Sorcerer's Handbook-Chapter 555: Pressure on Vesser

Silver Lantern Vesser was naturally in the Upload Chamber, right at the front of the lowest level closest to the Demi-God.

The internal monitoring system of the Transcendence Building was highly advanced, with optical, infrared, and temperature sensors. Beyond these technologies, sensory information from every Transcendence follower was uploaded to the central processing unit. Theoretically, every follower acted as a walking surveillance device. With such a comprehensive security system, it was understandable that they didn’t believe Ashe and the others’ warnings, as no one had ever managed to infiltrate the building before.

But the existence of a Miracle is meant to transcend logic.

It’s worth mentioning that all the equipment in the Transcendence Building is part of the gray fox heritage. In that beautiful era, fantasy creations were always preferred over ordinary creations. For example, in the case of infrared detectors, though the gray fox heritage could produce pale creations, why settle for something that deteriorates with time and environment when you could have indestructible fantasy creations?

In any Kingdom, pale creations appear only in the early stages of civilization, as they do not incorporate Virtual Realm spirits and operate purely on physical principles, allowing even mortals to create them.

However, with the surge in the number of sorcerers, fantasy creations, which excel in production efficiency, quality, and overall effectiveness, easily replaced pale creations. Since the spirits, not the creations themselves, enable the true functionality of fantasy creations, their maintenance is straightforward-just spend money!

If fantasy creations are a factory, then the spirits are the workers. It doesn’t matter if the owner changes as long as the money keeps flowing; the factory will continue to operate. Even if the factory is destroyed, with sufficient funds, the workers can rebuild it.

This is one of the characteristics of fantasy creations that outshine pale creations: self-repair. Of course, unlocking this skill tree isn’t easy for a Kingdom. Only a select few high-end luxury creations under the Blood Moon and Gospel possess this feature, but in the era of the gray fox heritage, this was standard for all items. Otherwise, how could the Transcendent Cult possibly keep this building operational?

This is why Vesser could easily hide within the building. She wasn’t merely deceiving optical or temperature monitors individually; she was directly causing a misperception in the spirits linked to the fantasy creations.

No era has been able to mass-produce mysterious sorcerers of fate, Truth, prophecy, and the like. Even though grey fox creations have various defensive barriers, they are easily penetrated by the Miracle of Truth.

In the eyes of both fantasy creations and Transcendence followers, she appeared as one of them. However, despite the Miracle’s transformation, she dressed exactly like a Transcendence follower, with an external prosthesis and a blue-white uniform-after all, Raven Annihilation could resist the effects of Miracles and directly see her original form, so she needed to fully disguise herself to avoid unexpected encounters.

Watching the two Demi-Gods at the center of the venue, Vesser was waiting for the 19:45 “mind method time.” In the Senlo wasteland, several Grey Fox mind methods are passed down that improve physical and mental abilities through a few minutes of self-massage and Meditation, but they are not widely adopted due to their subtle effects.

However, in Transcendent worship, since followers need to undergo prolonged brainstorming sessions that heavily test mental and physical endurance, the mind methods have a noticeable effect on them. During the practice, they close their eyes, massage specific acupoints on their heads with their fingers, and visualize with an empty mind, making them completely unguarded.

After experiencing a session of Transcendent worship, Vesser knew that mind method time was the best opportunity for theft.

She stood by the railing, unaffected even when facing a Sudoku puzzle, as she completely resisted being drawn into the worship.

Tribulation Fire, the Four Pillars, transcendence… no cult’s worship could sway her soul.

Worship is meant to give the weak firm belief and ideals, but the strong need no worship, for every action they take is a form of worship itself.

She pondered what kind of relationship should be maintained next between Silver Lantern and Ashe, Vesser, and the Observer.

An event is never just an event; its impact spreads to all unseen corners. Once Ashe made a grand entrance with the opportunity she provided, the Qinyi Alliance would undoubtedly notice this Universal Divine Hosting adept.

In order to exploit Ashe, the Qinyi Alliance wouldn’t let him starve to be drained by the Blood Seed, but neither would they let him roam free-any cult would desire a perfect Divine Hosting representative.

With the aid of a mental sorcerer in reality and the suggestions she provided in the Virtual Realm, Ashe didn’t need to join any cult. Just by being a mercenary, he could become a valued guest of the Qinyi Alliance. Then, by deliberately causing trouble (since she had planned to steal from other Demi-Gods anyway), she created opportunities for Ashe to showcase his power. Soon, he would become a renowned figure in Senlo.

What he would gain was not only fame but also power.

Power is like sulfuric acid; in the right dosage, it can react beneficially with life. But once it goes beyond a certain limit, it can corrode anyone’s mind.

Although Vesser hadn’t spent much time with Ashe, she realized that his mental flaw was quite small. In other words, he was easily satisfied. Unless someone captured him for severe torture or became the person closest to him, it would be difficult to exploit him fully.

Frankly speaking, such people were extremely rare in Senlo.

Regardless of the cult or race, the desires and ideals of Senlo people were hotter than the sun in the sky and deeper than the spirals of the earth. Vesser was able to navigate between cults because everyone had mental flaws.

Therefore, her first step was to transform Ashe into someone with flaws, and power was the poison she had prepared.

She liked those who were strong yet imperfect, much like people who adored beautiful yet dependent pets.

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Since he wasn’t interested in ideals, she decided to let him savor the sweetness of power, and then…

Huh?

Vesser suddenly lifted her head. Knowing that Ashe and the others were waiting in the passageway, she transformed the thousand changes spirit into a projection spirit, projecting the passage surveillance footage onto her pupils, allowing her to monitor Ashe and his group in real time and better coordinate with them.

Thus, she saw Harvey enter his Frostfire state, departing from Ashe and the others, and moving to the other end of the passage.

Why?

She saw Raven Annihilation pick up Ashe, taking a starting position.

Why?

She watched even the most rational mental sorcerer brewing a Miracle!

Why?

She had already provided the highest-scoring correct answer, so why were they scribbling chaotically on the test paper? It was understandable for necromancers and Raven Annihilation, those Lala Fatty personas, to do so, but why wasn’t the profit-focused mental sorcerer restraining Ashe?

Was the world too gentle for you, leading you to increase the difficulty yourselves?

Even though Vesser was usually the calmest Truth sorcerer and a resolute night traveler, seeing the Nether Knight spreading despair and Raven Annihilation charging with Ashe in his arms, she couldn’t help but feel helplessness toward the world and…

Anger at the fools!

How could you ruin my perfect plan like this?

No matter how Vesser raged inside, the moment Ashe seized the initiative, the pressure was on her.

She had to make a decision!

Vesser nearly ground her teeth to dust as she switched the thousand changes spirit to a light flow spirit, executing the temporary Miracle: Flash of Light!

Though she could compose this Miracle with the Inspiration spirit, she would never use skills already showcased in the Virtual Realm in reality.

As Ashe descended from the sky nearing the Demi-Gods, she, too, burst into the scene as a streak of light!

Without absolute power to suppress, she couldn’t compete with the pure form of the perfect Divine Hosting!

In a flash, Ashe collided with the giant wolf crackling with golden arcs, and Vesser reached the hamster Entangled in blue arcs!