Advancement

A crack split the void-like darkness, and light seeped through it.

The light fell across Li Wen's face, yet she felt no warmth. It was like a barrage of icy daggers piercing through her from within, and amid that suffocating sensation and pain, she sensed an inhuman gaze.

The crack was both a passage and an eye, a gateway from the outside world. Thus, as the being beyond gazed upon Li Wen through the light, Li Wen also looked through the crack and saw that supreme, महान being.

It dwelled within a pure white, sacred palace grander than the sun itself, its entire form radiating infinite brilliance. Angels within the light praised the supreme Lord, prayers like a symphony echoed everywhere, and bathed in endless glory was one form of Radiance: the Crown of the Sun!

At that instant, scorching flames ignited within her. Li Wen's entire body was engulfed in white fire, her consciousness melting into the flames. In that moment, she understood—she was a moth that had died in fire while chasing the light.

In the church's main hall, the violently flickering candle flames swiftly calmed. The sacrificial bonfire had already gone out, and the Ritual Array had dimmed to the point of near invisibility. Only seven candles still shone.

Li Wen opened her eyes. Deep crimson light, like the glow of a setting sun, seemed to flow through her right eye.

You have completed the advancement to Stage One: "Supplicant"

Your Radiance Spectrum rank has increased

You have mastered the ability **Prayer Incantation lv1**

You have obtained "Trait—Blood of Candlelight (Blue)." Your trait limit has increased

Due to being observed by Radiance, you have obtained "Status—Melt into Light (24h)"

So that counted as completing it?

Li Wen looked at her palm. The wound she had cut with her dagger had healed, replaced by a semicircular mark resembling both a flame and the sun. Inside the semicircle was a flying moth.

Without thinking further, she summoned her Spellbook and opened her character page:

Mephisto — Terra Human — Overall Level 1

Class: Radiance Spectrum — Path of Light Chasing (Stage One) — Supplicant lv1

Health 100% — Healthy

Mana 10/10

Ability: Radiance — **Prayer Incantation lv1** (0%)

Knowledge: Terran Language, Secret Language Interpretation, Basic Ritual lv1 (10%)

Traits (5/6): Retrograde in Shadow (Blue), Blood of Candlelight (Blue), Nimble Hands (White), Professional Pickpocket (White), Necessary Sacrifice (Red)

Status: One-Eyed, Melt into Light — 24h (While in this status, your wounds slowly heal, the effects of Radiance Spectrum abilities increase by 10%, and some Umbral Lineage traits/abilities temporarily become ineffective until the duration ends)

Experience Pool: 20

Successfully advancing to Supplicant had not brought much change to Li Wen's outward capabilities. After all, this was only Stage One, and Supplicant was a support-oriented class.

However, now that she had a class, the experience pool had a use. She could level up freely.

**Prayer Incantation lv1**

Radiance — Divine Art

Cost: 2 Mana, one basic prayer

Targeted — Quantity 1

A special prayer-based Divine Art originating from Canaan, the birthplace of all religions.

When used on an ally, it provides a shield capable of blocking damage equal to [Ability Level x 10% Health] for [30 x Ability Level] seconds. When the duration ends or the shield breaks, it restores a small amount of health and partially dispels curses and bleeding. When used on an enemy, it can be regarded as a Dark Word Curse of the same level, dealing a small amount of continuous curse damage and causing temporary blindness for the following [5 x Ability Level] seconds.

Blood of Candlelight — Extraordinary (Blue) — Radiance

Use a saint's blood as a candle, and its flame can burn forever.

When lacking mana to use Radiance Spectrum spells/rituals/items and so on, health may be consumed as a substitute.

There were four abilities a Supplicant could master, and as an ability available from the start, the strength of Prayer Incantation needed no explanation. As a support skill, Prayer Incantation possessed defense, healing, dispelling, damage, debuffs, and many other functions. Its versatility was unmatched; in any situation, it could be called a divine skill.

Blood of Candlelight was also an extremely powerful trait.

Mana in the game "World Tree: Origins" was exceptionally precious. It could not be restored through ordinary means, only through the passage of time or unique skills of certain classes, such as meditation and prayer.

Therefore, any method capable of quickly restoring mana was immensely valuable. Though Blood of Candlelight could not restore mana, it allowed health to serve as a substitute in emergencies. Perhaps it could have an unexpected effect.

With these two abilities and traits, Li Wen felt she was another step closer to her goal.

Li Wen was about to tidy up the ritual site when a cold voice sounded behind her.

"You need to do something for me."

Li Wen turned around and saw Mog in a pastor's robe.

"Only you can do this for me. Siswell has ordered me not to act carelessly." Pastor Mog's expression was quite grim. He glanced at the Ritual Array behind the girl without the slightest concern.

Was he about to give her a quest?

There were many ways to gain experience in "World Tree: Origins." Studying, working, killing, and even exploring the world could all grant experience. But the method that gave the most experience was participating in the world's progression, which players usually called completing quests.

Li Wen had just advanced and was precisely in need of experience. Naturally, the more the better—she would take whatever came.

"Just tell me."

Mog did not respond. Instead, he turned and left, only tossing out a sentence after he had walked some distance away.

"When the time comes, I'll tell you."

Li Wen had not expected that so-called "time" to come so quickly.

After tidying up the site and returning to the Nun Dormitory, she was considering whether to put her experience into Prayer Incantation. She had no idea whether those twenty experience points would be enough to level it up, though based on past experience, they probably would not.

Just then, someone knocked on her door.

Li Wen paused, set aside her thoughts, and opened it.

There was no one outside. Only an envelope lay on the floor, with "For Pastor Mog" written on its surface.

A letter for Pastor Mog naturally could not have been delivered to the Nun Dormitory. In other words, someone had deliberately left it here. That person was most likely Mog himself, though it could have been someone else. But that person would certainly be Mog's accomplice.

Thinking this, Li Wen picked up the envelope without hesitation, tore it open, and examined its contents.

There was only a strange gold coin inside, along with a sheet of paper bearing several large, crooked words:

"The time has come. The Twin Moons rise together. Black Wind Fang."

A friend dragged me into playing Remnant 2, and it was surprisingly addictive. I suddenly remembered I hadn't updated, so I hurriedly wrote a chapter.