Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 181

"People from Horn Town?" Hearing Yas' exclamation, Thorne was taken aback, and then looked solemnly at the outline of the body revealed in the rapidly dissipating smoke.

From the moment Ashmo led him and Yas into the edge of the Forest of Tranquility, he immediately noticed that the distance from this place to Horn Town and Falls Town was about the same. The townspeople found out that they might also rush over to join in the fun, but they didn't expect to come so fast.

Most of the players in Horn Town are people with strange brains, because when they create characters, the races they choose are almost all ugly non-human races such as humanoids, such as kobolds, goblins, and ogres. Monsters, trolls, etc. can be seen everywhere in Horn Town, and the players who really choose humans or elves and half-elves are only a very small number.

When the entire game changed, these non-human race players who were rejected by the civilized settlements were not many in number, but they also spontaneously united together, led their own men, and established a territory of their own in the wilderness.

Although their ugly appearance makes it difficult for them to be recognized by human civilization, and it is very difficult for them to communicate with civilized settlements, but they also have their own advantages and strengths.

For example: Players who choose kobolds and goblins, if they have good leadership skills, can rely on their own strength and wisdom to easily fool a large group of goblins and kobolds in the wilderness as their cheap subordinates.

Theoretically speaking, as long as there is enough food, you can even gather a large number of goblin kobolds to work for you. After all, with the player's strength, it is easy to do it if you want to stand out from the crowd of goblins or kobolds, and the weakest in these wilderness The intelligent race is also the easiest to coax and enslave.

Players who choose ogres, gnolls, or lizardmen races, if they feel that they are stronger than the leader of the tribe, they can also challenge the leader directly, defeat him, and then become the leader of the tribe, leading everyone in the tribe, and They also have priority in the distribution of food and the mating rights of females.

Before the game changed, some professionals conducted a detailed investigation on this almost real game, and came to a conclusion: If you want to play this game as a farming game and let your own power grow rapidly, the most important thing is to Suitable intelligent races are goblins and kobolds.

However, compared to the appearance of goblins and kobolds, except for those who really have a special hobby for them, almost no one is willing to choose these two intelligent races.

The fact is that these players who choose the humanoid race have inherent advantages in the wilderness, and their development speed is much smoother than that of several other towns. With the non-human race players with a population of less than 50, they succeeded in the Emerald Field Build an unstoppable Horn Town.

Facing the vast crowd of hobgoblins, when Thorn was having a headache on how to intercept them, people from Horn Town appeared out of nowhere and gave him a big surprise.

More than 100 hobgoblin knights were directly bombarded by a super-large fireball, causing nearly half of the casualties, and the remaining hobgoblin knights who were less injured were also frightened by the amazing power of the spell and did not dare to move forward easily.

Facing the fear hidden deep in their blood, the wargs under them all crawled on the ground and shivered, and kept trembling and whimpering from their mouths.

No one dares to underestimate the power of magic, otherwise their lives will soon end magnificently, just like hobgoblins and worg corpses that were blasted to bloody flesh in the pit, even if it is a sophisticated full-body armor, as long as there is no After being enchanted, it also looks pale and weak under the power of magic.

When Curse Swordsman Yas blurted out that the spellcaster who caused this spell effect was from Horn Town, Thorne immediately went through several leaders of Horn Town with names and surnames in his mind.

Human rangers, ogre wizards, goblin wizards, and war trolls finally locked their targets between the ogre wizard and goblin wizard, and then looked with affirmative eyes.

Before the gunpowder smoke completely dissipated, the first thing he saw was a rough body nearly three meters tall. After careful observation, he found that although he had the same appearance as a wild troll, his rubbery green skin had a kind of With a dark metal tone, he is equipped with a metal armor made of simple iron pieces, and easily holds a two-handed giant sword nearly two meters long in his hand.

It was a war troll, and Thorne recognized it at a glance.

Trolls are terrifying carnivorous humanoid creatures that can be found in various climate regions from polar deserts to tropical jungles. According to different living environments, their types are mainly divided into: cave trolls, forest trolls, and mountain trolls. Trolls, Frost Trolls, Aquatic Trolls, and the very rare Crystal Trolls.

Among the troll race, there is also a very special existence, that is: war trolls.

As an independent species in the troll race, war trolls have the same superior strength and regeneration ability as ordinary trolls, but are also smarter and stronger.

Because they were mainly formed in ancient times by an organization of arcane spellcasters who magically strengthened and transformed ordinary trolls. At the beginning, the purpose of these arcane spellcasters to create war trolls was to wage war and plunder .

