Astral Apostle Chapter 34: Vengeance mechanism

Hearing this, everyone had no objection, but told Zhou Jing not to go too far, but no one was worried about what would happen to Zhou Jing's actions alone.

Zhou Jing left the team, walked in the forest for a while, stopped in a seemingly uninhabited forest, glanced around, and said, "Come out."

As soon as the voice fell, a figure quietly turned out from behind the tree, it was Ross, walking silently.

Zhou Jing walked up and held his shoulder, read the follower's experience log, and quickly received a lot of images.

In the past three months, Ross has finally learned a little bit of combat skills, mastered the skills of several weapons such as daggers and short knives, and also learned the craft of blacksmithing.

Although they are all at the beginner level, but with the strengthened physical fitness, they can come in handy, and it can be regarded as a combat effectiveness.

However, Zhou Jing hasn't told others about Ross's enhancement of the alien blood. Usually, he doesn't show it. In the eyes of others, Ross is still a little transparent.

Because Ross's strengthening direction is good at stealth and moves silently in the forest, Zhou Jing let Ross conduct activities around the crusade team, secretly searching for the target without telling everyone, and now there is a harvest.

According to the video of the entourage, Ross found the Earth Skeleton Marauder wandering in the forest, but the other party didn't notice him, so he quietly retreated and came back to report.

Zhou Jing looked at Ross speechlessly.

"You've already found their raiding team, why didn't you follow them to find the location of the lair? You will report back now. When we find it, their raiding team has left that location, okay?"

Ross: (o_O)

"...Well, it's my fault, I didn't make it clear to you."

Zhou Jing held his forehead.

Although he has some combat power, this follower is still stupid. If the order is a little more complicated, he will not be able to handle it, and he will not adapt to changes and highlight a rigidity.

Zhou Jing shook his head and gave new instructions:

"You are now squatting where you found the Earth Skeleton, try not to be seen, and wait for me to find it."

With the positioning in his mind, Ross is very suitable to be a marker eye position for wayfinding. It is because of this ability that he thinks that Ross can be used as a scout or guide, and he will bring him to crusade the skeleton people.

Hearing this, Ross turned his head and left without saying a word, quickly disappearing into the forest.

Zhou Jing turned around before returning to the team.

"What did you find?" Balon looked over.

"Not yet." Zhou Jing shook his head.

Everyone didn't care, and after checking the neighborhood for a while, they continued on their way.

Although Zhou Jing didn't say it directly, he led the way secretly. He repeatedly suggested that the team change the direction of advance and secretly move towards Ross's location.

Everyone has no opinion on Zhou Jing's proposal. Anyway, there are no clues at the moment, and they will go wherever they go.

It didn't take long for everyone to arrive near Ross's location, and finally found the traces left by the Earth Skeleton raiding team in the woods, and they were all overjoyed.

There is a mess of footprints in front of you, and a lot of people can be seen, extending into the deep forest.

Baron squatted down, twisted a handful of dirt on the footprints with his fingers, and said in surprise:

"The footprints are still relatively new. It seems that the Earth Skeleton raiding team passed here not long ago."

Weiss was refreshed: "How do we say, are we following behind, or are we going up to grab a few dead ends to lead the way?"

Baron pondered for a while, then turned to look at Zhou Jing: "What do you think?"

"Go straight to catch someone."

Zhou Jing did not hesitate.

They are a lot of people, and they are not strengthened by Ross, and they are easy to be found when they follow.

And your time is limited, so save some if you can.

Hearing this, Baron had no objection, beckoned and led the team to catch up along the trail.

…

Everyone ran all the way forward, and the footprints left by the skeleton people in front of them became more and more new.

Soon, the figure of the Earth Skeleton loomed in the forest in front of him, about a dozen people.

At this time, the Earth Skeleton Marauder also heard the movement behind him, issued an urgent whistle, looked around, and when he saw the crusade team, he screamed and shot without saying a word.

A rain of arrows came flying!

"Kill!"

The enemy was very jealous when they met. Baron roared, raised his battle axe to block in front of him, and rushed out like a bull.

The arrow hit the face of the axe with a clanging clang, and the impact was scattered.

