"People from Horn Town?" Hearing Yas' exclamation, Thorne looked startled, and then looked solemnly at the outline of the body revealed in the rapidly dissipating smoke.

From the moment Ashmore took him and Yas to the edge of the Silent Forest, he immediately noticed that the distance between the location of this place and the town of Horn and Falls was similar. The people in the town found that it was very likely that they would come over to join in the fun, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Most of the players in Horn Town are people with peculiar brains, because when they create their characters, the races they choose are mostly humanoids, which are ugly inhuman races, such as kobolds, goblins, and ogres. , trolls, etc. can be seen everywhere in Horn Town, and only a very small number of players really choose human beings or elf and half-elf.

When the whole game mutated, these non-human race players who were rejected by the civilization settlements, although there were not many, spontaneously united, and brought their own men to establish a territory of their own in the wilderness.

Although their ugly appearance makes it difficult for them to be recognized by human civilization, and it is difficult for them to communicate with civilization settlements, but they also have their own advantages and advantages.

For example, players who choose kobolds and goblins, if they have good leadership skills, can rely on their own strength and wisdom to easily fool a large group of goblins and kobolds in the wilderness as cannon fodder as their cheap men.

Theoretically speaking, as long as you have enough food, you can even control the vast number of goblin kobolds to work for you. After all, with the player's strength, you can easily excel among the goblins or kobolds, and these are the weakest in the wilderness. The intelligent races are also the easiest to coax and enslave.

Players who choose ogre, gnoll or lizard people, if they feel that their strength is stronger than the leader of the tribe, they can also challenge the leader directly, defeat him, and then become the leader of the tribe, leading the people used by the tribe, and It also has priority in the distribution of food and the right to mate for females.

When the game had not yet changed, some professionals did a detailed investigation on this near-real game and came to a conclusion: If you want to play this game as a farming game, and make your own power grow rapidly, the most important thing is Suitable intelligent races are goblins and kobolds.

However, compared to the appearance of goblins and kobolds, almost no one is willing to choose these two intelligent races, except those who really have a special hobby.

This is the truth. These players who choose the humanoid race have innate advantages in the wilderness, and their development speed is much smoother than that of other towns. They rely on the non-human race players with a population of less than 50 to succeed in the emerald field. Successfully built a horn town that stands tall.

In the face of the vast horde of goblins, when Thorne was struggling with how to intercept, the people from Horn Town appeared inexplicably and gave him a big surprise.

More than a hundred hobgoblin knights were directly bombed by an oversized fireball, with nearly half of the casualties, and the remaining hobgoblin knights who were less injured were too frightened by the amazing power of the spell to dare to move forward easily.

Faced with the fear hidden in the depths of their blood, the warwolves under them all crawled on the ground and shivered, and their mouths kept making a trembling whimper.

No one dares to underestimate the power of magic, otherwise their lives will soon end in a magnificent way, like the corpses of hobgoblins and worgs that have been blown to pieces in a pit, even if it is a fine full-body armor, as long as there is no After being enchanted, it also appears pale and powerless under the power of magic.

When the curse swordsman Yass blurted out that the caster who caused the effect of this spell was from Horn Town, Thorne immediately went through several famous Horn Town leaders in his mind.

Human rangers, ogre wizards, goblin wizards, and war trolls finally locked their targets between the ogre wizard and the goblin wizard, and then looked with confirmation.

The smoke of gunpowder had not completely dissipated, and the first thing that caught his eye was a rough body nearly three meters tall. After careful observation, he found that although he had the same appearance as a wild troll, his rubbery green skin had a kind of The tone of dark metal, he is equipped with metal armor made of simple iron blocks, and he easily holds a two-handed giant sword nearly two meters long in his hand.

It was a war troll, and Thorne recognized it immediately.

Trolls are terrifying carnivorous humanoids that can be found in a variety of climates from polar deserts to tropical jungles. According to their living environment, their types are mainly divided into: cave trolls, forest trolls, mountain trolls. Demons, Frost Trolls, Aquatic Trolls, and the very rare Crystal Troll.

In the troll race, there is also a very special existence, that is: war trolls.

As a separate species of the troll race, war trolls have the same superior strength and regeneration as ordinary trolls, but are smarter and more powerful.

Because their main formation was born in ancient times by an organization of arcane spellcasters who carried out magical enhancement and transformation of ordinary trolls. At the beginning, the purpose of these arcane spellcasters to make war trolls was to launch wars and plunder .

Although the ancient arcane spellcaster organization has long since disappeared into the dusty history, these war trolls have remained intact, and they still thrive today.

