Chapter 335 Priest Position (3.5k)
Amidst flashing streams of light of different colors, about six groups of distinct people appeared in several corners of the lion pride to the east, each emanating a strong external qi.
Many pure earth element auras surged, and as sand particles flew and roamed, they added a yellowish-brown energy shield to the people in various teams, capable of resisting a certain degree of attack. Almost no one, unlike Su Jiu’s team, arranged pure attackers; they would generally arrange earth element bloodline defenders for mass armor stacking.
“Whoosh!”
Seeing that those teams had taken their positions, the long-haired youth sent a bright white support signal into the sky. Then, holding a blue flag, he shouted to the soldiers controlling the magic crystal cannons around him, “Cover them, and bombard the lion pride directly!”
There were garrisons on several sides of the city wall, and this area was not a main army encampment, nor was it the time for defending the city. The manpower was somewhat insufficient. If the enraged Beastman Lions were to charge the siege wall, it would be very bad for the city defense in a few days.
“Yes!”
Immediately, those guarding soldiers looked solemn and quickly moved the muzzles of the cannons to aim at the lion pride. Ten magic crystal cannons were all aimed eastward, with a faint glowing red light flickering on their muzzles.
“Bang bang bang!”
An oppressive force comparable to a full-power strike from an Initial Stage Battle General, accompanied by ten red flame lights, rained down on the lion pride like a meteor shower. The lion pride was forced to stop its charge, roared, and erected black energy shields to resist.
“Roar!!”
The flame light instantly exploded on the energy shield, causing the black energy shield to heave violently with ripples. The oncoming airflow seemed to catch fire, bringing heat and scorching the sparse vegetation around them yellow.
“Again! Cover them!”
Following the long-haired youth’s shout, another ten fiery shells were fired at the lion pride. The black energy shield seemed to have thinned considerably in an instant, and the lion pride began to chaotic, their hooves kicking up a lot of dust.
Seeing this, everyone summoned their beast soldiers, and their bodies turned into streams of light, charging towards the lion pride. For a time, various skills were thrown at the lion pride, and the black energy shield was instantly broken, accompanied by many dull thuds of flesh.
Because they all possessed strength above Battle General, almost no one was holding back, and they each maintained a corner to output damage. Soon, the lion pride was dispersed, with each team getting about two Beastman Lions assigned to them.
One of the Beastman Lions assigned to Su Jiu’s team was even close to Half-King Level strength. However, because Li Yi and the other two had been strengthened by Su Jiu, and they often fought side-by-side in life-or-death situations, their swordplay and combat were just as effective as the five members of other teams.
As for what Su Jiu and Vivian were doing, Vivian’s phone was in landscape mode. She sat on a large rock, muttering incomprehensibly, “Can we go AFK?” and “Zero/Qii, shut that little mouth and you’ll be invincible, right?”
Su Jiu tied the transformed E Huo to the belt at the back of her skirt. While watching them use their skills, she used a small notebook to record their skill mistakes. With the experience brought by E Huo, she quickly found some flaws in their skills.
Glancing at the Priests holding staves in other teams, she also had the idea of trying it out. Since she had reached the Battle General level, she could learn some skills to buff her teammates.
Immediately, she used her phone and her permissions to find skills from the APP. After searching for a long time, she found a group amplification skill that almost no Priest learned.
As for why no one learned it?
It was because this strength amplification array strengthened teammates based on the caster’s own strength. If a Priest had strength, what kind of Priest would they be? Therefore, the enhancement was very low.
In the following time, she changed her previous combat style, sticking her sword into the ground. Unlike the green or blue arrays of other Priests, a crimson array emerged from around her feet.
“This seems to be different from the instruction manual… Doesn’t the manual say that perfect execution can reach ten percent of the caster’s power?”
Surprise appeared on Su Jiu’s face. She could feel her strength had increased by ten percent, considering her strength was already Initial Stage Battle King. If she were to provide group amplification to her teammates…
This was simply unbelievable.
Looking at the information on her phone again, Su Jiu started forming hand seals. With her eyes closed and then opened, with a “whoosh,” the crimson array seemed to split, controlled by her mental power as the steering wheel, and swept across the ground, moving towards the feet of the other four people.
Seemingly feeling the amplification effect on her body, Vivian glanced at Su Jiu, who was holding the Frost Qi longsword and acting like other Priests. Hearing “Gather, prepare for team battle” from the phone, she withdrew her gaze and pressed the skill casting key on her phone screen again. With a “click,” the inner screen shattered…
She was instantly stunned. It seemed her “subservant’s” amplification was a bit too high. Her strength had suddenly surged, and she hadn’t had time to adapt.
Even she, an Intermediate Battle King, couldn’t adapt directly, let alone the other three. They were still instinctively dodging the black flame impact of the massive claw. Li Yi simply jumped several meters away, looking at his little brother and girlfriend who were still fighting the Beastman Lion, with a bewildered expression on his face…
Who am I, what am I doing?
“Roar… Boom!”
About ten minutes passed, and the first Beastman Lion crashed to the ground amidst a cloud of dust. The arrogant girl Wang Li, standing behind it, disgustedly used her sword to pry open the human-like head, revealing a black Magic Crystal, which she held in her palm.
“The credits won’t be lacking for everyone at the end. I’ll take this Magic Crystal first.”
