Mage Manual
Chapter 457 - 378: Meiwa’s Diary Copy

Chapter 457: Chapter 378: Meiwa’s Diary Copy

Ash suddenly remembered something, pulled the car over, and a diary appeared in his hands.

"What’s this?"

"Secret Poison Diary."

Ash gave a brief introduction to the diary’s effect, and upon hearing that this thing could eliminate the symptoms of Secret Poison, Sonia’s eyes lit up, "Is there another one? I want one too!"

"Everyone will definitely have one in the future."

Because when exchanging prizes during the "Dream Expedition" event, they happened to encounter a white fog anomaly, followed by a group of Red Hats chasing them and killing indiscriminately, they had no time to rest. Ash almost forgot about the Secret Poison Diary prize until now when he opened the diary for the first time.

As for which Secret Poison to record, Ash had already decided—Vortex Secret Poison!

They were no longer in the Sea of Knowledge, and Vortex Secret Poison was worthless to them, but its symptoms were extremely unpleasant. If Concept Poison just made Ash occasionally hate the world, Vortex Secret Poison made him hate water all the time.

Besides bathing and soaking in the tub, Ash usually drank either lemon tea or dark-colored beverages similar to toilet cleaner, all to avoid the ’hydrophobia symptoms’ of Vortex Secret Poison.

And there was a very serious problem—saliva is also water!

His own saliva was bad enough, but touching someone else’s saliva would definitely trigger Vortex Secret Poison!

Vortex Secret Poison might not be the most dangerous, but it definitely had the biggest impact on the quality of life!

After recording Vortex Secret Poison in the diary, Ash said, "The promotion conditions for the Secret Poison Diary’s Technique Spirit are very strange. The diary’s duplicate must be read over 500 times to be automatically promoted... but normally, if someone picks up a copy and reads about the Secret Poison, they probably won’t look at it a second time, right? They might even throw it away."

Sonia nodded, "So you have to write something else to entice people to keep the copy and check it often."

"What should I write?"

Diya immediately answered, "Fairy Tales!"

Sonia thought for a moment, "Interesting novels?"

"So, you’re both suggesting using literary works as bait?" Ash said, "Coincidentally, I know a genre of literature that is sure to be loved by people of all ages and genders, and even different races can’t resist the allure."

Both the Witch and the Sword Maiden were piqued with curiosity, "What genre is that powerful?"

"Erotic literature."

"What is erotic literature?" Diya asked curiously.

However, her face soon turned red; she must have just learned something from the queen and her sisters during their lesson for the princess. Covering her face, she said, "Observer, don’t tell me you’re going to write a story with you and the Sword Maiden as the lead couple—"

"No, no, no." Ash shook his head and waved his hands, firmly rejecting the suggestion, "Witch, you don’t understand. The most important thing when writing fantasy literature is not to be too familiar with the subject, so that you can evoke the feeling of yearning. Just like authors of romance often haven’t experienced love themselves, I absolutely can’t write about someone too familiar to me when writing erotic material. Otherwise, it would decrease the appeal—and it would be too disrespectful to the Sword Maiden. I’m not that kind of person!"

Ash spoke righteously, indicating that he had no such intentions, and not giving the Sword Maiden any chance to explode in anger. After all, such thoughts were at best a fantasy in his mind; if he ever wrote them down, he’s likely to be killed on the spot by the Sword Maiden.

But besides that, Ash actually had many other local themes he could write about, such as "Prison Treatment Room", "Days Living with Meiwa", "Picked Up by a Female Boss", "The Elf Mother of My Female Boss"... and so on.

Just as Ash’s thoughts were flowing like a fountain, he suddenly heard Sonia say out of the blue,

"I don’t mind whether you write about me or not, but didn’t you have amnesia and get reborn?"

"Um? Yes."

"After your amnesia, have you had any intimate experiences with other women?" Sonia stared at Ash, her gaze sharp.

"...No."

Sonia withdrew her gaze, "Without any experience, how are you going to write that sensual feeling?"

Although he felt somewhat belittled, the Sword Maiden was very correct, and Ash found he couldn’t refute.

However, as a corporate slave, Ash’s greatest strength was dealing with challenges, exhausting himself, and outperforming his peers!

"Then I’ll find a way to fill in the gaps in my knowledge in reality..."

Sonia placed her hand on Ash’s shoulder, summoning a vague and translucent One-winged Technique Spirit that seemed as if it would disappear after a single use.

