Chapter 65 ~ ‘Frontal Armor’
Her platinum-blonde hair, lustrous as fine silk, swayed with the scattered wind. Two white feathered ribbons fluttered unpredictably in the airflow. The girl’s feet, wrapped in white silk toe-loops, lightly touched the ground. Her exposed heels and toes made direct contact with the soil, yet miraculously didn’t dirty her skin, as if the grass was actively supporting her body.
“A goddess domain?!” Erin’s pupils constricted. “This wild girl has unlocked a goddess domain?!”
That’s right.
After transforming into a goddess and looking inward at her divine authority and domain, Tilisa finally understood that, as Instructor Balos who had conducted her entrance exam had guessed, her goddess domain was very special and couldn’t be triggered by instinctive crisis awareness.
As for what the domain’s trigger condition was, Tilisa glanced at the longbow in her hands.
Her domain’s trigger condition was carrying a wooden longbow.
As for why she chose the white birch wood with average elasticity…
“This wild goddess actually has a goddess domain too?”
“So what if she does? She’s only one person!” Erin regained her composure. “Even if she can deploy a domain, so what? Are we three legitimate goddesses afraid of one illegitimate daughter who can’t see the light?”
“Finish her off quickly before anything unexpected happens!”
Laro with his knuckle guards charged forward, Erin stood in the middle field without making her next move, while the ranger-class goddess behind had already aimed her hand crossbow at Tilisa.
Laro would conduct straightforward physical attacks. Erin naturally wasn’t just standing there—while Laro drew Tilisa’s attention, she would use her divine authority to bind Tilisa from behind, then Laro and the ranger-class goddess behind would follow up with attacks.
It had to be said that compared to other freshman teams, these three had coordination.
But not much.
Especially when facing Tilisa, this hybrid of goddess daughter and goddess, this type of tactical approach had strategy, but nowhere near enough.
As soon as Laro launched his charge, Tilisa used [Divine Analysis] to scan both Laro and the ranger-class goddess behind him.
Whether Laro or the ranger, their domain’s four resistance values were very ordinary, not even matching Erin’s. Their domain effects were also mediocre, nothing worth noting.
The divine authority effect summaries gave rough introductions. Laro’s divine authority was [Overwhelming], LV5, which could lock onto one enemy and, when punching, cause a type of mental interference that made the enemy unable to see clearly which direction his fists were coming from, making them impossible to defend against.
This was why the class called him [Phantom Fist] Laro. In reality, it wasn’t that his punching speed was particularly fast—it just created a visual illusion that his fists were too fast to see clearly.
This divine authority required continuous consumption of authority to maintain after activation, but the consumption was very low, so keeping it active constantly was fine.
The other ranger goddess’s divine authority was called [Voodoo Secrets], LV3, which could consume authority to secretly apply poison to sharp weapons. Although alchemical poisons could achieve the same effect, this method saved costs and didn’t require the poisoning process, with excellent concealment.
Undoubtedly, her crossbow bolts were poisoned. Being hit would cause the poison to seep into the bloodstream, creating significant trouble.
As for Erin’s divine authority effect, having had combat experience with her, Tilisa had known from the beginning.
The three without goddess daughters knew nothing about Tilisa’s domain and divine authority, yet Tilisa had already seen through these three goddesses completely without their knowledge.
In the information war alone, they had already lost too much.
Clearly, these fledgling goddesses had no idea of the importance of goddess daughters in battle.
Detecting black authority gathering within Erin’s body through [Divine Analysis], knowing the opponent was about to launch a divine authority attack, Tilisa closed [Divine Analysis]. Her elven acute senses allowed her to immediately perceive the direction of Erin’s divine authority release. She dodged to the side, and the black thorned vine brushed past her shoulder.
“How is that possible?!” Erin’s eyes widened, completely unable to believe that Tilisa had dodged her binding.
She could release her divine authority 360 degrees around enemies without them knowing, with no blind spots. Enemies at this level had no way to dodge such an unpredictable offensive.
In other words, Erin had never even considered the possibility that Tilisa might dodge her divine authority.
The ranger-class goddess behind Erin was equally shocked, but she didn’t forget she was holding a crossbow.
After secretly poisoning with her authority, taking advantage of the moment when Tilisa had just finished dodging and was held in place by bodily inertia, she fired her crossbow bolt.
It had to be said, this ranger’s timing was very precise. Having just landed, there was no way Tilisa could dodge this crossbow bolt.
This goddess felt supremely confident, her lips curling upward as she wondered how she should claim credit for this achievement.
“Clang clang!” With a crisp ringing sound, the goddess’s smile froze.
As she had expected, Tilisa couldn’t dodge. The crossbow bolt accurately hit Tilisa’s chest, and then…
It completely failed to pierce her skin.
The crossbow bolt was deflected without question, and those two massive white ‘frontal armor’ pieces even bounced softly from the impact.
This had to be cheating! Did having those things large come with this kind of benefit too?!
The goddess was shocked and somewhat envious.
No… something was wrong no matter how she thought about it. No matter how large those things were, they couldn’t possibly deflect a sharp crossbow bolt, right?
Could it be the goddess domain? Directly deflecting arrows—this would require maxing out physical resistance, wouldn’t it?
The goddess had guessed correctly. Tilisa’s ability to deflect crossbow bolts certainly wasn’t entirely due to her ‘frontal armor’ being thick enough—it relied on her goddess domain. However, it wasn’t due to the goddess domain’s physical resistance. In fact, her goddess domain had no physical resistance whatsoever.
Not only no physical resistance—all four resistances were completely absent.
Goddess Domain: [Sacred Wood’s Protection] (LV1)
Tilisa cannot wield any bow type other than wooden bows. When Tilisa wields a wooden bow, she will receive domain protection, completely resisting any form of attack. The bow’s toughness will be significantly enhanced, and all attacks received will be blocked by the wooden bow.
When Tilisa wields a wooden bow, the wooden bow will be enhanced and can use her own authority to condense light arrows, dealing divine authority damage. She can also overload to fire light arrows, with the latter requiring more authority consumption.
This was Tilisa’s domain effect, but this was only the upper half of the domain’s capabilities. There was still a lower half.
The lower half was her trump card…
To a certain extent, Tilisa’s domain had no four resistances. Whether divine authority attacks or magical attacks, they could all be blocked by the bow in her hands.
However, this domain wasn’t completely invincible. The bow held in her hands would receive toughness enhancement when attacked, but receiving too many attacks would still cause it to shatter, especially from divine authority attacks.
Although it could block all four types of attacks, there were still differences. Slashing and cutting dozens of times might not even produce cracks in Tilisa’s domain, but being hit multiple times by divine authority attacks would definitely shatter the wooden bow.
In this situation, the bow’s material quality became very important, which was why Tilisa chose white birch wood with average elasticity but good toughness.
But dealing with poisoned crossbow bolts, this kind of painless physical attack, was more than sufficient.