Chapter 148 Curse, Illusion and Witchcraft (Two chapters in one)
After the housewarming dinner, Ryan accompanied his family and walked around the front and back yards.
"Brother, this big yard is my favorite. Now, sister Anna and I can grow a lot of vegetables and flowers." Sister Mint said happily.
Ryan looked at his smiling sister and was touched by the joy. He said, "Well, then this yard will be handed over to you. I hope you can take care of it beautifully."
The parents on the side looked very pleased.
Ryan, who had a full view of all this, nodded slightly.
Perhaps, this scene in front of him is a definition of happiness.
Since Ryan still had a few things to deal with, he did not stay with them for too long, but quickly returned to the utility room.
Ryan took out the 100 pounds of violent bear meat that he had exchanged at the military supply office in the county city.
At the dinner, he did not eat enough, but drank a lot of wine.
Ryan has been craving for violent bear meat for some time.
Before, Ryan would often miss the wonderful taste of the violent bear meat he first tasted in Claire's study.
Now, Ryan's demand for food is getting bigger and bigger, and his requirements for quality are getting higher and higher.
Ordinary food is of no benefit to his strength improvement.
But the violent beast meat is different. It is rich in various nutrients and still has a certain help in improving Ryan's giant bear breathing method.
Therefore, Ryan exchanged for violent bear meat before, and planned to do the same in the future, gradually adding high-quality food to his three meals a day.
At this moment, Ryan directly cut a large piece of violent bear meat, about three or four pounds, and put it on the iron plate that had been prepared long ago.
Since the violent bear meat had already been bled and cleaned, it did not need additional cleaning.
For the violent bear meat, Ryan did not use ordinary cooking methods.
Well!
After all, high-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods.
This time Ryan chose to "roast" the violent bear meat at high temperature and eat it directly.
Ryan placed his palms in the air about half a meter above the violent bear meat, and silently chanted a spell, casting the witchcraft "Scorching Touch".
After a few seconds, an alluring meaty aroma filled the utility room.
As for why witchcraft was used for cooking?
This is because Ryan took into account the principle of the oven in his previous life. The fast and closed high temperature can lock the moisture and freshness of the food inside the ingredients.
Therefore, Ryan thought of using the high temperature of the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" to roast the violent bear meat in just a few seconds, achieving a similar effect to the oven in his previous life, retaining moisture and freshness.
Looking at the fragrant seven-point-cooked violent bear meat, Ryan sprinkled some salt and chewed it.
Hiss!
It's still so delicious!
In a few seconds, Ryan ate more than half of the three or four pounds of violent bear meat.
Soon, Ryan felt a warm current spreading rapidly from his stomach to his whole body.
It may be because he has entered the extraordinary and his body functions have been greatly improved.
Although Ryan ate more bear meat than before, he didn't feel full as before. He just felt warm and comfortable.
At this moment, there was a scratching sound.
Ryan knew it must be the greyhound Cookie!
After all, except for him, everyone else knocked on the door, not scratched it. Besides, who else would have such a keen sense of smell?
Ryan just opened the door a crack, and the greyhound Cookie squeezed in.
He quickly circled around Ryan, wagging his tail desperately, staring at the remaining roasted bear meat in Ryan's hand with a pair of eyes, showing a longing expression.
Ryan couldn't help shaking his head and said helplessly:
"I'm really impressed by you. Don't tell me you're not full either!"
Having said that, Ryan still tore off a small strip of the remaining roasted bear meat in his hand, and then dripped a few drops of "Mutation Growth Potion" on it, and then handed it over.
Cookie sniffed with his sensitive nose, and then showed an extremely anthropomorphic expression of surprise.
With a groan, he swallowed the violent bear meat.
The next second, Cookie's dog eyes suddenly widened twice, and he looked at Ryan in a daze, as if saying: "Master, there is such a delicious thing!"
"A dog's life is just like this! This life is worth it!"
Seeing Cookie licking his lips, Ryan said unhappily:
"Okay, don't count on it anymore, this is enough for you to absorb."
As he said, Ryan stuffed the last bit of violent bear meat in his hand directly into his mouth.
It's not that he is stingy.
It's just that Cookie is currently just an ordinary greyhound, not a ferocious beast. Eating too much of this high-quality food will make it difficult to digest.
