Chapter 101: Summoning 'Sincerity”

Chapter 101: Summoning “Sincerity”

Cailleach, Swordflower College.

“......I knew it must be a whirlpool, damn it! Why don’t I have luck like you? My Silver Wings were painstakingly condensed bit by bit every day and night!”

“Oh,no. The more I think about it the angrier I get. The more I look at you the more jealous I become. All my life I’ve hated people like you the most, those with both great luck and talent. Go away, go away!”

“Go back and diligently train your swordsmanship. If I find out you become arrogant and lazy just because of this little achievement, I’ll burn you to ashes with my jealous flames...”

Sonya was kicked right out of the professor’s research lab, spat her tongue out and headed back happily – despite Professor Trotzam’s harsh words, he hadn’t stinted on the rewards at all. He directly gave her two sword spirits from his own treasures, and even shared two Sword Miracles with her!

The two single-wing spirits were ‘Sheath’ and ‘Sharpen’, the former Sonya had seen before with senior sister Sylvia. It can be triggered when the blade is kept in the sheath for more than 15 seconds, which strengthens the power of the next attack;

The latter is a specialized spirit for empowering blades. When sharpening a sword it will trigger, making the edge keener, more resilient and less prone to chips and breaks.

The two Sword Miracles were “Sheath’s Gathered Light” and “Sharpen for Ten Years”, both derived from the main spirits of Sheath and Sharpen. Sonya would need to purchase additional support spirits to activate these Miracles.

For example, “Sharpen for Ten Years” requires the time series spirits ‘Second’, ‘Minute’, ‘Hour’, ‘Day’, ‘Month’, ‘Year’.

Although they are time spirits, they aren’t expensive and can even be considered cheap, readily available at any time on the spirit trading platforms.

In the second layer of the virtual world, the Time Continent, this series of time spirits are practically everywhere. Two-wing casters can harvest quite a few every time they enter the virtual world.

Although only Two-wing casters have the qualifications to gather them, with such large quantities the prices are naturally pressed down. Otherwise Professor Trotzam wouldn’t have taught Sonya this Miracle – the Sword Saint still understands the circumstances of his genius student.

However, because she sold quite a few spirits from the virtual world, Sonya is actually wealthy now. She has been pondering what spirits to purchase recently to improve her tactical system, and Professor Trotzam has helped resolve her dilemma early.

From these two Miracles it’s also clear that Professor Trotzam has established Sonya’s current goals: raise her level, become familiar with spirits, and master Miracles.

This is only natural. Condensing Silver Wings in just eight days starting from nothing, Sonya’s swordsmanship level completely cannot keep up with the speed of her arcane energy growth.This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.

The chasm before Sonya now is her spell level. Until the day she raises her swordsmanship to the Gold level, she cannot summon two-wing spirits for a single day, naturally unable to enter the second layer of the virtual world, unable to step foot on the Time Continent, unable to condense Golden Wings.

A caster’s advancement does not permit weak points. Arcane power and level must reach the criteria together for the virtual world to open up higher level worlds.

Therefore, even if Sonya fully unfolds her Silver Wings, if she wants to advance to Two-wing, she would need at least a year to precipitate her swordsmanship level.

In a certain sense, Sonya condensing arcane energy so quickly actually has huge risks, because from now on she will arrive at the core areas of the sea of knowledge, and if unlucky could even encounter mature knowledge lifeforms – absolutely not something a One-wing caster can contend against.

This is also why Professor Trotzam is so strict with her, because if Sonya becomes lax and lazy, it is very possible she would die repeatedly in the virtual world. Not only would her soul be damaged, she could also lose important spirits, and possibly even cause her spell level to stagnate.

‘Fair winds’ are a great taboo for casters. Countless casters, after obtaining a fortuitous encounter, believed themselves blessed by heaven, confidence inflated, but were soon harshly taught a lesson by the virtual world, ultimately fading away into the masses, their achievements even less than diligent casters who steadily climbed step-by-step.

The virtual world is no charitable place. The more benefits you obtain from it, the greater pressure it will impose on you. All the fortunes bestowed by the virtual world that are given away are marked behind the misfortunes that need to be paid for.

