"It gets dark in your world of Kale at 4pm?"
Felix, who was holding the clothes nearby, turned his head and glanced at the starry sky outside, shook his head, and showed a little confusion on his face: "It's October now, and the nightfall time in October is 6:30 to 7:00 pm... At this time, the shining star should be setting in the west, and it is impossible for it to be dark."
While Yin Gula was drawing Ash's eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil, she asked casually, "Could it be that Fanxing sent someone to arrest us?"
"If they really sent someone to catch the wanted criminal, they wouldn't have let the whole city go into the night to notify you, right?" Felix said unhappily, "Maybe the weather system malfunctioned."
"Weather system?" Just as Ash was about to turn around and ask, Yin Gula grabbed his chin and pulled him back.
"Wind, rain, frost, snow, day and night, the weather across the country is regulated and arranged by the meteorological system."
Felix said: "Galos is the most pleasant living area. It does not serve agriculture or industry at all. In agricultural towns and industrial cities, the temperature is either too hot or too cold, and the weather is either too rainy or too sunny."
"Can everything be adjusted, including day and night?"
"Of course, there are cities with year-round darkness and year-round daylight. Those places often produce some special fruits, and some magicians also like to go to such places to conduct research on light and dark magic."
Ash frowned slightly, "But the sun—"
"There is no sun here," Yin Gula took out an eyelash curler, curled Ash's eyelashes, and then applied eyelash primer, "There is only the shining star."
Ash was startled, then nodded thoughtfully: "There are only stars in the Starry Kingdom..."
"I know what you are thinking, but you should focus on your own image instead of the starry sky." Yin Gula said calmly: "Everything in this country has nothing to do with us."
Ash heard Yin Gula's warning. They would return to the Gospel Kingdom in three days. They should just hide in Felix and not do anything else. Ash was just a little curious and had no interest in caring about other kingdoms.
Unless Sword Lady wants to intervene.
"No need for false eyelashes, right?!"
"It can make your eyes look bigger and more three-dimensional."
"No, no, no!" Ash tried his best to pull his head back.
"Whatever you want." Yin Gula put the false eyelashes back into the box, glanced at the bottles and jars on the dressing table, and asked casually, "As a man, Felix, you have a very complete range of cosmetics. Isn't that a bit strange?"
Ash complained, "As a man, you can actually use 90% of the cosmetics here. Who is weird about this?"
Felix said calmly, "I had a girlfriend before, and this is the dressing table she decorated. I occasionally used the skin care products and facial masks inside, but I didn't touch anything else."
What an impeccable reason... Yin Gula's gaze swept from Felix's toes to his eyes, causing Felix to turn his head away and not dare to look at him.
But it’s none of our business.
Yin Gula motioned for Ash to stand in front of the full-length mirror. "This is the limit of what I can do. If you want to continue to break through, you can only move towards biological transformation."
Felix looked in the mirror and his eyes lit up.
He has sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, and is heroic, handsome yet masculine, with an ascetic style mixed with a little bit of sensuality. She never thought that her clothes could look so good on others.
However, Ash was not very satisfied.
"You dress me up like a male Veela... I don't really like this style... I like something more handsome!"
"If by handsome you mean the dark style of adding a few chains to yourself, then I won't have any expectations of your aesthetics in the future." Yin Gula looked at Felix: "What do you think?"
"Ah?" Felix didn't expect them to ask for his opinion. After a moment's hesitation, he replied, "... It looks good."
Ash pointed at Yin Gula and asked, "Who is better looking, me or him?"
Felix blinked. To be honest, Yin Gula's absolute beauty was undoubtedly better than Ash's, but because Yin Gula was a bit similar to her brother Di Mi, she also disliked Yin Gula.
In comparison, Ash was the type that looked better the more he looked at him, and since Felix wanted to stir up a quarrel between them, he naturally responded immediately, "You look good!"
Ash said, "I hesitated for a second. It wasn't sincere enough."
Yin Gula said: "But Felix hesitated for a second."
