"Where did I hear it from?"
On the shore of Dazzle Star Lake, after hearing Aldrich's words, Dorothy couldn't help but look surprised, then spoke with a hint of unexpectedness.
"You asking me like this, could it be that order construct core isn't the name of your Craftsmen's Guild's God of Craftsmen?" Dorothy asked Aldrich this way. Hearing her words, Aldrich paused slightly, then frowned and continued speaking.
"You can't say that either... How should I put it? Even among the upper echelons of the Craftsmen's Guild, very few people know this name. For the craftsman's furnace, this is a very, very rare divine name, rarely used within the Craftsmen's Guild.
"As for why this is... I can't say much. I'm not particularly clear on the specific situation myself. Could you first tell me where you heard this title from?" Frowning, Aldrich looked seriously at Dorothy and continued to ask. Seeing Aldrich's expression, Dorothy didn't intend to hide anything.
"Beverly told me. The one you introduced me to when I went to Tivian, didn't she say she was your creation?" Dorothy said directly to Aldrich. Aldrich was startled after hearing Dorothy's words, his eyes widened slightly, and then he murmured.
"It turns out to be... like this..."
"Turns out to be what? Is there something wrong with Beverly? Isn't she your work?" Seeing Aldrich's reaction, Dorothy continued to ask, and Aldrich slowly replied after a moment of silence.
"Ah... She is indeed my work, there's no doubt about that. There's no problem in that regard, you can continue to trust her... In short, the matter here is a bit complicated. I need to confirm it later to know the specific result. Whatever I say now is still too early..."
Aldrich then said to Dorothy. Hearing his words, Dorothy roughly understood that Aldrich seemingly didn't want to discuss this topic too much, nor did he want to reveal too much relevant information to her. Understanding this, Dorothy wisely changed the subject and asked.
"Speaking of which, didn't you say you were going to travel to find a way to restore your power? How is it, have you gained anything after a year?"
"Hehe, Miss Meisihuos, you're still so impatient. A year's time is just a fleeting moment for Crimson Tier Golden Extraordinary, and it's an insignificant amount of time for the problems they face. Not everyone in this world is like you..." Facing Dorothy's question, Aldrich smiled and continued speaking.
"Generally speaking, it's difficult to find a solution to my problem in a year. But this journey, I was lucky enough to find some clues. Although it also attracted some trouble, compared to the results, it's nothing. It can be considered as having hope."
"Oh, so you have hope of fully restoring your Golden power? Do you want me to help you again then?" Hearing Aldrich's words, Dorothy suggested with interest, and Aldrich responded with a smile.
"I don't dare to owe Miss Mesi Horse any more favors now. I repaid the favor from my Apprentice days when I was Scarlet, and now if I owe you another favor while you're Scarlet, will I have to face an Apostle when I repay it?" Aldrich said to Dorothy with a hint of joking in his tone. After speaking, he paused slightly, then his expression became a little more serious before responding.
"However... if the problems I encounter later are too difficult, I estimate I will still need extra help. At that time, I might still need Miss Meisihuos's help. I will try my best to avoid this situation, but things are unpredictable, and no one can guarantee what will happen in the future."
Aldrich said to Dorothy with a slightly serious tone. Hearing his words, Dorothy also nodded.
"Yes, fate is unpredictable. Having more backup is never a bad thing. So, let's maintain a certain level of contact in the future. Maybe one day it will be useful?"
Dorothy said to Aldrich. After hearing Dorothy's words, Aldrich pondered for a moment, then also gently nodded in agreement.
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After ending the battle with Gothsmore, Dorothy woke up Vanya and the others to rescue the Archbishop who had traveled a long way from Save the World but was now severely injured. Then she had a simple exchange with Aldrich, confirmed the future contact method, and then Dorothy bid farewell to her old principal, watching him embark on his journey again.
Afterward, Dorothy dealt with the scene at Dazzle Star Lake, retrieving the scattered Corpse Puppets and other items, then returned to Glamorgan alone.
Due to the large-scale hypnosis created by the Mirror Moon Golem earlier, the streets of Glamorgan were completely silent, with almost no sound. The entire street was quiet, and almost all citizens were sleeping peacefully in their homes, completely unaffected by the fierce battle on Dazzle Star Lake.
'I wonder how these ordinary people will react when they wake up tomorrow morning and see the destruction on the lake shore. It will take a lot of effort for the authorities to cover this up, but luckily, I don't have to worry about it.'
