Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 68 Messages on the Pages (Ask for a Recommendation Ticket)

Seeing ghosts disappear into nothingness, leaving nothing behind.

Thorne was somewhat disappointed, and then the five-star paw print holy emblem hidden in his sleeve appeared in his palm.

——"One ring of magic: fresh traces!"

Accompanied by Thorne's standard set of casting movements, the wooden holy emblem in his hand trembled slightly, and quickly emitted a faint green glow in the pitch-black passageway.

Then under his guidance, Thorne's eyes showed two faint green lights.

Thorn blinked to adapt, then turned his gaze to the ground on both sides of the fork.

Immediately, the originally blurred walking traces on the ground seemed to have just walked by Thorne's green eyes.

So he looked at these vivid footprints, pondered for a while, then turned around and walked to the left where the least footprints were.

Because the footprints back and forth from the fork on the right can be clearly found, and many people have already walked back and forth there, even if he passes by again, he probably won't find anything new.

On the left side, however, few people set foot on it.

Thorne guessed that the reason for this situation was probably caused by the ghost he killed just now.

Ghosts are undead creatures, spirit-like undead creatures that cannot be reborn because they are hindered.

This meant that they had to stay in the material plane, and the only ending was that their souls would be destroyed and finally forgotten.

Before that, they could only exist alone in desolate places, long-abandoned ruins or catacombs, which is why they like to kill living creatures mercilessly.

Because only by depriving others of their lives can these lonely beings obtain a slight sense of satisfaction.

On the left is a winding passage, because the inside is relatively narrow and the terrain is complicated.

Not many traps were set up, and even if there were, they were all dismantled by the adventurers who had walked before.

However, Thorne still didn't dare to take it lightly, and chose to move forward cautiously. In this way, a half-closed stone door appeared in front of him.

Thorne stopped, checked carefully, and after confirming that there was no trap on the stone door, he gently pushed it away.

Jie Jie Jie!

The moment the stone door was pushed open, a gust of wind blew past, and the weird laughter reappeared.

——"Desert Wind School (Strike Skill): Flame Star!"

The dagger that Thorne had prepared for a long time, in the dark space, danced bright flames, and then exploded suddenly, bursting out a burst of dazzling white light.

what!what!what!
There were bursts of shrill screams at the same time, piercing Thorn's eardrums.

There were still four ghosts. Thorne frowned slightly as he looked at the four translucent phantoms floating around him.

Then he waved the long sword in his hand, bursting out with hot flames, and wiped out all four ghosts who had fallen into a weak state due to the strong light.

——"Spell-like ability: panic!"

At this time, there was another eerie scream behind Thorne, and his brain seemed to be completely filled with a cold negative energy.

——"Steel Soul Pie (Coping Skill): Perfect Spirit!"

Thorne did not hesitate to mobilize the power of Qi in his body, and launched the counter skills of the Steel Soul faction to resist.

Will saving throw in progress!
Will save succeeded!

You have successfully resisted the fear effect of the panic spell!
Fear doesn't work on you!
……

Jie Jie!

——"Supernatural Ability: Energy Drain!"

The ghost let out a weird sneer again, then stretched out its phantom claws, attacking Thorne's body.

It turned out to be a ghost master. Thorne was surprised when he saw that the appearance of the ghost phantom was significantly different from the previous ones.

When a ghost kills too many living creatures or absorbs a certain amount of negative energy breath, it will gradually realize a supernatural ability: generate spawn!
This ability can make any creature killed by it become another spawned ghost.

And this spawn will be commanded by the ghost that created it, and will remain in this slave state until it is destroyed.

Sensing that the ghost's attack was approaching, Thorne was unmoved.

Because he wears the ring of a paladin and possesses constant protection from evil magic, it is destined that even the Lord of Ghosts will find it difficult to hurt him at all.

So he shook the long sword and short sword in both hands lightly.

The flames of the Yanxing and Red Lotus swords immediately emerged on the sword, emitting a hot light.

Then Thorne took advantage of the debilitating effect on the ghost after the flame star exploded.

The long sword in his hand was blessed by the flames and the sanctioning evil attached to the ring of the paladin, and he easily killed the ghost master.

Target is dead!
Extract the soul energy of the target and get 1000 experience points!
Get 50 practice points through understanding the battle!
……

Specters are weird spirit-like undead creatures. Even ordinary people can kill them as long as they find the right method.

Ding!
The moment the Ghost Lord disappeared, the crisp sound of a black spar falling to the ground caught Thorne's attention.

