Kail's troubles

Outside of the temple, Kail was galloping on a horse that Liang Lidong brought back from Winterwind. After receiving his approval, the young man excitedly began to learn horsemanship. At first, he fell off the horse now and then, leaving bruises all over his body. But after a few hours, Kail could already ride steadily on the back of the horse.

There was another group of boys standing at the entrance of the village, watching enviously as Kail galloped on his horse. Almost all boys loved riding horses, but they knew very well that Kail was their teacher's direct disciple and a professional. Even if he could borrow a horse from his teacher, it didn't mean that they could do the same.

Be fair to everyone! It was a common rule in the age of information on Earth, but it didn't apply in this world. In this world, people were divided into different grades from birth, and the chances of commoners climbing up were next to nothing. Now, they had a chance to climb up and become someone above others. They might be jealous of Kail's luck, envious that Kail was valued by his teacher, but they would definitely not have any complaints, much less blame Liang Lidong. Even if they occasionally had such emotions, they would choke them to death and sweep them into the trash heap of their consciousness.

In this world, there were too many countries and intelligent species, so there were all kinds of weird customs. However, the custom of respecting one's teacher was an unspoken rule in all countries and all species. Those who betrayed their teachers for no reason usually didn't end well.

The male students were "crazy" outside, and the few female students were praying to the goddess in the temple. The leader was Belin, who was already a level-two professional and had caught up to Kail's level. Although they were of the same level, they weren't equal in strength. If Kail were to fight Belin, he could defeat her with one hand without any weapons.

After all, Priests didn't have much combat ability in the early stages. But in many cases, the role of a professional wasn't calculated that way. Although Kail's strength was indeed stronger than Belin's. But the problem was that in Reed Village, Belin's reputation had completely surpassed Kail's by a large margin. During this period of time, Belin used the Disease-Expelling Spell to cure many of the villagers' chronic illnesses. It also cured many of the villagers' sudden illnesses.

In the past, when the villagers were sick, they could only choose to eat some herbal remedies and lie in bed. If it was a minor illness or pain, they could just endure it. If it was an emergency or serious illness, it would depend on the individual's physique and luck. However, things were different now. Ever since Belin had learned the Sickness Expelling Technique, the villagers no longer had to worry about their own bodies. Moreover, the treatment fee was very cheap, only a few copper coins.

Therefore, Belin was now the second most valued person in the village. The first was, of course, Liang Lidong. The villagers were not stupid. They knew who had taught Belin, and they knew who had taught their child how to read and write.

Now almost all the girls in the village were using Belin as an example, hoping that they could become the second Belin. Whatever Belin did, they would also secretly learn from her.

The young girls' voices were soft and pleasant when they prayed. At this time, the church had a sense of tranquility. Liang Lidong stood under the statue of the goddess and carefully looked at the relief of the goddess. He remembered that when he left Reed Village, the statue of the goddess didn't look any different. But now, in his field of vision, the statue of the goddess had a faint golden halo, which was very beautiful.

According to his experience, the general statue of the goddess wouldn't have such an effect, unless the goddess noticed this place … He opened the temple management system. He carefully looked at the recent movements in the temple. He didn't know if he didn't look, but when he looked, he was a little surprised.

In a short period of more than ten days, Belin had treated nearly a hundred patients, and the number of orthodox believers had increased by more than forty people. The number of shallow believers had increased by more than two hundred. In other words, during the time Liang Lidong had left, the entire village had become believers of Goddess Woking.

Liang Lidong couldn't check Belin's personal piety, but he could see her personal information. She had gained the title of 'preparatory saintess'.

As the administrator and founder of the temple, Liang Lidong had obtained a lot of religion contribution points and piety. Presently, he had 59 religion contribution points (Goddess Woking) and 15 piety points.

Fifty religion contribution points could be exchanged for a primary divine technique. Liang Lidong opened the exchange interface of the temple's system and opened the menu. Apart from the twenty-one divine techniques commonly used by neutral gods, there were also three primary divine techniques unique to Goddess Woking.