Sure enough, as if he felt the power of the violent bear meat, Cookie soon curled up in a corner of the utility room and began to doze off with his eyes squinting.
However, Ryan noticed the prompt that the system refreshed:
[You fed the greyhound with the meat of a violent bear mixed with the secret medicine Mutation Growth Potion, and the related comprehension increased slightly! ]
[Your skill of Taming Beasts was improved, and your experience value increased by 15]
[Your professional experience of Tamer (Extraordinary) was increased by 11]
Hey!
Ryan only then noticed that on his green Tamer panel, the original "Dog Training" skill had automatically changed to "Beast Taming", and "Dog Food Production" had also changed to "Beast Food Production" at the same time.
It seems that the so-called coverage of the system is not to completely eliminate or accept it in its entirety.
In addition, feeding with secret medicine or high-quality food will increase the experience points faster.
This matter has also been verified in the feeding just now.
After several doubts in the Tamer (Extraordinary) panel were answered, Ryan began to practice the giant bear breathing method, making the best use of the special nutrients rich in the violent bear meat.
After finishing the breathing method training, Ryan practiced the basic meditation method.
Because when he changed his job to a tamer, Ryan once again gained 1 point of spiritual attribute improvement, so he wanted to try how many will runes he could visualize at one time.
A minute later.
Ryan opened his eyes happily.
This time, he visualized and completed sixteen will runes at one time, which was considered to be a step into the popular sense of the "Second Level Wizard Apprentice".
In addition, Ryan also confirmed one point, that is, the "level" level displayed on the Wizard Apprentice (Extraordinary) occupation panel has nothing to do with the popular sense of the "First or Second Level Wizard Apprentice".
It is not that he has reached the lv2 of the wizard apprentice, which is equivalent to the "second-level wizard apprentice" in the popular sense of this world. Moreover, his wizard apprentice level is lv4 at this time, and there is no such thing as a fourth-level wizard apprentice in this world.
The highest level of wizard apprentice is level 3.
Therefore, it can be understood that these are two completely unrelated systems.
Ryan thought for a while. After he entered the second-level wizard apprentice, the biggest difference should be the difference in combat power.
Before, when he had just completed the visualization of the eight will runes and entered the first-level wizard apprentice, his combat power was far inferior to that of a formal knight.
The only feature at that time was that compared with ordinary people, his mental power was much stronger and his perception was much more acute.
If you want to exert a stronger combat power, you need to use external objects, such as Endri, the "acid missile scroll" used by the other party in the Elim mine.
However, with entering the second-level wizard apprentice, there has been a significant improvement in combat power.
Although Ryan did not have a scroll or any other magical item in his hand, he could achieve a strong combat effectiveness with the witchcraft "Scorching Touch".
As his low incantation sounded, the iron basin in front of Ryan's palm began to heat up rapidly. After a few seconds, the iron basin began to turn red, smoke and soften.
This is a sign that it is about to melt!
You know, the melting point of iron is close to 1,500 degrees!
This means that the power of the same witchcraft after he entered the second-level wizard apprentice will be significantly enhanced than before.
Before, the temperature that Ryan could reach after guiding the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" for a few seconds was about 1,000 degrees, but now it can reach 1,450 degrees.
In addition, Ryan only cast the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" two or three times before, but now he can basically release it about five or six times.
The improvement in combat effectiveness is obvious!
If he is given the opportunity to calmly cast the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" in a certain battle, even a peak knight will be seriously injured or even killed directly!
After all, any living creature cannot withstand the continuous scorching heat of 1,500 degrees, which can melt steel.
However, the enemy is not a wooden man and will not stand still for a few seconds.
This is also the shortcoming of Ryan's current witchcraft.
First of all, it is powerful, but it is a contact witchcraft.
Secondly, it needs to be continuously guided to release the maximum damage.
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At the same time.
In a luxurious mansion in Meister County City. In
the dim underground hall.
The slender knight carrying a "scythe" weapon is reporting in a low voice: "Master Priest, the task of killing the new knight Ryan has failed again!"
"In addition, according to Lamar, the Iron Virgin Doll was also destroyed by Ryan." At this point, the slender knight was a little bit difficult to explain.
After all, Lamar himself did not believe the reasons he reported to him, so how could the Master Priest believe it?
Sure enough,
"Huh? How is this possible?" Hearing that the task of killing Ryan still failed, the Master Priest could still accept it.
