Two Chests

After submitting the quest, Su Jiang instantly gained two levels, reaching Level 12.

Leveling up through quests was still fast!

Meanwhile, Allison held a pitch-black box and said, "Honored adventurer, this is the reward our Holy Grace Divine Cult has given you."

"We acquired this item by chance. The holy light power contained within it astonished us. We originally planned to turn it in after returning to the cathedral, but we felt that you needed this item more."

"After all, you provoked a terrifying deity for our sake."

An unexpected bonus?

Su Jiang accepted Allison's gift in surprise.

"Ding, congratulations! You have obtained the Dimensional Avatar core item Judas' Oath."

Su Jiang's eyes widened in shock.

Could this be another epic-grade core item?

The server had only been open for a week. Were epic items already this worthless?

Su Jiang opened the black box and found a spear emitting a faint golden glow inside.

Dimensional Avatar Core Item: Judas' Oath (Rare) (Unique)

Item Description: The core item of the fantasy character Theresa Apocalypse. It can only be used by those with the "Dimensional Avatar" talent.

Effect: Upon use, obtain the avatar and skill panel of the fantasy character Theresa Apocalypse. (Note: Some skills may be adjusted for game balance.)

Rare...

Su Jiang frowned. This is probably Theresa's most ordinary nun form. Otherwise, it couldn't possibly be rare-grade.

In his previous life, it seemed that Theresa's core item had been obtained by a saintess from the European Holy See. Or perhaps she only became a saintess after obtaining this item. Su Jiang did not know the secret behind it, but there was no doubt that this fantasy character, who had only appeared relatively late in his previous life, had now fallen into his hands.

How unpredictable life was.

It seemed that the player who had first completed the Prelude to the Anomaly quest in his previous life had not received the Holy Grace Divine Cult's reward. They had brought this core item back to the cult and stored it deep within its warehouse, where it was later acquired by the European Holy See.

Setting aside his memories, Su Jiang said to Allison, "Thank you for your gift, Sister. If you ever have need of me, I will certainly give it my all."

After completing the quest, Su Jiang left the association.

Let's take a look at the upgraded attributes.

There was no need to look at his main body's attributes. They would be reset to zero before long anyway.

Kurumi Incarnation's attribute panel:

Level: Lv12 (Experience 32%)

Life Level: Kabbalah Spirit (The power of the Life Level is slowly being released. Current attribute growth per level: 21)

Talents: Zafkiel (Advanced Talent), Charm (Intermediate Talent)

Skills: "First Bullet (Aleph) LV.1," "Second Bullet (Bet) LV.1"...

Attack: 377 (Time Gun +100) ((Strength + Intelligence) / 2, balanced development attack calculation)

Defense: 27.7 (Constitution * 0.1)

Health: 2770 (Constitution * 10)

Mana: 1385 (Spirit * 5)

Time Value: 153 (Zafkiel limit +100, Time Gun limit +100)

Attributes (Balanced Development): Strength 277, Intelligence 277, Constitution 277, Spirit 277. (Third Bullet passive +10%)

These attributes were insane, absolutely insane.

A week ago, his attack had only been 10 points. Now, it was already 377!

This growth speed was simply marvelous!

Ordinary players probably only had around 150 attack right now. Kurumi Incarnation's attributes were twice as high as theirs! That was without even counting her innate skills.

Su Jiang felt that with his current attributes, he could take on a hundred of them!

But that would no longer work after Level 20. After Level 10, players could learn many skills, while Kurumi Incarnation's weakness was ranged attacks. Classes such as archers and mages heavily countered Kurumi.

There were still two Talent Enhancement Chests. Su Jiang rubbed his hands together and opened the first one.

"Ding—Talent Enhancement Chest opened successfully. Congratulations, your talent skill Dimensional Avatar: Tokisaki Kurumi has increased in proficiency. First Bullet skill level +1."

Uh, the normal result...

It was also what he had expected. After all, skill level +1 was the easiest reward to get.

Skill: "First Bullet (Aleph) LV.2"

Cost: 10 Time Value

Passive Effect: Increases all of the user's speeds by 15%.

Active Effect: All speeds of the target hit increase by 100% for ten seconds. Cooldown: one minute.

