The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 231 It's Really Not Me (Two Chapters in One)

Underground hall.

Facing the birdman Alonso, who was flapping his wings and attacking quickly.

Renn took out a scroll surging with wind energy from his arms. It was the long-awaited witchcraft scroll 'Summoning Hurricane' obtained from Adams.

As Renn tore open the scroll, in an instant, a hurricane containing powerful energy swept towards Alonso, the newly promoted birdman.

Since Alonso has just been affected by the evil power and has become a winged race, his body is still in the adaptation period to the control of wings. He accelerates extremely fast in a straight line, but it will take a while before he can fly up and down flexibly.

In an instant, under the influence of the strong hurricane, Birdman Alonso was immediately hit in the air and rolled 360 degrees, and his whole body was swayed left and right by the hurricane.

"Shh!"

When he was able to stabilize his body, he saw a silver arc-shaped sword light flashing past!
Although Alonso was still in mid-air at this time, his wings had begun to stagnate.

Only an incision was seen, diagonally downward from the left side of his neck, through the chest and abdomen, to the right side of the abdomen!
"Hey!" sounded like the sound of a high-pressure water gun shooting out!
The huge incision on Alonso's body suddenly spurted out a ring of smelly blood.

"Puff! Puff!"

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of two heavy objects hitting the ground!

I saw the body cut in half diagonally and fell to the ground almost at the same time.
Various body fluids, organs, etc. were scattered all over the floor!
The two corpses that fell to the ground at this moment seemed to be unwilling to do something again, but all they got was violent twitching of some of the stumps!

but
With the passage of life, the power of the evil god seemed to escape, and at this moment, Alonso's dark eyes began to change again, and the whites of his eyes appeared.

At the same time, a certain clarity seemed to have returned to his eyes.

I saw him trying hard to look at Ren, his eyes full of unwillingness, regret, resentment and other emotions. The next second, his lips murmured twice, and then he died.
After Renn glanced at the dead Alonso, he immediately focused his attention on the Black Flame Priest whose aura was undergoing drastic changes!
Because Ren can clearly feel that the other party's aura is constantly improving like a volcano erupting.

At the same time, the bloated body of the Black Flame Priest, which was originally more than two meters tall, was also rapidly expanding at this moment.
Two and a half meters.
three meters
Three and a half meters.
In an instant, this aura was stronger than anyone Ren had seen before, including Captain Baron, Earl Habs and other peak knights. It seemed that he had suddenly reached a higher level!
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Outside the black air shield.

The strong man with a shield on his back waved his hand to Rudolph and said: "Don't waste the scroll, leave it to me!"

I saw the strong man carrying a shield suddenly taking off the shield he was carrying. It turned out that there was a mystery hidden inside the shield. There was a white-gold scepter about one meter long inside.

The strong man held the platinum scepter, muttered something in his mouth, and then threw it hard at the black shield!

In an instant, the platinum scepter burst out with extremely brilliant white light. At the same time, a mighty and majestic aura filled the surroundings, completely canceling out the slight pressure of the evil god's will just now!

Looking at the scepter that was like a white lightning striking the black air shield, Rudolph looked shocked!
He looked at the scene in front of him and murmured: "Could it be that this is the emperor's scepter?"

"Of course not, this is just an imitation of the scepter held by His Majesty the Emperor." The man holding a short staff on the side explained casually.

"Compared to the real Emperor's Scepter, its power is less than one percent, but it is more than enough to deal with the projection of the evil god's will!"

"Bang!" The white-gold scepter instantly broke through the defense of the black air shield, as easily as a hammer cracking an egg.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw the white-gold scepter, like a meteor piercing the sky, rushing straight into the ground at an extremely fast speed! ——

At this time, Ren took out the leaf he had kept but never used from his arms.

Holding this leaf in your hand, you can feel that it contains surging life energy. It is actually a special witchcraft scroll, a gift from Anna's aunt, the elf lady.

Ryan placed it in the most convenient position.

Suddenly, the greyhound war dog Cookie quickly ran to Renn's side. After thinking about it, Renn picked up the bow again and drew out one of the only two steel arrows left.