Zhou Jing stomped his legs and rushed out like a cheetah. He suddenly pulled out the double knives from his waist. His eyes moved quickly to lock on arrows that were threatening to him. .

Today's physical fitness and swordsmanship are enough to match his fighting instinct and block all arrows.

Dangdang-

The sword light that dances out is like a barrier, and the arrows and rain can't get in.

He sprinted forward, and the distance quickly narrowed, the Earth Skeleton's terrified expression magnified in his sight.

Zhou Jing dragged his two knives and plunged into the pile of skeletons.

Brush brush brush --

The light of the sword is scattered, like a tornado.

Instantly rolled up the sky with stumps and broken arms!

Zhou Jing's movements were swift and he shuttled through the crowd like a phantom. The hasty attacks of the Earth Skeletons had no threat to him. In his eyes, he was as slow as a snail.

The two knives are precise and stern, almost without blocking, directly grabbing the shot in front of the Earth Skeleton, cutting the opponent's neck, arm or waist when the opponent just takes an attacking stance.

Brush brush brush --

Wherever the knife light passed, the Earth Skeleton fell like mowing grass.

Occasionally, the weapons collided, and Zhou Jing's powerful double knives directly smashed the Earth Skeleton's weapons together.

Three months later, the hunter workshop finally finished making the equipment. Zhou Jing's double knives at this time were made of fused metal after special treatment of the claw bear's claws. Toughness, not to mention the shoddy equipment of the Earth Skeletons.

The bearskin armor with a fur collar inherits the characteristics of the split-claw bear. It is difficult for ordinary slashes to penetrate, providing superior defensive performance.

Zhou Jing whipped up a storm in the pile of skeletons, killed him so well, and shattered the opponent's formation.

He casually cut off the throat of one of the Earth Skeletons, and at this moment, the panel suddenly flashed.

["Will Wood" (Apostle No. 001) has been killed]

[Complete Revenge]

[This time, the evaluation of the astral apostle career has been slightly improved]

[A certain ability of "Will Wood" can be inherited for free...test results, no uninherited ability yet]

[Trigger the achievement [Vengeance must be repaid]! ]

[Milestone [Avengers] Progress: 1/5]

"Huh?" Zhou Jing was slightly startled.

Any revenge? I can't find this item in the achievement list, it seems to be a hidden achievement, and it is the first time I trigger it.

In this way, the Earth Skeleton who was killed just now was the direct murderer of "Will Wood".

It seems that there are special rewards for revenge for the last astral apostle...

Phew!

At this time, a bone spear stabbed in the face.

Zhou Jing quickly returned to his senses. With a left knife, he cut off the arm of the enemy holding the spear, and then stabbed his right knife forward, penetrating the enemy's eye socket and going straight through the back of his head.

He picked up the enemy's body and threw it to the side with all his might, knocking over an Earth Skeleton man who came up next to him, and the flying celestial cover and the red and white brain shower splattered on the ground.

Zhou Jing calmed down and didn't continue to be distracted to check the panel. He focused on solving the enemy in front of him. At this time, Baron and others also came in together.

Zhou Jing alone could not stop the Earth Skeleton raiding team. At this time, Balong, Weiss and the others joined the battlefield, and instantly crushed the Earth Skeleton raiding team to the ground.

Ten soldiers from Baiyuan City formed a simple battle formation, and they had a solid basis for advancing and retreating. Although they were not as crushed as the three alien beast hunters, they still fought steadily, killing all the approaching Earth Skeletons like a meat grinder.

After just a few minutes, the battle was over, and dozens of skeletal raiders lay on the ground.

Only a few Earth Skeletons were left intact. They were tied together by the crowd, their faces full of terror, and they were screaming.

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Balon felt a sigh of anger. He turned to Griff and said, "Go and interrogate these survivors, and let them take us to the lair."

Griff nodded and complied. Although they didn't understand the language, they had dealt with the Earth Skeletons, and sign language was enough to communicate, and they spoke with a knife, so they didn't worry that the Earth Skeletons couldn't understand what they meant.

The hunters of Frostwood Village will not be soft-hearted to the bones of the earth, so how can they be worthy of their dead companions.

Zhou Jing did not participate in the interrogation, but wiped the long knife aside and shook his head secretly.

