Sorcerer’s Handbook

After several revisions, Ashe input all the data of the Black-and-White Witch, and the Gospel finally provided a useful response:

“Cost: 50 Points.”

“First conclusion: Practice the Fist and Claw Faction.”

“The Time Faction has a lower learning efficiency in reality. The only suitable place for practicing the Time Faction is, and only is, the Time Continent. It’s most cost-effective for your friend to enhance combat strength by practicing the Fist and Claw Faction in reality and embark on high-intensity adventures in the Virtual Realm.”

“The prerequisites are: (1) Your friend indeed possesses a Talent for the Time Faction (slightly doubtful); (2) Your friend actually owns an Item that provides a +15% Fist and Claw Faction practice efficiency in reality (somewhat doubtful); (3) Your friend can summon two Two Wings creatures with special combat abilities to assist in adventures within the Virtual Realm (strongly suspect your friend is lying, as the ability to summon creatures of the same rank in the Virtual Realm is exceedingly rare among Two Wings Sorcerers).”

“Therefore, the second conclusion can be drawn: Is your friend seriously ill?”

This Gospel turned out to be quite sarcastic…

Since the guide put it that way, Ashe had no reason not to follow its instructions—after all, 50 Points spent should not go to waste—so he equipped the Black-and-White Witch with Training Gloves, consumed an Advanced Stamina Potion and an Advanced Experience Potion, then filled up three Action Points.

However, at that moment, Ashe suddenly remembered that the witch had another option—

With the blessing of the Debauched Prince’s D20, Operators could also gain Magic experience through entertainment. Ashe had previously been indifferent to this option because the gains from entertainment were definitely lower than training, and it involved betting on luck—Ashe, a low-quality male user who had never won anything, had no expectations for his luck.

But now he realized that the D20 was perfectly suited for the witch’s situation.

The witch’s Trial Occupation greatly reduced learning efficiency, but the pleasurable Magic experience rewards from the D20 would not be reduced, only amplified, perfectly circumventing the witch’s negative state.

Ashe had an epiphany—Entertainment wasn’t merely for fun; it was a special form of Training designed to bypass negative states!

He almost misunderstood this game mechanic. Thankfully, since he hadn’t previously been human, he’d never scheduled Entertainment for the Swordswoman, or else he would’ve missed out big time!

Entertainment only took up two Action Points, so what to do with the remaining one? Rest was out of the question, and with the low efficiency of Training, it seemed Battle was the only viable option.

Within the Cultivation Strategy, the “Entertainment” option had transformed, now featuring a D20 icon that looked strikingly similar to the entrance of an online casino.

The Entertainment interface presented two types of activities: Specialized and All-Purpose.

Specialized Entertainment, such as “Fire Faction – Candle Lighting,” “Water Faction – Pool Play,” “Prophecy Faction – Hide and Seek,” “Mind Faction – Solo Housekeeping,” “Truth Faction – Completing a Set of Papers,” etc., would only increase experience in specific Magical Factions, but offer a larger amount of experience.

All-Purpose Entertainment, like “Playing with Mud,” “Catching Beetles,” “Jump Rope,” “Playing Soccer,” and such, which were not highly specialized or involved multiple factions, would increase experience in several Magical Factions, albeit providing a smaller amount of experience.

It all seemed so complicated; perhaps it would be simpler to have the witch Train.

But mobile games, being mobile games, provided a convenient option for lazy players like Ashe—

“Random Game: The Entertainment activity is random, and experience is gained only in one Magical Faction, with an additional 10% Experience Bonus.”

That was the one!

“Would you like to activate the apocalypse observer’s Inherent Talent and log the Black-and-White Witch in the Sorcerer Handbook?”

Ashe paused, reminded that the Sorcerer Handbook required binding an Operator to schedule their activities. The Swordswoman had undergone this process as well.

A thought suddenly crossed his mind—what if, in the future, he drew a new Operator, but there were no spots left in the Sorcerer Handbook? Could he delete an old Operator to make room?

This idea was fleeting, and Ashe chose “Confirm.”

