Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 323 Passing the Ancient Desert Wind
On the easternmost mountainous area of ​​the ruins of Kimbatur City, fluorescent fungi climbed over the uneven hilltops, reflecting a pale and morbid beauty.

In this silent underground world, there are only occasional roars and roars from a distance, adding a bit of their unique symphony to this dim world.

At this time, a ghostly black shadow appeared silently, and under the illumination of the luminous fungus, it flickered dimly and unreal.

Looking at the chaotic hills, Thorn, who was walking silently alone, stopped and looked around against the clear cold wind.

"The lair of that little baby dragon should be nearby." Thorne sniffed the faint scent of lava and sulfur, murmured to himself, and walked directly along the narrow passage made up of gravel mountain walls on both sides.

Because the first ceremony of passing down the ancient weapons of the Desert Wind Sect needs to be performed on the Fire Elemental Plane or the crater of the main material world.

Unfortunately, the Fire Elemental Plane is still out of reach for him, so naturally he can only choose to go to the lava in the crater.

And there happened to be such an underground volcano in the ruins of Jinbatur City, so after the Soento people helped him deliver the materials for arranging the fire ceremony, they rushed over without stopping.

"There is a situation! The intruder is found!"

The moment Thorn arrived at the red dragon's lair, a dragon language siren sounded with a barking sound.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen gaps covered by dense fungal bushes were directly opened around the natural cave, and more than a dozen loaded crossbow bolts emerged at the same time, all of which locked Thorne.

After bursts of flustered metal clashes, a kobold warlock led five heavily armored kobolds and quickly ran out of the cave.

These little guys immediately erected solid metal shields in front of them, and raised the sharp blades in their hands, blocking in front of Thorne, and faintly formed a pincer attack.

Thorne didn't take a look at these annoying kobolds very much, and finally turned his attention to the leader of the kobold warlock, and said calmly:

"I'm an adventurer from the surface, and I'm a friend of your red dragon Argotus, please let me know."

"It turned out to be you, oh, I know you." The kobold warlock's eyes lit up, and he immediately recognized Thorne's identity, then turned around and said to his subordinates:

"This adventurer from the surface is the half-elf ranger who rescued me in the Ratman camp. He is a friend of our holy dragon leader."

As soon as the kobold warlock finished speaking, the other kobolds relaxed their guard a little, but they had no intention of giving way.

"Mr. Ranger, please wait a moment. I am the leader of the notification dragon." The kobold warlock glanced at Thorn, and disappeared into the cave in a hurry.

Thorn, who was standing there, didn't wait for a long time. About half an hour, there were footsteps coming from the half-buried natural cave in front of him.

Then the red dragon player named Argotus crawled out of the cave.

"It's you?" The red dragon Argotus saw Thorn's figure, and his big eyes jumped involuntarily, as if he had a premonition that something bad would happen next.

So he stared at the big eyes immediately, raised the dragon's head and turned left and right vigilantly. After confirming that he didn't find the black dragon, he exhaled two light smokes from his nostrils and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your name is Thorne, right? What's the matter with you?" Then, Argotus raised his front paws and scratched his head, staring at him unkindly with a pair of fiery long eyes, and asked.

Thinking of this ranger, Argotus became angry, because the other party had trampled on him mercilessly under the watchful eyes of his subordinates.

As a proud and vengeful red dragon, Argotus believed that if the ranger asked him for help, he must not just agree.

Because he is not a random dragon, you must embarrass him a little bit, and you must not let your dragon life be stained with this bad breath.

Although that brat Carlos specifically told him not to have any ill relations with this half-elf ranger, it shouldn't be a problem to play with this half-elf without harming the other's life, Argotus thought to himself.

"I want to borrow the underground lava in your lair." Thorne naturally didn't know what messed things were going on in the head of the young dragon in front of him, so he directly explained his reason for coming.

"No problem!" The red dragon Argotus' eyeballs flickered brightly and dimly, and he readily agreed, then grinned, and continued:

"But I have one condition, as long as you agree, I will immediately lead you in."

"tell me the story."

Thorn looked at the other party with great interest. Although he couldn't see the expression on Argotus's cute dragon face, he could tell what the hell this dragon player must be playing once he heard the other party's tone of voice. idea.

"I want you to help me experiment with the power of my latest researched dragon's breath." Argotus got his whole body out of the cave, watching Thorn eagerly flapping his dragon wings a few times.

