The Death List Novel - Chapter 175

Chapter 175 Thorn Spell

‘”The apostle profession I’m about to change professions to favors long-range attacks and summoning. I need a creature below Tier 4 that is more loyal, able to accept simple commands, and thick-skinned!” Qin Lun said as he looked into Berylseth’s eyes.

Berylseth grinned and smiled silently. He understood why Qin Lun didn’t look for the Moonlight Fairy.

The Moonlight Fairies belonged to the good camp, and the entire race advocated freedom and peace. They held a respectful attitude towards life. They rarely assisted the apostles in capturing summoned creatures, much less personally providing them.

In the concept of the elves, turning a free life into a summoned creature was a blasphemy that violated the laws of nature. Although elven mages, druids, and archers sometimes accompanied hounds, unicorns, flower demons, and other jungle creatures, they viewed them as combat companions, not summoned creatures.

As for the apostles, they were unable to bring their mere combat companions into the alien realm. They could only turn them into summoned creatures. In addition, the elves pursued elegant and gorgeous combat styles. Even the combat creatures they cultivated were mostly creatures with relatively beautiful appearances. For example: Unicorns, Flower Goblin Spirits, Griffins, and so on.

These creatures did not meet Qin Lun’s requirements. According to his imagination, the summoned creature he wanted was obviously a melee creature with a simple and rough fighting style that could be used as a meat shield for its master if necessary.

‘”You’ve really found the right person. Other than us Abyss Devils, the other four management races, Rakshasa, Wind Elemental, Dwarf, and Moonlight Fairy, probably won’t be able to meet your requirements.” Berylseth said confidently.

Qin Lun smiled faintly. The Sly Demon wasn’t blindly arrogant. Actually, before asking Berylseth for help, he had already asked Didi to go out and inquire about the creatures that were used as melee meat shields by other races. Apart from the Abyss Devils, the other four ruling races were truly unable to satisfy him.

Of course, this did not mean that the other four ruling races did not have meat shield warriors. Similar to the dwarves, there were various rune statues that could be used as melee meat shields. However, the rune statue belonged to a puppet. To become a summoned creature, one had to install an alchemy soul. This price was too high.

The Wind Elemental Race had ice crystal giants, the Rakshasa Race had hydras and swamp ogres, and the Moonlight Elves had tree demons and mountain giants. These were all powerful creatures with extremely strong melee abilities and vitality. However, these creatures were all high-level creatures. Not to mention that Qin Lun couldn’t control them, these races couldn’t satisfy him.

Only the Abyss Devils had a lot of mixed-blood creatures because of their lascivious temperament. These mixed-blood creatures weren’t pure-blooded Abyss Devils and were born with low intelligence. However, the thin Abyss Devils bloodline in their bodies gave them strong vitality and combat ability. They were the best materials for mid-and low-level summoned creatures.

Beelzebub spread out his hand and saw that Qin Lun did not continue. “I can feedback your request to the clan, but please understand one thing …”

“I understand. In exchange, how much will I have to pay for the broken crystals?” Qin Lun said indifferently.

“Don’t worry, we’ll talk when I’ve prepared the summoned creature you need!” Berylseth said with a smile.

Watching Berylseth leave, Qin Lun sighed slightly. If possible, he really didn’t want to deal with the Abyss Devils. The Abyss Devils were cunning and treacherous. Although they were not yet capable of deceiving and blackmailing the apostles, their intriguing negotiations would never be pleasant.

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“Swoosh!” Silver light flashed in the air from time to time, accompanied by a faint sound of breaking through the air.

“Stop!” Following a harsh reprimand, Qin Lun stopped cultivating with a bitter face.

“The power of a piercing sword lies in its piercing strike, not in its use as a fire rod!” A sky-blue melon seed face appeared in front of Qin Lun. His snake-like vertical pupils stared at him mercilessly, making Qin Lun feel like a frog being stared at by a poisonous snake.

This was Qin Lun’s swordswoman, the Rakshasa Maiden who had taught him basic swordsmanship. Although this Rakshasa Clan’s beautiful young woman was surging with waves, her waist was like a willow, and her figure was even better than many charming devils. However, in Qin Lun’s eyes, she was more like a demon than a charming demon. Even now, there was still a swelling on his body that hadn’t dissipated. All of it was pulled out by this Rakshasa woman with her wooden sword.

‘”How many times have I told you to stop hacking, stab, stab, understand? Even if you’re an apostle, I have to say the same thing. You don’t have swordsmanship at all. I’m not coming tomorrow. This is a waste of my life!” Maid Rakshasa angrily twisted her buttocks and left.

Qin Lun frowned and sighed, staring at the FN-500 that had turned into a Narnia Thorn. For the next few days after meeting Beelzebub, he spent the rest of his time in the training ground practicing his new skills and swordsmanship.

He had already used up that low-level skill scroll, and his basic swordsmanship had finally reached the Intermediate Swordsmanship realm. However, after using the Narnia Thorn in the training ground for a while, his enthusiasm for swordsmanship began to drop sharply. Even Joey did not seem satisfied with the FN-500’s Thorn form.

Even though he had invited this strict swordsmanship instructor again, and even though the slender blade of the sword had the good skill of sharpness, Qin Lun’s cultivation had not improved at all.

