Chapter 732: Chapter 573: Return to Shattered Lake
“Having half of yourself, with your mory skills and identical appearance, but a completely different personality?”
In Dream Bubble Shadow, Ash licked the iron railing while nodding, “Yes, he’s a tsundere, totally different from .”
Sonia and Diya glanced at him without speaking. The Dream Bubble Shadow here resembles a collegiate city within walls, where the streets are filled with vibrant young n and won, and the four of them—Mages—as they walked along the street, actually seed like the elder ones.
“16 to 8, 8 to 4, 4 to 2…” Weiser was surrounded by various phenona, with flas ascending, rain mists churning, lightning flashing, and flowers blooming and wilting, “If in the end only one person can pass the trial, then the grudge between you and Silver Lamp will soon co to an end.”
“Two people, because the Fate Twins co as a pair,” Ash corrected, “But you’re right, this lengthy pursuit will co to read its death sentence in the trial.”
“But you currently can’t use Technique Spirit Magic Power, and even your companions aren’t by your side… can you really defeat Silver Lamp?” Diya worriedly asked while fiddling with her string ga, “The Blood Seed from Silver Lamp is still in you, isn’t it?”
Ash nodded, “I truly can’t defeat Silver Lamp, not only due to the gap that can only be bridged in battle but also because of the Blood Seed. The closer I am to her, the stronger the effect of the Blood Seed, which ans she’s essentially draining my life energy at all tis. As I fight her, she’ll only beco fiercer while I grow weaker and weaker.”
“This ti I relied on a mutual destruction tactic in my duel with her, dragging her down to my level, but next ti she may not fall for it.”
During the fight, Ash didn’t feel it, but once he was away from Silver Lamp for a distance, he unmistakably felt his body was excessively weak, only after eating so high-calorie energy bars in the rest room did he recover, clearly, the Blood Seed was still effective.
“If it were just and Silver Lamp, I’d reckon I’m truly out of options,” Ash spread his hands and said, “But my other half not only doesn’t have this burden but also has much greater combat power than . As long as I cooperate with him properly, we can surely take down the Silver Lamp Twins!”
Despite Ash’s confidence, the Sword Witch still worried greatly; after all, they had never seen that ‘other half.’ And now that Ash called that ‘half’ a tsundere, it was even more unsettling—not because being a tsundere affected combat power, but soone who could be easily read by Ash didn’t seem to be much shrewder than a Fish-Slicing Dragon.
“We’ve found the word suffix,” Weiser suddenly said, “It’s related to color, standing on a white tile grants invincibility, and stepping on a black tile adds a negative effect.”
At the sa ti, the nearby scenery began to coagulate and flow backward, and a stream of information entered the mages’ minds:
“Jumping Grid: It’s ti to go back to the dorms after school, and whoever steps on a black grid loses! You are immune to any damage while standing on a white grid, but stepping on a black grid gains you one layer of ‘damage amplification’ curse, each layer increases the damage taken by 10%, stackable indefinitely.”
“Word Suffix Identification Reward: A small amount of Truth Faction experience, a small amount of Fate Faction experience, a small amount of Magic Power.”
“Limited Word Suffix Privilege: In the next Dream Bubble Shadow, you can gain 1 layer of ‘Defense Enhancent’ blessing by stepping on white grids, each layer reduces damage taken by 5%, up to a maximum of 10 layers.”
Ash and the others gasped in surprise.
Even though it was a single-word suffix bubble, the suffix was too outrageous, especially for those Mages who would spend tens of minutes feeling for clues on the word suffix.
Because the paths here were almost entirely laid out with alternating black and white tiles, once the mages moved, they were bound to step over dozens or even hundreds of black tiles, and since the curse stacked indefinitely, it ant that once they start fighting, they would have to suffer an additional 1000% damage amplification; their Holy Domains were highly likely to be shattered by Void Realm creatures in an instant!
Also precisely because such over-the-top word suffixes existed, Ash and his group had no choice but to spend a substantial amount of ti searching for clues to the word suffixes.
Ash licked railings, Diya played with her string ga, and Sonia skipped and hopped, sotis walking backward… each of their extraordinary probes was a reaction stemming from having been brutalized by word suffixes before.
Sonia had, in fact, learned various thods for probing word suffixes from all manner of travel diaries and even from professors like Trozan and Nidara, but as the saying goes, shallow learning from books alone is never as profound as actual experience. For example, they encountered a ‘Frenzy Blade’ word suffix, where holding a sword would cause gender switching; from then on, Sonia and Ash’s first step in each new bubble was to pull out a sword.
However, as they encountered more Dream Bubbles, they found that the efficiency of dealing with word suffixes also rapidly increased.
Not just Weiser, sotis even Ash and his group could deduce the word suffixes through probing, but the progress they made each night in clearing stages didn’t improve much. They were still getting through seven or eight bubbles, although their safety greatly increased.
For a ‘Jumping Grid’ kind of word suffix that could lead to death on a misstep, at least they had preemptively dealt with it seven or eight tis.
Since the first two bubbles went so smoothly, and they had the ‘Jumping Grid’ 50% defense reduction word suffix privilege, Ash decided to go for a challenge and upon opening the ‘Void Realm Map’, he saw a three-word suffix bubble and led everyone into it.
“Eh?”
As soon as they entered the new scene, Ash stood rooted to the spot. Sonia, thinking he was ensnared by a word suffix the mont they arrived, cautiously pinched his hand, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Ash shook his head gently, then strode forward as if sleepwalking. This bubble was a large enclosed building; they pushed open the doors to arrive at the spacious Central Hall, the ceiling a glass do, with sunlight from far away freely scattered on the benches, potted plants placed on either side, a few people sitting on the benches, so chatting, so reading, and even soone sleeping on the benches… If it wasn’t for their prison clothes, this place could almost pass for a park.
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