Chapter 024 – Rope Master
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"Shadow Assault" is a clever assassination technique that allows the user to make a short displacement using the enemy's shadow, and then instantly create a high amount of damage behind the enemy.
Matthew immediately made a spell dummy and asked Sodie to demonstrate.
The result was quite shocking.
"If Sodie's Shadow Assault hits, not to mention squishy targets, even melee units of around third rank or below will lose a layer of skin!"
What's even more deadly is that Shadow Assault is just the opening move of a series of combos for the Blade Dancer.
Take Sodie as an example.
After Shadow Assault, he can immediately follow up with the Dance of Death, a highly damaging move.
Low-level professionals find it difficult to withstand such sudden and continuous burst attacks.
"Indeed, when facing a Wanderer, avoiding close combat is the first principle."
Matthew didn't think that when he was entangled by elite Wanderers, Garcia's armor could last long. In his opinion, magical armor was the last line of defense. When you are forced to reveal your last line of defense, your life is not far from being taken away.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the last line of defense is not important.
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Another blue keyword is "Poisoning".
This is an ability that includes steps such as poison identification, toxin extraction, poison bottle production, and weapon coating.
Due to limited energy, Matthew knows very little about herbalism and toxicology.
Now that Sodie has strengthened this ability, it can be considered as making up for his shortcomings in this area.
"In the future, I can let Sodie gather poison, come back to make poison bottles, make more of them, he can use them himself, and my crossbow arrows will be more deadly."
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If Shadow Assault and Poisoning are still within Matthew's understanding, the last two white keywords are confusing.
What is "Farming Techniques"?
Could it be that Sodie was actually a farmer before?
And "Nurturing Offspring"?
Did he raise piglets or other small animals before, or was Sodie actually a girl?
Or maybe he is a male with rich experience in nurturing human offspring?
Matthew looked at Sodie with a puzzled look.
Sodie still responded to Matthew's gaze with a blank expression.
After a while, when Matthew looked away, Sodie quietly found a place to sit in the corner of the bed.
Matthew felt somewhat helpless.
"I didn't expect the gray keyword that just appeared to take effect so soon!"
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"Sloth (Gray): Your skeleton has learned to be lazy when not in combat."
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Fortunately, it is limited to non-combat situations!
If it also applies during combat, Matthew would have to consider whether to give him all the subsequent enhancements.
Looking past the gray keyword, there is good news.
The last two keywords are both purple.
The bad news is that these two keywords don't seem very serious.
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"Shadow Dance (Purple): Your skeleton can achieve the effect of pleasing and charming the target by rapidly and violently twisting its hips.
At the same time, during the dance, some of its steps can cross into the shadow realm, achieving the goal of accelerating towards the target.
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"Rope Master (Purple): Your skeleton is skilled in rope techniques (including binding), including rope skills in combat.
Requirement: Please prepare a strong enough magic rope for him before starting."
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"So what exactly does the Blade Dancer profession teach?"
Matthew fell into deep confusion.
He looked at Sodie again.
Sodie hesitated for a moment.
Then he stood up and twisted his hips towards Matthew.
The air slightly distorted.
Matthew's eyelids twitched.
In that instant.
His brain actually felt a dizzying sensation!
"Stop!"
He pressed down on Sodie's restless hips.
"I understand now. Shadow Dance is indeed quite sharp. It should have incorporated some kind of ritual spell power."
Matthew rubbed his temples trying to make himself more clear-headed.
If this continues.
He might even find this skeleton in front of him to be quite attractive.
That's the effect of charm.
His willpower is not low, and he is Sodie's master, yet he is still affected.
If it were someone else...
Suddenly, a sense of anticipation arose in Matthew's heart!
He carefully observed Sodie.
He found that this skeleton was completely different from when he first selected him.
His bones were full and strong, with a large number of silver dots settling inside, cleaner compared to other skeletons—clean to the point of being spotless!
His entire body was made up of bones with a white as jade silver edge.
"Did you take a bath?"
Matthew asked thoughtfully.
Sodie was stunned for a moment.
After ten seconds.
He nodded uncertainly.
Matthew looked helpless.
Sodie was good in every aspect, full of potential, but his intelligence was a bit too low.This is also a common problem for undead creatures.
Even the powerful Bone Dragon Little Phi only has 4 intelligence points. Intelligence does not necessarily represent intelligence, but low intelligence usually means not much.
Sodie's mental age is equivalent to that of a five-year-old child.
It's fine as long as Matthew is in command.
Acting alone almost always leads to trouble!
"It seems that Peggy is indeed extraordinary, worthy of being the one I risked my life to find in the Golden Land."
A hint of reminiscence appeared in Matthew's eyes.
