Chapter 261: The Gift from the Swordswoman to Sonya

When Ashe flipped through the pages of the book, he felt as if he had transformed into the protagonist within, personally experiencing each memory recounted.

Interestingly, the book was not a tale of blacksmithing.

Or rather, it was not just about blacksmithing, which left Ashe, who had anticipated a blacksmithing story, somewhat disappointed.

The sorcerer who left these memories seemed to be a multi-faceted Creator Sorcerer, particularly skilled in the Mind Faction.

He managed to enslave a Knowledge Creature in the Virtual Realm, then infused it with multi-faction Miracles, including the “Hormonal Fury” from the biological faction and “Iron Scale Armor” from the Alchemy Faction, among others. Riding this Knowledge Creature, he wreaked havoc across the Time Continent.

Despite the book’s sorcerer likely being a Genius among the Two Wings, Ashe vaguely remembered that the Blood Moon Kingdom had a population of several hundred million, and the Gospel Kingdom was not small either, not to mention other kingdoms. Among these billions of people, the emergence of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Geniuses was almost inevitable. Therefore, a sorcerer who could traverse the Virtual Realm with such impunity was likely one of many.

This realization made Ashe discreetly curb his disdain. Because of items like the Sorcerer Handbook, the Map, and his sports car, he didn’t see his peers in the Virtual Realm as threats, nor did he think they could catch up to him.

However, reality told him that even without cheats, sports cars, or maps, a Genius could still create a monster mount surpassing the current Version, push through the Virtual Realm, and plunder arcane energy!

“In the frost-laden sky of myriad creatures, freedom competes.” This is the only Rule of the Virtual Realm.

I have cheats, you have Talent, he has luck, and we all have a bright future.

The book documented the sorcerer’s process of enslaving and modifying the Knowledge Creature. It might have been highly beneficial for a sorcerer of the Mind Faction or Alchemy Faction to read, but Ashe’s involvement with the Mind Faction was merely a side transfer from the Swordswoman, superficial at best. Thus, while he understood each knowledge point presented, he couldn’t grasp how they interconnected, making it as incomprehensible as attending an advanced mathematics class.

After leisurely finishing the book, Ashe immediately knew what reward he had gained.

All the Swordsmanship spirits on him burst forth, and a golden hammer emerged from the book, striking each Swordsmanship spirit heavily.

Clang! The Thrust Sword spirit transformed into Two Wings.

Clang! The Cleave Sword spirit transformed into Two Wings.

Clang! The Heart Sword spirit transformed into Two Wings.

In the blink of an eye, all of Ashe’s Swordsmanship spirits were promoted to Two Wings!

This was the reward for reading the book, and it was also a Miracle once performed by the Genius sorcerer in the book—”Refining Sword into Wings”!

The Genius sorcerer liked to enslave close-combat Knowledge Creatures such as the Slaying Fish-Dragon, Rampage Dragon, and Umbrella Bird-Dragon, which often carried Swordsmanship spirits. Thus, the Genius came up with a way to make them even stronger—forcibly upgrading their spirits that had not yet evolved to Two Wings!

Forcing the promotion of a One Wing spirit to Two Wings might sound like cheating, but for a Genius, cheating is what counts as a Miracle. Hence, “Refining Sword into Wings” was born—merely by performing this Miracle, one could elevate all the target’s Swordsmanship spirits to Two Wings!

However, this Miracle is not permanent and even requires the sorcerer to continually expend arcane energy to maintain it. Once the arcane energy is interrupted, the temporarily promoted Two Wings spirits will revert to One Wing.

This high-threshold Miracle is unlikely to be learned by anyone other than an Alchemist, but what ordinary Alchemist would need to practice the Swordsmanship Faction? Thus, “Refining Sword into Wings” is a very impractical Miracle, only meaningful in the hands of this Genius sorcerer.

But as a reward, this Miracle takes on a different significance.

Now, all of Ashe’s Swordsmanship spirits have been elevated to Two Wings, but this Miracle was not performed by a sorcerer but activated by the Legendary Library.

Or rather, this Miracle has the backing of the Virtual Realm.

This also means that even though “Refining Sword into Wings” was originally just a temporary enhancement Miracle, once the Sorcerer is supported by the Virtual Realm, the temporary enhancement becomes permanent!

There may be many hidden issues, such as these spirits not being able to promote to Tri-wings, but Ashe clearly doesn’t care about that. Setting aside whether he could even promote to Tri-wings, even if he could advance quickly to that level, he could just switch to other Tri-wings spirits and alter his tactical system. There’s no need to cling to these few spirits as if they were heirlooms.

Many Sorcerers might stubbornly evolve their favorite spirits step by step, but as a Mudblood Sorcerer, Ashe has no attachment or perseverance toward ‘Swordsmanship’, ‘belief’, or ‘spirits that have accompanied him for many years’.

If a more useful Slave spirit comes along, Ashe is even willing to replace his first acquired spirit, ‘Substitute’!

To him, Operators are like limbs, but spirits are like clothes; such is Ashe’s rule!

As for the promotion of ‘Cleave Sword’ and ‘Thrust Sword’, that was one thing, but Ashe did not expect ‘Heart Sword’ to also be promoted to Two Wings. The ‘Heart Sword’ is extremely valuable and practical, and the Swordswoman had always hoped Ashe would promote this agile attacking spirit to Two Wings. Ashe himself was reluctant to let go of this flexible spirit. However, his own Swordsmanship Faction was so weak that he could only rely on slowly feeding it Swordsmanship materials to grow.

Now that ‘Heart Sword’ has been promoted to Two Wings, Ashe no longer needs to compete with the Swordswoman for Swordsmanship materials, and his attack power can finally break through defenses!

Hmph, wait until the Swordswoman logs on tomorrow night, she’s in for a big surprise!

Ashe was very satisfied with his gains and returned the book to the shelf. The next step was to leave a part of his memory here as well.

Which memory to leave seemed obvious—memories from his past life couldn’t be left; those were treasures and secrets he refused to share with others. As for the memories of this life, only the escape from prison episode could slightly touch on the ‘Legend’.

Ashe placed his finger on the shelf and quickly entered a state of recollection. In the gap where his finger pointed, a new book was slowly forming…

Meanwhile, on the first floor of the Legendary Library, a red-haired lady dressed in black gauze was pressing her finger against a bookshelf. Her body, like smoldering ashes, seemed ethereal, as though she could dissipate into a wisp of light smoke at any moment.

Like threads of memory being woven together, a new book gradually formed. The moment it fully materialized, countless screams of madness spread like ripples, all the bookshelves oozed dark red blood, and the floor seemed to turn into a soft, decaying mire, inch by inch swallowing those who entered the library.

However, when the red-haired lady pulled the book out, all the anomalies disappeared.

“Hmph, just as expected,” she chuckled. “Although the guide suggests reading the book first, then recording memories, in fact, these two steps do not have a sequential order.”

“That means one can record memories first, and then read the book, including… the memories just set down.”

“Sonya.” She flipped open the book. “Hope you like this gift.”

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