NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 333 Golden Entry!
——Hey, Gemini Mirror, did you do this on purpose?
With so many cool scenes of me this time, how could you capture such a photo...
Aiwass couldn't help but complain, "This settlement screen is just too outrageous..."
It looks like I just laid back and won a New Moon Ritual...
But he didn't have time to pay more attention, as the results of the settlement had already appeared:
[Special Victory "Secret Reflection" has been completed]
[Essential mission not completed]
[Finding Companions: First to find all companions (Uncompleted)]
[Maintaining Concealment: Not to be discovered by anyone until the end (Score: 500)]
[Informer's Needless Slaughter: Killing other companions (Score: 400)]
[Informer's False Disguise: Successfully hiding your identity as an informer from companions (Score: 500)]
[Successful Plan: Leaving Crescent Moon Manor through the secret passage (Score: 1000)]
[Betrayal Instinct: Sabotaging the escape plan (Score: 1000)]
[Alluring Aura: Being successfully adopted (Score: 1000)]
[Innate Regicide Talent: Killing your own master (Score: 2000)]
[With three survivors, the fail condition of "Twin Victory" is not triggered]
[Total score 6400, ranking first]
As per tradition, the Pillar God should appear and bestow blessings next.
However, the Gemini Mirror didn't appear. Or rather, It appeared in another way——
The next moment, the whole world before Aiwass's eyes seemed to turn into a mirror surface.
Scenes suddenly appeared in his world.
The past dozen or so hours he had experienced, presented in a third-person perspective and rapidly rewinding, emerged before his eyes, and the speed of the rewind accelerated——
Initially, Aiwass could still clearly see the expressions of the Shadow Demon during their conversation, but soon the remaining parts turned into a blur of afterimages. Even with concentrated effort, only a few frames could be conserved in his consciousness.
Later, the speed began to slow down. It was like a train gradually braking to a halt.
——Finally, the whole scene froze just before Aiwass woke up.
There, number 14 lay peacefully in bed, wearing a white nightgown. Her chest could be seen rising and falling rhythmically, accompanied by light and smooth breathing, her lips slightly parted.
The camera angle was from top to bottom, capturing the girl's face as though looming over her, gazing down at her sleeping figure.
But just then, the girl suddenly opened her eyes and made eye contact with Aiwass outside of the camera's view.
She showed a mischievous smile, stretching out her arms as if asking for a hug... like the way Aiwass had once stretched out his hands towards the bats in the cobweb while lying on the bed.
Only, unlike before, she actually embraced Aiwass.
As if Aiwass were really right there in front of her, admiring her sleeping face——Aiwass truly felt himself being embraced by a pair of delicate and soft arms. He also felt the girl's gentle kiss on his forehead, the touch soft and warm.
Aiwass was startled and instinctively reached out his hand to push the girl away.
However, when he reached out his hand, he directly touched an invisible mirror. He couldn't reach the girl at all, and she had never embraced him. It was as if everything Aiwass had felt before was an illusion.
The next moment, the mirror before him suddenly shattered.
Aiwass heard three heavy buzzing sounds. In the dim world, the shattered mirror pieces gathered into three purple radiances, shining out together——
[Thousands of Changes (Purple): When you try to disguise yourself as someone else, you automatically gain the "Illusion Concealment" effect; all the illusions you cast are harder to see through]
[Heart-Stealing Whisper (Purple): The priority of your language-based Charm, Illusion Techniques, and Decree Spells increases by +1]
...
Aiwass didn't even have time to look at the contents of the benefits.
His mind was completely shaken by the scene just now.
Is this... the Gemini Mirror?
It was only then that Aiwass suddenly realized that all of it had only been a reflection in the mirror from the beginning.
...But what about the real touch he had felt?
Yet when he tried to touch it, all he felt was a mirror...
Which side is real, and which is fake?
While Aiwass was bewildered, a vision suddenly appeared before his eyes:
Among the three purple radiances, the one that had not yet flipped suddenly began to vibrate violently.
It emitted a sharp clang as if something was trying to break out of it—— Stay tuned for updates on My Virtual Library Empire
The next moment, the purple radiance abruptly shattered.
An even more splendid golden light burst forth!
[Pillar God's Grace—]
[The Gemini Mirror has upgraded a term for you.]
[Illusory Blood—Son of the Moon (Gold): You can now switch your race to the Son of the Moon through a ritual. This is a disguise that cannot be seen through.]
"—This is exactly what you wanted."
Whispers rose beside Aiwass's ear.
