May 10, Gospel Nation, Baths at the Funeral Home.
It was 7 o'clock in the morning and the sky was already bright. Ash came over wearing swimming trunks and heard voices chatting in the bathtub. He went in and found that someone already had a seat in the bathtub.
Bang!
Ash jumped in directly, splashing a circle of water. Igula blew the water droplets back with his magic spirit, with a look of disgust on his face: "(＊￣︿￣) Ash, how old are you this year? Have you graduated from the senior class of the orphanage?"
On the other side, Harvey was lying on a massage chair in the bathtub, smoking a cat-grass cigarette, the water gurgling beneath him hitting his muscles. The necromancer also turned on the ceiling light, and the warm yellow light shone on him, making him look as comfortable as he could be, completely explaining what it means to "as long as you have a heart, anywhere is the seaside."
In fact, compared to Yaxiu and Igulla, Harvey is quite normal. He has dark skin and looks like a bricklayer. He doesn't speak in a sarcastic way. Although he has a low moral bottom line, his desires are not high either. He is the type who goes with the flow.
If Harvey had come to the kingdom of the gospel alone, he would probably have become a young man favored by God, waiting to be picked up by some rich woman, doing housework during the day and robbing graves at night, and his life would have been very enjoyable.
Even if we take into account his necrophilia and sugar addiction, neither of which affects others, but only harms corpses and himself. If you think about it carefully, it is not unacceptable...
Ash suddenly slapped water on his face and sank into the bathtub.
It's over, Ash thought.
After hanging out with this group of people for so long, Harvey, who looked slightly less bad than Iguera and Annan, has become handsome.
"What were you talking about just now?" Ash relaxed in the bathtub, his stiff muscles responding to Ash's flattery with soreness: "Igula, are you recommending movies and TV shows again?"
"I recommended it to you but you didn't watch it, so why should I recommend it?" Igula said coldly, "The Redemption of My Wife, which I recommended last time, is the most unmissable classic in the Gospel Nation in the past ten years."
"It's not that I don't want to watch it, but I don't have the time—"
"Why don't you just watch it at 32x speed?"
"If I had a gun in my hand right now, I would shoot you to death, and then ask you why you didn't hide."
"We were just talking about artistic creation." Harvey exhaled a puff of light green cat smoke and said, "How to create a good character."
Although it felt a bit strange that they were talking about this, Ash didn't think much about it and said casually, "Then you really found the right person. Character creation is my specialty. You must listen carefully to my every word from now on."
"Why, were you a novelist before? Have you written any famous books? I also read books in my free time, and maybe I have read your masterpiece." Igula sneered.
"Although I don't write books, my job requires more character creation than writing books." Ash said: "Our business relies on creating characters to cheat children out of their money."
Igula subconsciously wanted to refute him, but after thinking about it, he nodded thoughtfully: "Yes, you were the cult leader before, you are indeed a professional."
Ash thought that Igula must have misunderstood the cult leader's scope of business, but he was too lazy to explain and continued, "There are many dimensions to the creation of a good character, appearance, personality, ability, identity background, ideal aspirations... but in the final analysis, it's nothing more than two points: sexual function and functionality."
Igula and Harvey blinked, obviously shocked by Ash's crude remark.
"The beautiful, strong and miserable, the crazy beauty, the rebellious refrigerator, the rich and beautiful woman...these characters are so popular because their images meet the two major needs of sexual function and functionality. When you are shaping a character, you have to think about whether this character can arouse your desire? Can this character solve your suffering? If the answer is yes, then this is a successful character."
"As for whether this character can become a classic that will be sung for all eternity, that depends on a flash of inspiration and the course of history. It cannot be forced."
As an operation planner of a mobile game company, although Yaxiu did not directly intervene in the creation of characters, he also attended the company's internal training courses and was very familiar with how character planners cheated junior and senior high school students step by step. If personal creation is a good article that comes by chance, then the creation of a mobile game company is an industrial assembly line, which fills in "sexual function" and "functionality" by arranging and combining popular elements one by one, so that people can't help but open Alipay at first sight.
Harvey seemed to be greatly inspired. He pinched off the cat grass cigarette and climbed out of the bathtub. He picked up the towel beside him and put it on himself: "As expected of the former cult leader, you are the one to be asked for this kind of thing. I can't hold back my inspiration now, so I'll go back to my room to create first."
Watching Harvey leave in a hurry, Ash scratched his head: "Strange, Harvey doesn't look like someone who likes to write novels..."
Igula also walked out of the bathtub, shook her long hair covered with water droplets, picked up the bath towel next to her and casually draped it over her body, combed her wet bangs with her hands, and glanced at Ash.
"Who told you he wrote a novel?"
Ash's body froze, and he suddenly realized a possibility. He stared at Igula and asked, "He asked about character creation techniques. Is he planning to use them on a virtual character?"
Igula looked at him without saying anything and left the bath.
Ash became horrified: "Is it a virtual character?!"
…
Ash was the only one left in the bathtub again. The sun was rising slowly, and Azula welcomed the blooming of a new day. The warm light was reflected in the bathtub.
Ash let the buoyancy lift his body up and float on the water like a dead body.
Three days ago, when Ash came back with An Nan early in the morning, he happened to see Igula and Harvey coming home from get off work in the virtual world and sitting in the living room, seemingly waiting for him to come back.
Ash felt a little guilty for not buying any gifts after going out, so he invited them to go to the bathing pool together and discussed the keyboard politics gospel system with them to divert their attention.
However, this seemed to have become a routine. For the next three days, after they clocked out from get off work in the virtual world, they would come to the bathhouse to take a bath and talk trash. Therefore, Ash soon realized that these two people's ability to explore the virtual world was also strong - they almost always came after dawn, which means that each of them could explore the time continent for a full six hours.
Although they have no maps and no sports cars, and their skills, tricks, and depth are far inferior to Ash, they seem to have unique means of exploration and are not inferior to Ash in terms of total time.
Ash even suspected that they had a means of transportation, otherwise at least half of their soul energy would be consumed on the road. How could they last for 6 hours when they were exhausted in 3 hours?
Harvey's is easy to guess. He either rides a skeleton horse or a skeleton man. He may even ride a skeleton to kill a ichthyosaur on the spot. Igula's is more difficult to guess. Could it be that his psychic faction is powerful enough to hypnotize intelligent creatures to serve him as dogs?
No, Ash recalled that when he was taking a bath yesterday, he asked Igula if he had used the miracle of the mind to do anything that might involve stealing information. Igula replied: "First of all, I can do the things you imagine. But even without miracles, I can do it, and I'm tired of it. Then, Ash, you shook the water in your head. Since you can hypnotize, why don't you hypnotize yourself?"
"It's easier and more efficient to hypnotize yourself, and you can set the plot, the object, and the content as you like. In reality, you may still be limited by your body's functions, but in the illusion, you can be as powerful as you want... In fact, psychics rarely hypnotize others directly. Instead, they use language, actions, and other hints to induce others to think about the results they want."
"Only bad psychics use miracles to achieve their goals. Most of the time, the object of hypnosis is themselves."
"Psychic factions are not about distorting others, but about shaping oneself."
Therefore, it is highly likely that Igula is not a hypnotic knowledge creature, but a hypnotist who "doesn't feel tired at all when walking"!
In fact, this is what a normal magician encounters when exploring the virtual world: magicians from different factions use different methods to resolve unfavorable factors in the virtual world.
There is really no way around the Sea of Knowledge, as everyone is inexperienced at the beginning and can only swim across. But by the time we reach the Continent of Time, everyone has some faction foundation and can already think of ways to reduce the negative impact of the environment.
This is actually a kind of screening - magicians who cannot conquer the environment are losers in the magician evolution system.
Like Ash and his friends who drove through the countercurrent golden rain, they were spoiled in a sense, and were completely the fish that slipped through the net of the magician evolution system. Without properly cultivating the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments, they will sooner or later pay the price in other places.
Ash and the others also knew this, but they had no intention of making up for it - they would talk about it when the time comes, everyone should have some dreams, maybe they won't have to pay a price in their lifetime?
With this in mind, Ash turned the thumbwheel to summon the Gospel, flipped to the page of the Sorcerer's Manual, and immediately a message popped up.
"Growth Report of Death Mad Sword Princess 5.3~5.9"
"Swordsmanship faction: Silver → Gold"
"Light Mage Faction: Silver → Silver"
"Water Buffs: Silver → Silver"
"Psychic Faction: Silver → Silver"
"Spell: Golden Void Wing→Golden Feather"
"Training evaluation: A!"
"Because she received an A-level evaluation, the Death Mad Sword Princess received a job enhancement in the Magician's Handbook: Mad Dancer → Genocide Metal Magician!"
"Genocide Alchemist: Occupational Features: Increases damage to group-based lore creatures by 10%."
"Professional assessment mission 'Wild Dance' (10,000 slashes) completed! The characteristics of the Wild Dancer profession are permanently solidified!"
"Crazy Dancer (Permanent Class): Attacking the same target can increase attack speed by 2%, up to 5 times. If the target is changed, it will become invalid immediately."
The main content of their virtual realm exploration in the past two days was to help Sword Lady complete the professional assessment task. Fortunately, Sword Lady obtained the new miracle "Blood Flower and Water Moon". This miracle not only had instant high output, but also could stack dozens of effective slashes once activated. If a group of creatures were gathered together, hundreds of effective slashes could be made instantly.
Even so, Ash and his companions have raided the homes of more than a dozen White Speed Dragons, Fierce Wolf Dragons, and Dodo Dragons in the past two days. Sword Girl's new occupation, 'Genocide Metal Mage', is obviously related to this.
The essence of the materials obtained from the confiscation of property and the extermination of clans alone is enough to feed the Sword Lady's 'Wave' and 'Moon Silk' magic spirits, as well as the Black and White Witch's 'Water Line' and 'Claw' magic spirits to the two wings.
Ash looked at Sword Lady's interface and found that the occupation column had really changed to "Clan Extermination Metalworker/Crazy Dancer". However, Sword Lady's swordsmanship faction was promoted from silver to gold, and the training evaluation was only A. It seems that she can only get an S rating when her magic power is promoted.
This makes sense. If S rating is easy to achieve and career assessment tasks are easy to trigger, then wouldn't every operator have more than a dozen careers in the later stages?
Ash even thought of this introduction: "The one standing before you is the Storm Dancer, the White Flame on the Grave, the Sword Lord who holds the Scepter of Death, the Clan Exterminator who slays the Fish Dragon... the Death Mad Sword Princess who has twenty-three professions!"
Although there was no surprise, the growth of Sword Lady did not disappoint Ash. However, when Ash opened the growth report of Black and White Witch, his good mood for the day ended.
"Growth Report of the Black and White Witch 5.3~5.9"
"Psychic Faction: Silver → Silver"
"Fist and Claw Faction: Gold → Gold"
"Time Faction: Silver → Silver"
"Water Buffs: Silver → Silver"
"Spell Power: One Golden Feather → Two Golden Feathers"
"Training evaluation: B!"
"Because she received a B-rank evaluation, the Black and White Witch received a job enhancement in the Sorcerer's Manual: Exterminate Followers!"
"Exterminate Followers: Increase damage to group knowledge creatures by 5%."
The rating is only B! ?
It was the first time that Ash received such an evaluation - this was not a spanking of the witch's butt, this was clearly a slap on his face!
However, he quickly calmed down after soaking in the water. Before, Sword Lady was a blank slate starting from scratch, and she upgraded quickly, so her evaluation was naturally high. But the Witch started with two wings, the main faction reached the gold level, and there were several sub-factions. It was impossible to get a huge improvement in a short time, not to mention that she was under the "Curse of the Bronze Dragon", unable to conduct normal training, and could only entertain herself every day.
If Sword Lady hadn't upgraded her swordplay faction to gold level this week, her rating would probably have been B.
In other words, starting from next week, if the operators do not have such progress as "significant improvement in magic power" or "faction upgrade to gold level", they will probably only get a B or even C evaluation.
Want to draw a card? Ash looked at his savings and sighed, as a poor couple always feel sad.
These days, Ash and others' income from their magic spirits is actually not much. They mostly collect materials to feed their magic spirits. In addition, after Ash was promoted to the second wing, the recycling price of a one-wing magic spirit became 5 points, and the recycling price of a two-wing magic spirit was 10 points. After a week of accumulation, it is only 211 points now, which is still some distance away from the next first charge double 328.
As for this week's training plan, it will naturally remain the same. The witch will continue to have fun, and the sword lady will continue to train... Ash paused, recalling that he seemed to have promised the sword lady to arrange entertainment activities for her.
Fiora has three action points in total, and entertainment consumes two action points each time. Besides, she has already played, so it is impossible for Ash to be so cruel as to let her continue training.
The main thing is that the training effect after entertainment may not be very good, just like when you are playing games in the toilet, and then go back to work, you may still be thinking about how to play better in that game.
So it’s just entertainment + rest, let Sword Girl enjoy the rosy campus life.
So, which day should Fiora have a day off?
Ash thought about it and decided to schedule 'Rose Day' for tomorrow, the 11th.
He originally wanted to do it today, but today was a little special. In order to avoid accidents, he let Sword Lady go to school and train as usual.
After setting up the training strategy, Ash went back to his room to change clothes. When he came out, he found that everyone was gathered in the living room, and they didn't look like they were having breakfast.
"Ash, you've come just in time," Igula said, "Let's do a multiple-choice question."
"Do you like this?" Igula handed over a potion bottle filled with a dreamy pink liquid.
"Do you still like this?" Liz raised a bloodstained mace.
"Or do you like this?" An Nan picked up a pair of silver handcuffs.
Handcuffs + mace + ** =?
Ash's mind worked quickly, and he immediately activated his magic spirit to summon a substitute. The substitute was ready for battle, ready to go through fire and water for Ash at any time.
"If you have any grudges, please vent them on the Stand, don't mess with me!"
substitute:……