Chapter 28: I, Super Strong

The arena has always been a relatively expensive facility, requiring a large amount of money to maintain every year. It is a real "money-burning cave," so ordinary witch families rarely set this up specifically. They prefer to rent public arenas.

However, Dorothy's family has a private arena. This is the hobby of her stepmother. Although this veteran from the battlefield has now transferred to become a research witch, she still has itchy hands and wants to play a few duels. Plus, as the chief manager of Haiyue territory, she is not short of this money, so she simply set up this private arena at home.

It's just that Dorothy rarely uses it. Generally, it is used by her stepmother and Alice. This pair of mother and daughter often have a "mother-kind and daughter-filial" duel when they are bored after tea and dinner.

The arena is set up in the backyard. On the way from the residence to the backyard, Alice quietly leaned to Dorothy's side.

"Sister, are you really going to duel with Sophie Liya senior? Why are you so unable to think? Calm down."

The little witch asked her sister cautiously in a low voice, her emerald eyes flashing with worry.

"Uh, senior? Alice, do you also know this Sophie Liya?"

Dorothy looked at her sister in surprise and then asked curiously.

"Is she very famous?"

That shouldn't be the case, right? As a super homebody who stays in the Mana Web every day, she should be at the forefront of news. But she really hadn't heard of the angel witch's name before. This wasn't very famous.

"Of course I know her. Who in the entire Witch Academy wouldn't know Sophie Liya senior? She is super famous, a genius witch who skipped grades all the way. She has only been enrolled for less than ten years and is already in the fifth grade of the advanced class. And she is also the student council president. You might even see her on stage to give a speech at the opening ceremony tomorrow, Sister."

The little witch looked at the pure white witch not far behind her with admiration and awe, and introduced her to her sister.

Dorothy then suddenly realized.

So she was just a school celebrity. That was fine. It was no wonder she hadn't heard of it on the Mana Web before. This kind of fame was temporarily limited to a small circle and was very difficult to make it to the headlines of the Mana Web and enter the public eye.

It's like most people in her previous life wouldn't remember the name of the college entrance examination top scorer.

However, following these clues to search her memory, Dorothy quickly found some useful information.

It turned out that she had indeed heard of Sophie Liya before, but it was just a glance when looking at other news and didn't pay special attention to it, which was no wonder the impression wasn't deep.

Now she thought of it. It seemed that the "Mysterious Daily" reported a few years ago that a genius angel witch with twelve innate talents and 18,000 mana enrolled in the Witch Academy that year. This was probably Sophie Liya.

Tsk, although she had long known that the angel witch was a genius, being monstrous to this extent still shocked Dorothy. This talent was absolutely in the top ten in the entire witch history.

As long as she doesn't die halfway, Sophie Liya will be a Peak Witch at the bottom in the future. If she works harder, it's not impossible to fight for a seat in the Thirteen Sages.

Not good, can't think about it anymore. The more she thinks, the more she feels she can't win.

It's not a good thing to boost others' morale and destroy one's own prestige before a duel. Dorothy hurriedly gathered her mind and stopped thinking about it, turning to start cheering for herself.

Although she was just an ordinary witch who could be seen everywhere in reality and had nothing different besides her beauty, she still had some influence in the Mana Web. Compared to those like Sophie Liya, she didn't know how much higher she was.

In reality, she rarely fought with others, was timid, after all, she was afraid of getting hurt, afraid of pain, afraid of being beaten and losing face. But in the Mana Web, one could choose to lower the pain or even block it directly. And everyone was a netizen. It didn't matter if you lost the fight. Anyway, they were netizens she didn't know in reality, so she wasn't afraid of losing face. Then what was there to be afraid of? It was just a virtual reality version of a duel game. She, Dorothy, had never been afraid of anyone when playing games, striking hard directly.

Well, actually, it wasn't that hard. In the early days, she was also abused by big shots like a rookie. But as a homebody for two lifetimes, Dorothy's only advantage was probably her positive and optimistic attitude. Others would choose not to play soon after being abused, but she was always tireless. She fought everyone she met. After all, she had played many games that tortured people in her previous life, and she had survived the malice of a certain "Old Thief."

She was the kind of personality that got more excited the higher the difficulty.

It's just a game, why be afraid?

Besides, she had a talent cheat this time.

【Diligence Can Make Up for Clumsiness (SR): You are not a genius, but you can shorten the gap with geniuses through hard work. You have a tenacious and unyielding will. Failure cannot defeat you. You can always gain experience and lessons from failure to become stronger. Anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger.】

This was the talent passed down by her father, Adam, to Dorothy. And this was also the reason why Adam, a mere mortal, could grow into a high-tier great mage who was considered middle-class even among witches.

Although this was only an SR-level talent, SR talent corresponds to silver races like elves and mermaids. Adam, a mere mortal who was not even as good as a black iron race, could condense such a talent, which was already very remarkable.

Adam once believed in and longed for the power of witches. He learned and imitated the evolution ability of witches and finally tinkered with such a low-quality pirated talent of witch evolution characteristics.

Of course, "low-quality pirated" was Adam's own evaluation. In Dorothy's view, this talent was not a low-quality pirated product, but a completion of witch evolution characteristics.

After all, the evolution characteristics of witches are more of an evolution on the physical hardware, but they are powerless in terms of thinking levels such as mind, will, and experience.

Therefore, jokes often happen. For example, some little witches are afraid of mice, so they evolved the characteristics of cats. As a result, they got the power of cats and the technique of catching mice, but when facing mice, they still felt disgusted and couldn't put their claws down.

It was also like the duel between Alice and Isabella before. These two little witches always made some mistakes that shouldn't be made in the duel. They themselves knew those mistakes shouldn't be made, but they forgot to change them as soon as they got impulsive.

In short, they don't remember the lesson.

The will of the strong, the experience of dealing with things—these things, even if they are as strong as witches, cannot be achieved in one step. They also need to accumulate and learn in their long lives to finally transform into true strong people.

And the "Diligence Can Make Up for Clumsiness" talent that Adam tinkered with is a rare mental talent that can act on these mental software.

The human body is not powerful. What they rely on to grow and develop is the knowledge and experience summarized from the lessons of past failures. This ability is an innate ability that intelligent races have.

And Adam went a step further to strengthen and sublimate this innate ability into a true talent specialty. Such things are rare even among witches. Mental talent specialties are notoriously difficult to practice. Being able to do such an exaggerated thing, Adam really didn't lose his name as a genius mage back then.

It's a pity that he was just a human, not a witch. The weak race finally dragged him down. Otherwise, Dorothy felt that her father might also have the qualifications of a Sage.

Fortunately, the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Dorothy was lucky enough to inherit this talent from her old father.

Therefore, although she was also abused by big shots in the Mana Web at the beginning, every time after a miserable defeat, she could always steal a little technique from the big shots who abused her. And in the continuous fighting of thousands and tens of thousands of games, the rookie Dorothy grew at a terrifying speed. The strengthening of her fighting skills was almost visible to the naked eye.

Dorothy started playing Mana Web duels at the age of ten. She didn't win a single game in the first three years, won and lost in the next two years, and didn't lose a single game this year. She won the Mana Web Youth Duel Competition that had just ended not long ago with a winning streak of a hundred victories, and won the Mana Web hidden achievement honor title "Duel King."

Well, I am very strong, super strong.

The young witch, who had never fought in reality and was timid, cheered herself up in her heart. Under constant psychological suggestion, she seemed to have found a little feeling of being a big shot in the Mana Web, and gradually straightened her chest.

Now she felt that she might really be able to do it. ===== CHAPTER 29 =====