Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

"Shadow...Shadow..."

As long as it can still get into the shadow, it still has a chance to survive.

But at this moment, Viviana's magic power returned to zero.

The glowing magic stones that had lost their magical support all went out. In the cave, only the magic stone in the hunter boy's hand was still lit, which cast a shadow in front of Svalerok.

Viviana failed. She wanted to give Svalerok a final blow, but the severe dizziness made her unable to move.

Svalerok laughed wildly. It only had half a meter left before it could get into the shadow!

“Hehehe…hehe…the winner…is me…!”

However, it was too early to rejoice.

·

With a "swoosh", an arrow hit Svalerok's body accurately, but bounced off.

Jiang Ran glanced at Svalerok's status information. Its current vitality was "9/570", and the arrow just now only caused 1 point of damage to it.

Svalerok's body is very weak, but this is relative to the summoned creature and Viviana. If you compare it with Jiang Ran's data, the level 59 Svalerok's body is much stronger than his.

"You little bastard... forget it!!"

Svalerok immediately controlled the summoned creature to attack Jiang Ran and protect himself, while Jiang Ran ran quickly, shooting arrows one after another.

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

——"miss"

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

Jiang Ran cannot extinguish the glowing magic stone now. Once it is extinguished, the entire cave will return to darkness.

Thanks to Viviana's devastating blow just now, Jiang Ran now only had to avoid a broken granite puppet, and the only thing protecting Svalerok was a half-dead marble evil-eye snake.

Even so, it was still extremely difficult to continuously hit the miniature Svalerok in this situation, and Jiang Ran, whose magic power had run out, could not activate any skills.

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

——"miss"

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

——"miss"

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

Svalerok only has the last 3 points of life force left, and it is only 20 centimeters away from the nearest shadow...!

(Let’s do it!)

The situation was urgent. Jiang Ran stopped to ensure that the next arrow would hit the target, regardless of the risk of being caught by the granite puppet.

(Hit it! Just hit three more arrows and you win!!)

Jiang Ran held his breath and focused all his attention on archery!

The first arrow!

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

The second arrow!

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

The third arrow!

——"miss"

At the critical moment, the granite puppet's huge fist grabbed Jiang Ran's body and lifted him up.

It's only the last blow left, is this the end?

No! Despite the excruciating pain of feeling like his body was about to be crushed, Jiang Ran shot the fourth arrow!!!

——『Hit, causing 1 point of damage』

——『Successfully killed「Shadow Devouring Rockdemon Svalerok - Lv59」』

——『Team battle, experience points are allocated based on contribution points, professional experience points +44800, current experience points 44900/1000』

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3.35 - Cave Story (Update)

——『If the upgrade conditions are met, "Basic Assassin - Lv4" will automatically upgrade to "Basic Assassin - Lv5"』

——『If the upgrade conditions are met, "Basic Assassin - Lv5" will automatically upgrade to "Basic Assassin - Lv6"』

——『Upgrade conditions met, "Basic Assassin - Lv6" automatically upgraded...』

——『Upgrade conditions met...』

……

A large number of upgrade prompts filled Jiang Ran's vision, but he no longer had the energy to read them. He just wanted to take a good breath and see if he was still alive.

The terrifying power of the granite puppet almost crushed Jiang Ran's body. Fortunately, after Svalerok died, its summoned creatures also stopped moving and turned into a pile of motionless stones. Jiang Ran was able to save his life.

Jiang Ran gritted his teeth and reluctantly escaped from the granite puppet and returned to the ground. He took a look at his status information, which was truly horrible.

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Vitality 5/100

Stamina 3/88

Magic 2/210

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This is what it's like to be on the verge of life and death.

However, all the efforts were worth it, because the last item in Jiang Ran's upgrade prompt read:

——『If the upgrade conditions are met, "Basic Assassin - Lv19" will automatically upgrade to "Basic Assassin - Lv20"』

·

Jiang Ran sat down against the stone wall, dying.

He found Viviana in the shadows not far away. She had not yet recovered from the dizziness caused by the exhaustion of her magic power, but apart from her magic power being 0, her vitality and endurance were still very healthy, and her level had even increased by 1.

"Sir, we... won..."

Jiang Ran reported the results of the battle to Viviana. She was dizzy and probably didn't know the situation. Then, Jiang Ran began to review his gains after leveling up 16 times in a row.

(The upper limit of vitality has increased by 60 points...)

(Endurance limit increased by 46 points...)

(The magic limit has increased by 20 points...)

