Night Ranger - Full Series - 735 Chapters

by Dark Blue Coconut Milk

  ‘That woman is far more powerful than described. The Ranger who wrote the guide must have been one of the first players who became a God, which made the encounter seem much easier from his point of view.’

  ‘My resistances are so strong that I can resist almost all the Witchcrafts that would inflict curses or mental effects, while also having an extremely high resistance to Seals. How could I have known that she’d have something like the Bone Breaking Screech?!’

  Marvin’s awkward state was actually somewhat justifiable.

  He ascended to Godhood in the game and was able to use Divine Power, so he knew many things about it. However, in the time frame just before he transmigrated, he had heard that some large guilds were researching the God Slaying Seals of the 3rd era, but hadn’t learned much about them yet.

  He only saw some descriptions about God Slaying Seals like the Bone Breaking Screech, but had never had to fight against anyone that used them.

  The information wasn’t complete, which could easily lead to being at a disadvantage.

  Marvin didn’t manage to avoid the hit from the Bone Breaking Screech, and he was surprised as to the lengths that the Snake Witch was willing to go to get her revenge.

  That woman was suffering too, but still went all-out to immediately look for him.

  If that wasn’t crazy, what was it?

  Despite the pain, Marvin was still quite clear-headed.

  He had cursed aloud just now because had been startled by the Snake Witch’s appearance.

  But that surprise had quickly turned into delight.

  His loss of self-control was three parts legitimate and seven parts feigned.

  He was pretending to desperately try to escape from the Snake Witch’s power, as if he was completely out of strength. Ultimately, he was slowly pulled over to the Snake Witch.

  …

  There was only one ray of sunlight piercing into the ravine.

  The Snake Witch’s eyes were bleeding profusely, but the white irises were still staring fixedly at a specific place in the darkness.

  A huge hole appeared out of nowhere, and Marvin fell out of it, landing just in front of the Snake Witch. The latter was panting, but her face was filled with arrogance and hate.

  Marvin’s guess wasn’t wrong. The previous sneak attack and the Bone Breaking Screech seriously wounded the Snake Witch.

  However, she was such a lunatic that she staked everything to forcibly drag Marvin back.

  If she had just retreated to her cabin to make better preparations, her life would have been a lot more secure.

  After all, Marvin had already used up one of his trump cards and lost the element of surprise, and her cabin was a place where she had been living for so many years, with all kinds of arrangements planned for the Anzeds, or in other words, for the Witch Queen.

  The lair of a caster who had lived for thousands of years… Even if Marvin summoned all his Shadow Dragons and the Black Dragon, he might not necessarily be able to take her out.

  But as was common to those who always stood above others, the Snake Witch was very conceited.

  She was certain that Marvin was already an arrow at the end of its flight. All she had to do was catch him, and he would be screwed.

  She didn’t have the patience to wait, and she absolutely didn’t want to give Marvin any chance to escape.

  She wanted to torture Marvin now!

  Only in that way could she vent the rage and fear that he had just stoked in her heart.

  When she saw Marvin’s staggering silhouette appear before her, the Snake Witch showed a mocking smile. “Lil’ Rat, I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, Anzed or the Supreme Jungle. Since you wanted to kill me, I’ll let you let you test some experiments I’ve been working on!”

  After saying that, she spread one of her hands open, and the fingers turned into five vines rushing toward Marvin.

  But suddenly, a golden light shone!

  The Snake Witch was dumbfounded as the expression of Marvin, who had been slumped on the ground, suddenly changed.

  Major Shapechange – Royal Griffin!

  “Snake Witch!”

  “You aren’t the only one that is able to use Major Shapechange spells!”

  As those words came out of the Griffin’s mouth, the wings flapped, creating a dusty tornado that engulfed everything, cutting off the Witch’s path to retreat!

  The Snake Witch suddenly became pale.

  When she saw this scene before her, she recalled that this guy had easily used Dispel Magic earlier!

  It wouldn’t be strange for him to also be able to use a Shapechange spell.

  Using Major Shapechange was like shedding one’s body. Although supposedly it wasn’t on the level of the superior ability, Ultimate Shapechange, it was enough to counter the pain and weakness of Marvin’s normal form.

  His body was suddenly full of strength.

  The growth of the advanced False Divine Vessel also had some consequences on the Shapechange, making the Royal Griffin become more nimble.

  The two of them were too close to each other, to the point that just as the Snake Witch started using an instant spell to try to stop him, Marvin’s sharp talons had already clutched her around the chest!

  An extremely bloody scene played out in the ravine.

  Marvin, who had been on the verge of life and death, had no pity for the fairer sex when it was someone so insidious, and he wouldn’t make any stupid mistakes and die for it. He quickly and efficiently tore apart the Snake Witch’s chest and her heart!

  The Magic Armor that the Snake Witch was wearing activated automatically, but it seemed powerless to stop the Griffin’s claws, and she was mauled to death in just moments!

  This wasn’t exactly because of Marvin’s immense power, but rather because he knew how frightening a Legend caster was.

  A powerful caster like the Snake Witch would likely have cast some special recovery spells on herself.

