! You can run after him!"

Zero was stunned for a moment before taking two steps and running towards An Yi.

However… his hand wasn’t moving at all!

He straightened his upper body and ran towards An Yi.

It looks even stranger now!

Ruby: "Ah..."

I'm so angry at this silly doll!

I should have tested it first!

Before Annie went down the stairs, she looked back at Ruby in the hallway and said, "Go back and rest. I'll teach her well."

Ruby lowered her head and sighed, "Alright... then I'll have to trouble you, Mr. Sword Hero..."

"You don't have to keep calling me the Sword Hero, my name is Anyi Karl."

After An Yi finished speaking, she took Zero downstairs.

Ruby stood frozen in front of the door for a long time, then suddenly remembered something Anie had said earlier—

"Is it because you consider me a friend?"

Ruby hurriedly replied, "Ah... oh yes! Yes, yes, yes! It's because I consider the Sword Hero a friend!?"

In reality, she hadn't even considered the matter of friends; she simply didn't know who else she could turn to besides An Yi.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that besides An Yi, she had no one else she could rely on.

It's not like I'm at home where I can leave everything to my younger brother.

As for Miluco...

Asking her for something like this would be too cruel for her, wouldn't it?

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

If you ask An Yi for help, at least he can explain the purpose of that puppet to the rest of the team.

"Now... are we friends...?" Ruby murmured to herself with a smile as she watched Annie's figure disappear around the corner.

……

An Yi returned to the expedition preparation site, only to find an unexpected group of people there.

A group of people with animal ears.

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

At the head of the expedition were Lycorina and Layton, with Arya and Noel in front of them, presumably acting as translators, and the orcs on the other side.

There was no tense atmosphere between the two sides; the orcs seemed to be having Arya and Noel convey something.

To speed things up, Annie carried "Zero" to her side and rushed over at full speed.

Without putting it down, he carried Zero to the front of the crowd, ignoring the puzzled looks of everyone.

Lycorina, who was talking to Noel and the other girl, turned around and saw Annie carrying someone over.

"Anyi?! You went and kidnapped Miss Ruby?!" Lycorina exclaimed in shock.

"Why did you tie me up?" Annie asked back.

Lycorina: "I don't know, Annie must have her reasons for doing this, right?"

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

Lycorina: "Huh? Miss Ruby wants to join the expedition? Her level is too low, isn't that a bad idea?"

An Yi didn't answer, but looked at the beastmen and asked Noel, "What's the situation now?"

Noel, who had been staring at Ruby with hostile eyes, finally snapped out of her daze and quickly replied:

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

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

It seems to mean that if you encounter other orcs, you should show that thing to them.

Only then did An Yi notice that Aria was holding a "book".

A small stack of papers had nine holes punched in the upper right corner and were strung together with a rope. It was more like a hastily made booklet than a book.

Arya noticed An's gaze, then raised her hands high: "Aminoshi! Aminoshi!"

Um!"

She handed the booklet to An Yi.

It is possible that the booklet was handed to the orc after the performance, in which he shouted "aminoshi".

An Yi nodded, casually put Zero down, took the booklet, and flipped through it a few times.

It's covered in all sorts of symbols I can't understand; maybe it's animal script?

Seeing An Yi take the booklet, the temporary leader among the orcs said something to Arya and Noel.

Arya listened and nodded, then looked at Anyi, as if trying to translate something: "That... it's... ah... um..."

Noel nodded repeatedly, and finally said happily to An Yi, "I don't understand what the orcs said, but just show that book to the other orcs when you see them!"

An Yi: "..."

Hopefully, your translation skills will have improved by the time you return from the expedition.

Before leaving, all the orcs, including Arya, collectively said "thank you" to the expeditionary heroes.

Perhaps I learned it from Arya last night.

The heroes smiled knowingly, but didn't know how to say "you're welcome" or anything like that, so they simply said goodbye at the end.

Walking beside Annie, Lycorina murmured, "Did they also wave goodbye? Could it be something offensive?"

Annie: "This is our territory. They are offending us by not using our etiquette."

Lycorina grinned: "That's not a good way to put it... but it doesn't seem to cause any problems..."

"By the way, are we really going to let Miss Ruby come with us?" Layton glanced at Ruby, who was following closely behind Annie without saying a word.

Also standing next to Ruby was Miluco.

Actually, this is where she usually stays. Because An Yi looks very intimidating, hiding behind An Yi avoids being seen by many people.