Chapter 12: Miscalculation and Death
Bloodthirsty Priest level 15, Zhu Peng gets the powerful Wood Armor Divine Gift, Bloody Blade Hunter Level 5, Zhu Peng gets the Berserk Divine Gift, the priest obtains the spellcasting ability in a different way than the wizard, the wizard builds the spell model, analyzes the spell structure, and finally obtains the spell casting ability himself.
And the priest through devotional worship, chanting to the gods, as his own priest level rises and has a deep understanding of the doctrine, from the hands of the gods behind the hands of the ability to cast magic, which is essentially closer to a transaction. Of course, in the world of Faerun, spell slots are actually somewhat similar to professional priests, they are generally pan-believers of the goddess of magic, but because they contribute to the process of building spells, so wizards of the same rank have far more spell slots than priests, and they are more flexible.
Zhu Peng was in no mood or interest in delving into Dinard's distorted teachings, so his method of obtaining divine arts could only be obtained passively through his own career promotion, and the divine abilities obtained through this method were too random, and it was easy to obtain divine magic gifts that he usually did not use at all.
For example, to get underwater breathing in the desert, for example, to get high temperature resistance in the ocean, and the magic technique of the other, my chicken ribs, this kind of thing has never been less.
Enslavement Technique, Powerful Wood Armor Technique, and Berserk Technique, I don't know if it's because of Dinar's gaze, or if the face of this descendant is really white enough, in short, the value of these three divine techniques is extremely high, and it is also quite consistent with Zhu Peng's own way of attacking.
(There is really a gap between the European emperor and the non-chief, and the good-looking can really be eaten...... Not only did he get two new magic skills, but along with the increase in his class level, Zhu Peng's personal attributes also received bonuses:
Name: Sodo.
Race: Half-Blood Wood Elves.
Attributes: Strength 8+1+1, Agility 15+2, Constitution 15+1, Intelligence 12, Perception 12+1, Charisma 17+1+2.
Faction: Order and Evil.
Class: Level 15 Bloodthirsty Priest / Level 5 Bloodblade Hunter.
Health: 16/16.
Experience Points: None.
Skill Points: None.
Property Points: None.
Status: Weakened (Resurrection of the Soul).
Career Skills - Prayer 30, Stealth 28, Archery 36, Alchemy 19, One-handed Weapons 59, Dodge 32, Parry 28, Block 21, Knowledge 32, Negotiation 15, Estimate 25, Search 29, Scout 25.
Personal Specialty: Heart of Iron (Medium), Focus
Profession Specialty: One-Handed Weapon Mastery (Coming Soon),
Combat Skill: Evil Shadow Swordsmanship, Triple Shot
The intermediate-level Iron Heart and Concentration Specialty, one point each for oneself to increase one's strength, physique, perception, and charm, and the improvement of the career level and the gaze of Dinar increase one's strength +1, agility +2, and charm +2 five attributes, which is actually a lot.
Zhu Peng felt that if he didn't have Dinard's gaze, he would only get the attribute bonuses of strength +1 and agility +2, and the 2-point increase in charm was completely incidental.
It's just that in this way, Zhu Peng's personal charm has been increased to 20 points of relative attribute suppression, even if he is put in a pile of handsome guys and elves, he will never be the ugly one, and he will gain a certain advantage in trading with people and arbitraging intelligence in the future. Of course, too much charisma can sometimes get you into trouble.
It is worth mentioning that a higher charisma is conducive to increasing the success rate of the dark magic "Servitude".
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"I, the granddaughter of Zorosil, the 'Demon Bow Walker', I am the glorious heir, not a tomb robber, retreat, and the glory of my ancestors hangs over me. "Inside the cave, inside the laboratory of the old wizard who has been dead for decades, Zhu Peng and Emiya are surrounded by a group of metal constructs, their bodies made of brass-colored metal pillars, inlaid with translucent crystals that still dance with electric light, which may be the power source that drives them to rise again from their slumber.
Just when Zhu Peng thought that another battle was inevitable, Emiya took out the old emerald necklace from before, sliced her palm with the dagger she carried with her, smeared the blood on the gem, and then raised it towards the surrounding metal structure, and spoke a large number of words that had obviously been prepared for a long time...... Well, that's obviously an indispensable part of the defense of people.
Under the light of the emerald necklace, the metal structure that had originally surrounded it slowly receded after a moment of scanning.
