Chapter 801 The Evolution of the Book of Law
[Upright Summoning: Wild Hunt]
[Necessary: Wind 5]
【Instant, Self, Echo】
[Effect: Summon the power of the King of the Wild Hunt to transform into the Wild Hunt, stirring up a fierce wind and launching "Ghost Walk" to transform into an intangible body and sneak into the spirit world. While in the spirit world, you cannot cause damage to the material world, and cannot be targeted or damaged by most attacks in the material world. After entering the spirit world, you will continue to lose vitality. When riding a ghost horse, after this effect ends, you can launch an additional "Dead Charge". This attack is considered to be initiated by the King of the Wild Hunt. If it successfully hits and causes damage, the total vitality lost in the spirit world will be absorbed.]
[Reversed Summoning: King of the Wild Hunt]
[Necessary: Wind 5]
【Maintenance: Wind 5*Daily】
Action, Summon
[Effect: Summons the Raging Beast·King of the Wild Hunt to fight for you. The King of the Wild Hunt is considered a summoned creature. When not in combat, the Raging Beast·King of the Wild Hunt can transform into a ghostly Pegasus and enter a follower state. Only one Sin Beast can exist at a time.]
Like other mortal sin cards, its mana cost is also an unchangeable five points.
Compared to the Night Stalker card, which has quite complex and difficult to understand abilities, the Wild Hunt's Sin card has a lot of words, but its effects are much easier to understand.
Being able to actively infiltrate the interlayer of the world—this in itself is a very good effect. Even for a celestial being who descended into the world, attacking across worlds is a very rare ability.
Ghost Walk itself is a high-level Twilight Path ability, and it's exclusive to the Undead. For a living person to use it, they must at least transform themselves into an Undead... just like Black Phase.
Aside from extraordinary skills like rituals that can lock and cause damage across worlds, or abilities like curses or poisons that can be activated with a delayed effect, this is basically equivalent to being invincible to other Taoist skills.
——After all, the ritual can even pull down the Tiansi of the dream world, so it is normal that it can give the mezzanine a shot.
Although a living person will continue to lose blood if they forcibly enter the spirit world, the lost blood can be sucked back!
As long as he rides the Ghost Pegasus, he can end this state at any time and summon the King of the Wild Hunt to shoot the opponent! Summoning the King of the Wild Hunt directly will make a lot of noise... but he can use the "Bulk King of the Wild Hunt" attack at any time!
"Not bad, not bad..."
Looking at the azure Pegasus card in his hand, Aleister was very satisfied.
This is Aleister's second sixth-level upper-level phantom demon.
The King of the Wild Hunt, whose grievances were purified by the Lord of Scales and Feathers and who had acquired the Warrior class, was undoubtedly one of the current world's top talents. Although his weapon had been damaged by Aleister... that was a minor issue.
Anyway, Cardinal Valrhona said that she would use the materials from her own body to make a powerful weapon for her son Rhine. The reason was because of her husband Heleqin's last words.
——Why don’t I bring Heleqin back and you give this weapon to Heleqin?
As for now...
Before this new weapon was created, the most he could do was use the Thunder Halberd again and manually equip Heleqin with it.
After all, Aleister had personally tried it during the promotion ceremony—compared to that "Wife's Rib Spear," the Thunderbolt Halberd was definitely much stronger in terms of stats alone. So much so that there was no comparison.
Because even if "Favrna's Keel" was not damaged, there were basically few entries on it that were useful to Heleqin.
Its two strongest abilities are "Blood Drain" and "Dragon Flame Infusion".
The former's life force extraction is completely useless to the King of the Wild Hunt who has already become an undead.
As for the latter, it was indeed powerful—but Aleister had personally used Heleqin's body. When he logged in to control it, he knew that Heleqin had very little fire mana left.
When Heleqin was alive, he had three mana pools: light, wind, and fire. After his death, his wind and fire mana pools were halved, becoming earth, while his light mana pools were converted to dark.
