After receiving the prompt, Eryi quickly opened the system panel and wrote down the conditions clearly in the system upgrade conditions column. She still had one condition that had not been met.
Number of believers: 78,560/100,000.
She opened her skill panel and found several unactivated skills: Advanced Defense Shield, Mental Soothing, Combat Power Enhancement, and Magic Inspiration. Among them, the Advanced Defense Shield could provide complete defense below the A-level plane, and activation required 3 free skill points.
Unused skill points: 4
[Are you sure you want to spend 3 free skill points to learn Advanced Defense Shield?]
【yes】
Put the intermediate and advanced defense shields into the skill synthesis system and click confirm.
[Do you want to convert all proficiency points of the intermediate defense shield into 150 proficiency points of the advanced defense shield? After confirmation, the proficiency points of the intermediate defense shield will be reset to zero.]
【yes】
[Proficiency transfer successful. Current skill status: Advanced Defense Shield Lv3 (0/200).]
As expected, high-level skills cannot gain much proficiency through synthesis like other skills.
[Do you want to spend 1000 energy points to clear the intermediate defense shield skill? ]
[Confirmed clearing success, you gain 1 free skill point.]
Eryi quickly spent 600,000 energy points in the mall and purchased an arbitrary skill storage device (A) that can store 300 skills.
The initial appearance is the same as the Any Skill Accumulator (C), both of which are bracelet-shaped and easy to wear. The bracelet has multiple transparent crystals, and the user can freely swap which crystal stores which skill.
After depositing your first Advanced Shield, an option will appear in the Saver Management Panel.
Automatically triggers the advanced defense shield when danger is detected (only valid when the host is wearing it)√.
After depositing fifty high-level defense shields to ensure his own safety, Eryi began to contact other people to understand the current situation.
The monsters were restless, and the adventurers had returned to the city. The people of the small town could only shut themselves in their homes, praying to their gods, hoping that disaster would not strike and that they would not be the unfortunate ones.
Sunset City.
The soldiers of the city defense department perked up. One veteran soldier took a deep sip from a water bag filled with watered-down wine, disdaining the newcomers' fuss. "What are you afraid of? It might just be some magician's contraption. A similar scene happened thirteen years ago, and people were screaming with fear then, too..."
"Look!" A soldier pointed at the monsters under the city wall. The monsters in the forest were so restless that they left their territory and rushed towards human society.
"Received the order, close the city gate!"
The soldiers, resting for so long, were suddenly in a state of panic. The old soldier sauntered behind the younger soldier, pretending to be busy. He glanced around, hoping no one would notice him slacking off, when he inadvertently caught sight of the monster beneath the wall. A small crack opened behind the monster, and a dark figure leaped out, dragging it into the crevice.
With a "pop", the wine bag fell to the ground.
"Goddess of the Harvest... Oh my God, what did I just see?"
The priests in every church returned to the church, chanted prayers, and lit up all the magic lamps in the church.
The head priest climbed the bell tower, carrying the offering. As the bells rang, waves of soothing energy spread throughout the city. Gradually, a temporary barrier formed within the city, preventing any cracks from forming. The occasional shadows that entered from the city's edge, without the aid of the cracks, were only as powerful as ordinary monsters, and the situation remained under control.
The black wizards in the valley were celebrating. Abyss creatures were now crawling out of the magic circle that had remained indifferent no matter how they placed it or used sacrifices to summon it.
"The will of the abyss follows us forever!" They were checking the creatures that crawled out one by one, trying to find high-level demons among them and enslave them.
Do they serve the Abyss? No, they are black mages, and the Abyss is merely a breeding ground for their servants.
A black shadow was trying to crawl into the wizard's tower. A ball of fire emerged from the top of the tower, burning the black shadow to ashes, leaving only a black stone.
The magicians in the Mage Tower angrily opened the emergency defense barrier and sent letters to their acquaintances - what was going on?
"If you let me know which bastard pulled this trick, I'll make him spit out the ten, if not a hundred, years of consuming my Mage Tower!"
"Hmm, maybe using freezing magic would be a better idea? Abyssal creatures like these aren't common. I need to catch a few..."
small town.
An adventurer ran into the town screaming, followed by a monkey-like creature covered in black.
The creature seemed unfamiliar with its own body and fell every time it ran a few quick steps, and was unable to catch up with the adventurer.
"Run! This thing has entered the body of a monkey!" The adventurer shouted as he ran around the town. All the shops in the town were closed, and even the Adventurer's Guild was locked. For a moment, he had nowhere to go.
There was a rare light on in the missionary hut of the God of Light. He ran over in a hurry. As if the door could sense his arrival, it opened from the inside and a man in priest's clothes came out and muttered something.
The adventurer leaped into the house and found several familiar faces inside, all adventurers who had drunk in the tavern before. They were still in shock, and one of them walked up to the priest, holding his sword.
