Chapter 645: Qiao Rui, the Soul Whisperer
Over time, the valley where the Dragon's Tomb is located has become a taboo, leaving only a legend in the north.
This legend lasted until three hundred years ago.
The Lionheart King Tybron made an alliance with the Seven Dukes, and began the journey of unifying the continent of Aaron in the southern and northern wars. The legendary Grand Duke of the Northern Viking Kingdom, the Knight Lord Kevinders, who was in charge of the crusade against the Viking Kingdom in the North, finally captured the capital of the North, the capital of the North, after a bitter battle.
Grand Duke Kevenders had also heard rumors of the Dragon's Tomb, and unlike those adventurers, this Grand Duke was not only greedy, curious, but also powerful in execution. He led the first invincible legion of the Lionheart Empire into the Dragon's Tomb, slaughtering the dragonborn creatures guarding it and taking away a large number of dragon treasures.
In honor of the martial arts of Grand Duke Kevenders, the valley where the Dragon's Tomb is located is called "Cavenders Valley".
In the follow-up, sporadic teams of adventurers also came over to try to pick up the bargain and eat a little of the leftovers left by Archduke Kevenders. Like the Gold Rush, there are always lucky people who have picked up the missing treasure, but many more have found nothing.
Although the Dragonborn monsters were devastated and fled, they did not die, and after decades of reproduction, they returned to this cemetery.
At this time, the dragon graveyard has lost its value to attract adventurers, and because of the resurgence of the dragonborn monsters, it has gradually been forgotten.
Dragon bones in the Dragon Graveyard are quite rare, and most of them have been removed by the army of Grand Duke Kevenders - dragon bones are a high-grade material for making armor, and if it weren't for the fact that the dragon bones are too old to make armor, there wouldn't be a single dragon bone left.
In previous battles, a large number of dragonborn creatures, imperial soldiers, and adventurers have also died here, and their bones account for the majority. Therefore, the Cavenders Valley is also known as the "Burial Place", which means that many homeless souls are buried here.
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Kevinders Valley.
The heavy snow has stained the valley with a layer of silver white. A huge rift valley with a width of several thousand meters and no end in sight, completely covered with thick snow and ice.
The White Phoenix team followed the undead legion led by Goliath as they marched through the wide rift ice field. After nearly ten hours of trekking, they finally came to the place where the bones were buried.
In order to avoid being too noticeable, and in order to save time, the number of the undead legion in this operation was reduced a lot, and only those undead who were agile, fast-moving, and inconspicuous were brought in, such as ghosts, spider demons, and other agile elites, all of whom had stealth abilities.
Bai Xiaowen deeply felt that this A+-level elite branch was not simple, because the more than thirty elite undead selected would assist him in completing this mission! With such a powerful help, he even gave an A+ elite difficulty rating, and the danger of the Dragon's Tomb can be imagined.
As for the other undead monsters, they were ordered by Goliath to sleep in a hidden ice cave at the foot of the North County Abbey Mountain.
In the process of hurrying, the trio of the White Phoenix team also exchanged each other's ability information to facilitate cooperation. Especially Qiao Rui, her abilities and weaknesses must be explained to Bai Xiaowen one by one.
Qiao Rui's "Soul Rhythm", which interests Bai Xiaowen the most, is a weakening skill that reduces all the attributes of the enemy, with a maximum reduction of 25%, which can be called a hard tyrant.
Qiao Rui's exclusive equipment for the hero class is actually the weapon she holds: the Soul Bamboo Flute. And the soul bamboo flute, like Bai Xiaowen's black soul stone, comes with a "skill tree" called the sound strike array.
The first layer of the sound strike array: the sound scale of the break, the damage is not high, but the cooldown time is extremely short, and the mental power consumption is extremely low, which is equivalent to the basic attack spell of the spirit system.
The second layer of the sound strike array: the forbidden scale. This is a field skill that needs to be prepared in advance, and after the enemy enters the range of the imprisoned scale, the caster chooses whether to trigger or not, and has a immobilization effect on the enemy.
The third layer of the sound strike array: soul rhythm. It's a powerful support skill, but it's also very costly.
When activating Soul Rhythm, Qiao Rui needs to consume 10 points of Spiritual Power first, and then she needs to continue to consume Spiritual Power - the first three seconds cost 1 point of Spiritual Power per second, and every three seconds of Soul Rhythm Time continues, the mental power consumed will increase by 2 points/second, which will be accumulated in this battle.
The specific effect of Soul Rhythm is that during playing, 1 stack of Weakness is stacked on nearby enemies per second, for a total of 5 stacks. Each stack reduces the opponent's stats by 5%.
Calculated in this way, with Qiao Rui's current 68 points of spiritual power, she can only maintain a soul rhythm playing state for more than ten seconds at most, and if the period is interrupted, if you want to restart the playing, you need to deduct an additional 10 points of mental power, which will further compress the playing time.
Fortunately, even if the playing stops, the Weakening effect applied to the enemy will last for a full 10 seconds before disappearing.