"You are a young dragon." Thorn was silent for a moment, then said with a smile.

"I'll be able to advance to the young dragon soon, and then I'll see if your mouth can still be so hard."

Argotus retorted a little angrily, although he couldn't beat the opponent, the ranger would never dare to break into his labyrinth-like cave without his leadership.

After all, he spent a lot of effort to complete this cave, and there are dense traps everywhere in it, otherwise he would not have survived until now under the pressure of those ratmen who are good at digging holes.

He just grasped this point, if he wanted to go in, he had to take a bite of my dragon's breath.

"Since you want to play so much, let's have a simple match. If I win, you can do me a favor." Thorn said slowly as his eyes wandered over the red dragon for a moment.

"What's the matter?" Red Dragon Argotus asked subconsciously as if he sensed something bad.

"I need you to give me a drop of true dragon's blood and a few faded scales." Thorne said his thoughts directly.

"The real dragon's blood and scales are very precious things. What do you give them in exchange?" Argotus couldn't help but annoyed when he heard that the ranger had come up with his own ideas.

"Don't be so excited, listen to my conditions first, and you will be very satisfied." Seeing two more streams of smoke from the other party's nasal cavity, Thorne comforted him and said with a smile:

"Didn't you sign a contract with that black dragon last month? If you win, I can make it void and give you back your freedom."

"Really?" Argotus immediately became interested. This is the biggest blemish on his life. Although Carlos patted his chest and promised that he would definitely help him solve this problem, he didn't think it was a problem. It can be done so easily.

After all, it was a black dragon in its prime, and most importantly... it was a woman.

"Of course, after all, I am also from Fallstown, so Carlos should have told you something about me." Seeing the other party's interest, Thorne immediately assured him.

"But I can't beat you..." Argotus stared at Thorne in frustration.

"You don't need to fight, don't you know how to breathe dragon's breath?" Thorne smiled, and said directly: "Well, if your dragon's breath can hurt me at all, you will win."

"I'm a young dragon. I know how much damage my dragon's breath can cause. Don't lie to me." After hearing this, the red dragon Argotus immediately reacted and gave Thorn a vicious look.

"Then how about this, I will attack you with fire damage, if you can survive the burning of the fire without any injuries, then you will win, isn't that too much?"

Seeing the other party's refusal, Thorne was not surprised, and put forward another condition.

"You? Flame?" Argotus looked at the half-elf ranger, stretched out his front paw and scratched the dragon's face, and began to think.

He is a red dragon with the special ability of the fire subspecies. It is not a joke to be immune to fire damage. Bathing in magma is one of his daily activities.

Argotus was a little moved by Thorne's proposal. After all, a drop of true dragon's blood would not affect him much, let alone the scales, so he thought he could give it a try for freedom.

"Okay." Argotus, who wanted to understand, immediately nodded in agreement.

As soon as the words fell, a turbulent flame directly enveloped him, and after only a moment, there were bursts of red dragons begging for mercy.

"Lead the way." Thorne put away his long sword, glanced at the disheveled red dragon, and said with a smile.

Then, he followed the opponent's footsteps into the cave together.

One person and one dragon walked in the winding corridors of the cave.

Thorne looked at the kobolds pushing small trolleys to pull ore, as well as several operating mining rails and trolleys on them in flat areas, and even some modern industrial tools. The other party glanced at him and said, "I can't tell, your ability is quite great."

In this maze-like cave, it has almost been developed into a semi-industrial state by the kobolds under Argotus. It is filled with the barking of various kobolds and the continuous sound of iron hammering, forming a wave A rhythmic hustle and bustle.

"Do you think I've been sleeping for the past two years? I'm a dragon and I'm proud." Argotus glanced at Thorne proudly, and began to complain:
"It's not like that black dragon, which doesn't use its natural advantages, but insists on being a salty dragon. If you give me 400 years, I can create a complete steel torrent for you.

Do you know what a steel torrent is?If you don’t know, you should know about tanks. You can imagine the spectacular scene of densely packed tanks pushing the emerald field. "

"As for your broken tank, if there is no magic support, in front of the construction golem, it will be a pile of scrap metal, a small tank with a punch. Boy, this is a magical world, don't go astray."

Thorne looked curiously at these kobolds who were wearing a sleeveless leather vest and a pair of knee-length breeches, and said to Argotus.

