"If you've been hurt enough, just use your hands to cut it open..."
Igula got up yawning, and went to take a bath as usual. Just after he took off his clothes and lay in the bathtub for a few seconds, he heard the doorbell ringing, and it kept ringing very quickly.
Although he was confused, Igula still went to open the door wrapped in a bath towel and found Ash outside.
"Let's play rock-paper-scissors."
"What?"
"Don't worry about it, let's play rock-paper-scissors, and you have to beat me three times!"
“Is this a necessary ritual?”
“That’s right!”
"Will it harm me?"
"No!"
Igula observed Ash for a while and felt that he was not lying, so he said, "Then I don't want to."
"Why?"
"It's my duty to help you. Why should I help you complete the ceremony?"
"What other reasons do you need to help others?"
"Your current position doesn't quite support what you said... and do I look like someone who does charity work?"
Ash pondered for a moment and said, "Do you know why magicians can't drink freshly boiled water? They have to wait a while before drinking it?"
Igula was stunned: "Why?"
"If you accompany me to complete this ritual, I will tell you."
Could it be that the water that had just been boiled contained trace amounts of poison that could damage the power of the spell? Or was the 'boiling water' part of some kind of ritual that would have bad consequences if interfered with
In the world of magicians, truth is contained in everything. Perhaps an ordinary and insignificant thing is the "ritual taboo" that magicians have spent thousands of years summarizing. For example, "chanting prayers for the dead" can effectively reduce the lingering breath of death on the body.
So when Ash said this, Igula became curious and agreed to Ash's request, and easily defeated Ash three times. For Igula, who had a certain ability to read minds, what Ash thought of in each round was almost shown on his face.
"Okay, thank you Igura!"
"What kind of ritual requires someone to beat you three times in rock-paper-scissors..."
"This is called the Knife-laying Ceremony. I am unlucky now and lost to you. My luck will get better later. Bye-bye—"
"Wait, you haven't told me why magicians can't drink freshly boiled water."
"Because it burns my tongue."
Igula stared blankly at Ash as he left, closed the door, went back to the bathroom and lay in the bathtub.
He looked at the ceiling, rubbed his temples, and fell into deep thought.
"Is it because I've been in contact with him too frequently recently that my IQ has been affected..."
After taking a bath, Igula was lucky enough to trigger the "revelation" magic while brushing his teeth. The splashing toothpaste foam left a sentence on the mirror:
Don’t try to drink freshly boiled water
“Who would drink it?”
... ...
...
After the knife-laying ceremony, Ash returned to his dormitory.
"Are you sure you want to spend 30 source crystals to search ten times? Note that you can manually increase the number of searches. The more times you search, the easier it is to get rare cards!"
"Confirm that 42 source crystals are consumed for 14 searches?"
"Sure!"
call out-
It was still the extremely simple card drawing interface. Eight white lights, four purple lights, and... two golden lights appeared on the light screen!
The eight white lights represent 5 bottles of energy potions and 3 bottles of experience potions. Experience potions are fine, at least they can be used in stacks, increasing the experience growth rate by up to 50%. But an operator can only use 1 bottle of energy potion per week, but so many energy potions were drawn... Is this a prop used to pollute the card pool?!
Ash continued reading, and his eyes suddenly lit up: the four purple lights were three bottles of "Spirit Joy Potion" and one "Sweet Words, Deep Intentions".
"Spell Joy Potion"*3: After using it on an Operator, it can increase the Spell's favorability towards the Operator, speeding up the Operator's mastery of the Spell. It lasts for one week and cannot be used in a stacking manner.
"Honey in the mouth, sword in the belly": Honey can be hidden under the tongue. When needed, just press hard with the tongue and it will turn into a long sword. It can withstand any security monitoring. It can be upgraded.
The Magical Spirit Joy Potion is undoubtedly the item that Ash needs most at the moment. He has just obtained his 'Heart Sword' and 'Flowing' magic spirits not long ago, and he cannot master them in the virtual world, let alone resonate with them in reality.
But this effect is a bit strange. It can actually increase the favorability of the magic spirit towards the operator. Could it be that this potion can make the magic spirit aroused...
He can't use his ulterior motives yet, but he will definitely need weapons after escaping from prison. From Broken Lake Prison, it can be seen that the outside world is definitely full of obstacles for prison escapees, and there are probably security facilities and monitoring equipment everywhere.
Therefore, weapons like sweet words and a sharp tongue that can pass security checks are essential items for dangerous jailbreakers when they go out.
Finally, there were two golden lights!
[Alchemist's Extraction Bottle]: Add two bottles of the same potion. There is a 30% chance of extracting a more powerful advanced potion, a 30% chance of mutating into other rare potions, and a 40% chance of refining failure and losing both bottles of potion.
Ash immediately stood up - with this refining bottle, the potions that polluted the card pool could be recycled. Although there was a chance of loss, at least he had a thought, just like buying a lottery ticket.
"Random Spell Summoning Card": After using it on an operator, the operator will perform a summoning ceremony to summon a rare Spell of the current level, and raise the level of the faction to which the Spell belongs to to the current level. Note that the restrictions, time, and requirements of the summoning ceremony vary depending on the Spell, but the longest time will not exceed seven days.
At first glance, this gold card doesn't seem to be that great. It just summons a sorcerer, but Ash can get 12 in one night.
