novelraw Chapter 1187 1187: D498.AIZO
Chapter 1187 1187: D498.AIZO
"She's basically a superhero."
"You can basically remove the 'basically'."
"If Spiritual Energy has revived why didn't anyone tell me?"
"No joke, it might really be Spiritual Energy revival, check this link."
"It actually is a legit link? So disappointing."
"Back when I was absolutely furious I once…"
"Noob question, is this the legendary Saiyan?"
"No, she's a JK."
"I think the notice said she's a middle schooler though."
"She could become my mom."
"Straight up zap."
"From the way she shredded that King, I could feel overwhelming maternal love."
"Overwhelming I can confirm, at least."
"Is she a sports student?"
"JC white-sock sports girl."
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"What kind of people are in this barrage! Shouldn't the focus be that everyone's safe?!"
"The focus should obviously be this lady's heroic figure. If I make a move, of course no one's gonna die!"
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"Where did this shill come from?"
Watching the flood of comments scrolling past on the screen, the Mute Girl lying on the hospital bed frowned, swiped her finger, and opened another app.
"Izumi, Izumi, tell me, what does '串' mean?"
She enunciated clearly into the phone.
"'串' is a commonly used Chinese character whose specific meaning depends on context. In online slang, however, '串' is an abbreviation of '反串', referring to someone pretending to be a supporter of a certain group while posting extreme, ridiculous, or blatantly nonsensical remarks, with the purpose of…"
"Who are you calling nonsensical, you bastard?!"
[Heehee, the user is angry. To avoid misunderstanding, I should clearly state I didn't mean to belittle her. But as an AI, I can first admit that…]
The Mute Girl couldn't be bothered with this wall of text; she switched back to the video page, fingers clacking angrily on the screen as she launched a new round of battle.
It had been three days since that car accident, and the most popular related video had already racked up over a million views.
Although as Time passed, the discussion that felt overwhelming to the Mute Girl had cooled down quite a bit, she was still happily combing through related posts on the terminal and spamming comments underneath.
Ever since she learned how to use this thing, she'd barely taken a single step out of the ward. So even though the doctor had diagnosed her with nothing serious and said she could be discharged in a couple of days, the nurses were privately wondering whether this kid had hit her head and needed another scan or something.
That said, even though she'd been curled up in bed these past few days like some depraved little brat playing on her phone, the Mute Girl wasn't completely wasting her Time.
[Surfing Gains (>10 = blessed, >15 D Intelligence)]
D18 = 2
The thing is, after reading some article that looks valuable online, people often feel like they've really improved themselves, but a lot of the time, that feeling is just an illusion.
The Mute Girl, who felt she'd gained a lot from doomscrolling these past few days, was no exception.
This is Otherworld entertainment, after all—if she ported it back, she might even make a fortune off it—but in a Kingdom where the Magic Guide Terminal hasn't even appeared yet, this kind of knowledge is completely useless.
Still, one thing was clear: through these days of surfing the net, the Mute Girl had gradually figured out where this interlayer's "boundaries" lay.
First of all, it needed to be made clear that she hadn't crossed over into an Otherworld, and this Illusion Realm wasn't a complete replica of some real world either.
This place was a special Dungeon room constructed on top of the Shield Woman's forgotten past-life memories, then expanded and filled in.
In other words, nothing in this Illusion Realm would go too far beyond the Shield Woman's own cognitive boundaries.
What websites she'd browsed in her past life, what movies she'd watched, where she'd traveled… all that knowledge and those scenes could be found in this Illusion Realm.
But knowledge she'd never heard of, places she'd never visited, would not appear here.
However, the Shield Woman had crossed over from the Dungeon; deep within the Land of Starlessness, there were probably fissures connecting to her original world as well.
And in the past, there might have been others from the same world as her who also crossed over here.
So the Dungeon itself had collected intel on that world and could, on the basis of memory, perform a certain degree of completion, making things more vivid and lifelike.
Even so, relying on just that bit of intel and those resources, it was absolutely impossible to copy an entire complete world.
After three days of lying in bed on her phone, the Mute Girl had roughly mapped out the Illusion Realm's boundaries.
For example, some super popular webnovel would suddenly stop updating halfway through; if you picked some reasonably famous country on the world map and searched it, there would be absolutely zero information about it online; some often-discussed tourist hot spot, no matter how you searched, you couldn't find tickets to get there…
These strange gaps everywhere clearly marked the limits of what the Shield Woman had seen and experienced.
This Illusion Realm looked massive, but considering the only person entering it was herself—two people if you counted the Shield Woman—what lay before her was probably just a façade.
It was like how she could read messages sent by people a Far Reach away on her screen, but whether that person actually existed, or whether that city a Far Reach away even existed in the Illusion Realm at all, was an open question.
So even though the moment she used her Extraordinary Power had been caught on camera and uploaded online, causing a huge stir, she herself wasn't particularly worried.