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However, it was quickly interrupted.
"Knife, knife, I... I, knife!"
Intermittent thoughts came through the undead contract from Sodie's soul fire.
Matthew nodded thoughtfully.
"Do you want a good knife? A short one?"
Ten seconds later.
"Two, two... two knives."
Sodie responded.
"I understand, I will make two suitable short knives for you as soon as possible."
"Thank you... master."
This time, the response only took three seconds.
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"Due to your promise, Sodie (skeleton) loyalty towards you has increased to 99!"
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"It's still more loyal when cultivated by oneself!"
Matthew sighed.
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After a simple dinner in the small cabin, it was already dark outside.
Matthew pushed open the door.
A faint white light flickered in the nearby oak forest.
The oak fairies that were hidden during the day came out in droves.
Except for Princess Lulu, almost all the fairies were dancing around the owl Ella.
Ella stood on the crown of an oak tree.
Her eyes closed tightly, murmuring words in her mouth.
Faint waves of magic spread out like ripples.
Matthew walked through the forest.
The feeling of being watched by pairs of kind eyes came back.
She was enlightening the oak forest.
As a nature spirit favored by the Moon Goddess, Ella's accomplishments in the field of nature were much higher than Lulu's.
Through this enlightenment ceremony.
She could inject more wisdom and vitality into the oak forest.
The oaks became healthier as a result.
And during the long growth process.
If someone always enlightened them, there would be a greater chance of giving birth to tree spirits, also known as tree guardians.
If lucky, one or two tree shepherds could be born.
This was extremely beneficial for the development of the forest.
But it also meant great consumption for the enlightener.
Perhaps Matthew had encountered obstacles here.
Ella was afraid that he would refuse to remove the bugs tonight, so she fulfilled the promise he made earlier in advance.
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"Tip: Your natural partner Ella has completed an enlightenment ceremony for your oak forest.
Your 'Domain: Oak' has received a slight enhancement!"
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There are also these benefits?
Matthew was pleasantly surprised.
Enlightenment not only benefited the oaks, but also enhanced his domain power?
"It seems that after the three-year period, I still have to find a way to let Ella come over more often."
Matthew thought to himself.
The only uncertain factor was Lulu.
As fellow nature spirits, Lulu clearly regarded the oak forest as her habitat.
She could tolerate Ella following Matthew's will to enlighten here in the short term.
But over time.
She definitely wouldn't be able to tolerate it.
Because it would be taking away her job.
"Lulu should also have similar abilities in the future, right?"
In his thoughts.
The white light in the forest had already faded away.
The oak fairies disappeared without a trace.
Only Ella dragged her tired body to Matthew's side.
"Hey Matthew, I did a good job, right?"
Ella raised her head and asked.
Matthew nodded.
He could feel the joy of the oaks.
Ella obviously didn't slack off.
Naturally, Matthew's attitude became gentle:
"You've worked hard, Ella, you did a great job."
Ella said happily:
"Can we remove the bugs now?"
Unexpectedly, Matthew shook his head.
In Ella's puzzled gaze, he asked:
"Can you promote germination?"
Ella seemed to have guessed something, so she nodded vigorously, "I can, I can, Matthew, this is the basic skill of a nature spirit! I guessed what you want me to do. You said your job is to plant trees, and I see you carrying seedlings back and forth every day, so, did you run out of seedlings?"
Matthew praised:
"You're very smart. I indeed don't have enough seedlings on hand, but I have a small greenhouse where I am cultivating some oak seeds. However, if they germinate according to the normal process, it will be too slow. So I want to ask for your help in promoting germination—not all of them, just a small portion will do. We can do it in batches. The specifics will depend on your physical condition.""After all, you've just completed an enlightenment, the consumption must have been great."
Ella said impatiently:
"Take me there, no need to do it in batches, I'll help you ripen them all tonight!"
Matthew hesitated for a moment:
"Is that okay? Your body..."
Ella was full of confidence:
"Don't underestimate the will of the spirit of nature, Matthew!"
"It's just a small greenhouse, I can handle it!"
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Twenty minutes later.
In Matthew's house in Rolling Stone Town.
In the greenhouse on the east side.
Peggy watched with interest at the shocked Ella.
"This... this is your so-called small greenhouse?"
Miss Owl said with a trembling voice.
She looked at the seemingly endless mini greenhouses in front of her.
She almost fainted when everything went black before her eyes!
"The previous owner of this house left a space folding ritual field here, but my mana is insufficient, I can only stimulate a small part, currently it only covers an area of less than 15 acres."
Matthew said with a pleasant face:
"Do you need me to give you a detailed introduction to your upcoming work environment?"
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