Chapter 141 - 123: Listen to Me, Thank You~

Chapter 141: Chapter 123: Listen to Me, Thank You~

"I’ll take two," Salas smiled. "I just happen to have enough money for two."

Su Hong shot Salas a grateful look. "Yu Yu and I will take four each. That way, we can also put together a set."

"Guild Master, can we continue to borrow our current Equipment?" Su Hong asked, a bit embarrassed.

Buying eight pieces of Equipment was already the limit for him and Yu Yu. It wouldn’t be fast to Enhance them to a high enough level to truly be useful. So they could only use the ready-made +20 Equipment for now. They would Enhance and switch to the sets after earning more.

"Just pay for the reforging yourselves." Yu Zhun waved his hand, signaling it was fine. He converted the newly acquired Equipment into cash again, then looked at the guild members present. "How did your Profession advancements go?"

Hearing this question, everyone present broke into smiles. After their Profession advancements, everyone’s strength had improved significantly compared to before. They finally had a chance to share this joy.

"I advanced to the [Arcane Magic Guide] Profession," Ji Xiaoyu rested her chin on her hand, grinning. "My damage output is even higher now!"

[Arcane Magic Guide]!

Everyone’s eyes lit up. This First-Turn Profession could be said to have the most explosive damage output in the Mage Series, because it had nothing else—just pure damage!

Professional Passive [Arcane Secrets]: Understand more secrets of profound Magic. Ignore 50% of the target’s Magic Defense and increase your own damage by 50%!

Besides the Enhancement to output from the passive, the First-Turn exclusive skill of the [Arcane Magic Guide] also boasted a high damage multiplier. Such a skill, paired with Ji Xiaoyu’s pure-damage talent, [Arcane Requiem], pushed her damage output to the absolute limit!

"Snipe," Sheila’s words remained brief.

But anyone who had any understanding of the Archer’s First Turn paths understood the meaning behind the word "Snipe."

[Sniper Hunter]. This was the path with the longest attack range among the eight First-Turn paths for the Mage and Archer Professions!

Professional Passive [Sniper’s Life-taking]: Maximum attack range increases by 300%. For every 1% increase in attack range, damage increases by 1%!

An Archer’s standard attack range was 50 meters, while a Mage’s was 40 meters. An Archer who advanced to the [Sniper Hunter] Profession could reach a maximum attack range of 200 meters. Furthermore, once the attack range exceeded 50 meters, damage would proportionally increase by 1% for every 1% of extra distance.

The first half of this Professional Passive was meaningless to Sheila’s SS-rank talent, [Predestined Arrow]. However, because of that, the second half was an epic Enhancement for her! Just half a passive was already invincible! A standard [Sniper Hunter] at least had a 300% damage increase cap, but Sheila had none whatsoever. As long as there was enough distance, anyone who showed their head would be instantly killed!

"Um..." Su Yue raised her hand sheepishly. "I advanced to the [Resurrection High Priest] Profession."

Everyone’s eyes lit up once again.

[Resurrection High Priest]!

Professional Passive [Vibrant]: Healing skill cooling reduced by 30%. When using Healing skills, Magic Attack increases by 100%!

With this passive, a Priest who advanced to the [Resurrection High Priest] Profession would become incredibly powerful in terms of Healing. Specialized as a complete Healer, this Profession was a flawless match for Su Yue’s [Emergency Healing] talent.

And yet, this wasn’t even the strongest aspect of the [Resurrection High Priest]. Its most powerful asset was its First-Turn exclusive skill, [Resurrection Sanctuary]!

This skill was the only one available to players in the Priest Series that could resurrect an ally. Although it had certain limitations—such as needing to be cast before Life Value dropped to zero and only being usable once per battle—its sheer power was undeniable based on the word "Resurrection" alone. In dangerous 3A or even 4A Dungeons, who wouldn’t want an extra life?

"After learning about her talent, Yu Yu had always wanted to advance to the [Resurrection High Priest] Profession. Now, she’s finally gotten her wish," Su Hong smiled, patting Su Yue’s head.

Looking at Su Yue, Yu Zhun couldn’t help but think of Yu Zhu. That little girl seemed to be planning on choosing [Resurrection High Priest] as well. She still had several months before she gained the qualifications for Divine Revelation.

He wondered if the [Divine Demon Store] sold any items that could allow someone to gain qualifications early, or to regain them after losing them.

Yu Zhun’s thoughts wandered before he turned back to Su Hong a moment later. "Su Hong, what about your Profession advancement?"