Unless Sonya could meet a Golden Fish like the whirlpool through a burst of luck, directly smuggling her to the Time Continent, then she could ignore the level divide and directly advance to Two-wing.

But not to mention Professor Trotzam, even Sonya hadn’t considered this possibility – because even the Observers couldn’t find Golden Fish.

Thinking of the Observers, Sonya’s excited expression gradually faded away.

She quietly sighed, preparing to return to the dorms – today was still under martial law, the entire school suspended with all students prohibited from approaching the White Tower.

Yet just exiting the research building, she saw a familiar luxury sedan parked on the driveway. She turned to circle around it but the window slowly down, revealing Felix’s handsome face.

“But you’re just giving this to me?” Sonya said in surprise “No confidentiality agreement? No other conditions?”

“No need, just use Murderous Sword well, don’t waste it.”

Having said that, Felix drove away. Sonya was a bit confused, thinking so this is how rich people are, casually giving away a Miracle?

But it was understandable too. As one of the ’21 Secret Swords’, for Felix obtaining Murderous Sword again would be too difficult, so the matching Miracle Murderous Activation was nearly meaningless to him, better to give it to Sonya as a favor.

Moreover, Felix seemed to want to switch to training in toxins, water and wind, swordsmanship had become his cover, Professor Trotzam was just a temporary shelter he found, now he and Sonya had no competitive relation.

Although that was the case, Sonya still couldn’t help sighing at the boldness of the silly rich young master. If it were her, no way could she bear to freely give away a Miracle, at least need the other party to fork out some money to appease her miserly heart.

But Murderous Activation still needed two supporting spirits, the high price, and the possibility of not being able to buy it, added to Sonia’s already poor situation.

As if she finally became lucky after such bitter, in just a single day Sonya obtained two spirits and three Miracles. Just grasping these new ‘equipment’ would consume quite a bit of her time.

If it was the Sonya from half a month ago, she definitely couldn’t have imagined a day where she would be troubled by having too many spirits and Miracles.

Yet what troubled Sonya most right now was not the spirits and Miracles.

She had originally wanted to relax in the dorms, watch some of Dahlia’s new show or something. But after hesitating for a bit, she still chose to go to the training hall for spirit training.

11 pm at night, Sonya arrived at the Meditation building on time.

Although the school was still under martial law, the areas outside the White Tower had basically resumed operations, like the cafeteria, training halls and such. Only classes were cancelled, having students self-study the entire day – many students hoped these days would continue indefinitely.

When looking for the Door of Truth, Sonya suddenly felt some anxiety, but quickly calmed down.

‘Was still forced to train swordsmanship for two hours tonight... clearly the Observer’s power is still in effect...

‘And for a revived powerhouse with lost memories, even if he died he could definitely revive again...

‘If something really happened to him wouldn’t that be great? Then I could gain freedom. I’ve already condensed the Silver Wings, temporarily no longer needing him to explore the virtual world, he’s useless now...’

‘But he most likely successfully escaped last night, just accidentally overslept which is why he didn’t come to the virtual world. No way something happened that easily. Come to think of it, if I show off the new spirits and Miracles I obtained, wouldn’t he be very surprised?’

Amidst her random thoughts, Sonya found the Door of Truth and sank into consciousness, entering the virtual world.

Her soul passed through layers of dark mist, her consciousness coalescing into form in the virtual world. Sonya slowly opened her eyes, the scene entering her eyes the familiar boat, and the familiar strange man.

His voice was still just as frivolous and unreliable: “Good evening, Swordswoman.”

Sonya suddenly forgot the words she had prepared to complain and rebuke with.

Like a heavy weight lifted from her heart, she breathed out in relief, lightly pressing a hand to her chest, revealing an expression of having a weight taken off as she smiled lightly “It’s good that you’re alright.”

This sudden concern made Ashe pause in surprise, but before he could say anything, a flash of gold light burst out from Sonya’s chest, transforming into a radiant single-wing spirit.

Its exterior looked nearly transparent like a butterfly, with only one wing, but when fluttering about it refracted rainbow light, gorgeous as dreamy bubbles.

Even without contacting it, just seeing it in that instant, Ashe and Sonya already knew this spirit’s name.

“Sincerity”.