Mage Manual Chapter 314 - 314 270 Life Difficulty - Easy Mode

Chapter 314: Chapter 270: Life Difficulty – Easy Mode Chapter 314: Chapter 270: Life Difficulty – Easy Mode “They should have seen my ssage by now…”

Sitting in the backseat of the lady’s luxury car, Ash slid his finger ring, summoning his Gospel Book and flipped to the “Mage’s Handbook” interface, where he could see the current team information in “Void Realm Exploration”:

“Team composition: Death Mad Sword Maiden, Black and White Witch”

“Location: Ti Continent”

“Status: Exploring”

Before leaving ho, Ash had arranged for the two of them to explore the Void Realm.

Of course, even if he hadn’t organized it, the two would have explored on their own, but with Ash’s approval, the Sword Maiden duo could use his sports car.

However, the map seed to be tied to Ash’s ga system and couldn’t be lent to them.

And, just like ‘Sword Maiden’s leave request slip’, although Ash wasn’t in the team, the team still had to allocate a share to him. Thirty percent of the Magic Power experience gained by the Sword Maiden and Witch would be shared with Ash, and they might trigger special chanics he encountered.

The only difference from operators is that Ash’s leave had no limits!

If he wanted, he could spend his whole life not entering the Void Realm, simply freeload off the Sword Maiden and Witch and still get stronger!

But when Ash confird he wouldn’t participate in the exploration tonight, the ga issued a reminder, “Interacting with operators is an important way to maintain Bonds. If the operators think you are avoiding eting them, it will gradually reduce their affinity and cause the Bonds Level to drop.”

Only then did Ash realize that the ga’s affinity was actually variable and not fixed once it rose. In other words, taking a leave once or twice was fine, but constantly taking leaves and staying away from the crowd for a long ti would understandably cause complaints from front-line workers.

No, going to work was for inco, while Ash’s entry into the Void Realm was primarily to enhance Bonds with operators.

Rather than calling it work, it might be more appropriate to say… team building?

Realizing this, Ash suddenly developed a resistance to entering the Void Realm.

Ying—

With a slight tremor, the floating car switched to another lane, but Ash, sitting in the car, remained as steady as Mount Tai. He looked at Hanna in the driver’s seat, his thoughts quickly brought back to reality.

Although Harvey and Igula hadn’t revealed a hint of information to him, the tasks involving people like them usually involved gang vendettas, deception, robbery, and theft—after all, their scope of operations was quite narrow and could be completely covered by a single book of Criminal Law.

Despite Ash’s usual calm deanor, he had secretly investigated Azura’s underworld forces, mainly by asking around in online gas. Many enthusiastic folks from Azura had educated him that there were currently ten major underworld forces in Azura, identified as one palace, two offices, three families, and four major companies.

The first palace referred to the rmaid Palace. The Sea Demon Clan was known as the ‘sewer royalty’ of the Kingdom of Gospel, with chain stores in all major cities. Almost all murders, smuggling, illegal drug trafficking, and racial trading had to get the nod from the Sea Demon Clan, making them the indisputable underworld leaders.

The two offices were naturally the top two ranked in Azura’s local list and squeezed into the national top ten list. Hanna’s office, squeezed out of the local top ten, received only the cases that the two major offices didn’t want, the leftovers and scraps.

The three families were ancient families that had roots in the Azura region for years. Ash didn’t rember the specific surna emblems, only that they intermarried among each other, with their connections deeply embedded in important departnts like Bluebeard, Red Hat, and the Governnt Affairs Hall, even the mayor ca from these three families.

The four major companies were companies that accounted for over 75% of Azura’s GDP and had squeezed into the national Enterprise List, large enough to be considered too big to fail. Although these companies had close ties to the three families, having received investnts from them, the overall relationship was still one of conflict and friction. After all, capital naturally resisted the feudal system of families—if you think investing a bit of money early on can control a successful enterprise, then you’re underestimating the alienating power of capital.

Therefore, as Ash sat in Hanna’s car, he thought about which of the top ten underworld forces they were looking to trouble. When they reached their destination, despite being prepared, Ash was still shocked by this particular underworld stronghold.

“Azura Fourth dium Education Base”

“This is…”

“The Fourth High School, you can call it Number Four.”

Hanna stepped out of the car, pressed the car key, and the mature floating car found its own parking space.

Although it was called a high school, Number Four looked more like a business center, with each floor radiating warm and bright light, the glass revolving door wide open, with no security asures or guards checking visitors.

Ash followed Hanna inside, changing his impression again. Inside, there were no classrooms in sight, nor any teaching sounds. Through the windows, Ash saw rooms filled with coffin-like full-coverage pods, each pod’s surface displaying a holographic projection of the occupant’s na and information.

Rather than calling it a classroom, it was more like an experintal base conducting human experints.

However, these full-coverage pods looked very familiar to Ash—it wasn’t…

“Looks like the virtual ga pods you frequently play in, right?” Hanna said, “Or rather, the ga pods are modeled after these.”

Ash was montarily stunned, then realized, “Right, if consciousness imrsion technology is already applied to private virtual gas, then it must have been applied to more important areas like education, dicine, and research long ago!”