Shizuka Marikawa quickly begged for mercy, and Mitsuri also went limp, no longer moving.
After accompanying them for a while, Kisaragi Rin prepared to get up and deal with his own enhancements.
Mitsuri blinked, a little troubled but unsure how to speak, so she just continued to sink into a deep sleep, letting herself be enveloped by the velvet bed.
Kisaragi Rin descended the curved staircase; Medea's renovation work was mostly complete, and the interior exuded an atmosphere akin to studying in a mage tower.
Arriving on the seventh floor of the White Tower, the only large door there read: "Dark Planet Treasure Storage Room."
"So why label it like this? Are they afraid that thieves won't find their way in?"
Kisaragi Rin grumbled.
"I don't know."
Lily popped out from the side, her eyes betraying fatigue, and her body was covered in dust, a result of Medea recently teaching her magic.
Medea's original words were: "Only healing magic is too weak."
Lily did not refuse Medea's teaching, grinding her teeth with an expression that clearly said she would immediately betray her master once she finished learning. Unfortunately, Medea had the blessings of the Third Law plus the Sixth Law, making her practically a mage's bane. Lily was disciplined to the point of doubting the feasibility of her decision.
"Are you going to open the door? Master must quickly become stronger and defeat the evil Medea!"
Lily cheered for Kisaragi Rin.
Since she couldn't defeat her, she would let her master defeat Medea instead.
As long as Medea lost her dominant strength, she wouldn't dare speak loudly!
Thinking this, Lily's small head was tapped by Kisaragi's finger. "Medea can hear you calling her evil. Just wait for her to come and beat you."
"Master, you have to protect me."
Lily grabbed Kisaragi Rin's hand, her features squeezed together, making her face look like a bitter gourd.
She felt her current status was much lower than when she was in the Fate World; back then, she could occasionally stay in her master's arms, but now she was completely dominated by Medea, who controlled all her time.
"I can't protect you at all."
Kisaragi Rin felt a little sorry for Lily.
It was fine in the Fate World because Medea and your relationship hadn't made a breakthrough, and various dangerous existences made her too lazy to bother with Lily. Now, constantly being together, she naturally became a strict and serious mother figure.
The storage room's door was also a Strange Tale, similar to a Magic Mirror, lacking the Ability to act on its own. Its Ability was to turn a room into a sealed whole, only allowing entry through its body.
It naturally didn't dare block the King, so it quickly opened the door and let Kisaragi Rin and Lily inside.
Inside, it was already divided into three parts.
One part consisted of Ability Seeds and Strange Tale origins extracted from various Strange Tales, totaling over ten thousand, mostly from the Strange Tales of the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. Those Houyhnhnms could establish a kingdom with the strength of their entire race, and their Abilities were actually quite bizarre.
One of Kisaragi Rin's purposes in coming here was to absorb the Ability Seed of the King of the Houyhnhnms Kingdom.
Ability Seed - Eyes of The Fool: Your power can "foolify" humanoid creatures. Manifestations of stupefication include, but are not limited to, decreased intelligence, forgetfulness, falling into happiness and losing the desire to attack, losing self-cognition... Truly worthy of the King of the Houyhnhnms Kingdom; the Ability, just from its description, is quite bizarre and terrifying.
It's practically turning opponents into high school students.
Moreover, this is an Ocular Technique, and after upgrading, it can be used to continue feeding the Singularity Eye.
As for the special effects of this Ocular Technique, Kisaragi Rin and Lily discussed it for a long time while looking at the treasure vault catalog and made a decision.
One was an Ability Seed that Kisaragi Rin found very interesting, dropped by that toad back then.
Ability Seed - Virus Infection: The Ability on your body can mutate into infectiousness. As long as it hits one enemy, it can continuously spread through various means.
The second was found by Lily, from a Houyhnhnms in the Houyhnhnms Kingdom who was born blind in both eyes.
Ability Seed - Mountain in the Heart: The whites of your eyes, unable to see the outside world, are filled with the earth and stones of prejudice, and these earth and stones made of prejudice eventually solidify into a great mountain. External forces can no longer affect your mind.
"Mind Resistance" type Skills are rare, but Kisaragi Rin couldn't use it at all. Looking at the Ability description, Lily inexplicably felt it was very compatible with Eyes of The Fool, perhaps together they could produce good special effects.
No sooner said than done!
He still had plenty of Paradise coins; he only needed to pay the Skill upgrade fees without needing to purchase materials.
In a moment, Eyes of The Fool was freshly released!
Skill - Eyes of The Fool - lv10
Description: The Fool was born.
Effect: Based on the difference in intelligence between both parties, you can forcefully lower IQ of humanoid creatures to varying degrees.
Manifestations of humanoid creatures being stupefied include, but are not limited to, decreased intelligence, forgetfulness, falling into happiness and losing the desire to attack, losing self-cognition...
Special effects - lv5 - Crowd of Fools: If a person is highly stupefied, they will become a fool infection source, and their teammates around them will all be infected and eventually stupefied into a crowd of idiots.
Special effects - lv10 - Stubborn: Stupefied humanoid creatures will find it difficult to realize their own stupefaction, and may even develop a mental block to seal themselves off. Even if others point out their foolish actions, they will not deny themselves.
Bonus: intelligence +1 per level (Intelligence 100)
Usage Condition: Make friends with an idiot.
{Your Talent - Singularity Eye has devoured Skill - Eyes of The Fool}
With his intelligence attribute reaching 70, Kisaragi Rin couldn't help but rub his forehead looking at his unconventional Player Panel.
How did he, who used to fight with fisticuffs, increasingly develop towards a magic system!
However, this Ability was indeed quite good, and the awakening of both special effects also perfectly matched Kisaragi Rin's wishes.
After all, just glaring and turning enemies into a group of idiots sounds exciting, and these are idiots who don't even realize they've become stupid.
This Skill is far from being just that; after Eyes of The Fool was absorbed by the Singularity Eye, the Singularity Eye's accumulation increased. Kisaragi realized that he could use the power of Crowd of Fools on Glaucoma, which means making a group of people unknowingly spread misfortune.
Fusion Skill!
Turning into a group of unlucky high school students!
"This usage condition, however, has been met..."
Kisaragi Rin glanced at Lily, "Who is this idiot who is even recognized by Paradise?"
"The Nakano sisters or the Human-faced Dog?"
Lily stuck out her tongue.
"And Mary too."
Kisaragi Rin said seriously, then kissed Lily and started exploring the second area of the storage room with her.
A large batch of rare treasures with special effects!
White Jade Rapunzel, Moonlight Spring, Gilded Flower... Even the soil used for cultivation on the ground was made from the crushed remains of a special Earth Demon Bizarre Tale!