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Chapter 119
Chapter 119: Congratulations on Your Recovery. Is Your Adventurer Team Recruiting?
Tang Zheng scanned the data on his attribute sheet. Besides the normal statistical changes, the two stats that caught his attention the most were "Comprehensive Resistance" and "Special Attributes."
Among them.
"Comprehensive Resistance" had shot up from 0 to 150, while "Special Attributes" had also increased from its original value of 20 to 60.
Such a large increase in his resistance was clearly related to "Complete Curse Resistance" and "Dark Attribute Resistance."
As for "Special Attributes," Tang Zheng hadn't fully figured it out yet. His only guess was that it was related to his advanced job.
He came back to his senses.
Tang Zheng withdrew his gaze from Duogan's graveyard. Feeling the gentle breeze blowing through the woods, the wide sleeves of his priest robe swayed slightly.
*Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Under the night sky, a series of brilliant lights emerged.
In the blink of an eye.
A full thirteen Flame Archangels were summoned by Tang Zheng in one go. Of the fifteen magic scrolls remaining in his item box, only two were left.
"Go. Kill every monster in this forest," Tang Zheng said casually, waving his hand at the group of Flame Archangels.
His current experience was [Experience Bar: 17250/10000]. He was still about two thousand points short of breaking the twenty-thousand-point mark.
"It's a shame the Flame Archangels only last for a limited time. I wonder if I'll be able to reach 20,000 experience?"
Tang Zheng mused to himself. With his current experience, he could gain another level, but it was far from enough to gain two, so he decided not to rush the level-up.
Once the Flame Archangels had charged into the woods and disappeared from sight, Tang Zheng paid no mind to the rotting leaves and dirt on the ground and found a stone to sit on.
Then, he took out the Orb of Death from his item box. While carefully infusing magic power into it, he also took out the parchment scroll for the magic ritual that Duogan had given him.
"Decipher Magic!"
A faint magical light flickered in Tang Zheng's eyes as he began to seriously study the parchment scroll.
The script on it naturally belonged to the Forest Gnome Tribe. If he hadn't mastered this magic, he honestly wouldn't have been able to understand this parchment scroll at all.
The next day.
The 29th of the Mid-Fire Month.
Early morning.
The edge of the Great Swamp.
The bloodstains on Leinas's body had long since dried and turned black. Her once-smooth, golden hair was now disheveled, and she looked utterly wretched.
Evidently, Leinas had been waiting here this entire time.
"It's been two days."
Leinas gazed into the depths of the Great Swamp, her eyes weary, as she leaned her body against a thick tree trunk.
The edge of the Swamp was not safe; monsters would appear from time to time, and she had to deal with them.
Ever since the Flame Archangel had sent her out from the depths of the Great Swamp, Leinas had been constantly worried about Tang Zheng, who had gone deeper in.
The dense forest in the depths of the Swamp not only harbored all sorts of dangerous monsters, but more importantly, the air was filled with a terrifying curse.
"I'll wait one more day. If he still doesn't come out..."
Leinas gripped the spear in her hand, a resolute look flashing in her sky-blue pupils.
"If I still don't come out, then what?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded from not far away.
Leinas was stunned for a moment, then a look of pleasant surprise appeared on her face as she looked up in the direction of the voice.
At some unknown point, Tang Zheng's figure had already appeared at the edge of the Swamp, and he was walking toward her.
Leinas quickly stood up and hurried over to meet him. Only when she noticed that Tang Zheng had no injuries on him did the tense expression on her face finally relax slightly.
Although she hadn't known Tang Zheng for long, his ability to summon a fourth-tier angel and his unique alchemical methods had left a deep impression on her.
In Leinas's view, Tang Zheng might have had his own motives for coming here, but ultimately, he had still come because of the curse on her.
"Of course I would leave. If even someone as strong as you died in there, I'd just be throwing my life away by going in."
Leinas straightened her back. Even in her current wretched state, she still maintained the elegant posture of a noble.
Tang Zheng shrugged. "That's truly heartbreaking."
"Hah."
Leinas rolled her deep blue eyes. "Your face doesn't show the slightest hint of sadness, Lord Tang."
"Regarding the curse, I have some leads now," Tang Zheng said, cutting to the chase.
Given Leinas's personality, which allowed her to cast anything aside, the fact that she had waited for him for so long meant, in Tang Zheng's opinion, that she had pinned all her hopes of lifting the curse on him.
Leinas's pupils contracted as she stared at Tang Zheng.
"No need to be so surprised, Miss Leinas."
