A God-tier Counter-damage Priest, I am the Master!

3: The power of rebound“The [Reaching the Pinnacle] Guild is warmly recruiting newcomers! We are a group of like-minded players who love the game and are dedicated to creating our own peak within it!”

“If you also love the game, then join us! Let’s climb to the limits of the game together and create our own legend!”

“The [Flying Bird] Studio is warmly recruiting talent! We offer excellent salary and benefits, allowing you to get full returns and satisfaction in the game. Also, pretty and cute Female Priestesses are prioritized!”

“The [Brilliance] Guild is sincerely recruiting newcomers; we invite all ambitious individuals to join us.”

“The guild has many benefits, not only are there generous rewards waiting for you, but there are also professional expert players providing guidance, allowing you to continuously improve and become a true powerhouse in the game!”

“If you want to become one of us, please join our guild group to learn more details! Let’s work together to create Brilliance!”

“...”

Recruitment information from these guilds and studios was overwhelming, with shouts echoing throughout the entire chat area.

[Nine Heavens] had just started its open beta, and some far-sighted large guilds and studios had already begun advertising to absorb talent.

But at this stage, nothing could stop the players’ enthusiasm for leveling up and grabbing rankings.

Bai Tian was naturally no exception.

Bai Tian immediately opened his bag.

A player’s initial bag only has 10 slots of space, containing a Novice Gift Pack given by the system.

Bai Tian opened the Novice Gift Pack.

——“(Ding-dong!)”

“(You have obtained 1 Novice Wooden Staff.)”

“(You have obtained a pair of Novice Grass Boots.)”

“(You have obtained 3 Low-level Health Potions and 3 Low-level Mana Potions.)”

These were all the items in the Novice Gift Pack.

Novice Wooden Staff Attack: +3, Novice Grass Shoes Defense: +1.

Low-level Health Potion restores 100 HP, CD 5 seconds.

Low-level Mana Potion restores 80 MP, CD 5 seconds.

After Bai Tian equipped the Novice Wooden Staff and Novice Grass Shoes, he opened his attribute panel to check.

[Character Name]: Brilliant

[Class]: Cold Abyss Great Shaman

[Level]: 0 (0/100)

[HP]: 140

[MP]: 200

[Magic Attack]: 30+3

[Physical Defense]: 7+1

[Magic Defense]: 3

Strength: 7

Agility: 5

Constitution: 7

Intelligence: 10

Luck: 0

Skills: [Longevity], [Level 1 Conversion], [Level 1 Healing Spell].

The Cold Abyss Great Shaman truly deserves to be a hidden class; with an initial Intelligence of 10, it can be called a maximum growth value.

Closing the panel, Bai Tian immediately went out to level up.

The village entrance of Novice Island was already overcrowded, and the Level 1 mobs that Refreshed were not even enough to go around.

Bai Tian, having the Super S-rank Rebound Talent, naturally wouldn’t compete with everyone for the low-level mobs.

Just as he was preparing to go find high-level monsters to grind.

“Hey brother, our strong team has an average of D-rank talents, and we’re just missing a Priest to start grinding Level 3 [Sand Armor]. We guarantee efficient leveling, want to join?”

A warrior with a square face issued an invitation to Bai Tian.

But before Bai Tian could speak, an assassin in the other’s team complained, “Captain, having a grown man heal us is too disgusting, we don’t want him. Let’s find a long-legged, big-chested Female Priestess.”

The captain immediately glared at the assassin.

If Female Priestesses were that easy to find, he wouldn’t have invited Bai Tian.

Bai Tian hadn’t planned on agreeing anyway, and after hearing the assassin’s words, he said irritably.

“Then go find yourselves a Female Priestess.”

With that, he walked away.

What a joke!

Bai Tian had changed his class to a Priest-type specifically for efficient solo grinding; he never even thought about teaming up with people in the early stages.

Seeing Bai Tian leave in anger, the captain looked at the assassin speechlessly: “Dammit! Look at that, you chased away the Priest I finally managed to find.”

“The server just opened, do you think Priests are that easy to find?”

The Priest class is very popular in any game, but not many people are willing to play it.

Of course, except for a few girls... After a while, Bai Tian arrived at a vast grassland area.

The monsters wandering here were Level 3 [Brown-Haired Wild Oxen].

——[Brown-Haired Wild Ox]!

