Sorcerer’s Handbook

“It’s going to release the Fish Light Dragon Poem in three seconds, move back three steps!”

Upon hearing this, Sonya and Deya immediately retreated. Three seconds later, the Raging Slashing Dragon unleashed a ring-shaped Water-Light Blade Edge. The sharp airflow narrowly swept past the operators, lifting their hair.

“It will be in a rigid state for three seconds next, then it will attack the first target in front of it. Sword Princess, I’ve already enhanced you, go finish it off!”

Miracle: Single-minded Devotion: Love Sword!

Ashe casually tossed a Love Sword to Sonya. Sonya felt her heart suddenly pound, and her whole body tingled, especially her waist, which felt like someone was hugging her. She gave Ashe a fierce glare and then, using all her strength, unleashed the Evil Light Rending Wave Slash at the Raging Slashing Dragon.

The Raging Slashing Dragon raised its steely tail and smashed it down towards Sonya with all its might. At this moment, the warm yellow sword body barrier firmly protected the village girl, almost shattering the dragon’s tail!

Perhaps it wasn’t completely broken, but Deya seized the opportunity to entangle its tail with the Water-born Thread and used the “Fast Forward” spirit to accelerate!

Under normal circumstances, the Raging Slashing Dragon would sense its tail being bound and immediately reduce its force to prevent damage, or even take the chance to withdraw its tail-despite its massive body, a mature Raging Slashing Dragon possesses surprisingly high agility and reflexes. However, due to the acceleration effect of the Fast Forward spirit, it couldn’t react in time, and its tail was effectively “murdered” by its own weight and inertia!

Great weapons don’t need human control; everything is a seamless flow of artistry.

Don’t be fooled by Deya’s mastery of the Fist-Claw Sect’s derived ‘Claw Line.’ Her combat style is entirely different from that of the Sword Princess Observer. The Water-born Thread attacks multiple areas simultaneously, and coupled with the naturally high armor of knowledge creatures, even the sharpest Water-born Thread struggles to shred them into pieces. Most of the time, it looks vicious but is actually just a teasing-level scrape.

Her Water-born Thread is more of a trap than a weapon. When she sees the right moment for the monster to charge, she ensnares it with the thread and then accelerates the monster’s movement with the Fast Forward spirit, using its weight and inertia to tear it apart.

Ashe’s assessment of Deya as a control-based damage dealer is spot on. Although her control isn’t about ‘stunning’ or ‘blinding,’ and it’s even challenging to ‘bind’ knowledge creatures, the combination of the Fast Forward spirit and the Water-born Thread miracle allows her to disrupt the rhythm of knowledge creatures and deliver fatal blows when necessary.

When the Raging Slashing Dragon lost its tail, it ended up no different from a juvenile Blade Fish Dragon.

After dealing with this Overlord Raging Slashing Dragon, Sonya looked at Ashe. “How do you know so much about the Raging Slashing Dragon’s attack patterns?”

While the Raging Slashing Dragon is the mature form of the Blade Fish Dragon, and Sonya could react correctly to the Blade Fish Dragon’s attacks, predicting several seconds in advance like the Observer was impossible. Fortunately, the Raging Slashing Dragon couldn’t understand human speech; otherwise, the Observer’s loud strategy announcements would have triggered its rebellious instincts.

“I only know about the Raging Slashing Dragon,” Ashe shrugged. “I’ve studied the Blade Fish Dragon series in detail over the past few days.”

Leading the team through the Extreme Cutting Carp Overlord Lord wasn’t a wasted effort. Now, as Ashe looked at the Raging Slashing Dragon, the original form of the Extreme Cutting Carp Overlord Lord, he knew its every move, even when it was about to relieve itself. The reason they could speedrun the Raging Slashing Dragon in three minutes was because Ashe had been wiped out by the Extreme Cutting Carp Overlord Lord three hundred times in reality.

“What about other knowledge creatures?”

“I only know about the Blade Fish Dragon series. You’ll have to brief me on the others.”

Sonya raised an eyebrow. “Hmph, always relying on me.”

Deya raised her hand. “Excuse me, the Raging Slashing Dragon dropped two spirits. Do either of you need them?”

Ashe laughed. “Witch, why are you suddenly so polite?”

“Of course, it’s because you two…” Deya saw Sonya’s hand move to her sword hilt. Without needing a reminder from the White Queen, she quickly changed her tone. “You’ve made me realize I should get along well with my teammates, not be rude, and certainly not harm them.”

