Chapter 49: Light's Punishment, Hand of God, Divine Descent Technique

On Blue Star, the skills mastered by professionals are divided into seven grades in total: F, E, D, C, B, A, S.

The higher the grade, the rarer it is.

Take Zhou Yi himself, for example.

Before his class change to Holy Knight, he had only mastered two skills.

One D-grade Tiger Strike, and one E-grade Air Slash.

And that was only because his father had been a level 16 Knight, which was why those two skill books had been left behind.

For ordinary families, having one F-grade and one E-grade skill would already be considered pretty good!

C-grade and B-grade skill books above that were even rarer, generally only collected by the city government and the City Education Bureau.

As for the even higher-grade A-grade skills, almost all of them were kept in the libraries of Zhongxia Nation's top universities.

This was also one of the reasons why so many students favored the top universities so much.

As for the highest-grade S-grade skills......

Even among the three top universities they were extremely rare, generally held by those who had reached the very pinnacle of Blue Star.

Therefore, when Zhou Yi saw that his college entrance exam achievement rewards included one S-grade skill, one S-grade secret technique, and one A-grade skill, he was instantly stunned.

"Let me first see what effects these skills have."

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zhou Yi hurriedly checked the skill descriptions.

First, the A-grade Light's Punishment.

【Light's Punishment LV1 (A): Grants one teammate within a certain range increased magic defense, and lets them master the power of lightning.

Can drop a light-attribute magic-attack lightning bolt upon a designated enemy; the lightning's power is affected by the caster's light-attribute affinity, and the effect lasts for a certain period of time.】

"Master the power of lightning, and drop a magic-attack lightning bolt on a designated enemy? Doesn't this just turn him into a lightning mage?"

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, and what followed was a wave of delight.

The Holy Knight's positioning was indeed the heavy-armor support type.

Although it had offensive skills, their effects weren't all that strong.

For example, his current self, although he had mastered roughly a dozen or so skills.

But among these skills, buff-type enhancement skills were the most numerous, followed by some small skills for blocking movement and interrupting super armor.

Such as Victory Spear, Tiger Strike, and Air Slash.

Even Holy Light Cross, which could continuously burn monsters, was actually also a buff skill.

The reason it caused such terrifying AoE damage was still because of the influence of his own S-grade talent.

If he lost the S+ talent Guardian of the Sacred Angel, Holy Light Cross would just be a very ordinary continuous AoE damage skill.

Far inferior to the terrifying output of a mage.

Therefore, Zhou Yi had actually always been lacking pure offensive skills.

The appearance of Light's Punishment solved his pressing need perfectly.

The first skill was already such a pleasant surprise, so Zhou Yi hurriedly looked at the second skill.

【Hand of God LV1 (S-): Condenses holy light, summons a projection of the Light God's left hand, launches an attack against the enemy, dealing high light-attribute magic damage.】

The skill description of Hand of God was very brief, but Zhou Yi noticed two key words: 'the Light God's left hand' and 'high magic damage.'

One had to know that in this world, gods did indeed exist.

And the Light God was precisely one of the deities worshipped by many divine professionals.

Even if it was only a projection, it was still extremely terrifying!!

"Another pure offensive skill. Looks like the system is set on making up for the Holy Knight's shortcomings."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up.

With Light's Punishment and Hand of God added to him.

Plus his pile of enhancement buffs.

With all this, he could finally be considered truly tanky and with damage output!!

"Hiss, upgrading from LV1 to LV2 actually costs 200 skill points. Worthy of an S- grade skill."

Looking at the skill points needed to upgrade Hand of God on the info panel, Zhou Yi sucked in a breath of cold air.

Even if he claimed all his daily quest rewards as skill points.

It would still take over twenty days to scrape together 200 skill points and upgrade it to LV2.

"And this Hand of God, as an S-grade skill, the cost of casting it once should be extremely terrifying."

Solemn flickered in Zhou Yi's eyes.

Each person's mana level was related to their own level; the higher the level, the more mana in the body.

Of course, the Wisdom attribute would also affect the mana level to a certain extent.

But the influence wasn't large.

At level 10, when he killed the Minotaur King, the mana in his body was already mostly spent.

Now at level 13, his internal mana level had grown quite a bit.

But he still couldn't be sure whether releasing this one S-grade Hand of God would instantly drain his mana dry.

"I'll find a place to test it when I'm free."

Shaking his head, Zhou Yi stopped paying attention to it and swept his gaze toward the last S-grade skill.

【Divine Descent Technique (S): A one-time secret technique from the Knight's Holy Hall. This secret technique's casting requires no mana consumption and is not affected by Silence skills.

Use this secret technique, and you will borrow a portion of the Light God's power. According to the body's tolerance, the four-dimensional attributes will increase accordingly, all god-system and light-system skill grades will temporarily +5, and life, stamina, and mana recovery speed will be x20.

The effect lasts for a period of time. After the skill ends, you will enter a weakened state.】

"Four-dimensional attributes increase accordingly, all skill grades +5, and the recovery speed of every attribute directly multiplied by 20—this is a life-risking divine skill!!"

Zhou Yi's breathing suddenly became rapid.

With this skill in hand, even against an enemy far stronger than himself, he still had a chance to fight back!!

"Pity, it can only be used once."

Zhou Yi felt a hint of regret.

But he knew such a divine art that could multiply his strength by dozens of times was extraordinarily rare; just having one use was already fortunate.

Moreover, this skill consumed no mana and was unaffected by silence effects — it was perfectly flawless.

After reviewing the skill, Zhou Yi turned to examine the effect of the Life Cross Emblem.

The effect of this S-rank divine artifact was extremely simple: resurrection.

It could bind a resurrection point; once the bound target died, they would immediately revive at that point.

However, after resurrection, all attributes of the bound target would be reduced by 30%.

Internal QQ group: Wu1JiuYi24ersiShan

"Compared to life itself, a 30% attribute loss is nothing."

Zhou Yi didn't mind this side effect at all.

After all, even if attributes were lost, he could gradually regain them — it was just a period of weakness to endure.

Having organized all the reward items and skills, Zhou Yi was thoroughly satisfied.

This reward not only solved the Holy Knight's problem of insufficient output.

It also granted him the Divine Descent Technique as a last-resort divine art and the Life Cross Emblem as a life-saving divine artifact.

Thus, even if he encountered an enemy he couldn't defeat even with the Divine Descent Technique, he could simply revive at the resurrection point.

His safety was now maximized!

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