Chapter 8: The Skill Tree is opened

If you want to talk about the development of the pastoral profession, then the chapter 'Shadow Priest' is absolutely unavoidable.

It's ironic. When Xiao Mo created the promotion system of 'Shadow Priest', the Priest General Union refused to recognize 'Shadow Priest' as a promotion profession for priests. Because the 'Shadow Priest' only focuses on killing, which is contrary to the priest's fundamental philosophy of healing.

But now, more than 100 years later, although the Shadow Priest is still taboo, the Priest General Union has included the information of the 'Shadow Priest' in the textbook, which can be regarded as acknowledging the status of the 'Shadow Priest'. It seems that this is the only way to put a fig leaf on the priest's continuous downward reduction of professional status - it's not that our pastors are not strong, but we haven't found a stronger promotion route yet!

Song Qiqiong gave an introduction to the 'Shadow Priest' for about ten minutes. There was a bit of pride in his tone, but in the end, he didn't forget to warn them that 'Shadow Priest' was a forbidden profession and should never be attempted.

Nowadays, most of the people who choose the profession of pastor want a comfortable and stable life, without much ideals and ambitions. The saga of the Shadow Priest is all about listening to the story. Shen Mu was a little thoughtful, but he didn't think too much about it, Dark Mu was not the path he wanted to take. Besides, he didn't think the Shadow Priest was that powerful.

However, Liu Feifei seems to be very interested in the Shadow Priest, and spends the whole class looking up the Shadow Priest's information, and from time to time she also records some information in her notebook.

Perhaps sensing Shen Mu's gaze, Liu Feifei suddenly turned her head to look at him. The vigilant look in his eyes was fleeting, revealing a kind smile and nodding his head to say hello.

Shen Mu is in his 40s in his two lives together, how could he be fooled by this kind of inferior acting skills. But he didn't care if this girl wanted to study the 'Shadow Priest', anyway, everyone was at most classmates, and they didn't have too deep intersections, and no one was in the way of anyone going their own way.

The career history of the first class was very boring, and after finally getting past it, by the time of the second class, it was finally a bit 'dry'.

"The nature of the priest's profession has determined that the priest's spell skills are mostly biased towards healing and defense......"

"Healing spells are the basic skills of a priest. Whether a pastor is qualified or not depends on whether he can be treated in time, how effective is the treatment, and what is the total amount of treatment......"

"In today's lesson, one of the spells I'm going to teach you is the 'Basic Healing Technique'. This is the basic entry-level spell of the Priest, and now I'll talk about its attribute standards......"

"Basic healing, mana consumption of 30MP, cast interval of 25 seconds, maximum cast distance of 10 meters, good and quick healing effect for minor trauma......"

"This is the mental fluctuation diagram of the 'Basic Healing Technique', and then I will use animation effects to demonstrate the whole process of magic release......

Shen Mu listened very carefully in this class. The Longhua Empire is worthy of being a world with a highly developed magical civilization, and the understanding of magic can be seen in the courses taught. The principles of magic and the whole process of casting spells are dissected as transparently, like some mathematical formulas on earth, as long as they are applied and used directly.

To put it simply, the process of releasing magic is divided into three steps: the first step is to control one's mental power and draw a mental fluctuation diagram. The second is to communicate with one's own mana crystals to release magical elements. The third step is the process of aiming for release.

It sounds quite simple, but when you do it, you realize that it is not simple, and the first step alone is to kill a large number of people. It is not an easy thing to control one's mental power, especially for this group of freshmen in high school.

Shen Mu's situation was better. Because his mental attributes are super high, it means that he can control his mental power more easily. The mental fluctuation diagram of the 'Basic Healing Technique' was not complicated, and it finally took more than ten minutes to complete it after several attempts.

But just as he was in a burst of joy and was about to make persistent efforts to try to communicate with the mana crystal, a voice that only he could hear suddenly sounded in his head:

"The Priest Tech Tree is on!"

The short sentence made Shen Mu instantly excited, and as soon as his spirit relaxed, even the mental fluctuation diagram dissipated.

"It's finally on, it's finally on!" Shen Mu was extremely happy, if it weren't for the fact that the classroom was full of people, he would definitely have jumped up and turned over two heels.

He's been figuring out how to unlock this skill tree these days. He tried a lot of things, but the icons were always gray and didn't change. In the end, he guessed that he had to meet some conditions. Before, he thought that he would wait until he officially became a priest, but he didn't expect that he would just complete a mental fluctuation diagram and open it!

Struggling to control his emotions, Shen Mu first looked around cautiously. Seeing that everyone was busy learning new magic skills, no one should notice him before he put on a posture of still meditating.

When the spirit entered the sea of knowledge, it could be seen that the originally gray skill tree finally lit up with an icon.

This is the bottom icon, the most basic of all the priest's skills, and the one he was very familiar with before - secondary healing!

There are also detailed skill stats on it:

【Secondary Therapy】

Mana Cost: 20MP

Cast Time: 18 seconds

Max Cast Range: 10 meters

Spell Effect: Restores 15% of the target's health

Shen Mu quickly compared, the same priest's most basic skill, the 'secondary healing technique' has a very obvious advantage compared with the 'basic healing technique'.

The cast range has not changed, the cast interval has been shortened by 8 seconds, and the mana cost has been reduced by 10 MP. That's the most important point. You must know that everyone's mana crystals are limited, and magic should naturally be used sparingly as much as possible during battle.

A single Mana Crystal can unleash 16 'Basic Healings'. However, if you change to 'Secondary Healing', you can cast it 25 times. That's an extra 9 heals, which is enough to change the outcome of a fight.

As for the exact extent to which 15% of the health is restored, this needs to be tested constantly, but the effect should not be too bad.

Shen Mu, who was satisfied, then looked up again. Before, the skill books were all gray and I couldn't see anything. At this time, after opening, the opening conditions can already be found under the corresponding icon.

Above the 'Secondary Healing Technique', there are three skill branches: Truth Word?Shield, Holy Striking, and Psychic Vision.

The Truth Word Shield can be activated when 100 defensive spells are cast.

The opening condition for 'Holy Punishment' is to condense two mana crystals.

The condition for 'Psychic Vision' to open is that the Spiritual Attribute reaches 60.

I can't count on the first of these three skills in a short period of time, and now I haven't learned any defensive spells, so I can't say when I can wait for the 100 successful releases?

The last two are still a little hopeful. Although he still only has one mana crystal, he has been exercising every day these days, and it should not be far from the day when he can condense the second one. And the mental attribute is now 55 points, only a 5-point gap, if there is a good exercise method, it will be able to reach it in a month at most.

Thinking of this, Shen Mu's heart was full of beauty, and he was looking forward to the future days infinitely.