Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 255: Have you found something you can do?

When Lingge drank the potion and experienced a major transition from an ordinary person to a wizard, Alice was in the next room... uh, playing games.

"You need to dodge here, quickly roll! Oh, why did you want to hit it so hard? It has a shield, and you can't hurt much! Don't use the Holy Sword, switch to the Holy Codex, please use the Holy Codex, the magic has a lock and won't miss, look at your hit, it missed again! The BOSS is so big and you can still miss, I want to laugh... Oh, you should take medicine here, you are greedy, retreat quickly, retreat quickly, retreat! Find a safe place to take medicine and replenish blood! Ah, I'm dead."

The princess of Beman put down the controller with a gloomy look, while Alice beside her took it triumphantly. The two exchanged positions: "It's my turn as a genius gamer to teach you how to play games!"

On the virtual light screen, the silver giant wolf looked at the pixelated man lying on the ground with regret, then turned and left. The picture gradually turned black and white, and finally a sentence popped up: Game OVER!

"It's all your fault, Alice."

The princess sat on the bed and said angrily, "If you hadn't been there to interfere with me, how could I have died? I was about to win..."

"Are you sure? This boss still has half of its health left!" Alice interrupted her and said with a disdainful attitude of a winner: "A loser is a loser, stop making excuses for yourself, Olivia!"

"Ugh!" The princess puffed up her cheeks and finally turned her head away and stopped looking at this annoying guy.

They were playing "Dark Castle: Dawn Waltz" on Alice's game console. Of course, they were playing it in "casual mode". According to Alice, it was a 6+ game because no one would die, so both parents and children could rest assured.

At least playing games with Alice doesn’t count.

Olvera is also a literary girl who likes reading. She has few friends since she was a child. Apart from her parents and teachers, books are her best friends. She has been sealed in the castle for hundreds of years and has relied entirely on the vast sea of ​​books in the Library of Truth to survive. At this moment, she seems to have met someone of her own kind and has a good impression of her.

The princess of Beman thought that since she had cleared the game once, it would be easy to beat it the second time. But the reality taught her a hard lesson. The controller operation and the somatosensory operation are two completely different operation methods. She had never been familiar with this kind of gaming equipment, so she was easily defeated and didn't even beat the first BOSS.

She couldn't help asking, "What are you looking at, Metien?"

Like her.

No, it's not my fault! It's all Alice's fault. If she hadn't been interrupting me with trash talk, how could this happen?

Aoweila didn't know what she was going to do in the future. Although she had decided to follow Lingge and others on the journey, she couldn't just travel around, right? How could she be worthy of her parents and teachers if she didn't find something meaningful to do?
But she hasn't figured out what she should do to make it meaningful.

The more Olvera thought about it, the angrier she got. In the end, she simply stopped watching her play the game. Although Alice kept yelling, "Look at me, look at me", "My operation is invincible", "Who else can complete the game without taking any damage", and other nonsense, Olvera ignored them all and turned her gaze to Medien at the table.

"No, that's not the case!" The pink-haired girl's face turned red all of a sudden. Until now, she is still not used to being directly praised.

"I'm serious." Olvera said seriously, "It's a good thing that you have an ideal goal. It's much better than those who don't know what they should do."

"Yes." Metien flipped through his notes and said, "I want to be a doctor without borders among aliens, so I have to know something about these magical herbs."

Olvera had already known about Metien's past and present dreams from their conversations. When she heard her say it herself and how hard she had been working, even using her play time to study, she couldn't help but sigh, "You're really amazing, Metien."

The pink-haired little girl did not participate in the entertainment activity, but instead held a few notebooks and studied hard. The noise in the room did not affect her at all.

The little girl showed her her notebook, which was filled with dense text in fine handwriting. Ovella thought, "Are these the herbs that the teacher planted in the underground garden?"

"Ah?" The pink-haired little girl who was immersed in the ocean of knowledge suddenly woke up and returned to this world in a daze. She was dazed for a while before focusing on the princess's face, and then she smiled brightly: "I'm reading about the planting, cultivation and pharmacology of magic plants. These are the notes I wrote down."

