Chapter 172: Trials and Changes
The blessing given to Fang Plover by the elder of the Tada Lizardmen is the words of the stars of Ka-Cuilan, who is the guardian of the stars and the night sky, so this blessing is also biased towards mystery and protection:
The Stars of Ka-Turran: The stars and the firmament will tell us the ancient secrets of this world, the whispers of the ancient gods, which lurks here and never changes. In the event of a sneak attack, if the Blessing Holder's Awareness is not less than half of the Attacker's, the Blessing Bearer is deemed to have the 'Intuitive Evasion' ability.
Secondary Blessing - Foreseeing Death: The first lethal attack of each day against the Blessing Bearer will inevitably fail (provided that the Blessing Holder is aware of the attack and the Divine Power is bound to hit).
The fat lizardman elder squirmed his thick lips and chanted a mysterious incantation, and the plover seemed to be even in total darkness, but he looked up and saw the starry night sky in the ancient chanting.
It has remained unchanged for a thousand years, the desolate starry sky that has long watched the land, its light coming from the ancient empire of a thousand years ago, and the same spilling on the valley of Saint-Peruu today.
Fang Yu had just felt an inexplicable shock in his heart, but a huge shadow was floating in the night sky, it spread its wings, and looked at him from afar with its golden pupils, it raised its head, and its four hideous horns almost passed through the huge moon.
The horrible illusion scared him to his senses, and all his fantasies turned to dust, and the hall was still the same hall, the walls and obsidian pillars reflecting the light of the gold coins.
But the elder Tada lizardman had already withdrawn his fat hand full of pimples, and looked at him with some solemnity.
"Did you see that?" Fang Yu whispered to the others around him, "Nicol Bolas's vision." β
But everyone shook their heads, and all they saw was the Tada Lizardman Elder holding his hand, drawing a quaint and intricate star map on his arm. But the star map, like the previous pattern, gradually disappeared and seeped into his skin.
Fang Yu looked at the attribute of the blessing and asked the huge toad with some confusion, "What does this secondary blessing mean?" β
"It shows that you have a special connection with the stars, and perhaps you have a special talent with Ka-Turland, and you can perceive secrets that ordinary people can't perceive, and this ritual shows a sign that you have something in your heart that you care about in particular."
It paused: "Maybe you have faced death directly, or you have seen the embodiment of death, you and Asoka and Ka-Cuilan are particularly fateful, if you have the chance, you can come to Ka-Cuilan, maybe I can teach you something special." β
Although Fang Yu is a little curious about the 'special things', in Aitalia, the way to learn is nothing more than self-understanding and teaching, but most of the knowledge that can be obtained on the market is nothing more than a big road, and the real good things are often in the hands of major forces and legendary aborigines, in order to obtain this precious knowledge, the elector is often required to meet various conditions.
Moreover, some of these conditions are incompatible, such as the Karin-Ishurian Merchant Alliance and the Knights of the Flame, which are opposed to each other, and if you want to be promoted in one side, you will inevitably lead to hatred in the other. It's not much more than that, in addition to the consideration of the faction, your own position, and your understanding of the world all determine which skills you may gain and lose other opportunities.
This kind of free lunch is naturally the best.
But Ka-Cuilan is not easy to go, Ka-Cuilan is the name of the ancient kingdom of the ancient Gudasok lizardmen, and today that place is called the Heart-Peeling Forest, where there is not only one primitive lizardman clan of Tada, and some lizardmen do maintain the tradition of cannibalism.
To put it simply, this is the real high-level area of Aitalia, and it doesn't have Miss Scarpae's level, so it's better not to go there and look for death. Not to mention one of the habitats of the withered treemen during the Heartstripping Forest, which the lizardmen shy away from, shows how terrifying these things are.
However, the 'death incarnation' mentioned by the giant toad reminded Fang Ou of Nicol Bolas, and when he was at the Traveler's Rest, Mazak's old butler had told him that 'he who saw the dragon's wings foresaw death itself', and he still didn't understand the meaning of those words, and he didn't know if the other party was just trying to scare him.
Or is it the embodiment of death?
Because this question reminded Fang Fei of Dorifin's unsolved mystery, why the people in the disaster that day dried up, he always thought that it had something to do with Nicol Bolas or the dragon worshippers, and the old butler's words may have foreseen something at that time.
Unfortunately, there is no one definitive answer.
After Elder Tada, the dragon Toragotos raised his head slightly, and let the two of them step forward. So, under the envious gaze of the Paparals, who were about to explode, Fang Plover and Tenaric climbed up the mountain of gold one foot deep and one foot shallow, and went to the legendary dragon.
The lizardman prince was agile in his movements, and Fang Ou, as a non-combat class, was naturally a little slower for half a moment, but the latter turned around without saying a word, stretched out his claws and pulled him up.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, my human brother."
The two men came to Torragotos one after the other, and the latter straightened up, rising higher and higher in the rumbling sound, and opened its golden pupils to look at them condescendingly. Fang Yu looked up at this legendary dragon, and it was only at this moment that he felt the momentum and oppression of the other party.
