"Anna, you are still young. Now that the Fallen Ones's stronghold has been destroyed, you should relinquish your role as a saintess and go out on adventures. Staying in the same place will not broaden your horizons."
"Yes, I will," Anna said with a sweet smile.
High Priest Gaburres smiled kindly, then looked at Su Xi: "Your Highness, Holy Maiden of the Elf race, Anna told me you wanted to see me. Is there something you need? If I am still of use to Holy Maiden Su."
Su Xi looked at High Priest Reis with some hesitation.
Because of what Miriam had done to her, High Priest Gaburres gave her a Spear of Light as a gift and compensation, and also promised to help Su Xi once within the limits permitted by the Church.
She originally came to High Priest Reis with the intention of having him fulfill his promise to help Theresa collect the Spear of Light.
But now the Church is almost dead. Although Anna still holds the title of saintess, given the Church's current state and Anna's efforts to turn the tide after the archbishop's death, it's only a matter of time before she becomes the archbishop herself.
In other words, even without asking High Priest Reis for help, Anna would still agree to help Theresa.
Therefore, this promise is no longer of much use.
Su Xi smiled, pushed Theresa in front of High Priest Reis, and said, "High Priest Reis, do you still remember this white-haired girl?"
Theresa crossed her arms, somewhat speechless at the fact that the original body had pushed her out.
"A clone perfectly adapted to the Holy Light!" High Priest Reis pondered for a moment, then a look of surprise appeared on his face. Pointing at Theresa, he quickly said to Anna, "Anna, this is the person I told you about who is perfectly adapted to the power of the Holy Light—the clone of the Elf Saintess!"
"Grandpa Reis, I understand."
"Oh, that makes sense. You and Saintess Su are friends, so it's normal for you to know that she is Saintess Su's clone," High Priest Reis said with realization.
Su Xi continued, "In fact, Theresa can absorb the holy light power inside the Spear of Light to strengthen herself. Isn't High Priest Reis curious about what would happen if Theresa collected all the Spear of Light?"
Upon hearing this, High Priest Reis's face lit up with interest, as if he were very curious, and he asked, "What will happen?"
He was shocked when Su Xi transformed into Theresa and absorbed the power of the Spear of Light in front of him last time, so he was very curious about what would happen after absorbing the power of all the Spear of Light.
"I had no idea." Su Xi shook her head and smiled, "High Priest Reis, do you remember the request you made to me before? I've come to you now to fulfill that promise."
"That did indeed happen." High Priest Gaburres nodded slowly, then asked, "Does Saintess Su want me to help your avatar collect all the Spear of Light?"
"That's right."
This piqued Bishop Reis's interest, making him feel that he wasn't without regrets, thus weakening his resolve to die.
Although this method temporarily stabilized Bishop Reis's life energy, he would not live much longer. Once life reaches the point of a final burst of energy before death, it is irreversible.
In other words, High Priest Reis is not dead now, but he will die in a while.
Su Xi only hoped that the high priest could stay with Anna for a while longer. The war against the Fallen Ones stronghold had just ended, and they hadn't even had a chance to celebrate. Now, another person had died in the Church, and it was one of the twelve high priests. How could Anna not be heartbroken?
High Priest Reis was probably aware of his own condition, but in order to fulfill his promise to Saintess Su, High Priest Reis suppressed the holy light power within his body.
In this way, at least he can live for a while longer.
High Priest Gaburres nodded and said softly, "Alright, I promise you, Your Elf race Saintess."
"Anna, perfect timing. You can take charge of this matter. Go on an adventure with Saintess Su's clone to collect the remaining Spear of Light."
Anna nodded obediently.
At that moment, a system announcement sounded: the second major event in the Meta World was about to begin.
Seeing this, Su Xi said goodbye to Anna, asked Theresa to stay with them, and went to meet up with Su Xi Kurumi others to learn about the event's mission details.
Soon, only three people remained in the main hall of the cult.
Gabrielles patted Anna's hand and said, "Go, help Saintess Su's clone."
"Okay." Anna smiled and looked at Theresa, saying, "Su, come with me. We have three more Spear of Light in our warehouse. I'll get them for you."
"You can call me Theresa, after all, there is a difference between the clone and the original."
