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“So big… ah!”
“Um…”
“Hmm… the weapon is so big.”
Shelley looked at White Shark, who was resentfully scouting ahead, and thought, a little lost in thought.
“The barbarian class is not bad either. It’s… durable, no.”
“It’s… tough, no…”
“It’s tough. Yes, tough.”
Barbarians, a melee class that relied purely on their physical bodies. They came from the uncivilized regions or barbarian tribes at the edge of civilization. Barbarian adventurers came to towns, perhaps because of the lure of wealth, or because they were captured as slaves from their hometowns but escaped. They might also come to serve as mercenaries, or because their hometowns were invaded and they were exiled.
Barbarians had no relationship with each other, unless they came from the same tribe or region. In fact, they didn’t consider themselves barbarians, but warriors.
Barbarians were outstanding fighters. While ordinary warriors gained strength through good training, barbarians were born with powerful, raging strength. When they entered a rage, they became stronger and more invincible, better able to strike opponents and withstand attacks. After a rage, they would become very tired, so barbarians could only rage a limited number of times a day, but that was enough.
[Rage], [Greater Rage], [Undying Rage], [Epic Rage]…
With this set of skills, a barbarian would be like a fierce and brutal monster. Their size could reach three meters, and their strength would become incredibly powerful.
Healers and Mage Lords, these spellcasters were essential meat shields and assault partners for home and travel. The use of mages and other spellcasters was more for large-scale crowd control and stacking statuses. For single-target damage efficiency, you still had to look at the melee classes.
You might deal 50 points of damage with a spell, but even if a melee attack only dealt 1 point of damage, it was just a matter of 50 hits. Clank, clank, clank. It could be done in a few seconds. Especially for a class like the rogue, which relied on attack speed to survive. If the damage wasn’t enough, the speed would make up for it.
“Not bad, not bad. A very good meat shield. This dragon slaying will be much easier.”
At the thought of being able to slack off, Shelley thought happily. He turned his head to look at the much smaller Black Wolf beside that figure.
“She’s a druid… but why doesn’t she use divine magic?”
“Is it a special school?”
Although these three became famous pirates in the future, outsiders didn’t know much about them. At first, they still relied on the legendary equipment they had obtained to personally plunder merchant ships. Later, they only needed to send out their subordinates to obtain rich spoils.
“But a druid…”
Nobles didn’t have a very good impression of druids, because they always emphasized protecting nature. But protecting nature didn’t bring wealth. And people had some misunderstandings about these reclusive people who frequented the wilderness and jungles, thinking they were uncivilized and barbaric, but that was not true.
Although some druids wore very little. Although some druids would have some in-depth exchanges with black bears… Although some druids always clamored to restore the world to nature… but they… hmm, were really not uncivilized.
A druid’s power did not come from ruling over nature, but from being in harmony with it. For those who invaded a druid’s sacred grove and experienced a druid’s wrath, the distinction was too subtle.
A druid’s way of casting divine magic was very similar to a priest’s, but their spells came from the power of nature rather than the gods. In addition to spells, as their experience grew, a druid would gain a series of increasing magical powers, including the ability to transform into an animal.
Druids avoided carrying a lot of processed metal, because it would interfere with the pure, primitive nature that a druid tried to embody.
In other words…
“Leather armor and such… is very easy to take off.”
[Agreed.]
“Shelley, which way now?”
He felt his arm being tapped by Morgan with her pipe.
Pia.
The sound was crisp, but it didn’t hurt at all.
“The damage is not high, but the insult is extremely strong.”
Morgan had been like this ever since she woke up. The honorifics were gone, and the lazy temperament she had been faking was no longer there…
“But this is quite attractive to me.”
He thought to himself, but Shelley didn’t hesitate and said directly, “Turn left, then go straight for five hundred meters, and turn right.”
Erica looked at Shelley with admiration, her big eyes seeming to sparkle. She asked curiously, “Lord Shelley, how did you remember that? Have you been here before?”
Shaking his head, Shelley explained with a light laugh, “No, this is indeed my first time seeing that map.”
“But it’s in my mind now.”
Weighing the javelin in his hand, Shelley was thinking, “The time has been dragged out enough…”
“I wonder if Lilith has gotten the thing?”
…
Venomous Snake stood in front of the hut with a gloomy expression, directing her few remaining subordinates to clean up their old lair.
“What a disgrace!”
“I will definitely get my revenge!”
She was cursing Shelley to death in her heart, but on the surface, besides her pale face, there was nothing else unusual.
Venomous Snake was good at hiding her emotions. She would not reveal herself until the moment before she bared her fangs, just waiting to give the enemy a vicious blow.
And now…
“That woman, I don’t know where she’s hiding…”
“I have to endure.”
“Mapel, Cass… you must be safe.”
In fact, half an hour ago, Lilith had confirmed that she had no signs of escaping. Then she had entered the cave and, following the map Shelley had marked, had taken a different path from them.
Lilith was moving quickly in the dark. Any undead creature that appeared was no match for her.
“Faster! I can be faster!”
Lilith felt her body was incredibly light and full of power.
“Yes!”
In her excitement, Lilith was also confused…
“But… why is this?”
Lilith tried hard to think about when this change had occurred.
“From the moment I met Master…”
“The changes in these two months have been more obvious.”
“…”
“…Why is that?”
In the shadows, no one could see the blush on Lilith’s cheeks. The few lucky skeletons who saw it, before they could be amazed… were quickly smashed.
To have their skulls smashed by a beautiful woman… what a lucky end.
“It can’t be…”
“Hmm… I’ll try again…”
“It’s not for anything else…”
…
“Hmm.”
Black Wolf, who was walking in front, suddenly shivered and pulled back the advancing White Shark. Soon, Shelley, who had caught up, also understood why she had stopped. A familiar pressure rushed over.
[Dragon Fear]
Feeling this power, the corners of Shelley’s mouth turned up, and he licked his lips.
“Here it comes.”
“The… dragon… slaying… begins!”