Walking on the deserted, dim streets, Dorothy couldn't help but think about the surrounding scenery. Then she walked back to the hotel she was staying at, went upstairs all the way, and returned to her room.
Afterward, Dorothy took off her clothes and took a good bath in the room. After cleaning herself up a bit, she wasn't in a hurry to rest immediately. Instead, after slightly drying her hair, she sat on a comfortable armchair in the room wearing a white nightgown, and while rocking, she began to think about what happened tonight. Too many things had happened just now, and she needed to sort them out.
First, Dorothy focused her thoughts on herself. After more than half a year of effort and encountering a series of troubles and crises, she had finally successfully advanced and become a Crimson Tier Extraordinary. She was still very happy about this, as her long-held goal had finally been achieved, and all her efforts had not been in vain.
'I've finally become Scarlet... The difficulty of advancing is countless times greater than Black Earth Chalk. I spent a lot of effort to achieve it, it wasn't easy...'
'Now... I should have at least three hundred years of lifespan. I can take things slowly in the future, gradually seeking the path to Golden. I can relax for a while.'
Dorothy thought this in her heart, then she began to focus on the new abilities she had gained after advancing to Scarlet. Due to the characteristics of the Pure enlightenment Path, she had gained quite a few new abilities after becoming Scarlet.
First is the ability of the spirits Silk Path. After gaining the ability of the Fatespinning Loom, Dorothy's Corpse Puppet manipulation ability had a great leap. The maximum manipulation radius of Corpse Puppets increased to sixty kilometers, and within thirty kilometers, simultaneously manipulating one hundred Corpse Puppets had no obvious Spirituality consumption. The size range of manipulated Corpse Puppets was further expanded, but the specific limits of how large or small they could be still needed to be determined by Dorothy through future experiments.
And the most important ability provided by the Fatespinning Loom to Dorothy is that Corpse Puppets can release active skills. Dorothy can now make Corpse Puppets release active abilities below Chalk, allowing Corpse Puppets to cast active runes and perform various rituals. If Dorothy has Spirituality passives, she can also transmit the Spirituality passives to all Corpse Puppets without extra Spirituality consumption, easily creating a powerful undead army.
However, this ability also has a limitation, which is that the active release of Extraordinary abilities requires humanoid Corpse Puppets to achieve the best effect. Corpse Puppets that are not humanoid will have poor effects, and the further they are from humanoid form, the lower the effectiveness of the ability, until it cannot be released.
Another ability of the Fatespinning Loom is spirits Silk Manifestation. In short, Dorothy can now shoot her spirits silk from her hands, directly connecting to living targets within range. Dorothy can turn the connected living targets into Living Puppets for forced control or damage transfer, no longer relying on puppet marks to connect to others.
Manifested spirits silk is essentially a long-range attack method. The spirits silk can be manipulated very flexibly and is not a straight trajectory that cannot turn after being shot out. Dorothy's main body can simultaneously release ten manifested spirits silks within a radius of fifty meters for target searching and attack. And Dorothy's Corpse Puppets can release at most one manifested spirits silk to track enemies within fifteen meters. Including the main body, Dorothy can manipulate a maximum of ten manifested spirits silks simultaneously, and once a manifested spirits silk completely suppresses the will of a living target and turns it into a Living Puppet, the manifested spirits silk linked to this living target will transform into conventional spirits silk, no longer occupying the limit of ten manifested spirits silks.
In addition, although the manifested spirits silk is flexible in manipulation, its flight speed is not fast, even slower than an Elementalist's long-range elemental attack. Therefore, to successfully link a target, a certain strategy is required. Each manifested spirits silk has a limit on the Spirituality it can transmit, so to control high-strength targets, one needs to find a way to link multiple spirits silks simultaneously, and also apply more negative statuses to the high-strength target.
Another point is that compared to the Thread-Controlling Spirit Witch, the forced control ability of the Fatespinning Loom has also been greatly improved. When in a fully conscious state, after the Fatespinning Loom links a manifested spirits silk to an ordinary mortal, it can achieve instant control. For Apprentice and Black Earth Stage Extraordinary, the Fatespinning Loom can also use one manifested spirits silk to suppress the opponent's resistance and complete control, but it requires time. Chalk Extraordinary, on the other hand, require multiple manifested spirits silks to be linked simultaneously and some effort to forcibly suppress them while conscious. To forcibly control a Crimson Tier Extraordinary, all ten manifested spirits silks need to be successfully linked together, and one also needs to find a way to apply more negative statuses to the target to have a chance of successful forced control.
