Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 274 Level Up
Inside the ruined tent.

The sorceress Andelina, who was resting on a soft blanket, slowly opened her sleepy eyes and looked around.

When she realized that there was darkness in front of her eyes, a nervousness subconsciously appeared on her pretty face covered by messy hair, and a faint golden light suddenly flashed in her eyes.

Immediately, under the blessing of the pale golden light, all the surrounding darkness that oppressed her was dispelled for her, and what appeared in front of her eyes became a monotonous black and white picture.

Even though darkvision gave her the ability to see in the dark, she still didn't like the monotonous look.

Because black represents deep, oppressive, solemn and ruthless, while white symbolizes death and ominous in her hometown.

Even if the combination of these two colors can become a classic color, she still has an instinctive rejection in her heart.

So she immediately moved her pale golden eyes to an ever-burning candle engraved with magic runes on the ground.

An everlasting candle is a lighting object that can emit magical light, and its light will never be extinguished unless the owner allows it.

Obviously, the ever-burning candle did not last as bright as its name, nor did it dispel all the darkness. The sorceress who found the reason frowned involuntarily.

"Buzz!"

Along with Andelina's white jade-like fingertips flashing a little magical aura, the ever-burning candle once again emitted a soft magical light, and at the same time dispelled the darkness for this small tent.

A scene of comfort that reassured her once again appeared in Anderina's eyes.

Then she subconsciously glanced at the exquisite incense burner that had not been burned out, and after guessing the approximate time, she finally shifted her slightly uneasy gaze to another figure sitting cross-legged not far from her in the tent.

I saw her stroking the few strands of hair on her forehead that blocked her view, resting her hands on her forehead, half-supporting her delicate body lying on the blanket, looking at the figure with her back facing her, gradually, the corners of her mouth emerged involuntarily. A faint smile.

"This is the so-called 'reliance'." The sorceress stared at the back of the half-elf ranger in a daze.

Although nothing happened between the two of them huddled in a small tent, but for her, this night was the most peaceful night she slept after falling into this world.

Because there is someone worthy of her trust who is always by her side, and she doesn't have to worry about anything, just rest well.

"if……"

Thinking about it, a bright blush gradually appeared on the sorceress' cheeks, and spread to the roots of her ears at an extremely fast speed. Under the illumination of the magic halo, the whole person looked charming and charming.

Feeling the hot face, Anderina secretly took a look at the other party, and found that the ranger still left her with a back view. She was relieved and at the same time felt a little bit disappointed, and then she shook her hair with loose hair. Head, dispel the few fantasies that flashed through my mind.

Then he got up from the soft blanket, and put the coat covering his body back on his exquisite and delicate body.

After putting on her coat, Andrina took out a small round mirror, and while she was illuminating her delicate face, she stretched out her hand to straighten her loose black hair.

After everything was packed, the sorceress looked at the ranger's back and smiled, took out an exquisite container containing the snow water from Mount Varners from the dimensional bag, and started to get busy.

Thorn, who was sitting cross-legged on the other side, opened his eyes from his contemplation, and took a deep breath involuntarily.

Immediately, a refreshing aroma lingering in the tent made his dull head sober again.

It turns out that when wizards meditate or memorize spells, the lit aids do have a clearing effect.

At least after he stayed in Anderina's tent and enjoyed the refreshing scent all night, it did speed up his progress in learning the moves of the Desert Wind School.

"It seems that in the future, when learning moves, you will also need to light an auxiliary thing like refreshing incense." Thorne muttered to himself.

Feeling the scent lingering in his nostrils, which was very similar to Andrina's deodorant, as if recalling some good memories, Thorne's frowning brows slowly relaxed.

Then he laughed again, and locked his eyes on his attribute bar:
XP: 200370
Practice points: 21530
Immediately after a thought, he took the lead in distributing the experience to the ranger's professional level.

"Ding!"

Consume 85400 experience points to increase the ranger level!

The ranger level has been raised to level 8!
Gain 6 skill points and increase HP by 10 points!
Obtain the professional feature: fast track!
Get 1 free attribute point.

……

Seeing that the level of ranger has been raised, and there is not much experience left, Thorne once again set his sights on the level of swordsman.

Kendo: Level 7 (0/85400)

"Ding!"

Consume 85400 experience points to increase the level of swordsmen!
The level of Kendo master has been raised to level 8!
Gain 6 skill points and increase HP by 10 points!
Obtain occupational characteristics: genre specialization (proficient)!

Get 1 free attribute point.

Sword intent comprehension progress increased by 1%, and 20000 practice points were obtained!

