Volume 2 The Call of Fate Chapter 23 The Rite of Passage (2)
According to the ancient Wolf rite of passage, when Wolf reaches the age of eighteen, both men and women, he will go to find an enemy and kill him through battle, symbolizing his official entry into adulthood. Of course, the range of choices for this enemy is very wide, that is, it can be an intelligent race, it can also be a Warcraft, or even a weaker beast, and the specific choice of what kind of enemy depends on the strength of Wolf, who held the coming-of-age ceremony.
In most cases, Wolf would choose to hunt a monster or beast for a coming-of-age ceremony. The reason is very simple, hunting monsters or beasts will not be punished by Bimon's law, as for the intelligent race, only the killing of bandits and bandits is not punished by Bimon's law, otherwise Wolf's coming-of-age ceremony will become indiscriminate killing of innocents. And bandits and bandits are not as everywhere as Warcraft and beasts.
Therefore, if nothing else, the object chosen for the Blade coming-of-age ceremony will be a magical beast.
"I'm going to hunt Shadowfang!" Sure enough, Blade said the name of a demonic beast, but Mombasa was shocked when he heard this.
"Are you crazy? Shadow Fang is an eighth-level demonic beast, and the clan has failed to kill him several times, how can you hunt it down as a seventh-level warrior?"
Shadowfang is a ghostly lion that wandered into the territory of the Ironmane Clan half a year ago, not only powerful, but also extremely intelligent. At first, it knew that the Ironmane Clan was not easy to mess with, so it didn't dare to use the werewolves of the Ironmane Clan as food rations. Its targets, in addition to the weaker demonic beasts nearby, are mainly other orcs who have come to trade with the Ironmane Clan. In the past six months, it has attacked the caravans that came to trade with the Ironmane Clan several times, and has eaten dozens of orcs, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of trade caravans coming to the Ironmane Clan recently, which has affected the normal economic production in the Ironmane Clan. The Ironmane Clan also organized warriors to launch several encirclement and suppression of Shadowfang, but due to Shadowfang's stealth talent, its ability to stealth, and its own strength, these encirclement and suppression ended in failure. Moreover, due to the fact that the Wolfmane Overseer led the army north, the high-ranking warriors in the Ironmane Clan almost poured out of the nest and followed the Wolfmane Overseer to fight north, which greatly weakened the strength of the Ironmane Clan in the territory. The cunning Shadow Fang discovered this situation in the encirclement and suppression of it by the Ironmane Clan, and immediately became bolder, and even began to hunt and eat the werewolves of the Ironmane Clan. Over the past few days, seven or eight werewolves of the Ironmane Clan have died in the mouths of Shadowfang.
"Blade, I admit that you are a monster, and your strength has always been stronger than that of opponents of the same level, but now you can only cross half a level at most and fight with an opponent at the peak of the seventh level......, right? Still too reluctant!" Mombasa continued to persuade Blade, trying to dissuade him from hunting Shadowfang.
However, the blade was unmoved, and with a confident smile on his face, he said, "Mombasa, believe me, I will bring the head of Shadowfang back to the clan!"
After leaving the square, Blade went straight home, and after finding a linen shirt to put on, he went to his mother, Audaris, to tell her about his intention to hunt Shadowfang as the target of the bar mitzvah, and to ask her to do the same.
When Blade found Odarius, one of the three shamans in Skullbreaker, Audaris was sitting at the lab table in her magic lab, preparing magic potions. After figuring out her son's intentions, this gentle and quiet werewolf woman did not immediately speak out against it like Mombasa, but after a deep groan, she opened her mouth and asked Blade: "As your mother, I know that you are not an impulsive and reckless wolf, you are going to hunt an eighth-level demonic beast across levels, can you tell me the source of your confidence?"
Blade nodded. Then he took a deep breath, his hands clenched into fists, his body tensed, his fangs bared in his mouth, and a low growl came out of his throat.
Gradually, Blade's eyes turned blood-red, the mane on his body stood up like steel needles, and his muscles swelled, propping up the originally loose linen shirt into a tight, and a monstrous battle intent emanated from him.
Audalys suddenly stood up from the experimental table, staring at Blade with a shocked face, and after a moment, all her surprise turned into boundless joy: "Blade, my brave child, have you awakened one of the most precious talents that the god of war Tampas has given to the Beamon warriors—the talent of madness?"
"Yes, Mother!" replied after a brief change, the blade returned to its original state, bowing its head towards Audaris.
Berserker is a racial talent for orc warriors. After the madness, the strength, speed, and defense of the orc warriors will be greatly improved, and below the ninth level warrior, they can even directly increase their combat power by half a level or one level. However, the berserk orc warrior will gradually fall into madness during the battle, until he loses his mind. And this is a common problem of almost all orc warriors after their madness, that is, they can only keep their minds clear in the early stage of their madness. Because with the passage of time of madness, more and more boiling blood will pour into the brain of the orc warrior with high fighting spirit, burning the brain consciousness, making the brain consciousness gradually become unclear, and finally reduced to fighting by instinct.
Very few orc warriors can be born berserk, and the vast majority of orc warriors rely on shamans to perform 'berserk spells' to become inherently berserk. And this kind of orc warriors who have been acquired into madness, every moment needs the shaman to cast spells in time to calm their hearts and minds, otherwise the slightest carelessness will cause a nervous breakdown and become an idiot. This is especially true of orc warriors whose nerves are not strong enough and their bodies are not strong enough.
Compared with the acquired madness, the biggest advantage that orc warriors who can go berserk congenitally have is that they can have a certain amount of time to keep their minds clear without the assistance of a shaman, and they don't have to worry about sequelae after they remove their madness.
After the initial joy, Audalys slowly calmed down, stared at the blade with a pair of eyes, and said with a frown: "It turns out that your confidence comes from awakening the talent of madness, but Shadow Fang is an eighth-level demonic beast, and after you become crazy, the most you can do is increase your combat power to level eight, and it only lasts for about half an hour." In this way, you don't have much chance of winning in a battle with Shadowfang!"
"No, Mother! Although Shadow Fang is an eighth-level demonic beast, it is a Phantom Lion after all, and the strength of Phantom Lion's skill is in the hidden body, and it is good at launching surprise attacks on opponents in silence. In head-to-head combat, the Shadow Lion's strength is at the bottom of the ranks of the same level of Warcraft. So if I can catch its trail in the first place, I'll be confident enough to kill it within thirty minutes of its madness!" Blade said in a deep voice, "So, Mother, I can kill Shadow Fang if you make me a few packets of high-quality 'Developer Powder'!"