409.Chapter 407: 406 New Treasure Hunting Plan The Bequest of the King of Bitten Bones

Chapter 407 406.New Treasure Hunting Plan – King of Bite Bone’s Legacy
The moment of dawn came quickly.

As the first rays of sunlight spread into the mountains, under the expectant gaze of the Valande knights, Happy Stick, who had been kicked by the hooves of a horrible horse, rode his majestic Shadow Mane warhorse proudly stepping out of the mists under the watchful eyes of the other equally grizzled brothers, stood on top of the sacred pool of the mountain forest.

The spring that extended from the top of the mountain reflected the light in the early morning, like a layer of haze war clothes for these warriors who had just completed the cavalry test, gorgeous and very beautiful.

Little Earl Sheren also arrived here before the ceremony began.

After all, the Winged Cavalry is her family’s “private property” from the legal system, but when they saw the particularly majestic horse under Happy Stick’s crotch, the expressions of the little Count of Xuelun and the Valander Knights changed in unison, and it was obvious that the identity of this old horse that Stick had to pay for more than a dozen broken bones in order to tame it was not ordinary.

Not only the Winged Cavalry Captain and Sheren, some of the Mountain Folk Elders also whispered when they saw this horse.

“This isn’t.”

The Pale Vulture Knight lost his voice and shouted, while the nearby Sanni Knight whispered:
“Yes, you read that right, it’s ‘Shadow King’! The old earl’s warhorse, the lord of the Shadow Mane Warhorse, and the mount of every head of the West Cormyr family. It must have had a premonition of the rise of the West Cole Collar!
It made it prefer to obey others and dedicate its power to its second home!
Ah, the Shadow King’s loyalty still shines so brightly even after 400 years of wear and tear.

Its return is a symbol!
There is no doubt about it, the Sicomair family and the Winged Cavalry Legion will surely rise again!”

“Crap! Brother Stick is bullish! This horse of yours is a circle bigger than ours! So cool.”

The Tiger and Leopard Riding brothers all successfully tamed the Shadow Mane Horses, and they celebrated joyfully, but when they rode their newly tamed Shadow Mane War Horses up, those War Horses would actively lower their heads in front of the Shadow King.

This tribute scene emphasized Happy Stick’s alpha status in the group, making him even more satisfied, so he added three more carrots to his new warhorse.

But Merciful Giant Sharkbear and a few other unlucky brothers returned empty-handed, and they were more than a little lost. But this kind of contract wasn’t a one-time thing, and after three days, they could try again.

There were three chances in total, and if none of them worked then that meant that they really weren’t suited for the Winged Cavalry profession.

Watching Happy Stick riding the Shadow King strolling towards the woodland altar, the eyes of little Earl Shirren were filled with emotion, she seemed to have seen her father’s heroic posture when he was riding the Shadow King to patrol the territory, but Stick’s very different stature from that of her father’s brought Shirren back to reality again.

The young earl simply watched quietly and made no other move until the Mountain Blessing was fully applied to the warriors.

This was the final step in the Winged Cavalry Trials.

The Pale Vulture Knight had said at the beginning that the Winged Cavalry was not a mere mortal soldier, and part of the combat power of this cavalry team came from the blessing of the Woodland Spirit.

This ritual was of course sacred to the indigenous NPCs, but to the players it was the equivalent of obtaining a permanently strengthened buff.

However, in order to take care of the emotions of the surrounding NPCs while increasing the sense of immersion, the number of people who had acquired the Shadow Mane Warhorse jumped off the warhorse and half-kneeled by the most sacred pool of the Ancestor’s Woodland as commanded by Knight Sonnie.

Elders wearing antler masks held wooden bowls and chanted ancient songs as they took water from the sunlit sacred pool and handed it to them.

Drinking from this cup will bring blessings from the spirits of the mountains and forests.

For others the process is easy.

But Stick was a bit of a problem, he was a vampire and was almost set on fire in such blazing early morning sunlight.

This would have been gritting his teeth and holding on.

But the powder emanating from him like flying ash meant that he was in really bad shape this time.

“Drink!”

Knowing that he couldn’t wait any longer, Knight Valander simply skipped the long speech he had prepared and gave a command, and the recruits drank the blessed water in unison.

