The Nation of Stars.
"A feeler ability?"
Amidst cheers that sounded like a tsunami crashing against the mountains, Daidalos gracefully stepped off the stage like an empress.
Without delaying for a single moment, she left the venue and returned straight to the hotel.
Inside the makeup RV, while Felix was removing her makeup, Sonia and Diya suddenly crowded up and asked her this very question, taking Daidalos somewhat by surprise. "What made you two so curious about this all of a sudden?"
"We've always been curious," Sonia said. "It's just that before, we didn't feel close enough, and a feeler ability is your secret after all, so we felt awkward asking. But now that we're determined to break through the sky curtain, there's no need to keep your feeler ability from us, is there?"
"A feeler ability is indeed an important secret that must be kept." The foremost beauty under the starry sky said leisurely, "Keeping an extra trump card gives the enemy one more reason to be wary..."
"Are we enemies?" Sonia blinked.
"Of course not, Queens!" Daidalos beamed. "Actually, even if you had asked me right at the start, I would have answered. After all, you are Queens, and I am merely a Prime Minister. Still, that you were willing to wait until now makes me very grateful for your respect."
"Should I step out for a moment?" Felix asked.
"No need. In truth, my feeler ability isn't the sort that strictly needs to be kept secret—it wouldn't matter even if others knew." Daidalos smiled. "I think you've probably guessed it to some degree already."
"Does it have to do with your singing?" Sonia asked immediately.
"Does it enhance your charm, Miss Lena?" Felix guessed.
Diya said, "I once asked Gospel. Gospel didn't know your feeler ability either, but it gave me a piece of information—
"'You are a special person.'"
"As expected of the Gospel God." Daidalos raised her eyebrows. "Actually, my codename, 'Chaos Diva,' already gave my feeler ability away. But you all seem to have focused on 'Diva,' when the real crux is 'Chaos.'
"My feeler ability is that I possess chaotic, disordered sorcery talent."
She said, "Normal people's talent can be seen as a stable, unchanging mean. But my sorcery talent changes with every passing second. One second I might be a genius of swordsmanship, and the next second I become an utter blockhead at it."
Felix looked somewhat bewildered. "Isn't that kind of ability... completely useless, or even harmful? Miss Lena, wouldn't that make it impossible for you to cultivate normally?"
"The talent you speak of—does that mean all talents?" Diya keenly seized on the crucial point. "Including the three great esoteric factions: Fate, Truth, and Prophecy?"
"Indeed." Daidalos nodded. "Do you know why normal people can't learn the three great esoteric factions? It is because before esoteric enlightenment, a person's talent in Fate, Truth, and Prophecy is perpetually zero.
"Just like if a person has never come into contact with fire, their fire sorcery talent will remain zero. Only when you perceive the corresponding sorcery can there even be any discussion of whether you have talent.
"The reason the esoteric factions are so difficult to enter is that it's extraordinarily hard for people to perceive the manifestations of Fate, Prophecy, and Truth. One can only glimpse the true face of the esoteric factions through serendipity and special means, thereby unlocking one's own esoteric talent.
"And my Chaos Feeler allows me, even in the complete absence of such perception, to unconditionally possess talent in every sorcery faction."
Daidalos said leisurely, "Every sorcery faction since the dawn of the Void Realm—whether still widely practiced or long extinct—I possess the talent for it."
Talent in every single sorcery faction?
Sonia suddenly understood. "Your feeler ability isn't meant for cultivation at all, but rather as a key to explore the Void Realm?"
"Exactly." Daidalos smiled. "In the Knowledge Sea, I obtained roughly thirty-seven inheritances; in the Continent of Time, eighty-five. As for the Distant Sky Realm... actually, its destruction had the biggest impact on me, because all the inheritances hidden there were annihilated along with it. I should have been able to find and claim every single one of them.
"I merely had the good fortune to inherit the legacy of a sound sorcery angel in the Knowledge Sea, which is why I became a song maiden."
Sorcery inheritances!
Though Sonia and the others had experienced many wondrous adventures in the Void Realm and had even witnessed the destruction of the Distant Sky Realm with their own eyes, there was one relatively common occurrence that they had never once triggered—a sorcery inheritance!
