Chapter 8: The Ancient Serpent's Citadel Patrol Mission, Completed
A dark blue energy like an illusory flame poured into Shi Yinghu's body, causing his Demon Hunter level to directly increase to the third level:
Hunter System Panel 1:
Name: Shi Yinghu
Class: Necromantic Apprentice
Grade: Level 3
Strength: 15+5, musculature strength, strength possessed by the individual
Agility: 20, physical flexibility, comprehensive perception composite attributes
Vitality: 12, vitality of life, when below 6 points, it is possible to die at any time
Energy: 25, increases mana and mana regeneration speed
Unassigned Skill Points: 1
No free attribute points assigned: 5
Spell Slots: Damage Amplification, Skeleton Revival
At this time, the bull-headed crippled monster under the mausoleum had already pushed away the demonized goblins in front of them and began to surge upward, and some of the demonized goblins accidentally found a way to rush up from them, which made Shi Yinghu have no chance to inspect what had exploded on the steel bone boss, although he had just seen the flashing of spiritual light, it seemed that something good had happened.
The operating system, the first time to put all the free attribute points on the vitality attribute, the personal attribute directly raised to the 17th point, on the one hand, because Shi Yinghu is proficient in qi and blood martial arts, on the other hand, it is also because the vitality attribute determines a person's physical strength, and now Shi Yinghu's force sensitivity attribute is barely enough under the control of extremely high martial arts cultivation, but the ability to continue the battle is seriously insufficient, and the vitality attribute is extremely low, which has always been the inevitable weakness of the necromancer.
"Revive and fight for me, warrior who is not willing to die!" Continue to focus that little skill point on the skeleton recovery attribute, so that the two spells of Shi Yinghu on the spell slot will become: damage amplification, skeleton resurrection 2, and have the ability to revive two skeleton warriors to fight for themselves.
Continuously performing skull resuscitation on the corpses on the platform, and then inflicting a damage amplification on the first batch of monsters that rushed up, Shi Yinghu gasped for a moment with his sword, watching his fearless necromantic warriors fight for themselves until they were all broken to pieces.
There is no way to summon such a wreckage again.
Shi Yinghu's system ability, after the host descended on this dimensional world, because the host did not have physical protection at that time, it had a certain degree of adaptive reaction with this dimensional world, and could convert part of the source energy of the host's killed creatures into some nearby carriers.
However, the stronger the source energy, the higher the conversion rate, the better the transformation effect, and the possibility of killing ordinary small monsters to transform something good is very small.
(Low-level necromancers have pitiful physical and magical powers.) Shi Yinghu, who understood this, no longer used the powerful but also consumed a huge amount of physical energy to slash techniques when his own combat pressure was not so great, but held a silver long sword as if using a Western stabbing sword, and began to focus on assassination and vital attacks.
In fact, this technique is more physical and more efficient, and the combat effect is better in pure rationality, however, Shi Yinghu originally used a knife, compared to the heart and technique, the knife technique is more heavy and powerful, and the shot is more powerful and more majestic, although the physical consumption is larger, but in the hands of the master who is good at this way, the moment he shoots, he will lower the opponent's courage by three points, and even make the opponent frightened.
Originally, the opponent of the same realm solved the battle within three moves and five styles, so that the cost performance is actually higher, and it is more economical and more sustainable.
Goblins are a very timid race, almost useless except for their superior reproductive ability, even if all the goblins in the plane world in front of them have been demonized, giving birth to demonic horns and becoming bloodthirsty and cruel, but their timid nature has still been preserved.
The instincts of the goblins conflict with the blood of the demons, so the demonized goblins appear very chaotic, they are bloodthirsty and cruel, and often rush forward in swarms when fighting, which seems very imposing, but as long as Shi Yinghu quickly kills one of them with a fast sword, the rest of the demonized goblins will flee in all directions because of panic.
Often, Shi Yinghu took advantage of this time to rush between them and break through the encirclement of other powerful monsters.
