Chapter 285: Steel Beard Heritage Special Longsword and Basilisk

Outer Mist Forest.

Morning, the sky is getting bright.

The sun wheel has not yet fully risen, only a faint light in the distant sky blocked by the dense tree canopy, making the entire sky show a gradient color.

From the brightness of the edge, to the colorful purple clouds, and finally spreading to the black left by the night.

"Crackling."

Extremely faint cracking sound.

The burnt black firewood is stacked and supported, the residual heat still exists, and the rising heat disturbs the thin fog in the air, but there is no life.

The breeze blew, and a wisp of dark red curled up in the deepest part of the charcoal was quietly awakened, bursting out with the last residual heat, turning into a spark and rushing upward fiercely in the cold air, drawing a short and violent scarlet trajectory in the cold air.

Strangely, this little bit of flying ash didn't be quickly extinguished by the surrounding water vapor as imagined.

But as if it received the blessing of some kind of power, it hovered and swayed in mid-air.

Burning, the tiny weak heat of the ember core was exerted to the extreme, setting off layers of ripple-like fine heat currents in the surrounding fog.

Such an ancient and strange phenomenon that violated natural laws lasted for three seconds.

Finally, it was completely burned out in a sound that couldn't be finer, turning into a grey-white ash like a snowflake.

Floating leisurely, it stopped on a pitch-black object that was as clear as glass.

Xia Nan raised his hand and blew away the dust on the surface of the snake scale arm shield.

A thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

Right now, three days had passed since he accepted the mission to hunt the basilisk from the second floor of the association.

Having set off long ago, he had now arrived in the Mist Forest.

During the mission, to prevent unexpected attacks, the training intensity was reduced much more than usual.

Fortunately, 【Spinning Slash】 and 【Tooth Hunt】 were both proficient, 【Gravity Etching】 had a limit on the number of times, and most of his energy was left to 【Gravity Control】 and the 【Ember Echo】 that hadn't been started yet.

Regarding the latter, this inherited combat technique from the exotic secret realm obviously had extraordinary quality.

On one hand, it made Xia Nan, who had become a lv2 professional, practice for so long without getting started, and the difficulty of its practice had already explained the value of the combat technique itself;

On the other hand, it was also the information about this combat technique that he gradually learned during the practice process.

【Ember Echo】, before, Xia Nan only felt that it should be a status-type combat technique that comprehensively increased the user's physical fitness.

Now, with the deepening of his understanding, he had some other different views in his heart.

The definition of "status type" might not be wrong, but it was too broad and couldn't fully and accurately explain the role of this ability.

It was a power of sparks and ashes, igniting firewood and exploding like flames.

To be a bit more vivid, maybe... similar to the "second stage" of those difficult elite enemies in games from his past life.

"Am I a 'boss'?"

Xia Nan joked in his heart.

Naturally, it was a good thing.

After all, 【Ember Echo】 not only had super high quality, but the combat technique type didn't overlap with other combat techniques he had mastered right now, although it didn't make up for the few obvious shortcomings, it was also a complete strengthening.

After truly getting started, it would undoubtedly allow his overall strength to rise to another level, adding a powerful trump card sufficient to reverse the situation.

After so many days of hard training, he also vaguely touched that layer of invisible bottleneck.

According to this progress, if there were no accidents, he had the confidence to get 【Ember Echo】 started within ten days.

Looking up at the sky, seeing that the night had almost completely retreated.

Xia Nan got up and tied the two longswords behind his back.

One of them was naturally the wooden sword 【Evergreen】, and the other was the "two-handed longsword" he bought in the Rock Hammer blacksmith shop to be used as a transition when recasting the decapitation longsword.

Oh, if according to Ba'en's statement, it should be called "Steel Beard Heritage Craftsmanship · Rock Hammer Special · Two-Handed Longsword."

It was said that it adopted the special forging technique inherited from their dwarf clan, and its sturdiness was much better than weapons using the same materials.

Although it was not custom-made, but a template-based mass-produced type, the overall quality was very good, belonging to the best of the best.

Xia Nan checked it with the attribute panel, and the other party was right, not lying to him.

Compared to other ordinary weapons on the shelf, this "special longsword" had two more entries on the attribute bar: "Durability +10%" and "Sharpness +3%."

A simple transition was definitely enough.

It was also the reason why he was willing to spend 75 gold to buy it.

As for the appearance, after all, it was mass-produced equipment, and it was impossible to customize it according to the habits and body of every user, so it adopted a conventional plan.

It was just a silver-white metal iron sword that was slightly shorter and lighter than the decapitation longsword.

In three days, Xia Nan also gradually became familiar with its feel through repeated practice, and it had no impact on his own combat power.

Speaking of which, in terms of durability, 【Evergreen】 was actually higher.

Don't look at it as a wooden sword, but its overall sturdiness was actually higher than ordinary standard weapons, and its sharpness was also quite good.

It was just that considering if it was accidentally damaged, this world probably didn't have wood related to it, and it was difficult to repair.

So unless he encountered an enemy that could trigger its Sunfire damage bonus, Xia Nan basically didn't want to use it.

It was the same right now.

Taking advantage of the last few minutes before the sun fully rose, he packed up the camp and checked repeatedly that nothing was left behind.

He intended to leave and continue the mission.

Speaking of which, it was quite interesting. The place Xia Nan chose to camp last night was not the empty space on slightly higher ground in the forest as before.

But a ruin.

A ruin with a unique style.

The blue bricks were eroded, the white ash in the gaps was completely peeled off, revealing the yellow-brown soil embryo inside; a few broken walls leaned obliquely, as if they would collapse with a gust of wind, but they stubbornly supported themselves. In the weeds swaying in the corner of the wall, one could vaguely glimpse a few broken black tiles with unique shapes.

Further back stood a massive hall that was also reduced to nothing but broken walls and ruins; a thick, fallen beam lay across the flagstones, half of it rotted away, while the other half passed through a gap in the rubble as if it were a "bug," naturally merging into the trunk of an oak tree in the nearby forest, bursting with vitality and sprouting buds on its surface.

Most of the things in the ruins that were still complete had been moved away, but through the exquisite and complicated patterns remaining on the edges of the window lattice, and the flying eaves with strong classical meaning on the corners of the roof, one could still notice the obvious Eastern-style aesthetics.

After the secret realm of the Snake Cave ended, those buildings that were randomly teleported to this world along with the secret realm core didn't disappear, but were left in place. ===== CHAPTER 286 =====