"And if I didn't come looking for you, would you even dare to come to Sword Flower University to find me?"

Ash was speechless. Of course, he wouldn't dare to go to Sword Flower University to find the Sword Maiden. Once discovered by others, Sonia would have no choice but to run away with him — she might even want to take this romantic escape route.

After saying this, Sonia lifted her chin, her mouth curved into a smirk, glancing sideways at Diya, almost as if the words 'a petty person enjoying success' were written on her forehead, as cute as a cat that had just stolen some sugar.

"Three days from now, I will open a Gospel portal to Jiale City," Diya said leisurely. "Miss Anfeier misses Aunt Bojin a lot. Uncle Harvey's injuries are so severe, he should receive proper treatment."

Diya silently hugged Ash's arm, discreetly glancing at the Sword Maiden, her lips curling into a disdainful arc, her brows and eyes full of a satisfied smile, as charming as a little fox whose plot had succeeded.

Sonia immediately bristled — even if she had never met Igula and Harvey, she knew the weight those two men held in Ash's heart.

For instance, Sonia once jokingly asked Ash, "If Igula and I fell into the water, who would you save?" Ash's response was, "Can we change the question to you and Harvey falling into the water?" — even though these two guys are both men, on Sonia's alert list, their threat level was only slightly lower than the Witch and Weiser.

So just using these two people as a bargaining chip, Ash would definitely fall for it!

Sure enough, Ash didn't hesitate: "I'll bring them back then."

Sonia couldn't oppose; she couldn't even ask Ash to stay alone — it was too dangerous — so she immediately said: "I'm coming too!"

"But as a Sword Maiden, you can't abandon your career, connections, and family in the Dazzling Star, can you?" the Witch smiled and said: "When you can control the Kingdom of Stars, then have Ash visit the Dazzling Star, alright?"

Sonia was so angry she almost burned a hole in her stomach. She grabbed Ash's wrist, pressed her lips tightly, her little face puffed with anger, and her eyes full of grievance and stubbornness: "You won't leave me, right?"

Diya's tone was equally filled with anticipation and sadness: "We're all waiting for you to come back... You promised us."

If you ignore the fact that they each held one of Ash's hands, if you ignore that they used miracles to bind Ash's arms, if you ignore that they were almost going to split Ash apart...

Ash couldn't remember what he said to survive such a trial of torment, and he barely struggled to return to reality, thinking he almost died.

Except 17 hours later, he still had to enter the Void Realm, and before that, the Sword Maiden would come to catch him first.

What should he do?

Spending three seconds thinking, Ash felt like his brain wasn't capable of such high-powered thought process, so he decided to face life optimistically.

Why worry so much, life is an unpredictable stage; what if he dies in the next second!

After mentally preparing himself, Ash simply washed up, then once again opened "Aurora's Mage Manual," suddenly seeing three messages pop up.

They were his long-awaited growth reports.

Ash hadn't seen a growth report in a long time, maybe because he stopped setting training strategies, and the growth report hadn't appeared since. He didn't know why it appeared now.

"Death Mad Sword Maiden's Growth Report 7.4~10.17"

"Bonds Level: 4 (75% experience shared)"

"Sword Technique Faction: Gold → Holy Domain"

"Light Technique Faction: Silver → Silver"

"Water Technique Faction: Silver → Gold"

"Time Faction: Gold → Gold"

"Space Faction: Silver → Gold"

"Magic Power: Holy Domain First Feather → Legendary Zero Feather"

"Training Evaluation: SS!"

"Due to achieving an SS-level evaluation, the Death Mad Sword Maiden has obtained a profession enhancement from the Mage's Handbook: Sword Demon!"

"Sword Demon · Professional characteristics: When the Sword Demon locks onto any target, the target undergoes a will check every 10 seconds. If the check fails, they enter a state of chaotic fear for the next 10 seconds, significantly increasing miracle failure rate; if the first check fails, the target falls into 0.5 seconds of absolute terror unable to control themselves."

"Due to the enhancement of magic power, the Death Mad Sword Maiden's talent has been strengthened!"

"Due to achieving an SS-level evaluation, the Death Mad Sword Maiden has received the profession assessment task 'Sword Demon'!"

"Sword Demon: Within the next 360 days, intimidate and defeat more than ten Holy Sanctuary Mages or three Legendary Mages using the Sword Demon characteristic to permanently solidify the Sword Demon professional characteristic! Current progress (0/10) / (0/3)."

Damn!

Ash was stunned. This Sword Demon professional characteristic is insanely strong, equivalent to a Legendary Spirit Miracle, and it doesn't even require magic power to be activated; it triggers once every 10 seconds, and once successful, it directly causes chaos and fear.

He also wanted such a powerful professional characteristic!

More importantly, now that the Sword Maiden has this Sword Demon profession, would she just have to glare at him to make him obedient and afraid to resist?

But Ash quickly calmed down — even without this profession, he wouldn't dare resist the Sword Maiden.

The Sword Maiden's talent also had some terminological changes:

"Innate Talent · Sword Maiden (Heavenly Position): Gains an additional 250% swordsmanship experience, a low chance of gaining 10,000% swordsmanship experience, and occasionally triggers the Phantom of the Annihilation Dazzling Dragon (unlock talent level upon power upgrade)"

The binding of the Sword Maiden from the Dazzling Dragon evolved to the Annihilation Dazzling Dragon, but strangely enough, even though Ash was now at Ruby Mountain, he hadn't heard of any Dazzling Dragon.

"Black and White Witch's Growth Report 7.4~10.17"

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