Chapter 403
Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast
Eivass then extended his left hand forward.
As if inviting a dance partner, elegant and slow.
Veins bulged on his left arm, and his scarlet left arm steamed with visible white heat in the winter night.
As the almost transparent Moonlight Butterfly left the moonlight, the overlapping butterfly projections in the room dissipated.
The butterfly circled Eivass’s left hand once before landing directly on Eivass’s fingertips.
Eivass felt a slight sting on his middle finger.
He must have been bitten.
Afterward, his light-attributed mana rapidly drained—it only stopped drawing after he lost about fifteen units of mana.
It seemed to have sensed that Eivass belonged to the Path of Devotion, and thus acknowledged him.
The butterfly flew to Eivass’s back, adhering to it extremely tightly. It covered from the lower back to the abdomen, precisely the part not obscured by the ribs. It was extremely thin, so after adhering to Eivass’s skin, no bulge was visible. Eivass’s skin was fair enough that only by looking closely could one see a curved seam like a “parting line.”
A sensation of extreme coolness, smoothness like jade, accompanied by a bone-chilling pain like needle pricks, came from the spine behind him.
It greedily drew Eivass’s boiling hot blood—enough to drain a normal person to death. But for Eivass, who was currently overflowing with vitality, it was just enough to lower his blood pressure.
Eivass’s skin color gradually returned to normal, and his protruding muscles and blood vessels receded.
After absorbing enough blood, clear bloodstains appeared on Eivass’s abdomen and lower back, on the parts covered by Sister Sasha’s skin. They looked like handcuffs, or like thorns—a testament to temporarily failing the test and having some abilities sealed.
He waved his hand to extinguish the candles, then put his clothes back on in the darkness before relighting the candles.
—It was strange, taking off clothes wasn’t that awkward, but being stared at while putting them on felt very awkward.
Only when it had absorbed enough blood did its attributes appear before Eivass’s eyes:
【Offering the Wings of Freedom】
【Extraordinary Equipment (Deep Purple)】
【Armor – Torso】
【Extraordinary Characteristic: When you have not lost any life force in any way in the last hour, rapidly recover Life force (Only trigger for Path of Devotion or Path of Love)】
【Extraordinary Characteristic (Sealed): When the wearer loses their own life force to bless or heal others, attach the state “Skin of a Saint” to oneself until the next time life force is recovered; if life force is not recovered within one minute, the “Skin of a Saint” state will revert to the “Skin of a Sinner” state until the next time life force is lost】
【Set: Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast (1/4)】
【”—I will be whole, I will be fractured. I will be torn apart, I will be perfect.”】
This was the most important part of the “Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast” set.
It could also be considered a core powerful piece for a level 50 Priest—regardless of which specialization the Priest chose, this equipment could be worn. Some poor Priests even kept wearing this equipment until level seventy.
One reason was its passive effect of “automatically regenerating health after a period of not taking damage.”
This was very useful for many “patients with OCD about full health and full mana.”
After all, Priests would lose health when using “Illumination” to heal, and lose mana when using “Fire Worship” to recover health.
And using Praying to recover mana for that little bit of mana would seem like a waste.
But with this equipment, as long as the health loss didn’t reach a dangerous level, to the point of instant death, health would regenerate after leaving combat.
In the game, its trigger was “out of combat,” but in reality, this effect became “one hour”; and the state reversal in the game occurred once every ten seconds, which also became one minute.
As for the second characteristic, its effect was currently grayed out. It could only be used after Eivass completed the unsealing mission.
However, before that, Eivass could look at its effects.
Eivass focused his attention on the two states, and soon their effects appeared before Eivass:
【Skin of a Saint: Each time healing is performed, healing amount increases by 30%. This effect can stack up to three times.】
【Skin of a Sinner: When the wearer loses their own life force to injure others, the current damage is increased by the current healing amount bonus.】
Each spell cast counted as one stack, and three consecutive casts completed the warm-up.
The “Touch of Purity” provided by “Offering the Pure Arms” could quickly stack one layer, already making it two layers, achieving a massive healing bonus of 60%.
After full warm-up, it provided a simple and brutal 90% healing bonus.
