After getting the three 'Space Anchor' scrolls, Karl tried very hard to show a calm expression. However, after years of waiting and expectation, he finally saw the light. How could he suppress his emotions so easily? He absent-mindedly chatted with Liang Lidong for a while and then hurriedly said goodbye to Liang Lidong.
After Karl left, Liang Lidong picked up the invitation from the table again, and the date was written below: Hollevin calendar, Orange Star Era 3256, July 23.
Liang Lidong remembered very clearly that the last time he logged out of the game was September 2923 of the Orange Star Era. In other words, this world was more than three hundred years later in the game world.
More than three hundred years … This might explain why contracting a magic pet became a special skill, but the average level of magic did not rise but fell. What happened in this world in the past three hundred years! A lot of things could change in three hundred years. For example, most of the NPC heroes and celebrities in the game back then should have become withered bones, except for a few immortals … Speaking of immortals, Liang Lidong thought of Margaret, the Fire Dragon King. This woman should be almost an adult now. He had a toothache at the thought of this. According to the tradition of the fire dragons, every time a new king came of age in the race, there would be a celebration for the whole race. What kind of celebration …
They would go to the human countries to rob gold coins, rob gems, rob women! Margaret was the product of love between the former Fire Dragon King and the captured princess. There was no telling which country would suffer this time.
However, this matter shouldn't have much to do with Hollevin. After all, Hollevin was very far from the territory of the Fire Dragons, and there were several large and small countries in between. Before the Fire Dragons even flew halfway, they should have had enough fun and returned to their territory.
Liang Lidong was still very weak now. He was only a level-one Divine Noble and had no outstanding combat power at all in the early stages. Of course, it was no problem for him to bully civilians, but against other professionals of the same level, if the two sides had similar combat experience, there was no chance of winning, not to mention confronting the dragons head-on. This was not something he should consider now.
If they were weak, they should work hard to become stronger. This was the common understanding of the players. Strength was reflected in many aspects. Character levels, the choice of specialties, the quality of equipment, and the tempering of combat experience could all determine the outcome of a battle. Right now, Liang Lidong had no way to quickly level up his character, nor did he have a way to obtain a suitable set of equipment. However, he still had other ways to strengthen himself.
Analysis of bloodline magic.
Normally, apart from their own bloodline magic, Warlocks could not learn other magic. However, Warlocks could slowly increase their character's level, purify their bloodline, and improve the effects of their bloodline magic. If they were lucky, they could even trigger new bloodline magic.
He came to the grove behind the tree and cast the Mist Riding skill over and over again. Since the Warlock's Bloodline Magic didn't need to be learned and could be cast by instinct, there were very few Bloodline Magic models in the game. Because even if you knew the Bloodline Magic model and knew how to cast the magic, because of the lack of bloodline support, casting a Bloodline Magic that didn't belong to you would still fail.
However, Liang Lidong learned a secret in the game, and that was that Bloodline Magic could actually be improved. The person who discovered this secret was his cousin, who was also the person who brought him into the game of Falan.
His cousin seemed to be cheerful all day, but in fact, his intuition was amazing. Blondie and Whitey followed him as souls, and ordinary people couldn't sense them at all, but every time he met his cousin, his cousin would always mutter, "You seem to be haunted by two evil things. Do you want me to get a monk to exorcise them for you?"
Every time this happened, Blondie and Whitey's expressions would become very strange.
Also, his cousin's in-game name was "Shuke."
While recalling the past, Liang Lidong tried to figure out how Mist Riding worked. Although he was a little distracted, it didn't stop him from deciphering the structure of Mist Riding. Originally, Liang Lidong had guessed that Mistride should be a level-three bloodline spell, but now that he had deciphered the twenty-seven basic nodes, the entire structure of the spell was still shrouded in mystery.
Could it be that Mist Riding was a level-five Bloodline Magic? Liang Lidong was shocked by this possibility. If it was true, how powerful was the Cloud Dragon Bloodline, which could awaken a level-five Bloodline Magic at the beginning of the character creation?! His curiosity was completely aroused.
