Born Sacred

Chapter 138: Soul Resonance

"Does it have to be this exaggerated?"

Roland was incredibly shocked, and while his reverence for Noah grew, he was also ecstatic.

Noah’s exaggerated ultra-long-range sniping ability meant that the entire Starfall Country was under his protection.

With such a powerful backing, who wouldn’t feel secure, and how many casualties could be reduced for Starfall Country?

Of course, to avoid causing Noah’s displeasure, Roland definitely wouldn’t dare to ask Noah to act at every turn.

Only when encountering Three-Tier Fishmen, or when the defense line faced a crisis of annihilation, would he request Noah’s help.

Thus, in major coastal cities of Starfall Country, the armies and Awakeners responsible for resisting the Demonized Monsters from the sea watched in shock as streaks of golden light descended from the sky, shooting dead terrifying Three-Tier Fishmen, or annihilating countless Fishmen, resolving the crisis on the defense lines.

The Three-Tier Fishmen were scared out of their wits and no longer dared to show their faces at sea, let alone step onto land.

Without these Three-Tier Fishmen, even if the remaining Tier 2 and Ordinary Fishmen were numerous, their threat level plummeted.

The situation within Starfall Country, which had originally stabilized, became rock-solid under the impact of countless Fishmen, making the already precarious coastal defense line suddenly impregnable.

Noah, with his strength alone, stabilized Starfall Country’s long coastline.

A video of a golden light descending and a Three-Tier Fishmen being shattered into pieces circulated online, immediately causing a global sensation.

Everyone was envious of Starfall Country to the extreme.

Especially those who were deeply threatened by Demonized Monsters, how they wished such a "Light of God" would also descend, wiping out the monsters in their homeland and rescuing them from suffering.

...

Noah didn’t pay much attention to outside evaluations.

Apart from occasionally taking out the Sun Shooting Bow and shooting an arrow at a target, most of his energy was focused on choosing his twelfth skill.

Learning skills should be done sooner rather than later.

He asked Roland to send over a list of skills from the official inventory, and then he started browsing.

Upon seeing it, he realized that his original idea was not very realistic.

According to his idea, it would be best to have a passive skill that could integrate all "magical attacks," which would save some skill slots in the future.

Of course, he didn’t expect a skill to achieve this point currently, as long as it had the potential.

With his Talent, skills could continuously break through; if epic wasn’t enough, there was Legend; if Legend wasn’t enough, Mythical could definitely do it.

However, after delving deeper, he learned that it couldn’t be done.

Just like the two passive skills for melee and ranged, both from the physical system, cannot be integrated, the divergence in the "magic system" is even greater than in the physical system.

"Magical attack" was merely Noah’s own term.

In reality, it referred to all attacks from the mystical side; their categories were too numerous: element attacks, mental attacks, soul attacks, battle qi, true qi, spirit energy, etc.

It was simply impossible to integrate all of them.

After all, skills also have limits.

Noah then gave up on this idea.

His goal was to enhance the power of Ghost God Slash, so he just needed to look for skills in that category.

So, what category of attack was Ghost God Slash?

Noah was also very clear about this; Ghost God Slash was a soul-based skill.

Unlike Lily’s formless and intangible soul attacks, Ghost God Slash’s attack was overbearing and incredibly powerful.

However, Noah searched through the official treasure trove and also checked the trading center of the Transcendent Forum, but he didn’t find any soul-based skills.

This made Noah understand that the quality of soul-based skills was probably very high, not something available at Ordinary or Fine grades.

On the market, Ordinary grade skills were common, and there were quite a few Fine grade ones, but the higher Rare grade was extremely rare.

The few Rare grade skills in the official treasure trove were not related to the soul system.

Although Rare grade skills could drop from Tier 2 dungeons, the probability was very low, and those that could be used were definitely consumed internally and would not appear on the market.

Noah thought for a moment and asked Rose and others.

After all, they had also entered the Mythical Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff dungeon; if they were lucky, they might have obtained a soul-based skill.

However, Noah didn’t hold much hope.

After all, he knew how many items were listed as potential drops in the dungeon list.

There were only a few clearance rewards, and the difficulty of getting exactly a soul-based passive skill was similar to finding a needle in a haystack.

Noah planned to find a dungeon that might drop a soul-based passive skill after the dungeon became accessible and use a designated reward once; that would be the most stable approach.

However, to Noah’s surprise, the inquiry he had thought hopeless yielded a result.

A moment later, Noah had a skill book in his hand.

[Soul Resonance]

[Quality: Rare]

[Type: Passive Skill]

[Your soul strength is increased, and the effect of soul-based skills is +35%]

This skill came from Claire and was not a drop from the Mythical Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff dungeon, but something she drew from a lottery.

While marveling at how lucky Claire was, Noah also realized how correct he was to insist on carrying her.

As soon as Claire heard that Noah needed a soul-based passive skill, she immediately took it out without a second thought.

Soul Resonance was not useful to Claire herself; she had originally planned to sell it to Lily, but since Noah needed it, it was definitely given to Noah first.

Noah wouldn’t take it from her for free.

Claire could choose an item of equal value that she needed, and even if Noah didn’t have it now, he would let her choose one in the future.

After choosing to learn it, Noah only felt a stream of clear energy flowing through his mind.

His gaze became increasingly clear, and his soul also received some kind of strengthening.

"Hoo~"

Noah slowly exhaled a long breath.

The process of learning Soul Resonance was another brand new experience.

By now, all twelve of Noah’s skill slots were used up.

...

A day later, all nine arrival points in Starfall Country except for the one in the Western Desert disappeared.

A large number of troops and Awakeners were redeployed to reinforce the coastal defense lines.

Noah’s three Tiger Leopard Cavalry units were also stationed along Starfall Country’s coast under Noah’s command.

At this point, Noah no longer needed to act frequently.

The Disaster within Starfall Country was about to end, but other countries were still in dire straits.

Those Three-Tier Fishmen, finding themselves unable to break through Starfall Country’s coastal defense lines and fearing the golden light descending from the sky, turned their attention to other countries.

Sunrise Nation was completely overrun, and the last piece of its territory was occupied by Fishmen.

Miyamoto Nobuo and others did not perish with Sunrise Nation; they had already flown to Eagle Federation for refuge before the collapse.

The vast East Ocean was filled with Demonized Monsters.

There were tens of millions of Sea Clan creatures pouring into Blue Star, and they were still entering continuously.

These Sea Clan were mainly Fishmen, with a small portion of other races.

Even after being heavily casualties by various countries, the number of these Sea Clan still exceeded twenty million.

If the Disaster had not only been happening for a little over a day, and if it dragged on for ten days or half a month, the number of Sea Clan entering Blue Star from the spatial passage would likely tenfold.

This was a fatal threat to any country on Blue Star.