Blood of Mercury

Chapter 18: murder

After realizing what Wind Whisperer was planning, Roland was ready to pay him back.

It's a pity that he came through as a druid. If he got a wizard or a stalker, which can play a big role at a low level, maybe he can really do this by himself. A team of people.

But he was a Druid.

There is no profession that pays more attention to the superiority and inferiority of the profession than the profession of magic - in some gods with many rules, even a high-level priest can interrupt the magic of a low-level priest with just a word of scolding.

Once there was a head-on conflict, even as long as a silver-ranked Ash Disciple gave Roland a human immobilization technique, and then poked it with a scarlet canine, Roland would kneel properly.

In his plan, the most dangerous part was the part that disappeared from the crowd. Although the Ashes banned the use of any form of magic on other Ashes, there were idiots everywhere whose bodies ran faster than their brains, so Roland didn't dare to promise that he would be able to escape.

In order to increase the success rate of escape as much as possible, Roland ran at the forefront of the entire team.

After making up his mind to deal with the Wind Whisperer, Roland released the two vines from his sleeves.

He first made two vines ambush on both sides of the team, wrapped around the wing tree, like a snake coiled on a branch, swallowing vine leaves and ready to go.

The Ashes are not like warriors, they will not gain experience when exercising, and they will also increase their physique attributes when they level up. Therefore, except for Marco, who has been converted from other professions, other Ashes have physique and agility. Attributes are basically level-linked.

No matter how thin Roland's body is, he is still a half-goblin. He is born with two full attributes. Whether it is agility or physique, it is twice that of a normal adult. Roland rushed forward desperately. In order not to lose himself, the other Ashes would definitely try to run forward, but because of their low agility and physique, the last few people still failed to catch up with the large army and were thrown away. .

At this time, under Roland's control, two vines hung down from the tree silently, strangled the mouths of the last two people in the team, and lifted the two of them into the canopy, strangling one of them to death, and stunned the other. One.

After Roland got the prompt [your occupation is not on the evil side, you cannot gain experience by killing humanoids], Roland will know that he has succeeded, and then he will issue an order to let the vines come back to meet him, and use them to succeed. The old-fashioned way of escaping the Macon and his party ran out, leaving a piece of paper to attract their attention.

At this time, Roland didn't idle for a second. Roland, who was suddenly pulled away by the vines silently, was undoubtedly impressed by this one, and then was judged by the system as a successful mission, and obtained the career template of the Ashes.

At that time, Roland looked like this—

[Your sudden action has left a deep impression on the fifty-two Ashes, and the inaugural mission (3) is completed]

[All your inaugural tasks have been completed, and you have successfully obtained the occupation: Ashes, current level 1]

[Every time you get a level upgrade in the profession of Ashes, you will get Strength +0.1, Agility +0.1, Constitution +0.2, Perception +0.45, Bloodline +0.2]

[Since the sum of the attributes raised by Ashes exceeds 1 point/level, your perception attribute is permanently +1]

[Your rank has been improved: it is currently the official rank (level 1)]

[Because of Aum's law, your state has returned to the best.]

[Your heart of nature is initially activated, the +1 judgment is changed to +2, and your energy attribute is activated]

[Because your current perception attribute is 4.0 (including equipment value-added 1.0), your current natural energy is 40/40]

[You got the level of an evil side occupation, and your alignment has shifted]

After seeing this prompt, Roland immediately felt warm currents flowing through his body. As the warm current flowed through the body, all the negative states of Roland were removed, and the whole person returned to the best state. The good could not be better.

So Roland didn't read the hints behind, but immediately rushed back to Pars, pulled out the throwing axe from him, raised it high, and cut off his spine without hesitation. Pars, who had fainted due to excessive blood loss, didn't even wake up, and simply died, allowing Roland to gain his experience.

Strange to say, Roland, who was strictly killing himself for the first time, didn't feel anything at the moment. No nausea or excitement, he just looked at the system prompt floating in front of him indifferently, as if he was still in the game and killed a monster normally:

[You killed an ashes (silver rank) with your own hands and extracted the power of the source... Because more than 60% of the damage was not caused by you or your followers, the experience you gained was greatly reduced; After killing the enemy, the experience is increased by 173%. You end up with 210 experience points]

Roland's previous occupation was not on the evil side, and he couldn't gain experience by killing people, which is why Roland didn't immediately kill Pars and another Black Iron rank Ashes.

