The professionals from the Iron Cross Regiment and the three people from the Adventurer's House sat in a circle, chatting while eating. It was mainly Wiltok who was eating, and the others started chatting after filling their stomachs, exchanging information with each other.
"The city wall of Braun Town was captured by the orcs, and many people fled to the south. That is the shortest way back to Luoye City. However, we considered that the barbarians did not engage in siege battles and preserved relatively complete strength. We were a little worried about being robbed by the barbarians. The predators were chasing me. Those guys were not easy to deal with. So, I decided to take a gamble and escape to the north... Alas, I didn’t expect that this decision of mine killed many brothers."
Slave trader Rhodes sat cross-legged on the snow and said with a depressed expression: "As you can see, there are only five of us left in the Iron Cross Adventure Group."
The Iron Cross Group, disguised as an adventure group, specializes in selling barbarian slaves in the Braun Lake Basin. This business has been monopolized by them for ten years, and all the barbarians in Lake Braun know them.
Originally, this was a matter of everyone getting what he wanted, and you and I being willing. But, among those little barbarian slaves sold by Rhodes, who didn’t have parents or relatives?
The barbarian tribe was plundered by the Blackfire Orcs every autumn. The food in the tribe was not enough to survive the winter, so they sold their children to Rhodes as slaves.
No one really wants to do that.
The barbarians did not dare to resist the oppression of the Blackfire Orcs, so they inevitably transferred their hatred to the half-elf slave traders.
The Iron Cross knew that they would become the main target of the barbarian marauders. They deliberately took a detour from the north, hoping to confuse the pursuers behind them, but they were surrounded and killed by a herd of shadow beasts in the Shadow Forest, killing most of their members.
Rhodes sighed and asked, "What's your situation?"
Huck and Wiltok just immersed themselves in eating. Max, the secret hunter, said vaguely: "Our experience is similar to yours... By the way, Qin and the Whistle Adventure Group seems to be traveling with you, why didn't you see them?" ?”
Rhodes smiled and said: "The young members recruited by the Whistle Regiment in Braun Town are not even awakened ones. Captain Charlie thought that if he took them to escape westward, they would be easily overtaken by barbarian raiders, and he also wanted to take a chance on his luck. They teamed up with us and took a detour north. As a result, we were besieged by a herd of beasts in the forest, and we had to break out individually. I don’t know if they escaped."
"All the professionals in the Whistle Regiment should have escaped, but the newcomers are all dead." Huck said in a muffled voice after finishing the dry food in his hand.
The new members recruited by the Whistle Adventure Group are all young people from the training camp in Braun Town. Captain Harker had some feelings for them, but were these young people the only victims?
He thought of his companions who died in the Shadow Forest, and felt even worse. He punched the snow with a heavy sound, and said angrily: "The dragon cavalry of Golden Oak did not come to hunt the shadow lurkers. There must be something wrong with this matter. ! If they lured the orcs who attacked Braun Town, I will never spare them!"
This is unreasonable and angry talk.
Rhodes and others saw that the attack by the Orcs in the Outland was organized and premeditated. It was definitely not a spur-of-the-moment attack, and it probably had nothing to do with Hurant's Dragoons. Furthermore, who stipulates that the Golden Oak Dragoons must hunt shadow lurkers?
Rhodes believed that Hurant discovered the orcs' strange movements and decided to change the itinerary temporarily. They didn't know this situation and wanted to follow the dragoons to escape the enemy's pursuit, so they broke into the territory of the shadow lurkers.
What's more, it's a joke for Huck to want to take revenge on such a behemoth as the famous Golden Oak family. Anyway, Rhodes didn't have any inappropriate thoughts about the famous Golden Oak family.
He had a big problem of his own and needed to be solved urgently.
The Iron Cross Adventure Group suffered heavy losses this time, with only five of its more than forty members remaining. Many of the members who lost their lives were professionals lent to Rhodes by the famous Yinpanjiao family. Rhodes was able to run the slave trade business only because of the secret support of the famous Yinpanjiao family. He is responsible for this loss, and the famous Yinpanjiao family has a fierce style and cannot let him go easily.
Half-elf professionals are relatively rare in border areas, but there are many professionals in major city-states. For example, the regular army in Luoye City must maintain a ratio of half professionals and half awakened soldiers; even the villain gangs in Xia Bang have many professionals acting as thugs.
