Chapter 120 Unlock New Map: Tokyo Curse High [VIP]
A translucent box popped up in the lower right corner of the field of view, flashing a prompt for a new task.
[The character can use spell power: You now have a new power, but you know very little about its use. It just so happens that there are two professionals in front of you. Why not squeeze out all their knowledge without leaving any room for error?]
The player looked at the words, then raised his eyes to look at Noise Monster Wu and Monster Liu Hai who were arm in arm in arm in front of him.
Exploiting her without leaving any room for maneuver? The system really understands her.
Just then, Noise Monster Wu turned around and, smiling, invited him, "Xiao Lin, do you want to come to our calligraphy school?"
Hmm, word proofreading? Players thought this was a great idea: new maps, new NPCs, and definitely a skill trainer.
She nodded simply: "Okay."
"Why did the name suddenly become Xiaolin? To be honest, she should be older than us, right?" said the strange guy with the bangs helplessly.
"What's the matter with that? Xiaolin won't mind, right?" Noise Monster looked at the player, who nodded indifferently.
It doesn't matter what name she calls him, the player doesn't mind. After all, she herself also gives NPCs all kinds of nicknames, and at least it sounds normal to Xiaolin.
"See~" Noise Monster raised his eyebrows proudly.
A hash mark quickly appeared on the strange man's forehead, but he suppressed it. He lowered his head and asked the player, "Then, can I call you Xiaolin too?"
The player nodded again.
"Xiao Lin?" Dead Fish Eyes, who was waiting at the entrance of the valley, yawned and asked.
"It's obvious, Glass, that's what she's called." Noise Monster pointed at the player who was sunken between the two of them with a smile.
"Ah, that sounds pretty cute." Dead Fish Eyes smiled a little and asked gently, "Can I call you that, too?"
The player nodded silently for the second time.
In order to avoid being harassed every time the NPC got excited and wanted to change the player's name, she simply said, "You can call me whatever you want, don't ask me."
“——Huh? Really?” Noise Monster showed an eager expression.
"——Wu." The strange bangs called him.
"Well, I didn't say anything." Noise Monster Wu made a face at him, then folded his hands behind his head and walked forward leisurely.
"Let's go, let's go."
The player cooperated very well and didn't [teleport] directly - after all, they came here to practice calligraphy, not to make enemies. If they did, they might be identified as enemies right after teleporting and be forced to fight.
To avoid this, she quietly followed them through the barrier and into a complex of buildings that looked a bit old.
This is probably what is called a technical college.
As soon as they stepped into what looked like an office room, a tall man wearing sunglasses and with a strong aura suddenly confronted the Noise Monster and his friends, "No tent again? Fortunately, we're in the mountains this time... No, why did you bring a child back?!"
Child? The player looked down at his body, which had shrunk due to chewing on [APTX4869].
Okay, it’s indeed a child.
She was too lazy to explain, and with a thought, the effects of the medicine in her body and the effects of [Heroic Triumph] that changed her hair color, eye color, and height were automatically cancelled.
The body stretched and grew taller instantly as if pixels were reassembled, and the bones made a slight crackling sound. In an instant, the child turned into an adult woman with white hair and red eyes who was nearly 1.9 meters tall.
The player stated the fact seriously: "It's not a child."
The teacher NPC was obviously stunned for a moment.
Noise Monster Wu, who was watching the fun from the sidelines, asked with a grin, "Wow, cool! But why do you shrink all the time, Xiaolin?"
Players think this question is boring. Isn’t the answer obvious?
"Children's appearance makes it easy to let down one's guard," she said matter-of-factly. "When Hongming isn't paying attention, it's fun to pull out a 40-meter sword and kill them instantly."
Well, this is basic tactical deception. It's not that players like to use children's bodies to bully the world, or that people subconsciously give in when facing cubs. No, absolutely not.
“Wow!” Noise Monster’s eyes lit up behind his sunglasses, and he clapped his hands vigorously. “That sounds super fun! I get you!”
The player gave him a thumbs-up.
After the demonstration, the player used [Heroic Triumph] again, and his body shrank again, turning back into a child's size, but this time he retained the iconic white hair and red eyes.
With a clear goal in mind, she walked straight up to the teacher NPC, raised her head, and tugged at the corner of his dark uniform without any hesitation. Her tone was a statement rather than a request: "Now, teach me the spell."
The teacher NPC's brows furrowed even tighter, and he looked at the Noise Monster and the others, his eyes asking what the hell they were doing.
One looked at the ceiling, one at the floor, one at his own nails, and they all whistled in unison.
"Spells... are not talents..." The teacher NPC tried to explain, his tone filled with helplessness.
The player interrupted him, "I can speak any word I want."