In the next few days, he taught the children how to read in the morning, taught them some basic knowledge, and occasionally taught them the principles of being human. In the afternoon, he went to the back of the woods and used Mist Riding nonstop, analyzing the structure of Mist Riding. Analyzing magic was also a kind of learning, and it could give him character EXP, which was the main way for Mages to level up.
Analyzing Mist Riding brought him a lot of EXP, and he actually gained more than 20 EXP every day. At midnight on the fourth day, his character level was upgraded.
Name: Beta Liang (Level 2)
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Profession: Divine Noble
Magic Pet: Joan Of Arc (Triple-Feathered Falcon)
Constitution: 7 (7.7)
Coordination: 7 (7.7)
Intelligence: 7 (7.7)
Will: 7 (7.7)
Charm: 7 (7.7)
Character EXP. Looking at the character panel, Liang Lidong was convinced that Mist Riding was indeed a level-five Bloodline Magic. Only analyzing a level-five Bloodline Magic could provide players with so much character EXP. However, after so many days of analysis, he only found 87 basic nodes of Mist Riding, and it was getting harder and harder to find them. According to his experience in the game, it took an average of four months to completely analyze a level-five Bloodline Magic, which meant that Liang Lidong could rely on this spell to farm for four months of character EXP.
Liang Lidong was so happy that he couldn't help but clap his hands, but he soon calmed himself down and focused his attention on the character panel.
After reaching level 2, all professions would receive a specialty as a reward. If it were an NPC profession, they would have to find a mentor to learn from, and they would usually have to pay tuition fees. Also, whether or not anyone was willing to teach them and whether or not they could learn the specialty they wanted was another matter.
But players still had the benefit of the system: the Egg Twister System!
When any player reached even level and could learn specialties, the Egg Twister System would appear. It would randomly roll out three specialties for the player to choose from. These three specialties would randomly appear according to the player's profession and attribute parameters. It was absolutely impossible for a cross-profession specialty to appear. For example, a pure Warrior would never be able to twist a magic specialty like Mobile Casting.
Players could choose a suitable specialty from the three specialties as their own ability. Of course, players could also not choose any of the specialties and give up this opportunity to learn from an NPC, or find other players to learn a specialty that was more suitable for them.
Liang Lidong clicked on the three question mark icons in his field of vision, and the three specialty prompts appeared in front of him.
Magic Pet Enhancement: All attribute growth of your magic pet + 1, and you will receive an additional combat specialty. (This specialty requires a contract magic pet.)
Sprint: You can sprint a certain distance at an extremely fast speed, which consumes a lot of stamina. Sprint Limit: 10 + (Level x 2)
Swordsmanship Will: You have advanced further on the path of swordsmanship. When you use sword-type weapons, Slash Speed + 2, Sharpness + 2, and Toughness + 2. You are now a Swordsmanship Master, and years of swordsmanship training have given you special abilities. You can consume stamina and mental power to condense a visible will on your weapon. Your swordsmanship attacks will be regarded as non-elemental magic attacks, and the attack range will be + 1. (This specialty requires Swordsmanship Specialization as a prerequisite.)
Seeing these three specialties, even if Liang Lidong had a big heart, his expression was still very conflicted. It was not that these three specialties were not good, but that they were too good! He couldn't make a choice immediately. In the game Continent of Felan, there were many specialties, and it was said that there were more than a thousand of them. After voting, the players selected more than 50 quite practical specialties, and the above three specialties were at the top of the list.
According to the players' "experience," luck had a numerical value, and it had to be slowly accumulated after it was used up … If you got too many good specialties at once in the early stages, you would most likely be unlucky in the later stages of the game, and the specialties you got would definitely be rubbish. Many players posted on the forum, revealing their tragic experiences. A Level-16 Warrior player posted that he had gotten specialties at Level-12, Level-14, and Level-16, all of which were Snake Venom Resistance, Disease Resistance, Bug Venom Resistance, Plague Resistance, and so on. The entire forum burst into laughter, and he was jokingly called "Poison Immunity" by the players, and since then he became a celebrity.
