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“I know of one flower in the elven kingdom’s forest, north of the three ring towers. It is unaffected by negative energy and is forever blooming, never withering.”
Marvin looked to one side and said, “I just happen to be on a trip to the three ring towers. I can bring you a flower on the way back.”
“Really? Are you talking about the [Eternal Flower]?”
Fidel was quite surprised. He grabbed Marvin’s hands, abnormally excited. “I already heard about the eternal flower before. Unfortunately I cannot leave despair hills for the time being. This is a necromancer rule.”
“If you are willing to help, I’ll be very grateful!”
“Ah… Haven’t met someone kind like you in quite a while. I’ll look for something to gift you.”
He then began searching, and all kinds of weird stuff was thrown aside by him.
“No need…”
Marvin suddenly swallowed the words he was about to say!
Because he noticed the jade colored leaf in Fidel’s hands!
That leaf was completely emerald green and was still full of life even in the despair hills filled with negative energy.
…
Nature’s Leaf!
Even if he wasn’t a ranger in the past, he was still familiar with this thing. This was the most cherished treasure of ranger players!
If it was something else, he might refuse, but he wouldn’t be able to refuse something like a nature’s leaf.
“Looking at your appearance, you should be a ranger, so this nature’s leaf will be the advance payment. When you bring back the eternal leaf, I’ll give you a few rewards.”
Fidel excitedly rubbed his hands, “How long will you need?”
“Hard to say.”
Marvin couldn’t help but receive that nature’s leaf. He really couldn’t reject this thing.
He muttered. “At most, I’ll be back in a month.”
“Good, I’ll wait for you for a month!” Fidel waved his hands. He seemed to have recovered.
Truly a simple-minded guy.
For the sake of his beloved, he was ready to do anything. Perhaps because of this, when he saw his beloved’s frightened appearance upon meeting again, his simple mind couldn’t take it and he went mad.
Marvin thought so.
If possible, he really wanted to change this guy’s fate.
‘Let’s give it a try.’ He grasped that nature’s leaf, thinking.
He knew that his arrival in this world would change the fate of a lot of people. Sometimes he had to be vicious and merciless. And sometimes, he wouldn’t mind doing a good deed.
The two spent the rest of the time happily chatting.
In reality, Marvin was listening and Fidel was talking. This chatterbox talked about his life’s experiences.
He kept going until the skeletal warhorses and ghosts left and Marvin took his leave.
He had already been delayed for a while. He had to hurry to the exit in the northern part of the despair hills, Skull Valley.
…
Rangers used nature’s leaf to learn some magic.
In fact, the ranger class was originally unable to learn magic. They could only learn divine spells by following a god.
Among these gods, the most typical one was the old nature god.
But after the 2nd Era, the old nature god went into seclusion. Before he left, he delegated the privilege to grant divine spells.
He let the World Tree control all nature magic. Thus, leaves grew on the world tree; nature’s leaves containing pieces of of divine spell privileges.
The nature god was very magnanimous. Even if you didn’t believe in him, you could learn magic through nature’s leaf.
The prerequisite was to be a ranger or a druid.
Nature’s leaves were very rare and were firmly controlled by the Migratory Bird Council. How this nature’s leaf ended up in Fidel’s hands was a mystery, but it was definitely very precious.
Marvin placed it on his palm and whispered a simple incantation.
This incantation was a job incantation shared after one became a ranger. Marvin only needed to search for the ranger class introduction to get it.
After whispering the incantation, the nature’s leaf merged with Marvin’s body.
And his first spell appeared on his skill window!
[Vine Metamorphosis]: You can turn a part of your body into a barbed vine. Usable three times per day.
‘It’s unexpectedly this spell…’
‘A very fierce nature spell. But this description… Seems a bit wicked…’
Marvin felt a bit ashamed.
A part of the body… What part?
The nature god was just like the myths said, bold and unrestrained!
…
After learning his first spell, Marvin hurried north with a cheerful mood.
The atmosphere was quiet on the way and he didn’t meet another unusual ghost uprising.
But when he was about to arrive at the Skull Valley, he met another necromancer.
More precisely, a necromancer apprentice.
When Marvin passed by, he suddenly appeared from the cemetery to the side with a small army of twelve skeletons .
It seemed he was training his skeleton group control.
When he saw Marvin, he didn’t even say anything and directly ordered that group of skeletons to throw themselves at Marvin!
This was normal for necromancers!
They were extremely hostile to humans, and weren’t like that freak Fidel who entered the despair hills to chase after his girl.
Marvin wasn’t afraid and unsheathed his daggers!
It might have been troublesome if it was a 2nd rank necromancer.
But a necromancer apprentice was daring to be arrogant in front of him?
He was asking for death!
Marvin took a step forward and kicked a skeleton, the curved dagger in his hand flashing with a cold light!