As the strongest war troll in the troll race, whenever Thorne sees the player troll in Horn Town, he can't help but think, what is the price the opponent pays for choosing this race? How high is the experience penalty for leveling up?

According to his knowledge, Andrina's old butler belongs to the weakest and most common forest troll in the troll race, and even so, the level-up experience penalty is 50% higher than that of the common race.

So as the strongest war troll in the troll race, it is conceivable how much experience he needs to upgrade.

The people in Falls Town had had friction with the people in Horn Town, so Thorne was still familiar with the war troll player, but another tall figure beside him made him feel even more strange, giving him a kind of feeling. Strange familiarity.

This is a lycanthrope player.

The lycanthrope is not an optional race, so the only way to become a lycanthrope is to acquire lycanthropy.

One of the oldest and most terrifying of curses, lycanthropy can turn the most civilized humanoids into ravaging beasts.

The terrifying lycanthropy spreads like a disease. Ordinary humans and humanoid creatures will be infected with lycanthropy and become infected lycanthropes if they fail the Fortitude save after being attacked and injured by the lycanthropes. .

Whether it is an infected lycanthrope or the next generation of natural lycanthropy, they all have an ability called "Beastization Curse", and the humanoid creatures bitten by them may contract lycanthropy.

A humanoid that is harmed by a lycanthrope, or whose parents are lycanthropes, suffers from the lycanthropy curse.

The third-level spell "Remove Curse" can remove the curse of infection from the lycanthrope, but the natural lycanthrope can only get rid of the curse with the ninth-level spell "Wish".

The lycanthrope can choose to resist or accept the lycanthropy curse. When resisting the curse, the lycanthrope will retain its alignment and personality in humanoid form, and he can live a normal life, burying his animal impulses and anger deep in his heart. place.

However, when the night of the full moon falls, the curse hidden deep inside will intensify to an irresistible level, transforming the cursed person into his beast form, until the moon fades away, and the beast in his body can no longer be controlled.

In some special cases, if the cursed creature is unaware of his condition, he may not remember his transformation, and these memories often haunt the lycanthrope as **** dreams.

Some people don't think they have a reason to resist these lycanthropy curses. In order to gain the powerful power brought by lycanthropy, they are voluntarily infected with this curse. After a long period of practice, they can freely control their bodies and can Human form, animal form and hybrid form of half-human and half-thing can be freely transformed, and they will not lose their minds during the transformation process, and can clearly remember what happened.

However, the will of most lycanthropes is not so firm, and they often succumb to bloodthirsty desire and become evil, especially the werewolves of the chaotic evil camp. They generally believe in Mara, the **** of hunting, and every full moon, The werewolves would go on **** hunting rituals to please Mara.

However, the lycanthrope player who appeared in front of Thorne at this time was a tiger man.

He looks like a colorful tiger walking upright, and then mixes human forms on his face.

The tiger man is about 2.2 meters tall and has a tail of 1 meter long. The whole body is covered with tiger skin. The bare chest is pure white fur. The legs are more like cats than humans. , In addition to the ears, nose, mouth and teeth close to the tiger, the head has scarlet pupils and face more like a human, and also has a long messy black hair.

This tiger man only wears a simple animal leather shorts on the lower body, and only wears a broken scarlet cloak on the shirtless upper body. Behind him is a 1.5-meter-long composite black Tuomu longbow and arrows full of arrows. Arrow's quiver, and a large, curved-edged sword without a scabbard hanging from his waist.

When Thorne took a closer look again, he finally understood the reason for the inexplicable familiarity, and at the same time recognized the true identity of the tiger man.

This person is the only human ranger leader in Horn Town. After half a year, what he did not expect was that this human ranger named Sailu had turned into a beast, and he did not know that the other party was on the night of the full moon. Whether it can really suppress the power of the curse.

Afterwards, except for the war trolls and tiger people, the remaining thirty people were all ordinary forest trolls. From the light in their eyes, it can be judged that these should be war trolls in the wilderness. recruited subordinates.

Just when Thorne wondered who cast the super-large fireball just now, the smoke completely disappeared, and beside the tiger man, a kobold floating in midair entered his line of sight.

In addition to being stronger than ordinary kobolds, this kobold also had two dark red leather wings behind him, and it was these two wings that supported him to float in mid-air.

"The fireball just now was put by that kobold warlock?"

Thorne glanced at the floating kobold warlock, feeling a little unbelievable, so he confirmed to Yas beside him.

