Demon Priest (Third Update-Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi exchanged a glance, both somewhat surprised. They had thought the Goblins would starve for a few more days before charging out in desperation, yet they had surrendered now. Smiling slightly, Zhao Fu chose to accept, and a notification immediately sounded in his mind.

"You have accepted Rogge Village's surrender and gained 50 battle merits!"

Zhao Fu then led his people outside to the village entrance. Looking at the Goblins kneeling there, he said, "Get up, all of you!"

At his words, the other Goblins slowly rose with fearful expressions. Though they could not understand what Zhao Fu was saying, they understood his meaning. Lords possessed an innate language translation ability, similar to telepathic communication; even if their languages differed, they could understand one another's intentions.

At that moment, the old Goblin kneeling at the very front let out several cries. What he meant was, "Thank you, honored sir, for accepting Rogge's surrender."

Zhao Fu nodded and asked the question that had been troubling him. "Rogge, why did you choose to surrender now? Why not hold out for a few more days?"

Rogge, the old Goblin, wore a bitter expression. From the beginning, he had noticed that Zhao Fu did not have many troops. It was evident from Zhao Fu's reluctance to attack the village directly, so he had sent out one hundred Goblins—partly to search for food, and partly to lure Zhao Fu into attacking the village.

If Zhao Fu had attacked the village, Rogge could have used the Blood Altar's effects, along with his remaining forces, to inflict devastating losses on Zhao Fu. However, he had not expected Zhao Fu to attack the hundred Goblins instead. Not only had he killed all one hundred of them, he had now surrounded the village without attacking.

At this point, Rogge Village had only two possible endings: they would either starve to death or rush out and be ambushed. Rather than that, they might as well surrender early.

After hearing Rogge's explanation, Zhao Fu led his people to the center of the village and examined the Blood Altar, receiving a set of information.

[Demon Altar]: Allows one to Class Transfer into a Demon Priest through sacrifice. Special effect: A Demon Priest standing upon the altar can gain the ability to communicate with God Kerr. Effect: All attributes +5%.

Seeing this information, Zhao Fu gestured for Bai Qi to capture a wild beast. Before long, Bai Qi returned carrying a three-hundred-pound wild boar on his shoulder and placed it atop the altar. Zhao Fu took out a knife and slit the boar's throat. The boar squealed as blood poured out in great quantities.

Bright red blood flowed all over the ground, and the Blood Altar began to emit waves of crimson light. The boar seemed to fear something as it shrieked hoarsely, before finally dying. Its corpse shriveled up as well, turning into a horrifying mummy.

At the same time, the bloody light atop the altar grew even stronger, and a phantom began to emerge in midair. It somewhat resembled a small demon, but differed from one in several ways. It had three short horns on its head, completely black eyes, and two pairs of fleshy wings on its back, one large and one small.

"Da di da wu ah duo ka!"

The demon phantom in the air spoke a sentence in the demon language. It meant, "Will lowly human believe in my great God Kerr?"

Notification!

"Do you wish to Class Transfer into a Demon Priest?"

Warning!

"Once you Class Transfer into a Demon Priest, your Fencer class will be erased. Your skills can be retained!"

Zhao Fu did not hesitate and chose to accept. The phantom in the air shot a beam of bloody light into Zhao Fu's glabella, and he immediately received another notification.

[Demon Priest]: D- grade class. Description: A priest of the demon God Kerr. Class effect: Gain [Demonic Power].

After the bloody light entered Zhao Fu's glabella, the phantom gradually disappeared, and everything returned to normal.

Zhao Fu examined the Demon Priest class and could not help but think, A D- grade class really is much better than the Fencer class from before. First, its class bonuses are Strength +1%, Constitution +1%, Intelligence +4%. It grants the skills Hellfire Ball and Blood Healing, as well as [Demonic Power]: All attributes +2%.

Unfortunately, this class had already reached its limit. The so-called God Kerr was merely a weak minor deity in Hell. His divine power was not great, and after being weakened by the planes, he could Class Transfer at most one hundred Demon Priests in this world. Zhao Fu had simply gotten lucky; one had died not long ago, and he had now filled the vacancy.

Feeling as though he had picked up a bargain, Zhao Fu was rather pleased. With a faint smile, he went to inspect the Goblin barracks. The Goblins had only two Class Transfer Steles.

One was the [Goblin Warrior]: F-grade class. Description: Warriors among Goblins. Class effect: Gain the skill [Slash].

The other was the [Goblin Champion]: E+ grade class. Description: Goblins who had mutated after gaining Ancestor Power. Class effect: Gain [Ancestor Power].

No wonder they had been so fierce—it was an E+ grade class. However, the limit on Class Transfers was very low, only five people. Great Qin Village had yet to develop, so making Rogge Village an affiliated village had only a minor effect and could not provide much growth.

He then looked around the other parts of Rogge Village before finally arriving at the warehouse. There was quite a bit of money—around four thousand copper coins, including fifteen silver coins—but nothing else of note.

This Goblin incident had now been resolved perfectly. However, the Goblin Village's overall morale was only at 50. Zhao Fu therefore ordered people to return and bring over some food. The Goblins, who had already gone hungry for several days, immediately pounced on it and devoured it wildly, causing morale to instantly rise by 10 points.

Zhao Fu and his people then returned to Great Qin Village. Over the past few days, all production and construction had come to a halt because of the Goblins, but everything now resumed one by one. The main tasks were logging and building houses, followed by reclaiming farmland. Zhao Fu also left behind a squad of soldiers to scout the area around Great Qin Village for any other dangers.

After giving these orders, Zhao Fu finally had some free time. He looked over the two skills he had gained from becoming a Demon Priest: the D-grade Hellfire Ball and the E+ grade Blood Healing.

Like aptitude, skills were divided into nine major grades, each with three minor stages. The Fireball Zhao Fu had obtained by killing the Fierce Fire Rabbit had only been an ordinary F-grade skill. This time, he wanted to see how powerful the D-grade Hellfire Ball was.

Arriving at an open area, he stretched out his hand and slowly opened his palm. A blood-colored Fireball appeared in Zhao Fu's hand. With a toss of his hand, he sent the Fireball flying, and it landed on the ground.

Bang! It exploded, leaving a crater nearly one meter wide in the ground. Its power was at least four times that of an ordinary Fireball, which would only leave a small black mark on the ground.

As for Blood Healing, it was a skill from Hell. Like a priest's skill, it could provide healing.

After testing the two skills, Zhao Fu felt somewhat regretful. There were too few slots for this class, and magical skills were extremely scarce in Apocalypse World. Magical skills sold for more than ten times the price of ordinary physical skills. Zhao Fu somewhat wanted to form a mage corps in the future.

As for the remaining time, Zhao Fu spent it cultivating. Bai Qi's cultivation had already reached the peak of Second Stage and was about to enter Third Stage, while Zhao Fu was still only at Zero Stage.

At low levels, cultivation seemed unimportant, but it would determine the fate of a nation in the future. Several thousand ordinary soldiers might not even be able to defeat a single Ninth Stage soldier. Ordinary soldiers could only be slaughtered before them. Without high-level soldiers, a nation would be unable to establish itself.

Great Qin Village did not even have a full population yet, so having even one person capable of fighting was already good enough. However, once the population became sufficient, Zhao Fu would immediately implement an elite soldier policy.