Chapter 286: The Nightingale

Fang Plover grabbed the sturdy rope ladder and climbed to the platform, and saw Baggins alone on the side of the boat, looking at the sand in the distance. He greeted the other man, and the boatswain only smiled at him and asked:

"Coming back, Captain?"

Fang Yu grabbed the side of the boat and flipped over, landed lightly on the deck, and nodded: "I went to the Craftsman Association to do something, what about the others?" ”

"Down there."

Fang Yu glanced down, and in that direction, a layer of green shade was laid on the grape trellis in the patio, not only did it not lose its vitality under the scorching desert sun, but it became more and more verdant and moving, under the dense bushes of leaves, there were Luo Yu, Tianlan, Box and Ji Ta, and the four of them were conducting offensive and defensive drills with Red.

The Lion Man Paladin claimed to be in his early twenties, but when there were a few people in the box and ten levels, he would only fight four by himself, and when the four of them reached almost level twenty, he still fought three by himself, which was easy.

Angry, Tianlan wanted to throw the piano, and said angrily: "Big cat man, you liar!" ”

Red smiled, put down his scepter, and twisted the golden ring on his beard with his claws, "Exaggeration, Sky Blue, in fact, you are not experienced enough in combat. ”

"I believe you're a fool," Tian Lan said angrily: "My cold joke has at least fifty percent of the effect on characters below level twenty, where is this fifty percent, obviously less than ten percent, and the effect lasts so short, liar!" ”

Red spread his hands: "I didn't say I was only level twenty, did I." ”

Fang Yu couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, he had already seen that the level of the big cat man was more than level twenty, because in the battle with the Blood Shark Air Pirates, at least he and Luo Lin had met the 'Air Pirate Leader', and he thought he couldn't beat it.

And he asked himself that his combat strength was not weak, and the opponent of the same level could easily win it, which meant that the 'Air Pirate Leader' level was at least far beyond level 20.

And the big cat man is not only good in the face of this 'old enemy', but also able to win the battle, in fact, if it weren't for the later changes, he might really fulfill his long-cherished wish in that duel and take down his 'old enemy'. Fang Yu only heard that the other party seemed to have a relationship with the sister of the big cat man, but the big cat man never mentioned this matter.

He was a little more knowledgeable than the Sky Blue people, and he had seen everyone in the Dawn Star Adventure Group, as well as Qin Zhi and others in the Crown of the Silver Forest, so he could probably see that the actual level of the big cat people might be about the same as Miss Scarpe's, and it was not yet level thirty - because the profession changed a lot after level thirty, and this aspect was very easy to identify.

But at least it's close—

As an aborigine, the actual combat effectiveness of the other side is even further.

Below, Tianlan still looked angry, and muttered:

"I don't care."

The big cat man only smiled slightly, and did not refute.

Fang Yu put away the rope ladder, rolled it into a roll, and walked down.

Descending into the patio, he realized that there were other people here - in the front half of the platform on Mr. Limestone's back, the structure of the patio was a living room leading to the others on the left and right, a total of four doors, in front of which was the boiler room/kitchen and dining room (meeting room) on the platform, and the infirmary was also located on the side of the conference room, separated by a curtain to separate one-third of the room.

And Miss Nightingale was now snuggling up to the outside of her small room with Tang Xin and Ai, holding a dagger with a black blade in her hand, and her eyes were looking at it intently.

However, she obviously did not lose her vigilance, her ears moved slightly at this moment, she turned her head, saw Fang Yu in her eyes, put down the dagger in her hand, raised her eyebrows and said, "Commander, are you back?" ”

Fang Yu nodded, he glanced at the dagger in the other party's hand, and recognized that it was not a magic guide, but a token of the Shadow Brotherhood.

"Still thinking about trade-offs?" Looking at the dagger, he asked.

Alyssa nodded slightly.

Since the situation in Kaulin-Ishurian has become more and more disturbing by the day lately, it can be said that the Seven Seas Brigade is in this vortex because of the relationship with the Worship of the Dragons, and it is inevitable that everyone in the team will feel some tension in such a situation.

Even though he has a big heart like Parker, he occasionally practices his professional skills these days.

Others, in addition to participating more in each other's training, will also discuss their future development in the team channel in private.

Alyssa, of course, is no exception.

She had actually spoken about it more than once.

She is a Nightingale who walks in the direction of the Shadow Dancer, but at level 20, the Shadow Dancer has branched out into two traditional routes - the Night Stalker's Blade, which is proficient in fighting, poisoning, and assassination, and the Arcane Thief, who further strengthens her magical abilities.

There is a watershed here.

The Shadow Dancer who walks the Night Stalk's Blade learns the skill of cunning tactics before turning to Deadly Raid, a skill that is the same as the Assassin.

The secret thief will learn the secret bloodline and enter the route of the shadow spell.

There is a very interesting coincidence between these two skills, their pre-requisites are exactly the same: they both require 190,000 experience to be invested in the Shadow Dance route, and at least 70,000 experience to be invested in the assassination route, which is exactly the experience value that a standard Shadow Dancer should have at level 20.

