Chapter 7: Sick Souls

In the following month, in addition to re-equipping herself, Kyris was chased by Belinda to help her change some equipment, of course, the materials were provided by him. In addition, most of the rest of the time was spent in the library of the Namitheus Academy, although Lordaeron could not be compared with Dalaran in terms of magical heritage, but in other places, especially in the various places of Azeroth, the situation records and historical materials are the most complete among the human race, not one, after all, after the ruins of Riptide Castle and the second reconstruction of Stormwind City and Dalaran, in the human kingdom, only this heroic city can survive thousands of years of wind and rain.

In addition, after consulting with the high-level mage, the middle-level mage learned that as a direct area of the royal capital of Lordaeron, the Tirisfa region has been developed for thousands of years, and it is difficult to see any wild magical creatures, and the only exception is only the fish-people, a species that may give birth to elite individuals, although even elite individuals, most of them are of the first to second order, and there are rarely more than the third order.

Lordaeron is backed by Lake Lordanmere, as the political, economic and cultural center of the kingdom, the only wild creatures that are still a little dangerous to the city today are these fishermen who often flow from the lake, especially now that the Fenris Islands are becoming more and more chaotic, the fisherman plague is also becoming more and more rampant, and it is even rumored that some of the small islands have been occupied by some large fisherman tribes.

Generally speaking, even the combat effectiveness of adult fish-people is only about the same as that of ordinary fifteen-year-old children, but the climate of Lordanmere Lake is very suitable for the life of fishmen, as oviparous creatures, normal female fish-people have two or three estrus periods within a year, and they can lay nearly a hundred fish eggs at a time, although the survival rate is extremely low, but as long as Lordaeron relaxes the crackdown on this aspect in a certain year, the fish-people will form a terrifying fish-man sea frenzy, plus the fisherman shaman that appears from time to time, some large fisherman tribes even have a complete shaman heritage, and the tribe with fishman shamans is no longer something that ordinary militia forces can solve。

Therefore, in Lordaeron's mercenary guild and other professional unions, there is a perennial uninterrupted task of clearing fishmen, although the remuneration is not much, but as the lowest species in Azeroth, a Lordaeron adult man can easily solve three or four fishmen. Many times, the farmers in the towns attached to the royal capital, especially those civilians who have undergone a certain amount of militia training, will unite with each other in several villages to clear the nearby fishmen, but because of the existence of a large number of bases, even if the body is very weak, a certain number of similar occupations will still be born in the fishmen, although unlike the fishman shaman, a legal profession, all of them are considered to be jackpots, but under normal circumstances, the fisherman tribes who dare to climb out of Lordamere Lake are generally mixed with a different number of fishman warriors of the first to second order. Therefore, Lordaeron's mercenaries generally like to take the initiative to unite some of the young strong forces of nearby villages after taking on the task of clearing the fishmen, and the mercenaries are responsible for the fish-man warriors, and the remaining ordinary fish-men are cleared by the young strong forces of the village, but there are also mercenaries who will use ordinary villagers as bait or directly watch them consume the fish-man power before shooting, so this kind of union, the new mercenaries are also rarely willing to cooperate, only those mercenaries who have a history of union will find auxiliary villagers very smoothly.

Kyris listened to Jin explain to himself in a low voice, while looking at a group of mercenaries who were communicating with a group of villagers not far away, and found that there was a wild monster like a fish man that was suitable for his experiment for the time being, Kyris took Kim and Kiel, and hired a mercenary team in the mercenary union, the mercenary team is currently the largest mercenary establishment of the mercenary union, there can be up to forty people, the kind of mercenary group in the novel that pops up thousands of people is actually in theory, it is difficult to realize, as a profession with a high birth rate of professionals, many famous mercenary teams are completely composed of professionals, if the scale is too large, it is easy to cause dissatisfaction and suspicion among the upper echelons of the country。

"The Rock Squad is one of the more famous mercenary squads operating near the royal capital of Lordaeron, and the most important thing is that I have briefly joined their team. Their captain Jon, who is said to be born in a declining aristocracy, is a fourth-order berserker warrior with no bloodline talent, and the entire team includes twenty-three of them, most of whom are professionals, and because Jon has some paths, there are occasionally some first-ring mages in the team who want to go out to exercise. ”

After a brief introduction, Kim saw the captain of the mercenary team walking towards them.

