Ning Xi's pet, Ah Li, had a talent that dealt additional true damage based on a percentage of the enemy's maximum HP every time it dealt damage.
To match that talent, every skill Ah Li learned was a combo-type skill capable of unleashing multiple rapid attacks in a short time.
As a result, the skills themselves might not deal much damage.
But by constantly triggering the talent and dealing percentage-based true damage with every hit, enemies targeted by Ah Li often had no idea what had happened. Even though each individual hit looked weak, their HP bar would mysteriously empty in the blink of an eye.
The Divine Advent Seraph, Siya, was the same.
Whether it was the healing effect of Eternal Heart or the buffs from Eternal Eye, both were triggered every time she attacked.
The higher her attack frequency, the more often those two effects activated.
Take the SSS-rank skill Blood Devour: Life Sacrifice that Lin Mo had taught Siya. It dealt six consecutive hits to an enemy.
That single skill alone could instantly trigger healing and buffs six times.
Lin Mo opened Siya's skill list.
"Aside from Life Sacrifice, basically every other skill needs to be replaced."
The two SSS-rank buff skills, Holy Light: Holy Protection and Berserk: War Stomp, certainly had excellent effects.
But they were too limited.
They could only buff one target at a time.
On top of that, they had a 15-second cooldown while their buffs only lasted 8 seconds.
Even if they were used on just one target, there would still be a 7-second downtime between casts.
The buffs triggered by Eternal Eye, although not as powerful as dedicated SSS-rank buff skills, were large-area buffs that affected everyone.
Each buff also lasted 10 seconds, and that duration could be extended indefinitely by stacking.
In theory, as long as Siya attacked frequently enough, she could keep multiple buffs active on every ally within range without interruption.
Since skill slots were limited, every skill Siya learned naturally had to be perfectly suited to her.
Just like players, pets in Divine Oracle unlocked one skill slot every three levels.
At the same level as Lin Mo, Siya was currently level 70, so she should normally have only 23 skill slots, far from enough for three SSS-rank skills. At most, she could equip two SSS-rank skills and one SS-rank skill.
However, Lin Mo had long since used a complete set of Skill Expansion scrolls ranging from E-rank to SSS-rank to give Siya an additional 48 skill slots.
"Siya has a total of 71 skill slots. Since each SSS-rank skill occupies 8 slots, she can currently equip up to eight SSS-rank skills!"
So, he abandoned all healing and buff skills.
Using his own SSS-rank talent, Soul Fire, Lin Mo evolved a series of SSS-rank skills specifically tailored for Siya's poison-healer build.
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Corrosion: Poison Blood Art (SSS-rank): Appears to heal the wounded, but hides deadly intent.
Restores a single enemy for 550% of Magic Attack, poisoning the target's blood. For the next 5 seconds, the target loses HP equal to 30% of the healing amount every second and cannot recover HP during the effect...
Backlash: Continuous Healing (SSS-rank): Heal allies, devastate enemies.
Restores HP equal to 50% of Magic Attack to a random ally every second while simultaneously dealing damage equal to twice the healing amount to a random enemy every second for 5 seconds.
Judgment: Angel's Judgment (SSS-rank): Continuous judgment, repeated strikes.
Summons a barrier that strikes a single enemy every 0.5 seconds for damage equal to 100% of Magic Attack while simultaneously restoring HP equal to 40% of Magic Attack to a single ally. Lasts 3 seconds...
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For the Priest class, if you wanted both healing and damage, you inevitably had to compromise between the two.
So it was obvious that although all of Siya's skills combined healing and offense, neither aspect was particularly powerful on its own.
Still, they were all SSS-rank skills.
Compared to ordinary poison-healer players, who could usually only learn D-rank or C-rank skills, Siya was already leagues ahead in terms of skills alone!.
With the skills settled, next came the equipment.
At present, Tier 4 equipment was still the mainstream.
Tier 5 equipment was incredibly scarce. There were only a handful of pieces in the entire auction house, and money alone couldn't buy them.
Although Inferno City's blacksmith had already unlocked the ability to forge Tier 5 equipment, the huge amount of high-grade materials required, along with the minimum requirement of 5,000 reputation, was enough to discourage more than 99.99% of players.
The materials could still be gathered with enough time and effort.
But the reputation requirement...
No matter how hard you worked, there was no guaranteed way to get it.
You could only rely on luck by accidentally triggering a few hidden quests or happening upon a few bosses.
Otherwise, for ordinary players at this stage, 5,000 reputation was an astronomical number.
Of course, this wasn't a problem for Lin Mo at all.
Because he had a trump card: Ning Xi.
With her hundredfold bonus, the Divine Might Tower generated over 1,600 reputation for Ning Xi every minute.
On average, that meant enough reputation for one piece of Tier 5 equipment every three minutes.
Not to mention that she already had over one million reputation at the moment.
The warehouse didn't have a complete set of Tier 5 Priest equipment.
The scattered pieces it did have, like shoes and robes, were only level 50 or 60 and didn't match the already level 70 Siya.
The auction house didn't have any either.
Then they'd just make them themselves.
So, after spending more than an hour gathering materials, and consuming 40,000 reputation, without much effort, eight pieces of level 70 Tier 5 Priest equipment were freshly forged.
The quality varied greatly.
The best pieces were purple quality, while the worst were even white quality.
But that didn't matter.
After Ning Xi finished her part, it was Lin Mo's turn.
His SSS-rank talent, Soul Flame, burned heaven, earth, and all living things.
"Burn!"
Whoosh!
Refined by the golden Soul Fire, a complete set of level 70 Tier 5 gold equipment was created in an instant.
"Easy."
"How could two SSS-rank talents fail to produce a mere set of Tier 5 gold equipment?"
Although it wasn't a set like the one Lin Mo and Ning Xi wore, a full set of level 70 Tier 5 gold equipment was already powerful enough.
Without another word, Lin Mo immediately removed the level 50-60 Tier 4 equipment from the Divine Advent Seraph Siya and replaced it with the new level 70 Tier 5 gold set.
He opened Siya's status panel.
Her attributes were astonishing.
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[Divine Advent Seraph · Siya (Lv. 70)]
Role: Support · Healing/Magic
Quality: Ancestral
Master: Rulebound
Magic Attack: 42,336
Physical Defense: 18,258
Magic Defense: 19,100
Mana: 45,500
HP: 136,000
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A normal set of Tier 5 equipment alone had raised Siya's attributes to the same level as Ning Xi, who was wearing the Tier 6 Yama Set.
This was the terrifying growth advantage of Divine Oracle's highest-tier Ancestral pets.
In terms of raw attributes alone, Siya was now more than twice as strong as her master, Lin Mo.
In addition, as the bound equipment for the exclusive items Eternal Heart and Eternal Eye was upgraded from Tier 4 to Tier 5, their exclusive effects also became stronger.
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Eternal Heart Exclusive Effect (Tier 4 → Tier 5): Whenever Siya deals damage to an enemy, she restores HP to a random ally equal to 25% → 30% of her Magic Attack...
Eternal Eye Exclusive Effect (Tier 4 → Tier 5): Whenever Siya deals damage to an enemy, she grants a random ally a random buff with a 15% → 18% coefficient (including increased Attack, Defense, or HP)...
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"Looks like it should be safe to head to the Divine Capital and retrieve the Water of God now."
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