“Hmm?”
Leonie turned her head and looked at the world behind her gradually turning black and white.
“Did something fall… or is this a special phenomenon in the Virtual Realm?”
On the first day of their arrival in the Time Continent, Sonia, the Orange Dancer, was still in the stage of exploring the unfamiliar and special. But even so, she knew she had to run quickly.
Otherwise, she would be caught up by “Time”.
…
…
“I can’t believe I didn’t die…”
Asho, lying on the grass, sat up and shook his head, feeling that his sense of balance hadn’t adjusted yet.
When they broke into the Golden Sea, both of them lost their sense of direction at the same time. The whole world seemed to be constantly flipping like a dice cup, making it impossible to maintain flight. They could only follow the pull of gravity in the Virtual Realm and fall straight down.
Asho thought he was going to die this time. After all the grand words he said, he ended up falling back into the Knowledge Sea. But feeling the grass under his butt, he knew that at least he had saved face.
“Observer, look.”
Asho raised his head at the words and saw a scene that could almost rival the appearance of golden fish scales.
Golden rain fell from the sky.
They were in a dense forest, surrounded by towering ancient trees that were probably thousands of years old. The lush branches and leaves blocked out the sky. But even so, Asho could still see a white pillar that pierced through the heavens and the earth. Countless drops of golden rain emerged from the area around the pillar and fell from bottom to top towards the sky.
He couldn’t help but mutter, “Is this the world of the strong?”
“That’s the Time Golden Rain, similar to the Knowledge White Mist in the Knowledge Sea,” Sonia explained. “If we want to absorb the power of the Golden Art and condense the Second Virtual Wing, we have to follow the footsteps of the Bull’s Hoof and accept the baptism of the Golden Rain.”
“Bull’s Hoof?”
“That white pillar is the Bull’s Hoof. Take a closer look, is it moving?”
Asho looked closely and found that the white pillar was indeed moving forward with a small amplitude. But this “small amplitude” was probably his illusion. After all, he could observe the movement of the pillar from several kilometers away. The real speed of the pillar was probably more than ten meters per second.
“Why is it called the Bull’s Hoof?”
“Because it is the Bull’s Hoof. In the distance you can’t see, there are three other Bull’s Hoofs. These four Bull’s Hoofs are the four legs of the Virtual Realm behemoth ‘Bull’ that walks on the Time Continent.”
Sonia explained, “The ‘Bull’ has many titles, such as the Fate Weaver, the Heavenly Cart Bull, the Time Traveler… But generally, it is called the ‘White Bull’.”
“The footprints plowed by the White Bull on the ground will turn into a river of flowing gold. The water of the river of flowing gold has the power to influence time. The plants and animals on both sides of the river that are nourished by the water will grow rapidly at an unimaginable speed. These plants and animals will produce the Time Golden Rain that falls towards the sky.”
She touched the dogtail grass next to her. “If we had come a little earlier, we would also be bathing in the Golden Rain.”
“River of Flowing Gold, Reverse Falling Golden Rain, White Bull…” Asho looked at the sky covered by the Golden Rain. “Is this the Time Continent?”
Drip.
Suddenly, they both heard a crisp sound of water droplets. Immediately, the Silver Wings of the Artificer appeared uncontrollably and shone with dazzling silver light!
“Silver Blessing!” Sonia exclaimed in surprise, focusing on feeling the newly acquired power. Asho, on the other hand, chose to open the Agent Management.
“Dead Crazy Sword Girl”
“Human Race, Female, 18 years old”
“Affinity Level: 3 (50% experience sharing)”
“Affinity Resonance·Insatiable Greed: When acting together, there is a chance to obtain better loot.”
“Profession: Silver Artificer of the Soul Breaker”
“Professional Trait: Each effective attack restores 0.5% of maximum Artificing.”
“Silver Blessing·Revelry/Cruelty: Each time an enemy is defeated (including but not limited to Artificer Projections, Knowledge Creatures, Monsters, Artificers, Constructed Beings, etc.), increase critical hit rate and critical hit damage. Depending on the Agent’s development path, different traits can be triggered.”
“Additional Blessing Trait·Revelry: The Sword Girl can derive enough pleasure from victory alone, and she maintains respect and mercy towards her enemies. This path triggers the ‘Revelry’ effect, granting bonus critical hit damage. The better her mood, the higher the increase, up to 250% critical hit damage.”
“Additional Curse Trait·Cruelty: The Sword Girl can only alleviate her inner thirst through death and wailing, and she will do her best to give despair to the disrespectful. This path triggers the ‘Cruelty’ effect, granting bonus critical hit rate. The worse her mood, the higher the increase, up to 100% critical hit rate.”
“Curse of Knowledge: Vortex Poison, Expulsion Poison, Golden Fish Poison”
“It feels like a growth blessing…”
After feeling it for a moment, Sonia pondered, “Because blessings are the most personal secrets of Artificers, and the school doesn’t have detailed information on blessings, developing a blessing requires the Artificer to explore alone… Do you know the specific details of my blessing?”Asho glanced at her: “Your blessing is called ‘Frenzy’. The more enemies you defeat, the higher your critical hit rate and critical damage will be.”
Although it sounded peculiar, ‘critical hit rate’ and ‘critical damage’ were not uncommon for Artificers. Simply put, it was when an Artisan suddenly decided to work overtime during the Artificer’s activation, which was referred to as a ‘critical hit’.
The critical hit rate represented the frequency of the Artisan’s overtime, and the critical damage represented the efficiency of the Artisan’s work during overtime. In this way, this blessing could be briefly described as ‘the more enemy companies Sword Girl’s company absorbs, the more significantly the exploitation efficiency of the internal Artisan employees will increase’.
Sonia seemed a bit dissatisfied: “Frenzy, such a strange name. I am clearly a ladylike Swordsman, why would I be associated with the word ‘madness’?”
“Perhaps the Virtual Realm’s perception of you is slightly skewed.” Asho said with a guilty conscience: “You are so quiet and cute, gentle and kind, friendly and easy-going, even I think the silver blessing the Virtual Realm gave you does not match your identity.”
Sonia blushed a little at his words: “I’m not that good… But this growth-type blessing is not bad, it should be very helpful for exploring the Virtual Realm in the future.”
Asho secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Sword Girl’s silver blessing had two cultivation paths, ‘Frenzy’ and ‘Tyranny’. Asho undoubtedly hoped that Sword Girl would follow the ‘Frenzy’ path, as the ‘Tyranny’ path was clearly very negative.
This wasn’t a mobile game where you could automatically delegate and fight. Asho would definitely have to personally accompany Sword Girl on her nightly adventures (exploring the Virtual Realm). If Sword Girl was constantly bursting with negative energy, causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere during fights, Asho wouldn’t be in a good mood either.
But this cultivation path wasn’t something that could be determined with a simple click in a game, but rather through continuous daily guidance, similar to raising a daughter. This was Asho’s first time being a father, he had no experience, so for now, he would instill truth, goodness, and beauty into Sword Girl, making her believe that she was a fairy-like cutie, to prevent her from turning dark.
In addition, Sword Girl’s bond level had also risen to level 3, and the experience sharing ratio had increased to 50%.
Seeing this, Asho suddenly had a question: Did the bond level refer to Sword Girl’s affection for him, his affection for Sword Girl, or their mutual affection for each other?
Speaking of which, why did he almost instinctively decide to let Sword Girl follow the ‘Frenzy’ path without any hesitation?
The ‘Tyranny’ path actually had decent benefits as well, and maintaining a bad mood was much simpler than maintaining a good one, but he didn’t even consider this option for a second…