(Additional update for Brother 'Frostfang' [1/5])

"Whew"

The orange light of the fire ran down the torch that Lumina had dropped, like a churning fiery serpent, along the alchemical oil she had poured earlier.

This is obviously an added oil of kerosene.

The speed of the flame rendering was unusually fast, but fortunately Lumina threw the torch far away, and if it was close, she probably wouldn't have had time to run at this speed.

In the blink of an eye, the two alleys in front of her were completely enveloped in bright firelight, and the shadows of the surrounding obstacles were stretched out under the beating of the flames, but Lumina could hear some subtle popping sounds, like the screams of something after it had been ignited in the flames.

Her eyes widened and she grabbed her shotgun again.

Being attacked by the Astral Mountain Dog just now reminded her of her real advantage, and she may be more suitable for shooting from a distance than melee combat, but it's a pity that she just got the elven swordsmanship, and I don't know if there is a profession that can take into account both ranged and melee combat?

"Whew"

A terrible roar interrupted Lumina's imagination, and she immediately raised the muzzle of her gun to aim at the flames in front of her, and then saw the invisible tokens of despair struggling out of the flames in the burning smoke, as if running away from the blazing flames.

But before he could get far, he was shattered by a lead bullet from Lumi, turned into black smoke and was engulfed in blazing fire.

"It worked!"

Lumina looked at the shadows of the astral plane in the alley in front of her, which were constantly engulfed by the firelight, leaving only a gray ash where the flames had burned.

It seems that Master Murphy's plan has already established a basis for success, and the next step is to sprinkle this alchemy oil all over the ruins of the outer city, and then light the fire and everything will be fine.

She looked at the "Burning Test" mission that had been displayed on her player interface, picked up her gun and hummed a song, and walked to the defense line to find Lady Trass to hand in the mission.

Master Murphy wasn't here, and he didn't know where he went.

"Well, the quality of this astral palatine is good, it seems that you are in luck, little girl."

Lady Tracey, maintaining her trademark half-drunk posture, sat at the alchemy table, pinched the special materials that Lumina had handed in for a moment, nodded in satisfaction, and asked:

"Do you have anything you want? I can trade the mysteries of psionic energy for this material with you. ”

Lady Tracey may seem glamorous and kind, but she is actually happy.

The bones of this astral creature in the material world contain the crystallization of the rampaging astral psionic energy, which is a rare material in the psionic circles of other places, but now she only needs to pay a little rudimentary psionic knowledge to fool these cute little warriors.

As her little Murphy said, after getting familiar with the style of these little warriors, she really likes these little cuties who are always energetic, never afraid of risks, and have little knowledge, and are easy to satisfy.

Obviously, their courage needs to be used in more reasonable places, such as helping themselves to make good wine or helping themselves to get some rare and expensive materials.

Lumina had known that she could exchange the rare dropped materials for some psionic codex from Lady Triss, but as a lone player, she didn't plan to have such an opportunity, and now she heard Lady Trace's inquiry, and she herself was a little dazed.

After thinking for a moment, she cautiously said:

"Do you have an elven-style psionic book here?"

"Elves?"

With the precise translation of the Orb of Calculation, Tracy understood Lumina's thoughts, but she frowned and said:

"Why would you be interested in those conservative and xenophobic guys? They weren't good characters, as the Kastillan Elves and Songhai people shocked the continent 300 years ago with the Battle of the Bridge to Heaven, and it was the first time we realized the power of those who believed in Avalon, the natural gods, but lived in seclusion.

Little girl, you should be cautious.

I mean, stay away from those dangerous things. ”

However, after seeing Lumina's unchanged expression, Lady Tracy knew that her warning had been in vain.

Thinking of little Murphy asking her to secretly take care of this bold and careful girl, Lady Tracey thought about it and pulled out a scroll, and wrote with graceful movements.

Nearly five minutes later, the scroll was folded and handed to Lumina.

"This is one of the elven spells I remember, but you can't use it yet."

