Pale Emblem

Chapter 153 The future is promising

Ranger, a brand-new career path, was born in the dilapidated and decaying town of Jinsha.

This is definitely a major event that will shock the entire Disa Alliance. The event itself is full of legendary romance and there are too many incredible things. Even the most brilliant half-elf sage may not be able to explain the reason for the appearance of the ranger.

You know, it took the top-notch Golden Oak family nearly two hundred years to create the Oak Guard career path, the efforts of four generations, the sacrifice of hundreds of lives, and the consumption of massive amounts of secret medicine resources before they finally achieved success.

Until now, all half-elves who wanted to pursue the Oak Guard career path had to return resources, including but not limited to wealth, to the Golden Oak family.

With the monopoly on the complete access to the Oak Guard, the Golden Oak family can remain prosperous for hundreds of years.

  How did the Ranger career path come about?

Victor made love with his two private slave girls all night long, and when he woke up, the two half-elf slave girls became professional rangers.

  So, who is the first ranger in half-elf history, Ruth or Jessica?

Last night, Victor went back and forth with them, communicating and adjusting over and over again, but he was still unsure whether it was Ruth or Jessica who perfected the secret blood ability first.

In that case, even if they are both first rangers, they look very similar now and have telepathic connection, just like a pair of twin sisters.

As the de facto creator of the Ranger career path, Victor is qualified to rank the two sisters as tied for first place.

Now, the two First Rangers didn't have suitable clothes to wear, and Victor couldn't let them meet everyone naked.

Luckily, Christine's body type was similar to theirs, and she had several outfits in reserve.

Victor quietly slipped into Christine's bedroom, took out two sets of clothes and short boots, and ran back to give them to Ruth and Jessica.

He was attentive the entire time, using the extraordinary perception of his ice-blue eyes to avoid any encounters that would embarrass him, and he didn't even disturb the mice in the house.

Ruth and Jessica changed their clothes and took Victor's arm affectionately, but were firmly rejected by their master. They had to follow him obediently and walked down the stairs step by step.

As the three of them went down to the corridor on the first floor, Stephanie heard footsteps and poked her head out of the corridor door.

She was shocked when she saw what Ruth and Jessica looked like now.

"Hi Stephanie, good afternoon."

Jessica waved and greeted the little girl gracefully, with a sweet smile and a friendly attitude.

These days, Stephanie took care of Ruth and Jessica, but she never heard them speak and didn't recognize what they looked like now.

Intimidated by the two ladies' extraordinary beauty and temperament, the little girl responded stiffly, "Hey... um, hello... hello. Good afternoon, Master Victor."

Ruth stepped forward, grabbed Stephanie's hand, forced the short girl to raise her arms, and then winked playfully, deliberately teasing the babysitter who was taking care of them.

"Stephanie, don't you recognize me? I'm Ruth and she's Jessica!"

"Ah, you, you...I, how..." Stephanie couldn't believe her ears, nor could she believe her eyes. She was so shocked that she was incoherent and speechless.

This exaggerated expression of fear greatly satisfied Ruth and Jessica's little vanity.

Frankly speaking, when they were still "idiots", everyone looked down on them. Stephanie was no exception. Although the little girl took good care of them, she would also use some tricks to make them suffer when they were stubborn.

Ruth and Jessica didn't hold a grudge against anyone for these things. All the hardships they endured were rewarded beyond imagination.

  Compared with the rewards we have received, what are the bad luck we had in the past?

Harvey heard the noise and ran over. He was stunned when he saw Ruth and Jessica, who looked like rock elves. Then he realized and shouted in surprise, "Victor, no wonder so many noble ladies want to find you. Your beauty is amazing! Two little girls became two beauties after spending one night with you!"

Victor was already a little embarrassed, and when Harvey teased him, he said angrily: "Go, go, go, call everyone over, I have something to say."

In a short while, all the people who stayed behind came to the living room on the first floor.

Victor looked around, frowned and asked, "Why isn't Christine here?"

The old scout Maddie explained to Victor, "She went out this morning to the tavern to gather the information that the adults needed, and she hasn't come back yet. Dalina went with her."

Victor nodded, then said expressionlessly: "Let me introduce to you all. Ruth and Jessica will be my...private slave girls from now on. Their occupations are...rangers."

The private female slaves were just playthings to please their masters and had no status to speak of. However, the prefix "private female slaves" meant that they were restricted to their masters and no one else was allowed to touch them.

Due to their close relationship with their masters, private slave girls are often regarded as their masters' spokespersons, holding invisible power, and their actual status may be even higher than that of most servants.

In fact, Victor didn't like the identity of a private slave girl, and he couldn't explain the specific reason. However, all Disa half-elves recognized the special relationship between private slave girls and their masters. Someone even instilled a master-slave concept into Victor: you saved Ruth and Jessica's lives, so they are your slave girls, and this has always been the rule for half-elf adventurers.

Because the widespread social consensus put some pressure on Victor, he did not want to be seen as a weirdo, so he finally admitted that Ruth and Jessica were his private slaves.

