Somewhere in the Moonshadow Woodland.
The lush, towering trees allowed only dappled sunlight to stream through the gaps in the canopy.
"Whizz!"
Behind a massive tree trunk that required two people to encircle, a graceful woman in Leather Armor shot an arrow at a giant boar, whose shoulder height exceeded that of an adult man and measured a full nine feet in length.
"Thud!"
The arrow embedded itself in the boar’s face but missed its left eye by a fraction, causing the enraged bristle boar to become even more furious, expelling two streams of visibly dense, hot air from its nostrils.
"Roar!!"
Accompanied by a thunderous bellow, the bristle boar charged rapidly towards Reya’s location.
At this moment, however, Reya inexplicably continued shooting at the bristle boar head-on without any intention of dodging.
"Boom!!"
Leaves rustled and fell!
The bristle boar’s tusks, several inches long, pierced into the tree trunk, but its small eyes were a bit bewildered.
The dizziness from the head-on impact was one thing; more puzzling was the sudden disappearance of the figure in front of it.
It was as if... its tusks had pierced through a phantom...
At this moment, a slender figure unexpectedly appeared at the side of the bristle boar, nocking an arrow, aiming, and shooting in one fluid motion!
With the sound of ’whizz’, the arrow buried itself into the bristle boar’s astonished small eye, directly penetrating its brain.
The robust bristle boar didn’t even snort before it fell heavily to the ground with a ’boom’.
"Congratulations, Reya, on successfully advancing to Phantom Shooter."
Not far behind Reya, a tall female Elf with pointed ears and also carrying a Longbow emerged with a smile on her face.
"Mentor Gina, without your dedicated guidance, I absolutely wouldn’t have been able to change Classes successfully," Reya turned and curtseyed slightly to Gina, her pretty face beaming.
"The main credit goes to your own efforts; I was merely a guide."
"By the way, this is a letter from Dorne City." At this point, Gina handed a letter to Reya.
"The letter actually arrived three days ago, but I was worried it might affect your advancement, so I didn’t give it to you until now."
"A letter for me?" Reya appeared puzzled.
Upon receiving it, seeing the red wax seal on the envelope, Reya couldn’t help but smile.
"It’s a letter from Elise; it probably isn’t anything important. By the way, Mentor, do you remember Elise?"
"Oh? That little girl from the Earth Divine Hall?" Seemingly recalling Elise’s sweet smile, the Elf Gina also smiled slightly.
As for Elise, Gina had a good impression; she had a kind heart and a sweet smile.
At this point, Reya opened the letter, quickly scanning through ten lines at a glance, her smile gradually fading, "Mentor Gina, I need to return to Dorne City as soon as possible."
"Did something happen?"
...
Meanwhile.
Inside the Goblin Cave.
It felt as if a long time had passed, or perhaps it was only an instant.
Coming back to his senses, Raine felt his mind inundated with many new things, both complex three-dimensional symbols and slide-like scenes, all too overwhelming.
After some thought, Raine turned his attention to the system panel:
[Name: Raine]
[Class (Special): Frost Lord Level 1]
[Class Skills: Frost Strike Level 1, Ice Shield Reflection Level 1, Frost Domain Level 1]
...
"Frost Lord?" The first thing that caught Raine’s eye was these four striking characters.
He saw that his Class had changed from ’Farmer’ to ’Frost Lord,’ with Level 1 indicating the Classes Level.
’So that figure represented the Frost Lord?’ Raine thought back to that imposing figure, pondering.
However, Raine did not linger on the Class name for long, as he was eager to examine the specific Class Skills, since strength was more important than titles.
There were three Class Skills in total.
The first one was named Frost Strike Level 1, suggesting a close-combat Combat Skill.
Frost Strike Level 1, effect: Consumes a small amount of Spiritual Power to add Frost Damage to any melee attack.
(Note: Any melee Combat Skill can have Frost Strike added.)
"Adds Frost Damage? Isn’t that just like the Frost Blade Leopard!"
Raine immediately thought of the intense cold accompanying the Frost Blade Leopard’s claw attacks.
After reviewing the effect description several times, Raine essentially understood this Class Skill.
If it was as described, then when he used melee attacks enhanced with Frost Strike, unless the opponent had Magic Equipment or Magic to block it, they would incur Frost Damage even if they managed to block the melee attack.
’If the first one is so powerful, then what about the second one?’
With this in mind, Raine immediately checked the second exclusive Combat Skill.
Ice Shield Reflection Level 1, effect: Consumes a small amount of Spiritual Power to form a layer of ice crystal with mirror effect on the surface of a Shield, capable of reflecting Third Level and lower single-target Magic attacks, or single attacks within group Magic, but only once.
(Note: Cannot reflect area-type Magic or special types of Magic such as Spiritual Energy.)
(Note: A Shield must be held.)
’This... isn’t this a combination of Monster Skill and Shield technique?’ Raine’s eyes widened as he murmured about the effect of Ice Shield Reflection.
If the first ’Frost Strike’ wasn’t quite clear, then the second ’Ice Shield Reflection’ revealed many things.
This was clearly a combination of Shield technique and the Monster Skill derived from the Counter-attacking Ice Spirit—’Ice Crystal Mirror’.