Act 63 The Reward of the Mission II
Should we focus on offense or defense?
Brando gritted his teeth. He felt something strange. This independent strengthening of the space-time attributes was a bit depressing for him. But it's not irreversible - it just means that he is likely to give up the path he had planned before.
He hesitated, but finally put his hands on the Templar profession.
In the past, players often changed their career path because of a powerful weapon. It is much more reliable to say that he changed his career path because of a powerful factor. After all, elements are something that lasts a lifetime, especially the time and space elements that are too powerful. General elements can only enhance their attributes by 50% at most, while conceptual elements can be doubled directly.
Of course, he couldn't give up such a powerful advantage at will.
Besides, it’s not like he hasn’t considered the path of a warrior turning into a combat-type knight. The aggressiveness may be slightly weaker than his previous career path, but it won’t be too different. Because he still has the conflict aura of the Templar Knights and the Crown of Thorns——
Brando decided in an instant the route he would take next.
Then he looked at his Templar skills, and as expected, the skill panel had completely changed. After the elements are strengthened, the skills have their own rules:
Blood of the Sun
(Level 10)
【Master】(Element/Normal)
Any enemy that deals melee damage to the Templar will receive 50% of the damage reflected back.
(Element enhancement) Blood of the Sun can now ignore the constraints of space and reflect long-range damage.
Crown of Thorns
(Level 10)
【Master】(Element/Normal)
Continue to perform. Increases endurance and resistance by 20.
Actively turned on, converting all defense, resistance and endurance into attack power for half an hour. After the effect ends, the Templar loses all defense, resistance, and endurance for the same amount of time. This ability can be used once per day.
(Element Enhancement) The duration is doubled after being actively turned on, and its side effects will be swallowed by the time rift.
Conflict Aura
(Level 10+1)
【Master】(Element/Normal)
Increases the defense of all friendly forces within 100 meters, including yourself, by 7 points.
(Element Enhancement) The coverage area is doubled, and an additional 2 defenses are added.
The enhancement seemed to end in an instant, and Brando finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw these enhancements. Different factors also have completely different effects on strengthening skills. For example, if the healing element of the Crystal Stag is used to strengthen the Blood of the Sun. Most of the time, the Blood of the Sun will also slightly heal itself when it causes rebound damage.
However, space and time are obviously very consistent with the improvement of these defense skills. Especially the attribute of the Crown of Thorns, which has the side effect of being swallowed by the time rift, makes Brando laugh with joy.
In fact, he now has 952 points of constitution, which is almost an additional 500 points of life bonus and 4 points of natural defense bonus. And while wearing the Flowing Firefly and the Grip of Bahamut. After adding the effects of talents and skills - he will have almost 40 resistance, 30 endurance and 17 defense. Once this attribute is converted into attack, it will be a full 87 attack points.
In The Amber Sword. Attack is a basic attribute. On top of it, combined with a series of bonuses to strength and skills, the final damage is achieved. And you must know that the Sword of the Earth, which is a majestic fantasy-level holy sword, only has 42 attack points. The pure attack of the Lion Heart Sword is probably even lower than this, and what about the first-level sealed Azure Spear? It only has 122 attack points.
The meaning of 87 attack points can be clearly understood here.
It can be said that after turning on the Crown of Thorns, then turn on the fanaticism. Brando's violent state is basically a real mad dog mode. How could he be dissatisfied when his attack nearly tripled in an hour without any side effects?
If you want to defend, you must defend, and if you want to attack, Brando suddenly found that his choice of time and space elements gave him a perfect answer.
But the gifts brought by the elements of civilization are far more than that, because Brando finally saw a status list at the bottom of all attributes that made his heart beat:
Elite skills——
Demonize
(Grade 1)
【Basic】(Elite/Normal)
Disguise the breath on your body as the breath of a monster for a short period of time. Prevents monsters below the lord level from attacking for one minute or until the user takes the initiative to attack.
Elite template, an attribute he acquired after rescuing Funya in Tonigel. Finally, after his enlightenment elements fully blossomed, and the first column of elite skills was unlocked, it brought him a completely unexpected surprise.
Demonized.
Only now does Brando finally understand where this skill comes from.
Back then in The Amber Sword. There is a player called Lord Nightingale. This guy can be said to be the idol of all nightingales. Lone Ranger, personal heroism, never forms a group with others, wanders alone in various dungeons and dungeons, except for those large dungeons, legendary dungeons and scene battle areas with special settings. There was almost nothing he couldn't steal.
And the skill that guy relied on at that time was later found out by people to be demonization-this magical skill that can disguise the player's aura and turn the monsters in the top areas into non-active attacking monsters.
But unfortunately, no one knows where this skill comes from. As most people know, this is a real monster skill. At that time, probably only God would understand how this skill was learned.
But today, Brando finally realized it.
This turns out to be a skill that comes with the monster template. No wonder players turned the entire world upside down and couldn't find the NPC who taught it. But what he was a little confused about was how a warrior like himself could be randomly given a skill as powerful as a thief's aura.
