She watched the Hero while reaching out to open the window, ready to inform the soldiers outside of the situation.
At this moment, the shadows inside the carriage suddenly began to wriggle—
[Hunting Knowledge LV]
[Attitude of Hunting Knowledge Extreme Failure!]
1. Cannot allow Curse
2. Hard to tolerate stupidity (Attack)
4. Cannot accept Innocence (Attack)
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure♛
[Knowledge Hunter Rank7 LV37]
Knowledge Life: An intangible conceptual life form. Unaffected by physical attacks, nor can it initiate physical attacks.
Automatic Recorder: Records the lost, drafts the mysteries. Spellcasting doesn't require chanting, successful when D Intelligence is greater than D Constitution, power based on D Constitution, hit rate fixed at the maximum value of Agility.
Soul Mark: The Hunter's signature ability. Marks the target with D Perception, and the marked will be permanently locked.
[The Double Extreme Failure of Hunting Knowledge Attitude! Equivalent to losing reason]
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
Inside the carriage, the Hero's eyes glazed over, lost in endless contemplation.
However, just when it seemed like her thoughts would crystallize into a conclusion, an unusual presence began to stealthily spread from the shadows under the carriage, attempting to probe into her mind.
The Knowledge Hunter was preparing to assess the girl—its prey—evaluating the feasibility and value of the hunt.
Even as an Elemental Life, it needs to decide its course of action based on the result of the risk assessment.
If it discovers that the other party has the Wisdom to decode the Curse, and the willingness to spread these Knowledge, then there's no room for it to intervene, and it naturally wouldn't interfere.
But if the other party does not possess such ability or thought, then it is necessary to mark them, list them as an object of attention, and wait for the owner's death, to collect the girl's Soul and Knowledge after several decades.
As a Knowledge Hunter that is not yet seasoned, the Knowledge accumulated is not much.
So for it, a portion of Knowledge from a higher being is extraordinarily precious, even if a Knowledge Hunter of its level might not be capable of retaining a complete record, it must at least leave a mark—
At this moment, the thought-interrupted Hero's pupils constricted, her eyes rapidly filling with discontent.
When the Snow Woman was just about to reach for the window, the Hero chided loudly.
The Snow Woman, who was almost convinced that she was being referred to, shivered, and then she also noticed the strange presence coming from under the carriage.
But before she could react, the Hero had already thrust out her hand towards the bottom without any hesitation.
Entering a room without knocking, infiltrating someone's mind without greeting, was a behavior devoid of etiquette!
The impolite one deserved a lesson!
[The Hero launches the Skill: Global, Extrasensory Sensation (2d Perception + 30 + d Intelligence)]2d86+30+d100=d86(69)+d86(65)+30+d100(94)=258
[Knowledge Hunter's Struggle (Perception 177)]
[Knowledge Hunter's Struggle Failed, the Hero has locked onto the Knowledge Hunter]
[The Hero launches the Skill: United Heart: Synchronizing the Hollow Curse to the Knowledge Hunter, deducting 4d Perception / 5 + 30 Intelligence]4d17+30=(13)+(9)+(3)+(3)+30=58
In an instant, the Hero's Perception spread out, enveloping the entire space inside and outside the carriage into her mind.
Losing reason doesn't mean one cannot fight.
On the contrary, because she no longer considered the surrounding circumstances, her instincts, quicker than thought, locked onto the lurking conceptual life form in the shadows in an instant.
It was an existence utterly different from humankind. Without limbs, without flesh, and not needing sustenance, filled with elements the Hero could hardly comprehend.
Even compared to the current Gleaming Scale Serpent, its existence is far removed, seemingly from another dimension, the world it perceives, the laws it follows are matters beyond human empathy, much like a summer insect unable to comprehend ice.
For such an existence, common negative states—whether it's muteness, blindness, or bleeding, illness—all are entirely ineffective, and thus synchronizing Status is naturally out of the question.
However, it is also an entity that possesses a Soul, an entity with Wisdom.
And to the "Hollow" Curse, that's already enough.
[58 points of Intelligence are deducted from the Knowledge Hunter (=297)]
In an instant, its mind fell into complete emptiness.
Thoughts ceased, Knowledge vanished like flowing water, the very foundation of its existence ruthlessly pulled away, plunging into the bottomless hollow.
As its consciousness began to operate again and grasped what had occurred, the heart of this life form, which should act according to rules, cold and rational, surged with unprecedented Fear and Anger.
The shadows immediately burst into action, plunging the carriage into instant darkness.
Under the astonished gaze of the Snow Woman, the Hero's eyes, which had been scattered, suddenly lowered her head, reaching seriously and Concentratedly towards the carriage floor with her palm.
The next moment, her slender fingers clenched into a Fist.
Within the confined carriage, a sweet and fragrant breeze suddenly swept through, filling the surrounding air.
The fragrance carried an irresistibly sweet allure, thick and warm like honey, gently stirring the Snow Woman's strands of hair by her ears.
The surroundings seemed to turn into a boundless ocean of honey, causing the Snow Woman's pupils to involuntarily dilate, as if immersed in a beautiful dream, unwilling to wake.
[Due to Great Failure, two judgments will be made]
2d86+30+d100=d86(20)+d86(15)+30+d100(15)=80
[Knowledge Hunter's Struggle]
[The Hero launches the Skill: United Heart: Synchronizing the Hollow Curse to the Knowledge Hunter]