340: Chapter 341 Lilia's God-like Talent

God-tier talent.

In Lin Muyang's journey across many worlds so far, aside from his own vast, star-sea-like billions of God-Tier Auras, this term had existed almost exclusively in theory and legend.

the young ladies were currently Demigod Level powerholders; Gui Wanwan's sister possessed a level that was terrifyingly high and methods that were unpredictable... but in a strict sense, Lilia was the first existence to complete a leap in the essence of life and have the mark of a god engraved upon her talent's origin.

At this moment, within the most primordial and pure white space of this world, under Lin Muyang's personal witness and protection, the Elf Maiden Lilia completed the ultimate transformation from demigod to god. She was no longer just an exceptionally talented Elf Princess favored by nature, but a true Lord of Holy Light who wielded a portion of the world's authority and had stepped into the divine realm.

This was a qualitative change in the level of life, a sublimation of the soul's origin. If the previous Lilia was a piece of meticulously carved jade imbued with spirituality, then at this moment, she had undergone a complete transformation, becoming a newborn sun that radiated its own light and heat, possessing infinite possibilities.

The core of the transformation lay in the complete reconstruction and extreme sublimation of her talent.

Lilia's original talent had the effect of increasing the power of light-element healing and support skills by 500%. This was a very powerful and practical talent, allowing her to play the indispensable role of protector and buffer in the team. Later, it was further strengthened through Gui Wanwan's Yamas Fate Alteration, but its essence remained unchanged.

However, when the primordial energy of the plane core washed over her soul, breaking the shackles of a demigod and igniting the divine spark, everything changed.

Light Element Affinity disappeared.

In its place was a brand-new title radiating majestic divine power, seemingly woven directly from countless laws of light—Lord of Holy Light.

God-Tier Talent: Lord of Holy Light

Effect 1: Authority of Light. The wielder automatically understands and can instantly cast all known and unknown light-element skills of the Velos Continent and worlds with similar rules without consumption. This skill library covers everything from the lowest-tier Illumination and Glimmer Healing to legendary-tier Holy Nova and Hymn of Dawn, to mythic grade Empyrean Armor and Spear of Total Purification, and even includes sky-opening grade skills only recorded in fragments on ancient tablets or forbidden texts, conceptual-level Primordial grade skill prototypes, and those light-element Forbidden Spells that can destroy cities or nations, carry an exorbitant cost, and have extremely harsh casting conditions!

Effect 2: Holy Light Protection. When casting any light-element skill, its final effect (including healing amount, shield value, damage, duration, area of effect, dispel priority, and all other dimensions) is increased by 1000%. This bonus applies to all covered skills, including Forbidden Spells.

Simple, crude, yet extremely powerful.

"Mastery of all light-element skills" meant that Lilia no longer had the concept of a skill pool. Light, one of the fundamental elements constituting the world, had its myriad variations and applications become as natural to her as breathing.

Those Forbidden Spells that countless mages could not even scratch the surface of in their entire lives, those primordial arts that only existed in myths and legends, were now transformed into clearly identifiable marks in her soul. With just a thought, she could trigger the corresponding rules and energy. This was not simple memory or knowledge, but a deeper level of authority, like an extension of her limbs.

Furthermore, the tenfold increase in effect pushed the power of this authority to an unbelievable state. An ordinary healing spell in her hands could produce a miracle of bringing the dead back to life; a basic light arrow might pierce the scales of a legendary dragon; as for those Forbidden Spells that already destroyed heaven and earth, what they would look like under a tenfold boost was heart-stopping just to imagine.

Lilia floated quietly, her consciousness sinking into the vast, boundless ocean of light that had suddenly opened up completely to her. Thousands of light runes, incantation models, and energy circuits of various colors and forms poured into her perception like a reversing galaxy.

Low-tier skills were like streams, mid-to-high tiers were like rivers, legendary and mythic skills were like surging oceans, while those sky-opening grade and Primordial grade prototypes, along with several Forbidden Spells radiating an Aura of intertwined destruction and rebirth, were like blinding stars suspended in the center of the universe of knowledge.

Her temperament underwent a subtle yet profound change. Her original liveliness and playfulness did not disappear but became internalized and settled, transforming into a composure and tranquility derived from absolute power and knowledge. The holy radiance around her was no longer unrestrained but flowed naturally like breathing, merging perfectly with her. Wherever she stood, it was as if she became the source of light—serene, holy, and inviolable.

