The Angel's Halo's Greatest Use? Of Course, It's for...
"Then you've misunderstood. Back then, I didn't even have SS-rank Talent, not even an S-rank Talent. I was just an ordinary person with the Vision. I gradually acquired all those S-rank Talent and SS-rank Talent after defeating you." Through the Collective Network, Chen Luo knew that Yvette was both mocking him and comforting him that it was normal to be inferior in skill, so Chen Luo said quite bluntly.
Do you think you can comfort yourself by saying that you were defeated by SS-rank Talent Holder?
No, no, no? You really lost to an ordinary person.
"..." Yvette, who had been chattering behind Chen Luo, suddenly shut up, even the rustling sound of her dressing stopped.
"To be honest, I couldn't have beaten any A-rank Talent User back then, but what can I do when you're an angel?"
"..." The sound of dressing rang out again, but Yvette herself remained silent.
Through the Yvette character cards created by the Collective Network, Chen Luo can see a lot of information about Yvette.
This includes the other person having mild obsessive-compulsive disorder related to cleanliness.
That's why she was so resentful about Chen Luo throwing her on the ground. And that's why, after learning that she had been left like a corpse in some place for more than a month, the first thing she did was change her clothes.
At the same time, Chen Luo also learned about some of Yvette's personality traits.
For example... a fondness for fighting.
After all, Yvette is the War Angel.
Sometimes a person's talent can determine their destiny.
Yvette's love for fighting isn't because the War Angel's talent allows Yvette to grow stronger while fighting, but because the other party simply enjoys war.
In Chen Luo's view, the other party's understanding of combat was somewhat similar to that of Esdeath, the user of the Archon Manifestation: Essence of the Demon.
The law of the jungle prevails; the victor takes all.
Yvette is in a bad mood because she was defeated by someone who was weaker.
"I love that look on your face when you don't like me but can't hit me," Chen Luo said, turning his head to look at Yvette had just pulled her white stockings down to her calves.
"... If you weren't my master, you would have been beaten so badly that even your own mother wouldn't recognize you by now," Yvette said coldly.
"Do you believe I can beat you so badly that even your own mother wouldn't recognize you right now?" Chen Luo said, brandishing his crowbar... staff.
"..."
It's clear that Yvette knows she has no power to resist, but she doesn't want to back down, so she can only protest silently.
Chapter 541 The greatest use of the Angel Ring? Of course, it's for...
"Besides ample clothing, this ring also contains a considerable number of spirit stones and the like," said Yvette, who was dressed in a gorgeous white-gold midi dress with an extremely religious feel, making her appear incredibly holy.
"Wow, your outfit is quite nice, and you look pretty cool too." Chen Luo gave Yvette a thumbs up.
"... Is that the point?" Yvette paused for a moment, not understanding Chen Luo's thought process.
"Of course it's the most important thing. After all, being strong is a temporary thing, but being beautiful is a lifelong thing," Chen Luo said matter-of-factly.
"This is the uniform of the Sisters of the Cleric's Battle Nun. Besides being durable, clean, and practical, it also needs to be aesthetically pleasing. So it's naturally beautiful and cool enough, while also ensuring that the clothes won't restrict your movements during battle." Since it was Chen Luo's question, even if Yvette, as Chen Luo's puppet, really felt too lazy to answer, she still needed to explain.
"I was wondering why it looked somewhat similar to Kallen's combat suit, and it was also filled with a lot of religious elements. But speaking of which, I really didn't realize you were a nun." Chen Luo looked at Yvette with a surprised expression.
Chen Luo originally thought that someone like Yvette would be more suited to something like the Inquisition. Chen Luo really couldn't imagine the image of Yvette kneeling before the cross and praying sincerely.
"As church members, if you can't be a priest, then naturally you can only be a nun. Isn't that normal?" Yvette gave Chen Luo a cold look.
"Moreover, ordinary nuns and Battle Nun are different. Battle Nun only have the title of nun, but in reality they do exorcism and fighting."
"And you know, a person's talent isn't something that suddenly awakens like it's won in a lottery. It's a special quality you're born with. So perhaps it's because I'm War Angel that I entered a religious school, a special monastery, before I awakened my talent. That's probably the mutual attraction of special abilities."
"That's not right. Xiao Ke'er also joined the church, but she's in the Inquisition. She's not a nun."
"The Inquisition... I still have the insignia of the Inquisition Chief Judge. Would you like to see it?" Yvette asked Chen Luo after thinking for a moment.
"Wow, where did you steal this from?"
