Chapter 196: Holy Lancer (1/2)
[Ding!]
[Player Jessica Weiss has completed a grand challenge and obtained Proof of Hero]
[Proof of Hero: Evidence of a successful grand challenge. Your accomplishment would be well remembered, and your courage existing eternally with the world. (Can only be used above Level 60)]
[Player Jessica Weiss has obtained Sefarim (Exclusive item/Soulbound) and unlocked new Cleric class-change ‘Holy Lancer’]
[Class introduction]
[Holy Lancer: The Holy Lancer wields their divine lance from their mount to protect the weak and innocent in the name of duty. They are the ideal form of paladins, training tirelessly in combat and the sacred arts, dashing through sand and cutting through the enemies’ ranks.
Players no longer change weapons after changing class to Holy Lancers, and must pour all their experience and skill within their holy lances to hence elevate the grate and ability of the lance itself, and bound it to the Lancer with utmost intimacy. The day the holy lance sharpens is the day the name of the Holy Lancer resounds across the world.]
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[Class-change requirements: Player Level 15, clearing class-change quests, a Level 15 Purple-Rare item (Golden-Legendary works as well) to be delivered to the dwarven craftsman to forge the mold of the holy lance.]
Xi Wei wasn’t idling even though he had said nothing in his divine kingdom while Jessica and the others slew the Drake with the greatest treasure of the elves. Instead, he was using his divine power to sense the principles in which Sefarim worked.
Since there is a clear divide between the gods and their various divine orders and aside from the widespread overlapping of authority, the gods wouldn’t easily be able to replicate what other gods had created.
And that was precisely why the gods of this world clearly had no awareness or countermeasures against theft.
Moreover, although Xi Wei couldn’t understand most principles of how Sefarim worked even after he carefully felt it as if he was licking it, he still gained much from that.
Additionally, the introduction of Life Skills and its skill proficiency setting had allowed Xi Wei to profit with huge amounts of divine energy. Hence, in the spirit of ‘money not spent is paper’, he simply used that divine energy, and imitated the principles of Sefarim to a certain extent in molding a new class.
Though the Holy Lancer appeared high and mighty, it was just like other classes with three branches in its skill tree.
The first branch was the [Sacred Lance]. The Player wouldn’t be able to equip other weapons after changing class to Holy Lancer, and their only weapon is the one forged from the holy lance mold that the dwarven craftsman made during their class-change.
The holy lance mold would draw the Player’s EXP and level up in tandem with the Player, and the Sacred Lance class would allow the holy lance mold to further gain special abilities, although those abilities would never stop consuming the Player’s mana and would burn EXP once their MP bar was empty.
Therefore, the Holy Lance would have seal certain skills correspondingly when the Players learning new ones, and most skills for this skill branch would have ‘O Sacred Lance, unlock the seals in my name, XXX!’ that sort of feeling. Sealing once doesn’t mean only one could be unlocked either, and several seals could be unlocked in an instant if the blue bar was sufficient, the overlapping effects of which unleashed fearsome might.
Then, there was the Cuirassier[1] skill branch.
As Holy Lancers couldn’t switch weapons, they would have one item slot less than other Players. That being said, they had another advantage in their mount—while other Players could ride various creatures as well, only Holy Lancers would receive stat buffs from their mounts.
In turn, most skills on the Cuirassier skill branch was casted in tandem with their mounts, combining in attacks, pressing advantages and keeping guard. Like how calvaries crushed infantries, the combined powers of the mount and the Holy Lancer would achieve a 1+1>2 effect in most scenarios!