Chapter 432 - Third Talent Tree?
Returning to his room in the inn, Rhode placed the box on the table and began to examine the pair of daggers carefully. As his hand hovered above them, the cards of Celia and Celestina emerged on his palm. The cards spun non-stop, glistening with hallucinatory aura, as though reacting to the surroundings. At this moment, similar white radiance glowed from the daggers, shining in symphony with the two cards, responding to their calling.
I see.
Rhode could confirm that these two daggers were indeed part of the Holy Sword Card Deck. However, Rhode was dubious because previously, these two cards only appeared after awakening their Soul of Existence. But since these two daggers are present and don’t require awakening, what should I do?
A Spirit Swordsman had the ability to seal living creatures into cards. However, the creature must be alive. As long as the living creatures agreed, the Spirit Swordsman could seal them into cards while they were alive. However, those living creatures had self-consciousness. From the start, the Holy Sword Card Deck were lifeless cards and only when Rhode awakened them forcefully would they have the ability to transform into human figures.
However, Rhode was at his wit’s end facing these two lifeless daggers. Since he couldn’t possibly ask them if they would like to be his summon spirits, what should he do?
Rhode sighed and clenched his fist. Two floating cards shattered in his palms and Celia and Celestina emerged.
Celia lowered her head as soon as she appeared, bowing respectfully. “I’m sorry, Master. We weren’t able to offer you help when you needed us the most…”
“You don’t have to apologize, Celia.” It wasn’t Rhode who said that, but Celestina. The demon young lady leaned against the wall, gazing at Rhode in disdain. Although her expression didn’t reveal her true thoughts, her eyes betrayed how she regarded Rhode. “It wasn’t your fault. It was just because our Master was too weak, draining all his energy dealing with a few maggots. Ha, what a joke. It’s just our luck to have him as our Master.”
Rhode frowned and ignored Celestina’s utterance. This demonic young lady was indeed too troublesome for him to handle. She was basically standoffish to his commands and often sarcastic in her words. However, even though her statements kind of made sense, Rhode didn’t feel respected. As long as Celestina didn’t go against his orders and create trouble for him during battle, he wouldn’t argue with her.
Rhode realized that there was an upward trend of his usage in the Legion Horn because most enemies he fought were higher in levels than him. The powerful ability of the Legion Horn couldn’t be neglected when it came to guaranteeing an instant-kill to these enemies. However, it was the energy consumption of the Legion Horn that had always been Rhode’s biggest headache. In the game, Spirit Swordsman would seize the opportunity to use the Legion Horn against a BOSS when the BOSS was low in HP. Whereas for PK, there was no need for explanation. The Spirit Swordsman needed to grasp the weakness of their opponent and only tragedy awaited if they missed.
In the game, players could make steady progress incrementally in defeating monsters roaming in different areas. However, Rhode couldn’t in this real world, especially when there was an Ice Lake mission right after the Castel Plateau Ruins mission. In such a situation, it became especially important in pursuing the ability to instant-kill. However, the aftermath of the Legion Horn became a huge problem that troubled him the most. Just like this time, he defeated Vulture in a breeze with it, but he needed to be on the run from the Necromancer as he didn’t have the energy to continue the duel against him. Rhode was fortunate that he met Paris; if not, he would have relied on unlocking Gillian’s seal to settle this problem.
But Gillian would only be able to resolve such problems once.
After consideration, Rhode decided that the best alternative was to increase his survivability. Rhode wasn’t worried about his physique that much because his spiritual energy was much more critical as the growth of spiritual energy capacity was the slowest. In the deepest parts of the [Soul Messenger] talent tree, there was a talent that allowed the holder to restore full health and condition on the spot (Of course, with the condition that the holder was alive). However, Rhode needed to complete the first two stages of talents fully and moreover, he would need to reach about level 40 to do so.
At this moment, Rhode shifted his attention to the other talent: [Soul Territory].
[Soul Territory: Automatically casts a halo. The holder can absorb the spiritual energy of the creatures that the holder has killed by 10%, 20%, 30%. Quantity can be stacked]
This sounded like a suitable talent for Rhode.
But the problem was that this talent laid in the third Talent Tree: Hell Lord.
Rhode was hesitant.
Do I really have to activate the third Talent Tree?