  If she had been thorough enough, she might even be able to recover with only a head left.

  The only way to make sure she was truly dead was to tear apart all her vitals.

  In the end, the Snake Witch fell lifeless to the ground.

  Marvin stood coldly next to her corpse, still in his form as a Royal Griffin, as he inspected those bloody remains with his eyes.

  Small fights between Legends would often not result in any actual deaths due to their resilience, their access to special recovery techniques, and the wide variety of abilities that they could use to escape a bad situation.

  But the Snake Witch had gone out of her way to give Marvin this opportunity. If she had just left when Marvin disappeared instead of spending a huge amount of her power to search for him while he was just waiting and recovering, there wouldn’t have been such a grisly result.

  Marvin felt pretty lucky that she’d made such a decision.

  He knew that many other Legends wouldn’t have made this kind of mistake. The Snake Witch had lived in the Swamp for a long time and had already become rather arrogant and aloof, since she was one of the strongest beings around. Marvin successfully enraged her, making her lose her rationality.

  When he thought back carefully about their fight, he felt that even if it was very short, there had been many very close calls.

  Marvin had also been a bit scared by the revelation of how powerful the Bone Breaking Screech was. Although his strength was fierce, this era wasn’t lacking in powerhouses.

  Later on, he might look for a bit more information.

  After killing his target, Marvin didn’t immediately rush to the cabin in the swamp to find what he had come for, wary of the possibility that she had set traps or other contingencies there that he didn’t know about.

  He rested for no less than an hour in a corner of the ravine.

  After the Shapechange ability expired, he was in extreme pain once again as his bones had been shattered. It was hard to endure.

  Thankfully, because of hi
s strong constitution and the effects from the Shapechange, under the nourishment of all kinds of power, his bones slowly regrew and knitted back together.

  The Snake Witch had struck a huge blow against him, leaving him seriously weakened. He could only use 70% of his strength at most after the initial quick recovery.

  But that kind of wound wasn’t permanent. With the passage of time and the use of other things to help, he should be able to recover within a week or so.

  After his body recovered enough of his strength, Marvin left the ravine.

  He found the wooden tablet that he needed on the body of the Snake Witch, and unhurriedly entered the tenebrous swamp once again.

  Chapter 603: Poison Drug

  Chapter 603: Poison Drug

  Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation

  In the Rotten Mushroom Swamp, the Snake Witch’s will overwhelmed all else.

  Marvin had deliberately made sure not to harm the wooden tablet at her waist during the fierce battle because he had known that this wooden tablet was the key to enter the wooden house safely.

  Otherwise, even if he knew the path, there would still be all kinds of mechanisms and traps constantly trying to kill him.

  He followed the small path on the periphery of the swamp, taking advantage of the parts of the dense fog that weren’t as thick, and quickly went in.

  The path to enter the cabin was long and sinuous.

  And on the way, Marvin encountered a lot of potential obstacles.

  A bloodthirsty willow tree, a squirrel with an enormous tail, and also a viper nest.

  These monsters were all extremely vigilant against outsiders, but when Marvin took out that wooden tablet, he was able to enter effortlessly.

  This wooden sign not only helped him avoid superfluous battles, but it also was very important for actually getting inside the small wooden house.

  As a brilliant Alchemist, the Snake Witch definitely didn’t have an ordinary cabin.

  Although it looked like an ordinary little house on the outside, it was huge on the inside.

  It was like a small Wizard Tower.

  And the key to enter the Wizard Tower was that wooden tablet, which had once represented the status of the Snake Witch among the Anzeds. She had never given up on her feelings toward the Anzeds, which could be considered somewhat pitiful.

  After entering the cabin, Marvin didn’t think too much and went straight for the important stuff.

  He only touched what he wanted, and didn’t take things that he didn’t need.

  After all, he wasn’t a real caster, so he couldn’t disable all of the Snake Witch’s magical mechanisms and traps inside.

  If he was a bit careless and accidentally triggered a trap, he would definitely be in for a miserable experience.

  …

  The first floor of the cabin was a wide living room. A long wooden table was set up in the middle of the room, and at the end of the table there was a tall, ornate seat carved out of wood.

  Seven flowers, as well as a strange moon, were carved on the seat.

  ‘The Anzeds’ ancient totem?’

  Marvin squinted. This was his first time entering the Snake Witch’s cabin, so this was naturally his first time seeing what was inside.

  There were also a total of twelve wooden chairs, with six on each side of the table. Each chair was wiped clean and shiny.

  Marvin shook his head mockingly. He could even imagine the Snake Witch sitting on that moon and flower throne, revelling in her fantasy of becoming the Witch Queen, with the Twelve Witches bowing their heads to her.

  But unfortunately, this scene would never happen in reality.

  Marvin went past the table and went up a staircase at the end of the room.

  The really good stuff would be on the 2nd floor.

  Strictly speaking, the 2nd floor was the Snake Witch’s laboratory and library.

  There were many precious resources in the Snake Witch’s small cabin, but without a Legendary Wizard at his side, Marvin didn’t dare to act recklessly.