(Normal Monster)

Level: 3

HP: 600

Attack: 66

Physical Defense: 33

Magic Defense: 15

Skill: Old Ox Angry Gore!

A mere Level 3 monster already had such attributes; no wonder there were few players leveling in this area.

Those who dared to come here to level as soon as the server opened likely had decent Soul Talents or even exquisite operational skills.

For example, a Female Archer 50 meters away had very sharp movements and seemed to possess a critical hit talent that ignored defense.

As soon as Bai Tian arrived, he saw her in a low-health state, using a beautiful S-move to MISS an attack from the ox, then returning a weak-point critical hit to take down the low-health ox.

In another direction, there was a complete 6-person professional team that, with exquisite coordination, could also slowly harvest the oxen while being under-leveled.

It seems there are quite a few hidden dragons and crouching tigers in this game!

Bai Tian continued to move until he was far enough from the Female Archer and that team, then picked out a Brown-Haired Wild Ox that was burying its head in the grass.

His talent was too shocking, so it was better to keep a low profile and grind monsters quietly in the early stages.

The Cold Abyss Great Shaman had no attack skills in the initial stage, so Bai Tian’s only means of attack was basic attacks.

The initial attack range was about 15 yards.

Bai Tian held the Novice Wooden Staff and waved it at the grazing Brown-Haired Wild Ox, sending a long-range basic attack flying.

——MISS!

Didn’t hit?!

Holy crap!

Bai Tian’s face turned red; luckily there was no one around to see.

[Nine Heavens] highly simulates reality; long-range attacks or skills, as long as they are not lock-on types, have the possibility of missing.

Bai Tian coughed lightly, walked forward 5 yards, and then waved his hand for another long-range basic attack.

With a target as large as the Brown-Haired Wild Ox, hitting it with a long-range attack within 10 yards wasn’t difficult.

Damage: -18!

The Brown-Haired Wild Ox, having taken damage, immediately raised its head high, white steam snorting from its nostrils, and then charged at Bai Tian.

Before the Brown-Haired Wild Ox reached him, Bai Tian added another basic attack, dealing another 18 damage to it.

The Brown-Haired Wild Ox, weighing at least half a ton, crashed fiercely into Bai Tian’s chest.

Damage: -58!

10x Rebound: -580!

——“Moo!”

The Brown-Haired Wild Ox let out a miserable cry. After having 580 damage Rebounded back, its health cleared instantly, and it fell on the spot.

——“(Ding-dong!)”

“(You have killed a Brown-Haired Wild Ox. For killing a monster 3 levels higher, you obtain Experience: 30, bonus Experience: +3!)”

“(Your permanent Mana has increased by 1 point!)”

The Cold Abyss Great Shaman’s passive [Longevity] allows Bai Tian to permanently increase his Mana by 1 point for every monster he kills that is not lower than his own level.

Reasonably speaking, Bai Tian should now specifically pick low-level monsters to stack his passive and increase his Mana.

But the game had just opened, and low-level monsters were a case of too many players and too few monsters; trying to grind low-level mobs to stack the passive simply wouldn’t work.

At this moment, with only 82 HP left, Bai Tian, who had fallen to the ground, rubbed his chest in pain.

It hurts so much!

The 20% pain simulation of [Nine Heavens] is truly no joke.

Bai Tian climbed up, rubbed his chest, and then walked over to the corpse of the Brown-Haired Wild Ox to check.

Too stingy.

The Brown-Haired Wild Ox only dropped one copper coin.

After picking up the copper coin, Bai Tian looked toward another lone Brown-Haired Wild Ox 20 meters away.

Reaching Level 1 requires 100 experience points; killing one Brown-Haired Wild Ox gives 33 points, so taking down 3 more would allow him to level up.

Having prepared himself mentally, Bai Tian approached and launched an attack on the second Brown-Haired Wild Ox.

Again, after two basic attacks, he was knocked flying by the Brown-Haired Wild Ox’s gore.

The damage from the two basic attacks plus the 10x Rebound effect successfully took down the second Brown-Haired Wild Ox.

Furthermore, this time Bai Tian had the experience from before; when he was attacked by the Brown-Haired Wild Ox, he used both hands to form a cross block.

Although he was still knocked back, the pain he endured was not as intense as the first time.

But his health bar only had 24 HP left, so Bai Tian immediately gave himself a Healing Spell.

HP: +400!

The Cold Abyss Great Shaman’s [Level 1 Healing Spell] has a doubled effect when used on oneself.