Mage Manual-Chapter 254 - 218 An Accident Right After Getting the

Chapter 254: Chapter 218: An Accident Right After Getting the Car

Chapter 254: Chapter 218: An Accident Right After Getting the Car

Ash was looking at the Void Realm Map as he asked,

“So, Witch, do you know the Time Faction?”

“Yes.”

“It’s said that the Time Faction is most effective when practiced in the Time Continent, is that true?” Ash also asked.

“Exactly.” Diya nodded, extending her hand to touch the rising Golden Rain from the grass beside her and said, “In fact, each drop of Golden Rain contains knowledge of time, or rather, all the time of the Time Continent is condensed in this Golden Rain. When I absorb the Golden Rain and it coalesces into Magic Power, the knowledge of time in the rain almost entirely transfers into my faction realm experience. Compared to other factions, I can gain ten to fifteen times more experience in the Time Faction.”

“That good?” Even Ash, who was unskilled, felt envious, “But why don’t I feel my Time Faction growing?”

Since such a question was incredibly naive, queen hesitated before slowly explaining, “Because, Observer, you haven’t stepped over the threshold of the Time Faction. When you draw the White Mist from the Sea of Knowledge, you can only stimulate growth in the factions that have already entered the Silver Realm; however, those factions you haven’t grasped cannot gain any experience.”

Sonia explained in a more visual way, “The knowledge in the White Mist and Golden Rain is like the voice of a professor during a lecture; only those who understand can comprehend, those who don’t will just hear it as noise.”

Ash completely understood, then thought for a moment and said, “But the Time Faction in the Time Continent is too profitable, just by walking around you can enhance your faction realm… Sword Maiden, do you have a way to initiate into the Time Faction?”

“No way,” Sonia shook her head helplessly, “Theoretically, the best way to start learning the Time Faction is by stepping into the Time Continent. But if you can’t extract the knowledge of time from the Golden Rain after entering, it means you don’t have the talent, and no amount of effort can initiate you. The Time Faction is one of the Magic Factions most reliant on talent, effort is meaningless, everything depends on innate ability, envy doesn’t help.”

“Aren’t you envious?”

“Not envious.”

“But I have also initiated into the Time Faction.” Ash glanced at his operators interface where ‘Time Faction: Silver Level’ had newly appeared, and he chuckled, “Now you’re the only one who hasn’t taken advantage of the Void Realm.”

Because of their Bonds, the Time Faction experience gained by Witch was also shared with Ash. Although Ash lacked talent, as long as the Witch fed him enough experience to cross the silver threshold, he would naturally be able to enjoy the benefits of being spoon-fed by the Void Realm personally.

Sonia’s mouth twitched, and pretending to be angry now turned into actual anger, as she clamped around Ash’s neck from the front row, “You know yet you don’t bother thinking of a way to help me! Like that Technique Spirit summoning ritual last time—”

“That depends on luck, and aren’t you afraid of pulling another ‘Sincerity’, being forced to only speak the truth for several days?”

“I can’t possibly be that unlucky this time!—”

queen watched their bickering scene and thought to herself, ‘Diya, I think I don’t fit into their pattern of interaction; my mental age is too old, too mature. Maybe it’d be better if you directly mingled with them.’

“No.”

“Absolutely not.”

“I only trust you.”

“I don’t want to deal with anyone else.”

queen sighed, and just then, Ash suddenly let out a scream. In front of the running car a figure suddenly appeared, and then—

Bang!

The sports car slammed on the brakes urgently, almost throwing the three of them out due to inertia.

They turned around and saw the figure that had appeared suddenly now cut into two by the car’s evil blade, dropping onto the grass like two pieces of cloth with a slap.

Ash immediately shifted the blame, “It’s your fault, Sword Maiden, for distracting me!”

Sonia retorted, “It was clearly you not driving carefully!”

Diya interjected, “…We actually managed to directly kill a Mage?”

…

…

Congratulations, they didn’t kill anyone; it was only a mage’s projection that died, meaning they just whipped a dead body.

In other words, the first mage projection Ash and Sonia encountered in the Time Continent wasn’t killed by them but was instead hit by a car.

Not to speak of skills, they didn’t even figure out what the mage’s projection looked like, and just rolled over it… It sounds a bit reckless with human life.

Unlike the Sea of Knowledge, the mage’s projections in the Time Continent don’t stay in one place but move randomly, so encountering creatures suddenly during Void Realm Exploration is quite common.