And Torragotos's movement was very simple, using only his claws to tap on the forehead of one of the two.
Fang Yu felt a sudden white expanse in front of him, but the white quickly shrank into a point of light, and then the illusion disappeared, and a new blessing appeared in his Elector system:
Sacred Mark of Ta-Hess: The Ancient Land guards everything, nature, life, and unsullied divine power, go, people of Gudasok, to the Ancient Holy Land. Blessing the wielder only consumes half or less XP when learning melee skills. (Permanent Status)
Dragon's Blood Seal: Gain double stamina while bursting.
Ta Hess?
Fang Yu was slightly stunned and raised his head. Ever since he met Tenarek, he had been with Miss Tata for a while to make up for the knowledge of the lizardmen, and naturally knew that in the Sinsas-Gudasok era, there were actually five classes of lizardmen.
The first estate is the sorcerer, the custodian of dark knowledge, the Asuka.
The second estate is the warriors, the guardians of the Temple, Andasok.
The third class is the sacrificial, stargazer and ornamental interpreter, Ka-Cuilan.
The fourth estate is the soldier, the warrior of the Holy Land, Ta-Hess
The fifth estate is the commoners, the people of Gudasok, Tokin
With the exception of Asuka, Andasok, and Katrilan, Tonkin later split the most, forming a large and small clan of lizardmen across the land, with the noxlizards and sharks both descendants of the Tonkin clan, as they now call themselves.
Among them, only the lizardmen living in the south of Kaulin-Ishurian can be said to be the descendants of Ta-Hess, but their habitat was burned by the Orshuans in the Battle of Byrne, and now the few Ta-Hes have been scattered, and the real Ta-Hess can be said to have completely disappeared.
But how could Mageri Torragotos hold the blessing of Ta Hess?
The old dragon seemed to see the doubts in his heart, and the old voice echoed in the hearts of the two of them: "Back then, I agreed to Roban's request to go to the south of the kingdom and sheltered the people of Ta-Hess. The dragons have ancient ties to the people of Gudasok, so their elders entrusted me with the power of this ritual, hoping that I would select the prophesied children of the stars for them. β
Only then did Fang Yu realize that it was also during the Battle of Byrne.
He looked at his blessing again, Ta-Hess's Divine Mark was arguably the most powerful of all his blessings, halving the cost of melee combat skills, of course, this thing is more terrifying for classes like Warrior, Paladin, or Wanderer, but it is also very useful for combat craftsmen.
Although the blessing also has a duration (until the moment when the sea of light is extinguished), the permanent status after the blessing should refer to the skill learned before the blessing takes effect, and no additional experience will be claimed after the blessing expires.
This thing was a bit of a surprise, it made Fang Yu's heart full of impulses, to learn as many melee skills as possible before the blessing expired, these are all free experiences. But when his mind calmed down, he found that this thing was actually not that practical for him, first of all, he didn't have that much combat experience, and secondly, it was impossible to learn all melee skills in order to take advantage.
As for the secondary blessing of the dragon blood mark in the back, it was also a little unexpected for him, and he didn't know if it was because he had dealt with Nicol Bolas too much, or because of Miss Tata's dragon soul, which gave him this extra ability.
However, Burst Double Durability is a very useful stat, Burst is a unique state of the physical class, just like the Overload state of the Flexible Build, it can improve a person's physical attributes - including strength, agility and physical toughness - in a short period of time.
However, the duration of the explosive power has nothing to do with the magic furnace, only a person's physical fitness, it is somewhat similar to the berserker's berserker, and the duration depends on the stamina attribute.
Double 100 endurance is double the duration.
The dragon blessed the two of them before he spoke in the hall for the first time, his voice rumbling and shaking the vault. It said, "All right, young prince of Andasok, what is due to you is in your hands. And as for you, little human one, I hope you can bring us some surprises. β
It raised its head and looked beyond the gates of the palace: "Go, the gates of the ruins have been opened, and the trial has begun." β
Sophie, who was behind everyone, had just put down the crystal communicator in her hand at this time, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, as if she had just received a message from the upper echelons of the Silver Vislan team.
She looked up, looked at Toragotos and asked, "Lord Magerie, is the news from outside true?" β
The dragon lowered his head and glanced at her, "Little human girl, what are you thinking?" β
"My lord, Akane and I participated in the last trainee trial," Sophie replied, "but we should have one more chance to participate in the official trial, right?" β
Torragotos' golden pupils shone with a meaningful light, and he replied slowly, "So, little girl? β
"I want to participate in this trial."
"But it's closed, little girl." Fang Yu didn't know if he was mistaken, he actually saw the corners of the old dragon's mouth slightly upturned, and it was clearly smiling like that.
It's as if the conspiracy has succeeded.
"I know," Sophie replied, "but it's completely different now, isn't it, since you want to purify the dark forces underground, the more people who go, the better?" β
"But there is a limit to the power of Milella's artifact, you should know that." The dragon replied, "I don't have true divine powers, and I can't contain them all. β
"Mistress Mageri," Sophie replied, "we make this decision on behalf of Silver Vislan, we don't need the power of the Mirera artifact, we just need you to give us a permission. β
Toragotos looked at her for a long time, and then nodded slowly, "Go ahead, little girl." β
Sophie bowed respectfully to it, then looked at everyone again, nodded to everyone, and turned away from the palace with Akane.
