Mage Manual-Chapter 567 - 460 Secret Keeping Authority Abilities

In the inn, Ash opened his eyes, feeling a chilling sensation on his back, and his arms were ice-cold—the dampness from the floor was intense.

Wait, how did I end up on the floor?

Ash sat up and saw Liss, wearing a seal-themed robe, spread out in a "big" shape occupying the entire single bed. It was no secret that he had been kicked off.

Looking at those little feet that kept stretching out from under the blanket, Ash could almost see how he was slowly pushed out of bed by this little creature.

After tucking in the "little seal," Ash sat on a nearby chair. Without turning on the lights, he summoned the "Secret Poison Diary" and began to write about tonight’s experiences and gains from the back—adventures were recorded chronologically at the front, while he thought immediate life events should be documented in the back. The Mage who had picked up his diary copy seemed to enjoy reading it, as the viewing figures were steadily increasing.

Although it was a diary meant for his eyes only, Ash wrote very meticulously. Although his writing skills were not great, his attitude was earnest.

"... The spiral flame pierced through the sky like a spear, scattering the entire area’s reverse golden rain. The flames illuminated the land, which rapidly grew into towering vines and trees. Even though we were quite far away, our sports car was shaken and flipped over, and we were all thrown out due to inertia. I used the Sword Barrier to protect the Witch, and could only hug the Sword Maiden as we tumbled..."

"This was probably a Wonder controlled by the Oasis, different from the Spider Tower’s space transfer. Its usual effect is a city wonder. Then, something happened that I probably shouldn’t, at least won’t see very often in my life— the entire main city plummeted towards the earth, right beneath us. It’s worth mentioning that the Sword Maiden actually curled up from fear, softly singing in my ear, which I could use to tease her later."

"Of course, the main city didn’t just smash down; otherwise, they would also be crushed to death. Eventually, the main city halted dozens of meters above, and we could look up to see this astonishing upside-down main city filled with sparkling orange sunflowers. Truly living up to its name as the Garden, its color tone matched closely with the reverse golden rain, no wonder it was completely invisible from the ground..."

"Unlike other main cities, perhaps as a price for being suspended in the sky, the Garden main city did not possess defensive capabilities. The Spider Tower and Oasis fired upwards in unison, destroying one-tenth of the flowers. The flowers were clearly the Garden’s medicinal resources, thus shifting the battlefield’s control to the invaders. The Garden Army had to land and battle with the Spider Tower Oasis... It’s actually normal; if the Garden could both float and defend, other armies would have to fly up to invade, giving the Garden too formidable an advantage, almost making it invincible."

"Although there are no balance mechanisms in this world, the Divine Lord isn’t above flipping the table. If you’re not fair, He will make you fair."

"Thanks to the chaos, we managed to snatch up 3 Commander’s Handbooks, 4 Soul Summoning Technique Spirits, and maps of the Garden and Spider Tower, managing to retreat before the Refraction Curtain shattered. Among them, the Soul Summoning Technique Spirits were three from the Garden and one from the Spider Tower; my Soul Summoning Technique Spirit lit up orange and purple, and the special military type ’Triple Anchor’ advanced to ’Five-color Anchor’... Sadly, we didn’t get a map of the Oasis. Now I still need two more maps to light up the whole Time Continent."

"We each got a Commander’s Handbook; actually, I wanted to give two to the Sword Maiden and one to the Witch, as I’m more casual about the faction realm, but I was worried the Witch might feel it unfair. Perhaps the Witch doesn’t care, but I can’t ignore it. It feels like raising two daughters, constantly ensuring balance... But at least they wouldn’t kick me out of the car."

"Reflecting on it, I feel like I might have said some embarrassing things to the Sword Maiden tonight, but I won’t write them down; you probably aren’t interested either."

Closing the Secret Poison Diary, Ash fell into deep thought.

Actually, there was something he didn’t write in the diary: on the battlefield, they had forcefully killed a Spider Tower Commander. For this, the Sword Maiden and Witch armed themselves with Level six "Pulse Star Warriors" using the effects of the Secret Avatar’s ’Mysterious Power,’ and they were seen as neutral units by the Spider Tower, allowing them to infiltrate and launch a surprise attack on the Spider Tower Commander.

Otherwise, with Spider Tower encircling Garden in an overwhelming pressing manner, unless Garden also utilized Wonders, how could Spider Tower’s Commander possibly face death?

The reason Ash and the others took such a risk was to activate the second ability of the Secret Avatar. There was no better opportunity for an assassination than on the battlefield, fortunately, Ash had upgraded the Refraction Curtain to level 11 at the last minute, otherwise, they really wouldn’t have been able to escape the battlefield.

However, the ability they struggled so much to activate was somewhat subtle—

"Secret Keeping Authority: You keep your lips sealed, and no one can know the deepest secrets in your heart, but the secret is also protecting your soul. You cannot speak of the secret you value most, and the more you want to confess, the stronger the Secret Keeping effect becomes."

In the Observer’s personal interface, Ash also saw an additional effect:

"Secret Keeping (Confession Level 13%): Your Spirit Resistance increases by 13%, and your soul’s adaptability to similar faction Divine Beings increases by 13%."

Ash immediately recalled the information they had gathered from the mermaid; Harvey’s ability to control Divine Beings in the future was because he had acquired a Concept Avatar related to Necromancy on the Time Continent. At that time, Ash had wondered if the Secret Avatar might have a similar effect, but he didn’t expect it to be activated like this.