Although this mage’s projection died too quickly, they were still able to confirm his faction from the dropped Technique Spirits; he must have been a fire-weak mage, meaning he dual-cultivated fire and bitterness, dropping a total of 2 Two-winged Technique Spirits and 3 One-winged Technique Spirits. As the first business on the Time Continent, the profit wasn’t bad.

No one needed these Technique Spirits, and Ash thought for a moment then asked, “Witch, do you have a way to exchange Technique Spirits for other resources in reality? Before you joined the team, our way of distributing was to divide the unwanted Technique Spirits by their value, giving the valuable ones to the Sword Maiden for her to sell for money, and the less valuable ones to me to exchange for special resources only I can use.”

Diya shook her head, “I can’t conveniently exchange Technique Spirits in reality, so just continue distributing them as you did before. However, as compensation, may I have priority in reading the Mage’s Handbook?”

Ash’s eyes lit up, “Can you also read all the Mage’s Handbooks?”

“Also?” Diya blinked but shook her head, “No, my success rate in reading Mage’s Handbooks is about 80%, I can’t read all of them. For example, those particularly abnormal, disgusting, or bizarre handbooks, I can’t accept no matter what.”

Sonia patted Ash’s shoulder nonchalantly, “Observers can read all Mage’s Handbooks though. Even those handbooks that you can’t accept, he can read them thoroughly and with relish. Isn’t that amazing?”

On the surface, the White Queen clapped her hands, but inside, she silently raised the Observer’s threat level again. Since entering the Void Realm, the Observer had been overly congenial, and a bit clueless, even unaware of many mage’s common knowledge, which made people forget that he was a terrifying Evil Mage who could track/manipulate/defeat them.

The reason Diya dared not face the Observer herself was largely because the Observer had completely defeated her in her realm of thought.

Facing an existence that her thoughts couldn’t transcend, Diya was so scared she only dared to hide behind the White Queen.

Now Diya was even more afraid—a soul capable of reading all Mage’s Handbooks might not be of high moral standing, but was definitely bottomless, far more evil than the most wicked villain in any fairy tale.

Ash didn’t notice that the Sword Maiden had significantly lowered his public image and thought for a moment then said, “No problem, then from now on Witch, you can have priority in reading the Mage’s Handbooks, and those you can’t read will go to me… Wait, the unwanted Technique Spirits go to me, the unreadable handbooks go to me, why do I feel like I’ve become a trash can?”

“Of course not,” Diya quickly said, “It’s because we lack the ability to utilize these resources, that we have no choice but to give them up. And you, Observer, being able to make efficient use of these resources, is a testament to your strength!”

“So you should be confident,” Sonia squinted her eyes and chirped merrily, “Remove ‘seems like’!”

While speaking, Diya picked up the dropped Mage’s Handbook. The handbook was edged with gold and its cover was a black flame flower. When she turned to the first page, she quietly activated the “Mask Technique Spirit.”

Personality Split—Mask Remodeling—Temporary Mode·Chameleon!

Diya’s hair started shimmering in various colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, all present, thankfully not causing light pollution. Initially, the colors were bright and clear, but gradually they muddied, as though inferior paint had spilled into a puddle, mixing into a filthy dark red.

Not only Ash, who knew the ins and outs, but even Sonia realized—Diya was not relying on her flexible values to read the Mage’s Handbook, but through some miracle.

The source of this c𝓸ntent is frёeweɓηovel.coɱ.

This was why Diya, who hadn’t gotten any education from mages, managed to become a Two-winged Mage, stepping into the Time Continent—most of her mage knowledge came from reading Mage’s Handbooks in the Void Realm!

Even though she lacked Ash’s exploration abilities, she had spent a full two years in the Sea of Knowledge, intermittently reading over forty Mage’s Handbooks. Although her knowledge system wasn’t as well-organized as Sonia’s, she had mastered the essential knowledge needed for navigating the Void Realm, making her a thoroughly practical wildcat mage.

Wildcats might not be as strong as house cats, but their survival skills are second to none, even superior.

Before turning to the last page, Diya stopped and handed it to Ash, “Do you want to take a look too? Every Mage’s Handbook might have information worth noting. If you let me have this handbook, just stop before reading the last page.”

Ash was not opposed, and took it, looking at it for a while before suddenly exclaiming.

“What’s wrong?”

“I feel like I saw someone we know inside.”