Chapter Seventy-One: Ascension

  The stench of sulfur grew thicker, and Mo Meng's corpse, like the previous ones that had been drained by the Devil's Blood Dagger, withered and shriveled before turning into flying ash.

  Will + 0.1

  Contrary to Dean's expectations, it wasn't a sensory gain.

  However, Dean soon realized that if the opponent's "Perception" attribute had also reached the standard of "Will", then even if he had hidden extremely well before, it would have been difficult for him to completely avoid the opponent's "Perception" search - after all, a Perception of 10, without any skill at all, was enough to make everything within nearly a hundred feet around oneself clearly visible.

  Third flesh absorption complete... Devil's will activated...

  [Assessment Begins]

  【2.1（－0－0.1－0.2）－1.5＞0】

  Triple Will Determination Passed

  "Fiendish Willpower Upgrade - Minor - Secondary"

  ……

  After a series of prompts, far easier than Dean had imagined, the entire "Devil's Will" judgment was over - without any pain or discomfort throughout, and not even a hint of an unusual feeling for Dean.

  "Devil's Will: Every three times you complete a flesh absorption, you must make three willpower checks (willpower related (-0-0.1-0.2)-2.0>0); if one fails, you fall into two hours of uncontrollable mental chaos; if all three fail, your soul is sacrificed to the devil."

  If the judgment of "Devil's Will" had changed and the notation 'slight' became 'secondary', the number of times "Blood Absorption" was used would change from 3 to 0, making it seem as if nothing had happened at all.

  However, Dean absolutely wouldn't believe nothing had happened.

  He began to carefully examine his own body, but just as he had felt before - there was nothing worth noting.

  But this made Dean even more vigilant.

  After all, the devil's items are always so subtle and silent.

  However, he is now clearly unable to leave this item behind. After all, even if the "Devil's Will" reached secondary level, with his current "Will", it would be possible to pass once, and if his profession level were to increase, then it would be possible to pass twice - of course, in Dean's opinion, at least reaching the baseline for a full pass was necessary.

  After all, what the tax officer did at first was really shocking.

  He absolutely doesn't want such things to happen to himself.

  And this, of course, requires some thorough planning - the simplest way is to upgrade your profession level and then use it again, while a slightly more difficult approach is to find a shaman like Mo Meng and perform a "Blood Meat Absorption".

  But anyway, it's all in the past now.

  At least, Dean didn't have to worry about it until he completed three more 【Blood and Flesh Absorption】.

  How about now?

  Dean's gaze naturally fell on the character panel——

  【XP：126】

  Such experience value, although it cannot raise 【Warrior Lv2】 to the level of 【Warrior Lv3】, is enough for Dean to once again upgrade his skills.

  And this is exactly what Dean had planned.

  Basic Swordsmanship Lv2 → Lv3

  Military Swordsmanship Lv2 → Lv3 (Jade)

  The two skills that initially improve the skill are undoubtedly the two skills that complement each other with [Cold Weapon (Sword/Hammer/Spear): Lv3]; The former costs 20 experience points, while the latter costs 40 experience points.

  A 60-point expenditure in experience naturally brought about an exceptionally intuitive change ——

  Basic Swordsmanship Lv3: Perhaps you will gain your own insight from it, but most of the time, it's just basic; Effect: When using sword-type weapons, gain +7.5% damage, hit rate, and block rate bonus.

  Military Swordsmanship Lv3 (Jade): You received the most rigorous training in the military camp, giving your swordsmanship a national characteristic; Effect: When attacked, can make Agility +0.3 judgment; Duration 3.2 (Constitution x2) seconds; Cooldown 33 (50 - Constitution x10) minutes.

  Feeling the changes in his body and techniques, Dean drew out his sword——

  Wow!

  A perfect semicircle flashed before Dean, and the snowflakes splashing in front of the sword blade undoubtedly proved that even without activating 【Military Swordsmanship Lv3 (Emerald)】, Dean had already truly approached the level of a Knight; of course, just an ordinary Knight.

  As for those who have undergone the baptism of knights?

  It's clear that they're not their opponent yet.

  The most focused skill, after the level upgrade, Dean's gaze was placed on the remaining skills, and he finally filtered out the vast majority of skills, placing his gaze on [Military Organization].

