novelraw Chapter 329: Zuo Zuo Only Needed to Add One Line for You
Chapter 329: Zuo Zuo Only Needed to Add One Line for You
[Conjurer of blood and flesh, controller of machines and tentacles.]
[Orthodox humans who walk the Dark World.]
[Peacemakers who bring people happiness and tranquility.]
[Beloved Origin Confidant!]
[The towering, kind Night Doctor!]
I beg you for the power of healing, I request your arrival and blessing!
Preferred offerings: large sums of money, any valuable treasures,
Detested offerings: one single coin, rotten stinking flesh and blood
Lynn quirked the corner of his mouth and said, “How’s that? Doesn’t that fit my image perfectly? I’m sure it’s fine!”
Zuo Zuo was stunned.No way! Why does it feel like everything except the first line is wrong!
And why does that first line sound so familiar—are you sure you didn’t copy that line from the incantation Bai Yi used to summon you?
Can this really work?
“All right!”
Lynn handed the written incantation to the staff member responsible for testing with satisfaction and said,
“Sister, please. I’ll be waiting for your good news.”
The staffer glanced at the prayer written on the paper, instinctively wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said,
“Not changing it?”
Lynn (*￣︶￣) said, “Not changing it. I’ll be waiting for your summon!”
“All right, please wait a moment.”
Time ticked by, and behind the scenes the personnel responsible for testing the magic circle were busy arranging the formation and preparing the offerings.
After waiting more than ten minutes, the staffer came out from backstage and looked at Lynn seriously:
“The magic circle has been set up. Our testers are performing the summoning ritual directed at you. During the process we will also test the summoning success rate, so please be prepared.”
Lynn nodded in satisfaction, “Okay! Thanks for your trouble!”
Lynn waited quietly.
Soon, two minutes passed in the blink of an eye,
and at that moment Lynn suddenly felt a summoning fluctuation sweep over him from above. He happily lifted his head.
But before he could speak, the fluctuation brushed him and then left at an unimaginable speed.
Lynn: “???”
Almost at the same moment, a System notification sounded in his ear.
[Ding! You have been targeted by ritual summons from multiple summoners!]
[Ding! Targeted summons failed!]
[Ding! Summoning ritual canceled.]
Lynn: “？？？！”
Almost immediately after the System alerts, the staffer from backstage came out carrying a file and hesitantly looked at Lynn:
“Sir, are you sure this prayer you wrote is meant to target you?”
Lynn: “Of course I’m sure! Am I putting on a show or something?”
The staffer rubbed his temple and shook his head:
“Then I’m sorry to tell you, after our preliminary analysis and testing, the summoning success rate for this prayer you provided is under one percent… in other words, summoning you a hundred times might not succeed even once…”
Lynn: “……”
The staffer carefully suggested, “Maybe you should revise it?”
Zuo Zuo was holding back laughter so hard she could barely keep it in.
Lynn stared with deadpan eyes, snatched the paper, and studied the prayer he had just written.
How could this be?
He was sure there was nothing wrong!
Wasn’t he an orthodox human? Wasn’t he a healing Good Doctor?
He racked his brain, frowning and biting his pen, and finally tweaked the phrasing and added a few lines.
“This time it’s fine.”
Lynn nodded solemnly and handed the revised text back to the staffer.
The staffer opened it and read.
[Humans who walk the Dark World by night.]
[An Origin Confidant devoted to healing and salvation.]
[Executor of justice!]
[Breaker of curses!]
[A respected kind physician in Wandering Souls Alley, an apprentice Potion Master who brings people happiness and emotion!]
[I beg you for the power of healing, I request your arrival and blessing!]
The staffer scratched the back of his head in pain. For some reason, he still felt it wasn’t much different from the previous version!
It seemed like the words had just been reshuffled. Could this really summon successfully?!
Once again, more than ten minutes passed.
Then the staffer came out from backstage with some surprise and said, “Sir, although the summon still didn’t succeed, our data analysis is out.”
“This time the summoning success rate improved by a full two percentage points compared to last time!”
“That’s more than triple the previous figure! Sir! It’s nearly three percent now!”
Lynn: “……”
Zuo Zuo: “(holding back laughter)”
Lynn blinked lifelessly, “What counts as passing?”
“Ninety percent or above.”
Lynn: “……”
This time Zuo Zuo couldn’t hold it in and laughed loudly, doubled over, practically falling over, ヽ(≧∀≦)ﾉ she almost flipped.
“Hahaha!! This is killing me. Brain, the incantations you wrote actually working would be a miracle! It’s completely impossible! Hahaha!”
Lynn (╬￣皿￣) grabbed the laughing, doubled-over Zuo Zuo and said,
Holding back her laughter, Zuo Zuo grabbed the paper, took the pen with a grin, and said,
“All right! All right! You’re too close to the situation to judge yourself correctly. Don’t change it—Zuo Zuo will add one line for you. I guarantee the success rate will shoot up!”
Singing softly, she calmly took a quill and scribbled one line,
then (*￣︶￣) tossed it onto the counter.
“Try the summon again this time!”
The staffer hesitated, picked up the paper, glanced at it, and instantly his eye corner began to twitch wildly. His gaze toward Lynn turned extremely strange.
Lynn: “？？？”
“Can this really be right? Isn’t this a bit… off…” the staffer mumbled, troubled.
Zuo Zuo waved her hand contentedly, “Use this. If you don’t, he’ll be revising it here all day with no effect.”
Lynn hesitated, “What did you write on it?”
Zuo Zuo hummed a tune, very pleased, “You’ll see soon enough!”
…
Time flew by.
Soon ten more minutes passed.
At that moment, while Lynn was resting with his eyes closed, he suddenly felt a massive fluctuation lock onto his body. He opened his eyes in astonishment and once again sensed the exact feeling from the last summoning.
“It actually succeeded?!”
He had no hesitation and immediately chose to accept.
His body instantly appeared floating above the blood-red magic circle used in the backstage summoning test. Because it was a very short-distance summon, it was extremely fast.
When Lynn’s figure slowly materialized,
the staff members responsible for the summoning all breathed a sigh of relief, though their looks at Lynn were peculiarly odd.
“This is unexpected, sir.”
One staffer smiled and walked toward Lynn in the center of the circle, holding the paper, and said,
“The test results are in, and it’s unbelievable. Your left hand only added one line and the summoning success rate jumped from three percent to ninety-four percent! This is the biggest effect on circle targeting I’ve seen in my career!”
Zuo Zuo said proudly, “Of course. I know him well. When you’re inside the situation you can’t judge yourself;
outsiders see clearly — that’s the point!”
Lynn’s expression faltered.
He snatched the paper and opened it to read.
The top still looked largely the same, and only when he reached the bottom did he see the crooked, uneven line Zuo Zuo had written.
[Executor of evil!]
[Practitioner of curses!]
[The kind physician who brings people fear and pain!]
[Perverted and twisted lolicon!]
[I beg you for the power of healing, I request your arrival and blessing!]
“……”