That's why it is said that level 20 is an important turning point for the Shadow Dancing Thief.

The role of the Cunning Tactic is to allow the Shadow Dancer to count half of the Perception attribute as the Strength attribute when using agility-related skills - although the Shadow Dancer will not become 'stronger' because of this, it will still work as usual when calculating the effects of various skills.

For example, the Assassin's lethal assault skill requires a certain strength attribute as a precondition, and these 'false' attributes that are perceived and transformed are also considered to be effective in this precondition.

At the same time, the damage provided by the Strength attribute when calculating the multiplier damage of the sneak attack in Deadly Raids, and the 'false' attributes of these perception transformations, enjoy the bonus as usual - of course, it is not perception that makes the Shadow Dancer 'stronger', but rather that it hits the vital part more accurately.

Because in order to feel the shadow network, the secondary attribute of the shadow dancer must be perception, but this naturally cannot be played with the assassin system of the main sensitive auxiliary force, but with this skill, this layer of invisible barriers can be broken.

Therefore, it is also said that the Night Stalker's Blade is actually a shadow dancer who is biased towards assassins.

Its assassination ability is not necessarily higher than that of the Assassin, but it is more agile than the Assassin, and at the same time, it is not so weak compared to the melee-fighting ability of the Shadow Dancer, so to speak, it is somewhere in between.

This is a very popular class among the Drafters, and most Shadow Dancers will follow this path after level 20 - or some Drafters have come for this class in the first place. Think about it, the combat effectiveness is not weak, and he is handsome, and the name of the profession is very mysterious.

It seems to be a matter of course that people choose this profession.

And the arcane thief, or the Shadow Nightingale, is in the other direction.

In other words, this direction is the traditional direction of the real shadow dancer, further enhancing a nightingale's attainments on top of its shadow network, and the main attribute has gradually changed from the original main agility and secondary perception to agility and perception respectively.

Shadow network users are exactly what they are talking about.

The core skill of this class is the skill of 'Arcane Bloodline', which is actually similar to cunning tactics, but it only transforms agility into perception. At the same time, it further strengthens the Shadow Dancer's natural spellcasting ability.

After learning this skill, and further studying shadow spells, the shadow dancer after that can be said to be half a magician - a shadow magician.

However, this shadow is not the shadow of the shadow, nor is it the dark elemental ability that does not exist, but the shadow spell, a branch network of wind and earth spells, like other magic spells, is also under the jurisdiction of Anjina.

Therefore, similar to magicians and alchemists, Shadow Nightingale can be said to be a believer in half of the God of Knowledge.

The ability to transform attributes, 'Cunning Tactics' and 'Arcane Bloodline' are also affected by a basic law of Aitalia, that is, the ability of the same two transformation attributes is strictly forbidden to overlap with each other.

That is to say, some special abilities can convert constitution into strength, and agility into perception or intelligence, but at the same time convert constitution into intelligence and strength, or at the same time intelligence and strength into constitution, or at the same time into intelligence and then into strength, are not allowed.

A character can have more than two abilities that transform attributes, but these two abilities must not interfere with the river water, otherwise they will mysteriously fail and will not return the cognitive experience you spent learning - because time is irreversible.

No one knew why, the natives believed it to be a law made by the gods, but the Electers could not find any reason for it, only to believe that it was an inherent law of Aitalia.

And this point determines that cunning tactics and arcane bloodlines are incompatible with each other.

That's exactly why Alyssa struggles.

Not to mention that the 'Cunning Tactics' and the 'Secret Bloodline' themselves are the core skills, and the cognitive experience required is heavenly, and around the twentieth level, a person can only choose one of them to learn.

Miss Nightingale looked at her dagger and whispered:

"The Night Stalker's Blade can be described as a full-time scout, and the latter is somewhat in conflict with the many spellcasters on our team."

"I thought about it for a moment, it seems that there is no shortage of spell professionals in our team, and it wasn't because of the lack of a qualified scout that I was able to join this team in the first place? So my intention was to invest more in combat and assassination, and they don't need to learn poison much, but they can learn a little bit to defend themselves. ”

The other party is not unreasonable.

But if it were really that simple, Fang Yu understood that this Miss Nightingale would not have thought about it for so long.

He waited for the other to finish before asking, "But you prefer shadow dancers, don't you?" ”

Alyssa was stunned and looked at him with some surprise.

"But......" she hesitated, "should we focus on the team......"

But Fang Yu shook his head and didn't think so.

The reason is that although there are many spellcasters in their team, there is also a special situation - that is, there are very few in the front row, and seriously speaking, there are only two people, the big cat man and Luo Hao, and if Tang Xin takes the direction of battle sacrifice in the future, he may be able to count half of it.

Plus half a ranger, Ai Xiaoxiao's classmate—but Fang Yu didn't think that his cousin, a classmate, would stay in Aitalia for too long, so he didn't think much about it.