However, those professionals with rich experience and high skills are also valuable power to famous nobles.
Huck and Max from Adventurer's House are this type of professionals. If he could introduce them to the famous Yinpanjiao family, Rhodes thought he could overcome this difficulty.
As for Wiltok, none of the famous Yinpanjiao families are qualified to recruit him. Rhodes actually had other plans for Wiltok.
"Oh, I don't even know what to do next?" Rhodes sighed.
Huck and Max have become homeless dogs, and this sentence should resonate with them.
However, the adventurer's house is finished, but they have very considerable wealth hidden in several city-states. The secret hunter Max is suspicious by nature and is very wary of the slave trader Rod. He always feels that he will seek wealth and murder if he suffers heavy losses this time.
"The snow has stopped." Max looked up at the sky and said calmly.
"What?"
"When the snow stops, the beasts and monsters in the forest will come out to look for food. I am not familiar with this forest, and I don't know what kind of predators there will be. But..."
Max changed the subject and continued: "The ones who can be neighbors with the shadow lurkers are not ordinary beasts, at least they are ferocious animals."
Ferocious animals possess physiques and strength that far exceed those of their kind. They are synonymous with strength and danger. Rumor has it that there is a terrifying and ferocious white wolf next to the wolf herder girl Bertina. Its size is comparable to that of a strong horse, with immense strength and keen intuition. It can sense danger in advance and master the power of bloodthirsty. Just because of the ferocious white wolf, it is almost impossible for Bertina to be rounded up by half-elf professionals in the wild.
If the lord of this forest is a ferocious beast. It has just experienced a cold winter, is hungry, and will become particularly ferocious.
The quiet snow forest hides dangers invisible to the naked eye. The slave trader looked around nervously, then turned back and asked: "Max, what should we do now?"
Max stared into Rhodes' eyes and said unhurriedly: "We need to find an alliance village settlement as soon as possible, but I am injured and have difficulty moving. If you think I am a drag, you can leave first. "
Rhodes shook his head and smiled: "We should unite and help each other more at this time. One more person means more strength. I suggest that we all act together, what do you think?"
Max and Huck exchanged glances, shrugged and said, "Okay. I guess we are about to enter the territory of Rapid City. We can't go back at this time, we can only change direction and explore northwest..."
"Uh, let me interrupt, we have a problem now." A third-level swordsman from the Iron Cross Regiment pointed at Wiltok.
Wiltok seems to be a different person now, not only his appearance has changed, but his temperament is also completely different from before.
In Rhode's impression, the former Wiltok was an independent and tough-minded half-elf. He rarely expressed opinions, but he would do whatever he said and no one could make him change his mind.
However, due to Wiltok's natural charm, everyone took it for granted. Regardless of his stubborn personality, no one would be disgusted with him.
The current Wiltok gives Rhodes and others the feeling of gentleness, tranquility, and unfathomable depth. Moreover, his extraordinary charming qualities seemed to disappear as his appearance changed.
Rhodes really doubted whether he had recognized the wrong person. Otherwise, how could a person change so much in just a few days?
Now is not the time to explore this issue. Everyone's eyes were fixed on Wiltok, or to be precise, on the piece of dry dough in his hand.
The dry flour cakes made in Braun Town cannot be said to taste, but the texture is firm and will definitely satisfy your hunger. The average person can eat two pieces of dry flour for a day.
Before everyone fled, everyone carried at least fifteen days of dry food with them. When the Iron Cross Regiment was besieged by the Shadow Beast Herd, they lost a lot of supplies, and they didn't have much food left.
When Wiltok woke up, he complained that he was hungry. The Iron Cross Regiment generously took out all the dry food and invited them to eat together. Without everyone noticing, Vertok destroyed most of the food on his own. The dry flour biscuit in his hand was the last ration.
Realizing that everyone's attention was focused on the dry pancake in his hand, Wiltok did not pause, raised the pancake to his mouth, filled his stomach with one, two, and three mouthfuls, and asked with lingering interest: "Aren't you full?" …Are there any more?”
It was over, and the last dry food was eaten by Wiltok.
The five professionals of the Iron Cross Regiment were extremely regretful. They were pretending to be generous and took out food to express their goodwill of solidarity and cooperation to Huck.
