Chapter 2041: Confrontation
In the afternoon, in the library on King's Campus, Dorothy sat in a secluded corner with a serious look on her face. This was the first time she was asked to have her fortune told.
"Since the divination failed once, you added more spirits to continue divination? Heh... As expected of an association of some scale, it has some assets."
As Dorothy thought about this, it was obvious that the Eight-Pointed Nest probably knew that it was not the Security Bureau but some other force that caused Claudius' death.
'They have determined that I am not a powerful force... Are they trying to use their reserve spiritual power to defeat my anti-divination defense? Or are they just testing me? In any case... let's block this wave first.'
Dorothy thought so, and then she activated the system again, consuming 1 "Shadow" and 1 "Initiate", and blocked the divination directed at her this time.
After that, Dorothy sat there silently, waiting silently. After three or four minutes, the traditional reminder sounded in her mind again.
"Warning, information search for the body detected..."
"Still coming...are you determined to fight to the end? Do these guys think that my spiritual power is over?"
Dorothy frowned as she thought about it, and she immediately started the system again. After consuming her spiritual energy, she blocked the third round of divination, and then began to calculate her remaining spiritual energy.
Now it has been more than two days since the battle with Claudius. Dorothy is now at the Black Rank, with a spiritual recovery speed of 4 points a day. Her blue bar "Enlightenment" has been fully restored. Her "Shadow" spirituality is also not small after robbing Claudius, a total of 9 points, which should be enough to deal with it.
Then, Dorothy kept calm and waited quietly for the other party's response, but this time the other party's response took five or six minutes.
'warn……'
Dorothy continued to block the new divination with a gloomy face, but after another six or seven minutes, the new reminder sounded again.
'warn……'
Then, Dorothy started a spiritual confrontation with the fortune teller. When the fortune teller started fortune telling, Dorothy blocked the fortune telling. As her spiritual energy was constantly consumed, Dorothy became a little uneasy.
Although she knew that she had more anti-divination spirituality than other people in the secret world, Dorothy had no idea how much more it was. After all, this time she was facing a large-scale association with her own anti-divination resources. It was completely unknown whether she could withstand it. If she couldn't bear it, she could only run away, and she didn't know if she could get away.
Although Dorothy was a little unsure at this time, she felt that the other party might not be sure either. The basis for her judgment was that the time interval between the other party's divinations was getting longer and longer, from two or three minutes at the beginning to five or six minutes later. This proved that the other party was spending more and more time thinking, and in a way, it also proved that the other party's mentality was becoming more and more hesitant.
It was obvious that the fortune-teller could not ignore the continuous consumption of fortune-telling resources. After seeing that the divination was ineffective again and again, they were also hesitating whether they should invest more resources to continue divination. Dorothy could not confirm how many fortune-telling resources the other party had, and the other party could not confirm how many counter-divination resources Dorothy had.
From the perspective of the fortune teller, the situation they are facing is like gambling. It is possible that the fortune-telling resources will be exhausted the next time they fortune-tell Dorothy, and they will be able to divine Dorothy's information. It is also possible that they will continue to gain nothing. They have already invested enough resources. If they give up, the resources invested in advance will be wasted. If they insist on continuing to invest, as long as 10% is achieved, then the previous investment will be meaningful.
This situation lasted for quite a while. Finally, after Dorothy had used up 6 points of "Start" and "Shadow", the opponent fell silent. Dorothy waited for more than half an hour but still did not see the opponent's new round of action.
"It's over?" Does that mean the other party has spent a total of 6 points of "Light" and 6 points of "Start" extraordinary resources? Now that the other party has stopped, does that mean that the other party's resources are now empty?
"No, most likely not. If they use up all their 'starting' resources in one go, then their anti-divination ability will be directly equal to zero. Now it seems more like the other party can't see through my strength and stopped in time..."
Dorothy thought about the current situation, and then she had a hint of other ideas in her mind.
'Should I... switch from defense to offense now, and take advantage of the opponent's consumption of a lot of energy to break through the opponent's anti-divination defense in one breath? There is a penalty for cross-level divination. The opponent's divination host may be white level or even higher. I may not be able to defeat the opponent under the penalty of leaping level.
"For me, who is only at the Black Rank, this kind of divination is advantageous for me in terms of defense, but disadvantageous for attack, so I can't attack rashly."
Dorothy thought that she didn't have much spiritual energy left, and it was not a good choice to attack rashly while bearing the penalty for crossing levels, but she was not willing to let this wave go.
'The opponent lost 6 points of 'Inspiration' in this wave, which should be a considerable value. This may be an opportunity. Even if I don't use divination to counterattack, shouldn't I take the opportunity to do something else?'
Dorothy thought about this for a while, and after a while, she had some ideas in her mind.
"Perhaps, I can first formally understand the value of 'initiate'..."
Thinking of this, Dorothy put away the things on the table, then stood up and quickly left the library.
Dorothy left the library, walked out of the campus, went out of the east gate and arrived at Greenshade Town, and went all the way to No. 37, Beverly's house.
Standing at the door of the old-style house, Dorothy knocked on the door as usual. Not long after, the door was opened, and Beverly, wearing an exquisite dress, with one eye missing and black holes in her eye sockets, appeared in front of Dorothy.
"Oh, you're finally here." Beverly said while greeting Dorothy, and Dorothy tilted her head slightly and spoke.
"You knew I was coming?"
"Of course, the situation in the school is so serious, I think it would be hard for me not to know about it. Come in, don't stand at the door." With a wave of her hand, Beverly turned and walked into the room, and Dorothy soon followed.
Coming to the familiar living room, Beverly sat on the sofa and began to fiddle with a pile of small things on the table. Looking closely, they were metal eyeballs. Beverly was holding a half-disassembled eyeball and wiping the layers of glass lenses on it with her hand.
"Well, then, Miss Meshhaus, what business do you have when you come back to my place?"
Beverly spoke while wiping her eyes, and Dorothy also spoke without hesitation.
"I want to ask, if I want to buy a spiritual storage of 'Qi' from you, how much will it cost?" Dorothy asked Beverly. Now she needed to know the value of the "Qi" storage.
"'Open' the storage... This is a rare commodity. Not only me, but even the entire Tivian Whitestone Masons Guild doesn't have much in stock.
"All storage items are subject to supply and demand, so prices fluctuate greatly. The price fluctuations of the 'Start' storage items are even more exaggerated. However, the demand for 'Start' from various forces in Tivian is not very high at present, so the price is still reasonable. If you want some, I can sell the first one to you for 1,400 pounds. If your demand is large, the price will also change."
Beverly finished her words calmly. Dorothy was a little stunned and stood there listening to Beverly's words.
"1400 pounds... Shit, the storage items are so expensive, 1400 pounds for one... That means those guys just spent nearly 10,000 pounds in one go just to compete with me?"
Although Dorothy had anticipated that the price of the 'Enlightenment' spiritual storage might be a bit unusual, she did not expect it to be so unusual. It was really too exaggerated that a spiritual storage could be sold for so much money.
"Well...if I can create a storage item, wouldn't that make me completely rich?"
Dorothy thought that if this method could really be realized, then money would no longer be a problem for her.
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Well, I should take a day off tomorrow, as I mentioned in the previous chapter.
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