So, after a short break of about ten minutes, Urs and Thea packed up their bags and prepared to set off, their plans for the future without disagreement, and the two of them then hiking through the forest, and the rumored adventurer city in eastern Okazawa became the next destination for young men and girls.

Fortunately, the forest at night is not too dark.

Bright light pours through the dense needles of the cedar. From time to time, Urs looked up at the night sky, judging the direction according to the position pointed by the crescent moon, and walked in front of Thea with the cross-sword in his hand to lead the way.

The path in the forest seemed to be intricate, but Thea followed Urs, and found that after a while, the dirt path under her feet seemed to be less difficult, and the vine stems of the surrounding weeds and various thorny plants were decreasing, and the forest path that was originally full of obstacles became a lot wider, and this reliable feeling was like a seasoned ranger or druid walking in front of her.

She had heard anecdotes about the Rangers from the priests and teachers of the Abbey, the guardians of nature who had the ability to communicate with plants and animals, and the armies of the Warbler Empire sometimes hired ranger scouts from an organization called the Ranger League to traverse the jungle.

But of course she knew that Urs couldn't be a Ranger or a Druid.

The wolf-eared girl looked at the young man's back, feeling reliable and at the same time slightly puzzled, and there was always a strange intuition in her heart to tell her that there was something wrong with the Urs she knew.

But she couldn't guess what the change was, just as many NPCs couldn't figure out what the player was thinking.

Urs didn't know what Thea was wondering about, he just kept his vigilance, using the two-handed greatsword in his hand to sweep away the weeds at his feet and stride forward, keeping his ears on the situation around him.

The cold wind blew off a few dead branches from the treetops.

Be quiet...... It's so quiet.

The black-haired young man frowned slightly. He had been to the Frost Forest a few times when he used to play trumpets, this wild area is suitable for adventure teams around level 5~8 to explore, novice players born in the Northland often run here to clean up tasks, find some beasts in the forest to fight monsters and level up, and the team with a little spare strength can also hunt a few winter wolf skins and sell them back to nearby towns for money, or use them to sew enchanted leather armor.

However, the woods were unusually quiet tonight, and there should have been some nocturnal animals, such as coyotes or bats.

He clenched the greatsword in his hand, and suddenly stopped and stood still.

"Urs?"

"Shh......h

Thea blinked in surprise in exchange for Urs' gesture of turning back and holding his index finger in front of his mouth.

The silver-haired girl suddenly understood something, and she quickly closed her mouth with bated breath, and the two wolf ears on her head stood up vigilantly.

The tense atmosphere slowly froze the air.

Urs and Thea's perceptual attributes are not low, they carefully use their respective hearings to catch the movement nearby, the corner of their eyes suddenly swept to a shadow not far away, and saw that a serpentine figure suddenly flew out of the dark corner, opening the bloody mouth with two pairs of fangs and attacking them at an astonishing speed.

It was a giant python covered in white scales, red snake eyes, and purple-blue sharp teeth.

The moment he saw the attacker, Urs's brain exploded.

Warnes is on top, this is the Ice Fang Python, an elite monster with a total level of 14!

The young man and the girl's reflexes were very sharp, and almost at the same moment they both raised their arms and pressed each other's shoulders to lie down, causing the white-scaled python to make a thrilling trajectory in mid-air, close its mouth and bite the air, and let out a heavy thud and fall into a mass of wild grass not far away.

The huge python slammed into the air with a blow, and quickly adjusted its posture and turned back to face the two people who had escaped just now.

Urs propped up the giant sword in his hand and got up from the ground: "Thea, resist fear!" ”

"Understood!" Thea didn't ask much, and immediately crouched down at Urs's request, and lifted the emblem bracelet wrapped around her wrist to perform a divine prayer.

Priest 1 Ring - Fear Resistance (Protection): Instills courage in yourself and your teammates to remove the fear state, and increases the immunity resistance to the fear state for the next period of time.

The ethereal incantation was chanted smoothly from the girl's mouth, and two white clusters of light immediately poured out from the surface of the emblem, floating into the bodies of Urs and Thea, respectively.

Feeling a warm force infused into his body from behind, Urs grasped the hilt of the sword in his hand, and held the cross-shaped two-handed giant sword diagonally in front of him, and the movements of his limbs skillfully assumed the standard starting posture of the Golden Que Ying Empire's military swordsmanship.

The python hissed and swallowed the tip of its forked tongue, the head of the snake standing upright and the red pupils in its eyes condescending.

The young man's eyes projected a calm and sharp gaze, and he also raised up along the enemy's line of sight, confronting him, and then received two pieces of system information transmitted into his mind-

[Hint: The Ice Fang Python casts a terrifying gaze on you]

[Conduct relevant verification - resistance to fear takes effect, and the exemption is successful]

The Ice Tooth Python was more than three meters tall when it stood up its upper body, its long and stout body was as wide as a tree stump, and its creature level was level 14, an elite template, although it was not a boss attribute, but its crimson eyes would continue to radiate a terrifying gaze skill similar to the fear technique to the prey it was targeting, and the white scales all over the body except for the head also had the same protective effect as the straight chain mail.

The purpose and concept of the game's production team to put this difficult elite monster in the frost forest is to let it play the role of a rookie killer in the early game, so as to guide players to team up for adventures in the game world, so as to cultivate the awareness and enthusiasm of novice players for the game, as well as the desire to challenge in the face of powerful monsters.