With his Laws Body’s Intermediate Sword Technique, he really had a good sword-wielding touch. He could even use the sword blade to cut off the wings of a fly. However, he would occasionally use the sword as a fire rod, and this habit was as hard to get rid of as a drug addiction. As long as his attention relaxed, he would unconsciously use it.

After a few days of exploration, Qin Lun finally understood that the Intermediate Sword Technique of the Shattered Universe was no substitute for a true sword technique. The Intermediate Sword Technique of the Shattered Star Sky was equivalent to a body touch. It could only make his Laws body feel familiar with weapons, that was, the so-called feeling of hand.

If it was a firearm, then it had the feel of a hand and the calculation of a combat model. He could fully display the firearm’s power, so it was no problem for him to be proficient in intermediate firearms. However, sword-piercing was different. Swordsmanship was much more complicated than spear-arts. Obviously, it was not something he could grasp with just a single touch. He also needed corresponding sword-arts skills.

Perhaps Qin Lun was born with a talent for shooting, but not for swordsmanship. He always felt that the Narnia Thorn Sword was too light and thin. It was so light in his hand that it was inferior to a fire stick.

Qin Lun tidied up and walked out of the training ground. After thinking for a while, he walked towards the auction house. He gave most of the apostle’s money to Didi, so it wasn’t as if he didn’t pay any attention to the auction house.

Originally, 30,000 broken crystals and 1,000 exchange coupons were not enough to buy anything good, not to mention that he still needed to replenish his recovery items. Why not leave it to Didi? Whether he was pleasantly surprised or not, Little Goblin would not use up all of the apostle’s currency. The remaining 6,000-odd broken crystals on his body would be enough to replenish his recovery items.

However, he still had two Earth Spike Spells and Arc Shooting Spells left on him that he wanted to exchange for other skill scrolls, so it wasn’t like he didn’t have the capital.

The FN-500’s firing speed was too slow. Although its power was not bad, its cooldown time had reached 30 seconds. Actually, it was not suitable for the “Combat Spear Technique” that could not be slowed down. He needed to find another two fast guns.

Sitting in the box of the auction house, Qin Lun was not in a hurry to find a suitable gun in the projector. Firearms were the largest number of items sold in the auction house, but none of them were sold in the auction house.

He first searched through the skill scrolls in the auction classification. Perhaps the transactions in the past few days were rather cold. There were actually more than ten skill scrolls that hadn’t been sold in the consignment of the skill scrolls.

However, after Qin Lun finished reading the introduction of the skill scrolls, he rolled his eyes and was speechless. Although he wasn’t as familiar with the price fluctuations of the auction house as Didi, the price of these ten or so skill scrolls was too ridiculous. The reason he didn’t close the deal was because he couldn’t sell them.

One of the low-grade scrolls, the Thorn, was actually asking for 100,000 broken crystals or a specified type of dark gold equipment. This kind of price, let alone a deal, was enough to make people lose their minds at a glance.

No matter how rare the skill scrolls were, the price of low-grade scrolls was rarely higher than that of dark gold equipment. Although the fusion skill was the foundation of the apostle’s strength, the Dark Gold Equipment’s own equipment skill was also very good. Moreover, there were basically more than two of them, so they could still be sold if they didn’t need to.

This low-level [Piercing] skill was actually just a big deal. It was worth 30,000 to 40,000 broken crystals, 10,000 to 20,000 less than the most ordinary dark gold. Selling 100,000 broken crystals was a complete insult to other people’s intelligence. It was not surprising that it could not be sold.

Amongst the dozen or so skill scrolls, Qin Lun had actually taken a fancy to a low-level scroll called Thorn Technique, a wood-type spell.

Thorn spell could utilize the vitality of plants, allowing their roots and trunks to produce a large number of thorns. Not only did it possess offensive abilities, it could also become a defensive skill under certain conditions. Of course, from the introduction, it is too stringent on the environment requirements, applicability is not high.

However, Qin Lun’s mind flashed with the vine seeds he had used. He had used tree vine seeds in the Underwater Temple of the Illusory Demon World. The elven plant Malfoy had given him could transform into a tree vine man in a limited amount of time. Even though he couldn’t move, he could still attack his enemies automatically. If he added the [Thorn Art], it would seem to be a pretty good combination.

The price of this Thorn Technique was 45,000 broken crystals. This price was much more pleasing to the eye than the Thorn. However, in Qin Lun’s eyes, the price was still 50% higher. With the applicability of the Thorn Technique, 30,000 broken crystals would be considered reasonable.

Perhaps the Thorn Technique combined with some plant seeds was a good combination of offense and defense. However, not all the streets were filled with plant seeds that the apostles could bring into the alien world. Take the vine seeds that Qin Lun had used for example, a single one was worth hundreds of broken crystals. Using the Thorn Technique at once would definitely cost him a few pills, which was equivalent to paying an extra price.

Moreover, if Thorn Technique wanted to display its extraordinary power, it needed to have the affinity of wood elements. Otherwise, it was unknown how powerful this low-level skill was. Perhaps, it could only be used to tie hands like a rose.

Qin Lun glanced at the Thorn Auction once more. When he saw the number of days of consignment and the number of auctions, he finally smiled and clicked on the contact number of the consignment apostle.