Chapter 23 Psion
“It’s mine!”
A ragged Gnoll snatched a cloak of fine fabric from another Gnoll, held it tightly, and used roared the vulgar Common Tongue of the Underdark.
It has the head of a coyote, its green eyes flashing with greed, and its gray-red mane extending from the top of its head to its back. It looks like a large coyote walking upright.
“Mine!”
Another jackal with blood on his mouth roared: "I bit off his thigh."
"No, it should be mine!"
The third one is missing. The one-eared jackal felt that he had been ignored, and was so angry that he threw away the half-gnawed bone in his hand and roared dissatisfied: "His head was smashed by me with a stone, I did it!"
The gnolls who had unevenly divided the spoils struggled together, roaring and tearing back and forth with their yellow teeth and claws, tearing the cloak into a pile of rags.
“Pfft!”
Suddenly, a sword light flashed from the shadow of the cave.
The jackal man with missing ears suddenly thrust forward, and the pieces of cloth and jewelry he grabbed slipped from his bloody fingertips bit by bit.
It lowered its head with difficulty and looked at a bleeding sword protruding from its chest. With a 'plop', it lay whimpering and lifeless on the ground.
Seeing the death of their companions, the remaining two gnolls were stunned, staring at the hunter who appeared in the darkness in shock and fear.
I saw him raising his head, his black hair hidden under the hood of the magic cloak, and a terrifying smile on his angular face.
The two gnolls screamed in unison, scrambling to escape the nightmare before them.
The hunter in the darkness attacked, swinging his sword and spinning around.
In the blink of an eye.
The two escaped gnolls became the dead souls under his sword, and the fluorescence of evil life faded from their eyes until they became as cold and dark as stone.
A clean battle ended. Brian put his sword into its sheath, shook his head and took off his hood, and began to inspect the small cave.
He saw that the person killed by the gnoll was a drow warrior.
Judging from the badly worn short boots and rusty chainmail shirt, this should be a wandering elf who was accidentally blocked by three jackals in a small cave and unfortunately lost his life.
With a wave of his hand, Brian unceremoniously pocketed the money and three black jade gems scattered on the ground.
Money is never too much for him who is impoverished.
As for gems, demand exceeds supply.
Although these three low-level gems are each worth at most five gold coins, they are the best casting materials for casters to release shadow spells.
After collecting the loot, he piled four corpses together, chanted a spell in a low voice, and burned them to ashes.
After finishing it, Brian waved his hand and used simple tricks to clean up the garbage, smell and smoke in this hidden and small cave.
Then he took out a piece of gemstone and silver wire from his pocket, and simply arranged a hidden illusion and warning guard at the entrance of the cave.
After everything was prepared, he stretched out his finger with satisfaction, and the entire dark and depressing cave was enveloped in a soft light.
Two days have passed since he left the spider wizard's portal.
As he expected, the portal was not as accurate as imagined.
So, based on his memory of the surrounding terrain, he finally arrived at the familiar Fansi Trail without any danger the next day.
However, he did not immediately explore the ruins of the Netherese period.
In the distant surface world, wild beasts kill to obtain food and territory in order to survive.
But the monsters that haunt the dark labyrinth of the Underdark are not slaughtered for survival, because survival itself is a kind of hardship for them.
They are driven to kill by a variety of reasons, madness, hatred, and the evil out-of-control leyline radiation that etches every stone.
They kill, more like because only in killing can they find relief.
It was this atmosphere full of killing and danger that made his two days of adventure not as easy as he imagined.
So, he must find a secret cave to take a good rest.
Because in addition to recovering the spiritual and arcane energy he had consumed through meditation, he also had a more important thing to do.
After all, the ruins of the Netheril era are not accessible to anyone, so he naturally has to be well prepared.
Thinking of this, Brian immediately sat on a rock, brought up his attribute bar, and started to level up. "Improve the Psion profession level."
"Consumption of 1300 experience points."
"The Psion class is increased to level 2."
"Acquire domain ability: Call of the Creator."
"Acquire psionic points: 4 points, additional psionic points: 2 points. ”
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“Improve the level of the Psionist profession”
"Consume 3900 experience points."
"The Psion profession is upgraded to level 3."
"Acquire second-level abilities: psychic repair, shock wave."
"Power points gained: 5 points, additional power points: 2 points."
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"Improve the level of the Psion profession."
"Consume 7800 experience points."
"Promote the Psion profession to level 4."
"Get 1 free attribute value ."
"Gain 1 point of psionic feats."
"Psionic points gained: 6 points, additional psychic points: 2 points."
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After three consecutive levels of improvement, Brian suddenly felt a surge of life. The energy spread throughout the body, the stiffness and soreness of the body immediately disappeared without a trace, and even the spirit returned to a stable and contented state.
Obviously, every time his level increases, his life energy, also known as HP, will also increase accordingly.
Although it was not shown in detailed data, he could clearly feel this improvement.
Then, he directly added the extra 1 attribute point he obtained to his intelligence attribute.
This is the main attribute of his War Mage profession and Psion, which determines all aspects of his abilities.
Such precious attribute points are naturally added to the most critical attributes.
With a little improvement in attributes, his intelligence attribute successfully reached the critical point of 20 points.
The 19-point and 20-point intelligence attributes will be a qualitative breakthrough for him.
Because for a spellcaster, every time his main attribute increases by 2 points, his spell slots and spell damage will be additionally increased.
Just like now.
The moment when the intelligence attribute increases to 20 points.
His extra spiritual energy value is increased by 2 points, the War Mage profession gains an additional first-level spell slot, and the arcane energy of his Arcane Fire is also increased by 7 points.
Of course, all of his own magic and psychic damage will also be significantly improved when released.
Brian set his sights on a newly acquired property of a creative realm.
Call of the Creator: When a psion who is proficient in the creation system concentrates on displaying the power of the creation system, the duration of the power will be increased by 30%, and his own psicrystal servants and astral constructs will receive additional A special ability.
Psicrystal Servants and Astral Constructs.
This is the most representative ectoplasmic superpower construct for a creative psion.
With a thought, Brian's fist-sized dark blue crystal appeared in his hand.
Although due to time constraints, it was impossible to spend a lot of time to extract the same amount of materials from the astral world to make the astral construct, but the astral crystals used to make the spiritual crystal servants were not much, and now he has collected them. together.
The main reason for him hiding here, apart from improving the level of the psychic, is actually to make his own spiritual crystal servants.
(End of this chapter)