Even Drudgeon was somewhat surprised by the effectiveness of The Temple of Blessings, because it could sense that the power originated from the rules it governed. Although the temple couldn’t fully unleash this power, it could still exhibit the might of a Sacred Beast Level, even stronger than an average Sacred Beast Level.
After all, the temple’s power source was the energy of the Beast Tamer. As long as there were enough Beast Tamers prepared, the power the temple could utilize was far higher than a normal Sacred Beast Level Beast Tamer. Furthermore, the power was inherently blessed by the Divine Beasts, containing a trace of the Divine Beast’s Power, making it a degraded version of a Divine Beast Technique.
Sometimes the strength of a Divine Beast Technique doesn’t lie in its power, but in the unique attributes it brings due to the presence of Divine Beasts. Although The Temple of Blessings doesn’t possess the complete power of a Divine Beast, it still carries some of its characteristics.
For example, like the twisted Dunaby encountered by Feng Yuan and his companions, which possessed abilities beyond any special power’s reach, The Temple of Blessings, through this degraded Divine Beast Technique, was able to ignore such abilities.
In terms of strength, perhaps not exceedingly so, but it certainly had miraculous effects in certain situations.
Because Maomu City had Feng Yuan, although everyone avoided discussing it, they tacitly awaited Maomu City to take the lead, as the affairs of the temple were of great importance, with the blessings being the most crucial.
The temple itself had no differences, as the materials consumed by each temple were fixed, the only distinction lay in the blessings from the Divine Beasts.
Others were also contemplating whether stronger Divine Beast blessings were preferable. Although not explicitly stated, they couldn’t shake the feeling that the blessing wasn’t that simple. If it were them, once a Divine Beast was invited to bless them, it certainly couldn’t be changed easily.
After all, Divine Beasts also had tempers, but Maomu City was different. With the relationship between Feng Yuan and Veronia, Maomu City had a significant chance for repentance.
This blessing further affirmed the limitation placed by the Power of Prayer on the level of Divine Beast blessings each temple could accept.
"According to the current conversion situation, the temple in Maomu City should not be able to support blessings from top-level Divine Beasts like Agunas."
After spending some time in the temple, Drudgeon also sensed how much Power of Prayer each person’s prayers could bring. With the information gained, it calculated the result swiftly.
This conformed to their speculation, that perhaps there were restrictions on the blessings a temple could accept, otherwise, everyone would go to harass the top-level Divine Beasts, which would be no joke.
Moreover, the effect brought by the temple’s blessing also pleasantly surprised them. Although the effects of Drudgeon’s blessing couldn’t directly benefit Beastmasters, for Maomu City, it was equivalent to obtaining a powerful weapon capable of striking any position within Maomu City’s jurisdiction at any time and place, which would be greatly beneficial in dealing with an Imperial attack.
Furthermore, after the initial surprise, they astonishingly found that besides the ability to attack, this temple also possessed comprehensive surveillance capabilities. This was reasonable because attacks outside the visual range couldn’t be made blindly, reporting coordinates wasn’t realistic, and there’s no human coordinate system for this.
More importantly, for attacking, would they even need to prepare a specialized scout squad?
Thus, this temple inherently possessed special magic, capable of detecting any region within Maomu City’s jurisdiction or reacting and alerting to certain special energy or events like a conventional surveillance radar.
This was undoubtedly a great enhancement for Maomu City, at least with this thing around, they believed they could quickly restore the city’s vitality.
Ensuring the city’s safety shouldn’t be a problem, allowing the citizens’ daily lives to gradually return to normal.
Feng Yuan didn’t run over to join the excitement. He knew clearly that the completion of the temple’s blessing was just the beginning, and up next, Maomu City should undergo changes based on the temple’s transformations, perhaps getting a brief respite.
Thinking of the matter Qi Chen and his companions encountered, Feng Yuan sighed internally. The issue seemed never-ending, the city’s attack trouble had just found a pretty good solution, and now Qi Chen had more to deal with. Feng Yuan couldn’t fathom what exactly was happening on Qi Chen’s side, but one thing was certain: the Force of Fate involving Qi Chen was remarkably sturdy and unique, not like a mere curse or anything similar.