Although the organization of arcane spellcasters in ancient times has long since disappeared into the dusty history, these war trolls have been preserved intact, and they are still multiplying to this day.

As the strongest war troll in the troll race, whenever Thorne saw the player troll in Horn Town, he couldn't help thinking, what is the price the other party paid for choosing this race?How high is the leveling experience penalty?
According to his understanding, Anderina's old steward was the weakest and most common forest troll among the troll races. Even so, the upgrade experience penalty was 50% higher than that of ordinary races.

So, as the strongest war troll in the troll race, one can imagine how much experience he needs to upgrade.

The people in Fallshang Town had had conflicts with the people in Bugle Town, so Thorne was quite familiar with this war troll player, but another tall figure beside him made him feel even more strange, and made him have a kind of Strange familiarity.

This is a lycanthropy player.

The lycanthropy is not an optional race, so the only way to become a lycanthropy is to acquire lycanthropy.

One of the oldest and most terrifying curses, lycanthropy can turn the most civilized humanoids into raging beasts.

The terrible lycanthropy will spread like a disease. After ordinary humans and humanoid creatures are injured by lycanthropy attacks, if they fail to pass the fortitude saving throw, they will be infected with lycanthropy and become infected lycanthropes. .

Whether it's the infected lycanthropy or the next generation of natural lycanthropes, they all have an ability called the "curse of lycanthropy", and the humanoid creatures bitten by them may be infected with lycanthropy.

A humanoid creature injured by a lycanthropy, or whose parent is a lycanthropy, is infected by the lycanthropy curse.

The third-ring spell "Remove Curse" can remove the curse of infection from the lycanthropy, but the natural-born lycanthropy can only get rid of the curse with the ninth-ring spell "Wish".

The lycanthropy can choose to resist or accept the lycanthropy curse on his body. When resisting the curse, the lycanthropist will retain his camp and personality in the humanoid form, and he can live normally, and bury the bestial impulse and anger deep in his heart. place.

However, when the night of the full moon falls, the curse hidden in the heart will become irresistible and transform the cursed into its beast form, until the moon gradually disappears, and the bestiality in the body can be controlled again.

In some special cases, if the cursed creature is unaware of his condition, he may not remember his transformation, and these memories often haunt the lycanthropy as bloody dreams.

Some people don't think they have reason to resist these lycanthropy curses. In order to gain the powerful power brought by lycanthropy, they voluntarily be infected with this curse, and after a long period of practice, they can freely control their bodies and be able to Human form, animal form and half-human and half-human hybrid forms can transform freely, and they will not lose their minds during the transformation process, and can clearly remember what happened.

However, most lycanthropes are not so firm in their will. They often succumb to bloodthirsty desires and become evil, especially the werewolves of the chaotic evil camp. They generally believe in Mara, the god of hunting. Every full moon, The werewolf will start a bloody hunting ceremony to please Mara.

However, the lycanthrope player who appeared in front of Thorn at this time was a tiger man.

His appearance is like a colorful tiger walking upright, and then mixed with human form in the face.

The tiger man is about 2.2 meters tall, with a tail length of 1 meter. The whole body is covered with tiger skin. The bare chest is pure white fur. The legs are more like cats than humans. They stand on their toes and their fingers are full of sharp claws. , except that the ears, nose, mouth and teeth of the head are close to those of a tiger, the scarlet pupils and face are more human-like, and there is also a mess of long black hair.

This tiger man only wears a simple animal skin shorts on the lower body, and only a broken scarlet cloak on the shirtless upper body. It is carrying a black extension wood composite longbow about 1.5 meters long and full of arrows on its back. A quiver of arrows, and a large curved knife without a scabbard hanging from his waist.

When Thorn observed it carefully again, he finally understood the reason for the inexplicable familiarity, and at the same time recognized the true identity of this tiger man.

This person is the only human ranger leader in Bugle Town. Half a year later, what he didn't expect was that this human ranger named Seru had turned into a lycanthropy, and he didn't know that the other party was in the night of the full moon. Whether it can really suppress the power of the curse.

Afterwards, apart from the war trolls and tiger men, the remaining 30 people were all ordinary forest trolls. From the light in their eyes, it can be judged that these should be recruited by war trolls in the wilderness. of the men.

Just when Thorn wondered who cast the oversized fireball just now, the gunpowder disappeared completely, and beside the tiger man, a kobold floating in mid-air came into his sight.

In addition to having a stronger body than ordinary kobolds, this kobold also has two dark red leather wings behind it, and it is these two wings that support him to float in mid-air.

"The fireball just now was released by the kobold warlock?"

Thorn glanced at the floating kobold warlock, feeling a little unbelievable, so he confirmed to Yas beside him.