Ruth and Jessica were very happy. They raised their beautifully-shaped chins at the same time, looking very proud.

"Rogue... Knight?"

"What kind of job is a ranger? I've never heard of it."

The followers were talking about it, mainly Harvey and Maddie asking others about the news about the professional ranger.

Both Alchemist and Gladiator Kent said they had never heard of a ranger.

Everyone then realized that the "Ranger" Victor mentioned should be a brand new career path.

The scene suddenly became very quiet. No one questioned whether Victor was lying, but common sense told them that such a thing should not be possible.

Victor with his ice-blue eyes suddenly felt happy. He liked seeing his followers acting like ignorant fools.

Ruth and Jessica were both very smart. After they exchanged glances, Ruth took a glass of water from the table. In a moment, the surface of the wooden cup was covered with a layer of white frost, and a thin layer of cold air came out of the mouth of the cup.

Maddie's eyes widened, she stood up in disbelief and said, "This is... the frost power of a high-level female warrior of the Hemer tribe!"

"Yes!" Jessica introduced proudly, "The master has given us sisters new secret blood abilities, one of which can stimulate life potential and increase our basic strength and physical toughness. The master calls it surge. When we increase the surge to the limit, we can exert frost power similar to that of the female warriors of the Hemer tribe."

"However, our frost power is currently limited in power and can only cause mild frostbite..."

"But it comes with a kind of mental damage that can give our prey the false feeling of being frozen, thus having a slowing effect on them."

"Huh? This seems like a very powerful ability?!"

"What other secret blood abilities does the ranger have?"

"We have enemies, first move, animal companions, surge and boiling blood, environmental cover, and fast steps..."

Everyone had a heated discussion about the new career path. Victor already knew the ins and outs of the Ranger career path, so this time he just became a bystander.

The professionals expressed their opinions and exchanged ideas fully. Finally, they preliminarily determined that the new career path, Ranger, contains some characteristics of Archer and Shadow Hunter. The Ranger can recruit three animal companions, but the role of animal companions is mainly auxiliary.

This is obviously different from a beast tamer who commands a herd of beasts, so there is no need to consider intelligence-oriented specialties. A ranger should be an agility-oriented profession. In addition, Ruth and Jessica each have 24 drops of secret blood, which meets the secret blood quantity standard for a level professional.

This means that half-elves with the agility trait can choose the ranger career path, and Ruth and Jessica, as ranger predecessors, can help them be promoted to the fifth-level ranger.

Harvey waved his fist excitedly and said fiercely, "Now all we need is that old fellow Cole... No matter what, we have to get him back and let him research the ranger's professional secret medicine for Lord Victor!"

If professionals want to advance, the three elements of secret rituals, secret medicines, and secret teachings are indispensable.

In other words, if the three major elements are missing the link of passing on the Dharma, professionals can only rely on their daily accumulation to force promotion, but this will be at the risk of their own life and health.

The Adventurer's Home in Braun Town once took in several disabled Level 4 professionals. Red Lion Bartom paid to support them so that they could teach the Dharma, and with the help of Doctor Cole, Braun Town was able to train Level 3 shield guards, swordsmen, archers, and dark hunters.

In fact, Doctor Cole can prepare the secret medicine for the sublimation of the fourth-level professionals, but there is no fifth-level professional in Braun Town to teach them. If the fourth-level professionals in Braun Town want to be promoted to the fifth level, they have to ask the sixth-level great master to teach them.

This possibility is almost zero, they simply cannot invite a level 6 Great Venerable. It can be said that the highland nobles have blocked the path for commoners to be promoted to level 5 professionals.

  If someone can consistently train fifth-level Venerables, there is no doubt that they will be the next famous family in the Disa Alliance!

At the beginning, the Red Lion Bartom decided to entrust the power he had worked so hard to build to Victor. On the one hand, the half-elves were naturally suppressed by the blood of the high elves, and gradually surrendered to the other side without realizing it; on the other hand, Bartom firmly believed that Victor came from a famous family, mastered many secret methods and rituals, and had the ability to break the barriers to promotion!

Now, Bartom's thoughts are being confirmed in Victor.

  In just a short period of time, Victor already had a level five archer and two level six rangers around him!

Perhaps, Victor himself is the most magical treasure?

Maddie seemed to have thought of something, his eyes gradually lit up, and he actually came close to Victor and asked quietly:

"Victor, do you want to take in a few more private female slaves with the agility trait?"

"Also, my student has an outstanding talent for agility..."

Stephanie, who was eavesdropping in the corner, suddenly felt her ears turn red and her heart pounding.

"Shut up! This is impossible!" Victor was furious and flatly rejected McGrady's bad idea. He shouted, "Remember, don't say such stupid things again!"

Seeing that Victor was angry, Maddie lowered his head angrily and shrank back to his seat.

  He had a nice idea, thinking that as long as a woman performed a companion ceremony with Victor, she could become a Great Ranger without any secret ceremony, secret medicine, or teachings?