Of course, he was not dissatisfied. But he is too satisfied, this skill is simply too useful for him. Especially in this frost-stained forest.
If before getting this skill, he just wanted to stab Grand Duke Anlek in the back with a black knife. So now he is really sure to give the other party an unforgettable lesson.
Even if it is to avenge the princess in her previous life.
Brando thought so.
He couldn't help but let out a breath. Then when he came back to his senses, he discovered that Nymesis was standing not far away from him, looking at him with some confusion - it was obvious that he had been standing here for a long time with the card in his hand.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Nothing..." Brando then put the 'Song of Reincarnation' into the reserve card library. He took one last look at the white deer and goblin on the card, and then the card flashed slightly and disappeared. Fortunately, he had an extra card slot because he expanded the element pool. Otherwise, it would really be a bit difficult to handle right now.
He looked at Nymesis again and then explained: "You should have felt it -"
"Congratulations, you have entered the field of elements -" the expression on the female knight's face softened: "Mr. Earl, you are only 21 years old this year, right - your achievements today have surpassed the Lord of Fire Gilt."
"Hmm..." This question was difficult to answer. Brando turned around and looked behind him - the newborn crystal stag was still lying in the grass, because it was still too weak. It seemed like it couldn't even open its eyes and was lying there shivering.
The look on Nymesis's face turned to some confusion again: "It's really strange to say that you must have had the same dream as me, right? Why can you remember it so clearly? How Bran are you...or are you? Sophie?"
Brando looked back at her: "Of course I am not Brando, but I am also Sophie. I do not reject the memory of another world, just like everything you see in a dream - it is still you. experience.”
He seemed to realize that Nymesis seemed to think that he had the same dream as her, which was a bit strange to him. Didn't she realize that it was a real world? But he shook his head and decided to go along with what the other person said.
It's a pity that the female knight seems to be very wary of this, when it comes to memories and dreams. She immediately shut up and stopped talking.
Brando looked at her carefully, and Nymesis turned his head slightly. Only after he was convinced that the other party would not continue talking about this issue, he turned back.
He walked towards the trembling crystal stag and leaned down. He touched the other person's forehead with his hand and asked, "Little guy, what's your name?"
The newborn fawn trembled slightly, but did not answer. In fact, it couldn't answer it. Before reaching adulthood, the Crystal Stag only mastered some simple water-based languages.
Brando naturally knows this. He looked next to it. The crystal stag lay among the embers of Marocha's body. Brando soon saw three sparkling things there.
This will naturally not be a drop.
He understood very well that this was the mission reward in the game.
Because generally speaking, creatures that live in harmony with magic such as crystal stags rarely drop. They are very sensitive to magic. It is very simple to control their belongings and dissolve all their own magic. But at the last moment, he chose to help Marocha and successfully solved the task.
For this reason, the guardian of the Seal Forest left these three gifts to him.
But Brando is still a little regretful. The highest level of completion of the task is perfection. Second is outstanding, then excellent. He estimated that the final problem lay with the elf lady. If she had not sacrificed, the mission might have been completed perfectly.
Under the conditions of perfect reward, it is likely that there will be more than just these two things.
Of course it is better than nothing now.
He picked up the three gleaming magic items from the ashes. There are two sky blue crystals similar to the core of magic, and the other one is a gold ring. Brando remembers that this thing was originally worn on Malocha's horn.
"This is..." When he saw these two things clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"This is the Power Stone, the Portable Ring...it actually left these two things to you. It seems that you are very grateful to it..." Nymesis replied softly behind him.
…
The raw stone of power is also called the experience crystal in the Amber Sword. Wizards define it as a substance produced by gathering together a large amount of purified holy magic. Because it is pure, it can be absorbed by most of Warnd's creatures and even monsters - so it can be said that Brando has this crystal in his hand. This is what the frost demons outside the Seal Forest have been spying on for thousands of years.
But Brando held the crystal gently, but felt a heavy weight in his heart. Malocha had guarded these sacred powers for thousands of years, only to finally give them to a stranger like himself.
"Yes... this is the Power Stone. I have only seen its existence in story books in the past. It is said that before the War of the Saints, the masters would also make this thing." Brando replied.
"You said you've only seen it in storybooks. Do you mean Sophie or Brando?" Nymesis asked with some concern behind him.
"Both." Brando lied to avoid going too far into the topic. He felt that he was trying to avoid talking about the past with the female knight. To avoid having a sword pointed at the opponent's head again.
That's not a good feeling.
But he was a little strange. He always felt that Nymesis seemed to care about her dream, but also seemed to deliberately avoid it. It's really a bit contradictory.
"You should know its function, right?" Brando turned around and asked.
"Me?" Nymesis thought for a while: "The literature says that the Power Stone can enhance a person's strength, and sometimes it can even help those who have no hope of entering the next realm to break through. But I think this is nonsense. , the power of getting something for nothing in this world.”