Although it was a Raging Slashing Dragon, the spirits it dropped were somewhat distant from the Swords Sect, namely the two-wings spirits “Determination” and “Heart Connect.”

“Determination” has some relation to the Swords Sect, while “Heart Connect” seems to be an Overlord Creature-derived spirit from the Raging Slashing Dragon. Compared to other Overlord Creatures, the Raging Slashing Dragon is notably better at rallying other group-dwelling creatures against sorcerers, using numbers to its advantage. If not for Ashe and his team taking the shameless route of occupying advantageous terrain and using poison gas to first eliminate the other group-dwelling creatures, this battle could have been much tougher.

“Determination”

“Two-wings Spirit”

“Restriction: The sorcerer must possess cognitive abilities.”

“Basic Effect: Generates a period of determination, with duration proportional to spellforce consumption.”

“Passive Effect: The willpower of the sorcerer becomes more resolute.”

“Will is sharper than any blade.”

“Heart Connect”

“Two-wings Spirit”

“Restriction: The sorcerer must possess cognitive abilities.”

“Basic Effect: Establishes a link with a specific target, allowing all linked creatures to sense each other’s emotions.”

“Passive Effect: The sorcerer becomes more empathetic.”

“There is no mutual understanding, only mutual compromise.”

Clearly, both of these spirits belong to the Mental Sect, and the effect of “Heart Connect” is somewhat similar to the Sword Princess’s mental miracle “Treat with Sincerity.”

It is quite common for miracles and spirits to have similar effects. For example, the famous healing miracle of the Fire Sect, “Baptism by Fire,” has essentially the same healing effect as the spirit “Hydrotherapy.” However, the former is a healing miracle that at least two-wings Fire Sect sorcerers can master, while the latter is a beginner’s perk for every Healer.

Attack, defense, healing, mobility, reconnaissance… Most spellcasting sects often excel in only one aspect. When a sect specializing in attack produces miracles that can also handle reconnaissance and healing, it showcases the sorcerer’s true capabilities.

After Ashe and Sonya both indicated they didn’t need the spirits, Deya said proactively, “Then I’ll take them-I need these two spirits.”

Deya paused, as if feeling there was no need to hide the truth, or perhaps she couldn’t resist the urge to show off, and added, “Actually, I’m taking them for my other sisters.”

“Hmm?”

“In both the Virtual Realm and reality, we only need one sister to control the body. What do you think the other idle sisters are doing?” Deya asked.

Ashe blinked. “Playing truth or dare? Beach volleyball? Dead or Alive?”

Sonya realized something. “They’re training as sorcerers?”

“It can’t be considered training, as sorcerer training must be linked to practice,” Deya explained. “But during their free time, they generally think about optimizing Miracles. The Miracles I use now were conceived by my sisters.”

Ashe and Sonya immediately grasped the terrifying aspect of the Witch—besides the Secret Princess, she also had the White Queen, Black Butler, and Scarlet Dead Apostles. This meant that there were at least three sorcerers constantly working on calculating and constructing Miracles behind the scenes!

Ordinary sorcerers typically spend their time improving their Sect Realm and summoning spirits, leaving very little time for Miracle training. This results in sorcerers having varying degrees of combat proficiency.

However, this is an inevitable trade-off—after all, the Sect Realm determines how much power a sorcerer can ‘possess,’ while Miracles represent how much of that power they can ‘utilize.’

Sorcerers often start focusing on Miracles only after hitting their Sect Realm ceiling, trying to maximize their existing resources, transitioning from ‘expansion’ to ‘conservation,’ from ‘extensive farming’ to ‘intensive cultivation.’ Banjeet is a typical example—he’s been stuck in the two-wings sorcerer range for so long that he’s mastered the Ice Spell Sect, handling defense, offense, mobility, and healing with ease.

Even if Banjeet conjured an ice house in the wild next time, Ashe and his team wouldn’t be surprised.

In a sense, most sorcerers initially walk the path of being ‘high-scoring but low-skilled.’

Ashe is a typical example—though he doesn’t score high, he’s equally low-skilled.

The ‘Heart Pen’ Miracle given to him by the sword Princess took him a lot of time to master. As for combining ‘Heart Pen’ with ‘Single-minded Devotion,’ ‘Rush,’ ‘Slash Me,’ and other Miracles into a tactical system, or even researching new Miracles based on these spirits… the sword Princess might be able to do it, but for a student like Ashe, who barely passes his core courses, completing such an elaborate graduation project is out of the question.

And this is where the Witch’s strength lies—she’s not studying alone; she has three senior sisters helping her with her homework!