The night was as black as ink, the stars and the moon were dull, and the path of the wilderness became blurred and indistinguishable. The surroundings were quiet, and only the cold wind occasionally brushed the sense of existence mischievously.

Thorne's indistinct figure lingered near the caravan, until he walked into a sparse grove, and then he chose to stop.

I saw him leaning against a sturdy tree, inserting the Dark Cinder sword in front of him, sitting cross-legged on the ground, lost in thought.

As a ranger, he possesses sharp, almost supernatural senses and a deep understanding of the wilderness.

He can even use his knowledge of nature to track down enemies on almost any terrain, using the most inconspicuous clues to find the quickest paths.

For him, only by being in the dense forests and vast fields can he feel the intimacy brought by nature.

"Not every prospector who wanders the remote hills or hunts traps becomes a ranger. A true ranger knows how to blend in with nature and experience its holiness, and then be touched by its holiness like a paladin."

Thorne, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, suddenly recalled the way of the ranger that the ranger mentor had told him when he was in the town of Falls.

In Falls, he learned how to track his prey and how to sneak in the shadows with the help of bushes and rubble in the wilderness.

He has also honed his special fighting skills and the ability to use the magic of nature to perform magic in the face of difficulties and obstacles.

Stealth, ambush, hunting, and the use of magic are all essential to a ranger.

Leaving the hustle and bustle of town and over the walls that cut off the dangers of the wilderness, focus on hunting the dangers that linger on the fringes of civilization, and fend off hordes of monsters and humanoids that come from the wilderness before civilization is ravaged and destroyed.

This is exactly the dream that he chose to become a ranger. Despite a series of shocking changes, these obsessions are still deeply imprinted in his heart and have never been shaken.

Thorne looked up at the sky. It was late at night, but he possessed the racial characteristic "dark vision", which did not affect his night vision. The scene displayed in front of him at this time was a beautiful black and white.

Black represents deep, oppressive, solemn, mysterious, and has a feeling of darkness.

White represents freshness, flawlessness, ice and snow, and simplicity, giving people a sense of relaxation and joy.

This stark black and white scene is Thorne's favorite scene in this world, because it is simple, distinct and intense.

He is a relatively independent person, and likes to stay away from the habit of living in hotbeds and hot baths, and likes to stay away from the protection of the high walls of the town.

He also likes to hunt evil creatures that threaten civilization, and like to walk on the wild frontier.

His life is like this monotonous black and white.

At this time, a leaf slipped quietly under the cold wind, and Thorne subconsciously reached out to take it and put it in the palm of his hand.

There are many traces of moth-eaten and unknown scratches on the surface of the withered leaves. After withering, the clear and clear veins are like the deep wrinkles on the face of an old man.

From a little green sprout to a green leaf full of lines, and finally from the new green to withered yellow, under the breeze, the fallen leaves return to their roots, this is the simple life of a leaf.

Humans are not like this, it is nothing more than how many growth scars have been scratched in the process of growth.

The night was getting thicker, the mist had already covered nature with a veil, and the withered leaves fell silently from Thorne's hands.

When the leaf came out of Thorne's palm, a massive demonic mark emerged from his palm.

Although the life essence of the abyss demon has been completely absorbed by him, it has been fused with himself and used for his own use.

The price in exchange marked him with the abyss, because the demon mark in his palm is the best proof.

However, the demon's chaotic will has long been cleaned up by him. This mark will not affect his consciousness. Its function is nothing more than giving Thorne some special abilities from the demon.

In Thorne's view, as long as the sharp blade can kill the enemy, why should he care about the forger.

Tiefling player Ishak was tortured to the point of madness because he chose 50% of the bloodline of the Balor when he created his character, which resulted in a powerful chaotic will.

But the blood from the Balor also brought him great power.

For example, the supernatural ability "Baluo Fire Flame Protection" and the spell-like ability "Demon Summoning", as well as the attribute bonuses and various spell resistances brought by his remarkable appearance characteristics.

These abilities will definitely increase with his level and be strengthened again.

And what Thorne fused tonight was the life essence of the devil, and he did not contaminate him with any devil's blood.

There is no so-called powerful attribute bonus, but many of the special abilities from the Balor Flame Demon are almost all inherited by him.

After all, what he fuses is the complete life essence of a legendary demon, the key to the demon's remodeling.

When Thorne refined all the life essence of the demon, he immediately mastered the first ability of the Balor.

Spell-Like Ability: Fireball (33/day)

The abyss and its endless layers have bred countless demons, who shriek their hatred of all things, and new breeds are born almost every day.

But there is no doubt that the real master of the bottomless abyss is the Tanari Demon, which is now the third generation of the abyss demon.

The rulers of the Abyss before them were the Orbis, the descendants of Chaos and Destruction, the creations of the first Chaos Daemons who ruled the Abyss for a long time.

Until then human beings were born.

Before the current order has really taken shape, dead humans began to have souls into the abyss.

The Orbis were interested in the souls of these mortals, and they transformed these souls with their chaotic powers, eventually creating the tanar'ri demon race that emerged.

The demons created by the fusion of human souls are extremely powerful and numerous.

In the end, the chaotic war of the bottomless abyss broke out, and the Tanar'ri demons overthrew the second generation of demon kings and became the rulers of the abyss.

The Balor Flame Demon is the leader of the demon race, a high-level demon that inherits the power of chaos and fire.

Even in the bottomless abyss, the Balor Flame Demons are the absolute ruling class, and they stand at the top of the demon race after the demon lords.

It has always been the main force of the abyss battlefield. A Balor Flame Demon is a lord-level existence anywhere in the bottomless abyss, and it also controls a huge army of demons.

Thorne fuses the life essence of Balor Balrog, and also enables him to master a lot of knowledge about the Abyss Devil, especially the information about Balor Balrog is the most clear.

Although he does not have the blood of the Balor, he cannot acquire its strong physique and various powerful spell resistances.

However, he inherited the soul energy of the Balor Flame Demon and mastered many of the Balor Flame Demon's spell-like abilities.

The only pity is that although the foundation of this Balor Flame Demon has been completely preserved, the essence of life has been lost more seriously.

Of course, if its life essence is not consumed much, it is impossible for Thorne to absorb all of it.

Too much loss of life essence has caused Thorne to unlock only one spell-like ability. To master all of them, he must constantly kill demons and absorb the soul energy in them.

Thorne looked at the demon mark in his palm, and with a thought, a row of data appeared in front of him:

Special Ability: Demon Power lv1 (0100)

This way of upgrading the power of the devil cannot rely on experience, nor can it rely on practice points.

Only by killing various demons and extracting the power of their souls, can the various spell-like abilities of the Balor Flame Demon be continuously awakened as the level increases.

Today's Thorne not only masters the inheritance of the Nine Swords, but also inherits the special abilities of the devil.

And his original dream was just to be a ranger wandering in the wilderness, but now everything has changed. From the moment he left the town of Waterfall, the trajectory of his life completely deviates from his original intention.

Because he understands that it is impossible to protect the continuation of the wilderness civilization with the power of the ranger alone.