Chapter 249 - Meeting With Ans (1/2)

although he made the declaration, the priest could only sigh helplessly when everybody looked at him eagerly.

after all, n.o.body in the team was capable of dispel except him.

putting down his skewers, the priest waved his hands again and again. after his every performance, the light on roland would grow dimmer. everybody counted the tries.

after ten times, the priest stopped.

but the magic light on roland was still quite bright.

at this point, hawk shouted, “go on! we’d like to see how many times it requires to remove the buff. you’d better finish what you started! are you out of magic power?”

everybody else nodded in agreement.

the priest lowered his head gloomily. “i have magic power, but i’m out of my spellcasting quota.”

then, everybody finally remembered that the priests and the warlocks could only cast their spells limited times in a day.

when their levels were higher, their quota would be increased, and they could pick up new spells. however, when their levels were still low, they were often caught in the awkward situation where they used up their quota.

for example, the level-five priest could only cast dispel ten times a day.

everybody sighed in disappointment.

the priest was even more disappointed.

supposedly, the priests were a player-friendly cla.s.s. they could obtain exp by praying to the G.o.ddess’s statue every day. the divine skills they learned were random but highly practical. most importantly, the priests were also good with melee abilities and could put on armor, s.h.i.+elds, etc.

however, it did not seem as impressive as this mage.

as deputy chairman of his guild, hawk wouldn’t let his companion be embarra.s.sed for long. he stood up and said, “roland, cast it on me and let me try it.”

hawk was enshrouded in a white light. two seconds later, he felt extremely weird. then, he roared like a chimpanzee and jumped off from the third floor.

everybody ran to the edge of the roof and looked down.

in the moonlight, hawk, who looked like a gigantic chimpanzee, had embraced a short tree around thirty centimeters in diameter and was exerting his strength.

all over his body, his muscles were protruding and twisting like hard rocks.

dull cracks spread in the soil as the roots of the tree were torn up.

eventually, the tree was completely plucked from the ground.

“d.a.m.n it. you are a living lu zhishen[1]!” betta exclaimed.

“wthe willows are generally no more than twenty centimeters in diameter. this is much more impressive.” link’s eyes were full of delight.

margret snorted in disdain.

however strong a human being was, they could never compare to a dragon.

everybody thought that hawk was done after he showed his strength by plucking the tree, but then he began to spin the tree.

wind was roaring, pebbles were flying, and all the smaller trees were breaking. from where hawk was standing, explosive sounds burst out amidst shattered branches and leaves.

a lot of the pebbles scattered toward the players even though they were on the third floor.

“shoot. this whirlwind slash is rather powerful.” schuck clicked his tongue in amazement.

the disdain on margret’s face was gone.

if hawk were holding a giant sword, she would’ve been hurt if she were hit by such a whirlwind slash in her dragon form.

after reducing the environment into a complete mess, hawk was finally somewhat exhausted. he threw the tree, whose crown was already bare, to the ground and ran back to the roof. while catching his breath, he shouted, “it’s really satisfying!”

though it was hawk who gave the performance, everybody focused their eyes on roland, because hawk couldn’t have done it without roland’s spell.

noticing their excitement, roland shrugged and cast body fortification on every one of them.

for a whole night, those people sabotaged the wood and played freely.

not only were they plucking and spinning trees, some of them even broke trees with their bare hands.

hawk even did frog jumps while holding two boulders weighing more than fifty kilograms.

they were truly hilarious.

by morning, they’d finally had enough fun, and they resumed the journey after breakfast.

the drivers did not look great, as they barely slept last night while the players were horsing around.

however, they dared not complain at all. what could they say to a bunch of professionals who plucked trees for fun and paid them money?

on the rest of the journey, roland began to study dimensional anchor.

then, he realized that it was more difficult than long-distance teleportation.

the main problem was that the connection in the model seemed wrong. he failed every time he cast the spell according to the node connection in the model.

thankfully, dimensional anchor was not an offensive spell, and there was no danger even if he failed.

nevertheless, his research on dimensional anchor was stymied.

since it was rather difficult to stay concentrated in a shaking carriage, roland abandoned his magic studies and turned to the forum.

a journey was only a journey when you had things to do.

time flew. in the blink of an eye, they had spent a fortnight eating, drinking, laughing, and playing, and they reached the edge of the elf forest.