Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 862 If you fail, you will inherit the family business

Because the power of the path comes from the burning of sinners by the candlestick master in the past, and the holy number of the candlestick master is three...so there will always be three options in the promotion ceremony.

This time, six characteristics of the path burst out at once. And half of them are dedication and half are transcendence.

"Is this a choice of two path traits at once?"

Aiwass thought.

He still had plenty of time to think... because the promotion ceremony was very short and the pace was too tight, and it was still a long time before dawn.

The first things to be ruled out are the two purple features.

This is the Crescent Moon Ascension Ceremony from level 4 to level 5. It is already a level that will definitely unlock the gold attribute. If you go back and choose the purple attribute, you will lose a gold attribute. If you already have enough mana and don't plan to continue to pursue elemental affinity, don't even look at it.

Among the remaining four path characteristics, Aiwas first excluded the [Elemental Emperor].

The dual attributes of light and darkness are extremely important to him and cannot be given up.

This promotion ceremony has proven that the endless knot represented by the "Four-Color Wings" is a "wrong future". He must achieve the "Six-Color Wings" before he can fight against Huan Tiansi.

Once this feature is selected, it means that Aiwas can only use four-color elemental spells in the battle against powerful enemies. This is undoubtedly a weakening for him.

Moreover, [Snake of Transcendence] is a choice that Aiwas, as a transcendent, cannot skip.

——This feature is not a feature that players can choose in the game.

Its namesake feature is a dungeon catch-up mechanic for new players or players who are falling behind.

If this instance is not the current version's difficult instance, but a previous version's difficult instance, or the current version's main story instance, then as long as the players are wiped out once in it, all players will receive an 8% all-attribute enhancement. Depending on the backward progress of this instance, three to eight layers can be added.

For example, in an era when most players are at level 90, if there are still new players who are repeatedly wiped out in difficult dungeons at level 60, then [Snake of Transcendence] can add up to 64% of all attribute bonuses. This simple strength is enough to allow new players to easily skip some stages where they are prone to being wiped out.

In this world, as a transcendent, Aiwass is almost bound to fight against powerful enemies. Aiwass currently only has the scales given to him by the Silver Crown Dragon based on the "divine" priority bonus. In situations other than "attacking the oath-breaker", he can easily get the full +2 priority in the battle with the Celestial Master.

As long as he obtains unconditional priority from another source, Aiwass will be able to intervene in the battle of the Heavenly Masters at the fifth energy level!
What really made Aiwass's choice difficult were actually the two characteristics of the Path of Devotion:
[Endless Mercy (Gold): Your healing can revive the recently dead.]

[Choose the Horn (Gold): You drink the blood from the neck of Choose the Horn and become Choose the Son]

These two characteristics are also not rare characteristics that players can choose.

He didn't know the triggering conditions of [Endless Mercy] - how long the "recently dead" person was, nor did he know if this effect had any negative effects or built-in cooldown. He also didn't know what this "Son of the Candle" meant.

Without the intelligence advantage, he couldn't ensure that he got the best characteristics...

Do I have to make a hard choice?

but……

It was at this time that Aiwas realized something.

It was different from every previous promotion ceremony.

This time, after giving him blood, Si Zhu did not leave!

He just stood by and watched Aiwass make his choice quietly.

"...Lord Sizhu."

Aiwass didn't hold back, but chose to ask for help directly. After all, he was more or less the Pope, and it was reasonable for him to ask his god for advice when he encountered a problem. "Can you explain the two characteristics of [Endless Mercy] and [Candlestick Horn] to me?"

"Of course. After all, both of these traits come directly from me."

Si Zhu seemed to have expected this, and answered calmly, "The Zhu Tiansi you are all familiar with has these two characteristics." It seemed as if He stayed here just to answer Aiwas' questions.

After hearing this, Aiwass actually understood a little bit -

Zhu Tiansi is the only Tiansi who voluntarily descended to the material world and was killed by others. Only in Zhu Tiansi's place, the dungeons are not called "Crusade War", "Annihilation War" and "Annihilation War", but "Trial War", "True Test War" and "Extreme Test War".

The most powerful characteristic of Zhu Tiansi is his ability to resurrect almost at will.