A moment later, her long eyelashes fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes. Those light green pupils now seemed to contain two miniature nebulae where light was constantly born and extinguished—deep, wise, and carrying a hint of faint daze and wonder after just gaining control of boundless great power.

She immediately looked toward Lin Muyang, who was the anchor of her soul, the source of her strength, and the only existence who could make her feel grounded at this moment. On that exquisitely beautiful face, the familiar smile belonging to Lilia bloomed again, carrying unbelievable surprise and a hint of nervous seeking for confirmation. She floated lightly to Lin Muyang's side like a fledgling bird returning to its nest, naturally hugging his arm and pressing her small face against his solid chest, feeling that reassuring warmth and heartbeat.

"Brother Muyang~" Her voice was ethereal and pleasant, carrying the unique rhythm of divine transformation, but the dependence and affection in her tone had not diminished at all; instead, it became even more intimate because they shared such a significant secret. "I... I seem to have learned so many things! Everything related to light, I seem to know it all?"

She tried to describe that feeling but couldn't find the right words for a moment, so she could only use "so many" to summarize that vast, star-sea-like knowledge and authority.

"Yes, I felt it." Lin Muyang reached out, gently stroking her smooth, brilliant blonde hair that now seemed to flow with a faint halo. His eyes were filled with relief, pride, and a hint of curiosity. Through the summoning contract, he could vaguely perceive the earth-shaking changes occurring within Lilia; it was a qualitative leap, a completely different level of life. "Congratulations, my little princess. Now, you are the true Lord of Holy Light."

He compared Lilia's newly acquired God-Tier talent with his own extremely complex billions of God-Tier Auras. His conclusion was that the basic template of a God-Tier talent seemed to share a certain commonality: magnifying the ability of a specific field to the extreme, usually manifested as a roughly tenfold ultimate boost, and granting nearly omniscient and omnipotent authority in that field.

Lilia's Lord of Holy Light pushed the field of the light element to the peak allowed by the current world rules. Omniscience and omnipotence in light skills, with a tenfold effect boost. In her specialized field, she undoubtedly held a dominant position.

In contrast, Lin Muyang's billions of God-Tier Auras took another path: breadth and combination.

A single Aura might not be as extreme in a specific effect as a specialized God-Tier talent, but its terror lay in the nearly infinite quantity and the fact that they could generate bonds with each other, combining into composite effects that transcended a single field and interfered with multiple rules or even the essence of time and space. Both had their merits, but in terms of comprehensive functionality and infinite possibilities for growth, Lin Muyang's path was clearly more beyond the norm.

However, some interesting changes seemed to have appeared now.

After carefully sorting through her newly acquired knowledge, Lilia quickly discovered one of the most strategically valuable treasures—the Light-element Forbidden Spell: Life Resurgence.

The effect of this skill was reshaping and calling. Within a certain range, it could take the broken, annihilated, or even trace-remaining physical bodies of designated targets (multiple targets possible) and forcibly restore them to their intact state from the moment before death at the cost of consuming a massive amount of light origin. It also emitted a strong life-homing signal that was fatally attractive to the original owner's soul. In theory, as long as the soul had not completely dissipated into the world or entered other irreversible cycles of reincarnation, there was a possibility of being called back.

This formed a perfect complement to the Underworld Secret Art: Soul Return mastered by Gui Wanwan. The essence of Soul Return was to guide souls that had not yet strayed far from the body back home, which had certain requirements for physical integrity and a short effective time window. Once the time limit was exceeded or the body was too severely damaged, Soul Return would be difficult to activate.

And Life Resurgence happened to solve these two problems! It first repaired the body and emitted a stronger signal, greatly extending the effective window for Soul Return, and might even gather back some souls that were on the verge of dissipating.

The combination of the two constituted a nearly unsolvable resurrection combo—first using Life Resurgence to reshape the shell and call the remnant soul, then using Soul Return for precise guidance and fusion. The success rate would receive a qualitative leap. Even if the target had been dead for more than a day, as long as the soul was not completely extinguished, there was hope of being pulled back by this combo!

Even better, thanks to Lin Muyang's current Cooperative Linkage sharing mechanism, the Life Resurgence mastered by Lilia and the Soul Return of Gui Wanwan could now be learned and cast by every young lady in the team! Although Life Resurgence, as a Forbidden Spell, had an extremely long individual cooldown, it couldn't withstand the large number of young ladies around Lin Muyang! By taking turns casting, they could almost achieve normalized coverage of resurrection capabilities!

