Chapter 11: The Treasure Cave
There aren't many haunted places in Amber City.
Sauron only made a brief probe to determine the approximate location of the hidden treasure cave, a mass grave about a kilometer north of the Onyx River, where traces of ghost activity had been seen on more than one occasion. This is one of the more obvious signs of treasure caves, and the lich always likes to place these caves closer to death.
"Ghosts?"
"Then a little holy water may be needed."
In order to ensure Vivien's safety, although Sauron was sure to explore the treasure cave, he was not sure how long it would take, so he planned to send her to the Temple of Dawn for Pastor Anyari to take care of. It was the priest girl who had helped Sauron in the past, but she was always cold to him, and there should be no problem with her taking care of Vivien. Of course, it is impossible for the Temple of Dawn to take in a little girl for no reason, and Sauron has already prepared a sum of money for the temple.
Temple of Dawn.
Sauron leaned slightly towards the priest of the abbot's temple, and when the other party took the money bag he offered, and heard a crisp and pleasant sound of silver delle crashing inside, he immediately said with a spring breeze: "No problem!" ”
"The Lord of the Dawn blesses all those who believe in him, and this little girl can live in the temple for a while."
"Let her follow Anyali as a priest trainee."
It's a world that can't do without money.
This is true even for powerful priests, who need to expand their faith in serving the gods and to absorb believers from the lower classes of the poor. All of these things are inseparable from money, which requires money for the maintenance of the temple, money for giving to the believers, and money for holding sacred ceremonies. Now even the priests of most temples have begun to openly sell divine healing, exorcising diseases, recovering from injuries, etc., in exchange for enough wealth to maintain the temple and expand their faith, what is the matter of taking in a little girl for a few days, plus selling a few gallons of holy water?
The Temple of Dawn is not very powerful, and it can only be ranked below the second tier in Amber City.
Therefore, the nobles always have a better choice when making offerings, and the money that Sauron gave is quite precious.
There were sixty silver delets.
The equivalent of the last half a month of offerings received at the Temple of Dawn would allow Pastor Fell to exchange the utensils for the sacred ritual for one or two pieces of silver.
After all, this is a silver coin made by a devotee of the goddess of wealth, and twenty pieces weigh a pound!
"Thank you, Pastor Fair."
Sauron thanked him politely, and then smiled at Pastor Anyari beside him, "Vivien has been bothering you for the past few days!" ”
"Hmph."
The young priest snorted softly, but she didn't refuse, although she still didn't like Sauron, but she liked the little girl next to her very much at a glance. Of course, Anyali knew that Sauron's money was not coming from a clean source, and that it was either stolen or related to gang fighting in the slums, but Pastor Fell had been preparing for the sacred ceremony of her promotion to full priesthood for a long time. Finally, Sauron was willing to give such a sum of money, and of course he had to use it to prepare a sacred ritual for her.
If there are two full-fledged priests, the Temple of Dawn should be able to enter the ranks of the second-rate in Amber City in no time!
"Vivien followed Sister Anyali first."
Sauron reached out and stroked the little girl's head, comforting, "I'll come and pick you up in two days!" ”
He had already told the little girl before he came.
Vivien didn't have the slightest objection to Sauron's arrangement, but nodded obediently: "Hmm." ”
"Don't worry about me."
"Vivien is very well-behaved and will never run around."
Sauron leaned over her forehead and kissed her lightly, then picked up the holy water and walked towards the outside of the Temple of Dawn.
Now that the skinning incident has happened, he also needs to speed up.
Before the gods were forced to walk the world as saints, the temple should be one of the safest places in Amber City, shrouded in the converging divine power of faith, and the guards who guarded the temple, and not many evils dared to set foot lightly. Even a second-rate temple like the Temple of Dawn had six powerful temple guards in addition to a formal priest.
The strength is basically above the second order!
One of the Temple Guardians even has a third-order strength, and is conservatively estimated to have a Class 1O Knight Squire/Level 1O Knight/Level 5 Temple Guardian, or a Class 1O Knight Squire/Level 1O Warrior/Level 5 Temple Guardian class template.
The first class level represents your base class before you switch.
For example, the vast majority of Native wizards have a Class 1o scholar professional level, because they need to know how to read before learning spells, and have a certain knowledge base. For example, many of the advanced warrior professions have the prefix of Militia level 1O, which means that they are trained at the militia level before becoming full-fledged warriors.
As for Sauron's Level 1o civilians, this is the lowest level of pre-requisite.
Without the weapon mastery attached to the Militia and the knowledge bonus attached to the Scholar, the only benefit is that you can gain 25 skill points and advance to any class at the same time.
As long as your talent stats are enough!
The basic class in the front generally does not add any attribute points, but there are still some gaps depending on the emphasis, just like the best front of the melee system is the 1O-level knight squire, which can get an additional skill point for weapon specialty. But this is for player-owned pro templates. If you change this template to the aborigines, that is, Sauron was born a commoner, and he received a civilian education since he was a child, and the growth of his own attributes in his childhood depends on creation, and it is difficult to predict whether he will become a genius or a mediocre talent, until he advances to become a thief.
And the third-order Templar Knight has received the training and education of a knight squire since he was a child, and he has already had combat training at a young age, and he has mastered most of the weapons, so some of his attributes will be much higher than that of civilians, whether it is strength or physique, etc., and it will continue until he becomes a warrior or knight, and begins to continue to improve his strength as a professional.
Therefore, in the past, players judged the level of a native's basic attributes, and looked at their pre-occupation.
