Manifestation of the Forbidden

Clement had worked with them for over two hundred years.

During those two hundred years, the Twin Demon had dragged him into the mire, turning him into a monster who would stop at nothing for himself.

He had not fallen only after becoming a Golden Breed. He had been fallen from the very beginning.

Thus, from the start, there had been problems with his faith in the God of Precepts.

Those problems had not caused much of an impact when he was a Black Stone Breed, a Steel Breed, or advancing to a Golden Breed.

The real issue came during the Light Transformation.

Because it was deeply linked to faith, the mental pressure during that process made Clement constantly overthink.

The discord between his spiritual will and faith continually weighed on his mind. All manner of past events surfaced involuntarily, along with the emotions that had once tormented him.

Under such circumstances, he grew increasingly miserable, to the point where he could not even endure the Light Transformation.

Back then, he had considered giving up on the Light Transformation from the outset and using spellcaster magic to modify his body instead.

But he had been unwilling to give up the advantages of the Light Transformation.

During the transformation, a Golden Breed priest's stats could steadily rise. It was not fast, but it was not particularly slow either.

At this moment, Clement's stats were a little over four hundred.

More than two hundred of those points had come from the Light Transformation.

In comparison, Golden Breed Paladins could train for centuries in their daily practice and gain no more than ten stat points. To increase their stats, they needed resources of the same type that were even stronger than those used to advance to the Golden Breed.

Only then could they