Chapter 260: The essence of moonlight is reflected sunlight, so can moonlight also kill vampires?
The essence of moonlight is the scattering of sunlight that shines upon it. Therefore, as sunlight intensifies, so too will the moonlight.
Upon successfully receiving the blessing of "Goddess's Grace (Crimson Moon)," your second talent, "Sunfire Protection (Pseudo)," will simultaneously apply to the Crimson Moon Goddess Fina.
As long as you and Fina are in the same spatial instance, the blessings and protections of both parties will continuously exist.
Additionally, the Crimson Moon Goddess Fina, having received Sunfire Protection, will see her overall magic strength increase by 15% (equivalent to the amount of Sun God Shard she possesses).
The appearance of the Sun God's power in the Isu Origin World will greatly influence the future trajectory of the Twin Moon Goddesses, and even the instance itself.
Exclusive Side Quest — "Sun and Moon Radiance"
Single-player quest, special quest. As the "Sun God Gem Shard Host," you need to cooperate with "Crimson Moon Fina" of the Twin Moon Goddesses to find and protect "Azure Moon Rhea" who is wandering within the Black Tower. Upon successfully finding Rhea, subsequent quests will be triggered.
Quest Rewards — Goddess Contract "Sun and Moon Radiance," Unknown.
From Cheng Tian's perspective, a surge of magic power, carrying a sense of freedom, erupted from Fina's wings and enveloped his entire body.
From Fina's perspective, she was enveloped by a dazzling yet warm light emanating from Cheng Tian's glabella. Subsequently, her spread white wings, like solar photovoltaic panels, absorbed all of this light into them.
In terms of surprise, Fina was far more astonished than Cheng Tian, because her total magic power, which hadn't significantly changed for a century, actually surged by 15% on the spot!
Perhaps because all magical technology in the Isu Origin worldview is derived from the Black Pearl, this world lacks scientific knowledge of solar energy or that moonlight is essentially reflected sunlight. However, as a being with the title of Moon Goddess and having acquired related authority to a certain extent, Fina could easily pinpoint the source of her power increase.
The goddess's gaze turned to Cheng Mouren, who was still examining his "All Skill Recharge +1" effect. The astonishment and pleasant surprise in her eyes were already undisguised.
Her impressions of Cheng Tian were all concentrated on him being fair-spoken but foul-mouthed, utterly disrespectful to goddesses—even blasphemous, someone who messed with young people according to his personal preferences, and a lunatic who treated the Black Tower as a playground... Yet, she never imagined that Cheng Tian was also a holder of the Sun God's power authority!
Although this power was very nascent and in a fractured state, the reality of her own magic power increasing by a full 15% had already proven that the Sun God's power on him was genuine!
The light in Fina's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and a brainstorm was simultaneously underway. Her gaze towards Cheng Tian became increasingly joyful.
Because the current state of mutual blessings they had achieved clearly provided her with a third path, besides sacrificing herself and her sister to seal the Black Pearl, or sitting idly by as Thor became deeply demonized to attempt to destroy the Evil of This World from within!
And Cheng Tian also received new prompts directly.
The Twin Moon Goddess "Crimson Moon Fina" has greatly increased her personal reputation with you, currently at Friendly 1 / 1500.
You have successfully reversed a Twin Moon Goddess's impression of your personal reputation, and your main quest has changed.
Your main quest "Capture the Twins, Seize the Pearl" has been replaced by "Sun and Moon Radiance," but your identity within the Dark Clan faction has not been fully exposed, and you can still try to obtain partial commission rewards through special means.
From indifferent to neutral, and then from neutral to friendly, there was a reputation requirement of approximately 6000. Fina's significant change in personal reputation towards him, combined with a series of spatial information prompts, also made Cheng Tian keenly aware of some key points.
Judging solely from Fina's total magic power increasing by 15%, if the original Twin Goddesses had to embrace the idea of mutual destruction, restoring their bodies to White Aemelas to seal the Black Pearl, which was essentially Black Aemelas—this was a manifestation of the Twin Goddesses' insufficient power... then when the Twin Goddesses' total magic power both increased by 15%, could they complete the sealing of the Black Pearl while remaining conscious?
Going a step further, if he could acquire more Sun God Gem Shards and in turn provide a higher magic power increase to the Twin Goddesses, could they directly erase the Evil of This World within the Black Pearl?
Cheng Tian's gaze involuntarily fell upon the fifth special effect of his sunfire mask, "Purification Light," which he hadn't used since it was unsealed.
Purification Light — The scorching radiance of the sun can penetrate all darkness and evil, leaving them nowhere to hide, but its manifestation is somewhat unique.
You can cast "Purification Light" on any target. On both friendly and enemy units, Purification Light will exhibit different effects.
When the target is a friendly unit —
You will be able to remove at least 1 DEBUFF with negative effects such as evil, darkness, demonization, or curse from the friendly unit.
When the target is an enemy unit —
Purification Light will perform a mental resistance check with a base probability of 50%. Each 1 point of Mental attribute affects the probability by 1%. If the check passes, a random piece of equipment on the target will be forcibly decomposed into its most basic valuable item, gold coins, and scattered. These gold coins will have an "egg" characteristic of "continuous aerial capture results in multiplicative increase."
When the target is both an enemy faction unit and possesses keywords related to evil, darkness, demonization, or curses, the target will simultaneously suffer a Sunfire Strike equal to Mental attribute * 10 points.
Base skill cost is 50MP. When the Sunfire Strike effect is triggered, the magic cost will double. Base cooldown is 30 minutes. In daytime or intense sunlight scenarios, both base cost and base cooldown are halved.
Additional evaluation: You too shall have your own Midas Touch~
And after this unsealed special effect, there was now an additional "Recharge +1" buff effect.
Clearly, the Goddess's Grace not only affected Cheng Tian's inherent skills but also skills attached to equipment.
"Recharge," simply understood, means the skill can be used one more time.
Originally, Cheng Tian would have to wait 30 minutes after casting Purification Light once before casting it a second time. But with the "Recharge" indicator, he could immediately cast a second one, and the Goddess's Grace would also negate the cost of that recharged cast.
However, if he wanted to restore both charges, the corresponding cooldown time would also double.
Purification Light is a pure special attack against evil, even more targeted than holy light, one could say. And Cheng Tian had a hunch that Purification Light would very likely become a crucial part of sealing the Black Pearl.
However, the grand prerequisite for all of this was to gather both Twin Goddesses and the Black Pearl before anyone else!
"Can you get some rope?"
Cheng Tian's sudden question startled Fina, but she quickly understood what Cheng Tian was going to do.