This was shortly after his death—after the Wild Hunt contract was signed, some of his mana would gradually transform into wind. As time passed, the remaining fire mana in his body would surely decrease, and by now it was probably completely unable to drive this effect.
Today's Wild Hunt King's mana pool is wind, earth, and dark, and its attributes are exactly the same as the Moon Child's mana pool!
For Heleqin, the only two useful attributes of this spear were [Heavy Weapon] and [Dragonbone Guard]. These slightly increased Heleqin's attack and defense, but that was all. Over time, as the Dragon Spear's weight gradually decreased, the effect of [Heavy Weapon] would gradually fade.
The third-level Lightning Affinity of the "Thunderbolt Halberd" only gave Aiwass, who didn't have Lightning Affinity, a slight resistance to Lightning. But for Heleqin, who already had Lightning Affinity, it would be a huge improvement—the higher the level of the Affinity, the greater the improvement.
In other words, as long as Aleister equips Helechin with the "Thunder Halberd", it will be much stronger than the ideal state of Helechin, the King of the Wild Hunt!
This is undoubtedly Aleister's true trump card.
In future battles against the Fallen Angels, and even other Angels pulled down by the Tail Ring, the King of the Wild Hunt will be his trusted main output!
Aleister summoned Aiwass's Book of Law and logged it in.
With the [Sin Card: Lord of the Wild Hunt] logged into the Book of Law, the collection progress bar of the Book of Law finally reached two-thirds.
And at this time.
The Book of Law suddenly shook violently!
The little crow that was originally in a traveling state suddenly shattered and turned into a ball of extremely pure dark attribute magic power, which flowed back into the Book of Magic.
The Book of Law was flipping through the pages by itself, from the first page to the last.
In Aleister's mind, the cards in those grids lit up one after another, and the Book of Law glowed with an increasingly strong brilliance.
When the light faded, its properties had completely changed—
"really……"
Aleister murmured softly, "The Book of Law is a sacred weapon."
Aiwass's Book of Law (14/21)
【Holy Equipment (Gold)】
[Weapon-Magic Book]
[Holy Module - Sin Codex: Gain 2 colorless mana for each different phantom card logged in]
[Extraordinary Module - Book of Law: Your spellcasting reach increases by 30 meters; the Phantom Cards you register in the Grimoire gain an additional 30 meters of spellcasting reach]
[Extraordinary Feature: At the cost of putting a registered Phantom Card that is not in cooldown into cooldown, another Phantom Card that is in cooldown becomes active again. 3 times per day (based on the registered Sin Cards)]
[Extraordinary Feature: At the cost of placing a registered Phantom Card that is not on cooldown on cooldown, the effect of a Sin Card with the same attributes is enhanced.]
[Holy Feature: When you use a reverse summon on a Sin Card, gain an additional effect]
[Sacred Characteristics: (Unlocked after logging in with twenty-one Phantom Magic Cards)]
Looking at the characteristics of the Book of Law, the guess in Aiwas' mind became clearer and clearer.
The highest level of equipment that could be created in the material world solely through one's own power was only deep purple. To reach gold proved to have required the aid of powers above those of the Pillar God Apostles.
Sacred equipment implies divine power, also known as a "divine artifact." An apostle can only afford one, and must prioritize their own use. Only after a Celestial Master gains authority can they craft multiple artifacts to bestow upon loyal believers in the material world.
The profession required by this book does not exist in the current world at all!
It's not even a question of being rare, it's a question of not having been created at all.
Making sacred equipment is not an easy task even for Tiansi. Who would be so idle and have nothing to do?
Aleister thought for a long time, but snorted coldly and suddenly closed the Book of Law.
"……snort."
It doesn't matter.
Whatever Huan Tiansi's plot was—since He had already taken the initiative, there was no need to worry about it. Could guessing everything mean he could avoid the trap? There were things that needed to be done, and there was no way to avoid them. And Aiwass wouldn't do anything he shouldn't do...
So Aleister collected his thoughts and focused on reading the Book of Law.
Its biggest benefit was that the original one colorless mana per login slot was increased to two. This gave Aleister 14 colorless mana immediately... For her, who was already mana-starved after the split, it was a pretty good reinforcement.
