Chapter 24 (2/2)
According to players ‘speaking from experience’, luck actually has a value, after it is used, you will have to acc.u.mulate it slowly……If one gets too many good Feats at the start, he will most probably be very unlucky later into the game, the Feats he get will definitely be garbage Feats. Many players post threads in the forum, exposing their tragic experiences, a Level 16 Warrior player post a thread showing the Feats he get when he was Level ’12’, ’14’, ’16’, they are all things like Snake Venom Resistance, Disease Resistance, Bug Venom Resistance, Plague Resistance etc, the whole forum laughed over, he was jokingly referred to as ‘Invulnerable to Poison’, and became famous from it.
Logically speaking, no Feat is garbage, but Feats like ‘Snake Venom Resistance’ actually has not have a high practicality, it cannot have effect all the time, and can only be useful under special circ.u.mstances.
Liang Li Dong gotten 3 special Feats at one go now, he feels a deep chill, if that bunch of players’ theory on the game forum is correct, then his days in the future is going to be really tragic.
Although if one does not get Feat from the System, one can still learn from NPC and players. Learning from players is easier, as long as ‘Affection’ is sufficient will do, as long as the two stick together for 10-15 days, then pay a large sum of lesson fees, normally one can learn Feat already, after all most players are creatures who place their interests in the first place. However, System has a very disgusting setting, if players’ certain Feat is ‘Gacha’ from System, then they cannot teach this Feat to other players and can only teach to NPC Cla.s.s-ers. And teaching NPC Feats, that is a very long process, half a year is the norm, a year is not uncommon, so players normally are not willing to teach NPC skills, unless their relations.h.i.+p with NPC is very close.
Since some skills cannot be learned from players, then the only way is to work on NPC Cla.s.s-ers, just that this is very troublesome. NPC has their own personalities, same mentality like a real person, those that are greedy are easier to work with, just throw over a sum of money, and it can be learnt. However, greedy NPC Cla.s.s-ers, typically will not have powerful Feats on them, while those Cla.s.s-ers with special Feats, either have strange personality, or has n.o.ble background.
For example this Feat ‘Swordsmans.h.i.+p Will’, back then, so many ‘Sword Warrior’ got so distressed trying to learn it from NPC Cla.s.s-ers because they could not get this Feat.
Then, players in the game shared their information, dug out 4 NPC Cla.s.s-ers that know ‘Swordsmans.h.i.+p Will’, maybe there is more NPC Cla.s.s-ers that also knew this Feat, but there is too little players, only a merely 500 thousands only, only very few players have the Feat ‘Humanoid Knowledge’, while NPC amounts to 5 billion, there is probably more than 10 million Cla.s.s-ers, they cannot possibly get every NPC Cla.s.s-er’s data. Furthermore the game world is way too real, there is NPC Cla.s.s-ers dying from battles every day, or old age, everyday there is new NPC Cla.s.s-ers being born, this amount of data is way too large, so players typically only pay attention to those very special, or very strong NPC Cla.s.s-ers.
The 4 Cla.s.s-ers that know ‘Swordsmans.h.i.+p Will’ are respectively: ‘Deputy Head of Temple of Light Paladin Corps, Eric’, ‘son of Duke Briganda[2], Blond Lion Tyson’, ‘Briganda’s White Pine Ridge family[3], old patriarch Alex’, and ‘Frost Wolf Clan’s Shaman Sect’s Holy Maiden, descendant of Winter Wolf Lilimoss’.
These 4 people are all prosperous people, ordinary players does not even have the rights to meet them, let alone learning Feats from them, why will they even teach you.
And the 3 Feats placed before Liang Li Dong, are seriously blinding his eyes! He really wants to get them all at once, the sad thing is, there is only 1 chance, and there is a lot of Feats in the game, wanting to ‘Gacha’ these kind of good Feats in the future, is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
This Feat ‘Familiar Strengthen’, represents the potential of the future, familiar’s stat growth all +1, the effects are not obvious in the beginning, but as the Level increases, Joan will become more and more powerful, and familiar can read books, the smarter the familiar is, the more it can learn. In the future, things that Joan learnt can become Liang Li Dong’s knowledge through soul pa.s.sage. Moreover, a strong familiar’s combat power cannot be belittled too.
This skill ‘Charge’ is a PVP G.o.dly skill, the effect is better the higher the level is. Think about it, when Mage is preparing to chant magic, Archer is pulling their bow, loading their arrows, from 20-30 meters away, a person comes to them with a ‘swoosh’ and afterimage, anyone will be depressed. And not only can this skill be used for raids, it can be used for moving around and escaping, offense and defense in one.
As for the Feat ‘Swordsmans.h.i.+p Will’, if Liang Li Dong chose this Feat, then he can become a swordsmans.h.i.+p master immediately. The Trait n.o.ble Swordsmans.h.i.+p, Swordsmans.h.i.+p Specialization[4], together with Swordsmans.h.i.+p Will……1 Trait and 2 Feats stacked together can totally let him fight Warrior head-on in the early stages, and at later stage, in terms of close combat, he will still not be a match for Warrior.