"Kim, I have already confirmed with the village chief of the other party that the tributary of the Tepule River is not far east of the village, and just like the news we got from the town, there are indeed villagers who have seen the figure of the fishman on the bank of the river again, as for whether there are fishman warriors, we need to go to see to know. ”

Jon walked over alone, first gave a noble salute to Kelrith, and when he took the task, he knew that the other party was a middle-level mage from Dalaran, unlike him who was a middle-level physics profession, at most he served as a middle-level player after joining the army, and he still had to have real combat exploits to be knighted, but the other party could easily get the baronial title in any kingdom of the human race.

Then the mercenary captain turned to Jin and said.

"Is there a fish-man shaman?" asked a short man beside the mid-level mage who was covered in a black cloak before Jon's words could be finished.

"My lord, this kind of small fish-man tribe in the inland river basin generally cannot have fish-man shamans. Jon glanced at the expressionless Kyrreth and turned to the short man to explain.

"And what are you doing here?" the dwarf then turned to look at Kelris, and a pair of pink eyes appeared.

"Let's do a little experiment, it doesn't matter if there is a fish-man shaman or not, of course it's best if there is. The mid-level mage nodded to the mercenary captain, then slapped the dwarf on the head and whispered.

"Don't move for a while, or I'll send you back immediately!" Looking at the palm of his hand and staring at his pink pupils, Kyris looked helpless, and was hit by the little girl when he went out. Since she was born, she has lived in the city of Lordaeron, then the Mage Tower, and then the Academy Mage Tower. After all, she is only less than ten years old, and although the high-level mage did not prohibit her activities, she was not allowed to go out of the city at will, so she has been out of the city only a handful of times, most of them accompanied by her family or a large group of guards to attend aristocratic banquets and the like, and when she heard that Kelreth was going to catch the fishman, she immediately became entangled, but Kelrith began to regret bringing this little trouble before she saw the fishman.

"Why don't you bring some of the villagers with you?" the mid-level mage asked when he saw only one villager who looked like a hunter following everyone towards the woods to the east of the village.

"My lord, we have not cooperated with this village, and very few villages will cooperate with strange mercenaries. So this time, I just hired a hunter from the village as a guide. And according to the villagers, there are not many fishmen this time. ”

The mercenary captain bowed down to explain to the mid-level mage, and immediately smiled at Kir, who pouted behind the mage, and Kim, who had a blank face. In fact, there is another reason, this time there is a middle-level mage in the team, and there is no need for the help of the villagers, after all, the mage is the nemesis of the low-level human sea tactics, so that the obtained fishman does not have to be divided equally with the villagers, Kelrith's request is the corpse of the fishman, but the task of cleaning up the fishman in the mercenary union does not need to bring back the entire body of the fishman, only need to provide a special scale at the lower end of the fishman's neck, this kind of scale is generally only one piece of a fishman, I heard that the scale of the fishman shaman is also a high-level magic material, but this is just a rumor, even if he has been a mercenary for almost ten yearsJon had only seen a fish-man shaman once, and he had only seen it from afar in a fish-man disaster. It's just that these little ways are just talking to the mage, and it is naturally very clear to Jin He, who is a mercenary born at a glance, for the old Jianghu. On the other hand, after so many days of getting along, Kim and Kiel basically know what Kelreth is and don't care about these, so they don't point it out.

