Chapter 1045 The Death Maniac and the Black Devil
The silver limousine drove on the overpass in Galax, surrounded by countless car lights that shuttled over the city along the overpass, like a group of fireflies bound in a track. High-rise buildings with shining neon lights stand on the ground, like giant lanterns lighting up the falling snowflakes in the night sky.
When I got off the bridge and encountered a toll booth, the car window slowly moved down and a card was handed out from inside. The staff member took the card and swiped it, glanced at the list of suspects posted on the wall next to him, looked down at the interior of the car, and was immediately shocked: the driver in the front seat was actually a graceful blond girl wearing a black suit. Wearing a velvet shawl and a military blue trench coat underneath, she naturally exuded the nobility of an upper-class aristocrat. Her long fingers wearing velvet black gloves tapped the steering wheel gently, showing that she was in a good mood.
It didn't correspond to the list of suspects at all. The staff handed the card back and said with a smile: "May the stars bless you."
The blond girl smiled and nodded, lowered the opaque windows, and the silver car disappeared into the traffic.
In the back seat, Sonia was watching a drama next to Ash, her blood-red hair tickling Ash. Although it is a good choice to spend time watching dramas with Sword Princess in his arms, Ash still needs to deal with a small matter first.
Opening "Aurora's Magician's Manual", a message immediately popped up: "The training of operators has ended. Please check the growth report and set up this week's training strategy as soon as possible."
Ash didn't expect that this system was still working. In fact, after he knew that his encounter with the four Sword Princesses was not a 'game accident' but a 'destined necessity', he realized that this game system was just the Final Five. It's just the medium the group uses to guide them.
I asked how I, a member of the operations team, could travel through time with a game. The job of operations is not to play games, but to play with players...
Now that Death Maniac had confessed the truth and showed his fangs to them, Ash thought that even if "Aurora's Magician's Manual" would not disappear, at least it would not be updated. After all, the purpose of this system is to induce Ash to collect and correctly train four operators while hiding the Final Five.
But Ya Xiu has already met with the Death Maniac, and their existence has been completely exposed. If there is anything that needs to be said directly, why do they need to use the system to induce them? It’s impossible for the final viewer to be another Riddler who talks on wheels, right?
It’s just as strange as a long-distance couple meeting each other but not chatting in real life and insisting on sending emojis online.
But when Ash saw the details of the report, his expression became serious.
"Growth Report of the Mad Swordswoman 10.17~3.27"
"Bond Level: 4 (75% experience sharing)"
"Swordsmanship Faction: Sanctuary → Demigod"
"Waterbending Faction: Gold→Legendary"
"Space Faction: Gold→Space"
"Light Magic Faction: Silver → Gold"
"Time Faction: Gold→Gold"
"Spell Power: Legendary Zero Feather → Demigod Zero Feather"
"Training evaluation: SSS!"
"Because of the SSS-level evaluation, the Death Madness Sword Princess received the professional enhancement in the Magician's Manual: Death Madness!"
"Death Madness·Ultimate Characteristics: Gradually unlock three characteristics as your personality shifts."
[Possessiveness: Every effective attack will leave pollution magic power in the target's body. The pollution magic power will continue to torture the target's soul. The magic spirit owned by the target will fall into madness and actively rebel or self-destruct. 】
[Viciousness: When you attack, regardless of whether the attack is effective, contacting, or killing, the target targeted by you will receive direct soul shock damage. If there is pollution magic power in the target's body, the pollution magic power will increase explosively. 】
[Weeping: When you are depressed, you will obtain a layer of Weeping Cloak, with a maximum of seven layers. Each layer of the cloak provides you with various resistances, attack speed, cast speed, and damage barrier. Cloak of Weeping will cause the pollution mana within the range to produce a burning effect and accelerated growth effect. 】
"Because her magic power has been improved, the Death Mad Sword Girl's talent has been enhanced!"
