quicksilver blood

Chapter 53 pass by
Evening is coming, and the weary bird leaves its nest, never to return—

It looks at purgatory in the deep snow, and the smoke rises like a giant burning a kiln.

It is compassionate and weeps.Thorns grow on the forehead, and Jieqiao rescues many people.

It is worshiped by the living, shouted as king, crowned with thorns.

——Chapter 2, Section [-] of "The Raven of Eramat"

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【You have obtained information about the saint】

Ok?
Roland frowned suspiciously.

Did you do anything yourself?

This time the system prompts appeared completely unreasonable - you know, the system prompts are all real-time, there is no delay.

In other words, it happened that I just triggered something that could theoretically make me realize the existence of the saint.

……what is it?

Roland looked back thoughtfully at Ram behind him.

The flames were blazing, and the smoke was steaming.Even if it is called purgatory, it is not an exaggeration.

True.It was a shock to have so many lives lost before our eyes.

Like an avalanche or a typhoon.The mere existence of a disaster of that level is enough to cause a great shock.

Roland therefore grieves the loss of so many lives because of his human status, but does not feel pity for it.

If Roland destroyed them with his own hands, and then felt pity for it—that would not be kindness, but pure half-heartedness.Even if they die, they will feel unwilling to know that they died by such a hesitant and weak villain.

Although in the end it was accidentally learned that Farina was only looking for the undead in the name of hunting her, but Roland had no doubt that if her guards could find her by the way, they would never mind taking them back with them.

The first time Farina let Roland go was because she wasn't sure who Roland belonged to.But if Roland is captured by her for the second time, it means that no matter who is behind Roland, that person has given up on Roland.

That woman would never show mercy to anyone, and Roland knew what she was thinking, because the two of them were of the same kind.

If the positions of the two were reversed, Roland would do the same.

Therefore, Roland would never resent or hate Farina, he just simply felt that the two could not get along.

Roland stared at the burning town of Ram in ecstasy, the flames dancing in his abyss-like dark eyes.

Moreover, he is still waiting for another thing...

【Shocking!You have caused a disaster! 】

coming.

Different from the azure blue before, the huge and bright red system prompt was reflected in Roland's eyes, overlapping with the burning town in the distance, it was almost indistinguishable.

After waiting for a while, a large area of ​​bright red system prompts flashed down.

[You have proved your determination—your existing kindness offset is all cleared]

[You got the trait of killing people like hemp (personal trait)]

[You got the feature Executioner (personal feature)]

[You got the trait Brutal Thinking (personal trait)]

[You killed 194 full-level professionals, 13 black iron-level professionals...]

[You killed 194 regular-level professionals and 13 black-iron-level professionals in a disaster, and extracted the original power...you finally got 1410 experience points]

【You have realized the true meaning of Ashes: You have comprehended the magic Ashes Nova from the Way of Ashes】

When we got here, the bright red system prompt gradually faded and turned back to azure blue.

Seeing the almost massive amount of experience points, Roland couldn't help taking a few deep breaths.

Contrary to his excitement, Roland's expression became colder.

Almost indifferently, he said in his heart: "Raise the level of the Ashes."

[The Embers are level 8, 72 experience points are required to advance]

"confirm."

[The Embers are level 9, 78 experience points are required to advance]

"confirm."

[Official career level saturation]

After raising the level of the Embers to the full level of the current level, Roland did not stop operating.

Although more than 1000 experience seems to be a lot, it can't be used up-but in fact it is just an illusion.

This much experience can only quickly improve attributes at low levels.After all, every time you advance to a level, the experience required to upgrade any profession will increase.However, if the occupation does not change when upgrading, the attributes added at each level will not change.

Of course, this is only looking at attributes, not magic spells and other characteristics.

If Roland focused on improving the attributes of the Embers, a little calculation would show that it would definitely not be worthwhile.

Roland's natural perception is 2, and after he changed his job to Ashes, it became 3. Then, if he increases his perception by +0.35 by one level, Roland needs to increase by a full twenty levels!

The most difficult part here is that Roland's last level can only be promoted after reaching the bronze level, and once he is promoted, the experience required to increase the professional level will be doubled, and this level of improvement is tantamount to wasting Gained a lot of experience - after all, Roland will wash off the Ashes directly after changing jobs, and these experiences will not be returned.

The most important thing is that after Roland got the job of Sue Death Crow, he had to take the Bronze rank experience penalty to raise the level of Sue Death Crow from the beginning!The increased experience between each level is as high as 24 points!
But now, if Roland raises the level of the fighter, and has a perception of 0.9 when the warrior profession is upgraded to the full level, in the end Roland does not need to do advanced tasks, and it is enough to get the attribute of ten points of perception.In this way, the experience of accusing Death Crow for each level up is only 12 points, which is fully half of the previous option.

So, even if Roland didn't have the racial trait of versatility, he still had to work part-time in a job despite the experience penalty - at least he had to make sure to get ten points of perception before breaking through the bronze rank.

