Chapter 470
Chapter 470 - 450: A Little Surprise
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Once he made up his mind, now that he was in the Otherworldly, Lu Ping’an felt no need to keep hiding his skills.
"Train the soldiers for a thousand days to use them once. The time has come, it’s your turn, Little Flame!"
Thrown by its master into a new world, Little Flame was bewildered upon arriving in this strange Otherworldly.
Then, looking at its master, it tilted its head in confusion... cute and lovely... but only in the "father’s eyes" of Lu Ping’an.
The knights were alert as they watched the Otherworldly demon that had suddenly appeared.
The demon, radiating deadly high heat, devastated everything around it upon its apparent, clearly revealing its extreme danger.
Its turbid beastly eyes, the molten drool dripping from its sharp saw-like teeth, its greedy gaze desiring meat, all clearly demonstrated that it was an uncontrollable dangerous creature.
In front of it, Catherine was sweating profusely, a pale Holy Flame hovering above her hands.
"Try, touch this flame."
Lu Ping’an directly gave the order, Little Flame tilted its head again, saliva splattering all over the ground.
This command was somewhat challenging for it ... at the moment, it could accept simpler commands such as "Attack (A)" and "Stop (S)".
’Touch’ was not as direct as ’Attack’.
Lu Ping’an thought for a moment and issued a simpler command.
"Little Flame, eat. Tasty."
The next moment, it opened its mouth and bit down, directly swallowing the Holy Flame.
This scene, no doubt, made many local knights widen their eyes in disbelief. This "demon-killer" Holy Flame seed, this demon dare swallow it?
They seemed to already see the monstrous creature writhing in pain.
But Little Flame merely yawned and ejected a puff of white smoke, then began drooling at the sight of the roast meat above the bonfire.
"Did it work?" Lu Ping’an asked Catherine.
"...It worked." The Holy Fire Knight, however, was full of incredulity. She never imagined that her first apprentice would be a "beast".
She could sense the Holy Flame burning calmly in the creature’s chest, steadily to an unbelievable extent.
"Huh, that’s good. Do not underestimate it, it’s smart, just too lazy to use its brain..." Lu Ping’an sighed helplessly. It was primarily the beastly traits taking over that had resulted in the transformation of Little Flame, originally a highly intelligent creature.
Little Flame’s successful ’lighting of the Holy Fire’ elicited doubts in several other Holy Flame Priests in the team too.
Inheriting the Holy Flame was not an easy feat. Each Holy Fire Knight or Holy Flame Priest must cultivate for many years to produce a single "seed". And for the ordinary person, they had a 50% failure rate. The failed ones would instantly be incinerated... and when betting on probabilities and luck, this would often foray into mysticism and even draw in faith.
"You got burned to death? Well, that shows you were not zealous enough!"
Impart to professionals or Abnormal Ability owners resistant to contamination or having a stronger body? They wouldn’t die due to the high chance of survival. However, the failure rate for inheriting the Holy Flame is much higher than that of ordinary people. According to the church’s top echelon, it is...
"One must first allow the Holy Flame to consume all one’s sins, distractions, weakness, and vanity, and then transform one’s body and soul into the raging Holy Flame."
Discarding those religiously charged statements, it essentially represented a strongly exclusionary "flame" that required the entire body to become its vessel to control and master... or in other words, to transform into "flame’s" fuel at the cost of one’s life.
High-level professionals should be able to resist the flame, but they probably wouldn’t light themselves up consistently.
"It’s a bit special. You can think of it as a living flame. It’s always burning. In a sense, its body is just its confinement. It’s somewhat similar to the high-level Holy Flame Angel in your religion."
Before Lu Ping’an finished speaking, the faces of the Holy Flame Priests changed considerably. Comparing a beast to their religion’s divine envoy or angel? Such blasphemy...
"Apologies, I didn’t mean it that way. It’s the difference between two worlds. In our world, there are many types of pure Energy creatures that are not linked to any particular Deity’s power. The Elemental system is one of the six major systems in our world, and the number of ability holders is so large that it’s impossible to count."
These words made everyone a lot more comfortable. The seemingly blasphemous words and phenomena were attributed to the conflict of civilizations and worlds, providing an acceptable compromise... if it came to the point of bickering over details, a fight would have already broken out.
But this notion saying "elemental system" is enormously omnipresent, which makes the Knights shiver. A monster like the "Holy Fire Knight" is a common breed? That must be a terrifying world.
But in truth, an ordinary elemental system could never match a Holy Fire Knight. Elemental professionals below the 2-tier couldn’t even release elements. "Characteristic elements" control is a basic requirement for a third-tier...With the "purification", "demon expulsion" characteristics, the purification Holy Flame is of very high grade. Paired with martial skills and spiritual weapons, it is no different from the fourth-tier profession.
