Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

Red Maple City, Forging Manor.

Before the dusk fell in the evening, "Thomas the Tank Engine" had re-boarded "God's Destiny".

It was in the villa manor, his residence, that Thomas completed the "promotion" process.

He had already upgraded his level to lv.10 before the Red Maple City defense battle, triggering his [Promotion Task].

It was a combat-oriented promotion task, and the sum of eight attribute values ​​was greater than 65 points. Thomas just met them all at the same time after the Red Maple City defense battle ended.

In the "promotion" link, after Thomas gave the [Promotion Task] panel to confirm the completion of the command, his consciousness fell into darkness, leaving only a panel in front of him, prompting him to perform several subsequent operations.

Including entering the "Sea of ​​Spirituality", consuming the "Bronze Key" to open the "Bronze Door", entering the "Bronze Hall" to touch the "Copper Cast Pillar", etc., these "promotion" processes are all operated on the panel.

Thomas did not personally experience the processes shown in the panel, but he could clearly feel that as the "promotion" steps went deeper, the body of "Thomas the Tank Engine" would become stronger, and this feeling of strengthening reached its peak when he touched the "copper pillar"!

[……]

[You obtain the extraordinary profession: Holy Light Priest (lv.1)]

[Inherit the level of the lower profession "Apprentice Priest"]

[The level of "Holy Light Priest" was raised to lv.10, and the profession "Apprentice Priest" was lost]

[Obtain the professional skills of "Holy Light Priest": Holy Shepherd (Glorious, lv.1)]

[Holy Shepherd (Glorious, lv.1): You are the one who paves the way for "Glorious". When you use the "Glorious" destiny skill, the skill damage/effect is enhanced by 20% and the mana consumption is reduced by 20%. 】

[Obtain the occupational skill of "Holy Light Priest": Spear of Holy Light (Glorious, lv.1)]

[Mana consumption: 20, cooldown time: 3min]

[Spear of Holy Light (Glorious, lv.1): "Holy Light" condenses in the hand, this is the holy spear that penetrates the heresy - after a short period of charging, the "Spear of Holy Light" is thrown at the designated target, causing 100% physical attack + 100% spell attack "Holy Light" attribute damage; after the "Spear of Holy Light" hits the target, it will cause an annihilation explosion, causing a small range of physical attack 125% + spell attack 125% "Holy Light" attribute damage. 】

[……]

When Thomas finally gave the panel the command to touch the bronze pillar of the "Holy Light Priest", he truly stepped into the threshold of the second destiny of [Glorious], and was promoted from "apprentice priest" to "Holy Light Priest", and truly became a transcendent!

This process of "promotion" was experienced by Thomas during the internal test.

But when the public beta completed another "promotion", Thomas was still excited, quite excited!

In his eyes, the darkness that enveloped his vision gradually dissipated, and he saw the colors of his own room again.

And in his personal panel, there was also a new skill, a new skill - [Glorious] skill "Holy Shepherd", which is a skill to assist in combat; and the new skill "Spear of Holy Light" - that is the upper skill of the 'Primary Light Spear' that Thomas had mastered in the first level of destiny!

Compared with the "Primary Light Spear", the damage of the "Spear of Holy Light" has almost doubled, but the mana consumption is only 5 points more than that of the "Primary Light Spear"! In Thomas's opinion, this is a very practical combat skill.

And one of the benefits of choosing the "Primary" profession is that after learning the "Spear of Holy Light", the "Primary Light Spear" will not disappear because of learning the upper skill.

This is also the common occupational characteristic of the extraordinary professions with melee tendencies in "God's Destiny". In other words, after Thomas was promoted to the "Double Destiny", he had two output skills that could cause a lot of damage at the same time!

Compared with the auxiliary tendency of the "Consecrated Priest" in the Double Destiny and the shield enhancement of the "Holy Knight", the offensiveness and suppression of the "Holy Light Priest" are obviously stronger, but you need to pay more attention to cooperation with teammates. Well, weapons and equipment are also very important for the profession of "Priest"...