Tang Zheng walked up to stand before her and said, "If you don't mind, let's start now."
Leinas had acquired the Cursed Knight job by being tainted with curse power after killing the Forest Gnomes.
Previously, Tang Zheng had only thought Leinas was lucky. But after what happened with the Forest Gnomes, he was beginning to realize this was far more than just good luck!
The monsters in the depths of the valley had their bodies completely rotted due to the influence of the curse power, and even the Forest Gnome Tribe had been annihilated in one fell swoop.
Throughout this process, not a single Forest Gnome had acquired the Cursed Knight job.
"What materials do you need to prepare?" Leinas's voice trembled slightly.
"I don't need anything. Just drink this."
Tang Zheng shook his head and pulled a cloudy alchemical potion, mixed with the dregs of herbs, from his sleeve.
It looked as if it had been casually concocted.
Leinas looked at Tang Zheng, then at the alchemical potion. "Alright."
Leinas took the alchemical potion, downed it all in one gulp, and wiped the corner of her mouth. "What's next?"
"Wait."
Tang Zheng uttered a single word.
Leinas was about to speak again when a powerful wave of drowsiness washed over her. She then felt her body go numb, and she uncontrollably fell to the ground.
The next moment!
Leinas's body swayed, and she collapsed to the ground, falling into a deep sleep.
"The effect of a potion mixed with a Gallows Spider poison sac and sleeping herbs seems pretty good." Seeing the poisoned and knocked-out Leinas, Tang Zheng nodded lightly.
He seemed very satisfied with the potion he had created on the fly.
His exchanges with Nfirea Bale had not been in vain; Tang Zheng could recognize some simple herbs.
Tang Zheng squatted down and turned over the unconscious Leinas. At the same time, he lifted the golden bangs that covered her rotten right cheek and placed a finger on her forehead.
Of course.
He had no perverse tastes.
Passive: Mana Infusion!
Under Tang Zheng's deliberate control, a faint stream of curse power flowed from the tip of his finger into Leinas's body.
Back in the Imperial Capital, he had often experimented on that Troll, so he was quite familiar with the technique of pouring energy into a person's body.
The next moment!
Stimulated, the rotten right cheek began to writhe rapidly. Since Leinas was unconscious, she made no sound.
Tang Zheng continued the infusion at a steady pace.
As the amount of this curse power gradually increased, the curse power within Leinas's body was drawn out and began to devour the curse power Tang Zheng was injecting.
"Just as I thought. It's working."
A glint flashed in Tang Zheng's eyes.
In the forest on the outskirts of the Great Swamp, he had noticed that the effect of the curse power on Leinas had clearly worsened after she killed monsters.
Since his Cursed Knight job could be leveled up by devouring external curse power, then the reverse should also be true.
Tang Zheng manipulated the injected curse power to guide the chaotic and disordered curse power within Leinas's body.
The writhing, rotten cheek began to gradually still, and even the marks of decay started to recede.
After about a few minutes.
Leinas's rotten right cheek had completely vanished, returning to the same fair complexion as her left cheek.
"Success."
"This thing called 'talent' is truly indescribable," Tang Zheng remarked with a sigh as he removed his finger from Leinas's forehead.
The fact that only half her face had rotted, and that the curse power within her body hadn't spiraled out of control during his infusion—all of this proved that Leinas was naturally suited for the Cursed Knight job.
Before this, Leinas merely possessed the Cursed Knight job. Now, with Tang Zheng's help, to put it in gaming terms, Leinas's Cursed Knight level had stabilized at Level 1.
Half an hour later.
Leinas's eyes fluttered open, and she held her forehead, which ached slightly.
*What on earth did I just drink?*
Leinas pushed herself up with her arms into a sitting position. The first thing she noticed was Tang Zheng standing not far away, toying with a black stone in his hand.
"You..."
Leinas opened her mouth, her hand subconsciously stroking her right cheek.
When her touch was met with the feeling of a perfectly smooth cheek, Leinas's entire body went rigid. She quickly pulled a mirror from her clothes and aimed it at her right cheek.
A long moment passed.
Leinas looked up, her eyes red. "Thank you."
"Congratulations on your recovery, Miss Leinas," Tang Zheng said.
Leinas stood up stiffly, reflexively wanting to pull down her golden hair to cover her right cheek, but she quickly realized that she no longer needed to hide it.
Her hand froze mid-motion.
Changing the gesture, she instead tucked the strand of golden hair casually behind her ear.
"Lord Tang, is your Adventurer Team still recruiting?" Leinas's exquisite, fair face was exposed to the air, her silken golden hair glinting faintly in the sunlight.