"I advanced to the [Flawless Heavy Shield] Profession," Su Hong shrugged. "My talent is inherently defense-oriented, so naturally, I had to choose an advancement path suited for defense."

The [Flawless Heavy Shield] had the highest tankiness among the Warrior First-Turn Professions, belonging to the pure meat shield path.

Professional Passive [Unbreakable Guardian]: Physical Defense and Magic Defense +80%. Damage reduction +20%. The damage reduction cap increases from 95% to 99%!

Unlike other attributes, damage reduction couldn’t be stacked limitlessly. It had a fixed cap of 95%. Only a few rare talents and Professional Passives allowed players to break this cap and obtain even higher damage reduction. This was also why Marcell, whom Yu Zhun had encountered earlier, had only stacked her damage reduction to 95%. It wasn’t that she couldn’t go higher, but rather that it was pointless to do so. Of course, if she had lived and advanced to the [Flawless Heavy Shield] Profession, that would be a different story.

Aside from the incredibly high tankiness brought by its passive, the exclusive skills of the [Flawless Heavy Shield] were equally interesting. One was [High-speed Self-Healing], and the other was [Covered in Thorns].

Maxing out the former would grant the [Flawless Heavy Shield] 10% maximum Life Value recovery per second, which couldn’t be interrupted even while in combat. Maxing out the latter would cause attackers to suffer up to 80% recoil damage when striking the [Flawless Heavy Shield]. It was also the only skill among all Professions that possessed a real-time damage reflection effect. Additionally, damage reflection could not trigger Yu Zhun’s "One-Hit Kill," because although it dealt damage, it was not considered an attack.

"Flawless Heavy Shield, huh..." Yu Zhun nodded slightly.

Among the six of them, having Yu Zhun as the sole melee damage dealer was enough. Su Hong’s primary task was to protect their two ranged heavy hitters, Ji Xiaoyu and Sheila. There was no issue with this advancement path.

Finally, Yu Zhun turned his gaze to Salas. Ever since the others started announcing their Profession advancement paths, Salas had worn a rather bashful expression.

"Sa, what’s going on with you?"

"I..." Salas scratched his head. "The Profession advancement path I chose is [Curse Calamity]..."

Yu Zhun stared in bewilderment.

The rest of the guild members were equally baffled.

Only Sheila’s eyes darkened thoughtfully. "No wonder."

No wonder Salas, as a Priest, had a Profession advancement trial that required causing chaos in a crowd!

For a standard Priest, skills could be divided into two categories. The first was Healing, which was purely restoring health. The second was buffing, which had a wide variety of effects.

[Curse Calamity] was an anomaly among the Priest’s First-Turn Professions. Just like the Assassin’s First-Turn Profession [Dark Night Apostle]—which turned players into a Magic Assassin and was jokingly dubbed the "Assassin Traitor"—the [Curse Calamity] was known as the "Priest Traitor."

No, the [Curse Calamity] was even more extreme. At the very least, the [Dark Night Apostle] still used skills inherent to the Assassin Series; only the damage type had changed. The [Curse Calamity], on the other hand, had the highest number of First-Turn exclusive skills of any First-Turn Profession. It had reached a point where it had almost nothing to do with being a Priest anymore.

Professional Passive [Curse Whisper]: When using debuff skills, duration +100%. Dispel skills require 2 casts to take effect!

Reducing recovery, reducing attack, reducing defense, reducing speed, reducing agility... There was no opponent that the [Curse Calamity] couldn’t debuff!

"Why would you choose this?" Ji Xiaoyu looked at Salas with a strange expression. "Doesn’t that make your talent completely useless?"

Salas’s talent could extend the duration of buff skills by 10%, which did not synergize with [Curse Calamity] at all.

"It’s mostly because I felt like..." Salas scratched his head and said sheepishly, "you guys don’t really seem to need buffs. Instead, our opponents are the ones who need debuffs..."

The meeting room suddenly fell silent. Everyone exchanged glances. They suddenly felt that Salas made a lot of sense. What should they do?

"Besides, [Curse Calamity] doesn’t synergize well with the vast majority of Priest-type talents, so very few players choose it," Salas scratched his head again. "Since my talent isn’t that great anyway, choosing this might actually be more useful."

"I think Sa made a good choice," Yu Zhun smiled.

Previously, Salas had a very low participation rate in battles. Most of the time, he was just "Sara Amon," responsible for whipping out items. By choosing [Curse Calamity], perhaps Salas would take on a much more active role in the team moving forward.