"I am the presiding judge of the Inquisition! Or do you think that an S-rank Talent User, the War Angel, is not qualified to shoulder this responsibility?" Yvette sneered.
Although Yvette herself was still very unhappy with Chen Luo, as a puppet, Yvette still had to consider Chen Luo's interests in every way.
"Good heavens, the presiding judge of the Inquisition? No wonder you're so bloodthirsty." Chen Luo felt somewhat surprised, yet it also seemed to make sense.
S-rank Talent User, connected to angels and martial arts, would certainly have no problem being a judge.
"In my opinion, all Talent User who do not believe in God are heretics. If you were just an ordinary person back then, even if you were important to Yun Lian'er and Yun Xia, I wouldn't have laid a hand on you. But who told you to be a Talent User?" Yvette raised her proud head and looked at Chen Luo.
Even though Yvette wasn't as tall as Chen Luo, she gave him the feeling that she was looking down on him.
"... You deserved to be beaten to death." After hearing the other party's words, Chen Luo could only manage to utter this sentence after a long pause.
This person grew up so big purely because no one could beat him, right?
"Heh, it's just a case of being caught off guard. Who would have thought that a Talent User had only awakened for a few days according to intelligence would actually be an SS rank Talent User... no, at least SS-rank Talent Holder."
"If it weren't for your special attack attributes against angels, even if there were 10 more of you back then, you still wouldn't be a match for me."
"That's true. With your strength, you're certainly capable of running rampant and arrogantly in the main world, as long as you don't go into the Abyss Channel."
"But speaking of which, why do I always feel that you are slightly different now compared to the person I killed a little over a month ago?" Chen Luo looked Yvette up and down with some curiosity.
Although both Yvette are equally deserving of a beating, the former Yvette seemed to have a touch of madness in addition to her arrogance.
It makes others feel an urge to kill her.
"Could it be because he died once?"
Recalling how many times he had almost died at the hands of Yakumo Yukari, and how he had been constantly having epiphanies, Chen Luo always felt that the special nature of life and death could make people instantly understand many things.
Especially since the other party was indeed really dead, and had been dead for more than a month, and only after coming back to life did they discover that they had become Chen Luo's puppet.
The psychological gap must be quite large.
"No, perhaps that's part of the reason, but the bigger reason is probably because I've calmed down now." Yvette shook her head, denying Chen Luo's words.
"What does this mean?" Chen Luo asked, somewhat curious.
"War always makes people fanatical. It wasn't obvious before I awakened my talent, but after I did awaken it, in addition to giving me unparalleled power, it did bring some side effects."
"To give an example, I would have originally chosen to kill you and then provoke Yun Lian'er and Yun Xia to start a fight or war. But now, after calming down, I would choose to kidnap you and lure them here instead of killing you."
"Oh, I see. To put it simply, it means 'getting hyped,' right?" Chen Luo suddenly realized.
"But seriously, can't you just leave me alone? Why do you always target me and cause me so much trouble?"
Chen Luo felt really angry.
"Because at least at that time, you, being the weakest, were the biggest weakness of the S-rank Talent User. You were too deeply involved with the three of them."
"While your explanation of the side effects isn't quite accurate, it's roughly the same. Actually, I noticed this characteristic some time after I awakened my talent, but instead of choosing to suppress it with a sacred object from the church, I chose to let it run its course."
"Because I don't think this side effect is bad. It can help me grow faster. After all, war makes people fanatical and stronger. People who have experienced the magic of the battlefield, even with the same physical qualities, are stronger than ordinary people in combat."
"What I'm talking about isn't that it will give me the desire to fight, make me fight constantly, and thus help me become stronger. Rather, this side effect seems to be a kind of energy, a buff, and it can indeed enhance my strength."
"I thought I could suppress and control this side effect, but perhaps I let it go for too long, which made my personality more impulsive and irritable. Although some people advised me against it, I didn't pay attention at the time. Now I think that must have been called being stubborn and not realizing my mistake?"
"I understand, this is called 'continuous hype'," Chen Luo immediately added.
"Don't keep using such superficial language to explain what I mean." Yvette frowned.
"How is that superficial? Never mind, none of that matters. What matters is that in the month after I killed you, during the time you were dead, did this death effectively clear away the slowly accumulating side effects? Is that why you're not so irritable and easily angered now?" Chen Luo felt he understood.
"No, that's not right at all," Yvette said firmly.
"Huh? How could it be wrong?" Chen Luo didn't believe it.
