After leaving the battlefield, Violet put on the 【Cognitive Obstruction Mask】 and headed towards the dungeon where her pet guardian was.

She was quite satisfied with this attempt.

While assisting Edwina in confronting the vengeful spirit, the priestess used two skills in total.

The first time was with the classic 5th-level Holy Light magic from the 【Illusory World】, almost learned by all priest-class professions, called 【Shared Battle Covenant】.

This skill creates an intangible link between the player who releases it and another designated player. The latter gains an unconditional attribute boost based on the former’s intelligence attribute.

Simple and direct.

Although it’s only a 5th-level magic, 【Shared Battle Covenant】 is indeed very useful.

Once the link is established, it will continuously consume the MP of the caster until they voluntarily break it or run out of MP. It cannot be counteracted by any conventional means, and there is no so-called duration limit.

Due to the one-on-one binding nature of the 【Shared Battle Covenant】 skill, the “fixed healer” and “fixed combination” concepts have been introduced in the 【Illusory World】. Some players even use this as an opportunity to develop various CP (couple pairing) relationships or even real-world connections.

However…

This skill is still somewhat limited due to its lower tier.

Assuming the player casting 【Shared Battle Covenant】 has a significant attribute gap with the linked player, there will be an upper limit to the amplification effect.

Violet had conducted tests in the game, and the most she could enhance was roughly up to seven times the original attributes of the assisted player. In other words, the amplification effect of the 【Shared Battle Covenant】 skill had a maximum limit of this extent.

In this world, similar limitations were evident. So, Edwina had only ascended from the early Sky-level to approximately surpassing the Legendary-level, equivalent to around level 35—approaching level 70.

The second skill was a spontaneous idea of Violet’s, inspired by the holy light power she saw in Edwina. It was a 9th-level magic named 【Kiss of Light】.

This skill had two different effects.

When used for the first time on a player or NPC, it would permanently amplify the target’s attributes to a certain extent and enhance something in the Illusory World called 【Light Elemental Affinity】.

If used again, it would similarly have the effect of increasing attributes and Light Elemental Affinity. Although it could stack with the first use, it couldn’t exist permanently like before, and the effect would be much weaker.

It could be said that the greatest value of the 【Kiss of Light】 skill lay in its initial use.

Because of its extremely high acquisition difficulty, there were even many priests or light-based professions in the game who would directly trade materials or spend real-world money to request a chance from players with this skill.

Attributes were secondary, but the opportunity to increase 【Elemental Affinity】 was indeed very precious.

【Elemental Affinity】 was a relatively common system in the Illusory World, easy to understand.

Basically, the affinity corresponded to the elemental magic in the skill tree. The higher the affinity, the more powerful the corresponding attribute magic would be when cast, and the consumption would decrease. This attribute, aside from the fixed initial value obtained when choosing the skill tree, could generally only be increased through hidden tasks or extremely rare skills that couldn’t be repeated.

For example, after Violet released one million holy light spells and completed the special achievement called 【Lightization】, her affinity had risen to the maximum of 100%.

And for ordinary priest players, reaching 50% would be considered a good healer, most people are below this value, and many players from other classes even have an affinity of 0.

According to the priestess’s recent experiment, it could be confirmed that creatures in this world also have similar attributes.

Edwina’s original Light Elemental Affinity was roughly around 30%, a very high value among the human groups she had encountered so far.

Bishop Isaac of Flame Dragon City and the two Sky-level priests in Lilya’s team probably only had 15%-20%. Other temple personnel Violet had encountered during her journey would find it challenging to surpass this value.

With the 【Kiss of Light】, Edwina’s Light Elemental Affinity, as Violet had anticipated, further increased to about 50%.

The priestess couldn’t see specific attribute numbers like in the game now, so she had to rely on this method, judging the changes by the difference in Edwina’s attack power before and after.

This confirmation also supported many speculations. The so-called divine descendant family of the Holy Empire had probably received a similar blessing, resulting in a higher Light Elemental Affinity than normal people—a unique inheritance.

Pushing open the somewhat rusty dungeon door, Violet immediately saw a dragon girl who seemed extremely impatient standing there, surrounded by a dozen Shadow Guards and adventurers in the center.

Under the dragon girl’s feet lay several adventurers, groaning and moaning as if they were still alive.

On the way here, Xiao Guang had conveyed the message of intruders to Violet through their contract. The priest then remembered that it might be the arrangement of the princess.

Helplessly, she could only remind the little dragon girl to be a bit more restrained, at least not to kill anyone.

Given Xiao Guang’s temperament and communication skills, avoiding conflicts was almost impossible. After all, you couldn’t expect your pet not to fight back when being attacked.

Violet couldn’t bear it. If there had to be a fight, then let it be. After all, it wasn’t like injuries couldn’t be healed.

Although Xiao Guang had a bit of a temper, she wasn’t the type to be indiscriminate. If she really got into trouble, it might be partly her own fault!

“Master! You’re finally back!”

Seeing Violet push open the door, the originally irritated golden-haired girl’s eyes lit up instantly. She happily ran towards her. The Shadow Guards and adventurers along the way didn’t dare to stop her. Instead, they looked at each other and cleared a path in advance.

There was no choice; this woman was just too terrifying. Not only did she dress strangely, but her speed was so fast that you couldn’t even see her shadow. Several skilled Earth-level experts surrounded her, and she instantly took them all down to the ground. Was that even reasonable?!

No matter how skilled someone was, many were even suspecting that this suddenly appeared little girl wasn’t even human.

However, at least this group, dispatched by Lilya to anticipate and assist the hostages in the dungeon, didn’t dare to utter any nonsense like “Human United Kingdom” or “foreign races” in front of the little dragon girl.

Initiating trouble when you’ve already been overpowered, isn’t that seeking death?

“Good~ Sorry for the trouble, leave this to me.”

Violet rubbed the extremely pleasant feeling head of the little dragon girl, ignoring the adventurers who twitched at the mention of being “wronged,” their expressions showing a struggle to speak.

Taking the initiative, Violet approached and handed her adventurer identity badge, as well as Xiao Guang’s, to one of the Shadow Guard girls who seemed to be leading. She smiled faintly.

“Shadow Guard, right? Acting under the command of Princess Lilya, my companion and I secretly infiltrated this place for an investigation. I’m Violet, and this is my teammate, Xiao Guang. It seems there’s been a misunderstanding. I apologize for that.”

“As for our identity, you can verify it with Princess Lilya. As for the conflict that occurred… cough, how about giving me a little face, and we’ll just let bygones be bygones?”

See that? This is called applying knowledge in practice!