"Not entirely." Brando looked at the crystal in his hand. He knew that what Nymesis said was actually correct. This thing called the experience crystal actually had only one function - to convert the sacred magic power inside it into experience and inject it into the absorber.
In the entire Amber Sword, there are not many things that directly increase experience. Artifact fragments, rough stone of power, fountain of blessings and a golden apple.
But that’s why they are so precious.
Brando threw one of the power stones to the female knight and said, "But no matter what the legend is, don't you want to try it?"
"I……?"
The female knight caught the crystal and held it in both hands, a little surprised: "Why did you give it to me?"
Brando smiled. In fact, he doesn't know either. Probably because this thing has no effect on him, the power stone is a relatively low-level type of experience-increasing items. In fact, it can improve the existence of silver level to gold level the most, and can transfer experience almost without loss. But for people like him who have already enlightened themselves, the effect is naturally much smaller.
Of course, he could also consider Medissa, Ciel or Hipamira.
But not just why. He made this decision subconsciously just by seeing Nimesis's appearance. "Legendary things may not necessarily be true. I plan to use you as an experiment." He replied.
The female knight looked at him deeply.
She suddenly lowered her eyelashes and asked in a low voice: "Are you going to give the other one to Freya?"
Brando was slightly startled: "You know?"
"Because I had the same dream as you." She replied softly, and then her voice became softer: "But anyway, thank you."
The female knight looked carefully at the crystal in her hand. Then put it away carefully. She raised her head and looked at Brando seriously: "I like this gift very much."
"Because you want to become stronger?" Brando suddenly noticed something and narrowed his eyes.
Nymesis nodded slightly.
"Look at the other thing," she replied.
Brando was actually a little impatient. He picked up the golden ring in his hand - the name of the portable ring actually explained the function of this thing. This thing belongs to the same category of items as dimensional holes, dimensional bags or drawer rings - that is, space storage magic items.
However, it is slightly different from the dimensional hole in that the portable ring only has two spaces and can only store two items. But it has a feature that other storage equipment does not have - that is, taking out the stored items does not require any action. It only requires the holder to think, and the items will instantly appear in the holder's hands.
Because of this feature, it is called a portable ring. In the game, this bracelet itself is a very precious piece of equipment, and players who own it often use it to store weapons. This allows you to switch weapons in an instant, catching people off guard.
Just for this feature itself, regardless of whether there is anything in it, Brando can be said to have made a profit when he got this bracelet. However, he was still looking forward to what would be inside. After all, generally speaking, the items contained in the portable ring were weapons.
Weapons are the most valuable type of magic items.
But when he picked up the gold bracelet, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
There are two items in the bracelet.
One of them was almost worthless, it was a piece of stone, but that stone piece looked so familiar to Brando. Because he had also seen almost the same thing among another person's relics.
He immediately remembered the gray stone fragment he had obtained from the belongings of Antitina's father, Mr. Borg Nathan. Because he never understood the function of the stone piece, he always carried it with him. As soon as he saw the thing in the portable ring, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately took out the stone piece from his pocket. Come stone flakes.
When he compared it, he was immediately stunned.
Exactly the same.
Except for shape and size, other characteristics are almost identical. The colors, textures, and even the properties that don't have the slightest bit of magic are the same.
"What is this?" Nymesis couldn't help but ask when she saw the stone flakes in Brando's hand.
But Brando shook his head and answered honestly for the first time: "I don't know either..."
The female knight glanced at him suspiciously and did not speak again. Of course Brando noticed her look, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed - no one would believe him if he told the truth. I don’t know if this is a typical example of crying wolf.
But he thought for a moment and put away the two stones. Fortunately, Marocha has been sealed into a Coca-Card card, so there is always a chance to ask him about the secret of this stone piece. As a crystal stag that has existed for thousands of years, Brando doesn't think it will collect a worthless stone like Sir Borg Nathan.
After putting away the stone pieces, Brando took out another item from the portable ring.
It was a piece of parchment.
In fact, he had seen something similar when he first met Babasha. There's only one name for this sort of thing in The Amber Sword.
Skill scroll.
But the skills recorded on this skill scroll are extremely different.
New life and death
(Extraordinary/Ancient)
Burn life and transform into elemental power.
Prerequisites for learning: Sage Domain, bloodline attribute 300+
Brando's eyes slowly swept across the blood-red parchment, and all the fonts on it seemed to become blurred. And in his eyes, it seemed that he could only see those four simple words.
Extraordinary, ancient.
With Martha on top, Brando groaned hard in his heart.
(PS: Today’s update is here, ==, it’s another big wave of data and settings, which made me burst into tears when I wrote it. Every time this happens, I want to pull my hair out. But I finally finished it, okay Sorry, it's a little late, I hope you can forgive me~ Two updates, almost 10,000 words.
I also recommend a book, The Legend of the Great Sage. I read it recently and it was pretty good~) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations or monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. .)(Amber Sword)