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Chapter 354 - 152 Path of Law

Chapter 354: Chapter 152 Path of Law

Mia suddenly had a strange illusion, as if she was not facing Peggy, but the Lord of Filth she had dealt with last time.

Although Peggy hadn’t used her abilities "Plague" and "Toxin", turning into a mouse, a bat, and exploding into filthy blood upon being hit was all too familiar.

She quickly manipulated the opponent’s shadow again, trying to envelop the escaping filthy blood.

However, the filthy blood splattered so swiftly that it almost instantly flew several meters away, dragging its shadow out of Mia’s control range.

Then, on the ground, it quickly flowed and reformed into Peggy’s figure.

"You’re right," Peggy spoke, "when you’re close to me, I indeed am not your match."

"So, as long as you don’t get close, it’s fine."

A flying dagger shot towards her, but Peggy had once again turned into filthy blood and exploded. It seemed as though she was blown up by the dagger, but in reality, she was unscathed.

Mia: ......

The surrounding girls: ......

"So, Peggy’s Extraordinary Swordsmanship and Extraordinary Ability are not systemic because her ability is too bizarre?" Eleanor suddenly realized, "As it seems now, most purely physical attacks have already become ineffective against her."

No, Peggy was just Flesh I, a direct hit to vital areas like the heart or head could still be lethal, Thira thought as she watched the combat.

Of course, since it’s just a spar, Mia wouldn’t constantly aim for her opponent’s weak spots—unless she could successfully control her with her Shadow Ability; otherwise, she was undoubtedly going to lose.

Moreover, since it was daylight, Mia could only manipulate the few shadows on the ground... Yep, she’s definitely going to lose.

And Eleanor was right, the reason Peggy hadn’t integrated the two was that both were too potent, giving her no reason or motivation to merge them.

Thus, everyone silently watched as Peggy turned into a bat and flew away, then created multiple illusions from afar to attack Mia.

As Mia killed all these illusions, Peggy split into more illusions, repeating the process.

If Mia tried to attack her actual body, she would turn into a bat or a mouse and escape...

"Squad Leader!" Finally, Mia couldn’t take it anymore. She threw her Dagger to the ground and ran to Aske to complain, "Peggy is bullying me!"

"What do you mean by bullying?" Aske grimly said, "Did I ask you to spar with her for you to determine a victor?"

"Isn’t that what we’re doing?" Mia was utterly shocked.

"The purpose of sparring is of course to enhance your own strength," Aske earnestly said, "Peggy’s Undead Illusion Sword can easily create a multiple versus one training environment, which trains your ability to handle extreme pressure in combat... Eh? Didn’t I tell you at the beginning?"

"What!" Mia’s face fell, "So you didn’t want me to beat her but merely wanted me to be tormented by her?"

"If you don’t want to spar with her, that’s fine too." Aske pretended to reach for his sword, "Then I will personally train you."

"No, no, no," Mia immediately changed her expression and seriously said, "Squad Leader, I understand your good intentions now; I will properly spar with Peggy."

What a joke, sparring with Peggy was just a defeat, sparring with Aske wasn’t just a defeat, it was a unilateral thrashing.

Losing isn’t scary, what’s scary is losing while simultaneously suffering a great deal of pain and despair in both body and mind, having now absolutely no power to resist, seeing no glimmer of victory in the future, and realizing that the difference in strength between the two is like a chasm...

Better to just obediently practice with Peggy. Thinking this way, Mia’s mood started to become slightly less gloomy.

After watching Mia and Peggy’s first sparring session and confirming the plan was sound, Aske began arranging everyone else’s training schedules:

Sigrdrifa vs Eleanor, full armor cold weapon fight.

Nora vs Medea, competing in Mind Power.

Thira vs Miel, training each other’s ability to deal with Firearms/Spells.

After laying out the training plans, Aske left Fire Island and returned to the Main Plane.

The follow-up Magic Potion concerning the Weakness Sequence would be put aside for now. The next task was to reach the Swabian Duchy, complete the Duke’s commissioned task, and exchange it for Eleanor’s "Will III" Magic Potion.

Also, once the residue of the Magic Potion in his body was fully absorbed, he would quickly integrate into a complete Weapon Master Bloodline, ultimately advancing to Lv.10.

In Aske’s plan, advancing to Lv.10 was a critically important milestone.

After the Empire’s civil war ended, Emperor Otto would leverage the victory of this civil war to lead all the dukes’ armies to the south and attack the Church Court.

