Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 478 A New Round of Skill Creation (5k8)

"Inscription of Authority·Glow" is a skill that can be used to create "authority"!
This is also one of the source skills of all the [Glorious] destiny authority so far.

Except for a small amount of "authority" left over from the Age of Gods and direct gifts from the Pillar Gods, the vast majority actually comes from the creations of powerful people in absolutely high positions in various destinies.

By investing "Authority Inscription·Glow" when creating a skill, there is a chance that you can create a skill with the attribute of "authority" - the success rate is much lower than that of normal self-created skills, but the created "authority skill" is indeed more powerful than ordinary skills.
Most of the authority that the General Church can use to distribute to the clergy was created by Archbishop Sid. As the "Archbishop" guarding an entire diocese, "Authority Inscription·Glow" is also one of the skills that must be mastered.

Luo Xiu had only heard of this skill.
But even as a player in his previous life, he had never truly mastered this skill.

Because in the previous life, players were able to advance to the 4.0 version of "Sixfold Destiny", the extraordinary people in the entire Apocalypse World have become very wary of the players. Since version 3.0, the core skills of the "Holy Court" are no longer open to players. Therefore, if you want to learn them, you need to rely on some extraordinary means.
The skill of "Authority Inscription·Glow" is the core of the core. In version 3.0, the control of it was transferred from the archbishop of the diocese to the cardinal.

In version 4.0, you can only obtain a sacred scroll with the skill of "Inscription of Authority·Glow" by destroying the entire cathedral of a core diocese where a cardinal is stationed, or by going directly into the headquarters of the "Holy See" and killing a cardinal.

The cardinal of the "Sevenfold Fate" and his terrifying combat power are secondary. If a player tries to obtain this skill through such an extreme method, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the entire "Holy Court" - although there are indeed war-crazed players who have tried this, no one has succeeded yet.

Until the middle of version 4.0, the Holy See concentrated all the skill scrolls that needed to be strictly sealed in the Imperial Capital Headquarters, and the skill of "Power Inscription·Glow" completely disappeared from the players' sight.
As of version 5.0, when Luo Xiu touched the "Scripture of the Abyss" and traveled through time, no player had truly mastered this skill.

Now, after being promoted to the sixth level of destiny, Luo Xiu originally wanted to find an opportunity to master the skill of "Inscription of Authority·Glow" before the "Holy Court" monopolized the skill, but Archbishop Sid directly delivered it to him!
Luo Xiu was in a good mood. He quickly browsed through the prompts displayed on the panel. Thinking about this, he paid 3.2 million experience points to the panel without hesitation and gave the panel the instruction of "Confirm Learning" -

[Current learning progress: 33%...]

[Current learning progress: 66%...]

[Current learning progress: 100%...]

[You have learned the skill "Inscription of Authority·Glow (Glow, lv.1)"]

[Sacred Skill: Inscription of Authority·Glow (Glow, lv.1)]

[Inscription of Authority: Radiance (Radiance, lv.1): With this divine inscription, grant me the authority of radiance! ]

[You have mastered the more advanced "Glorious" engraving method - "Authority Engraving · Glory". When you use this technique to engrave a creative skill, the experience points consumed will be greatly increased, and the success rate of the creative skill will be greatly reduced. If the creation is successful, you will definitely obtain the "Authority Skill" of the [Glorious] destiny. ]

[The current "Authority Inscription·Glow" level is lv.1, and the highest authority that can be obtained is level III. When the skill "Authority Inscription·Glow" is successfully used to create a skill, there is a 90% chance of obtaining level I authority, a 9% chance of obtaining level II authority, and a 1% chance of obtaining level III authority.]

[The current level of "Inscription of Authority·Glow" is lv.1. After performing "Inscription of Authority·Glow" 3 times, the skill will enter cooling and cannot be used again. The cooling time of "Inscription of Authority·Glow" is 24 hours. After the cooling time is over, "Inscription of Authority·Glow" can be used again and the number of uses will be restored to 3.]

【…】

"..."

"This is the skill of 'Authority Inscription · Radiance'..."

After successfully learning this skill, Luo Xiu carefully browsed the new content displayed on the panel, murmured softly.

He is now eager to try to "create his own skills" and see if he can get the authority of "Glory" in one go.

If you can create a Level II or even Level III authority in one stroke, you can keep it for your own use if it is appropriate. As for the large amount of Level I authority that you cannot use, you can just throw it into the warehouse to collect dust after you have created it.
After the 2.0 version "Abyss Upside Down" arrives and players are able to access and master the "authority", all the Level I authority scrolls that have been gathering dust will be "sold" to the players all at once. At that time, they will be able to obtain extremely high benefits in this way.

