Mystery: From Celestial Venerable's Backup to Red Priest

Chapter 152 'Precision'

Chapter 152 'Precision'

It remains a mysterious city where reality and illusion coexist, and he still stands atop the highest peak of the entire city, surrounded by countless creatures of desire kneeling in his direction.

They bowed to Evan, who stood atop the city's highest peak, muttering to themselves or pleading, but Evan couldn't understand what they were saying.

Evan was more lucid than when he was promoted to "Provocateur" and "Instigator," so he was able to listen carefully to what they were saying.

No matter how hard Evan tried, he could only hear snippets of words. They spoke in various languages ​​that Evan couldn't understand, yet he somehow comprehended their meaning.

He heard words like "pleading," "leaving," "greatness," "release," and "loyalty," but he couldn't understand much else.

Moreover, Evan was even more sensitive to the control of the mysterious city. He seemed to sense that the storms outside the city, the volcanoes, and the meteors and meteorites in the sky above the city had all become living entities, coldly watching him and hostile to him. This made Evan feel his heart leap into his throat and feel a fear that originated from his soul.

This fear is somewhat like the feeling of prey being targeted by a hunter or a natural enemy.

But a moment later, Evan suddenly lost that feeling. The volcano, the storm, the meteors, and the misty fog all seemed harmless again, and everything became calm and peaceful. No matter how hard Evan tried to focus, the erupting volcano, the falling meteors, and the howling storm all seemed like "dead things".

However, Evan firmly believed that the feeling he had in that instant was definitely not an illusion, and he kept increasing his vigilance.

Just as Evan felt his spirituality was about to dry up, his head, once again carrying a white spine, detached from his body in the mysterious city and soared into the air.

As Evan's head soared higher and higher, he saw the mysterious city, filled with natural and man-made disasters, gradually twist into a flying, illusory shadow, which followed his head to the real world, then covered his physical body and merged with it.

Except for a touch of gray at the head, Evan's entire body was completely covered by the illusion of the mysterious city, without a single gap.

Evan, who had regained consciousness in the present world, knew that she had not been promoted to a witch, so she could only barely hear the voices of the creatures of desire in the city, but could not hear them all.

This made Evan eager to advance again, but because he hadn't met Natasha from the Witch Cult, he ultimately suppressed the urge to drink the medicine immediately.

After closing his eyes to rest for a moment and getting used to the "Arsonist" potion he had just taken, just as Evan had expected, the "Arsonist" potion practically melted in his mouth without any discomfort. In fact, after resting for a while and recovering some of his energy,

Evan can now directly consume the "Conspirator" potion.

The "Pyromancer" potion granted Evan a great deal of fire manipulation ability, making him truly deserving of his ancient title, "Fire Mage."

First, spirituality is greatly enhanced, and one can open spiritual vision in a more concealed and faster way, and see the colors of various parts of the "etheric body", no longer just a chaotic and singular image.

This wasn't a breakthrough for Evan, because he was not only an extraordinary being in the Hunter path, but also an extraordinary being in the Assassin path. Although he wasn't good at spiritual abilities, the combination of the two allowed Evan to subtly see the colors of his opponents' emotions.

2. Danger intuition has been enhanced to a certain extent. It is no longer only when a problem is about to erupt that it is triggered. This intuition can be stimulated by observing the environment and collecting information. Consequently, it is more able to detect whether it is being followed and can make fuller and more perfect use of its own anti-tracking skills.

This enhancement greatly strengthened Evan's spiritual intuition. He felt that even some Sequence 5s who were good at stealth and infiltration would have a hard time hiding in front of him, comparable to those who were good at spiritual intuition and could easily take over the next player's path.

3. With the ability to control fire, and several accompanying spells.

4. After being modified by the potion, the arsonist's body has a strong resistance to fire. Even if he is doused with animal fat and set on fire with a torch, and burned for half a day, the arsonist will not suffer serious damage. However, the shock wave from the fireball explosion can still harm the arsonist normally.

The ability to manipulate fire through arsonists' potions can be categorized into seven main types.

1. Condensation and compression, bombarding the target in the form of a fireball. The longer the compression time, the more flames accumulate, and the greater the power.

2. Cause the arsonist's body to ignite with a layer of flame, thereby providing a certain degree of protection against attacks such as freezing effects and poison gas damage;

3. Use flames to create different temporary weapons, inflicting damage such as high-temperature cutting, burning, and piercing. These weapons can also be categorized into two types based on the charging time: crimson and blazing white.

4. Delayed explosion: By adding spiritual power and altering the structure, the "fire bomb" is made to explode at a predetermined time, rather than being detonated on the spot;

5. Range of influence: By extending the flame rather than throwing it out, the flame is kept under its own control, exploding at the intended location or burning in different forms;

6. "Fire Injection": Using the pressure from physical contact and force collisions during close combat, flames are gradually poured into the enemy's body before finally detonating.

