My dear witch, please turn evil according to the script!

Chapter 88 I Have Been Living in Your House for Several Days
Putting aside the unfinished task, Roland went straight back to the dormitory and then checked his rewards.

There's not much to say about experience points and skill points. I don't have any plans to add any more for now.

Roland has been practicing meditation these days and is almost reaching the intermediate level of the fourth ring. He plans to stabilize the small source circulation in his body first and then add some more.

Moreover, after reaching the fourth ring, the original 10,000 experience points required to advance a small level has now become 30,000 points.

Counting the reward just now, and the 10,000 experience points gained from the progress of Kalia's quest to turn from evil to good.

I only have 40,000 yuan on hand.

Roland decided to wait until he could level up a little longer, or accumulate some experience points, until he had enough to reach the fifth ring in one go.

Thinking of this, Roland opened the panel and looked at his experience points.

[Host: Roland]

[Rank: Fourth Ring Primary Magician (18236/30000)]

"Sure enough, actual combat will speed up the operation of Xiaoyuan. I actually gained so much experience points in the past few days."

"If nothing unexpected happens, I'll be able to break through to the intermediate fourth ring through my own practice before the New Year arrives."

Roland sat down on the sofa in the dormitory and took out the scapegoat puppet that the system had rewarded him.

It looks like a straw figurine that is crudely and haphazardly made.

But after Roland used his magic to detect it, the scapegoat puppet suddenly flew up.

After a burst of withered yellow fluorescence, it merged into Roland's body.

After that, a status bar appeared on Roland's system panel.

【Status bar: Death substitute】

[Death Substitution: Immediately activated upon encountering fatal damage or detecting that the bound person is lifeless.]

[The straw man will replace the bound person's body, forming a fake corpse that is indistinguishable from the original.]

[Then the bound person's body will be teleported back to the preset coordinates, and the substitution effect will be activated, exempting them from death once.]

[Preset coordinates: Royal Capital Magic Academy dormitory area.]

After seeing the effect of this scapegoat, Roland nodded with satisfaction.

Very good, the effect is very good.

It even includes after-sales service, so it's not the kind of prop that has no follow-up after blocking your opponent once.

It will even send you back to the safe zone.

If you take into account the protection of the World Tree, it is equivalent to having two sets of resurrection armor.

And it has the feature of teleporting back to the point, which may be used well in the future.

"Next, it's the highlight."

Roland thought about it and took out a new original rune stone issued by the system.

This time, another character was engraved on the original rune stone.

""

Unlike the feeling he had when he first obtained the original rune stone, Roland's pronunciation quickly popped up in his mind.

"THURISAZ."

Unlike the green color of the original runestone [World Tree], this original runestone emits electric light that is a mixture of blue and purple.

Then, yellow thorns spread out from the rune stone, wrapping around Roland's right hand that was holding the rune stone, and then his entire body.

However, these thorns did not cause Roland any pain, but instead gave him a sense of security.

Afterwards, the thorns sank into Roland's body, and the rune stone that was originally in Roland's palm also merged into his body like the World Tree Rune Stone before.

Only this time...

Roland felt something different.

As his thoughts changed, the thorns that had originally been embedded in Roland's body began to wave according to Roland's thoughts.

These thorns not only cover his body surface.

Roland looked at the panel.

[Rune Skill-Thunder Thorns]

[Effect: Consumes a small amount of magic power to drive thorns. When using thorns to attack, the target touched by the thorns will be bound for five seconds. This effect will occur once per minute for the same target.]

[Any target touched by thorns will lose all subsequent concealment methods in front of the host.] [When using thorns to entangle yourself, any attack blocked by the thorns will be returned to the releasing attacker as a thunderbolt. Cooldown time is three minutes.]

[Passive effect: Increases luck.]

After seeing the skills of the new rune, Roland's first reaction was - not as good as the World Tree.

But after calming down and carefully studying the skills, he realized that the actual combat function of this rune stone might surpass that of the World Tree.

The reason is simple: this skill consumes too little energy!

Even less than the flash after reaching the maximum level.

Although its defensive performance is uncertain, the unconditional damage reflection with a built-in cooldown of only three minutes has already maximized its value.

Not to mention there is a strong control constraint.

Five seconds of control!
How far can I run?
And you can control it for five seconds in one minute!
According to the introduction to restraints that Roland had read, it meant being unable to move for five seconds!

Although it does not affect its casting and attacking, it is impossible to move.

This means that all attacks during these five seconds cannot be avoided by moving.

And that passive skill increases luck.

Although it doesn't say how much it will improve, nor how it will improve.

But luck value is not something that can be increased just by wanting to.

Just when Roland was about to study it carefully, a sound suddenly rang behind his ears.

"You really do know this thing."

"Is there even a second one?"

Roland was startled by Cellinina's cold tone, which was as emotionless as Fram's.

If Roland hadn't recognized the owner of the voice, he would have subconsciously fought back.

"Huh... next time you show up, you can say hello first."

"Also, why are you in my dorm?"

Cellinina glanced at Roland strangely: "Have you forgotten that during this period, I am responsible for protecting your safety."

"Of course I have to be closer to you."

"Besides, it's raining outside. I can't hide in a tree like that hatter, can I?"

"Their uniforms are custom-made waterproof, and my cloak won't do the trick."

"Besides...I've been staying at your house for several nights, sleeping on this sofa."

"You just didn't notice it."

Roland: "..."

"So, that bar?"

"That's a temporary place to stay, used to store some personal belongings." Cellinina explained.

"Oh yeah, here you go."

As Cellinina spoke, she took out a notebook and handed it to Roland: "The formula you asked for."

"I've never been a teacher. I just memorized the structure of the technique."

"Whether you can learn it or not depends on you."

Roland took the notes and then said, "Maybe you don't need to be a bodyguard anymore."

"The turmoil in the capital has subsided."

"You don't have to stay by my side all the time."

Cellinina was silent.

Silent for a long time.

She just looked at Roland quietly with her scarlet eyes, as if she was thinking about something.

After a long while, she slowly said, "Have I gained your trust?"

"Can you tell me the answer?"

(End of this chapter)