Chapter 129: Frozen Kingdom (900 Monthly Tickets Bonus!)
December 16, 2014
Author: Floating Tower of All Beings
A burst of vigorous vitality erupted!
Soren’s mouth tasted slightly bitter, as if he had just chewed on a leaf, but he indeed ate a piece of leaf, accompanied by an abundant surge of life force. That feeling was difficult to articulate, but the results were incredibly powerful; his constitution had been raised to 21 points and he permanently gained an additional 10 hit points. Now he had a total of 146 hit points, and his vitality was not much different from that of a level 12 pure warrior.
After all, the base health bonus for a warrior is 10 points, while a wanderer only has a base health bonus of 6 points.
A row of data appeared before him:
“Using [Leaf of Life]!…”
“You have permanently increased your constitution by 1 point!… You have permanently gained 10 hit points!…”
“Talent specialty Regeneration [Beginner] advanced to Regeneration [Intermediate]!…”
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Even the regeneration specialty was improved?
Soren was quite surprised to look at his specialty data, finding that the regeneration specialty, which originally required 25 points of constitution for improvement, had indeed been upgraded once.
“Regeneration [Intermediate] (Talent Specialty): Your robust constitution has exceeded the limits of mortals; many injuries are no longer fatal to you. Your powerful vitality now allows you to regenerate like a troll; you can gradually recover from any wounds that are heavy injury or below over time. Some bodily injuries can also recover on their own, although you cannot grow back an arm or a head like a troll, one day you will be able to do so as your constitution increases. [Health regeneration rate +2 per hour]”
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An incredibly powerful regeneration ability.
Soren looked at his specialty data, his expression a bit excited, murmuring: “With the current regeneration effect, I can regenerate 48 hit points in a full day, which is close to a third of my total hit points! This means that even if I am heavily injured, I can recover to lightly injured within a day. If I am not in a dying state from bodily injuries, I should be able to recover in three days!”
Regeneration is the strongest survival ability.
Soren had previously dealt with an enemy who had high-level regeneration. This fellow would just find a place to hide for a day, and when he reappeared the next day, he would be fully healed. If one couldn’t k*ll him all at once, there was absolutely no way to handle him. A healing spell that healed heavy injuries would only restore about 50 hit points, and a priest’s memorized divine techniques also take time; the number of divine techniques a priest can memorize in a day is actually not that many. When facing enemies with powerful regeneration abilities, especially beings like vampires, one would find that they seemed to be part-time priests.
The most outrageous are naturally high-level vampires, who have their own high-level regeneration specialty and can also recover hit points by drinking bl**d!
Challenge levels close to 15 are no joke.
The dark creatures in this world are difficult to deal with; supernatural abilities are like common skills in their hands.
Soren continued to advance northward.
Although he had consumed the Leaf of Life, there was still a possibility that others might continue to track him.
Such a rare item, which until now no one had used, either had significant religious significance or might have other special uses. The ability to increase constitution by one point, gain 10 hit points, and receive an extra [Regeneration] specialty is incredibly tempting for a legendary professionist. That elven noble definitely has royal bl**d.
Soren had consumed this item, and if he got caught, even being tortured would be a light matter!
A day quickly passed.
Soren had no idea how far he had gone; he had been running at high speed, choosing shadowy places to sneak around.
This is the best part of being a wanderer.
Though the invisibility spell has a duration, the sneaking ability of a wanderer is always effective. If he was bored, he could sneak for a whole day. There was also the time when he transformed into Shadow Life, which further enhanced his sneaking ability. If he reached a higher-level legendary domain, around profession level 25 for wanderers, he could undergo a special ritual to achieve a permanent invisibility effect.
Although this ability is powerful, it is very inconvenient for communication.
Soren conservatively estimated that he walked over 200 kilometers in a day. Along the way, he encountered quite a few villages and even saw a large elven town. There aren’t many cities in the elven lands, only about five or six, distributed in some very significant locations. This is somewhat reminiscent of a city-state system, where many places rely on cities for survival. Normally, within a hundred kilometers of a city, there wouldn’t be other large cities.
The southern region covers roughly a third of Asia, yet the number of distributed cities is less than two or three hundred.
Moreover, they are mainly concentrated in the plains near rivers.
If close to deserts and primitive forests, cities are even more sparsely distributed, with only six larger cities in the entire desert region, all located on the edges of oasis areas. City development in this era requires significant conditions; Amber City rose due to river rerouting. Without innate geographical advantages, relying solely on human effort to transform and open up land is quite a challenging task.
The sky gradually darkened.
On his journey, Soren saw some eagles, but he couldn’t determine whether they were animal companions recruited by druids.
However, he still carefully avoided these creatures, slowing his speed when they appeared in the sky, staying in the shadows. Soren did not start a fire to cook; he simply chewed on some rations for a meal before continuing on his way. With his 21 point extraordinary constitution, this travel expenditure was not great. The dark vision enhanced by the shadow warrior allowed him to move freely at night. If that Silver Moonwalker was indeed tracking him, then night would be the best time to put distance between them.
After all, during the day their speeds were about the same, but at night, the Silver Moonwalker certainly couldn’t continue tracking him.
Night is the time when beasts are active.
Soren heard many sounds of wildlife and saw some glowing green eyes; he was already close to leaving the elven borders. He hadn’t ventured deep into the jungle and had always been progressing on the fringe. The chances of encountering druids inside the forest were very high, as many druids prefer to hide in primitive forests.
Awooo!
A chorus of wolf howls rang out.
Soren looked towards the distant hills, where there were significantly fewer nearby trees.
Among the wolf howls, there were some higher-pitched and clearer howls; those belonged to dire wolves, and he was getting close to the orc borders. Although orcs are skilled in taming dire wolves and have cultivated elite wolf cavalry, the entire tribe has only about one or two thousand of them. This wolf cavalry requires hundreds of thousands to support, with meat supplies mainly coming from corpses from battles and executed criminals. Due to the massive meat consumption, orcs have already reduced dire wolf breeding multiple times, and it is expected to decrease even more this winter.
Taming dire wolves is a bit easier.
However, the drow elves’ breeding of petrified lizards is truly costly; he often saw people in the Underdark throwing corpses to feed them.
After crossing this somewhat barren hilly area, he gradually approached the northern region. The barbarian fortress is located on a mountain over there, which is home to the oldest and most authentic barbarian training tradition, with advancing barbarians visiting each year. Soren had tried their training methods, carrying heavy stones along the mountain path in the biting cold wind; it was definitely a tormenting workout.
Three days passed.
Soren had crossed over 800 kilometers, gradually nearing the range of the Frozen Kingdom.
The temperature became increasingly low.
The ground had started to freeze, and there was heavy frost in the morning; from a distance, the mountaintops were partially covered in ice and snow. The beasts active here had much thicker fur to adapt to the cold climate. Soren looked travel-worn, with some stubble growing on his chin, and his expression showed more fatigue than before. However, upon seeing a towering peak that resembled the Himalayas in the distance, a smile appeared on his face.
He was finally getting close to the Frozen Valley!
……………… (To Be Continued ~^~)
