After the "Mystery Ball", the surprise that the next reward brought to Rod was not too big, and the reward of "Stronghold Level Upgrade" was dispensable for Rhodes, anyway, Rhodes' current mercenary group stronghold level was still very low, even if it didn't rely on the task reward, it was not difficult for Rhodes to improve it. Now it only has upgraded Rhodes's mercenary group stronghold from low to mid level——— although new building facilities such as "watchtowers", "watchtowers" and "city walls" have been unlocked, but these are not free to build. The controllable distance of the stronghold has been expanded by a third, which is a little bit less frustrating than the other rewards, but for Rod, it is better than nothing.

In addition to these, it was the "hidden reward" that surprised Rod a little, this hidden reward is not actually awarded to Rod itself, but to add a new building in the mercenary group stronghold "Summoning Boundary Gate", which is a rare building in the game, but according to the player's words, it is possible to set up a return point in the mercenary group stronghold, after building the summoning gate, players belonging to this mercenary group will get a boundary gate stone, unless they are in a magical disorder area or have been imposed a ban on transfer, A spell that seals the plane. As long as they activate their Boundary Stone, the player can return to the Mercenary Group's stronghold. Not only that, but the Gate Stones possessed by the high-ranking members of those mercenary groups could even lock on to a location marker, opening up dimensional passages and teleporting others to his location through the Summoning Realm Gate.

In the game, the top 10 player guilds all own this rare building, and the benefits of the Summoning Gate for players are obvious. Especially when fighting a boss that is far away and very troublesome, you can choose to send one person to sneak over, and then the others wait in the stronghold, wait until the other party arrives at the designated location, and then activate the boundary gate stone, you can also pull the other members of the team over, so you can save a lot of time. It is a very convenient prop.

Of course, in the game, the Summoning Gate is also a kind of ancient relic. It's impossible to have normal NPCs. Only a few places where magical civilizations have developed this thing can have this thing, such as in the underground cavern of the Golden City, where Rhodes knew that there was a summoning gate. Of course, this is unaware to most people. In fact, it is basically impossible to use the summoning gate to sneak attack the capitals of various countries, because most of these royal cities will set up protective transfer enchantments in order to avoid similar situations, so the biggest role of the summoning gate is to bully those poor bosses who live in ruins and have no money to set up protective transfer enchantments.

It's just that now seeing this thing in reality, Rhodes still feels a little weird, and when he thinks that he will start the teleportation and transfer life of the previous player again in the future——— Rod is more and more unsure that the world he has crossed is reality? Or is it a game?

Whether it's summoning a gate, or an orb of mysteries. The increase in the level of the stronghold is something outside of Rhodes' body, and what he needs next is the key meal.

Experience points.

After receiving the experience points rewarded by the mission, Rhodes's level once again made a new leap forward. However, because the higher his level, the more experience he needed, so this time Rod's level only increased by five levels, barely staying at the level of twenty-eight, and he was not able to break through the thirty-level mark. And the ten skill points obtained again because of the level increase, in the end, after the task reward bonus, a total of thirteen skill points.

This skill point seems like a lot. However, Rod knows that even if he uses it all, it is only enough for a swordsmanship to be upgraded by two levels, and now in Rhodes's swordsmanship, the proficiency of the moonfall swordsmanship and the dark dance swordsmanship are both C, that is to say, Rode's skill points at the moment can only improve a swordsmanship from C to A——— but even so, it is already very strong. The swordsmanship power of proficiency A has reached the legendary realm, at least in the future, Rhodes will be a true legendary realm in swordsmanship. Of course, whether his body can support him to use swordsmanship of this level is another question. …,

Staring at the two swordsmanship in front of him, Rhodes was silent for a moment, and finally shook his head, stretched out his hand to turn off the value of the swordsmanship interface, and then his mind turned around and opened the long-sealed talent tree.

Now, whether it is the "Summoning Master" or the "Soul Messenger", Rhodes has opened the third layer of talent realm. Among them, there are a total of six talents. They are "Forbidden Ring 0/3", "Cursed Aura 0/3", "Enhanced Resistance 0/4" belonging to "Summoning Master", and "Soul Squeezing 0/1", "Legion Horn 0/3" and "Transmogrification 0/4" belonging to "Soul Bringer"

Forbidden Ring: Summons the first aura skill of the swordsman, within the range of the aura, the summoner's own level +1, +2, +3. It stacks with other aura attributes without conflicting.