Ash thought about it and nodded heavily: "Indeed, I can actually make others hesitate between you and me for a second. It seems that I have indeed reached the peak of my appearance."
He waved at Felix and said, "Thank you for troubling me this time and for borrowing your clothes. Come here for a moment. Yin Gula and I are going to give you a thank-you gift."
Seeing that they were quite polite, Felix walked over and said, "No need. As long as you can leave as soon as possible, it will be the best gift for me."
"Don't refuse. It's not an expensive gift." Ash waved his hand. "I just want to give you a sweet dream."
Yin Gula touched Felix's head, and the latter closed his eyes, fell back on the bed, and fell asleep.
Ash and Yin Gula left the bedroom and came to the hall, where they saw Harvey sitting on the lid of the coffin. A pale and slender right hand stretched out of the coffin - Harvey was trimming Alice's nails.
The necromancer looked back at Ash and shook his head: "It would be more handsome if you added a few chains to decorate it."
Yin Gula looked at Ash and spread his hands. Ash lowered his head in shame and took the initiative to confess: "It seems that my aesthetic sense is indeed broken."
"Has Alice recovered?"
"I've basically recovered, but I need to get some sun, otherwise I'll get osteoporosis."
Everyone sat down around the coffin, the only sound remaining was the sound of Harvey clipping his nails.
After a few minutes, Ash asked, "What are you doing?"
"Do you want to watch the afternoon drama?" Yin Gula asked.
"I actually have something embarrassing to discuss with you." Ash's tone was not embarrassed at all: "When I meet with Sword Princess, can you guys step aside for a while?"
Harvey stopped and asked in surprise: "Aren't you going to introduce her to us?"
"Of course I planned to, but I didn't want to ruin the mood on a first date at least."
"How did we ruin the atmosphere?"
Ash looked at Harvey who was holding hands with Alice in the coffin, "… I can't help it. Who told you to breathe?"
Harvey: "Actually, I have a way not to breathe..."
"Okay." Yin Gula interrupted, "During that time, Harvey and I will go to the virtual world and stay in the distant space for at least three or four hours. This time should be enough for you to toss around, right?"
"It's not enough, but I'm willing to give in to take care of you." Ash chuckled, "As a thank you gift... ah, I've already given you my thank you gift."
"ah?"
"Do you remember that I asked the Dream Awakening Spirit to cast a miracle on you in the Thousand Wishes Heaven?" Ash said, "That was the miracle - Delayed Dream Awakening. It will be triggered immediately when you enter the Void Realm."
"To put it simply, you will trigger the Color-Loss Dream just like me, and directly leave the Faraway Space and climb Ruby Mountain!"
Both Yin Gula and Harvey used the cursed seven-colored tail feathers to cross the threshold of the sanctuary and climb directly to the distant skyspace. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to be promoted from two-wing magicians to three-wing magicians in just a few months.
But the price is that they cannot establish a connection channel with the fourth level of the Void Realm. That is to say, even if they raise their magic realm to legendary in the future, they cannot summon even a four-winged magic spirit, and naturally cannot open the door of truth leading to Ruby Mountain.
After Ash got the Dream Awakening Spirit, he had been thinking about how to help them get over this curse. Delaying Dream Awakening was the task he left for Xiao Meng. He didn't expect that the Spirit really had such a strong subjective initiative that it could actually research miracles on its own.
Fortunately, after entering the Thousand Wishes Heaven, Ash immediately asked Xiao Meng to delay the awakening of the two of them, otherwise the promotion of Yin Gula and Harvey would have to wait until Ash's next return to the Thousand Wishes Heaven.
The Trickster and the Necromancer were overwhelmed by the news and couldn't react for a while. Ash urged them, "You should get promoted to Legendary now while you still have time. I'll be watching over you outside. It's just right for us to switch shifts."
Last night, only Ash entered the virtual realm, and Yin Gula and Harvey were responsible for vigilance; now it is Ash's turn to be on guard, allowing Yin Gula and Harvey to enter the virtual realm.
