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Chapter 95: Talking Too Much is Really Not Good!
Chapter 95: Talking Too Much is Really Not Good!
[Your skill, Mammoth Sword Technique, has improved. Experience gained: +267]
[You have engaged in a battle, and your Night Watchman profession experience has increased by 258.]
Before the battle with the Mountain Borer, Rain spent a long time observing his opponent and considering various combat strategies.
Finally, inspired by Hamilton's two sword strikes, all his hard work paid off.
After defeating the Stone Beast, Rain received a generous amount of Night Watchman profession experience, and his rank increased from Lv. 3 to Lv. 4.
However, the experience gained for Mammoth Sword Technique was relatively low.
This was understandable.
The dizziness and blurred vision caused by the Stone Beast's attack had completely dissipated.
...
"Next time, I must remember to keep some attribute points in reserve!" Rain thought to himself, "It seems my recent power surge has gone to my head!"
But the poison still lingered.
Rain held his greatsword, maintaining the stance of an angry slash without moving.
Additionally, Rain was surprised by Endry's audacity, as he intended to kill everyone present.
The voice was familiar to Rain; it belonged to Endry.
Seeing Endry, who had already been split in half, the crowd understood that Rain had saved them.
"Talking too much is really not good!" Rain exclaimed.
The next second, a thin line of blood appeared on Endry's forehead, and he fell to the ground, split in two.
Rain regretted his decision to split Endry in half, as it meant he had to search both halves of the body.
Using a process of elimination, Rain picked up the most likely bottle and approached Cookie, who was swaying from side to side.
As Endry looked on in shock, his face contorted by the force of the wind, and his body trembled.
"Hmm, hallucinogenic poison?" Rain asked.
"Hamilton, if you weren't injured, I might have been more cautious. Unfortunately, in your current state, how much of your strength can you truly exert?"
So, he had a secret weapon! "Fortunately, I gained plenty of experience before coming here, and I've defeated the Crystal Lizard and the Mountain Borer. It's time to level up!"
"But that's not important now!"
"What do you mean by that?"
As luck would have it, Endry had also chosen Rain first.
Then, Endry lifted his head and looked around, his gaze like that of a reaper surveying the dead. Soon, his focus settled on Rain.
"A severely injured knight, an exhausted but strong squire, and a few ordinary night watchmen," Endry remarked, his tone almost gentlemanly as he surveyed the crowd.
Schmidt trembled like a sieve, his hand gripping his rapier, his finger pointing at Endry, his face filled with disbelief. He stammered a few times but couldn't get any words out, and his body slowly slumped to the ground.
Rain murmured, "Cookie, you've eaten so much good food. It's not too much to ask you to test the medicine for your master, is it?"
Hamilton patted Rain on the shoulder and said, "Good job, kid. If it weren't for you, we would have been killed by this despicable apprentice wizard today."
However, Rain knew in his heart that he needed to end this quickly.
But this time, Endry's tone was unusually strange, filled with resentment and dissatisfaction, making Rain hesitate again.
Apparently, for ordinary people, the hallucinogenic poison took effect swiftly and efficiently.
But as soon as Hamilton took a step forward, his body wobbled, and his expression changed dramatically.
...
Endry was cut in half by Rain's greatsword.
Although Rain found the bottles that resembled antidotes, he wasn't sure which one was the actual antidote.
The two halves of Endry's body fell to the left and right.
"You dare to kill the representative of Duke Habsburg and Duke Hamadi—Steward Schmidt—just like that?"
In Endry's hand was a rapier, and this rapier had already pierced the chest of Steward Schmidt, the representative of Mayst County, who stood beside him.
A beautiful silver arc appeared in front of Endry.
Profession: Blacksmith Lv. 2 (0/300) / Night Watchman Lv. 4 (32/1000) / Dog Trainer Lv. 2 (223/300)
Constitution: 10
Agility: 11
Spirit: 11
Remaining Attribute Points: 1
Remaining Skill Points: 1
Just as Rain was hesitating about how to allocate his points, a deep voice spoke from behind him.
But the effect was indeed good, and Rain's vision immediately cleared.
Endry's face remained calm as he glanced at Schmidt, who was still convulsing on the ground. "Since I can't obtain it, there's no use in keeping you alive."
Rain turned to the first page of the system panel—the 'Attribute Page'.
In this state, even a child with a knife could take down the Night Watchman elite.
"You ignorant commoners, how could you possibly understand the value of the Stone Beast's Heart?"
After some thought, Rain removed the ring from Endry's right ring finger. It looked like an emerald ring but was actually a poison gas ring.
Name: Reyn Kalan
"You're way out of your league! With so many of us here, you're seeking your own death!"
"By the way, do you have any last words for your beloved? Perhaps, if I'm in a good mood one day, I might convey them." Endry looked at Rain with a mocking expression.
This made Rain happy, as he was sure this was the antidote.
"Swish!"
