“Legendary Hunt progress?” Qin Lun felt a bit strange as he clicked on this progress. After reading the related introduction, he finally understood.
It turned out that his several battles against high-rank and legendary creatures in Toril World were recorded in this hunt progress. Qin Lun obtained the Hunter’s Heart in Toril World quite early. Actually, at that time, he had already started on his advancement path.
Later, at Naga Lake, when he fought that high-rank assassin from Zhentarim, although the final kill was completed by the elven ranger sent by Elder Adeline, Shattered Starry Sky still credited part of the success to him. After all, without the heavy damage from his Stellar Black Hole, that high-rank assassin could have escaped.
Then, fighting the legendary creature Earth Salamander at Ironstar Fortress, killing the high-rank lich Hasheed in Valley of the Undead, and slaying the undead Centaur in the underground hall of Uvaeren’s library, all had direct connections to him. Therefore, parts of those successes were attributed to him.
If these achievements hadn’t been shared with plot characters and other apostles, Qin Lun would have actually completed his advancement task already.
“Cooperating with others can also complete the advancement task?” Qin Lun thoughtfully touched his nose and shook his head with a light laugh. The hunter profession was indeed very interesting. Solo hunting counted as being a hunter, and cooperating with others to hunt was also a choice for many hunters.
Understanding this point, Qin Lun stopped paying attention to it and clicked on the Jungle Hunter icon in the Death Notice. Now, the advancement icon behind this career path had changed from gray to semi-transparent, allowing him to view the class description.
The Jungle Hunter had quite a few advancement branches. When Qin Lun originally chose this profession, he valued its broad range of subsequent advancement options. The most common advancement for Jungle Hunter corresponded to the Elven Ranger.
If he chose to become an Elven Ranger, the Jungle Hunter’s relatively weak close-combat abilities would be greatly enhanced. The subsequent career path was also quite good; at high rank, he could become a Ranger General.
There was an essential difference between a Ranger General and an Elven Ranger. If the Elven Ranger was the enhanced and complete version of the Jungle Hunter, then the Ranger General would have several powerful class talents on top of that.
For example: the most common class ability of a Ranger General was to create three to five illusions based on themselves, each possessing 70% of their own combat power. These illusions could use all of the Ranger General’s abilities, but the skill power was only 70% of the original.
This class ability was both offensive and defensive. It not only confused enemies about which was real but could also suddenly erupt, catching enemies off guard. Besides this most common class ability, the Ranger General also had an ethereal transformation skill.
In contrast to the clone illusions, the ethereal transformation could form a giant ethereal entity dozens of meters tall, centered on the Ranger General. If the Ranger General also had high elemental affinity, such as fire affinity, then the ethereal giant could be imbued with flames, turning into a flame spirit.
Of course, this ability, similar to a legendary forbidden spell, would also place a great burden on the Ranger General and was basically a last-resort move. Once used, if the enemy didn’t die, the Ranger General themselves would likely fall.
Besides the Elven Ranger advancement branch, Qin Lun was surprised to find a Druid advancement branch here as well. This might be because the young man possessed several magic skills, especially the ninth-order wood magic Tree World Descent. With this skill as the core, he indeed had a slight chance to advance into an elemental Druid.
Additionally, there were some other decent advancement branches. For example, one was called the Phantom Shooter. This profession combined the stealth abilities of a Rogue with the precise shooting of a hunter, offering good survivability and attack power, which made Qin Lun somewhat tempted.
Purely from a professional standpoint, the Phantom Shooter was among the peak combat powers in the Second Order. However, Qin Lun ultimately did not choose this profession because when it reached high rank, it would become mediocre. Among high-rank professions, it lacked a decisive high-level skill.
The follow-up profession for Elven Ranger was extremely powerful, but there was no substantial improvement at the Second Order stage. The Phantom Shooter was peak combat power in the Second Order, but its subsequent advancement was somewhat weak. Qin Lun did not really like either of these two choices.
First-order class change was different from the Second Order. First-order professions were still just laying the foundation. Even if one found the profession unsuitable, they could learn more preferred abilities during the accumulation phase and then switch to another profession when advancing to the Second Order.
However, once promoted to the Second Order, the skill system was basically complete. It wasn’t that one couldn’t change combat professions anymore, but the cost of switching was unbearable.
Just imagine, a Second-Order Apostle’s mission difficulty was already quite high. If they needed to accumulate skills and equipment for another profession while completing tasks, instead of continuing to improve themselves, wouldn’t that be like seeking death?
After reviewing the advancement branch routes, Qin Lun started looking at the hidden advancement path attached to that Legendary Hunt progress. The so-called hidden advancement path didn’t necessarily mean that hidden professions were stronger than other advancement branches, but rather that these professions had special requirements for advancement, which few Apostles could meet.
After the Legendary Hunt progress was completed, Shattered Starry Sky gave him two prompt options based on Qin Lun’s current equipment and skills. The first hidden advancement profession was called Energy Devourer. After carefully reading the introduction, Qin Lun found that this profession was a variant of the Nen Ability user.
