Chapter 179: Shrine Maiden, This Time Lin Moyu Is Really Done For
Three glowing orbs appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Inside each orb was a large golden chest.
Beside the chest floated a light purple potion and a golden glowing skill scroll.
Needless to say, the chests contained gold coins.
For the lower level arena, the champion rewards were the same for all three groups:
50 million gold coins, one junior mysterious potion, and one shining junior skill scroll.
To most people, 50 million gold coins was no small sum.
Especially for career holders below level 40, it was definitely not a small amount.
As for the junior mysterious potion and shining junior skill scroll, they were priceless treasures.
If sold, these two items would fetch at least 100 million.
"So this is the junior mysterious potion. It can be used below level 40 to permanently increase all attributes by 200."
"This thing is very hard to buy outside. You won’t find it in exchanges, and it rarely appears in auctions."
"And the shining skill scroll, though only junior level, is still priceless."
Junior skills weren’t necessarily useless.
Many skills could grow.
Most career holders couldn’t possibly master all their skills.
Even with massive amounts of skill scrolls, they might still miss one or two skills.
The rule for using skill scrolls was: the more complete your skill mastery, the higher the success rate.
It was very possible that for the final skill, hundreds or thousands of skill scrolls might not succeed.
This is where shining skill scrolls could play a huge role.
The three orbs floated in mid-air, telling all participants that the prizes were here, waiting to be won by those with the ability.
The career holders below stared at the prizes, their eyes glowing with determination.
Lin Moyu glanced at them once and looked away. If he wanted to look, he could do so at his leisure after obtaining them.
With the appearance of the prizes, today’s matches officially began.
Lin Moyu’s team was up first.
Only he went on stage.
Ning Yiyi and the other three rested below.
There was no point in going up just to watch, might as well watch from below.
Miao Yu said softly, "This time we drew the team from Cherry Blossom Country. They seem quite formidable."
Jiang Taotao nodded, "The leader of the Cherry Blossom team is called Nanako. Her career is Shrine Maiden, unique to Cherry Blossom Country."
"This career is very mysterious, with few recorded details. Though not legendary level, it’s said to be quite bizarre."
Various countries and factions always had some special bloodlines.
This gave rise to many unique careers.
Cherry Blossom Country had two unique careers.
One was the widely known legendary career, Yin-Yang Master.
The other was more mysterious, called Shrine Maiden.
Shrine Maiden was classified as a rare career, rarely seen outside and with very little information available.
It was an extremely mysterious career.
The Cherry Blossom team walked onto the arena. In the lead, Nanako wore traditional Cherry Blossom clothing with wooden shoes.
Her steps made creaking sounds.
Behind her stood a knight, two archers, and two mages.
"Hello, Mr. Lin Moyu of Divine Summer Country."
Nanako bowed slightly to Lin Moyu, appearing very polite.
This was the impression many had of Cherry Blossom Country - extremely polite.
As for whether their hearts were dirty, only they themselves knew.
Lin Moyu had no fondness for Cherry Blossom Country. There was only conflict between them.
Lin Moyu knew clearly that the Yin-Yang Master called Tojo Taro would love to kill him, and if he had the chance, he wouldn’t spare Tojo either.
Seeing Lin Moyu had no reaction, Nanako took two steps forward and lowered her voice further.
"Our Emperor is very interested in Mr. Lin’s career. The Emperor sincerely invites Mr. Lin to join our country."
"If Mr. Lin has any requests, please feel free to make them. Nanako can agree to anything."
The meaning in her eyes was something any man would understand.
It had to be said, Nanako was very beautiful.
She exuded an amazing charm.
In terms of looks alone, she was no worse than any woman Lin Moyu had seen.
But in Lin Moyu’s eyes, no matter how beautiful, it was useless.
Ning Yiyi heard Nanako’s words and waved her fists, "What a bitch."
Miao Yu agreed, "Indeed, so cheap!"
Lin Moyu’s eyes showed some disgust, "Get lost."
Nanako didn’t mind, "Mr. Lin can think it over carefully."
Saying this, she retreated to the middle of her team. The knight stood in front of Nanako.
The tall knight completely blocked Nanako. From the front, Nanako couldn’t be seen at all.
To attack her, one would have to defeat the knight first.
On the arena, formations flickered to form a large light screen surrounding the entire platform.
With a soft sound, the match began.
Two skeleton mages instantly appeared beside Lin Moyu.
The skeleton mages immediately used skills.
On the Cherry Blossom side, a shadowy figure appeared in the air.
With a human face and snake body, neither human nor demon.