Under the expectant gazes of her teammates, she said lightly, put the Magic Crystal into her pocket, and then turned to look at Su Jiu’s side.
She was about to mock them for being slower than her own team when she discovered that, unlike other groups, only three people were actually fighting, and even Su Jiu was slacking off with her spellcasting.
Looking at Su Jiu’s actions, Wang Li frowned with some confusion and muttered to herself, “Why is she a Priest? Earlier, she had the steely determination of a warrior.”
“Roar roar roar–”
Soon, a roar sounded, carrying a fishy wind. She suddenly looked up, and her originally small eyes widened abruptly.
She saw A Hu in front of her holding a huge wolf-tooth club, smashing the “head” of one of the Beastman Lions into the ground. The splashing blood covered all three of them, which was quite terrifying.
“Weren’t they just evenly matched with that monster just now? How did they suddenly get supercharged…”
Before Wang Li could think further, the sound of a blade tearing flesh rang out again. Her gaze froze once more as she saw Li Yi holding the Blazing Slash Halberd. With just a jump and a downward chop, he actually cleaved the Beastman Lion, which was close to Intermediate Battle King strength, in half. Crimson flames splattered around, giving off a roasted aroma.
“Is it her… Is the amplification that strong? Is it some particularly rare skill?”
Swallowing her saliva, her eyes were filled with disbelief. Finally, her gaze fell on Su Jiu, and she stared intently at the array beneath her feet, her expression becoming uncertain.
Even a High-Rank Battle General would not be able to achieve such a crushing victory against a Beastman Lion of the same level. She had secretly glanced at them earlier and found that it was nowhere near this effortless. Everything only changed after Su Jiu, who had previously reprimanded her, used the Priest’s magic array.
“Boom!”
Another thud sounded as another Beastman Lion from Wang Li’s team also fell under the siege of everyone. She then quickly grabbed the Priest girl from her team, pointed at the crimson star formation under Su Jiu’s feet, and asked in a deep voice, “Is this a top-tier skill? I can feel those few people suddenly becoming stronger.”
The girl pulled over by Wang Li blinked her eyes and also looked at the light under Su Jiu’s feet. She squinted, stroked her chin, and after a moment, said somewhat strangely, “This star formation doesn’t seem complicated, it’s somewhat like the most basic attribute enhancement array, but the color of this array is a bit off. Which Priest has a magic array of this color?”
“Not complicated… it should be a basic skill that hasn’t been developed yet.”
Wang Li directly ignored the latter part of her words and muttered to herself, her eyes suddenly lit up. She then turned and ordered, “You learn this skill thoroughly, and use it when you’re on the field.”
The Priest girl didn’t dare to say anything more and quickly nodded in agreement, but she felt increasingly uneasy in her heart.
She seemed to recall that this type of skill was cast based on the caster’s attributes to the combatants, and other combatants with different attributes couldn’t learn it, making it utterly useless.
In order to demonstrate the role of a Priest in a war of attrition, and to pay tribute to this profession, the competition generally allowed Priests to appear together with the contestants. A team, including substitutes, had a total of three Priests. Don’t be surprised why there were so many people, as there were not a few players who used to “gank the healer” in past competitions.
Of course, if Su Jiu, with her extraordinary physique, were to be a healer, she could teach those assassins with high offense and low defense a lesson about what a meta-breaking five-sided warrior looked like.
Soon, after Su Jiu asked the three to help others, everyone cleared out these monsters. Many Beastman Lion corpses lay scattered on the ground, and the surroundings were full of earth pits blasted open by skills.
“Swish,” a sound of breaking through the air rang out. The long-haired youth also slowly descended from the sky, speaking loudly to everyone with a smile, “Everyone, these Beastman Lions have also been dealt with. If you don’t mind, please come to the Government Affairs Center in the city later to collect some cash rewards.”
The long-haired youth’s voice naturally drew some friendly laughter. Some people, regardless of the bloodstains on the ground, simply collapsed on the ground. It was clear that not everyone had the same strength as Su Jiu and her group.
The girl in Indian attire also sat on the ground and smiled, saying, “Commander, this is all thanks to those few students from the Dragon Country. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to clear them so quickly.”
“That young man from the Dragon Country was too fierce, he killed a Beastman Lion close to Intermediate Battle General with one blow.”
“Thank you three.”
As she spoke, more agreement followed, more or less with friendly expressions. The long-haired youth followed her gaze and found that it was indeed Su Jiu and her group, who were about to express their thanks.
“Roar–”
At this moment, a more urgent eagle cry echoed through the sky, and urgent alarm bells sounded from the direction of other city gates. The alarm bells continued to ring, striking the heart like an earthquake siren.
“Alarm bells ringing… a Battle King Level creature is attacking the city.”
The expression on the long-haired youth’s face couldn’t help but change slightly. He looked towards the west again, his expression extremely solemn, and said in a deep voice.
“Vivian and I will go take a look. You guys go back first.”
Hearing the long-haired youth’s words, Su Jiu also raised her eyebrows, glanced at Vivian, and nodded slightly. She then instructed the three members of her team to return to the inn first, and then turned into two streams of light and “Whoosh!” flew towards the west.
Su Jiu’s skills were not yet proficient enough to perfectly obtain additional skills, so she wanted Vivian to fight while she tried the effect again and collected some Magic Crystals.
