adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 83 Merry's Job Change, Rune World!

In fact, the red-haired man Louis saw was an extremely ordinary face, with no special features whatsoever in his clothing.

If you were in the outer city, you'd see this kind of appearance and clothing everywhere.

However, this was the inner city, and the red-haired man was heading in the same direction as Viscount Alwin's mansion.

Why should an ordinary person with nothing special about him become a viscount's guest?

Even if he wasn't a guest, but just a servant or bodyguard, it wouldn't fit the red-haired man's appearance.

"Could it be the assassin, Lu An?"

Louis pondered silently, his expression unchanged, until he left the inner city and returned home, at which point he recounted his earlier discovery to his companions.

"You mean, an assassin who appears to have killed the Fourth Hero has entered Viscount Alwin's mansion?"

Daina looked grave and murmured, "If that's the case, doesn't it mean that the murder of the hero is related to another hero's teammate?"

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The blue-haired girl sighed: "Even though it's just a guess, we still can't let our guard down."

"I thought Alwin was a really good person, but I never imagined he could do something like this in secret—"

Louis said, "This is still a clue, and we should investigate it further if we have the chance."

Nora listened silently to their conversation and calmly said, "It's been more than a month since then, and that old swindler Griffin doesn't seem to have returned. I think he must have died in the capital."

Upon hearing this, both Louis and Dina's expressions froze.

Louis had a pretty deep impression of the tortoise when he visited Wind Chime City.

Over the past month, Nora had exchanged letters with acquaintances in her hometown of Windchime City and had also inquired about Griffin's situation, but the acquaintances all assumed that he had gone on a long journey and showed no signs of returning.

A month is enough for a professional to travel back and forth between the capital and Wind Chime City twice.

If Griffin didn't return, then it's highly likely he ran into the noble forces behind Ruan and was assassinated.

Coincidentally, the members of the third hero squad were all top nobles from the capital.

This is yet another piece of evidence.

Seeing that her companions remained silent, Nora gave a nonchalant snort: "It's good that the old swindler is dead. He can inherit all his wealth when he goes to the capital someday."

Louis didn't pay attention to Nora's words. Based on his understanding of the necromancer, he knew she was just being stubborn.

In short, the appearance of Ruan, the suspected assassin, planted a thorn in their hearts, making them wary of Viscount Alwin and even the entire Third Hero Squad.

Louis had even decided to avoid dealing with this noble squad as much as possible in the future.

They do their thing, we do ours.

After ending the conversation, Louis looked at Merry, who was clearly confused by their exchange.

Louis said gently, "Merry, go and get yourself in good shape, then start the job change."

Upon hearing a topic she could understand, Merry immediately perked up and nodded vigorously, saying, "I'm ready, brother."

Louis nodded, had Merry sit on the sofa, and guided him through the job change process.

The little guy had witnessed Nora and Dina's job change process firsthand, so when it was his turn, he seemed quite familiar with it.

He took out the rune mage's tome he had inherited from his teacher, Colin, and transferred magic into it, merging it with the tome.

The job change process went very smoothly. In less than an hour, Meli successfully transformed into a rune mage with Intelligence, Sensing, and Dexterity as her main attributes, and a maximum of 15 points for all other secondary attributes.

"From now on, our team will be one of the few teams with all professional players."

With her hands on her hips, Dana spoke, then eagerly asked, "Merry, what class talent did you awaken?"

The silver-haired boy closed his eyes and sensed for a moment before replying, "My talent is called Rune Barrier. Its effect is to spread rune effects to a fixed area. Anyone I consider a comrade who is within the barrier can enjoy the rune's effects."

"If an enemy enters the barrier, they will be targeted by offensive runes and weakened by debuff runes."

After saying that, he nervously asked his senior, Nora, "Is my talent considered good or bad?"

Nora had already taken off her hood when she entered the room. Her expression was somewhat complicated. After a few seconds of silence, she said, "Geniuses really are unreasonable creatures. You mustn't let my teacher know about your awakened talent, or the ownership of that old man's inheritance will be in doubt again."

Upon hearing this, Louis also showed curiosity: "Is the Rune Barrier talent really that good?"

Judging from the talent's effect, Louis could tell that it was a powerful talent. Rune mages who mastered this talent could easily apply a buff to all teammates and weaken enemies.

As far as Louis knew, in the various games of his previous life, game characters with similar skills were highly sought after.

But judging from Nora's reaction, the "Runic Barrier" talent is not only good, but also has some special meaning.

Nora explained, "My teacher was a veteran rune mage, and he told me that his biggest regret on his path to job advancement was not being able to awaken the talent of Rune Barrier."

"According to his theory, each rune is a prototype of a world rule, and as long as you master enough rules, it is entirely possible to accomplish the feat of building a world."

"But without a carrier, building a world solely with runes is like an artist painting in the air without a canvas—it's extremely difficult."

"The Rune Barrier itself can only be considered an excellent talent, but if a Rune Mage continues to advance through job advancements and awakens talents that are all in line with the Rune Barrier, then they can upgrade the barrier step by step until it becomes a vessel for building worlds, taking that step that every Rune Mage dreams of."

"At that time, the rune mages, as the creators of the world, will become the rulers of the small worlds, and glimpse the splendor of the divine realm as fourth-level professionals."

"Compared to the knowledge that the Runeworld provides to mages, its combat functions seem insignificant."

Louis took his time to digest the information in Nora's words and roughly summarized the main theme.

"So, as long as Merry awakens the advanced talent of the Rune Barrier with each job change, his probability of becoming a demigod after becoming a level four professional will be much higher than that of other level four professionals?"

Nora nodded: "That's one way to understand it."

"However, it is already very difficult to draw a talent related to rune barriers once. To draw it four times in a row, luck, compatibility, personal ability, and knowledge are all indispensable."

After saying that, she said to Merry, "Anyway, after the demonic tide has passed, you can go and study with my teacher. His hundreds of years of research and conjecture on rune magic might just come true for you."

Merry nodded seriously.

As the two senior and junior disciples were chatting, suddenly, Dina, who was standing nearby, seemed to notice something and asked in confusion, "Merry—why do I feel magic power constantly gathering in your body? It hasn't stopped?"

"Even though you just changed jobs and your original 10 points of magic power will be automatically refined, you're still taking in too much magic power from the outside world."