"Shikigami?"
Lin Moyu instinctively thought it was a shikigami, but on closer look it wasn’t.
This shadow opened its huge mouth and actually swallowed all the skeleton mages’ attacks.
A coquettish laugh rang out as Nanako peeked out from behind the knight, "Mr. Lin, this is our Cherry Blossom Country’s human-faced snake god. It can devour any elemental attack. So your attacks are useless against us."
Lin Moyu wasn’t surprised.
To make it to the finals, they must have some tricks up their sleeves.
How could they be easily dealt with?
Since elemental attacks were useless, he’d try physical attacks.
Five skeleton warriors appeared before him and ran over with crackling sounds.
At this moment, another shadowy figure appeared above the Cherry Blossom team.
A monster covered in spikes, with a boar’s head and an ox’s body, appeared in the air.
"Skill: Divine Possession!"
At Nanako’s shout, the boar-like monster dove into the knight’s body.
The knight’s eyes flashed red, his aura exploding like a gale sweeping across the arena.
At the same time, a beast-like roar came from his mouth.
Skill: Group Taunt!
All five skeletons were enveloped by the skill, forcibly changing targets to charge at the knight.
The possessed knight didn’t retreat but advanced, using a charge skill towards the skeletons.
With a huge boom, the knight was knocked back.
The skeleton warriors also paused collectively before continuing to charge forward.
Nanako’s face showed shock, "Mr. Lin’s skeletons are truly formidable. Even a knight possessed by the Mighty God was knocked back."
As she spoke, light flashed on her middle finger.
Skill: Possession Enhancement!
The knight’s aura strengthened again, as if various buffs had been added.
Fully enhanced, the knight roared repeatedly and launched a fierce attack on the skeleton warriors again.
He actually held off five skeleton warriors alone.
He seemed to be struggling, constantly retreating, but he truly held them off.
Such skills were truly unprecedented.
Cherry Blossom Country’s Shrine Maiden career was very mysterious, with very few people having seen it.
No one understood Nanako’s various skills.
Now seeing them, people felt this career was even more mysterious and bizarre.
The gods she summoned were clearly not real gods.
They were more like some kind of summoned beasts, similar to Yin-Yang Masters’ shikigami.
Shikigami could fight independently with various abilities.
But the things Nanako summoned could both exist independently and fuse with career holders, greatly enhancing their strength.
This career was very special and powerful.
There were many top career holders present. Seeing Nanako’s career skills, they couldn’t help but be impressed.
If such skills were used on top-tier career holders, wouldn’t it make them even more powerful?
Some were already considering approaching Nanako afterwards to discuss.
The knight blocked the skeleton warriors. Under the taunt skill, the skeleton warriors frantically attacked the knight, ignoring Nanako.
Nanako laughed coquettishly, "It seems Mr. Lin’s summons aren’t very obedient."
Lin Moyu smiled slightly.
Not obedient?
That was only because he hadn’t commanded them.
With a thought, the skeleton warriors surrounding the knight all turned to charge at Nanako.
No matter how the knight used his taunt skill, the skeleton warriors ignored him.
Nanako’s face changed drastically. She truly regretted provoking Lin Moyu.
She shouted again, "Divine Possession!"
The first summoned snake-bodied ’god’ quickly fused into a mage’s body.
The mage who had been keeping his head down suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing red.
A ring of fire burst out, blasting away all the skeleton warriors.
Repelling Fire Ring, more powerful than normal, clearly enhanced.
Nanako used another skill.
A spider-like ’god’ appeared above her head.
Skill: Divine Possession!
With her shout, this spider god fused into another mage’s body.
This mage’s eyes flashed red as he raised his staff high.
Gentle breezes blew out.
Skill: Wind Shackles.
Shackles appeared on the skeleton warriors, controlling them, unable to advance.
Everything happened in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, all five skeleton warriors were controlled.
Nanako breathed a sigh of relief and laughed coquettishly, "Mr. Lin, elemental attacks are ineffective, skeleton warriors are controlled. Do you have any other tricks?"
"If not, then you’ve lost."
As she spoke, the knight was already charging towards Lin Moyu.
In everyone’s eyes, Lin Moyu was just a summoner.
If the powerful knight reached him, he would have no way out.
Even if Lin Moyu still had 3 skeleton warriors unsummoned.
But what use would summoning them be? They would just be controlled, unable to have any effect.
Many people felt that this time Lin Moyu was really done for.
A victorious smile had already appeared on Nanako’s face.
Suddenly the arena was bathed in red light.
Nanako’s smile froze on her face.