Who would have thought that Wiltok could eat more than twenty pieces of dry flour pancakes in one go, eating so quickly without choking...
The problem is, this guy didn’t have enough to eat?
Is his belly a bottomless pit?
Rhodes was silent for a moment and said with a dry smile: "That is our last dry food..."
"Vell... Victor, aren't you full?" Shield Guard Hack immediately jumped up, patted his broad chest and said, "Wait a minute, I'll find you something to eat right away!"
Wiltok also stood up, closed his eyes, and inhaled deeply through his nose, as if smelling the smell. After a while, he pointed to the northwest and said, "There is a group of wild boars over there, about 2 kilometers away from us."
In the ice-covered forest, Wiltok could smell the wild boars 2 kilometers away?
Everyone else was dubious, but Huck said enthusiastically: "Okay, I'm going to catch the fattest wild boar!"
"Wait a minute." Rhodes stopped Harker and said with a smile: "Captain Harker, we only have you as a shield guard now. You have a good rest, conserve your energy, and leave the hunting to us."
He winked at his men, and several professionals from the Iron Cross Regiment picked up their weapons and walked into the depths of the forest together.
"These guys don't want to leave us alone, do they?" Huck rubbed the beard on his chin, looked at the backs of the half-elves, and said uncertainly.
Max shook his head and said: "They just wanted to talk privately, but they didn't want us to hear them, so they found an excuse to leave."
There are only 2 archers and 3 swordsmen left in the Iron Cross Regiment. This combination greatly needs a shield guard who can withstand the enemy. However, the profession of Shield Guard also requires trustworthy companions. Because their Rockskin spell increases base strength and defense and reduces movement speed. Once they encounter a strong enemy, the Shield Guard becomes the one who breaks the rear. If his companions don't try to rescue him and choose to run away instead, the Shield Guard will definitely die.
The Iron Cross hopes that Huck can join their team, but Huck may not trust them. At this time, Max and Wiltok, who had limited mobility, became Huck's weakness.
Max and Huck are relieved as Vertok wakes up. His combat prowess is obvious to all, and he possesses the strength and physical fitness of a fourth-level shield guard; the explosive power of a fourth-level swordsman; the agility of a third-level dark hunter; and the shooting skills of a third-level archer.
Max believes that Wiltok's overall strength is much stronger than most fifth-level masters. He asked with awe: "Mr. Wiltok, I heard Huck say that you killed all the shadow beasts in the forest, and the bald-eared butcher also died in your hands?"
Wiltok nodded and said calmly: "I did it."
Captain Harker said excitedly: "Master Wiltok, that bald-eared butcher dared to challenge Sister Sarah, but you killed him. I guess you must have been a level seven before, oh no, it was level eight! That's right! , Your Excellency must be an eighth-level venerable!" Then, he asked worriedly: "Sir, your eyes turned green, did you have a brain attack? Are you okay now?"
Wiltok said in deep thought: "There is no problem in moving, but I am weaker than before and it will take some time to recover."
Max, the dark hunter, breathed a sigh of relief and said: "My lord, you are already very strong if you can retain some of your strength. Unlike me, who was cursed by the orc shaman and became a cripple... Sir, you just said that there are wild boars ahead." Group, is it true?”
Wiltok smiled slightly and asked: "What if it is true? So what if it is false?"
Max thought for a while and said: "If you deliberately find an excuse to send away the Iron Cross Adventure Group, that's okay. If you can really sense the location of the wild boar herd, then we don't have to worry about finding food. The Iron Cross Regiment ran over to check. When they catch the wild boar, they will definitely follow us and cannot be driven away... The background of the Iron Cross Regiment is very complicated. It is best not to mix with them. It is better to do it ourselves. On your way?"
Wiltok is still not sure that there are really herds of wild boars in that direction. This is the first time he has used a special ability in the "Gluttony" talent - to search for food. He uses his spiritual intuition to find the most valuable ones at the nearest distance. food.
He didn't have this ability before. Vertok passed the test of the Dream Arena, and many of his abilities have changed.
First, the golden light group and "knowledge puzzle" of the conscious world disappeared.
Vertok determined that the golden light group and the "knowledge puzzle" were manifestations of his soul, and they have now been embodied in the dream arena.