The civilian profession is generally comprehensive, the militia profession is slightly stronger, the knight squire has a high comprehensive attribute, and the scholar has an innate knowledge advantage.
To sum it up.
That is the same second-order professional, the temple guards are much more difficult to deal with than the wild road warriors.
The Yeluzi warriors may have attributes one level lower than them, and the abilities they master are only basic swordsmanship, but the temple guards will have a higher attribute and master more than three advanced abilities at the same time.
After mastering the cross sword technique, the [Sword Momentum-Cross Slash] made Sauron remember it deeply!
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Mass graves.
It was already afternoon when Sauron arrived, and it took him half a day to find the entrance to the cave.
It was a simple concealment device, more like a trap.
As a rock near the mass grave was moved by ten centimeters, a dark hole appeared on a small hillside not far away. When Sauron's figure entered the room, the rock immediately returned to its original place, and the entrance to the cave vanished without a trace. It is worthy of the lich's handiwork, and some of the arrangements are also extremely clever in the eyes of Sauron, a legendary thief of the past.
It's dark.
There are damaged torches on both sides of the cave, and if an ordinary person comes in and doesn't light a torch, I'm afraid he won't be able to walk, but Sauron, as a half-elf with one-eighth elven blood, still has a certain night vision. Therefore, he does not need to light a torch to get a general view of the cave, which is the key to his daring to explore the treasure cave alone.
Stealth + Night Vision = Silently.
The lack of lighting tools means that the monsters inside the cave will not be alarmed.
The safety factor has been greatly improved!
Sauron's figure gradually melted into the darkness, and as he awakened the professional expertise of 'shadow mastery', he was able to feel the existence of the power of shadows, which was a different feeling than before. His figure faded into the darkness, as if vanishing into the shadows, and only as he moved, could he faintly notice the slight changes in the shadows.
His breath, his heartbeat, his scent are all masked by shadows!
"Squeak."
There was a sound of footsteps ahead, and Sauron gently drew his dagger and hid in a corner of the cavern waiting.
The area of the treasure cave is not small.
After all, it is impossible for the lich to dig a pit underground, there are many underground passages here, and there are many guardian monsters and traps that the lich had laid out in the first place.
A skeleton appeared in front of Sauron's eyes.
The lack of soul fire in its eyes meant that it was just the lowest level of resurrection skeletons, probably because of the rich death energy here, which unconsciously guarded it. Such skeletons are relatively easy to deal with, and ordinary professionals can deal with one or two, but it is impossible to kill a large group at will, because their strength is roughly equivalent to that of a militia with more than formal training, and there is no Achilles heel on their bodies, after all, skeletons are also a kind of mortal creatures.
Even if it's the lowest-level undead creature.
Sauron's figure crept closer, unaware of the unconscious movement of the skeleton, holding a rusty iron sword in its hand, as if it had been an adventurer who had once explored the place and died. The number of aboriginal adventurers in the plot is no less than that of the player, and there are even many evil camps that cooperate with the player or even sneak up behind the scenes to kill the player, and anyone who underestimates the world of "Clash of the Gods" will pay the price.
A cold light appeared in the darkness!
Sauron's figure emerged in the shadows, and in an instant, he swung his dagger and stabbed at the skeleton's vertebrae.
"Shadow Hiding Success!"
"Backstab!"
"Successfully backstab *2, dealing 18 (+1) damage to the target!"
"Target Yan zhòng injured!"
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This was Sauron's first successful backstab without killing an enemy instantly.
However, he was not surprised by this, because he was holding an ordinary dagger in his hand, which had no enchantments and no mortal properties. It's hard to get a one-hit kill against undead creatures, as undead creatures also have the bonus of mortal creatures. Although the challenge difficulty of the skeleton is only level 1, its health is more than 3o points, and it has no flesh and blood, but it is more resistant to fighting than ordinary people.
Bang Bang Bang!
The skeleton's fighting instinct was still there, and the first reaction after being attacked was to slash down with a sword, bringing out a sharp sound of breaking the air, and Sauron used the dagger to block the attack, and his body couldn't help but sink a little.
"More than 16 points of strength."
Sauron dodged to avoid the second attack, then moved his slightly numb arm, and said secretly: "It should have been an advanced warrior in its lifetime, otherwise it would not have such a high power after becoming an undead." ”
1o point of strength is the standard of ordinary people.
The 12-point force is equivalent to the coolie workers who work every day in the docks.
14 points of strength is considered to be the most powerful among ordinary people.
16 points of strength is roughly equal to that of a weightlifter in a previous life.
18 points of strength is more exaggerated, and it is this kind of person who can slash people with a weapon of more than 100 catties in one hand, and he is the one who does not pant after chopping.
Generally speaking, those who can reach more than 16 points are specially trained melee professionals.
Attribute points are the most difficult thing to improve, and only two career levels can get a little free attribute, even if it is promoted to level 2o to enter the legendary realm, it is only 1o free attribute points. At this point, Sauron's flaw is relatively big, his strength is only 12 points, because he has not deliberately exercised his strength in his childhood experience, and he is not a bloodline of divine power, so his strength is only about the same as the coolies who carry boxes in the docks.
As for the power of 2o points, a simple analogy can be made.
Giant of the Hill.
A behemoth who is about 5 meters tall, weighs nearly half a ton, and usually holds an adult's waist-thick mace as a weapon!
That's right.
This guy is the standard of 2o points of mortal power!
If it weren't for the innate divine power, many warriors who had been promoted all the way to the second-order profession might not have more than 2o points of mortal power.
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