<h4>Chapter 196: Holy Lancer</h4>


    [Ding!]


    [yer Jessica Weiss haspleted a grand challenge and obtained Proof of Hero]


    [Proof of Hero: Evidence of a sessful grand challenge. Your aplishment would be well remembered, and your courage existing eternally with the world. (Can only be used above Level 60)]


    [yer Jessica Weiss has obtained Sefarim (Exclusive item/Soulbound) and unlocked new Cleric ss-change ‘Holy Lancer’]


    [ss introduction]


    [Holy Lancer: The Holy Lancer wields their divinence from their mount to protect the weak and innocent in the name of duty. They are the ideal form of pdins, training tirelessly inbat and the sacred arts, dashing through sand and cutting through the enemies’ ranks.


    yers no longer change weapons after changing ss to Holy Lancers, and must pour all their experience and skill within their holynces to hence elevate the grate and ability of thence itself, and bound it to the Lancer with utmost intimacy. The day the holynce sharpens is the day the name of the Holy Lancer resounds across the world.]


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    [ss-change requirements: yer Level 15, clearing ss-change quests, a Level 15 Purple-Rare item (Golden-Legendary works as well) to be delivered to the dwarven craftsman to forge the mold of the holynce.]


    Xi Wei wasn’t idling even though he had said nothing in his divine kingdom while Jessica and the others slew the Drake with the greatest treasure of the elves. Instead, he was using his divine power to sense the principles in which Sefarim worked.


    Since there is a clear divide between the gods and their various divine orders and aside from the widespread ovepping of authority, the gods wouldn’t easily be able to replicate what other gods had created.


    And that was precisely why the gods of this world clearly had no awareness or countermeasures against theft.


    Moreover, although Xi Wei couldn’t understand most principles of how Sefarim worked even after he carefully felt it as if he was licking it, he still gained much from that.


    Additionally, the introduction of Life Skills and its skill proficiency setting had allowed Xi Wei to profit with huge amounts of divine energy. Hence, in the spirit of ‘money not spent is paper’, he simply used that divine energy, and imitated the principles of Sefarim to a certain extent in molding a new ss.


    Though the Holy Lancer appeared high and mighty, it was just like other sses with three branches in its skill tree.


    The first branch was the [Sacred Lance]. The yer wouldn’t be able to equip other weapons after changing ss to Holy Lancer, and their only weapon is the one forged from the holynce mold that the dwarven craftsman made during their ss-change.


    The holynce mold would draw the yer’s EXP and level up in tandem with the yer, and the Sacred Lance ss would allow the holynce mold to further gain special abilities, although those abilities would never stop consuming the yer’s mana and would burn EXP once their MP bar was empty.


    Therefore, the Holy Lance would have seal certain skills correspondingly when the yers learning new ones, and most skills for this skill branch would have ‘O Sacred Lance, unlock the seals in my name, XXX!’ that sort of feeling. Sealing once doesn’t mean only one could be unlocked either, and several seals could be unlocked in an instant if the blue bar was sufficient, the ovepping effects of which unleashed fearsome might.


    Then, there was the Cuirassier[1] skill branch.


    As Holy Lancers couldn’t switch weapons, they would have one item slot less than other yers. That being said, they had another advantage in their mount—while other yers could ride various creatures as well, only Holy Lancers would receive stat buffs from their mounts.


    In turn, most skills on the Cuirassier skill branch was casted in tandem with their mounts,bining in attacks, pressing advantages and keeping guard. Like how calvaries crushed infantries, thebined powers of the mount and the Holy Lancer would achieve a 1+1>2 effect in most scenarios!


    Still, if one were to put their finger on the hassle of this skill branch would have, it would be the effort, spirit and even wealth required to groom their mount.


    That being said, unlike the Holy Lance branch which only consumes EXP partially from each monster killed, mounts are considered summoned creatures and wouldn’t drain the yer’s EXP. Moreover, leveling mounts only required the purchase of some unique snacks from the System shop, aside from using yer EXP or Illum crystals to make energy cubes to feed them with.


    Thest skill branch was Guardian, which as its name suggests was a tanking route that prioritizes defense.


    Xi Wei had noticed from previous events that the yersck a defensive ss. The Warriors should have that covered, but neither of their current avable ss change that was Spirit Swordsman and Swordmaster had huge amounts of HP. Therefore, the responsibility of tank was awkwardly assumed by Warriors who had yet to take ss-change, which negatively affects the yers’ party organization.


    As such, there clearly wasn’t any ss better than Holy Lancers to take up tanking, what with them being the only armored ss there is for now who could share HP with their mounts. Furthermore, the skill tree also had skills for healing and purification, which was a strengthened version of Cleric favoring defensive aspects of the game.


    Hence, a jack-of-all-trades ss was born: they are able to heal and hold themselves in a fight, or flee on the Red Hare[2] they summoned if things looked dangerous!


    Nevertheless, two shorings of the Holy Lancer ss would probably be how they were restrained in narrow spaces, be it their mounts or their holynce that is over two meters long. And then there was their extremely fast standard speed, and that they would easily be separated from the rest of their party...


    Still, with the ss made and announced, Xi Wei paid attention to the other yers’ reaction towards the new ss.


    “Yeah! Clerics are finally getting new ss-change!”


    “Another ss-change after so long? I’ve already gotten used to the scent of seafood (Before Holy Lancers, the only ss-change avable to Clerics were Aquatic Angels).”


    “It takes one rare item for that ss-change? So materialistic, poor people are never going to afford this...”


    “Looking for level fifteen rare-purple items! Exchangeable with the limited dolphin head item! Only one helm avable, hurry up if you want it!”


    “Not really. But no one would want that anyway after the wless dolphin heads started dropping at Fishmen Ind?”


    “You know jack. Dolphin head of other colors have no soul!”


    Aside from those normal discussions, the other yers rearing beasts just outside the Unnamed Town were cheering as well.


    “Awesome, the pony I’ve been raising is useful now!”


    “Wonderful, the alpaca I’ve been raising is useful now!”


    “Amazing, the condor I’ve been raising is useful now!”


    “Wait a minute, what did you say your pet was again???”


    [1] literally iron horserider


    [2] The Red Hare (赤兔马) was a famous horse owned by the warlord Lü Bu, who lived during thete Eastern Han dynasty of China.