The Forest of Tranquility, the Temple of Merika.

Thorne came to the center of a huge golden oak tree.

Melika, the goddess of forests and rangers, is a humorous and kind deity who loves to laugh and is confident in her actions.

His material image is dressed as the "Supreme Ranger," a tall, strong, graceful and beautiful woman, wearing the leather armor and green-brown garb favored by many rangers, with long reddish-brown hair falling over her shoulders and back. , the pupils are like two bottomless brown pools.

Thorne looked at the statue of the goddess of the forest, leaned over slightly and gave a respectful salute. As a god, this is a kind of reverence for the gods. He is not the kind of arrogant person, so he should have etiquette. Still have it.

"May the goddess of the forest bless you, stalker of the silent way, half-elf ranger, Thorne." A thick voice sounded behind Thorne.

Thorne gave a slight salute to the forest goddess again, then slowly turned to look.

Appearing in front of him was a middle-aged half-elf man, wearing a standard Forest Goddess Church ceremonial costume, a green bottom with a yellow-edged short shirt, long sleeves, and a short cape. He noticed that the other party was looking at him with a smile. , Thorne leaned over and saluted, greeting with a calm expression: "Hello, High Priest Lausien."

High Priest Lauthian is the supreme bishop of the Temple of Merika in the Serene Forest, and also belongs to the Druid Order of the Emerald Garden.

Half a year ago, Waterfall Town was invaded by hobgoblins, and he also sent a small number of mid-level ranger druids to the Merikai Temple to help, so Thorne still had a good impression of the high priest in front of him.

"You don't need to be so polite, your generous goddess has already watched. On behalf of all the staff in the temple, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to you." High Priest Lausien looked at Thorne with relief, nodded slightly, and thanked him.

"As the protector of the forest and the ranger who defends the faith, this is what I should do." Thorne's face was not red or heartbeat, and he looked at High Priest Lausien calmly, and said with a humble tone:

"As stalkers of the way of silence, rangers wandering the wilderness, and part of nature, we are committed to protecting the growth of civilization in the wilderness, and hunting down the villains who hunt natural wilderness creatures for entertainment or cruelty.

In order to truly integrate into nature, to experience the holiness of nature, and to gain the power to hunt and kill evil things, I followed the footsteps of the tracking **** and came to this place, hoping that High Priest Lausien would guide me on a path that would never get lost. "

The so-called 'generous' in the mouth of the High Priest Lauthian was a sum of money donated by the sorceress Andrina to the Temple of Merika in his name, but the only thing that puzzled him was that the female local tyrant had donated to him. How much money, even the high priest of the temple was alarmed.

And what he said that he hoped that the other party would guide him was in order to obtain the ability to cast the Second Ring Ranger Divine Art, and to perform a natural transformation ceremony. This sacred ceremony must be guided by the high-level priest of the temple.

At the beginning, his extraordinary advancement was a perfect advancement, and he gained a chance for a natural transformation ceremony. If the two are used together, Thorne believes that unexpected benefits will definitely be obtained, such as: the fields mastered by priests strength.

"Your prayer has already been answered by the forest goddess. This is something that belongs to you. Come with me to feel the holiness of nature, the believer of the **** of tracking, the hunter of the way of silence, the half-hearted man from Waterfall Town. Elf Ranger, Thorne."

High Priest Lautian bowed respectfully to the forest goddess, then motioned for Thorne to follow in his footsteps, then turned and walked towards a remote corner of the temple.

Guilin Storm is the **** of tracking, also known as the patron saint of the Northland Ranger. The priesthood he holds is Tracking and the Northland Ranger, and the camp is neutral and good.

It is said that when the God of Tracking was not yet a god, he was a mortal ranger who roamed the Northland. After he successfully tracked down and hunted down at least one incarnation and several manifestations of the God of Hunting, Mara, one after another, he caused the forest goddess's attention. Note that when he died under a big tree in the west of Three Wild Boar Town in the Northland, he was promoted by the Forest Goddess and successfully promoted to the Patronus of the Northland Ranger, also known as the God of Tracking.

However, Guiren's feat of hunting Mara incarnate also ushered in the eternal hostility of the God of Hunting and Killing. As followers of the God of Tracking and hunters of the Way of Silence, they will always do everything in their power to fight. Faith in the God of Hunting.

Likewise, followers of the God of Hunting will do whatever it takes to kill followers of the God of Tracking.

The two sides are not only a battle between the gods, but also a never-ending battle between the believers.

As a slave **** serving the forest goddess, the main duty of the tracking **** is to assist the forest goddess and teach the goddess's rangers how to interpret forest trails and track prey.

Likewise, the clergy of the Forest Goddess has a small number of rangers who are explicitly sworn to serve the God of Stalking, who are also known as Stalker members of the Silent Way.

This informal organization focuses on the interpretation of forest trails and methods of tracking various creatures and beasts. Members maintain a close relationship with the formal system of forest goddess beliefs and are considered ordinary members of the church as partners.

