Chapter 257 - Harder Than Imagined (1/2)

Saint Samurai was a very powerful profession, so powerful that the game development team called it a bug. The core specialty unique to the profession was Body of Light.

The profession’s use of any melee weapon rendered it a “weightless” weapon, meaning that even a greatsword could be brandished as easily as a dagger. In the simplest measurement conditions, the heavier the weapon, the faster it could be swung, then the higher the impact damage it could naturally do.

Using a ten-kilogram greatsword, swinging it with the same attack speed as a dagger…

Daggers, on the other hand, were generally around a kilogram, a tenth of the base weight of greatswords.

This was why, even with a focused addition on Charm, the Saint Samurai’s melee base damage ability was not far from that of Warriors of the same level.

However, the average Saint Samurai wouldn’t purposely learn melee combat specialties, so their melee combat abilities could catch up to that of Warriors, but not surpa.s.s them.

Body of Light had another effect: any armor worn was rendered “weightless” armor, and the power of light would continuously strengthen the armor, transforming it, slowly and permanently increasing its defensive resistance and magic resistance. The maximum effect was the character’s level multiplied by three.

Therefore, Saint Samurai would not normally change their armor, because, after three to five years of wearing it, their armor would become divine armor with considerably strong defense, not much worse than the armor of Heroes.

The Saint Samurai’s secondary profession specialty was Wings of Light.

Once the character was at level five, they would automatically learn Wings of Light, which allowed them to use light theurgy to condense a pair of golden wings of light behind their back, giving the spellcaster the effect of Rudimentary Acceleration as well as the ability to levitate.

From this level onward, the attractiveness index of the Saint Samurai would be further enhanced

After level ten, the Wings of Light would become two pairs, and the spellcaster would be able to obtain the ability of Intermediate Acceleration, which would not only greatly increase movement speed on the ground, but also increase one’s own attack speed, and allow short-distance flight; the longest flight distance was character level times two kilometers, the fastest flight speed was character level times 1.5 meters per second, the maximum flight height was character level times two meters, and the maximum acc.u.mulation limit for the number of flights was their level divided by four’, which would naturally acc.u.mulate once every eight hours.

After level 15, the Saint Samurai was rumored to be able to obtain three pairs of light wings, but no Legendary Saint Samurai had been born since the history of the Church of Light, so no one knew what abilities the Saint Samurai would have after level 15.

The Saint Samurai was very, very powerful, but their limitations were quite obvious. First of all, they derived their power from the G.o.ddess of Light, and their alignment had to be good, or at least neutral good. If their thoughts and actions deviated from the good alignment, they degenerated into Dark Knights, or also known as Dark Samurai.

A Dark Knight would lose the G.o.ddess’s favor and the power of light. At the same time, they would be given power by certain demonic G.o.ds in the demon realm, and from then on, their strength and personality would change. According to the records of the Church of Light, the higher the level of the Saint Samurai, the more likely they would be tempted by demonic G.o.ds.

Or to put it another way, most demonic G.o.ds were quite interested in corrupting Saint Samurai.

A powerful profession was bound to have considerable limitations as well.

If Schuck dared to abandon Roland and his other teammates, under normal circ.u.mstances, there would be a spontaneous alignment test, which would cause the G.o.ds’ fondness value to drop and their strength to drop, even if they weren’t directly expelled from the Saint Samurai “household.”

This was the true weakness of the clerical professions; once you lost the favor of the G.o.ds, you would be nothing.

This was why the Druid explicitly said that he was concerned about Schuck, a dragon knight, and was afraid of the forces behind him.

But in reality, he was pus.h.i.+ng Schuck to his death, and if Schuck believed him, Shuck would suffer great losses.

Upon hearing that the black panther was quite interested in who the traitor was, Shuck smiled, cast another healing spell on Margret, and then said, “Again, it would be betrayal if I told you who the traitor was—you’re clearly just an elf, yet there’s a trap in every word you speak.’

The panther snickered twice. “But it’s better than you dying right now. Maybe we can compromise and you can get that dragon to tell me who betrayed us! That way it won’t count as your betrayal.”

It was indeed a solution, though just as likely to deviate his alignment, but not much; after all, the words didn’t come out of his mouth.

It was sort of a tricky way to do it.

However, it couldn’t be done many times, or there would be alignment s.h.i.+fts just the same.

Now, all Shuck had to do was stall for time, so he said faintly, “Is it possible for me to think about it?”

“Yes.” The black panther nodded very much like a human. After transforming into a black panther, his eyes had turned light purple and seemed to hold a seductive power. “But the other two humans must die. After all, we only promised that you and the red dragon could live.”

Roland gave Schuck a look that told him to keep stalling, then he shouted to the Hunter, Dorfer, “Run!”

Dorfer instantly got the message and bolted in the direction of the resurrection point.

The black panther signaled and several elves immediately chased after him.

As they ran, an arrow that could turn a corner shot at them.

Because this s.p.a.ce was all locked up by the Dimensional Anchor, Roland couldn’t use Teleportation and could only run wildly on foot.

It was a good thing he summoned three s.h.i.+eld-wielding dolls to cover his retreat, and after running for a few meters, he wasn’t hit by any arrows.

Just how could a Mage outrun an elf without Teleportation… In less than a minute, an arrow caught up to Roland and hit the right side of his back, the tip of the arrow piercing through his chest.

A pool of blood erupted like a geyser, and Roland took a few more steps due to inertia before collapsing to the ground.

Because of the reduced pain, it didn’t hurt so much, but his entire body felt weak.

Several elves caught up with him and fired an arrow at his head.

Now Roland was really dead.

His soul was released and then he was reborn in a plain church.

Jumping up from the cold stone altar, Roland took out plainclothes from his Backpack and put them on.