This was a thief's bloodline advancement quest. Anyone who completed it would receive a Bloodline Fruit called Divine Grace.
This Bloodline Fruit was very special. It offered no bonuses to conventional attacks and not many bonuses to skills either. What it enhanced was the ability to survive after being attacked, as well as explosive power during sustained attacks.
Its critical strike damage was 27 times normal critical damage!
That was already terrifying, but it was nothing compared to its survivability. It possessed a special skill called Demonic Disintegration. It could be used once every eight seconds. When attacked, the user could break their body apart and become intangible, then reassemble at a random location within one meter of where they had stood.
In his previous life, players had not cared much about this skill at first. Later, a god-tier thief player discovered its potential and combined it with several other evasion skills, showing off so spectacularly that pure damage classes of the same level could not take even a single drop of his health.
Thus, another turtle-style build was born. Yet this turtle-style build never lacked spectacle in battle, because it relied on extreme reaction speed to evade skills. Those battles were instead incredibly pleasing to watch.
Imagine an ice Archmage unleashing their ultimate burst for two minutes, blasting the thief's position with dazzling explosions like fireworks bursting in the sky. Yet when the skills ended, the thief had not lost a single point of health. What kind of astonishing sight was that?
It was like that against players, and even more so when fighting monsters in dungeons. An elite Divine Grace thief could replace a defensive warrior at critical moments and evade a Lord-class monster's attacks endlessly for two minutes.
Moreover, this class had another use. There was a