Chapter 140 Rock Breathing

"I'm here," Crowne responded happily from the bottom of the stairs. This time he pulled Lorraine and squeezed out of the small door together.

"Haha, I knew you would be fine." Nick patted his shoulder fiercely. "Ms. Lorraine is here too. That's great. Captain Leah must be very happy. It's getting late. Let's go back immediately."

The two teams joined together and quickly exited the castle.

There were no complications during the retreat, and the group walked out of the gate of Bran Castle smoothly.

At this time, Crown felt some movement in the backpack, and he knew that the unfortunate crow had woken up.

Untying his backpack, he released Fukuin.

"Quack, quack", the black elf flew high into the sky again.

"Quack, quack" Fu Jin chirped quickly and circled behind everyone.

Klauen suddenly turned around, turned on his super vision, and saw more than a dozen giant black wolves squatting on the high wall under the setting sun.

He pulled a carbine from his backpack and aimed at the giant wolf, then finally put the gun down.

Wolves are vengeful creatures, and he certainly couldn't kill all of these giant wolves.

At present, it seems that their mission will continue for a few days, so there is no need to increase the difficulty of the mission. After all, no one can predict whether killing a few wolves will attract more wolves to retaliate.

The setting sun lengthened everyone's shadows, the sunset glow dyed the earth orange, and everyone went down the mountain with ease.

When we returned to the camp, Nelson and another team member Geo, who stayed behind, had already prepared dinner.

"Is there any danger in the camp?" Nick asked as he untied his armor.

"No, we just beat back some passing beasts," Nelson replied, "How about you? Is everything going well?"

"It's not going well. Clown is in danger. Well, Ms. Lorraine is also in danger."

As everyone was having their meal, the sun set and a gray mist began to spread.

After the meal, Nick and Leah gathered together to review the information, while Crown practiced rock breathing at the edge of a nearby campfire.

Today he used the Giant Bear Breathing Technique to efficiently break down the wall, which gave him the idea to practice a few more breathing techniques.

For him, there is no such thing as not being proficient in all the eighteen martial arts. On the contrary, since he has already mastered the advanced breathing method, practicing other breathing methods will make him progress very quickly.

The rock breathing method he was practicing now was proof of this; after just half an hour of practice, his proficiency had increased by nearly 100 points.

[Rock Breathing Method: 96/2000; Level 1]

He did not practice this breathing method directly after getting it. Today he is just starting to learn and is going to get started right away.

As the proficiency of Stone Breathing increases, the proficiency of Fire Breathing and Giant Bear Breathing both increase slightly.

At this time, Lorraine came over and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Mr. Crown. Without you, I would have died in that basement today."

"You're welcome. Teammates help each other."

"I am also a pharmacist. If you need to prepare a potion, you can leave it to me. You only need to provide the materials and I will prepare it for you for free. However, if it fails, you will have to bear the loss yourself."

"Oh, thank you. I'll definitely find you if I need you," Crown responded.

"Crown, come here," Nick waved and called.

The two responded and returned to the crowd.

Liya said gently, "We have already collected the information. We were in a hurry when we came back, so we didn't ask you in detail about what happened in the secret room. Now please tell us about it so that everyone can understand it. Who will go first?"

Neither of them responded.

"Why aren't you talking? Is the situation complicated?"

"Let me speak first," Luo Lin said:

"Because of my spirit control, I can see spirits directly. When I first fell, I found myself surrounded by many evil spirits, all around me. However, there shouldn't be any second-level evil spirits, otherwise, I would have been killed by them long ago, but there are quite a few first-level evil spirits.

It is difficult for me to kill one of them directly with my short sword, as they attack very quickly. In short, if a first-level extraordinary person faces so many evil spirits alone, he has no chance of winning. "

Liya continued to ask: "Klauen, do you think it would be difficult for a second-level extraordinary person to deal with the situation you are facing?"

"Well, it would be easier if the abilities of the extraordinary people happened to restrain the evil spirits, but it is not optimistic. There are indeed a lot of evil spirits. I was also exhausted when I first encountered them."

Crown tried to tell the truth as objectively as possible. Not everyone has the same bug ability as him. Evil spirits can attack from all directions at the same time. It is inevitable that one person will lose sight of one thing while focusing on another.

Everyone began to discuss how to deal with this situation more effectively. Later, Leah's team bought some No. 2 holy water from Nick.

