A temporary closed area was marked out by laser on the road in front of the hotel. The rumbling Gospel hovercraft slowly landed on the ground, and the hatch slid to the sides to reveal the magnificent interior, which was as comfortable as a hotel suite.
"Ash, this way."
Everyone except Ash and Felix was inside.
Sonia was wearing a black short dress with suspenders and black stockings with ties. She patted the empty seat next to her, crossed her legs and swayed her red wine glass. Ash could feel the passers-by's envy and jealousy turning into admiration - especially after Freya poked her head out and greeted him with a smile, the passers-by's gazes were almost turning into pity, staring at Ash, who looked like a pretty boy, stepping into the devil's cave of ecstasy.
In fact, Ash's feeling was exactly the same. Although the space inside the hovercraft was not small, it was obviously overloaded with nine people crammed in. On his left was the Sword Maid, and on his right was the Witch Silver Lantern. He was squeezed in the middle with his hands pressed together. He did not feel the sense of accomplishment of being surrounded by people on both sides. Instead, he felt as cramped as a junior bullied by four seniors.
"Do we have to squeeze into one car?"
"Not many Gospel hovercrafts are imported, and I can only transfer one." Shivlin drank the blood-red wine, glanced at him and smiled, "It's not far anyway, so don't complain."
"If it's not far, then we can go by car, right?"
"But we're all riding the hovercraft today, so we're too lazy to change our mode of transportation."
Ash was a little curious: "Are you guys doing activities together today?"
"Well, we went to the 'Spirit Tomb' in Feimeng City. It was very interesting. The Blood Moon Sorcerer used miracles to collect all the fallen spirits on the earth, and kept a trace of their true spirits and stored them on the tombstones. We saw many incredible spirits." Sonia put down the wine glass and looked at Wei Xi, "So the 'Sword Spirit Spirit' is really impossible to summon? With my sword faction and your soul faction..."
"No." Weixi changed back into a maid outfit today. The simple black and white bra held up her breathtaking silhouette. "The condition for summoning a sword spirit is to nurture the sword for more than ten years until it develops spirituality. The best I can do is to shorten the nurturing time for you, but it will take at least three years. Don't even think about it in a short time."
"Is there no way to circumvent this summoning condition? Can't I use other magic spirits to switch over?"
"Theoretically, it's possible. For example, "evil spirits", "corpse spirits" or "sword souls" and "sword intentions" should all be converted into "sword spirits", but it also takes time to study, unless Ash helps. After all, he is proficient in both swordsmanship and souls, and should be able to directly figure out how to convert sword spirits through inspiration."
"Then put it on Ash's 72nd To-Do List..."
Ash was shocked: "I still have 71 jobs ahead of me?"
"Of course, the enemy is a star that can destroy the world. We must be fully prepared, make up for all shortcomings, and tap our potential to the limit, so that we can step into the Seventh Heaven and fight her to the death." Sonia took out a notebook and wrote and drew: "We are moving too fast and too fast. The two-month vacation is just enough for us to calm down, carefully sort out the resources we have, and adjust the next direction of cultivation..."
"Let's go to the abyss!" Diya suddenly said.
"We're just going to kill people in the abyss now," Sonia said unconcernedly, "Even if we go to the bottom of the abyss, it's not much better than an amusement park for us."
"But what if we are not allowed to use any magic spirit miracles and are only allowed to use skills?" Diya said: "Although we have experienced two wars between gods, we still have too little experience in team combat. Not to mention Vichy, even Visser is a little unfamiliar. The usual training confrontations are too dull. I think we should have a common enemy and work together to defeat it, so that we can effectively improve our coordination."
Felix pondered, "This sounds a bit familiar..."
"Because we just did something similar the night before, but the difference is that we didn't win. Instead, we were all defeated by Ash." Weisser said slowly, poking the witch's head: "Do you really just want to improve team coordination?"
Diya blinked her eyes. "Wouldn't it be interesting to register as an adventurer and become a legendary adventurer at an unimaginable speed?"
"I Became a Demigod: Starting My Adventurer's Life from Zero..." Shivlin laughed and said, "You just want to try out the plot of a cool novel!"
Having her thoughts exposed, Diya blushed and argued, "After practicing so hard for so long, can't I just enjoy myself?!"
"I have tried it." Weishi said suddenly, "Before I was promoted to demigod, I joined many organizations, including pirates, mercenaries, and smuggling groups, in order to kill and refine souls. I went wherever there was a conflict. Because I deliberately hid my strength, when those people were trying to plot against me with bad intentions, I would show my strength little by little and enjoy their expressions changing from confidence to panic and despair... It was really interesting."
"That's it!" Diya looked longing, "I want to try this! It would be best if we had a gambling fight, and everyone looked down on us at first, and then a few disgusting villains coveted our beauty, and then we defeated them with ease, and scared those who had just treated us badly to their knees and begging for mercy!"
"Witch, you are the queen of a country, why are you still indulging in such low-level interests?" Sonia complained, but her eyes were full of smiles, and it was obvious that she was moved: "But you can consider it."
Ash picked up Sonia's wine glass, lowered his presence, and listened to their conversation quietly.