They were as elusive as the wind, as gentle as water. Yet, they were like an illusion that had never appeared.
"This is—!"
Aiwass's eyes widened suddenly.
It was not that he did not recognize the term—on the contrary, he was very familiar with it.
But it was not a term that Transcendents on the Path of Transcendence could obtain.
Or to be precise, all three terms should have come from the Path of Beauty.
It was outrageous.
It really was like the Gemini Mirror was sponsoring the broadcast...
The term "Thousands of Changes" was actually more useful than the effect before it. Its effect was to allow Illusion Techniques to roll twice and take the higher roll when resisting a dispelling, that is, it had an advantage in resisting dispels. The earlier effect seemed more like an extra in the game... but in reality, the earlier one was more practical.
It worked like Phantom Thief Kid—just needing to escape combat and avoid the gaze of others to quickly change one's appearance.
That was indeed a useful ability, but Aiwass had no illusion ability at all.
"Heart-Stealing Whisper" was even more brutally simple—adding priority to any Charm, Illusion, or Decree spell within the Path of Love, Path of Beauty, and Path of Authority that contained verbal components. Shorter terms apparently had more value.
But the problem remained the same.
If this was a Transcendent of the Path of Beauty, they would definitely be worried about which of the two to choose. And if it was a Transcendent with a triple-class, acquiring this term would immediately lead to a qualitative leap in combat power.
However, Aiwass didn't have to worry.
—Because he couldn't cast illusions!
He neither knew illusions nor charms, and he was not interested in cross-classing as a Legal Mage—at least for now. In other words, Aiwass couldn't make use of any of the three effects.
He simply couldn't choose.
And there was no way he would choose either of the two purples.
Because this time, incredibly, a gold appeared—
—Would you not aim for the frame if it was there? Would you not pick the gold if it was available?
Normally, upgrading from level two to three was unlikely to yield gold; it would usually require upgrading from level three to four.
While theoretically possible at two to three, that was merely theoretical. The New Moon Ritual had a higher probability of drawing high-grade skills than the Full Moon Ritual, but at most, it only meant drawing purples with a lower score.
Take Lily, for example.
Lily followed the Path of Adaptation, and her tasks would definitely relate to adaptation, assassination, and hiding her identity. But due to time constraints, she couldn't complete all her tasks, and her score wouldn't be that high.
Yet even so, it was very likely she'd get at least two purples. She might even get three.
That's the drop rate of the New Moon Ritual.
Though it seemed the drop rate was only twice that of the Full Moon Ritual, if you could clear it, it was much more. That's because the New Moon Ritual almost lacked riddle and exploration elements, making the tasks comparatively easy to complete. And it's very easy to check off many tasks while clearing the content.
However, to draw gold, a special circumstance was required.
It was like in a gacha game where an "SR card is drawn, but it turns into an SSR after a cinematic gold plating"—triggering this gold-plating chance was the only possibility to get a golden term.
—Which is the "Pillar God's Grace".
Usually, lower-level promotion rituals wouldn't attract the Pillar Gods' attention. However, that wasn't necessarily the case.
If the Pillar God recognized a promoter, and they cleared successfully, even if the score wasn't the highest, the Pillar God would then upgrade one of the terms a level.
Blue upgraded to purple, purple to gold. This portion of power was provided by the Pillar God themself, and was considered a blessing—much like the mark bestowed upon Aiwass by the Silver-Crowned Dragon.
The term acquired through "Pillar God's Grace" is definitely from the pillar god's own Path.
For example, the term Aiwass got belongs to the Path of Beauty's special terms.
This "unbreakable disguise" is a true illusion.
Its effect was very simple.
It was the equivalent of acquiring the corresponding race's racial traits, racial abilities, and innate spells. This disguise could not be dispelled or seen through, and even using Decree Spells for identification would not reveal the true body.
The "Mirror Illusion" would only be broken if one suffered damage exceeding half of the maximum health value or was struck by a blunt weapon.
It included the Son of the Moon's ability to transform into a bat, as well as the innate "Beguile" talent.
Beyond that, the Son of the Moon has a characteristic that is exactly what Aiwass needs right now.
That is, the Son of the Moon's Mana Pool would be forcibly converted to wind, earth, darkness—and the quantity of the Mana Pool would be the sum of Aiwass's current Mana Pools.
That is to say, if Aiwass switched to the form of a Son of the Moon, it would be as if all his current Mana Pools were combined and then divided into three equal parts—with this, he could obtain the corresponding mana pools of wind and earth!