When Lumina heard Mrs. Trissy's words, she immediately took over and activated the item identification in the player interface, and soon, a simple explanation appeared in front of her:

Name: Tracey's Magic Codex: Eyes of the Wild

Benefits: Learn the Nature Psionic Skill - Eyes of the Wild, summon a psionic sentry owl and channel the psionic energy to allow the user to manipulate the owl for over-the-horizon observation, maintain over-the-horizon observation until the spiritual energy is exhausted, and allow up to three psionic markers to be placed in the target area.

In terrain where nature is abundant, the Eye of the Wild effect is increased and energy consumption is reduced, allowing the user to initiate a ranged psychic communication with the target.

Prompt!

The Sentinel Owl summoned by this spell has [Natural Concealment] and [Psionic Concealment], making it difficult for enemies to detect.

Note that this advanced detection spell is interfered with by a complex psionic environment.

Need: Learning this skill requires thinking ≥12

Item Description:

[This psionic spell is derived from a special variant of the Elven Ranger's 'Wilderness Sentinel' skill, and its biggest advantage is that the chance of the spell being detected is greatly reduced after Lady Tracey's improvement, thus effectively improving the user's safety.

But you'd better not ask Lady Tracey where she learned this alien spell in detail, it has something to do with some of her experiences in her youth. 】

"Thinking 12 to learn?"

Lumina glanced at her character interface, although her thinking was full of 8 points, but according to the explanation of the game's strength level, she not only had to complete the Black Iron Trial, but also had to add those valuable free attribute points to her thinking after the rank was raised to meet the learning conditions.

But wouldn't your career plan be messed up in this way?

"Do you have any other worries?"

Mrs. Tracey saw the little player's worries and casually asked.

Lumina spoke her thoughts through the translation function, and when she heard that she did not want to give up her shooting expertise, nor the elven secret swordsmanship, but also wanted to learn the elves' psionic spells, Lady Triss suddenly showed a helpless expression.

What's going on with this kid?

Was your head kicked in the head by the Astral Cow? The result of wanting everything in the path of strength is often not specialized enough, and no matter how talented you are, you can't withstand such a disaster!

However, she still saw that little Murphy's face showed a little "elder wisdom", so she mentioned to Lumina:

"According to your request, I can think of the most suitable profession for you as a 'bard'.

It's from an orthodox elven lineage, which is not outstanding in all respects but is a typical panacea, and although human poets always find it unauthentic, if you can find someone who is willing to teach you these skills, maybe you can get what you want.

Still, child, I advise you not to give up on the path of psionic or ranger.

Your talent may be better suited to this. ”

"Thank you for your advice, ma'am."

Lumina suddenly brightened, and she immediately took out a few bottles of good wine from her bag and gave them to her, which made Triss immediately smile, and had a better impression of the clever and sensible little girl in front of her, and simply reminded again:

"I remember that there was a always energetic old lady in the 'Blood Fang' tavern in the inner city, who seemed to have traveled to elven territory in her youth and sang a good song.

She was most likely a hidden bard, but that was more than a hundred years ago.

If you can find her relics or notes, you might be able to find some clues. ”

Lumina quickly recorded the news in her player interface, and now she really realized the importance of "favorability" in this game, and she got a key piece of information for it.

For the past few days, she has been purposefully collecting all kinds of drinks as gifts for Tracey while looting, and now it seems that this effort has not been in vain.

But the inner city.

It's still covered in astral energy, so I guess we won't open a new map until the outer city of Cadman City is recovered, right?

Lumina left full of harvest, planning to go around the city again.

After she leaves, Tracey drinks and waits until? Murphy and the eldest lady of the secret operation, as well as Maxim and Adele, escorted three carriages out of the city quietly.

"Got it?"

Tracey asked, Murphy nodded, patted the carriage beside him and said:

"The three underground cores of the Serenade Psionic Enchantment can be retrieved without any danger, you can check their status."

"There's no need."

Tracey waved her hand lazily and said:

"There are only two states of that level of thing, as long as it is not broken, it will not break, after all, it is a strategic-level psionic item but it is not as fragile as you think, this thing is in hand, so the next thing is to burn the city?"

"Hmm."

