Ash didn't ask Fiora which route she was going to choose - he knew that Fiora would find it difficult to make a decision for the time being.
Silence is the ideal of the past, and noise comes from restless mood. The two routes represent two desires that cannot coexist with Sword Princess. Just like when she was a child, thinking about which of the two top domestic universities to go to, Sword Princess really needs some time to deal with this sweet trouble.
However, fate is like a knife, and human heart is hard to predict. Even if Sword Princess makes a decision, it depends on whether reality agrees with her decision. Maybe Sword Princess has made up her mind, but fate has to play a joke on her. When she wants to take risks, her family needs her to take care of her. When she wants to be stable, she is pushed to the forefront by accident...
In comparison, the Witch's Rainbow Blessing is more stable:
"Black and White Witch"
「Human, Female, 19 years old」
"Bond level: 4 (75% experience sharing)"
"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 80% (little known), and you gain an 80% bonus to the speed of magic power recovery."
"Golden Blessing - Witch's Rebellion: Rebellion gives you power, and desire is your weapon. The more you want to rebel against those who love you, or even have bad intentions towards those who love you, the stronger you will become in the virtual realm. Currently, the Black and White Witch's rebellion level is 96% (filial piety has changed), and you gain 96% additional magic power."
"Rainbow Blessing - Witch's Troubles: Troubles give you power, dissatisfaction is your weapon. The more dissatisfied you are with yourself now, the stronger you will be in the virtual world. Currently, the witch's dissatisfaction is 99% (Quick Transformation), and you gain 99% of the maximum capacity of magic power."
"Maximum Mana Capacity: The magician can enhance the effect of a single spell by consuming more mana. Currently, up to 99% of mana can be consumed to obtain a 99% enhancement."
"Curse of Knowledge: Bronze Dragon Secret Poison, Golden Fish Secret Poison, Colorful Tail Secret Poison, Colorless Dream Secret Poison."
The Witch's Rainbow Blessing is not only useful immediately, but also very suitable for her. Her Silver Blessing increases the speed of mana recovery, the Gold Blessing increases additional mana, and the Rainbow Blessing provides an effective mana capacity, which can fully utilize her mana bar advantage.
but……
"Are you dissatisfied with yourself now?" Ash looked at the witch with some worry and asked seriously, "What is it about? Can we help you?"
"Nothing..." Diya's mouth twitched, her eyes wandering: "I'm just a little dissatisfied with my appearance and figure...all girls are like this!"
Sonia and Weisser immediately looked at the witch's beautiful face and slender fair figure. You have to know that the virtual world and the real self are almost completely corresponding. After all, the soul is your true understanding of yourself, so what you are like in the virtual world must be what you are like in reality.
Putting aside her appearance, maybe the witch really wasn't satisfied with herself, but in terms of figure, the witch's posture was definitely the best figure that both Sonia and Weisser wanted.
Although she is a physical practitioner, the witch's limbs did not become thick and strong, but maintained a just right healthy state. You know, Sonia recently found that her thighs were getting fatter and fatter because she practiced sword too much.
In other aspects of the figure, the witch is also too heavy if she is too big, and too weak if she is too small, she is simply a perfect clothes hanger. Sonia has always been dissatisfied with her breasts. In the past, she had to give up some nice clothes because they were too big. After practicing sword, her shoulders were obviously sore because they were too heavy. Ingrid did not have this problem; Weisser was born with a weak soul and a weak body. Even if she practiced the weak faction, she could only stay healthy. But Vione inherited all the advantages of her figure. In order to facilitate her movements, she usually tied herself up, so naturally she preferred the healthy body of the witch.
I don't know if men like it or not, but the witch is definitely an angel figure that is loved by women. How can you still be dissatisfied? Or 99% dissatisfied! ?
Noticing the look in Sword Princess Weisser's eyes that said "Are you showing off?", Diya was also feeling miserable.
What she was not satisfied with was her appearance as a white-haired little girl in real life!
It's not that the witch is unable to solve this problem. Magical skills like the Reverse Moon and Reverse Age can restore her from a white-haired little girl to an adult at the age of 18.
But the problem is, she didn't dare to go back before dealing with the gospel spirit!
What if she returns to her original state, and then Ash suddenly returns to Gospel and sees Queen Yisu who looks exactly like the witch in the palace, he will naturally figure out the cause and effect in an instant, and then Diya will also have her account hacked by the Gospel gods because she failed to keep the secret.
Therefore, Diya must maintain the appearance of little Liz, and even if Ash comes back, she has to pretend until the Gospel Spirit is defeated before she can reveal her true identity.
For this reason, it's understandable that Diya is 99% dissatisfied with the attitude of the white-haired girl. As for the remaining 1%, it might be that she has always wanted to play a prank on Ash in her heart - just imagine, when Ash returns to Gospel, one night little Liz insists on sleeping with him, and then when he wakes up the next day, he finds a big beautiful woman in his arms... This must be fun!
Although Ash was a little worried, since Diya wanted to downplay the topic, he would not continue to delve into it. Respect means recognizing that the other person has the ability to be independent and to lend a hand when the other person needs help.
"Orchid Weisser"
「Human, Female, 24 years old」
"Bond level: 4 (75% experience sharing)"
"Silver Blessing: Orchid Weiser's Protective Color: Weak scholars will always receive more love. Once you have a good impression of Orchid Weiser, it will be difficult for you to harbor any ill will towards her."