Obviously, in the current state of the Black Flame Priest, it is best to try first to see if it can be interrupted.

It's too dangerous to fight in close combat with a big sword. If it's a long-range attack, you can try it.

In fact, Renn has been hesitating before. Recently, he upgraded the pharmacist to obtain skill points. Should he use them to improve the giant bear sword skill or the blood rage archery skill?
On the one hand, the giant bear swordsmanship is the first extraordinary combat skill he learned, and it is still very emotional.

But since he has mastered the Tokkal Hammer Technique at the mystical level, judging from the diversity of combat, at this time, if he invests skill points in similar melee extraordinary combat skills, the benefits obtained will be reduced.

On the contrary, if the long-range attack method of Blood Fury Archery can be improved, not only can it make up for his shortcomings in long-range combat, but under the current circumstances, using long-range archery to interrupt the promotion of the Black Flame Priest is the best option. safe.

The current battle situation helped Ren make the decision!

Without any hesitation, Renn immediately devoted all his remaining skill points to the Blood Fury Archery.

As the remaining skill points went from 3 to 0, the Blood Fury Archery skill rocketed from lv6 to lv9!

In an instant, a majestic memory of practicing Blood Fury Archery poured into Ren's mind. For a moment, Renn felt as if he had been practicing Blood Fury Arch in some mysterious space for decades. !

When Ren once again grasped the huge battle bow in his hand, the feeling was completely different!

Especially at this moment, there are still some memories in his mind about the secret skill of Blood Fury Archery, 'Blood Fury Blow'.

Didn't have time to check the system prompts.

Renn's face was solemn, his whole body exuded a thick blood-colored halo, and the blood vessels on the surface of his skin were swollen, which was extremely scary!

The bowstring in his hand was also stretched to the extreme. At this moment, the steel arrow in his hand suddenly appeared with complex and strange bloody lines. This pattern was more intense than when Phil Kratz used it. , bright red.

A "chirp" sound!
The bloody steel arrow broke through the air at an extremely high speed and shot towards the head of the fat officiant!

Almost at the same time!

There was something that was faster than his arrow and hit the rising Black Flame Priest first!

Renn only saw a white-gold light, like a meteor falling down, heading straight towards the position of the Black Flame Priest!
Instantly! A painful roar echoed throughout the surroundings!

This roar gave the impression that it was not the original voice of the Black Flame Priest, but that it came from the majestic being behind him!
At the same time, a majestic aura as profound as a mountain and towering overwhelmed the terrifying aura that originally permeated the underground hall.

This majestic aura is like facing the supreme emperor of mankind!
Only then did Ryan see clearly that the light was actually a platinum-colored scepter. At this moment, the platinum scepter hit the chest of the Black Flame High Priest, creating a hole as big as a bucket.

The high priest's promotion process was thus interrupted, and the black flame defense around him suddenly disappeared.

Therefore, the arrow containing the "Blood Rage Strike" that Ryan had just shot just happened to break through the defensive black flames and hit the originally round head of the high priest.

"Snapped!"

It was like the sound of a watermelon bursting!
The round head on the fat body of the chief priest suddenly turned into a pool of white blood, flesh, body fluids and broken bones.
At this time, the system prompts like refreshing the screen came:
[Your skill Tokkal Hammer has been improved, and your experience value is +2392]

[Your skill Bloodfury Archery has been improved, and your experience value is +2106]

[Your skill Giant Bear Swordsmanship has been improved, experience value +899]

[Your skill Sharpness is improved, experience value +78]

(Note: The above skills and experience have enjoyed a 30% increase in the exclusive talent 'Elementary Extraordinary Comprehension'.)
[Congratulations, you defeated a strong enemy and gained 1 gold skill point! 】

[You have experienced a battle, Weapon Master (Legendary) experience +1997, Wizard Apprentice (Extraordinary) experience +138, Tamer (Extraordinary) experience +109. ]

[Congratulations, your Weapon Master (Legendary) career level has been improved! 】

The Weapon Master (Legend) profession level was upgraded to level 6 (13/3000), which also allowed Ryan to gain one attribute point and one skill point again.