In her skill tree, as long as the conditions are met,
Noise Monster Wu immediately fanned the flames: "That's right, teacher, she's super amazing. Just now, outside, whoosh, she just looked at it and used it, and then she completely lost her curse power. She was able to condense curse power from her emotions!"
He exaggeratedly measured a tiny distance between his thumb and index finger.
The teacher NPC turned his gaze to the relatively reliable Weird Liu Hai. Weird Liu Hai sighed, rubbed his brow, and nodded helplessly, "Indeed... that's right. Although it sounds incredible..."
His face was full of confusion, which was contrary to common sense but true.
The teacher NPC looked even more troubled.
He rubbed his forehead and finally waved to Noise Monster and Strange Bangs: "You two, follow me to the office and report the mission in detail."
Then, he turned his gaze to the dead fish eyes, and his tone softened a little, but still left no room for doubt: "Glass, take her... just wander around here."
There was no change in expression on the dead fish eyes' face, he just said "oh" lazily.
She walked up to the player and held out her hand: "Ah, then let me introduce you to the Chinese school."
The player looked at his task panel and found that it had indeed been refreshed.
[Familiar with Spells High School: You've arrived at the heart of the Spell World, and someone's offering to show you around. Why refuse? Perhaps this can prepare you for some decisions.]
New missions, new maps.
Without hesitation, the player reached out his little hand and grasped the slightly cool fingers of the Glass NPC. At the same time, he tilted his head upwards and nodded solemnly at her with his expressionless white-haired, red-eyed face: "Yes."
Dead Fish Eyes seemed to be choked by this overly serious reaction, and then returned to his unmotivated look. Holding the player's hand, he slowly walked out of the stagnant office and began to wander in the corridor of the technical college.
The child's body shape that was released and then restored made her field of vision lower, but the features of white hair and red eyes remained unchanged, and coupled with the expressionless face, it looked a bit weird.
Fortunately, players don't care about the appearance of NPCs.
"This is the Bishop's Office Building, and the first-grade classrooms are over there." The voice of Dead Fish Eyes was just like her, a little sleepy and lazy, and she pointed her finger casually in a direction.
The player looked in that direction, and the scanning system silently marked [Teaching Building - Main Building (Explored)] in the field of vision.
"That's the dormitory area," Dead Fish Eyes pointed to another row of houses, "I and those two troublemakers live over there. You..."
She looked down at the player and asked, "Shouldn't we have to worry about accommodation for now?"
The player didn't answer. She was more concerned about other information: "What are the techniques for Noise Monster and Monster Bangs?"
Since we need to cast spells, understanding the skill composition of existing powerful NPCs is basic intelligence gathering.
"Oh, Gojo," the dead-eyed man said of Noisy Kaigo, his tone tinged with a hint of familiar disdain. "He has a pair of unique eyes, called the Six Eyes, which can see through the flow of cursed energy. His technique is called the Unlimited Technique, which basically... well, it slows down anything that comes near him infinitely, so it can never touch him? Or maybe it compresses space? Well, anyway, it means you can't hit him."
"He can also make a Rasengan called [Ao], which has great suction power, or a repulsive shock wave like [He]. Well, but he hasn't succeeded yet. But according to him, the destructive power is amazing."
She described it very briefly, as if she were reading an instruction manual.
"Getsuyu," she continued, talking about the strange bangs, "his technique is [Cursed Spirit Manipulation Technique]. He can capture those cursed spirits, turn them into black balls and eat them, and then drive them to fight. He is a Pokémon Master. And unlike other Shikigami users, he is also very good at physical skills. He is a gorilla."
She summed it up very vividly.
The player quickly sorted it out in his mind: a long-range turret with high dodge and high burst, and a summoning warlock.
They are all powerful combat units, so what about Dead Fish Eyes?
"Where's your technique?" The player looked directly at the dead fish eyes, with pure curiosity in his red eyes.
"Me?" Dead Fish Eyes twitched his lips, revealing an expression somewhere between boredom and laziness. "Reversal technique. To put it simply, it restores health."
Recovering health? The player understood immediately.
Healing is an indispensable auxiliary profession in the game.
However, players have always had a distorted understanding of support - why can't a skill that can heal people be used to burn people? In principle, it should be feasible.
She stared at him with dead eyes and said firmly, "It can only restore health? It can't be used to deal damage?"
This problem is obviously beyond the scope of Dead Fish Eyes' daily response.
She was stunned for a moment, then found it a little funny.
"Injure? Reversal magic is used for healing, acting on oneself or others to repair damage. Using it to hit someone?" She shook her head, her tone relaxed yet firm. "No way. Just like... you can use a bandage to bandage a wound, but you can't use a bandage to strangle someone. They have different uses."