Judging from the 16-level increase, the growth of various values ​​is within Jiang Ran's expectations. Now he finally doesn't feel like he will die at the slightest touch.

However, Jiang Ran is currently weak and cannot feel the improvement in his physical condition after the upgrade.

In addition to the numerical improvement, there is another change that Jiang Ran is concerned about.

After the junior assassin reaches level 20, the experience value display becomes:

『4200/4200』

Logically speaking, since the experience level is full, it should be upgraded automatically. Is there a bug?

Jiang Ran thought about it and realized that based on his current numerical growth rate, even if he reached level 60, his numerical strength would be far behind Viviana, Grandma Cassie and the others.

The combat profession card does not automatically upgrade at level 20. It is very likely that after the experience value is full, certain stage conditions need to be met before it can continue to upgrade. This may be the reason for the huge numerical gap between high levels and low levels.

(I'll ask Grandma Cathy later.)

·

After a long while, Jiang Ran was able to stand up and move, and Viviana also recovered from the dizziness.

"Thank you, Hunter. I would be dead without you."

"You are too polite, sir. It is you who saved my life... Oh, by the way, my name is Banning, sir, you can just call me by my name."

Jiang Ran originally wanted to come up with a new name, but considering that Viviana and Wei'er had already met, he decided to keep the previous name.

Try to imagine the scene when the three of them meet, and Viviana and Wei'er call Jiang Ran by different names respectively. Jiang Ran would probably have several lives left to die.

"Then...then don't call me 'Sir' or 'you'...just call me Viviana."

Only at this moment did Jiang Ran and Viviana exchange names.

They had clearly kissed each other thoroughly, but they were still so awkward when talking. What a weird relationship.

After exchanging names, Viviana didn't dare to look Jiang Ran in the eye, so she quickly changed the subject to hide her panic.

"By the way, this monster's magic core is yours. It's not convenient for me to bring back the materials when I go out this time."

"Thank you, Viviana."

Hearing the boy call her name so quickly, Viviana became even more flustered. She couldn't understand why she was so sensitive to the boy's every move. She had never been like that before...

——(Could it be… am I… sick…?)

·

Using intimate names is an important technique to bring two people closer together. Of course, the premise is that the other party does not reject it, otherwise it is hooligan behavior.

The reason why Jiang Ran took the initiative to tell Viviana his name was to let Viviana say her name herself.

Jiang Ran saw Viviana's uneasy heart, but he was not in a hurry to launch an "offensive".

At this stage, Jiang Ran feels very good as long as he can do this.

This time, the two of them defeated Svalerock together. There was both a suspension bridge effect and an adversity effect. As long as they meet again in the future, Jiang Ran believes that he will have a chance to conquer Viviana.

Even if there is a huge gap in status and strength between the two people, these problems can be easily solved by applying appropriate love psychology.

However, we cannot launch the attack now.

——"One of Jiang Ran's theories on love: Whether it's food or love, you must learn to leave others with a little regret and a thought."

Jiang Ran felt that this encounter with the monster had caused Viviana enough emotional fluctuations, and it was time to do some "subtraction".

As the saying goes, less is more.

Only in this way can we transform the subsequent "negative state" of "separation" into "missing each other" which is beneficial to the emotions.

·

"Sorry, this is my first time disintegrating a monster. Is the magic core located in the heart?"

"Yeah, yeah, the magic core is in the heart."

Under Viviana's guidance, Jiang Ran dissected Svalerok's body and obtained a magic core.

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"Name: Shadow Devouring Rockdemon Svalerok's Magic Core"

"Introduction: A specialized magic core of intelligence, which can be used to develop potions or as the core of weapons, armor, or accessories."

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Viviana helped Jiang Ran take a look and gave an evaluation that was similar to the information Jiang Ran obtained through his identification ability.

Seeing Viviana praising the magic core, Jiang Ran thought of the "pigeon blood" he had hidden, and his conscience ached.

Afterwards, the two explored the cave together, "cleared" the long-eared jerboas that had mutated into monsters, and finally found a passage to the outside world, but the passage was blocked by rocks.

Viviana's original guess turned out to be correct.

"If I don't recover some magic power, I'm afraid I won't be able to cut this stone..."

Viviana didn't think much about it when she said this, but after she said it, the "recovery of magic" reminded her of the unspeakable things she and Banning had done in the cave not long ago, and her face suddenly turned red.

Jiang Ran knew why Viviana suddenly became shy, but now he was willing but unable to help.