Although the assassin is also a melee direction, it is not a front row that stands alone, in fact, it needs to cooperate with the heavy attack front row such as the Great Swordsman, Long-handled Warrior, and Fighter, but it can be said that these three professional teams are very lacking.

But after he finished speaking, he also said:

"However, the Arcane Thief, or Shadowingale as his scientific name, is not very strong in frontal combat, and relies heavily on terrain in an engagement, which is also a place that has long been criticized. Actually, if you like shadow dancers, there is another option. ”

Alyssa was stunned.

In fact, she had long known that Nightingale would have such a choice after level twenty, after all, she was from a professional background. When they were in the academy of the Rainers, their career mentor at that time told them the details of their career planning after that.

Later, he joined the brigade of the rain listeners, and Lonely White Wild explained to them more than once what career choice they should make.

But she had never heard that there was a third way.

However, she hadn't heard of it, but it didn't mean that Fang Yu didn't know.

To be honest, he wasn't completely ignorant of some of the basics of Aitalia – but it depended. If it is related to the aborigines, there are some relatively ordinary and low-end knowledge, and he may not really know much.

But it's some of the more top-notch, about the second world, and some partial knowledge, but he knows everything very well. This is mainly related to the way 'R' trained him, after all, the other party is too lazy to talk to him about such trivial things.

It can be said that the top ten level must be mentioned, or the top ten kings or the top players in the first line, the only exception is some interesting details in the circle, because these details often come from those legendary players.

For example, the overload tactic invented by the master tactician, most people may not recognize it, but Fang Yu can see it at a glance.

It was the same at this time, he actually saw the Shadow Dagger in Alyssa's hand, and he remembered something.

This dagger is a token of the Shadow Brotherhood - it was originally required to do a series of quests to gain the trust of the Shadow Brotherhood before it could be obtained. The main function of this dagger is that the Brotherhood can arrange a mentor to choose to learn the two inheritance skills of the Brotherhood -

Cunning tactics, and arcane bloodlines.

But since the influx of the Elect, as with so many other things, this thing has changed its flavor. Some people approach the Shadow Brotherhood specifically, and after obtaining the quest, they use their points to exchange for the dagger, which they can then resell to others.

Most of the people who specialize in this profession are bounty hunters, and they refer to this process as 'reputation farming' – an ancient practice in online gaming.

And because there were not many people in this business at the beginning, the price of the Shadow Dagger that was left out was very high, but there were still many big guilds who didn't care about this 'small money' and chose to buy it directly from the black market in order to save time.

Over time, after people tasted the sweetness, 'Prestige' gradually became a complete and huge industrial chain, and it was not limited to the Shadow Brotherhood.

However, the natives who control the Shadow Brotherhood are not stupid, so they simply let go of the restrictions on the Shadow Dagger, and directly turned this ancient 'rule' of the Brotherhood into a business, as long as they give money, everyone can buy daggers.

It is equivalent to selling skills to the outside world.

Not only did the Brotherhood not fall out of existence because of the outflow of unique skills, as a few feared. Instead, it grew and became the leading brotherhood of thieves in Kaulin-Ishurian.

This is also one of the changes that people can't laugh and cry about, I don't know if it's one of the changes brought about by the people of the earth.

But the dagger in Alyssa's hand was not bought - they didn't have the funds to build the Seven Seas Traveler, and she actually got it by doing the mission, and of course the others helped a lot in the process.

And Fang Yu happened to know that through the ancient 'aphorism', according to the rules of the Brotherhood, he obtained the dagger. Generally, there are some differences in the daggers bought outside, and the brotherhood has also learned to behave, and this thing cannot be transferred.

Of course, it also means that there will be some special benefits.

Speaking of this, Fang Yu couldn't help but think of something that 'R' had told him before he came to Aitalia.

The owner of this story is also a legendary player, and the other party is also a Ten Kings and a Nightingale Ten Kings. It's just that it is a relatively old story for their time.

He was about to speak, but saw the door to the utility room push open, and Sylvide and Shesta stepped out of it.

When the nobleman's daughter saw him, she couldn't help but smile and said, "You're back?" However, I heard that the captain had made some discoveries at the Craftsmen's Guild before. ”

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.

Long before he left the Tansnir Artisan Guild and returned here, he had informed the others about the clues he had found in the Artisan Guild. But he didn't elaborate on it in the communication crystal, only a cursory mention of what the mystics were searching for, which might have something to do with the slave traders.

"Actually, I happen to have something to do with it," Sylved replied, but she looked at the two in front of her, "But does the captain have anything to say to Miss Alyssa?" I'm not in a hurry here, so I can wait for you to finish talking. ”

Fang Yu replied as a matter of course, "Ah, I'm talking to Alyssa about her career—"

"No need," Alyssa interrupted with a smile on his face, "It's not an important thing, after all, it's not something that can be learned right away, it's still the matter at the moment that is more important." ”

As she spoke, she glanced at Fang Yu with some amusement.

The gossip look seemed to say, "If you really follow the words of the ship's master, the captain, then you are finished."

Fang Yu looked at the two of them in confusion.

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