"Quick, move!" Wood called to the team members behind him, "We can’t stay in this town any longer!"
A sharp blade glimmered with deadly cold light in the icy air, tearing through with a blurred afterimage in the sound of air being split apart.
The young knight, standing in the middle of the road with a longsword across his chest in a defensive stance, let out only a muffled groan before collapsing in pain, blood bursting from his neck.
Along with the two teammates beside him, they turned into corpses in the blink of an eye.
The three knights from the Molton family, who had undergone rigorous training since childhood, died in less than three seconds.
The disparity in strength might be part of the reason.
But more crucial was the enemy who mysteriously appeared in the previously empty air, with a figure swift like a specter. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ NoveIꜰire.net
The right hand holding the sword hilt flicked, shaking off the blood on the blade, as the right foot stepped forward.
The middle-aged man with a gloomy expression vanished from sight under everyone’s gaze.
Not some skillful Wanderer adept in stealth.
This was a profession ability granted to Lawson by the Bloodseeker Veteran.
As one of the lesser-known branches under the Warrior category, the Bloodseeker Veteran provides its employ with increasing vigor in battle like a Barbarian Berserker, alongside strong endurance, allowing concealment on the battlefield to increase survival.
And the profession’s own weaknesses, a relative lack of close-quarters combat and explosiveness, were compensated by his lv4 Warrior abilities.
Lawson knew well that in the path of the Warrior, which should ideally lead upward to lv10 Extraordinary Boundary before hitting a bottleneck, taking up another profession midway would, in most cases, lower one’s potential future advancement paths.
After all, in terms of transitioning to a new profession, a pure lv10 Warrior is much more straightforward than a lv5 Warrior + lv5 Bloodseeker Veteran.
Furthermore, with enough points, he could directly exchange for a method to advance to a higher profession at the Adventurer Association.
But many years ago, when he was still a guard in the Molton family, a special encounter during a mission.
Had made Lawson aware of the specific transitioning method for a powerful Extraordinary advanced profession known as the Red Armor Lord.
The dual capability of being a Warrior and a Bloodseeker Veteran was a prerequisite for it.
The abilities of both complemented each other well.
In such a scenario, the disadvantage of unstable advancement paths due to dual professions vanished.
If he could acquire the secret treasure stolen from the Dragon Nest, even if he couldn’t uncover the secret that led the Duke Family to rise, simply exchanging it for resources would be enough to support him to the last step before the Transcendent stage.
The corner of his eye caught a distant dazzling silver light behind him, a cold glint flashed in Lawson’s eyes.
His figure, almost melded into the surrounding environment, quickly wandered toward the outskirts of the town.
In a one-on-one fight, Terry William was not his match.
But although Terry’s subordinates were of ordinary strength, together they proved to be a bit troublesome, and the cramped, narrow environment in the town wasn’t convenient for his maneuvers.
He needed to lure them to a wide open area outside the town.
The lv2 Bloodseeker Veteran abilities bestowed upon Lawson allowed him to remain concealed yet swift, leaving deliberate traces without being noticed by others.
Thinking of this, for some reason, he suddenly recalled the intensely present gaze he felt when passing a street near the exit earlier.
In his mind appeared the image of a black-haired youth clad in matte black Plate Chain Composite Armor, carrying dual swords on his back.
"It must be just a coincidence."
His thoughts flashed across his mind.
His almost invisible figure already disappeared at the end of the road.