Therefore, compared to Roland devoting all his experience to the profession of Ashes, it is better to first level up the fighters to saturation.No matter from which angle you look at it, Roland is making a lot of money.

"Increase the professional level of fighters."

Thinking of this, Roland did not hesitate to put his valuable experience into the experience pool of the warrior.

[Warrior level 1, promotion requires 30 experience points]

"confirm."

[Warrior level 2, promotion requires 36 experience points]

"confirm."

……

[Warrior level 9, promotion requires 78 experience points]

"confirm."

[You have learned an attacking stance from years of training: focus on one blow]

Immediately, the experience in Roland's experience pool plus the experience of bringing the undead to the point of dying, left less than [-] points of experience in total.

One thousand fourteen experience, half of it is gone in a blink of an eye.

If Roland spent all his experience on the Embers after he was upgraded, then these experiences would be just enough to raise the Ashes' level to level 16.

But he decided to take it easy.With two full-level full-level occupations, Roland can protect himself on this relatively low-level map.

He should also have experience.

After all, if Roland encounters a crisis that requires high-level fighters to survive, or encounters a rare stance or a magical technique that needs experience in seconds, if Roland has no experience at all, then Fuck me.

What's more, Roland still wants to become a weapon master.

So, Roland decisively opened his attribute bar.

He wanted to see how much perception he had left to get to 10—

Roland White Oak, half-elf (balanced blood), male

Health: 57/57 (in good shape)
Level: 10 (official level) [remaining experience: 786]

Occupation: Ember 10th (——/486) Warrior 10th (——/486)

Energy: Nature (30/30)

Origin: Unawakened
Attributes: Strength 4.7, Dexterity 4.7, Constitution 5.6, Perception 7.05, Will 5.8, Bloodline 4.7
Features: Initially opened Heart of Nature (occupational feature), nature perception (occupational feature), divine magic perception (occupational feature), sublime hypocrisy (occupational feature), armored combat (leather armor) (occupational feature), mastery of exotic weapons : Caral's single-edged sword (occupational trait), natural charm (racial trait), versatile (racial trait), murderous as hemp (personal trait), executioner (personal trait), cruel thinking (personal trait)
Supernatural Ability: Visceral Divination
掌握神术：缠绕术（2/4），荒野行走（0/1）、水中呼吸（0/1）、槲寄生之触（1/2）猩红犬齿（二环）灰烬新星（二环）

Attack Stance: Charge, Sword Stance, Arc Slash, Concentrated Attack

Defensive stance: block

Status: none

…Speaking of which, Roland was expected to get the Killer Ruma or Executioner. On the contrary, Roland was slightly surprised that he didn't get the feature of moving natural disasters and accidentally got the feature of cruel thinking.In fact, there are a lot of reasons why Roland did such an excessive thing because of these characteristics——

Killing like hemp (personal trait)
Effect: Will attribute +1, evil tendency +15
- People you kill can fill a well.

Executioner (personal trait)
Effect: Will attribute +1, evil tendency +40
— a massacre!You killed a hundred people who had no resistance to you!

Brutal Thinking (Personal Trait)
Effect: You will not be affected by witchcraft, divine magic, and supernatural abilities with similar functions such as charm and friendship, regardless of the strength gap between you and the other party.

--What did you say?A child with no resistance?No, it's just two silver coins.

The first two properties are purely achievement properties.Roland was not surprised that he got these two personal characteristics.

Because Roland's two professions are weak in will, if he doesn't make up to [-] points of traits, Roland will have no way to resist those nightingale's charm in the city of wealth, or if he is tricked by anesthetics.

Speaking of...

"Little Roland, why do you want to dress up like this?"

Kluvien pressed his temples with a headache.

"Don't call me Roland, call me Hellan, I can't reveal my real name."

"Okay, Helllan... Don't you know that it's dangerous to go to the City of Fortune?"

"Of course I know," Roland turned his head and showed a cold smile, "but otherwise, how could some people be hooked?"

Kluvien shuddered violently.

Although he didn't know who Roland was aiming at, Kluvien felt deeply uneasy.

"I said, Roland...I mean Helllan, let me remind you first, the City of Fortune is different from Ram's here..."

"Of course I know."

Roland's expression suddenly softened, and there was no trace of ferocity in his eyes, as gentle as jade.

"In the City of Fortune, as long as you don't get caught, it's not a crime, is it?"

Roland held suitcases in both hands in front of him, tilted his head, and his voice suddenly became sweet and light.

In the next second, his voice became hoarse again: "For me, there is no better place than this."

So, Roland turned around, snowflakes fell on his black windbreaker, and then melted, leaving faint traces before disappearing.

But the moment Roland turned around completely, he received another system prompt:
[Chosen (Eternal Sleep Instructor) failed the trial, you still have two chances]

【You have obtained information about the Crown of Thorns】

Eh?
What the fuck?

Roland, who was full of force before, was dumbfounded at the time.

...wait, did I do something?
(End of this chapter)