Thomas thought about this, and he also clicked on his "Skills" column and upgraded the newly acquired "Spear of Holy Light" skill level on the spot!

Because of the rewards given by the previous [Dark Sky Haze] mission, Thomas still has more than 45,000 experience points stored, and upgrading the skill "Spear of Holy Light" to the maximum level only consumed about one-tenth.

He is now in a state of "never seen so much experience, and I don't know how to spend it at all", and therefore he is looking forward to the mysterious "Holy Abyss Apostles" appearing again during the internal test.

After all, among all the organizations and forces Thomas has come into contact with, only the [Holy Abyss Mall] of "Holy Abyss" can directly use experience points to learn new "skills" or "skills", but now that the public beta has passed for a day, those mysterious apostles are still nowhere to be seen.

"It seems that during the internal beta... they also appeared on the third or fourth day after the 'internal beta' was launched..."

Thomas murmured, and he looked at his personal panel that had been completely renewed, and he felt happy and comfortable.

He then closed the panel, stood up, put on the new suit of the "Saint Guardian" of the church issued by the missionary, carried the rare quality war hammer [Hammer of the Saint] on his back, and walked out of the room.

Now——"Red Maple City Defense War" has just ended. Whether it is the church, the border court, or the square monument courtyard, the high-ranking people are busy with the aftermath and inventory. At this time, the players are the most idle.

And Thomas has not received the patrol mission from his "Saint Guard Captain" Connor from the church for the time being. He can take this opportunity to do something else and explore Red Maple City again.

The plan has been decided, so he walked to the door of the villa, opened the panel of the map at the same time, and marked a point to go to——

[Authentic Dwarf Blacksmith Shop]

…

In the evening.

In Red Maple City, "Forging Manor" next to the church.

On the marble wall, the plaque "Authentic Dwarf Blacksmith Shop" was just wiped clean. At this time, the forging masters in the manor were still busy, forced to work overtime due to the continuous surge in orders in recent days.

Thomas has arrived at the gate of the forging manor, looking at the dwarves with bare arms and swinging hammers in the gate and the yard, his mouth slightly opened in surprise.

It seems... there were not so many dwarves here last time?

When did it happen?

That "master"... Master Mir brought all his uncles and uncles from the "Storm Continent" with his family?

Thomas thought to himself, but did not take it too seriously. Seeing that the gate of the forging manor was still open, he walked in calmly.

Why bother so much... His current identity is a "consumer"!

With the 40 gold coins warm in his pocket, Thomas couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart. After entering the forging manor, he began to look around.

He still remembered that during the internal test, he spent five gold coins to buy a green-quality "Mithril Straight Sword" in the manor.

But now - he has eight times the funds of the internal test! He should be able to buy some good things.

Thomas is now using the [Hammer of the Saint], which is a green-quality weapon. If he can buy a blue-quality weapon this time, he can use the [Hammer of the Saint] as a secondary weapon...

Thomas thought to himself, and he was still looking around, looking for an old acquaintance.

But before he could find her among dozens of forging masters, Thomas suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder, and someone patted him heavily on the shoulder -

"Are you from the church? What are you doing here?"

Then a low, hoarse, middle-aged man's voice came to Thomas' ears.

Thomas looked back and saw a fierce-looking, muscular naked strong man staring at him with round eyes.

The panel detection shows that the strong man in front of him is named Kabad Hafkin - he is a triple destiny of [Ku Tu], and his profession is "Forging Master".

Although [Ku Tu] is also an illegal destiny in the empire, it is not so "illegal" compared to [Red Lotus], [Nothingness], and [Lost] - most of the time, it exists as a gray destiny.

As long as you don't join those secret cults or organizations that have been identified as cults, it doesn't matter to the empire to let the muscular big guys walk around the streets - many official institutions, guilds or organizations will also hire extraordinary people with the destiny of [Ku Tu] to act as guards or various functions that require great strength, but these are not on the table and are considered to be established rules.