  He could only follow the guide from memory and take away the important items that wouldn’t trigger serious traps or curses.

  Searching through the laboratory, he found a clean display case in which the Witch had set up her already finished Alchemy items.

  There were four shelves on the display case, each of them packed completely full. The bottles of medicines and items were labelled in a strange language.

  This was the Anzed Language.

  [Burning Hot Power], [Anqima Poison], [Thunder Bless], [Major Wish]…

  Each potion was at least at the Legendary level!

  The Snake Witch was truly worthy of being a Legend Alchemist who had lived for a millennium. This collection of items was beyond extraordinary. Even when Shadow Thief Owl looted Diggles’ treasury, they hadn’t gotten so many powerful potions.

  But Marvin could look at those things with desire.

  Because he knew that these potions had very powerful Magic Arrays arranged to protect them.

  Disabling them required the chant from the Snake Witch’s mouth. If he did manage to snatch something away from the shelves, he’d then have to contend with the problem that the potions could even self-detonate.

  And not only would Marvin be unable to get any advantage out of it, but he would also trigger the cabin’s alarm, triggering all of the defenses and countermeasures.

  He looked away from those powerful potions at the top, and his gaze ultimately fell upon a particular potion bottle on the 4th shelf.

  ‘This potion doesn’t have a defensive magic array?’

  ‘This was the latest one she crafted, so she probably didn’t have time…’

  After Marvin used Earth Perception and found out that this bottle didn’t seem to be under any protective spells at all, he had an expression of pleasant surprise on his face.

  He had originally looked at the display case rather casually, knowing that its contents were all magically secured. It came as an unexpected surprise that there was something useful in it that was unprotected.

  Like this potion bottle called [Poison Drug].

  From the label, this [Poison Drug] was the Snake Witch’s latest work, which she was very proud of. Marvin could only presume that she hadn’t gotten around to properly naming it yet.

  The effect of the Poison Drug was very simple: ten minutes after taking the medicine, the user’s attributes would all raise by 10 points!

  That was a very frightening number!

  To Marvin who had already become a Legend, what kind of changes could an overall increase of 10 points to all his attributes cause?

  He didn’t dare imagine what the Post-Godly Dexterity, which was already enough to devastate most of his enemies, could do once it reached 45! He had the confidence of being able to contend against the Mid Gods at the very least, and not be at a disadvantage at all!

  With his advanced False Divine Vessel, he would at least be able to resist the power of the Gods’ Plane Law Authorities. As for the rest of the Gods’ skills, in front of his heaven-defying attributes, they simply wouldn’t be worth mentioning.

  What kind of concept was 45 Dexterity?

  Maybe even the Gods couldn’t reach this?

  It would allow one to move at an extremely frightening speed. A Wizard’s Teleportation Door or a rogue’s Flicker simply couldn’t even beat Marvin’s simplest movement skill with 45 Dexterity! And then there was the bonus to all his other attributes too!

  Having such a potion was equivalent to having an overwhelmingly powerful trump card.

  How could Marvin not be pleasantly surprised about the find?

  Naturally, it wasn’t all nice. The potion had been named Poison Drug because it truly was a poisonous drug!

  Although it could arouse one’s potential, the potion itself was very toxic. While the potion was in effect, one could still rely on the power boost from the increased attributes and their own body’s natural resist
ance to fight it.

  Once the effect was over, the toxic side effect would start flaring up. Even a God who took the potion might have their Divine Source corroded by the poison, falling to never rise again!

  Marvin felt quite terrified when looking at this explanation.

  That thing was the same as his Magic Addict Shape. It was to be used only in a very desperate situation.

  Unexpectedly, it suddenly occurred to him that this bottle of poison might be suitable for use when paired with his Magic Addict Shape!

  A bold and crazy plan took form in his mind, but Marvin only thought about it for a moment. It would be unlikely for him to use it in a real battle.

  Unless he really needed to use it, this kind of last-chance move would stay hidden forever.

  As he thought about this, Marvin put away the Poison Drug before looking at the other corners of the laboratory once again.

  Chapter 604: Alchemy Box

  Chapter 604: Alchemy Box

  Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation

  From what Marvin remembered, one thing that he really needed to find was an Artifact called the Alchemy Box.

  In the game, the Alchemy Box had been obtained by a large guild, which had used it to create the first player-made Artifact.

  And that Alchemy Box was said to be hidden in the Snake Witch’s laboratory.

  Marvin cautiously followed the path around the laboratory, making his way around some obviously dangerous items before reaching a small room.

  This room was clearly different from the other rooms.

  Most rooms in the cabin had windows and had Wizard Fire inside to light them.

  After all, the Snake Witch was a Human that had been born on the surface, and it was very difficult to change the living habits of the surface.

  There was no doubt about that.

  But this small room was windowless on all sides without anything lighting it.

  With the door closed, if not for Marvin having Darksight, he might not have been able to see the surroundings.

  ‘Eh? This is mercury?’

  ‘Smearing mercury in all the corners of the room? Why?’

  Marvin felt that this was a bit promising as he realized that he might have found the key location.