Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2912: Chapter 2913: Enchanted Land Tool

”Please select your execution target.”

”You have chosen to execute ’Glutton Bella’. ”

”Execution complete, the current special linkage dreamland—Glutton’s Banquet, exploration degree is 100%.”

”According to the exploration degree, preparing to enter the rewards settlement list.”

”Exploration degree 100%, the rewards can be chosen from one of the following three choices.”

”The reward retention time is 1 hour, please make a choice within 1 hour. If no choice is made after 1 hour, the reward will be distributed randomly.”

”Once the exploration degree has reached 100%, the special linkage dreamland ’Glutton’s Banquet’ will enter a sealed state upon leaving.”

”Leaving the special dreamland in 3 seconds.”

”3, 2, 1.”

Laplace did not hide anything, fully revealing the information she had obtained, word for word.

After Laplace finished speaking, Glaipnir added from the side: ”The information I received is basically consistent, but the reward I received was not a three-choice, but instead I directly got this.”

As Glaipnir spoke, she reached out her hand and, with a flick of the wrist, a long silver whip adorned with several Big Mary Roses was in her hand.

After holding the whip, Glaipnir gently swung it, and a silver-white whip shadow flashed by, leaving a half-meter deep pit on the Crystal Origin.

Glaipnir did not activate the Second Level Astrological Disk; she merely used the strength of the body in the Crystal Origin of Dreams. It didn’t seem to take much effort to create such a deep pit, indicating the silver whip’s power was quite impressive.

”Was this whip transformed from a previous crystal creation?” Laplace asked, intrigued as she looked at the familiar whip.

Glaipnir: ”I don’t know, but when I hold this whip, corresponding related information appears... See if you can sense it.”

As she spoke, Glaipnir handed the silver whip to Laplace.

Laplace, upon receiving the whip, was first taken aback, her expression then became slightly serious. Shortly after, she handed the whip to Angel, who was beside her.

The moment Angel touched the whip, unfamiliar information flooded his mind.

”Enchanted Land Tool: Bella’s Whip.”

”Bella’s greatest daily annoyance is figuring out how to deal with Helen. When she runs out of fresh ideas, she brings out this whip, personally tanned by the cook, to leave ’beautiful’ marks on Helen.”

”Can be stowed in a separate fairyland space.”

”Is this tool meant to complete the background of the special dreamland?” Angel murmured softly after reading the information, ”Aside from a relevant background, there’s nothing else. At the very least, the upper limit values for attack and weapon effects should be indicated, and whether it can be enhanced and to what extent isn’t mentioned either.”

Enhancement? Others might find Angel’s words strange, but Angel himself was unaware of this. He had completely interpreted ”Wonderland of Dreams” as an instance, and the so-called information was automatically understood as system prompts, and the reward tool was considered an instance weapon.

Since it’s an instance weapon, its values and such should be outlined too.

”What are you talking about?” Glaipnir looked at Angel curiously, ”What enhancement?”

Angel paused, seemingly realizing how unreliable his words were. He coughed twice, somewhat uncomfortable, and said, ”Nothing... I just mean that the information on these tools could be more detailed, making it more intuitive and user-friendly.”

”Later on, I’ll see if my current authority can influence Wonderland of Dreams, improve it a bit, and add a reference value to the reward tools, making it more intuitive.”

Glaipnir understood Angel’s meaning this time, but she didn’t see any reference value in a ”value”; such weapons need to be personally tested to be judged better.

To this, Angel responded, ”If it were alchemist-made tools, it would naturally be better to test them personally. However, the tools in the Crystal Origin of Dreams seem completely transferable to others, and having a basic value for reference would be better if you’re going to hand it to someone else in the future.”

Whether Angel’s statement convinced Glaipnir was unimportant. In any case, Angel truly intended to try modifying the underlying values of reward tools, though it’s an afterthought as he was still largely clueless about the fairyland authority in Wonderland of Dreams and was certainly incapable of doing it now.

Laplace: ”Judging from the power with which you wielded that whip and its destructive capacity, I’d estimate it’s only at the level of an ordinary second level bloodline apprentice.”

Laplace meant the whip might be useless.

It might not even match the reward she got with a 99% exploration degree before: Helen’s Imaginative Constitution.

At least Helen’s Imaginative Constitution works directly on the body in the Crystal Origin of Dreams, more reliably augmenting the body than relying on external items.

Glaipnir also agreed with what Laplace said: ”Without the Second Level Astrological Disk, this damage effect is indeed decent. But the Crystal Origin of Dreams can enhance an individual’s power through the Second Level Astrological Disk, which makes its power seem less impressive.”