This was going to be an extraordinarily dangerous epic war: it’s known from the original game plot that to cope with the threat of the Empire’s army, the Church Court even resorted to using tactical nuclear bombs in the later stages—just the word "nuclear bomb" alone suggests the extreme cruelty of the war.

Without mincing words, low-rank Transcendents who had not embarked on the Path of Law were mere cannon fodder in this war.

Therefore, after advancing to Lv.10, Aske needed to quickly master the Middle Three Styles of Star Nine Forms: Life Destruction, Soul Shattering, and Burning Heart.

Having mastered the GM Nine Styles, he could at least fend for himself in the early stages of the war.

As for the more chaotic latter stages of the war, he needed to condense basic Laws early to increase the entire team’s chances of survival.

In the world of "Song of Iron and Fire," if the Church Court of the Technology Camp follows a steadfast materialistic route, then the Extraordinary Camp represents idealism, becoming more so the higher one rises.

The Transcendents who have condensed their entire Sequence into a complete Bloodline, the next step is to condense Laws from the Bloodline.

This world possesses a near-oceanic quantity of Laws. What Law one can condense depends on the characteristics of the Transcendent’s own Bloodline and the limits of their imagination.

For instance, Medea has the "Flames" Sequence within her Bloodline, so typically, she can easily condense the corresponding "Flames" Law, which is of the lowest difficulty.

However, Laws also vary in rank. The more tangible and entity-oriented the Law, the easier it is to condense, but its power and strangeness are also lesser.

Conversely, the more abstract and concept-oriented the Law, the greater the difficulty in condensing it, and the more formidable and inscrutable it becomes.

A simple "Flames" Law would be constrained by various environments. For example, if the opponent mastered the "Air Pressure" Law and evacuated the surrounding air, the flames would fail to ignite.

This is because most Transcendents know that even if you burn wood in a fireplace, you need good ventilation; it won’t burn with the stove closed.

So, to condense a higher-tier Upper Law from the "Flames" Sequence, from an idealistic point of view, more conceptualization is needed.

For example, "High Temperature."

Instead of thinking of flames as some form of plasma reaction, imagine it as a phenomenon that causes high temperatures.

Thus, the condensed "High Temperature" Law won’t be constrained by various "fire-extinguishing" Laws.

However, correspondingly, if the opponent’s Law is "Low Temperature," then the two Laws would counteract each other, ultimately reducing it to a contest of mastery over their respective Law Levels.

Therefore, High Temperature is still not abstract enough. If we open up our imagination further, what else is related to "Flames"?

For instance, "Anger."

A Transcendent who has mastered the "Anger" Law could easily manipulate an opponent’s anger, transforming it into flames that burn the Mind Body, causing damage.

The greater the anger, the higher the damage, and it’s nearly immune to suppression by lower Laws like "Frost" and "Low Temperature."

Conversely, when facing an enemy’s "Frost" and "Low Temperature" Laws, a Transcendent could mobilize their "own anger," thus maintaining sufficient body temperature and reducing damage from frost and low temperatures.

In essence, the key to Laws lies in imagination—in essence, fabricating freely, a matter of the heart.

The more entity-oriented and thoroughly researched by humans the lower Law is, the harder it is to be creatively manipulated and it could be suppressed by other types of Laws.

Whereas the more abstract and mystical the Upper Law is, the more one can fabricate with imagination, reflecting this imagination back into reality to suppress various lower Laws—this is the terrifying aspect of idealism.

The challenge is that entities are easy to understand, but concepts are not. Therefore, the more mystical Upper Laws are harder to condense.

Because concepts are mystical, they are incomprehensible.

Because they are incomprehensible, they are untrustworthy.

Because they are untrustworthy, they cannot be mastered.

Thus, the more rational an individual is, the harder it is to condense a Law, whereas those who are simple-minded, obsessive, or even somewhat insane find it smoother to progress on the Path of Law.

This is also why many Demigods are half-mad—because Transcendents with a semi-insane trait are more likely to become Demigods.

Although Aske considered himself rational, he had a unique advantage: before crossing over, he had started from scratch in the game world and leveled up to a full account.

Thus, he had already determined his Law path. Moreover, his understanding of this Law was immensely thorough, facing no cognitive obstacles or any barriers on the level of consciousness.

In the previous life’s gaming forums, the four "Super Supreme Laws" recognized by players corresponded precisely to the four prestigious calamities of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible. Revelation.

War, Famine, Plague, and Death.

They stemmed from humanity’s greatest fears, such that only the most idealized idealists in this world could steadfastly believe that these four terrifying disasters would one day be completely eradicated by humankind.

And the Law that Aske was to condense was one of the four supreme calamities.

War.