But they didn't know that the companion secret ceremony was just a beginning. It did play some role, but the real key lay in the silver-level alchemical snake tentacles in Ruth and Jessica's bodies.

Victor doesn’t have this silver-level alchemical snake tentacles now, so the successful promotions of Ruth and Jessica are both unique cases that cannot be replicated.

  What's more, Victor has been transferring his life energy to them through the alchemical snake tentacles, and it has not yet fully recovered. If he takes in a few more female slaves as his private pets, wouldn't that drain his life energy?

"You must treat this matter as the master's secret and never leak it. Otherwise..."

"Don't blame us sisters,"

"… to shut him up forever."

Ruth and Jessica expressed their attitudes in unison, and their words flowed smoothly together. Only a spiritual connection could achieve this level of coordination.

Rangers are good at hunting and killing, but being chased by two high-level rangers with telepathic connection at the same time is enough to make one's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Although they all had their backs to Stephanie, her spider intuition told her that the two female rangers' warnings were mainly directed at her.

Why do you feel this way?

  Could it be that they want to monopolize Lord Victor and not give other girls any chance?

No one knew that the little girl had such a thicket of weeds in her heart, but the female ranger's warning was indeed worthy of everyone's attention.

The gladiator slave Kent suddenly spoke up: "You can't keep your current appearance, because you look a bit like the master. I heard that many adventurers in Braun Town have seen the master. Now, it's hard to say whether you will meet those adventurers again. You'd better change to a slightly uglier appearance."

"Uh... OK, OK, we will adjust our appearance."

"Mr. Kent, you are a very unladylike fellow, if I may please you!"

In response to the two female rangers' slight complaints, Kent simply shrugged his shoulders.

Jessica wrinkled her nose, turned to Victor and said with a smile: "Master, we want to go to the mountains outside to recruit animal companions... Rangers are different from animal trainers. Our animal companions are mainly used for assistance, not as sacrifices in battle. Their abilities include reconnaissance, vigilance, and coordinated combat. For reconnaissance, we can choose crows and falcons. For vigilance, squirrels, badgers, weasels, and monkeys are all good. As for animal companions for coordinated combat, we have to find ferocious large animals."

"There should be no large beasts in the nearby mountains and forests, but there must be many small animals that are good at reconnaissance and vigilance."

"Let's train an animal companion who is good at alerting. Then the master won't have to bring Kent with him when he travels in the future. He can just bring the two of us."

Victor smiled. This was how Ruth and Jessica took revenge on the gladiator slave Kent after all the trouble.

Who made him so nosy that he had to remind the two sisters to change their ugly appearance?

Although they are level six great masters who possess extraordinary ice power, they are also young girls, only twenty-one or twenty-two years old, and sometimes they reveal their childish side.

Of course, this does not mean that young senior professionals are bad. Even if they have problems with lack of experience, that is a common problem in the professional system.

It is easy for professionals to acquire abilities beyond their control, especially those from prominent noble families. There are many young Level 5 Venerables. In terms of actual combat ability, they may not even be able to beat Level 2 adventurers.

A truly strong person often relies on the unity of body and mind. If the mind and body do not match, no matter how outstanding the secret blood ability is, it can only be called potential.

If we look at this issue from another angle, those professionals who work hard to climb up step by step have lost something more valuable:

time.

By the time they are promoted to level three or four professionals, they are often already old and have long passed their prime. Their strength will only continue to decline. They have no potential and no future.

Therefore, young high-level professionals are more popular. Whoever can train a young fifth-level venerable will have great influence.

Ruth and Jessica's cases were special cases among special cases. But in any case, the appearance of the sixth-level ranger gave everyone a very good start. If they could attract the fourth-level doctor Cole to join them, they would soon be able to rebuild the power of the Adventurer's House, which would be stronger and more dynamic.

"Change your appearance first, then go out and find a suitable animal companion. I'll send two other people to go with you."

Victor paused and told Harvey, "Bring those two swords here."

Harvey immediately understood that Victor was referring to the extremely sharp silver and fine gold swords. Although he was reluctant, he readily took off the two ladies' swords and handed them to Victor.

Victor drew a long sword from its sheath. The three-foot-six-inch-long sword body was slender and thin, and its exquisite workmanship looked like a work of art. The blade shone with purple-gold light, and was extremely sharp. It was a rare divine weapon.

There is a circular emblem engraved on one side of the sword, which is a nightingale under a silver moon, and an ancient secret text that reads "Sword Maid, Ruth Randall".

The place where the other sword connects is engraved with "Sword Maid, Jessie Randall".

Victor's fingertips brushed over the emblems and engravings on the swords. He was not sure if he knew the original owners of the two swords, but he felt a little sad deep down.

His intuition told him that the original owners of the two swords were dead.

"The aliases I gave you... come from these two silver and adamantium swords. Now, please kneel on one knee and bow your heads..."

Victor suppressed his sadness and asked Ruth and Jessica to kneel on one knee facing him. He touched their shoulders with the sword and then gently put the sword into their hands.

"From now on, this sword belongs to you. May it protect its new owner."