As she spoke, the whip in Glaipnir’s hand disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

”The only advantage is that it doesn’t take up space, and there’s a separate fairyland space for storage.”

This advantage was just something Glaipnir pointed out casually. After all, the Dream Conch can also bring spatial artifacts into the Crystal Origin of Dreams, which makes the so-called ”fairyland space” somewhat redundant.

Glaipnir’s reward, for now, didn’t seem very outstanding, probably because she joined ”Glutton’s Banquet” halfway and didn’t participate throughout, hence the mediocre reward.

However, it at least shows that a special dreamland can reward not only constitutions but also tangible tools. Although, these tangible tools can only be used in the Crystal Origin of Dreams.

Having seen Glaipnir’s reward, Angel now turned his gaze toward Laplace.

Previously, Laplace had mentioned the reward was three choices, but hadn’t specified what those three were.

Moreover, since Laplace participated starting from Helen’s Dream and eventually achieved a 100% exploration degree in Glutton’s Banquet, her rewards should be better than Glaipnir’s.

With this in mind, Angel looked at Laplace with increasing anticipation.

Laplace, after pondering for a moment, said, ”Although my reward is a three-choice, it doesn’t reveal what exactly they are. Instead, after clearing it, three phantom shadows of crystal boxes appeared in my mind. It seems I need to choose one out of the three crystal boxes.”

Upon hearing this, Angel appeared to grasp something, his eyes brightening: ”Could this be like opening a treasure chest, or perhaps drawing cards from an egg pool or blind box?! This Wonderland of Dreams instance mechanism... is really complete!”

Laplace didn’t quite understand what Angel meant by ’egg pool card drawing’ or ’instance mechanism’, but she understood the terms ’treasure box opening’ and ’blind box drawing’ from their literal meanings.

Laplace shook her head: ”It should be quite different from what you described as a blind box. The three boxes have labels on them; they seem to categorize the rewards. Describing it as treasure box opening is more fitting.”

Angel thought to himself: actually, blind boxes also have labels...

Although musing to himself, he ignored the term ’blind box’ and asked about the specific labels on the three boxes.

Laplace didn’t reply immediately but closed her eyes, and after a few seconds, said: ”When I close my eyes, I can ’see’ the shadows of the three crystal boxes. From the outside, these crystal boxes are indistinguishable from each other; they are all painted white, concealing their contents.”

”However, different symbols are marked on the box lids. These symbols should be some kind of language, though I don’t recognize this language, I can understand it, perhaps because it directly affects my thoughts.”

”The label on the first box is: Mirror Domain.”

”The label on the second box is: Dream Realm.”

Angel’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing the labels on the first two boxes, and he thought, according to this labeling rule, could the third box possibly be labeled... Nightmare Realm?

When Angel harbored doubts, Laplace read out the label on the cover of the third crystal box.

”As for the third box, it is labeled: Wonderland.”

Wonderland... Upon hearing this term, Angel felt slightly relieved. Although Angel thought there’s not much harm in telling Laplace about the Nightmare Realm’s involvement in constructing the Crystal Origin of Dreams, he had an agreement with Sanders to keep anything related to the Nightmare Realm confidential unless absolutely necessary.

And the Crystal Origin of Dreams, to put it simply, is a colossal Nightmare Realm.

After putting aside that trace of anxiety, Angel quietly said, ”So, these three boxes actually represent the Mirror World, Dream Realm, and the Crystal Origin of Dreams, respectively?”

Laplace replied indifferently, ”Perhaps.”

Angel was quite puzzled as to why this situation arose, but now wasn’t the time to delve into it. He was more curious about what kinds of rewards might be inside these three boxes?

”Which box did you choose?” Angel asked.

Laplace shook her head: ”I haven’t made a choice yet; I want to hear your opinions first.”

After speaking, Laplace first looked towards Angel.

Angel contemplated for a moment. If time allowed, he could actually use the Ability Tree to gather information about the clearance rewards, but clearly time was insufficient now.

However, based on the information he currently knew and some speculative inferences, the Wonderland of Dreams authority, mainly revolves around ”memory and imagery,” in the instance.

Therefore, the reward it offers should also be closely related to the broad category of ”memory.”

That is to say, this reward should have existed previously within the instance or be closely connected to the instance.

Like the first reward Laplace received, which was the masked person’s constitution. Glaipnir received a reward, which was the whip Bella loved to use, also made from the vine of Big Mary Rose.

All in all, they don’t stray beyond the scope of the instance’s content.