(end of chapter)
Tang Zheng scanned the data on his attribute sheet. Besides the normal statistical changes, the two stats that caught his attention the most were "Comprehensive Resistance" and "Special Attributes."
Among them.
"Comprehensive Resistance" had shot up from 0 to 150, while "Special Attributes" had also increased from its original value of 20 to 60.
Such a large increase in his resistance was clearly related to "Complete Curse Resistance" and "Dark Attribute Resistance."
As for "Special Attributes," Tang Zheng hadn't fully figured it out yet. His only guess was that it was related to his advanced job.
He came back to his senses.
Tang Zheng withdrew his gaze from Duogan's graveyard. Feeling the gentle breeze blowing through the woods, the wide sleeves of his priest robe swayed slightly.
*Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Under the night sky, a series of brilliant lights emerged.
In the blink of an eye.
A full thirteen Flame Archangels were summoned by Tang Zheng in one go. Of the fifteen magic scrolls remaining in his item box, only two were left.
"Go. Kill every monster in this forest," Tang Zheng said casually, waving his hand at the group of Flame Archangels.
His current experience was [Experience Bar: 17250/10000]. He was still about two thousand points short of breaking the twenty-thousand-point mark.
"It's a shame the Flame Archangels only last for a limited time. I wonder if I'll be able to reach 20,000 experience?"
Tang Zheng mused to himself. With his current experience, he could gain another level, but it was far from enough to gain two, so he decided not to rush the level-up.
Once the Flame Archangels had charged into the woods and disappeared from sight, Tang Zheng paid no mind to the rotting leaves and dirt on the ground and found a stone to sit on.
Then, he took out the Orb of Death from his item box. While carefully infusing magic power into it, he also took out the parchment scroll for the magic ritual that Duogan had given him.
"Decipher Magic!"
A faint magical light flickered in Tang Zheng's eyes as he began to seriously study the parchment scroll.
The script on it naturally belonged to the Forest Gnome Tribe. If he hadn't mastered this magic, he honestly wouldn't have been able to understand this parchment scroll at all.
The next day.
The 29th of the Mid-Fire Month.
Early morning.
The edge of the Great Swamp.
The bloodstains on Leinas's body had long since dried and turned black. Her once-smooth, golden hair was now disheveled, and she looked utterly wretched.
Evidently, Leinas had been waiting here this entire time.
"It's been two days."
Leinas gazed into the depths of the Great Swamp, her eyes weary, as she leaned her body against a thick tree trunk.
The edge of the Swamp was not safe; monsters would appear from time to time, and she had to deal with them.
Ever since the Flame Archangel had sent her out from the depths of the Great Swamp, Leinas had been constantly worried about Tang Zheng, who had gone deeper in.
The dense forest in the depths of the Swamp not only harbored all sorts of dangerous monsters, but more importantly, the air was filled with a terrifying curse.
"I'll wait one more day. If he still doesn't come out..."
Leinas gripped the spear in her hand, a resolute look flashing in her sky-blue pupils.
"If I still don't come out, then what?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded from not far away.
Leinas was stunned for a moment, then a look of pleasant surprise appeared on her face as she looked up in the direction of the voice.
At some unknown point, Tang Zheng's figure had already appeared at the edge of the Swamp, and he was walking toward her.
Leinas quickly stood up and hurried over to meet him. Only when she noticed that Tang Zheng had no injuries on him did the tense expression on her face finally relax slightly.
Although she hadn't known Tang Zheng for long, his ability to summon a fourth-tier angel and his unique alchemical methods had left a deep impression on her.
In Leinas's view, Tang Zheng might have had his own motives for coming here, but ultimately, he had still come because of the curse on her.
"Of course I would leave. If even someone as strong as you died in there, I'd just be throwing my life away by going in."
Leinas straightened her back. Even in her current wretched state, she still maintained the elegant posture of a noble.
Tang Zheng shrugged. "That's truly heartbreaking."
"Hah."
Leinas rolled her deep blue eyes. "Your face doesn't show the slightest hint of sadness, Lord Tang."
"Regarding the curse, I have some leads now," Tang Zheng said, cutting to the chase.
Given Leinas's personality, which allowed her to cast anything aside, the fact that she had waited for him for so long meant, in Tang Zheng's opinion, that she had pinned all her hopes of lifting the curse on him.
Leinas's pupils contracted as she stared at Tang Zheng.
"No need to be so surprised, Miss Leinas."
Tang Zheng walked up to stand before her and said, "If you don't mind, let's start now."