Chapter 62: Versatile
Chapter 62: Versatile
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
There were only 12 skeletons!
Just a small group.
In general, this kind of summoning magic had a limit of 6 summons.
But necromancers didn’t have this limit. As long as they had a constant supply of ghosts or corpses, and enough spells slots, they could continuously create obedient subordinates.
This was what made the necromancers frightening. After all, even a strong expert would feel afraid when facing an army of ghosts.
But, as Marvin thought, apprentice necromancers weren’t that scary.
‘Looks like a level 3 or level 4.’
‘He is unexpectedly able to summon twelve skeletons with poor control. Isn’t that really bad?’
‘Thinking of killing me with just this?’
Marvin was sneering inwardly. He crouched, stabbing his curved dagger into a skeleton’s right knee cap!
It was a simple reverse attack!
“Crack!”
The sound of the skeleton’s knee being scrapped out echoed!
The skeleton immediately lost balance, falling to the ground.
It wasn’t a flexible [Blue Bones Warrior], only a group of skeletons that didn’t even reach level 2. They were too weak for Marvin!
With his skill and dexterity, he fiercely attacked all the surrounding skeletons.
Their speed wasn’t even close to Marvin’s.
To the shock of the apprentice necromancer, Marvin barely took half a minute to tear apart the group of skeletons.
“You… You… How?”
The apprentice necromancer was scared, blurting incoherent words. He took a moment to regain some focus. After his skeletons were completely annihilated, he turned and ran!
Marvin would obviously not let him off!
He took a big step forward and abruptly sped up. He caught up to the running apprentice necromancer in a few breaths.
But who would
have thought that just as Marvin caught up to him, the apprentice necromancer would suddenly turn around, shooting a fierce dark light from his finger?
1st-circle spell, [Ray of Darkness]!
If someone was hit by ray of darkness, they would be infected by a random disease! This kind of disease would quickly break out. Even though it wasn’t deadly, it was still quite troublesome.
Marvin’s eyes twitched; his 9 constitution wouldn’t be able to bear the weakening from the ray of darkness!
[Shadow Steps]!
In an instant, his left foot kicked the ground with force. While still advancing, he managed to shift his position to the right by half his body width.
“Woosh!” A pitch-black ray passed by his ear.
He dodged it!
But the necromancer suddenly exposed a fierce smile and said, “Can you dodge twice?”
While speaking, he raised a finger from his other hand and shot a dark light!
This was another Ray of Darkness!
But this time, the enemy used a ring to cast the spell from his other hand!
They were pretty close to each other, so according to common sense, Marvin should be unable to avoid it.
This was a good plan from the apprentice necromancer. That guy wasn’t completely brainless. After finding out that Marvin might be an expert, he immediately came up with an emergency plan!
He first pretended to flee, but then shot two rays of darkness in a row!
A flawless plan. If Marvin was hit by one, the apprentice necromancer would have the leeway to use his other spells.
It’s a pity that his plan needed Marvin to fail to dodge a ray of darkness!
But it didn’t happen like that.
When the second ray of darkness was shot, Marvin didn’t think.
He immediately followed his instincts.
This time, his right leg kicked the ground, dodging to the left!
This was exactly the same movement as the previous shadow step!
“Woosh!”
He dodged once again!
The apprentice necromancer was thoroughly stunned!
‘How could this happen?’
‘That guy’s dodging skill could be used twice in a row?’
Not waiting for his reaction, Marvin had ruthlessly thrown himself forwards!
He used a powerful cutthroat from the front with his two curved daggers!
[You used Cutthroat (46) on the target…]
[Skill successful, critical damage!]
[Target eliminated, you gained 49 battle exp.]
Even if the apprentice necromancer forced himself to withdraw his neck when facing that powerful melee skill, he was still unable to dodge Marvin’s ruthless Cutthroat.
Up until his death, he still didn’t realize how Marvin was able to use two shadow steps in a row!
…
Marvin was panting a little after getting rid of the apprentice necromancer. Those two moves had used up quite a lot of stamina.
This was the strength of wizards; even an apprentice could make Marvin go all-out.
A 1st-circle spell was fast and ruthless. Marvin’s constitution simply couldn’t handle it. He could only dodge.
And that double dodge was a reflection of Marvin’s experience.
He had actually used the shadow step skill for the first step!
For the average person, if they were right handed, they would send power through their left leg to make a step to the right. Marvin was also like that.
But he had practiced the reverse skill!
That is, kicking the ground with the right to take a step to the left!
This kind of two step combo often helped Marvin kill his enemies.
Even though the second shadow step wasn’t a skill and didn’t have the same effectiveness, after being tempered by Marvin, it had been trained to the point of perfection.
This technical move was as good as the skill.
This kind of instant decision would have been impossible without years of practice. The reason Marvin was able to use this move was his instinct.