With these demonized goblins under cover, the lightning balls of the crippled monsters around him could hardly hit Shi Yinghu's body, and ordinary trained demon hunters, even if they were trained to see and listen to all directions, and be smart and dodge, but how could their level be comparable to Shi Yinghu...... Seeing and listening to all directions, Shi Yinghu is muscles and skin around his body can vaguely sense danger, this is the remnant of the effect of cultivating the cold-blooded immortal body back then, the only problem is that the consciousness can keep up, but the body can't keep up, however, just these remnants of the effect are enough to fight these low-level monsters.
Eventually, the most inactive demonized goblins also climbed the ruins of the mausoleum, and they often had two spell-casting abilities, one was to summon elemental missiles (the different attributes of elemental missiles vary according to the color of their fur), and the other was a range of courage, and a blessing-type spell.
Summoning elemental missiles can greatly compensate for the poor mobility of demonized goblins, while the range of courage, a spell that is meaningless to most demonic creatures, is strategic to demonize goblin groups.
With the blessing of this spell, the demonized goblins will get rid of their timidity in a short time, become cruel and bloodthirsty, and fearless of death, think of a large group of demonized goblins who will not retreat to the death will surround you, and then several demonized goblins will cast spells in the distance.
However, the moment he noticed that the demonized goblins climbed up the ruins mausoleum, Shi Yinghu jumped directly from a high place, and many of the demonized goblins were light and some jumped down, and the minds of the low-level goblins were not particularly bright, and some of the demonized goblins accidentally found their positions, and then cast fireballs and ice bombs at a high place, but most of them couldn't see Shi Yinghu anymore, so they turned around and continued to move down.
But when they came down and wanted to surround Shi Yinghu, Shi Yinghu had already run a few steps, stabbed the stone with his sword, climbed up again, and also killed a few demonized goblins without the protection of demonized goblins, and so on several times, in the process, Shi Yinghu also summoned one or two skeleton warriors, let them fight, and hide to the side to catch their breath.
In the end, within the entire cathedral area, all the demonized creatures of the lower plane who dared to appear were all killed by Shi Yinghu alone, and it was early in the morning when he came, and when Shi Yinghu swung his sword to kill the last crippled monster, it was already sunset.
"Haha...... Fortunately, they were killed before the sun went down, otherwise, their combat power would have increased. Leaning on the ruins behind him, he slowly sat down, while sitting down, Shi Yinghu used his left hand to untie the strip of cloth on his right hand that tied his wrist, elbow, and sword hilt, at this moment his whole body was soaked in sweat, and his entire right hand was slightly purple.
In fact, swordsmanship focuses on fast, lively, light, and spiritual, and binds the hilt and elbow with strips of cloth, which affects the swordsmanship to some extent, but the specific problem is analyzed in detail, and sometimes the two powers take the lighter of the two, between the two options of affecting the swordsmanship and the sword weapon to get rid of it, Shi Yinghu chooses the former, under normal circumstances, Shi Yinghu cannot get rid of the weapon, but in the case of high-intensity combat almost out of force, it may not be.
The monsters in the field were killed, and Shi Yinghu had a sword and shield skeleton warrior next to him who was still circling around his master, they had an energy self-circulation system, which could automatically draw magic from the surrounding space and the caster, so as long as it was not broken or canceled from the summoning, once summoned, it would never stop, but it was not the so-called immortal perpetual motion machine, but it had been set since the necromancer began to practice the necromancer.
The cold night, the dead bodies, the bones, the air was filled with the smell of blood.
Shi Yinghu took off his thin outer robe, and then wrapped himself tightly around himself and fell asleep, while beside him was a silver sword with a strip of rag tied to the hilt, in a position that he could touch as soon as he woke up.
............
The next day, until noon, the dazzling sunlight woke Shi Yinghu up, and he slept on the cold stone for a day, which was certainly not a good feeling, but compared to the feeling of being tired and dying yesterday, it was still much refreshing.