  【Military Organization Lv1: After studying, you understand the general deployment of troops and at least use formations to make your soldiers stand more neatly; Effect: When commanding soldiers under your command, you will give your soldiers an additional 5 morale (increasing combat effectiveness by 5%) and gain an additional 5% experience bonus for each enemy killed by your soldiers based on their original experience.】

  Undoubtedly, [Military Organization Lv1] is a group combat skill. When paired with the title [Fecharen Knights Captain], it immediately allows soldiers on one's side to gain a 10% increase in strength and grants oneself 15% of the experience points earned by these soldiers when they kill enemies; perhaps not very noticeable at first.

  However, as the level of military organization increases, this skill will inevitably become more and more important.

  Especially in a war, hundreds and thousands of enemies are really too frequent, even 15% is an extremely large number.

  What's more, this is just the beginning.

  Of course, more importantly, he no longer has the title of "Hagath's Lone Wolf" holding him back, and the group's battles will undoubtedly allow him to grow faster.

  So Dean started another experience ratio -

  Military Organization Lv1→Lv2→Lv3

  【Military Organization Lv3: After studying, you understand the general deployment of troops, at least you will use formations to make your soldiers stand more neatly and have a certain efficiency; Effect: When commanding your soldiers, you will give your soldiers an additional 15 morale (increasing combat effectiveness by 15%) and gain 15% experience bonus for each enemy killed by your soldiers based on their original experience.】

  After 30 points of experience in the ratio, [Military Organization] reached the current career level +1 restricted level.

  As for the remaining 36 experience points, Dean apparently didn't plan on using them all up.

  After all, the remaining skills are not what he needs at present, or they have other plans to upgrade.

  For example: swimming skills.

  And after doing all this, Dean's gaze fell on the scroll in his hand - this scroll that could intimidate and command the wolf pack was undoubtedly one of his greatest gains from this trip.

  However, in order to truly turn this gain into reality, some other operations are still needed.

  The most pressing matter is that the alpha wolf of that wolf pack must be eliminated!

  Earlier, Dean had witnessed everything - he could be certain that the alpha wolf was not intimidated or commanded by this scroll.

  As for why?

  It's simple, this alpha wolf wasn't the original bloodline of the pack, just an outsider who took over by force.

  Therefore, the scroll that relied on blood power to bind this pack of wolves would have had no effect at all.

  For the pack of wolves and some spells with 'amnesty', Dean, who is quite familiar with it, almost inferred such a result at the first time.

  So, Dean wants

  Relying on the power of this scroll to control the previous wolf pack must necessarily involve getting rid of that alpha wolf.

  But for Dean at this moment, it's obviously a bit unlikely.

  That alpha wolf's agility and speed were enough to prove that the opponent was a fierce beast close to the White Silver Knight level, and its cunning left a deep impression on Dean.

  If he wasn't absolutely sure, Dean would never provoke such an existence.

  So, Dean returned once again with great caution - the previous pack of wolves had been attracted by the loud voice of that high-ranking knight, but this did not mean that only a loud voice would do.

  So Dean not only moved stealthily but also reapplied some of the scent-blocking potion to his body.

  When Dean reappeared in the clearing filled with rocks, everything seemed as if nothing had happened except for the bloodstains on the ground and the scattered weapons.

  There is no corpse of Gao Sai Ren, nor is there a wolf's corpse.

  Dean was not surprised at this.

  After all, most of the time, corpses are just food for Hagrid's wolf pack.

  And these, having undergone alchemy, infinitely close to Haga's wolf pack, apparently also have similar habits.

  Without any signs of blood or weapons on the ground, Dean carefully made his way into the pit created by that High Knight, and began to search around cautiously.

  Just as the old knight who had saved him once said ——

  Patience and calmness are what a true knight must possess, although most knights nowadays would rather believe in strength than brains, but once the brain is filled with muscles, he will soon meet his demise, at least, he will become a pawn to be discarded at will.

  In this way, Dean's words were quite credible.

  So he absolutely wouldn't resort to such a situation like that great knight's usual nonsense.

  After all, he had undergone quite professional thief training.

  At least, searching for tomb entrances and mechanisms was not unfamiliar to Dean.

  PS seeking support ~~ decadent seeking support ~~