A group of people composed of mercenary teams, villager guides, and Kelreth slowly entered the woods outside the village, because the Tirisfa area is already relatively densely populated, similar woods are no longer forests, and it is rare to see the kind of old trees that can only be surrounded by three or four strong men in the old forest of the Silver Pine Forest, but it is still only an hour away and there is no end, and Kelry is already feeling tired, although with his current physique attributes, he is close to the stage of outbursting anger, but he has never received professional training and is used to the life of squatting in the laboratory, and he suddenly participates in strenuous activities, which really makes the intermediate mage a little uncomfortable。

turned to look at the Lori mage on the side, although he was also walking slowly, but in fact, the other party's feet were about ten centimeters off the ground, which triggered an effect of the robe - the wings of the fire lotus, Kelrith's original idea was to use the enchantment on the robe to form a wing composed of fire elements, so that the wearer has a temporary ability to fly or glide, but the final effect is that it can only rely on the fire element and the ubiquitous earth element of the earth to form a magnetic resonance, so that the wearer can float on the ground, but it is more mana-consuming, not very practical。 Mage Lori enabled this function after entering the woods, and Kyrreth didn't intend to let her make a move for a while, so he didn't stop it.

"Why hasn't it arrived yet!" After all, it was a continuous attrition, and little Lori finally came down and began to walk like Kelryth, but after only walking for about ten minutes, she began to complain.

"It's almost fast, originally the village was not so far, but later there were often fish people by the river, and the village gradually moved away. The village hunter who led the way was a simple bald man, who looked at the sky and turned his head to reply.

"Kyle, carry me!" Belinda, who looked sad in the cloak, suddenly rolled her eyes, rubbed against Kelrith, leaned in and said.

"Regret coming out!" Looking at the little girl on the side helplessly, the middle-level mage stretched out his hand helplessly, a gray tree man model appeared in his hand, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and finally muttered a few words, and buckled the tree man model on a thick pine tree, after the model gradually submerged into the trunk, the pine began to tremble slightly, and with a click, an adult-sized thin tree man puppet came out of the pine tree, leaving a large hole in the shape of a human.

"Hold her, follow me!" Kelreth pointed at the Treant with his staff, and the Treant's two wooden balls turned to Belinda before he walked over to pick her up as the princess.

"It's really heavy!" "It's really heavy!" Kellis muttered, this kind of puppet is the lowest level, and it has no wisdom at all, although Kellis gave two orders just now, but in fact, it has always been his mental power that is controlled, except for the body that is completely composed of trees, kinetic energy and the like are all output by Kellris, so the middle-level mage can clearly perceive the weight of the Lori mage.

The little face hidden in the cloak turned red, and the Lori mage turned to glare at Kelreth fiercely, and instead lay obediently in the treeman's arms.

After more than half an hour of walking, a group of people gradually walked out of the woods, and an inland river seven or eight meters wide appeared in front of everyone.

"A little further upstream along the river, you can see it. The villager guide came to the river, looked at the direction of the current, and then looked at the reef on the shore carefully, and then said to the mercenary captain.

"Alright, let's go, it's almost noon!" Jon said, glancing up at the sun in the sky.

"Wait!" the mid-level mage who walked to the river suddenly stopped everyone, his eyes staring at the river, the natural and unpolluted river water was crystal clear, and Kerryth could even clearly see the lush green aquatic plants at the bottom of the river.

Hearing his employer shout to stop, Jon and the others could only stop there, standing not far away and turning their heads to look at the mid-level mage. And Kim and Kiel have tacitly dodged to Kyrryth's side, Kim even took out a shield, the original deformable bronze iron shield has been destroyed, but Kyris from the old mage asked for a half-length shield that looks like it is composed of several black planks and gave it to Kim, this is a genuine mid-level magic item, the biggest feature is that it can form a protective shield on the shield surface through anger transmission, before the anger is consumed, it can absorb 100% of spell damage, and it is also excellent in physical defense, for this shield, Kim was reluctant to accept it at first, but it was reluctant to accept it later than Keerryth, said that it was borrowed during the protection of the mid-level mage, and on the other hand, for Kiel, Kyris also sent an intermediate magic item, which is a simplified version of the cloak of the Night Retrograde, which is very suitable for the Shadow Man, unlike Kim, Kiel is happy to accept this item, but then his attitude towards Kyris slowly changed to the appearance of the owner.