What Divine n.o.ble needs is control power, and support ability, and not powerful offensive ability. Wait till Level 5, Divine n.o.ble’s special Cla.s.s Trait will unlock, at that time, he will not have to consider about the problem of offensive ability anymore.
Then the remaining choice, is ‘Charge’ and ‘Familiar Strengthen’. Liang Li Dong sits on the chair and not move at all, just like a statue, after more than an hour, his gaze falls on ‘Familiar Strengthen’.
Joan who was sleeping soundly on the bed immediately wakes up, it looks at its body being engulfed by a layer of blue light in surprise, jumps up, and asks in shock: “Pain pain pain! Master, what are you doing? Could it be you are going to sacrifice me?”
The magic reaction when sacrificing familiar, will also have blue magic marks of light appearing.
Liang Li Dong smiles, and does not speak.
“Ah, so unlucky, not even 5 days after gaining intelligence, and already going to be abandoned by master, why am I so miserable?”
Joan rolls around on the bed pitifully, after a while, the blue light on its body disappears. It stunned for a while with its claws pointing at the sky, looks left and right, feels its body once again, and then flips over, says with slight doubts: “I seemed to be slightly more powerful again? Master, what did you do!”
“Just a choice that makes people conflicted.” Liang Li Dong pats Joan’s head: “It’s nothing, continue sleeping.”
On the second day, Liang Li Dong continues teaching children words, but at afternoon, he did not go to the small forest again to a.n.a.lyze ‘Driving Fog’ magic, but went to the old Village Head’s house. Today is the mayor’s daughter, Barbara’s birthday, Liang Li Dong and old Village Head’s family are invited, so they intend to head to the city together later.
A carriage is parked outside the Village Head’s house, this is rented by old Village Head from the city in advance, although Reed family has already declined, if old Village Head has to walk to attend a banquet, to him who values family honor very much, it is no different from slas.h.i.+ng heavily at his heart, no matter what, this prestige cannot be lost.
“Teacher, you came!” Seeing Liang Li Dong, Kyle is very happy. He is wearing a light gold tight-fitting n.o.ble attire now, that faint countryside boy feel is slight fainter, he looks very gallant on the whole. Clothes make the man, this line is indeed not wrong.
Old Village Head is also wearing a n.o.ble attire of the same style, but his cuff edge is black, collar is also black, it seems more mature and sedate. He saw Liang Li Dong and smiles: “Priest Beta, very thankful of you to be willing to go together with us.”
Liang Li Dong says to the side: “Kyle, go have a look inside the carriage, is there anywhere not clean, if there is, clean it.”
“Yes!” Kyle answers, and runs out excitedly.
Old Village Head sighs lightly, things like cleaning the carriage, is not what a n.o.ble young master should be doing! However there is no choice, the Reeds have already declined, hiring servants is not difficult, but servants with knowledge and etiquette cannot be hired at all. Hiring those villagers as servants, will only bring down Reeds’ honor, and be a joke, might as well not hire.
After sending away Kyle, Liang Li Dong looks at old Village Head, and says slightly impressed: “Old Village Head is really smart, for this matter today, you actually started planning 8 years ago. You hope Kyle do not have to worry about living in the future, maybe even have the chance to inherit a fief. But you didn’t consider Kyle’s views, this matter may have a turn, you better be prepared.”
Old Village Head looks puzzled: “Priest Beta, what are you talking about, why do I not understand it at all?”
“Hehe, don’t pretend anymore, I already……” Liang Li Dong suddenly frowns, because he can tell that the old Village Head is not acting ignorant: “8 years ago, Kyle saving the mayor’s daughter, is not planned by you?”
Old Village Head’s expression is even more shocked: “Kyle saved the mayor’s daughter? That happened before?”
Not planned by old Village Head? Then mayor’s side has no reason to even put this up, after all Winter Wind City’s mayor is considered upper rank n.o.ble after all, countryside declining n.o.bles like the Reeds, if there is no accident, there is no way the mayor’s family will even notice them, they have no need to specially plan that kidnapping case just to make Kyle marry into their family.
Could it be it really was the 8 years old Kyle, beat an adult human trafficker until he is rolling on the floor? If this matter is not fake, Kyle must have a huge secret hidden on him. His ancestor is a hero, in the cave outside the village, there is a mysterious bloodline magic model structure diagram, being able to defeat an adult at a young age, Liang Li Dong feels that he has gotten an important lead.
That kidnapping case, is it targeted towards Kyle? Or is it a coincidence? Or did he think too much? Liang Li Dong squints his eyes, and is slightly confused.
T/L note 1: Referring to ghosts.
T/L note 2: It is not clear whether it means Duke of Briganda or a Duke called Briganda. I’m just a.s.suming latter for now unless it’s proven otherwise later in the novel.
T/L note 3: Again, it is unclear whether it is a family living in White Pine Ridge or the family is known as White Pine Ridge. Again, I’m just a.s.suming latter for now unless it’s proven otherwise later in the novel.
T/L note 4: I have no idea why it changed from Sword Mastery 剑类武器掌握 to Swordsmans.h.i.+p Specialization 剑术专精.
Feel free to point out typos and mistakes.
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