touchnovel Chapter 113 A Major Upgrade
Chapter 113 A Major Upgrade
Chapter 113 A Major Upgrade
"To be honest, I used to look down on the combat magic of the Kalia royal family."
While instructing Xia Tong, Teacher Serian remarked, "They crudely molded the magic of the radiance stone into the shape of swords for close-quarters combat, and even created some so-called magic knights, which is utterly incongruous."
"But thinking about it later, I realized I was being too old-fashioned."
"These Kalia-style things, while not very elegant, are indeed of great significance in actual combat, especially for agile melee mages like you."
The two core spells recorded on the scroll are the Kalia Swift Sword and the Shining Sword Circle.
Fortunately, Xia Tong is now extremely intelligent.
When Xia Tong checked his attributes again, he found that his intelligence had naturally increased to 25 points.
Although the increase is getting slower and slower, it is all gained through genuine learning and understanding.
It took about a week of practicing day and night.
Xia Tong finally learned these two spells and could barely be considered proficient in using them.
Upon seeing the brass shield on Xia Tong's back, Teacher Serian seemed to have thought of something.
He also taught Xia Tong a practical spell called Magic Shield.
Xia Tong naturally knew the benefits of this magic, which could greatly increase the magic damage reduction rate and defense strength on top of the original shield's attributes, making it an amazing skill for tanking monsters.
"Having a good teacher is so great! They can do all sorts of magic!"
Xia Tong thought to herself with a smug smile.
"My apprentice!"
Serian looked at Xia Tong, who was packing her things, and said with a hint of reluctance in his voice, "I feel that every time you go out and come back, your strength has improved to the point of being visible to the naked eye."
"Considering that you mentioned going on a long trip before, and that you've recently been helping to clean up the disturbances near the ruins."
"I knew then that this time, you were truly leaving."
Xia Tong nodded silently and replied shyly, "I don't know when I'll be back next time, maybe several months from now."
"The magic lessons for the next few days will be free of charge."
Seren waved his hand: "As a faded one, you should keep the runes to strengthen your own power."
"If there's nothing else, you can go now. Don't worry about me."
Since Teacher Selian had already said that, Xia Tong naturally felt embarrassed to insist on paying the tuition in person, as that would only make them seem distant.
He could only try to gloss over the matter for now.
The next morning.
Xia Tong then bid farewell to Se Lian and officially left.
Before leaving, he specifically instructed the demi-human Burke repeatedly: "Burke, remember my words."
"If you cannot defeat the three wandering Kaidan mercenaries on your own, you cannot leave the area of the Post Station Ruins; it is dangerous outside."
Burke nodded vigorously, his eyes red-rimmed.
After everything is taken care of.
Xia Tong sat down once again at the blessing point of the ruins on Yizhan Street.
He opened his attribute panel and took a look.
After the fierce battle with the corrupt tree spirit deep in the border heroes' graveyard, his vitality increased slightly from the friction between life and death.
Even the long-lost stamina attribute has finally loosened up, and has increased a little due to the long battle.
[Character Data]
Rating: 29
Holds 17759 Runes
Vitality: 22
Concentration: 27
Stamina: 15
Strength: 21
Dexterity: 19
Intelligence: 25
Faith: 13
Sensing: 10
(Wearing the Ladagan brand)
Besides the enormous amount of runes given by the Corrupted Tree Spirit, numbering 15,000.
Xia Tong had accumulated quite a bit of runes from his previous raids on the coastal caves and his killing of the Night Riders on the bridge.
"Melina."
Xia Tong thought to herself, "Before setting off, I want to strengthen myself with Runes once again."
"How many times can I enhance it this time?"
Melina's figure appeared, and she calculated the number of runes: "Three times."
"What aspects should we strengthen?"
"Two bursts of concentration, one burst of endurance."
Xia Tong slowly revealed her thoughts.
Then came the long smelting process, which lasted nearly half an hour.
Xia Tong's entire body flashed with golden light, which then slowly subsided, and power surged through his body once more.