Shi Yinghu stood up and put the rag robe back on his body, the sword and shield skeleton that circled around him last night was not only still there in the golden sunlight today, but also seemed to have recovered a lot, many of the originally broken bones were reconnected under the nourishment of necromantic magic.
"Woo, eat breakfast first and then clean up the battlefield, those trophies won't run away on their own long legs. When talking to himself, he was talking to himself, and then while he was waiting for the fire to burn the pot, Shi Yinghu finally took the time to run to the abandoned mausoleum and found the location of the steel bone BOSS martyrdom, where all sides were burned black, and the copper skin and iron bones of the steel bone BOSS turned into decay and scorched black in the face of his own strong flesh explosion, but Shi Yinghu still saw the flashing aura in the scorched black from the perspective of the system's source energy.
"What is it? such a size, and a gem?" Many lower plane demons eat everything, including ores, in the case of extreme hunger, so digging up gems in the demon's body, although this kind of thing is rare but not uncommon, of course, more often it is the idea of beating the demon corpse itself, and the horns, hearts, eyes, fat, and even secondary sexual characteristics of high-level demons are willing to pay a high price for them.
Thinking like this, he pulled out the steel dagger that had been retrieved and whispered, Shi Yinghu cut open the blackened body of the steel bone little by little, and dug out a crystal nucleus in the shape of a hexagonal shape, which was dark red in color, and there seemed to be flames flowing inside, which looked very beautiful and beautiful.
"It's not a ruby!?What is this?" Shi Yinghu's perception of this world is mostly based on Kate Bryan, and what Kate Bryan doesn't know, of course Shi Yinghu doesn't know, but Shi Yinghu can be sure that the crystal nucleus in front of him is definitely an excellent thing.
At this time, the sword and shield skeleton that was originally circling around him suddenly came up, and through the spiritual connection between the two sides, Shi Yinghu vaguely felt that this necromantic summoning of his own had an emotion similar to hunger towards the red crystal nucleus in his hand.
(Necromancy summons hungry too?)
"You want?"
Shi Yinghu took the red crystal nucleus and asked. As the red crystal nucleus approached, the hunger conveyed by the sword and shield skeleton in reverse became clearer, and then Shi Yinghu canceled the summoning, and the sword and shield skeleton man was directly shattered into bones.
Just kidding, this kind of thing that looks very valuable, you want to eat it as a little skeleton?
At this time, the small iron pot that was burning in the distance was almost boiling, and Shi Yinghu was just about to return, but when he was walking in that direction, he accidentally saw a faint blue aura under the corpse of a crippled monster.
Shi Yinghu walked over and raised his foot to kick the corpse of the crippled monster away, only to see a zombie's head, which was the only intact preserved head of the steel-bone boss.
In the previous battle, the body of the steel bone boss was killed, but its head was blown away because it was cut off by Shi Yinghu's sword beforehand, but it was not much damaged, at this moment, it seems that most of the energy is poured into the head of the steel bone boss, so that it forms a magic equipment.
"Treasure-level magic equipment is detected, do you consume 48 experience points for identification in advance?"
"Yes!"
The previous crystal nucleus failed to cause a reaction from the system, but it was the head of the zombie in his hand that caused it, Shi Yinghu held the neck bone of the head of the zombie with one hand, and spread a golden-red brilliance with the other:
Powerful Flame Heads (Treasure Equipment), Magic Weapons, +2 Bone Armor, +2 Corpse Explosion - Enraged Flame Soul clears all obstacles in your path.
"That's a good thing...... It's a pity that I can't afford this thing with my current magic. "White bone armor, its effect has been mentioned earlier, is the necromancer's most basic and powerful talisman spell, I will not repeat it here, and the corpse explosion is the necromancer's almost strongest attack spell, which can turn the recipient's corpse into a bomb for a range of fire and explosion damage.
Some necromancers in the legendary realm, after mastering the "rebirth technique", can control a large number of corpses to run around the field, and then hold the opponent for a chain corpse explosion, that kind of terrifying scene and peerless lethality, almost making the necromancer of the legendary realm completely synonymous with terror.