Qiao Rui has already summed up the intermittent blowing technique according to this, the first 5 seconds of blowing, after stacking 5 layers of weakness on the enemy, you can pause for ten seconds, and consume 10 points of mental blowing again before the weakness disappears, only need to play for 1 second, and then pause for ten seconds......
In this way, it can maintain a full layer of weakness on the enemy for nearly forty seconds, and the actual combat effect is still very strong. During pauses, Jori can also move or output, help the team with extra control, and more.
However, in the face of high-ranking bosses or lords, intermittent blowing skills are of little significance, and the opponent has tenacity skills, and once they stop playing, the duration of the weakened state will be shortened a lot.
Below is the fourth layer of the Tone Strike Array: the Extinguishing Stopper. This is a rare direct death skill, the activation conditions are very harsh, not to mention for the time being, even if the activation conditions are met, it also needs to be judged by the attributes around the perimeter, at least two judgments are successful plus the total attribute judgment is successful, in order to cause a direct death effect to the target enemy, at the cost of the soul bamboo flute will be unavailable in this battle.
At present, Qiao Rui has only excavated the four-layer skill tree of the Soul Bamboo Flute, but this is equivalent to giving her four additional skills! This is the reason why the hero profession with exclusive equipment crushes the general hero profession without exclusive equipment.
Qiao Rui's combat skills, Bai Xiaowen has basically seen it in the previous league, the soul cage controlled by a single body, the healing skill that can be a single body or a group, and life healing; To be honest, it's all because the blue consumption of soul rhythm is too high, which limits the space for Qiao Rui's other skills to play.
Qiao Rui's profession is called "Soul Whisperer", and she has a special ability to communicate with souls, and her professional skill is "Soul Whisper".
[Soul Whisper: Passive, every deceased person around you (friend or foe) will restore your mental power, and the amplitude and duration are related to the target's level template. Actively enabling Soul Whispers will grant you the Soul Walking effect (ignoring obstacles, collision sizes, and cannot be targeted, but requires continuous mental energy consumption). 】
The active effect of the class skill soul whisper is very good. Soul walking is basically the strongest life-saving skill Bai Xiaowen has ever seen, which is different from Li Shuyi's Void Ring.
The Ring of Nothingness is a state that allows the user to enter a state of etherealization, which is almost immune to physical attacks, but the side effect is that the magic damage taken is nearly doubled.
Soul Walking is a way to make the user "unable to target" - that is, they will not be targeted by a single attack or skill, and will only be damaged by AOE skills. Compared with single skills, AOE skills are still rare.
As for the passive effect of "Soul Whisper", it is also very strong, which is equivalent to the passive of the butcher's slaughterhouse, but it is only a blue version.
To sum up, Qiao Rui, the soul whisperer profession, has strong survivability and strong auxiliary ability, and thanks to the exclusive equipment of the soul bamboo flute, Qiao Rui also has a certain single kill ability, provided that the target's attributes are suppressed by her.
Because the professional passive can rely on the war dead to return to the blue, Qiao Rui is still suitable for big scenes, and there is a steady stream of war dead around her to help her recover her mental strength.
Bai Xiaowen already had several different tactical ideas in his mind, but they still needed to be tested in actual combat.
"I can feel a lot of dead souls here. Qiao Rui whispered to Bai Xiaowen.
"Well, after all, this place is called a place of bones, but it's actually a big cemetery," Bai Xiaowen bared his teeth and smiled, "Look, Goliath should have found her destination." ”
Where everyone is located, there is a huge glacial lake, with a radius of thousands of kilometers. However, the glacial lake has a layer of snow on top of it, which looks no different from an ice field.
Goliath crouched down slightly, wrapped in her right hand wrapped in dark blue armor, and swept away the snow with a flick on the surface of the icy lake.
Golia's cold voice rang out: "We have arrived. I could feel the ancient and powerful corpses waiting to wake up...... Dior, don't let anyone disturb me until I wake it up. All of these troops under my command are under your command. ”
Bai Xiaowen nodded: "Obey." ”
Bai Xiaowen gradually realized that Goliath was probably not the Goliath she used to be, so the wording of his speech was gradually changing.
Gloria stood up, her skeletal greatsword in both hands, and plunged it into the ice.
The Spiritual Rule Prompt message came:
"A+ Elite Mission: Dragon's Tomb Officially Begins, Countdown ......"
A string of numbers representing time, beating in Bai Xiaowen's field of vision, 119 minutes and 59 seconds......
At the same time, Bai Xiaowen also obtained the second hint of the rules of the spirit world, and he got the command of the twenty ghosts and seventeen spider demons in front of him. Unfortunately, his psychic power bonus and psychic mentor bonus can't be applied to these creatures.
Bai Xiaowen tried to connect his spiritual power with these newly acquired elite creatures, and found that subtle manipulation could still be done. He commanded the stealthy undead creatures to lurk and hide around Goliath as a surprise army.