Human power is limited, but truth is infinite.
In this world where knowledge can summon magic spirits, and magic spirits can produce miracles, magicians' pursuit of knowledge is almost an instinct engraved deep in their souls. But when magicians continue to pursue knowledge, a natural barrier stands in their way - learning efficiency.
Regardless of the race or realm of magicians, their learning methods remain the same: memorize, understand, and master. Magicians of different races have their own advantages. The Wukong people, who are born with sharp eyes, are good at memorizing, the elves with strong souls are good at understanding, and the orcs with sharp intuition are good at mastering. Although they are not equal, all races have the possibility of becoming magicians.
However, when magicians step into the virtual realm, they will find out how ridiculous their racial advantages are in the face of the incalculable amount of knowledge.
No matter how talented they are, their efficiency in acquiring knowledge is like drinking up the ocean of knowledge with a straw, the only difference is the thickness of the straw.
Magicians have come up with many ways to do this, such as inventing miracles to increase efficiency, such as "photographic memory", "accelerated thinking", "telepathic understanding" and so on; or prolonging life and using a long period of time to make up for the lack of learning efficiency.
The ever-increasing pursuit of knowledge and the backward learning efficiency are the existential contradictions that magicians can never solve.
But the virtual world has already prepared a solution for the magician.
"This is an experience gem of the Light Faction."
Sonia gently held the bright and transparent bead and spoke softly, as if she was afraid that a louder voice would hurt it: "As long as you absorb it, even if you know nothing about the Light faction, you can immediately possess silver-level Light knowledge and become a magician specializing in Light."
"After returning to reality, as long as you study and organize the knowledge a little, you can even summon the Light Spirit with your strength. Because it provides the magician with not only 'illusory' knowledge, but also 'real' experience - the experience that Fox Zhaolong has."
"If the magic spirit is just priced but not sold, then the experience orb is truly priceless."
Sonia's eyes were filled with endless fascination. "No matter how poor a magician is, he will not sell the experience orb. No matter how generous a magician is, he will covet the experience orb. Although the experience orb can be taken out of the virtual realm, almost no magician will do so. The moment the magician gets the experience orb, he will have already absorbed it."
Almost every legendary magician has absorbed a large number of experience orbs. It is precisely because of the existence of experience orbs that magicians have the possibility to master the knowledge of various factions at the same time, thereby bringing forth new knowledge from the old, creating new miracles, summoning new magic spirits, and even creating new factions.
The contribution of experience orbs is indispensable to the development of magician civilization to its current level.
Ash could understand the wonder of the Experience Orb, but he couldn't understand Sonia's excitement.
"You make it sound like this gem is very precious, but isn't it so easy for us to get one?"
Sonia took a deep breath and silently repeated "The viewer is a mentally retarded little trumpet" three times in her mind before she calmly explained, "Indeed, experience orbs are not difficult to obtain in theory. As long as you kill any knowledge creature, you may get one."
"However, let's not mention that knowledge creatures often have the combat power to defeat magicians of the same level. Suppose you find a knowledge creature that can be defeated, but what often happens is that when you are about to defeat the knowledge creature, it runs away."
"Will you run away again?"
"Since it is a living being, it naturally has the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. How could it not run away?" Sonia asked in return: "Can a creature that can give birth to a magical spirit be a mentally retarded person who doesn't even understand common sense?"
Ash always felt like Sword Lady was scolding him, but he had no evidence. "Wouldn't the magician be at a loss?"
"Not really. Knowledge creatures also know the principle of cutting off their tails to survive. When they try to escape, they will deliberately throw out magic spirits to attract the magician's attention. As long as the magician can defeat the knowledge creatures, he can at least get one magic spirit."
"That's good, at least I won't lose anything."
"Sometimes it hurts more to win - if the magician kills the knowledge creature, it is possible that the experience orb will also be destroyed."
"ah?"
"Experience orbs are not generated after the death of a knowledge creature, but exist in the body of the knowledge creature itself." Sonia explained: "Because knowledge creatures dissipate when they die, no one knows where the experience orbs will be generated. Even different knowledge creatures have different places where they breed experience orbs."
"If the magician is not careful when attacking, there is a high possibility that the experience orb will be destroyed as well."
"No orbs are dropped when killing a creature of knowledge. This is something that all magicians will encounter. They have no way of knowing whether it is because the creature of knowledge does not have orbs in its body or they accidentally destroyed the orbs."
"Now you understand how lucky we are to have obtained this gem, right?"
Sonia looked at the place where Hu Zhaolong disappeared. "If Hu Zhaolong hadn't fallen asleep, if we hadn't focused our attack on his head, if the experience orb happened to be on his head, if Hu Zhaolong had enough energy to fight us... If there was any if, this orb would have been impossible for us to get."