However, the white bone armor is said to be too huge, and without abundant magic support, such a powerful necromancy cannot be fully displayed.
After the crimson crystal nucleus and the super powerful flame head, Shi Yinghu searched again, but he didn't find any valuable loot, he even found some human corpses and residual coins in the monster's stomach, but this was obviously lackluster.
I cooked myself a pot of thick soup, soaked a few slices of black bread and swallowed it, at this time, I didn't ask for how delicious it was, but I just wanted a warm filling in the stomach bag.
Of course, it is difficult for a normal person to eat and drink normally on a battlefield full of corpses, and it is even more difficult to have a normal appetite after dissecting several corpses in a row.
Campard Forest (investigated), Abandoned Cemetery (investigated), Derek Village (doubtful), Wailing Mine (cleared), Lost Cathedral (cleared), and after recording on the back of the parchment that accepted the task, Shi Yinghu pulled out the forbidden book "Dark Whispers" from the Putston family.
Dark magic rituals like this are forbidden even to demon hunters, as they lead people to depravity and lead them into darkness.
However, the precepts in this area are strictly enforced by paladins and druids, mages and necromancers, once they have such a book, it is often more difficult to restrain their thirst, and curiosity and salvation of knowledge and the unknown are the prerequisites for becoming a powerful spellcaster, but many times curiosity can also kill cats.
On the twenty-sixth day, Shi Yinghu descended into this world on the twenty-seventh day, Derek Village, the village of Dilanke, the house of the village chief, the basement.
Here, it's dark.
"Shhhh
With the sound of swiping, the light appeared.
A man in a gray robe, holding a torch, illuminates the dark underground stone chamber.
The picture that appeared in front of him was a strong man who had been stripped of his skin, hanging and kneeling in the center of a magic circle, and around him were lampstands: dark rituals, life sacrifices.
"Ahh
The gray-robed man exclaimed, and he ran over to rescue the strong man, but just as his hands touched the rope, a low cry came from behind him.
"Don't move, Mr. Brian, turn around slowly, or I'll blow your head to pieces. ”
The gray-robed man froze suddenly, and he slowly turned around, but his head was still bowed. However, for this, Dilanke did not care much, he was conceited, and he was already in control of the situation.
"I can't believe it, Mr. Brian, that we met in such a situation. You're a patrolman in Snake Castle, so I don't want to conflict with you, I don't want to conflict with you, I sell you that idiot Amos Preston, and I sell you the steel bones I've been training for years...... How good is it for you to end the mission like this, I get what I want, and you, you get what you want. ”
"For ...... Why?"
The gray-robed man was pointed at Dillanke's gun, his head bowed, and his voice was somewhat hoarse and obscure, which seemed to be full of disbelief.
However, the village chief of Dillanke, who was holding a violent shotgun in both hands, did not notice this, and at this moment, he had fallen into a state of semi-madness.
"Why?"
"You're also a necromancer, why would you ask such a stupid question? Of course, for a longer youth, a longer life!"
"When you grow old, you lose all the happiness you once had, you can't taste it in your mouth, you lose the touch of your skin, and your strength and passion fade completely...... If there is no way, but as necromancers, we have the power to reverse all this, isn't that the meaning of necromancy?"
"This ...... That's why you killed Lufarn?" Tearing off her hood, Emo looked at her father with tears in her eyes, she loved her father since she was a child, and killed the man she loved the most, this feeling was like a wound that had just been scabbed and ripped open again.
"Emo!?How could it be ......" With a roll of his eyes, the village chief of Dillanke was so clever that he immediately turned around and turned the muzzle of the gun, however, Shi Yinghu, who had already sneaked behind him at some point, turned into a dark shadow and rushed forward, raised the muzzle of his gun, and the next moment with an elbow and a knee, continuously bombarded Dillanke's lower abdomen, directly knocking him into the wall.
"It's been a long time since I saw the 'hospitable' village chief of Dilanke. Shi Yinghu threw away the violent shotgun he was holding, took off his hood, and said with a sneer.
