Finally waited for it!

  Suddenly feeling deeply emotional, inexplicably entering this world, and being chased around like a dog all along. Leif had hardly ever practiced properly, almost entirely relying on memory and the skills he had honed in the game to overcome one hurdle after another.

  Unconsciously, it has also reached the first threshold.

  Through this thrilling adventure in the shadow realm, he also gained a large number of basic attribute points. Every two levels, he got a total of 3 basic attribute points. Raven took advantage of the situation and added 2 points to his physique and 1 point to his intelligence.

  Raven now has two new extraordinary attributes, no lottery or selection as imagined, the system directly gives out two specialties that make Raven quite satisfied:

  "Shadow Rebirth [Special]: The extremely high concentration of shadow energy in your blood and a physical constitution twice that of a normal person have granted you mysterious powers. As long as it's nighttime, you can slowly recover from injuries to your body at the cost of 50 points of shadow energy per hour, restoring 5 points of life per hour. This includes fractures and internal bleeding but does not include fatal wounds. Additional investment of shadow energy can slightly accelerate rebirth."

  "[Soul of Protection]: Prerequisite: Half-elf, Spellcaster. Benefit: You and each ally adjacent to you gain resistance from your spellcasting source. The benefit now grants you and all allies within 10 meters of you a +2 saving throw bonus against shadow-based spells and abilities."

  After adding skill points, Raven's attributes changed as follows:

  Name: Lei Wen.

  Race: Half-Elf/Descendant of a certain Bureau's bloodline.

  Attributes: Strength 15, Dexterity 29, Constitution 20, Intelligence 20, Perception 17, Charisma 22.

  Alignment: Lawful Evil

  Occupation: Level 10 Commoner / Level 20 Assassin [Bronze Rank].

  HP: 92/155 (Mild internal injury, fracture)

  Shadow Energy: 128/128 (Recovers 2 points every 5 seconds)

  Experience: General 0. Killing experience 1200 (unallocated).

  Skill points: None.

  Attribute points: None.

  Status: Healthy.

  Professional skills - Stealth 80, Disguise 50, Hide 65, Performance 45, Intimidation 33, Ambush 60, Backstab 23, Instinctive Dodge 55...

  Shadow System Battle Skills - Assassin's Robe 15, Shadow Step 20, Shadow Form 5, Assassin Strike 12, Blade of Certainty 7, Suffocating Shadow 11, Strangling Shadow 8

  Legendary Skill - Fanaticism [Seal]

  Racial Skills - Darkvision

  Personal specialties - stealth, persuader, flying eaves and walking walls, extensive knowledge and strong memory, universal affinity, shadow rebirth, protective soul, invisible divine movement.

  Personal Skills - Self-Stabilization [Legendary]

  First of all, it should be mentioned that shadow system combat skills cannot be strengthened through skill points and can only be improved by increasing proficiency through frequent use.

  Then it's the promotion task "Bronze Body".

  The task introduction is also simple: "Please improve your physical quality as much as possible within a month, and the system will give you basic attribute bonus based on your performance."

  As the best opportunity to upgrade oneself, the Bronze Body quest cannot be taken lightly. This relates to the final bonus value of the profession's total level 20 reward. The highest task completion rate compared to the lowest can have a difference of several times in the total basic attribute bonus value. If there is a perfect evaluation, there will also be additional bonuses.

  If you just casually complete a task and hand it in, then it's very likely that all attributes will be +1.

  Basic abilities are the foundation of all skills and spells, and the higher the level, the higher the demand for basic attributes. Don't look at Raven using shadow skills so coolly in the Shadow Festival, in fact, there are attribute requirements behind the scenes, without those temporary added values, using shadow skills randomly is just asking for death.

  With his current basic attributes, Raven can only use 7 shadow skills. No more before completing the Bronze Body task.

  Looking up at the black sky, Raven thought: Finally settled.

  Leiwen stayed in the shadow plane for another two hours, until his injuries were mostly healed by the skill 【Shadow Rebirth】, then he stepped through the portal next to the Shadow Altar and returned to Aocheng Continent.

  "Hmm, the flow of time on this shadow plane is different from the main plane, I wonder how long it's been?" Raven muttered to himself as he scanned his surroundings.

  Finding himself still near Shalos Town, Raven thought for a moment and decided to head into town.

  I don't know if that horse carriage is still available or not, if it's not then I need to find another mode of transportation. There are many places to go next. It would be a real pain without the horse carriage.

  It's noon now, Raven walks into the town, and he still looks like a human drifter.

  As soon as he entered the town, he found that several pairs of eyes in the dark were fixed on him.

  "Hmph!" The slightly labored breathing and clumsy footsteps of the other party made Raven easily aware that they were just a few novice wanderers from the Black Iron Clan.

  He didn't take these guys seriously at all, and Raven walked straight into the town's only tavern.

  "Please, I'm begging you, is anyone willing to go with me to the Shadowfell? My brother Rex is still there... No, no, no, I swear he's still alive! He's a great guy who knows the Shadowfell and can take care of himself."

  "How many days have you been shouting here, aren't you tired? Who doesn't want to make money if they can? If I had the confidence to make money from you, I would have taken your deposit long ago. And look, last time Sak's team followed you and six of them died before even reaching the entrance. Scram! No one here will bother with you."

  "You think everyone is as lucky as you!"

  One pleading, two scolding, Lei Wen listened and felt warm in his heart.

  It's white hair!

  Unexpectedly, this simple half-orc didn't leave after escaping the Shadowfell, but instead desperately organized an adventurer team to find Raven.

  "Baimao, I'm not dead. You don't have to stay here anymore, get out of here quickly, I have something to say to you."

  "Rex, is that you? Oh my god! You're not dead!" White Hair shouted, immediately followed by the sound of tables and dishes crashing to the ground in the tavern.

  The next second, Raven saw a white-haired man with a plate of stir-fried noodles on his head rush out of the gate and give him a big bear hug!

  Uh...... it's a real bear hug! A bear hug that hasn't taken a bath for who knows how many days!

  Lei Wén suddenly realized that he hadn't died in the Shadow Realm, perhaps he would die in this damned bear hug instead.

  "Let me go! I'm suffocating!"

  Bai Mao heard this and was stunned for a full three seconds before awkwardly releasing Levin: "Good guy! I knew you wouldn't die. Uh, where's Yade?"

  Lei Wen shook his head.

  "Alas, I also knew he wouldn't jump down at that time and it would be a big mess."

  "That was his choice," Raven said calmly.

  "Here, take your money back." Bai Mao took out a pouch of gold coins, and Levin was astonished to find that there were exactly five hundred of them inside.

  "This..."

  "I didn't know what you meant by giving me the money back then. Since you're back, I should return it to you. Anyway, I didn't do anything worth earning that amount of money for. Of course, if I had organized an adventurer party to rescue you and bring you back, I would have taken 200, no, 100 gold coins as payment for me and the adventurer party."