The most important thing in killing and looting was... Endry approached Rain, his face filled with satisfaction as he looked down at him. "Kid, you have quite the talent, what a pity!"
The next second, Endry rolled over and stood up, his neck veins bulging as he roared, "Haaah!!!"
Could this be possible?
"Even though I'm severely injured, killing a low-level wizard apprentice like you should be no problem." Hamilton pushed Valen aside and drew his knight's longsword, ready to strike.
"Is Endry going insane?"
However, despite this, after two consecutive battles, Reyn's Giant Bear Sword Technique lv4 was almost maxed out, currently at Giant Bear Sword Technique lv4 (967/1000).
"Since it's a hallucinogenic poison, it's probably not lethal. Letting you smell it will, at most, just make you go crazy for a longer time."
"'Exhaustion' and 'Brute Force'—are you talking about me?"
Soon, everyone gradually recovered one by one.
Reyn immediately sensed something amiss! The scene before him suddenly blurred, and he felt unsteady on his feet! The Night Watchmen, even more affected, staggered like drunkards, falling to the ground repeatedly, unable to stand up, and muttering incoherently.
"You bunch of idiots!"
He then pointed the tip of his rapier directly at Reyn's heart.
Reyn quickly found a palm-sized leather pouch, a thin sword hidden in a wooden staff, an old diary with a sheepskin cover, and three differently shaped bottles.
Time seemed to freeze.
Reyn opened the bottle cap, held his breath, and fanned his hand, sending a faint green, pungent breeze towards Cookie.
"Pfft!"
After all, Endry's physical condition wasn't as robust as a full-fledged knight, so there was no reason for Hamilton to withstand it if he couldn't.
Reyn was startled by what he heard.
This made Reyn's heart skip a beat! Just as Reyn thought he had made a mistake, Cookie's eyes quickly cleared up, and his limbs began to stand up slowly, soon regaining normal walking ability.
This scene stunned everyone.
The position where the blade was pointed was clearly the heart, located in the lower left part of the chest.
Reyn also took a quick sniff, and instantly, his face turned green! "It's so stinky!"
"Why do you have to push me?"
The reason was simple; it was because the treasure, the Stone Beast Heart, was on Reyn.
After smelling the pungent breeze, Cookie immediately showed a look as if he was about to vomit, and in less than two seconds, he started dry heaving.
The others, who were cleaning up the battlefield, immediately turned to look.
No wonder this guy was so determined to get it!
Reyn opened his mouth wide, and a roaring gust of air blasted out like a cannonball! Even at such close range, although Reyn didn't deliberately charge up his Roar Strike, the massive sound wave swept towards Endry like a tsunami.
Instantly, a warm current surged from his heart, spreading to his limbs, making Reyn feel energized again, and even the muscle soreness from his previous Power Surge vanished.
"Ahh!" A painful scream came from behind.
"Shhhwish!"
As the air was still filled with poison, he had to deal with Endry quickly.
Endry sneered, "Oh, you guessed it? I just saw your strength, and as I thought, Hamilton, your identity isn't as simple as just a sheriff of a small town, right?"
Hamilton, supported by Valen and heavily injured, looked at Endry with a solemn expression and said, "Endry, are you trying to kill to steal the treasure?"
After his reflection, Reyn immediately added that one attribute point quietly to his physique.
"You poisoned him?"
The gold mine supervisor tightly covered his neck with both hands, and with a thud, he fell to the ground, his body convulsing uncontrollably!
Given that Endry himself wasn't affected by this hallucinogenic poison, it was highly likely that there was an antidote for this poison.
After the previous assassination attempt, Reyn wasn't completely clueless about poisons and antidotes.
An astonishing scene unfolded before their eyes.
Reyn had been swinging his hammer for a long time, so his sword technique naturally improved much less.
"You'd kill your companions for a treasure?"
Not to mention the ruthless Endry.
Endry slashed again, slicing the neck of the gold mine supervisor beside him, who had been scared witless.
"Then let's all die!"
Reyn smiled slightly at Endry.
Reyn quickly searched Endry's body.
Reyn then proceeded to antidote everyone present one by one.
"If this bottle isn't the antidote, it's most likely the hallucinogenic poison itself."
Reyn stared in disbelief at the scene before him.
Adding points couldn't antidote; it was more like refreshing the body's current poisoned state, similar to the previous time.
"Smart! Hallucinogenic poison, this stuff works on full-fledged knights like you, especially now that you're severely injured, you definitely can't resist." Endry, with a hint of pride, showed off a ring on his right hand's ring finger.
At the same time, his eardrums ruptured instantly, and his head rang with a buzzing sound! He stood there, stunned.
"A wizard apprentice? Isn't he a bard?" Reyn was taken aback.
"He's just pretending to be a bard; in reality, Endry is a wizard apprentice."
"Since he still needed a magic scroll to successfully cast 'Acid Missile' just now, I estimate he's merely a first-level wizard apprentice."
Hamilton voiced his guess.
(End of Chapter)
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