"Because of her SSS-level evaluation, the Death Madness Swordswoman received the professional assessment task 'Death Madness'!"
"Death Maniac: There is no time limit. When the character shifts to the critical point and all characteristics are unlocked, the Death Maniac professional characteristics can be permanently solidified. Current progress: (1/3)."
Sword Queen's bond level is still level 4. Ash is not surprised. The reason why they were able to increase their bond level to level 5 or even 6 in the Hell Trial was all due to the temporary improvement of the Final Five. Since the Hell Trial Once the training is over, the bonds will naturally come back.
However, he and Sword Princess Witch have experienced so many adventures in the past, and they have already reached level 4 bond long ago. Ash once wondered whether they had to do the most intimate thing as a couple to unlock the level 5 bond, but what if he was a pure lover... No, he has always been a pure lover... What if he made up his mind to only like one person? Man, then wouldn’t anyone else be able to unlock the level 5 bond?
In fact, what is more likely to happen is: if no one likes him, then wouldn't he never be able to unlock the level 5 bond?
But now Ash understands that it is not that only lovers can unlock level 5 bonds, but only those with the highest level of magic can unlock level 5 bonds. The sharing of virtual wings unlocked by level 5 bonds is not a power that can be mastered by demigods or masters. It is completely the ultimate secret technique invented by the Final Five, a group of supreme magicians from the end of the century.
As for Sword Princess's demigod swordsmanship, Ash thought there was a lot of water in it.
Before the Hell Trial, Swordswoman's swordsmanship was legendary at best, and it was impossible to touch the edge of demigods. However, it was impossible to summon gods based on the legendary realm. In order to summon the 'Broken Lake God', her swordsmanship faction was in Hell. During the trial, he was forcibly promoted to the demigod state.
So in a sense, it can be said that Ash imbued her with the realm of swordsmanship into a demigod. After all...
Her waterbending advancement to Legend was unexpected, but within reason. The God of Broken Lake is obviously a composite magic spirit with swordsmanship as the main skill and water skill as the secondary skill. Sword Girl will naturally deepen her understanding of water magic in the process of summoning the gods.
The space faction can be promoted to the holy realm for similar reasons.
This is perhaps the most extravagant shortcut to advance in magic throughout the ages. Magicians often rely on their accumulated knowledge of magic to summon gods. Only they can improve their knowledge of magic by summoning gods. The former is like sitting in the leadership position based on work experience, while the latter is like parachuting directly into the leadership position and accumulating work experience.
But Yaxiu is most nervous right now, naturally because of Sword Girl’s new professional feature, Death Madness!
I have to say that Ash was really moved when he saw her professional characteristics. Vichy has mentioned before that although the soul body allows demigods to gain immortality, it also loses the 'plasticity' of mortals. Injured mortals can heal their flesh and blood through miracles, but injuries to the demigod's soul body may not be solved for hundreds of years!
It can be seen that the three characteristics of Death Madness are completely aimed at the soul body: [Possessiveness] creates pollution magic that will always eat away at the enemy's soul body, [Bitterness] allows the Sword Princess to ignore all defenses and directly attack the opponent's soul to trigger pollution magic, [Weeping] ] Combining offense and defense, since it protects one's soul body, it can further enhance the power of pollution magic!
If Sword Princess unlocks these three characteristics, the immortal demigods who fight her in the future will also lose a layer of skin. At least Ash couldn't figure out how he could deal with such a swordswoman.
Fortunately, Sword Lady was in my arms, which scared me to death.
Although these three characteristics are very tempting, Ash has no nostalgia at all.
When the Sword Lady's personality shifts to the extent that she can unlock these three characteristics, she will not be far away from being replaced by "Death Madness".
This is more of a warning than a mission. As long as Ash does the opposite and prevents Sword Princess from having emotions such as [possessiveness], [resentment], [sobbing], etc., he can prevent her personality from turning towards death!
