Jianhua University, meditation room.
As soon as she regained consciousness, Sonia collapsed on the ground, barely able to hold herself up and sit against the wall, gasping for breath. The exhaustion of her soul was reflected in her body, and soon sweat dripped down her face and collarbone, sliding into the depths of her dress like pearls.
She is exhausted.
It was still dark outside. This was the first time she had exited the virtual realm so early, and Sonia even complained that she was exiting too slowly.
Just now, eight creatures of knowledge had been chasing her and the viewer in the Sea of Knowledge for more than an hour. No matter how far or how fast they ran, the creatures of knowledge kept chasing them. Even if the viewer deliberately ran into the territory of other creatures of knowledge, the pursuers did not hesitate at all!
And after the viewer did that, the result was that the number of pursuers increased from eight to nine.
Logically speaking, there is no need for them to be so scared. After all, they are just silver magicians. The worst that can happen is that they have to give up their first blood in the virtual realm. Magicians will die in the virtual realm anyway, the only difference is the number of times.
They were able to hold on until they condensed their silver wings before dying, and among all the magicians throughout history, they were considered the most outstanding of the few. If there was a "Ranking of Virgin Magicians Who Experienced Their First Death the Latest" in the magician world, Sonia felt that she could at least be in the top 100, not to mention the top ten.
But at the moment when they discovered that the knowledge creatures surrounded them, Sonia suddenly revealed a piece of secret knowledge. When escaping, the viewer introduced to her the "poison" brought by this secret knowledge.
"Expel the Secret Poison"
"Secret poison details: When a magician stays in the same place in the virtual world for too long, his scent will be detected by the surrounding intellectual creatures, causing hostility from the intellectual creatures and being seen as a provocation to the natives. The virtual world is the home of the intellectual creatures, and they do not allow invaders to settle here. They vow to expel and hunt down invaders with a 'settlement tendency' and devour the invaders' souls."
"Number of people infected with the secret poison: 31"
"Secret poison enhancement level: 31%"
"The current effect of the secret poison: It is easier to detect the surrounding knowledge creatures (when the enhancement reaches 51%, it turns into a negative effect, and when it drops to 10%, it gains a huge benefit)."
Sonia understood why the professors in the school said that 'staying in the same place for a long time in the virtual world' was a taboo, but no one could tell the reason. Obviously, magicians were the group of people who liked to get to the bottom of things - it turned out that it was because it was a secret poison.
Unlike the Whirlpool Secret Poison, the secret of the Whirlpool Secret Poison itself has extremely high utilization value, so those who know the secret are likely to share it with their relatives and friends, even at the risk of poisoning.
However, expelling the secret poison is meaningless. Now that Sonia knows the truth about expelling the secret poison, she will remember from now on that 'never stay in the same place for a long time' - but the school has already taught them this knowledge point!
Therefore, people who know how to expel the secret poison will not actively spread it, so the number of people infected with the secret poison is naturally pitifully small. Most of them should have inadvertently stayed too long and thus unfortunately got infected with the secret poison.
And according to Sonia and the spectators’ tragic experience last night, most people who knew about this secret poison would probably be eaten by the intellectual creatures as soon as possible.
You have to know that she and the viewer had a small boat that sailed against the wind and waves, and with the two of them teaming up, they were able to barely shake off the pursuers and exit the virtual world at the critical moment.
Sonia couldn't imagine how desperate a solo magician who could only move by swimming would feel when he found himself surrounded by several knowledge creatures.
The most terrifying thing is that the "quantitative change" of knowledge creatures will cause the "qualitative change" of the magician's death.
As mentioned before, if a sorcerer dies in the virtual realm, there will be serious consequences. This is because when the sorcerer's consciousness returns to consciousness, the sorcerer's soul still remains in the virtual realm. The intellectual creatures will take the opportunity to eat it up, causing damage to the sorcerer's soul.
But after being bitten by the knowledge creature, the magician's soul becomes lighter and returns faster, so the loss will not be too serious.
This is why Sonia and the viewer are fleeing frantically—they are not being chased by one knowledge creature, but by nine knowledge creatures!
If each of these monsters took the opportunity to take a bite, it would be enough to eat up both of their souls, and there might not even be enough to share!
This is the reason why "staying in the virtual world for too long will lead to death": the magician is divided and eaten by the knowledge creatures, and the soul cannot return to the body at all. After waiting for too long, the body will misunderstand that the soul is fooling around and no longer wants itself, so it dies on the spot.
Because of this sudden incident, they had no time to explore tonight. They left the pursuers behind for a distance and directly exited the virtual realm. It can be said that tonight, apart from a slight increase in the faction realm, it was basically another night of work in vain, and even a negative return - having a 'vortex secret poison' was already very annoying, and now with the addition of an 'expulsion secret poison', Sonia felt that her mind was becoming more and more impure.
Although the effect of 'Expel the Secret Poison' is currently a positive effect due to the small number of infected people, if the secret poison spreads in the future, it will sooner or later turn into a negative effect.
But no matter what, being able to survive is a good thing. Just now, Sonia almost thought that she and the viewer were going to die in the virtual world.
Sonia let out a long sigh and left the meditation building.