Not the kind of grand, elaborate inheritance trial like the Spectre Prophet's, but rather sorcerers hiding their sorcery spirits and insights within the Void Realm before their deaths. If you happened to stumble upon one, you could claim it directly with practically no trial at all, almost like picking up money off the ground.
Furthermore, such sorcery inheritances weren't restricted by strength; the weak had the methods of the weak, and the strong had the means of the strong.
For instance, in the Knowledge Sea, a sorcerer could concentrate all their sorcery spirits into a specific part of their soul and let a fish-slaying dragon devour it, effectively concealing the sorcery inheritance inside the creature's belly.
As long as you were lucky enough to slay that fish-slaying dragon, you could directly receive a deceased sorcerer's posthumous gift.
Some might wonder: wasn't that just throwing money into the salty ocean? At least tossing money into the sea made a splash—how could a sorcerer ensure their inheritance ended up in the hands of a suitable successor instead of letting all their painstaking effort go to waste?
Because there existed an extraordinarily simple and primitive identification mechanism: sorcery spirits.
Sorcery spirits naturally sought out individuals who attracted them!
A sword sorcery inheritance would typically be found by a sword sorcerer; a fire sorcery inheritance would generally steer clear of water sorcerers; and a necromancy inheritance might go decades without being triggered by anyone!
Therefore, it was easy to understand why Yaxiu and the others had never run into a sorcery inheritance—they almost all cultivated mainstream sorcery factions, whose corresponding inheritances had long since been triggered and scavenged clean by other sorcerers. What spoils could possibly be left for them?
As for esoteric factions like Time and Truth, they were exceedingly rare, so naturally they had never come across them either.
Realizing this, Sonia and the others understood just how terrifying Daidalos's feeler ability truly was: she could plunder every inheritance in the Void Realm with utter impunity. Her chaotic talent, shifting second by second, was practically a master key—every sorcery inheritance would be duped by her!
Long-decayed, fallen sorceries, rare and ancient factions—all those unknown treasures hidden within the Void Realm would throw open their doors to Daidalos!
Although the Distant Sky Realm had already been destroyed, Daidalos had been a Sanctuary sorcerer for over half a year; heaven only knew how many Sanctuary inheritances she had plundered.
And all of that was merely a prelude. The true main event would come the moment she attained Legendary and set foot on Ruby Mountain!
How many legendary sorcerers, possessing both the power and the inclination, had hidden sorcery inheritances on Ruby Mountain?
"Envious?" Daidalos smiled. "If you become feelers of my Lord, the Monarch of Wind, Rain, and Snow, you might just gain a similar feeler ability too."
Felix felt a flicker of temptation, but Sonia and Diya politely declined even the thought.
Diya went without saying, and even if Sonia longed to grow stronger, she would never touch the Four Pillar Cult. If she dared to do such a thing, Yaxiu would genuinely be furious enough to spank her when he returned.
Still, Sonia caught a key piece of information. "Your master is the Monarch of Wind, Rain, and Snow?"
"Yes. Why do you ask?"
"I only just learned that a feeler is bound to a single Pillar God."
Daidalos nodded. "Feelers generally belong to a specific Pillar, and their abilities are tied to the domain that Pillar governs. The true name of my feeler ability is actually 'Chaos Vessel,' which aligns perfectly with the Monarch of Wind, Rain, and Snow who governs change. It hopes I can attract the advent of great power."
"What about Yaxiu?" Diya asked. "Which Pillar's feeler is he?"
Daidalos blinked and chuckled softly. "The Observer Seat is the sole exception.
"He is not the feeler of any single Pillar; he is the senses shared by all Four Pillar Gods."
Sonia and Diya exchanged a look, each seeing the displeasure in the other's eyes.
There was nothing more disgusting than hearing that one's lover was a shared tool.
Still, this wasn't all bad. Seeing Daidalos so devoted dispelled the last traces of unease in their hearts, leaving them without any hesitation about what was to happen next.
Once they returned to the hotel, Sonia said, "Let's grab a bite to eat before heading back to rest."
Daidalos naturally had no objection. The party made their way to the banquet hall on the seventh floor. Just as Daidalos pushed open the door and stepped inside, she saw a large crowd waiting for them.
While Daidalos was caught off guard, Sonia and Diya took the props handed to them by the people beside them and, with lightning speed, slammed them onto the face of the foremost beauty under the starry sky!
Chapter 957