Secondly, the moment he opened the arena treasure chest, Wiltok knew that he had regained his memory. His name was Victor, not Vertok, but after leaving the Dream Arena, those memories disappeared again, as if they were blocked by some kind of power.
However, the Dream Arena is more powerful than the "Knowledge Puzzle". Wiltok forcibly synchronized the "Knowledge Puzzle" and killed the Bald-Eared Butcher. His mental power was also severely damaged, and his mental attributes were reduced to the level of a child. Through the Dream Arena, he restored his mental attributes from 4 points to 13 points in just five days.
Just imagine, it takes more than twenty years for an infant to grow to the peak of his life, but it only took five days for the Dream Arena to repair Wiltok's mental attributes, which shows how miraculous its function is.
Vertok won five rounds of the Arena and not only repaired his mental damage, but also received some rewards. Including, the primary all-encompassing original method, gluttony talent, self-healing talent, activation talent, surge talent, extraordinary vitality, water element affinity, and the title of "Goblin Slayer".
In addition to the title of "Goblin Slayer", Wiltok has always had all other innate abilities. Just because of the limitations of mental attributes, some abilities cannot be used or awakened.
The talents available to Vertok now match his current mental attributes.
Elementary Wanxiang Original Technique: An extraordinary combat skill that combines various forging techniques, breaking techniques, and combat breathing techniques. It is limited by 13 points of mental attributes. It is currently in the primary stage and can skillfully use various weapons and basic combat techniques.
Gluttony Talent: Blessed by the affinity of the water element, Vertok's food and potion intake efficiency is increased by 300%; poison resistance is enhanced by 200%; the ability to absorb water elements is strengthened, and can slightly change the mental body, give birth to psychic tentacles, and perceive Foods with abundant water elements nearby.
Searching for food is an active ability that requires energy and has a cooldown time of 70 minutes.
Self-healing talent: Blessed by extraordinary vitality, Wiltok's wound self-healing speed increases by 15 times. When he uses the activation or surge talent, the self-healing talent is upgraded to the healing talent, and the wound quickly stops bleeding and recovers quickly.
Healing is also an active talent that requires energy and water elements in the body.
Activation talent: Blessed by the affinity of the water element, Wiltok activates inner dive, instantly recovers 40% of physical energy, and actively heals wounds. The cooldown time is 6 hours.
Surge talent (part): Blessed by extraordinary vitality, Wiltok can stimulate his inner potential beyond the limit, mobilize the water element in the body, instantly restore physical energy, actively heal wounds, increase basic strength by 50%, and enhance physical strength by 50%. , thereby obtaining higher defense.
Due to insufficient mental attributes, the surge talent lasts for 160 seconds, consuming energy and water elements in the body. After the effect ends, Wiltok will fall into a period of weakness, with his mental attributes reduced by 2 points and his life attributes reduced by 4 points. However, he can pass the metal Toad Secret and Gluttony restore attribute values.
It should be noted that the activation talent cannot be used before the mental and life attributes are restored, and the self-healing talent is also affected.
Goblin Slayer (Title): Wiltok slightly changes his mental body and grows psychic tentacles, which has a shocking effect on the goblins, making the surrounding goblins fearful and stiff, but they can be resisted. After the shock effect ends, Vertok will receive strong hatred from the goblins.
Of course, Wiltok doesn't understand the concept of mental body yet, so he thinks the title of the arena reward is interesting. He didn't use the title "Goblin Slayer" if he didn't want to scare the goblins. The goblin clan will definitely not be intimidated by him.
In fact, the titles of "Search for Food" and "Goblin Slayer" both belong to the category of spiritual touch. Disa half-elves are accustomed to calling this the "Shadow of Dreams", which is a higher level than the "Heart of Mirrors".
Vertok transcended the "Heart of Realm" and directly mastered the "Shadow of Dreams". It cannot be said to be unique, but it is also a very rare case. What's more, he did it easily, with almost no effort.
The Dream Arena is very real. Vertok now wanted to know if his reward was real or a dream.
The two major talents of Activation and Surge have a cooling time and cannot be tested casually. There were no goblins around for Vertok to verify the title of "Goblin Slayer".
He shook his head and said, "I also want to see if Captain Rhodes can catch the wild boar at the place I pointed out. Let's wait first."