These things are very effective when sprinkled directly on the evil spirit, provided that they can be sprinkled directly on the evil spirit's body.

After discussing for a while, Nick's team went back to rest and prepare to take over the night watch in the second half of the night.

Crown was not sleepy yet. He felt that it was only 8:30 in the evening, so he continued to practice the Rock Breathing Method for an hour and then returned to the tent.

Then he meditated on the Golden Light Mantra for an hour before going to sleep.

. . . .

Crown didn't sleep for long before he was awakened by gunshots and shouting.

He sensed the time and it was just eleven o'clock.

The gunshots were very dense. Clown immediately cast a mind-clearing spell and golden light to protect himself, then picked up his weapon and walked out of the tent.

As soon as he walked out, he felt a dark shadow rushing towards him.

He immediately stepped back to avoid the attack. He also saw the true face of the attacker. It was clearly the big bat he shot last night.

He took a step forward, raised his sword and chopped it down before the bat monster could fully fly up, chopping off its head cleanly.

The headless monster struggled on the ground for a while before gradually stopping moving.

Bat monsters kept swooping down from the sky. Clown roughly counted them and found that there were at least forty or fifty of them.

The first-level extraordinary people stood back to back, dealing with the attacks of the monsters, while the second-level extraordinary people moved freely.

Klauen wielded his sword, and any monster that dared to attack him would be defeated.

The situation was quickly brought under control. The bat monster only dared to hover in the sky and did not dare to fly down to attack everyone.

Seeing this, Crown returned to the tent and took out his carbine. While shooting the monsters, he also improved his shooting proficiency.

There were not many monsters left, and he was reluctant to even aim at their skulls. Instead, he aimed at a certain bone node on their wings.

Under the continuous shooting of the crowd, the bat monster rose and disappeared in the gray fog, only occasionally flying out of it into the range of light. But as long as the monster showed its head, it would be hit by Klauen immediately.

Just as he was leisurely brushing up his proficiency, he heard the howling of wolves not far away.

"Ao", the fierce howling of wolves could be heard from all directions.

Judging from the sounds, there are quite a lot of them.

After a while, pairs of green and blue eyes appeared at the edge of the gray fog outside the campsite.

"These beasts have formed a group to attack us. Do they think we are easy to bully?" Jason cursed angrily and swung his sword.

"Ah!" A sound different from other wolves sounded from afar. It was desolate and powerful, and shook the whole area. This should be the cry of the leader wolf.

Immediately, the pack of wolves responded, and the howling sounds gathered together, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

"Bang, bang", Crown raised his carbine and began to fire. Every time a bullet flew out, a wolf would fall down.

As he began to attack, Lucas and others continued to fire.

The wolves' gathered momentum was broken, and they began to jump into the light range of the campfire and oil lamps, attacking the people in the camp.

There were so many wolves that oil lamps were constantly knocked over and everyone's vision became increasingly narrow.

Clown held the sword in one hand, using only the most basic sword moves to hunt down the wolves gracefully and efficiently.

With a horizontal slash, a wolf's head was cut in half horizontally; with a downward chop, the wolf's head was split in half vertically; with a stabbing strike, the sword entered the wolf's mouth and came out from its anus, and the wolf was pierced into a skewer. When the wolves attacked, the bat monsters in the sky also began to swoop down continuously.

What puzzled Crown was that the two beasts never attacked each other, but united to fight against the humans in the camp, which made people wonder whether there was someone behind the two monsters.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

There were not many extraordinary people among the wolf and bat packs, and they were quickly repelled.

After leaving behind seventy or eighty wolf corpses, the howling of the leader of the wolves was heard again in the distance. The wolves began to retreat, and the bats flew back into the gray fog.

After the wolves retreated, they did not go far away, but started howling not far away for a long time.

From time to time, the bats would fly back to carry out suicide attacks. After a few of them were shot down by guns, they would hurried away.

But before long, the bats will come back.

A thought occurred to Clown in his mind: "This is clearly a strategy to tire out the enemy."

Most of the night was spent with wolf howls and bat monsters' suicide attacks. Crown took some time out of his busy schedule to practice breathing techniques and visualize the Golden Light Mantra.

. . . .

When morning came and the fog dissipated, everyone else's spirits were a little sluggish, but Crown was still energetic and smiling.

[Rock Breathing Method: 736/2000; Level 1]

After just one night's work, his proficiency in the new breathing method increased a lot.

