……

"Hint: Your current level is LV16, and in order to continue to level up, you must continue to invest more XP and consume Practice Points for the Way of Legends.

(Current Status: XP still has enough Legend Points to keep up, so it can't be leveled up)

Your stats have been boosted: +1 Intelligence & +1 Perception;

+4 for your contract slot;

You have gained the new abilities "Negative Energy Transformation" and "Curse of Death";

Negative Energy Modification: You can modify yourself by infusing certain parts of your body with negative energy, which will gain additional Innate Armor, additional Body Strength, additional Negative Energy Affinity, and an additional overall cast speed bonus;

Warning, the bottom line of negative energy transformation should not exceed 60% of the whole body, otherwise your body will irreversibly transform in the direction of the undead.

Rerger's Curse: Creates a pale chain of energy between you and a target, which cannot be broken by terrain structures and can be extended up to 30 meters.

When the target is languished by the chain, their resistance to the Instant Death decision is greatly reduced.

……

Your ability "Necromantic Summoning" has been upgraded to "Multiple Necromantic Summoning".

Multiple Necromantic Summons: When you're using Necromantic Summoning, you can maintain a higher number of summons with lower focus and give them more fine-grained control;

……

Given your painstaking study of the path of the necromancer, you can choose one of the following three areas-

Soul/Pale/Nether Weapon."

……

Dense information swiped through Matthew's face.

Compared to the last advancement, this time there is one less class trait, but the overall improvement is still real.

Matthew first focused his attention on the selection of areas.

All three realms are sub-realms of death, with the soul being the broader and most ambitious, but also the most attractive.

"Pale" and "Nether Weapons" are a bit narrower.

Pale refers to a very special area of the underworld, and a general term for a class of undead who are mainly ghosts.

Nether weapons represent a weapon specialization that is highly related to negative energy.

Matthew hesitated.

First, the "Nether Weapon" was ruled out.

As a spellcaster, with the Skull of Augustus already in possession, Matthew didn't think he needed to dwell too much on weapons.

And between the "soul" and the "pale".

Matthew leaned towards the former at one point.

Think about it for a while.

He still chose "pale".

The reason for not choosing "soul" is very simple, the realm brought by the advanced can only be passively endured and cannot be actively explored.

In this case, the randomness of the soul realm is greater, and Matthew is not sure what he can gain.

The pale field, on the other hand, is much narrower and has a very clear directionality.

Matthew could guess what he could gain by choosing the Pale Realm.

The next second.

……

"Hint: You have acquired the Pale Realm.

-

Your once temporary ability, the Pale Hand, solidifies into a permanent ability, retaining all of its previous perks.

-

You gain the favor of Pale Creature (Spirit, Ghost, Pale Pony, Pale Knight...... ）-

You have been granted access to the Pale Lands (Underworld) at any time."

……

Really.

The Pale Hand naturally became a permanent ability.

This made Matthew secretly refreshed.

This ability is different from that of "Estro's Claw", but the key is that it doesn't require much focus maintenance, which gives him room to open the bow left and right.

As for the permission to enter the underworld at any time, it is a small surprise.

Matthew thought it would be good to get some things related to the Pale Land, but he didn't expect to directly turn a remote place in the underworld into his own back garden!

No matter how remote it is, it is also the underworld that no one should enter.

This means great strategic value for many mages.

As for the favor of the pale creatures, it is purely an additive.

He didn't intend to be the "Pale Lord."

It's good to let the ghosts under your hands work for themselves with peace of mind.

Compared to the fields that have become commonplace, the two newly acquired abilities are the biggest gains from this upgrade.

In general, both Negative Energy Modification and the Curse of Death are biased towards secondary abilities.

But both have great value.

The former can strengthen Matthew's physical body at the cost of paying a certain amount of physical activity.

However, Matthew was curious, if he used the vitality of life to neutralize the erosion of negative energy, would he have the opportunity to obtain the physical strength of negative energy transformation and avoid his body from losing too many life elements?

And the latter is even more significant.

Matthew currently has a lot of spells and abilities that can be judged instantly, but due to the low probability of judgment, these abilities are often not on the table.

And the Curse of Death will have a certain probability of reversing this situation.

As long as it is locked by Matthew's energy chain.

When the time comes, a one-pass instant death spell will be thrown at the enemy.

The other party was unlucky and died on the spot.

This is undoubtedly a new hole card for Matthew.

Generally.

The strength boost brought by the upgrade has:

But it's not as significant as it seems.

Matthew knows this.

The reason why he made the upgrade choice was not to gain a short-term increase in combat power, but to ensure that he could play a greater role in the next battle.

After all, the Black Dragon has already attacked Rolling Stone.