He opened his attribute panel again to check.
[Character Data]
Rating: 32
Holds 2769 Runes
Vitality: 22
Concentration: 29
Stamina: 17
(Wearing the Ladagan brand)
As Xia Tong slowly departed, she disappeared into the light of the blessing teleportation.
Inside the underground chamber.
Serian, who was studying the sheepskin scroll, suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Then he sighed softly.
She opened the drawer under the desk.
Inside the drawer, neatly stacked were pieces of golden rune entities.
Exactly five thousand runes.
Xia Tong secretly put it in his drawer when she wasn't paying attention.
The entire ruins of the post station street were under the control of Seren's magical perception. How could she not know about Xia Tong's little actions?
There was also a letter pressed on top of the rune.
The letter, written in hasty handwriting, read: "Your disciple is leaving. Master, please take care."
Serian stared at the words, speechless for a long time.
And on the highest ruins of the Yizhan Street site.
Burke watched the golden light disappear and silently shed tears.
"I'm still too weak—"
"Otherwise, I could go on an adventure with Tong-ge too."
He gripped his staff and dagger tightly.
"I must become stronger, and stronger even faster!"
Ahead of the checkpoint.
Xia Tong slowly emerged from the blessed light.
He was not surprised to see the camp ahead of the pass filled with Grik soldiers again.
This is not because the Grik soldiers who were killed have been continuously resurrected over the past few months.
Those who are truly resurrected will not be wearing the standard Greck suits, because Xia Tong stripped them off one by one and sold them to Kale.
These are clearly new recruit eggs recently brought in from Stoneville, deployed in front of the checkpoint to create an illusion of strength.
child.
Most of the original soldiers' corpses have been collected and disposed of in nearby underground cemeteries to feed tree roots, or transported away as nutrients by the living pots produced in Hu Village.
As Xia Tong appeared near the blessing point in front of the checkpoint, his trail was quickly spotted by two or three patrolling Grik soldiers.
Just as the other party was about to grab the horn at their waist and start sounding the alarm.
"Whoosh!"
A swift and powerful beam of radiant stone magic shot out from Xia Tong's staff at an extremely high speed.
It hit his hand precisely.
"what!"
The latter immediately cried out in pain, and the horn fell to the ground.
Then several brilliant meteors shot out.
The two or three soldiers who tried to call the police were riddled with bullets.
The blessing point ahead of the checkpoint is not far from Storm Gate, the true gateway to Stoneville.
Xia Tong summoned Torret from here, and after traveling slowly for more than ten minutes, they arrived at the front of the Storm Gate.
The previous camp was just a stronghold on the outskirts of the Storm Pass.
"Ring ring"
Xia Tong was not overconfident.
After taking two sips from the Blue Dew Holy Grail bottle.
Xia Tong summoned all three generals in one go: the headless knight Ruthel, the lost knight Ingwell, and the lost knight Oreg.
The scene was extremely spectacular.
"Looks like I'll still have to use Blue Secret Drops from now on."
Xia Tong looked at the nearly empty mana bar and said helplessly, "Otherwise, my mana would be completely depleted as soon as I summon my Legion of Bones."
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For example, if you want to summon all three top generals, you need to drink at least two potions to have enough mana.
Strictly speaking, it's a family of three.
Even after using up all her mana from two doses of medicine and summoning all her minions, Xia Tong's mana was still completely depleted.
He needed to drink another sip to replenish his mana so he could use magic, combat skills, or prayer in battle.
Fortunately, Xia Tong has already enhanced the healing amount four times with Holy Grail Dew, and even increased the number of uses of the Holy Grail Bottle by three.
Even with such extravagance, it's more than enough.
Looking at the towering city gate ahead, Xia Tong couldn't help but think back to the past.
"I still remember the first time I passed the Storm stage."
"I used a trick, using the chaos created by the Kaidan mercenaries' horses as cover, and it was pitch black at night that I managed to sneak through the Storm Pass in such a disheveled state."
