Chapter 26: The Sealed Blood
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[Priest’s Robe]
[Quality: Rare]
[Level Requirement: 10]
[Attributes: Constitution +35, Physical Defense +10%, Magic Defense +20%]
[Effect: The Priest’s Robe can provide a shield equal to ten times the wearer’s total attributes.]
[Priest Set: Priest’s Robe √ / Priest’s Grimoire / Priest’s Trousers]
“A shield equal to ten times all attributes?”
Gu Chen’s eyes lit up. His total attributes were currently 830, which meant that the Priest’s Robe could provide him with a shield of 8,300 points.
A single piece of equipment could provide more than 8,000 points of shielding—more than the health of an ordinary Level 8 Fallen Guard!
Even against a Level 15 Red-robed Priest elite, it would allow him to withstand two skills head-on.
Moreover, the equipment increased Constitution by 35, Physical Defense by 10%, and Magic Defense by 20%. It was undeniably excellent.
Most importantly, this piece of equipment was one of the set’s components.
The Red-robed Priest had been difficult to defeat, but Gu Chen had to admit that the rewards made the struggle entirely worthwhile.
He examined the other two pieces of equipment.
[Priest’s Grimoire]
[Quality: Rare]
[Level Requirement: 10]
[Attributes: Spirit +30, Energy Recovery +25%, Spell Damage +30%]
[Effect: When all skills of the wearer or allied units are on cooldown, restores energy to one allied unit once.]
[Priest Set: Priest’s Robe / Priest’s Grimoire √ / Priest’s Trousers]
A grimoire that increased Spirit, damage, and energy—it was exceptionally powerful.
All of the Red-robed Priest’s attacks had previously been cast through this grimoire, so it was obvious that the book had provided a substantial boost to its damage.
[Priest’s Trousers]
[Quality: Rare]
[Level Requirement: 10]
[Attributes: Agility +15]
[Effect: Movement Speed +25%; immune to one slowing effect.]
[Priest Set: Priest’s Robe / Priest’s Grimoire / Priest’s Trousers √]
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The Priest’s Trousers had fairly ordinary effects, mainly increasing movement speed and granting immunity to one slowing effect. However, if he encountered a binding effect like that of a Nightmare Servant, they would still be useless.
Moreover, the immunity to slowing could only be used on the wearer and could not be applied to allied units. In other words, it was of no use to summoned beasts.
That reduced the value of the equipment’s effects even further.
Still, there was nothing to be done about it. Strictly speaking, the Priest Set could only be considered mage equipment, not summoner equipment.
The fact that the Priest’s Grimoire could restore energy to allied units was already quite impressive.
Gu Chen then examined the set effect of the three-piece set.
[Priest Set: Priest’s Robe / Priest’s Grimoire / Priest’s Trousers]
[Set Attributes: Constitution +50, Spirit +50, Agility +50]
[Set Effect: Perform a sacrificial ritual on a target unit. For a period afterward, the sacrificer gains a damage multiplier equal to ten percent of the number of sacrifices.]
[Cooldown: 24 hours]
This was rather terrifying!
In simple terms, the greater the number of sacrifices, the greater the subsequent increase in damage.
Gu Chen recalled the scene of the Red-robed Priest’s combat power surging after sacrificing more than a dozen Blood Clan Guards.
No wonder it had been able to instantly kill all the Blood Clan descendants. Its skills had evidently received a damage increase several times over.
If this effect were used on the Blood Clan Grand Duke, it would unleash an unimaginably terrifying level of damage.
After putting away the three Level 10 set items, one minute had passed.
Within the sanctuary, the pale-gray boundary representing the [Deep Dream] gradually shattered.
Taking advantage of this brief interval, Gu Chen used the power of the dream to pass through countless Fallen Guards and reach a life-sized framed painting.
Within the painting, dark-red liquid flowed slowly and irregularly, resembling an animated display.
Gu Chen reached out and removed the painting from the wall, then examined its item information.
[Sealed Blood]
[Type: Quest Item]
[Description: Blood drawn from the witch’s body and sealed within this mural by the Red-robed Priest using a special technique.]
After obtaining the quest item, Gu Chen did not delay for even a moment. He immediately ran toward the passage leading to the altar.
The Blood Clan Grand Duke and the Nightmare Overlord followed behind him, driving back a large swarm of pursuing Fallen Guards. The three figures advanced deeper and deeper into the corridor, moving toward their final objective.
“Hm? The gray fog seems to have disappeared. Could the Red-robed Priest have been the source of it?”
They had been focused solely on escaping the swarms of Fallen Guards behind them and had failed to notice this detail. Only after walking through the corridor for a while did Gu Chen realize that something about his body felt different.
He checked his status. Indeed, the Weakened state had completely vanished.
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“Fortunately, the gray-fog curse is gone. Otherwise, this final stage might really have been troublesome.”
He checked his inventory. Only a single healing potion remained; everything else had been consumed during the battle with the Red-robed Priest.
If the gray fog was still present at the altar, the battle ahead would be a grueling one.
The corridor was dimly lit, and Level 10 Black-robed Deacons appeared along the way.
The Nightmare Overlord worked together with the Blood Clan Grand Duke, and the two of them dispatched every one of the enemies swiftly and cleanly.
When they reached the end of the corridor, Gu Chen was accompanied not only by the Blood Clan Grand Duke and the Nightmare Overlord, but also by ten Level 10 Blood Clan Deacons.
Gu Chen then released Lin Yuan and the other three from the dream.
Since the gray fog had completely dispersed, they had regained their freedom as well.
They were now in the area between the sanctuary and the altar, making it a suitable place to stop and rest briefly.
“Finally, we’re out. I felt awful the entire time I was in that dream.” Lin Yuan began stretching beside a wall.
“I finally understand how terrifying Hell difficulty is. With that countless horde of Fallen Guards just now, there’s no way I would have made it out if I had been there.” Lin Qingqing sighed from the side.
“I can guarantee that Li Wenhui and the others won’t be able to clear the Hell-difficulty dungeon. That Red-robed Priest was unbelievably terrifying. For ordinary professionals, going in there would be a death sentence.” Wu Ziyi spoke with lingering fear.
As he listened to Lin Yuan and the others converse, Gu Chen recalled the Blood Clan Grand Duke and the Nightmare Overlord into the summoned-beast space, allowing the two summoned beasts to rest for a while.
He himself found a relatively flat stone slab and lay down upon it at his leisure.
He checked the time. Three hours had passed since they completed the previous stage, so it was time to stop and recover for a while.
He was not particularly tired. The Blood Clan Grand Duke, however, had been fighting from beginning to end. Although leveling up could restore its health, it had already expended a great deal of energy.
As for the Nightmare Overlord, it had first cast all of its skills, then used its doubled attributes to cast them all again. After the one-minute effect ended, its energy consumption was even more severe than the Blood Clan Grand Duke’s.
Energy was a mechanic unlike health or attributes, which could be represented directly through numerical values.
For now, energy could only be restored slowly through proper rest.
Gu Chen’s gaze turned toward the distant altar. The final boss of the Hell-difficulty dungeon was waiting there.
Until now, no newcomer had ever cleared a Hell-difficulty dungeon.
Before this, nearly every newcomer who had entered a Hell-difficulty dungeon had failed to come out alive.
At this moment, Gu Chen had completely rewritten the record for the Hell-difficulty dungeon.
He was the only one who had ever seen the end.