Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

"That's still your difficulty, isn't it? After all, you're the strongest of all people in the world... and overwhelmingly so. You've faced every challenge for three years and still remain the strongest. And I... am just an opportunist and petty person."

The latter reached out his hand from the water and gently embraced the world's strongest man floating in it.

Just like how Senior Cat met her at the end of the desolate time in this reset world, and they walked side by side because they shared the same loneliness.

Just like...she would act cute every day in exchange for a little bit of food, and would try to please the landlady when signing the rental contract, and was always concerned about Man, trying her best to take on the logistics - and even used her soft fur to relieve her stress.

"Wait a little longer."

……

After taking a shower and resting enough, Yu Man returned to the old world.

In my friend list, Xiaolu was definitely online. Unlike me, who had logged off exhausted, she was probably still in some dungeon, killing monsters for fun. I didn't want to disturb her for now.

Yu Man has something to do today, and it is probably the most important step so far.

Upgrade the Enchanter to level six.

Whether he is qualified to challenge the Ice Prison Dragon and realize his little wish depends on the next result.

Other than that - she didn't really care about the progress of other players in this world, as she already had enough things to do.

She wasn't even aiming for the world's best achievement. If she achieved it, that would be great, but if she didn't, it wouldn't matter.

She was just pursuing a scenery that belonged to her alone - the scenery of the ending that she tried her best to move towards when she reached the end of a story that no one knew about.

Today, this story is the central plot of Shimlabakken, the vast history of three generations of Ice Prison Dragons, and the key to whether this island can be navigated with the outside world. Will its end melt the frozen sea? Or will it usher in a premature end to winter?

Yu Man just wanted to reach the end of these plots.

She left the guild territory, passing through the prosperity of the safe zone, the bustle of the main city, and the bloodshed of the illegal zone.

Not the black tower, not the forest, not the world tree.

Rather, it is the barren areas of this island that are rarely visited and have no resources to attract players.

A sense of familiarity exists here.

I'm sure all players in Shimlabakken will feel this way upon arriving here. Even if the drifting and piling snow always looks the same, the first time you see it...it becomes especially white in your memory.

The Little Sanctuary—the Stranger... the players' first stop upon arriving in Shimlabakken. It was also where the book of dragon songs ended up...

A few houses covered with snow and some warm smoke floating into the sky.

Without any players visiting, it is quiet and peaceful here.

Yu Man quietly walked the same path he came from.

The place where they finally stopped was just a bare cape and a frozen sea that stretched for thousands of miles as far as the eye could see.

“This is great.”

Instead of fashioning a chair out of ice or snow, she simply sat on the edge of the cliff with her feet dangling downwards.

And then – focus.

In the past two weeks, she and Xiaolu have been immersed in the dungeon. When they ran out of tickets, they bought a third-level one from the trading house and started from the beginning, playing as hard as they could every day until now.

During these travels, the enchanter collected many exotica, gaining as many elemental affinities as possible.

In addition, Yu Man is also carving his own soul to give it the medium properties of an enchanted material.

Not only that, she did not neglect the study of the Old World language, and even learned the language of the Ice Prison Dragon by comparing it with the first part of the Dragon Ballad.

Finally, these two ancient cognates, mixed with some ancient magic, subtly changed Yu Man's enchanter, seeming to add a layer of linguistic affinity, and... affinity with dragon language? Not sure, but it did increase the progress of the upgrade, and that was enough.

Therefore, what Yu Man has to do now is to take the last step to reach the sixth level.

Enchant your soul with a special power...a power that can resonate with everything in the world.

After this, it will become a true medium, a middleman connecting matter and soul.

Yu Man was extremely serious and was about to perform this magical ceremony.

But a line of handwriting disrupted Yu Man's mood: "Eel, I got a strange piece of equipment, take a look."

"Brother, how dare you disturb my spiritual heart at this time?"

107·The next chapter is probably still around five o'clock

Compared to Yu Man, whose head is full of the past, present and future, the traveler in the team is very relaxed.

She is still enjoying this new world.

Just like in the first week... Yu Man who had just come into this world.

As he grew stronger, the dungeons revealed more scenery, and after victories and explorations along the way, he reached higher-level battles... That feeling of flying, leaving everything behind, still pushed the deer forward.

"But, you have such dark hands, what kind of box did you open and what kind of junk did you find?" Yu Man typed with a smile.

"Hey, Eel's blackmailing me again. This time it's a purple box, very rich."

"Not bad."

In the previous dungeon where I worked day and night, the number of treasure chests opened was huge, enough to support a statistical data.

In other words, Xiaolu's luck is far worse than Yuman's.

In the dungeons opened by Xiaolu and the treasure chests he found, his gains were always far less than Yu Man's. Therefore, during the ten days of intense dungeon crawling, this became one of the few topics Yu Man could use to tease Xiaolu to relieve his fatigue.

