Chapter 514 - 275: Ignore Defense_3

Hiss~ Ignore Defense!

Raine couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

There really is something like this!

Seeing Raine’s eyes go wide and his mouth fall slightly open, looking utterly shocked, Meredith also blinked curiously and asked, "Raine, what’s wrong?"

"Meredith, have you ever heard of Ignore Defense?"

"Ignore Defense?" Hearing these four words, Meredith’s pretty face also froze for a moment, then she pointed in astonishment at the Defender Warhammer in Raine’s hand and said, "Raine, you’re saying this Warhammer has an Ignore Defense special effect?"

"No, it’s the set effect of both Warhammers. And if I want to activate it, I have to pay a pretty heavy price." Raine glanced again at the activation cost.

Twenty percent damage to both hammers—just the raw material cost to repair that would probably be close to ten thousand gold.

On top of that, he’d have to make a trip to the Iron Hills and also owe the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom a pretty big favor.

Add all that up and it really does deserve to be called a "pretty heavy" price.

"Even so, that’s amazing!" Meredith nodded, praising, "In fact, the standard for judging whether a piece of equipment is Legendary Magic Equipment—what we usually call a Divine Artifact—comes down to only one thing: whether that equipment carries Rule Power or is blessed with Divine Power."

"If you can activate Ignore Defense by paying a certain price, that basically means your twin hammers are Epic Level equipment that are extremely close to being a Divine Artifact."

Listening to Meredith, Raine pulled out Counterattacker with his other hand and, fired up, swung the two Warhammers twice through the air.

As streaks of silver meteors sliced past, Raine suddenly felt his blood surge, and couldn’t help but remember that scene at the Hernet Family’s treasury gate, where he kept slaughtering Drow guards and stacking the "Brutality" state.

As if inspiration struck, his current state felt a bit strange—like a volcano in his chest was about to erupt, his blood boiling, yet at the same time being tempered by a bone‑deep chill.

The system prompt popped up at just the right time.

Raine glanced at it, his brows instantly lifting as joy rose in his heart.

"Eighth Exclusive Combat Skills... Frost Brutality!"

Frost Brutality Level 3, effect: In a single battle, whenever you kill any hostile target capable of posing a threat to you, you gain a 1% increase to both Power and agility, lasting 1 minute.

This effect can stack. Gaining a new stack refreshes the duration. Maximum 20 stacks.

(Note: While Brutality is active, you are immune to charm and mental control Magic / Spell-like Ability, and remain constantly calm.)

"A double blessing!"

Raine had long known that Monster Skills could be learned and converted into his own Class Skills, but he hadn’t expected certain special Monster Skills—like "Brutality"—to also be convertible into his own Class Skills.

It was like a brand new door had swung open before him.

...

Since they knew that a Drow High Priestess had mastered divination Magic, Raine and Meredith didn’t linger and immediately used their Teleport Scrolls.

After Raine teleported back to the rendezvous point and briefly explained what he’d done, it naturally drew cries of shock from Laisa, Ryu Teng, and everyone in the Kreit squad.

And Lunen, the forging master who was also a Drow Elf, just stared at Raine, dumbstruck!

Like Meredith, he knew very well the strength of the Hernet Family; he understood even better than Laisa and Ryu Teng what kind of combat power a High Tier Drow Priestess represented; and he was even more aware that this young human, Raine, probably possessed power far beyond what normal people could comprehend.

Otherwise, there was no way he could have pulled this off.

With their experience in Belendaan last time, the group didn’t waste any time and immediately set out at speed toward the ancient Morray Tunnel.

At the same time.

At the front gate of Eres City.

Twelve spiders the size of calves, each carrying a Drow, shot out of the main gate at extreme speed like a speeding train.

"It’s the Royal Guard. What big thing happened?"

"Yeah, why would the Royal Guard be mobilized?"

Drow along the road all quickly moved aside with shocked expressions, watching the Spider Knights race away.

No wonder they were so surprised!

All these Spider Knights had Classes Level of at least 10; two of them had even stepped into the Transcendent realm. Their Darkfang Spiders had been specially raised from young with rare Potion, at great cost.

These Royal Guard usually stayed by the Matron’s side year‑round as her personal force, and almost never deployed under normal circumstances.

"I don’t know the details, but I heard there was a theft at the estate."

"A theft? What got stolen that would actually draw Matron Lorina’s attention? Don’t tell me a Divine Artifact went missing?"

At the head of the group, the High-tier Priest Siriel controlled the Darkfang Spider beneath her while glancing at a miniature black spider crouched in her palm. She pointed forward and said,

"It’s this direction, but the reaction is really faint. They’re already far ahead of us."

"Push the pace!"

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