This is actually what Kelrith wants to see, at present, the strength of the middle-level mage can barely protect himself, but it is very bleak in terms of followers, almost nothing, along the way, he and these two teammates can be regarded as sharing hardships and hardships, and it is inevitable to have the intention of recruiting, but as middle-level professionals, the two of them are pillars on Tirius's side, and Kerrith is not in such a hurry to poach people, and at present, he just wants to lay a foundation, and then find a time to mention it to Tiris.

Seeing Kiel and Kim beside him, Kyrreth didn't say anything, his eyes still fixed on the aquatic plants on the riverbed. After staring at it for a long time, when the mercenary began to leak a little impatient noise, the intermediate mage suddenly flashed a blue light in his eyes, and grabbed his hands into the river in a grasping shape, and two large hands composed of blue light were generated out of thin air, and crashed into the river, directly into the bottom of the river.

After a few strokes of his hands in the air, the eyes of the middle-level mage flashed, and he immediately raised his hands again, and the big hands composed of blue light also leaked out of the river, but each wrapped two green fishmen in the blue light and struggled, gurgling and roaring.

"Underwater retrograde?!" Looking at the green fishman in mid-air, the Lori mage lying in the treeman's arms couldn't help but shout.

"Underwater retrograde?" The mercenary team who was far away at the moment also looked at the two fishmen in surprise, and the captain Jon had already walked over, hearing the exclamation of the Lori mage, and asked.

However, Lori ignored the mercenary captain, and instead jumped out of the treeman's arms and walked over to the mid-level mage.

"It's one of the few elite individuals of the Fish-People, and the specific situation is similar to the Shadow Ones in our humans, who can move and attack semi-stealthily in the water, brother, how did you find out?"

"I also inadvertently threw a detection spell into it..."Kelreth nodded when he heard this, in fact, after he was promoted to the middle level, especially after awakening the body of energy devouring, his detection talent spell became more and more scanned without dead ends, as long as it was within the range of his spiritual power, he would be found, and his eyes swept over the two fishmen who were caught.

Name: Underwater Retrograde One

Race: Fish-people

Attribute: Intelligence -4

Constitution -13

Strength - 10

Compared to humans, it's still a relatively deformed attribute, but for it is a special individual of the Shadow Person-type type, it is normal to lack strength. In a blink of an eye, he looked at the other one.

Name: Underwater Retrograde Two

Race: Fish-people

Attribute: Intelligence -4

Constitution -13

Strength - 9

Not much difference, the mid-level mage shook his head, this creature between the first and second orders could be easily captured by his own wizard's hands alone. Immediately, Kyris squeezed his hands, and a slight sound of bones shattering was accompanied by a heart-rending wail, and his hands fell, and Kelrith left the two fish-man corpses still on the shore.

"It's disgusting!" Looking at the two stalls of minced meat-like objects, the Lori mage was disgusted, turned back to the tree man's arms, and the mercenaries on the side had already surrounded him, looking at the corpses of the two high-ranking fishmen in amazement, and then quickly cleaned them up, the mermaid man has some things that are a little valuable in addition to the special scales, and there is definitely no interest in the mages, but for the mercenaries who are used to hardship, it is generally not wasted.

The initiator, Kyrrith, focused his gaze on the attribute panel in the corner of his eye.

Name: Kelreth Sunstrider

Race: Half-Elf (in the name of the Sunchaser)

Talent: Body of Energy Eater

Occupation: Aristocracy

Mage (Four Rings)

Attribute: Intelligence -20 (Magical talent that has just stepped on the excellent line)

Constitution -9 (Buried deep in your veins, mysteries begin to appear)

Strength - 6 (consequences of lack of exercise)

Glamour-11 (You're so beautiful)

Remaining unassigned attribute points: 1

Remaining Soul Fragments: Fish-Man 2nd Order: 2/3

Sure enough, the soul fragments appeared again, and one could indeed only provide one-third of the soul fragments, and with a touch of his chin, the mid-level mage turned his eyes to look at the two fish-man corpses.

"Captain Jon, this trip, if it's an ordinary fishman, I can ignore it, but as long as it's a special scale of an advanced fishman, it's all mine. Turning his face to look at the mercenary captain who was tucking away two translucent blue scales the size of a fingernail, Kyrreth spoke.