But after hearing the last sentence, when the Iron Maiden Doll was destroyed by Ryan, a surprised voice came from the shadows.
From the voice, one can clearly hear surprise and confusion!
"This Ryan is not only good at swordsmanship, but also good at hammering. No, he should be proficient in hammering!" The slender knight thought about it and explained with a stiff face.
After all, Lamar was there at the time, and he could only explain it based on the other party's explanation!
Although he had been thinking about how to make the explanation more convincing before coming to report, he seemed to have never found any reasonable explanation.
"Proficient in hammering? A new knight can use a hammer to smash the shell of the Iron Maiden Doll?" The tone of his words was full of disbelief.
At this time, a tall and fat figure stood up from the shadows!
Judging from the height, it was not shorter than the two-meter-tall knight.
But the fat body of the other party was comparable to seven or eight thin knights.
If Ryan was present, he would immediately associate the other party with a sumo wrestler from a certain country in his previous life. They were too similar, except that the other party wore a hood and a robe.
"This. Master Priest, I am also relaying Lamar's report." The tall and thin knight saw the Master Priest stand up, took a step back, and said nervously.
After listening to the other party's reasons, the tone of the Master Priest suddenly became much higher, and he said with obvious anger:
"Giovanni! You have been the president of the Wilderness Brotherhood for too long, are you stupid!"
"Do you think that reason is tenable? You should know that even a peak knight is unlikely to destroy the Iron Virgin Doll with a hammer."
"You disappoint me so much!"
"This." Faced with the questioning of the chief priest, Giovanni, the president of the Wilderness Brotherhood, was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to explain for a while.
However, he soon reacted and said, "Master Chief Priest, I asked Lamar to come this time. He is just outside the door. Do you think we should listen to his report directly?"
Obviously, Giovanni didn't want to take the blame. The
fat chief priest nodded slightly.
After the Black Flame Monk Lamar came in to report, the chief priest was silent
for a while, and then the low voice of the chief priest sounded again: "Giovanni, let's leave this matter to you, the Beast Knight."
"The majesty of the Black Flame Church cannot be challenged! Go!"
"As you command, Master Priest!" Giovanni and Lamar both touched their chests and bowed.
——It
was late at night.
The moon was dim and the stars were sparse, and everything was silent.
A thin mist floated over the entire Shining Gold Town.
Ryan also returned to his new bedroom early to rest, and at this moment, he was already fast asleep.
At this time, an old man in a black robe with a hood walked slowly from the outskirts of Shining Gold Town to the center of the town, and every turn was able to properly avoid the patrolling night watch team.
When he was about 40 or 50 meters away from Ryan's new home, he stopped and looked around, and then walked into a dark and unlit alley.
Not long after he entered, three night watchmen from Shining Gold Town passed by the alley.
After the night watch team left, the old man began to draw something on the ground with his cane.
Soon, a pattern with a diameter of about one meter, similar to an inverted pentagram, appeared on the ground. From a distance, it looked like a child's graffiti on the ground.
Then, the old man took out the clothes that Mint helped him get from his arms and placed it in the center of the inverted pentagram pattern.
Then, the old man began to chant a spell in a low voice, and aimed the wooden crutch in his hand at the inverted pentagram pattern on the ground.
". (Akkadian) Curse: Mental fatigue!"
As the old man's voice fell, Ryan, who was in a bedroom forty or fifty meters away, frowned from his calm face in his sleep.
Ryan, who was sleeping in his dream, only felt that he seemed very tired, and could hardly open his eyes and wake up. At
this time, the old man seemed to have felt that the curse had taken effect, and his face under the hood smiled slightly, but it was not over yet, but he took out a piece of finger bone from his arms.
The finger bone was slender and seemed to come from the corpse of an adult human female.
The old man held the finger bone in his hand and chanted softly again.
A few seconds later, a transparent humanoid spirit appeared in front of the old man. Judging from her slender figure, she seemed to be a beautiful human woman in her lifetime.
"Go, Sandra, get rid of the owner of that piece of clothing!" the old man said.
The female ghost named Sandra obediently walked to the side of the inverted pentagram, sensed the breath of the clothes, and then nodded to the old man.
Then, like a cloud of mist, it floated to the direction where Ryan was.
Soon, the female ghost Sandra passed through the wall and sneaked into Ryan's bedroom. She also saw Ryan, who was lying on the bed with a frown on his face.
