Chapter 698: The Tank-DPS-Healer System, This "Blizzard Workshop" Actually Has Such a Deep Understanding of Magic?!

"Indeed, my Holy Light can resurrect you and heal your wounds. If there is any beast hard to contend with in this mine, I believe we can lend you a hand," Commander Evan thus spoke.

"Ah—?" An expression of sheer bewilderment crossed Tix's face, and even the mages watching her play the game via spell-projection fell into a state of stunned disbelief, as though they had misheard. "Your Holy Light can actually resurrect people? And it can... heal wounds?"

"Yes, is there a problem with that, milady?"

But I use the Holy Light too, don't I?! Isn't the Holy Light just a magic that goes pew-pew-pew to blast people?

Tix was driven nearly to the brink of distraction; even leveling up on her own had proved an ordeal, so how could everyone else be so formidable?! Resurrecting others, and healing wounds on top of that?

"You say his Holy Light can... heal, but yours cannot?" Liang Heihu spoke up to ask.

"Uh... it seems there is a healing skill," Tix said, utterly dispirited. "But it constantly gets interrupted, so it's not useful at all..."

"Did you fail to allocate your talent points?" the Eldest Princess, Ji Yu, asked casually.

"Did you fail to learn the skill?" Liang Heihu chimed in with a casual inquiry of his own.

Since it was another creation of Blizzard, many veteran players had already discovered that this game possessed a talent tree similar to the skill tree in Diablo II.

Yet, for a greenhorn player...

"I..." Tix's face was awash with tears; having died so many times, all her coin had been spent on repairing her gear. "I think I saw there were other healing skills to learn... but I have no money..."

She was on the verge of weeping; all her gold had been exhausted on learning offensive skills, so where would she find the coin to learn these other, seemingly useless healing spells?

As a high-ranking mage of the Royal Magic Society, she had actually fallen into such wretched destitution within a mystic realm that she lacked the funds to learn magic?!

Why was this mystic realm called World of Warcraft so utterly treacherous!

"And... what talents?!" Tix was dazed once more, then she threw open her interface. "I did allocate them! This Discipline talent, this Mind Blast thing, and whatever else—I spent them all!"

"Every profession has three talent trees," Ji Yu remarked. "Take a look and see if you have two others."

"Ah...?" All in a fog, Tix opened her talent interface. "Other talents...?"

How could this thing called an "online game" be so convoluted?

None of the mystic realms I visited before had any of this...

Having never played an online game, Tix felt a great wave of sorrow wash over her.

After a bout of instruction, Tix finally discovered that talents could actually be divided into three branches—Retribution, Holy, and Shadow—and that both shields and healing could be bestowed upon others.

Meanwhile, a crowd of knights from the Golden Gryphon Knights also discovered... that Paladins had three talent trees as well?

"So that is how this Holy Light magic is meant to be used...?" These knights and mages, who had never played such an online game, seemed at last to grasp something.

I always thought this was a mage (warrior); so it turns out this is a profession dedicated solely to healing people's wounds?!

"I have an idea!" Just then, the Eldest Princess, Ji Yu, suddenly figured something out. "If Old Master Nalan cannot hold the line, we can use healing spells to keep him on his feet!"

Beside her, Liang Heihu also came to a sudden realization: "And paired with this young Priest lady's shield, I believe we will surely prevail this time!"

"???" That's not right! I am playing a mage! A mage who wields a glittering, divine sort of Holy Light magic!

I am a woman meant to deal damage!

How did I end up becoming a nanny while playing this?!

While Tix was still in a daze, she was dragged off directly to challenge the dungeon.

Of course, Commander Evan the Paladin was pulled in as well, because for the moment, only Paladins like them knew the spell of resurrection.

Thus, the composition of the entire party became Nalan Hongwu as the main tank, Commander Evan as the off-tank, one healer, and two mages.

"I feel we can definitely clear it now!" Although the Eldest Princess, Ji Yu, had retired from the pioneering raid group, she remained somewhat thrilled; if they truly found a method, when she assembled a party of identical composition later on, wouldn't it be far simpler?

"I agree, we have surely found the right approach this time!" Liang Heihu said excitedly.

Tix, who had been dragged into this pioneering raid group for no fathomable reason, could only express: "..."

The lesser monsters in the mine shafts had long since been cleared away, and the five of them soon arrived once more before the boss.

Nalan Hongwu had kept his live broadcast running throughout, and he clearly retained a vast audience.

"What is the Old Prince fighting now?" There were also fresh greenhorns among the spectators who did not quite understand.

"A skilled streamer, pioneering online." Evidently, certain viewers, such as Xi Qi from the Lingyun Academy, had already been watching the stream for a long time.

"Wiped out for an entire afternoon; I hope they can pass one this time."

"Is this Deadmines thing really that difficult?"

...

"Pulling the boss, pulling the boss!"

"Why is that monster so massive?" As a Priest who currently struggled even with lesser monsters, Tix could not help but feel a tremor of dread upon seeing such a hulking ogre. "Can we even fight this?"

"Help with the healing, and it's a guaranteed win!" Mo Xian promised with absolute confidence.

After all, he had played Dungeon Fighter before; though that game did not require a Tank-DPS-Healer system, and the Holy Order class chiefly focused on granting various offensive and defensive blessings, they were at least capable of casting spells akin to healing.

"Pulling, pulling!" Nalan Hongwu gave a warning cry and initiated a charge straight ahead.

"Mages, Polymorph two of the elites, one for each of you!"

Tix still had her spell-projection active, and within the Royal Magic Society, several mages who were watching instantly stared with wide, transfixed eyes: "What kind of magic is this?!"

To actually turn two living, immensely menacing foes into two harmless, innocent little sheep in an instant?!

Moreover, the incantation time was clearly exceedingly brief; in actual combat, this would also prove to be a remarkably practical spell.

Most importantly, this sort of magic was unlike Fireball and its ilk, which became largely useless once the caster's strength increased; a spell like Polymorph would remain a tremendously potent magic even if one's power attained the Saint Realm!

For they could think of no means to defend against a spell type that lacked a projectile trajectory, took effect directly upon the target, and was completely unseen before.

This was very likely an entirely new category of magic!

To the patrons of the old shop, Polymorph was something they had already witnessed in Harry Potter, but to this group of mages from the Nora Continent who had not yet encountered it...

They could not help but give rise to a certain feeling: How does it feel that this "Blizzard Workshop" of mysterious origin understands magic even better than we do?!

Though the Resurrection spell had not yet been witnessed, Power Word: Shield and Flash Heal, Frost Nova and Polymorph—which of these spells, taken individually, could not be hailed as a classic?

"This Blizzard Workshop... what exactly does it do?!" Several onlookers among the mages grew more alarmed the longer they watched, exclaiming, "To actually possess such a profound understanding of magic?!"

"This is simply incredible!" a male mage evaluated.

Simple, practical, and possessing a scope of application that ranged down to low-tier mages and up to the eighth, ninth, or even higher realms of mages—all could find a use for it: "I dare guarantee that such magic will absolutely ignite a new fashion and craze in sorcery!"

The gaze of everyone present began to gleam with an ever greater, burning fervor.

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