The Shepherds Are Dense
Chapter 138

Rare Trait: Shadow Avatar

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Although the New Moon Ritual had a high drop rate, wasn't this a little too high?

Or was it because he had enough points and had also obtained a special victory condition, causing the drop rate to be maxed out? Iver recognized all three traits.

The first trait, "Challenger's Courage," was the same-named trait on the Holy Lance. Its effect was to grant immunity to "Fear" and "Frighten" effects with a higher priority than his own. Whether the difference came from level suppression or an additional priority bonus, it could trigger. Its special feature was that it could ignore priority immunity for certain forms of control.

It looked extremely useful, but in reality, it was the least useful of the three.

The basic principle of this world was that immunity to control was inferior to dispelling control. Every resistance could be pierced by an entry of the same level.

It was like "the strongest spear and the strongest shield." When they were at the same priority, the spear's priority would always be higher than the shield's—just as when Transcendents were at the same level, their skills could affect each other normally without suffering reduced effects, immunity, or resistance.

Moreover, this resistance had a very narrow range of application. It only worked against people of a higher level than himself. Yet when facing a Fear effect used by a Transcendent of the same or even a lower level, it wouldn't work at all.

And if the Fear came from the setting rather than an enemy, this resistance would also be ineffective.

For example, if someone created a Ritual Site that made everyone who entered the area afraid, the resistance it provided would be useless.

Of course, there were other types of resistance specifically intended to counter environmental effects... But unless one

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