Chapter 14 Wolves
midnight.
A little bit of starlight sprinkled down, the breeze was blowing, and the shadows of the trees swayed, and a vague figure was looming.
A gust of wind came, blowing away the branches and leaves that obscured the figure. I saw a man leaning against the trunk of the tree and sitting cross-legged under the dense leaves. Although his posture was not too upright, he could feel his intentions at this time.
If it wasn't known in advance, no one would have thought that among the tree trunks in this dense forest, there would be people meditating here.
The surrounding quiet environment gradually became noisy, and if you listen carefully, you can still hear some kind of chewing sound. In the midst of this noise, the face of the figure gradually deteriorated.
At this time, Rhodes in meditation was not feeling well. The mood that had already calmed down was disturbed again for some unknown reason.
The effect of meditation was getting worse and worse, replaced by a kind of irritability. No matter how hard Rhode tried, the thoughts in his heart could never be calmed down. After realizing that the state at this time was not suitable for meditation, Rhodes opened his eyes.
As soon as he opened his eyes, the perception that had been blocked by meditation stimulated Rhodes. Rhodes' eyes narrowed and he looked in the direction of the perception warning.
In the darkness, a pair of hungry eyes were exuding a miserable green light. Rhodes took a closer look and saw that there were actually a group of wolves underneath.
It turned out that in the process of Rhodes meditation, the bloody smell of the walking corpses and the apprentice's corpses attracted the hunters in the forest to come, and it was the wolves in front of him.
Rhode looked down, and the wolves at this time were hungry and were eating the stumps of the walking corpse. It stands to reason that wolves rarely choose to eat carrion, and only when they are extremely hungry will they choose to eat cold and hard walking corpses.
During the observation process, Rhodes discovered an anomaly. Compared to the rotting corpse, there was only a wolf beside the apprentice's corpse with more delicious flesh. The rest of the wolves can fight each other for a piece of carrion, but they dare not offend the wolf in front of them.
As the observation deepened, Rhode also discovered the abnormality of the wolf. The other wolves devoured the carrion of the walking corpse in large mouths, and did not care about the surrounding situation at all. Only this wolf always looked around during the feeding process, not forgetting to be vigilant about the surroundings. Not only that, but the wolf is also bigger.
Rhode knew that this wolf was the wolf king among the wolves.
Rhode, who was observing from above, counted the number of wolves around ten. After considering his own strength, Rhodes frowned.
Unlike the undead creatures, the undead creatures have high HP but poor skills and speed, and are restrained by Rhodes' swordsmanship, while the wolves are different. Wolves are better at siege, especially siege a single target. Although the wolf was not physically better than the previous undead creature, it was faster, which caused some trouble for Rhodes.
Once surrounded by commanded wolves, he will fall into a very passive situation. As long as a wolf rushes to his side and bites on his leg, he will lose a certain ability to move, and other wolves can quickly follow and bite together, plus the wolf king next to him...
Rhodes knew that a creature like this beast would have the ability to use magic once it broke through its original rank. Compared with these ordinary wolves, the greater threat is this wolf king.
Assassinate it like an apprentice? Rhode hesitated.
Recalling the scene when he assassinated the apprentice, Rhode decisively shook his head.
When he jumped out to assassinate the apprentice, the apprentice clearly noticed himself and turned his head back, but due to his poor physical fitness and lack of melee skills, the apprentice could not dodge.
The wolf king is different. The beast's instinct to perceive danger allows it to find itself as soon as it makes a move, and its strong physical fitness also allows it to quickly avoid it.
There is no way to assassinate the wolf king. If you fight against the wolves head-on, it is difficult to say the outcome. Even if he wins in the end, it can only be a terribly wounded victory that spends all of his attribute points and skill points.
Looking at the group of wolves in front of him, Rhodes had nothing to do for a while.
After carefully recalling all the situations he has experienced so far, suddenly, as if he realized something, Rhode's eyes flashed, and he found a way to win.
In order to use this method, Rhode needs some preparations.
Rhodes got up, moved up the tree trunk where the moonlight could reach directly, and then checked the system log.
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"..."
"Meditation is over."
"Based on your performance during the meditation session, your maximum mana has increased by 8. Currently 14/14 mana."
"Special feedback cannot be obtained from shallow meditation."
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Mana is enough.
After realizing this, Rhode quickly injected mana into the space ring in his hand.
In the attribute panel, the mana value slowly decreased. When the mana drops to 10/14, the space ring stops absorbing mana.
At the same time, Rhodes also felt that the space ring in his hand had established a subtle connection with him. With only one thought of his own, his consciousness could penetrate into it and use the items inside.
Rhodes let his consciousness enter the space ring, which contains two to three cubic meters of space. The first thing that entered Rhodes' perception was a large amount of gold coins like a sand pile, roughly estimated to be around 2,000.
There are two books and several scrolls stacked on top of the gold coins, and two iron swords and an iron shield are placed next to them, which are no different from those used by the previous skeleton warriors. There are dry food and water bags in the corner, some clothes are placed next to them, and a badge is placed above the clothes.
Seeing the items he needed, Rhode took out the book and scroll, and began to look at it with the help of moonlight.
The cover of one book reads "The Fundamentals of Pathfinding", and the cover of the other book has no text, only some mysterious and meaningless patterns. Rhodes recognized the patterns drawn on the scroll, which were a thunderbolt lightning, a magic arrow, and two healings.
Seeing a book behind, Rhode put the rest of the items back into the space ring, leaving only it in his hand.
When putting back the scroll, according to the habit he had acquired in his previous life, Rhodes deliberately placed the scrolls separately so that he could take out the scrolls to be used from the space ring as soon as possible, and then Rhodes began to read the book that he did not know name book.
Quickly flip through the book in your hand. After browsing a few pages, Rhodes determined that, as he thought, this book was Elliot's magic book.
Spellbooks are an important tool for wizards when learning spells. Because people's memory is not strong, with the passage of time and the increase of knowledge, the possibility of errors in memory is increasing, so magic books are needed to help record.
Spellbooks allow wizards to jot down key learnings. At the same time, in order to be able to accurately cast spells, the mage also needs to transcribe the spells on the magic book.
Because the mage will use most of the gold coins to learn knowledge and spells, the magic book that records all the knowledge learned by the mage will be viewed by the mage as extremely precious, far exceeding ordinary treasures.
While flipping through the magic book, Rhodes used 1 skill point to learn elementary wisdom.
(Primary Wisdom: By learning the knowledge related to spells, your knowledge has been increased. At the same time, your thinking has also expanded. Various formulas appear in your mind, and you begin to understand a little bit of the truth contained in the spell. You can learn first-order spells.)