“Consumes 15 points.”
“Asho Heath can exploit the weaknesses of Igura Bokin, Aqiborde Harvey, and Lis.”
“…Huh?”
For a moment, Igura really thought he held an extremely important position in Asho’s heart, almost ecstatic at the thought. Would he be able to take advantage of being favored and exploit the heresy leader who was past his prime?
However, when he saw the name ‘Lis’, he immediately calmed down. He and Harvey were understandable, being fellow townspeople and comrades who had gone through hardships together. But a little girl he had just met less than a day ago, and who almost ruined Asho’s future? How could she be a threat to Asho?
If Lis were to be kidnapped and burned to death without a ransom, knowing Asho’s personality, he would probably consider whether to give her matches or fuel.
It’s impossible for Asho to treat Lis differently just because she’s a cute little girl with white hair!
Igura himself is good-looking too, ranking higher on the beauty list than Lis. Yet he was still tricked by Asho!
So, it’s obvious that the “Gospel” made a mistake here. Igura, Harvey, and Lis are the characters who currently have the closest relationship with Asho and are on the same side. Therefore, the “Gospel” mistakenly considered them as allies and concluded that they are Asho’s weaknesses.
If Igura guessed correctly, Harvey’s weakness must be him, Asho, and Lis. But he couldn’t be bothered to verify it. He had already lost 15 points, and now his source of wealth depended on Miss Annan’s support. He had to be cautious with his spending!
The revelation actually meant this. If he asked about Asho Heath, the “Gospel” would definitely give the wrong answer.
It’s all Asho’s fault!
He must make Asho pay back those 15 points a thousandfold!
Asho, sitting across from Igura, had no idea that he unintentionally accumulated another debt. He was currently looking at the “Gospel’s” response, furrowing his brows slightly.
“Can the Universal Wish allow me to travel back to my own world?”
“Consumes 1 point.”
“The Universal Wish can travel through time and space, and can cross worlds. However, whether it can travel to a specific world depends on the specific circumstances.”
When Asho saw the official response of “specific circumstances,” he almost triggered a traumatic stress disorder. He had heard this kind of talk too many times in the workplace, and the underlying meaning was “I can do this, but I don’t want to put in the effort for you.”
But on the other hand, this wording also gave Asho some confidence.
If the “Gospel” confidently claimed that it could absolutely do it, Asho would doubt if this divine being was in cahoots with Igura. In any world, only scammers can guarantee to fulfill all your wishes.
In other words, if I can obtain this Universal Wish, can I go back home?
Realizing this hope, Asho didn’t feel too excited. It’s not that he didn’t miss his mother’s delicious soup and his father’s nagging, but as he told Sword Girl in the Virtual Realm, he’s not the kind of person who needs a wish to survive.
Embracing hope and then sinking into disappointment is too pitiful.
When Asho came to this world, he never expected to be able to return alive.
Therefore, if he were to obtain this Universal Wish and successfully return to face the pressures of arranged marriage, mortgage, and retirement, that would indeed be worth celebrating by resigning and lying down;
But if this Universal Wish isn’t so universal, Asho wouldn’t be too disappointed;
If he can’t obtain it, Asho would just curse the lucky person and forget about it.
After confirming the usability of the Universal Wish, Asho suddenly felt that he didn’t have much to ask.
Summoning what Artisan? Which Sorcery Spirit is suitable? But his cultivation experience is all fluff, without any substance. He only has his current strength thanks to being a pendant for Sword Girl. He doesn’t need to engage in independent cultivation—’diligence’ and ‘focus’ are the foundation of all Sorcerers, and Asho lost these two skills after finishing high school.
If he can efficiently utilize the existing Sorcery Spirits, there’s no need to ask. Because as soon as Asho can explore the Virtual Realm, he will quickly update and replace his Sorcery Spirits. Except for Heart Sword, Substitute, Earth Sword, and Wind Barrier, all the others will definitely be replaced or upgraded to higher-level Sorcery Spirits, or they will be directly put into cold storage.
Just like how Orola isn’t too picky about a bricklayer she only uses for one night, Asho isn’t interested in wasting his thoughts on these soon-to-be-replaced Sorcery Spirits.
This development strategy can even be further deepened—wasting resources on Asho is unnecessary. A pendant should have the self-awareness of a pendant and not attempt to surpass the talents of the Agents with effort and resources!
Self-awareness is Asho’s advantage!
With a thought, he opened “The Sorcerer’s Manual of Orola” and immediately received a message.
“Dead Crazy Sword Girl’s Growth Report 4.26~5.2”
“Swordsmanship Faction: Silver → Silver”
“Light Faction: Silver → Silver”
“Water Faction: Silver → Silver”
“Mental Faction: Silver → Silver”
“Sorcery Power: Silver Full Wing → Golden Virtual Wing”
“Cultivation Evaluation: S!”
“Due to obtaining an S-level evaluation, Dead Crazy Sword Girl receives a professional enhancement in the Sorcerer’s Manual: Soul Breaker Silver Sorcerer → Dance of Madness!”
“Dance of Madness · Professional Trait: Attacking the same target can increase attack speed by 2%, up to a maximum of 5 times. Changing the attack target immediately cancels the effect.”