After his soul fused with his body, his bodily control reached the realm of perfection.
Despite that, after the two uses of shadow steps, he still felt some pain on his right leg.
‘A slight sprain.’
‘My constitution is still bad, not good enough to support this kind of skill that uses explosive strength.’
Marvin shook his head and began to examine the apprentice necromancer’s loot.
This apprentice necromancer must have a master, so Marvin didn’t want to stay there much longer. He would grab the apprentice’s stuff and leave.
This guy was quite poor, having no money.
The only thing worth something on his body was that ring. Marvin examined it, finding that it was like the powered magic staff. It could store a spell and would shoot it when needed. However the workmanship was many times inferior to the powered staff, and it also couldn’t be re-charged.
‘Still able to use ray of darkness once.’ Marvin put it on a finger of his left hand.
The rest of the loot only consisted of a few necromancer’s basic books. These things were useless to Marvin.
‘Hey? This pass is actually great.’
Marvin was pleasantly surprised to find a sheepskin scroll on the corpse. This was a standard pass for despair hills.
Apparently this apprentice was actually part of a group. Relying on this pass, Marvin could freely leave despair hills.
After tidying up everything, Marvin didn’t feel like taking care of the corpse, so he just left it there.
Necromancers have always profaned the dead, and the other side was the one to start the attack, so Marvin didn’t feel guilty at all.
…
Walking on a small path in the despair hills, Marvin started browsing the previous battle logs.
He was pleasantly surprised by one part:
[Because you repeatedly used other classes’ moves in battle, one of your specialties will be close to this field. Personal specialty progress: 100/100]
[Because you skillfully and frequently used other classes moves in battle, a relevant personal specialty has already formed!]
[You received a personal specialty – Versatile]
‘It’s actually Versatile!’
Marvin was somewhat excited.
This specialty was a very uncommon and mysterious specialty. Even in his previous life, Marvin didn’t obtain it.
He hadn’t expect to turn into a ranger, but this was his luck! Because if he had picked thief, he wouldn’t have used other classes’ moves.
[Versatile]: You can receive one additional secondary class. The first secondary class would be exempt from experience penalties.
The specialty description was very simple, but the content was very impressive.
In Feinan’s world, the classes’ restrictions were very harsh.
A person could have at most two battle classes, one main class and one secondary class.
And once you picked a secondary class, you would get a very serious experience penalty. In spite of that, a lot of people still chose to have a secondary class.
It was because getting a secondary class came with benefits: numerous extra skills. This would be very helpful in battle.
Now, Marvin obtained this Versatile specialty.
This meant he could have two extra classes and that his first one wouldn’t receive the experience penalty.
This was really too useful.
But Marvin was soon distressed. What should he pick as a secondary class?
Chapter 63: Scarlet Copper Dragon
Chapter 63: Scarlet Copper Dragon
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
The matter of the secondary class was very serious because once you picked a secondary class, you couldn’t change it.
Marvin was knowledgeable enough that in an instant, he thought of six outstanding secondary classes.
If it wasn’t for the universe magic pool being destroyed, the wizard class would have been the best pick. Unfortunately, Marvin didn’t dare to choose the wizard class. In half a year, non-wizards would be slightly affected, but wizards would be in the middle of the calamity.
Even if he wanted a wizard secondary class, Marvin would wait until after the collapse of the universe magic pool and then pick one of the new kind of spellcasting being pioneered by mankind.
Thus, the current wizards didn’t enter his sight.
As for the remaining classes, getting the class itself would be no less troublesome than getting the night walker class.
‘I’ll settle the things I have to do first, and then take care of the secondary class after upgrading my main class,’ Marvin decided.
He really had too much on his hands and it would take some time. Fortunately, there was still some time before the universe magic pool collapsed.
…
Marvin didn’t meet another necromancer after killing that apprentice.
His luck wasn’t bad, and he smoothly arrived at the northern Skull Valley.
This was a region similar to the Ghost Valley. Without the pass, Marvin could only use Heiss’ spellbook to try to trick the low level ghost guard
But he had a pass now! He simply left the despair hills. It was a lot more convenient.
The sky was still dark after he left the despair hills seeming like the sun had just set.
Marvin estimated that he had been in the despair hills for a day or so. He entered at dawn and left at dusk.
This was really lucky. He hadn’t suffered any loss.
The next path would be slightly easier. But Marvin decided to rest for the night.
Because Marvin would enter the territory of an expert.
Few people in the surroundings knew of his existence because he used Dense Fog, Illusionary Voices and other spells to create an unusual environment. If he didn’t take the initiative to make the first move, very few people could bother him.
But Marvin was getting ready to pay him a visit.
Even though the other side wouldn’t do anything to hurt him, he still needed enough energy to deal with everything after that.
‘A nap would be good. This body’s constitution is too bad. The stamina is already quite lacking.’