The other party's face was stunned when he heard this, and then he looked at the middle-level mage hesitantly, and finally handed over the two scales, although the content of the task was only to accompany Kelrith and his party to capture the fisherman, and did not indicate the ownership of the special scales, but after all, Kelrith was the employer this time, and the strength of the other party's middle-level was there, especially as Jin who was a middle-level warrior and Kir of the middle-level shadow man, the sum of the three of them could completely annihilate their own team.

Receiving the special scales in one hand, Kyris pretended to be satisfied and put it away, in fact, the only purpose of his trip was to kill, but it always had to be a little cover-up, otherwise he hired a mercenary group as a middle-level mage and came over to slaughter a small tribe of fishmen, and it would not be good to be discovered by someone with a heart, and it was not easy to explain to the little Lori on the side.

"This kind of scale, I have a lot of scales over there, why do you want to come in person?" The tree man walked to Kelrith with Lori mage in his arms, and the little girl looked at the mid-level mage with disdain.

"It's all preliminary, and it doesn't meet my requirements, so I'll have to take a look for myself, you girl, what can you do with those things other than putting them in the potions cabinet?" and pinched the little girl's face through the canopy, and Kyris explained.

"Oh, then hurry up and find it, find it and help me make the staff of the Angry Serpent!"

"You think the mid-level staff can do what you want to do!"

Glancing at the little girl helplessly, since she helped her make a mid-level flame robe, she was urged to make a staff of angry snakes to match this robe, and the staff of the angry snake Kyris will also, and even some of the functions of the flame robe he made can resonate with the staff of the angry snake, which is also arranged by Kyris at the beginning of the design, but the consumption of middle-level magic items is too great, and design is one thing, and it is another thing to do it, failure is heavy bleeding, and Kyris really can't make up all the materials for one production at present。

After disposing of the two fish-man corpses, the team began to walk upstream again, and the road conditions on the river bank were not bad, and after walking for less than half an hour, they saw the first fish-man.

Unlike the two underwater retrogrades, this fish-man was blue and significantly smaller than the two just now. The fish-man who appeared in front of everyone was obviously startled by the humans who came out of so many people, and screamed. Kelrith, who was walking in the middle of the line, casually probed it.

Name: Fishman One

Race: Fish-people

Attribute: Intelligence -3

Constitution -4

Strength - 3

The attributes are not even as good as adult men, it should be just an ordinary fishman, and at the moment when Kyrreth scanned, Jon, who was walking in front, had already hit the fishman with a charge, no, it should have kicked on the fishman, but the fishman who was thirty or forty centimeters tall suddenly flew out like a ball. Immediately, like a chicken nest that has been fried, a noisy croaking sound came and went, and more than a dozen fish-men appeared in front of everyone, and the other mercenary members who followed behind Jon skillfully formed a defensive base array, easily blocking the first wave of attacks of the fish-men.

On the other side, Kyrreth frowned and looked at his stats panel.

Name: Kelreth Sunstrider

Race: Half-Elf (in the name of the Sunchaser)

Talent: Body of Energy Eater

Occupation: Aristocracy

Mage (Four Rings)

Attribute: Intelligence -20 (Magical talent that has just stepped on the excellent line)

Constitution -9 (Buried deep in your veins, mysteries begin to appear)

Strength - 6 (consequences of lack of exercise)

Glamour-11 (You're so beautiful)

Remaining unassigned attribute points: 1

Remaining Soul Fragments: Fish-Man 2nd Order: 2/3

After Jon killed the normal fish-man, the soul fragments did not increase.

After a moment of silence, the middle-level mage watched more and more fishmen rush towards the mercenary group, raised his staff, and began to chant slowly, a trace of fire element gradually condensed in the air, the red in Kelrith's eyes appeared, and he drank softly, and a palm-sized ball of fire was generated on the top of the fishman's head, and quickly fell, forming a circle of about three meters in diameter in front of the mercenary group。

Mages can get a status far superior to the physics profession, and the most important point is that their range of damage spells are far superior to the physics profession, and they are even crowned with the title of Tactical Terminator of the sea of people.

