Blood of Mercury

Dusk is approaching, the tired bird leaves its nest and never returns—

It looked at Purgatory in the deep snow, and the smoke rose like a giant burning kiln.

It is compassionate, weeping and weeping. The thorns grew on the forehead, and the bridge rescued many people.

It is bowed down by the living, chanted as king, and crowned with thorns.

—The Raven of Ilamat, Chapter 2, Section 3

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【You got the information about the saint】

Um?

Roland frowned suspiciously.

What did you do yourself?

There is absolutely no reason for the system prompts to appear this time—you must know that the system prompts are all immediate, and there is no delay.

In other words, he just happened to trigger something that theoretically could make him realize the existence of a saint.

…what is it?

Roland thoughtfully looked back at Ram behind him.

The fire was bright and the smoke was steaming. Even calling it purgatory is not an exaggeration.

True. It was a shock to see so many lives lost in front of me.

Like an avalanche or a typhoon. That level of disaster, the mere existence is enough to bring great shock.

Therefore, Roland felt sad about the loss of so many lives because of his human status, but did not feel pity for it.

If Roland destroyed them with his own hands, and then felt pity for it - it was not merciful, it was just pure half-heartedness. Even if they died, they would be unwilling to learn that they died of such a hesitant and weak villain.

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

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

That woman would never have mercy on anyone. Roland knew what she was thinking, because the two of them were one kind of person.

If the two people's positions were changed, Roland would do the same.

Therefore, Roland will never resent or hate Farina, he just simply feels that the two cannot get along.

Roland stared at the burning town of Ram in a trance, the flames dancing in his eyes as dark as the abyss.

And, he's still waiting for something else...

【surprising! 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, almost indistinguishable.

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

[You have proved your determination - all your existing kindness offsets are cleared]

[You got the trait to kill as hemp (personal trait)]

[You got the trait Executioner (personal trait)]

[You got the characteristic cruel thinking (personal characteristic)]

[You killed 194 formal rank professionals, 13 black iron rank professionals...]

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

[You have realized the true meaning of Ashes: You have realized the divine art Ash Nova from the way of ashes]

At this point, the bright red system prompt gradually faded and turned back to blue again.

Seeing the nearly massive amount of experience points, Roland couldn't help but take a few deep breaths.

Contrary to his excited mood, Roland's expression became colder.

He almost indifferently said in the bottom of his heart: "Raise the level of the Ashes."

[Ashman is level 8, 72 experience points are required to advance]

"confirm."

[Ashman is level 9, 78 experience points are required to advance]

"confirm."

【Formal occupation level saturation】

After raising the level of the Ashes to the current level, Roland did not stop.

Don't look at more than 1,000 experiences, it seems like a lot, and it can't be used up - but in fact it's just an illusion.

With so much experience, only at a low level can you quickly improve your attributes. After all, the experience required to improve any occupation will increase with each step up. However, if the occupation does not change when upgrading, the attributes added by each level do not change.

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

If Roland focused on improving the attributes of the Ashes, he would know that it was definitely not worth it after a little calculation.

Roland's innate perception was 2, but after he was transferred to Ashes, it became 3. Then, for each level of +0.35 perception, Roland needed to improve by 20 levels!

The most difficult part here is that Roland's last level cannot be upgraded until he reaches the Bronze level. Once he is upgraded, the experience required to improve his professional level is doubled, and this level of improvement is equivalent to consumption out of thin air. It's a lot of experience - after all, Roland wanted to wash out the Ashes after he changed jobs, and this experience would not be returned.

The most important thing is that after Roland got the profession of Sue Crow, he had to face the experience penalty of the Bronze rank to raise the level of Sue Crow from the beginning! Gain up to 24 points of experience between each level!

But now, if Roland raises the warrior's level, he has a perception of 0.9 when the warrior's career is upgraded to the full level. In the end, Roland does not need to do the advanced task, and it is enough to collect the attribute of ten points of perception. In this way, the experience for each level of the dead crow is only 12 points, which is half less than the previous option.

So, even if Roland didn't have the racial trait of being versatile, he had to take a part-time job with the experience penalty—at least he had to make sure that he had ten points of perception before breaking through the bronze rank.

Therefore, compared to Roland putting all his experience into the profession of the Ashes, it is better to put the warriors to level saturation first. No matter from which point of view Roland is a big profit.

