Full-Time Psychic Martial Artist

After the orc scout entered the house, he quietly crept into the shadows under the stairs, preparing to launch a sneak attack on Lorne when he came downstairs.

Lorne saw through the orc scout's thoughts and had a sudden thought—if I launch a sneak attack with psionic tentacles while invisible, will it break my invisibility?

He thought this way because the psionic tentacles had the characteristic of always remaining invisible; even if they caused damage, they would not become visible.

In a sense, the psionic tentacles are an independent entity relative to the psionicist's body, just like the mage's hand.

With that in mind, Lorne decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity to test it out.

He then activated his magic ring, making himself invisible, and silently approached the stairwell, extending his 4-meter-long psionic tentacles toward the orc scout.

This orc rogue seemed to have a higher level of perception than his fellow warriors and barbarians, but he only glanced up at them.

Of course, he didn't see anything, so he dismissed his intuition as an illusion.

The next second, his eyes suddenly stung, warm liquid flowed from his eye sockets, and something slippery and flexible pierced his eyeballs and went straight into his brain.

The orc scouts were dead, but Lorne remained invisible.

Guess it right!

Lorne's lips couldn't help but curl upwards.

He walked down the stairs, used his psionic tentacles to drag the orc scout's corpse to his front, and crouched down to search for anything useful.

When he opened the orc's pouch and rummaged through it, the invisibility was still not dispelled.

This is just an ordinary fanny pack, filled with all sorts of things.

Lorne carefully took all of these items out and placed them on the ground for identification using the system.

Healing potions, poisoned throwing knives, lockpicking tools, trap disarming tools, tough spider silk, three pens, and various poisons.

These poisons were carefully wrapped in the bark of a plant stem that had a texture similar to paper, and each portion was only the size of a tea bag.

Lorne's expression was not good. If this orc thief successfully used these poisons, he would easily incapacitate hundreds of elves.

But what bothered him even more was that while there was a pen in the bag, he couldn't find something a scout should carry most—a map.

He searched the orc thoroughly from head to toe, but still couldn't find the map.

Think about it carefully, if I were this scout, where would I hide the map?

The orc saw the beacon fire and crept over to investigate. When he saw me enter the house, he tried to assassinate me.

If the assassination failed, the map would fall into my hands, so he decided to hide the map somewhere and retrieve it after the assassination succeeded.

Yes, that's most likely the case.

Lorne stored the orc scout's corpse in his storage space, and then carefully searched along the path the orc scout had taken.

Soon, he noticed something unusual about a patch of grass.

Parting the grass, a palm-sized stone was embedded in the ground, the soil around its edges seemingly just turned over.

Lorne removed the stone, revealing a parchment that had been folded many times underneath.

Upon opening it, it was indeed the map drawn by the scout. It not only showed the elven villages he had discovered, but also roads, rivers, and landmarks.

At the foot of the snow-capped mountain, a sign resembling a cave was painted.

Could it be that the orcs came from this cave?

Lorne thought for a moment and realized it would be too dangerous for him to explore the cave himself, so he found a big tree in the forest, climbed to a height close to the treetop, and blew his magic whistle.

About fifteen minutes later, Salowell, in his owl form, flew over and landed on a branch in front of Lorne.

"I found this on an orc scout," Lorne said, showing the hand-drawn map to the other person.

The owl's face lit up with surprise: "Child, this map is incredibly important. It's unbelievable that you've made such a significant discovery so quickly."

"We're not sure yet that the cave on the map is the orcs' lair; it could be a decoy," Lorne said.

"Of course, I will confirm it myself. Now, I need you to take this map to North Forest Fortress and give it to Ms. Kovina."

Lorne knew the name; it belonged to the supreme commander of Northwood Fortress, a respected paladin.

"Okay." Lorne nodded, then asked, "How are the other villages?"

"Aiye Village has also been occupied by orcs. The other villages are fine. The most dangerous villages have received the news and are being evacuated."

Lorne took out a small packet of poison from his storage space and said, "The orc scout I killed was carrying a lot of poison. I suspect they were planning to poison people."

The owl's face turned serious: "Give these poisons to Ms. Kovina as well; she'll figure something out."

"Okay, I'll set off right away."

"Take care on your journey, child. May the goddess protect the spirit."

"Please be careful, and may the goddess protect the elves."

Saloville nodded, then spread his wings and flew towards the snow-capped mountain, clearly to scout out the cave on the map.

【你完成了战役事件[重要军情]，获得50×10经验（1100/1000），[调查]+1。】

You have accumulated enough experience to level up.

You have one spell of level 1 or lower to choose from.

Hmm, it seems the cave on the map is real.

Is this leveling speed too fast? I haven't even chosen my spell for the previous level yet.

Lorne opened the system panel, and sure enough, without selecting a spell, he couldn't continue upgrading his Psionicist subclass.

Yes, a healing spell must be arranged.

[Healing Spell] produces a large amount of milk; [Healing Mantra] has a long range.

However, the primary target for treatment is still yourself, and the psionic tentacles can also increase the healing range of the Healing spell, so choose [Healing spell].

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[Healing Spell] (Bard, Priest, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Mechanic, Shaman)

One ring, protection, contact, standard application.

Restores (2d8 + caster modifier) ​​health to yourself or a touchable creature.

Ascending Ring Casting:

Each level up increases the healing amount by 2 days and 8 points.

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OK, upgrade!

A warm current flowed through my body, and extraordinary knowledge entered my soul.

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Your 'Psionicist' skill level has been raised to 3, and your subclass 'Contract Master' skill level has been raised to 1.

+1 to base attribute points, +5 to maximum health, +10 to maximum stamina, and +20 to maximum mana.

Gain the class trait "Forged Servant".

You can choose to learn one spell below the first level.

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【Contractual Servant】:

Consume 1 Surge of Psionic Power or 100 Mana to attempt to form a master-servant pact with an accessible creature.

The target must pass a charm immunity, or they will become your servant and obey all your commands.

If the exemption is successful, they will become aware of your presence and develop hostility towards you.

(Saving difficulty = 10 + psionic modifier.)

During the contract's effective period, master and servant can communicate telepathically, with a maximum distance of (sub-rank + psionic modifier) ​​× 100 meters.

Telepathy allows one to know the location of another, communicate with them through thoughts, and share sensory experiences.

You can have a maximum of (subclass level + psionic modifier) ​​tamed servants at the same time.

Your bonded servants can recognize each other.

You can terminate the contract with any of your servants at any time.

When you break the contract with a servant, it will fall into a dazed state for at least 1 minute.

In a trance state, the creature loses its advantage or becomes disadvantaged in all checks.

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Well, all we need to do next is capture an orc alive and turn him into a tandem servant, then we can get a lot of information out of him.

Lorne's lips curled slightly, and he decisively added 1 point of his base attribute to [Intelligence].