……

"Finally obtained the feature of "Fast Tracking". With this professional feature, the efficiency of tracking prey will be improved to the extreme in the future. Thorne looked at the ranger professional characteristics he had just acquired, and nodded in satisfaction.

Although ranger is an all-rounder and seemingly mediocre class, it is inferior to fighters in melee combat, sneak attack is inferior to rogues, and magic is not as good as druids, but this class also has its own characteristics.

That is the unique ability to track prey and scout.

The "tracking" feature, as a special ability attached to the inaugural ranger, enables rangers to track traces of creatures or people in most terrains.

But whenever the ranger is tracking the prey, because the footprints or traces of the prey are covered and scattered, it is easy to increase their tracking difficulty, which eventually leads to a significant decrease in the tracking speed, and it is common to lose the prey.

And the feature of "fast tracking" is to greatly improve the speed and efficiency of the rangers in tracking their prey, so that when they are tracking their prey, they no longer bend over and search carefully along the traces step by step, but can use normal walking speed.

With Thorne's current proficient "tracking" feature, after he masters the "fast tracking" ability, it is difficult to be successful in various complex terrains such as wilderness, woodland, bare rocky ground, or snow-covered ground. Prey were able to escape his pursuit.

As for the kendoist's "School Specialization" professional feature, which has been raised to the proficient level, in addition to allowing him to increase the power of the moves of the selected specialization style again, his other professional skill "Insight Strike" has also been strengthened.

"Insight Strike" is similar to the Juggernaut's "Insight Weakness".

In this way, when attacking the enemy, it will capture the opponent's weakness due to the level of its own perception attribute, thereby causing greater damage, especially in the face of the static protective force field of the spellcasters, the effect is the most significant.

After all, when fighting melee professionals, the enemy's attack and body are always changing, so it is difficult to accurately find the loopholes in the defense and hit the vital points instantly.

Then Thorn glanced at the 2 free attribute points he had just gained from leveling up, after a little thought, he allocated them all to the strength attribute.

In this way, his strength attribute has reached 19 points without the blessing of any equipment. If he wants to break through the strength attribute to the extraordinary attribute, he only needs to upgrade the two professional levels to level 10 to achieve it.

With the increase of 2 points of strength attribute, Thorne intuitively felt that the musculature of the whole body was undergoing changes that were difficult to describe in words, but it made him clearly feel that his whole body was full of strength.

The only thing that makes him regret is that the ogre power belt bought from the plane merchant in Twilight Town is no longer useful to him.

After all, this piece of magic equipment can only increase a person's strength to 18 points at most, and he has reached 19 points now, so he can't get any bonus at all.

Immediately afterwards, Thorne directly allocated all the 12 skill points gained from the upgrade to the "Focus" skill.

Now that his "Concentration" skill has reached 48 points, the three defensive counter skills of the Steel Soul School will make it very difficult for him to fail the check from Will, Fortitude, and Reflex.

And the strike skills launched by the "Concentration" skill in the Steel Soul School will also become the deadliest in his hands.

In the end, Thorne set his sights on the practice points with only more than 40000 points.

After contemplating for a while, he used 20000 practice points to choose to activate the fourth-level moves of the Shadow Hand School, and then learned a striking skill called "Death Hand".

[Hand of death (strike skill); use the power of shadow to condense a ghost palm that can be freely controlled.When the ghost's palm touches the target, the power of shadow spreads rapidly to the target's body, and the target must make a Fortitude saving throw.On a failed check, the icy shadow energy paralyzes it, rendering it immobile. 】

The so-called saving throw, calculated according to his perception adjustment value, as long as the physical attribute is lower than 19 points, it will be eroded by the power of shadow produced by this dead hand.

This skill is actually similar to his "Shadow Twister", but the condensed palm of "Death Hand" is more convenient to control than the rope condensed by "Shadow Twister".

Why do many people say that the caster profession is almost the strongest group in the entire continent? Apart from their large-scale destructive spells, what is really dreadful is their endless control spells.

From Charm Human, Fright, Colorful Spray at the first ring, Human Hold, Spider Web, Blindness and Deafness at the second ring...even to the time stop at the ninth ring, a lot of control spells, as long as other occupations are If they successfully hit one, they will be greeted with various fatal damaging spells.

Therefore, for Thorn, how important it is to have control skills. Why do you have to fight with enemies for dozens of rounds when you can use control skills to instantly eliminate enemies? This is almost the pain of all melee professionals.