When Luo Xiu thought about this, some other thoughts came to his mind -

That is, if one could master the "Inscription of Authority" skills of other destinies, first of all, the "Inscription of Authority·Dark Corrosion" of [Abyss], or other destinies such as the "Inscription of Authority·Destruction" of [Red Lotus], the "Inscription of Authority·Void Devouring" of [Nothingness], and so on, then perhaps one could use them together to create the authority belonging to the "ancient heritage"?

This is just some possible conjecture.

Let’s not discuss the authority engraving skills of other destinies for now. At least the "Authority Engraving·Dark Corrosion" of [Abyss] can be obtained for real. That skill should be recorded in the "Holy Book of the Abyss". After leaving the General Church, you can try to see if you can master it in advance without promoting the [Abyss] destiny to the sixth level.

"..."

Thinking about these.

At the same time, Luo Xiu put away the skill scroll of "Inscription of Authority·Glow" and put it back into the storage bracelet.

So far, he has learned and mastered the three sacred scrolls that Archbishop Sid prepared for him... but at least for now, he cannot show any signs that he has truly learned these skills, so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion.

Luo Xiu thought to himself, so he turned around and saw "Bishop Qihui" Lawrence who had been waiting outside, and Lawrence bowed to him respectfully.

“Thank you Archbishop for your generous and gracious gift.”

Luo Xiu smiled calmly and said to Lawrence:

"I accepted the scroll that the Archbishop wanted to give me with gratitude. Sir Lawrence, please take me to the other storage room."

"..."

"I will follow your instructions, Lord Ross Carlos."

"Bishop Qihui" Lawrence bowed devoutly to Luo Xiu and responded respectfully.

……

Afterwards, Lawrence took Luo Xiu to other storage rooms in the Holy Storage, and Luo Xiu also picked up many high-level materials and took them away.

That included seven "legendary" quality materials and more than twenty "epic" quality materials. They would be used for forging or to increase the strength of the contracted gods and contracted beasts. Luo Xiu also took more than thirty high-level blank scrolls from the holy storage.

After the Sixth Fate, ordinary blank scrolls are no longer sufficient to carry the spiritual strength of this level. To create new skills that match the current level, better high-level blank scrolls must be used, and the current Holy Storage of the General Church only stores so many.

Luo Xiu then took all of these out and took them away. After that, under the guidance of "Bishop Qihui" Lawrence, he left the Holy See and the Church.

Although the General Church did arrange a place for him to live, Luo Xiu did not plan to live in the inner courtyard of the General Church for the time being.

Afterwards, before the Archbishop held the "coronation ceremony" for him at noon the next day, Luo Xiu planned to return to the "Holy Abyss" to create a wave of "Sixfold Destiny" skills. However, the step of activating the Royal Court Seal to teleport back to the Holy Abyss must not be done in the General Church.

……

Until Lawrence led Luo Xiu to the door of the church, Luo Xiu nodded goodbye to Lawrence and told Lawrence "I will just stroll around Songyuan City. Please tell Archbishop Sid not to worry about me." Then he walked to the end of the road. Soon after, his figure disappeared at the corner at the end.

Before leaving the church, Luo Xiu had already changed into his regular clothes. He first walked around the main street of Songyuan City for a few times, and after confirming that no one was watching him, he immediately went into a remote alley and activated the mark of the "Holy Abyss" royal court in a dilapidated, half-collapsed building.

Deep red light patterns then floated on the back of his hand, and his figure became illusory and blurred as several deep red teleportation arrays appeared at his feet, and soon disappeared completely.

When the mottled colors flooded into Luo Xiu's vision again, he had arrived at the "Holy Abyss" and sat on the golden throne that belonged to him -

The palace hall was empty at this time. Luo Xiu took out the Abyss Sacred Scripture and began his first attempt.
He opened the "Holy Book of the Abyss" and turned to the last page he had seen before, then turned a few pages back. The panel soon showed the "divine" attribute value that was affected by the "forbidden infection", but with Luo Xiu's current "divine" attribute value, it would be easy to be exempt from such forbidden infection.

Although he can be exempted from these, if he wants to learn the skills with [Abyss] attributes that he will carry in the future, he must at least reach the fifth level of [Abyss].

As Luo Xiu continued to turn the pages of the Abyss Sacred Scripture until he came to the knowledge of skills that could be mastered by the Sixth Fate of the Abyss, he did find the skill of "Authority Inscription·Dark Corrosion" after exempting himself from the taboo infection of "divinity" attribute judgment in "2023".
In order to learn this skill, one must first reach the fifth level of the Abyss and master several key skills that can only be learned and mastered when one reaches the "fifth level of the Abyss".