The night sky was full of twinkling stars, as bright as day. The largest star among them was the 'waning gibbous moon', which looked like a star with a broken part, emitting a deep blue glow and lighting up the road in the school.
According to the moon phase table, meteorologists will replace the moon star with the 'waning moon star' tomorrow... Sonia suddenly became a little curious about what the blood moon on the other side of the viewer's side looks like. Is it also managed and replaced by the Meteorological Bureau like the moon star in the starry kingdom
Suddenly, a colorful halo appeared in the night sky, which scared Sonia. She looked carefully and found that the noise was caused by the white giant tower.
It was designated as a warning area, and all the magicians in the world gathered there. Sonia vaguely realized that the 'Virtual Turbulence' on the white tower that could cause people to fall was very important, but her current status was too low after all, and she had no access to such high-end intelligence. Therefore, she could only watch from afar and wonder if there was a group of professors having a carnival party inside.
Back in the dormitory, Sonia moved lightly so as not to wake up her roommates. There was no hot water at night, so she took a cold shower and stood on the balcony to let her hair dry naturally.
She clicked the miracle bracelet and a light screen popped up, wanting to see the new drama starring Deda Rose.
There was also a full-length mirror on the balcony. Sonia glanced at herself in the mirror and suddenly adjusted her posture, combed her hair, and studied her appearance over and over again.
"What are you doing so late at night?"
Adele, who had been awake and hiding under the covers watching the show, poked her head out and asked Sonia curiously.
Sonia looked at Adele, thought for a moment and asked, "Am I a pure, cute, and beautiful girl with a good figure?"
Adele blinked and said, "Yeah, but it's still not as good as mine."
She held out her hand and made a 'little bit' gesture, indicating that the difference was really not that big.
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Broken Lake Prison.
Ash suddenly rolled off the bed. The cold ground seemed to touch his panicked soul and slightly ease the excitement after the escape.
When he stood up from the ground, he found that he was soaked, so he went to the bathroom to take a hot bath. Although there was no bathtub in the ordinary dormitory, hot water was available 24/7 - not providing hot water would be considered abuse by human rights organizations.
Leaning against the white tiles, letting the water splash on his body, Ash opened the light curtain and sorted out his harvest tonight.
Yes, tonight was rewarding. Although in the eyes of others, 'Expulsion of Secret Poison' might be a pure burden, but in the "Aurora's Magician's Manual", 'Expulsion of Secret Poison' has taken on new changes.
"You are infected with the 'secret expulsion poison'."
"'Expel the Secret Poison' has strengthened the End Viewer's ability to sense the knowledge creatures in the virtual world, and the virtual world map has undergone new changes."
"Attention: The virtual map has been updated. Now you can find knowledge creatures within the observation range of the virtual map and obtain brief information."
Just now in the virtual world, Ash opened the map and found that the 24 grids around him had undergone some changes. Most of them were still "waste of effort" and "not worth mentioning", but a few grids had more information:
"Mist Fish Dragon, worth a visit"
"Exploding Fish Dragon, this is a bit troublesome."
"Umbrella Dragon, there's something wrong."
Although only the names of intellectual creatures appeared, it was a huge breakthrough for the exploration of the virtual world!
Before this, Ash could only use the map to roughly judge whether the area was a heritage island or a habitat for knowledge creatures. Generally speaking, most of the "worthwhile" ones were heritage islands, and the "a bit troublesome" ones were basically knowledge creatures. Although he could make inaccurate judgments occasionally, it was better than rushing around blindly.
Now that the areas where knowledge creatures live have been marked, the other areas that have not been marked but where battles will occur are naturally the inheritance island!
Not only that, although Ash has never learned about knowledge creatures, Sword Princess has read the "Illustrated Book of Knowledge Creatures". She can judge the corresponding monster's proficiency, approximate combat power and even specific weaknesses just by the name, and specifically bully those knowledge creatures that can be restrained by them!
In order to cultivate Sword Princess' swordsmanship, you can even specifically hunt for knowledge creatures that can drop swordsmanship orbs, such as the 'Ichthyosaur' and 'Umbrella Dragon'. This can feed Sword Princess' swordsmanship to the gold level and help her advance to the two-wing gold level!
As long as Sword Lady arrives at the Time Continent, Ash can naturally use the same trick again and use Sword Lady as a shortcut to sneak into the Time Continent.
Just like becoming a silver magician in the Sea of Knowledge, Ash can also advance to a gold magician in the Continent of Time, even though he has not reached the gold level in any magic school, and he has never practiced for a single day, and he only relied on Sword Lady to ascend to the highest level - if this were to be made public, the other magicians would probably be furious.
With Ash's exploration ability and Sword Princess' knowledge, as long as they don't deliberately trigger taboos and commit suicide like they did just now, then the exploration of the sea of knowledge will be smooth sailing and there will be no danger!
But the premise of all this is that Ash must survive, leave this prison and gain freedom.
He turned off the shower head, wrapped himself in a towel, and walked to the sink. Ash looked at his wet self in the mirror, with water dripping down his hair onto his thin shoulders and sliding down his collarbone.
"Shit, I'm starting to like this world a little bit."
His face tilted upwards, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Today is also a day full of hope."