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Chapter 1999 Sacrifice of the Holy Mark
"Um……"

Blaze rested his chin on his hand, gazing thoughtfully at the savage orcs not far away.

Greenland, who had intended to simply say hello to Blazer and leave, froze on the spot. She was genuinely afraid that Blazer would enter a deep thinking state, and who knew what was going through his mind.

"W-what happened? Did something go wrong while leveling up?"

Greenland's question was not only a probe, but also a way to steer Blaze towards the newbies.

"Well, it wasn't an accident while leveling up."

Blazer lowered his hand and took out the equipment catalog of the Giant Hoof Tribe.

"I've discovered that orc equipment is quite compatible with primitive humans, so I plan to provide this equipment to newbies. But should I buy it directly from various orc clans, or take the blueprints and start mass production?"

"Oh, is that so?"

Greenland breathed a sigh of relief; this was indeed something Blazer would struggle with.

Normally, nobody would care about this kind of thing; it's just about getting equipment. But the problem is that Asgard has the Dwarven Kingdom, which is a super-huge armory that can actually mass-produce orc equipment.

Orc clans also have blacksmiths and a relatively ancient and primitive forging method, making orc equipment a major source of income for each clan.

With Asgard stirring things up like this, isn't it just stealing people's jobs?

"It's alright, don't worry. The equipment blueprints that can be made public are equivalent to authorizing anyone to manufacture them. The orc clans will not release the blueprints for equipment that are truly related to their interests."

"If all else fails, you can barter. Trade the orc clans for orc equipment using ores mined by the dwarven kingdom. Anyway, once we finish the first phase and everyone is level 95, we'll start preparing equipment to match our higher-level classes. At that time, it's better to use dwarven weapons."

"also."

Blazer temporarily put the matter aside and began exchanging information with Greenland, mainly to ascertain the situation of the Angelic Outsiders.

He received a less-than-ideal report: things weren't going well with the angels.

The Angel race is a powerful special race. They are born with a pair of illusory wings and possess their own unique angelic prayers. Their potential even surpasses that of the Arcadians. Their six-dimensional data is also quite balanced and powerful, with a level one being comparable to a level six. However, their inability to come into contact with filth is a fatal weakness.

Once you come into contact with defilement, the consequences can range from being unable to initiate angelic prayers to entering a state of self-purification through self-immolation, and the criteria for defilement are extremely broad.

Dust blown in by the wind counts, as does the ground beneath your feet, but the most serious is the blood splattered from the enemy when you attack them.

With all these burdens piled up, the result was that the Angelic race became a glass cannon that was easily misfired.

The legend that the Soul Steel Armor was intended as the mortal shell for angels is absolutely true; the higher the angel's rank, the more sensitive they are to defilement.

Lower-ranking angels will only lose health or become weak if they touch defilement, while higher-ranking angels will be demoted if they do.

"So, am I supposed to start figuring out how to excavate the Soulsteel Armor right now?" Blaze asked worriedly, more concerned about the unbalanced mentality of the new [Angel Race] outsiders.

Although Primitive Humans are inferior to Angels in many aspects, their only weakness is that their intelligence and faith are difficult to improve. Primitive Humans are unassumingly strong. After eight hours of intense leveling that would make even Heroic Warriors widen their eyes, most of them, even with the leveling distributed among eight different classes, have reached LV50. At the current pace, they can complete the first stage in less than a week.

This was also thanks to the heroic warriors, who led the newbies to hunt down the level 100 monsters around Asgard, who had greatly increased their levels thanks to the benefits of the new era.

In comparison, the novice outsider of the [Angel Race] has had a much more difficult time. A day has passed, and he hasn't even completed the first stage, let alone gathered all the necessary professions.

If things continue like this, the worst-case scenario is that the newbie alien from the [Angel Race] will give up and turn to [Primitive Humans].

As the King of Asgard, he was naturally happy for outsiders to become more stable, without fatal flaws, and with mature upgrade strategies for "primitive humans".

But as a friend of Greenland, he didn't want Greenland's efforts in research to be in vain, and he certainly didn't want her to fail.

"Don't worry, after a night of research, I've come up with a solution, and it might even be surprisingly bizarre."

Greenland stood with his hands on his hips, his tone weary but his voice booming.

She wasn't trying to be strong at all; in fact, she was so overwhelmed by her brilliant discovery that she felt compelled to share it with others.

"The key lies in the special profession of the ascetic."

“【Ascetic】?” Blaze seemed to understand something. He knew a little about this profession because one of his most important prayers came from the 【Ascetic】 profession.

[If God won’t forgive me, I will suffer on your behalf]

[Pious monks go into the sea of ​​suffering, even if it only reduces one share, they hope that the lives of people in the world will become better and happier]

This is a prayer that can absorb the curses of teammates, transfer them to oneself, and increase one's own attributes based on the proficiency with the negative status.

It was through this prayer that he transferred the curse from Romeo and Hela, taking the first step in liberating Arcadia, restoring Hela to her goddess form, and obtaining [Transformation Z].

The prayer skill remains quietly in his skill bar, but it rarely gets a chance to be used. There's no way around it; the enemies he's encountered lately have all been too simple and brutal.

"This profession has a special mechanism like a counter-punch, which means that you manifest the suffering you have endured and use it as a means of attack," Greenland explained vividly.

"For example, burning will produce flames, and poison will produce venom. However, it is not very friendly to health and stamina, and it is easy to die suddenly. This is where the wonderful chemical reaction between this special profession and the [Angel species] comes in."

Greenland suppressed his excitement, clenched his fists, and said in a low voice.

"Angel species, that is, angels descending to earth, being defiled and injured is itself a kind of suffering, that is, a harmful abnormal state, which will be recognized and manifested by the [ascetic]."

"The defilement manifested by the [ascetic] is not considered [defilement], but will be recognized by the angels as a symbol of suffering on behalf of mankind."

"And sacrifice is fundamental, involving the highest symbol of purity in angelic culture!"

(End of this chapter)