"Golden Blessing: Orchid Weisse's Armament Haki: Smart scholars will always find the right prey. A target locked by Orchid Weisse will easily become stupid and have its intelligence reduced. When the situation on one's side is obviously better than Orchid Weisse's, the target will find traces of Orchid Weisse's backhand from the details, and will be afraid and give up on its own initiative; when the situation on one's side is obviously worse than Orchid Weisse's, the target will use various reasons to convince himself that he has the advantage, give up escaping and actively die. But his IQ will soon return to normal."
"Rainbow Blessing: Orchid Weisser's Observation Haki: Lonely scholars always avoid crowds. Orchid Weisser can notice the movement of all people within a 100-meter radius, and when others have the idea of chasing Orchid Weisser, she will feel it. This effect is ineffective against the person Orchid Weisser wants to see."
"Curse of Knowledge: Whirlpool Poison, Mirror Dragon Poison, Colorless Dream Poison."
After listening to Ash introducing his rainbow blessing, Weisser was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Do you know all my blessings?"
"Yeah." Ash had just finished speaking when he realized why Weisser had such a strange expression.
Protective color and armed color!
Unlike other people's blessings, Weisser's silver blessing protective color is a passive aura. Anyone who has a good impression of her will be immediately affected, and Ash and the other two are naturally no exception.
Even if they don't have a conflict now, but after knowing the existence of the protective color, the next time everyone has a conflict and compromises, Ash will inevitably have this thought: Was he influenced by the protective color to compromise with Weisser?
The power of protective coloration lies in that others can be affected without realizing it, but its weakness lies in that once others know about it, it will make people feel infinitely fearful.
Not to mention the powerful weapon called Armament Haki, which are all offensive blessings that can make people fall into it without knowing it.
Weisser knew this very well. To the enemy, her talent might not be better than that of Sword Lady and Witch, but to teammates, her talent was invincible.
Mercury Trojan vaguely sensed this, which is why it dispatched additional personnel from other areas to assassinate her instead of giving direct orders to her subordinates.
She is a traitor blessed by the virtual world, a spy who survives by devouring trust.
However, Ash hesitated for a moment and told Sword Princess Witch about the effects of Weisser's protection color and armament color. Just when Weisser's heart was falling, Ash talked about the effect of his blessing:
"Silver Blessing: Observer's Appearance: Your appearance is deceptive. Unless you do something unusual, others will subconsciously ignore your existence. In the virtual realm, this blessing is strengthened. Unless you have a close bond, others will not be able to see your appearance clearly."
"Golden Blessing: Listener's Sorrow: Your existence is deceptive. Unless you take the initiative to seek death, others' hostility towards you will be reduced by one level. In the virtual realm, this blessing is strengthened. Unless you have a close bond with others, it is difficult for others to have murderous intentions towards you."
"Rainbow Blessing·Tongue of the Bard: Your language is deceptive. Unless your words are too outrageous, others will tend to believe what you say. This blessing is strengthened in the virtual realm. Unless you have a close bond, others will believe your words for at least a second."
This time, Ash was very happy with his rainbow blessing!
Although it can't increase the lethality like Sword Lady, it can't strengthen the spellcasting effect like Witch, and it can't improve the reconnaissance ability like Weisser, but compared to the "Observer's Appearance" used for lurking and the "Listener's Grief" that reduces hostility, "Tongue of the Bard" is at least an active skill!
Not only in daily life, the Bard's Words can also bring miraculous effects in battle. For example, if Ash shouts "I am your father" in battle, everyone will believe him for a second!
Unless you meet a filial son who would kill his father without mercy, no one would hesitate for a second! In a legendary battle, this second is enough for Ash to turn defeat into victory!
Sword Lady and Witch both said that this skill should not be obtained by Ash.
"Won't it be easy for the viewer to deceive others in the future!?" Diya, who only allows herself to deceive others but not others to deceive her, was very nervous.
"Lying is secondary. The more powerful aspect of this blessing is that it can slowly brainwash us." Sonia said faintly: "If he keeps imparting some strange values to us, we might be transformed by him into people who want whatever they want without knowing it—"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Ash shouted, "This is clearly a reward from the virtual world for my honesty and kindness. How can you assume that I will use this blessing to do bad things? I won't lie to you!"
"So you might be giving us some weird values?"
"Isn't it normal to have some value conflicts during casual chats? As the saying goes, the truth becomes clearer the more it is debated. We can talk more about current affairs, such as whether a game should be exclusive to a single platform or available on all platforms..."
"Are you really talking about games?"
Weisser watched them quarreling and joking as usual, and suddenly her nose felt sore and she couldn't help laughing.
She understood Ash's subtext - yes, your blessing is a special attack on teammates, but my blessing is not bad! If a trust rift is created because of the blessing effect, then I am the most untrustworthy suspect.
Just like Sword Lady and Witch would not doubt Ash, she also won the trust of everyone, perhaps due to daily accumulation, or perhaps because of the life and death together in the dreamland.
Finally, we have arrived at the part that everyone is most curious about - the secret poison of the Color-Fading Dream!
"Mysterious Poison of Lost Dreams"
"Number of people infected with the secret poison: 10"
"Secret poison enhancement level: 10%"
"The current effect of the secret poison: ① You can convert seven-color magic power into primary-color magic power, with a conversion ratio of 60:40; ② When you use primary-color magic power to drive a magic spirit with less than four wings, you can exert an effect equivalent to four wings; ③ When you hold this secret poison, all your colorless magic power will be converted into primary-color magic power. Using primary-color magic power to drive a four-wing magic spirit can reduce magic power consumption by 10%, and magic spirits of the same color will be greatly enhanced. (The enhancement level will reduce the gain when it reaches 11%)."