"May the God of Light help us drive away the darkness!" As the last sentence of the prayer fell, the monkey possessed by the black shadow began to struggle rapidly, and the dark part of its body began to fall off. Seeing this, the adventurer next to him inserted his sword into the black shadow.
A "Sala Sala" sound was heard, and the black shadow fell like sand and drifted away with the wind.
Although the shadows had dissipated, the priest's face was still filled with worry. He was the only missionary in the town. Under these circumstances, it was naturally impossible to spread the news. Although the adventurers claimed to be willing to temporarily become his subordinates, it was unclear how long he could hold out like this...
"Take a break and go out to see how the townspeople are doing."
Eryi was standing at the entrance of Sunset City's healing station, and the streets were bustling with people. The recently upgraded Mao Rongrong was calmly strolling back and forth inside the station, while the believers who had come to pray at the healing station were still at a loss in the prayer room.
She had just confirmed with Ling Ling Ba that the collision of the A-level planes had not officially begun.
"It hasn't even started yet, and it's already like this..."
A white dove landed at the door of the treatment station. Eryi walked up to it, took the letter off its feet, and opened it.
Please continue praying to the gods. The following is a prayer that can connect you to the gods. —The Believers' Guild
Eryi recited it again. With each complete prayer she uttered, the holy elements in the air would neatly arrange into circles, merging with the elements flying from other parts of the city and gradually drifting away.
"Qiao Li, take it." Er Yi stuffed the letter into Qiao Li's hands and said, "You are responsible for the arrangements. I need to go to Kayas. If there is any danger, try to prevent the believer from leaving here."
"Okay," Qiao Li said seriously, as he had dressed himself meticulously. "Have a good trip."
Kayas's condition was better than Eryi had imagined.
As Eryi's guardian knight, Moira possesses a stronger ability to manipulate holy elements than ordinary paladins.
The summoned mythical beast carries the aura of a god and is touring the country.
A faint golden glow shone through the dark sky of the capital of Kayas, as if something was protecting this place.
A new king had just been appointed here, and regardless of whether it was the Church of Mary or other faiths that had been adopted later, the newly built church was not well-equipped and could not respond as quickly as most cities in the empire.
The court wizard, reluctantly supported by their new king, deployed the barrier. However, whether it would be effective, and how long it would last, remained a mystery, as magic power was limited.
“Help!”
"What the hell is that!" A civilian screamed as he knocked the shadow unconscious with a pot from his home. The barrier couldn't keep the creatures of the abyss out, but it could weaken some of their abilities. He tentatively poked the shadow on the ground with his foot, sending it tumbling.
"This is disgusting." He opened the door and stretched out his foot: "Get out!"
Just as he was about to close the door, a dark shadow on the ground suddenly jumped up and projected towards him.
Intermediate healing technique.
A fluorescent light fell on the black shadow. After a quick, tiny scream, the black shadow turned into a stone and fell to the ground.
Eryi was riding in a magical carriage on the way to the palace. After her upgrade, Fluffy was now able to use magic to drive the carriage directly, without the need to hire other animals. She was observing the surroundings through the carriage window and testing her various skills.
The only attack skill had little effect on the shadows, and the curse dispel could only be used on the affected civilians. After experimenting with each skill, she found that the most effective way to deal with these shadows was actually healing.
Picking up a black stone can inject it into the magic value storage ball, turning it into a dark element, neutralizing it with the holy element, and obtaining a void element crystal for Fluffy to use.
Dark Lake City.
Mien killed the black shadow in front of him with one knife and picked up the stone dropped by the black shadow.
It has been a while since Eryi came to them to purchase magic power, but the apprentices who had experienced the last curse storm had already formed the habit of collecting black stones.
"It's not like we haven't done this before." The magic apprentices who earned coins to further their studies became even better than before. Their previously learned enchantments were enhanced, and they could even sell them to adventurers for a profit.
"If we kill these black things, we can exchange the stones for money, oh no, treatment opportunities..."
The Adventurer's Guild posted a notice: Please keep the black stones safe, they will be purchased with gold coins soon - Healing Station.
"That's great, we can exchange it for money." The adventurers were eager to try.
Moira summoned a new mythical beast again, and her magic power was temporarily sufficient.
"Enchanted weapons can harm these shadows, and the priests' abilities are also effective against them."
"Any human or monster bitten by the black shadow will be cursed to varying degrees..." The subordinate was reporting the current situation to her.
"Distribute the enchanted weapons and continue patrolling."
Suddenly, the earth shook.
The Tree of Life deep in the forest of the elves rose up from its roots.
The Light Elf used its body to block the massive black hole, and the elemental vines it created cut through the hill-sized hand that stretched out from the black hole. "My luck is extremely bad..."
[The A-level plane has been connected to yours. Urgent mission: Seal the entrance to the abyss. Mission reward: ***.]
All barriers cracked instantly, and previously suppressed cracks began to appear in various cities.
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