Murphy nodded and said:

"The militia in the survivor camp will gradually burn the city with fire oil over the next two days, eventually advancing to the site of the astral rift to confirm the new border. Those hard-to-reach places on the edge of the ruins of the outer city will be 'airdropped' by the eldest lady and Adele.

Only when those shadows are burned away can this place truly belong to us.

In addition, the worst situation you predicted has already occurred, and according to my warriors' reconnaissance of the sewer area, hordes of ghouls and their 'cousin' water ghosts have appeared under the rubble.

The Death Psionic Energy in the Translancia region doesn't converge, so this transformation speed is inevitably too fast, right? ”

"Quick? I still feel slow. ”

Tracy snorted, and put on the cold and arrogant expression that the psionic master should have, and said:

"The psionic energy of the material world is filtered through the astral plane, and there is no point in pursuing subdivision in the face of the violent psionic energy of these sources, which already have the common characteristics of all kinds of psionic energy.

The appearance of ghouls is only the first step, and more troublesome wraiths are yet to come.

Once you've burned the astral shadows on the city's surface, it's time to deal with the.

But your warriors seem to have practiced some special methods of management in the camp, and I heard them here today talking about something like a 'big pot of rice'."

Tracey was a little worried, she knew the details of the little player, so she asked:

"Is it really okay to just let them do it?"

"If it's a proven way to work, then we don't need to worry."

Murphy said to Tracy in a subtle tone.

The latter froze for a moment, then realized that Murphy was talking about the possibility that their warriors were using otherworldly management methods.

She nodded, and asked no more.

——

"Commander! There's a problem on Cadman's side! ”

Two hours after nightfall, in the witch hunters' makeshift camp, a white oak scout walked briskly into Old Finoch's tent and shouted to Old Finok, who was carefully wiping down the Great Oak Blade:

"There's a fire rising over the ruins!

Its light flame even pierced through the shadows of the astral plane, allowing us to see it from the observation point. We suspect that something went wrong in the city, causing the whole city to burn.

Maybe it was that strange vampire who clashed with the civilians he oppressed? ”

"Huh?"

The old knight, dressed only in a single robe, looked up in surprise.

With the blade behind his back, he followed the scout briskly to a high point outside the camp, then used his scout telescope to look in the direction of Cadman City.

In the darkness of the night, the burning fire was unusually bright.

But the veteran knight immediately judged that it was not the fire that the whole city was burning, and he knew this kind of thing quite well, probably because he had experienced similar things in his life as a soldier.

And more than once.

"It's not! The light flame was too small, and the intensity was not enough, at most a small part of the city was ignited, which was consciously planned to set fire. ”

The old knight put down his binoculars and said in a deep voice:

"They seem to be using the flames to fight the overflowing astral shadows, which is a very good alternative in the absence of a full-time purification psionist.

But it's beyond my imagination that a vampire would use fire.

I remember that the use of fire to purify filth and darkness was an ancient tradition of the townspeople of Translasia, right? ”

"Yes, Warlord Warband, there is indeed a similar custom in the local area, which is said to have been summed up a long time ago in the confrontation between their ancestors and vampires."

A scout with a slight knowledge of local customs responded:

"There's no mistake with that, fire can be used in many rituals of exorcism, but are we just going to let the vampires reclaim their cities? Maybe we should take advantage of the fact that they are not ready to attack?

With the information we have so far, under your leadership, those vampires will not be able to stop us! ”

"It's time to move forward, but not to attack."

Old Finok shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"Those vampires and their blood servants can't escape the clutches of our hands! The Astral Rift will close tomorrow, and we will act at that time.

But remember our mission, hunters.

Those few scattered vampires and their blood servants are not enough, and confirming the death of Sallokdar and the destruction of the blood vultures is the most important thing!

I know that those who have survived the war until now have more or less blood on their hands, but if I find that you can't control the depraved desire to destroy and slash your sword at the survivors, then don't blame me for not being merciful! ”

"I taught physics, and I never taught them magic, let alone slapping the evil gods, kicking the demon king, and smashing the kingdom of God, all the rumors about me are baseless slander." So says Wren Tesla.

(End of chapter)