Chapter 18: Dog Town, the best substrate
Looking at the two long legs that were stuck on the barrel, Shi Yinghu recognized the other party as the Amazonian female warrior Finney.
In fact, only girls in this profession can have such a sturdy and toned body, although the legs of the two girls on the side of Zoeki and Zoe are also very long, they are like wicker, soft and too lacking in strength.
The woman was already unconscious, and with the barrel between her legs, she tumbled into the water below, and it would not be long before she drowned.
Compared with taking advantage of the heat, Shi Yinghu prefers beautiful people with vivid colors, this dimensional world is seriously eroded by the lower dimensional world, but because of this, female professionals rarely look ugly, most of them are stronger and the better their skin, so they become more beautiful, but male professionals, the higher the rank, the more vicious and fierce the image.
Propped up and stood up, gasping for a moment, and then Shi Yinghu ran over and dragged Finney, a female Amazonian warrior in the shallow water, ashore with a wine barrel.
Her will to save her life was very strong, so she hugged the wine barrel to death, and the wine barrel was almost broken by her, and Shi Yinghu, who was also exhausted, used all his strength to save the wine barrel from her arms.
Then he pressed his lower abdomen violently and artificial respiration, and after tossing for a long time, Finney spit out a big mouthful of seawater, and gradually opened his eyelids and woke up.
Shi Yinghu watched this girl pick up a life, and couldn't help but smile, and was full of a sense of accomplishment, if it weren't for himself, Adani, Finney, Zoe, and Zoe would probably not be able to live.
The first time I opened my eyes, I saw Mr. Kate Bryan chuckling at herself, the little girl Finney, who was almost desperate to escape death, tears flowed out of her eyes, she hugged Shi Yinghu and cried silently, because the force of the hug was fierce and abrupt, Shi Yinghu was even thrown to the ground by her, and it took a long time to gasp for breath and pat her back with a wry smile.
"Alright, alright. It's okay, it's okay, we've all escaped. Next, after Finney's mood calmed down, Shi Yinghu and Finney found something to eat and drink together, and the two of them simply ate and drank to replenish their calories and physical fitness as much as possible.
In the process, both of them saw smoke rising in the distance, and they had planned to camp by the sea for the night, but now it seemed that they didn't need to.
Here, it seems that it is not far from a human settlement.
"Hold on, let's go over there and rest, with good food and warm beds. After devouring some wine and seafood, Shi Yinghu regained some physical strength, and he helped Finney next to him to walk in the direction of the smoke rising.
At this time, Shi Yinghu still had a silver sword on his back, and Finney no longer had any weapons on his body, Shi Yinghu thought about it, he handed the magic dagger to the other party in a whisper, the Amazon female warrior still has a high melee hand-to-hand combat ability, she has a magic dagger to defend herself, so as not to encounter any accidents, she has to devote great mental attention to protection.
"Senior Kate, aren't you a necromancer? Why are your physical fitness so much better than mine, and I feel like you are recovering faster than mine? Feeling the man next to her supporting herself, the increasingly warm and powerful palm, the Amazon female warrior Finillo asked with some curiosity, and her eyes as she looked at the man next to her faintly revealed some curiosity and admiration.
Amazonian female warriors, this group of people worship people who are stronger than themselves.
"Maybe it's because my level of necromancy cultivation is too low, haha, the outstanding graduates of the Ancient Serpent's Castle are all official necromancers who can summon clay stone demons, and I'm still an apprentice in the strict sense of the word, and I've wasted too much time in order to practice my swordsmanship physique. In response to Finney's doubts, Shi Yinghu responded with a smile, and also gave her some preventive shots in advance.
In addition to necromancy, the snake sect demon hunter swordsman in the ancient snake castle is also very famous, these talents are not suitable for people who practice necromancy, even if they choose some necromancy, they will only major in the spell of white bone armor, and cultivate this extremely classic necromancy defense technique to the most extreme realm, and with the vicious snake faction swordsmanship, it can be described as offensive and defensive, and it is also very powerful, very famous. It's just that it is generally difficult to advance to the legendary realm, but the actual combat of the same level is very strong.
