Sorcerer’s Handbook

Chapter 81: So It’s You Who Brought the Sacred Bloodline Here

Watching the battered Swordfish Dragon hastily flee into the white fog, Sylphine fell into deep thought.

This was already the fourth knowledge creature she had encountered tonight.

Generally speaking, Sylphine would only experience one special event per night during her virtual world explorations, and most of the time she would just be strolling around leisurely – because the Sea of Knowledge was so vast and the fog so dense that it was difficult to encounter others without a life-and-death connection in the great sea.

However, she had met four knowledge creatures in a row tonight, which made Sylphine suspect that today might be the mating season for knowledge creatures, so they had gathered around to go into heat…

But Sylphine knew why she could continuously trigger combat events.

She turned into a little bat again and waited in place for a moment. Sure enough, she heard the familiar “plop” sound again!

There it was again!

Hearing this sound for the fifth consecutive time, Sylphine could no longer deceive herself that it was a hallucination.

She could even foresee that if she flew in the direction the sound came from, she would definitely encounter another knowledge creature! Just like the previous four times!

What was going on here!

The books “A Hundred Years in the Virtual World and Ten Years at Sea”, “Poor Sorcerer, Rich Sorcerer”, and “Sailing Ten Thousand Miles” did not mention this kind of situation at all!

The most similar situation was the legendary “Mermaid’s Call”: it was said that there was a knowledge creature called the Lantern Dragon in the Sea of Knowledge. Its body was extremely ugly, but its tentacles were beautiful mermaids with enchanting voices, sweet voices, and sexy figures. When sorcerers couldn’t resist the temptation and approached the mermaids, the lantern dragon hiding in the sea would suddenly appear and swallow the sorcerers whole.

However, Sylphine saw no mermaids or any traps. It was as if the “plop” sound simply guided her to the nearest habitat of knowledge creatures.

She also considered whether other sorcerers were pranking her, but upon careful reflection, that was impossible – her ultrasonic detection at the platinum level was already considered top-notch reconnaissance among miracles, yet she could only probe the terrain within three meters around her. Any further and the ultrasound would be blocked by the white fog.

The stretch of sea she had flown over before ambushing the Swordfish Dragon was nearly a hundred meters away!

Even with the miracles of the prophecy or fate systems, it would be impossible to penetrate dozens of meters of white fog. If it could be done, it would definitely not be within the ability range of a platinum sorcerer.

However, sorcerers were on a one-way path once they advanced to the two-winged gold or three-winged saint stages. The door of truth they opened could no longer lead to the Sea of Knowledge. There could only be single-wing platinum sorcerers in the Sea of Knowledge.

Moreover, she could not think of any reason why someone would guide her – if the other party could really see through hundreds of meters of white fog, their abilities would definitely be enough to overwhelm Sylphine. Wouldn’t it be better to just tie up Sylphine and have their way with her?

This was the virtual world. As long as the other party concealed their identity, even the Sacred Bloodline would not be able to find the culprit for revenge.

So Sylphine felt even more strongly that she had triggered some mechanism in the virtual world, which caused the virtual world to actively guide her to find the nearest knowledge creature, just like a whirlpool.

There were many incomprehensible mysterious mechanisms in the virtual world, some of which appeared randomly, while others were accidentally triggered by sorcerers.

For example, the “Great Path” in the Sea of Knowledge. Although the research institute still had not found a viable trigger method, by consolidating various data, it was discovered that earth-type sorcerers had the greatest chance of encountering the “Great Path.” It was highly likely that the actions of earth mages caused changes in the virtual world, bringing the Great Path into manifestation.

Sylphine had read a miscellaneous book called “Chronicles of the Illusory World”, which recorded many such unverifiable virtual world mechanisms: for example, throwing a single-wing spirit into the sea would make a masked sorcerer emerge from the sea holding a two-wing spirit and a three-wing spirit, asking which spirit you had just thrown in. If you honestly answered neither, you would get a reward… Most of the stories inside were this kind of nearly absurd, effortless, and bizarrely triggered fantasy.

Although it was almost impossible to reproduce such mechanisms, Sylphine still tried her best to remember what exactly she had done to trigger this mechanism.

Could it be that sentence she said earlier, “I hope to meet knowledge creatures”, was overheard by the virtual world?

“I want to meet Serendipity Isle… I want to meet a whirlpool… I want to meet golden fish… I want to eat truffle lalafu… I want to condense seven or eight more drops of colorless source blood…” Sylphine kept murmuring as she flew, hoping the virtual world would hear her wishes again.

But the virtual world did not seem to have heard her prayers. Instead, she heard the Swordfish Dragon’s faint screams again, as if it was being brutally beaten somewhere nearby after escaping.

This was not the first time. The few knowledge creatures that Sylphine had defeated earlier also let out piteous wails in the distance after getting away.

Could the new miracle she had learned, “Blood Flow Reversal”, really be that powerful, making knowledge creatures wail all night even after escaping, unable to heal?

If Sylphine flew ten meters to the right, she would see the escaped Swordfish Dragon being brutally beaten by a certain dog couple with a mixed combo attack. It looked at the two in front of it with an expression of ‘So it’s you who brought the Sacred Bloodline here!’ Then, letting out a cry of unwillingness and lament like ‘The tiger falls in Pingyang at the mercy of dogs’, it burst out a bunch of loot.

After licking the bag clean, the little boat quietly followed along Sylphine’s flight path.

Blood Moon Kingdom, Shattered Lake Prison.

Sylphine woke up from her bed and couldn’t help but stretch out lazily, her whole body’s bones making crisp sounds – due to the slow blood flow, the bodies of the Sacred Bloodline tended to become stiff.

If they wanted to explore the virtual world for a long time, the Sacred Bloodline would have to lie in coffins, reducing air exposure to lower oxidation rates. Otherwise, they would wake up with their whole bodies rigid.

Sylphine first took a warm bath, then brushed her teeth and washed her face. During this process, she had to keep all water sources still. One of the taboos of the Sacred Bloodline was that they could not touch flowing water. Although touching it would not hurt them, the sensation of flowing water to the Sacred Bloodline was like the steak you were eating suddenly started squirming, repulsive and frightening.

There were enough taboos for the Sacred Bloodline to fill a book as thick as a palm. Compared to that, the most well-known “fear of sunlight” was just one of the most trivial ones.

Although there were many restrictions, people seeking to join the research institute and become one of the Bloodline were still neverending. This was not only because the Sacred Bloodline had powerful innate talents, but also because they were the favored children of the Blood Moon Sovereign, one of the only two ruling races of the Blood Moon Kingdom!

“Reporting last night’s adventures to the research institute would probably earn a lot of research points… But then I’d have to talk with Teacher again, and he’d definitely ask all sorts of nagging questions, super annoying…”

Sylphine put on a loose black robe and crow mask while randomly thinking, and went to the exclusive dining room for medical staff.

“Good morning, Your Excellency.”

Seeing the passing medical staff bowing to her again, Sylphine hurriedly stopped him and said, “I’ve said that when it’s just us, treat me like any other medical staff, just say hello, this isn’t outside.”

“But…”

“You guys doing this, if word got to the research institute, Teacher would definitely scold me. Your badge number is [137] right? I’ll remember that. If I get scolded by Teacher, I’ll remember to bother you for it.”

[137] panicked at this, and bowed in fright: “I’m so sorry, Your Excellency, I just-”

“Hmm? Still using honorifics?”

“…Good morning, [222].”