Chapter 90: A New Mission
The Pale Lord is an advanced class full of sorrows, both for the class traits that come with it and for those who want to be it for a variety of reasons.
In order to become a Pale Lord, you must not have a good side of the faction, in addition to the total level of 20, you also need to have the ability to cast at least 3 rings of spells, and then find a suitable grave to lock yourself in and spend more than three days with the undead creatures in the tomb, which can be a peaceful meeting or a violent conflict.
After completing the Advancement ritual, the caster who chooses this Advancement path will sacrifice a portion of their casting ability in exchange for the ability to dominate the power of death, increased melee ability, and the following and allegiance of a team of undead followers.
This is probably why the mages recorded the history of the Pale Lord in their dossiers and books—
They are always accompanied by a small group of undead creatures with a physical trait called "Necromantic Grafting", which replaces an entire hand with a white bone arm, and several times a day has the opportunity to paralyze their enemies by contacting attacks.
Rather than being further referred to as high-level spellcasters, they abandon their dignity as spellcasters and succumb to the Grim Reaper, gradually transforming into one of the undead monsters in the form of the living, the most ironic of which often limits their potential to being less than that of another being that is somewhat similar to them, but never the same, the Lich.
To make a simple side-by-side comparison, the Lich is one of the ways for some mages to seek immortality, and some are the product of a failed attempt to acquire Godhead, while the Pale Lord is a sad choice for those who desire to expand their immortality but are unwilling to give up the study of magic.
After carefully browsing the contents of the task scroll spread out on the table, Urs said in his heart that it was useless, and it was really not pure to be happy that the adventurer guild rewarded him with such a large mansion, and at the same time secretly complained that the necromancer who could mess up even the Pale Lord's advanced ritual did not prepare emergency spells in advance, and the charm attribute was not enough, as a result, in that cave tomb and the accompanying bone frames broke out for three days and three nights, and finally was unlucky enough to be killed by a group of skeletons?
If that's true...... Well, that's a really bad way to die.
You know you're a necromancer, man? Necromancer......
Necromantic ......
But then again, he knew the information about the Bone Cavern's dungeon, except for the necromancer's specific background - after all, this was the work of the plot party, not the story that he had to spend time studying as a combat player in his previous life.
The Bone Cave is a quest area that challenges level 16, and the main monsters in the quest are all skeletons of level 15~17, including a very small number of low-level corpse witches with low-ring spell casting ability, and the difficulty of the strategy is not much higher than the sawtooth camp and shadow cave of the Spotted Axe Forest, and the little thing you need to pay attention to in the strategy process is just that the necromancer's revenant is the final boss of the dungeon, with the virtual body characteristics of the ghost form, although it has not been able to successfully obtain the advanced professional ability of the Pale Lord, But anyway, there are 20 character levels.
Regarding the necromancer BOSS, the young man vaguely remembered that after he subtracted the first 10 basic professions, the remaining 10 levels of the formal career structure of the 10 levels were not only mages as the main profession, but also redundant warriors, thieves, and one or two bard levels, but his own strength could not control this acrobat-like career structure, so he could not effectively glue the various advantages of these professions together, so the whole person became a hodgepodge of stews, typical of poor learning, Self-defeating and making omnipotence a negative textbook role.
After pondering for a long time after summing up the game experience of his previous life, Urs thought that even if the current Thorn Squad lacked mages and warlocks, as long as the members of the team did not change, and the team was still led by himself with the memory advantage of the unknown prophet, then the undead monsters in the bone cave would not be a problem for everyone.
In other words, with adequate preparation, the task is actually not difficult.
He thought to himself, then thought about it and handed the task scroll to the other members of the team to circulate in turn.
The four-star mission difficulty rating is nothing surprising in Gloleiden's eyes. The Old Thief's Adventurer Badge is also a four-star one, and he himself has personally experienced the five-star adventure mission "Ruins of Ras Canyon" with the group before, so he is not surprised by this.
Thea had complete trust in Urs's decision, and as long as the young man intended to take on the task, she would not have the slightest objection. The jay just glanced at the scroll's page indifferently, and casually passed it to Stone Fist, who read it carefully without saying a word.
Then, when the quest scroll reached Koto, our dwarven warrior suddenly slammed the table top from the cushion of the seat under his ass as if he had thrown an evil paladin into the bottomless abyss or the Nine Realms of Hell.
Everyone's attention was immediately attracted by his actions.
Koto's eyes widened like brass bells, and he excitedly waved his strong arms and shouted, "We can't let that evil bastard go with the fire, can we?" That necromancer's desecration of life has caused the clan warriors to be angry with him! The warriors of the clan roared at him declaring war, and even Xiao Meng was roaring! But it has no mouth, and you can't hear it. ”
As he spoke, this living treasure with not very normal intellectual attributes did not forget to turn his head, untie the black large-caliber stew pot behind him and take it into his hand, and waved it as a banner.
Urs tilted his head on one hand, looked sideways at Koto, jumped his eyebrows, and suddenly thought a little out of line in his heart, maybe at this time he should first complain about why the "wisdom saucepot" named Xiaomeng was not in the kitchen of this house, but was still carrying it on his back all the time?
And the set of Mithril full-body armor on his body, it seems that he doesn't want to be taken off even when he sleeps when he goes to the toilet.
Is there a story with deep meaning in this? The dwarven warriors of the Hearthfire Clan not only "carry the pot", but also like to sleep with armor?
Looking at the emotional dwarf, Glorydon stroked his forehead a little nerve-wracked and shook his head, and said that this idiot must not understand that Thea's little healing technique is actually magic belonging to the necromantic faction, because the core point of necromantic magic, whether it is magic or spell, is the use and transformation of positive and negative magical energy by the caster, the positive energy side symbolizes blessing and healing, and the other side of negative energy is pure curse and damage.
Of course, Miss Drow, who likes to be boisterous, did not expect Koto's limited intelligence to understand this common-sense magical knowledge, but she did not bother to get up at this time and persuade Xia and Stonefist to persuade him to control his emotions, and the orc monk simply put his green-skinned hand on the top of the dwarf's horn helmet, and forcibly pressed his rising head with the advantage of his height.
The relationship between Stonefist and Koto is not bad.
The dwarven warrior sat back on the cushion of the wooden chair, turned his head in confusion and met the serious gaze of the half-orc warrior monk, and then he endured it uncomfortably, holding his mouth and glancing at the face of Urs from the corner of his eyes, and the pupils of his eyes chattered as if they were broken thoughts: "Accept this task, captain!" That evil is worth fighting, that evil is worth fighting, that evil is worth fighting......"
If it weren't for the united nature of the dwarven race, which made it difficult for them to prioritize their religious mission over loyalty to their clan and king, he would definitely have been a paladin.
Urs nodded to Stone Fist, who had helped a lot, and then exhaled, waking up the blue-robed mage who was already stunned on the other side of the table, and mentioned, "Mr. Ted, regarding this mission, there should be no problem with the overall strength of our team......
“…… But before I accept the assignment, I have some questions that I would like to get answered by you, so I wonder if you would mind talking to us more in this place? ”