novellhall Chapter 108 Skill Announcing Death
Chapter 108 Skill Announcing Death
Chapter 108 Skill Announcing Death
Shen Yaoxing was treating Lu Ren's arm, but she was thinking about something else.
They had taken on two missions this time: one was to subdue Yanxi Village, and the other was to deal with the disappearance of a silver-level squad from Yandong Village.
This lost squad was also here in Yanzhou for training, and they were quite influential. The squad leader was Jiang Yanyan, a member of the royal family of Dayu. The other squad members were all members of aristocratic families with close ties to the royal family.
At first, she wondered how a silver-level squad could disappear without a trace.
Could it be that, like Lu Ren, he accidentally stumbled upon this Snow Throat ritual and perished?
Lu Ren looked at the wound on his arm. A white light appeared in the young lady's hand and healed the wound. The blackened wound gradually returned to its normal color.
"Are you done yet?"
Shen Yaoxing shook her head: "Your external injuries are healed, but it seems you've been poisoned. The Holy Light of Restoration can only heal injuries, not poison."
In the past, the young lady was always used as a healer, but Shen Yaoxing is essentially a support character; her healing output is actually only average (not really). Her "Restoration Holy Light" skill is better at dealing external damage than most sorcerer skills, but less effective at dealing internal damage...
Poisoning and disease are a bit of a problem.
Lu Ren chuckled, "That bow is so powerful, and it's even poisoned? Playing such a dirty trick?"
Shen Yaoxing stopped using his skill, and a soft glow began to appear in his palm again. Unlike the tingling sensation he had felt before, there was a warm current flowing through his body.
This is a direct application after the Yin-Yang attribute is high. It's a simple healing spell with a similar effect. Lu Ren can also do it. This is the proper method of a sorcerer. However, without skills and related talents, the effect will be much worse than that of a real sorcerer.
Shield Warrior Schroeder looked puzzled, baring his teeth: "Aren't you a sorcerer yourself? Can't you cure the poison yourself?"
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Lu Ren paused, then said, "Um, I haven't learned any healing skills yet."
Amazing! I'm curious about this team. Not only are there two support characters, but the healer doesn't even have healing skills!
"You're a sorcerer, why don't you learn healing skills? What will you learn then?"
"A real man definitely likes the visceral feel of hand-to-hand combat. I learned all combat skills, and if I hadn't been with those two, I could have wiped out that bunch of Snowthroat bastards all by myself!"
Hulk was amused by him, crossed his arms, and said with a disdainful look, "You? A sorcerer? You say you killed a whole squad that can hunt hundreds of salt-shelled lizards? If you're so good at bragging, why don't you say you killed the entire Snowthroat?"
"Hulk!"
Lu Youhe looked worried. "What if we can't get an antidote now? Lu Ren, you're not going to die, are you?!"
"Die? What do you mean, die? I feel fine, I'll just eat some dirt and I'll be alright!"
As Lu Ren spoke, he squatted down to eat dirt.
Shen Yaoxing glanced at him and transmitted her voice to Youhe: "Youhe, your brother is starting to lose his intelligence. Give him some spirit remains to eat."
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This poison is very potent; it has already started to deplete Lu Ren's health and has also triggered the "Wrathful Sin" effect.
When they were in Linjiang, Shen Yaoxing and Lu Ren studied his "Wrath" sin and found that it was not only triggered by injury, but also by negative states such as poisoning, frostbite, and hunger.
Moreover, the description of "the great sin of wrath" is that after being injured, one's temperament is affected, not just in a simple case of being easily angered, but in a state of "greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and doubt". One will also be greedy for money and lust, easily angered, foolish, arrogant, and suspicious.
Lu Ren then remembered that there were spirit remains that could be eaten, so he quickly spat out the half-eaten dirt and asked his sister to take out all the spirit remains.
Shen Yaoxing pondered for a moment, then looked at the Black Mountain High Moon Squad and asked, "Won't Snowthroat come after us? Aren't we in great danger right now?"
She had just made a rough assessment of the group and found that most of them were at the Candle Illumination Realm, and about six or seven were at the Flame Relic Level. However, her intuition told her that the prop master who had been knocked down was a great threat.
Xiao Mei and the others looked at each other, all glancing at Gu Manman.
Gu slowly shook his head: "No, they only kill people during ceremonies, and they know it's illegal. They always run into the mountains as soon as their whereabouts are exposed. They couldn't catch Brother Lu just now, so he's probably already gone."
The mage, Bai Zhi, also said, "When I was little, the elders in my family said the same thing: if you don't behave, Xue Hou will take you away. It seems that adults in Yanzhou use this to scare children."
Lin Hei crossed his arms and nodded: "It's like stopping a child from crying. They are a group of bloodthirsty killers. It is rumored that this organization even has Frost Moon level members, but it has always been just an urban legend. This is the first time I have actually encountered one."