In the past half month, Ash avoided all activities if possible and stayed lazily in the hotel all day. Firstly, his definition of vacation was "doing nothing all day long", which was probably a sequelae of the life of a corporate slave. After all, no one would want to go out on Sunday after working for six days; secondly, he wanted to create space for them to spend time together.
During the journey of the past six months, Riaxiu discovered that although their team had a large number of people, everyone's focus was on him. Whether it was from love to cultivation, Sonia and the others' topics were basically related to him, and everyone's eyes were always following him.
It's not that this is a bad thing. In fact, it's the best situation for Ash. Not only does it satisfy his vulgar and vain sense of superiority, but it also makes it easier for him to manage the team. If the team splits into two or three small groups, it will be a huge management challenge for Ash, who has only been a dormitory head for one year.
The price is that, except for Sonia and Diya, who have a good personal relationship, the others don't interact with each other. For example, Diya and Vishi often talk in the team chat channel, but if everyone is gone and they are alone, the scene is so awkward that it is almost suffocating.
It wasn't until Ash showed up to break the awkwardness that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
But it doesn't matter if there is no personal relationship, after all, the key is teamwork. But Ash vaguely realized that they seemed to rely too much on him.
Yes, although everyone assumes that Ash is a fat guy who can't be led, and will not let Ash bear the usual training plan, but whenever it comes to major route decisions, they assume that Ash is the final decision maker. This is not because they are in love, but because Ash, who has the Supreme Void Wings, is the highest combat power. For goals like challenging the stars, only he can decide.
The fact that they had no personal relationship and that he was the final decision maker resulted in a team with no vice-captain and no second core member who could continue to lead the team when Ash was not around.
Although everyone seems to have tacitly accepted that Sonia is the vice-captain, and Sonia has indeed fulfilled the duties of a vice-captain, her prestige comes from the decentralization of Ash... When Ash is not around, will others still accept Sonia's leadership?
Ash wasn't sure, he wasn't even sure if Sonia could handle the duties of vice-captain.
If you think about it carefully, Diya is the queen who holds real power in the country, Weisser once led the Four Pillars Cult to run rampant, and Vichy is a ghost prophet with full political intrigue attributes... They all seem to be more suitable to lead this team than the village girl Sonia.
So he took the initiative to downplay his presence and leave space for them. Power is an interesting power. When you don't use it, it will inevitably be divided by others. There is only an empty throne but no empty power. When Ash entered the stealth mode, Sword Princess and the others would naturally re-establish their seating order.
Even something as trivial as 'where to go tomorrow' can lead to conflicts and naturally differentiate between statuses.
Ash was a little surprised that after a short period of adjustment, Sonia still took the lead. He had tried to minimize his influence, and Vichy and the others didn't need to compromise on the holiday, but Sonia still arranged everything properly, making everyone willing to listen to her.
He even felt that Sonia was more suitable to be the captain. In fact, this was Sonia's harem team, and he was only the deputy captain who provided sleeping services.
Another surprise is that the relationship between Sword Lady and the others has improved.
This was only natural. Apart from Ash's right to use the trash can, they had no conflicts. Weisser's resentment towards Vichy also disappeared with Vichy's best efforts in the previous two wars. When Ash gave them space to get along, they would naturally be attracted to each other. After all, they were all gifted female magicians. As a small group of people standing at the top of magician civilization, there were not many people in the world who were qualified to compete with them. Who else could they communicate with except each other?
The trust issue was also completely resolved because of Ash, the shared hub and the previous life-and-death adventure. It was normal for them to become friends. The reason they didn't become friends before was entirely because Ash, the source of all evil, was hindering them.
As for the three views, in fact, their three views are quite similar. In simple terms, they are sophisticated, selfish, proud and arrogant. On the contrary, Ash is different from them. For example, Ash cannot accept Vichy's killing and refining souls, but others don't care. It's someone else's death, what does it have to do with them?
However, because they have similar values, it is actually difficult for them to become friends. After all, a selfish person doesn't want to be friends with another selfish person... But this problem is solved as developer conferences are held more frequently. Nothing can bring people closer together better than being honest with each other.
Ash drank the red wine slowly and soon became tipsy. That was good. This was what he had been expecting. He had not expected the plan to go so smoothly. However...
"Lonely?"
Sonia poked his cheek and asked with a smile, "Why haven't you said anything?"
"No, I just think it's great." Ash put his hands together and said sincerely, "I hope you can be as close as sisters and united as you are now in the future."
"And we still love you with all our hearts and without reservation?"
"Hey, is that okay? Thank you!"
"Thank you for nothing!" Sonia scolded with a smile, "Do you believe that after we defeat Fanxing, our next target will be you? If you think about it carefully, the risk of letting you become the Supreme in Magic is too great. Let us take charge of the Supreme Void Wings, and you just spend the rest of your life under the skirt of the victor."
“Second.”
“I agree.”
“That sounds quite exciting…”
Felix was extremely excited when he heard this. Is it finally coming? Are the female sorcerers finally going to rebel against Ash’s brutal rule?
"Then I will look forward to your rebellion." Ash said with a smile: "Even without me, you can still work together and fight side by side..."
He relaxed his body against the cushion, half-closed his eyes and whispered:
“I really want to see this scene.”