............
“...... You...... When did you start doubting me?"
"A long, long time ago, to the point where you couldn't have imagined. "Step by step towards Dillanke, the reason why he didn't kill him directly just now was because Shi Yinghu only exerted seven points of strength, leaving three points for contingency, after all, this old guy in front of him has been performing dark rituals for a long time, and it would not be surprising if he had any demonic abilities because of this.
But after the blow just now, Shi Yinghu has confirmed that most of the power obtained by Dilanke's dark ritual is probably used to increase his lifespan, and his physical strength has not been qualitatively improved. In this case, Shi Yinghu did not satisfy the interest of the opponent's curiosity, that is, he wanted to kill the opponent directly and avoid all the possibility of danger.
"Slow...... Wait, I know a huge secret!" Dillank suddenly pulled a silver revolver from his bosom as he roared as he watched the terrifying young man in front of him approach.
I don't know why, the performance of the revolver is not particularly good, but demon hunters often use this kind of gun, well, of course, limited by the times, there are not too many firearms to choose from in this era.
In addition to the violent shotgun, this silver-based weapon revolver is the killer weapon that Dillanke has always hidden, he just wanted to use words to attract Shi Yinghu's distraction, and then solve the other party with one shot, as long as he does not transform his body, necromancers below the legendary rank may be shot in the head with one shot, even if it is a high-level necromancer.
However, Shi Yinghu seemed to have known about Di Rank's hand for a long time, and with a flick of his hand, a dagger overflowing with lightning swooped down, nailed into Di Rank's shoulder, knocking him backwards.
"Ah......h
Whispered nails through his right shoulder, the silver revolver fell to the ground, and until this moment, Dillanke's face turned pale, and he completely lost the belief to continue fighting.
"For the sake of the meal you invited me to, before you die, I let you go on the road plainly. The palm of his hand stretched, and between Shi Yinghu's five fingers, a silver bullet warhead appeared. And seeing this bullet warhead, Dilanke, who was also extremely smart, instantly understood, it turned out that on that day, the man in front of him had found the real cause of the death of the girl Wendy.
In that case, he would naturally doubt himself, and in that case, he would naturally know that he still had a pistol in his hand.
"Dad, why the hell did you kill Wendy and Lufarn?
As for Wendy, she saw that she shouldn't have seen it, and often extorted money from me, and I had to kill her! Hehe, it was better to give her parents a big sum in one breath than for me to be blackmailed by her. At this point, it was clear that Dillank had no idea, and the shriveled silver-haired old man roared, and he clearly didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.
"You ......" Dilanke's daughter Emo seemed to hate it very much, and she threw herself directly at the violent shotgun on the ground, but just as she was about to catch the gun on the ground, a black shadow flashed in front of her, and the next moment Emo found herself tripped by the shoulder and fell out.
"I'm sorry, but the Midnight Theater is over. Picking up the shotgun with his toes, Shi Yinghu held it in his hand, and then pointed at Dilanke...... Bang!
Calling this Emo over is to attract firepower, and at the same time to see if she is a participant, since the purpose has been achieved, then Shi Yinghu is not interested in letting her participate too much, which will lead to task variables.
Dillank didn't have Shi Yinghu's skills, his physique was not strong, and he didn't have time to cast spells, and at close range, he was hit by a shotgun and the wall behind him was covered with blood, and then he fell backwards.
"Daddy......" was still gritting his teeth just now, as if he wanted to kill Dillank's Emo with his own hands, and at this moment struggled to crawl towards his father's dead body.
"Kill Dilan, the Dark Fallen/Demon Believer, and gain 579 experience. "As the owner of the steel bone BOSS and the dark demon camp, I don't know how high the necromancer level of Dillank is, but at least the second order, killing him made Shi Yinghu gain a lot of energy, and superimposed on the previous cathedral killing miscellaneous soldiers, which made Shi Yinghu's career level rise by another level.
