Noon the next day.

The blue sky was cloudless, and the bright sunshine poured over the golden wilderness.

"Chirp!"

At this time, there was a loud eagle roar from the sky, followed by a black shadow circling a few times above Thorne's head, swooping down with a sound of breaking the air.

Thorne, who was waiting on the small dirt hill, stretched out his arm, and the shadow of the sky fell on his arm obediently.

Thorne and the Dire Eagle's spiritualized eagle eyes looked at each other for a moment, then gently stroked the smooth and bright black feathers of the Dire Eagle: "It seems that you are really in a hurry, thank you for your help over the past six months, go and find you. The original owner goes."

The Dire Eagle glanced at Thorne with its humanized eyes, nodded lightly, and immediately spread its wings into the air, disappearing in the direction of the snow-covered mountains with a breaking sound.

Thorne looked at the direction where the Dire Eagle disappeared, letting the cold wind blowing from the snow-capped Varnas peaks scraped his face, slightly dazed.

As soon as the day dawned, he and Andrina said goodbye to the wizard Alanis, who had different destinations, and hurried to the direction of the waterfall town, and finally reached the foot of the mountain when it was near noon.

"The climate here is much colder than Winter City." Andrina tightened her coat and sat next to Thorne.

"The Winter City and the Southern Kingdom, which are close to the sea, are only separated by the Sea of ​​Glory. The turbulent sea breeze not only brings the salty smell of fish and shrimp to the city, but also brings the hot air of the southern ocean. Therefore, Winter in Winterfell didn't seem so cold.

Pushang Town is very close to the Neverwinter Sea in the north. Every year when winter is coming, a large number of raging cold waves from the north sweep the entire Emerald Field with heavy snow, which makes it extremely cold. "

Thorne explained to her without hesitation:

"Have you seen the mountain covered with snow and ice? It is the melting snow of this mountain that alluvially formed the Emerald River that runs through the north-south direction of the Corina Peninsula. All the territories in the wilderness are built near the Emerald River. "

"You know a lot." Andrina looked at him unexpectedly.

"The most basic geographical knowledge in natural knowledge can be easily mastered by almost every professionally trained ranger, just like the geographical knowledge we learned in school, it is not surprising.

You spellcasters do not also need to master arcane knowledge, understand various magic devices and identify magic equipment. "Thorne didn't accept the compliment.

"According to the news from Dire Eagle, Waterfall Town is being besieged by a group of gnolls at this time. If we don't get rid of them, it is estimated that we will not be able to enter the town today. Do you want to follow me to clear up those troubles? ."

Thorne got up and patted the dirt on his body and looked in the direction of the mountains.

"I'm happy to accompany you." Anderina smiled and nodded.

"I have a very confusing question that I want to ask you." Thorne, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and turned around and asked.

"What's the problem?" Andrina asked in confusion.

"It's a question about the advanced professional dragon vein warlock." Thorne thought for a while and said seriously:

"Dragon Vein Warlock's level upgrade relies on the blood purification ceremony. As long as there is enough money to prepare materials, does it mean that the level can be upgraded quickly."

"Who did you hear?" Andrina asked rhetorically.

"I guessed it myself," Thorne said truthfully.

"It's not as simple as you think." Andrina shook her head and continued:

"Dragon vein warlocks have only two advanced methods. The first is to awaken the dragon bloodline on their own. While retaining the spellcasting ability of the warlock, they continuously gain the attribute bonus of the dragon bloodline.

This kind of advancement method is extremely demanding, and most of them are produced in the dragon family. It is difficult for the blood of the dragon family to be too diluted to advance successfully.

The second is to use pure-bred dragon blood, because the bloodline talent of the profession of warlock is quite special, and it has a very strong fusion absorption ability.

Even a warlock without dragon blood can transfer the abilities of the dragon to himself through a special advanced ritual after obtaining pure dragon blood.

After this ceremony, the warlock can advance to become a dragon warlock. The original spellcasting ability is not weakened in any way, and he can also obtain the bonus of dragon power. "

"So you belong to the second category."

"That's right." Andrina nodded slightly, and continued: "Although the materials for the bloodline purification ceremony can be easily gathered in Winter City, there is only one thing that can't be found."

"It's pure dragon blood, right?" Thorne said, after thinking about it, he continued:

"Your bloodline should come from the blood of the red dragon. If you have enough blood of the red dragon for you to use, can you quickly improve your dragon vein warlock level?"

"Theoretically speaking, it's true, but you have overlooked a problem." Andrina nodded first, then shook her head and said, "That is, you are suddenly given too much power but you can't control it."

"Why can't I control it?" Thorne asked in confusion.

The world of Toril is a world in which miracles are born all the time. A mortal who has no power to hold a chicken can be conferred a **** in an instant. How can a dragon vein warlock be unable to control the power of his own blood.

"How to explain it?" Andrina thought for a while and asked: "If you suddenly get one billion in the real world, what will you do with this huge sum of money?"

"Most people will make crazy retaliatory consumption." Thorne said truthfully after thinking about it.

"That's pretty much what it means. It gives you too much power, but you don't have a strong willpower to control it. It's like a child if you give him a pistol, he can't use it flexibly, and it's easy to accidentally hurt others."

Andrina said: "Actually, the main reason is that pure blood of the red dragon is not so easy to obtain. I no longer have the blood of pure red dragon, and it is a problem to upgrade the level."

"Then why didn't you choose the dragonborn race, so you don't have to worry about dragon blood." Thorne asked with some doubts.

"What? Did I say something wrong?" Thorne suddenly noticed the other party's unkind gaze and asked a little strangely.

"Don't you know what the Dragonborn looks like?" Andrina rolled his eyes at him and said angrily.

"..." Thorne looked surprised.

The dragonborn looks like a dragon that moves upright in the form of a humanoid. The body is also covered with scales, has no tail or wings, and has thick hands and feet, with a thumb and three fingers on each claw.

Crucially, it has a lizard-like head with a blunt beak, rough eyebrows, distinctive cheeks and ears.

The eyebrows are covered with a crown of horn-like tiny scales of varying lengths that resemble thick, sticky hair.

Seriously out of touch with real-world aesthetics, and while seemingly strong, very few people choose this race.

"Let's go."

After Thorne finished speaking, he looked towards the foot of the waterfall and moved his right hand to the hilt of the sword.