Chapter 389: Chapter 326: Concept Poison, Facing the Miracle_2

He wanted to draw a new operative!

He wanted to draw more useful items from the Void Realm!

He wanted to draw a miracle item that could even increase faction experience while the operatives rested!

However, feeling his emotions weren’t intense enough, Ash calmed himself and looked to see if there was anything he liked in this limited-edition card pool…

“Bride * Sword Maiden”

Something surged up, something was surging up!

Ash said, “Now, amplify my intentions!”

“The faithful Gospel will amplify your intentions, countdown 3 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second… You have entered an amplified intentions state, remaining duration 10 seconds!”

Draw!

Gold light, “Black and White Witch’s Magic Mirror Fragment”!

White light, Energy Potion!

White light, Experience Potion!

All the rest were white lights!

“Black and White Witch’s Magic Mirror Fragment”: No one knew how many mirror fragments the Black and White Witch had lost, but those who found a mirror fragment quickly died unexpectedly until the mirror fragment returned to its original owner. It is said that the witch smashed the mirror herself because she wanted to avoid the mirror’s reflection of herself. Enhances the Bonds functionality after use.

Ash fell into deep thought.

Was this a success or a failure?

It was a success, as he had drawn an enhancement item from the Black and White Witch; but it could be a failure, though not completely.

However, Ash had drawn ten times before without getting a golden card, and logically the probability of getting a golden card wasn’t low, so this draw might be a normal outcome, unrelated to Ash’s intentions.

Of course, there was another possibility–Ash had never seen the Bride skin of the Sword Maiden, and there’s a limit to chatting without a visual, so his intentions weren’t strong enough to influence the drawing system.

Still, the witch’s enhancement item was obviously much more useful than the Bride skin of the Sword Maiden, so it wasn’t a loss… Ash could only comfort himself this way.

Though he still had Gospel Points and Game Points, Ash decided it was enough. After all, he had only 190 Gospel Points left, which he needed to save for emergencies.

In the Kingdom of Gospel, points that could obtain any information were an unparalleled strategic resource, even more crucial than the strength of a Mage themselves.

Using the “Black and White Witch’s Magic Mirror Fragment,” information about the Black and White Witch changed.

“Black and White Witch”

“Human Race * Female * 19 years old”

“Bonds Level: 1 (35% experience shared)”

“Bonds Resonance * Play with People’s Hearts: Even without relevant Spirit Technique Spirits, you and the witch have supernatural abilities to influence people’s hearts.”

“Profession: Mage of Annihilation”

“Professional characteristics: Increases damage to group knowledge organisms by 5%.”

“Silver Blessing: Witch’s Taboo: Secrecy empowers you, secrecy is your weapon. The fewer people in reality who know your true inner self, the stronger you are in the Void Realm. Currently, the concealment degree of the Black and White Witch is 85% (little known), receiving an 85% magic power recovery speed bonus. (Observer’s observations are not included)”

“Held Items: Training Gloves”

“Controlled Spirits: mask, Water Therapy, claws, Rapid Stream…”

“Spirit Faction: Silver Level”

“Fist Claw Faction: Gold Level”

“Time Faction: Silver Level”

“Water Magic Faction: Silver Level”

“Knowledge Poison: Bronze Dragon Poison”

The Witch’s concealment rate had dropped–it was 93% before, now it had fallen to 85%. Since the Witch’s taboo only takes into account those aware in reality, neither Ash nor the Sword Maiden counted, hence someone in reality must have guessed something about the Witch… How careless!

But this bond resonance… It was enough to say there was an “Insatiable Greed” resonance between me and the Sword Maiden last time, but now how could there be a resonance of “playing with people’s hearts” between me and the Witch?

Where have I ever played with other people’s hearts!

However, this might be an inherent setting for the player, Ash didn’t think too much about it.

