Chapter 53: Another New Skill
"A magic apprentice who has taken refuge in the Syndicate? It's a shame for Dalaran. Gianna obviously had a high hatred for the Syndicate, and she didn't want to say anything more, but raised her hand slightly, and a crystal ice crystal was already shooting out towards Orlando.
Its unleashing ice archery technique can indeed be instantaneous, without the need to chant a spell at all!
Song Zheng naturally didn't think that Orlando could withstand Gianna's magic attack, after all, the previous syndicate thieves and snowmen were killed by this ice archery in seconds.
All he could do at the moment was to quickly shoot an arrow at Orlando with the crossbow in his hand...... The Syndicate thieves in front of him died so quickly that he didn't even have time to mend the knife.
Orlando seemed to be stunned and wanted to resist, but the difference in strength between him and Gianna was so great that before he could unleash any more magic, the ice arrow had already bombarded him, even piercing his chest.
However, due to the low temperature of the ice crystals, not a single drop of blood flowed out of the wound, and all of them instantly turned into red ice cubes.
The accuracy of Song Zheng's arrow was a little poor, but it was only shot on his thigh.
Seeing that Orlando had fallen, Song Zheng hurriedly opened his attribute interface to check it, only to see that his experience value had changed.
"I finally got the experience this time...... It seems that as long as you shoot, you will have experience. Song Zheng sighed, and to his surprise, the experience value provided by Orlando was very high!
Previously, he was still thousands of experience points away from reaching level three, but now he has not only reached level three, but even more than a thousand more experience.
"Directly let me be promoted to a level? This mage has more experience than the Syndicate thieves......"
Perhaps the system's determination of experience points is based on the comparison of the strength of the two sides, and may even take into account the intelligence of both sides, which is also the reason for the huge difference in experience gained from killing a wolf and killing a person in the first place, and now the experience gained from killing a magic apprentice is ridiculously high.
However, Song Zheng didn't think too much about it at the moment, he had been looking forward to upgrading, and even if he immediately went to check his skill bar excitedly, there was indeed a new skill behind the 'sprint'.
However, when he saw the name of the skill, his body suddenly shook, and he almost fell straight back...... On that skill bar, the word 'unlocking' is written prominently.
Nima...... It's not like you're really going to be a thief......"
Song Zheng rubbed his forehead weakly, almost all of the three skills he has obtained so far are used for thieves, if the 'sprint' can also be used to escape or sneak attack, and this 'lockpicking' skill is completely useless, just seeing the name of that skill makes people feel desperate.
"I didn't expect that there would be a mage who took refuge in the Syndicate, although he was only a magic apprentice, but this also shows that Dalaran's management is still a little too lax." Gianna doesn't seem to care much about the deaths of these people, but more about Orlando's mage.
"He's not really a syndicate." Song Zheng sighed, this Orlando is also unlucky, as a believer in the Cursed Church, it is estimated that he has been pretending to be stupid among those noble children before, and finally had a chance to show it, and even chased himself in the mountains and forests all night, but he accidentally met Gianna, and then he was killed in seconds before he could even say a few lines.
"He's not from the Syndicate? But they've been syndicates since then. Gianna couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard this, revealing a puzzled look.
"Those were supposed to be syndicate thieves, and this magic apprentice was named Orlando, a noble son of Talenmere, but he should have taken refuge in the Church of the Damned, and those syndicate thieves were just asked by the Church of the Curse for help." Song Zheng said.
When Gianna heard this, she was even more confused, and looked at Song Zheng with wide eyes, "Curse the church? What is that? ”
"A very dangerous dark organization, they call themselves the Eternal Church, and they use eternal life to tempt people to become believers, but in fact they use necromancy, and the so-called eternal life is just to become undead." Song Zheng tried to explain.
"Necromancy?" Gianna's eyes immediately showed a complicated look.
Song Zheng immediately nodded and said: "Yes, Your Royal Highness the princess, you should be no stranger to this, when they launched an attack on the princess and your troops that night, someone used necromancy magic, in fact, the mastermind behind those attackers is the Cursed Church, they have a lot of power in Nanhai Town and Tarunmere, and even many nobles and officials are their believers." ”
Now it is impossible to explain the threat of the undead to Gianna directly, and it is easy to be treated like a god, like Medivan.
But it's good to remind her of the Church of the Damned.
If there is a chance, she can even use her power to completely uproot the Cursed Church in Nanhai Town and the Talenmere area, so that when the undead natural disaster breaks out, it may be able to greatly reduce the damage in Nanhai Town and the Talenmir area.
"The Church of the Damned...... How daring are they? Dalaran has long forbidden the study of necromancy in the human realm, and the Church of the Damned dares to attack my team, which seems not only to be large-scale, but also extremely well-organized...... No, I'll have to try to get the word out to the teacher, as the Church of the Damned may have some kind of conspiracy that might even affect the safety of Lordaeron and Dalaran. "Gianna is indeed extremely intelligent and politically sensitive, and even though she doesn't know much about the Church of the Damned, she is still quick to detect the dangers it can cause.
"Yes, the Church of the Damned must be planning a big conspiracy, and this time they are using Orlando as an internal response to surround and attack a knightly force of nearly 2,000 men sent by our Tarummere." Song Zheng nodded in agreement, although he was alert to flee earlier, but he didn't have to think about it to guess the final outcome of that army and those noble children.
"Your nearly 2,000-strong knightly unit has been attacked?" Gianna immediately showed a shocked expression, she hadn't heard Song Zheng mention this matter before.
"Yes, we were originally responsible for coming out to find Her Royal Highness the Princess, so there are many nobles in the team, and Orlando is one of them, we have been looking for two or three days in the area of Mount Dalong, but we encountered a trap set by the Church of the Damned, and I also escaped by luck, and that Orlando is estimated to have been chasing me in order to kill people." Song Zheng said half-truthfully, he didn't dare to say that the Cursed Church attacked twice just to hunt him down, and even attacked Gianna for him.