Mage Manual-Chapter 255 - 219 That Woman

Chapter 255: Chapter 219 That Woman

Chapter 255 -219 That Woman

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Sonia blinked her eyes and leaned in to take a look, but quickly pulled back: “You introduce it, I’m too pure to look.”

The record mode of this Mage’s Handbook is a task log; it can be seen that the owner is a very organized Mage who likes to set small goals and is very good at striving. He has recorded every significant event in his life in the form of tasks, including summaries and reflections, showing that he is an excellent worker.

Let’s tentatively call him the ‘Task Mage.’

“Task Name: ‘Tribulation Seed Election Battle’, Importance Level: ★★★★★”

“Task Objective: To become the Tribulation Seed.”

“Task Restriction: Limited to Holy Temple Mages who become Two-winged Mages within three years.”

“Task Reward: Become a Tribulation Seed and gain the opportunity to enter the Silent Spiral. Note, every Tribulation Seed who comes out of the Silent Spiral has become a Three-winged Mage without exception, and has entered the high ranks of the Holy Temple.”

“Task Failure: Lose the opportunity to become a Tribulation Seed. Unless unexpected, the highest position one could achieve in the future would only be that of an assistant in the Holy Temple.”

“Task Process: With the rise of the Silent Spiral, the selection of the Tribulation Seeds, which occurs once every five years, quietly began.”

“There are two other candidates with the same qualifications as me, namely that woman and Frank. Frank is older and more mature, deeply loved by the Believers, and is the most powerful contestant; the woman is too young, but she actively exposed her boyfriend who was hoarding spoils, proving her loyalty to the tribulation, and she was promoted to Two-winged Mage within a year, not to be underestimated.”

“Frank is the leader of the Silver Fire Knight Group. To gain more votes, he increased the frequency of the Knight Group’s raids and successfully conquered Castle Long Wind, bringing more followers and funds to the Holy Temple. He is extremely respected among the public and the Holy Officers, like the glaring and intense midday sun in the desert.”

“As for me, as the Deputy Leader of the Discipline Priest Group, I decided to increase the frequency of patrols and harshly punish the criminals in the area to gain the recognition of the Believers and the Main Priests.”

“Compared with us in high positions, that woman is just a common nun in the Missionary Group, without power or influence, and has no abilities except for her beautiful appearance. If nothing unexpected happens, she should be the first to be eliminated.”

“Until she found me.”

“She said that someone had reported to her that Frank had intimate behavior with his team members.”

“My first reaction was impossible: We Holy Temple Mages have been resisting tribulation pollution since childhood, our spirits have long been tempered to be free from desire, physical desires are almost non-existent, plus most of us have cultivated in the Weak Faction, satisfied with the basic necessities of life by eating sand and sleeping on sandy ground, without any further cravings.”

“And the most important rule of the Holy Temple’s discipline is that Holy Officers are not allowed to engage in any acts of desire because once physical desires are ignited, they become fervent, and a fervent heart is the most easily combustible material for tribulation fire.”

“Even the love between Holy Officers must maintain a touchless treasure. In contrast, those relationships that need intimate contact are polluted, disgusting, and degenerate love, so the romance between Holy Officers is the purest, able to transcend gender, race, age, and other barriers.”

“A beast that follows physical desires is not qualified to be a Holy Officer guarding the tribulation.”

“I refuted her with these words, and she did not continue to argue, but convincingly admitted her mistake and apologized for her suspicion. But after she left, I couldn’t help thinking, what if Frank really did have intimate contact with his team member?”

“If it were true, then he definitely could not become a Tribulation Seed; a Mage whose body can’t maintain forbearance simply wouldn’t survive in the Silent Spiral.”

“Harboring such expectations, I inquired about Frank from many people and found more and more doubts. My suspicions also began to spread as I inquired, and soon the whole Holy Temple was discussing Frank.”

“The next time the Silver Fire Knight Group came back, Frank found me and almost beat me to death, but after verification, Frank did indeed have intimate behavior with his team member Alan Cos, and the bishop removed him from his Holy Officer position.”

“I thought I had a firm grasp on the situation, but on the day of the vote, that woman overwhelmingly won the majority of votes, with almost no one aside from her friends voting for me.”

“It was only then that I realized in a daze, my behavior of slandering Frank behind his back these past few days had incurred everyone’s aversion, and being publicly injured by Frank without the power to fight back massively damaged my image.”

“I was like the desert night: cold and bone-chilling, dark and frightening. No Believer was willing to vote for me.”

“On the contrary, that woman had been quietly working all these days, not participating in quarrels and discussions, faithfully carrying out her duties, plus her beautiful appearance, gradually gaining the approval of many people.”

“The sun is too hot, not tolerating the slightest flaw; the night too dark, making people shy away. Only the water of the Crescent Spring is sweetly favored by everyone.”

“I seem to understand something, but it is too late.”

“Task Result: Failure.”

“Reflection Summary: Don’t trust women, especially beautiful women.”

Sonia snapped to realization halfway through: “Could the ‘that woman’ mentioned here be the same ‘she’ we encountered before, who was mentioned in ‘that Mage’s Handbook’?”

Although Sonia’s statement was incoherent, Ash understood.

He gave Diya a brief explanation of the background—Ash recalled this character because the Vortex Secret Poison originated from ‘that Mage’s Handbook’, which naturally left a deep impression on them. After all, the Vortex Secret Poison could be said to be the turning point of their Void Realm Exploration, with their prospects rising like a new energy fund ever since then.

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In that handbook, the owner had finally reached an eternal Contract with ‘her’, handing over the toy labyrinth that contained the information about the Vortex Secret Poison to ‘her’.

But once ‘she’ was promoted to Two-winged with the help of the Vortex Secret Poison, ‘she’ promptly betrayed the owner of the handbook to the Holy Temple for riches and honor.

And the owner of the handbook never betrayed ‘her’ until the very end, his deep affection simply wasted like water flowing away.

“It’s very likely, becoming Two-winged within a year, reporting a boyfriend who hid spoils, as well as the Tribulation Holy Temple… all details match up.”

Ash crossed his arms and furrowed his brow: “It’s understandable for that handbook, as the text is either ‘I’ or ‘she’, so there’s no need to specifically record a name. But why doesn’t the Task Mage in this handbook record her name, instead referring to her as ‘that woman’? Especially when they clearly name Frank.”