Holy Sword Guardian Samuel

Chapter 23 Holy Sword Guardian Samuel

Each time an Extraordinary Profession advances, it gains three random entries.

All of these entries together form the slightly different Extraordinary Professions that everyone has.

In the Game, these entries can be repeatedly washed by running Advancement Instances. Otherwise, it would be difficult for players to experience different Fancy Builds.

But Iver obviously doesn't have any cash shop items.

He only has one chance to choose his entries when he advances.

However, he had already thought about his job direction—

To advance to Great Beast Master, you need to seal your own Great Beasts of the six attributes.

And each attribute's Blank Card requires fifty points of Pure Mana to create.

When the Priest's profession level increases, it will increase the mana pool of the Light and Fire attributes. The ratio is basically three Light to one Fire.

The Demon Scholar usually can only increase the Dark attribute's mana pool when leveling up. If they contract a Greater Demon of the Shadow Demon level, they can also increase the mana pool of the contracted demon's corresponding attribute. Although the first demon Iver contracted was the Dark attribute Shadow Demon, it is still possible for Expansion entries of Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire to randomly appear in his entries when he advances.

If Iver levels up normally, I'm afraid only the Light and Dark attributes can reach fifty points.

Therefore, in addition to the Light and Dark attributes, he must choose all Expansion entries if he can—even so, he may not be able to raise all six attributes to at least fifty points. At that time, he will either have to open a third Path with an experience penalty, take up a specific casting profession to raise the corresponding attribute's mana pool, or rely on different kinds of potions to slowly increase the attribute limit, or wear Extraordinary items to temporarily increase the mana limit.

The basic principle is to choose the Expansion entries of the four attributes of Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire if possible.

Unless a rare Golden Entry appears, Iver will hesitate for a moment and seriously consider whether to not choose Expansion this time.

And only Blue Entries can appear at most during the first advancement. Moreover, casting professions will inevitably have Affinity and Expansion entries—so he has no room for hesitation here, because he has no choice.

But Iver is quite lucky.

Light Bearer's Blood does not necessarily have Fire attribute entries, Light attribute is also possible. If the Expansion he randomly gets is Light attribute, then he can only choose Affinity. Because his Light attribute mana pool is actually very rich—he is not an Extraordinary who specializes in the Dedication Path, so he doesn't need to raise his mana bar too high.

Moreover, Yulia's Phantom Demon is of the Fire attribute.

This means that he must create a Fire attribute Blank Card before that incident begins to have a chance to seal it.

He had calculated before that the standard mana pool for a level 10 Priest should be 8 Light and 2 Fire, and for level 20 it would be 23 Light and 7 Fire.

When Iver reaches level 20, he will have advanced a total of three times, including this one at level 2 which is guaranteed to succeed, and the two ritual trials at levels 9 and 19.

As long as he randomly gets another Fire attribute Expansion in these two trials, Iver's Fire attribute mana pool can be increased by another 28 points. Without using any Extraordinary items, adding the original 7 points and the 14 points given this time, it will be exactly 49 points.

—A maximum mana pool of 49 points, with four points stored in advance the day before, is enough to create a 50-capacity Fire attribute Blank Card! And as long as he has the "Phantom Demon: Paradoxical Flame Butterfly", Iver can get much stronger combat power than a level one Flame Affinity! At least it is definitely no problem to clear through to the end of version 1.0!

So Iver didn't hesitate.

After the entries appeared, he moved his mind. The teardrop-like flame flew up on its own and fell into Iver's mouth.

In the next moment, the illusion in front of him shattered suddenly.

Iver's fingertips suddenly felt a slight burning pain. This burning pain became obvious at an extremely fast speed, like touching a candle flame after dipping your finger in water.

He suddenly woke up.

As Iver's attribute list changed, those changed parts popped up in front of him:

Priest LV2: [Basic Prayer - Level 1 (99%)], [Sacrificial Fire - Level 1 (5%)]

Path lit: Dedication - First Layer; Transcendence - First Layer

Mana Pool: 2/2 (Light), 4/4 (Shadow), 14/14 (Fire)

Free Experience: 53 Path Traits—

Dedication - Flame Container Lv1: You have consumed Light Bearer's Blood, and your soul has undergone Expansion. Your maximum Mana Pool (Fire) capacity is increased by 14.

Iver raised his head, groggily looking at Bishop Mathers' astonished face, revealing a dazed and innocent expression as if he had just woken up. He subconsciously opened his mouth and said:

"I just... seemed to see a red deer.

"His whole body was covered in black thorns, and he was still bleeding. There were white flames on his antlers..."

"—That is The Illuminator!"

Bishop Mathers quickly interrupted.

He reached out and touched the center of his forehead, as if there were illusory antlers there: "Light Bearer is above... He actually loves you so much? Just the first attempt, and you have mastered the Sacrificial Fire method..."