The moment the water flowed into the mouth, it turned into a strange gas that filled his body, like a balloon pumping up, causing the bodies of all the players, including the Happy Stick, to start “expanding”.

On their character interface, there was a prompt that jumped:
[‘Spirit of the Forest/Avalon’s War Trample’ has been acquired!

Blessed person’s Strength +2, Endurance +2, Dexterity +1, Perception +1.

The effect of this blessing only takes effect when near natural terrain such as woodlands, grasslands, and jungles and when riding a Shadow Mane Warhorse.

The blessed person’s talent is acquired as [Folk of the Mountains: you are closer in size to a mountain folk descendant, have a +1 defense determination when taking physical attacks, and gain X2 natural resistance to your current level].

Blessed One talent gained as [Trampling Hooves: when you perform a charge action as a Winged Cavalryman in preferred terrain, it comes with the [Trample of War] and [Never Defeated] statuses, a morale lock and a +3 to the Charge Success determination!

Blessed One talent gained as [Half-Giant’s Scorn: when your target is smaller than your size iteration with the Shadow Mane Warhorse, your opponent has a +3 probability determination of being stunned and knocked away by the charge and applies the [Panic] effect to your opponent when performing the charge action].

]

“Crap! This increase!”

Although the players all knew that the Winged Cavalry was Transylvania’s “Champion Unit”, they really didn’t expect that the Winged Cavalry would come with so many buffs and three new talents that were so practical that they would make one’s head spin.

Although the prerequisite for these talents to take effect is that they must be in “natural preferred terrain”, such a limitation is nothing compared to the professional characteristics of the Winged Cavalry.

“I finally realize why 500 Winged Cavalry can easily tear apart a line of 20,000 Jackals with a single charge, this profession was born for charging and trampling.”

Rod lamented in the team channel:
“Quickly! Hurry up and take a screenshot and post this awesome talent in the forums, Lord Murphy gave me a cavalry establishment of 300 people, we simply can’t make it up by just pulling our old brothers in from reality. We must absorb fresh blood from the outside, such a bullish occupational characteristic can definitely pull in a bunch of intensity parties.”

“6! Already posting.”

Next to him, Tiger Leopard Rider-Lin gave an OK gesture.

He had a premonition that this post about the decryption of the Winged Cavalry would definitely cause a furor on the forums when it was sent out.

The super characteristics of this advanced profession had already crushed a series of advanced professions that had been discovered so far, it was worthy of being the “champion unit” of Transylvania, this strength was hard to get! Unfortunately, the difficulty of transferring to Winged Cavalry is too high.

With the amount of suffering they had endured over the past twenty-five days, it was likely that most of the players would not be able to persevere.

After all, everyone played the game for pleasure, there was really no need to torture themselves so much.

And although the Winged Cavalry’s occupational characteristics were bullish, if you let a Winged Cavalryman challenge a Grave Sword Guard under midnight, he really wouldn’t be able to win.

The strength of this thing lies in the invulnerability of its trait iteration in group combat, not in single combat or dueling scenarios, so from this point of view, the development team’s career balance has done quite well so far.

And only after seeing that the warriors had all acquired the Mountain Forest Blessing did the little Earl of Sherron flap his wings and move forward to touch the familiar cloud mane of the Shadow King.

The majestic Shadow King’s war colt seemed to recognize little Sheren as well, so it allowed her cold fingers, which had already been blessed by Midnight, to touch its forehead, and also stretched out its rough tongue to lick little Sheren’s fingers.

Such intimacy made both Valander and Sunny sigh.

After all, Sherron had spent a long time in the Shadow King’s saddle as a child, and the mischievous little fellow had even peed on the back of this Shadow Mane war pony
“Warrior, you have been blessed by the mountains, now it’s time to serve the Ancestral Woodlands and the Westcorp Territory.”

Sherron stroked the Shadow King’s cloudy mane while turning back to whisper to Happy Stick, who had already surpassed two meters in height and was as fit as if he had blown up his body to feel just like a bodybuilding champion:

“Just a few days ago, while you were training hard, something very nasty happened in the woodlands, we’ve been hiding this news from the mountain people, otherwise they would have made a big mess.

Since you are already one of us, this tricky task can be left to you.”

“After you, my lord!”