However, before leaving, she probably remembered the matter of the crown mark before, and glanced back at Fang Yuan, as if she wanted to see through him.
Fang Yu watched the other party's back disappear outside the palace with some trepidation, and then turned around and asked, "What the hell is going on, is something going on outside, Lord Magerie?" β
Of course, he could see that Silver Vislan had obviously not intended to participate in this trial before, but something must have happened in the San Peyroux Valley outside for them to make this decision.
However, Silver Veslan is worthy of being one of the best guilds in the country, and this decision alone is a bit shocking, and giving up the favor of Milella's artifact power is a loss of one-sixth of Starlight if you are not careful.
It's no different than the games on top of the virtual community, where every death in Aitalia means you're a little away from this world.
Even if Fang Yu himself was not afraid of heaven and earth, he didn't dare to joke about Xinghui at willβof course, his Xinghui was less than others. But the old dragon did not answer its question, but only told them:
"There are five Ritual Seals in Gudasok, the blessings of Asoka, Ka-Turan and Ta-Hess are all here, the Night Lizards and Shark Lizards have decided to part ways with us, and the Andasok one is in the hands of Prince Sorkin, and the five Seals are the true Guardian Rites."
It paused: "But there is nothing I can do, whether I can do that or not is up to you." β
After saying this, the old dragon seemed to be a little tired, it flapped its wings, and slowly lay down, and the divine light in its golden pupils also dimmed suddenly. Frightened, the old dwarf suddenly jumped up from below, and said in a panic: "Toragotos, old fellow, are you all right?" β
"Kaotte, you roll me off my vault." The old dragon said angrily.
The old dwarf reluctantly walked down the golden mountain, and Fang Yu couldn't help but laugh when he saw this strange scene, and it was at this time that he heard Toragotos' voice come from his head:
"They're not like you, I know very well what the little girl behind Silver Vislan and the people behind her want, these people are not bad, but if you want to reap, you have to pay first - and they know that very well."
Fang Yu heard it in a fog and was about to ask again, but the old dragon had already closed his eyelids, as if he was asleep, and stopped talking.
The two elder lizardmen also glanced at them and left the hall.
The old dwarf chattered and complained about Toragotos's pettiness, their people were unusually warm to their friends, but also unusually cold to outsiders, plus a special grudge and caution.
Fang Plover boasted that he was very familiar with the character of the dwarves, and he had been tricked by these hateful fellows in Elpahim, so he did not expect them to lead the way, so he walked down from the top of the Golden Mountain with Tenarek.
As soon as they came, Tianlan couldn't help but rush up and ask, "Brother Ed, I was so worried about you just now!" But the big cat man won't let me come up to help you, by the way, what the old dragon said to you, the mystery is mysterious, we can't hear it. β
Fang Yu didn't know the virtue of this little girl, and poked her head with his finger: "Don't just pour sewage on the big cat man." β
"Not a big cat man." Rhett emphasized.
However, Fang Yu didn't care, and only glanced at everyone and said, "Let's talk about it when we go out." β
To be honest, he didn't expect that this simple invitation would give birth to so many things, but he also got a lot of benefits, at least those three blessings were real benefits. That's not so much three blessings, but three free skills, and the experience saved alone can't be counted.
However, Fang Yu felt that the more important thing was to get in touch with the legendary green dragon Mageri, and the benefits in this were even more, although it was only a face-to-face, but it looked comparable to the efforts of Silver Veslan for so many years.
In Aitalia, it's no easy task to hook up with legendary natives.
Moreover, the elder of the Tada Lizardmen and the elder of the Blood Lizardmen seemed to be on their sideβat least on the side of the strange sigil on his hand, and the former had said that he would impart knowledge to him, which was even more remarkable.
But the trouble is not without it, at least this trial can't be taken lightly for now. He had planned to make his way through the Underworld as quickly as possible, and get as many grades as he could, so that he could meet up with the others in Cloud Harbor, and if nothing else, they should arrive at that place later than Princess Brian.
And now it seems that this plan has to be changed.
A few people walked out of the hall, only to find that the valley outside was already in chaos. Fang Yu was slightly stunned, although he knew that the trial had begun, but even if it was a trial, it didn't seem to be like this, right?
In fact, he had learned before that there were not many people who actually participated in the trial, and that many of the people in the valley were the other members who had come to escort the trainees on the one hand, and the adventurers who had come to this place in search of money-making opportunities on the other.
The addition of two by two makes this place seem lively.
But right now, where does this look like a trial, like a war at all?
Just as he was thinking, a feather arrow flew from afar, causing Fang Yu to shrink his head in fright, allowing the feather arrow to fly over his head. Rhett raised his hand and grabbed it steadily, and then the lion raised his head and squinted his eyes to look aheadβ
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