What did this mean? It meant that Lin Muyang's team now possessed extremely powerful sustainability and fault tolerance. In future adventures and battles, as long as they didn't encounter an instant total soul annihilation, they would have the terrifying capital to repeatedly pull back and engage in prolonged warfare. This was a massive upgrade at the strategic level.

However, the surprises did not end there.

Just as Lilia completed her transformation and Lin Muyang was savoring the various possibilities brought by her new talent, a strange resonance and palpitation originating from the depths of his soul quietly occurred within his body.

Lilia was his summon. There existed the most fundamental and tight Soul Contract connection between them, and Lilia's source of power was, to some extent, the same as his. When she underwent such a violent life leap that touched the primordial rules, this connection was triggered and strengthened, even causing a deep-level feedback.

Lin Muyang suddenly felt that his perception of light had become clearer than ever before. The vast ocean of light knowledge in Lilia's soul seemed to cast a clear reflection in his consciousness. Those complex skill models, energy circuits, and law rhythms... although he didn't master them as fluidly or with the same primordial fit as Lilia, he truly understood them and seemed to be able to use them too?

Immediately after, in his attribute panel, under the talent column and below the billions of God-Tier Auras, a new line of text silently appeared:

Talent: Lord of Holy Light (God-Tier) [Derived from Contract Resonance · Lilia]

Effect: Omitted (Same as Lilia).

Lin Muyang was stunned.

He had copied the God-Tier talent Lilia just obtained? Through the unique summoning contract, at the moment of Lilia's talent advancement and the rules being added to her, a certain synchronization and sharing of information were completed, making this newly born divine authority open its doors to him, the master of the contract.

He could feel that he could now likewise cast any known light-element skill at will and likewise enjoy the tenfold effect boost of Holy Light Protection. Although it might not be as perfectly blended with the light element origin, as low in consumption, or as deep in comprehension as Lilia's original version, in terms of effect, it was already identical.

"Is this... because my Summoner talent produced a special linkage with Lilia's God-Tier talent?" Many speculations flashed through Lin Muyang's mind. "Two holders of God-Tier talents connected through the tightest soul bond of a summoning contract, where one's advancement triggered the resonance and gift of the rules?"

This was undoubtedly an unexpected joy. But what made Lin Muyang feel even more shocked and even a bit dumbfounded was still to come.

When he tried to understand and use this newly acquired talent, the vast star-sea-like, abyss-silent system of billions of God-Tier Auras within him seemed to have a hidden switch ignited by this newly introduced star of light.

In Lin Muyang's perception, the existence of the Lord of Holy Light talent began to undergo a subtle change. It did not merge into that endless star-sea of Auras but instead seemed to spontaneously condense and collapse, eventually transforming into the prototype of a new, exceptionally brilliant God-Tier Aura!

Aura: Lord of Holy Light (God-Tier · Contract-Shared Type)

Effect: When activated, all friendly units within range of the Aura holder will temporarily gain the [Lord of Holy Light (God-Tier)] talent effect, lasting until the Aura is closed or they leave the range.

Consumption: Continuous consumption of mental power and a small amount of light origin power.

Note: This Aura effect is a rule imprint and sharing of a specific God-Tier talent under contract resonance. The shared effect is approximately 70%-100% of the original talent (influenced by Aura intensity, friendly unit talent compatibility, distance, etc.).

Lin Muyang: "..."

He blinked, confirming he hadn't misperceived it. Then, an indescribable mix of absurdity and wild joy welled up in his heart.

The true terror of his God-Tier talent, the billions of God-Tier Auras, was it not just possessing countless God-Tier effects, but more so that it could convert other people's God-Tier talents into shared Auras for himself and even the entire team?

This wasn't just some talent amplifier; this was practically a talent photocopier and a team talent-sharing platform!

What did this mean? It meant that in the future, as long as it was a young lady he summoned who had a close soul connection with him, if any of them could obtain a God-Tier talent, then he could potentially convert it into an activatable, deactivatable, and team-shareable Aura skill through this contract resonance!

Lilia was the first, but she certainly wouldn't be the last. Gui Wanwan, Feng Ling, Alice, Seraphina, Elabess... every young lady under his command had the potential and was working hard to advance to God-Tier. If they all succeeded, then Lin Muyang would possess a series of shared God-Tier talents derived from the young ladies in the future!