Lord Game: I Have 100 Million Talents

Chapter 486: Chapter 126: Priests Are a Bottom-Tier Profession in the Divine Domain?

Accepting quests was a simple and straightforward process. For Su Mumu, an avid gamer who had spent years mastering all sorts of quest mechanics, it was child’s play.

And for that very reason,

Qin Feng didn’t accompany her to the quest hall.

He strolled alone onto the main street of Silver Moon City, his gaze sweeping over the bustling crowd. Soon, he locked onto a few Ascenders with a healing glow lingering in their palms.

These people were gathered in small groups on street corners, offering treatment to injured passersby in exchange for a meager amount of Fire of Faith.

Qin Feng didn’t rush in. He first stopped to observe for a moment before walking over. Pretending to be an injured person in desperate need of treatment, he asked one of them for their prices, silently gauging the current market rate for "healing services" in the Divine Realm.

Ultimately, after lingering on the street corner for a good while, Qin Feng came to a clear conclusion.

The rate of earning Fire of Faith by healing others was far less reliable than accepting quests and grinding monsters.

The fundamental reason was that in the world of the Divine Domain, the activation of any Divine Gift skill or Talent had an unavoidable prerequisite—the consumption of Fire of Faith.

This was no exception for the two heaven-defying Divine Authority powers within Qin Feng, the "Divine Gift: Permanent Poisoning" and "Divine Gift - Forbidden Healing" Talents.

Once activated, these two Divine Powers of Authority could inflict fatal, continuous suppression on enemies. However, the amount of Fire of Faith required to activate them was terrifying for the current Qin Feng.

As for the Ascenders with healing abilities, to treat someone’s injuries, they first had to consume their own reserves of Fire of Faith to activate a Divine Healing Technique. Only by then charging the patient a greater amount of Fire of Faith could they turn a profit.

But if they set their prices too high, injured Ascenders simply wouldn’t pay.

Instead of paying a high price for someone to heal them, they were better off going directly to the general goods shop in Silver Moon City to buy Divine Realm Potions for rapid healing.

If all else failed,

Silver Moon City also had a public Moon Well as a last resort.

The well’s healing rate was as slow as a snail, but its cost-effectiveness was superb. For a very small fee of Fire of Faith, one could sit peacefully by the well and let their wounds slowly mend.

Beyond that, Ascenders who chose a Priest-type class as their main Profession faced a particularly awkward predicament.

They had almost no decent combat abilities, making it impossible for them to single-handedly accept bounties to kill Abyssal Creatures from the quest hall. This naturally cut them off from the primary source of Fire of Faith.

Teamwork could alleviate this dilemma somewhat.

But as Qin Feng wandered through the streets of Silver Moon City, he found that most Ascender parties avoided the Priest Profession like the plague and were completely unwilling to team up with them.

The fundamental reason was that this was an intensely real Divine Realm, not an online game where one could simply reload a save.

The Divine Realm Potions that restored health had no cooldowns. As long as one had deep enough pockets, they could chug potions indefinitely to stay alive.

This completely subverted the indispensable status that the Priest Profession held in games, turning Healers into dispensable burdens on a team.

An extra person in the party meant an extra share of the loot to be divided.

’I can keep myself alive indefinitely by chugging potions, so why should I split the rewards I earned by painstakingly killing Demons with a disposable Priest teammate?’

Unless, of course, the Priest teammate voluntarily gave up their share of all loot.

But that would be far too harsh.

After all, hunting Abyssal Demons outside the city was a life-or-death affair. For a Priest teammate to risk everything alongside the party only to scrape by on meager healing fees was, by any measure, a terrible deal.

Qin Feng clicked his tongue, his eyes filled with understanding as he watched the Priest players on the corner undercutting each other for business.

"Unbelievable..."

"The Priest has basically become the bottom-tier Profession in the Divine Domain..."

"No wonder when I asked about the rates for healing, all these Priest Ascenders were in a cutthroat competition, driving their prices lower and lower..."

That being said, Qin Feng didn’t feel the slightest regret about choosing the Sigmar Combat Priest Profession.

He had long understood the fatal flaw of those Divine Realm Potions: they had no percentage-based healing ability.

For the Ascenders currently stuck in Silver Moon City, this "Newbie Village," the only enemies they faced were Abyssal Demon Wolves that could only attack with physical bites. They had yet to encounter powerful foes who could use percentage-based health loss abilities like "Divine Gift: Permanent Poisoning" and "Divine Gift: Eternal Bleeding."

Naturally, they thought the Priest Profession was useless—nothing but a worthless burden.

But the moment they ran into a formidable enemy capable of ignoring maximum Blood Volume and continuously chipping away at their health, the Purification, Dispel, and percentage-based healing Divine Arts that Priest Professionals possessed would instantly become life-saving trump cards—the entire party’s only hope for survival!

As he was pondering, a set of light footsteps drew near. Su Mumu, who had gone to accept quests, came hurrying back with her Divine Longsword in hand. A light sheen of sweat from her rush beaded on her temples. The moment she saw him, she began speaking rapidly:

"Old Qin, I went to the quest hall to get the details. Silver Moon City only has four active newbie quests right now."

She began to explain them one by one, counting on her fingers:

"The first is a basic hunting quest: go to the Black Flame Forest to the west and kill Abyssal Demon Wolves. You bring back their corpses to exchange for Fire of Faith. The more you kill, the more you earn, no limit. It’s the one we’re already familiar with."