Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 85 Sword Daoist (two in one)

In a sheltered ruin near the Gnoll camp, Horat casually leaned on the mound, breathing smoke from his mouth, and the fire flickered in the pipe.

"The gnolls are busy enough tonight. We have cleared a dozen guard posts. I guess they have already suspected that we are planning an all-out attack. Do you think these guys with a keen sense of smell can track us?"

Horat felt the flustered howls of wolves coming from the moonlight forest, and said to Thorne with a smile.

"Impossible, my one-ring divine spell "No Trace" can not only cover up the traces of walking, but also completely disappear my own smell. It lasts for about an hour, and the ruins are still on the opposite side of what they are chasing. direction. "

Thorn wiped the last arrow in his hand clean, checked the degree of wear of the arrowhead, inserted it into the quiver behind him, and said calmly.

"The profession of ranger is indeed very versatile, but you should understand that all-skilled means mediocrity. Haven't you thought about advanced professions? Or are you planning to practice the basic profession of ranger to the end?"

Horatii nodded, and asked Thorne with some doubts.

"You think it's so easy to advance, but it's incomparable to you kryptonite players. The entrance fee of Thorn Bird Assassin Academy is 5000 gold coins, and I don't have that much time to spend there."

Thorne shook his head indifferently and sighed.

Horat's advanced profession is an assassin with a certain ability to cast spells, which was completed by spending money to train in a secret assassin's academy for nearly half a year.

Thorne had also thought about his own advanced career. After all, although the Ranger is versatile, his attack power is indeed somewhat lacking. He is still self-aware of this.

However, since he received the inheritance of Nine Swords, he has become less persistent in thinking about advanced professions.

"Have you heard of the advanced profession of Archer Beginner?" Horat took a deep breath, breathed out the cloud, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and asked.

"Knowing a little bit, it is a profession that strengthens one's connection with the bow, arrow, body and mind by learning the meditation technique of archery.

Beginners in archery regard their weapons as an extension of themselves, and using a bow is a spiritual experience. Even if a strong beginner in archery closes their eyes, the arrows in their hands can easily hit their opponents. "

Thorne was stunned, and said thoughtfully, a look of regret flashed in his eyes after he finished speaking.

He had seen this kind of professional in the forest and the temple of the Ranger Goddess before, but he only had a quick glance, and there was no chance to communicate with him, and the other party left.

Horat looked at Thorne in surprise and said:
"It's good for you to understand. In the Lost Star Mountains of the Northern Wilderness, there is a Bow Monastery. If you have a chance, you can try your luck."

"Let's talk about it later." Thorne replied absent-mindedly with no fluctuations in his expression.

It's not that he's not interested in the profession of archer novice, it's mainly because he doesn't have much free time right now.

Now, he can only wait until Waterfall Town is completely stabilized before he decides to travel to various places in this world and investigate information about Karatu Continent by the way.

It's too early to talk about that now.

He stood up and glanced at the moonlight forest in the distance. Because of his and Horat's sneak attack, there were still wolves howling in the jungle, and there was a tendency not to stop until the two of them were found out. .

So Thorn saw that there was no danger for the time being, and the attack time agreed with Master Deadwood had not yet come, so he began to do the most important thing for him.

The reason why he persuaded Horat to go with him to attack the guard post of the Wolf man was not only to create chaos, but also to have a little selfishness.

That is, his practice point is about to meet the conditions for becoming a swordsman.

After killing the wolf man tonight, and now that the conditions have been fulfilled, he also has to formally prepare to become a Sword Daoist.

"Part-time swordsman!"

Ding!
Part-time kendoist conditions have been met!

Whether to consume 10000 experience points and 5000 practice points to take office!
"Yes!"

Seeing the rows of data information that appeared in front of his eyes, Thorne replied without any hesitation.

Inaugural kendo master success!
Gain class abilities: Fast Action, Style Focus.

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Raise the level of swordsmen!
The swordsman profession has been upgraded to level 2.

Gain 5 skill points and increase health by 8 points.

Get 1 free attribute points.

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Raise the level of swordsmen!
The swordsman profession has been upgraded to level 3.

Gain 5 skill points and increase health by 8 points.

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Raise the level of swordsmen!
The swordsman profession has been upgraded to level 4.

Gain 5 skill points and increase health by 8 points.

Gain the class ability: Insight Strike.

Get 1 free attribute points.

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Inexperienced, the kendo master level cannot be raised to level 5!
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The biggest advantage of part-time jobs is that you can get extra free attribute points. The disadvantage is that you need to consume a lot of experience, which makes it difficult to upgrade a certain job to a higher level.

Because the first part-time job has a 30% experience penalty, and the second job has a 60% experience penalty, which is doubled.

In other words, if Thorne wants to raise the ranger's professional level to level 7, he only needs 45000 experience points when he doesn't have a part-time job.

But after working part-time as a swordsman, due to the experience penalty, you need the original 45000 experience points plus an additional 30.00% or 13500 experience points, a total of 58500 experience points to raise the ranger level to level 7.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, few people choose to work part-time in so many occupations in the early stage, and at most they will only choose one to make up for their own shortcomings.