The Secret Keeping Authority was indeed formidable, after all, increasing the adaptability to control Divine Beings, this was indeed the ladder to heaven, the Angel’s Path. However, it was meaningless to Ash and his group—they were only Two-winged Golden Mages, even if they were in the Three-winged Holy Realm, there was still a long way to go to reach Divine Beings!

In an online game, this was like low-level players having the ability to wear divine gear, but the issue is, where’s the divine gear!?

Thinking about this, Ash felt that the Divine Lords were truly sinister. The ones who needed the Concept Avatar the most were undoubtedly the Four-winged Legendary Mages, but the Concept Avatar seemed to only appear on the Time Continent. Back then, Legendary Mages were nothing but weak birds who had to flee at the sight of the Heroic Soul Army, it was really a case of ’meeting the best you when I had nothing,’ missing the opportunity meant it was gone forever.

What Ash was actually more concerned about was—what secret had the Secret Keeping Authority actually sealed?

Was it about his transmigration? The Mage’s Handbook? The XP that even Meiwa thought was perverted? Or perhaps it was his true feelings...

Sword Maiden and Witch were still eager to help him test it out, but Ash could tell right away that they just wanted to dig up his dark history, so naturally, he hurried away.

But with a Confession Level of only 13%, that meant he wasn’t planning on revealing it anyway, Ash thought further was useless. Speaking of which, the setting of the Secret Keeping Authority was quite perverted, the more you value it, the more you want to confess, the more it prevents you from speaking, and the stronger the attribute bonus it gives—only assassins or secret admirers could truly unleash the power of this ability.

With this thought, Ash summoned the Gospel Book, flipping to "Aurora’s Mage Manual" - "Material Procurement."

After uploading the unwanted Technique Spirits from Sword Maiden tonight, Ash’s points finally broke through the major barrier of 328!

"That means he could purchase a ’Box of Source Crystal’ worth 328 points that would trigger the first-time double bonus reward!"

However, Ash wasn’t particularly interested in card drawing; after all, the "Dance of Swords and Dragons" limited search had already ended, and he had no chance of drawing the limited attire "Bride · Sword Maiden."

Actually, he wasn’t really keen on it; he mainly wanted to buy the Sword Maiden some clothes as a treat.

Although Ash could enhance his "intentions" with the Gospel Book and could draw the items he needed even from the regular card pool, the problem was that he didn’t particularly want any item at the moment—since he couldn’t draw the Bride.

Infiltrating the Imperial Palace to assassinate the Princess was indeed very dangerous, but there were no items in the regular card pool that could quickly increase his combat power. As for new operatives... honestly, these days weren’t suitable for adding new operatives at least until the Weaving Festival ended. He would bring Liss as a maid-of-honor to the Belladett family as a part of the dowry for Igula, and only then, he would have the energy to deal with more complex relationships.

It would be best if another limited pool were released; that’s when Ash would have a strong desire to make in-app purchases. Even without the "Bride," swimsuits, cheongsams, holy officers, Meiwa, maids, anything could be arranged!

Therefore, Ash continued to save these points, waiting for the desire to draw cards to surge before acting.

If he wasn’t even compelled to draw cards, how could he possibly make purchases!?

At that moment, Liss grabbed at the bed twice, caught nothing, then sat up rubbing her eyes, looked around with bleary eyes, and after seeing Ash, yawned, lay back down, and patted the bed a few times, making an ’mm-mm’ urging noise with her nose.

"What’s up?"

"Come to sleep..."

"I just woke up."

"Then I’m not sleeping either." Liss walked over and sat on the chair next to her.

"Kids who don’t get enough sleep won’t grow up!"

"I’m not scared!"

"Speaking of which, I just remembered something." said Ash, "After the Weaving Festival ends, can you still go back to being a princess?"

"Ah?"

"Whether the mission succeeds or not, you have no reason to keep staying outside. And as the only bloodline of the Yisu Royal Family, the Yisu Royal Family wouldn’t let you wander amongst the common people, right? So, will you go back to the palace and continue being a princess?"

In the dark, Liss widened her eyes at Ash: "Daddy, are you thinking of not wanting me anymore?"

"No—"

"Then why ask that! You said before that after the Weaving Festival we would live together!"

"The issue arises," said Ash, "where do we live?"

"Huh?" Liss was baffled, finding this question a bit complex.

"After leaving the Funeral Ceremony, I have no connections, no real estate, and not even a job. It feels like the quality of life is going to plummet. Also, ’Princess of Yisu’ sounds a lot more impressive than ’Ash’s daughter’—"

"Who says so? Clearly, the latter is super invincible!"

"Since it’s tough like this," Ash scratched his head, "On my own, I could survive under a bridge in a cardboard box, but with you along, I need to work a bit harder. For a happy life, I have roughly three proposals— "

"First, I sell my looks, begging Hanna to support us."

Liss hung her head, swinging her legs: "I don’t want a stepmom now..."

"Second, we beg Igula to sell his looks, letting Belladett support us."

"That’s good," said Liss, "but Aunt Bokin seems always reluctant, huh."

"Then we only have to choose the third option." Ash declared, "Let the substitute go out to work and make money to support the family."

"But the Substitute wouldn’t make much money, right?" Liss thought for a moment, "But no matter, as long as I’m with Daddy, Liss doesn’t mind being a bit poor—"

"That won’t do, no matter how tough, we can’t make children suffer; even for your happy life, I’ll work hard!" Ash declared emphatically.

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