He casually used a Blazing Soul essence drink on the Witch, then scrolled to the Sword Maiden’s operator interface and immediately noticed something strange–

“Knowledge Poison: Golden Fish Poison, Vortex Poison, Expulsion Poison, Bronze Dragon Poison, Concept Poison”

Why does the Sword Maiden have an extra poison?

Is she getting stronger behind my back?

But I can click directly on this poison to view it, which means… I already have the knowledge to acquire this poison?

“Concept Poison”

“Poison Details: In the Void Realm, some vague concepts might gain a physical form due to special reasons and manifest themselves as Concept Avatars. When you possess a Concept Avatar, you receive the highest priority augmentation effects; when a Concept Avatar is destroyed, the Void Realm temporarily loses this concept, and all Technique Spirits associated with this concept will also be destroyed and unable to regenerate until the Void Realm recreates it.”

“Number of people infected by poison: 79”

“Poison enhancement level: 79%”

“Current effects of the poison: You occasionally witness traces of miracles (beneficial effects reduce when enhancement drops to 50%; transforms into significant adverse effects when reaching 100%).”

Ash didn’t understand for a moment–wasn’t seeing traces of miracles considered a beneficial effect?

However, when Ash looked up, the whole world had changed.

Desk lamp, wall, ceiling, carpet, quilt… Everything in his room suddenly became a postmodern artwork constructed of spider silk.

He felt a pang in his heart and instinctively turned to look out the window at Vatican Mura.

At that moment, the once prosperous cityscape had vanished, replaced by an expanse bound by countless layers of spider silk forming a spider’s nest. In the sky hung a giant web extending to the horizon–endless and impermeable.

Walking on the fog-covered streets were spiders, each connected by dozens of strands of spider silk. They didn’t seem to move of their own accord, appearing rather to be drawn by the spider silk, puppet-like, making their way through various nests.

Ash stood up in fright and felt something sticky in his hand. He looked down and found his body covered in countless strands of spider silk; his sitting bed had turned into a cocoon storing food. He was like an insect stuck in a spider web, his skin completely covered by a thick white fluid, spider silk seemed to be burrowing into his mouth and eyes, trying to block his mouth, cover his eyes, grasp his heart–

The next second, the world returned to normal.

The room was still the room, the city was still the city, the white sheets lay flat on the bed.

Ash touched his face–it was smooth and tender, no sticky fluid.

This was the second poison he had acquired that brought negative effects.

The other was the Vortex Poison, which made him detest water, but Ash had mostly overcome the effect of the Vortex Poison. As long as he didn’t look directly at the water itself, he could reassure himself that the bath he was taking was not water but cola, and the poison would usually not trigger–this was a life hack taught to him by the Sword Maiden.

Compared to the Vortex Poison, the effects of the Concept Poison might be much more substantial.

For those weak like him, ignorance indeed served as their protective color.

Ash was not unaware that the Gospel permeated everywhere like air, but presenting the Gospel in such a horrifying manner would sooner or later plunge people into hysterical fear and despair.

After all, if you detest water, you could still drink cola or milk. But if even the air, the land, and the food terrified you, where could you possibly escape?

“…this must be the first time I’ve started to miss the Kingdom of Blood Moon since I arrived in the Gospel.”

(Man, last night I ordered a takeout from Xiao Man’s handcraft noodles, but deceitfully, they didn’t remind me to select cutlery, which is usually a necessity here, forcing customers to choose between ‘want’ and ‘do not want’; they didn’t, so I didn’t select cutlery, and when the takeout arrived, I realized there were no chopsticks.)

(To get some chopsticks, I ordered another takeout from Lawson, calling for some drinks and some kanto cooking, as kanto cooking would definitely come with chopsticks, so I didn’t specify. But when Lawson’s delivery arrived, they only sent the drinks–the cheek of them to cancel the kanto cooking and only send the drinks!)

(In the end, I looked at the two deliveries, along with a bowl of handcraft noodles without chopsticks, and fell into deep thought.)