"Then I'll make a construction tank." Argotus retorted bluntly.

Under the leadership of Argotus, Thorn finally came to a fairly spacious hall after traveling for about half an hour.

In the hot hall, there was a strong smell of sulfur, and the flowing lava flowed out from the gaps in the walls, and then all gathered together to form a pool full of magma.

At the end of the hall, there is a polished obsidian altar, on which stands a circular platform made of steel. Obviously, this platform is the place where the red dragon rests.

Thorne looked around and walked directly towards the lava pool not far away.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the ritual materials that had been prepared from the dimensional bag.

Then he took out a sharp carving knife and began to engrave complex ritual circles on the ground.

Although Thorne is not good at engraving the magic circle, but fortunately, it is enough to just follow the gourd, so it is not as difficult as imagined.

It took nearly an hour to engrave the complex ritual circle and finally completed it. Thorne didn't dare to delay, and immediately embedded precious red zircons and blue and white diamonds into several positions of the ritual circle hub.

Almost all natural gemstones contain rich elemental energy, and are usually used by spellcasters as casting materials and driving energy for constructing creatures. These gemstones in Thorne's hands contain fire elemental energy.

The main function of these fire elemental energies is to drive the ritual array he just engraved.

"Bring your dragon blood and dragon scales here." Thorne said to the red dragon Argotus who was watching beside him, seeing that the complex ritual circle had been connected by fire energy after the gemstones were inlaid.

The red dragon belongs to the fire subspecies, and their blood has amazing fire energy hidden, and the ancient weapon he is about to awaken also belongs to the fire attribute.

When Thorn saw Argotus, he had an idea and came up with the idea of ​​adding the real dragon blood and scales of the red dragon to the magic circle. Besides, he himself also has a very special blood of flame.

Therefore, he wanted to try mixing his own blood and dragon's blood together, and then adding it to the ritual circle to see what special effects it could produce.

After receiving the two dragon scales and a drop of real dragon blood the size of a fist from Argotus, with a thought, the dragon scales turned into a ball of powder in his palm.

Immediately afterwards, he mixed the powder with the blood of the real dragon, and then cut a hole in his palm to mix the flowing blood with the blood of the dragon, and finally sprinkled it evenly on the gemstones of the ritual circle.

After everything was ready, the ritual circle began to glow with deep orange light and exude amazing fire energy. Thorne immediately pulled out the Demon Slayer sword and inserted it in the center of the circle.

Afterwards, all the fire energy in the magic circle began to crazily gather towards the sword body, and it lasted until the inlaid gemstones were turned into powder due to the exhaustion of internal energy, and the ritual circle gradually became dim.

The function of the ritual circle is not only to allow the sword body to absorb huge fire energy to facilitate the next ritual drive, but also to play a protective role, so that the sword body will not be damaged by the high temperature in the next ceremony.

Thorn pulled out the long sword inserted in the center of the magic circle, and without delay, inserted it directly into the tumbling lava pool in front of him.

When the blade was baked into white hot by the boiling lava, Thorne took the long sword out of the lava again and began to cool down.

In this steamy hall, Thorne heated and cooled repeatedly in this way, and the whole process lasted continuously for 24 hours.

In the flickering of a blazing fire, the fire ceremony of the ancient weapon Mofeng was finally declared complete.

desert wind
Type: Ancient Weapon

Equipment requirements: fire resistance 5 points, basic toughness check +3
Ancient Ritual: Ritual of Fire (Completed)
Legacy Abilities:

Guardian of Flame: When the user's swordsman level reaches level 5, he will gain the spell effect of enduring the environment.

Flame Slash: When the user's swordsman level reaches level 6, he can use Desert Wind to slash a fan-shaped flame, 3 times a day.

炎风之舞：当使用者剑道家等级达到7级，手持漠风时，敏捷获得+2增强值。此加值在14级为+4，在17级为+6。

Sword of Flame: When the user's swordsman reaches level 8 and draws the desert wind, the speed of drawing the sword increases by 50%.

Blazing Sword: When the user's swordsman level reaches level 9, when using Desert Wind for melee attacks, additional fire damage of 1+perception adjustment value will be added.

(Note: When the holder holds its hilt, soft and warm breath will surround the holder, and the blade will become hot during the battle, becoming fiery red or even bright white.)
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(End of this chapter)