176 Battle group (1/2)
To his disappointment the sisters just shrugged their shoulders, ”Sorry, there have been so many things we did, that we don't know what is the reason. And our father forbade us to talk about the best of them.
But don't you think its fun?”
Hearing her answer, Ivan couldn't help but feel for his mentor. Although she didn't say anything definitive it was definitely even worse than he could imagine. Silently he vowed to himself to never get on their bad side if he could help it.
He hurriedly changed the topic, ”Anyway, there was another reason I have come here for.”
He then proceeded to tell Carl what had happened to him lately, that, that he hadn't already told him. This included how his stats had been locked.
When he finished his story, the sisters looked at him in awe and exclaimed, ”Wow, your bloodline is even more domineering than ours.”
”Really?”, Carl asked in surprise. The sister's bloodline was one of the most domineerings he had ever come into contact with. So for them to say that Ivan's was even more domineering was certainly a huge point.
”Yes.”, Beth nodded. ”According to what mom told us before, it is hard to call the ancestral soul if the bloodline isn't pure and strong enough.”
”Hm. Well, I don't think that this is the most important point at this moment. Instead, it should be the lock on the stats, right?”, Carl asked Ivan to make sure.
”Yes. I was wondering what I could do during this year to still improve.”
”So that's why you went to the lecture.”, Lin exclaimed. It seemed like she had just understood Ivan's thought process of focusing more on his slaves, now that he couldn't improve himself as before.
”Yes. I wanted to focus more on other aspects of my strength. And one point is slaves, but I don't have much experience. To be honest I never really used them much in combat situations. I mostly tried to fight by myself. That's also is what I wanted to ask you about. You are the person with the most knowledge in this aspect, that I know.”, the last sentences were directed towards his mentor.
Carl nodded, ”It is a good idea to think of other ways to strengthen yourself. I can teach you something about slaves or battle pets as I personally call them if we are using them for combat. But in the end, you have to find out by yourself how you want to strengthen yourself.”
”Anyway, have you added any new slave?”
”No, it is just Vlada at the current time.”, Ivan replied honestly. Technically Celine was a servant and not a slave, although he didn't quite understand the differences, besides her being unable to enter the 'Slave Space'.
”Ok. One of the most popular designs for a battle group is the classic tank, support, and attacker composition. In this type of design, Vlada would be an attacker or support. With her support being mostly out of combat in scouting and anti-air operations. During combat, she should either combat airborne foes or assist in attacking enemies on the ground.”
Ivan nodded, in school, they too were using this kind of group composition. He also agreed with his assessment of Vlada's capabilities. ”So I should get a tank and support next? As well as a better attacker?”
”In theory yes. And you should also try to get a ranged attacker. But here comes the problem for you. Although a tank is easy to find. In the worst case, just select something bulky and durable. Giants or bears are popular options there. There is even a database containing all types of species and their attributes, so you can select something suitable out of it.”
Gala nodded in agreement, ”We did it this way as well. The database is really useful and it even contains some rather rare species.”
”Yes. You should look through it later. But be mindful that you need to combat the one you select alone without outside help while executing the ritual.”, Carl reminded him.
Remembering how it was with Vlada, Ivan couldn't agree more. That truly had been a bad experience. Luckily he should be able to have Celine support him, which should make it much easier.
”What's harder are the other roles. Close ranger attackers can be found easily as well since just about any monster does have a close-range attack. You just have to find a suitable one.”
”Is there a database for this as well?”, Ivan asked curiously.