"Hehehe." Metien scratched his hair embarrassedly: "I'm still far from it. It's just that the content in the study notes is not enough, because there are so many magical plants in this world, and the ones in the underground garden are not all. Magical plants, magical herbs, various magical materials, as well as magic power, magic potions, elixirs... There are many things I need to understand. It would be great if the mysterious world also had easy-to-understand introductory books like "Herbs We Are Familiar" or "Simple Pharmacology"."

When she said this, she felt a bit hopeful and a bit regretful: "I think there must be some, because even ordinary people can write books, so it makes no sense that magicians and aliens can't. But where can I find these books?"

When Ovella heard this, she blinked and said, "I can find it." "Huh?"

"right here."

Olvera picked up her book with some difficulty and placed it on the table, making a low muffled sound. The cover depicted mountains, sky, rivers, plants and other things, giving it a simple and heavy style: "Just use the [Library of Truth]. I can help you find any book you want to read."

There is also this method!

Metien's eyes lit up, then dimmed again after remembering something. She shook her head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Sister Olvera, but this is your thing. You have to use it yourself. I can't study with it every day. It's too inconvenient."

Indeed, Ovella often uses the Library of Truth to read books. As long as she enters a keyword, various books will pop up, and she can pick one to read to kill time. However, if she gives it to Metien for review, she won't be able to read it herself. Is there any way to solve this problem?
The princess thought about it, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "It doesn't matter, I can copy down all the books I searched for and show them to you!"

"Eh!?" This whimsical idea startled Metien, and hesitantly said, "This is too troublesome, Sister Olvera, and it's very hard."

"No, anyway, I have plenty of time!" I don't have to sleep at night, so of course I have plenty of time: "And you don't need to worry about the handwriting. I have copied potion formulas for Saint Shallia before, so I have a lot of experience!"

Seeing that Metien wanted to say something, she didn't give him a chance and made a decision directly: "Then let's put it this way, Metien, I will help you copy the contents of those potion books. As for you, you can ask Lingge if he can buy some paper or notebooks for me!"

"Well, then... okay." Seeing her resolute attitude, Meitian nodded and agreed. As for the issue of buying paper and pen, there was no need to ask Lingge, because she had her own pocket money.

Lingge has lost his job, and the money he has been spending recently was all his savings in the past, so it would be better not to disturb him about such things.

But he will soon be a magician. Do magicians also have to worry about money?

The pink-haired girl fell into deep thought.

Olvera was deeply happy: she finally found something meaningful to do! Sharing knowledge with other people in need with her own hands was undoubtedly the most meaningful thing!

I have even started thinking about whether I should ask other people if they have any needs in this regard after I finish copying the book on medicine. Anyway, no matter what kind of knowledge they need, as long as there are written records, they can find it in the [Library of Truth].

As for Alice, well, she was in a deep rage—

Stuck at level.

……

After drinking the potion, Linger felt his mind becoming erratic, like a wandering soul in a storm at sea, yet so clear that he could feel the harsh sea breeze and the surging waves. In the depths of the sea, he saw something invisible and intangible casting a huge shadow, sprouting and growing vigorously, like an ancient giant tree, supporting the continental shelf on the seabed and the clouds in the sky. Countless colorful blocks flickered, making people's eyes sore, as if they had entered a mysterious and strange world.

After a few minutes, or maybe a few hours, his consciousness gradually merged with his body and returned to the real world, where he saw Saint Shallia's concerned eyes. Strangely, he could still clearly sense the existence of the ocean, as if it was hidden deep in his mind, and in the center of the ocean was a huge tree, each branch was longer and thicker than a mountain, and one of the branches had grown dark golden fruits, hanging like stars over the sea.

It was dim and had not yet been lit.

No one prompted him, but Linger understood it all at once. This ocean was the "Ether Sea" opened up by his own spirituality. The tree was the concrete symbol of spirituality, reflecting his deepest perception of himself and his true self. As for why it was a tree, even Linger himself was not quite sure. And the star was a blessing that was born along with the opening up of the Ether Sea, and its name was "premonition."

Saint Xia Liya breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he had regained consciousness: "It looks like it was successful, Lingge."

Today’s young people are already at Sequence 9 of the Shepherd’s Path: Pastors.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)