Chapter 322: Chapter 274 Come at the Substitute for Any Issue_2 Chapter 322: Chapter 274 Come at the Substitute for Any Issue_2 Ash became terrified, “It’s a virtual character, right?”

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The bathhouse was left with only Ash again, and at this moment, the sun was slowly rising. Azura welcomed the new day’s bloom, and the warm light refracted into the bath.

Ash let the buoyancy lift his body, floating on the water’s surface like a corpse.

Three days earlier when Ash had returned early in the morning with Hanna, they had just seen Igula and Harvey finishing their shift from the Void Realm, sitting in the living room as if waiting for his return.

Feeling a bit guilty for not buying any gifts, Ash had invited them to join him in the bath to discuss the Gospel system to divert attention.

However, this seemed to start a precedent; after that, for three days, they came to the bathhouse to soak after clocking out from the Void Realm and casually chat, which made Ash quickly realize that their exploration abilities in the Void Realm were not weak–they almost always came after dawn, which meant each of them could explore the Time Continent for a full six hours.

Although they didn’t have a map or a sports car, and their skills, variety, and depth were far less than Ash’s, they seemed to have unique methods of exploration, not less in total duration than Ash.

Ash even suspected they had some transportation method, otherwise, at least half of their soul energy would have been spent on traveling, which could not support six hours, they would have exhausted it in three.

Harvey’s transportation method was easy to guess; he was either riding a skeleton horse or skeleton man, or perhaps he would craft a Fish-Slicing Dragon skeleton on the spot. Igula was harder to guess; could his Spirit Faction be strong enough to hypnotize intelligent beings into serving him like dogs?

No, Ash remembered asking Igula the previous day while soaking if he had ever used a Spirit Miracle to do something indecent. Igula had answered, “Firstly, the things you’re imagining, I can indeed do. But even without miracles, I can manage it and am already tired of it; then, Ash, you shook the water in your head. Since you can hypnotize already, why not hypnotize yourself?”

“Hypnotizing oneself is simpler and more efficient, and you can set any scenario, any characters, and any content. In reality, you might still be limited by physical functions, but in illusions, you can be as fierce as you want… In fact, Spirit Mages rarely hypnotize others directly but rather use suggestive words and actions to induce others to think the desired outcome.”

“Only mediocre Spirit Mages use miracles to achieve their goals. Most of the time, the subjects of a Spirit Mage’s hypnosis are themselves.”

“The Spirit Faction isn’t about manipulating others but about shaping oneself.”

So, it’s very likely that Igula wasn’t hypnotizing intelligent beings but hypnotizing himself ‘not to feel tired from walking’!

In fact, this was a typical encounter for Mages exploring the Void Realm: Mages from different factions used various methods to mitigate the adverse factors in the Void Realm.

There was no workaround in the Sea of Knowledge; everyone was a novice at first and had to swim through it forcibly, but once they reached the Time Continent and had some faction basis, they could start to mitigate the environmental challenges.

This was actually a sort of selection–Mages who couldn’t conquer their environments were the failures within the Mage Evolution System.

Like Ash and his group driving against the Golden Rain, in a way, they were spoiled, definite outliers in the Mage Evolution System. They hadn’t properly cultivated the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments, and they would eventually pay the price elsewhere.

Ash and the others knew this but had no intention of compensating–let’s talk about it when the time comes. Life needs to have some dreams; who knows, maybe they’ll never have to pay the price?

Thinking this, Ash rotated his thumb ring to summon the Gospel Book, flipping to the page of the Mage’s Handbook, where the information immediately popped up.

“Death Mad Sword Maiden’s Growth Report 5.3~5.9”
“Sword Technique Faction: Silver – Gold”
“Light Magic Faction: Silver – Silver”
“Water Magic Faction: Silver – Silver”
“Spirit Faction: Silver – Silver”
“Magic Power: Golden Illusion Wings – One Gold Feather”
“Training Evaluation: A!”

“Due to receiving an ‘A’ grade, Death Mad Sword Maiden has been granted a profession enhancement by the Mage’s Handbook: Mad Dancer – Genocide Gold Mage!”

“Genocide Gold Mage * Professional characteristics: Increases damage to group intelligent beings by 10%.”

“Professional evaluation task ‘Mad Dance’ (10,000 strikes) completed! Mad Dancer professional characteristics permanently solidified!”

“Mad Dancer (Permanent Profession): Attacking the same target can increase attack speed by 2%, stacking up to 5 times, immediately ineffective upon switching targets.”

The main content of their exploration in the Void Realm these past two days was to help Sword Maiden complete her professional evaluation tasks. Fortunately, Sword Maiden gained the new miracle ‘Blood Flower Water Moon’ which not only had instant high output but also allowed her to stack dozens of effective strikes with one activation. If they gathered group beings together, she could even instantly slice out hundreds of effective strikes.

Even so, Ash and his group raided over a dozen homes of White Speed Dragons, Ferocious Wolf Dragons, and Crossing Bird Dragons in these two days. Sword Maiden’s new profession ‘Genocide Gold Mage’ was clearly related to this.

Just the Essence Material obtained from looting and extermination was enough to feed Sword Maiden’s ‘Wave’ and ‘Moon Silk’ Technique Spirits, as well as the Black and White Witch’s ‘Water Line’ and ‘Claw’ Technique Spirits to Two-winged.

Ash checked Sword Maiden’s interface and indeed saw the profession column had changed to “Genocide Gold Mage/Mad Dancer.” However, Sword Maiden’s swordsmanship faction had progressed from silver to gold, and the training evaluation was still A, showing that only during the advance of Magic Power could an S grade be obtained.