"...But what is the 'additional effect'?"
She was a little confused and placed her hand on the Book of Law.
The attributes of those cards reappeared in Aleister's mind.
“Huh!”
Aleister was shocked: "This is——"
She saw that the effects of the three Sin Cards she had registered had undergone slight changes when they were Reversed Summoned—that is, when they were summoned in their original form. Either an attribute had changed, or a new effect had been added:
Originally, the Flame-Butterfly had a repeat effect, which was to use it again to allow the Flame-Butterfly to be reborn or self-destruct.
The only remaining effect is [Effect: Use again to command the Flame-Defying Butterfly to self-destruct].
There is a new effect below:
[Effect: Use again to summon the Unburnable Butterfly from the ashes of the Flame-Butterfly; when the Unburnable Butterfly enters the battlefield, it deals a huge amount of damage to all burning enemies.]
...What is the non-flammable butterfly?
But since it can directly write "huge" damage, I guess the effect should be good...
The effect of Night Demon also changed at the same time.
She has a new attribute below:
[Effect: When the Night Demon enters the battlefield, all enemies will be cursed and vulnerable to level 4 (based on the level of the Transcendent Path)]
Although Aiwass previously relied on the Night Demon's strong resistance to act as a shield... In reality, the Night Demon is a spellcaster. Her melee abilities aren't strong, and her ability to suppress the Succubus is purely based on stats and prioritization. Her true strength lies in her group attacks and control.
Simply put, Night Stalker's team positioning should be a weakener...she can only be a sub-C at best.
The so-called "enemy weakness equals my strengthening", "enemy slowdown equals my acceleration", "enemy armor breaking equals my increased damage"... From this point of view, Night Stalker can also be regarded as an auxiliary!
For a character who relies on stacking negative states to create limitations, Night Stalker's biggest fear is that the negative states cannot be applied.
Once the opponent is able to become immune to or resist the Night Demon's curse, the Night Demon will only be left with shadow abilities that are not much stronger than the Shadow Fiend.
Curse Vulnerability can penetrate the opponent's resistance to a certain extent. Even if the opponent has priority, hanging Vulnerability can still have some effect.
Just like Undead and Demons are usually vulnerable to Purification, even if the Priest is lower in level, dispelling will still have some effect - being able to anger the opponent usually means that the attack is hurt. And once the priority is high enough and the full damage is dealt, a very obvious restraining effect can be immediately exerted!
For example, the purification barrier that the gargoyles can't break through no matter what... or the giant tree that can be ignited by ordinary flames.
The fourth-level curse is vulnerable, just like the negative effect of the red-handled sword. This value is roughly the same as the strength of a fourth-level curser being able to curse a fifth-level transcendent, but a fifth-level curser being unable to curse a sixth-level transcendent.
"Could it be..."
Seeing the new effects of the Flame Butterfly and the Night Demon, Aleister guessed something.
As expected, the "Reversed Summon" entry for the newly acquired, yet-to-be-used King of the Wild Hunt card also had this additional attribute:
[Effect: When the King of the Wild Hunt enters the battlefield, he summons the Wild Hunt Legion "Herchin's Followers" to launch a charge]
——Wild Hunt Legion!
This is so cool!
The levels of those Wild Hunters weren't low; after all, they were all masters starting at the fourth level in their lifetime. To put it bluntly, those Transcendents who were too weak weren't qualified to follow Heleqin around.
Eagle Point Village is a truly advanced map.
Even if this round of ghost army charge couldn't inflict any significant damage on Celestial Master-level enemies, it at least provided a considerable clearing capability! Remember, the Wild Hunt King possessed two Legion-level buff auras, significantly enhancing melee classes. This was quite lethal to most enemies.
——The King of the Wild Hunt is indeed a real output-type phantom.
All of its attributes are output!
I just don’t know how long this “round of charge” can last…
Seeing this, Aleister also understood.
The effects of these three Sin Cards all have one thing in common.
That is... these effects are triggered "at the time of summoning".