"That particular fervor wasn't reduced to zero, but rather suppressed, and it wasn't because of death."
"Oh, I know, it must be because of evolution, right?" Chen Luo guessed again.
"No," Yvette denied again.
"..."
"Although the evolution opportunity provided by your SS-rank Talent is indeed invaluable and still provides some evolutionary assistance to me as an S-rank Talent User, this time my evolution is more focused on the evolution of ability strength rather than this aspect."
"The reason your fanaticism is suppressed is because of the suppression from that incomplete Angel Ring that you somehow got your hands on. The real angelic relic..."
"When I carry it with me, the fanaticism... let's call it fanaticism for now, gradually decreases, and it's been completely suppressed now. But once I leave that aura, the fanaticism will probably be slowly unsealed. It seems I still need to go to the church and find some sacred objects to suppress it." Yvette sighed.
That's why, when Yvette opened her eyes and saw Chen Luo the Angel Ring, the first thing she did was snatch Angel Ring from him.
"So, you guessed wrong both times." After explaining the situation to Chen Luo, Yvette timely used her taunting skill.
"..."
Yvette is very beautiful, especially when she's not talking.
Damn it!
"Say it quickly, Lord Chen Luo is the greatest in the world." After thinking for a while, Chen Luo commanded Yvette.
"... Lord Chen Luo is the greatest in the world." As a puppet Yvette was completely unable to refuse Chen Luo's orders, said this rather reluctantly.
"Oh right... oops. That's exactly the expression." Chen Luo was quite pleased with Yvette's current expression.
Chen Luo originally wanted to say "Yes Yes Yes," but then Chen Luo suddenly remembered that this would trigger a taunt skill, so he quickly changed his words.
"What a nasty person. But, Master..."
"... Stop, don't speak yet. Let me guess, you want the Angel Ring, right?"
Offering unsolicited favors is either a sign of malice or theft.
This was the first time Yvette had spoken and Chen Luo had taken the initiative to call her master.
Chen Luo knew that Yvette have something to ask of him.
"...Yes." After hesitating for a moment, Yvette.
Yes, Yvette really wanted the Angel Ring.
"But the problem is, didn't you say the church has some kind of holy relic? Why don't you use those things to suppress your fanaticism?" Chen Luo said reluctantly, remembering the function of the Angel Ring.
"The church does indeed possess a considerable number of sacred objects. When the Heavenly Realm beings came to annihilate those from the Abyss Plane, they certainly stuffed a great many things into the church."
"But as you also know, due to the rules of the world, people from the Heavenly Realm cannot send high-quality or offensive items to the outside world."
"And if there's something better than the Angel Ring among those items and relics, how could I not carry it?" Yvette said something very realistic.
While the sacred objects of the Heavenly Realm are indeed very useful, the problem is, which Heavenly Realm being would take off their own ring and send it down as a prop?
Such an effective angelic relic is not found in any holy relic; otherwise, Yvette, as the War Angel, would surely have obtained it.
There are relatively few Talent User are completely affiliated with the church, and even fewer S-rank Talent User. S-rank Talent User who belong to the church itself and are also angels—those who are extremely closely connected to the church—can be counted on one hand.
Therefore, the church treasured Yvette very much.
Otherwise, the other party could not serve as the presiding judge of the Inquisition.
At the same time, because Yvette's whereabouts were unknown and she was suspected of being dead, the Church was willing to take great risks and keep Chen Luo, who was already suspected of having a low sequence, under surveillance for more than a month without any intention of letting up.
But if it's not there, it's not there.
The entire church couldn't find anything that could have the same effect as the Angel Ring.
"But the Angel Ring is very important to me..." Chen Luo said with some difficulty.
"Although I know that everything I have now belongs to you, I am still willing to exchange everything I own for that Angel Ring," Yvette said hesitantly.
"Even if I didn't give you the Angel Ring at the beginning, if I wanted something from you, could you really refuse to give it to me?" Chen Luo retorted.
"..." Yvette was speechless.
Although Chen Luo's words were somewhat blunt, they were absolutely correct.
Now that Yvette is Chen Luo's puppet, let alone if Chen Luo her things, even if he wants her as a person, Yvette can't resist.
Yvette knew her predicament from the beginning, but Yvette still wanted to give it a try.
"My lord, if I may ask, what do you need this Angel Ring for?"
"Wow, you call me master when you need something from me, but now that you can't get what you want, you call me sir?"
It's so real, so incredibly real.
Are even angels this realistic now?
"..." Yvette was speechless, because Yvette was truly what she thought.