Leinas had acquired the Cursed Knight job by being tainted with curse power after killing the Forest Gnomes.
Previously, Tang Zheng had only thought Leinas was lucky. But after what happened with the Forest Gnomes, he was beginning to realize this was far more than just good luck!
The monsters in the depths of the valley had their bodies completely rotted due to the influence of the curse power, and even the Forest Gnome Tribe had been annihilated in one fell swoop.
Throughout this process, not a single Forest Gnome had acquired the Cursed Knight job.
"What materials do you need to prepare?" Leinas's voice trembled slightly.
"I don't need anything. Just drink this."
Tang Zheng shook his head and pulled a cloudy alchemical potion, mixed with the dregs of herbs, from his sleeve.
It looked as if it had been casually concocted.
Leinas looked at Tang Zheng, then at the alchemical potion. "Alright."
Leinas took the alchemical potion, downed it all in one gulp, and wiped the corner of her mouth. "What's next?"
"Wait."
Tang Zheng uttered a single word.
Leinas was about to speak again when a powerful wave of drowsiness washed over her. She then felt her body go numb, and she uncontrollably fell to the ground.
The next moment!
Leinas's body swayed, and she collapsed to the ground, falling into a deep sleep.
"The effect of a potion mixed with a Gallows Spider poison sac and sleeping herbs seems pretty good." Seeing the poisoned and knocked-out Leinas, Tang Zheng nodded lightly.
He seemed very satisfied with the potion he had created on the fly.
His exchanges with Nfirea Bale had not been in vain; Tang Zheng could recognize some simple herbs.
Tang Zheng squatted down and turned over the unconscious Leinas. At the same time, he lifted the golden bangs that covered her rotten right cheek and placed a finger on her forehead.
Of course.
He had no perverse tastes.
Passive: Mana Infusion!
Under Tang Zheng's deliberate control, a faint stream of curse power flowed from the tip of his finger into Leinas's body.
Back in the Imperial Capital, he had often experimented on that Troll, so he was quite familiar with the technique of pouring energy into a person's body.
The next moment!
Stimulated, the rotten right cheek began to writhe rapidly. Since Leinas was unconscious, she made no sound.
Tang Zheng continued the infusion at a steady pace.
As the amount of this curse power gradually increased, the curse power within Leinas's body was drawn out and began to devour the curse power Tang Zheng was injecting.
"Just as I thought. It's working."
A glint flashed in Tang Zheng's eyes.
In the forest on the outskirts of the Great Swamp, he had noticed that the effect of the curse power on Leinas had clearly worsened after she killed monsters.
Since his Cursed Knight job could be leveled up by devouring external curse power, then the reverse should also be true.
Tang Zheng manipulated the injected curse power to guide the chaotic and disordered curse power within Leinas's body.
The writhing, rotten cheek began to gradually still, and even the marks of decay started to recede.
After about a few minutes.
Leinas's rotten right cheek had completely vanished, returning to the same fair complexion as her left cheek.
"Success."
"This thing called 'talent' is truly indescribable," Tang Zheng remarked with a sigh as he removed his finger from Leinas's forehead.
The fact that only half her face had rotted, and that the curse power within her body hadn't spiraled out of control during his infusion—all of this proved that Leinas was naturally suited for the Cursed Knight job.
Before this, Leinas merely possessed the Cursed Knight job. Now, with Tang Zheng's help, to put it in gaming terms, Leinas's Cursed Knight level had stabilized at Level 1.
Half an hour later.
Leinas's eyes fluttered open, and she held her forehead, which ached slightly.
*What on earth did I just drink?*
Leinas pushed herself up with her arms into a sitting position. The first thing she noticed was Tang Zheng standing not far away, toying with a black stone in his hand.
"You..."
Leinas opened her mouth, her hand subconsciously stroking her right cheek.
When her touch was met with the feeling of a perfectly smooth cheek, Leinas's entire body went rigid. She quickly pulled a mirror from her clothes and aimed it at her right cheek.
A long moment passed.
Leinas looked up, her eyes red. "Thank you."
"Congratulations on your recovery, Miss Leinas," Tang Zheng said.
Leinas stood up stiffly, reflexively wanting to pull down her golden hair to cover her right cheek, but she quickly realized that she no longer needed to hide it.
Her hand froze mid-motion.
Changing the gesture, she instead tucked the strand of golden hair casually behind her ear.
"Lord Tang, is your Adventurer Team still recruiting?" Leinas's exquisite, fair face was exposed to the air, her silken golden hair glinting faintly in the sunlight.
(end of chapter)
