V1.Chapter 11

There aren't many haunted places in Amber City.

Sauron just inquired a little to determine the approximate location of the hidden treasure cave. There was a mass grave about one kilometer north of the Agate River, where more than once people saw traces of ghost activity. This is one of the more obvious signs of a treasure cave, and a lich always prefers to place these caves closer to death.

"A ghost?"

"Then a little holy water might be needed."

In order to ensure Vivian's safety, although Sauron was confident in exploring the treasure cave, he was not sure how long it would take him, so he planned to send her to the Temple of Dawn for Priest An Yali to take care of. It was the priest girl who had helped Sauron but always treated him coldly. If she took care of Vivian, there should be no problem. Of course, it is impossible for the Dawn Temple to take in a little girl for no reason. Sauron had already prepared a sum of money for the temple.

Dawn Temple.

Sauron leaned slightly towards Priest Fair, who was the abbot of the temple. When the other party took the purse he presented, he heard a crisp and pleasant sound of silver dangler crashing inside, and he immediately said with spring breeze: "No problem!"

"The Lord of Dawn blesses all believers who believe in him, this little girl can live in the temple for a while."

"Let her follow the trainee pastor An Yali."

This is a world without money.

This is true even for priests of great power, who need to expand their beliefs in serving the gods and absorb followers among the poor. All of these things are inseparable from money. The maintenance of the temple needs money, the devotees need money, and even more money is needed to hold sacred ceremonies. Now, even the priests of most temples have begun to openly sell magical treatments, expel diseases, recover injuries, etc., in exchange for wealth enough to maintain the temples to expand their faith. What is it to take in a little girl for a few days and sell a few gallons of holy water?

The Temple of Dawn is not very powerful, and it can only be ranked below the second tier in Amber City.

Therefore, nobles always have better choices when offering sacrifices, and the money Sauron donated is quite precious.

A total of sixty silver dels.

It is equivalent to the recent offerings received by the Temple of Dawn within half a month, allowing Priest Fair to replace the utensils that preside over sacred ceremonies with one or two pieces of silverware.

After all, this is a silver coin made by believers of the Goddess of Fortune, and twenty pieces weigh one pound!

"Thank you, Pastor Phil."

Sauron expressed his gratitude politely, and then smiled at Pastor An Yali who was beside him: "Vivian will trouble you these few days!"

"Humph."

The young priest snorted softly, but did not refuse. Although she still disliked Sauron, she liked the little girl beside her very much at a glance. Of course, An Yali knew that Sauron's money was not clean. I'm afraid it was either stolen or related to the gang fights in the slums, but Pastor Fair had been preparing for the sacred ceremony for her to be promoted to the official pastor for a long time. It was difficult for Sauron to be willing to donate such a sum of money, and of course he had to bring it over to prepare for her the sacred ceremony bestowed by divine arts.

If there are two official priests, the Temple of Dawn should soon be able to enter the ranks of the second-rate and upper-middle-class in Amber City!

"Vivian follows Sister An Yali first."

Sauron reached out and stroked the little girl's head lightly, comforting: "I'll come pick you up in two days!"

Before he came, he had already talked to the little girl.

Vivian didn't object to Sauron's arrangement at all, she just nodded obediently: "Yeah."

"Don't worry about me."

"Vivian is very good and will never run around."

Sauron leaned over and kissed her forehead lightly, then picked up the holy water and walked outside the Temple of Dawn.

Now that the skinning incident has occurred, he also needs to speed up his pace.

Before the gods were forced to walk in the world as saints, the temple should be one of the safest places in Amber City. It was shrouded in the divine power gathered by beliefs, and there were guards who guarded the temple. Not many evils dared to set foot in it easily. Even a second-rate temple like the Dawn Temple has six powerful temple guards in addition to one official priest.

The strength is basically above the second order!

One of the temple guards even has Tier 3 strength. It is conservatively estimated that he has a level 10 knight attendant/level 10 knight/level 5 temple guardian, or a level 10 knight attendant/level 10 warrior/level 5 temple guardian career template.

The first occupation level in front represents the basic occupation before the job change.

For example, most of the aboriginal wizards have the occupation level of 10 scholars, this is because they need to read and have a certain knowledge base before learning spells. Another example is that many advanced warrior professionals have the prefix of level 10 militia, which means that they have received militia level training before becoming full-fledged warriors.

As for Sauron's 10th-level civilians, this represents the lowest-level pre-professional.

There is no weapon mastery attached to the militia, and no knowledge bonus attached to the scholar. The only advantage is that you can gain 25 skill points and advance to any occupational ranks.

As long as your talent attributes are enough!

The basic occupations in the front-end generally do not add any attribute points, but there are still some gaps depending on the focus. For example, the best front-end for the melee department is the level 10 knight attendant, which can obtain an additional skill point for weapon specialties. But this is for player-owned pro templates. If this template is changed to the aborigines, it means that Sauron was born a commoner and received commoner education since he was a child. The growth of his attributes in his childhood depends entirely on fortune, and it is difficult to predict whether he will become a genius or a mediocre. He advanced to become a thief.

And the third-order temple knights received training and education from knight attendants since childhood. They had already had combat training when they were young, and had mastered most of the weapons, so some of his attributes were inherently much higher than civilians, whether it was strength. Or physique, etc., and continued until he became a warrior or knight, and began to continue to improve his strength as a professional.

Therefore, in the past, players judged the basic attributes of an aborigines as their pre-professional occupation.

