Chapter 195 - 184: First Encounter with a Dual Role Person
"I don’t understand, with you two being healers, what qualifies you to be the bait?"
Facing Lu Hong’s questioning, before the two women could speak, the old blue dragon angrily retorted first, "Idiot, ever heard of dual professions?"
"Dual professions?!" Lu Hong really didn’t know what that was.
"Calling you an idiot is truly fitting." The old blue dragon explained: "Dual professions are a taboo, indicative of a shift in faith. No one would openly disclose their dual professions, but it’s quite a common scenario hidden within the Star Sea."
The emergence of dual professions, as narrated by the old blue dragon, starts with faith. The main characteristic of dual professions is the imbalance between careers. Dual professions aren’t difficult to achieve; one simply needs to willingly abandon their current profession and switch to the faith of another Divine, provided that the other Heavenly God is willing to accept them.
However, having dual professions doesn’t necessarily mean they are very powerful. Every human worships a Heavenly God, training in levels and skills, all in the pursuit to become stronger. If unsatisfied with their current profession, they hope to switch to a stronger profession, and the Heavenly Gods seem to understand this.
Switching faiths is not a problem, but the original profession will be punished by the Heavenly Gods, with inherent levels forcibly reduced significantly. If you were originally at the Third Transition, forcefully abandoning the current faith would result in being demoted to the Second Transition under the punishment of the Heavenly God. Any regained faith would then have to start anew from the First Transition, level one.
Thus, these dual professions don’t provide them with much combat power, but they offer a slight aid. For example, if you were formerly a third-level healing profession and downgrade to the second transition while training in a melee profession, the diminished effect of the second-level magic could still significantly aid yourself, providing a considerable advantage in fights among equals.
However, this comes at a high cost: humans blessed by a Divine typically live only three to four hundred years at most. Relying solely on one profession from birth until death might not even allow complete mastery; mid-journey changes definitely equate to abandoning one’s future prospects. Moreover, switching faith signifies disloyalty, an action consistently resisted by all temples. Hence, the topic of dual professions remains hidden, known as an unknown secret.
The two women didn’t interrupt the old blue dragon’s explanation, and only after Lu Hong completely understood did they tease him cheerfully, "How about that? Learned something new before dying?"