After the rain of fire, the middle-level mage threw out a scorching fireball, a huge fireball floated above the fish-man's head, and there were constantly thin red fire elemental rays shooting out from the fireball, sweeping the fish-man into ashes, the battle only lasted less than a quarter of an hour, nearly a hundred fish-men in the entire tribe all fell to the ground, almost all the advanced fish-men were killed by Kelrith, looking at the simple fish-man village of the mercenary sweeper, and slashing some hidden fishmen, Kyris stared at his attribute panel with a flickering gaze.

Name: Kelreth Sunstrider

Race: Half-Elf (in the name of the Sunchaser)

Talent: Body of Energy Eater

Occupation: Aristocracy

Mage (Four Rings)

Attribute: Intelligence -20 (Magical talent that has just stepped on the excellent line)

Constitution -9 (Buried deep in your veins, mysteries begin to appear)

Strength - 6 (consequences of lack of exercise)

Glamour-11 (You're so beautiful)

Remaining unassigned attribute points: 1

Remaining Soul Fragments: Fish-Man First Order: 3

Fish-Man 2nd Order: 1-1/3

Sure enough, only an advanced fish-man can provide him with soul fragments, and he must be killed, the principle of which is not yet clear, but at least he has a more comprehensive understanding of the rules, and after this battle, he has accumulated three first-order fishmen and a third of the second-order fishmen, as for the strength, and what are the restrictions of the crystal sculpture, he still needs to go back and test it slowly.

"Ahh The mid-level mage staff slammed into the ground, and his body appeared in front of the Lori mage a few meters, and a blue color suddenly burst out of his eyes, and a storm of spiritual power exploded with the two of them as the source point, and a thin figure that suddenly burst out of the corner and rushed towards the Lori mage knocked away.

"It's disgusting, what is this?" When the thing was knocked away and fell to the ground, the Lori mage could see the other party clearly, and he could probably see that the body was a green fishman, but it was covered with pus all over the body and the white bones of the forest everywhere, plus a pair of lifeless eyes (although the fish-man's eyes were all dead fish eyes), which made people feel that the one in front of them did not look like a creature, but a zombie crawling out of the graveyard.

Wait, zombies?

Kelrith's face changed, his hands stretched out, turned into two wizard hands, and caught the fish-man out, the other party seemed to be hit by the impact just now, and there was no resistance at all, through the blue light curtain, the middle-level mage not only carefully scanned the fish-man with his eyes, but also repeatedly scanned the other party with his spiritual power.

Name: Fishman X

Race: Fish-people

Attribute: Intelligence -1

Constitution - 16

Strength - 9

From the perspective of physical attributes alone, it can already be compared to a third-order human warrior, but the intelligence is only a little abnormal, and there is a huge gap in strength, in fact, the speed at which it rushed towards Belinda just now was not fast, and it did not reach the level of the third order at all, of course, it may also be caused by a complete loss of reason, after repeated checks to no avail, the hand of the wizard of Kelreth pinched, but found that the other party was still fluttering in the hands of the wizard, and then added a little more strength, and directly crushed the bones of the whole body of this little thing, but it was still moving, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and the middle-level mage directly closed his hands and kneaded this thing into a meatloaf, and this time it finally did not move, the mage turned his eyes to look at his attribute panel, and then was stunned.

Name: Kelreth Sunstrider

Race: Half-Elf (in the name of the Sunchaser)

Talent: Body of Energy Eater

Occupation: Aristocracy

Mage (Four Rings)

Attribute: Intelligence -20 (Magical talent that has just stepped on the excellent line)

Constitution -9 (Buried deep in your veins, mysteries begin to appear)

Strength - 6 (consequences of lack of exercise)

Glamour-11 (You're so beautiful)

Remaining unassigned attribute points: 1

Remaining Soul Fragments: Fish-Man First Order: 3

Fish-Man 2nd Order: 1-1/3

Fish-Man Order 3 (Plague): 1/3

Sick, soul?