After jumping to kill Pals, Roland gained a lot of experience, plus the 129 points of command experience in the previous Glimpse, Roland immediately put almost all of them into the profession of Ashes.

[Ashman level 1, promotion requires 30 experience points]

"confirm."

[Ashman level 2, promotion requires 36 experience points]

"confirm."

[Ashman level 6, promotion requires 60 experience points]

"confirm."

[You learned the magic of walking in the wild from the surname of Bai Que]

[You learned the magical water breathing from the surname of Bai Que]

[You learned the magic scarlet canine from the way of ashes]

【You get the characteristic natural perception】

[You have acquired the characteristic Divine Perception]

【The trait you get is sublime and hypocritical】

[You have mastered the supernatural ability visceral divination]

[Your supernatural ability attribute is turned on]

At this time, Roland's professional level of Ashes reached level 7, which was enough to support Roland in completing his plan. As for the remaining 69 experience points in the experience pool, Roland has other uses.

By the time he reached level 7, Roland had obtained a total of three divine spells—[Wild Walk], [Water Breathing], and [Scarlet Canine].

The first two of them are the magical spells given by the surname of the white mistletoe when his Druid class reaches the first and sixth levels, and they are used a certain number of times every day. And the remaining symbolic magic that was given when the Ashes reached level 6 was the magic that he needed most urgently now.

This is the disadvantage of witchcraft and divine arts professions.

Whether it's a battle or a stealth type, these professionals who rely on the flesh can immediately increase their combat power a lot after they advance.

But whether it is a wizard, a druid or a priest, they still need to learn key divine arts by themselves in order to form an effective combat power after they are promoted.

And those that can be obtained by upgrading are only the most common and professionally representative abilities. Most of them are not the strongest abilities of the profession, but the abilities that cannot be imitated by other professions.

After Roland confirmed that he had obtained the scarlet canine teeth, he immediately started walking in the wilderness, giving himself the ability to move at high speed in the jungle at the speed of moving on the flat ground without making a sound.

Afterwards, relying on those Ashes who temporarily lost their natural perception ability, he placed the second written note on the tree behind the highest-ranking Ashes. In order not to make a sound, Roland didn't insert it forcefully, but just lightly stuck on the raised bark.

As for how Roland made these Ashes lose their natural perception ability, just think about his race to know the result.

Goblins are the incarnation of Gaia, some winged goblins even belong to the top of the golden race, stronger than half of the dragons. Although the goblin blood on Roland's body is only the bloodline of ordinary goblins, he has acquired some characteristics of goblins to some extent.

For example, his blood has a strong anesthesia ability, and at the same time retains the most important alienation ability.

The reason why goblins are treated in a friendly manner by almost all races, in addition to the fact that all life will be engraved with the mark of Gaia before it is born, so that it has a natural recognition for goblins, there are also some reasons for the blood of goblins. .

The blood of goblins and even their breath is of great benefit to the growth of plants and animals after a period of separation from the body. Although most living beings do not know this, instinctual cues will tell them to spend more time with goblins. get along. As long as you get along with fairies for a while, even if you just come into contact with their breath, the plants will grow wildly, which is more effective than applying any chemical fertilizer, and the size of animals will start to expand abnormally - including humans.

Obviously, this function is of no use to humans, so most anthropologists have not discovered it, or have not paid much attention to it.

Roland is of mixed blood, so that his alienation ability is limited to blood, and breath does not have this function - it is better to say that this is better, in case his teammates or followers get bigger and bigger...

However, a certain amount of natural aura remained in Roland's body. By human standards, this "certain amount" of natural aura is obviously stronger than that of most Druids, and any being with natural perception will think that Roland is a Druid. That's why Pals thought he was a Druid the moment he saw him.

But this also has its downsides. The strong natural aura on Roland's body would not let any Druid lose it. In the Druid's natural perception field of vision, Roland was like a giant light bulb - the kind that hangs on the operating table.

Druid's natural perception, to put it bluntly, is to perceive the vitality of creatures within a range. Druids who are more proficient in application can even see the color of diseases, curses and toxins, but Ashes, a fighting Druid who is going to evil, has developed the function of night vision goggles.