But now, that seems to have changed?

"Look at this. I just finished a tier 7 dungeon solo, and the ultimate prize from the purple chest at the end of the level is this. Weird equipment."

After saying that, Xiaolu posted the information about an item in the private chat channel.

"Feather of the Bird of Faith"

"A bird that once existed, transformed by magic into a brand new feather."

"Feathers?" Yu Man asked.

"Hmm, I don't know where the equipment is..."

"What level?"

"Sixth level."

Based on these, plus Xiaolu's words that it was a treasured item, Yu Man immediately identified it as this thing.

It should be a magical device - in other words, it is a very powerful daily necessities and tools.

It is somewhere between equipment and materials, has a wide range of uses, and can be used by various adventurer professions.

Since this is a feather, it is a quill pen, and its purpose is very obvious.

"You can use it to write your travel notes, and I, the enchanter, can use it too... Anyway, this quill pen is suitable for any place where a pen is needed - that's about it."

"Oh, so if I use it as a pen, what I write will have extra effects?"

"That's probably it. After all, it's a good sixth-level item... But you know how this game works. You have to try it to know the effect."

In the first week, Yu Man had seen something similar.

Let's extrapolate this: if a traveler used magic power as ink and used it as a pen to write their travel notes...

Those words may very well be woven into a scene.

Once it is opened, one can see what the traveler saw with their own eyes... This is probably its purpose.

This kind of magic equipment is not too scarce, because starting from the middle stage, the players' adventurer profession will rise rapidly, the output is abundant and NPCs don't have much use for this kind of thing, so it is far less popular and less valuable than equipment.

But it’s been less than a month since the server was launched, and this thing is very practical, so it’s a very good gain.

"Well, since the eel can be used, consider it my apology for disturbing you. I've left it in the warehouse, so you can pick it up."

"What's the point of taking it yourself? Whoever needs it can just take it and use it..."

"That's right—I wish you the best."

Xiaolu's doubts have been resolved, and the satisfaction of sharing good luck has been achieved, so their private chat ends here.

After taking a minute to adjust his state, Yu Man gathered his thoughts again and returned to his previous concentration.

"Give it—"

With this as the opening remark, towards the boundless frozen sea.

The enchanter sitting on a lonely island in the snow—stretched his hand toward the sky.

Her mind was more focused than ever before, and every distracting thought seemed to fade away in time.

“Resonate with all things.”

This is not a fixed spell, but a declaration to express and carry will.

It simply expresses Yu Man's current thoughts and ideas.

But it is precise.

All of Yu Man's magic power so far was awakened at the same time, making her body shine brightly.

All the magic powers received Yu Man's orders, trying to change themselves and then change their souls.

They will go higher? False.

It is a place slightly away from reality, further away from reality.

Yu Man wants to enter the sixth level and become an enchanter who has truly entered the realm and touched the truth.

To this end, her understanding is to use herself as a middleman between reality and magic.

With this identity, we can reconcile, understand and accept the two sides of this world, blurring the boundaries between them.

Therefore, she would enchant her own soul and medium it.

Its purpose is to resonate with matter and magic—therefore, with everything.

Her mind is very clear and her thoughts are very precise.

So——the magic powers were not lost and fulfilled her wish.

This is the right path.

As the magic light flickered more and more, Yu Man could feel that he was losing his sense of reality bit by bit.

On the contrary, consciousness itself becomes ambiguous, and even has a sense of dislocation that is slightly higher than reality.

Whether it's the snow, the grass beneath it, the hard soil where it grows, or the plants and animals that grow within it... even the magic that makes up the elements...

Everything is nothing but a fiction woven by a more underlying and vast principle, and therefore operates naturally.

——When this thought flashed through Yu Man’s mind.

Her soul and body returned to their original place.

It wasn't a failure—it was a success.

“…Huh.”

All magic power was silent, and the body no longer had any strange sensations. It was like a chaotic classroom when the passing dean angrily walked into it.

as if……

Everything I just did to level up was an illusion, a dream, and was washed away without a trace by the reality after waking up.

But the token on his wrist that symbolized the enchanter had changed.

It was no longer a simple silver-white, but began to shimmer with a faint rainbow light. Although it was only a faint hint that could be seen from a very few angles, it was indeed beginning to have the rainbow color that symbolizes high status.

“…It worked.”

Yu Man paused, suddenly remembering the various special features of the adventurer profession after reaching the sixth level, and immediately checked the bracelet.

"Enchanter's Constraint"

"The soul has passed through the material fog and has just gained the qualifications to step into the void - the sixth level.

The enchanter chooses to use his own soul as the path, and the soul is the container of magic.

Therefore, the enchanter's magic power is now slightly stronger than before.