Free Web NovelChapter 1108: Chapter 270: Wood Main Priest
Flame Sun Blood is a passive skill. Any enemy that causes melee damage to the Holy Temple Knight will suffer retaliation from the Golden Flame, inflicting damage equal to 5% of the inflicted damage per level, reaching 75% at Level 15. Although this damage is considered both magic damage and flame damage and can be offset by various resistances, it is enough to give the opponents of the Holy Temple Knight a headache. It’s worth noting that the Holy Temple Knight is a tank-type profession; you might end up receiving more damage than you inflict.
The Thorny Crown, however, is an active offensive skill. This skill has two statuses: continuous effect and active activation. When continuously effective, it consumes a small amount of magic power per second, serving to increase the Holy Temple Knight’s endurance and resistance — endurance being the exemption capability against toxins and special damage, and resistance being the exemption capability against magic. Once the Holy Temple Knight actively activates this skill, within a short period, all defenses, resistances, and endurance will be transformed into attack power.
This duration is brief, and once the effect ends, the Holy Temple Knight will experience a considerably long period of weakness with zero defense and zero resistance. However, during the activation duration, the Holy Temple Knight’s combat power is absolutely 200%, a state players jokingly refer to as mad dog mode. This skill is the core means of explosion for the Holy Temple Knight. Even though Brand typically dislikes such strategic skills, it is definitely an unexpected pleasure to draw two core skills from the overwhelming pool of professional skills.
This is indeed one of the powers exhibited by high-level clergy holding a ritual. Brand could not help but glance at the Wood Main Priest. This Great Priest standing at the peak of power in the Ande Fulei Grand Temple displayed little emotion. In fact, the entire ritual lasted only for an instant, and then the old man nodded to him, "You may rise."
The originally restless laws inside the quiet room seemed to fall silent in an instant. The previously divinely filled atmosphere in the room was now completely gone, as if everything before was just an illusion.
"The Tuokui Lion-man in the North is restless, and the Holy Temple will not let Erune’s unrest last long. My term is coming to an end, and the Holy Temple may dispatch a new Great Priest to replace me," Wood continued the previous topic after Brand stood up. He seemed indifferent to hosting the transformation ritual for Brand, and the focus of the conversation repeatedly swung back to this matter.
Upon hearing this, Brand suddenly took it seriously. He knew that this Great Priest always advocated that the Holy Temple should remain independent of the affairs of various countries, maintaining a transcendent attitude. The priest’s stance on the civil unrest in Erune was likewise detached. But could mentioning this indicate that his successor might not share the same view? Considering this, he could not help but cast a suspicious look at this influential figure.
Wood Main Priest did not respond.
"I heard that you support that Princess?" the old man asked. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
Brand did not avoid the question, only nodded. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
"The Princess is now in a weak position, and if she wants to govern Erune, this kingdom is likely to fall into a long-term turmoil. Unless she can persuade Duke Anlek, then the originally undecided Viero and Jandener will both lean towards the Royalist side," the old man’s eyes fell on Brand: "But do you think this really helps this ancient kingdom?"
Brand shook his head, this is exactly what he wants to prevent. He can clearly foresee how things will develop in the future. Once the Princess reaches an agreement with Anlek, she must compromise with the conservative nobles. The Royalist faction around her is unreliable, like a pillar of a crumbling house that has rotted from the inside. No matter how you rearrange the position, it won’t help. Perhaps, one might temporarily reverse the downward trend, but from a long-term perspective, it’s still futile.
Brand is not a prophet, but he has personally witnessed all this play out, just like the rise and fall of a grand drama on stage, only he is a part of it.
The Great Priest of the Ande Fulei Grand Temple glanced at him again.
"So you understand?"
Suddenly, Brand understood what the Great Priest intended to convey. The Holy Temple won’t allow the unrest in Erune to drag on for too long, and if the Princess fails to gain the upper hand soon, the Holy Temple is likely to intervene. Although Wood himself does not advocate for this, it cannot guarantee that his successor will feel the same way. With that thought in mind, he could not help but lift his head to look at the old man.