The general occupation of civilians is average, the occupation of militia is slightly stronger, the comprehensive attributes of knight servants are high, and scholars have innate knowledge advantages.

In summary.

That is the same second-order professional, the temple guard is much more difficult to deal with than the wild road warrior.

The wild road warriors may have a lower attribute than them, and the ability to master is only basic swordsmanship, but the temple guard will have a part of the attribute higher and master more than three advanced abilities at the same time.

After being proficient in cross swordsmanship, [Sword Stance-Cross Slash] made Sauron a deep memory!

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Mass Burial Mound.

It was already afternoon when Sauron came here, and it took him half a day to find the entrance to the cave.

It was a simple concealment device, more like a trap.

As a rock near the mass grave was moved ten centimeters, a dark hole appeared on the hillside not far away. When Sauron's figure entered it, the rock immediately returned to its original place, and the entrance of the cave disappeared without a trace. As expected from the work of the lich, some arrangements were extremely clever in the eyes of Sauron, a former legendary thief.

total darkness.

There were damaged torches on both sides of the cave. If an ordinary person didn't come in without a torch, he might not be able to walk. However, as a half-elf with one-eighth elf blood, Sauron still had a certain night vision ability. Therefore, he can roughly see everything in the cave without lighting a torch, which is the key to him daring to explore the treasure cave alone.

Stealth + night vision = silent.

No need for lighting tools means that the monsters in the cave will not be disturbed.

The safety factor is greatly improved!

Sauron's figure gradually merged into the darkness. With the awakening of the professional expertise of 'Shadow Mastery', he could already feel the existence of the power of shadow, which was different from the previous feeling. In the darkness, his figure gradually became hazy, as if he had disappeared into the shadow. Only when he moved could he faintly perceive the slight changes in the shadow.

His breath, his heartbeat, his smell were all covered by shadows!

"Squeak."

There was a sound of footsteps in front of him, Sauron gently pulled out his dagger, and hid in a corner of the cave and waited.

The area of ​​the treasure cave is not small.

After all, it is impossible for a lich to dig a hole in the ground. There are many underground passages here, and there are many guardian monsters among them, as well as the traps that the lich set up.

A skeleton appeared in front of Sauron.

There is no soul fire in its eyes, which means that it is only the lowest-level resurrection skeleton. It may be because of the strong death energy here that it is guarding here unconsciously. Such skeletons are easier to deal with, and the average professional can deal with one or two, but it is impossible to kill a large group casually, because their strength is roughly equivalent to the militia with formal training and above, and there is no fatal weakness, after all, skeletons It is also a kind of extraordinary creature.

Even if it is the lowest undead creature.

Sauron's figure approached quietly, and the unconsciously active skeleton did not notice it at all. It held a rusty iron sword in its hand, which seemed to be an adventurer who had explored here and died. The number of aboriginal adventurers in the plot is no less than that of players, and there are even many evil factions who cooperate with players and even sneak attacks from behind to kill players. Anyone who underestimates the world of "Clash of the Gods" will pay a price.

A cold light suddenly appeared in the darkness!

Sauron's figure appeared in the shadows, and instantly swung a dagger and stabbed the skeleton's spine.

"The shadow hides successfully!"

"Backstab activated!"

"Successfully launched backstab*2, causing 18 (+1) points of damage to the target!"

"Target is seriously injured!"

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This was Sauron's first successful backstab but failed to kill the enemy in seconds.

But he was not surprised by this, because he was holding an ordinary dagger in his hand, with no enchantment and no extraordinary characteristics. It is difficult to achieve one-hit kill against undead creatures, after all, undead creatures also have extra bonuses from extraordinary creatures. Although the challenge difficulty is only level 1, the skeleton has more than 30 health points. Without flesh and blood, it is more durable than ordinary people.

clang clang!

The skeleton's fighting instinct was still there, and the first reaction after being attacked was to slash down with a sword, bringing out a sharp air breaking sound. Sauron used the dagger to hold the attack, and his body sank.

"Strength has more than 16 points."

Sauron dodged to avoid the second attack, then moved his slightly numb arm, and said to himself, "It should have been an advanced warrior before it was alive, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a high power after becoming an undead."

10 points of strength is the standard for ordinary people.

12 points of strength is equivalent to the daily labor of the coolies in the dock area.

14 points of strength is considered the most powerful among ordinary people.

A 16-point strength is roughly equal to a weightlifter in a previous life.

18 points of strength is more exaggerated. It is possible to cut people with a weapon weighing more than 100 pounds in one hand. This is the kind of person who can't breathe after cutting.

Generally, those who can achieve more than 16 points are specially trained melee professionals.

Attribute points are the most difficult thing to improve. Only two professional levels can get one free attribute. Even if you upgrade to level 20 and enter the legendary realm, you will only have 10 free attribute points. In this regard, Sauron's flaw is relatively large. His strength is only 12 points. Because he did not deliberately exercise his strength in his childhood experience, and he is not of the blood of gods and gods, his strength is only with the dock area. Hard work is about the same.

As for the extraordinary power of 20 points, a simple analogy can be made.

Hill Giant.

A behemoth with a height of about 5 meters and a weight of nearly half a ton, usually holding an adult waist-thick mace as a weapon!

That's right.

This guy is the standard for 20 points of extraordinary strength!

If it wasn't for innate divine power, many warriors had been promoted all the way to the second-order professional, and they might not have the extraordinary power of more than 20 points.

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