In order to prevent him from being exposed in front of the Wind Whisperer, or in order to prepare for easy escape after a failure, Roland smeared his own blood in a large area of ​​the winged tree before going to the core of the Dark Scar.

Roland smeared his blood on the roots of these winged trees. In the next ten years, these winged trees will double in size if they are above the ground. In the perception of the ashes, everything around them is naturally full. Vitality, as if humans were blinded by flashbangs. Can't see anything except the light of these big groups.

And Roland spent half a month in the game to memorize the dark trail and even the entire stubborn oak fan lock terrain. On such a maze-like terrain, the terrain suppression caused by one side's back and the other's blindness is immeasurable.

Then, while the druids were standing there foolishly threatened by him, Roland ran back to the two Ashes who were dead and wounded, and took off the robe of the dead Ashes. , and exchanged it with the one covered in blood on his body.

Immediately after that, Roland returned to the previous forest, and found that the Ashes were just lining up. Roland instantly realized what they were doing, so he quietly got to the end of the line while queuing to count.

...Anyway, the team was looking at the blond boy, and not many people paid attention to Roland. What's more, he also wears the unique hood of the Ashes, in case anyone turns his head inadvertently and can't see his face.

After Roland reported a "one" first, the people in front of him reported the number one by one. In fact, two of them had disappeared at this time, but because Roland was in the mix, they easily thought that only one person was missing, and he disappeared "silently" in the previous confrontation.

Then, after the leader in front announced his temporary disbandment, the entire team slowly loosened up. Because of the urgent queue and friends scattered, the Ashes turned their heads one after another, and whispered softly to look for someone they knew from a large crowd of hooded cloaked people.

In this situation where the person in front was walking backward and the person behind was walking forward, Roland easily walked into the middle. He originally wanted to assassinate the "Number Two" standing in front of him, but then he immediately realized that this was a wonderful opportunity.

Roland walked silently to the middle of the team, quietly raised the scarlet canine teeth doped with goblin blood, and quietly stabbed a female druid's lungs from bottom to top as they passed by. .

The lobe of the lung was bleeding, and she couldn't say anything at that moment. Then the canine teeth begin to dissolve, and the potent anesthesia of the goblin blood takes effect.

Because it took effect in the lungs, her lung lobes instantly lost the ability to expand, and then her breathing stopped silently, and she lost consciousness due to suffocation.

Then the blood is poured into the lungs, and the lungs that have entered the blood are slowly expanded due to the inflow of blood. After the blood accumulated in the lungs to a certain amount, the blood foam was squeezed out from the trachea. Roland took advantage of the situation and stuck the third piece of paper on the blood that overflowed from the corner of her mouth. And when the temporary commander was clever to find the person with blood behind his back, he was the first to point to the person who was killed by himself.

To be honest, if he hadn't so consciously remembered the details of the blood on Roland's back, it would have been quite difficult for Roland to want him to find the corpse.

After the body was found, the crowd quickly became confused. Taking advantage of the chaos, Roland withdrew from the crowd, returned to the vicinity of the two corpses, wrapped the neck of the surviving Ashes with a twist technique, dragged him to the edge of the wood where Roland had smeared blood, and found a random tree to hang him. He got up and left a piece of paper at his feet.

Roland estimated that when the leader of the Ashes picked up the piece of paper, he would realize that he had escaped the range of perception.

I just didn't expect that the one who picked up the piece of paper was just an ordinary member. He obviously couldn't bear the natural perception that kept flickering around him, so he closed it in private, so that when he picked up the piece of paper, he didn't realize that he had just escaped from this mysterious lock that natural perception couldn't perceive.

Luckily, the Titan man was ready to put down the man who was hanged by Roland, only to discover the escape route that Roland had prepared for them.

I have to say that the mercy of the Titan saved everyone once.

Then Roland left here far away, carrying the corpse that was stained with Roland's blood on his back and walked to the opposite direction of the hanged Ashes. Based on the idea of ​​waste utilization, Roland hesitated for a long time, but still used [Visceral Divination] several times on the corpse, and got some news.

Visceral divination is one of the unique divine arts of the ancient Duid sect, and it is also one of the reasons why Duid was exterminated.

