Mother Nature's Mad Gifts

Ding! Detected ****. Accept ****'s Divine Art, Blood Boil?

Although the System Notification chimed in his mind, asking whether he would accept the Divine Art known as Blood Boil, Ailin had already learned Blood Boil the moment the notification appeared.

What a pointless detection.

Not quite. Ailin could feel a vast, benevolent invisible power attempting to reshape his body.

Perhaps only after being altered by that power could he gain the ability to cast Blood Boil.

"So it really is a Divine Art..."

Feeling the power within his body, he muttered as he recalled a book he had once read in Kaer Morhen's library, Priests and Druids: The Sources of Power for Special Magic Users. It had said—

Priests and druids were special magic users.

Mages still did not understand where priests' magical abilities came from, but people generally believed that priests' power was sacred, bestowed upon them by their gods.

For priests, this magic might exist to spread the teachings of their gods, while druids believed they had received that power to preserve the inherent balance of the world and nature.

When he had first read that book, Ailin had actually wondered why priests and druids were grouped together.

Because, in his impression, whether in the original novels or the games, priests had never had much presence in the Witcher world.

When High Priest Nannick of the Temple of Melitele treated Geralt in the original story, she had used ordinary herbs rather than Divine Arts.

The Church of Cliff clearly had extremely strict commandments, requiring its followers to challenge themselves, eliminate their distractions and weaknesses, and fight evil. Yet there were few clergy of Cliff in the Northern Continent who truly punished evil.

It was as though Divine Arts were merely a pretext for deceiving believers.

In fact, only