7. Adds fire damage to your weapon.

The potion itself grants four regular spells.

Fire Raven Technique: This technique allows you to quickly condense a flock of fire ravens around your body and assign a little bit of spirituality to each raven, so that even after they leave your body, they can still be manipulated to a certain extent, allowing you to easily adjust their trajectory and initially lock onto the target.

Blazing White Spear: A spell that quickly condenses blazing white flames, but it can only exist in the form of a spear. With the addition of spirituality, it can also roughly guide the fireballs created by arsonists, something Evan already knew.

Burning Wall: Using the earth as a medium and itself as the source, it creates two fire serpents to forge a blazing wall around the enemy.

Giant fireball: It takes ten to twenty seconds to launch, which is equivalent to compressing multiple crimson fireballs into one.

In short, the arsonist's potion greatly enhanced Evan, making him a powerful extraordinary being. Combined with his two powerful extraordinary items with minimal side effects, extraordinary beings below the demigod level were basically unable to pose a threat to Evan.

If the opponent is not good at dealing with fire-type spells, Evan even has the ability to kill them instantly.

Because of the power of the Mysterious City, Evan can also pre-draw one of the abilities of Sequence 6 "The Schemer" and Sequence 5 "The Reaper".

After careful consideration, Evan ultimately chose the "Precision" of the "Reaper".

Precision: Allows any attack to accurately hit the intended location and precisely manipulates spells such as fireballs and fire crows that have left the body. It can split a huge fireball into a hundred parts, each hitting a different target with relatively high precision, thus achieving effective area-of-effect damage. (Inspired by the Ring of Fate).

The reason for choosing "Precision" instead of the seemingly stronger "Harvest" is that Evan is also an extraordinary individual in the Assassin's Path. From the moment he became an Assassin, he had the ability of "Fatal Strike". This ability can be better combined with "Precision" to make "Fatal Strike" a truly unavoidable "Fatal Strike".

Evan will soon advance to the rank of 'Witch', and the ability of 'Fatal Strike' will also be enhanced accordingly, making it a viable alternative to 'Harvest'.

Moreover, the "harvesting" ability is very powerful, but in order to fully unleash its true power, it must be combined with the "harvester's" "weakness observation" to exert greater destructive power.

So after much consideration, Evan chose "precision" instead of "harvesting".

Having mastered the abilities granted by the "Arsonist" potion and chosen the "Reaper" ability in advance, Evan only now had time to examine his own situation.

Walking to the large dressing mirror in the corner of the bedroom, Evan's black hair in the mirror was smoking and smelled burnt. His clothes were also burned and torn, and his naked body had large areas of burn marks that were rapidly scabbing off, revealing his fair skin.

Looking into the blue eyes reflected in the mirror, one can see what appears to be two crimson flames burning deep within them.

Thanks to Evan having fully digested the "Arsonist" potion, he concealed the corresponding abnormality after closing his eyes.

He opened the window to let the burnt smell from the bedroom dissipate. Evan found some clothes in the closet and went to the bathroom. The marks on his body were easy to clean up, but the floor where Evan had just been sitting was hard to cover up. That floorboard had been burned away, leaving a large hole underneath.

But after thinking about it, Evan realized there was nothing to hide from his brother. Robert knew almost everything about his actions toward Tingen City, except for the matter of Megas.

It was perfectly reasonable for him to be promoted to "arsonist" so quickly, and it even better reflected his talent. After taking a shower and changing into a new set of clothes, Evan went downstairs to have dinner with Robert and told him that he had successfully promoted.

This news was clearly unexpected for Robert. He stopped eating and stared at Evan in disbelief. Mr. Hope, standing beside him, was equally flustered, nearly dropping the wine tray from Robert's hands.

"If I remember correctly, you became an Extraordinary just about a month ago, right?"

Previously, both to confuse Robert's judgment and to psychologically prepare for his own rapid advancement, Evan had moved up the time it would take for him to become an Extraordinary by more than ten days.

Even so, Robert had never heard of anyone becoming a Sequence 7 in just one month. Generally, being able to successfully digest a Sequence 9 potion within a month is already quite remarkable, which made Robert take Evan's talent seriously.

"I was promoted to Sequence 8 in just one month, which is why the old Earl praised me as the most talented extraordinary person in the Horn family in a thousand years."

I never expected that Evan would become a Sequence 7 Extraordinary in just one month. What is that?

Has the Einhorn family, with its thousands of years of history, ever produced such a genius? Could it be that he joined a secret organization and underwent some kind of evil ritual?

"Probably not. If such a ritual truly existed, it wouldn't have been used on Evan. It's likely a benefit derived from the Tingen affair."

Robert, reflecting on his own progress in digesting the potion, felt that it was reasonable for Evan to digest it so quickly.