In his impression, there was no winged kobold warlock in Horn Town.

Moreover, players who choose weak races such as goblins or kobolds have the only advantage that the experience required to upgrade themselves is lower than that of ordinary races, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, when encountering ordinary professionals to advance to extraordinary or extraordinary professionals to advance When the bottleneck of the superhero level, the advanced conditions that need to be achieved are more difficult than those of other races.

According to the original inhabitants of the material world, the potential of these weak humanoid races is too low, and it is difficult for powerful professionals to appear in the ethnic group based on their own racial characteristics.

After all, in the main material world, although there are many legendary professionals, no one has ever heard of legendary goblins or legendary kobolds.

Therefore, they want to rely on the weak race like goblin kobolds to gradually enhance their own strength. While constantly tapping their own potential, they must also rely on foreign objects to fully sublimate their own racial characteristics.

"That's right, it's him, a player who joined Bugle Town two months ago, this kobold warlock is named Eugene, and he is very skilled in controlling the power of the "Fireball Technique", but the oversized fireball hit just now should be It was his limit. With his current strength as a level 9 warlock, it was impossible for him to release a second shot. Yas nodded in confirmation.

After listening to Yass' explanation, Thorn turned his attention to the Kobold Warlock again, and he really noticed the sluggish look in his expression, and the flapping of his wings seemed a little labored.

"People of Bugle Town, your leader has come to save you, so hurry up and take up the weapons in your hands and kill all the enemies around you."

Just when Thorn wondered why the people of Horn Town attacked the Horuk hobgoblin tribe, the Khajiit Ranger Seru gave him a deafening roar and explained the reason to him.

Following the tiger man's roar resounding through the wilderness, the driven slaves in the group of hobgoblins saw a few burly figures on the high slope, their eyes showed fanaticism, and then the riot began .

Ogres, trolls, kobolds, gnolls, lizardmen, and all the slaves, regardless of whether they were from Horn Town or not, all raised the simple weapons distributed by the hobgoblins in their hands, and turned to the goblins and bear goblins behind them. Attack with the hobgoblins.

"My friends in Fallstown, how long are you going to hide before you join us to wipe out all these hobgoblins?"

The Khajiit ranger nodded in satisfaction when he saw the slaves rioting among the hobgoblins, then pulled out the composite longbow behind him, turned around and looked in the direction where the three of Thorne were avoiding, and shouted.

When was it discovered?
Hiding in the dark, Thorn noticed the tiger Sairu's gaze, and exchanged glances with Yas who was beside him, both showing puzzled expressions.

"To be honest, Mr. Thorne." At this moment, the orc leader Sarn on the other side of Thorne's eyes suddenly flashed, and then said slowly to Thorne:
"I led everyone to walk carefully according to the map you gave me. When we reached the range of Horn Town, Kutaige mentioned to me that I always felt like I was being watched by others. Originally, I was very nervous. He was vigilant, but after careful inspection a few times, he didn't find any abnormalities. In the end, he saw that there was no danger, so he didn't care much. Now it seems that the spying that Kurtaig sensed must be done by people from Bugle Town.

"It can be seen from this that the purpose of the people in Bugle Town coming here should not be so pure, and certainly not just to save these dispensable slaves." Thorn tightened his sword and told the two of himself. the opinion of.

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At the other end of the wilderness, the ranger Ashmo led the orc players to the direction of Waterfall Town without stopping.

When their mighty figures disappeared from the sight of the three of Thorne, the surrounding dense bushes suddenly surged wildly.

Seeing this, Ashmo's face changed suddenly, and he pulled out the two long swords behind his back in an instant, and said solemnly to the orc sword master beside him: "Be careful, we are ambushed by goblin creatures."

"Ready to fight!" The orc sword master clenched the stainless steel long sword in his hand, and stared straight at the small figures constantly emerging from the bushes with his sharp eyes.

More than 200 orc players clenched their weapons tightly, spread out, and watched the small creatures around them vigilantly.

I saw a group of gray goblins all dressed in coarse linen jumping out from the dense bushes chirping. All of them were equipped with simple bows and arrows. A combination of tendons.

But what is strange is that these goblins surrounded the orc players, but they did not act rashly.

At the same time, directly in front of Ashmoor, a goblin wizard dressed in a clean gray wizard robe and a black pointed hat was riding on the back of a calf-sized warg, accompanied by a dozen bear goblins. Step down, and walk slowly in front of Ashmo.

The goblin wizard glanced at the ranger Ashmore with his long and narrow scarlet eyes, gently pulled the brim of his hat, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Long time no see, orphan ranger from Fallstown."

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