The first-order necromancer, the external performance characteristic is that he can summon clay stone demons with strong defense and sluggish ability, with the skeleton warrior, as long as he can protect himself and not be attacked by the opponent in close quarters, the necromancer is very/very powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to call it invincible at the same level, especially when facing the lower plane demons with relatively low intelligence, these lower plane demons are usually unable to distinguish the difference between summons and mages, so the necromancer is quite safe in the fight with them, and will not be targeted attacks.
Very few outstanding necromancers died directly at the hands of low-level lower-level demons, and most of them died at the hands of the degenerate, dying from the poisonous blades stabbed in the back, these were difficult to avoid no matter how much the mentors taught them in the Ancient Serpent's Citadel Academy.
If you can summon a clay stone demon, you are a first-order official necromancer, and if you can't summon it, you are a necromancer, and there is no other more accurate evaluation standard in this world, and this evaluation standard is actually relatively accurate.
However, it is not as accurate as Shi Yinghu's own system evaluation.
Before Shi Yinghu was level five, his profession was a necromancer, but after he killed the fallen on the dark witch ship and was promoted to level six, his profession became a necromancer.
Although he still doesn't have the ability to summon clay stone demons, the system still thinks that he is a first-order necromancer, but the path he chooses is different from that of other first-order necromancers.
In fact, the hidden value evaluation criteria of the system are more accurate, but the humans in this dimensional world do not have a system, and they can only make their own judgments according to conventional experience.
If you can't summon a clay stone demon, you're not a first-order necromancer, if you can't summon a blood stone demon or a summoned creature of the same level, you're not a second-order necromancer, you can summon a steel stone demon or a summoned creature of the same level, and you're already a strong second-order necromancer, and a necromancer who can summon a flame fire demon, even if it's not a grandmaster, it's not far behind.
High-level necromancy: Rebirth, Flame Demon Summoning, Curse Reduced Resistance, Soul of Bones, Poisonous Nova are all very powerful necromancy, and it is extremely difficult to comprehend and learn.
The humans of this world are not like Shi Yinghu, who have a system panel attribute for them to query, and all they can use to make judgments is their own experience.
Under Shi Yinghu's words, Finney, a little Amazon girl who had not been a fledgling for a long time, accepted the character deliberately created by Kate: an outstanding graduate of the Ancient Serpent's Fort who is proficient in swordsmanship, but has an average level of necromancy.
In fact, although Kate Bryan is extremely talented and hardworking, because of the path he chose, Kate Bryan really did not reach the level that the outstanding graduates of the Ancient Serpent's Castle should be.
Here is an additional talk about the experience of learning the necromancy of the poor:
While majoring in the two slum necromancer essences of Skeleton Resurrection and Clay Stone Demon, after being promoted to a first-order necromancer for a certain period of time, he studied the Resurrection Skeleton Mage spell a little, although many people think that this spell is of little significance, in fact, it is indeed of little significance in actual combat, and summoning it also wastes the corpse resources that are very important to the necromancer.
However, when facing high-level elite boss-level monsters, even if you can only summon a skeleton mage, it can also play a great role in assisting actual combat.
Necromancers of the first and second order are not yet able to learn the advanced curse of aging, which allows the recipient to see their own death coming, making them temporarily old. They will imagine themselves weakened by old age, and this painful ordeal makes them feel that they will not be able to continue fighting. Aging slows down the recipient's attacks, reduces the damage they are able to deal, and increases the amount of physical damage it takes.
This powerful curse spell is powerful and complex and difficult to learn, and it is difficult for a first-order or even a second-order necromancer to comprehend and master.
At this time, if you master the revival skeleton mage spell, you can summon an ice skeleton mage, and then have a low-level version of the "aging" curse in advance.
Poor Necromancer, majoring in skeleton recovery, minoring in Dominating Skeleton and Clay Stone Demon, slightly involved in reviving skeleton mage, when facing the powerful lower plane elite monster BOSS, it is completely possible to complete the leapfrog challenge relatively easily through advance preparation.