By opening the abdominal cavity of the creature and observing the shape and speed of the outflow of the internal organs, Duide can gain spiritual vision from it, and gain insight into some things related to the creature.

Because the existence of this divine art obviously violates the wishes of most good-hearted deities, such cruel divine art no longer exists in today's Druid sect, on the contrary, Marco still retains part of the inheritance.

In the end, Roland destroyed the face of the hollowed-out corpse and hid it.

Roland, who wanted to leave just now, heard a deliberately low noise behind him. I don't know what he was thinking, Roland used the entanglement technique that was about to fail to hang himself to the tree, and quietly looked at the people below.

When the Ashes who came to look for the corpses slowly rubbed against Roland's feet, there was a shout to find the corpse on the other side, so the Ashes on this side breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to prepare to face Gather in that direction.

The moment they turned around, Roland waved the entanglement technique on his right wrist without hesitation. The activated vine popped up, and under Roland's precise operation, it was firmly wrapped around the neck of the Ashes at the end of the team. Before he could make a sound, Roland's right arm suddenly pulled him into the canopy of the tree. .

Because the corpse dragged up by Roland had a little friction with the branch, the other person in front who heard the sound of the branch rubbing turned around in a daze, only to find that the person behind him had suddenly disappeared. So he shouted back to explore, but unexpectedly found the corpse that Roland had released for divination.

Subconsciously, Roland wanted to use the entanglement technique to hang the man up. But beside him, the Ashes who had been strangled by the entanglement technique suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed the vines wrapped around his neck tightly.

At that moment, Roland lost his mind.

Perhaps none of the deceased before resisted Roland's killing, and he never realized that he had killed one after another living person.

Right now, next to him, the activated vines tightly wrapped around his neck and pressed against the trunk of the Ashes. Knowing that his death was approaching, he still desperately grabbed the vines around his neck.

...Do you want your companions to spread the news of your death? No, not right. He knew that he had left no evidence of his identity.

So, do you want that person to escape?

Roland couldn't understand the meaning of this behavior.

That person is neither his relative, nor is the one who escaped the disaster from the names Roland saw before, nor is his friend. It can be said that it is just a stranger.

"Does it make sense?"

Roland leaned over his shoulder and asked in a low voice.

The dying man by Roland grinned and didn't speak. He just made a smile and died of suffocation.

Died for a stranger, just to make your own death more valuable...?

Roland took a few deep breaths, then took a closer look at the man's face with both hands, and said softly, "Well, a noble person, a pure soul..."

Then, he closed his eyes, and at that moment a lot, a lot flashed in his mind.

The destruction of the township, the conspiracy of the devil, the destruction of the symbol of human civilization by the gods, the unstoppable plague, the departure of the parents, the expressionless sitting in a room with only oneself for a whole day...

And, that familiar face that has always been smiling softly.

"...But, he's still an idiot."

Roland opened his eyes, expressionlessly lifted the man's corpse aloft with the twist technique, and smashed it under the tree ruthlessly.

There, it was the young Ashes that Roland didn't kill because of his brief absence. He went back and forth, covering his mouth and squatting in front of the corpse under the tree, looking for something.

Unprepared, he was hit in the back by a corpse that fell from the sky, and the man was dizzy for a moment.

Before he could come back, a vine suddenly came over from the air.

It is not as flexible as a snake, and it is as ferocious and violent as an enraged beast.

It precisely bound the man's throat, then twisted and threw it high into the air. The young Ashes screamed and was thrown six or seven meters away without the slightest resistance. Before he could wait to the ground, the vine protruded out viciously and abnormally again, and when it wrapped around his neck, it was pulled fiercely in the opposite direction of flying out.

He only heard a crisp click, his neck bone was torn off, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

"Any enemy, I will not give them a chance."

Roland looked down at the two corpses condescendingly, his expression indifferent, and his jet-black eyes were like an abyss.

How could such a weak person allow him to live and contaminate others with such thoughts.

The lesson my sister learned with her life... Roland will never forget it in his life.

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This chapter has 6,000 words, and the ten strings will not be removed. The extra chapter will be added to the 70th anniversary of anti-fascism.

Justice must prevail! Peace must prevail! The people will win!

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