"Ash, you..." Yin Gula opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment.
"Remember to say hello to the Ruby Angel for me," Ash said with a smile, "Our biggest regret is that we reached the top of Ruby Mountain but didn't see the legendary angel."
The two of them didn't say anything and immediately closed their eyes to connect to the virtual world.
Ash opened "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual" - "Operator Management" and kept a close eye on the changes of "The Secret Poison of the Colorless Dream".
After a while, he saw that the number of people infected with the mysterious poison of the Dream-Disappearing Demon increased from 10 to 12!
"Mysterious Poison of Lost Dreams"
"Number of people infected with the secret poison: 12"
"Secret poison enhancement level: 12%"
"The current effect of the secret poison is: 1. You can convert seven-color magic power into primary-color magic power, with a conversion ratio of 62:38; 2. When you use primary-color magic power to drive magic spirits with less than four wings, you can exert the same effect as four wings; 3. When you hold this secret poison, all your colorless magic power will be converted into primary-color magic power, and magic spirits of the same color will be enhanced. (The enhancement degree will turn into a negative effect when it reaches 51%, and it will gain a huge benefit when it drops to 10%)."
After comparing them, Ash found that the Secret Poison of the Colorless Dream lacked the effect of reducing the mana consumption, and the conversion ratio was a little lower, but it was still acceptable.
Fortunately, the Secret Poison was not weakened too much, otherwise he would not know how to explain to Sword Lady and Witch. After all, the Secret Poison is a zero-sum game mechanism, and more for others means less for them.
At this moment, Yin Gula and Harvey opened their eyes almost at the same time. They looked at each other with very ugly expressions.
Yin Gula said, "We were not able to enter Ruby Mountain."
"What?"
"I triggered the Colorless Dream, and the entire Faraway Space began to shatter." Harvey said, "But the next second we were forced to exit the virtual world and return to reality. We didn't even get into Ruby Mountain."
"How could this happen?" Ash muttered, "We clearly reached the top of Ruby Mountain directly after we triggered the Secret Poison of the Colorless Dream—"
"Because you are not cursed by the seven-colored tail feathers." Yin Gula said calmly: "We cannot establish a connection channel with the fourth level of the virtual realm. The real meaning of this sentence may be that we cannot establish the door of truth between ourselves and Ruby Mountain."
Ash suddenly realized something: "Wait, can you still go back to the Faraway Space now?"
The two tried it and shook their heads.
"In the Void Realm, you can only move forward, not backward." Yin Gula said softly, "Now we have left the Faraway Space, and we can't enter the Ruby Mountain... It's just like our current situation. We left the Blood Moon, but we are not recognized by the Stars. We can only become wanted criminals caught in the cracks."
"We can no longer log into the virtual world."
Ash was a little dazed. He lowered his head and stared at his hands.
Harvey said calmly: "It's none of your business. It's just bad luck for us."
"At least we have witnessed the Lost Dream." Yin Gula said in a relaxed tone: "We are already better than most magicians in the world."
"do not talk."
Ash stood up suddenly. No matter how beautiful his clothes were or how delicate his makeup was, he couldn't hide the disappointment on his face.
"I'm going to the bathroom."
Watching Ash leave almost as if he was running away and slamming the bathroom door shut, Yin Gula and Harvey fell silent one after another. The relaxed smiles on their faces disappeared, leaving only expressionless masks.
"Necromancer, will you hate?" Yin Gula suddenly asked after a while.
"I don't hate him." Harvey said calmly, "I never thought I could become a Saint Domain magician. I'm lucky to have come this far. What's more, when I used the seven-colored tail feathers, I was prepared to bear the price."
"Yeah." Yin Gula leaned against the soft chair and said softly, "What is there to hate?"
He stared at the ceiling, as if he was looking into the distant past. "When I was in Shattered Lake, did I ever expect to become a Sanctuary Magician? After experiencing the Weaving Ceremony and witnessing the end of Senluo, my life has been much more exciting than I imagined. What else can I complain about?"