Many skeleton warriors have powerful physical attack output, advanced summons clay stone demons can slow down opponents, and superimposed with some ice skeleton mages' "freezing" special effects, even if the besieged elite monster boss is one level stronger, it can no longer pose a threat to you.
In the future, if you re-study and master the curse of "aging", under the triple superposition of slowness, freezing, and aging, the vast majority of elite monster bosses will be like unable to move, allowing powerful necromancers to slaughter and kill them.
A necromancer who is so powerful in his cultivation is basically very difficult to die as long as his fragile body is not attacked and does not encounter accidents.
Although many witcher professions do not like the shady profession of necromancer, even they cannot question the strength of this profession.
...... The above actual combat experience is a personal experience, mastering the power of death and bringing boundless terror to one's enemies......
"Help!"
"Help!"
Just as Shi Yinghu and Finney left the seashore, as the sky darkened, they got closer and closer to the human settlement where the smoke was rising.
The two of them suddenly heard a burst of shouts for help from the mountains and forests not far away.
Now in his own state, Shi Yinghu is quite reluctant to ask for trouble, but after all, Finney is by his side, and listening to the shouts of the adult man who is short of energy, through this, Shi Yinghu can judge that the danger he encountered is not great, otherwise he should have died a long time ago.
"Stay here, I'll go see what's going on over there. ”
"Senior Kate, be careful. "Finney is a fledgling witcher, or a student mentality, although she is worried about the man in front of her, she still instinctively feels that the witcher should save people, even if her own state is not very good at the moment.
Shi Yinghu nodded when he heard this, and at the same time, while he was running in that direction, he waved his hand, and with a dark red halo, a mutated skeleton elite soldier holding a steel two-handed giant sword appeared beside him, running towards the unknown danger with his master.
Jumping over several rocks and coming to the shade of the trees, Shi Yinghu's face changed, and his mouth and nose were gradually filled with blood and corpse stench.
What appeared before his eyes was the remains of a battlefield, and the corpses had not been disposed of and buried, so it was not only the plague that was giving birth, but also a large number of ghouls.
As soon as Shi Yinghu jumped out of the mountain and came to the battlefield, he was spotted by several ghouls who were gnawing on corpses, naked and afraid of the sun, but it was already dusk and the light was no longer strong, so they could not contain their desire to greed for flesh and blood, and crawled out of the shadows of the dirt and munched on the corpses.
"Fortunately, it was the steel sword that was lost, and the demon hunting sword has not been lost. As he said this, Shi Yinghu reached out and pulled out the silver long sword from behind his back.
He consciously refracted sunlight with his silver sword, causing it to fall among the corpses in the shade of the trees, and in the eyes of the ghouls, the light was not enough to hurt these dark creatures, but it still succeeded in angering them.
"Roar!"
Roaring, these corpse-eating creatures pounced on Shi Yinghu.
Even a farmer with a dung fork can take care of these ghouls in the sun, but when the sun goes down, these dark creatures can even cause some trouble for witchers.
Of course, it's just a few troubles.
The ghoul who rushed over first had not even come to Shi Yinghu's approach, but was slashed out by the mutated skeleton soldiers on the side.
With the strength of the mutant skeleton soldier and the steel two-handed greatsword, one sword is enough to cut an adult male in two, but the slash on the ghoul does not directly cause fatal damage, and the opponent can even fight back.
Under Shi Yinghu's control, the mutant skeleton soldier took a step sideways, avoiding the opponent's claw strike, and swung his sword with both hands to slash the headshot.
The sword nearly slashed most of the ghoul's head in half before it was killed.
"Kill the Ghoul and gain 40.4 experience. ”
(Do you need two swords, or even a critical attack to complete the kill?If you use a silver giant sword, you should be able to complete the kill with one sword, right?) Shi Yinghu didn't make a move at the first time, but watched from the sidelines, however, under the cover of the mutant skeleton soldiers, he began to summon more skeleton warriors with a spell.