This was why it could be used until level 70—among the “Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast” set, only this piece added healing amount, while the other pieces were used to quickly stack “Skin of a Saint” or provide utility during overhealing. Thus, even if the other pieces were removed, this one could not be.
When healing was done, one could use Fire Worship Magic to heal oneself with a single blow, achieving rapid health recovery.
For combat-oriented professions, such as Blood Mages or Children of the Moon, this set could barely be used—although they stacked layers very slowly, once stacked and converted to the Skin of a Sinner, the burst of profit at that moment would be extremely high. But because this warm-up effect was too obvious, it was completely unusable in PvP.
—In fast-paced Heavenly Envoy battles, only this level of healing bonus could ensure no casualties. It wasn’t to save mana, but to save time—slow healing was impossible; severely injured teammates had to be instantly healed to full health to stabilize the HP line.
Although its set effect was not yet unsealed, Eivass already knew the set attributes of this T6 equipment.
Its effect was simply crude and brutal. As the most mainstream set, Eivass had long memorized its set attributes:
With two pieces, healing amount increased by 20%.
With three pieces, healing amount increased by 30%.
With four pieces, the target of overhealing would gain “Bloodline Surge” for one second.
The effect of “Bloodline Surge” was a massive increase in attack speed and movement speed, which was the scarlet state all over Eivass’s body just now. Its numerical value in the game was 20% for both speeds, making it a very powerful burst for melee professions. Overhealing, on the other hand, was an invalid healing action performed while at full health.
For this reason, “Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast” was nicknamed the “Overheal Set.”
This was a set that focused on stacking healing amount to the extreme, and then gaining powerful buffs by constantly triggering “overheals.”
Later, when the HP bars of melee professions all became longer, overhealing could no longer be triggered, and the chest armor could also be used to supplement healing.
However, Eivass did not intend to switch to the Torchbearer, lacking instantaneous, long-range area-of-effect healing. Therefore, the four-piece set effect was of little use to him.
Moreover, the sudden acceleration might also cause teammates with slow reactions to fail to brake in time and charge headfirst into the BOSS’s skill indicator circle. Therefore, for stability, sometimes Priests would deliberately remove the footwear, the only piece that was merely “purple” grade, to avoid triggering the four-piece set effect; some would equip all pieces in pursuit of the ceiling, as a mistake could simply mean restarting.
But in reality, if something happened for this reason… there would be no restart.
Eivass planned to equip three pieces. The remaining piece could be a strong loose item depending on the situation.
As for the remaining two pieces of equipment, the “eyes” were in the hands of an elven Bishop in the Church. She had a questline, and upon completion, it could be obtained.
As for the “hands,” they were near the ruins of Crescent Moon Manor, in Sister Sasha’s secret monastic order, “Teresa Monastery.” It was a dungeon, and after defeating the “Bloodmane Beast,” a Moon Child who had lost its mind, the equipment transformed from Sister Sasha’s hands, 【Offering the Pure Arms】, could be obtained.
—Very good.
Eivass secretly made up his mind.
For now, he set a small goal: before the Fallen Heavenly Envoy descended, obtain the remaining two set pieces!
And, as much as possible, complete the mission before heading to the Church… and unseal this equipment.
“Is it over?” asked Lixia.
Eivass was about to respond when he suddenly paused. Lixia also knew what Eivass was doing, so she immediately stopped talking.
In that very instant, a mission to unlock a Sacred Relic appeared in his mind.
It wasn’t clearly written out like a system panel, but accompanied by a gentle, unmemorable whisper… vaguely imprinted in his heart, as it was during the Ascension Ritual in the Dream Realm.
But Eivass listened intently and then burst out laughing.
Because the trial from Sister Sasha was too simple for him—
【Accumulate a total loss of 1000% of one’s own maximum life force for the purpose of blessing or healing others.】
In simple terms, it meant accumulating ten lifetimes of health loss for the sake of healing others.
For an ordinary Priest, this might be slightly difficult.
But for Eivass, who had mastered the “Shepherd’s Method”…
It was merely a matter of providing an emergency meal for the Shadow Demon and Little Butterfly.
Coincidentally, the Shadow Demon seemed to be close to evolving…
Eivass secretly made up his mind.
—Since the children are growing, let’s feed them generously!
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