And in "Forging Manor" like Mir, several full-time "forgers" with the destiny of [Ku Tu] are also employed. This is tacitly approved by the church behind it, and Thomas already knew this during the internal test.

"I'm here to customize weapons," Thomas took out his purse from his pocket and said confidently, "Forty gold coins! I want to order-"

"The church's urgent work order is full."

"Forging Master" Kabad interrupted him and said without any reaction on his face, "To customize weapons or equipment suitable for [Glorious], let me think... Well, you have to wait for forty-two days."

-Forty-two days? ? !

Thomas was stunned and stood there as if struck by lightning.

What do you mean the urgent work order is full... I brought forty gold coins! Forty gold coins!

People here don't want to make money!

Thomas, who was unwilling to give up, raised the purse containing forty gold coins in his hand, shook it lightly in front of the "forging master" Kabad, and said:

"Forty gold coins! No..."

"Little brother, because you are from the church, you can be scheduled for forty-two days later."

"Forging Master" Kabad spread his hands, with a half-helpless and half-"this is just a little money" expression on his face, and said to Thomas:

"If it is a private or personal order, it will take half a year to queue up."

"And-forty gold coins are not enough. The custom orders we accept now have a starting price of five hundred imperial gold coins, and the lowest is the "master" quality weapons or equipment. For forty gold coins, you can go to the warehouse and have a look. There are many ready-made ones there."

"..."

-Fuck!

Thomas couldn't help but say a Chinese quintessence in his heart.

He didn't expect that his current net worth has increased eight times compared to the time of the closed beta, but in the eyes of these blacksmiths, he is still "poor"!

So expensive...

Thomas suddenly felt that the water in Forge Manor was too deep and he couldn't control it.

Just when I was thinking about going back like this and saving up some more - the five hundred gold coins that "Master Blacksmith" Kabad said, I could go directly to the forging manor to customize a 'master' quality weapon.

"Thomas?"

Suddenly, a clear female voice floated into Thomas' ears.

He turned towards the source of the sound and saw a girl wearing long sleeves and trousers, holding a forging hammer and wearing a high ponytail.

The girl waved to Thomas, and Thomas recognized her immediately.

That was exactly the person Thomas wanted to find when he came to the forging manor, the player of "id. Frost Moon"!

As expected, she chose [Intellect] again and continued to be a blacksmith apprentice in the "Forging Manor"!

"Do you know each other?"

In front of Thomas, "Master Blacksmith" Kabard asked Thomas.

"Yes, we know each other," Thomas responded casually, "Old friends."

"Then you guys talk. That girl is recommended by the church. Let her show you around."

After Kabard said these words, he turned and left. He walked to the room on the first floor of a newly built villa in the manor and closed the door. The sound of tinkling iron was heard from behind the door.

After Kabard left, Thomas trotted towards Shuangyue.

"You also chose Red Maple City, but you chose [Intellect] as your initial destiny?"

Thomas asked Frosty Moon.

"Yes," Shuangyue nodded in response. She looked Thomas up and down and said with surprise:

"Have you been promoted to the 'Second Life Path'?"

"Can the church issue you the 'Bronze Key' so quickly?"

"Hey." Thomas smiled.

He knew that Shuang Yue had already used the panel to detect him once while chatting, so he also opened the panel and also detected "Shuang Yue"——

His eyes fell on "Shuang Yue"'s ID, that was "Shuang Yue"——

"Did you finally register for the ID of 'Shuang Yue' in the public beta test?"

Thomas expressed his admiration, "You are worthy of such a sought-after ID!"

"The first thing I did when I entered the game interface was to enter the word 'Frost Moon' in the ID field."

Shuangyue suddenly smiled and said, "Didn't you see? I didn't even have time to model the model carefully."

"..."

While Shuangyue was saying this, Thomas' eyes were also looking at the "Shuangyue" modeling character carefully.

Thomas still remembers that when he entered the game interface of "God's Destiny" and created an account and character, the initial modeling was generated by adding a certain degree of intelligent beautification to the real-life character image. If no adjustments were made, it would actually be very easy. It can be seen that it is basically a modeling done on the "face models" of real players.