Shi Yinghu's current career level is level six, skeleton revival is level three, and domination skeleton level two, because all free attribute points have been added to the vitality attribute, so Shi Yinghu's spiritual magic is very low, especially summoning mutant skeleton soldiers is more mana than summoning other skeleton warriors, so after summoning two other skeletons in a row, Shi Yinghu is basically no magic.
Fortunately, it is actually enough.
On the battlefield, among the piles of corpses, there were more than a dozen ghouls around. However, in their concept, the necromancer in front of them is the same as the skeleton warrior, so they attack from all directions, and there is no sense of decapitation.
Ghouls have rough skin and thick meat, high physique attributes, very durable, and know how to take advantage of their high physique in terms of play, and the attack method is to pounce on it, and the explosive power is actually very good.
If it was an ordinary fledgling demon hunter, surrounded by more than a dozen ghouls under dusk and in the pile of corpses on the battlefield, it was still very dangerous, but for Shi Yinghu, their attack pattern was too rough, as a man who had almost stepped into the transcendent fifth order and became a martial god in the past, Shi Yinghu would not be attacked by such a simple attack as long as he had the agility of an ordinary human.
If he was hugged by this kind of hugging attack, he didn't need the ghoul to gnaw him to death at all, Shi Yinghu would buy a piece of tofu himself, and then find a corner where no one was there and hit him headlong to death: it was really a shame to throw himself into his grandmother's house, and he would never have any face to face again.
Holding the Demon Hunting Silver Sword in one hand, Shi Yinghu recovered some of his magic power under the cover of the three skeleton warriors, and then cast a magic seal with his left hand, covering the ghouls who came up around him with a curse of "damage deepening".
The damage is amplified, causing the recipient's wound to decay, doubling the effect of physical attacks.
After completing the spell, the lightning-like silver sword light suddenly tore through the darkness, and stabbed out the inside of the eye sockets and skulls of the three ghouls one after another with incomparable precision, Shi Yinghu's sword was not only fast and accurate, but also stabbed at the same time, the sword body spun sharply, with a spiral strangulation force like an electric drill.
Vital attacks, penetrating attacks, and damage deepening, under the triple superposition, even if Shi Yinghu's strength was not even greater than the strength of the mutated skeleton soldiers, the three-headed ghoul died in an instant, and even Shi Yinghu's sword light swept by, and the corpse of the three-headed ghoul stood for a while before falling to the ground.
This side shows to what extent he has control over every wisp of force, and the power of each wisp of force is used to kill, and after the killing is completed, even the power to push down the corpse does not overflow.
Shi Yinghu and mutated skeleton soldiers can kill a ghoul with thick skin and flesh in one or two swords.
But the other skeleton warriors are not good, they wield bone weapons, and they are indeed fighting hard, but TM is as stupid as the monsters, there is no distinction between priority and priority, whoever is closer to them will attack whomever is closer, and low to medium damage is not enough to reduce the combat effectiveness of ghouls.
Moreover, Shi Yinghu noticed that these guys had the evil ability to gnaw corpses and return blood in the dark, and when they were injured and repulsed, they lay on the corpse and gnawed twice, and the damage on their bodies quickly recovered, and even the state became faintly more violent.
"Kill the Ghoul and gain XP 39.2. ”
"Help!"
"Kill the Ghoul and gain 41.7 experience. ”
"Who's going to save me, Mom!"
In the distance, the man had already begun to call his mother, and it seemed that if he didn't hurry over, he could only go over to collect his body.
Shi Yinghu rolled his eyes, and then took the initiative to increase the difficulty of the battle, running in the direction where the man called for help, while swinging his sword to cast the seal, killing the ghouls who followed him.
Outnumbered, the more chaotic the scene, the more unfavorable it is to the side, but it's nothing, Shi Yinghu can't be pounced on by the ghouls around him, and even he has the strength to control the mutant skeleton soldiers from being pounced, but the other two skeleton warriors are resigned to fate, and it is impossible to train all skeleton warriors into mutant skeletons, in that case, the strong will be strong, but the cannon fodder role of the skeleton warriors will disappear, and it will become impossible to lose.