Sword Girl's progress is now (1/3), and she has obviously unlocked the [Possessiveness] trait, but Ash doesn't care. He had never thought about changing Sword Lady's possessiveness. Firstly, he couldn't do it, and secondly, he couldn't imagine what Sword Lady would be like without possessiveness.
He clearly knows that Jian Ji has many shortcomings, such as possessiveness, revenge, vanity, selfishness, and aversion to others... But he just likes her. Others have these shortcomings and are not good. Jian Ji has these shortcomings and is cute.
Just like Sword Lady also likes him with all his shortcomings.
Ash adjusted his position and wrapped his hands around Sword Girl's waist from behind. Without turning her head, Sonia changed into a more comfortable position and lay in his arms, placing her hands on his, gathering together for warmth.
"Inherent talent·Sword Queen (virtual position): It is easier to summon four-winged swordsmanship spirits, it is possible to independently hatch new swordsmanship spirits, and it can actively summon the phantom of the extinguishing resentful dragon (the talent level can be unlocked after the strength is improved)"
Ash touched the back of Sword Girl's hand. Her queen's mark had not disappeared and she could continue to actively summon the guardian spirit. It's strange to say that the Sword Princess has the Resentful Dragon, the Witch has the Bronze Dragon, the Silver Lantern has the Magic Mirror Dragon, and Vichy has the Dusk Dragon, but he has no guardian spirit.
Even a fish-killing dragon would be great!
Ash complained in his mind as he opened the second report.
"The Black and White Witch's Growth Report 10.17~3.27"
"Bond Level: 4 (75% experience sharing)"
"Time Faction: Sanctuary → Demigod"
"Fist Claw Faction: Sanctuary → Legend"
"Space Faction: Silver → Legend"
"Soul Faction: Silver → Sanctuary"
"Psychic Faction: Gold→Gold"
"Water Magic Faction: Silver→Silver"
"Spell Power: Legendary Zero Feather → Demigod Zero Feather"
"Training evaluation: SSS!"
"Because of her SSS-level evaluation, the Black and White Witch received the professional enhancement from the Sorcerer's Manual: Dark Demon!"
"Dark Demon·Professional Characteristics: Gradually unlock three characteristics as your personality shifts."
[Loneliness: You and your clone share virtual wing magic power, divine magic spirit, magic wonders, and sensory information. You and the clone have the same spellcasting permissions. 】
[Crazy: When you and your clone activate miracles, wonders, and miracles at the same time, the effects of your spells will be connected and affect each other, and the resulting effects will be enhanced by 300%~10000%. 】
[Despair: At the cost of sleeping, the clone's thinking ability is overclocked and strengthened, and it can activate more miracles, wonders, and miracles at the same time. 】
"Because the magic power has been improved, the black and white witch's talent has been enhanced!"
"Because of her SSS-level evaluation, the Black and White Witch received the professional assessment mission 'Dark Demon'!"
"Dark Devil: There is no time limit. When the character shifts to the critical point and all characteristics are unlocked, the Black Devil's professional characteristics can be permanently solidified. Current progress: (2/3)."
Ash rubbed his eyes to make sure he saw it correctly.
Why, why did the Sword Girl unlock only 1 feature, but the Witch unlocked 2! ?
First of all, the witch must have unlocked [Loneliness]. It was because of her loneliness that she created the witch sisters. Secondly, the witch must have not unlocked [Despair]. She sneaked into Ash's tent to sleep last night, but Ash found herself in the morning. I was kicked off, and I feel full of energy every day.
Therefore, the witch can only unlock more of the [Crazy] feature.
But the craziest thing the witch has done during this period seems to be...
Ash quickly shook this terrible thought out of his head, it's impossible, absolutely impossible, it's definitely not because of me!
Sonia poked him with her elbow, signaling you, the pillow, to stop moving. She raised her eyebrows and glanced at the rearview mirror in front of her, asking Ash to hold her hand tighter.
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