Calmly, Pei Guang picked up the largest fire jar, lit the fla inside, and poured in a generous amount of drowsy coffee.
Once everything was ready, he placed the fire jar containing the coffee firmly onto Sparkle's back. The mont it was set down, Sparkle felt sothing strange.
Her whole body seed to slacken.
Fun? Forget it, it felt like too much trouble. Better to just sleep. At the sa ti, a wave of drowsiness hit her, mixed with a feeling as if her soul was being infused with sothing.
Sparkle fell asleep. And with her slumber, the spot where the jar had been didn't leave a reddish mark as expected, but instead turned a coffee-colored dark brown.
Curious, Pei Guang touched the circular mark, and imdiately understood the jar's coffee effect:
[Mark of Slumber. After using special ingredients, this mark is ford. A person with this mark will experience perfect sleep while resting. Duration: 48 hours. Disappears after expiration.]
Compared to plain cupping, using ingredients gave more information and extra effects.
Looking at the dark brown, slightly raised circle on Sparkle's back, Pei Guang licked his lips, excitent filling him. The jar's notes had been clear: different flas, different positions, and different ingredients would all trigger different effects.
He had thought those effects only varied in terms of healing. But now? There were so many more possibilities.
"That last quest really wasn't for nothing. Didn't think this item would be this powerful!"
Even though it hadn't shone gold when he obtained it, its usefulness already put it on par with the coffee he'd gotten before. In Pei Guang's mind, this had to be a key character item—or even a major progression item for Penacony.
As for golden light? Sure, items that glowed gold were strong, but quest items weren't tied to that at all.
Pei Guang didn't stop his experints.
On Sparkle's smooth back, he cupped six more tis, eventually drawing a Big Dipper pattern of circles. Satisfied, he nodded.
These weren't random placents either. He used the surplus Path materials he had collected, and under their influence, the circular marks on Sparkle's back glowed with different colors.
Preservation shone amber, Abundance green, Harmony violet, Destruction red, Nihility purple, and Hunt… Pei Guang couldn't even tell what color it was.
Pei Guang muttered: "Oh~ so that's it. Using Path materials can even create temporary Path marks. But activating them requires power from that Path?"
Through testing, he found that using Path materials during cupping did indeed grant the power of that Path—but only a Pathstrider could activate it.
Otherwise, the marks would just carry whatever power he'd mixed in, like the coffee.
Compared to drinking the coffee directly, using it as an ingredient weakened its effect sowhat. Still, even if it left unsightly marks on the body, the positive buffs lasted a full 48 hours.
Of course, Pei Guang had considered stamping Sparkle with a mark of Elation, but here was the problem: out of all the Path materials he had gathered, he didn't have any for Elation… which was kind of awkward.
While Pei Guang was happily imrsed in research, Firefly, who had been watching the whole ti, swallowed hard again.
She swore this was the scariest thing she had ever witnessed in her life.
A man, doing such things to a cute girl… how was Sparkle supposed to go outside after this? How could she even face people anymore?
Just look at her back: seven differently colored circular marks combined into a powerful-looking pattern.
Simply seeing it made Firefly feel as if soone was shouting in her ear, even taunting her: "You're already dead."
With marks like that, would Sparkle ever be able to wear a backless dress again?
"Wait a second… I guess I can't either…"
At first, Firefly was still a little scared.
But when she thought about how she basically had no chance of wearing one herself, her expression sank into gloom.
Pei Guang, who had been imrsed in his experints, sensed Firefly's mood shift.
He turned to look at her. "Oh? Feeling upset because I arranged sothing for them but not for you? Don't worry, yours is coming too. I've just figured out so interesting properties on her: so for you, I'll bring out the best."
Since Path materials required a Pathstrider to activate, Pei Guang decided to give up on those and instead switch to sothing even better.
For example, a dicine containing Vidyadhara bodily fluids. He wanted to see what kind of effect his fire jars would have paired with that.
What? Bodily fluids? Gross? If Bailu ever heard soone calling her saliva disgusting, she'd definitely smack them with her tail so hard their own mother wouldn't recognize them.
Her saliva was dragon's musk: healing dicine. And Bailu wasn't exaggerating when she said it. Even against incurable diseases of the cosmos, her saliva could bring enormous relief.
Even Pei Guang didn't have much of it. After all, Bailu could only produce a tiny bit at a ti.
Even if she spat so out casually, the amount was never large.
For Firefly, though, Pei Guang naturally wanted to use the good stuff. This girl had genuinely treated him to als, genuinely been kind to him.
As for anything else? Not important.
Pei Guang prepared to bring out the very best. But when Firefly saw him approaching, she instinctively backed away. "Don't… don't co near !"
Pei Guang chuckled. "Heh, you think you can leave this room? No way!"
Firefly didn't escape his grasp. But compared to Sparkle, hers was just a single jar placed on her arm after she rolled up her sleeve.
Why not her back or shoulder? Because her outfit was a full piece: taking it off would expose everything that shouldn't be seen.
In fact, even when Pei Guang had cupped the Big Dipper on Sparkle's back, the exposed skin had only been what her clothing normally revealed.
It wasn't that Pei Guang was so virtuous gentleman. As a player, he was curious about many things.
But since he had chosen to pursue March's pure-love route, he had strong resolve and faith.
As a player, he could raise other characters' affection. But he could never do sothing that would cause his main romance target's affection to drop.
Even if no one was watching, by the traditional logic of dating sims, you never knew: doing sothing your romance target disliked might cause your affection points to vanish into the void.
And if that happened, Pei Guang would have nowhere to cry.
Of course, he had overlooked one thing: in a normal ga, maxing out affection didn't necessarily lead to anything. But this was reality.
Even if he had his chosen romance target, nobody knew what those whose affection he had raised, intentionally or not, might do.
anwhile, while Pei Guang was testing his tools, the news that Sparkle's back now bore an unusual pattern spread quickly. Already, countless onlookers were waiting to see her new state.
For soone like Sparkle, who had no bottom line, there were plenty eager for entertainnt. From mokeepers to Fools, anyone with the ability to observe was now waiting for Sparkle to wake up.
Just thinking of her smooth back now stamped with seven marks, even the mokeepers felt a strange sense of delight.
Such a precious mory… they would surely collect it whole and intact, then dedicate it to the great Fuli!
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