This was consistent with the result that Luo Xiu had expected before. Although he could not learn "Inscription of Authority·Dark Corrosion" for the time being, Luo Xiu was not discouraged. On the contrary, he confirmed that such a skill was indeed recorded in the "Holy Book of the Abyss". Once he promoted [Abyss] to the fifth level of destiny, he would be able to truly master this skill.

Luo Xiu was thinking about this.

In Luo Xiu's promotion plan, he wants to promote the [Abyss] destiny to the fifth level - that will have to wait until the "Scarlet Tide" and "Abyss Upside Down" arrive.

In the "Divine Revelation" ceremony that was performed on them before, Luo Xiu knew that the time for the apocalypse-like disaster to come was not far away.

……

Afterwards, Luo Xiu took back the "Holy Book of the Abyss".

He immediately took out the "High-Level Blank Scroll" that he had just obtained from the Grand Church and the Holy Repository, and began to mobilize the spiritual power of [Glory]. The knowledge of skills that would be invested in skill creation began to emerge in his mind.

When his own [Glorious] spirituality reached perfection, Luo Xiu then engraved the first blank scroll he had unfolded.

——[Suncast Inscription] + [Sublime Divine Punishment]!
This is the most standard "Sixfold Destiny" output-oriented skill configuration, and it is the first simple attempt after being promoted to "Sixfold Destiny". A burst of light and shadow floated on the panel, and soon new content appeared -

【…】

[The destiny has been confirmed, and the destiny is "Glorious"]

[Current character level is lv.60, "Suncast Inscription" level is lv.1]

[Self-created skills - success rate is 25% (min) ~ 45% (max)] [Epic expertise "The Fallen One" is in effect, basic success rate increased by 10% ~ 20%]

[Please confirm the experience points you want to invest. The minimum investment is 750000 experience points]

【…】

After being promoted to the "Sixth Fate", the experience points required to create skills increased a lot. Luo Xiu paid double the experience points, and the content displayed on the panel disappeared immediately.

The engraved patterns carrying the two [Glorious] skills began to merge and converge on the surface of the blank scroll, gradually forming new patterns.

But soon, the new pattern formed by the fusion began to tremble violently, and the spirituality that had been calmed down soon became disordered. The next moment, the molten golden light and white light spread in all directions -

Luo Xiu quickly mobilized his spiritual power and "suppressed" the surge of spiritual power that was about to explode on the blank scroll.

The first attempt to create his own scroll failed. This was a common failure. Luo Xiu was already used to such scenes, so he took the second high-level blank scroll and repeated the previous operation.

This time the creation skill was successful, and after a not-too-long wait, new content appeared on Luo Xiu's panel again -

[Successfully created a skill]

[The "Glorious" destiny skill has been generated...]

[Obtain: Divine Punishment of Heaven (Glorious, lv.2)]

[God's Punishment of Heaven (Glorious, lv.2): Use the thunder and fire of Heaven's Punishment to carry out the God's Punishment of the Forged Sun! ]

[Specify the target to be hit by "Heavenly Punishment", causing it to fall into the negative states of "Deep Seal", "Deep Immobilization" and "Deep Drain". After 1 second, the divine punishment will fall from the sky, causing 3 times of Heavenly Punishment to the target designated as "Heavenly Punishment". The first time it causes 1500% of the "Holy Light" attribute damage of the spell attack, the second time it causes 1500% of the "Fire" attribute damage of the spell attack, and the third time it causes 1500% of the "Original Trauma" of the spell attack. ]

【…】

The first successfully created skill of the "Sixfold Destiny" was "Divine Punishment of Heaven", and Luo Xiu was quite satisfied with it.

This is also one of the skills that the [Glory] Sixth Destiny should always have, and the three damage multipliers of "Heavenly Punishment" are almost catching up with "Ancient Dragon's Breath" and "Ancient Dragon's Devouring Slash", which is very good for Luo Xiu.

Then, he put his skills into creating three new skills, two of which failed, but one succeeded.
[Successfully created a skill]

[The "Glorious" destiny skill has been generated...]

[Obtain: Flood of Heaven's Strike (Glorious, lv.3)]

[The Flood of Heaven's Strike (Glorious, lv.3): Use the Flood of Heaven's Strike to perform the Purification of the Forged Sun! ]

[Enter the charging state of "Heavenly Strike Flood", which can be released after the charging time reaches 2 seconds, and releases "Heavenly Strike Flood" once to a large area in front, causing 200% physical attack*3+800% spell attack*3 "holy light" attribute damage.