"Cursed Aura": When the summon attacks, it will have a certain chance to inflict its own attribute curse on the enemy, which can be dispelled, resisted, and has a level power of +1, +2, and +3.

"Enhanced Resistance": Passive skill, summon weakness attribute resistance increased +1, +2, +3.

"Soul Extraction": An active skill, which can be used once per natural day, when the holder hits the target, he can launch Soul Extraction, absorbing the opponent's soul power for his own use, which can be resisted.

Legion's Horn: Summoners can target a target in an instant, while simultaneously summoning all of their summons to attack them for +1s, +2s, and +3s.

"Transfiguration in Shape": Summoners can designate their own summons to transform into their own patterns, attributes, levels, and holding skills remain unchanged, with a duration of one minute, and can be transformed at the same time by +1, +2, +3, and +4.

This time Rod did not hesitate too much, although both sides have very good talent values, but for Rode, what can be used is not very much, he quickly made a choice, out of the thirteen skill points, Rod spent six points to the forbidden ring, cursed aura, all full. The remaining seven points are filled with Soul Drain and Legion Horns, and the last three points are allocated to enhanced resistances. In any case, for Rod, what he needs now is to maximize the power of summoning elves, and although Rhodes can also summon elves on a large scale now, it is time-limited. And with the existence of the legion's horn, as long as Rod specifies a target, then all summoned elves will be immediately summoned to the space in front of the target to launch a surprise attack on it, although this skill can only last for a maximum of 3 seconds, but Rod believes that just three seconds is enough to change the entire battle pattern.

And the same is true for choosing "Forbidden Ring", the construction refining did not bring the ideal aura effect to Rod, so for Rod, the aura effect of the Forbidden Ring is naturally his preferred element. As for "Soul Extraction", not to mention, although as a summoning swordsman, coupled with the talent of strengthening the soul power before, the current Rhodes has surpassed most of the swordsmen in terms of soul power, but in the face of those spellcasters with strong strength, it is still far behind, plus summoning elves requires a considerable amount of soul power, it is naturally best to be able to supplement it in battle, and this talent is also a necessary talent for many summoned swordsmen who cultivate the soul messenger talent tree.

As for "Transfiguration" and "Enhanced Resistance", they are auxiliary existences, through these two talents, Rhodes can confuse the enemy's judgment to the greatest extent, and strengthen his ability to summon elves, at least they can not be so tragic to be killed by the enemy in a second. As a pure soul being, the mutual restraint of elemental attributes is especially evident in the body of the summoned elves, and Rhodes certainly does not expect such a problem to occur in his elves.

"Whew..............., after ordering the most reluctant talent tree, Rod let out a long breath, he could feel that the amount of power in his body was flowing rapidly, and with his current strength, even if he didn't rely on self-breakthrough such a perverted and masochistic attribute suit, he could easily defeat Battle.

However, for Rod, the target he has to deal with will certainly not be as simple as these so-called mercenary guild presidents. At the end of the ring, the mutant Waltz Rod certainly didn't let go, and he wouldn't think that the other party was lucky enough to get something like the Phantom Ring, but in fact, Rod had almost guessed who was behind the waltz.

And that's their own enemy. Now it seems that they are a little unwilling to be lonely and want to come to the stage. Of course, Rhodes will not let them succeed, he knows very well that what he has done in Parfield and what he has done at the Midsummer Festival has completely put him on the opposite side of the other party, and now if he wants to resist the other party's counterattack, then he must have a strong force, enough to resist all the strength. Only then will Rhodes be able to protect the people he needs to protect and accomplish his goals.

And until then, he has more important things to do.

That is, at the closing ceremony of the Midsummer Festival the day after tomorrow, Archduke Lydia will grant one wish for each winner.

So, will she be able to make her wish come true?

Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help but raise his head and look at the sky.

There, the night is thinning.

The sky is getting brighter. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )