"Fiery Soul Essence Special Drink": Every powerful soul will release a little bit of Fiery Soul when it dissipates. Drinking Fiery Soul can greatly heal the soul. The golden soul will be quickly replenished within seven days, and the speed of absorbing magic power in the virtual realm will be increased by 10% within seven days. What kind of person and what kind of place can collect a bottle of Fiery Soul Essence Special Drink so easily?
"Enthusiasm Potion": The user will become more honest and enthusiastic, actively express their emotions, have a strong desire to promote intimacy, and greatly reduce shame. The operator's bond improvement speed +100%, lasting for one day.
Ash used the "Alchemist's Refining Bottle" to refine the 9 bottles of Pure Aura Drink he drew, plus the 1 bottle in the warehouse, in pairs. He succeeded four times and obtained 3 bottles of the more advanced "Fiery Soul Essence Drink" and 1 bottle of mutated "Passion Potion".
There is no doubt that Ash has achieved his basic goal. With these three bottles of "Fiery Soul Essence Special Drink", he and Sword Lady and Witch can completely heal their soul injuries before the next Spider Tower round.
As for the "Passion Potion"... although the effect seems good, I always feel that it will cause big news. If Ash lets the witch use the "Passion Potion", the witch's intimacy with him will increase greatly, and then cling to him, kiss him, hug him, etc., it will be so cool to think about it.
But Sword Lady was watching right beside.
Ash had already exhausted all his office politics experience just to get Fiora to accept Witch into the team. Now that Fiora saw that Witch was suspected of taking the path of becoming a secretary, it would be strange if the petty and jealous red-haired girl didn't get angry.
So, should I use the "Enthusiasm Potion" on Sword Princess?
But this becomes a gambling game: if Ash and Fiora's bond reaches a new level within one day, then Ash wins the bet; if Ash and Fiora do not make any breakthrough progress within one day, Fiora will surely become angry and embarrassed, and although she will not die, she will not be able to live a good life either...
In addition to considering Sword Lady's wishes, Ash also has to consider the witch's opinion.
After all, the interaction in the amnesia cabin might have caused the witch to misunderstand. If the witch saw them suddenly sticking together, she would probably think that she should not be in the car, but under the car...
And... the witch might not have been mistaken.
When he thought of this, Ash couldn't help but sigh.
He is a corporate slave who has worked before and knows that some taboos in the office make sense. Colleagues can be good friends, but they can only be good friends at most.
Once you cross that line, it will not only have a bad impact on others, but also on yourself - you go to work to make money to satisfy your material life, not to enjoy your spiritual life. A team is a team, and a family is a family. The former must have clear rewards and punishments, fair and just, and focus on interests; the latter is about mutual tolerance and mutual adjustment, and focuses on affection.
The two must not be confused.
Although Yaxiu has never worked in a small company, he has heard from his classmates that small companies that do not distinguish between team and family have basically completed their historical mission after paying rent to the landlord.
Although it was just a three-person team, Ash had the consciousness of being a leader, and he knew that the three-person team would not be the end. And even if there were only three people in the future, he would have to find a way to handle the relationship between the three people - "two of the three people became closer, causing the other one to become disloyal" and other entrepreneurial failure stories have become a common problem for urban people, just like baldness.
Morally and rationally, Ash has to balance the seesaw of the relationship, so this enthusiasm potion must not be used on Fiora.
As for choosing a certain day to kick out the Witch or the Sword Lady, and then using the Zeal Potion on another person, this is even more unacceptable - put yourself in their shoes, when you come back from vacation and see your leader and colleagues colluding with each other, you will definitely think that you have been excluded and begin to doubt the company's distribution system.
So I have to keep this bottle of enthusiasm potion for now.
But Ash didn't intend to abandon it.
After all, being close with only one person will cause the other person to have many thoughts, so...what if you are on a big step with two people at the same time?
If I can draw another bottle of Zeal Potion in the future, I can give both bottles to the Witch and the Sword Lady to use together. Maybe there will be a chance to achieve great harmony in life and let everyone's bond enter a new stage!
Although there might be a little bit of indescribable selfishness, Ash felt that his idea was quite sound and was also for the better future of the team, except for the possibility of a little bit of selfishness.
All in all... now Ash has to face the unknown Weaving Festival in reality and is being chased by the Spider Tower in the virtual world. The interpersonal relationships in their team are really not suitable for drastic changes.
This is truly a critical moment for survival!
As the saying goes, when you are well fed and warmed, you will think about your sexual desires. At least ensure your material security before thinking about your spiritual life.
However, when he thought of what happened in the amnesia cabin, Ash couldn't help but burst out laughing.
O(∩_∩)O Haha, he must repeat Sword Princess’s gossip in a less dangerous battle round. It would be a waste if such good ammunition is not used!
The basic goal of card drawing and searching has been achieved, "fullness and warmth", and the next step is the exciting "thought, desire" stage - since the intention can make Ash draw the Pure Aura Special Drink, it will definitely allow Ash to draw the Golden Legend!
He wants to draw a new operator!
He wants to draw more useful virtual props!
He wants to draw a rare item that can increase faction experience even when operators are resting!
But the emotion was not enough, so Ash calmed down and looked at what he liked in this limited card pool...
"Bride Sword Princess"
It's coming up, something is coming up!
Ash: "Now is the time to show your love!"
"The faithful gospel is about to magnify your mind for you. Countdown 3 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second... You have entered the mind magnification state, and the duration is 10 seconds left!"
smoke!
Golden light, "Fragment of the Black and White Witch's Magic Mirror"!
White light, energy potion!
White light, experience potion!
There's white light all behind!
"The Black and White Witch's Magic Mirror Fragment": No one knows how many pieces of the Magic Mirror Fragment the Black and White Witch has lost, but anyone who picks up the Magic Mirror Fragment will quickly die until the Magic Mirror Fragment returns to the original owner. It is said that the Magic Mirror was broken by the Black and White Witch because she wanted to escape from herself in the mirror. Use it to expand the bond function.
Ash fell into deep thought.
Is this a success or a failure?
It was a success, but only once, and I drew the Black and White Witch's enhanced item; but it was a failure, but not a complete failure.
However, Ash had drawn ten times before and didn't get a gold card. Logically, the probability of getting a gold card is not low, so this time it may be a normal card draw and has nothing to do with Ash's wishes.
Of course, there is another possibility - after all, Ash has never seen Fiora's bride, and there is a limit to chatting without pictures, so his intentions are not very strong and have not reached the level of interfering with the lottery system.
However, the witch's enhancement items are obviously much more useful than Fiora's bride skin, so it's not a loss this time... Ash can only comfort himself in this way.
Although he still had Gospel Points and Game Points, Ash decided to stop here. After all, he only had 190 Gospel Points left, which he had to save for when things got dangerous.
In the Gospel Kingdom, points that can obtain all intelligence are incomparable strategic resources, and their importance even exceeds the strength of the magician himself.
Using the "Magic Mirror Fragment of the Black and White Witch", the information of the Black and White Witch changed.
"Black and White Witch"
「Human, Female, 19 years old」
"Bond level: 1 (35% experience sharing)"
"Bond Resonance: Playing with People's Minds: Even without the relevant psychic spirits, you and the witch have the supernatural ability to influence people's minds."
「Occupation: Genocide Follower」
"Professional feature: Increases damage to group-based lore creatures by 5%."
"Silver Blessing - Witch's Taboo: Secrecy gives you power, and concealment is your weapon. The fewer people in reality know your true inner self, the stronger you will be in the virtual world. Currently, the concealment degree of the Black and White Witch is 85% (little known), and you gain an 85% bonus to the speed of magic power recovery. (Observation by viewers is not taken into account)"
"Holding items: training gloves"
"Controlling the spirits: Mask, hydrotherapy, claws, torrents..."
"Psychic Faction: Silver Level"
"Fist and Claw Faction: Gold Level"
"Time Faction: Silver Level"
"Water Magic Faction: Silver Level"
"Knowledge Secret Poison: Bronze Dragon Secret Poison"
The witch's concealment has dropped from 93% to 85%. Because the witch's taboo only counts those who know about it in reality, so neither she nor Sword Princess counts, so the witch must have been guessed by someone in reality... How careless!
But this bond resonance... Last time they said that I had the "greedy" resonance with Fiora, but this time they said that I had the "playing with people's hearts" resonance with the Witch?
How could I play tricks on others?
But this may be an inherent setting of the players, and Ash didn't think much about it.
He used the Fiery Soul Essence Drink on the witch, then slid to the Sword Princess's operator interface and noticed something strange at first glance -
"Knowledge Poison: Golden Fish Poison, Whirlpool Poison, Expulsion Poison, Bronze Dragon Poison, Concept Poison"
How come Sword Princess has a secret poison?
She secretly became stronger behind my back?
However, this secret poison can be viewed directly by clicking on it, which means... I already have the knowledge to obtain this secret poison?
"Concept Poison"
"Secret poison details: In the virtual world, some illusory concepts will gain entities for special reasons and materialize in the form of concept incarnations. When you have a concept incarnation, you will gain the highest priority buff effect; when the concept incarnation is destroyed, it means that the virtual world temporarily loses this concept, and all magic spirits related to this concept will be directly destroyed and cannot be born until the virtual world generates the concept again."
"Number of people infected with the secret poison: 79"
"Secret poison enhancement level: 79%"
"The current effect of the secret poison: You will occasionally witness traces of all miracles (the enhancement level is reduced to 50% to gain benefits, and it becomes a greater negative effect when it reaches 100%)."
Ash didn't react for a moment - isn't being able to see traces of miracles considered a benefit?
But when Ash looked up, the whole world changed.
The table lamp, walls, ceiling, carpet, quilt... everything in his room suddenly turned into a postmodern work of art made of spider silk.
He felt something in his heart and subconsciously turned his head to look at Fanmula outside the window.
At this moment, the prosperous city landscape has quietly disappeared, replaced by a spider's nest entangled with countless layers of spider silk. A huge web appears in the sky, extending to the other side of the horizon, endless and impenetrable.
Spiders were walking on the streets covered in white fog, and all the creatures were connected by dozens of spider silks. They didn't seem to be moving on their own, but rather being pulled forward by the spider silks, walking in various nests like puppets.
Ash stood up in fear, but felt something sticky in his hands. He looked down and found that his body was already covered with countless spider silks. The bed he was sitting on just now had turned into a cocoon for storing food. He was now like a bug stuck in a spider web. His skin was completely covered with sticky white liquid. There seemed to be spider silk coming into his mouth and eyes, trying to block his mouth, cover his eyes, and grab his heart.
The next second, the world returned to normal.
The room is still the room, the city is still the city, and the white sheets are spread neatly on the bed.
Ash touched his face, which was smooth and moist, without any mucus.
This was the second secret poison he had obtained that brought negative benefits.
The other is the whirlpool secret poison, which makes him hate water. However, Ash has basically overcome the influence of the whirlpool secret poison. As long as he doesn't look directly at the water itself and hints that he is soaking in Coke instead of water when taking a bath, the secret poison will basically not be triggered - this is a life trick taught to him by Sword Lady.
Compared with the vortex secret poison, the impact of the concept secret poison may be much greater.
Because for these weak people, ignorance is indeed their protective color.
It's not that Ash doesn't know that the gospel is everywhere, like the air, but presenting the horror of the gospel in this way will sooner or later make people fall into hysterical fear and despair.
After all, if you hate water, you can still drink Coke and milk. But if even the air, the land, and even the food scare you, where can you escape to?
"...This is probably the first time I've started to miss the Blood Moon Kingdom since I came to Gospel."
(It’s amazing. I ordered a takeaway of Xiao Man Handmade Noodles last night. However, the takeaway options were very sneaky and did not remind me whether to choose cutlery. Generally speaking, these are necessities, forcing customers to choose between "yes" or "no". In the end, they didn’t have any, so I didn’t choose cutlery. When the takeaway arrived, I found out that there were no chopsticks.)
(In order to get chopsticks, I ordered a takeaway from Lawson, and ordered drinks and some oden. Since oden would definitely come with chopsticks, I didn’t mark it. But when the Lawson takeaway arrived, there were only drinks in it - Lawson actually canceled the oden order on its own! They only delivered the drinks!)
(At the end, I looked at the two takeaways and a bowl of handmade noodles without chopsticks, and fell into deep thought.)