The next friction with the dragon is essential.

He wanted to develop with peace of mind.

But some people don't allow it.

So he can only find a way to kill these people who are in his way first.

The battle just now.

One of the reasons why the black dragon Meonogas was able to escape smoothly in the end was that Matthew's spell was too powerful.

He estimated it himself.

At least eighty percent of the spells were exempted by the Black Dragon.

This is also the reason why Matthew has cut into melee mode at the back.

It is true that rank is not the whole story of combat effectiveness.

But it's also part of it.

When a third-order Matthew uses a spell to attack a fifth-order black dragon, there is an eighty percent chance that he will be directly exempted;

And now that his level has reached the fourth order, the probability of exemption will directly drop to about forty percent.

This is due both to the dragons' natural talent and to the additional immunity that comes with too many rank differences.

Now Matthew's level has reached level sixteen.

He believed that the next time he faced the black dragon.

Your own spells will be decisive.

It's a pity, though.

Due to the early end of the resting period.

His childish skills in the field of self-control can be regarded as broken.

……

"Hint: You have broken the self-restraint in the realm of temperance, and your element of temperance is -10;

You have gained Elemental Greed*5;

You have entered the "period of indulgence" in the realm of moderation.

During indulgence, you don't get the element of moderation, and you get twice as much as the element of greed."

……

Matthew was still interested in the special existence of the indulgence period.

This thing, unlike the cheat meal, seems to have completely withdrawn from the realm of moderation.

The domain abilities "heart is like water" and "deception meal" have also turned into a flickering gray.

At present, these two abilities can still be used.

But there is already a hint of caution.

"If I gain a great deal of the greedy element during my indulgence, will I completely lose the realm of self-control?"

Matthew just thought.

A new message flashed in front of him.

……

"Hint: Your equilibrium realm is in effect.

You gain a temporary state from the equilibrium realm, "Relaxation".

Relaxation: When you are in the period of indulgence in the realm of moderation, you can double the elements of the realm of greed without receiving any punishment from the realm of temperance."

……

Matthew frowned.

Is this the way to equilibrium?

He usually feels that the equilibrium field is pasted back and forth between more than a dozen fields, and there is no positive shape and no effect.

I didn't expect it to have such an effect this time.

So it seems.

Matthew will not have to worry about the side effects of having two opposing realms at the same time.

Self-control and greed can go hand in hand!

"I can even use these two small areas as an experimental subject, and I may be able to gain more experience by balancing self-control and greed before I balance life and death in the future."

Matthew thought to himself.

The above thoughts actually only happen in a minute's time.

In a blink of an eye.

Matthew's attention returns to the outside world.

I saw that the three of them looked at Matthew with the eyes of a monster.

Zeller couldn't help but say:

"You still seem to have the strength to keep it?"

Matthew waved his hand:

"One more point, but not much."

He was telling the truth.

At present, XP is sufficient, but on the path of the fifth order, a person like him who has opened the Legendary Path in advance must accumulate enough practice points to do so.

Matthew doesn't have it at all.

Therefore, entering the fifth order can be described as a long and difficult path.

And yet even so.

Matthew is also growing fast enough to drive others crazy.

In just over four months.

He was promoted from the second order to the fourth order.

This was done under the noses of everyone in Rolling Stone, how could they not be shocked?

Richard looked at Matthew deeply:

"I thought I had figured out the details of you, but I didn't expect you to hide so deeply."

Rhaegar scratched his head even more:

"Honestly, if you're a devil, or a warlock, I'm more receptive."

Matthew smiled and didn't explain much.

It is the so-called accumulation of thick and thin.

The accumulation of experience was already completed in the course of his day and night planting of trees.

If it weren't for the quest for a more perfect legend, he might have been level twenty by now.

It's just that that inflated hierarchy doesn't mean much.

Present.

He carefully took the equal dagger from his bag and placed it in Richard's hand.

The latter took the dagger and his face changed:

"Heirloom weapons? Are you sure it's that one? ”

Matthew nodded slightly.

Rhaegar looked at the dagger curiously:

"Why does this thing look familiar?"

Matthew hurriedly diverted the subject, and he asked Richard:

"With this weapon in hand, how sure are you that black dragon that you can take?"

Richard couldn't put down playing with the dagger of equality, and he estimated:

"If I had attacked in a safer way, I would have killed him in ten minutes at most;

If you don't do anything, you can beat him below the death line in three minutes;

But as you have seen just now, if the black dragon is bent on escaping, there is little we can do with him in the absence of a ballista. ”

Matthew nodded:

"You just have to be responsible for providing enough damage bursts when necessary, and I'll figure out the rest."

After that, the four of them discussed the next situation.