Sandra, expressionless, slowly walked forward and stretched out her claws that were emitting cold light and turned from virtual to real. When she was about to launch a fatal attack on Ryan, she was suddenly stunned!
Her eyes were focused on a slightly inconspicuous brass ring worn on the index finger of Ryan's left hand.
She could feel a similar breath gathering on it, and she could also understand the meaning contained in the breath: "He is my friend, please don't hurt him."
If Ryan was awake at this time, he would definitely notice that the ring he was looking at was the strange object 'Agatha's Ring'.
(Agatha's Ring: This is an ordinary brass ring, but it is attached with the sincere gratitude and blessing of a young girl's soul. After wearing it, some undead creatures will have a good impression of the wearer.)
At this time, the graceful female ghost Sandra hesitated and did not launch an attack.
It seemed that the ring touched some kind of emotion buried deep in her heart.
What Sandra did not notice was that at this moment, the person she wanted to kill on the bed was squinting at her.
In fact, just when Sandra was about to kill, Ryan's lv3 level 'Danger Perception' gave him an alarm.
But soon, the alarm in Ryan's heart disappeared strangely.
But Ryan had already woken up. He looked at the scene in front of him and thought about it. He was also very strange. This female ghost should have come to attack him, but for some reason, she hesitated.
After waiting for a while, he saw that the female ghost turned around and left the room through the wall.
This made Ryan a little confused for a while.
After waiting for a few seconds, Ryan did not see the other party return, so he quickly got up and walked to the window. Through the window, he saw that the almost transparent female ghost was floating towards the dark alley not far away on the opposite side.
Ryan thought about it for a while and did not choose to chase it immediately.
Because he felt that the enemy he encountered this time was not ordinary, and he could actually control the ghost to attack him.
Although, in the end, for some unknown reason, the female ghost did not attack him.
Obviously, with such a mysterious enemy watching from the side, no one can sleep peacefully!
It is better to investigate first.
"Eye of the Beast!"
Ryan immediately remembered the core skill of the new beast tamer and immediately used it.
With the core skill "Eye of the Beast", Ryan's soul seemed to possess the greyhound "Cookie" who was sleeping in the utility room.
Cookie suddenly stood up, rushed downstairs and ran out of the door, heading towards the dark alley.
Soon, Cookie came to the entrance of the alley, and it poked its head out in a very human way and glanced inside.
Because dogs have dark vision, Ryan could clearly see a slightly hunched, hooded black-robed man in the alley through Cookie's vision.
And the female ghost who just floated into his room seemed to be telling something to the black-robed man.
However, Cookie's eyes only stared at the black-robed man for a few seconds, and the other party turned around immediately.
This made Ryan's heart tremble instantly, and he immediately controlled Cookie to run away with a whimper.
The old man took a glance and found that it was a stray dog, so he didn't care.
Through the observation just now, Ryan found that the opponent's perception was very sharp. It was very likely that the opponent's mental power was even higher than his!
"Is the opponent a third-level wizard apprentice? Or a stronger profession?" Ryan guessed.
Facing this obviously very difficult enemy, Ryan's brain turned rapidly.
"With such a secretive enemy, if I don't kill him, I will definitely be unable to sleep and eat!"
"This battle should be inevitable."
"At this moment, the opponent should not have discovered that he has found him."
"If you attack now."
Ryan immediately removed the "Eye of the Beast", quickly put on the chrome suit, picked up the war hammer and the big sword and rushed out.
When he was about to reach the alley, Ryan slowed down.
For safety reasons, it is naturally better to improve his strength.
The next second, Ryan added a little skill point to the limit value in the Knight's Extraordinary Panel, and the limit value instantly went from 51% to 61%.
This also allowed Ryan to directly enter the peak knight level from the level of senior knights.
As a result, the two extraordinary characteristics, 'Giant Strength' and 'Iron Skin', all entered the lv3 level!
[Extraordinary Characteristics: Giant Strength lv3 (Active)]
Giant Strength lv3 Effect: Strength Doubled.
(Note: The degree of strength enhancement of the host by the extraordinary characteristic Giant Strength is positively correlated with the Breaking Limit Value. The higher the Breaking Limit, the higher the strength enhancement.)