The stalkers of the Way of the Silent act as assistants to the Forest Goddess faith in tracking, scouting, and hunting, just as the God of Tracking serves the Goddess of the Forest.

Since the **** of tracking belongs to the goddess of the forest goddess, his followers do not have any organized church, and their own teachings are not significantly different from the forest goddess's belief, and there is no exclusive holy day, and, except in the north Except for the rangers in the wasteland, few people know his name.

Therefore, the **** of tracking does not have a separate altar and temple. His small altar can only be found in the temples of most forest goddesses. His followers also follow the belief of the forest goddess and hold holy day celebrations together.

Following in the footsteps of High Priest Lauthian, Thorne came to the small altar of the tracking god.

Quiet and reclusive, Guilen Storm's physical image is a tall, stocky, shirtless, white-haired human man with a long white beard and flaming hands. The greatsword stood in front of him, and behind him was a composite longbow and a quiver full of killing and binding arrows.

The two reached the altar of the God of Tracking, and High Priest Lauthian lightly turned sideways to make way for Thorne, while Thorne walked slowly to the statue of the God of Tracking.

Thorne looked at the statue of the tracking god, as if he saw the tassels of white hair and long pale beards dancing in the wind as the tracking **** walked.

Afterwards, he respectfully bowed to the God of Tracking, and printed six footprints of his right foot on the ground in a flower shape, with the heels inward and the toes facing outwards.

When the footprints were printed, from the dignity and final stubbornness of modern people, Thorne did not crawl on the ground and worshipped head-on, but chose to sit cross-legged in front of the footprints, holding a wooden holy emblem with five-star paw prints, eyes He closed slightly, and silently recited the teachings of the God of Tracking in his heart.

The High Priest Lautian, who was standing beside him, saw that Thorne was all ready, and immediately took out a silver holy emblem engraved with the imprint of the head of a unicorn, and recited their teachings and code of conduct passionately and devoutly:

"All intelligent creatures can coexist in harmony with nature, without destroying each other, without fear of the wilderness, they should fall into its embrace, the natural way of the wilderness is not the way of evil, keep balance, learn the hidden ways of life..."

With the guidance of the pale green light flashing from the whole body of the High Priest Lausien, pieces of green light appeared from the sculpture of the God of Tracking, covering Thorne who was sitting cross-legged on the ground.

At this moment, although Thorne's eyes were tightly closed, he seemed to feel that the statue of the tracking **** was watching him silently. This feeling was like being watched by the little sika deer last night.

For a moment, a group of demon fire aura surrounded him, spinning gently.

At this moment, he seemed to see the **** of tracking walking on the wind, tracking the prey that was flying, teleported, or entered the astral world. No matter how the prey escaped, they would always be closely followed, and eventually its hunting.

With all the light vanishing without a trace, all is at peace.

Thorne slowly opened his eyes, bowed gently to the statue of the God of Tracking, and then turned to bow to High Priest Lautian.

"May the goddess of the forest bless you, stalker of the silent way, half-elf ranger, Thorne." Noticing Thorne's salute to him, a smile flashed in the tired look of High Priest Lauthian, and he said From the silver holy emblem, he disappeared into the bushes.

Seeing the disappearance of High Priest Lausien, Thorne immediately began to check the system prompts to see what magic and benefits he had obtained. After all, his ranger profession was the most perfect advancement, and it was not impossible to obtain some unexpected abilities.

The natural transformation ceremony is complete!

1st ring magic position +2, 2nd ring magic position +2

Acquire the second-ring magic: Wind Wall, Web of Thorns, Silence

Get an extra ability: Animal Realm!

Gain spell-like ability: talk to animals (33/day)

Gain a ring of divine spells: Summoning a natural ally 1st level

Acquired 2nd Ring Divine Spell: Summoning of Natural Allies 2nd Level

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"Sure enough, I got a field. This extra field should be the benefit of perfect advancement." Looking at the data emerging in the system, Thorne thought to himself.

"Thorn, congratulations, you have completed the sacred ritual granted by the magic." When Thorne was about to turn and leave, a weak voice that impressed him sounded behind him.

"You're here." Thorne looked at the half-elf girl Lilia and said softly.

"En." Lilia's pale face was expressionless, she just nodded slightly, then froze, looked at Thorne and said, "The answer to the riddle that the mischievous tree spirit sister guessed for you is cabbage, you When you go out, she will definitely embarrass you and let you continue to guess this riddle."

Thorne looked embarrassed when he heard Lilia's answer, and then walked to her, his right hand, which had been stretched out in the air, paused, and finally chose to withdraw it, and said to her concerned: "Then you Take good care of yourself in the temple alone, I'll go first."

"It doesn't make you worry about it." As soon as Thorne's voice fell, a cold voice floated out, and then two figures, a man and a woman, walked out of the jungle.

"Hey! We meet again, half-elf ranger, Thorne." The wizard Alanis walked up to Thorne and greeted him with a gentle smile.