In the process of fighting, the two skeleton warriors were shattered by the ghoul pounce, on the one hand, because Shi Yinghu did not have the strength to control them, and on the other hand, because the cultivation level of the control skeleton spell was too low, and it was difficult to control it.
Finally, I came to the place where the man cried out for help on the long road in the forest.
At this time, the ghouls who followed closely around him had been almost killed, Shi Yinghu looked for prestige, only to see a carriage with scattered goods parked on the side of the road, surrounded by ghouls and big ghouls, and a man called his mother under the truck, and at the same time used wooden planks to resist the invasion of the surrounding ghouls.
Several large ghouls, who were obviously larger than normal ghouls, were now surrounding the horses, feasting on the warm and delicious flesh of the pack horses that had just been bitten to death, and when they sensed Shi Yinghu's arrival, these big ghouls looked sideways, and then they raised their heads to the sky and let out a roar.
............
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Like wolves, these great ghouls roared in the sky, and the next moment, they pounced on Shi Yinghu and the mutated skeleton soldiers.
Whether it's size, strength, or speed, the Great Ghoul is much, much stronger than the average ghoul.
"Roar!"
One of the largest ghouls took the lead, and after closing a certain distance, he suddenly pounced on Shi Yinghu like the top of Mount Tai.
It should be the leader of these dark creatures/ghouls in front of you, and it has faintly evolved to the point where it is about to become an elite boss.
In this dimensional world, not only humans can evolve, but monsters can also evolve, and even they may evolve faster than most humans.
However, this time Shi Yinghu, who clearly knew that his physical strength was insufficient, did not choose to fight with him hand-to-hand, and between the five fingers of his left hand, a tube of explosives slipped down at some point, and this tube of explosives was thrown into the body of the big ghoul in mid-air by Shi Yinghu.
The reason why I didn't use it just now is because there is not much left, although I can refine it myself, but refining the medicine also takes time and enough raw materials, so of course, I can save some use, use, then use it on the blade.
"Kill the Great Ghoul and gain 96.8 experience. ”
Explosive potion is made by boiling and refining it, infusing it with magic power, and then irradiating it with sunlight for several days.
The lethality of this thing is not low, and I am afraid that for creatures like ghouls, it has a multiplier damage bonus effect.
The most violent ghoul was hit head-on by the explosive charge, and the whole thing was quickly incinerated in mid-air, and even fell to the ground, leaving only scattered mutilated corpses, just like its entire body, soaked in oil.
The remaining tubes of explosives on his body, Shi Yinghu originally planned to use them on the evil spirit on the black witch ship in the previous battle, but after using the mutated skeleton soldier and holding the silver sword to try a move, Shi Yinghu found that the other party still had a considerable amount of strength, and the remaining tubes of explosives could not kill the other party in the rainstorm, so he simply did not waste it, but at this moment, it was all used on the big ghoul in front of him.
Boom, boom, boom.
With a wave of both hands, several big ghouls were directly incinerated and blown to pieces, the battle flow pharmacist, the cost is the cost, the trouble is the trouble, but it does have its merits, just like at this moment, Shi Yinghu, a low-level necromancer, has exerted a flame attack power that is already stronger than that of a mage of the same level.
"Kill the Great Ghoul and gain 82.4 experience. ”
"Kill the Great Ghoul and gain 79.2 experience. ”...
Because of the rapid death of those big ghouls, and because of the terrifying restraint revealed in the explosives, the ghouls around who didn't know what they were dying actually chose to flee after cowering and hesitating for a moment.
Although these escapees were all experience points, Shi Yinghu was very tired at this moment, so he didn't have the idea of continuing to chase the past.
At this time, Finney rushed over in search of the sound and joined Shi Yinghu. She's a little bit like a policeman, and she doesn't show up until things are done.
"Alright, alright, come out, those ghouls have been cleared by us. Knocking on the truck board, Shi Yinghu leaned over and said.