The Earth Skeleton, who used to think it was a bit tricky, is now easy to solve. Maybe it's just a single brush. It's a complete crush.

Although the abuse of vegetables is quite hearty, it's just that Zhou Jing's heart is not disturbed.

Although he is getting used to killing now, he doesn't have much interest in it himself. What he likes is the back-and-forth battles, the intense and exciting fights with powerful enemies, that will make him excited.

"It doesn't make sense to abuse vegetables... It seems that I have some Berserker genes."

Zhou Jing smacked his lips, opened the panel and carefully pondered what had just been triggered.

After fumbling for a while, he confirmed that there is a "revenge mechanism" for the astral apostles.

When an astral apostle dies artificially, and you use the follow-up astral apostle to avenge it and kill the murderer, this mechanism will be triggered and special rewards will be obtained.

First, it can improve the career settlement evaluation of the current astral apostle, regardless of death settlement and customs clearance settlement.

The second is that you can get a new "free inheritance slot" like a death settlement, and get a certain ability of the death star apostle.

Because of the abilities of "Will Wood", the current "Jason Wood" has inherited it, so it did not take effect this time.

The third one is to trigger special achievements. [Vengeance must be repaid] is a repetitive achievement. It can be triggered once every time you complete revenge for a certain astral apostle.

The rewards are variable, depending on the strength of the Death Star Apostle and the strength of the murderer, different amounts of rewards will be given.

And this time, the [Vengeance will be repaid] is only given to 500 astral points, which is not much. It is estimated that "Will Wood" is not extraordinary, and the enemy is just an ordinary Earth Skeleton.

In addition, every time you complete [Vengeance will be repaid], the progress of the [Avengers] milestone will be accumulated, and this milestone can be triggered by completing five times in total.

Zhou Jing is also the first time to trigger a milestone. This thing is a special kind of achievement. It takes many times to complete the relevant behavior before it can be truly triggered. The rewards are generally more generous than the usual achievements.

"In this way, if every Astral Apostle dies, then this achievement can be triggered very quickly..."

Zhou Jing thought for a while, then shook his head and laughed.

After thinking about it, he had no intention of dying, and felt that the cost of time was not worth it.

He is not humble either, always feeling that he will have plenty of opportunities to burp in the future.

"You don't need to force it, just accumulate it slowly."

Zhou Jing shook his head.

At this time, everyone's interrogation of the Earth Skeletons was over, and two more survivors were killed. Finally, the remaining Earth Skeletons who were afraid of death learned to cooperate.

"Let's go." Baron greeted Zhou Jing~IndoMTL.com~ Hearing this, Zhou Jing put away his long knife and followed.

…

Following the Earth Skeleton who led the way, the group carefully groped forward.

Everyone will not completely believe the enemy, so they keep an eye out for fear of being led into any trap.

Until the red clouds filled the sky, the crusade team finally reached the entrance of the skeleton man's lair.

This is a hole in the ground hidden behind the vines. It is very confusing. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to ignore the past.

Everyone hid in the woods not far away, hiding their bodies, and looking at the cave in the distance.

They have searched the neighborhood, and quietly settled the several skeleton sentries near the entrance of this lair.

Baron shrank back, felt his beard and pondered: "I don't know how many people and traps there are in the den of the skeletons. If we rush in rashly, we may encounter danger."

"It makes sense." Weiss nodded: "Then you can take the lead."

Everyone silently turned to look at him.

"What are you looking at? I'm just here to help. Wouldn't you let me rush in first?"

On the other hand, Griff thought for a while, and suggested, "How about we set fire to force the Earth Skeletons out?"

"That's fine." Baron nodded.

The crowd soon prepared a large pile of dry wood and began to burn the hole in the ground.

Zhou Jing also has no opinion, and does not intend to give everyone the awareness of protecting the environment and preventing wildfires.

A fire lit up in the cave, and there was a commotion inside.

Immediately, Wu Yangyang Earth Skeletons poured out. At a glance, there were no less than a hundred people, tall, short, fat and thin, all of them holding weapons.

The people hiding around are preparing to act.

"Roar!"

At this moment, a roar of an alien beast suddenly came from the cave.