"Okay, Theresa."
Anna smiled and said, "I just think that since you already have all of Su's memories as an avatar, it's not a problem for you to be called Su."
"Emmm... how could that be? I think they're not quite the same." Following behind Anna, Theresa thought for a moment, then shook her head.
A clone is a clone, and this clone has its own name. Theresa still prefers to be called Theresa.
"It makes no difference to me. I feel that if Theresa can always be with me, then Sue can always be with me."
Theresa was a little embarrassed, thinking, "Goodness, she's completely stubborn."
The Southern Volcano World, a land of black and gray.
Because of the Siren Empire's event quests, a large number of players came here, and countless NPCs also rushed over to build various service facilities and make money off the players.
The construction of the City of Watch was progressing at a speed that the Church could not have imagined.
Now everyone knows that players' money is the easiest to earn. Even if they don't earn money from players, they can recruit a large number of players to help them build by completing tasks at the lowest market price. It's a sure-fire way to make money no matter what!
"Ten Talent Chest, let's see what we can get."
They arrived at a hotel room in the Black and Gray Land. Inside were Su Xi's other avatars: Mavis, Kurumi, and Nymph, all of whom were preparing to form a team for this event. As for Theresa, Su Xi had invited her to join her team before leaving the Holy Capital.
"With so many talents right now, it must be very difficult for you to unlock a talent related to Soul Split," Nymph said.
Kurumi: "I don't think it's difficult. I suspect that when she split us apart, she didn't share any luck with us at all. In this kind of probability event, her luck is already more than enough to make her wish come true."
Nymph split off relatively late, unlike Kurumi split off early. From an outsider's perspective, watching Su Xi open the boxes made her feel that Su Xi's luck was outrageous.
Su Xi raised an eyebrow, recalled her experiences, and then said, "Uh... maybe I'm just really lucky?"
Kurumi was speechless. "You see, I don't even have that much self-awareness."
Su Xi said quietly, "To be honest, most of my good luck along the way was because I ventured out beforehand. I should have had some luck, like finding a Holy Tree Leaf by killing a random monster... But I think San San's claim that I'm so lucky that I can almost have everything I want is pure slander. It's because you're so unlucky that you think I'm unnaturally lucky."
Mavis added insult to injury to Kurumi, "Haha, this is what Africans are like. There's no harm without comparison."
Kurumi rolled her eyes.
After speaking, Su Xi opened the ten Talent Chest in front of her.
"Ding! The [Talent Enhancement Chest] has been successfully opened. Congratulations! Your talents [Dimensional Avatar] have increased by 2, [Evil Curiosity] has increased by 2, [Soul Split] has increased by 2, [Godhead Prototype: Foundation of Faith] has increased by 2, [World Tree's Protection] has increased, [World Tree's Wisdom] has increased, and the talents [Holy Tree Symbiosis] and [Transcendent Gene] have merged and evolved."
Because of the abundance of talent, the system notification from the treasure chest turned into a long string of text.
The [Dimensional Avatar] talent has grown twice, and the main body has once again gained the effect of learning the avatar skill. In addition, a new effect has been added: when in avatar state, the avatar's base attributes are increased by 5%.
The growth effect of learning an additional skill is good, but the second new effect is just so-so, the 5% bonus is too low.
The talent "Evil Curiosity" has grown once, gaining an additional 500 points of Intelligence.
To be honest, this talent has been constantly increasing my intelligence, and now it has increased by 2500 points.
Su Xi felt that this was not an intermediate-level talent at all.
What kind of intermediate talent has such an outrageous bonus? Not only does it add 2500 intelligence, but it also increases skill critical strike rate by 20%...
The talent [Soul Split] has grown twice. Su Xi most wanted to obtain the talent that had grown, but neither of the two growths resulted in the effect that Su Xi wanted the most.
These two growths only enhanced the mental strength attribute added by the [Soul Split] talent, without any other effects.
What surprised Su Xi was the talent [Godhead Prototype: Foundation of Faith]. This thing was clearly her Godhead Prototype, and although it was not wrong to classify it as a talent, she never expected that it could be enhanced by Yuan Yi's Talent Chest.