After everything was distributed, Thorne stretched his body, ready to turn around to check on the sorceress who was tinkling behind her, but she didn't know what she was doing.

"Are you awake?" Andrina noticed Thorne's gaze, paused for a moment while stirring the cup, and greeted with a smile.

"Hmm." Thorne nodded, saw the exquisite porcelain and boiling water in front of her, got up and walked to her, and sat next to her on the soft blanket.

"I feel a slight change in your temperament." Seeing Thorne's calm expression, Andelina was taken aback for a moment, and guessed: "You have upgraded?"

"Just promoted." Thorne replied casually, and his curious gaze rested on the slowly stirring cup in her hand. It contained a dark blue liquid with a pleasant smell.

"Wait a minute, it will be ready soon." Sensing Thorn's gaze, Andrina gave him a smile, and said softly: "You know, I don't know how to cook, so breakfast can only be simpler. I will learn."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome, just make it easy." Thorne warmed up, stretched out his hand to stroke Andrina's soft hair, and said not very concerned.

"You can't be casual! When dealing with life, I think it needs to be filled with a sense of ritual. Only in this way can both parties feel the warmth of each other and gain a long-lost sense of belonging in life." Anderina said with a smile in her tone, But the look is very serious:

"The so-called sense of ritual is to treat those seemingly ordinary things in life with heart, and don't let yourself be so casual that life loses its color."

"...There are so many reasons." Seeing Andelina seriously explaining to him why life needs a sense of ritual, Thorn, who didn't quite understand, hesitated a little and didn't know how to answer this question, mainly because he really don't know.

Because since he was trapped in this world, he has almost never lived a complete life. It is common for him to eat and sleep in the open, and his daily life is handled casually except for fighting monsters and leveling up and exercising combat skills.

"Of course, life is a big science." Looking at Thorne, who was a little silly, Andelina chuckled lightly:
"Do you know why many young couples in our world get divorced? The main reason is that their lives lack a sense of ritual. After getting married, there are fewer surprises, leaving only an ordinary life, and eventually both parties lose their sense of freshness. .”

"..."

Thorn remained silent and continued to listen to Anderina's narration.

"In our world, this is the case in just a few decades, not to mention this extraordinary world. So sometimes I doubt whether the love of elf lovers can really last for a long time?" Andrina suddenly started talking. Worried about the lovers of the elves.

"So most of the elves are a group of elegant races who love skills, poetry, music, art and all good things. The main reason is that their lives are too long and they are idle." Thorne, who finally picked up the conversation, complained directly One sentence.

"That's true." Andrina nodded, and then passed the cup in her hand to Thorne: "The coffee is ready, you should taste it, and don't drink it all in one gulp like last time."

After finishing speaking, a piece of yellow-orange bread emerged from his hand like a magic trick, and he said, "This is a kind of travel bread, a magic food studied by alchemists. A few bites can not only fill the stomach, but also provide the human body with food. essential nutrients."

"Have you always relied on this to satisfy your hunger?" Thorne sniffed the dark blue coffee in the cup, then took a piece of food that was similar to bread from Anderina, and couldn't help asking .

"Almost." Anderina said in a leisurely tone, with a slightly helpless expression: "After all, the food in this world is actually the same, and I'm not used to it."

"......."

For this question, Thorne sipped the coffee in his cup and remained silent.

"How about it? Doesn't it taste good?" Anderina held her chin, her beautiful eyes flickering with inexplicable meaning: "Although I don't know how to cook, I'm still very skilled at making coffee."

"The taste is very good." Thorne praised with a smile, and ate all the buns in his hand. After a period of contact with the other party, he understood a truth, that is, no matter what kind of woman you are, you only need to praise her She is always right.

"What's the matter, I didn't put any sugar, it tastes very bitter." Anderina looked at Thorne who was pretending to enjoy, and gave him a blank look.

"As long as it's made by you, no matter how bitter it is, it's still sweet to drink." Thorne, who had suddenly improved his EQ, praised her again, and then stopped pretending and drank the bitter coffee in the cup in one gulp.

"How did you learn how to talk poorly recently?" Seeing Thorne put the cup on the ground, Anderina leaned her whole body in his arms, muttering with a shy expression.

Nephrite was warm and fragrant in his arms, and Thorne took advantage of the opportunity to wrap his arms around her slender waist, and looked down at Andelina who was in her arms. He suddenly remembered the scene of being kissed by her last time, and his heart was slightly shaken.

So he chuckled, feeling the other person's body trembling slightly but not obviously resisting, Thorne lowered his head and pressed her soft and moist lips.

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(End of this chapter)