Then Thorne looked at the two precious free attribute points, and after deliberation, allocated them to strength and physique respectively.

The 2 points of power added by the ogre's power belt directly increased his strength to 17 points. If you allocate a little bit, it will reach the equipment limit of 18 points, and it will have no effect if you increase it again.

And his agility and perception have also reached 20 points of extraordinary attributes, it is obviously impossible to rely on the attributes obtained through upgrading to improve.

So the second thing to do is to allocate it to his physique, so that his physique attribute will reach 15 points. With the improvement of his physique attribute, his ability to survive and resist attacks will also be strengthened to a certain extent.

Since Thorn decided to be an all-around professional, he would definitely not let himself have too obvious shortcomings.

Thorne then set his sights on the three professional abilities obtained after working as a part-time swordsman: fast action, genre specialization, and insight strike.

The Kendo profession is a veteran of physical skill, a master of martial arts moves, and a mage of the sword whose knowledge of the supreme path unlocks a variety of powerful abilities.

These abilities are essentially supernatural abilities and magic. A swordsman may be able to pass through walls, jump tens of meters high, hit broken stones, and even control elements of fire or shadow.

Regardless of his specialization, a Kendo blurs the lines between physical power and magical skill.

When kendo masters are stalemate in battle, the timing of using martial arts moves is often the key to determining the outcome.

The role of the professional ability "Quick First Strike" is to greatly increase the casting speed of their various moves for kendoers.

Just like the "Instant Spell" feat mastered by spellcasters, this ability also belongs to the core skills of swordsmen.

Next is another professional ability: genre specialization!

The ability of "genre specialization" is easier to understand.

Now Thorn masters three kinds of swordsmanship among the nine swords. Whenever he fights, he chooses one of the three as the specialization style, and then the attack and defense capabilities of all the moves of this style will be strengthened.

At the same time, if he has mastered "Insight Strike", all the strike skills in the specialization style he chooses, when attacking the enemy, the higher his own perception attribute, the greater the probability of detecting the opponent's weakness, thus causing more damage. big damage.

Similar to Juggernaut's "Insight Weakness", especially when facing the protective force field of spellcasters, it can quickly detect the weakest point of the force field around the body and carry out effective strikes.

After the kendo master level is raised to level 4, the three professional abilities brought about are a good enhancement for Thorn.

But if there is only such a little enhancement, Thorne will naturally not risk the difficulty of experience penalty to work part-time as a swordsman.

What Thorne really paid attention to was the various styles of moves mastered by kendo masters.

A level 4 swordsman gave him the ability to learn the second-level moves in Nine Swords.

The moves in Nine Swords are divided into nine levels. Like the nine-ring spells of the caster, after reaching a certain level, they have the ability to master more powerful spells.

For example, a level 5 spellcaster can cast third-level spells, and a level 5 swordsman has also met the conditions for being able to use level-[-] swordsmanship moves.

And at this time, Thorne finally understood the true use of the sword intent left to him by the old man who taught him the Nine Swords when he was in Winter City.

Sword Intent: 4% comprehension progress.

Only 4% of the progress allowed Thorn to get 60000 practice points, which means that every time a swordsman improves a level, he will automatically get 15000 practice points.

60000 practice points are enough for him to learn many powerful Nine Swords moves.

Originally, Thorne was very troubled by the problem of how to obtain a large number of practice points to learn Nine Swords moves, and it was finally resolved.

So Thorne looked at the move lists of the three schools, his expression becoming more dignified than ever.

Although he only masters three schools of swordsmanship, he has nearly 24 moves. It is indeed a tangled problem to choose the one that will help him the most from these 24 moves.

The night is deep and everything is quiet, except for a lone moon hanging high in the sky, and the cold moonlight pours down, reflecting the boundless wilderness.

In the moonlight forest in the distance, there were bursts of howls from time to time, and the nearby vegetation swayed in the bitter cold wind, endlessly.

Thorne, who looked heavy, gradually became calm, and his frown gradually unfolded, until finally a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In this tangled choice, Thorne finally chose his own fighting style.

He first used 20000 practice points to raise the levels of the Desert Wind School and the Shadow Hand School to LV2 respectively, so that he could truly have the ability to learn Level 2 moves.

Afterwards, the remaining 40000 practice points were used to choose two of the level 2 moves of the Desert Wind School and the Shadow Hand School.

Because it takes 2 practice points to learn a level 10000 move, 40000 practice points seems like a lot, but in fact it only allows him to learn four level 2 moves.

The desert wind faction is: the enhanced version of the sword of the red lotus and the flame of the young dragon.

The enhanced version of the Red Lotus Sword has the same effect as the Red Lotus Sword, but when Thorne's long sword is blessed with the effect of the Red Lotus Sword.

When wielding the flame sword, not only the damage of the flame is greatly enhanced, but also the attack distance is increased.

Originally, only the weapon could cause fire damage after it touched the enemy, but now it can make the fire damage of his blade hit all opponents within 2 meters of him.

"Flame of Young Dragon" is to mobilize the power of Qi in the body to condense on the tip of the sword, creating a cone-shaped flame to attack all opponents within ten meters around. It is very similar to the red dragon's flame breath, and it is a good group attack skill.

