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Chapter 178

Trash Yaxiu

[Black and White Witch] [Human · Female · 19 years old] [Bond Level: 0 (30% EXP sharing)] [Class: Daughter of the High Tower] [Class Trait: Inside a tower, learning efficiency +15%] [Innate Talent · Witch (Intermediate): Gains an additional 150% Time EXP, low probability of gaining 10,000% Time EXP, easier to earn the favor of the Bronze Dragon (Talent rank can be unlocked as strength increases).] [Personal Special Skill · Personality Fission: The Black and White Witch can actively adjust her personalities to adapt to different environments, and can even switch to specific combat personalities when facing different enemies. Insight +10, Vital Strike Assessment +10, Critical Strike Rate increases as combat duration lengthens.] [Silver Blessing · Witch's Taboo: Secrecy grants you power; concealment is your weapon. The fewer people in reality who know your true inner self, the more powerful you become in the Void Realm. Currently, the Black and White Witch's concealment rate is 93% (Unknown to anyone), granting a +93% sorcery power recovery speed bonus. (Observations by the Watcher are not counted.)] [Held Items: None] [Controlled Sorcery Spirits: Mask, Water Therapy, Sharp Claws...] [Mind Faction: Silver Rank] [Fist & Claw Faction: Gold Rank] [Time Faction: Silver Rank] [Water Sorcery Faction: Silver Rank] [Training Policy: Not set] A Gold-rank faction realm, and she even had a Silver Blessing—this was a Two-Winged operator! Yaxiu fell into deep thought. Was it because he himself was a Two-Winged operator that the new operator he pulled was also Two Wings? Or was the gacha completely random, meaning that with enough luck, one could even pull a Four-Winged operator? The Black and White Witch possessed the Water Therapy sorcery spirit and a Silver-rank water sorcery faction, so she could serve as a half-healer. Yet her primary focus was the fist and claw faction, alongside cultivating the time faction. While it seemed profoundly impressive, Yaxiu couldn't deduce her exact combat role. He would still need to team up with her in the Void Realm before deciding on her tactical positioning. Of course, if the Black and White Witch could stop time throughout the entire world, then Yaxiu's tactical role would simply be a pendant clinging to her thigh. Speaking of thighs, Yaxiu glanced at the Black and White Witch's character portrait. Her outfit was a checkerboard-patterned dress in black and white, one leg clad in a white stocking and the other in a black stocking. Hiss... *Suggesting Sword Princess take notes.jpg* Though he grumbled, Yaxiu still checked the newly acquired attire, only to find a pleasant surprise: [Swimsuit · Watcher: Increases water sorcery faction buffs received by self by +10% (Limited to the Void Realm, but if identical clothing is worn in reality, the buff can also be gained).] [Doomsday Afternoon · Watcher: When uninjured, Attack Power +3%.] Attire could actually grant stat bonuses! Even though the boosts weren't massive, something was better than nothing. If he could, Yaxiu would have loved to hand the swimsuit over to Sword Princess, but it wasn't transferable. Even though the swimsuit offered a greater buff and the new operator also had the water sorcery faction, Yaxiu still equipped Doomsday Afternoon. After all, a swimsuit was simply too shameless. Under the company's sustainable exploitation of draining the pond to catch the fish over the years, Yaxiu only had a tiny shred of self-esteem left, which couldn't be wasted on something like this. Besides, having identical clothes custom-tailored in reality would trigger the buff, but no matter how one looked at it, swimwear could never become everyday attire. Yaxiu had no desire to shoulder a negative debuff of "extremely high probability that others consider you a pervert" just for that meager buff. Compared to the swimsuit, Doomsday Afternoon was far more normal. From its appearance, it was just throwing on a dark-red gradient trench coat, which should be easy enough to obtain. Dispensing a bottle of Pure Spiritual Light Special Drink to both himself and Sword Princess, Yaxiu saw the End Watcher in the portrait drink it immediately, while the portrait of Death Frenzy Sword Princess sprouted a "zzz" sleeping icon, indicating that the action of drinking the potion would be delayed by five hours. Finally, there was the special gold item he had never seen before. [Prince of Pleasure's Twenty-Sided Die: A recreational die hand-carved by the Prince of Pleasure. Using this die during recreation grants gifts from the Prince of Pleasure. When scheduling "Recreation" in an operator's training policy, the twenty-sided die can be rolled at the end of each recreation session. Depending on factors such as the type of recreation, the die roll result, and the operator's mood, the operator can gain sorcery pleasure EXP ranging from 0% to 200% (100% EXP = 1 professional training session). Sorcery pleasure EXP is not subject to any reduction and only accepts bonus additions.] Yaxiu understood it at a glance—this item made "Recreation," which he would otherwise never select in the training policy, far more practical. Previously, recreation only increased operator mood, an