Really?
Players don't believe it.
Just like she could really strangle someone to death with a bandage, how could there be a skill that was completely harmless?
In the game's mechanics, energy is energy. Mana can be used to fire beams and summon monsters, so why should energy used for healing only work in one direction? There must be a way to reverse the output.
Theory exists, practice tests it.
"I don't believe it." The player released the dead fish eye's hand, looked at her and said, "Have you tried it? Use it on a cursed spirit."
"Ah... not really." Dead Fish Eyes tilted his head. "As a rare talent who can heal others, I usually don't go to the battlefield. I usually stay in the rear."
"Then show me?" the player asked persistently.
The dead fish eyes looked at the little white-haired, red-eyed creature in front of him saying such a serious thing, and felt that the absurdity was even stronger. "Demonstrate? How to demonstrate? Treating the air?"
"Go out," the player said succinctly, pointing his little finger at the door leading to the courtyard outside the corridor, "find something to try."
Dead Fish Eyes rubbed his brows and experienced the feeling of getting along with her in the beginning. Talking about common sense and common sense to players is like talking to a cow.
Reject? She had a feeling that refusing would only prompt the player to come up with even more outrageous testing schemes, like sneaking into her room in the middle of the night or capturing a cursed spirit to force her to heal an attack.
"Alas..." Dead Fish Eyes sighed resignedly, too lazy to argue. She pushed open the door to the courtyard, and the moon slowly emerged from behind the clouds, gently illuminating the surroundings.
"Okay, Xiaolin. What kind of demonstration do you want to see? Let me make it clear first, don't bring any cursed spirits with you, or it will trigger the barrier warning."
The player followed him out, his eyes quickly scanning the courtyard.
A few pruned trees, a stone path, and some old training tires and wooden stakes piled in the corner.
Target locked: an old wooden stake half a person's height, well, that's it.
"Use your reversal spell on that one," the player pointed at the wooden stake.
He looked in the direction she pointed with dead fish eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Using a healing spell on a wooden stake? That in itself is insane enough.
But she still walked over, stood in front of the wooden stake, raised one hand, and placed her palm towards the surface of the stake that was covered with cracks and traces of time, mobilizing the gentle magical power in her body.
Familiar energy fluctuations with the implication of biological construction gathered in her palm. It was the power that could repair cells and heal wounds.
She pressed her palm lightly against the stake.
As expected, nothing happened. Wood isn't a living thing; it has no cells to repair, no wounds to heal. The energy seeped into a dry sponge like water, disappearing instantly. The wooden stake didn't budge, not even a single light effect.
"Here, you see?" Dead Fish Eyes withdrew his hand, his tone a bit helpless, "It's useless. The energy was absorbed? Or dissipated? In short, there was no reaction."
The player stared at the motionless health bar above the wooden stake and frowned.
It is true that there was no blood loss, but the player's thinking was very direct: the fact that the energy output did not cause damage does not mean that the energy itself is not aggressive, it may be that the way it works is wrong.
But now, let’s put aside the inanimate objects and do a comparative experiment with living things.
The player mused, "Healing energy is ineffective against non-living things? It requires a living target."
Her eyes began to flick back and forth between herself and Dead Fish Eyes, as if assessing which one would be a better target.
The dead fish eyes felt a chill on his back when she looked at him, and he instantly understood the meaning of her eyes.
She immediately took a step back, crossed her arms over her chest, and took a defensive stance. "Stop! Stop it! Don't even think about it! I refuse to be a test subject for your whims! You are also forbidden to harm yourself!"
She knows players so well that they can literally cut themselves in the process to test an idea and then ask her to demonstrate it again.
The players felt it was a pity to see Dead Fish Eyes looking as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
Live testing is indeed the most direct method, and there are two very suitable experiments in front of us.
However, players are not stubborn. The temporary obstruction of theoretical verification does not mean giving up.
She silently wrote down in the system notes: [Reversal technique (therapeutic) preliminary test: Ineffective against non-living objects. Need to find a living target for comparison and verification.]
At the same time, a new idea formed in the player's mind: since the energy form can be reversed for healing, can we reverse its polarity again? Or find the critical point of its instability? Then, through this method, can she deal damage?
[System prompt: Based on observation and analysis, the possibility of unlocking the skill tree branch [Deconstruction and Reversal of Curse Power] has increased.]
The player looked at this prompt, with no emotion in his red eyes, but in his heart he silently added a label to Dead Fish Eyes: [Key NPC for Potential Skill Development].
As for studying the technique of Dead Fish Eyes... the player glanced at the NPC who was still alert.
Well, there is a long way to go.
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