In the hotel room, Jiang Li was lying on the bed and yelling loudly.
"Then go and upgrade!"
Yasaka Airi had a headache all over her face. This was the third time Jiang Li had complained of boredom today.
"But there is no way to become stronger..."
Jiang Li rolled over on the bed with a look of despair on his face.
"It would be great if I could learn resurrection magic. I would be full of energy now!"
Resurrection magic is impossible to learn.
Upgrading does not increase the ability value, and the increase in magic power is not even 1%.
By the way, he is now level 18.
Because two manticores were killed, and the adventurer can easily level up.
If Megumin hadn't snatched his monsters, he would have been over level 20 by now.
After reaching level 18 in one go, there was no decent improvement at all. This caused Jiang Li to not be so enthusiastic about upgrading after he came back from the hill.
After completing the mission of the gryphon and manticore, the reward of 50 million was quickly received.
The ancient kingdom of Belze uses a currency called Alice, which has the same name as the Alice Goddess Cult, which is regarded as the state religion. Its purchasing power is about the same as the Japanese yen. Fifty million is a huge sum of money. If you live in Novice Town, you will spend your whole life.
You can live a very nourishing life.
"Are there any skills that are more useful?"
Jiang Li clicked on the avatar on the adventurer card.
In the past two days, he has traveled around the Novice Town, visited adventurers of various professions, and used his extraordinary charm to let them use their skills in front of him, so there are hundreds of skills in the learnable skills column!
Among them are not only auxiliary skills such as enemy detection, eavesdropping, and lip reading, but also combat skills such as spear proficiency and bow proficiency, and even life skills such as cooking and forging.
Skills other than magic skills are completely independent of talent. You only need to spend a certain amount of skill points to learn them. This is very friendly to compass players like Jiang Li who have talents other than swords!
It's just that there are so many skills that he doesn't know which skill to choose to learn.
Moreover, he planned to learn teleportation magic in the future, so he couldn't waste skill points randomly and could only pick a few useful ones to learn.
"steal, theft skill, exclusive to thieves, randomly steals an item from the target depending on luck... This skill is trying to make things difficult for me!"
"Echo, the bait skill, is exclusive to Crusader. It can attract multiple target monsters. Just kill all the enemies and that's it. Why do you want to attract targets?"
"Escape, clairvoyance... are of no use."
Jiang Li browsed them one by one.
"Huh? This skill is kind of interesting!"
Halfway through browsing, Jiang Li's eyes suddenly lit up.
That's a skill called "skill bind", which can neutralize any magic or skill being activated by the target!
The success rate mainly depends on the level and strength difference between the two parties. The greater the strength gap, the easier it is to succeed or fail. If the strength is equal, the success rate is only about half.
Isn't this a silent skill?
Super strong!
And it’s a perfect match for Jiang Li!
"It costs 8 points...it's a bit high, but I've learned it!"
Jiang Li clicked it on the spot.
"——Urgent notice! Urgent notice!"
"WTF?"
Jiang Li instantly ejected and jumped out of bed.
"I'm just learning a skill, why did I get an emergency notification?"
"It smells like the demons are approaching!"
Airi Yasaka put down what she was doing and walked to the window thoughtfully.
"Besides, this smell is quite familiar!"
"Issuing an emergency mission, please adventurers in the city to assemble at the main gate as soon as possible! I repeat, adventurers, especially powerful adventurers, are asked to assemble at the main gate as soon as possible!"
Luna's nervous voice spread throughout the town through the magic radio.
…………
The main entrance of the town.
A few minutes passed, and the adventurers appeared one by one, fully armed.
"what happened?"
Sato Kazuma arrived here quickly with three beautiful girl companions.
"...Look there!"
Someone next to me was sweating coldly and reminded him with a stern expression.
Following his line of sight, Sato Kazuma's expression suddenly turned extremely ugly.
Under the gloomy dark clouds, with wind and thunder, the figure of a headless knight whose whole body was dark, surrounded by evil spirits, was revealed.
"That's the leader of the Demon King's Army! The headless knight Beldia! The monster with a bounty of 300 million!"
An adventurer's whole body was trembling, and his legs moved back unconsciously.
Not only him, but most of the people present wanted to quit.
Although most adventurers are blood-licking people and will definitely not lack the courage to fight monsters, when faced with monsters that are more powerful than griffins and manticores, everyone will shrink back!
Among all the cadres of the Demon King's Army, Beldia is not considered strong, and his strength can only be considered average at best.
But he is undoubtedly the most active cadre, and will be sent to the front line whenever something happens. Adventurers from the ancient Belze Kingdom often encounter him, and their identity can be seen through at a glance.
"Why do I have to be so unfortunate to encounter a boss-type enemy like a Demon King Army cadre in Novice Village just two days after being killed and resurrected by a manticore?!"
Sato Kazuma wanted to cry.
This is different from the adventure in another world he was looking forward to! Damn it, I really want to go home!
"Very good, let's run away!"
Sato Kazuma looked at the three people behind him and suggested seriously.
"I agree!"
Aqua raised her hands timidly.
"That headless horseman looks very fierce at first glance, and he is also an undead. As a goddess, I will definitely be insulted by him in various ways!"
"Insult, insult?!"
Darkness suddenly became energetic and her face flushed.
"I will never back down!"
"Were you excited just now?"
"……not at all."
"Me too! Even the cadres of the Demon King's Army cannot escape from my explosive magic!"
Megumin raised her wand and waved it around excitedly.
"As long as I defeat the Demon King's Army cadre, everyone will say that I am the Demon King's Army cadre killer! My reputation will spread throughout the town, and even be sung by all the adventurers in the kingdom!"
"You are sick! Why do you have to fight such a powerful enemy!"
A few minutes later.
Seeing that no other adventurers were coming to the main entrance, the Headless Horseman put his legs under the horse's belly and walked up on his own initiative.
As soon as he started to move, the adventurers immediately became nervous.
Even Megumin and Darkness couldn't help but hold their weapons tightly.
"My name is Headless Horseman Beldia, and I am one of the eight current cadres of the Demon King's Army!"
Beldia held his head with his elbows, and his deep voice spread throughout the audience.
"Originally, I came here under the orders of His Majesty the Demon King and was living in the castle in the northern suburbs of Axel... But in the past few days, every day, a sick-minded guy came to the castle where I lived.
Let’s put explosive magic in there!”
His voice gradually became crazy.
"I thought someone was coming to challenge me, but when I went out, I saw that the guy had already disappeared. It's like this every day. Are you panicking because you're full?"
"Who is that guy who comes to my castle every day to cast explosive magic and harass me? Come forward!"