However, this thing didn't provide much of an improvement; it only increased the attribute growth cap by 1 point, which is better than nothing...
The enhancements from [World Tree's Protection] and [World Tree's Wisdom] both apply to effect ②, increasing Intelligence and Defense by approximately 10 points each, bringing the total to 3555.
Su Xi still doesn't understand how the numbers increased.
As for the final talent fusion.
I'd heard of this before, but the prerequisite for talent fusion is that you have enough talents and have a stroke of good luck to trigger this low-probability event.
This fusion of talents left Su Xi somewhat puzzled.
Are there any similarities between symbiotic talents and Transcendent Gene?
No, I don't think so...
Su Xi looked at the evolved talent with a puzzled expression.
The [Holy Tree Symbiosis] and [Transcendent Gene] talents merge to evolve into [Primary World Tree Origin].
[Primary World Tree Origin] (Unique Talent)
Effect:
①Your beauty has been enhanced by the World Tree attribute, Charm +520;
② Your physical attributes have been enhanced by the World Tree attribute, with an increase of points in the four basic attributes and a 100% increase in all speeds.
③All Life Level lower than yours will be in awe of you. When they become your enemies, all their attributes will be reduced by 20%, and the damage they receive will be increased by 20%.
④ When your people die, you can resurrect them as Sub-level Lifeform (Sen Star Person Sub-level Lifeform [Tree Man], human Sub-level Lifeform [Ghost], Orc Race Sub-level Lifeform [Beast Body]).
⑤ You can command all Sen Star Person / Orc Race Life Level is not higher than yours.
⑥ External form switching (human/ Sen Star Person / Orc Race).
⑦ The physical body is immortal, and the soul form is indestructible.
⑧ Space Binding: Su's Portable World
"Ah?"
"Ah?"
"No, what is this?"
Hearing the three people's surprised exclamations, Mavis quickly went over to see what was going on, and when she saw the talent attributes, she was also dumbfounded.
"Holy crap, Stoneham is cheating!" Mavis yelled.
Su Xi: "..."
She couldn't refute that, and she felt like she had a cheat code.
"I never imagined this game would have a unique talent," Nymph said in disbelief.
Kurumi chuckled and said, "I told you the original body's luck was ridiculously good, and you still disagreed. Do you know what it means to be confused when you're involved, but clear-headed when you're an observer?"
"Ahem, alright, alright, let's not focus on this talent anymore. We need to get ready to participate in the event." Su Xi closed the panel with a smile.
Whether it's due to cheating or not, the fact that this attribute has improved is a good thing.
"What's there to prepare? If we need to prepare for this kind of event, isn't that just bullying the kids?" Mavis said speechlessly.
The level 91 itself was already beyond the reach of all players, not to mention the emergence of a unique talent.
Damn it, putting aside all the other effects, just the attribute bonus directly increases the base attributes. Even if all the base attributes drop to only 1 point, with this talent, no one can beat you.
"Oh dear, we're all on the same side. If you're praising me, you're just like a peddler praising his own wares," Su Xi said, waving her hand.
Su Xi's fusion of her unique talent this time is quite absurd, but not entirely incomprehensible. After all, she has already consumed four World Tree Fragment. This talent fusion is probably just an activation of the power of the World Tree Fragment.
After opening the treasure chests and forming teams, everyone went their separate ways.
Mavis is busy overseeing the construction of the illusion of reality, so she can't come. Theresa is going to get the remaining Spear of Light, so she probably can't come either. Kurumi is going to take care of Su Yu, so she'll probably only be in the game for half the time.
Therefore, only Su Xi and Nymph were able to participate in the entire event.
"By the way, San San, after you bring Su Yu back later, add her to the team."
"OK".
Kurumi nodded.
Anyway, Su Xi felt that no matter how many people were in the team, she had the ability to push the average score to first place.
Just as she was about to take Nymph to the Siren Empire to accept a mission, Yan Hu sent her a message, arranging to meet her in the Siren Empire.
"This guy is so mysterious, he only tells me when we meet," Su Xi said curiously.
Nymph pondered for a moment and said, "It's mostly related to the mission of this event."
"I didn't team up with them during the last Fallen Ones Annihilation Operation. Do they think I will this time?"