Stick even spoke a bit more grumpily after becoming a “descendant of the mountain people”, he didn’t know if it was triggered by the racial switch, but he felt like he could punch a cow to death right now.

It felt really good. Little Earl Sherron looked around and said with his voice lowered while being ashamed:

“Do you guys remember the Forest Chalice that we used to make a contract with the Spirit of the Mountain Forest earlier? It was recovered from the mausoleum of the first Earl of the West Cormyr family.

However, just a few days ago, that mausoleum was patronized by grave robbers.”

“Ah this!”

Brother Stick was taken aback as he hurriedly asked:

“Wasn’t that mausoleum protected by the mountain people? Why would it be patronized by grave robbers? Could it have been done by one of their own?”

“No! No.”

Sherron said with a sigh:
“Originally, the duty of guarding the tomb was held by the ‘Mountain Foot’ tribe, who are the best hunters among the mountain people also regard guarding the tomb as a sacred duty, however, recently, since Transylvania has been searching for stragglers, the warriors of the Mountain Foot tribe have been hired in large quantities as guides for the warriors, which has led to the direct result that a deficiency in their defense system.

Cunning grave robbers have capitalized on this, sneaking into the mausoleum under the cover of a stormy night and stealing a series of burial objects from my ancestors.

The elders of the Yamatotsu clan have already attempted suicide three times.

Granny Mountain Foot believes that this is a disgrace to the tribe and must die as thanks, so you must bring the grave robbers to justice and recover the funerary items as quickly as possible, and do it before Granny Mountain Foot comes up with another way to get herself killed!”

“I understand, please leave it to us!”

Happy Stick righteously accepted the task, and after the little Earl of Sheridan turned to leave, he immediately opened Brother Woo Meow’s private chat to send a frantic message over there:
Onboard Happy Stick: [Woo Meow! You fucking honestly explain! Is the theft of Count Xike’s tomb related to you guys? I’ve heard the little hands on your team talking about finding a way to get those burial goods before.

Crap, you’re crazily eyeballing your brother, and we’re going to make a fool out of the group just after we’ve been transferred?

Woo Meow King: [???? Don’t talk nonsense! We are on good terms, but if you slander us like this, I’ll sue you for libel. Tomb raiding is something you do when you’re giving birth to a child with no asshole, but we’re in the order-keeping camp!
You know what? Avalon is watching us from the sky. Who would dare to mess with us?

You can trust me!
This has nothing to do with us.

But if you want to catch grave robbers, we can help.]

Banzai Happy Stick: [? You can help? Why do I feel like that’s a weird thing to say? And you said you had nothing to do with it!

Woo Meow King: [It’s quite complicated, I can’t tell you in a sentence or two, anyway, I assure you that we definitely didn’t start it, and our hands are clean in this matter, anyway, you guys should come this way to Batasin first, just in this woodland bordering the Xikor Territory and Batasin.

We’re camping here now.

Don’t worry, the movements of that group of grave robbers have been monitored by Smoke Sang, you guys come over and we’ll arrest them together, I can guarantee with my personality that we didn’t take part in this kind of evil thing the whole time!

Hearing King Woo Meow’s reply with such certainty, Stick also let go of his heart.

What he was most afraid of was that Brother Woo Meow had taken a liking to someone else’s burial goods and had really done the dirty work, in which case he would have to make a difficult trade-off between duty and friendship.

Alas, when the time came, he hoped that he would have enough courage to face the pursuit of the Winged Cavalry!
Brother Bang shared the [Punish Tomb Raider] quest with the other brothers, and then left Giant Shark Bo and the others, who had a crying face but no tears, to wait in the mountain forest for three days to continue participating in the trial, and he took the twenty-one brothers who had successfully switched to another job to collect the Winged Cavalry Battle Armor profession quest from Knight Sonnie, and then set off for Brother Woo Meow’s bearing.

The brothers of the Tiger and Leopard Riders were still spitting out this career quest on this road:

Tiger Leopard Rider – Pro: [We are actually asked to go to the city of Xike to find the Winged Cavalrymen who died in battle there and were transformed into undead, and after defeating them, obtain the Inheritance Armor and Inheritance Weapons from them.

I’m really impressed!
This quest is clearly leading us to Xike City.