As for "Frost Moon", Thomas had already met her in a game called "Star Train" before playing "God's Destiny" published by Black Technology Company. In real life, they also became friends in the gaming circle. I met several times for team building opportunities.

Therefore, Thomas knows "Frost Moon" in real life. She is indeed a good-looking girl who is easy to identify among the crowd. Thomas can recognize her the moment he sees "Frost Moon".

Looking at "Shuangyue" now, she is modeled after her in reality with a slight beautification, but with a high ponytail that is the default in "Hairstyle 1" - she really has never been modeled...

"Indeed, I just discovered it."

Thomas raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, smiled, then opened the friend panel and sent a friend request to "Frost Moon" opposite.

Shuangyue quickly agreed to Thomas' application, and then asked Thomas:

"Okay, so - you want to come and get weapons again?"

"That's it," Thomas held up the purse containing forty gold coins, but the initial confidence on his face was gone, and he asked Shuangyue tentatively:

"Uh, so what can forty gold coins... buy?"

Shuangyue: "..."

Shuangyue: "...Where did you get the forty gold coins? Did you steal it from the church's treasury? Or went to the street to rob it?"

"No! There are at least four bottles of Paladin Golems and four 'Triple Destiny' priests guarding there. How can we get in?" Thomas argued.

"Then where did you get so much money?"

Although the "Great Blacksmith" Kabard didn't seem to be too interested in the forty gold coins held by Thomas, for players who are generally still poor now, this is already an astronomical figure.

"The church sent, uh... we submitted a piece of information to the bishop, and the church rewarded us with ten gold coins. Then after the Red Maple City defense battle ended, we returned to the church and were rewarded with another thirty gold coins..."

"..."

"……ah?"

Shuangyue opened her mouth, with a rather surprised expression on her face. After a while, she stuttered and said:

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"The church...are the church benefits so exaggerated?"

"That's it." Thomas spread his hands, "That's how the forty gold coins came..."

"..."

"Oh, what you said makes me want to switch to trumpet and switch to [Glory]..."

A helpless expression appeared on Shuangyue's face, but this expression was quickly hidden again, and she got back to business:

"You said, with these forty gold coins of yours, you want to customize a weapon?"

"That's right," Thomas said helplessly, "But the uncle just now, seems to be called Kabard? He said that the urgent work order has been scheduled for forty-two days."

"He also said that for customization, forty gold coins are not enough," Thomas continued:

"Is it so expensive to buy a weapon at Forge Manor?"

"That's right," Shuangyue shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile on her face:

"After all, this is the best blacksmith shop in the entire Red Maple City. And that master, Master Mir, has also recruited almost half of the blacksmiths in Red Maple City to come here to forge. If you want to make some better weapons or equipment, They will definitely choose to come here.”

"But, having said that, what Master Kabard said is really right -" Shuangyue continued, "Now forty gold coins are indeed not enough to make equipment, but in the early morning, the forging manor did have some money from the church and the border. Some weapons and equipment captured on the battlefield were recovered from the court.”

"Some weapons and equipment are being sold at a discount. If there are no buyers, the masters are going to melt them into materials. You might be able to go and take a look at these."

"Is there such a thing?" Thomas asked curiously.

Then Thomas suddenly had some different thoughts in his mind.

It's not just about buying a "rare" quality weapon, but in a place like "Forging Manor", it seems that you can make some quick money by "recycling" some loot.

When he killed the [Ku Tu] triple fate "giant warrior", the giant stick in his hand seemed to be a good quality weapon, but the weapon was too huge and could not be brought back, so Thomas gave up. Got this idea.

But now that I think about it, this is indeed a way to "make money", and as the "Saint Protector" I will only be able to receive more "judgment" tasks in the future.

"..."

While he was thinking about this, Thomas's ears heard the crisp voice of "Frost Moon" again:

"Hey Thomas? What are you thinking about?"