Urs stood in front of the red eyes of the ice-toothed python with the giant sword in his hand, he calmly focused his attention, the white-scaled python in front of him was a bit tricky for him now, but not to the point of being invincible. If it were the other way around, he believed that his past self would never mind leading his adventuring team to slaughter the other party during the journey to gain some experience points and materials.

However, the possibility of that scenario has to be based on the peculiarities of the game's mechanics. Now that he is in a real world, the player privilege of resurrecting after death has long since disappeared with the past days, not to mention that he is only a level 11 trumpet at this moment.

In short, if it weren't for the other party's sudden attack on him and Xia, he wouldn't have planned to run away and provoke this damn beast at all.

Thinking of this, Urs cursed in his heart a little helplessly, and at the same time released a hand from the hilt of his sword and raised it to the side of his shoulder and gestured at Xia.

The black-haired young man has worked with the white-robed wolf-eared priest girl several times.

Thea stood behind Urs, her amber eyes reading the meaning of the gesture from between his fingers, and then raised her head to look up at the snake pupils of the Ice Fang Python with the blessing of the anti-fear magic buff, and raised the Holy Emblem bracelet on her wrist to prepare to use her magic to attack.

The icefang python blinked its crimson eyes, and the beast's instincts made it realize Thea's intentions, and immediately writheled its body and let out a terrifying "hiss" cry to bite Urs, who was blocking it.

Urs calmly took on a fighting posture, and the hand that had been raised towards Thea just now quickly moved back to the hilt of the sword, and the next second he slammed the cross-shaped two-handed greatsword sideways into the mouth of the ice-toothed python.

Years of experience in the game have helped him successfully anticipate the opponent's offensive line. The blades of the giant sword firmly pressed against the corners of the python's mouth on both sides, and the purple-blue fangs were less than a foot away from the young man's eyebrows.

A Chance of Chance –

And the white light suddenly flashed.

Pure white magic arrows flew out of the priest's emblem in Thea's hand, crossed the top of Urs's head and pulled a straight trajectory line in mid-air, and struck the ice-toothed python's left eye with a snap.

The white-scaled python roared and raised its head, and the vision in front of it was half lost in an instant.

"Beautiful!" Urs applauded Thea's head, and immediately picked up his greatsword and slashed at the neck of the ice-toothed python.

The 19 Strength stat gives him a far more obvious combat advantage than the boring stats. The cross-shaped two-handed giant sword slashed forward in his hand in a half-moon-shaped arc, and the side blade of the blade immediately broke through a row of scales on the ice-toothed python's body, splashing a bloodstained smear.

The python's body slanted in the direction where the giant sword had slashed. The scream in the monster's mouth was still sharp and murderous, and its only remaining one-eye stared at the two hateful humans in front of it, its thick body tried to stabilize its balance and reorganize the attack, but unexpectedly, a mysterious voice was suddenly heard in the depths of its brain, and it commanded in a very oppressive tone:

“Fall！ (Fall)"

Priest 1 Ring Divine Technique - Command (Confusion Control System): Gives a single byte of magic command to a single target creature, the lower the difficulty of the command, the higher the success rate.

Castaño's clerics are allowed to wear armor and use blunt weapons such as maces and flails to fight, or they can stand in relative safety and concentrate on their magic to assist their teammates.

Thea is clearly the latter type, she is not good at hand-to-hand combat, but she has a rare talent for understanding magic and a very fast spell casting speed.

The command of the command technique echoed in the head of the ice-toothed python like a deafening bell, and this monster with an elite template resisted the request of the order, barely falling down, but a trance was inevitable, and his head shook in a daze.

Urs didn't miss this perfect opportunity, he flipped his wrist and drove the blade of the greatsword to slash in the opposite direction with a second lateral swing, which slashed the unbalanced Ice Fang Python with great force.

The white-scaled python slammed to the ground, its shrill hiss sounding less vicious and more like a wail of pain.

The black-haired young man stepped forward and mercilessly raised the giant sword in his hand and plunged it into the monster's head, decisively taking its life, and then received several successive system prompts-

[You killed the Ice Fang Python]

[EXP +420 (Kill Bonus)]

【Unlock Achievement - Elite First Kill】

[XP +500 (Achievement Bonus)]

[Note: The character's experience points have met the upgrade requirements]

Mortal creatures have their own vital points, and the damage caused by vital attacks is bound to be fatal, which is why humans need to use helmets and armor to protect their brains and hearts, and high-level undead always try to avoid damage to their soul fire.

Seeing Urs stabbing the python's head with his sword in hand, Thea's tense nerves relaxed slightly, and she asked aloud, "Is it dead?" ”

With the kill confirmation of the game system, Urs turned back and gave her a thumbs up with confidence, and the bandaged half of his cheek showed an awkward smile, and then called up the operation interface of the game system from his mind and clicked into the attribute panel, and found that his idle experience had really made up enough values for leveling up.

In the past, he originally thought that the experience points he had just gained would be divided equally with Xia according to the rules of the party mode, but he didn't expect to swallow all the rewards alone, so he guessed that this might be one of the few player privileges he can enjoy in his life, after all, most of the aboriginal NPCs don't have a game system.

It's a bit of a surprise, but it's understandable, plus a little surprise.

Subsequently, through the operation of the consciousness level, he upgraded his current character class.

[Note: This operation will consume 1100 idle experience, are you sure?] 】

"Sure."

[Then you pay experience points to increase the character's level]

[EXP -1100]

[Barbarian Level +1, Total Level +1]