Scourge Messenger

Chapter 46: Offended (Additional updates, please give me a monthly ticket)

"Long Sword Messenger"

"Attribute bonus: Health +5, Spirit +2, Agility +5"

"Sharp (White trait): When using a long sword, deal +1 damage."

Bloodthirst (Blue Trait): When using a knife token, there is a 15% chance to cause 3 points of bleeding damage per second to the enemy. This bleeding damage can be stacked with other bleeding damage.

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"Roaming Messenger"

"Attribute bonus: Health +3, Spirit +3, Agility +6"

"Mind's Eye (White Trait): Increases the Perfect Dodge check time by 2 frames."

"Serpent's Kiss (Blue Attribute): Attacks after a Perfect Dodge ignore 50% of your defense."

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Woodland Messenger

"Attribute bonus: Health +4, Spirit +4, Agility +4"

"Woodland Familiar (Blue Trait): While in the Mansu Woodland, your Insight temporarily increases by 50."

"Mansu's Gift (Golden Trait): When resolving the Mansu Forest Treasure Chest, you gain an additional opportunity to choose."

After an afternoon of idle and actual combat training, Jiang Shi's basic steps were upgraded to level 7. Combined with level 5 basic boxing and level 8 basic swordsmanship, the total experience finally reached level 10, triggering a job change.

Yan Qing originally thought that the three optional professions should be derivatives of swordsmanship, boxing, and footwork, but he didn't expect that an unexpected profession would appear, the Woodland Messenger.

He speculated that only players who entered the Mansu Woodland and changed their job within the three days of the event would be guaranteed to receive this job change. The Woodland Messenger class had obvious advantages and disadvantages. It was entirely designed to serve the Mansu Woodland dungeon. Once the dungeon closed, the class would be completely obsolete. And the Mansu Woodland seemed to be an annual event. If each job change was like going to a different buffet restaurant, then Jiang Shi's job change to Woodland Messenger meant she would only have two days of full meals, and she would be starving until she reached level 20.

For a profession with such an extreme disadvantage, the benefits are naturally extremely lucrative.

Comprehension +50, although it simply increases experience by 50% in terms of numerical value, there is actually a difference between the two during the gameplay, because "The Messenger" has a hidden mechanism.

Comprehend the exercises and create your own exercises.

These two features seem very high-end, but in fact, except for the pioneers, most ordinary players will not touch these two features. It is not that ordinary players cannot experience such high-end game features, but that ordinary players have better choices.

Directly purchase advanced skills.

You can buy it, so why should you figure it out yourself?

Only at the beginning of the version, when advanced players are exploring new content but cannot find any skills, will the game system allow players to directly comprehend a set of skills that perfectly suit them based on their comprehension, commonly used tokens, and commonly used combat methods. Comprehension directly affects the probability of comprehension.

It is said to be the comprehension of the skills, but in essence it is a guaranteed mechanism of bad luck - others get it after completing a dungeon once, but you didn't get it after completing ten dungeons. Since you are so pitiful, I give it to you as a reward.

As the version progressed, advanced players would release many secret techniques that they themselves didn't need, which would naturally flow into the market. Second- and third-tier players who caught up later no longer had to painstakingly learn the techniques like the pioneers, and could simply purchase them from the market.

But in this world, things have changed.

The secret manuals of martial arts became strategic materials and were basically only consumed within the faction and would not be circulated to the outside world at all. As a result, Yan Qing encountered a situation he had never expected: the upgrade of his sub-account encountered a bottleneck.

It's not that there are no upgrade bottlenecks in the game, but that happens at least after the fourth level, and his highest-level alt, 'Ye Si', has now encountered a bottleneck - he has only mastered one advanced sword technique, and without two advanced techniques, he does not have enough experience to reach level 20.

As long as there is no second advanced skill, "Ye Si" will be stuck at level 18.

As for when he will be able to comprehend the second advanced technique... he is a tough guy who starts with zero comprehension!

Therefore, the Woodland Messenger's trait of "+50 Comprehension in the Mansu Woodland" holds unimaginable significance in this world. As long as Jiang Shi can master two or three advanced techniques within the next two days, she'll undoubtedly reach level 20 and surpass Ye Si to become the strongest alt!

Breaking through level 20...

The more Yan Qing thought about it, the more he felt awkward. This level, which he could pass in the game in as fast as 1 minute or as slow as half an hour, had become a difficult hurdle in this world that required careful planning to overcome.

However, the greatest value of the Woodland Messenger class is undoubtedly the golden trait 'Mansu's Gift', which allows players to make an additional choice at the conclusion of the Mansu Woodland event. Even if Yan Qing knew nothing about the Mansu Woodland conclusion rewards, this trait alone was enough to make him understand that the rewards for this once-a-year limited-time dungeon should be quite good.

The Woodland Messenger class is definitely not qualified to be on the table in any build, but in this world, at this time point when Yan Qing has no trumpets above level 20, it is undoubtedly the best solution.

"Congratulations to the player for changing his job to 'Woodland Messenger'."

"You gain Health +4, Spirit +4, Dexterity +4!"

"You have unlocked the spiritual power value. The current spiritual power value is: 0/20"

At this time, Jiang Shi and Qian Gongyu were both resting after their sparring match. Jiang Shi's aura of job change was so conspicuous that Qian Gongyu, who was standing nearby, naturally noticed it immediately.

"Changed job?"

"Um."