"..."

"Oh, it's nothing..."

When Shuangyue called him, Thomas temporarily cleared the messy thoughts in his mind, looked at the girl in front of him, and said:

"Take me to see those recovered weapons? Hmm... I want a weapon similar to a 'warhammer', preferably one that can be held with one hand and used as a secondary weapon."

…

After that, Shuangyue took Thomas into a storage warehouse in the Forging Manor.

As Shuangyue said before - most of them are indeed weapons recovered from the battlefield, and some are defective products that were abandoned here because the finished products did not meet the requirements of the order.

Like the "Mithril Straight Sword" that Thomas bought from the Forging Manor for only five gold coins. It was originally a custom order for a "rare" quality weapon, because the quality of the actual finished product did not meet the "rare" quality. If it cannot be delivered, it can only be kept in the warehouse and sold at a discount.

There are a lot of weapons and equipment like this - when Thomas followed Shuang Yue into the storage warehouse of the Forging Manor, through the detection function of the panel, he had roughly distinguished the quality range of the weapons and equipment placed here.

The quality ranges from "Gray Rough" to "Purple Master". The weapons and equipment of green rare and below quality are not favored by Thomas now, and the weapons or equipment of "Purple Master" are not affordable for Thomas, so his His attention was completely focused on the approximately thirty or forty "blue rare" quality weapons in the warehouse.

Very quickly, Thomas selected three weapons from among thirty or forty alternatives——

"How about this?" Thomas pointed to an ax with a short silver handle and a light red crystal blade, and asked Shuangyue first.

"Oh. [The Ax of Ruin]... I like to call it the Ax of Tetanus, sixty gold coins."

"You can see its weapon panel, right? It was a weapon seized from the 'Berserker' on the road of [Red Lotus]. The wounds hit by it are difficult to recover and will suffer some continuous damage - but there is a saying "Although this weapon is of 'rare' quality, in my opinion, its beauty outweighs its practicality."

"……really."

Thomas looked at the "Tetanus Ax" placed on the display shelf in front of him again, and in his heart he had already given up on it when Shuangyue said its price of up to sixty gold coins.

It then turned its gaze elsewhere, looking at the completely black 'chain hammer' on the other side, embedded with squirming black rays of thorns, and then asked Shuangyue for the price.

"This? [Festering Fang] - Well, it's cheap, only thirty-five gold coins, but it's too ugly."

"You are a priest of the church, isn't it appropriate to bring this?"

"..."

When Shuangyue gave a kind reminder, Thomas suddenly thought of the bishop. The "bishop" Rossiu Carlos seemed to also use a dark green magic staff that looked poisonous, so he automatically ignored Shuangyue's kind reminder. .

Thirty-five gold coins can buy a poison-quenching chain hammer - quite appropriate, Thomas thought to himself, turning his eyes to the other side, the last alternative "rare" weapon.

It was a small sickle with a short handle - the blade was curved like a crescent moon and shone with broken silvery light. The slender handle was embedded with circles of azure rings, which were traces of "runes".

——[Silver Cutting Scythe (Blue Rare)], which has the ability to convert the part that causes damage into "original trauma", which is "real damage"; and the embedded runes also make this weapon more When this rune skill is turned on, the color of the back blade will turn red, and the holder's current blood volume will be deducted by a percentage every second, and the damage caused by the weapon holder will be greatly increased by 30% to 50%.

Putting aside the blood-burning debuff of this weapon, the improvement it can bring to Thomas is quite obvious - and this last "rare" quality weapon is what Thomas wants most.

He then turned to look at Shuangyue and asked her for the price.

"This...oh, I also like this little silver sickle!"

Shuangyue's pupils shone brightly and said, "Similar to the previous 'Tetanus Axe', this little sickle, I call it the 'Tetanus Scythe'! If I couldn't afford it, well, I would have to give it to you." Fix it yourself!”

"Oh, you don't seem to be able to afford it... I remember that the price of this scythe was ninety gold coins."

Damn it, ninety? !