Richard said that the approach of the black dragon was silent, which was not in line with common sense, and he was not even aware of such a powerful perception, which indicated that there must be a more powerful force behind Meonogas in command.

In order to prevent this, they must expand the scope of their vigilance and be ready to deal with dragon disasters at any time.

They started to get busy.

Matthew, on the other hand, quickly returned to the cemetery's workshop.

He pulled out a blank stack of papers and began to write a review of the battle.

……

"The biggest challenge against dragons is that they have a large body that is far beyond the average creature, muscle density to match, and natural armor.

This made it impossible for ordinary knives and guns to break through the dragonscales' defenses.

Ordinary ballistas pose a threat to dragons, but they are also difficult to kill.

There was only one dragon crossbow that really terrified the dragon, and it was very difficult to move, requiring the cooperation of seven or eight soldiers.

Its sheer size and terrifying density of musculoskeletal scales make it an unusually forgiving force in battle.

Meonogas was twice as big as Philorius, but weighed more than twenty times as much.

This gives them irresistible destructive power when they charge and kill.

At the moment, it seems that only the Black Warrior Agus can go toe-to-toe with the Black Dragon without him activating.

No other unit can hinder his ability to come and go freely......

……

Matthew writes and stops, sometimes flipping through books, sometimes stopping and meditating.

Innate armor is a powerful advantage for dragons, but it can be targeted.

In this battle, Matthew's dissociation technique played a good role.

The problem is that, despite their physical superiority, dragons also have great intelligence and mobility far beyond ordinary creatures.

If this guy chooses to go head-to-head.

I'm afraid I've been dead countless times a long time ago.

He has been hiding from the dragon's crossbow attacks all the time, and is insidiously active in inhabited areas.

This has left Matthew and the others tied down when it comes to playing at home.

This is not even the result of the black dragon's deliberate thinking.

It could just be a fighting instinct from the True Dragon Heritage.

I have to admit it.

The dragon is indeed a creature favored by the heavens.

Even if it's just a fifth-order dragon.

And only the legendary powerhouse can fight against it.

"If only there was a legendary warrior or legendary mage in Rolling Stone."

Matthew sighed softly.

But Rolling Stones has only Richard, a legendary thief.

And thieves are the most embarrassed when facing dragons.

Can it deal effective damage?

Yes.

But not much.

The Legendary Rogue is theoretically the most restrained against other Legendary classes of the same size.

But in the face of this kind of Big Mac.

There's really not much they can do.

Fortunately, Matthew's loan of equal daggers can make up for this to some extent.

But no matter what.

In the process of fighting against the dragon, ordinary people will die if they are not careful.

This means that Matthew has to do more homework to avoid this.

There was silence in the workshop.

Only the rustling sound of a quill as it swiped across the paper.

And in addition to the staged summary of the battle.

Matthew also recorded two anomalies.

The first point is what Richard mentioned, the black dragon's sneak attack was so sudden, and even the silver snake, which is known for its perception, did not warn in advance, which is completely unreasonable.

And to achieve this effect.

At least a legendary-level high-level invisibility spell is required, or a spell of the same type above the fifth rank is stacked on top of each other.

Considering that the black dragon does not have any magic.

Then someone must have hidden his figure for him.

And the second point is that when the black dragon fled, a layer of qi erupted from his body.

That layer of qi looked very similar to the dragon's breath.

But qualitatively very different.

At least Matthew didn't see any bulge in his chest and abdomen.

That wave of qi was more of a spell-like ability.

But the black dragon is a natural magic insulator.

Quasi-spells are also impossible.

Then there are only two explanations left -

First, there is some kind of treasure on the black dragon's body, which can release that kind of qi wave similar to the ring of resistance.

The probability of this is low, because Matthew didn't see him digging for treasures when he cast his qi wave.

Second, there is a blessing from a high-level powerhouse on the body of the black dragon, and this blessing may exist in the form of divine magic.

This is much more likely.

Two anomalies come together.

Behind the black dragon Meonogas, there must be at least one powerful existence who is proficient in divine arts!

But in this era, the gods have been banished to Tianlun Palace, and it is difficult for the power of divine magic to reach the mortal world.

Who is it that quietly extends its tentacles to the vicinity of Rolling Stone?

Matthew's brow furrowed, thoughtful.

A moment later.

He let out a long breath:

"It's not completely impossible."

"For a mage, as long as he can grasp enough information, no matter how powerful the other party is, there is always a chance to kill him."

Think so.

He quickly pulled out a new piece of parchment and began to write.

In order to kill the black dragon Meonogas, you must first strangle his mobility......

The night passed.

Matthew made a preliminary plan to deal with the Black Dragon.

During the day.

He sent all the letters through the channels of the Crucible House.

