Chapter 64
dical Officer [222] was right.
The Blood Moon Tribunal was indeed the only chance for death row inmates to trade spirit techniques.
Looking at the three spirit techniques in his hand, Ashe could still see Valkas' grim and gaunt face.
The sword that pierced his throat contained five spirit techniques that Valkas had just dissolved the contract with.
If Ashe had been a little slower, if his consciousness had faded a little faster, all three of these spirit techniques would have fled at the fastest speed possible by now. Even though Ashe had moved as quickly as he could, two spirit techniques still managed to escape, who knows if they were currently riding Finger Sharks and enjoying surfing freedom in Shattered Lake.
As for why Valkas did this, there were far too many reasons.
Because Ashe had defeated him,
Because he wanted to get back at Professor Sylin,
Because he was grateful for Ashe's compassion at the end,
Or possibly just because he enjoyed causing trouble...
As a dying elf, there was nothing Valkas did that surprised Ashe, other than getting his throat pierced by Valkas - Ashe strongly suspected this was borne out of resentnt and Valkas wanted to avenge having his throat slashed during their deathmatch.
However, this action by Valkas presented Ashe with a dilemma.
Although he hadn't been in this world for long, Ashe was acutely aware that he didn't belong here.
Yet, he also had no intention of assimilating.
He couldn't change the world of sorcerers, nor did he want the world of sorcerers to change him.
There was no family here, only strangers he would et in the future.
Even though the powers of sorcerers were unpredictable and bizarre, it wasn't impossible that a spirit technique miracle could send Ashe ho, but he didn't hold out much hope for that.
He wasn't the sort of person who needed hope just to survive.
Plus with the life-threatening Blood Moon Tribunal and the suffocating absolute control of Shattered Lake Prison, Ashe had always held a ntality of 'living one day at a ti'.
After all, if he could cross over once, who's to say he couldn't cross over a second ti? Arriving in the sorcerer's world this ti, maybe next ti he would end up in the technician's world - Ashe was blindly optimistic about his adventures across the heavens.
Precisely because of this optimistic ntality, possibly generated from suddenly not having to go to work anymore, Ashe held an 'observer' attitude towards everyone he t. He would sympathize with other people's plights, lant their life and death, but then forget about it imdiately, as if he had just watched a movie.
Observer, this na was quite fitting for him.
Observing without acting, observing without speaking, observing without rembering.
He was like a drifting lone boat, going with the flow of the waves, intimidated by the sight of land.
And now, the boat had gained so baggage, his mories marked by an imprint.
Although sorcerers didn't need to sleep, Ashe felt that he would certainly dream of Valkas' final gaze when he had nightmares.
Of course he didn't think he needed to take any responsibility for Valkas' death, but Valkas' parting gift compelled Ashe to do sothing in return as gratitude.
He didn't like owing people, nor owing favors.
He had to escape from prison, he had to find Professor Sylin, he had to survive.
Otherwise, it would feel like he had failed Valkas' goodwill, failed the three spirit techniques he had bestowed.
Perhaps this was his true revenge?
Sacrificing his life as the ritual, using death as the ceremony, silence as the incantation, spirit techniques as the bait, Valkas exhausted everything, cursing Ashe to live on.
For them, the Shattered Lake death row inmates, there was no more vicious curse than 'to live'.
"He was a true swordsmage. "
After listening to Ashe's surreal Blood Moon Tribunal experience tonight, Sonya couldn't help but sigh, then added: "And a generous good elf."
"He was generous, but definitely not a good elf. He was locked up in Shattered Lake Prison for good reason after all," Ashe said: "But elves and humans alike, cannot be simply divided into 'good' and 'bad'. Only gods or devils can possess pure goodness or evil... The ones wavering in between, those are humans."
"So many sentints, is this the first ti you've seen a dead person since losing your mory?"
Losing his mory? That's right, forr Ashe had personally caused many deaths... Ashe nodded: "You could say it's the first ti I've seen soone die right in front of ."
"So you don't have any intelligence on the Heart Sword stance either?"
"Of course not."
"Damn it!" Sonya looked at the Heart Sword spirit technique in Ashe's hand resentfully: "Such a good spirit technique, wasted in your hands... But doesn't this an you only need one more spirit technique for your Severing Miracle?"
"That's right, if we're lucky, we may be able to gather all the required spirit techniques tonight."
Ashe let out a soft sigh: "Only then is there a glimr of hope for escape."
The Severing Miracle needed three types of spirit techniques, with multiple options for each type, not restricted to any specific spirit technique. Most miracles could achieve similar effects by substituting spirit techniques of the sa category, with differences only in the strength and scope.
If spirit techniques were building blocks, then miracles were buildings of a certain appearance. As long as you could construct the building, whether with cubes, triangles or cones, it would count as achieving the miracle.
Heart Sword and Body Double were spirit techniques that t the criteria, with Body Double being average and Heart Sword overkill, the creators of the Severing Miracle probably never imagined soone would be extravagant enough to use one of the 'Peerless Hidden Swords Five Spirits' as a component spirit technique.
As long as they found the last type of spirit technique, Ashe would be able to use the Severing Miracle to purify the Chip on his neck.
"Escape..." Sonya murmured: "So your real body is in the prison of the Blood Moon Kingdom, under threat from the Blood Moon Tribunal, and without your forr mories..."
Without his forr mories? Hmm, it was true he didn't have Ashe's forr mories.
Ashe looked at her strangely: "Didn't you already know? My real body was identified as the cult leader of the Four Pillars heresy, and captured by the hunters after holding an illegal gathering in the basent, though this frail body was clearly just a scapegoat."
That's right, the Observer had told her before that he was locked up in so prison, she had assud it was so hidden mystical dungeon, she didn't expect it to be a prison in the Blood Moon Kingdom - although the Blood Moon Kingdom was also just a term that only existed in books, it was at least sothing she had heard of, giving Sonya a feeling of 'so much for that'.
"With your abilities, you can't even escape from a Blood Moon Kingdom prison?"
"What do you an my abilities - don't you know I'm useless?"
"Haha, useless? A useless person who could force
to challenge Leone? What does that make
then, a pitiful thing controlled by a useless person? A toy that could be tricked to death by you anyti?"
Although she had learned the Moon Reflection miracle from that misfortune, Sonya was still furious.
Challenging Felix was one thing, after all the gap between Felix and her wasn't too big, she at least had a slim chance. But this ti the gap between Leone and her was simply outrageous. If Leone hadn't deliberately shown rcy, Sonya wouldn't even have had the chance to use Moon Reflection.
She was lucky to et Leone this ti, but what about next ti?
And the ti after?
There were no shortage of ruthless experts among the sorcerer community. Student-level young sorcerers were still manageable, but many older sorcerers, after experiencing so much danger and death during their long and lonely explorations of the virtual world, had their conscience whittled into twisted shapes by the frigid winds of the sea of knowledge.
They gradually lost the ability to distinguish between reality and the virtual world. Facing enemies, they would subconsciously strike ruthlessly, as if killing the enemy would make loot burst out, and so even degenerated into "Lost Souls
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