"So we don't need to spar anymore?" Qian Gongyu's smile was a mixture of flattery and luck, like a tired puppy. "You've changed your job anyway—" "Even after changing your job, you still have to keep improving. Sparring is always more effective than individual training. Now that I've changed my job, we can use the token for actual combat in the future. Miss, don't you want to improve?"

"……think."

At this time, there was a noisy sound outside, and many people gathered at the entrance of the camp, as if to welcome the arrival of an important person.

More than a dozen carriages of nobles have arrived at the camp this afternoon. Some of them had originally planned to come but were delayed on the way, while others rushed here after receiving the news. The two types are easy to distinguish. The former are basically noble children who are full of femininity but weak in strength, while the latter are often middle-aged people carrying weapons.

There have always been people who want to talk to Jiang Shi and Qian Gongyu, but after leaving the Mansu Forest, Jie Yuanshao and Shang Xinlei immediately changed the layout of the carriages in the camp - they had two noble double-decker carriages on the left and right, sandwiching the Qian family's inconspicuous carriage in the middle, and there were many guards guarding outside.

With such an obvious attitude, naturally no one dared to approach the Qian family by bypassing the two major families. Thanks to this, the Qian family spent a quiet afternoon.

But "eating alone" cannot last long.

I saw a servant walking towards this side. Although the guards of Jie family and Shang family went up to stop him, after a brief exchange, they still made way to let the servant approach Qian family's carriage.

"Master Qian Gongyu, Guard Jiang Shi, tonight's banquet is about to begin. All the major families sincerely invite you to attend."

"Thank you, but we already have an appointment." Qian Gongyu said immediately, "We are having dinner with the fourth lady of the Shang family tonight."

"We will go."

Everyone turned and saw Shang Xinlei emerging from the carriage. Although she had accepted the invitation, Shang Xinlei didn't smile at all. She waved her hand as if shooing away a fly, "Go back and tell Qun Yushu that we'll all be there."

After the attendants left, Qian Gongyu belatedly asked, "Qun Yushu? Could it be..."

"A disabled person with a fake smile, a monstrous ugliness that makes you lose your appetite." Shang Xinlei said unhappily, "But whether he lives or dies, he is the face of this generation of the Qun family. We can't deny him face."

"And it's not just Qun Yushu. Chen Linchuan, the elder of the Chen family, is here too, along with a bunch of other prominent families... Even the Jie family and I can't keep them out forever."

"The Qun family and the Chen family!"

Qian Gongyu had no idea that she was just a 'mixed bag' and excitedly said, "This camp actually has four of the seven great nobles gathered here!"

"The Seven Nobles?"

"There are three purple-ribbon families, and four prominent surnames. The Qun family is one of the purple-ribbon families, just like the Jie family, with a long and rich history. The Chen family is a prominent family like the Shang family, guarding the Guangling Military Town and the border for generations." As he spoke, Qian Gongyu seemed to finally realize something. His legs weakened and his voice trembled. "They are all powerful families of the Qian family who can be crushed by just a little finger..."

"Xinlei, can we not go to the party?!" Qiangong Yu pleaded stutteringly, "Our status doesn't deserve to be at that kind of event..."

"Xiaoyu, you're so brave," Shang Xinlei clapped her hands. "You agreed to go but then didn't go. You deliberately stood them up in front of so many prominent families and humiliated important figures from two great families. Even I don't have the guts to do that."

"Ah? Then, then, then, what should I do?" Qian Gongyu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, hugging Shang Xinlei's hand tightly like a koala: "Xinlei, help!"

"Don't worry, don't worry." Shang Xinlei stroked Qian Gongyu's head. "With me here, they can't eat you. And don't forget, Jie Yuanshao and Jie Zilong are also on our side. The Qun and Chen families must give them face, but the Shang family and Jie family are not to be bullied. Go back and change your clothes, then we'll go together."

Qian Gongyu nodded repeatedly, looked at Jiang Shi who was still practicing his swordsmanship in the open space, and shouted, "Jiang Shi, stop practicing, it's time to change clothes!"

Jiang Shi stopped swinging his sword and slowly turned around.

At this time, the sun was about to set, and two-thirds of the sky had turned night blue and was eroding the fiery red of the remaining one-third.

'Jiang Shi' stood at the boundary between light and darkness, with only half of his face illuminated by the setting sun.

Beautiful, indifferent.

Even though they fought alongside her and went through hardships with her, Qian Gongyu and Shang Xinlei could not see any sense of closeness in this person's eyes.

"I'm not going. I have food, I don't need to attend the party."

Qian Gongyu opened his mouth and stammered, "But, but the ones who invited us are the Qun and Chen families. They are aristocratic families, and we can't afford to offend them. Even Xinlei..."

Under Jiang Shi's gaze, Qian Gongyu's voice became smaller and smaller until it was almost inaudible.

"I'm not stopping you from going, but I'm not going."

"I know you can't afford to offend them, and neither can Shang Xinlei."

"But why do you think..."

Night completely eroded the last remaining rays of light, darkening the sky and earth. Bonfires lit across the camp. Jiang Shi bathed in the darkness, her eyes as bright as a cheetah in the jungle. The sliver of steel she gripped gleamed with a sharp, cold light.

She was clearly just a newly transferred first-class messenger, and she was clearly the stronger one, but for some reason... Shang Xinlei didn't dare to look the other person in the eye.

"I dare not offend them?"

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