"But this time, I'm going to fight them fair and square!"
In fact, Xia Tong's current combat power is somewhat excessive for the Storm level, which is why all three generals need to be summoned.
The more ashes there are, the less combat pressure each individual ashes bears, the less likely they are to get injured, and the shorter their recovery time after the battle.
Watching the man and his horse, along with three tall, terrifying knights from the lost homeland, approach the Storm Pass step by step.
The soldiers from the front line who were on guard finally realized something was wrong.
He blew the horn in his hand in terror.
"Ugh—!!"
As the alarm sounded.
Dozens of Grik soldiers behind him, some wielding longswords and shields, others carrying spears, rushed out from behind cover.
The crossbowmen on the high platform also took their positions.
There was also a huge stone-digging mountain demon, which roared as it leaped down from above the city gate, shaking the ground.
Xia Tong waved gently, pointing forward.
"kill."
"boom!"
A loud bang.
Oreg was the first to rush out.
He dissolved directly into the air.
When he reappeared, he was already behind the front-line shield infantry formation.
The two heavy, lost knights' greatswords swung wildly, instantly unleashing a storm as fierce as a meat grinder.
A storm swept through.
In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams filled the air.
The soldiers who tried to block with their large shields were shredded into pieces by Oreg, shield and all.
at the same time.
Archers and crossbowmen on a distant high platform began firing.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
A hail of arrows descended.
Xia Tong didn't even move, and Ruthel blocked all the arrows.
With a light flick of his staff, a ring of blue lightsabers quickly appeared above his head.
It was the Radiant Sword Array, which I had just learned recently.
The moment the Radiant Sword formed above his head, it automatically targeted the enemy.
He swiftly fired at the approaching Grek soldiers, pinning down any enemies who tried to get close.
Then Ruth's figure vanished into thin air.
The next second, he teleported behind those annoying crossbowmen on the high platform.
The flaming spear in his hand thrust out mercilessly.
Each thrust meant the fall of a Grik soldier, and the platform was cleared in an instant.
"roar--!!"
The enormous roar instantly shook the entire battlefield.
The enormous rock-digging troll, which had been prepared all along, charged out from behind the Grik soldiers' defensive line.
It even knocked away two or three of its colleagues who were blocking its way, and brandishing its huge stone sword, it charged toward Xia Tong, the commander.
Ingwell, who had been guarding Xia Tong's side, made a move.
He suddenly started running and then leaped high into the air.
The storm halberd in his hand was imbued with terrifying storm power.
Like a meteorite, it slammed hard onto the mountain demon's shoulder.
Ingwell is the one with the strongest resilience among Xia Tong's three generals.
The halberd came crashing down with tremendous force.
With a crisp "crack" sound, the bone broke.
The mountain demon let out a mournful howl, and was knocked to its knees by the blow, losing its balance.
Oreg emerged from the melee and swept in like a whirlwind.
The two swords were slashing wildly at the mountain demon's ankles.
Immediately, blood gushed out of its body like a fountain.
Xia Tong then gracefully waved her staff.
Several Radiant Stone Demon Shards shot out, aiming precisely at the mountain demon's face.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Just a few moves of coordination.
The once invincible beast crashed down, kicking up clouds of dust.
It was a completely one-sided massacre.
The remaining Grik soldiers didn't last more than a few rounds either.
Dozens of fully armed soldiers fell one after another, like wheat being cut down.
Within just ten minutes.
The entire Storm Pass was reduced to ruins, and blood flowed like a river.
Xia Tong and her three companions suffered almost no injuries, not even minor ones.
For a moment, the Storm Pass fell into absolute silence.
The only sound was the "crackling" of the flames burning the wooden frame.
Xia Tong stepped over the giant corpse of the mountain demon and looked at the uphill road leading to Storm Hill.
At this moment, the sky is clear and the sun is shining.
Everything before my eyes was so clear and transparent.
"It feels so good to become stronger."