“...... If I come alone, I'll be flattened by them, right?" Zhu Peng raised his eyebrows slightly, and he moved his gaze to the face of the red-haired girl beside him.
"Alas, didn't people know you at that time? Emiya was also worried that Sodor would be angry because she had concealed too much, and her youthful and infinitely beautiful delicate body clinged to the wood elf boy.
"People haven't been known to you inside and out now, why are you still angry?" looked at Zhu Peng with big eyes that looked particularly innocent, like a puppy longing for the master's pity, so delicate and charming, it was really impossible to be angry with her.
"Let's go, finish exploring early and go back early, Rosa is still waiting for us." Shaking his head, Zhu Peng took the lead.
With a small fist wave behind the man's back, and seeing the people drift away, Emiya quickly trotted and followed.
The internal space of this underground cave is huge, the compound magic circle, the experimental table, the alchemy potion room, just the leftovers that still exist make people feel that the trip is worthwhile, the wizard is very rich, but most of the time he is very short of money, if a high-level wizard has no enterprising intentions, simply pension, then he can often quickly earn a large amount of money, and even enough to establish a family.
It is a pity that the vast majority of wizards cannot forget their desires and obsessions even when they are dying, all kinds of witchcraft research, secret methods to prolong life, and even just "hear the Tao, die at night" to satisfy their thirst for knowledge, and they are willing to fill in huge amounts of gold coins for this.
This is what makes the wizarding profession brilliant, but it is also the source of countless sufferings, the suffering of others, and even the suffering of the wizard himself.
Zhu Peng himself is a high-level wizard, he knows very well where his peers will put their belongings, there is a coffin made of ice crystals in the center of the hall, and there is a stone table on one side, Zhu Peng walked over and saw a witch wearing a gray robe in the ice coffin, with long silver hair spread out, but it was a girl with a very delicate face.
"Granny Alia, why is she so young?"
"Do you know her?" Zhu Peng asked Amiya beside him in some surprise.
"There are group oil portraits of the members of the adventure team in my grandfather's bedroom, and there is a young girl like the one now, but how many years have passed, and she is still ......"
"It's normal, wizards, especially witches, if they are willing to pay a certain price, it is not difficult to stay young forever. Even if you are already old, you can return to your best years before eternal sleep. Zhu Peng moved his gaze to the stone table beside him, on which were placed a black rod, several herbs, and a dusty bag.
He immediately grabbed the bag with his palm, in this world it is not as tightly controlled as the wizarding world, if it is a high-level wizard who is qualified to attack the legend, then it is not impossible to have that thing.
Picking up the bag, Zhu Peng's spiritual power probed into it, the internal space was not large, and it was not even as large as the internal space of the copper ring that Zhu Peng had temporarily blessed with divine magic before, only about fifteen square meters of internal space, and there was nothing in it.
However, the dimensional bag itself is already the most rewarding treasure, and the space storage equipment has always been a necessary artifact for killing people and setting fires in the heavenly world, sightseeing trips, and the fact that you can change your weapons anytime and anywhere is of great value to melee fighters.
Compared with Zhu Peng's straight to the point, Amiya was attracted to attention by a herb on the stone table that had remained quite bright for decades, and after the most intimate relationship, Amiya had obviously completely let down her guard against the man next to her, and she didn't think that the other party would calculate herself and let herself suffer.
"Put it down!"
However, when Emiya had just picked up the purple-white herb, she was suddenly snatched away by Zhu Peng beside her. For a moment, the girl was almost stunned.
"Suo...... Sodo, what's wrong?"
"It's immortal grass. Zhu Peng, who had just obtained the dimensional bag, and was still happy, suddenly turned extremely ugly, he stared at the flower branch in his hand for a moment, and then slowly moved his gaze to the top of the crystal coffin on the side.
The undead grass is one of the important materials for the Lich Transformation Ritual, and some Indigenous Planes even use it as the main material for the Lich Transformation Ritual!
The edge of the crystal coffin had to crack the fine texture at some point, and a dark aura faintly spread.
"Stay out of the way!" Zhu Peng roared, Zhu Peng suddenly hugged Emiya, and jumped into the distance in the red-haired girl's exclamation, bang!!
The crystal coffin exploded in an instant, and a large amount of corpse poison and death qi spread, and Zhu Peng, who was holding Emiya and swooping into the distance, snorted, and his body was almost overturned by the wave of qi surging from behind.
