Chapter 235: Chapter 203: The Witch’s Entertainment Chapter 235: Chapter 203: The Witch’s Entertainment After several modifications, Ash input all the data of the Black and White Witch, and the Gospel Book finally provided a useful response:
“First conclusion: Cultivate the Fist Claw Faction.”
“The Time Faction has lower learning efficiency in reality, and the only suitable place for cultivating the Time Faction is and only is the Time Continent. It would be the most cost-effective choice for your friend to enhance combat power by cultivating the Fist Claw Faction in reality and embark on high-intensity adventures in the Void Realm.”
“This is under the assumptions that: ① your friend indeed possesses the Talent for the Time Faction (somewhat doubtful); ② your friend indeed has an item that increases Fist Claw Faction cultivation by +15% in reality (more doubtful); ③ your friend can summon two special creatures with Two-winged combat power to assist in adventures in the Void Realm (strongly suspect that your friend is lying, as the ability to summon equivalent special creatures in the Void Realm is very rare among Two-winged Mages).”
“Therefore, the second conclusion can be drawn: Is your friend seriously ill?”
This Gospel Book is unexpectedly sarcastic…
Since the strategy guide said so, Ash had no reason not to follow its instructions—after all, spending 50 points couldn’t be a waste—so he equipped the Black and White Witch with “Training Gloves,” consumed an “Advanced Physical Potion,” an “Advanced Experience Potion,” and then maximized three action points.
However, at this moment, Ash suddenly remembered that the Witch had another option—
With the enhancement of “Dice of the Pleasure Prince,” operatives could also gain Magic Experience through entertainment. Ash was previously indifferent to this option because the returns from entertainment were definitely lower than training, plus it was a gamble on luck—Ash, as a low-quality male user who only retweeted giveaways but never won anything, had given up on expecting any luck for himself.
But now, he realized that the twenty-sided dice were perfect for the Witch’s situation.
The trial Profession of the Witch would significantly decrease learning efficiency, but the Pleasure Magic Experience rewarded by the twenty-sided dice wouldn’t be reduced, only receiving bonuses, perfectly circumventing the Witch’s negative Status.
Ash suddenly understood—Entertainment wasn’t really for entertainment; it was a special form of training for avoiding negative statuses!
He had nearly misunderstood this game mechanic. Thankfully, in the past as a non-person, he hadn’t arranged for the Sword Maiden to partake in entertainment, or he would have suffered a huge loss!
However, entertainment only took up two action points; what should he arrange for the remaining action point? Resting was out of the question since training efficiency was low, so it seemed he could only arrange for combat.
In the training strategy, the “Entertainment” option had changed, simply put, its icon now included a twenty-sided dice, looking highly reminiscent of an online casino entrance.
The “Entertainment” interface popped up two types of entertainment categories: Professional and All-Rounder.
Professional entertainment, like “Fire Technique Faction—Candle Boiling,” “Water Technique Faction—Pool Play,” “Prophetic Faction—Hide and Seek,” “Spirit Faction—Playing House Alone,” “Truth Faction—Doing Several Sets of Papers,” etc., this kind of entertainment would only increase specific faction Magic Experience, but the Experience Points were higher.
All-Rounder entertainment, like “Playing with Mud,” “Catching Beetles,” “Jump Rope,” “Playing Football,” weren’t very specialized, or involved multiple factions, it would increase multiple factions’ Magic Experience, but the Experience Points were lower.
This seems so complicated, it might as well just let the Witch go and train.
But as a mobile game, it provided a convenient option for lazy players like Ash—
“Random Game: Entertainment projects are random, can only obtain Experience for one Magic Faction, but receive an additional 10% Experience bonus.”
“Would you like to activate the Innate Talent of the Final Observer and register the Black and White Witch in the Mage’s Handbook?”
Ash was taken aback, then he remembered that the Mage’s Handbook needed to bind operatives to schedule their routines; the Sword Maiden had this step as well.
An idea suddenly popped up in his mind—If he pulled a new operative later but the Mage’s Handbook was already full, could he delete the old operatives to make room for the new?
The thought flickered by, and Ash chose “Confirm.”