“Swordswoman Cultivation Strategy: Training, Training, Battle”

“Witch Cultivation Strategy: Entertainment (Random Game – Fist and Claw Experience), Battle”

After setting the Cultivation Strategy for the Witch and the Swordswoman for the week, Ashe closed the Gospel as the Butler Youth finished a cigarette, snuffed it out in his palm, and stood up to speak, “Annan has two demands of you.”

Everyone looked up at him.

“First, do not leave the house for the time being.”

“Second, do not engage in any Magical Factions training.” Banjeet paused for a moment, “At most, you may peruse the reference books of the Magical Factions, but Miss hopes you can play as much as possible and do less serious work.”

Ashe was puzzled—was there really such a good deal?

It was Igor who guessed something, “To prevent our actions from ‘contaminating’ our evaluations?”

“Exactly,” Banjeet patiently explained, “Your learning efficiency will be recorded by the Gospel. The more diligently you study, the deeper the Gospel’s understanding of you, which is very detrimental to becoming an Echoer—on the contrary, the lazier you are, the Gospel might overestimate you. After all, you have the backing of Two Wings arcane energy on your resumes. When it’s found that you don’t work hard usually, the Gospel will naturally assume your Talent is higher.”

Understood, this was the Sly Student strategy, appearing not to work hard every day, but in reality having finished all the semester’s books before the term starts, just to seem effortlessly talented, making others overestimate one’s abilities.

As opposed to Igor and Harvey who yearned for progress, Ashe was now extremely pleased—yeah, everyone’s lying flat with me now!

“Lise, you can play to your heart’s content these days… You don’t seem very happy though?”

Lise, looking at herself in the mirror, seemed quite conflicted (///￣皿￣): “Where do you see me being unhappy? I’m very happy, Daddy!”

“At least put on a happy face to fool me!”

Banjeet said, “Speaking of which, I haven’t introduced you to the various facilities of the house. Here we have a library, a swimming pool, a shooting range, an audio-visual Entertainment room, a simulation game room, a novelty game room, where Gun Technique sorcerers are not allowed in the shooting range, similarly, Water Art sorcerers are not allowed in the swimming pool, Illusion Sorcerers 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 catnip.”

Banjeet was slightly taken aback: “A box? Are you sure?”

“What grass? Like vegetables?” Ashe asked curiously.

“Does Harvey look like the good kid who eats his vegetables? He’s more likely to eat corpses,” Igor muttered. “The only two possibilities that he would ask for something are either related to corpses or…”

“Catnip is a niche type of tobacco,” Banjeet emphasized ‘niche,’ and everyone understood what was implied—while others use their points to inquire about their career paths or whether they have a girlfriend, Harvey was practical, looking for a substitute for moon sugar!

Watching Harvey return to his room alone, Ashe was somewhat puzzled: “Can the Necromancy Faction increase resistance to toxins? Even if he has resistance, wouldn’t consuming hallucinogens like that strongly affect his mind?”

“Maybe that’s exactly what he wants—to affect his mind.”

Igor gave Ashe a glance. “Although the stars are beautiful, one cannot reach them with outstretched arms; although the gutter is filthy, it becomes a place of peaceful sleep if one lies down.”

“Not everyone wants to be sober.”

Ashe said, “Isn’t this the time for you, a Mind Sorcerer, to act? Your specialty is psychotherapy, after all! Harvey is on our side for now, can you help him get back to normal?”

“First of all, if we go by the standards of the Blood Moon, Harvey is quite normal right now,” Igor said calmly. “Moon sugar is already one of the classic drugs used by psychotherapists. If you go for psychotherapy, nine out of ten will recommend moon sugar, and the last one will suggest you buy something stronger from the black market, like dancing powder.”

“Secondly, do you think I have the spare energy to deal with someone else’s psychological issues right now?”

The Con Artist met the Cult Leader’s gaze and sighed softly, “Ashe, you are stronger than any of us.”

Ashe was taken aback, then shook his head: “I’m just experienced, that’s all.”

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