Chapter 507

Chapter 382 – Consumption

After a long yawn, Dorothy sighed and muttered, “The first New Year’s Eve of my arrival in this world will surely be unforgettable.”

‘Since last night at around ten o’clock until now, as the sun is about to rise, I haven’t stopped for a moment… If this doesn’t end soon, I might be exhausted to d*ath… However, the outcome is still acceptable. Although the process was quite dangerous, at least the important goal has been achieved…’

Rubbing her eyes, Dorothy thought within herself that she had already become a White Chalk Tier Occult Professor. The biggest goal over the past few months, promotion, had finally been accomplished.

Thinking about finally reaching the White Chalk Tier, Dorothy felt a surge of joy, and the accumulated fatigue eased momentarily.

After thoroughly destroying the Spider Fang Priest’s derivative body with a lightning strike, Dorothy did not rest but immediately collected all the Holy Emblems, cleaned up the scene of the promotion ceremony, and after putting the target, Edric, back into the Magic Box, she quickly got on the carriage and instructed the coachman puppet to leave immediately.

After the destruction of the Red Tier derivative body, the Spiritual Threads linked to it could no longer sustain the connection, so no one could track Dorothy this time.

This time, after defeating the enemy, Dorothy immediately evacuated the scene without choosing to search the corpse. The reason was that the previous lightning strike caused a considerable commotion. Although it would take some time before attracting official Extraordinary Beings due to distance, her accomplices inside Barret’s villa would definitely be drawn there.

After reaching the White Chalk Tier, Dorothy could seemingly easily handle a Red Tier derivative body above her tier. The main reason was that the opponent had previously absorbed Dorothy’s puppet to accommodate her Spiritual Threads within their body. After her promotion, Dorothy could use these threads to perform a series of actions.

Dorothy transmitted a large amount of damage through the Spiritual Threads to the Spider Fang Priest and eventually bound him, using lightning to destroy him. If the opponent hadn’t voluntarily accommodated the Spiritual Threads beforehand, it wouldn’t have been so easy for Dorothy to deal with him.

Barrett’s villa housed a White Chalk Tier individual and an unspecified number of Black Earth Tiers and Apprentices. Given that her Spirituality was depleted and she hadn’t established a link with the opponent’s Spiritual Threads, Dorothy didn’t want to engage in combat and thus chose to leave. Besides, she had seen that the derivative body came from a Shadow Faced Man. Apart from Lu’e, nothing good could come from a Black Earth Tier, and even if there were, it would likely be destroyed by lightning.

After a whole night of turmoil, Dorothy was extremely fatigued. Promotion and battle had greatly consumed her Spirituality, so she didn’t want to stay in this place any longer. She chose to evacuate immediately. Due to her poor condition, Dorothy didn’t plan to compete for the remaining data in Barrett’s secret room; she just wanted to find a bed and get a good sleep.

Thus, amidst her exhaustion, Dorothy drove the carriage quickly towards the city. During this process, she finally had the chance to properly assess her current state.

Now, Dorothy was a pure theoretical path Occult Professor, simultaneously simulating the professions of “String Manipulation Spirit Witch” and “Thunder Summoner” under the “Enlightenment” path, gaining the primary abilities of these professions.

There was no need to elaborate on the ability of the String Manipulation Spirit Witch, which was precisely damage transmission. Now, Dorothy could arbitrarily transmit various damages between targets linked by Spiritual Threads.

However, this transmission had certain restrictions. The damage transmitted could only be within a day; beyond that limit, old injuries couldn’t be transmitted.

Moreover, this type of damage transmission was related to the size and range of the injury, not its location. The larger the wound, the more Spirituality it consumed. Just now, Dorothy had transmitted three handgun wounds to the Spider Fang Priest, though they were all in vital areas. Due to the limited range, each wound consumed 1 “Cup” and 1 “Enlightenment,” and the total transmission cost 3 “Cups.”

Another crucial point was that damage transmission couldn’t reverse d*ath. If someone received a fatal injury and died, even if Dorothy transmitted the fatal injury away, the person wouldn’t be revived; only a complete corpse would remain.

Apart from damage transmission, Dorothy’s original Puppet Master abilities had also been enhanced to varying degrees. For example, the maximum radius for controlling puppets had increased to twenty kilometers. Within ten kilometers, Dorothy could control thirty puppets without significant Spirituality consumption. The range for manipulating animal puppets had expanded, allowing her to try controlling slightly smaller or larger puppets.

Additionally, Dorothy’s Puppet Mark had been strengthened. Now, she had stronger forced control over live puppets, and the Spirituality consumption for controlling them had decreased, with each “Cup” maintaining control for one hour.

Besides the String Manipulation Spirit Witch, the new ability Dorothy gained was the Thunder Summoner’s electrical capability.

Now, Dorothy could create currents by consuming “Stone” and “Enlightenment” Spirituality. This discharge ability mainly relied on the user’s body in the Black Tier, such as adding a state to herself, allowing the current to flow through her entire body, enhancing her lightning adaptability while discharging contact electricity to enemies. It could also release arcs from her hands by storing energy, attacking enemies within a certain range remotely.

At the White Tier, this discharge ability gained a more powerful application—summoning lightning. Now, Dorothy could call down lightning from any point within a seven-kilometer radius around her. This lightning was incredibly powerful but required a base storage time. This storage time depended on weather conditions.

If the weather was suitable, meaning thick thunderclouds or rain clouds already existed in the sky, the storage needed only one or two seconds. Generally, if there were clouds in the sky, it would require more than four seconds. If it was a clear, cloudless day, additional Spirituality was needed to create thunderclouds. This lightning could also be enhanced by extra storage and additional Spirituality.

Just now, the lightning that Dorothy used to strike the Spider Fang Priest consumed 3 “Stones” and 3 “Enlightenments.” Intercepting the Spider Fang Priest’s bl**d spear with an arc consumed 1 “Stone” and 1 “Enlightenment.”

After experiencing promotion and battle, Dorothy’s current Spirituality accumulation was as follows:

1 “Cup”, 6 “Stones”, 5 “Shadows”, 2 “Lamps”, 14 “Silences”, 0 “Enlightenments.”

In a sense, it was like returning to poverty overnight.

“Sigh… Back to square one…”

Sitting in the carriage, Dorothy couldn’t help but sigh with heartache at her current Spirituality situation. Previously, everyone’s Spirituality levels were in the double digits, but now, except for “Silence,” they were all single digits, with some even having only 1 or 2.

Every time this happened, she would sigh about those normal multicolor professions with two Spirituality bars, who could use their abilities normally, and whose Spirituality consumption could be replenished by resting for a few days.

After reaching the White Chalk Tier, Dorothy could foresee that, apart from “Cup,” she would again become a major “Stone” deficient user.

But fortunately, she had a good relationship with the Artisan Guild. They didn’t lack “Stone” transmissions. As long as she had enough money, they would ensure her Spirituality supply.