In the first phase, Zhu Tiansi brings two Pope Guards and continuously applies various group buffs to them. If you don't kill them, the buffs on the guards will become stronger and stronger. If you kill them, Zhu Tiansi will stop applying buffs and revive them after three seconds. After entering the second phase, three seconds after resurrection, he will chant a six-second mechanism that may wipe out the whole group.

In the most difficult "Extreme Test Battle", Zhu Tiansi directly brought six Pope's guards in the first stage - the pressure given by three groups of guards and one group of guards is completely different, and the characteristic that they can never be killed is even more terrifying.

Therefore, if you want to defeat Zhu Tiansi, the key idea is to control the blood volume of these Pope's guards, let them die continuously, and the time of death is all controlled within nine seconds.

You just need to learn to use the death of the guards to interrupt Zhu Tiansi's high-risk special actions with extremely long casting times, and then take the opportunity to attack the main body.

Through this method, all gains can be cleared and Zhu Tiansi's special actions can be delayed, so that a new batch of Pope's guards will not have that terrible gain, and Zhu Tiansi must continuously resurrect the guards, so he cannot kill anyone for a long time, thus creating an output window period.

And if they are defeated by Zhu Tiansi, they cannot be teleported to the resurrection point, nor can they receive the unique combat resurrection of the player priest. Instead, they are directly resurrected by Zhu Tiansi and isolated outside the field - because they have been resurrected, they cannot be resurrected again.

Therefore, the Zhutiansi Trial Battle is a special combat mode that does not allow casualties.

——This battle is a real "trial battle".

This battle itself is not very difficult, because even if you make one or two mistakes, nothing will happen unless you make consecutive mistakes. It just tells the player one thing - some of the monsters summoned by the boss must be suppressed but not killed.

This is a very classic BOSS battle mode in MMORPG, and it is also the first time that the mechanism of controlling blood without killing appears in the game "Ouroboros".

Once you kill one or two guards in advance, it is easy to be unable to kill the guards who are resurrected with full health during the continuous interruption of blood control. You can only watch the guards with a lot of buffs attacking crazily and you can't control him. But if you can't bear it and kill him again, the axis will become more and more chaotic. If Zhu Tiansi chants the group-destroying mechanism twice in a row, basically everyone will die.

"The ability provided by [Endless Mercy] is literal resurrection. As long as the death of the person receiving treatment is within three seconds, and the damage to the body can be restored to a level that allows him to survive after receiving your treatment, he will be resurrected immediately. There are no restrictions, and there is no cost... Once you master this feature, there will no longer be "people who are just a little bit away from being saved" or "people who are suddenly killed due to carelessness".

"The downside is that this method of resurrection cannot be used to resurrect oneself. This is because mercy is not something that can be bestowed upon oneself."

Sizhu said gently: "As for [Sizhu's Horn]... that is the ability to call for miracles.

"Have you ever heard of [symbol] or [totem]? Some mysterious texts also call it [mythical gesture]. This is related to the symbolic power deep in the source river.

"This path feature allows you to briefly touch the essence of the source river of [civilization], giving you god-like power. The side effect is... the more you use this ability to do things, the more you will grow antlers and a deer body.

"This ability allows you to rescue anyone you want to rescue. Whether it's turning them into trees, amber, or petrification... or reviving corpses whose souls are still inside them, or extraordinary people whose minds are abnormal and whose paths have lost control. [Fire of Civilization] can burn away all darkness - as long as you are willing to pay a high enough price, it can even revive those whose souls have already entered the source river. As long as the soul has not been shattered and recycled, everything will be done in time.

"And the price is... this ability, the more you use it, the more like me you will be. You will grow antlers, and your soul will be purified, and the 'impurities' of other paths will gradually be filtered out by the power of the source river.

"When your soul is completely in tune with the Third Source River, you will become like the child An... from an elf to a deer with a human face. And if you continue to use it, you will become exactly like me."

An Yongheng—that was the name of the first Eternal Pope.

That is the real name of Zhu Tiansi.

"If it turns out like that...what will happen to me?"

Aiwass couldn't help but ask.

"——When that time comes, come and take over my position."

Si Zhu just smiled and said, "That is the price you pay for not being able to bear the temptation of devotion."

(End of this chapter)