Considering that some of his friends have no fixed residence, Matthew even added money to a magical service called paging letters, and under the blessing of this noble and noble magic, as long as they are in the main material realm, everyone can receive these letters within a maximum of seven days.

Besides.

Matthew also wrote two letters, which were given to Isabel and Surrell through the Alliance's channels.

Although he didn't have much hope in his heart for these two divine mages.

But there are still necessary attempts.

The next few days.

Rhaegar leads the crowd in Rolling Stone, rebuilding houses and pacifying the victims.

Fortunately, the total number of people affected this time is not large.

Under the prestige of Rhaegar over the years.

Most people would like to believe that Rolling Stone can repel dragons.

But even so.

The atmosphere in the town has also become much more depressed.

Three days later in the afternoon.

An owl came to the office hall of the Lord's Mansion with a thick letter in his mouth.

Matthew happened to be there at this time.

When he saw the owl from the Alliance, he thought it was his letter.

The owl didn't even look at him.

Instead, he flew to Rhaeggar's side.

Under Rhaegar's somewhat stunned gaze.

The owl dropped the thick letter.

Bang!

There was a slight trembling sound on the desk.

The owl flew away quickly.

Matthew and Zeller leaned over curiously.

Rhaegar was just opening the envelope.

A parchment wrapped in the outermost piece of parchment suddenly flew out of its own accord.

There is a title written on it-

"War Secret (Personally Revealed by the Lord of the Hundred Cities and the Lords)"

The three of them looked at each other.

It's all a shock to the heart.

The war order has finally arrived.

Rolling Stones has received a secret order.

Does this mean that all territories throughout the South received the same content?

Matthew quickly checked the password.

Confirm that the above content is almost exactly the same as what Margaret revealed.

In addition to the registration time of the mage.

In the officially published secret order.

The alliance requires all local mages to complete the registration within two months.

And in these two months.

No private fighting is allowed in the provinces.

Even if there was a dispute.

A battle request must also be submitted to the Alliance.

That is, to solve problems in an open and honest way.

"The good news is that it is impossible for that black dragon to come and attack us again in two months, otherwise he will be retaliated against by the Seven Saints Alliance."

"The bad news is that our dragon slaying plan seems to be delayed?"

Matthew was a little helpless.

Unexpectedly, Rhaegar shook his head, his eyes flashing with determined fighting intent:

"Not necessarily."

……

Meanwhile.

A place where the high leaf collar meets the golden fertile fields.

Misty hills off the beaten track.

In the thick fog of the sky.

Two behemoths are pushing each other violently.

"You deceived me!"

"Those humans aren't easy to deal with!"

"The necromancer, he gnawed off the scales of my entire tail!"

The black dragon Meonogas roared angrily.

Not to be outdone, the red dragon Kusulus pushed back with his head:

"Are they too bad to deal with, or are you too weak?"

"You'd better be polite to me, if you don't want to be torn to shreds by me!"

The black dragon couldn't suppress his anger when he saw it.

He violently pressed his head against the red dragon's chin:

"Kusules! You're a coward! will only hide behind the scenes and control everything! I'd like to see how powerful you can tear me to shreds! ”

Kusules was furious.

He opened his mouth and bit down on the black dragon's neck.

But at this time.

A gloomy voice came from the mist, instantly calming the two dragons:

"You are part of the great dragon god's revival plan, and there is no need to quarrel with each other over such a trivial matter.

Kusulus the Red Dragon, Meonogas the Black Dragon, Fatina the Green Dragon, Algaron, King of the White Dragon, Wilcox the Blue Dragon-

The five of you have signed the Five Dragons Pact, which has since become the "Five Dragons Alliance".

Within the alliance, it is forbidden to fight, and people must cooperate with each other to complete the orders of Lord Ryujin as soon as possible.

Or do you think Rolling Rock is a tough nut to crack, and you need me to send the other three Dragongod Electors over and let the five of you join forces to take Rolling Stone? ”

It was a man in a strange mask.

He even looked a little too thin.

However, when he came out of the fog.

The two mighty dragons bowed their heads slightly.

"We don't need help!"

"We can take Rolling Stones on our own!"

The two dragons expressed their stance one after another.

The red dragon Kusules even said in an almost flattering attitude:

"The reason why we are still here is just because the war order of the Seven Holy Alliances has not yet been issued."

"As long as the Seven Saints Alliance loosens its grip, I will be able to set foot in Rolling Stone Town alone and fulfill the wish of Lord Dragon God!"

"Please rest assured, Lord Changeling."

……

Raise a brother who is in a hurry.,I'm sure I won't be able to finish this paragraph at once.,I can only say as soon as possible.,I'm sorry.。

(End of chapter)