Too expensive?

Thomas breathed out, and he could feel the phantom pain in his wallet.

But he really wanted this weapon - so he looked towards Shuangyue and asked with a longing expression:

"Yes, can you get a discount?"

"Well……"

Shuangyue pondered for a moment and answered him, "I don't know, but generally speaking... even if I can get a discount, I can give you a discount of seventy-five or eighty gold coins at most."

"..."

Seeing that Thomas was still staring at it, Shuangyue showed suspicion on his face and said:

"You don't want to hit forty, do you have broken bones?"

"Indeed." Thomas nodded sincerely.

Shuangyue: "..."

"Wait for me," Thomas said suddenly, "I'll find someone to borrow some."

After saying that, he directly opened the [Friends Panel] and saw that the avatar of the big paladin "Big Crocodile Stewed in an Iron Pot" was still on, so he directly sent him a message——

[Thomas the Tank Engine]: Where? V I 50

[Stewed crocodile in iron pot]:?

[Stewed crocodile in iron pot]: TD

[Thomas the Tank Engine]: No, no, no kidding, please help me! ! !

【……】：……

…

About ten minutes later, "The Big Crocodile Stewed in Iron Pots" entered the forging manor wearing a heavy paladin armor at Thomas's diligent call.

Thomas ran directly to the door to greet him, and then returned to the manor warehouse under the leadership of Shuangyue. Thomas roughly explained his intention to borrow money to the predator——

"The only one I can think of who can come up with fifty gold coins is you, brother!"

This is indeed true - other closed beta players of the same level received rewards from the church of 10+30 gold coins, while only the predator received 10+60 gold coins. You must go to him to borrow money.

Stewing giant crocodile in iron pot: "..."

He said nothing more, but took out his money bag from his arms, which contained seventy gold coins. He looked at Thomas with evil eyes and said:

"Call daddy."

"father."

"..."

"Okay, okay."

The predator was happy. He untied the money bag, took out twenty gold coins and put it in his pocket. Then he threw the money bag directly to Thomas, who reached out to take it.

"Pay your debt on time," the predator said to Thomas, "The salary of being a 'Saint Protector' is fifteen gold coins a week, and your one-month 'sacred stipend' will be mine by then!"

"Okay." Thomas nodded in agreement.

After that, the iron pot stewed the crocodile and left the manor, while Thomas took the ninety gold coins together and went to find the dwarf responsible for guarding the storage with Shuangyue.

Thomas tried to bargain with the dwarf named "Frog Gravel", and Shuangyue also helped, and finally negotiated the price of [Silver Cutting Scythe (Blue Rare)] from ninety gold coins to seventy-eight gold coins. .

Thomas then opened his money bag, counted twelve gold coins and put them in his pocket, and then handed both money bags to the dwarf Frog.

After the inventory was correct, Thomas left the manor with the [Silver Cutting Scythe], and he suddenly felt unprecedented satisfaction.

By the time he left the manor, the sky was completely dark.

The sun has set in the mountains in the distance, and the blue moon has risen high - night has arrived, so Thomas is planning to go back to the church and go to the "Holy Inquisition" to see if there is any adjudication task that he can accept.

And just when he was walking on the main street of Red Maple City, he was about to turn a small corner and enter a narrow alley, but the shortest distance.

Suddenly there was a blur in front of his eyes, and he felt gray, dark red and deep purple light flashing through.

The air around him was stagnant at this moment. Thomas felt his breath suffocated, and his heart suddenly became wary. His right hand was already holding the newly purchased [Silver Cutting Scythe], and his left hand took off the [Saint's Hammer] from behind.

In Thomas' field of vision, he saw at the same time, a figure wearing a crimson cloak flashed out from the corner in front of him!

The figure revealed the back of his hand from under the cloak, and the black "dragon claw mark" was flashing on it!

——That is the mark of [Holy Abyss]!

The figure quickly approached Thomas and stopped two places away from him, and heard a low and faint voice:

“Are you... the ‘Adventer’?”

...