“Due to the enhancement in Sorcery Power, Dead Crazy Sword Girl’s talent is strengthened!”
“Due to obtaining an S-level evaluation, Dead Crazy Sword Girl receives a professional assessment task ‘Dance of Madness’!”
“Dance of Madness: Perform 10,000 effective slashes within the next 7 days. After completing the task, the Dance of Madness professional trait can be permanently solidified! Current progress (0/10000).”
Asho didn’t expect that the Sorcerer’s Manual could still bring him new surprises—why is it always Sword Girl’s personal benefits? He wants them too!Permanent job characteristics, which means that even if she changes her job next time, Sword Girl will still have the ‘Frenzied Dance’ characteristic of accelerated attack, equivalent to having an extra passive skill.
Asho naturally understood the power of this mechanism: if the ‘Frenzied Dance’ characteristic could be solidified this time, what about next time? And the time after that?
This is equivalent to Sword Girl and other agents having a strengthening system other than the Artisan. It’s not to say that Sword Girl can crush ordinary two-winged Artificers with this – in fact, under the current circumstances, it’s the ordinary two-winged Artificers who can easily crush the two of them who have smuggled into the Time Continent – but with long-term cultivation, the more job characteristics are solidified, the more the agents’ combat power will come to fruition.
It’s like working the same job, even if the salary is the same, your colleague can collect rent in addition to working, and after ten years you still haven’t saved up for a down payment, while your colleague has already taken out a loan for the second suite.
The only problem is the job assessment task, which would have been easy to complete in the past, but now he and Sword Girl don’t know when their souls will fully recover. If they can’t go to the Virtual Realm to kill monsters, then they can only ask Sword Girl to take a part-time job at the slaughterhouse…
In addition to this, Sword Girl’s talent has also become stronger!
“Inherent Talent·Sword Girl (Middle Rank): Gain an additional 150% swordsmanship experience, low chance of gaining 10000% swordsmanship experience, extremely low chance of triggering the Phantom of the Resentful Dragon (Talent level can be unlocked after strength improvement)”
Sword Girl’s talent has also been upgraded to the middle rank, similar to the witch, but just like the witch has a chance to trigger the ‘Favor of the Bronze Dragon’, Sword Girl also has a chance to trigger the ‘Phantom of the Resentful Dragon’. Asho clicked on it, but no detailed explanation popped up.
There’s not much to say about Sword Girl’s cultivation strategy. Although the system is suggesting giving her entertainment time again, Asho still doesn’t accept this suggestion.
At worst, he can tell Sword Girl a few more cold jokes in the Virtual Realm, I am her entertainment equipment!
When Asho opened the interface of the Black and White Witch, he found that the Black and White Witch had undergone a huge change in just one day –
“Job: Daughter of the Bronze Dragon”
“Job Characteristics: A girl who has received the favor of the Bronze Dragon, currently in a special curse state. After the curse is lifted, she can receive the blessing of the Bronze Dragon. Under the curse state, the Black and White Witch gets -75% learning efficiency for all factions, and +10 luck check effect.”
“Curse Example: The girl turns into an old woman, and the curse can be lifted by receiving a kiss of true love, but she cannot tell others about the content of the curse.”
“Knowledge Curse: Bronze Dragon’s Secret Poison”
This curse… looks quite fairy-tale.
No wonder the witch doesn’t let Asho ask about her condition, it turns out she’s been gagged too, it’s pointless to ask.
But with that said, is the witch’s current real state an old woman?
She might not even be human, she might have turned into a frog, a rabbit, or a Lalafell.
But the debuff of this job is too strong, -75% learning efficiency directly halves the effort, and the only buff is +10 luck check, which is equivalent to Asho’s previous job ‘Heresy Leader’, but the Heresy Leader, apart from making Asho a street rat, doesn’t have such serious negative effects.
In simple terms, this job is currently pure negative income, similar to Asho’s Eternal Wanderer.
However, according to the principle of ‘the greater the risk, the greater the return’ in the Artificer world, the ‘Blessing of the Bronze Dragon’ that the witch will receive after lifting the curse should be very strong, maybe she will directly turn into a dragon – then Asho won’t need to ride an automatic car in the Virtual Realm, he can directly become a dragon knight!
In addition, the witch suddenly has a Bronze Dragon’s Secret Poison, which may have been obtained after triggering the ‘Favor of the Bronze Dragon’. Asho wanted to see the content of this secret poison, but a prompt popped up:
“You don’t know this secret poison.”
Nonsense, how would I know if you don’t tell me!?
Asho guessed that the secret poison is different from other data, if the player doesn’t know it, it won’t be displayed, to prevent the player from being fed shit by the agent – like the Exorcism Secret Poison, Asho would rather not know.
Just as he was about to arrange a cultivation strategy, Asho suddenly scratched his head: the witch’s talent is undoubtedly the Time Faction, but her main Golden Faction is the Fist and Claw Faction, it’s clear that the witch’s main output method is also Fist and Claw, and Asho happens to have a +15% efficiency training glove, so should the witch’s training direction choose the Fist and Claw Faction, or the Time Faction?
If it were before, Asho would have just chosen randomly, but now he has the “Gospel Book”, he can directly gospel it!
“I have a friend……”