Now he has 8 attribute points remaining and 1 skill point remaining.

When Ryan saw that he had successfully killed the Black Flame High Priest, he immediately felt relieved.

Fortunately, the Black Flame High Priest's promotion process had not been completely completed before it was interrupted by the platinum-colored hammer.

I guess I found a big bargain!
However, where did the platinum scepter just now come from?

Ryan looked around but couldn't find the source.

Hmm. What is this?
Ryan keenly noticed that there was a special aura lingering around the dead fat high priest.

This aura made Ryan feel vaguely familiar, very much like the great being that the Black Flame followers had just prayed to devoutly, but at this moment, the evil charm was much less, and instead it was filled with a sense of vastness and greatness.
Before Ryan could get close, the system prompt sounded again:

[Ding! The test found that the unknown high-quality energy can be absorbed. Yes/No? ]

(Note: This high-quality energy can be directly converted into talent points after absorption.)
Huh?
Can it be converted into talent points?
Looking at the system prompt, Ryan was stunned!
He had thought about this problem before. His talents, such as 'primary steel body', could obviously be further improved. After all, the word 'primary' indicated something.

But he never figured out how to improve his talent.

Because both skill points and gold skill points are used to improve skills, not talents.

At this moment, the answer appears!
Although Ryan was not sure whether this was the only way to obtain talent points, it was at least one way.

He was so happy that he chose "Yes!" without hesitation.

In an instant, the strange breath or energy that was originally lingering around the fat body of the chief priest, at this moment, like a hundred rivers converging, poured into Ryan's body and further rushed into his body!

For a moment, instead of feeling any discomfort, Ryan felt an indescribable sense of comfort and sublimation all over his body.

If someone were to observe from the side, they would find that Ryan was emitting a faint golden glow and an indescribable pressure.

The next second, the absorption was completed and this strange phenomenon disappeared immediately!

Looking back at the entire underground hall, at this moment, it has returned to its previous slightly damp, bloody and smelly state.

[Ding! Convert one talent point in total. Please select the talent 'Primary Weapon Mastery (Passive)', 'Primary Supernatural Comprehension (Passive)' or 'Primary Steel Body (Passive)' to upgrade. ]

(Note: The talent 'Intermediate Power (Active)' requires two talent points to upgrade. Currently, there are not enough talent points and it cannot be upgraded.)
Looking at the system prompts, Ryan quickly understood that his first three talents with the prefix "primary" were of one level, while "Intermediate Strength (Active)" was a talent of a higher level.

Since it cannot be added to the talent 'Intermediate Strength (Active)', how should I choose among the remaining three talents?
Ryan couldn't help but ponder.

'Primary Supernatural Enlightenment (Passive)' was first excluded by Ryan because it was not an instant combat talent.

This talent increases the speed at which extraordinary combat skills are mastered.

But in fact, Ryan's later improvements to his extraordinary combat skills were basically achieved by directly adding skill points.

Generally speaking, after a skill reaches level 7, even with the "primary extraordinary comprehension" which shortens the time by nearly one-third, it still takes a relatively long time to improve it on a daily basis.

As for the two items 'Primary Weapon Mastery (Passive)' and 'Primary Steel Body (Passive)', they can both be classified as real-time combat talents.

Their respective characteristics are also very obvious, one is more offensive and the other is more defensive. After a little thought, Ryan decided to choose "Stacked Armor" first!
"After this incident, if it weren't for the last 'Flying Hammer', facing the Black Flame High Priest who has surpassed the peak Great Knight and entered the next level, the subsequent battles would have been extremely difficult for me."

"But if you have stronger defense, your tolerance for mistakes will naturally be higher."

After making up his mind, Ryan silently recited the points for "Primary Steel Body (Passive)" in his mind.

In an instant, a surge of heat flowed through his body surface. Ryan stretched out his hands and looked down, only to see that the skin on his palms and the backs of his hands suddenly lit up with a silver-gray metallic halo.

This halo flows on the surface of the body like mercury, flickering.

After a few seconds, the halo faded and Ryan's skin returned to its original color.

