Chapter 57: Spiritual Painting lv2

"Finally, it's over."

About two and a half hours later, Yun Mu left the Frost Bank with trembling legs.

Anyone who didn't know better would have thought she had been up to something.

But in reality, this was simply the result of her being forced to practice for over two hours after wearing high heels for the first time.

After changing back into her Quiet Boots, Yun Mu felt as though her legs and ankles were no longer listening to her.

This was, of course, not because of fatigue; in fact, ever since she acquired the 【High-Speed Regeneration】 trait, as long as the energy within her body was not exhausted, she could rapidly recover from any non-fatal wounds.

It was just that, for the moment, she had somewhat forgotten how to walk in flat shoes.

The results brought about by such high-intensity training were, naturally, quite gratifying.

About half an hour ago, the game's notification had sounded in her mind.

【Through arduous training and study, you have mastered the passive skill 【Dance lv1】!】

【Your Charm +1, Dodge +1, Precision Correction +2】

【You have mastered some basic dance movements, your body has become more coordinated, and at the same time, you can perform some movements that are difficult for ordinary people to complete.】

This should count as a pleasant surprise; before the game's notification appeared, she had never thought that practicing dance could actually increase character attributes.

Upon learning this, she became even more enthusiastic when practicing.

Well, this was also one of the reasons for her current state.

It was already late at night, and the Frost Kingdom had not yet reached the level of her past life on Earth where one could still find a taxi in the middle of the night, so Yun Mu had no choice but to walk back herself.

On the way back, she noticed that the place where the blood mist had erupted last night had now been cordoned off by the Guard Hall.

A large number of blockade lines were set up on both sides of the street, and even in the dead of night, there were still Guards standing firm outside the lines, preventing any possibility of outsiders slipping in.

Yun Mu hid in a place very far from the blockade, and the Darkness could not obstruct her vision.

Her one Scarlet and one grass-gray pupil glanced at those Guards from afar in the darkness.

Without any intention to continue investigating, she turned and left, deliberately taking a wide detour to avoid this cordoned-off street.

After returning to Sisilaiya Cafe, she opened the front door with her key, went up the stairs to her room on the second floor, and fell straight onto her bed to sleep.

The next morning.

The sixth day since Yun Mu transmigrated.

Before Lita came to knock on her door, she had already woken up from her sleep ahead of time, and after washing up in the bathroom, she dressed neatly.

She was not wearing her own clothes, but the cafe's waiter uniform.

Since she would have to change into it after eating anyway, she might as well put it on first and change back after work ended.

It just so happened that as she walked out of her room fully dressed, Lita also walked out of another room on the second floor.

The other party looked at her with some surprise, perhaps wondering why she had gotten up so early today.

"Good morning, Miss Yun," the other party greeted her first.

"Good morning, Lita~" Yun Mu responded in a good mood.

Lita came before her and then looked her up and down.

"Hehe, no matter how many times I see it, Miss Yun looks so cute in the waiter uniform."

"Not at all..." Yun Mu's face flushed slightly; she hadn't expected the other party to start with such praise, and she hurriedly said, "Miss Lita is clearly very beautiful as well."

"Really?"

The two chatted with each other and followed the cafe's stairs down to the kitchen on the first floor.

Edward had already set out breakfast by this time; he sat in his seat, happily opening a bottle of vodka for himself.

After Yun Mu finished breakfast, she busied herself in the cafe with Lita, and when work ended, she returned to her room.

Just like yesterday, she first practiced the 【Spiritual Painting】 skill, and after the practice ended, she read the novel "Night of Rolling Stone Town".

【Through arduous training and study, your passive skill 【Spiritual Painting lv1】 has been upgraded to 【Spiritual Painting lv2】!】

【Your Spell Strength +2.】

【You have gained some experience points.】

Yun Mu had just finished her first Spiritual Painting when the game's notification sound came to her mind.

She only felt a jolt to her spirit, and the Spirituality she had just consumed from finishing a Spiritual Painting instantly recovered to its maximum value.

"Is this the situation Mr. Sixin spoke of, where the speed of Ether fusion is accelerated?" After coming back to her senses, Yun Mu thought to herself.

Opening her character panel, she looked at her level experience bar: "The skill level has increased, but the character level is still about half the experience points away..."

It would probably level up after one more time.

That was true, but she couldn't be too anxious.

She calmed her mind, then picked up the Paintbrush again, drew an identical lake on each of the two Painting Boards, and then wrote the character "Water" on them in Elvish and Chinese respectively.

The next second, the lake painting with Elvish written on it was suddenly soaked by water.

Yun Mu looked at its effect; it could basically summon a water ball and control the water ball to strike nearby targets at will.

The damage depended on her Spell Strength.

However, compared to attacking enemies with a water ball, she felt that she could use this painting as a water-creation spell, and it might have some unexpected uses.

She then looked toward the painting with the Chinese characters.

Unlike the Elvish painting, the painting with Chinese characters was not soaked by water; the previously written "Water" character had simply disappeared, turning instead into ripples on the lake.

And the effect of this painting was actually...

"Detoxification?"

Yun Mu finally understood the main reason for the Painter Apprentice's weak combat ability.

Not to mention the time required to paint on the fly during battle, even if one managed to complete a painting with great difficulty, what effect this painting could ultimately exert was completely unknown.

Is it a matter of luck?

Or is it the details when Painting?

Or perhaps the emotions during Painting, and the state of the painter themselves?

"I can't figure it out," she shook her head and said.

Forget it, if I can't figure it out, I won't think about it.

Yun Mu put down the Paintbrush, picked up the "Night of Rolling Stone Town" placed to the side, and continued reading from where she left off yesterday.

The protagonist of the novel, the down-and-out detective Tris, had to hire a carriage in the nearest town to travel to Rolling Stone Town because the tracks for the Steam Train had not yet reached it.

On the way to Rolling Stone Town, the carriage Tris was in encountered a rainstorm and a mudslide; although neither he nor the coachman were injured, the horses ran off after being frightened.

With no other choice, the two had to travel to Rolling Stone Town on foot.

It was precisely at this time that the daughter of the lord of Rolling Stone Town, Baron Hast, and a top student at Royal Capital Yuanweihua Xueyuan, Jenny, happened to be returning home to visit Baron Hast after the academy went on break.

She invited the soaked Tris and the coachman to ride in her carriage.

In the confusion, the coachman declined the offer and chose instead to sit on one of the horses outside the carriage.

Since Tris did not know how to ride a horse, he gladly accepted the beautiful lady's invitation and traveled with her to Rolling Stone Town.

PS: Royal Capital Yuanweihua Xueyuan truly exists in the Frost Kingdom.

This is a higher academy that only admits women, containing a complete educational system including elementary school, middle school, high school, and university.

By the way, the tuition for one semester at the elementary department of this academy is 60 Gold Frost Coins.

(End of this chapter)