Of course, the reason why Shi Yinghu was able to improve so quickly in the early stage was also because Shi Yinghu was a level 80 tuba before, with rich experience, high soul essence, and Kate Bryan's solid necromancy foundation and perfect inheritance, so it was only natural that it was so fast in the early stage of level improvement, and in the middle and late stages, it was impossible to improve so rapidly.
The overlap between the professions of martial artists and necromancers is actually quite small, Shi Yinghu has a strong will and high spiritual attributes, but his spiritual power is introverted, while the spiritual power of mages is often outwardly oriented, introverted into a circle focuses on perception and defense, and external diffusion is more conducive to mobilizing energy.
In front of Shi Yinghu, who was obviously murderous and did not blink, although Emo was sad, she obviously didn't dare to show too much abnormality.
What's more, within the scope of this area, the Ancient Serpent Citadel is an official institution, as the patrol of the Ancient Serpent Citadel, Shi Yinghu killed the dark degenerate/demon believer Dillanke, which is reasonable and legal, and no matter how ruthless he is, even if he steals Dillanke's entire family, Emo has nothing to say.
"This matter, I will report it to the Snake Castle, you will definitely be confiscated by the Snake Castle here, while the matter has not spread, you sell all your belongings, and then leave here, after all the things your father did are exposed, you will definitely not be able to stay here anymore, and it will be difficult to even get out alive." With these words, Shi Yinghu realized that he had done his duty, and then he left the house of Derek Village Chief Dilanke.
The next thing, just like Shi Yinghu said, Shi Yinghu rode a fast horse (Di Rank's) back to the ancient snake castle and reported the process of the mission, like this kind of thing, of course, you can't listen to Shi Yinghu's words, because it is not only to reward the student "Kate Brian", but also to punish the student who received the "patrol mission" before, if the latest report is new, then Dillanke's dark sacrifice is obviously not a day or two, why didn't the previous patrolman notice it?
Of course, this part of the matter is the matter of the Ancient Snake Castle, which has nothing to do with Shi Yinghu, and completes the patrol task of the Ancient Snake Castle, although the school reward requires a certain amount of review time, but Shi Yinghu also gained a lot of money in the process of the task, at least the normal living expenses are not worried for a while.
After returning to the Ancient Snake Castle, Shi Yinghu practiced qi and blood martial arts, while looking for an appraiser to identify the diamond-shaped crimson crystal that even the system could not read.
Shi Yinghu planned to restore the Qi and Blood Martial Arts to the Dan Dao Immortal Realm, and then refine the True Qi, because after all, this is not something that this world should have, and it must not be practiced in a place like the Ancient Snake Castle, so he must find a hidden and remote place to practice secretly.
Secondly, in case the true qi stimulates the consciousness of plane rejection, the Dandao Immortal Realm of Qi and Blood Martial Arts can be regarded as a legendary realm, although the offensive and defensive combat power is not very good, but the ability to save life is still quite good.
With the Dan Dao Immortal Realm Protector, even if it stimulates a certain degree of plane consciousness rejection, as long as the intensity is not too high, it is not so easy to die, and the room for maneuver has improved a lot, not to mention, the cultivation of the Qi and Blood Martial Dao to the Dan Dao Immortal Realm is also very beneficial to the purification and refining of true qi.
As for the skill points for promoting to the fourth level, Shi Yinghu still clicked on the skeleton recovery, so that the skeleton recovery skill was upgraded to skill 3, and he could cast a spell to summon three skeleton warriors to fight for himself, and the world regarded the necromancer who could summon the clay stone demon as a first-order necromancer, and through the systematic quantification skill tree, Shi Yinghu found that he could light up the clay stone demon as long as he grew to level six, which is the spell position that Kate Bryan had in mind and could be replaced with the three-headed dog spell slot of hell.
To tell the truth, according to the information in Kate Bryan's mind, if he can replace the clay stone demon with the three-headed dog of hell, then Kate Bryan will be much more powerful than the same level necromancer, who is also a first-order necromancer.