Amber Sword
Chapter 77 - 77 Scene 31 After the Battle_2

77: Scene 31 After the Battle_2 77: Scene 31 After the Battle_2 This is why there were so many people back in the game who willingly endured experience penalties to dual-class, because in the early stages, the experience returns for dual-classing were significantly higher than specialization.

Of course, Brando thought the same, but everything has a limit.

Those who crazily dual-classed back then eventually paid the price.

After all, once you enter the third-level power, elemental enlightenment makes the correction of professions less obvious.

Total level 10, Brando couldn’t help but close his eyes and let out a long breath.

Now, Withered Beasts were just experience points for him.

If he weren’t in a hurry to deliver a message to Ridenburg, he would’ve liked to grind some experience in the Xavier Mountain Path for a maximum of half a month, and he would’ve reached level 15.

Unfortunately, time clearly doesn’t permit now.

He squinted again, seeing the distant silhouettes of Withered Beasts emerging in the canyon.

Those shrub-like monsters were looking this way through the valley—although they actually had no vision, they must have been alerted by the previous commotion.

Brando quietly picked up the sword placed at his side.

He wasn’t afraid of these things, but getting entangled wouldn’t be good either.

Roman’s aunt was still in the city, and they and the Madara army were racing against time to reach Ridenburg.

He suddenly remembered the Seal Ring Madden gave him, couldn’t help but take out the ring with the black pine leaf emblem from his pocket and look at it—however, the young man thought of something and couldn’t help but sneer.

That old soldier from the November War didn’t understand this either.

Just think, Buqi was the most important buffer area on the Fanmir-Ridenburg defensive line in this direction.

Since the Thunder Year, the kingdom’s center had planned to establish a complete defensive line here.

But the execution of policies isn’t always as simple as it appears.

Due to a lack of funds and embezzlement at the intermediate stages, the repair of Fanmir Fortress and the establishment of Ridenburg was the limit of the project.

As for the early warning system in the buffer area, the nobles hadn’t considered it at all.

As long as Ridenburg and Fanmir Fortress remained in their hands, they could still live well, and as for the countryside, Madara didn’t invade every year, right?

Despite having patriots like Frey, Breson, and Madden fighting for this kingdom, Erune was already in decline, and this was another fact.

The corrupt upper class was destroying the kingdom from its roots.

Actually, Buqi was an exception; Brando knew that in other places, one could see the tell-tale signs of this kingdom heading towards its end.

He couldn’t help but sigh, looking east.

The eastern sky seemed to be covered in layers of dark clouds, making the morning sun dim.

A country in darkness was rising there.

“Brando, your ring.”

Brando turned around and saw Frey looking keenly at him.

He couldn’t help but joke, “Looks good?”

“You—” The ponytail girl’s face turned red.

She turned away and saw Roman sitting on the hillside above, smiling at them.

“Roman, you fool!”

“What did I do?” The Merchant Lady froze.

Brando smiled.

He knew that Frey was only venting her frustration.

He put on the Wind Queen’s Ring and touched the Destiny Card in his pocket.

Although he had never seen this thing before, he knew it was his biggest reliance at the moment.

The second-level power state for even ten minutes was enough to do many things—for example, taking down the Golden Magic Tree.

With the Destiny Card, he revised his plan.

After all, the drop from the Golden Magic Tree was too tempting.

Success comes with risk, and having more strength here meant more assurance at Ridenburg.

Moreover, taking down the Golden Magic Tree was not like grinding monsters; it didn’t take much time and was on the way.

He estimated that he had about 8 hours left, enough time.

However, if he could get another Soul Crystal beforehand, it would be more assured, as using the Holy Sword attack required Earth Element payment.

He even considered whether to activate his Element Pool.

But it didn’t seem worthwhile to dual-class an Elemental Mage or Demon Swordsman for a 40 Oz magic item area, as related professions best enhance each other.

And Elemental Mage, Demon Swordsman, and Sun Knight were all separate systems, hard to benefit the warrior profession.

In Brando’s mind, he always treated a mercenary as a warrior.

After all, these two professions looked similar in early stages with identical skills.

The remaining option was the task for “Element Soul,” which could open an element pool for ordinary people, though he didn’t know if such tasks existed in this world.

Of course, those were distant matters.

He didn’t have time to think so far ahead.

From here to the Forbidden Garden was some distance, but directly hurrying he could save more than two hours.

Using those two hours to clear some monsters to see if he could find an Elite Withered Beast was Brando’s goal.

Thinking of this, he stood up, patted Frey’s shoulder who was staring at him, and said to the two ladies, “Alright, break’s over, let’s get going.”

Unfortunately, his well-intentioned gesture touched Frey’s shoulder in a place it shouldn’t have due to her reflexive pull back—the sensation was still soft and springy, even through a layer of metal scale armor.

The atmosphere froze instantly.

Brando watched as the future Valkyrie’s face turned from hot red to pale white, then dark.

He was about to explain but got a sword hilt smashed into him instead—

“Scoundrel!”

“Wait, I didn’t mean to—ow!”

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