Bishop Mathers murmured in a low voice, obviously finding it a bit unimaginable.

But Iver's rank had been elevated, which was self-evident. As a higher-up on the same Path, he could clearly feel that Iver's Dedication Path had successfully reached the first layer.

"...What Path Trait did you choose?"

Bishop Mathers didn't have time to continue teaching Iver, but instead spoke somewhat urgently: "I didn't expect you to learn it so quickly, so I didn't have time to tell you... If you want to immediately gain the ability to protect yourself, you must choose 'Flame Affinity' or 'Light Affinity'. Which one did you choose?"

"It's 'Flame Container'."

Iver answered immediately.

A slightly nervous expression appeared on his face: "Could it be that I chose the wrong one?"

Iver breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He thought to himself, it's a good thing I advanced before Bishop Mathers could react.

Otherwise, if I had heard Bishop Mathers' words and still chose Flame Container, he would definitely be unhappy. But Iver really needed to level up his Fire Mana Pool as soon as possible, and the next round might not have the entry he wanted again. So when the Expansion entry for Fire Affinity appeared, he had to choose it immediately.

"...No, no, it's not a big problem."

Seeing the nervous expression on Iver's face, Bishop Mathers hurriedly comforted him instead: "'Flame Container' is also a very good Trait—it allows you to master extremely powerful Flame power, but it will be a little troublesome to use. Without Affinity-type abilities, the operation will be a bit stiff... But I'm not saying this choice is bad, I mean, it's not very flexible—but in the long run, this choice is very good!"

Obviously, this scene was not in Bishop Mathers' prior preparations.

But seeing that the nervousness and worry on Iver's face had not dissipated, he gritted his teeth: "Like this, Iver! Listen to me—

"You have now obtained powerful mana equivalent to a second-level caster, you just don't know how to use it. You can first learn spells or divine arts that rely on Flame power, and before that..."

As Bishop Mathers spoke, he gave Iver the huge Key he had used to open the door earlier from his waist.

That was a Deep Purple Key.

It was so heavy that it didn't seem like a Key, but rather a broken sword.

"During this time, St. Genevieve Chapel will not be open to the public. I'll lend you the Key, and you can use it for self-defense for the time being for these two months—don't underestimate it, as long as you inject Flame Mana, you can activate a scorching illusory blade. Even if you can't move easily, it's enough to scare away most enemies.

"Just return it to me before the Light Bearer's Sacrifice on January 1st."

Grasping the heavy key in confusion, Iver almost blurted out a "holy shit."

Because this key, while having an extremely ordinary name, also had a rather heaven-defying effect.

This not only proved his high regard for Iver, but also revealed his pessimistic assessment of the current situation...

And the moment he saw this effect, Iver knew exactly who Bishop Mathers was—

[Key to St. Genevieve Chapel]
[Extraordinary Weapon (Deep Purple)]
[Dagger, Heavy, Unsharpened, Tough]
[Trait: It can be used to open the seal of St. Genevieve Chapel (limited to Dedication Path)]
[Extraordinary Module - Flame Infusion: Pay 1-10 points of Fire Mana to activate Flame Blade, lasting 1-10 minutes]
[Extraordinary Module - Light Infusion: Pay 1-10 points of Light Mana to activate Holy Energy Blade, lasting 1-10 minutes]
[Extraordinary Module - Gale Infusion: Pay 1-10 points of Wind Mana to activate Invisible Blade, lasting 1-10 minutes]
[Spell: Holy Sword Art (Once per month)]
[Requirement: Light 11 + Fire 11 + Wind 11, or Light 33, or Fire 33, or Wind 33]
[Instant, Touch, Immediate Effect]
[Effect: Sanctify this weapon, transforming it into the Holy Sword - Red Hilt Sword (Divine Weapon - Two-Handed Sword, Heavy, Aegis, Sharp, Tough, Light, the wielder temporarily gains Curse Vulnerability LV4) before the next sunset, and continuously retain the activated module effects]
["—The key forged from Galahad's broken sword, its power is sealed along with the curse."]

No wonder Iver had no impression of the so-called "Bishop Mathers."

Because he was indeed not entirely on the side of the Eternal Theocracy... he was a native of Avalon.

His true identity was the final BOSS in a main quest instance in version 3.2, "Shadow of Avalon"!

An avenger from the destroyed Avalon Kingdom, controlled by the curse entwined on the reforged Holy Sword - Red Hilt Sword—

—The cursed Holy Knight known as "Holy Sword Guardian Samuel"! Reporting good news, the readership of this book has now exceeded three thousand! So far, this should be the smoothest book I've written, and also the one with the best results...

Thanks for the support, my dear cat slaves—

And I hope you continue to support me, meow!