Otherwise, Feng Yuan couldn’t sever the connection forcefully, considering he does have the means, but such entanglement isn’t merely human-made, so Feng Yuan hesitated to act, lest severing it would adversely affect Qi Chen and his companions.
Qi Chen and his companions had already agreed to meet Feng Yuan at Maomu Academy, so upon seeing the temple’s blessing successfully completed, Feng Yuan turned to leave directly. Sitting atop Rainbow Bubbles, Veronia curiously asked Feng Yuan
"Say, do you think they’ll ask for your help to let me give a blessing?"
"I don’t know, but maybe not, Drudgeon’s blessing might not be particularly strong, but at this moment, it’s quite useful. Your blessing remains unknown, and we aren’t sure if blessings can switch seamlessly. Given the current situation, I feel they likely won’t do that."
Without even glancing at Veronia, Feng Yuan answered decisively. If Drudgeon’s blessing effect wasn’t ideal, it’d be a different story, but now that Drudgeon’s blessing is evidently effective, Maomu City is unlikely to consider change.
No one knows what the effect of Veronia’s blessing would be. At present, Drudgeon’s blessing is suitable for defense, changing it indiscriminately presents considerable risks. At least in Feng Yuan’s view, having Veronia reissue a blessing does more harm than good.
"Indeed, I’m really curious what effect my blessing would have."
Understanding Feng Yuan wasn’t spouting nonsense, Veronia said disappointedly. It had little interest in aiding humans specifically, but such blessings were a manifestation of their power, particularly when Drudgeon’s blessing had shown such a strong effect. It was impossible for Veronia not to be curious about its own blessing’s impact.
However, if Maomu City isn’t feasible, should it randomly pick another city for a blessing? Though blessings don’t exhaust the Divine Beast itself, Veronia wasn’t inclined to treat it so flippantly.
What to exchange for?
Not to mention Veronia being a top-level Divine Beast, even in its current circumstances, it had no particular needs to seek from humans. Exchange, what for?
"Such a pity, I really wonder what effect my blessing would have."
Sighing, Veronia expressed its disappointment, while Feng Yuan replied with a helpless smile
"If you’re really curious, why not try blessing a city? If you think you got the short end, just let them do some tasks for you."
"I don’t really have anything I need humans to help me with, forget it, maybe just make the Little Crocodile do my bidding then."
Shooting a glance at Feng Yuan, Veronia said with a mischievous grin, casually giving a blessing was out of the question, but given this situation, Agunas might approach it for help to bless the temple.
After all, there’s a cap on the number of blessings Divine Beasts can bestow, calculated as the current effective blessing total, but each Divine Beast can only bless a limited number of temples.
In full consideration, even the Divine Beasts summoned by Agunas were barely sufficient in number, that’s just a rough estimation, specific circumstances, not to mention Veronia, even Agunas couldn’t precisely determine.
No choice, each Divine Beast has a different maximum number of blessings it can grant, and not every Divine Beast is willing to use up all its slots, thus Agunas and the others have to strive to ensure every temple receives blessings and coordinate for that purpose.
Veronia believed that eventually Agunas would surely seek it out, though the wait to discover its blessing effect seemed long, making Veronia a bit unhappy.
No way around it, amidst these ongoing temple wars even Agunas couldn’t coordinate many Divine Beasts, after all, they weren’t aware of which nations would establish temples at which locations.
Moreover, they also had to consider the thoughts of those Divine Beasts coming to assist.
"It’s hard to say, they might prioritize effectiveness, in which case, there could be many leftover blessings from Divine Beasts, and it might not come for you."
Thinking it over, Feng Yuan wasn’t very optimistic about Veronia’s notion, if the temple just happened to correspond with the total number of Divine Beast blessings, something felt amiss. Feng Yuan believed leftovers should exist and possibly aren’t scarce either.
"Perhaps my effect would be stronger."
Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Veronia chimed back, unwilling to concede.
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