At this time, a system prompt appears:
[Congratulations, your talent 'Primary Steel Body (Passive)' has been upgraded to 'Intermediate Steel Body (Passive)'! 】

Seeing the second newly generated intermediate talent on the attribute panel, Ryan couldn't help but smile brightly.

Just as Ryan was about to check, he suddenly heard a rustling sound of hurried footsteps coming from the hole above!
Ryan turned his head and saw a group of people coming down from above, including the familiar Archbishop Rudolf of the Goddess Church and a small team of elite Knights Templar.

However, what struck Ryan as somewhat strange was that Rudolph and the others had stepped slightly back, and instead, two unfamiliar men with steady steps were walking at the front of the team.

The other group of people were seen moving forward slowly and cautiously, holding weapons in their hands. However, when they saw the scene in the underground hall at this moment, they were immediately stunned!

The empty underground hall had almost become a slaughterhouse.

There were scattered limbs and broken arms everywhere, and the smell of blood and the stench of rotting corpses filled the air!

Especially in the center of the hall, the pile of corpses piled up like a small mountain and the fat body of the chief priest several meters high on the side were particularly eye-catching!

Of course, in comparison, what is more eye-catching at this moment is Ryan, who is holding a bow and wearing a banquet dress.

Everyone instinctively pointed their weapons at Ryan, until Priest Rudolf seemed to see Ryan clearly and asked tentatively: "Ryan?"

Ryan smiled and nodded, saying, "Master Rudolph, thank you for coming to help!"

Hearing Ryan's words, Rudolph immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ryan, you're okay, that's great!"

The two strange men also looked at the young man in front of them with a little surprise.

They didn't expect that the boy would survive under such circumstances.

Great Knight?
At this age, his strength is considered pretty good, but it's still a long way to go to survive a trace of the evil god's projection.

The young man holding the short staff stopped Rudolph who was about to step forward and said, "I need to perform the spirit-detecting technique."

"You are worried." Rudolf immediately thought of something.

So, he turned his face to look at Ryan and said, "Ryan, for the sake of caution, these two Excellencies from the Imperial Sword Bearers need to use the Spirit Appraisal Technique on you."

"The Spirit Appraisal Technique does no harm. It is only used to judge the changes in one's spiritual radiance."

After listening to this, Ryan suddenly understood.

Is this because he is worried that he will be controlled or possessed by the great being worshipped by the Black Flame Cult?
"Of course!" Ryan said without hesitation.

In addition, when Ryan heard that these two people were affiliated with the Imperial Sword Bearer Organization, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at them.

There were two men, one was a burly man with a shield on his back, and the other was relatively thin, holding a short staff. It was this man who was going to perform the spirit-appraising technique on him.

Hearing Ryan's ready agreement, the group immediately relaxed a lot.

As the man holding the short staff chanted a spell softly.

Soon, a thin, snake-like beam of energy appeared out of thin air in front of his short staff.

With a slight wave of his short staff, the energy snake rushed towards Ryan rapidly. When it reached a few dozen centimeters in front of Ryan, it no longer moved closer, but coiled and entangled.

At this moment, Ryan could feel some special mysterious energy particles interacting with himself.

After a few seconds, the snake flashing white light suddenly dissipated, presenting a beautiful scene of scattered flashing particles.

"No problem! It's a human!" The man with the short stick nodded affirmatively.

The young man in front of me is lucky.

Now, the group finally felt relieved.

Rudolf walked up quickly, patted Ryan on the shoulder and exchanged greetings.

"I thought you were"

The burly man with a shield on his back and the man with a short staff also came over at this time.

However, they nodded to Ryan, and then immediately walked forward, as if they had some mission.

The man with the short sticks quickly came to the location where the Black Flame Church had originally held the witchcraft formation, and stuck a total of three short sticks with metal patterns on the ground around them. Then, he began to chant spells and cast spells.

Soon, three half-meter-long carved staffs began to shine with a strong witchcraft aura, and the carvings on the staffs also lit up.