At this moment, directly above the crystal coffin, a gray-robed silver-haired witch with bloodshot eyes and a roar, the magic around it spread like a solid wave.
"Granny Alia!?she, she's resurrected?"
"It's not a resurrection, the lich transformation ritual has failed, Aria's soul is bound in that body, and all you see now is a necromantic witch awakened by us. "The Lich Transformation Ritual is a difficult life transformation ritual in the highly developed wizarding world, and in the vast majority of indigenous worlds, it is the last fight after the wizard has no way to live.
After all, as long as the transformation is successful, they will have an almost eternal life in the eyes of humans, but in the indigenous plane, only the success rate of the legendary wizard to transform into a lich is higher, and the probability of failure of low-level wizards to do this kind of thing is very high, they can't even get all the materials for the transformation ceremony, and they often dare to fight when they get a few main materials by chance, and the final success rate is of course frighteningly low.
After the failure of the transformation ritual, the soul of the caster is often bound to a living corpse, imprisoned forever in the darkness of eternal life.
"Hide here and don't come out...... Holding this necklace, the Necromantic Witch is affected by the memories of the dead in life. Tucking the red-haired girl into a relatively hidden stone crevice, Zhu Peng ordered in a low voice.
"I'm holding it, so what are you going to do?"
"I!?Of course I'm going to give her eternal relief, otherwise the two of us hide here to create a race?" Laughing at Emiya in the gap, Zhu Peng turned back to the battlefield with his bow.
The Necromantic Witch is already an undead creature with half a foot on the legendary rank, and Zhu Peng's current level has not even reached the top of the second order, so the outcome of this battle is unpredictable.
However, it's also interesting because of this, always bullying the weak and fighting some battles that must be won, which always makes me feel murderous in my heart!
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At the moment when Zhu Peng walked out, the necromantic corpse witch suspended in mid-air raised his hand and three turquoise poisonous flames shot and killed him, with Zhu Peng's experience, he couldn't tell what kind of spell it was, but it was definitely right not to be hit by it. Its form rolls and leaps, and even stomps and runs on the walls.
The poisonous flame bombarded the stone wall, instantly burning a strange green flame, which actually had the dual effect of fire and poison at the same time.
(Thankfully, it's not a Legendary Wizard transformation failure, and if it were, I'd have left Emia and ran away on my own.) Although the mana reserve and immortal body are at the level of a legendary lich, the corpse witch himself will not learn, and the spells it uses are still those that Alia mastered back then, a second-order wizard in the indigenous world, can master how many large-scale range spells?) While running, he shot with a bow, and now what really gave Zhu Peng a headache was the number of arrows in the quiver behind his back.
The undead, especially the half-step legendary undead witch, has a high physical damage reduction, and less than thirty arrows in its quiver are all shot at it, and it may not be able to shoot the other party, but if you force a melee fight, with your small body at this time, if you accidentally get an attack, you will be seriously injured, and you will be hit twice on the spot.
Although the mental arithmetic is fast, but the situation at this moment is not at all Zhu Peng's hesitation, in the ancient underground cave, the undead corpse witch and the half-elf ranger attack each other, overturning and exploding countless old things.
The undead witch with the delicate gray-robed witch as her appearance is full of magic, and there are constant floating spells on her body, floating left and right like a ghost, and there is no center of gravity at all, and one spell after another is almost like a high-frequency howitzer, and it only takes less than ten minutes of battle to make Zhu Peng's face as if he has just been buried alive and then crawled out.
In particular, it spread out its arms and summoned two rounds of rotating big storms, with a wide radiation, and one was accidentally entangled, and Zhu Peng's body at this time was probably already a broken corpse when it landed.
The Iron Heart and Concentration perks are working at full strength, and the third-order undead corpse witch continuously casts second-order spells, and the magic power will not be clean for a while and a half.
The vast majority of wizards in the Feron Continent are spell slot casters, and only a very small number of legendary wizards choose to avoid the shackles of the magic net, control the spell with their own ability, and obtain further improvement space, and the lich/corpse witch is also one of the representatives, not to mention the lich, the corpse witch is not delirious at all, it cannot bring benefits to the entire magic net system, and the goddess of magic will certainly not connect her own network system to these monsters.
Therefore, compared to the vast majority of spell-level wizards in the Faren Continent, the orthodoxy of blue-striped wizards such as corpse witches is an absolute minority, and the magic net system reduces the difficulty for ordinary people to become wizards, but it also firmly binds high-level spellcasters, making it difficult for them to climb higher mountains.