But if you look closely, you can find that the focus of this card is not the magic spirit, but the 'current level'!
After these days of study, Ash also knew that the magicians in this world were divided into one-wing silver, two-wing gold, three-wing sanctuary, and four-wing legend. In other words, if Sword Princess was promoted to two wings, and then she used a random summoning card on her, she would definitely be able to summon a two-wing magic spirit - the more wings the magic spirit had, the better.
But if a magician wants to summon the corresponding magic spirit, the prerequisite is that her faction realm must reach the threshold.
If the faction realm is not at the gold level, it is impossible for the magician to summon the corresponding two-winged magic spirit, and so on!
Therefore, the real effect of this gold card is: to upgrade a random magic faction of the operator to the current virtual wing level, and obtain a magic spirit of the same level!
For a one-wing magician, this gold card is equivalent to an experience orb + a magic spirit, but if the operator is a two-wing, three-wing or even four-wing magician, then this gold card will be quite terrifying.
In seven days at most, you can master a school of magic that you have never been exposed to before!
Reason told Ash that the later he used this gold card, the higher its value would be, but the current situation really did not allow Ash to be a squirrel and hide the good stuff.
In order to prepare for the next jailbreak, Ash must convert all his resources into combat power. If the jailbreak fails due to just a little difference, Ash will probably regret it so much that he will apply to become Langna's meal.
First is the refining bottle. Ash now has a total of 7 bottles of energy potions and 4 bottles of experience potions. He puts them in two by two to refine them, and finally gets 2 bottles of advanced physical potions and 1 bottle of advanced experience potion.
"Advanced Stamina Potion": During the training action, an advanced action point is added to the operator, which lasts for seven days. The advanced action point will exempt the operator from energy consumption, increase the positive feedback obtained by the operator from the action, slowly improve the operator's mood, and have a low probability of increasing the operator's bond level.
[Advanced Experience Potion]: During the Training Operation, the skill experience gained by the Operator is increased by 50%, which lasts for seven days. The maximum bonus for a single Operator is 100%.
Originally it should have ended like this, but Ash thought about it and put in two bottles of Magical Joy Potion as well.
If the purification failed, he would still have 1 bottle to use, but it was successful.
"Spell Stimulant Potion": After using it on an Operator, it can greatly increase the Spell's favorability towards the Operator, greatly speeding up the Operator's mastery of the Spell. It lasts for one week and cannot be used in a cumulative manner.
The name of this potion is becoming more and more like an aphrodisiac...
Ash opened the "Operator Management" and the game suddenly popped up a message:
"The training of the Death Mad Sword Princess has ended. Please check the growth report and set up the training strategy for this week as soon as possible."
"Death Mad Sword Princess' Growth Report 4.12~4.18"
"Swordsmanship: 0 → Silver"
"Light Mage Faction: 0 → Silver"
"Water Magic School: Uninitiated → Silver"
"Magic power: 0 → Silver half wing"
"Training evaluation: A!"
"Because she received an A-level evaluation, the Death Mad Sword Princess received a job enhancement in the Magician's Handbook: One-Winged Swordsman → Silver Magician of Destruction"
"Silver Magician of Destruction. Occupational Features: Each effective attack can restore 0.5% of the maximum magic power."
Ash didn't expect that there would be an evaluation session after the training strategy was completed, and if the evaluation was high, he could get a special reward - career enhancement.
Although it has nothing to do with me, there is no doubt that the stronger the Sword Princess is, the more efficient they will be in exploring the virtual world, and the professional feature of "Silver Mage of Destruction" is quite practical.
Among them, Sword Princess's water magic faction was able to be upgraded to the silver level, naturally because they got two experience orbs last night, namely the sword magic orb and the water magic orb.
Because he and Sword Princess have a bond of "sharing experience", Ash undoubtedly gave both orbs to Sword Princess. In the virtual world, looking at Sword Princess's touching expression when she received the orbs, Ash seemed to hear the reminder that "the bond between you and Death Mad Sword Princess has deepened".
Then open "Development Strategy".
"Death Mad Sword Princess"
"Current mood: 6 (experience bonus 0)"
「Optional actions: rest, entertainment, training, fighting」
"Suggestion: Sword Princess hasn't had any entertainment or rest for a week. Appropriate entertainment can effectively improve your mood. Only by combining work and rest can you train and study better."
Ash hesitated a little: Sword Princess has complained many times that she has no time to rest, and Sword Princess has helped him so much in the virtual world, it is reasonable to let Sword Princess relax...
Snap! Snap!
"Ash, come out, we have to find the last team member as soon as possible today!" Igula's voice came from outside.
Ash immediately regained his senses from his feelings: As the saying goes, one should lead by example and take the lead. Even he cannot rest, so how can Sword Lady rest
I don't accept your advice!
PS: I finally got 10,000 subscriptions. Although it is not as high as my wishful thinking of 15,000 subscriptions, I will be so happy that I will add two more chapters tomorrow to make it a total of 10 chapters! Thank you all for your support!
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"Go to Sleep When It's Dark"
"The shadow outside the window called someone's name in a cold and numb voice. The shadows on the ground crawled like snakes and insects. The elevator door at the end of the corridor opened automatically. The faceless elevator lady showed a strange smile. The skinless butcher in the shadow slowly raised his butcher knife...
In an era when all countries in the world have legislated to prohibit staying up late, Chen Xiao has lost his sleep. "