"Observer, this is the Miracle Technique ’Heart Pen’ I bought for you," Sonia’s voice suddenly became exceptionally soft, "The main Technique Spirit is your Heart Sword and Sword Trace, do you know how powerful its practical effects are?"

"How, how powerful?"

"The places where the Heart Pen passes will be left with ink traces," Sonia gently slid her finger across the back of Ash’s neck, and although it was covered by a hood, Ash still felt a chill run down his spine: "The ink traces can’t disappear, and everything that passes through them will be sliced apart. If combined with the Poison Skill Technique Spirit, the wounds created by the ink traces can even expand and spread contamination, leading the victims to a gruesome death."

"This is the Miracle Technique I bought for you with 15 Gold Coins, do you like it?"

Ash nodded vigorously: "Yes, I like it very much, I’m extremely satisfied. I think I’ve mistaken creative impulse for creative talent. I probably don’t have much Talent for sentimental literature, how about you, Sword Maiden, decide what I should write on it."

Although he didn’t understand why the Sword Maiden was angry, her gentleness definitely meant she was upset. And she even spent money on a Miracle Technique; it was the first time Ash had been treated to an in-app purchase by an operator.

This feeling of being kept was quite nice; since the Sword Maiden rewarded him, Ash had to show some gratitude to let the Sword Maiden experience the joy of in-app purchases.

However, Sonia herself couldn’t think of a good idea, when Diya suddenly said: "Sister Liss said that actually, Observer, you just need to write a diary on the notebook."

"If other Mages find the copy, just being able to learn about another Mage’s adventures from the copybook is enough to keep them persistently reading and flipping through, and what’s more, Observer, you’d be writing a diary — the villains in Fairy Tales love to peek at others’ diaries."

Ash and Sonia thought it over and found it to be a good idea; they had simply made things too complicated — the chance to spy on another Mage’s life was attractive in itself.

But Ash encountered trouble before he even started writing: "But there’s a lot in reality I can’t reveal for now, and besides the Sword Maiden coming to pester me in the Void Realm, there’s really nothing much to write about, others would surely find it boring."

"I didn’t pester you!" Sonia protested with a bitten lip, and then said: "Even though you have nothing to write now, you can write about the past."

Right!

That struck a chord, and Ash now looked back and even thought his experiences in Shattered Lake Prison were quite cool. He had long wanted to boast to someone, but the Sword Maiden had already heard his bragging. In reality, whenever he tried to brag to Liss, he would be disrupted by Harvey and Igula, and had never gotten the chance to organize that thrilling escape journey.

The Secret Poison diary gave him a reason to revisit those memories.

Because they were going to explore the Void Realm with the Sword Maiden and the others soon, Ash hastily wrote three lines in the diary and then closed it.

"In the year 1668, the City where I lived was rated as the region with the best public order in the whole country."

"I made an indelible contribution to this."

"Because I was caught."

...

...

The first layer of the Void Realm, the Sea of Knowledge.

"Magic Power grows so slowly..."

Freyja lain on the small boat, listlessly staring at the mist.

Thanks to the assistance of the small boat, Meiwa’s Void Realm Exploration progress was already two to three times faster than that of ordinary Mages, but even after so many days, Meiwa had only condensed a single silver feather, with Full Wings of Silver still far in the future.

If only she could encounter the legendary Vortex, Freyja thought. In the heart of the Silver Mage, there was no fortune more enviable than the Vortex, which could save a few months or even years of hard work in an instant — the time saved could be used to have a child with Ash.

Why did she suddenly think of that annoying man, Freyja wondered. Speaking of which, she seemed to have talked with Ash about the Vortex over a meal once — Ash said he knew how to locate a Vortex, but that secret was poisonous, and since Meiwa wasn’t a Mage at that time, if Meiwa ended up as an ordinary person for the rest of her life, then the secret would just be pure poison, so he didn’t say anything.

And then, barely a few days after Ash left, she summoned the ’Echo’ Technique Spirit and became a Mage.

Just missed it by a few days...

If she had become a Mage a little sooner...

Maybe...

Freyja slapped her cheek to expel the bad man from her mind. Just when she was preparing to continue exploring, she suddenly heard a ’plop’ from behind, as if something had fallen into the water.

"Hm?"

Meiwa turned her head to see a diary floating on the surface of the sea.