Miss Witch, even if we're poor, we can't sell ourselves!

The moment the pool water submerged her head, Miya thought she would suffocate, but she didn't. She just kept sinking, passing through layer after layer of thick darkness, like a feather being swept into the dark currents of the deep sea.

Something was lurking in the darkness; an indescribable, enormous silhouette slid across the edge of her consciousness.

She closed her eyes, too afraid to look, and then her feet touched solid ground. The darkness receded from her, as quietly and swiftly as the tide receding.

Miya opened her eyes.

She was standing in a huge library.

The dome was so high that she couldn't see the end even when she looked up; only layers of arched structures stretched upwards, each layer filled with densely packed book spines.

Golden, crimson, dark green, pure black, like countless closed eyes arranged on endless bookshelves, moving slowly, intersecting, separating, and recombine.

Light has no source, yet it is everywhere.

Then the bookshelf started moving.

The towering bookshelves in front of me split neatly in the middle, and the books on them flew up silently like a flock of startled birds, hovering in the air before quietly landing on the more distant shelves.

A road unfolded before her.

There was a dark shape at the end of the road.

It has no fixed shape, or rather, it has too many shapes, so many that the consciousness of Miya cannot capture its entirety at any given moment.

He was like a constantly shifting black mist, within which countless shimmering points of light appeared, like words compressed into points of light, or like stars frozen into words.

He glided slowly between the bookshelves, and the spines of the books on the shelves would light up slightly where he passed, and then go dark again.

Miya had never experienced this kind of fear before.

That being stopped before her consciousness.

Three questions

[First Question]

The tiny points of light in the black mist suddenly flickered in unison, like countless eyes opening and closing at the same time.

Three beams of light appeared in front of Mi Ye's consciousness, each containing a line of text she had never seen before, yet she inexplicably understood their meaning.

A person is standing in a room without doors or windows. In the center of the room is a key. What is this key used to open?

Three options floated in front of her.

Miya's consciousness trembled violently.

She didn't know why she had to answer the question, but she had given herself the answer in her heart.

The black fog did not stop at all.

A person who was never born died in a city that was never built. Everyone wept at the funeral, but no one knew who was weeping, or who the person weeping was.

She had found the answer in her heart.

The black mist seemed to be churning a little faster, yet it also seemed to remain unchanged. Then came the last question.

【? ? ? 】

She gave herself the final answer.

The beam of light disappeared, the bookshelves stopped moving, the black mist solidified in mid-air, all the tiny specks of light went out, and the entire library was plunged into complete darkness.

Then she sensed something surging towards her from the direction of that being.

He was as light as a sheet of paper, yet as heavy as the entire library.

He passed through her consciousness, through her memories, and penetrated to the deepest part of her being, etching a line of words on her soul.

Then darkness surged back in.

Miya's last consciousness was too late to think before everything vanished.

……

Unlock new [Flash].

[Macrophagus] Lv1

【Effect】:

It can kill low-health enemies in a weakened state and devour them, permanently gaining one-tenth of their stats.

……

Unlock the new [Divine Flash].

[Blood Fairy] Lv1

【Effect 1】:

When a powerful life form dies, there is a chance that its remaining will and life force will serve as the soil for the blooming of a scarlet flower called the "Blood Fairy." It resembles the spider lily, with petals like congealed blood, as if it is still whispering its obsessions from its previous life.

The stronger the life form, the deeper the fear and pain it endures before death, resulting in a higher quality Blood Fairy born with an increasingly eerie and distorted appearance.

【Effect 2】:

Lv1: Unlocks [Touch of Drowning]

A pale tentacle can be summoned from behind or from the palm. Its surface is slippery and cold, covered with fine suckers, capable of constricting enemies like a python or precisely lifting objects.

Lv2: [Touch of Drowning] Upgrade

After picking fifty Blood Fairy plants, the number of tentacles increased to two, becoming thicker and stronger.

Lv3: Unlocks [World-Eating Swarm]

After picking one hundred Blood Fairy plants, one can expend life force to tear open a spatial rift and summon a group of larvae called [Void Lice].

Lv4: Unlocks [Pale Calamity]

After harvesting two hundred Blood Fairy plants, a special [Queen's Offspring] will appear in the summoned swarm. It can feed back the life energy it has consumed to the summoner, providing healing or temporary enhancement.

Lv5: ...

【Effect 3】:

Inherited the curse [Mental Weakness]