To be honest, I really don’t intend to go to that hellhole for the second time, the last time I was killed in a group has left a shadow on me].

Tiger Leopard Rider: [Nonsense! You’ve turned into a Winged Cavalryman, and the main mission of your career must be to recapture Xike City! What else is there to think about?
All of our career paths are probably related to this event.

Tiger Leopard Rider – Doo: [No, no, no, no, I reckon the last step of the career quest is for us to charge the Pathfinder Legion! It’s that short man marshal’s fortress.

Don’t you guys forget that it was that Short Man who used the plague to turn Xike City into what it is now, that’s a will to revenge forged by hundreds of thousands of dead souls, it’s definitely not over!

I reckon that probably after the Black Plague, both sides will have to do it for real].

Banzai Happy Stick: [What are you afraid of! After we have a thousand player knights, let’s see me lead my brothers to smash that bullshit Pathfinder Fortress!
You guys should know that Transylvania is only a quarter of what the Portia Confederacy once was, so if Lord Murphy wants to make a name for himself, he’ll have to take back all of his lost territories, won’t he?
When the time comes, we’ll not only have to fight the Pioneer Legion, but also the Yankees, and we’ll have to fight in all directions before it’s enough.

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Soldier: [Crap, this is too awesome, why don’t we hurry and get some P Society war criminals to come in and level the anti-aircraft guns?

The crowd burst into laughter.

But this joke did give Happy Stick a wake-up call.

His Scarlet Hammer and Sickle was currently the closest organization in the player’s guild to the second level of qualification, and once it reached the second level of rating, he would have the power to “recruit on his own”.

The P Society’s war criminals’ rather subtle and flexible moral boundaries were often troublesome, but if it was a war, there was no better source of soldiers than them.

And they are cavalry!
Therefore, the Yamaguchi Din players and the war horsemen group are also the targets that can be drawn in. Although there are no gold carriages or gold bullets for them to use, but look at how cool the winged cavalry is?
Riding a horse to war is also a man’s romance.

“Brother Stick, are you busy? Hurry back to Scarlet Fort or I’ll come to you, I found a big secret stash over here!”

Just as Brother Stick was imagining how he should recruit soldiers in the future, a private chat from an “angel investor” immediately energized him.

Hearing Little Rich Brother’s excited voice, Stick immediately asked back:

“Where did you get the secret information? Is it true? Don’t tell me that you paid for it again this time, have you forgotten the lesson of Xike City?”

“No, no, no, not this time! This time it’s a clue I accidentally picked up while killing ghouls in the sewers, it’s in the Filthy Swamp!”

Little Rich Brother said with a certainty in his tone:
“The Jackal Warlocks hiding there are looking for a ‘Lost Secret Treasure of the King of Biting Bones’, and I’ll just ask Hogg about it here in the Smuggler’s Woodland. Chief Bloodclaw told me with great certainty that that great secret treasure definitely exists!
You can trust me!
As long as we find it this time, we’ll be rich!”

“Filthy Swamp?”

Rod hesitated for a moment, then replied:
“The defense zone I’ve been assigned to just happens to be near there, speaking of which, the Maginot Defense Line is about to start construction, Brother Fu, don’t be in a hurry, poke around for some more clues, I’ll go over there after I finish the Sicomel Family’s Prestige Quest over here.”

“Huh? There’s a hidden mission?”

Brother Xiao Fu immediately became interested as he pursued:

“What exactly is the mission? Tell me.”

Rod then told the story of the theft of Count Xike’s mausoleum, listening to Little Rich Brother’s righteous indignation, he cursed:

“Dogs! Even the tomb of a local hero dares to be stolen, must be caught out and beaten severely! You guys wait for me, I’ll go over right away to join in the fun, my Scorpion Lion can scout and track.”

“Good!”

Brother Stick’s eyes lit up.

Little Rich Brother’s Scorpion Lion was truly unique among the summons currently owned by players, this guy’s combat power and stealth was even stronger than a Black Iron ranked vampire, with its assistance, that group of damn grave robbers wouldn’t be able to run away!

However, Brother Stick also thought, does this matter really have nothing to do with the Big Bird Spinning Troupe?
Why did he feel that this was weird inside and out?
(End of chapter)