During breakfast, everyone discussed whether to continue exploring Bran Castle.

Liya said: "No one slept well last night. I think it is not suitable to go there in this state. After all, there will be a fight if we enter the castle."

"I agree too," Nick nodded. "I even suspect that the new owner of the castle was responsible for the incident last night."

"Since you agree, let's take a good rest today and set out tomorrow morning to continue the exploration. The Security Bureau has given us seven days, which is plenty of time."

Jason suggested, "I think we should move the camp farther away from the castle. That way, even if the monsters in the castle really did something wrong, we can still sleep more peacefully."

"That makes sense, let's do this," Nick stood up, "Let's pack our things and get out of here."

. . . .

New Camp, 4 p.m.

The straight-line distance from here to Bran Castle is more than ten kilometers more than the previous camping site, and the Rhine River is not far away. There is no vegetation nearby, and few animals pass by.

After Crown came here, he practiced the rock breathing method without stopping.

Today the two captains decided to suspend the exploration. He must make good use of this godsend opportunity.

Jason and Nick chat in the distance.

Jason asked in confusion: "Captain, has Clown always been so hardworking? After such a long period of high-intensity training, he must have broken himself."

The priest shook his head. "Klauen has a special physique. Both his physical strength and energy recover very quickly. When we were migrating from Zak Town to Kukes Town, everyone was exhausted, but he was the only one who remained energetic."

He paused, then said with a smile, "Would you two like to practice a little? Clown's swordsmanship is very strong."

"Really?" Jason was a little unconvinced. "You said he started out as an ordinary person following you, and he didn't have any foundation at the beginning. It's ok that he learned the breathing method so quickly, but I don't agree that he is also very strong in swordsmanship."

"Didn't you notice his sword skills last night?"

"Of course I paid attention, but the enemy last night was very weak. I only saw that he was very fast in drawing his sword, had a solid foundation in swordsmanship, and his attacks were crisp and clear."

The priest smiled mysteriously and said, "You don't think he has shown a lot of strength, do you? I have seen how fast he can draw his sword, and it is much better than what he showed last night."

He recalled the night when he killed the wild boar monster. There was a flash of sword in Clown's hand, and the entire sword had been completely inserted into the body of the monster, as if there was no resistance at all.

"Captain, I have to say you've aroused my curiosity. I'll suggest a sparring match with him later when he's resting."

"Go ahead," Nick chuckled in his heart, thinking, "If you don't show your full strength, you might lose miserably."

He still clearly remembers the scene when he was defeated. After more than 20 years of hard training, he underestimated his enemy and did not use his best fighting methods. He was actually defeated by a man who had received warrior training for a few months.

He may never forget the psychological gap he felt at that time.

"Hey, Crown has stopped. As per custom, he will take a short meditation break. Go ahead, Mr. Jason Brown, and meet your challenge."

"No, it's Crown who rises to the challenge," Jason said as he walked out confidently.

. . . .

A warm current rose from Dantian and spread to every part of his body. A faint feeling of joy came over him. Clown stopped training his breathing technique and summoned a golden wall.

[Flame Breath: 598/7000; Level 2]

[Giant Bear Breathing Method: 312/5000; Level 2]

[Stone Breathing: 3/5000; Level 2] (Your skin is tougher, better able to resist physical damage, and slightly increases elemental resistance. Note: Passive ability) He upgraded the Stone Breathing, increasing the proficiency of Fire Breath by more than 200 points, and the proficiency of Giant Bear Breathing by 300 points.

If you spend a whole day just training your fire breath, you won't see such rapid growth.

However, the increased proficiency of the other two breathing methods brought by the upgrade of Rock Breathing is much less than the increased proficiency of Fire Breath brought by the upgrade of Giant Bear Breathing.

This is also an inevitable phenomenon. Perhaps one day, his practice of a new breathing method will not increase his proficiency in other advanced breathing methods even a little bit.

Thinking back to the recent battles, Crown decided to postpone the practice of fire breath and give priority to practicing rock breathing.

He found that his attacks were more than enough at this stage. More importantly, after the Stone Breathing Technique was upgraded, it turned out to be a passive skill.

This far exceeded his expectations, meaning that he naturally wore one more layer of armor than others without any weight.

Just as he was thinking about practicing some more defensive breathing techniques to give himself the thickest armor, Jason came over.

"Crown, are you interested in sparring?"

(End of this chapter)