Angel voiced his speculation, and after listening, Laplace nodded in agreement: ”What you said is likely right, however, the ’Glutton’s Banquet’ special dreamland does indeed involve ’Dream Realm’ and ’Wonderland,’ but what about ’Mirror Domain’? I haven’t found any traces of Mirror Domain interference within.”

Angel shrugged: ”In that case, my suggestion is to choose Mirror Domain.”

Everything else is represented, except for the Mirror Domain, which is underrepresented; thus, Angel would opt for this ’scarce’ level of representation. Moreover, since Laplace comes from the Mirror Domain, and there’s a Mirror Domain box here, it might be tools or abilities related to the Mirror Domain?

Laplace nodded, not commenting on Angel’s choice, but instead looked towards Glaipnir nearby.

As an Astrologer, Laplace viewed Glaipnir’s choice as more constructive than Angel’s.

Glaipnir didn’t immediately respond as Angel did, but seriously used the Second-Level Astrological Disk to deduce. The entire process seemed quite dynamic, though the final result was somewhat awkward.

Glaipnir furrowed her brows: ”Strange, I can’t gather any messages through Astrology, not even a revelation. Perhaps it’s blocked by some mighty power?”

Angel thought for a moment and said: ”It’s not surprising. The reward is issued directly by authority. Authority, in the Crystal Origin of Dreams, is akin to Law, so trying to spy on Law with Astrology likely won’t work.”

Glaipnir tried other methods, but still received no revelation or even any feedback.

Eventually, Glaipnir sighed and gave up on Astrology.

However, though abandoning Astrology, Glaipnir still offered a suggestion: ”Why don’t you ask Luigi?”

This suggestion seemed puzzling to Angel, but Laplace, after considering, seriously nodded: ”That works too. Since Astrology is ineffective, asking Luigi might be good.”

Angel grew even more perplexed, asking, ”Why definitely ask Luigi?”

Glaipnir offered a brief explanation in response.

To put it simply, Luigi has particularly sharp intuition, even more accurate than most women.

Certainly, Luigi’s intuition can’t compare to Dox’s inspiration; Dox’s inspiration is almost comparable to prophecy effects, whereas intuition is merely a lesser sensation of inspiration.

Now, when divination couldn’t offer any revelation, intuition could still be used somewhat. No wonder Glaipnir suggested Luigi.

Glaipnir: ”With the reward being a choice of three, but giving an hour to think, perhaps it’s also hoped the challenger makes a careful choice.”

”Thankfully, there’s still about 50 minutes left to choose, so there’s no rush.”

Following these words, Laplace suddenly thought of something, looking at Angel: ”Speaking of which, you previously mentioned Luigi might have been lured by the Beautiful Dream Mountain? Has he ascended now?”

Angel didn’t know the current situation precisely, gesturing for Laplace to wait a moment, he closed his eyes, entering God’s View mode.

After a while, Angel opened his eyes with a slightly peculiar expression.

Laplace asked, ”What, has he really ascended the mountain?”

Angel shook his head: ”Luigi hasn’t ascended, but I found out Laplace... seems to be offline.”

Luigi was currently lingering outside Beautiful Dream Mountain, appearing to wish to ascend but hesitant. But Laplace... the Rabbit Girl, had vanished.

Angel used the Gatekeeper’s authority to sense and found the Rabbit Girl was indeed offline.

Being offline itself isn’t particularly rare.

However, Laplace had assigned the Rabbit Girl to hunt the remnants of Eliminators, yet completed less than one or two tenths.

Currently, near the coordinates Angel previously set, numerous Eliminators were lingering.

Chasing Eliminator remnants should not be challenging for the Rabbit Girl. What’s more, Angel had specially positioned her so she didn’t need to move, reducing her burden significantly.

Logically, the Rabbit Girl should find it easy to eliminate the Eliminators in such a relaxed environment. But unexpectedly, with the task unfinished and Eliminators abundant nearby, she went offline early.

Could she have encountered danger? But that doesn’t seem right; Angel personally witnessed the Rabbit Girl’s combat prowess, which is so strong and enduring, few Eliminators could place her in peril right now.

It was quite baffling.

After explaining the situation, Laplace also immediately sensed something amiss, contemplating: ”Let’s also go offline; I’ll directly ask her about the situation.”

Angel thought it over and nodded.

Conveniently, at this moment, Luigi had rounded to the other side of the mountain, already not far from their current location, making it time-consuming to approach just by walking.

Logging offline and again online, adjusting login position via the Gate of Dreams is evidently faster than walking.

Hence, regardless, they need to go offline once.

It also happens to be a chance to inquire about the Rabbit Girl’s situation.