Luck of Money (Passive): Mysteriously, coins will flow into your pocket through all kinds of methods. Although it isn't much, it will definitely allow you to live a well-off life.

Minor Divinity Armour (Passive): When you wear armour forged with bronze, silver, and gold as the base material, you will receive additional physical and magical protection bonuses.

Coin Bombardment: Money can kill, it can really kill. You can borrow Goddess Woking's divine power and attach it to the coin, then shoot it out and deal small penetrative damage to the enemy in front of it. The specific destructive power is directly related to the person's piety, level, intelligence, and charm, as well as the bonus of the materials used in the coin.

There were many practical spells among the general divine techniques, but compared to the divine techniques exclusive to gods, they were somewhat lacking.

Goddess Woking was a god of wealth, so her divine techniques were naturally closely related to money. Luck of Money and Luck of Fortune overlapped, so Liang Lidong naturally wouldn't choose it. Divinity Armor was a very good skill, but Liang Lidong was a 'light armor' class, so speed and flexibility were very important. If he wore armor, his mobility would be greatly restricted, and it would greatly decrease his battle strength.

Since that was the case, he could only choose Coin Bombardment. It just so happened that he lacked conventional magic attacks. Honestly speaking, it was quite tiring for him to make scrolls and throw them around every day.

It was indeed a divine art. The eyes of the goddess statue in front of Liang Lidong suddenly flashed with golden light. Two beams of golden light shot out from the eyes of the goddess statue and shone on his body. After a while, the golden light gradually weakened and finally disappeared completely.

When the young maidens praying in the church saw this scene, they closed their eyes and began to recite the teachings of Goddess Woking's religion even more devoutly and fanatically.

In fact, the teachings of Goddess Woking were already specious. Apart from some basic teachings of Goddess Woking, Liang Lidong had added many of his own ideas as well as philosophical concepts from Earth. For example, being kind to others, being virtuous is like water, money is flowing, and so on. In any case, he had thrown in all the things he thought were superior.

It was reasonable to say that such teachings were very problematic. Goddess Woking was a neutral god, which meant that she wasn't virtuous and wasn't evil. It wasn't evil either, but the doctrine that Liang Lidong came up with was clearly biased towards the good camp. If it had been in the past, spreading such teachings would definitely have been stopped by other believers of the same religion. He would certainly have been stopped by his fellow followers, but he was the only one who knew of Woking, and the doctrine was naturally written according to his tastes and wishes.

Liang Lidong was looking forward to seeing the expression on Goddess Woking's face when she found out that her teachings had been changed.

Letting Belin continue to lead the young maidens in prayer, Liang Lidong went alone to the foot of the mountain behind the village. He intended to test out the Coin Bombardment divine technique. He had never used it in the game before, so he had to consider the attack effect, range, distance, cooldown time, and so on. Otherwise, if he used it in battle, it would be good if it didn't have any effect, but if it harmed him, it would be bad.

There was no one at the foot of the mountain behind the village. Only the chirping of insects and birds could be heard between the green trees and grass. It was very quiet!

Liang Lidong took out a copper coin from his spatial backpack and flicked it towards the sky. A cyan lightning beam about the size of an adult's arm wrapped around his copper coin and flew into the sky. After flying at a speed close to the speed of sound for about 80 meters, the copper coin was vaporized, and the cyan lightning beam disappeared.

Its power was about half that of Rising Dragon, but its ballistic speed was much faster than Rising Dragon, and its mental power consumption was much higher than Rising Dragon.

Using silver coins, the flying distance was close to 100 meters. The range of the beam was slightly increased, and the power was indeed increased. The lightning beam was silver in color.

Using gold coins! Liang Lidong looked at the golden lightning beam that was about the size of a fist cutting through the sky. The effective range should be 200 meters, and the size of the beam did not change significantly. The ballistic speed did not seem to increase, and the power was slightly higher than that of the silver coin.