At this point, Sonia couldn't help but look at the spectator with astonishment - the spectator's stop just now was undoubtedly to wait for Fox Dragon to fall asleep. This unheard-of despicable operation was really... great!
"really."
Ash nodded, his eyes fixed on the experience orb.
Sonia held the orb tightly, her body trembling slightly. But soon, she exhaled and handed the orb to Ash: "Here."
"Will you give it to me?"
"Aren't you in a dangerous situation and in urgent need of a tool to increase your strength?"
Sonia pretended to be casual, "I'm not in a hurry, so I'll give you this orb. Next time you see a swordsmanship orb, don't snatch it from me."
"good!"
Ash reached for the orb, but couldn't lift it.
"Let go!"
"I'm letting it go, I'm letting it go, but my fingers won't obey me!"
Ash had no choice but to pry open her fingers one by one, and took the pearl in Sonia's reluctant gaze.
As a warm current flowed into the palm of my hand, a message popped up on the screen:
"Light Orb"
"The essence of truth left by Fox Zhaolong contains secret knowledge that ordinary magicians cannot obtain through normal channels. After absorbing it, you can gain a lot of light experience."
"'The moonlight is a leaping fox, and the fox is a walking moonlight.'"
The moment he touched the bead, Ash felt a throbbing in his heart, and an indescribable hunger spread from his heart to his whole body. It was the first time that Ash had such an experience - the strong desire for knowledge was actually affecting his reason.
It was an indescribable experience, more intense than the thirst for knowledge when reading a novel and suddenly stopping at a critical position, more anxious than the urgency of finding the answer in an exam and discovering that half of it is missing, more exciting than the excitement of loading a rough picture at an important position but suddenly getting stuck, as if every wrinkle and every pore in the body was urging Ash to absorb this gem.
Prison, danger, and survival were all thrown thousands of miles away at this moment, and knowledge became Ash's only desire.
Just as Ash couldn't help but absorb the orb, his rationality flashed with wisdom.
Wait, I smell surplus value.
Ash carefully read the description of the Light Orb. It clearly said "After absorbing it, you can gain a large amount of Light Experience". In other words...
"Sword Princess, you come and absorb it."
Seeing the orb being thrown over, the skilled Sonia became flustered at this moment. She carefully caught the orb of light and looked at Ash with anger and shock.
"Could it be that your Light Faction realm has reached the silver level or even above?"
"No, I don't know anything about the Light Faction."
"I see. The Light Faction conflicts with the faction knowledge you already have? For example, the Abyss Faction..."
"No, no, I don't know anything. You know that."
"Then why don't you absorb this orb?"
"Because there is a bond between you and me." Yashi said as a matter of course: "You become stronger, and I become stronger."
It wasn't the first time Sonia had heard a viewer say to her, 'There's a bond between you and me,' but she had always thought it was another polite way of saying a kidnapping threat - I have a way to control you - until this moment, she couldn't help but sigh: Is this a bond
As for what the viewer said, "If you become stronger, I will become stronger," Sonia took it as a polite remark, similar to "It's only when you are well, I am well, and everyone is well that it's truly good."
Sonia didn't hesitate and crushed the experience orb directly. Her body trembled slightly, her cheeks flushed, and she let out a melodious sigh.
Although the scene was very tempting, Ash had no time to appreciate it at this moment. After all, he was in a similar state as Sonia.
This feeling is more like 'memories flooding back' than 'absorbing knowledge'.
Just like when he saw a difficult math problem, he suddenly recalled what his teacher had taught him, and Ash naturally mastered a lot of relevant knowledge. He went from being a newbie who didn't even know the Radiance faction to a master of the Radiance faction.
It really works!
30% of the Light Faction experience absorbed by Sword Lady from the experience orb can be shared with Ash!
This is why Ash gave the orb to Fiora: if he absorbed it himself, he would get 100% benefit, but if he let Fiora absorb it, he would get 130% benefit!
Moreover, as long as Fiora continues to improve in the Light Faction in the future, Ash will be able to obtain endless long-term benefits. Wouldn't the surplus value generated in this way be much better than eating it alone
That's why Ash was not blinded by the temptation of the experience orb: the experience orb is just a tool, just like a hoe. No matter how cool the hoe is, it must be given to someone who knows how to plow the fields to play its due role. People like Ash who have no talent can just wait for the rice to come out.
Sonia gradually recovered from the afterglow of being filled with knowledge, and looked at Ash with gratitude on her face: "Thank you!"
"Then don't let me down. You must study the knowledge of the Light Faction carefully, and don't neglect the training of the Sword Faction!"
"Um!"