'The ability of this Fatespinning Loom... is quite useful for me. As a True Mentor, I have active abilities from three branch paths, so I have many skills and many things I can make the Corpse Puppets do. If it were the original Fatespinning Loom, to fully utilize this ability, one would probably need to prepare many active rune seals and Extraordinary items, otherwise, it would only be able to play tricks like Corpse Puppets controlling Corpse Puppets. However, the original Fatespinning Loom could add almost all of its third-tier "Cup" Spirituality passive abilities to all Corpse Puppets with almost no consumption, which roughly means he could instantly create an army of nearly a hundred strong men, which is quite terrifying to think about...'
'Then there's the ability of spirits Silk Manifestation. With manifested spirits silk as an active offensive method, I don't have to keep thinking about how to actively stamp the enemy. The number of manifested spirits silks is sufficient, and they are flexible to manipulate. I just need to find a way to solve the problem of slower speed, and it can perform very well in actual combat...'
Dorothy thought this in her heart. After thinking for a while, she shifted her attention to the abilities of the other branch paths. Next, she sorted out the abilities of the Dream Eater Path.
The Dream Eater Path was the new path Dorothy chose during her advancement process, so she also sorted out the abilities of the Dream Eater Path at each stage from the beginning.
The Dream Eater Path is called Dream Interpreter at the Black Earth Stage. The abilities of a Dream Interpreter are personality profiling and hypnosis. Among them, the ability of hypnosis is similar to the hypnosis of the Dream Eater Path and Vampires, both of which can make people fall asleep unconsciously. The hypnosis ability of the Dream Eater Path is the strongest, followed by the Dream Eater Path, and the Blood Darkness Path is the weakest. The hypnosis of the Dream Eater Path can hypnotize any perceived target within the range of influence even at Chalk, and can also perform area hypnosis, while the Vampire of the Blood Darkness Path needs to look at someone at close range and cooperate with language and gestures to hypnotize them.
The hypnosis ability of the Dream Eater Path is between Dream Eater and Blood Darkness. At Black Earth, it has hypnosis ability close to that of Blood Darkness Chalk, but it is slightly weaker in intensity. In addition to the hypnosis ability, another ability of a Dream Interpreter is personality interpretation, which is an ability that needs communication to be fully utilized.
A Dream Interpreter has an attraction from Extraordinary power that can be turned on and off freely. This attraction can easily make others trust the Dream Interpreter and be willing to communicate with them. A Dream Interpreter can continuously interpret a person from their inner, Extraordinary level through communication, and through these interpretations, the Dream Interpreter can draw that person's personality profile in their consciousness.
Through personality profiling, a Dream Interpreter can know what kind of personality, habits, type, and hobbies a person has. Although they cannot peek into others' memories like a Dream Walker, they can clearly understand all other personality traits and know their nature.
In addition, this communication does not necessarily have to be with the person whose personality is being profiled. It can also be with people around them, or simply people who know them. As long as it is someone who knows the target and understands the target, the Dream Interpreter can communicate with them and draw the target's personality profile through the perspective of others. Every time a Dream Interpreter communicates with someone familiar with the target, they are accumulating progress in profiling the target.
And once the progress is full, the Dream Interpreter not only completely interprets the target's personality, but also gains implicit spiritual suppression over the target. In communication with the target, the Dream Interpreter can use any words to hint at the target, and the target will subconsciously obey under this hint, even if the hint is an ordinary sentence without using any Spirituality. The Dream Interpreter can subtly manipulate the target whose personality they have interpreted, and the target is not even aware of it. After the Dream Interpreter becomes Chalk Scarlet, this ability continues to strengthen. The Dream Interpreter can shape the target's personality like clay, subtly modifying their values and outlook on life, and this entire process can be completed subtly in seemingly normal situations, making it extremely difficult to detect.
Furthermore, even if the target is hostile to the Dream Interpreter, the influence of personality profiling cannot be eliminated. The Dream Interpreter can still give various hints to the target during combat, making the target miss shots, stab the wrong person, forget to dodge, take a wrong step, etc... These hints only require words, and do not even require Spirituality or other extra actions, just like looking at each other.