After three tests, Liang Lidong had a rough understanding of the differences in the divine technique cast with the three different coins as materials. If the power of the copper coin was 1, then the power of the silver coin was 1.2, and the gold coin was around 1.3. In addition, the effective attack of the divine technique would increase, and the cooldown time was 11 seconds.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, using the copper coin was the most cost-effective, followed by the silver coin. Although the power and range of the gold coin was the largest, it was very expensive. One gold coin was enough to support several people in a normal family for a year. If it was not an important moment, Liang Lidong believed that he would not use the gold coin as a casting material.

No matter what material the coin was made of, the coin bombardment divine spell was not as powerful as the rising dragon. In fact, the difference could be said to be huge. On top of that, the consumption of the power of the will was much higher than the rising dragon, especially when the coin was used as the material. But this was normal. Rising Dragon was a bloodline magic skill, and the Coin Bombardment was only a beginner divine spell. The performance was already very satisfactory to Liang Lidong.

With the Coin Bombardment divine spell and Rising Dragon, Liang Lidong now had two regular attack spells. Even if he occasionally ran out of magic scrolls, he could still maintain enough fighting ability.

Three different colored light beams cut through the blue sky. Although it was daytime, many people in the village still saw it. After a short moment of surprise, the villagers continued with their own things. Other than Belin, the only person in the village who could use magic was Mr. Beta. Since it was Mr. Beta who was experimenting with magic, they did not need to worry or disturb him.

After understanding the specific function of the Coin Bombardment divine spell, Liang Lidong returned to the temple. He saw Kail sweating profusely, holding the horse and waiting for him at the door.

"What's up?" Liang Lidong asked with a smile. "Not riding a horse anymore?"

Sweating profusely, Kail tied the horse's rope to a small tree and said, "Teacher, those three magic lights were your masterpiece, right?"

Liang Lidong nodded.

With a bit of flattery, Kail begged, "Teacher, can you teach me too? I'm quite good at swordsmanship, but I just haven't learned magic yet. Now, Belin not only knows Exorcism, but also Water Healing. I became a professional earlier than her, but I'm still in the same place. "

At first, Liang Lidong thought that Kail was jealous of Belin. After all, someone who used to be weaker than him was now suddenly ahead of him. It was normal for his mentality to be unbalanced. However, when Liang Lidong took a closer look at Kail, he found that there was no negative emotion in his eyes, only a kind of persistence and persistence.

It seemed that Kail was not very satisfied with his progress. But this was normal. Relying on the temple, Belin could use divine spells to heal the villagers every day, and she also prayed to the goddess every day. Naturally, her experience was increasing rapidly. Kail, on the other hand, was a battle-type professional. Just by practicing swordsmanship every day without actual combat, the experience gained was indeed much less.

Besides, Kail was indeed a very smart person. He could even practice swordsmanship that was neither a deer nor a horse. After becoming a professional, he had been in the same place for more than half a month and couldn't feel his strength improving, so it was natural for him to be a little impatient.

But the more this was so, the more Liang Lidong felt that Kail's mind had to be tempered. NPCs were different from players. Players had the system's help, so they could see at a glance how much experience they needed to level up, what to do to gain experience, and how to level up faster. Players looked at their character interface every day. Although their level didn't increase, seeing the little increase in experience gave them a sense of peace, and they were moving towards their goals step by step.

But NPCs were different. They couldn't see their character interface, let alone how much experience they needed to level up. They didn't even know that they were actually improving bit by bit, waiting for the right time to cause a qualitative change and level up.

Because they didn't know, they would be at a loss. If they couldn't feel their strength increasing for a long time, they would be anxious.

The same was true for Kail. Because he was smarter, the situation was more serious. Generally speaking, NPC professionals would generally feel uneasy about their future path after level five. This was because after level five, the experience needed began to increase significantly. Most NPCs needed a considerable amount of time to level up, so it was normal for them to be shaken.

Because Kail used to learn everything quickly, now that he suddenly slowed down, he found it quite difficult to bear. Liang Lidong estimated that Kail should be able to level up in a few days, but he wouldn't tell him this directly. On the contrary, he wanted to use this to train Kail's mind.

Kail was Liang Lidong's default knight, so he needed to be trained well.