Gu Manman explained with a smile, "We've been cracking down on Snowthroat quite hard here, so we rarely see them in Yanzhou, but they do occasionally appear in Kazakhstan and Luosha."
Lu Ren was furious and shouted, "That's a 'carrying sound'! A damn 'carrying sound'! I'm going back right now—"
Lu Youhe couldn't stop him by himself, so he called out to Ali for help: "Ali, Ali, quickly hug him!"
Ji Liguang quickly hugged his waist from behind, but this man was incredibly strong and much more physically robust than she was now.
"Lu Ren, Lu Ren, don't get emotional, Youhe, hurry up—"
Having spent so much time with Lu Ren, Ji Liguang knew very well what it meant for this partner to be triggered by the consequences. How humble and tolerant he was usually, how arrogant and furious he was at this moment.
"Don't try to pry me open, I have my own spirit remains."
Lu Ren had a fresh, hot silver-grade spirit bone in his hand, which he had just dug out of the head of that banshee.
A spirit entered my belly, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens — how melodramatic, am I really not right?
He was indeed having a headache, feeling weak, and his mind was in turmoil.
As the spirit remains were swallowed, the sin of gluttony began to exert its power. The digested spiritual energy began to dispel the unclean energy within the body, and the passive effect of the sin of rage also began to weaken, with intelligence once again taking over.
At the same time, he also felt that he had learned two new skills.
[Transformation] Quality: Silver, Learning Requirements: 3500 Inspiration, 2000 Rules Effect: Consuming the spirit remains of a Void Beast allows you to record all the characteristics of the Void Beast and gain the ability to transform once. You can then use all the skills of that Void Beast.
[Announcement of Death] Quality: Silver, Learning Requirements: 2500 Resonance Effect: Strongly invades the opponent's mind, creating an illusion of the tragic death of someone nearby, bringing a strong mental shock and causing the opponent to temporarily lose their combat power. The first skill overlaps with his own characteristics. He could originally gain the skill by eating spirit remains (by hunting them himself), so it's a bit of a waste.
Perhaps there are job opportunities in some special environments, such as becoming one of those small-sized virtual beasts and sneaking into the women's bathhouse—no, what am I thinking? My intelligence!
The other skill, "Announcing Death," is quite good. It's a mental attack skill, somewhat similar to illusion magic, giving him another way to disgust people.
"This spirit remains aren't very tasty. Xiaoying, do you have any more spirit remains?"
Seeing that Lu Ren was actually eating spirit remains, the dark-skinned girl was somewhat taken aback: "Uh, Brother Lu, what are you doing—"
"Pica, just ignore it."
Lu Ren can detoxify and expel impurities by eating, and as the purest and most concentrated energy, a single bronze-level spirit bone has an effect similar to eating a cow.
Jiang Yueying didn't know when it was her turn to feed the spirit remains. She held a bag of spirit remains, and after Lu Ren finished eating, she handed him another one: "Lu, Lu Ren, here you go————"
"Xiaoying, why do you seem even cuter today than usual?"
"Ha!"
"Xiaoying, don't mind him. My brother's intelligence has decreased, and he's started acting like a horny person!"
"What are you saying? Don't you think Xiaoying (chewing) is cute?!"
"Gah!"
Jiang Yueying's eyes darted around, avoiding Lu Ren's gaze. Her hands were clasped to her chest in a flustered manner, as if folding origami cranes: "C-cute or whatever, I-I-I-I!"
Lu Youhe warned her to be wary of sweet talk: "He's only saying that to pick you up. Right now, he's probably thinking about you naked!"
"No way, I like to wear white stockings (chew chew chew). Xiaoying would definitely be cuter in white stockings (chew chew chew)."
"I think so too, especially the pantyhose, Xiaoying would definitely look adorable in them."
"I don't want to discuss this kind of topic with my sister. Xiaoying, which style do you like?"
Shen Yaoxing was talking to Gu Manman and Xiaomei about the Snow Throat incident, but her intuition kept alerting her.
There's always this feeling that there's someone behind me, taking advantage of a sudden change in personality to sexually harass the mage in my party.
Lu Ren felt that they had misunderstood him. He felt that he was not affected by the rage and that his intelligence was not affected.
He swallowed another silver-grade spirit remnant, and to prove he was conscious, he deliberately used a deep, steady male voice: "I just saw at least a hundred rock-shelled lizard corpses down there. Were our mission target also wiped out by them?"
"Brother, what's wrong with your voice? Is your poisoning getting worse? You should eat some more!"
Ji Liguang chuckled: "If that's the case, then is our mission a success or a failure?"
"this----"
Xiaomei pondered for a moment and said, "After crossing this mountain, we'll reach Yanxi Village. Why don't we go and take a look at the village first?"