“But I hate it.”
The Trickster pursed his lips and took a deep breath. "I hate that our journey is coming to an end."
"He is now a legendary magician, and he may even become a demigod magician in the future. He will reach the top that we cannot reach even if we stand on tiptoe. We can only stand below and listen to his glory. We are not even qualified to watch his back."
“Maybe even death can’t separate us, but now is the time to say goodbye.”
"I hate that I'm just a Sanctuary Magician, and I also hate that... he's no longer a Sanctuary Magician." Yin Gula closed his eyes and whispered, "How much power does it take to hold on to happiness? At least, I know the answer is not a Sanctuary Magician."
Harvey said nothing, and Alice quietly held the necromancer's hand.
Snapped!
The bathroom door was suddenly kicked open, and Ash hurried over, hooking each of their hands around their necks and pulling them together, shouting excitedly, "There's still a way! It recognizes you, we still have a way!"
"Ash, calm down..."
"Since you can't build your own Gate of Truth with Ruby Mountain, then you can enter Ruby Mountain through my Gate of Truth!" Ash could hardly suppress his joy, and his words were a little incoherent: "You have crossed the Colorless Dream. Although you cannot enter Ruby Mountain, the Void Realm has already regarded you as the magicians of Ruby Mountain!"
"You are at the same level of progress in the virtual realm as me. I can take you into Ruby Mountain!"
What Ash was talking about was the item he just pulled out, the "Small Four-Pillar Gate"!
This item is useless to him and his operators, but for Yin Gula and Harvey, it is the key item to change the trajectory of their destiny! As long as they can enter the Ruby Mountain, they can continue to grow and even have the hope of challenging the demigod realm!
Yin Gula and Harvey were slightly stunned. They did not doubt that Ash could lead people into the virtual realm. After all, they already knew that the Thousand Wishes Heaven was obtained by Ash and his teammates together.
But Ash has always been very secretive about this. They all thought that the conditions for bringing people were extremely harsh, so they never mentioned it.
It turns out that Ash can really lead them into the virtual realm
Because Ash moved too much, a small box fell from him. He immediately squatted down to pick it up. Yin Gula glanced at it and asked, "What is that?"
"… Gift."
"Didn't you prepare a gift? Did you steal it from Felix?"
"I bought it in Black Robe Town a long time ago." Ash said evasively, "I was planning to give it to you later... But since I have to go back to Fuhui in three days, I can't buy any other gifts, so I can only give you this."
Yin Gula's expression suddenly became a little subtle: "Could it be that this box contains..."
Seeing that the trickster had guessed it, Ash sighed and had to open the box: "Yes, it's the ring."
In the small black box, the shiny couple's rings lay quietly in the black goose down.
"You wanted to buy couple rings when you were in Black Robe Town!?"
“I actually bought three pairs…”
Yin Gula chuckled and couldn't help but widen his eyes: "What?"
"Can you give me a pair?" Harvey asked. "Alice said she wanted one, too."
"No, I want to buy it myself." Ash said, "Okay, okay, now the point is to take you to Ruby Mountain for a look. If you are ready, then we will-"
"We are not in a hurry. You have a date later." Yin Gula smiled and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
"There are still a few hours until the agreed time, and if you don't go to Ruby Mountain, you will definitely eavesdrop on my date." Ash said, "The sooner this matter is resolved, the sooner I can feel at ease."
He closed the small black box and put it in his shirt pocket. "When you are ready, we will start our journey to Ruby Mountain."
"It feels weird to explore the virtual world with you guys," Yin Gula tilted his head.
"We don't know whether death can separate us." Harvey lowered his head and kissed the back of Alice's hand, smiling, "But at least the virtual world can't."
"Newcomer, follow the seniors closely and don't get lost in Ruby Mountain." Ash smiled and said, "Next stop is Ruby Mountain!"
Small four-pillar gate, start!
Doomwatchers, tricksters, necromancers... descend upon Ruby Mountain!
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