The two skills of the shadow hand faction chosen by Thorn are both auxiliary skills: shadow cloak and shadow walk.

"Shadow Cloak" belongs to the use of shadow energy to surround itself, enter an invisible state for a short period of time and disappear completely, and has the same effect as the wizard's spell "Invisibility".

Cooperating with his own "stealth" and "hiding" skills, and adding the last ring of magic "no trace", he can really be silent without a trace.

Of course, in front of the caster's detection spell, it still seemed a little weak.

"Shadow Walk" is a teleportation skill. When you activate this move, you will be covered by a small cloud of shadow energy, which will become smaller and smaller and eventually disappear.

It will soon appear in another location where your eyes can touch, and the teleportation distance can reach up to about 15 meters.

Group attack, displacement, and invisibility are the abilities he lacks now.

The only pity is that there is still a lack of practice points, otherwise he can still learn the second-level moves of the Steel Soul School "Jade Slash" and "Being Careful".

"Jade Slash" is a relatively powerful sword move in duels. During the battle, use your concentration to find the weak point in the opponent's defense, find its weakness in an instant and seize the opportunity to carry out an effective fatal blow.

Even for those warriors with heavy armor like iron cans, in front of "Jade Slash", he can detect the gaps in the armor links and hit the vital points accurately.

However, the premise of all this is that your "concentration" skill level must be high enough, otherwise even if you master this powerful move, it will not play a big role without the support of high enough concentration.

And "Ahead of Mind" also uses its own "Focus" skill to quickly read out the opponent's spells or other skill actions, and then dodge in an instant when the spell is approaching.

As a general skill, "Focus" is not only important for the moves of the Steel Soul School.

Any other profession can also play a significant role.

It can enable melee professionals to quickly enter a state of concentration during battle, no matter what dangers they face, they can stay calm, calmly deal with the enemy's challenges or evacuate safely.

The role of the spellcaster is more obvious. For example, when a wizard is chanting a spell, a loud enemy suddenly yells at you: Shame on the enemy, I will take off his clothes!

If your concentration is not high enough and you are frightened, the spell will likely be interrupted, and you will also suffer spell backlash.

Then Thorne glanced at the extra 15 skill points that the Kendo master gained after leveling up.

So after thinking about it for a while, he allocated 5 skill points to "Hiding", 3 points to "Perception", and the last 7 points to "Focus".

Although these general skills can be slowly improved through acquired training, just like his "movement" skills, which have not been deliberately practiced at all, and have been raised to level 9 through constant walking and fighting.

But for some key skills, especially when the skill level is high, if you want to improve quickly, the time spent is calculated on a monthly basis, and it is most convenient to improve through skill points after leveling up.

Although a successful part-time swordsman will get a 30% experience penalty in the future level upgrades, Thorne is quite satisfied with the various powerful abilities he has obtained.

Name: Thorne

Race: Half-elf (of wood-elf descent)
属性：体质15（+1）、力量18（+3）、敏捷20（+2）、智力12、感知20（+2）、魅力15（+1）

Alignment: Chaotic Good

职业：10级民兵（max）/6级游侠（0/58500）/4级剑道家（0/26000）

Health: 78/78
XP: 5117
Practice points: 302
Skill Points: None
Attribute points: none
Racial Traits: Darkvision, Elven Blood, Feral Mask, Keen Senses

职业技能：潜行20、躲藏20、察觉20、翻滚15、嘲讽5、医疗7、专注19、平衡5、法术辨识4、知识（自然）7、运动9、手艺（制箭）8
Class Features: Proficiency in simple and martial weapons, weapon focus (longsword), weapon focus (longbow), feral identity, animal companion (dire eagle), fast action, style focus, insight strike

Nemesis: Humanoids (gnolls, ogres)

Class Feats: Tracking (Proficient), Durability, Two-Weapon Fighting (Proficient), Moving Shot

Common Feats: Precise Shot, Alertness, Mobility, Dodge, Quick Shot

Personal Specialties: Athletic, Tenacious, Rolling Attack, Battle Premonition

Background Feat: Bloody Challenger

Martial arts:

[Desert Wind School] lv2 (0/15000)

Level one moves:
Red Lotus Sword (enhanced skill), Flame Star (strike skill), Fire Avoidance Art (stance skill)

Secondary moves:

Red Lotus Sword Kai (strengthening technique), Flame of the Whelpling Dragon (strike technique)

[Steel Soul Pie] lv1 (36/10000)

Clear Body (Stance Skill), Perfect Spirit (Countering Skill)

[Shadow Hand School] lv2 (0/15000)

Level one moves:
Shadow Beloved (Stance Skill)

Secondary moves:

Cloak of Shadows (Enhancement Skill), Shadow Walk (Teleportation Skill)

Ranger Divine Art: One Ring (8/8)

Hunter's mark, entanglement, resistance to energy damage, no trace, detection of leylines, fresh traces

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(PS: In the future, the attribute table will be updated every few dozen chapters, and then posted to the work related. If there is any mistake, please point it out.)
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