Shen Yaoxing mentally assessed the dangers of this trip, and just as she had sensed when she left home, she did not anticipate any danger whatsoever.
But having just encountered that group of eerie Snowthroat creatures, she looked at Gu Manman and said, "I'll have to trouble Mr. Gu to be extra vigilant."
"Miss Shen, you're too kind."
Hulk snorted, looking at Lu Ren with a disdainful tone: "Even if Snowthroat really does get involved with us, he was able to escape back with his men, so how terrifying can Snowthroat be?"
Just as Lu Ren was about to say something, Shen Yaoxing's voice transmission came through his mind again: "This person isn't stupid. He noticed that you were acting strangely, playing good cop and bad cop with that Xiao Mei, trying to find out what's going on with you."
After all, they are social professionals. Even if they are temporary partners from the Professionals Association, they will still be wary. It's not that they necessarily want to make enemies with Lu Ren, but since they are colleagues, they want to see if they can get something out of him.
Actually, Lu Ren had noticed something before: almost every time he choked, after two or three breaths, Xiao Mei would say, "Hulk, shut up!"
The dark-skinned girl glared at him fiercely, then looked at Lu Ren apologetically.
The general pattern is that if we see him make a better move, then at most there will be some minor friction between Lu Ren and Hulk, but for the sake of Blackie Xiao Mei, there won't be much of a conflict.
Lu Ren paused in his eating of the spirit remains, looked at the man, and chuckled.
Hulk, the shield warrior, felt a surge of anger under his gaze. He was about to say something when the young sorcerer said, "Want to know how I escaped that Snowthroat guy's pursuit?"
If his passive skill isn't triggered, but he's friendly, and if his passive skill is triggered, and you still make him friendly, then his passive skill was triggered for nothing?
Normally, he wouldn't care about being offended, but right now, he felt that he wouldn't be able to get through to this big guy unless he killed him, and he would be very unhappy if he couldn't get through to this big guy!
You dare to provoke me here with my newly learned skill?
Hulk was taken aback and instinctively asked, "W-how did you escape?"
Then he saw the sorcerer pull out a wooden sword—a cyborg weapon? A divine cultivator's cyborg weapon was actually a knife?
Just when Li Haoke thought the other party had finally given in to the provocation and was about to show him his skills, he saw the man suddenly move.
It was moving so fast that he could only see the afterimage.
"Sizzle—"
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The next second, warm liquid, like splashed tomato juice, splattered all over him!
Hulk's eyes narrowed, and he slowly and stiffly turned his head to look at the blood splattered on his body, which came from his longtime companion, White Paper.
After completing the mission, the guy would go to the merchant's karaoke shop and order five girls, keeping one for himself while the other four sang for him. He claimed it was for his former teammate, but at that moment, someone slashed him in half diagonally from the neck!
Hulk's mind went blank for a moment, unable to comprehend this sudden turn of events.
"you!"
The man's figure moved with ghostly speed, disappearing into the distance in an instant. The next second, a scream came from behind him from prop master Lin Hei.
"Ugh!"
He turned around and saw a knife piercing Lin Hei's chest. The man casually pulled the knife out. Just a few days ago, he was saying that breaking flags was popular now. Before going on a mission, he confessed to his childhood sweetheart whom he had secretly loved for many years. As a result, he received the reply: "Idiot, why are you only confessing now? I've been waiting for you for so long." Lin Hei, the prop master, collapsed helplessly in a pool of blood.
"Something's wrong! Hulk, run!"
Xiao Mei rushed over quickly, trying to buy him a chance to escape, but the next second, a violent explosion sent dust flying everywhere.
After the dust settled, the sorcerer slowly emerged, carrying a head in his hand.
The girl he liked, that always lively and bright young woman, had blood trickling down her neck, and stared at him listlessly.
His heart seemed to stop beating. Li Haoke felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and he was still unable to react.
Unable to comprehend why this person was so powerful, and unable to understand why he would go to such lengths, he began to tremble all over.
He had only provoked him a few times; occasional friction between adventurers is normal. Why did he have to resort to such deadly force? Why did he have to—
"Hulk!"
A voice came from the sky, and suddenly, a voice came from outside the world, and everything in front of us shattered like a mirror.
Li Haoke fell backward and sat on the ground, suddenly starting to gasp for breath.
The demon stood still, without moving an inch, with all his companions beside him.
Just like no matter how heavy or terrifying the nightmare is, you realize the moment you wake up that it was all just an illusion, but that heavy feeling is still as painful as if your heart is being tightly squeezed by a hand.
Lu Ren, still grinning, said, "Now you know how I escaped back?"
He was panting heavily: "That was... an illusion!"
This sorcerer in front of me actually possesses such powerful illusion skills!