"Huh!?" A moment later, a young man dressed as a shabby civilian, got out from under the car, looked around, and said, "Thank you, thank you for saving me." Thank you, if it weren't for you, I would have ended up with my horse. ”
"It's nothing, we're witchers ourselves, and that's what we're supposed to do. Finney had just graduated and was still fresh about her work, so she was quite happy to say this, as if the ghoul horde she had just fought off.
"Either way, you saved my life. You're witchers...... I, I have some money here, as a thank you guys. As he spoke, the man took out his money bag from his waist bag, opened it and handed it to Shi Yinghu.
Obviously, although he was very warm with Finney, he also knew very well who had saved him.
"No need, this is not a demon hunting mission, saving you is our subjective behavior, compared to this, we just suffered a shipwreck, and now we are very tired and tired, is there any place to rest nearby?" After the battle of the Dark Witch Ship, although it was very embarrassing, even the steel sword was lost, but I found a lot of gems in my pocket.
What's more, it's just a small businessman, although the money bag is bulging, but Shi Yinghu doesn't need to look at it to know that there are at most a bunch of silver coins in it, and a few gold coins are amazing, so a small merchant in a remote village can't be very rich in itself.
Such a reward is taken by oneself, and it is not even enough to compensate for the trouble of occupying space.
"Ahead, in front of Dog Town, there is a tavern that provides board and lodging, and the owner there is my sister, you say that I introduced you, and she will definitely give you the best care. When he heard that he didn't want money, the little merchant was obviously more grateful, and he put away his money bag and said so.
"Dogtown, why did you have such a name?" asked Finney, who was curious.
"Because, we don't have any other particularly rich products here, but we are famous for dog fighting, and even foreign countries know about it. When he spoke of a foreign country, the young businessman's face became faintly unusual.
Shi Yinghu noticed, but Feeney didn't.
"Dog fighting? ”
"Okay Finney, that's a tradition, let's go. Shi Yinghu was silent on the surface, but he was actually exhausted, and he now needed delicious food, hot soup, and a soft bed.
"Wait, you two, please wait a minute. ”
Just as Shi Yinghu was taking Finney away, the young businessman's shouts suddenly came from behind him.
Immediately afterward, Shi Yinghu and Finney turned around, only to see the young merchant jump into his van and rummage around in a large pile of miscellaneous goods, and then find an old wooden bow. Then he jumped out of the car with the wooden bow and ran in front of the two men.
"You saved me, and you don't want my money, you are really different from the legendary demon hunters, many people say that the witchers are cold-blooded and ruthless, they only recognize money, if they don't give money, they won't save people who die in front of them, and now I can refute those people. ”
"In addition, this, this is a bow I received when I received the goods, although it looks ordinary, but the pattern on it is very fine, I feel that it is not an ordinary bow, please be sure to accept it, so that I can rest assured. As he spoke, the young merchant handed the bow in his hand to Shi Yinghu's hand with both hands.
Originally, Shi Yinghu didn't care much, because it was impossible for a civilian merchant to receive magic weapons, magic weapons were often worth hundreds of gold coins, and it was impossible for a merchant who sold such high-end goods to be stumped by a group of ghouls.
However, when he took the bow, his palm touched the pattern on the wooden bow, and seeing the grooves at the two ends and the center of the wooden bow, even Shi Yinghu faintly raised his eyebrows at this moment.
In this world, in addition to magic weapons/demonic items, there is also an alchemy process that can maximize the magic of gems and runestones. The wooden bow in front of him, although it seems to be a very simple weapon, and it is also a simple weapon to use, but it is actually the base material for making high-level demonic items, and an enchanter who can attach a magic array and more than three grooves to a weapon can already be called an enchantment master, enough to be on an equal footing with a legendary professional.
And the wooden bow in front of him has a magic array and three grooves, which is likely to be created by a certain master when he practiced, which is very rare and rare, especially for low-level professionals.
Shi Yinghu and Finney left the young merchant and followed the road all the way to Dog Town, here, it is indeed the town as its name suggests, almost every household has a big dog, under the guidance of the townspeople, the two soon came to the only tavern/inn/restaurant in the town, and pushed the door and walked in.