Chapter 546: Colorful Collection
“A sorcerer starting to build an upper-tier sanctuary can typically pass through two dream phantoms each night; someone like me, who has mastered the upper-tier Miracle of Radiant Rainbow, can manage up to ten dream phantoms per night, but usually, I get through only six.”
“Huh? Why is that? Sister Trelozan, you’re so powerful, shouldn’t you be able to spend at least five hours in the Virtual Realm? That means it would take you half an hour to pass each dream phantom?”
“Yes, because the battles in dream phantoms are unlike any you’ve experienced before. Even though I have control over the Sanctuary and the invisible blade, I still need to spend over 30 minutes gathering Intelligence. If a phantom is particularly hazardous, I might skip it altogether and move on to the next dream.”
“What makes a phantom dangerous?”
“Any phantom where you can’t find an affix clue is dangerous.”
Although fully aware that ‘every warning from a sorcerer is a summary of countless deaths,’ Sonya still underestimated the challenge-she agreed with the Witches’ ‘one-sword-breaks-all’ approach even before finding the affix clue for the sixth phantom.
It’s understandable, given that they breezed through the first five phantoms, initiating combat within minutes regardless of the clues they had found.
The first five phantoms each had a single affix: “Slippery” (very easy to slip), “Resonance” (all spirit effects doubled), and “Fear of Giants” (all attributes exponentially increase with size). Despite their challenges, under the protection of the Sanctuary, Ashe and the others could quickly deduce the general nature of the affixes, and sometimes even guess the true meaning of the affixes to bypass them-that’s right, if all affixes are deduced, you can pass a dream phantom without needing to fight further.
Overall, while dream phantoms are difficult, they remain manageable.