Not bad. The passive effect had increased by another 5%, and the duration had also increased by five seconds.

Su Jiang swiftly opened the second chest as well.

"Ding—Talent Enhancement Chest opened successfully. Congratulations, your talent skill Dimensional Avatar: Tokisaki Kurumi has awakened a skill: Shadow."

"Shadow LV.1"

Cost: 50 Time Value

Active Effect: Creates two shadow clones (Time Gun +1). The clones inherit 50% of the original body's attack, while all other attributes remain unchanged. Damage received is increased by 100%. While the clones are alive, the original body can switch positions with them (Time Gun effect).

Yes!

She finally had a self-preservation skill!

There were many targeted skills in Meta World. With Kurumi's fragile, agility-focused body, a few unavoidable targeted skills would send Kurumi straight to the ground.

But this skill could sacrifice a clone to block targeted skills for herself.

For example, an archer's tracking arrow, a mage's single-target elemental attack, or a thief's sap and a knight's taunt. Kurumi could place a clone outside the combat range in advance. Once she discovered that she had been locked onto by these skills, she could immediately switch places with the clone, avoiding those lethal attacks.

To be honest, targeted skills were extremely important in Meta World.

Monsters had no intention of actively dodging. It was fine to simply bombard them with any large-area skill. But once it came to PvP against players, you would understand just how endlessly disgusting it was to fight people without targeted skills!

Of course, dodging skill damage placed extremely high demands on a player's control.

But Kurumi was not afraid.

All the speeds in her skills included thinking speed and reaction speed. If they only boosted attack speed and movement speed, there was no way she could fight monsters above her level with such a slight speed advantage.

That was the power of time skills!

After using the chests to strengthen Kurumi Incarnation, Su Jiang returned to his main body, then transformed into another avatar, Dimensional Avatar: Theresa Apocalypse.

Most of its attributes were similar to Kurumi Incarnation's. The main difference was that it lacked Third Bullet's passive bonus. Otherwise, its attributes were identical. However, this avatar was rare-grade, so its attribute growth would probably reach its limit around Level 30.

Kurumi's attribute limit was 100, still far away.

It also came with two skills.

Skill: Holy Spear

Cost: None

Active Effect: Deals four consecutive close-range light spear attacks.

First strike: 3 * 30% physical damage of Attack. Second strike: 3 * 30% physical damage of Attack. Third strike: 4 * 45% physical damage of Attack. Fourth strike: 3 * 75% large-area physical damage of Attack.

A four-hit basic attack combo. Its damage output efficiency was slightly higher than that of ordinary players, but there was nothing particularly special about it.

Let's look at the other skill.

Skill: Holy Light Pierce

Cost: 100 Mana

Active Effect: Charges up and deals a long-range light spear physical attack, dealing 3 * 135% physical damage. Cooldown: ten seconds.

High damage and long range. This skill was pretty good.

Overall, this avatar was also very strong in the early stages, but after seeing Kurumi Incarnation's heaven-defying skills, Su Jiang found these skills rather ordinary.

Only the talents looked pretty good.

A rare-grade avatar having two talents was already fairly uncommon.

Talent ①: "World's Number One Cutie!"

Effect: Every half hour, restores 50% of consumed Mana.

Talent ②: "Spatial-Temporal Blessing"

Effect: After an extreme dodge, increases movement speed by 40%. Within a one-meter radius, the flow of space-time slows by 15%. The user is unaffected by the reduced space-time flow. Duration: 10 seconds. Cooldown: five minutes.

If Talent ① were given to a mage, it would absolutely be a god-tier skill! Half an hour might seem like a long time, but as long as he opened a few more Talent Chests and raised this skill's level, the recovery interval would naturally shorten.

Talent ② would also be a god-tier skill for Kurumi! Extreme dodges were incredibly difficult to perform. Without Kurumi's speed boost, Su Jiang did not believe that his thirty-five-year-old reaction speed could execute movements that met the criteria for an extreme dodge.

Such top-tier talents had been concentrated on a warrior who relied on basic attacks for damage, which Su Jiang found somewhat regrettable.

He could only see whether this avatar could evolve later on. In his previous life, the saintess who had obtained this avatar template had evolved it into Divine Grace Hymn (Epic), becoming an extremely powerful support.