So Thorne wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, immediately picked up the black spar that fell on the ground, glanced at it, and put it directly into the dimensional bag.

This is the ghost's soul fragment.

Low-level soul fragments can be used as charging materials for constructing creatures, and the one in Thorne's hand at least already has the materials for making the soul core of low-level undead creatures.

For example, the simplest undead creature: skeleton!
When spellcasters make skeletons, they usually first use negative energy to reorganize the skeleton's body so that it has simple mobility.

Then use this soul fragment to make the skeleton produce simple thinking, which is the soul fire dancing in the skull's eye sockets.

The fire of the soul is the most essential difference between the naturally awakened skeleton and the skeleton made by the caster.

A skeleton with simple thinking consciousness means that it can understand many complex instructions and thus be competent for many difficult tasks.

It is even possible to generate an autonomous will.

Crunch!

After finishing off the ghost, Thorne pushed the stone door open and walked in.

The smell of decay, coldness and corpse smell rushed towards him.

The room was littered with stone bookshelves, the pages of which were either burned or torn.

Bound covers and torn scrolls piled up like rubbish in corners along the walls.

Right in front of it was a pure black marble table, on which were placed many odds and ends, such as small balances, distillers, beakers, candlesticks, funnels and other experimental equipment.

However, they are covered with dust and have been damaged by the erosion of time.

Obviously, this place has been deserted for a long time.

Thorne looked at the various messy books on the bookshelves and on the ground, and began to rummage randomly, trying to find some useful ones.

Most of the books on the bookshelf were mainly paper, and they were damaged and dilapidated, but he still found two well-preserved magic books from these dusty piles of books.

After Thorne wiped the dust off the book cover, clear names appeared in front of his eyes: "Flesh Golem Handbook" and "Dragon History".

Since these two books are made of metal sheet and bone material respectively.

So under the erosion of the years, except for the thick dust, there is no damage.

At this moment, out of the corner of Thorne's eye, he noticed a corpse in the corner of the bookshelf.

Thorn's expression changed, he immediately put away the two books, and then walked over carefully.

Although the flesh and blood of the corpse had already rotted cleanly, leaving only a pile of bones, Thorne still roughly judged his occupation based on the remaining clothes of the other party.

Should be a rogue class.

After examining the corpse, Thorne found that the other party had hidden arrows in his sleeves, daggers in his legs, and he was wearing a toolkit for picking locks and dismantling traps.

They were all ordinary products, and Thorne did not take them away.

Ok?
Suddenly, Thorne found the dimension bag in the hidden pocket at the waist of the corpse.

He looked happy, quickly took it off, and then opened it to check.

Then he shook his head in disappointment and put it away.

Except for more than [-] gold coins and a few books about thieves, they are all necessities for wilderness adventures, and there are no too precious items.

"It's such a smooth incision. The moment the head was cut off, I'm afraid the other party fell down before he could react." Thorne glanced at the incisions on the head and neck on the corpse, secretly surprised.

Then he looked around the room and found that apart from the corpse and his own footprints, there was no trace of a third person.

The fresh marks of the ranger's first ring of divine art last at least an hour, so in this dusty room, as long as someone comes in and out, it should be easy to spot.

But Thorne thought about it, and then he was relieved. It is obviously useless to use realistic judgments and reasoning in this high-demon world.

Then Thorne directly unbuttoned the corpse's clothes, intending to see if there was anything useful hidden.

When Thorne saw the string of pendants at the neckline of the corpse, his eyes lit up and he immediately took them off.

The composition of the pendant is composed of a transparent silk thread and a silver-white cross star the size of a fingernail.

With Thorne's spell recognition skills, he could clearly feel the aura of magic contained in the cross star, at least it was also an extraordinary piece of equipment.

"It's a pity that I don't have the knowledge of mysticism, otherwise I can identify the specific attributes." Thorn put away the pendant and whispered.

Continue to start groping inside the corpse's clothes.

This is?

Originally, Thorne had planned to stop and leave, but subconsciously turned the corpse over, and unexpectedly found a book page made of unknown materials on the ground.

Thorn looked at the familiar modern text message on the page in shock:

Looks like the plan failed!
The great will of the multiverse is indeed not something we and other mortals can resist.

The efforts of the Godslayer Church once again came to naught.

……

What kind of organization is the Church of Killing God?
What is the identity of this corpse?
Are you a player?
Thorne gently stroked the familiar square characters on the page. After a moment of silence, he looked at the corpse on the ground, full of doubts.

　(Thanks to book friends: White Hunter の Moon, Zena Baichuan for their rewards!)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)