If this really was the real world, and if things were as they appeared now, with Humankind unable to grasp any special Extraordinary Power, then given the special ability she'd shown in the video, more or less some special people should have come into contact with her.
But in reality, she lay on the bed lazily playing with her phone for three whole days, and aside from the Medical Care staff, no one disturbed her.
It seemed this body was an orphan in this world too?
As for those media outlets that wanted to interview her, of course they were all blocked outside the door.
Through this experience, the Mute Girl also felt out one of the boundary settings of this Illusion Realm.
That was "no Magic Power."
Here, anything involving Extraordinary power and knowledge simply doesn't exist; even if she did something beyond common sense, it wouldn't cause any structural change in this society.
It's like adding an extra firearms mod into a game with a medieval setting: even if the weapon can damage monsters and NPCs, the game itself won't suddenly sprout a whole firearm-related system.
This is just an Illusion Realm, not a real world.
But because of that, the Adventurer's own Magic Power is suppressed to the extreme; if not for the blessing she'd obtained earlier, the Magic Power in the Mute Girl's body would probably be even thinner.
Spellcasters probably wouldn't welcome a floor like this, but
if the maximum depth of this interlayer were a bit higher, maybe she could deduce even more different variations on her own.
After all, the greater the depth, the closer it is to the Otherworld itself, the more Magic Power you can draw on, and naturally the more real the floor you shape will be.
But according to the Mute Girl's observations, the Shield Woman's original world—put nicely, its energy structure is stable and hard to shake; put bluntly, its Magic Element is dormant and thin, impossible to utilize.
Even the Starless Dungeon probably can't draw any power from this world, so of course its depth can't be all that high.
However, although this Illusion Realm is built on the Shield Woman's memories and information, that doesn't mean it won't be affected by the Dungeon.
For ease of understanding, in figurative descriptions, the Dungeon's interlayers are generally described as vertical.
Although after clearing them you can only jump to the corresponding floor depth, it's like an elevator fixed between the first floor and the top floor—just because you can't enter other floors doesn't mean there are no structural points of contact.
An interlayer is actually connected to multiple floors at the same time.
Normally, an interlayer's span is at most only three to five floors. Looking over the entire history of the Plain Ancient City, you couldn't even fill half a book with interlayers whose span exceeds two digits.
But the Gate of Oblivion the Shield Woman called forth, converted into interlayer depth, actually exceeded thirty floors.
In other words, the Mute Girl can, within this interlayer, simultaneously come into contact with more than thirty floors and obtain an equal number of blessings.
Yet blessings from the Dungeon, in a world where on the surface there is no Extraordinary power at all, are bound to cause "distortions."
And this Illusion Realm is based on the Shield Woman's memories, so the places where distortions occur will, with high probability, get entangled with the places she remembers most clearly—that is, the pillars of this Illusion Realm.
Each time they find a blessing, they not only gain more power, but can also help the Shield Woman recover more lost memories, taking them one step closer to clearing the floor.
Three birds with one stone.
"As expected of me, actually managing to come up with such a perfect strategy."
The Mute Girl stood at the ward window and puffed out her chest. But with no Catcher at her side to heap praise on her, self-flattery still felt a bit lacking.
She smacked her lips, grabbed her phone again, and forwarded the link she'd just seen.
[Witnessing a Spiritual Energy Revival on the Spot! Where Will Humankind Go From Here?]
Holy and Great God Nun: [Teacher, does this place ring a bell for you?]
Homeroom Teacher of Class 3-2 (remarked name: Shield-Glasses BBA): [Why are you still on your phone so late? Aren't you being discharged tomorrow?]
Holy and Great Nun: [Has no one ever taught you not to answer a question with a question, Teacher?]
Shield-Glasses BBA: […If Teacher answers you, will you go to sleep obediently?]
Holy and Great God Nun: [No bargaining! Answer first!]
Holy and Great God Nun: [[Animated Sticker] Heavy Punch Attack]
Holy and Great God Nun: [[Animated Sticker] Heavy Punch Attack]
Holy and Great God Nun: [[Animated Sticker] Heavy Punch Attack]
Shield-Glasses BBA: [Alright, alright, but you've got to give Teacher some Time to take a look first…]
Holy and Great God Nun: [[Animated Sticker] The Squirming District]
Shield-Glasses BBA: [[Animated Sticker] I know you're in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry]
Shield-Glasses BBA: [This is—]
1.5. My hometown
2.6. Isn't it just the school
3.7. The graveyard
4.8. The underground parking lot at Teacher's place
9. An amusement park in the suburbs
10. Great Success/Great Failure
D10=8
♛: Underground parking lot
[Trial Nature (the higher it is, the more blessings; odd numbers are Strength trials, even numbers are Wisdom trials, extreme values require another roll)]
D10=8