[Extraordinary Characteristics: Iron Skin lv3 (Passive)]
Iron Skin lv3 Effect: The body will automatically absorb free metal elements and form a metal film on the surface of the skin.
(Note: The defense of the metal film is positively correlated with the mental strength and the Breaking Limit Value. The higher the mental strength and the Breaking Limit Value, the stronger the ability to absorb metal elements and the higher the defense)
'Strength Doubled' and 'Metal Film'!
This gave Ryan confidence!
As soon as Ryan appeared at the entrance of the alley, the old man in black robe turned around. He looked at Ryan with a pair of deep eyes under his hood, slightly surprised, and said:
"Huh? How did you find me?"
Adams was very surprised at this time that Ryan could find the alley where he was.
However, there was no panic or worry in his tone.
It seemed that he had absolute confidence in his own strength!
Ryan smiled and did not answer Adams' question.
Instead, he took out a flare from his arms. In an instant, with a "whoosh", the flare shot into the air and exploded quickly.
That's right!
This is the night watchman's distress flare.
As the deputy sheriff of the town of Shining Gold, Ryan naturally carried a flare with him.
Facing such an enemy with strange means, Ryan felt that fighting alone might not be a good idea. In addition, this place is very close to the administrative office, and Hamilton should be able to arrive in less than a minute!
"Haha, stupid guy!" Adams was furious when he saw Ryan firing flares and calling for reinforcements without saying a word! He felt like he was being played!
"The goddess of luck let you escape by chance, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to die!" As he said that, he took out a scroll from his arms and quickly tore it open.
Ryan's pupils shrank immediately!
"Break the limit!"
Ryan, holding the pig-headed hammer, was about to dodge the opponent's scroll attack horizontally!
Suddenly, Ryan felt a trance in his head, and in an instant, the scene around him changed drastically.
The walls in the alley quickly softened like noodles, and the old man in black robes who was originally standing opposite Ryan was also stretched and flattened.
This feeling was very bad, as if a person who was very prone to seasickness was paddling a canoe alone in the stormy sea!
Ryan resisted the discomfort and shook his head violently.
At this time, Ryan saw the surroundings clearly again.
However, his sister Mint suddenly appeared in front of him. Mint waved at him and said with a smile, "Brother, come play with me?"
Mint's sweet childish voice made Ryan feel a little doting.
It seemed that if he didn't agree to play with her for a while, it would be the biggest mistake in the world.
But the next second, Ryan immediately realized that he should be fighting with a mysterious old man in black robes in the alley at this time? Why
did Ryan suddenly have a warning bell in his heart!
Almost at the same time, Ryan felt a sharp pain in his chest, and then he was blown away!
When Ryan stood up again, the scene returned to the dark alley, and the mysterious old man in black robes was still standing opposite him.
At this moment, he felt a burning pain all over his body. He looked down and saw that the chrome iron plate armor on his chest had been corroded with a big hole. Fortunately, the silver-gray metal film on the surface of the body blocked the subsequent damage.
But it seemed that the energy of the metal film was also close to exhaustion, and the luster was rapidly becoming dim.
Damn!
So powerful!
Ryan cursed inwardly.
If he hadn't just entered the peak knight, and his supernatural characteristic 'Iron Skin' had also been upgraded to level 3, it is estimated that the opponent's strange attack just now would have severely damaged him, or even taken him away in one wave!
"Huh? He's not dead?"
Seeing that a big hole had been blasted out of Ryan's thick knight's breastplate, Adams, who originally thought that Ryan was dead, suddenly widened his eyes and opened his mouth slightly!
At this moment, he was more surprised than Ryan!
You know, with the combination of the illusion scroll and his sorcery 'Secondary Shadow Arrow', even if he was a peak knight, he would be taken away in one wave without a word!
How could this kid in front of me survive?
No! Not only did he survive, but he was able to stand up!
What the hell!
Could it be that the opponent's knight's plate armor has a strong negative energy defense?
But it doesn't look like that!
The opponent's knight's breastplate has obviously been corroded by his secondary shadow arrow, leaving a big hole.
Adams, with a puzzled look on his face, frowned and thought.
Suddenly, a burst of dense footsteps sounded at the entrance of the alley. Hamilton heard the movement just now and rushed over with more than a dozen night watchmen.
"You, you are Adams!!!" When Hamilton saw the old man for the first time, his pupils suddenly shrank and his face changed drastically.
(End of this chapter)
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