Half a minute passed
The man with the short staff looked at the empty carved short staff triangle formation with a surprised look on his face, and said, "Captain, that's not right! Just now when we were there, we clearly felt a trace of the power of the evil god."

"But I just cast the energy absorption magic circle and it didn't absorb anything! This shouldn't be the case."

"Hmm? Is there such a thing?"

The sturdy man with a shield on his back who came to the high priest and was about to take back the platinum scepter was also surprised when he heard his companion's words!

After a brief thought, the sturdy man pointed at the fat corpse of the Black Flame Priest beside him and said, "Is it possible that it was absorbed by this corpse?"

"Is that so? That is a possibility." The man with the short stick touched his chin, thought for a while, and nodded.

After all, such a huge humanoid corpse doesn't look normal no matter how you look at it.

So, in the same way as before, the man with the short stick got busy again.

He surrounded the fat corpse of the Black Flame High Priest, placed the three metal patterned short staffs at the three vertices of an equilateral triangle, and chanted the spell again.

Three short staffs with metal patterns immediately lit up!
Still half a minute passed.
Still empty!

This made the burly man with the shield on his back and the man with the short staff look at each other, both with puzzled expressions.

Especially the burly man with a shield on his back, this is his third time to carry out this kind of mission, how could he get nothing?

After thinking for a long time, the sturdy man with the shield turned around and asked Ryan, who was still chatting with Rudolph:

"Sir, did you see anything strange just now?"

"Strange things?" Ryan asked back, as if he knew the answer.

He had already seen the two of them busy at the scene just now.

Ryan knew that these two official sword holders were probably trying to collect the high-quality energy that had dissipated before, but the problem was that that thing had already been absorbed by their system.

It is impossible for him to return what has been absorbed by the system.

so.
Ryan can only and must deny it!
"It's just a trace of spiritual substance that exudes a vast aura." The man with the short stick frowned and thought about how to express it. After all, the mission is confidential and cannot be revealed at will.

Ryan shook his head and said, "I felt the pressure, but as for the spiritual substance you mentioned, I really don't know."

At this time, the man with the shield took the platinum-colored scepter from the dead Black Flame High Priest's body, walked to Ryan's side, and said in a deep voice: "The energy on the Emperor's scepter has been consumed a lot, which means that the power of the evil god has indeed appeared here."

"My young sir, have you absorbed that trace of purified divinity of the evil god just now?" The burly man with a shield on his back said, staring at Ryan with his tiger eyes.

Ryan shook his head without hesitation and said, "Really not."

"Then can you swear?" the sturdy man asked with sharp eyes.

"Of course!" Ryan nodded.

"Goddess, if I have absorbed that trace of the purified divinity of the evil god, please let me..."

At this time, Ryan said silently in his heart, although the benefits of this thing finally fell into my hands, this thing was definitely not absorbed by me, it was absorbed by the system.
The sturdy man glanced obscurely at the man with the short staff next to him. The man with the short staff looked at a witchcraft prop in his hand that looked like a skull and shook his head slightly.

No lies?

The polygraph skull did not respond.

So where did the divinity of this evil god go?

Damn it, it takes a huge amount of merit to re-infuse the power of the Emperor's Scepter. Not only did I fail to complete this task, but I even had to pay for it. This is fucked up!
The sturdy man carrying the shield couldn't help but feel annoyed!

At this time, some nobles and guards in the mansion above also saw or heard the commotion here, and many of them walked in through the hole above.

The leaders were the steward of Baron Elliot's mansion who had initially stopped Rudolph, as well as Michelle and others.

Michelle was quite sharp-eyed. The first thing he saw after entering was Alonso who was split into two pieces!
After all, Ryan's sword just now cut diagonally into Alonso's left neck, and his head was still intact.

Although the face looked a little ferocious, anyone familiar with it could still tell at a glance that it was Alonso's head.

"Lord Baron!"

When Michelle saw this scene, she couldn't help but tremble all over, her eyes widened, and her face was full of disbelief.

The next second, he felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, several guards nearby immediately supported him.

"Quick! Go and inform Count Habsburg!"

"Baron Alonso, he's dead"

(End of this chapter)