Chapter 194: The Holy Grail Knight Shares the Goddess's Blessing with You
The elf player, who called himself Ivan, had clearly explained his racial background to others before, looking very familiar with the process.
In the Heaven's Chosen Space, because players can freely spend money to change their appearance and attire, you never know what the original form of the alien race in front of you truly is.
But in dungeons, except for some special disguise skills, players generally show their true faces.
Just a short while ago, Cheng Tian confirmed with Irene that the Heaven's Chosen Space's player-grabbing range directly extended to multiple planes, not just one specific location.
Besides native humans, some native alien races were also within the grabbing range, just like the classic elf and dwarf combination in front of Cheng Tian.
The fantasy world timelines they came from didn't have electronic games, but they could use things within their own understanding to explain the existence of the Heaven's Chosen Space.
Players = Adventurers, Space Dungeons = Dungeon Mazes, Heaven's Chosen Space Itself = Dungeon Maze Lord.
Coupled with their inherent alien race status and rich experience in adventuring, they usually adapted to their player identity much faster than humans living in peaceful times, and they could also accept necessary killing acts more quickly.
The first alien race player Cheng Tian met in the space was Congming Tou, but the other party was clearly a former human player who had undergone a bloodline transformation later on. The two in front of him were the first alien race players he truly met with native bloodlines.
However, Ivan's practiced reaction also made Cheng Tian's heart stir slightly.
He could tell that this elf wasn't explaining his racial background for the first time, so who would ask such questions so commonly?
The answer, naturally, was humans who had never seen a true alien race and were as curious as himself.
Perhaps other timelines didn't have the electronic games he was familiar with, but when it came to fantasy works, they should still have them. Cheng Tian vaguely remembered that during the novice trial, those two college students did know about zombies, perhaps through books, movies, or other means of dissemination.
From this perspective, it seems that the 'human' race accounts for a significant proportion of players, or rather, worlds where humans are still the primary race in the multi-temporal planes are more numerous?
Cheng Tian's brow twitched slightly, and he subtly activated the pre-casting state of 'Ten Commandments', but the dwarf and elf in front of him did not appear in his mental detection, which was specialized only for humans.
And just as Cheng Tian activated Ten Commandments, Ivan seemed to sense something, but the next second he buried the thought in his heart again.
Ivan and Ironbeard, despite having almost naturally opposing existences in terms of race, personality, and behavioral logic, unexpectedly and yet logically became steadfast adventuring partners. Similar to Romi and Eve, who had a 'Death or Live Teaming Contract', the two of them also had a teaming contract called 'Dragon King's Vow'.
However, this one is a maximum three-person contract, and currently, there are only two people in the team.
From the name, it can also be judged that the origin of their teaming contract was another main dungeon with both 'Sword and Magic' and 'Evil Dragon and Treasure' dungeon keywords—'Dragon King Warrior'.
Just yesterday, when Cheng Mouren was recognized as a Holy Grail Knight and appointed as a foreign mercenary commander, the two of them immediately made their choice after a brief exchange, and after the surprise attack last night, they reaffirmed their decision.
As current adventurers in their original worlds, they had their own understanding and experience when it came to choosing teammates. And after many adventures, having witnessed human adventurers' teams fall apart due to various issues including, but not limited to, dishonesty, uneven distribution of spoils, and romantic entanglements, they generally did not prefer to cooperate with humans during normal adventuring.
Humans are a short-lived species full of creativity, capable of unleashing astonishing potential that can change society in their brief lives. But because of this explosive power and creativity, there are all sorts of individuals among humans, making them too unpredictable.
It's just a pity that the proportion of humans in this Heaven's Chosen Space is still too large. As alien races, as long as they continue to adventure here, they inevitably have to face situations where they choose humans as teammates.
If the first choice of Cheng Mouren could only be considered based on experience, they both felt a different aura from Cheng Tian compared to most other 'adventurers'—an aura of being completely at ease, not under any external coercion, and in a state of effortless mastery.
Generally, people with this state are either naive and ignorant rookies or truly powerful beings.
So when they witnessed the birth of the Mammoth Holy Grail Knight and saw Cheng Tian raising the 'Sword of Holy Light', they knew they had made the right choice.
In fact, this was still experience-based thinking at play. Clearly, they had mistaken Cheng Tian's template-loaded Blessing Blade for some kind of Paladin skill imbued with Holy Light power. And the reliability of Paladins goes without saying; they can basically be considered moral benchmarks among humans. Teaming up with such a person would most likely mean not having to deal with all those annoying trivial matters.
But just when they thought they had overestimated Cheng Mouren, he showed them another trick.
As Cheng Tian agreed to Ivan and Ironbeard's joining, he raised his hand and began to chant at them, and in front of the fat and thin monk duo, a gradually clearer Holy Grail pattern emerged.
Then they couldn't help but tremble all over and simultaneously received a series of space prompts:
[Fellow faction player 'Aoko' has shared and bestowed upon you the effect of 'Holy Grail Mission'.]
[You have gained the 'Goddess's Blessing' effect: All Damage +10%. This effect lasts until you leave the dungeon, betray the current faction, or become an enemy of the caster.]
[You have accepted the Holy Grail Mission (Side Quest): Find Green Resonating Orb, 0/1; Kill soldiers of the Evil Roman Empire, 0/100.]
No duration limit, a powerful buff that remains until the dungeon ends, and an additional side quest that can further increase the number of buffs... The elf and dwarf, who usually bickered but were perfectly in sync at critical moments, couldn't help but exchange glances, seeing the same expression in each other's eyes. Clearly, both had received the same prompts.
And at the same time, Eve, hiding behind the ears of the war elephant Mammoth, also received the same prompt.
Since Eve and Romi were currently in a state of mind-body unity, as long as they remained together, this blessing would simultaneously affect both of them.
At this point, Cheng Tian's allocable slots for the Goddess's Blessing were also used up.
Just as the two opposite him chose Cheng Tian based on experience, Cheng Tian also simply watched too much 'Lord of the Rings' and already had a fixed elf + dwarf mindset, so he also made his choice directly.
Soon, the Knights of the Round Table's camp was cleared. Regardless of whether they had slept well or not, the soldiers understood what they were about to face.
"Advance!"
Arthur pointed the Sword in the Stone forward, and the Knights of the Round Table, fighting to protect their homeland and drive out foreign enemies, began this undoubtedly most arduous troop movement without hesitation.
And Cheng Mouren, the Mammoth Holy Grail Knight, who should have been incredibly conspicuous, was temporarily assigned a warhorse and blended into the cavalry unit.