248 Human Tool (1/2)

After gagging for almost half an hour, Roland finally felt much better.

He immediately set off for the docks.

Two carriages had been prepared. The plan was that each would accommodate five people, but Schuck said that Margret couldn't be too close to regular animals even in her human form, or those creatures would be terrified by her dragon's aura.

So Schuck and Margret would fly in the sky without taking the carriages. They could also scout for the team that way.

Naturally, there were no objections.

In the evening, their caravan took off.

Generally speaking, evening was not the best time to start a journey, because the night would fall soon and spending the night in the wilderness could be dangerous if the travelers couldn't reach a town.

But for the professionals, especially a quest team with a perfect combination of classes, it was not a problem.

If night fell, they could simply use their illumination skills.

When Roland cast a dozen balls of light to the sky and made them follow the caravan, the hundred square meters nearby were as bright as a football field with a match going on.

Most nocturnal magical beasts were scared of light. Such intense light could prevent 99.99% of the animals from drawing close. Even the robbers would step back when they saw a dozen lights floating in the sky. So, a lot of unnecessary trouble could be avoided.

In the carriages, everybody was in the mood for talking at first, but two hours later, they all lost interest and began to surf on the forum or watch online movies.

Thankfully, in-game access to the Internet had been enabled by the developers, or it would've been hard to weather through the boring journey.

Roland, on the other hand, was looking into a magic model.

It was not one of the models from Tobian, but was bought on the forum earlier and had never really been studied by him.

The name of the spell was Body Fortification.

It was only a level-one spell with few nodes. With Roland's experience in magic, he soon picked it up.

He tried it on himself first. After a green flash… He frowned, as he did not sense anything different.

Then, he clenched his fists, only to discover that he was indeed a lot stronger.

The member of Silver Wings on his opposite side just quitted the forum. Seeing the flash on Roland, he asked curiously, ”Roland, are you doing a magic experiment? Don't blow up our carriage!”

”It's just a buff spell. It won't blow up anything.”

This particular member was named Suel, an agile Warrior. He was also one of the special talents of Silver Wings. Whether or not the quest was completed, he would go to Andonara to be trained into a Great Swordsman.

”Seriously?” Roland was rather surprised.

”That's just a major failure. I'm too lazy to count the minor failures.”

Roland nodded, as it was quite normal. He had failed a lot in his own experiments too. However, thanks to the magic arrays in his tower, no severe consequences had ever come of failed experiments.

Suel asked curiously, ”What's the effect of your new spell?”

”Body Fortification.” While talking, Roland snapped his fingers and buffed Suel. Then he smiled. ”You've been buffed! Now go feed yourself!”

”Hahaha.” Suel burst into laughter. Then, he warmed up his hands, only to be slightly surprised. ”It's quite effective.”

At this point, the other two people in the carriage came back to themselves from the forum.

One of them was Betta. He shouted excitedly, ”Brother Roland, give me one!”

Roland snapped his fingers again.

Betta moved his hands and exclaimed, ”It's very effective!”

As a balanced professional, his strength was lower than that of an agile Warrior, so he sensed it more clearly.

The lower one's stats were, the more clearly they would feel the buff.

”If I'm capable of this spell, I'll be confident in fighting a Warrior who focuses on strength, provided that he doesn't have such a buff.”

Sensing a strength that seemed to be surging out of his body, Betta couldn't be more confident.

At this point, the member of Silver Wings next to him said to him with a smile, ”Dispel!”

The magic light on Betta was apparently weakened.

After a brief surprise, the member of Silver Wings shouted again, ”Dispel.”

It was not until then that the magic light on Betta was completely gone.

Roland was briefly stunned, as he didn't know that buff spells could be dispelled.

But actually, the member of Silver Wings was ten times more surprised than he was.

That guy was a Priest who focused on ancillary spells. His Dispel had been specifically enhanced, allowing him to remove three buffs on his target, including Magic Shield, which was the Mages' strongest defensive spell, at one time as long as the target was not three levels higher than himself.

However, it took him two tries to remove a regular buff from Roland.

It was unbelievable. In a life-and-death battle, successful dispelling after one try and after two tries would be completely different.

In a battle between people on the same level, those few seconds could've decided who the final winner was.

He was level five, and so was Roland. It didn't make sense.

Somehow, the Priest became jealous.