The Church's Reward

"These 25 gold coins are your weekly salary for serving as the Confessional Deacon." In a spacious room, Du Pont accepted the gold coins, looking at Dorothy and another man he hadn't seen before wearing a high-level Priest Robe. His heroic face was filled with righteous words: "Thank you, Priest, but it's my duty to share the Church's burdens. I can't accept these gold coins."

"The Church never forgets the merits of those who have contributed, especially a devout believer like you." The person speaking wore a Priest Robe. He took out an exquisite necklace with several deep green gems: "In recognition of your special contribution today, the Church is offering two items for you to choose as a reward."

"First is this Health Amulet. I heard from Priest Dorothy that your health isn't very good. This Health Amulet is an extremely rare magical item. As long as you wear it, your constitution will increase to 19 points.

This will improve your physical fitness, which will be very beneficial for your future growth. The probability of getting sick or being cursed will be greatly reduced, especially for a young man like you who hasn't awakened yet. Your bones and muscles may grow further. Wearing it before you turn 18 may break through your original physical potential."

Du Pont's expression froze as if someone had pressed the pause button when he heard this, followed by uncontrollable ecstasy. Just as he was about to agree, Dorothy took out a small bag depicting a seven-star ring: "This is a Dimensional Bag, also one of the Church's rewards for you. It has an extra 1,000 pounds of weight capacity and 10 cubic meters of storage space. Food and water placed inside won't spoil for a year."

"But remember not to put living things inside. They will inevitably suffocate to death after a long time. And remember not to connect the opening of the Dimensional Bag to a portal, otherwise, it will inevitably cause spatial distortions. Getting too close may cause damage that even Divine Magic cannot repair. This is a very dangerous thing."

After hearing the name Dimensional Bag, Du Pont didn't look at the Health Amulet again. He knelt on one knee without further refusal, piously accepting the Dimensional Bag, hand over his chest, and praised: "Thank you for the Church's grace. My ability to overcome evil today is entirely due to my usual visits to the Church to listen to the Holy Sound. It was the priests' Holy Words that awakened my courage to defeat the enemy. In the future, I will surely fight bravely under the leadership of The Lady and the priests, striving to severely damage more of The Lady's enemies!"

Angie, who had come along to do odd jobs, was so surprised by these words that her small mouth remained half-open for a long time. She looked down at the Ring of Lie Detection on her hand that hadn't lit up, her eyes full of incomprehension. Dorothy, on the other hand, nodded repeatedly, obviously quite satisfied. Even Damien nodded in praise:

"The Church naturally knows your devout heart, and the Church will not miss any promising talents. May you always maintain a humble heart and delve into The Lady's teachings. I have high hopes that you can advance to become a Spell Guardian. This is an identity and ability that can bring glory to your family."

Amid Angie's shock, the three of them acted hypocritically for nearly half an hour before the award ceremony ended. After Damien and Du Pont had all left, she followed Dorothy back to the Temple and then returned to her room, took out a pure white gem, and injected mental energy into it. After a while, a joyful female voice sounded from the other side: "What's wrong, sweetie? Missing me so early?"

"Sister, I've encountered a very perplexing matter."

"Don't worry, tell me slowly."

After a long time, the gem replied: "Angie, the human heart is a very complex thing, and humans are even more so."

"In some people's eyes, loyalty and piety are rootless things. In the human world, these things can even be directly obtained with chips. Whether it comes from the heart or not is not that important."

"But this is inconsistent with the doctrine. The Lady has never demanded these things. This is wrong!" Angie protested in a low voice.

"But The Lady didn't say it was wrong." The voice from the gem chuckled: "The human heart is complex and changeable. The range of alignments is so great that even Elves cannot compare. This is human nature and a difficult and unchangeable fact. Logically speaking, they should head towards self-destruction in their bewilderment.

But their civilization remains stable and has survived countless crises. This is something that even the Great Sage cannot explain, and it is also the reason why you and I have entered the world."

"Continue to observe. We have plenty of time to observe and learn. But remember that you are always you. This is the most important thing. And you must keep your secret, otherwise, if people discover your talent, it will inevitably cause their fear, and it may cause no small problems."

The transmission was interrupted. Angie put the gem close to her body, looked at the Shrine in the room, breathed a long sigh, and closed her eyes.

"May The Lady forgive."

[You have gained a special ability, Rage]

Rage: You will unlock the nature deep within your genes, bringing your enemies to their death with the most primal fury.

Main benefits: During Rage, you will temporarily gain +4 Strength, +4 Constitution, and temporary hit points equal to your character level X2. You gain a +2 morale bonus on Will saving throws and resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, reducing damage from non-magical weapon attacks by 50%.

Negative effects: Wild attacks will make you ignore the enemy's attacks, and your defense ability is reduced by 2.

Rage accumulates reason, and you cannot cast spells or concentrate on spells during Rage.

Your Rage state lasts for 1 minute. Rage ends early if you are knocked unconscious during Rage, or if you have not attacked any hostile creatures or taken damage from the end of your last turn to the end of this turn. You can also voluntarily end Rage on your turn.

When Rage ends, you become fatigued, gaining a -2 penalty to Strength and -2 to Dexterity. All positive benefits disappear, and the negative effects last for 10 minutes.

Since you have not temporarily obtained the Barbarian class ability, you can Rage up to 1 time per day and cannot actively activate this ability.

[You have gained 2000 Experience Points]

[Your proficiency with the dagger weapon has reached the proficient level]

Killing that pervert brought Du Pont unexpected huge benefits, but due to the special circumstances at the time, Du Pont had to pretend to be innocent, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being. Now that he's back in his dormitory, he has time to study the gains from this.

The special ability Rage can be said to be very powerful. In addition to the temporary attribute bonuses, he will also gain temporary hit points. The three types of physical attack resistance bring nearly 50% physical damage reduction. Although it cannot reduce magic weapon and magic damage, he accepts low-level contract characters. Naturally, there won't be so many great gods, so it can be said that once it is turned on, it is close to 1 minute of one-on-one invincibility.

Thinking of this, Du Pont began to check the class requirements for Barbarian, and was immediately overjoyed.

Barbarian prerequisites: Simple weapons (proficient in nearly half), military weapons, light armor, shield proficiency.

Skills: Choose two skills from Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and Survival.

Abilities: Rage (already mastered)

He was still far from meeting the prerequisites to become a Fighter, but he had actually mastered the core ability of the Barbarian in advance.

This was an ability that even his money-grubbing System couldn't directly activate, but he directly comprehended it. If calculated according to feats, it would save him a lot of money.

I really am a genius!

After the excitement, Du Pont began to count the money.

Directly comprehending two weapon proficiencies is worth 200 gold, light armor and shield proficiency is 100 gold, and two skills are 100 gold, which means he only needs 400 gold coins to directly comprehend all the requirements to become a Barbarian and obtain this class.

In this way, if his calculation is correct, he only needs 1000 experience to raise the Barbarian to level 2. His total level will be level 4, 2 Mage/2 Barbarian, and in addition to all the abilities of level 2 Barbarian, he can also get an extra attribute value increase every 4 levels.

And all of this only requires 400 gold coins and 1000 experience.

This can be said to be the most cost-effective deal. You must know that the legendary cultivation manual, reading it once can only add 2 attribute points, and the price is as high as a terrible 20,000 gold coins.

And even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. Without enough connections, even if you have money, no one will pay attention to you. It is definitely priceless.

In view of the work and rest time of distinguished readers, the daily update time will be changed to 9 o'clock. By the way, I would like to ask for votes and strive for a recommendation or something. The fantasy channel is really cold.