<h4>Chapter 228: The Pale Princess</h4>


    “Oh, the neer is actually an Edict Wizard.” Annan murmured, somewhat pleased.


    He had never encountered an Edict Wizard so far. The emergence of Longjing Tea was undoubtedly a strong supplement to his lineup.


    Annan didn’t know when it happened. It could be when Annan saw the essence of his soul in the magic mirror, or it could be when he injected Sage’s Stone for the first time.


    —It could even be when Annan received general information about these professions.


    In short, when Annan was about to recruit new yers, he realized that his backend interface had been upgraded.


    First of all, he had more varieties of initial professions that could be delegated to the yers.


    In the beginning, he could only offer the yers the basic profession — [Swordsman]. Moreover, the skills pool avable for the yers was rtively minimal.


    Now, Annan not only had more professions for the yers, but the skill choices for them to choose were also drastically enriched.


    If we were to take the “swordsman” profession as an example…


    When Old Goose’s group of yers entered the game, they only had four skills: [Basic Swordsmanship], [Parry], [Charge], and [All-out Blow]. Annan couldn’t make more skills avable to them even if he wanted to.


    For now, in addition to these four default skills, the previously grayed [Military Swordsmanship] branch had two new skills avable, [Solid Footwork] and [Backs to the Wall].


    In addition to that, there were new changes to the [Bodyguard Swordsmanship] that was already avable to Annan previously. The skills [Charge] and [All-out Blow] were no longer avable but instead reced by [Disarm] and [Parallel Comprehension].


    Now, the good news was that the yers could even select the wizard apprentice as a starting profession!


    It was a free promotion ticket to guarantee Bronze Rank attainment for the yers because the wizard apprentice’s only promotion route was [Wizard]. Therefore, they could advance into it without meeting any other requirements.


    Moreover, the wizard profession itself was a powerful and reliable profession.


    Annan was even worried for a while if all the neers chose the [Wizard Apprentice] profession.


    It wasn’t that this situation would be terrible. On the contrary, having more yers adopting wizardry or magic could solve many problems moreprehensively at the beginning stage.


    However, Annan needed some yers to be the frontline.


    We are short of Tanks!


    Except for Hyphen (Sister Yiyi), no one could tank at all!


    “Tanks are really a noble profession.” Annan couldn’t help butin.


    He spent thest two days doing nothing but learning all the spells avable to wizard apprentices in the system. It was just like before Lin Yiyi and the others advanced, Annan didn’t have the skill lists of their professions’ advancements at all in the backend interface. Even now, he could only gain ess to the spells avable in the wizard apprentice phase.


    Presumably, after the yers had advanced to Bronze Rank, Annan would be able to see the Bronze Rank spells as well.


    He also was unsure whether to grant the yers freedom to choose from the eight wizardry schools or to randomly roll a starting spell for them.


    [TN: Roll refers to the DnD mechanic where the yer will roll a dice to see the results they will get.]


    In addition, the current yers could even choose the [Priest] profession.


    But there was a problem. Annan gradually realized that if you chose the [Priest] profession, you couldn’t specify your faith as the “Silver Sire”. Instead, you would be granted a faith at random.


    The faith randomization did not include only the upright deities, but also the false deities.


    Annan quickly understood that this mechanism was to take into ount the yer’s rtability to the deities.


    Rather than the faith given in a random manner, the system would analyze the yers’ personalities with a psychological test before dedicating a faith to them.


    Annan took some consideration before settling down with the autonomous talent assessment system in the profession distributing system.


    If the yer had received military training beforehand, when he selected the swordsman profession, he would be acquiring [Military Swordsmanship] by default instead of [Basic Swordsmanship]. Simrly, if the yer knew how to use batons, shields, etc., he would be granted [Bodyguard Swordsmanship] by default.


    If the yers choose the [Wizard] profession, they would be given the top three schools of magicpatible with them. In this case, Annan had specially fine-tuned the rules. If they weren’t proficient with a certain school, he would weaken the spells granted for that particr one; if they were adept to a particr school, they stood a chance to acquire the most difficult spell of that school in the apprenticeship stage.


    Annan decided to guide the yers into choosing a wizardry school based on the magnitude of spells and theirpatibility to that particr school of spells. Even if, logically speaking, the magics shouldn’t be differentiated with its strength butpatibility.


    This also exined why Annan prohibited the yers from choosing an alternate profession at will.


    Sure enough, there must be some professions that work well at certain stages. But after leaving the character creation stage, the yers wouldn’t have a good opportunity to test thepatibility with their professions.


    If they honestly chose the wrong profession, they would simply get a secondary option. If they were really suitable for the alternate profession, Annan could find an opportunity to send them on a difficult mission. Then, he would grant the designated yers a secondary profession without penalty, so that they could focus mainly on the better choice..


    Among this batch of yers whose default starting profession was swordsman, there were yers like Lin Yiyi and Delicious Wind Goose who were quitepatible with the said profession. Unfortunately, there were cases that said otherwise.


    Sure enough, it wouldn’t be fair for those yers being forced into the path of no return and had no freedom of choice.


    Although the yers couldn’t getfortable with the swordsman profession might be few, their opinions and feelings were equally important.


    So, Annan devised a new n. He would activate an in-game event as an excuse for the yers who had the need of changing their profession.


    “I should enter a nightmare after falling asleep this time.” Annan murmured.


    The “Influence of the Death Howl” buff on him should be on its final countdown already.


    Annan had yet to find a way to remove the influence imposed upon him.


    However, he wasn’t scared but excited with this novel element. It was like discovering a limited-time dungeon instance in the game, and he couldn’t wait to y it.


    Annan nced at the backend interface onest time before falling asleep.


    Lin Yiyi and Delicious Wind Goose seemed to still be recruiting, but the yers whom Jiu Er and the Child each recruited had already created their characters.


    “Longjing Tea, Edict Wizard… Well, let’s spawn him into the slums.” Annan murmured, typing quickly to finish up the newbie plot that belonged to Longjing Tea specifically.


    “And this yer… Hmm, the name is Citalopram? 28 years old. The character seems pretty good-looking. Hmm, thebeautification effect is merely 30%. Not bad! Judging from the character’s age, is Citalopram’s profession in reality a doctor?


    “Huh? Priest…” Annan was slightly startled when he saw this profession.


    “The faith is… the Pale Princess?”


    Annan heard from somewhere that She was a false deity.


    The Pale Princess was the deity of ghosts and spirits. She was a legless ghost wearing a white wedding dress and a princess crown while holding the head of her lover.


    She and the Venerated Skeleton belonged to an organization called the “Necropolis” more than two hundred years ago to fight against the burial priests under the Bone Burying Church.


    Unfortunately, Annan’s knowledge of Her was limited to this.


    Salvatore’s book didn’t have much information on the upright deities, let alone on the knowledge of false deities. Annan only had a rough idea but didn’t even get to see a sketch of it.


    Annan was a little curious about this new false deity.


    Does the Venerated Skeleton have more information in regards to the Pale Princess?


    Should I summon Him as a foreign aid?


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    Credits to MindMatrix for editing this chapter and improving the readability.