The Energy Devourer was centered around his current “Blood of Dissection.” Its combat system was very similar to the Nen Ability user’s “Six Principles of Emission,” featuring enhancement, emission, manipulation, transformation, and materialization characteristics, along with a devouring special effect, equivalent to the Specialization type.
This profession was likely a law system obtained by Shattered Starry Sky from Hunter World. It was not only very powerful at the Second Order stage but also held profound mysteries even after advancing to high rank.
Having experienced Hunter World, Qin Lun felt a surge of excitement. He had witnessed the combat power of the strong ones in the Phantom Troupe. Even Pakunoda, who had turned into a figurine, was not someone he could handle now.
Almost every member of the Phantom Troupe possessed the combat power of a High-Rank Apostle. It was conceivable that Hunter World would not lack high-rank and legendary powerhouses.
The combat system of Nen Ability could fully support Qin Lun all the way to the peak of High-Rank Apostle. As for legendary or even demigod professions, that was too distant for him. Such powerhouses probably could no longer rely on Shattered Starry Sky’s help and could only break through on their own.
The Energy Devourer was indeed very powerful, but if he chose this profession, Qin Lun’s current skill system would again seem incomplete.
“Blood of Dissection” had helped him a lot in past battles. For example, in Hunter World, he used “Blood of Dissection” to dismantle Kortopi’s materialized building, breaking the Troupe’s surveillance.
In Toril World, it was also because of the devouring ability of “Blood of Dissection” that he instantly broke through the lich Hasheed’s defense and forcibly took him away from Valley of the Undead.
However, “Blood of Dissection” was currently just a tactical ability for him and had not yet formed a skill system.
If he chose the Energy Devourer profession, he would have to marginalize his entire hunting martial arts system that combined summoned beasts with long-range attacks. This also included the legendary firearm “Burial of Light and Darkness,” into which Qin Lun had put great effort.
Although high-rank skills like Clock Eye and Tree World Descent would still be useful, his entire skill system would become fragmented. He would need to spend a lot of time and energy to collect skills and equipment related to the Energy Devourer’s combat system.
“Energy Devourer…” Qin Lun slightly frowned, his eyes flickering. Ultimately, he shifted his gaze to the other hidden profession’s icon.
The second hidden profession surprised Qin Lun a bit because he had seen this profession during his first-order class change. It was one of the high-rank forms of the Jungle Hunter, but partially broke free from the elf bloodline system. This was the Demon Hunter.
“Advancing directly from first-order to high rank?” Qin Lun continued checking the introduction with some hesitation.
“Oh, not exactly!” After reading the introduction for this hidden profession, Qin Lun let out a long sigh. This Demon Hunter was indeed related to that high-rank Demon Hunter, but it was just the lower form of that high-rank profession.
The high-rank Demon Hunter mixed demon and elf bloodlines. It possessed all the combat talents of an Elven Ranger and also had the talents of the Demon Clan, almost reaching the peak in both magic and martial arts.
In fact, as long as the high-rank Demon Hunter continued to purify their two bloodlines and perfectly fuse them, they would possess a legendary rank physique. Moreover, due to the powerful demon blood, they inherently found it easier to advance to legendary and demigod ranks compared to other professions.
Of course, the low-rank Demon Hunter that Qin Lun could change to now was not that powerful. However, this hidden profession could fully utilize the Jungle Hunter’s skill system and greatly compensate for the weakest attributes in the young man’s physique: strength, constitution, and protection.
At the same time, what made Qin Lun tempted was that high-rank demons themselves were considered superior beings. Their blood and soul held immense potential, comparable in a sense to divine blood. Fusing with the blood and soul of such a high-rank demon would give the Demon Hunter high magic resistance, almost exempting them from most mental control skills.
For Qin Lun, who had significant defects in his mental world, this was an absolutely irresistible temptation.
From the introduction of the low-rank Demon Hunter, it still couldn’t possess the powerful magical talents of the high-rank Demon Hunter. It only had a Demon Transformation ability, and the transformation state lasted for a short time, requiring a certain cost.
“I like this transformation ability!” A long-lost voice suddenly rose from the depths of Qin Lun’s heart.
“Joey? So you also agree to change class to low-rank Demon Hunter?” Qin Lun’s eyes flashed as he once again examined the low-rank Demon Hunter’s introduction. He looked extremely focused, sometimes even spending some Shattered Crystal to buy related profession information from Shattered Starry Sky.
“Even for a low-rank Demon Hunter, a large amount of Demon’s Blood is still required. If the blood doesn’t reach the level of an Archdemon, subsequent bloodline purification would be extremely troublesome.” Qin Lun furrowed his brow tightly, his expression showing hesitation.
The Demon’s Blood mentioned in the profession introduction was not a simple item; it wasn’t just a demon cutting its finger. This Demon’s Blood had to come from the same demon and be the heart core essence blood drawn during the same time period.
In other words, to meet the class change standard for a low-rank Demon Hunter, a healthy demon had to provide most of its heart core essence blood. Although demons had freakish constitutions, losing a large amount of heart core essence blood had only one consequence: death!