When the charging time of "Heavenly Flood" is greater than 2 seconds, the damage caused by "Heavenly Flood" increases by 2% for every 50 seconds of charging, up to 10 seconds of charging. After "Heavenly Flood" is fully charged for 10 seconds, it will cause an additional round of "Holy Light" attribute damage of 3000% of the spell attack. 】

【…】

The second time he created his own skill, he succeeded, and the skill he obtained in the "Sixth Destiny" was "Torrent of Heavenly Strike". The damage multiplier of this skill was quite terrifying - after charging for 10 seconds, the total damage multiplier that could be caused was almost twice that of "Ancient Dragon's Breath of Violence" and "Ancient Dragon's Devouring Slash"!
But most of the time, the biggest problem was that the "Heavenly Strike Flood" could not be fully charged. However, Luo Xiu was still quite satisfied with the result of this second self-creation, so he confirmed the result with satisfaction.

After obtaining two "Sixfold Destiny" skills, Luo Xiu was also ready to start some new attempts.

The first is the attempt to "create authority"!

According to the preset skill combination, Luo Xiu unfolded a new high-level blank scroll and completed the engraving on it.

——[Suncast Inscription] + [Inscription of Authority·Glow] + [Glowing Authority] + [Sublime Divine Punishment]!
This was also a relatively basic combination. When Luo Xiu completed the engraving of these skills in the scroll, a dazzling golden light shone on the scroll, and new content appeared on the panel -

【…】

[The destiny has been confirmed, and the destiny is "Glorious"]

[Current character level is lv.60, "Suncast Inscription" level is lv.1]

[Skill "Authority Inscription·Glow" detected, judgment condition changed to "Authority"]

["Inscription of Authority·Glow" level is lv.1]

[Self-created authority skills - success rate 8% (min) ~ 15% (max)]

[Please confirm the experience points you want to invest. The minimum investment is 1200000 experience points]

【…】

"..."

——To try to create your own skill of "Authority", you need to invest 1.2 million experience points!
The skill creation of "Authority" seems to no longer receive the success rate bonus of the epic specialty "The Fallen One". Therefore, the success rate is very low - the highest success rate is only 15%. If you want to do it as you wish, you basically need to invest double the experience points to succeed once in about seven times.

Luo Xiu was thinking about this.

He still had a lot of experience points accumulated from other players, enough to spend for a while after being promoted to the "Sixth Level Destiny". However, he was still a long way from using these accumulated experience points to reach the upper limit of lv.80 of the Sixth Level Destiny. Therefore, Luo Xiu did not have any experience point anxiety for the time being. After a brief thought, he paid double experience points to the panel.

A surge of light floated in the panel, and four patterns carrying the spirituality of [Glory] began to merge, but they soon dissipated again - the first attempt ended in failure as expected.

In the second attempt, the fusion progress was a little better than the first, but in the end it suddenly became chaotic, and the second attempt also failed.

Four million eight hundred thousand experience points evaporated in front of Luo Xiu like this - Luo Xiu felt a little pain. And within today, "Authority Inscription·Glow" can be engraved once more.

Luo Xiu stared at the table in front of him, and at the scroll on which the light had dimmed, and he always felt that something was missing.

But soon, he suddenly understood, so he clapped his hands and murmured softly:

"——I offer Hubert ten years of celibacy..."

"——I sacrifice Anthony's ten years of singleness..."

"——I'll sacrifice Connor to be single for ten years..."

"——I sacrificed Thomas to be single for ten years..."

"——I sacrificed Albert to be single for ten years..."

"..."

After offering up all the targets he could think of that were suitable as "sacrifices" one by one, Luo Xiu turned his gaze back to the newly unfolded scroll in front of him, and concentrated on engraving a new skill.

After completing the engraving of the four skills, Luo Xiu invested double the experience points, just like the previous two times.

The four glowing engraved patterns on the scroll began to merge, and this time, they merged very smoothly with each other.

They finally "fit" together perfectly, and new content appeared in real time on Luo Xiu's panel -

[Successfully created a skill]

[The "Glorious" destiny authority skill has been generated...]

[Obtain: Holy Seal of Solid Spirit (Glorious, Level I Authority, lv.1)]

[Soul-Solidifying Holy Seal (Glorious, Level I Authority, lv.1): Makes the soul as tough as the sun. 】

Use this authority to obtain the "Holy Solid Spirit" state. During the "Holy Solid Spirit" state, you are immune to all negative effects imposed on you by targets 20 levels or less than you, and reduce all damage you receive by 20%, all mana consumed by yourself by 20%, and restore 2% of the mana limit per second for 60 seconds. (This authority can only be used once every 24 hours)]

【…】

——It still requires sacrifice to work!

……

(End of this chapter)