This little misunderstanding is not necessary to correct.
At this moment, Lu Ping’an once again benefited from the "Doomsday Adventure".
Ordinary Holy Fire Knights regarded each inherited flame as valuable. Many knights couldn’t accumulate three to five flame seeds in their lifetime, these are often seen as "rare resources" that are only used under the Church’s orders or as important materials for exchange.
In comparison, Holy Flame Priests or Priests fall short of Holy Fire Knights. They use a "God-like grace" to control Holy Fire and, in essence, it is still an external object. Their growth limit and speed are far less than those of Holy Fire Knights.
A flame seed is equal to an occupational inheritance. Despite its various restrictions, its value is extremely high.
Now, Lu Ping’an just merely mentioned it casually, and Catherine unhesitatingly took it out, even if it is to be given to a "beast" to waste... She truly didn’t think the inheritance would succeed.
At the moment, the flame seed has been sown and is slowly burning in the Little Flame’s body. Next, is to nurture it and then train to master various fire control skills... Catherine glanced at the clearly low-intelligence beast, feeling that her flame was mostly wasted.
But Lu Ping’an was very satisfied. From the beginning, he had no hope for Little Flame to take the ordinary Holy Fire profession path. It won’t learn, but it has a better way...
Lu Ping’an’s gaze swept over each Holy Flame Priest, and then he sighed helplessly.
"It’s a pity, none of them died..."
Obviously, Lu Ping’an planned to use the parts of the Holy Fire professionals to create skill book pages, and to force Little Flame to acquire it.
Since Little Flame could ignite the Holy Flame, the compatibility with Holy Flame’s professional skills and abnormal abilities shouldn’t be low. As long as he could get skill book pages of sufficient grade, it would soon become a master of Holy Fire.
"...No rush, no rush." Anyway, this world is not just about the few Holy Fire professionals in front of him, Lu Ping’an is not going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The experience of Zhi Xi before has proved that even if the "skill book page" is replaced, the things that have been mastered before will not disappear. The old page of Little Flame should be replaceable.
Little Flame easily mastered the new ability, which made many people in the team tempted. But more directly, it also reminded Lu Ping’an.
"...Maybe, I can fill the third creature slot here too."
Saying so, it seems completely feasible. There are enough materials here, and the potential and ceiling are high enough. If it is a bit too much, no one will care.
In fact, along the way, all the people in Lu Ping’an’s team have been rushing to learn the local knowledge and power. This exotic knowledge system is fascinating, especially the sudden "everything is different from a different perspective"... sometimes, chatting, and then there are completely different problem-solving ideas.
"So, this can be done, too, meow? Interesting, meow."
Meow is still using her broken local language, with the help of the translator, intermittently chatting and communicating with the Knights.
Perhaps surprisingly to everyone, to Lu Ping’an’s eyes, the one who has made the most progress in the past few days was this cat.
"The Spirit Cat does have unique traits and a spirit body...it’s like cheating."
That Sealing Knight profession of nurturing divided spirits fits well for her, there was no difficulty for her to master it.
Plus the "Beast Taming skill" of the Beast Tamer, perhaps, she can combine her Beast Tamer path with the Sealing Skill and carve out her own path.
The other one influenced by the "Sealing Knight" and improving greatly was Su Zhizhu. Her "Paper Cranes" were in surplus but their power was weak... but they were indeed excellent vessels, perhaps, she could take an entirely different path.
Even Fang Wen, who has always been an observer, stated that she had been greatly inspired. If not for the limitations, she was ready for a big battle.
Of course, for her, it was more about the inspiration and the conceptual enlightenment. She was not really interested in the technology itself. At her level, she should have a mature technique system, these "low-end goods" did not mean much to her... perhaps she is now eligible to participate in the game in the royal city.
In ancient conditions, securing knowledge was very difficult. But now, it is open to all and even actively delivered to the door.
Lu Ping’an was going through the training manual of the Holy Fire Knight and Priest, thinking... these things can be used as references for Fang Wen and used on better craftsman products.
If one of the Gods of Earth indeed fought for the Sun God position here and brought the related "worldly logic" back to Earth, perhaps, this is indeed a pathway worth cultivating steadily.
But before this, the pioneer team, as observers, received new information.
They didn’t have news about the Beast God, but found a group of "colleagues".
"Those traitors...those visitors from the Exotic Realm are right in front, they must also be looking for the debris of the deity." When Catherine said this, her calmness contained anger and unwillingness.</p
— End of Chapter 470 —