"Upgrade the soldier's occupation level."

Thinking of this, Roland put his precious experience into the warrior's experience pool without hesitation.

[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 the attacking stance from years of training: a single strike]

Immediately, the experience in Roland's experience pool and the experience of reaching that undead to near-death left a total of less than 800 points of experience left.

One thousand and four experience, half of it was gone in a blink of an eye.

If Roland invested all of his experience into the Ashes after upgrading, then the experience would be just enough to raise the Ashes to level 16.

But he decided to take it slow. With two full-level formal-level occupations, Roland would have no problem protecting himself in this relatively low-level map.

He should also save experience.

After all, in case of encountering a crisis that requires high-level warriors to overcome, or encountering a rare posture or a magical technique that urgently needs experience to learn in seconds, if Roland has no experience at all, then Time to lie.

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 still had to reach 10—

Roland White Mistletoe, half-goblin (balanced blood), male

Health: 57/57 (in good condition)

Level: 10 (official level) [Remaining EXP: 786]

Occupation: Ashes Level 10 (—/486) Warrior Level 10 (—/486)

Energy: Natural (30/30)

Origin: Unawakened

Attributes: Strength 4.7, Agility 4.7, Constitution 5.6, Perception 7.05, Will 5.8, Bloodline 4.7

Traits: Initially open Heart of Nature (professional trait), natural perception (professional trait), divine art perception (professional trait), sublime hypocrisy (professional trait), combat in armor (leather armor) (professional trait), mastery of exotic weapons : Kalar Chopping Sword (Occupational Trait), Natural Charm (Racial Trait), Versatile (Racial Trait), Murderous (Personal Trait), Executioner (Personal Trait), Cruel Thinking (Personal Trait)

Supernatural ability: Divination of internal organs

Master the magic: Entangling (2/4), Wild Walk (0/1), Water Breathing (0/1), Touch of Mistletoe (1/2) Scarlet Canine (2nd Ring) Ash Nova (2nd Ring)

Attack Stance: Charge, Sword Stance, Arc Slash, Cohesive Strike

Defensive Stance: Block

Status: none

...Speaking of which, Roland was expected to get Murderer or Executioner, but Roland was slightly surprised that he didn't get the characteristics of mobile natural disasters and accidentally acquired the characteristics of cruel thinking. In fact, there are a lot of reasons why Roland did such an excessive thing because of these characteristics—

Murder like hemp (personal characteristic)

Effect: Will Attribute +1, Evil Tendency +15

- The people you kill can fill a well.

Executioner (personal trait)

Effect: Will Attribute +1, Evil Tendency +40

- A slaughter! You killed a hundred people who had no resistance to you!

Cruel Thinking (Personal Trait)

Effect: You will not be affected by sorcery, divine, and supernatural abilities with similar functions, such as charm and friendship, no matter how far you are from the opponent.

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

The first two properties are purely achievement-like properties. Roland is not surprised that he has acquired these two personal characteristics.

Because both of Roland's occupations are weak points of will, if he doesn't need to make up for five points, Roland will have no way to resist when he comes to the city of wealth and faces the charms of the nightingales, or if he is plotted by anesthesia.

Speaking of...

"Little Roland, why do you want this dress?"

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

"Okay, Hurland... Don't you know it's dangerous to go to the City of Fortune like this?"

"Of course I know," Roland turned around and showed a cold smile, "but if you don't, how can you get some people to take the bait?"

Kluveen shuddered violently.

Although he didn't know who Roland was going for, Kluveen felt a deep sense of unease.

"I said, Roland... I mean Hurland, let me remind you first, the city of wealth is not the same as here in Ram..."

"Of course I know."

Roland's expression softened immediately, and there was no trace of cruelty in his eyes, which was as gentle as jade.

"In the city of wealth, as long as it is not discovered, it is not a crime, is it?"

Roland put the suitcase in front of him, tilted his head, and his voice suddenly became sweet and light.

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

So, Roland turned around, and the snowflakes fell on his black windbreaker, then melted, leaving a faint trace and then disappeared.

But the moment Roland turned around completely, he received another system prompt:

[The elector (Tutor of Eternal Sleep) failed the trial, you still have two chances]

[You have obtained information about the Crown of Thorns]

Eh?

What the hell?

Roland, who was full of energy before, was stunned at the time.

...Wait, what have I done?

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