Chapter 382: Event Announcement

After seeing off the Great Lion, Xi Wei started to prepare against the impending assault by the Lord of the Peaks’ believers.

He removed some of the strategies he had drawn up beforehand, adding new plans for the time being.

Still, Xi Wei was quite relaxed when it came to the Players.

Just as the Great Lion had put it—while the Lord of the Peaks was no evil god, he was not fervent in developing his own believers since he could borrow the Earthweaver’s divine power. With that being the case, the believers of the Lord of the Peaks could not share much Divine Grace. The upper boundary of his church’s strength was not exactly high, and was one of the Earth Authority religion that disparaged that faction itself.

Moreover, he did not have a champion, and the average strength of his believers was on the weaker side.

Although the Players were still resting and recuperating, they now have Gaim to rely on as well as more Players improving beyond level 50. For them who had gone through all kinds of terrible battles by now, the believers of the Lord of the Peaks were only a side dish —a welfare character in between events.

Aside from betting with what the Lord of the Peaks mentioned, Xi Wei had also insisted that they increase their bet by adding fifty percent of their respective Authority. In other words, whoever between them loses would also drop down from the rank of Intermediate Gods, whereas the victor would basically take their place through a snowball advantage.

Of course, Xi Wei believed that someone like the Lord of the Peaks was one who would shy from big deals but fall over himself to claim tiny profits. He would never dare to raise the bets, which was why he told Aslan that the lowest bet would be 20% of their respective divinities.

Even if Xi Wei would lose, he could just hand over the divinity of Ogayou, the God of Flowers and Fertile Earth-in other words, the divinity he found in the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN), and he would stay completely unaffected.

If Xi Wei wins, he would at least get one-fifth of the Lord of the Peaks’ divinity. That could prepare him well after he fully ingested it, allowing him to understand the key in breaking the shackles of Intermediate and rise as a Greater God.

When that time comes and even if a divine war truly ignites, not only would Xi Wei be able to protect himself, he could even try to exploit it and secure some profit for himself.

“But it’s no good if we go on a slaughter. Since we are going to deliver some profit, I’ll just have to increase the difficulty… taking an enemy hostage would be rewarded five times better than killing an enemy. That should do it.”

Xi Wei might not be a holy maiden, but the Lord of the Peaks is still a god on the side of justice, not to mention that he was backed by Earthweaver, one of the Divine Fathers.

Even if he had said that this bet would cancel out all their grudges, if Players decided to crush the Lord of the Peaks’ church and massacre his believers just for rewards, there was no way that the grudge would disappear

-it was no different from snuffing out the source of his divine energy, and equal to killing his dad.

Others notwithstanding, even the Great Lion would have something to say if Xi Wei left the rivers flowing with blood.

Hesitating for a moment, Xi Wei eventually reduced the exchange points rewards to triple.

“Okay, I don’t need to worry going bankrupt on divine power like this.” Only then did he nod with satisfaction, muttering as if to explain himself to someone else. “I’m not stingy. I just want the Players to stay motivated!”

Moreover, Xi Wei would also get the Life Skill Players to build dungeons to confine the hostages the other Players had caught. Additionally, points would only be awarded for hostages kept inside in the dungeons. Xi Wei would never allow the Players to farm points with catch and release schemes!

Naturally, there would be those who would ask: the Players had just fattened up recently after the Elven SIN event. With their items all embedded with runes, they might not be moved by anything for the time being and actively involve themselves in the Lord of the Peaks’ siege event, would they?

Xi Wei was naturally prepared for that.

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“Eh? There’s a new announcement on the System.”

Edward, who was having a meal at the Iron Cauldron Tavern opened his System in surprise.

“Looks like a new event is coming soon.” Gou Dan said casually after browsing through the page.

“Spare me. The fatigue from clearing the Elven SIN had yet to pass…”

Joe said unhappily while drinking a bee-honey ale. “When I turned off my pain breakers yesterday, my muscles got so sore I almost fainted…”

The pain breaker was merely a general concept. In the end, Xi Wei was not a god of humans (It is worth mentioning here that no God of Humans exists in this world for some reason), and he therefore did not have good control over the human body. Therefore, once the Players turned on the pain breakers, they were in fact killing off some extent of their sense of touch.

That sensation was like wrapping yourself in a thick, cotton coat as well as wearing leather gloves that had no weight and would not interfere with your movement. There would be no feedback no matter what object you were lifting, and while it was alright in battle, it was uncomfortable to have it in your daily life, which was why most Players would never turn off their pain breakers.

“Ah, I got the quest too,” Eleena exclaimed quietly, turning on her System to look whilst lowering her knife and fork, having done battle against a rather well-done honeyed steak.

“It’s not a quest, just an event announcement…”

Since the event had yet to start, Edward just read around for a bit before turning off the page and continued with his lunch.

“No, mine is a quest.’ Eleena replied. “My class-change quest.”

“Oh, class-change…. Eeeeh!?” Edward’s eyes bulged at that. “What’s the class-change for Saintess-in-training? Are you formally becoming a Saintess?”

“There are three routes: Valkyrie, Holy Songstress, and Saintess of Grace.” Eleena replied. “The requirements for class-change to Valkyrie is leading everyone to defeat our enemies in this event, for Holy Songstress it is gathering twelve Hymn Scrolls… but there is no requirements for Saintess of Grace, which I could change class to as long as I take part in the event and finish it.”

“I see…”Although Edward was not sure about the limits on those class-change requirements, he could more or less guess the differences between the three Saintess classes.

The Valkyrie must be a route that develops combat ability.

Although the details on the class of Holy Songstress was not exact since there was no telling what the Hymn Scrolls were, Edward could guess from the name that it was a route that offers great support or sacred arts like the Warrior Princess.

Lastly, given how easy the class-change to Saintess of Grace was, it was possible that it refers to the Saintesses most commonly seen in other churches…

“It’s not just Eleena!” Gou Dan then exclaimed after carefully reading through the event details. “Edward! Quick, look at the event rewards page!”

“What rewards could it be? EXP, items, or runes? But I don’t really lack items at the moment…”

Edward slowly opened his System page again.

“It’s none of those!” Gou Dan gulped. “The reward is a special class!”