Chapter 379: Final Confrontation (1) (1/2)
”Mortal Realms and Augmented Realms, ready!” Raiden shouted while flying up high as he watched over the marching enemies from their camp.
Although his shout was already loud enough for everyone to hear, Old Man Reol repeated it and directed it behind him where the five King Realm Generals were standing. Likewise, the General also repeated it until Raiden's command got passed by the Augmented Realms to the remaining 3500 Mortal Realms.
With their combined might, the previous state of having a lot more Mortal Realms was swapped by having double the size of Augmented Realms.
With stronger soldiers, they would be dominating their enemies who were stuck at the same level despite the enhancement of that descendant.
As the Mortal and Augmented Realms marched in front, the Corrupted Barbarians and Controlled Beasts at the same level marched out of the enemy camp.
Since I already assisted them by letting them breakthrough, my clones will not be enough to enhance thousands of them. At most, it could make smaller groups of a hundred or more Barbarians enhanced by a clone's Domain of Valor.
”Uhm. Daisuke, I forgot to give you these.”
While we were watching this opening act of the final confrontation against the Corrupted and the Dark World Transcendents, Noelle tugged at my sleeves from behind me.
I turned around and saw her producing four stone tablets.
The stone tablets oozed out of World Energy and they seemed to be something precious.
Well, in a Mortal sense, they are precious.
It's the Blessings she promised to give me. If Knights' Skill had skill books and Wizards' Spells had magic scrolls, the Priests' Blessings had stone tablets.
These four are Level 4 Blessings that she probably took out from the World Church. Her status being a Pope Candidate gave her that much authority.
”Thank you, Noelle.” I received it and upon hearing my words of gratitude, the shy girl immediately shook her head before shrinking back behind.
Following that, Caila also stepped forward and handed four skill books. After taking it, she tapped my shoulder and nodded. Despite our strength differences, she's still acting as the older sister type.
And last but not the least, Reinys who's having difficulty approaching me also wordlessly handed me four magic scrolls.
”Reinys,” I called out to her before she could even sink back behind.
”What?”
”Thank you.”
”Stop that and just put those scrolls to good use…”
”She specifically asked us what will be better for you,” Caila interjected, making the princess stomp her feet to avoid looking at me again.
Perhaps she didn't want to admit what Caila claimed.
I'm not wrong about my hunch, there's definitely something about her change of attitude. However, with the current state, this was an inappropriate time for confirming that.
”I see. I'll put these all to good use.”
Four Skills, Spells and Blessings. After learning these, although they're all limited to Mortal Rank due to the restrictions of the System about these add-on Skills, I could just convert them to an Elemental Spell when I have the time.
There's nothing wrong with having them all today.
Although the girls at my side all saw that, no one commented on it. Yuko even encouraged me to learn them already. As usual, she's probably thinking along the lines of 'if Reinys can become my Companion then it's much better'. Her supportiveness about this issue never wavers.
Clearing my head about that, I focused on the 12 new skills that were registered on my System.
For the Blessings, the names rang closely to their effect. Mass Heal, Sanctuary of Protection, Holy Armaments and Guardian Angel.
Mass Heal feels like what my 6-nodes Aether Elemental Spell: Cure will become if it was upgraded to 9-nodes.
Sanctuary of Protection is a stationary safe zone where everyone could hide from attacks. It's like an Energy Barrier and the Quintuple Shields. It can only sustain enough damage before breaking like glass.
Holy Armament is an attack enhancement, perhaps like Zerina's Fire Rune or if it was counted, my Energy Explosion. Every hit will have an added Holy effect. As to how they define the Holy properties in the System Pathway, it's just a denser concentration of destructive energy that could negate energies. Much like the Nullification Zone but lower in effect.
Guardian Angel is a survival skill that will only activate if someone was about to receive a fatal attack. It could conjure an angel that would take that blow from whoever the skill was cast on. But as it is now, even if I poured the maximum energy it could take, it could only prevent an attack of a full-powered Rank 5 Mortal. Since it will only activate if it was deemed fatal, it won't trigger on normal hits. Unless one's normal hit was fatal enough.