“Sword Maiden training strategy: Train, Train, Combat”
“Witch Training Strategy: Entertainment (Random Games—Fist Claw Experience), Combat.”
After arranging this week’s training strategy for the witches and the Sword Maiden, Ash closed the Gospel Book. At this moment, the housekeeper boy had just finished smoking a cigarette, snuffed out the butt in his palm, and stood up to say, “Miss has two requests for all of you.”
Everyone looked up at him.
“First, you are temporarily not allowed to leave the house.”
“Second, you are temporarily not allowed to engage in any Magic Faction cultivation.” Banjee paused for a moment, “At most, at most you can look at the Magic Faction’s reference books, but Miss hopes that you can play as much as possible and avoid proper work.”
Ash was stunned—was there really such a good thing?
Igula, however, guessed something, “To prevent our actions from ‘tainting’ our evaluations?”
“Exactly,” Banjee explained patiently, “Your learning efficiency will be recorded by the Gospel Book. The more diligent your study, the deeper the Gospel Book’s understanding of you, which is very detrimental to becoming a Resonator—on the contrary, the lazier you are, the Gospel Book will actually overestimate you, because you all have Two-winged Magic Power to back up your resumes. When it finds that you typically don’t work hard, the Gospel Book will naturally inflate your talents.”
Got it, it’s just like being a student con artist, seemingly idle every day, but in reality covering the entire semester’s material before school starts, just to appear effortlessly competent, thereby leading everyone to overestimate one’s abilities.
Compared to Igula and Harvey, who were eager to progress, Ash was now extremely happy—yay, everyone’s lying flat with me!
“Liss, you can enjoy yourself for this period.. but how come you don’t seem very happy?”
Liss looked quite conflicted (///￣皿￣), “Where do you see I’m not happy? I am very happy, daddy!”
“At least put on a happy face to fool me!”
Banjee said, “Speaking of which, I haven’t introduced you to the various facilities in the house yet. There is a library, a swimming pool, a shooting range, an audio-visual entertainment room, a simulation game room, and a quirky game room. Gun technique Mages are not allowed in the shooting range, likewise, Water Magic Mages are not allowed in the swimming pool, and Illusion Technique Mages are not allowed in the simulation game room, please follow me…”
“I’m not interested.” Harvey stood up and said, “I’m going back to my room, please buy me a box of cat grass.”
Banjee was slightly taken aback, “A box? Are you sure?”
“What grass? Vegetables?” Ash asked curiously.
“Does Harvey look like a good boy who eats vegetables? Eating corpse beetles is more like it,” Igula muttered, “The only possibilities for him to actively make a request are either related to corpses or…”
“Cat grass is a very niche category of tobacco,” Banjee emphasized the word ‘niche,’ and everyone naturally understood—the rest ask about development directions or whether they have a girlfriend upon getting points, but Harvey is practical, asking if there’s an alternative to Moon candy?!
Watching Harvey go back to his room alone, Ash was somewhat puzzled, “Can the Necromancy Faction increase resistance to poison? Even if he has some resistance, wouldn’t his consumption of hallucinogens strongly affect his mind?”
“Perhaps he wishes it to affect his mind.”
Igula glanced at Ash, “Although the starry sky is beautiful, it cannot be touched even with outstretched arms; although the gutter is filthy, it becomes a place of peaceful sleep once one lies down.”
“Not everyone wants to stay awake.”
Ash said, “Isn’t this the time for you, the Spirit Mage, to make a difference? Your profession is psychology, right? Harvey’s on our side now, can’t you help bring him back to normal?”
“First, if we go by Blood Moon’s standards, Harvey is very normal.” Igula spoke lightly, “Moon candy is one of the classic medications used by psychologists. If you go for psychological treatment, nine out of ten will recommend Moon candy, and the last one will recommend you go to the black market for something stronger, like dancing powder.”
“Second, do you think I have the energy right now to deal with other people’s psychological issues?”
The Swindler met the gaze of the Cult Leader and sighed softly, “Ash, you are stronger than us.”
Ash was taken aback, then shook his head, “I just have experience, that’s all.”