essentially useless metric. But now, recreation had a chance to yield high sorcery EXP; playing games could make one stronger too, reducing the EXP lost by operators due to recreation. In simple terms, it was a piece of junk. After all, Yaxiu wasn't going to schedule recreation for his operators, even with this item in hand. A quick calculation laid it bare: recreation cost 2 action points and could yield at most 200% EXP, whereas training cost 1 action point and guaranteed 100% EXP. From mathematical expectation alone, the returns of two training sessions solidly crushed a single recreation session! As for recreation boosting operator mood... while Sword Princess often grumbled, under the therapeutic aid of Yaxiu's ahead-of-its-time motivational chicken soup, she had gradually grown accustomed to the high-intensity training. This proved human adaptability was remarkably strong, and there was still room to tap into her subjective initiative. Measuring others by his own yardstick, when Yaxiu had just graduated and entered the workforce, he went straight into full-throttle 997 overdrive, where slacking off was his only rest. Hadn't he still survived with resilience? He had even out-competed his peers to secure promotions and pay raises, which went to show that recreation was entirely unnecessary. *Eat the bitterest grind, so Yaxiu leaves a Land Rover behind!* *Operators sweat and strive, so the player sees a Ferrari arrive!* *Haul those bricks without delay, so the Watcher keeps a mistress in play!* Sword Princess, Witch, keep it up! Still, the item's name actually contained "Prince of Pleasure." If Yaxiu remembered correctly, wasn't the Prince of Pleasure an incarnation of one of the Four Pillar Gods? That thought circled his mind before dissipating into thin air. Whether you were the Lord of Heaven or the Prince of Pleasure, once it fell into his hands, it was his; whatever went into his mouth was nutrition! As for the Black and White Witch's training policy... here, Yaxiu paused, recalling that Sword Princess's training for this week would also wrap up tomorrow. After some thought, he decided to set the Black and White Witch's training policy tomorrow, syncing both operators' training cycles so their weekly reports would arrive at the same time going forward. It wasn't quite full-blown OCD, but having all his operators' training cycles neatly aligned felt much more comfortable—fine, it was mild OCD. And then there was the Intermediate Trial Card... In truth, the moderate EXP provided by the trial card was practically negligible for two Two-Winged operators, but Yaxiu placed far more value on the line about "slightly increases operator bond." Sword Princess already had a Level 3 bond with him, whereas the Black and White Witch was at Level 0. For Sword Princess, the bond granted by the trial card was equivalent to Yaxiu sharing a meal or taking a stroll through the streets with her—at best, maintaining their current relationship, far from leveling up the bond. But for the Black and White Witch, the trial card was like Yaxiu introducing himself, engaging in an icebreaker, and chatting about family background. While it might not level up the bond right away, after meeting a few more times they would grow familiar with each other, making the cost-to-benefit ratio exceptionally high. Thus, Yaxiu chose to use the Intermediate Trial Card on the Black and White Witch. The moment he closed the game interface, Yaxiu felt as though a membrane had ruptured in his mind. The drowsiness that had been teasing him without making a move suddenly surged forward with overwhelming force, and Yaxiu quickly went limp like a puddle of mud, falling into a dead faint. About thirty-odd seconds later, the carriage's side door slid open. A youth dressed in a dark blue butler uniform stepped inside. He had long, light-blue hair, a gradient blue cloak draped over his shoulders, bright eyes, white teeth, and delicate, pale skin, appearing no older than thirteen or fourteen. He rolled the unconscious Igola onto his back, pressed his left hand to Igola's forehead, while a book manifested in his right hand. After flipping through it, he said, "Rank 2 on the Two-Winged Mind Leaderboard · Azuma Sub-board, Rank 5 on the Azuma Beauty Leaderboard. Name: Igola Bogin." "Oh~ Does that mean that social butterfly Mildred got knocked off the beauty leaderboard?" someone outside chuckled lightly. "Fantastic, finally one less person dragging down my class. Since he's near the top of two sub-boards... let's tentatively rate him as a 3-star character." The youth nodded, walked over, pressed Harvey's forehead, and said, "Rank 1 on the Two-Winged Necromancy Leaderboard · Azuma Sub-board. Name: Archibald Harvey." "Rank one on a minor board like Necromancy? Well, first place is first place... tentatively rate him as 3-star as well." The youth walked over and turned Yaxiu, pressing his forehead for quite a long while. The person outside asked curiously, "What's wrong?" "He seems... not to be on any leaderboard." "Not on any leaderboard? Isn't he a Two-Winged sorcerer? The comprehensive sorcerer leaderboard, kill leaderboard, creation leaderboard, faction leaderboards—he's not on a single sub-board?" "None." "Hmm... Then rate him as 0-star trash."