The Most Popular Class

Once they had the advantage in numbers, even though injuries were still unavoidable when Bloodfang Gang members fought back, they could ultimately take down their enemies without too much danger.

As for those who were injured—

Most of the time, they only suffered superficial wounds. A little bandaging and rest was enough for them to recover considerably.

If they were truly unlucky and got hit in a vulnerable part of the body, suffering injuries such as fractures, they could only be sent to the tavern for treatment and recuperation.

There were three Noven followers in the tavern who had chosen the priest path. Though they had only just started and could barely use minor divine spells like [Lesser Healing], it was enough to get the wounded back on their feet quickly.

The minor divine spell was not as effective as the professional priests' [Healing Word] among the Radiance Church's holy crusaders, but they had strength in numbers!

Although they used divine spells of the God of Radiance, priest followers who had learned divine spells from Noven were not restricted by spell slots. They were limited by mental energy instead.

As long as their mental energy was not exhausted, they could cast divine spells continuously!

Their strategy was simple: overwhelm the problem with quantity!

If one or two [Lesser Healing] spells could not cure someone, then stack ten or twenty on them.

Small amounts added up, and they could achieve the same healing effect as the Radiance Church's professional priests!

Before long, someone realized:

Huh?

Priests who could provide healing seemed to be the most popular class!

Every other class path had to confront the Bloodfang Gang thugs head-on.

After gaining power from the evil god, the Bloodfang Gang thugs were not weak individually.

If they wanted to contribute more during battle and earn more Justice Points, they could not cower in the back.

But the first people to attack were also the most likely to be injured by enemy counterattacks.

Once injured and unable to move, they could no longer participate in the operation or keep earning Justice Points.

Meanwhile, the three Noven followers who had chosen the priest path only needed to stay comfortably in the tavern, wait for wounded people to be brought to them, and use divine spells to heal them.

Since the people they healed had been injured while "stopping the Bloodfang Gang's crimes," they were also considered to have contributed to the operation and could earn Justice Points as well!

No danger.

A steady stream of points.

Later, when the teams led by Pete and Gale brought wounded people to the tavern, they learned that the three Noven followers on the priest path had already earned more than three hundred Justice Points just by treating injuries.

At that moment—at that very moment—Gale nearly decided to switch to the priest path!

He had worked so hard for half a day just to save up enough Justice Points!

He had only just exchanged them for [Arcane Missile].

Yet these priests were sitting in the tavern, drinking beverages and enjoying the breeze, casually casting a few [Lesser Healing] spells and raking in Justice Points!

In fact, at the beginning, none of the Noven followers who had chosen to pursue class training had planned to take the priest path at all.

During the preaching, more than ninety percent of them had coincidentally chosen to exchange for introductory mage knowledge.

After all, in a place like Greenport, nearly everyone agreed that mages had high status and high incomes.

Of course, even after exchanging for the knowledge, not everyone could successfully become a Tier 1 mage.

Even though they could see their training progress, everyone had different talent and therefore trained at different speeds.

Some had high affinity with the Goddess of Magic, making it easier for them to sense the ambient arcane energy. Their training progressed faster.

They might need only a few attempts to reach the 100% target and complete their mage initiation.

Those with insufficient affinity with the Goddess of Magic, however, might advance only one or two percent with each attempt.

They had to spend several times—or even more than ten times—other people's time and effort to achieve the same results.

After all, there were only so many people stubborn enough to keep forcing it.

Once they realized they were not cut out to be mages, they naturally settled for the next best thing and chose other class paths.

That was how followers training in other class paths came about.

At first, these people were somewhat disappointed that they could not become noble mages.

But then they looked at their performance during the operation.

Tier 1 mages?

They were not all that impressive!

Mages could not hold the front line, so they could not earn the contribution rewards for direct confrontation;

Their spellcasting was limited by mental energy.

After casting [Arcane Missile] three or four times in quick succession, they would become dizzy and lightheaded, forced to find somewhere to rest for half a day before recovering their energy.

They could not compare to the relaxed and comfortable priests at all.

They were not even as good as warriors, rogues, and rangers—classes that fought people in close combat!

For a time, quite a few people began entertaining thoughts similar to Gale's.

They had only just started anyway. They could pray to the God of Knowledge at any time and exchange for training knowledge from another class path.

Maybe... I should stop being a mage and train in another class instead?

For the time being, there was no need to discuss the changing trends in the followers' class choices.

Over the course of the night, driven by Justice Points and taking advantage of the Bloodfang Gang's failure to react in time, the many followers of the Knowledge Sect launched attacks all over the place.

Through everyone's combined efforts, not only did they earn enough Justice Points to successfully unlock the first special skill, [Status Display], they also made considerable progress toward [Evil Sense].

The effect of [Status Display] was extremely simple and straightforward:

Whenever Bloodfang Gang members appeared in Noven's followers' line of sight, they would immediately receive a notification.

No matter what disguise a Bloodfang Gang member prepared, [Status Display] would see right through it!

With the help of the special skill, and as their attacks on the Bloodfang Gang became more frequent, everyone also racked their brains and showed off their ingenuity, coming up with different methods to minimize losses and increase efficiency!

The next day.

Not long after two thugs left a brothel controlled by the Bloodfang Gang, they inexplicably felt a chill run down their backs.

"Why do I feel like something's following us?"

One of the thugs looked back several times, but all he saw were pedestrians coming and going on the street.

Everything seemed normal.

The other thug said disdainfully, "Did you fuck yourself into hallucinating? Who in the Lower District would dare mess with us?"

"Hurry up. We've got protection money to collect from three places today. Get it done early, and we can go back for a few rounds of dice!"

The thug who had spoken first was still somewhat suspicious. But after the two swaggered into a shop, kicked open its door, and forcibly collected a hefty sum of "protection money," everything remained no different than usual.

Was it just my imagination?

They collected the "protection money" from the second shop just as smoothly. The owner did not dare resist and obediently handed over his money pouch.

But at the third shop, before the two of them could even kick down the door, their vision suddenly went dark.

Two coarse burlap sacks reeking of sweat were pulled down over their heads!

Before they even had a chance to fight back, several [Arcane Missile] blasts knocked them off balance and sent them crashing to the ground.

All kinds of attacks immediately rained down on them!

With sacks over their heads, the two had no ability to resist. Listening to the lively shouts outside, they could only take the beating!

"The criminal acts are confirmed, and the evidence is conclusive!"

"They're Bloodfang Gang members, no mistake about it. [Status Display] has alerted us several times already—it's definitely these two!"

"Mr. Pete is so smart! Put sacks over their heads first, and we don't have to worry about them fighting back!"

"We followed them all the way here. These two have already forcibly collected protection money from two shops!"

"If we take them out now, we'll definitely get plenty of Justice Points!"

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