It was reasonable to say that no specialties were rubbish, but a specialty like Snake Venom Resistance was indeed not very practical and could not be used all the time. It was only useful under special circumstances.
Now that Liang Lidong had gotten three special specialties at once, he felt a deep chill. If the theory of the group of players on the game forum was correct, then his future days would be really miserable.
Although he could not obtain specialties from the system, he could still learn from NPCs and players. Learning from players was easier. As long as the "Friendliness" was enough, it could be taught. As long as two people stuck together for ten days to half a month and paid a high tuition fee, they could generally learn it. After all, most players were creatures that put profit above everything else. However, the system had a very disgusting setting. If some of the players' specialties were "twisted" from the system, then the specialties could not be taught to other players, and could only be taught to NPC professionals. Teaching NPCs to learn specialties was a very long process. Half a year was the norm, and a year was not short. Therefore, players were generally unwilling to teach skills to NPCs unless they had a really good relationship with the NPC.
Since some skills could not be learned from players, they could only start from NPC professionals, but that would be troublesome. NPCs had their own personalities, and their mentality was completely the same as a real person's. It was easier to deal with those who were greedy for money. They could just throw a sum of money at them, and they would be able to learn it. However, greedy NPC professions generally did not have powerful specialties. Those professions that had special specialties were either eccentric or of high status.
For example, the specialty Swordsmanship Willpower. Back in the game, there were many swordsmen who could not get this specialty and had to worry about learning it from NPC professionals.
At that time, the players in the game shared information and discovered four NPC professionals who knew Sword Will. Perhaps there were more NPC professionals who knew this specialty, but the number of players was too small, only about five hundred thousand or so. Only a very small number of players had the Knowledge of Humanoid Creatures specialty. There were five billion NPCs in the game, and the number of professionals was estimated to be more than ten million. It was impossible for them to know the data of every NPC professional. Moreover, the game world was too realistic. There were NPC professionals dying in battle or dying of old age every day, and new NPC professionals were born every day. The amount of data was too much, so the players usually only paid attention to the very special or very powerful NPC professionals.
The four professionals who knew Swordsmanship Willpower were: Eric, Deputy Commander of the Temple of Light's Holy Knight Corps; Tyson, Duke of Briganda's Golden-Haired Lion; Alex, Patriarch of the White Pine Ridge Family of Briganda; and Lilymose, Holy Maiden of the Shamanism of the Frostwolf Clan, Descendant of the Winter Wolf.
These four people were all very wealthy people. Ordinary players were not even qualified to meet them, let alone learn their specialties from them. Why should they teach you?
And now, the three specialties in front of Liang Lidong stung his eyes deeply! He wanted to take them all at once, but sadly, he only had one chance. Moreover, there were many specialties in the game, and it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to get such a good skill in the future.
The specialty Magic Pet Strengthening represented future potential. All the attribute growth of the magic pet + 1. The effect was not obvious in the early stages, but as her level increased, Jeanne would become more and more powerful. Moreover, the magic pet could read books, and the smarter the pet, the more it would learn. In the future, what Jeanne learned could become Liang Lidong's knowledge through the soul channel. Moreover, a powerful magic pet's combat power should not be underestimated.
Sprint was a PVP skill. The higher the level, the better the effect. Think about it, when a Mage was about to chant a spell and an Archer was about to nock an arrow, a figure twenty to thirty meters away would appear in front of them with a whoosh, leaving an afterimage behind. Anyone would feel depressed. Also, this skill could be used not only for surprise attacks but also for wandering and escaping. It was both offensive and defensive.
As for the Will of Swordsmanship, if Liang Lidong chose this specialty, he could immediately become a Master Swordsman. A noble's talent in swordsmanship, Swordsmanship Specialization, and Will of Swordsmanship … One talent and two specialties together could allow him to fight head-on with a Warrior in the early stages, but in the late stages, he would still be no match for a Warrior in melee combat.
What the Divine Nobles needed were restraining and supporting abilities, not powerful offensive abilities. When he reached level five, the special class talent of the Divine Noble would be unlocked, and he would no longer have to consider offensive ability.