In his impression, Horn Town does not have a winged kobold warlock.

Moreover, for players of weak races such as goblins or kobolds, the only advantage is that the experience required for their own leveling is lower than that of ordinary races, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, when encountering ordinary professionals to advance to extraordinary or extraordinary professional to advance When the bottleneck of the superhero level is reached, the advanced conditions that need to be achieved are more difficult than other races.

In the words of the original inhabitants of the material world, the potential of these weak humanoid races is too low, and only based on their own racial characteristics, it is difficult for powerful professionals to appear in the ethnic group.

After all, in the main material world, although there are many legendary professionals, no one has heard of legendary goblins or legendary kobolds at all.

Therefore, they want to rely on the weak race of goblin kobolds to gradually enhance their own strength. While constantly tapping their own potential, they must also rely on foreign objects to fully sublimate their own racial characteristics.

"That's right, it's him, the player who joined Horn Town two months ago, the kobold warlock's name is Eugene, and he is very skilled in controlling the power of "fireball", but the oversized fireball just hit should be It was his limit. With his current strength as a level 9 warlock, it was impossible to release a second shot. ' Yas nodded and confirmed.

After listening to Yas's explanation, Thorne turned his eyes to the kobold warlock again, and he found the sluggishness in his expression, and the flapping of his wings seemed a little difficult.

"The people of Horn Town, your leader has come to save you, don't hurry up and pick up the weapon in your hand and kill all the enemies around you."

Just when Thorne wondered why the people of Horn Town attacked the Horuk hobgoblin tribe, the tiger-man ranger Cyru gave him a deafening roar and explained the reason.

With the roar of the tiger man resounding through the wilderness, the driven slaves in the hobgoblin group saw a few burly figures on the high slope, their eyes were full of fanaticism, and then the riot began. .

Ogres, trolls, kobolds, gnolls, lizardmen, and all the slaves, whether they were from Horn Town or not, all raised the crude weapons in their hands that were handed out by the goblins, and turned to the goblins and bear goblins behind them. Attack with the Hobgoblins.

"Friends in Waterfall Town, when are you going to hide, and don't follow us to destroy all these ghouls."

The tiger man ranger saw the slaves rioting in the hobgoblins, nodded with satisfaction, then pulled out the composite longbow behind him, turned and shouted in the direction where the three of Thorne were avoiding.

When was it discovered?

Hiding in the dark, Thorne noticed the eyes of the tiger-man Sairu looking here, and looked at Yas next to him, showing a puzzled look.

"To be honest, Mr. Thorne." At this time, the look of the orc leader Sann on the other side of Thorne flashed away, and then he said to Thorne slowly:

"I led everyone to walk carefully according to the map you gave me. When I reached the area of ​​Horn Town, Kutaig mentioned it to me and said that I always felt like I was being spied on. Originally, I was still very Vigilant, but after careful inspection several times, nothing abnormal was found. In the end, there was no danger, so I didn’t care much. Now it seems that the secret peeping that Kutaige sensed must be the people of Horn Town.

"It can be seen that the purpose of the people from Horn Town should not be so simple, and definitely not just to save these dispensable slaves." Thorne clenched the long sword in his hand and said to the two of them. own opinion.

…

At the other end of the wilderness, the ranger Ashmore led the orc players to the direction of the waterfall town without stopping.

When their mighty figures disappeared from the sight of the three of Thorne, the dense bushes around them suddenly surged wildly.

Seeing this, Ashmo's face suddenly changed, and he instantly pulled out the two long swords behind his back, and said solemnly to the orc swordsman beside him: "Be careful, we were ambushed by goblin creatures."

"Prepare to fight!" The Orc Juggernaut clenched the steel long sword in his hand, and stared straight at the dwarf figures that kept emerging in the bushes with his sharp eyes.

More than two hundred orc players clenched their weapons tightly, spread out their formations, and watched the small creatures around them vigilantly.

I saw a group of gray-skinned goblins all dressed in sackcloth and linen jumping out of the dense bushes, all equipped with simple bows and arrows. of tendons.

But what makes people strange is that these goblins surrounded the orc players, but they did not act rashly.

At the same time, in front of Ashmore, a goblin wizard dressed in a clean gray wizard robe and a black pointed hat, rode on the back of a calf-sized Warg, accompanied by a dozen goblins. Go down and walk slowly to Ashmo.

The goblin wizard's narrow scarlet eyes glanced at the ranger Ashmo lightly, pulled the brim of his hat gently, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Long time no see, the orphaned ranger from Waterfall Town."

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