The wizarding network system of the wizarding world is even larger and more complete than the magic network system of the world of the gods, but Casa would rather use it to cultivate professionals than to intervene in the growth of wizards, in the eyes of this wizard emperor, the transcendent throne is valuable, and the remaining low-level wizards, no matter how large they are, are just consuming the resources of the entire civilization.
The wizarding world has opened its arms to all the talents of the civilization shrouded plane, if you can't stand out from the crowd, then such a mediocre Kasa will not even have the interest to look at it, the throne of the Witch Tower of Babel is numerous, but none of the positions are superfluous.
Tumbling and dodging between the howling storms, lightning storms, and burning poisonous molten bombs, all the values in the corner of his eyes were frantically refreshing, but Zhu Peng didn't have the slightest time to pay attention.
His ability to concentrate had been harnessed to the extreme, shuttling through the storm of spells, even judging the weakest point of the attack in an instant, and then struggling through, every muscle on his body screamed, and then he was brutally suppressed by the potency of the Iron Heart.
The effect of the Pure Yang Immortal Heart is to make the cultivator still in good condition and maintain the ability to devote himself to the action even at the moment before the body collapses and self-destructs, and the Iron Heart is just an interpretation of this state by the laws of the world of the gods, but the strength of Zhu Peng's heart that has been refined and polished for many years is of course not only the Intermediate Iron Heart can interpret.
Break out of the spell encirclement, shoot an arrow, and hit it!
The strength and current attached to the arrows spread out, and they were also weakening the floating undead corpse witch a little bit, each arrow was precious, and Zhu Peng didn't dare to guarantee that the other party would die if he shot a few more arrows...... That's really embarrassing.
Suddenly, the electricity on the arrow spread out like a net, and even the operation of the undead witch was paralyzed for a moment under the restraint, and the spell casting action was forcibly lifted.
(Berserk!)
With the movement of his mind, a faint crimson electric current spread on Zhu Peng's body, the powerful wood armor technique, Zhu Peng has already used it once, it is indeed very useful, and it echoes with his own wood elf bloodline, and even continues to recover the accumulated injuries on his body while defending strongly. If it weren't for this magic effect, the injuries accumulated on Zhu Peng's body at this time would have been at least twice as heavy.
And the berserk technique is a magic skill in the blood blade hunter career system, but the vast majority of blood blade hunters have to go through hard cultivation to obtain this terrible magic skill, once urged, the injury is shielded, and the potential explodes, in the underground world, the blood blade hunter holding the giant moon blade is close by mistake in this minute, and the blocker is invincible.
Ranged can be used for bows, traps, and lurking assassinations. Melee combat can be blessed with swordsmanship, rage, and divine arts, and some bloody blade hunters can even improve the combat effectiveness of teammates with the main attack magic skills.
It's just that this kind of strength is completed through the combination of divine arts and martial arts, and the superposition of multiple professional characteristics, once the divine power is lost, the combat power of the Bloody Blade Hunter profession is cut by one-third, and it can even be said that it is directly cut off by nearly half of the combat power.
The reason why Zhu Peng took up this profession was that all he wanted was the high attribute growth value of the Bloody Blade Hunter on the melee side, he didn't plan to work so divine arts, and even these divine abilities on his body now would be replaced by high-level magical abilities in the future.
Dragon Vein Warlock, that is the real melee long-range attack, the god-shaking template with strong comprehensive strength. A low-level hidden profession like the Bloodblade Hunter is difficult to match with the Sages who will come to the world in the future, no matter how much they practice.
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As soon as the berserk technique was activated, Zhu Peng's injuries all over his body were suppressed, his muscles swelled and his eyes were congested, and his strength and agility attributes were increased by +5 in a short period of time, and both of them broke through the relative attribute suppression of 20 points.
Call!
Discarding the magic bow, he ran like a raging wind, the muscles on his legs swelled, and then Zhu Peng jumped diagonally, stepped on the wall and took eight steps in a row, and flew towards the undead witch at a strange angle behind him.
In this way, even if it can break free from the shackles of the power grid, it is also in its visual blind spot, and it can't be captured for a moment for hand-to-hand combat, which is enough.
"Bang Dang" knocked over a fuel stone lamp that had just been activated, and a large amount of fire oil was ignited, roaring with Zhu Peng's sword momentum, rushing towards the opponent like a flame dragon.