Then, the remaining choices are 'Sprint' and 'Magic Pet Strengthening'. Liang Lidong sat motionless in his chair, like a stone statue. About an hour later, his gaze fell on the "Magic Pet Enhancement."
Joan Of Arc, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, immediately woke up. She was surprised to see that her body was enshrouded in blue light. Then she jumped up and exclaimed, "Ouch, ouch, ouch! Master, what are you doing? Are you going to sacrifice me? "
The magic reaction when a magic pet was sacrificed would also show blue magic patterns.
Liang Lidong smiled and didn't say anything.
"Ah, how unlucky. I'm going to be abandoned by Master after only five days of intelligence. Why am I so miserable?"
Joan Of Arc rolled around on the bed pitifully. After a while, the blue light on her body disappeared. It was stunned for a while with its claws facing the sky. It looked around and felt its body again. Then, it turned over and said with some doubt, "I seem to be more powerful? Master, what did you do? "
"It's just a confusing choice." Liang Lidong patted Joan Of Arc's head. "It's fine. Go back to sleep."
The next day, Liang Lidong continued to teach the children how to read, but in the afternoon, instead of going to the grove to analyze Mist Riding, he went to the old village chief's house. Today was the birthday of the mayor's daughter, Barbara. Liang Lidong and the old village chief's family were all invited, so they planned to go to the city together later.
A carriage was parked in front of the village chief's house, which the old village chief had rented from the city in advance. Although the Reed family had declined, if the old village chief were to walk to the banquet, it would be like a heavy blow to his heart for him, who valued his family's honor very much. No matter what, he couldn't lose face.
"Master, you're here!" Kail was delighted to see Liang Lidong. He was now wearing a set of aristocratic attire with pale golden sleeve patterns. The faint rural youth's aura had faded quite a bit, and his whole person looked very valiant. Clothes make the man. This saying was true.
The old village chief was also wearing the same noble outfit, but his sleeves were black, and so was his collar, which made him look much more mature. He saw Liang Lidong and smiled. "Pastor Beta, thank you for coming with us."
Liang Lidong said to the side, "Kail, go to the carriage and see if there's anything dirty. If there is, clean it up."
"Okay!" Kail responded and ran out excitedly.
The old village chief heaved a long sigh. Cleaning the carriage was not something a noble young master should do! But there was no other way. The Reed family had declined. It was not difficult to hire servants, but servants with knowledge and etiquette were not available. If the other villagers were to be servants, it would only lower the Reed family's sense of honor and become a joke. It was better not to hire them.
After sending away Kail, Liang Lidong looked at the old village chief and said with admiration, "The old village chief is really amazing. For today's matter, you actually started planning eight years ago. You hoped that Kail would not have to worry about food and clothing in the future, and maybe he would have the chance to inherit a territory. But you did not consider Kail's thoughts. This matter may have twists and turns. You better be prepared. "
The old village chief was puzzled. "Pastor Beta, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
"Hehe, don't pretend, I …" Liang Lidong suddenly frowned because he could see that the old village chief was not pretending. "Eight years ago, the matter of Kail saving the daughter of the mayor, was it not planned by you?"
The old village chief was even more surprised. "Kail saved the daughter of the mayor? There was such a thing! "
It was not planned by the old village chief? Then, the mayor of Winterwind didn't have to do that. After all, the mayor of Winterwind was an upper-class noble, and the mayor wouldn't have paid any attention to a declining family like the Reed family unless something unexpected happened. There was no need for the mayor to kidnap Kail just to marry into his family.
Could it really be that the eight-year-old Kail had beaten up an adult drug trafficker until he was rolling on the ground? If it was true, Kail was hiding a great secret. His ancestor was a Hero, and there was an uncanny bloodline magic model in the cave outside of the village, and he defeated an adult at such a young age. Liang Lidong felt that he had found an important clue.
Was the hostage kidnapping case aimed at Kail? Or was it a coincidence? Or was he thinking too much? Liang Lidong narrowed his eyes, a little confused.