It can be called a battle cry, an entrance song, or even "when summoning or special summoning"... In short, it is an effect that can only take effect when summoned in battle.
In other words, the tactics that Aiwass relied on before, "burning cards and summoning the Beast of Sin one day in advance, strengthening the basic panel, and leaving card cooldowns and mana consumption on the previous day", can no longer trigger these very attractive buff effects!
But on the other hand, they also strengthened the Sin Beast that Aleister temporarily summoned to a considerable extent.
At least the temporarily summoned beast of sin will not be weaker than the one prepared in advance.
This also greatly increases the explosive power of the wheel-cutting summon!
"I'm really looking forward to the effect of the fourth entry in the Book of Law..."
Aleister muttered.
But... if that's the case, the best choice for her normal summoned beast should be the little butterfly.
Because only the little butterfly's entry effect is triggered when it enters the game for the second time after death and rebirth!
"Start with a Butterfly explosion, then self-destruct and regenerate to explode again, then switch to Night Stalker and then the King of the Wild Hunt?"
Aleister subconsciously thought about the outbreak cycle.
I always feel like something is missing... The transition from Night Stalker to King of the Wild Hunt isn't very smooth.
"Anyway, let me take a look at you first..."
Aleister placed his hand on the Book of Law.
In an instant, a storm arose—
As the azure lightning flashed, the silver-shining King of the Wild Hunt gradually emerged in the storm!
Unlike the scene magic that comes with the higher demon, the Wild Hunt King does not change the weather to a storm when summoned.
Therefore, the sky outside is still the quiet night sky.
Immediately following the emergence of the King of the Wild Hunt came the neatly arranged followers behind Helechin.
——The Wild Hunt were originally in the distance, ready to watch the King of the Wild Hunt leave.
Although it's hard to let go and lonely, being able to break free from the constraints of mission is also a kind of freedom...
But when Aleister summoned the King of the Wild Hunt, they were suddenly pulled over from more than a hundred meters away - they turned into black smoke and disappeared from their original places, and then reappeared behind Heleqin.
Wild Hunt:?
“…It’s actually the real body?”
Aleister was also a little surprised.
She counted them and found that there were about seventy or eighty followers in total.
This means that signing Helechin is like buying one and getting eighty free!
Helechin was obviously aware of this.
"Thank you... Master."
Heleqin, without his helmet or twilight form, remained a translucent knight in silver armor. His voice was clear and full of reason: "I can take them away with me. I was wondering if they would be driven away if I wasn't here... Now I feel relieved."
"Herchin," Aleister said impatiently, "Let me see the horse you turned into."
The next moment, the Wild Hunts simultaneously dissipated from the black mist, and Heleqin on the Ghost Pegasus also vanished.
However, the ghost Pegasus under him suddenly turned around.
"Come up, Master."
It suddenly spoke in Heleqin's voice: "Ghosts never tire... I can take you anywhere."
Human, horse and man become one?!
——So that’s the mechanism?!
Aleister was stunned for a moment.
She had originally thought it would be a cute "pony" like a little butterfly or a crow. But it turned out to be Heleqin's majestic and sacred ghost horse...
The undead don't tire, which means Aleister can use it to fly back to Star Antimony across the sea! It also means that from now on, the sea will no longer be any obstacle for Aleister and Aiwass...
...But in this case, Leviathan will be useless!
Leviathan, you are a baby who will retire soon...
"Can you... take two people?"
Aleister touched the cool yet soft skin of the ghost horse, which was like an air-conditioned blanket, and hesitated: "Can I take Leviathan with me?"
The words felt a bit absurd to her - it was like tying a bicycle to the back of a motorcycle.
"It should be possible, let's try it first."
Helechin replied.
So Aleister carried the somewhat reluctant Leviathan onto the Ghost Pegasus.
I found that it really works.
Although the speed is a bit slow...it is almost the same as the speed of a ship.
It will probably take less than a day to get back to Xingbi!
——Then there’s no need to take a boat, just fly back directly!
The update is complete, today's update is a two-in-one chapter!
(End of this chapter)
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