As soon as the magic bow power grid ended, Zhu Peng's full swing of the flame stegosaurus had already devoured the undead corpse witch, roaring sword pressure, blazing flames, accompanied by Zhu Peng's low roar holding the sword with both hands and slashing obliquely, and finally the corpse witch flew away like a fireball, crashing into the stone wall, and the injury was extremely serious.
(No, this sword sense...... Failed to cut off, with the legendary corpse witch's damage reduction can not be killed, retreat. Quickly calculated in his mind, and noticed that Zhu Peng quickly ran in the direction of discarding the magic bow, and at this time, the corpse witch who was badly injured raised his hand and smashed three turquoise flame bombs, but the undead didn't need to breathe and calm down.
In the boom, Zhu Peng swooped forward and rolled his body almost into a ball at high speed, and even the short sword in his hand had been thrown away.
At this time, both sides are already on the verge of the limit, Zhu Peng retrieved the magic bow and shot all the arrows in the quiver, the corpse witch will inevitably explode, on the contrary, the pure yang immortal heart is not omnipotent, and the more he delays, the more likely Zhu Peng is to fall to the ground and lose his breath directly.
Constantly wheezing, persevering, holding on, trying his best to dodge the spell that came from the bombardment, the aftermath was not even avoided, and when Zhu Peng rushed to the side of the magic bow and thunder, he suddenly held it and turned around to aim.
(The winner is decided, die!)
As soon as he pulled up the strong bow, Zhu Peng suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, the berserk technique receded, the brain was deprived of blood and oxygen, and the negative state of exhaustion and death was surging like a tide of anger...... But Zhu Peng just couldn't control his body anymore, and he couldn't even control his hand holding the bowstring from letting go.
If the main body is here, the battle of the same level of oil and lamp drying, Zhu Peng will never be like this at this moment, because the dragon bloodline is famous for its infinite potential, and it is a perfect match with the pure yang immortal heart. However, Zhu Peng is now of wood elf blood, and he is still half-blooded, which is like a person who uses a high-level optical drive and a high-configuration computer, and one day uses a high-level optical drive to use a big-head machine, once the power is turned on to the extreme, there will be a certain problem.
Zhu Peng missed this point, he subconsciously realized that he was far from the limit, so at the most critical moment, his brain was dizzy and lost the ability to control his body.
Zhu Peng held the bow in his hand, and watched as a poisonous flame missile on the opposite side "slowly" hit him, knocking his whole person into the air and landing heavily on the ground, just as he had judged before...... The first blow was severely wounded, and it was combined with the previous injuries, and it was almost dead.
(The rubble will inevitably break by the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle...... It's just that I'm still a little unwilling. )
"Ahh
Violently struggling to get up again, the tattered body burst inch by inch, poisonous blood splattered, and just when Zhu Peng, whose eyes were completely blurred, were about to stand up and rush over, fighting the opponent's magic power was exhausted, a woman holding a string of necklaces stood in front of him.
"Granny Alia, you don't want to do this, do you?"
"Granny Alia, I am the granddaughter of Zorociel, and my grandfather used to speak of you in his old age, and even when he died, I heard him whispering your name by the bedside: Alia...... Alia ...... Grandfather never forgot you until he died. ”
(Stupid or not, it's useless for you to talk this nonsense to a corpse witch!?Take the opportunity to pick up a bow and give it an arrow.) Behind Emiya, who was holding the emerald necklace, Zhu Peng, who was surrounded by black poison lines spread like a burning fire, struggled to get up and crouched, he cursed with some annoyance in his heart, but the moment he found the longbow and looked up, what he saw was the increasingly struggling and dazed expression of the silver-haired witch opposite.
“...... Oh...... Nogami ...... He...... I think...... Again...... Boom!" The corpse witch's words were finally ended by a heavy metal punch, Zhu Peng and Emiya were stunned, only to see a metal structure composed of yellow copper pillars come to the back of the undead corpse witch at some point, and smashed down with a punch, shattering the young and beautiful body into decay all over the ground.
"Follow the preset commands: Destroy the invaders/Protect the heirs. Inheritor of the Relic: Cyr bloodline. The cold whispers of the metal structure echoed in the underground cavern, leaving the couple and men present speechless, not knowing what had happened and what had happened in the adventure team back then.
But come to think of it, it should be a very beautiful and sweet story.
Aria, may your soul rest in peace!
May you meet again.