Chapter 352: Heroic Spirit Specialization: Yin and Yang Dual Phase, Yvette’s Turn

Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Heroic Spirit Specialization: Yin and Yang Dual Phase, Yvette’s Turn

In the vision.

A completely different Galeos suddenly appeared.

The Bronze Dragon King in the vision was clad in a magnificent suit of Dragon Armor, intricately carved with ancient Star Track patterns.

He floated silently in mid-air.

And below him,

was a massive town, mounting a desperate last stand.

Then,

Lance witnessed a scene that made his pupils instantly dilate.

The Galeos in the vision simply raised his right hand and waved it gently at the sky.

The next second,

the once-clear sky was instantly torn asunder.

A terrifying meteor, as massive as a small mountain and trailing a long tail of fire, was forcefully summoned down!

The meteor crashed into the center of the massive town with world-destroying power.

Amid a blinding white light and a deafening roar,

the seemingly indestructible town was instantly annihilated, vanishing into a rising mushroom cloud.

"Do you understand now?"

The Lantern Carrier’s voice sounded before this shocking scene.

"Repulsive Force and Gravity. These two powers are the true Royal Authority of the Bronze Dragon!"

Immediately after,

driven by the last of the Lantern Carrier’s power,

the pale golden orb of light that was the [Star Spirit Base] shattered violently.

Streams of viscous, dark gold light, like molten bronze, flowed out from the shattered orb.

As if they had found their destination, these streams of light precisely pierced into various parts of Lance’s body.

The moment he absorbed these streams of light,

Lance’s body, for the first time ever, felt a momentary sense of satisfaction, of being ’completely full’!

As the Energy poured in, the Lantern Carrier’s body had become completely transparent, on the verge of dissipating into the starry void.

A second before his consciousness left this space,

Lance seemed to hear the Lantern Carrier speak a sentence in a very, very soft voice.

The voice was so soft it felt like an illusion that could be blown away by the wind at any moment.

"This way... ...’s fate should change now, shouldn’t it?"

’Whose fate?’

When Lance whipped his head around, wanting to ask about the meaning of that sentence,

the Lantern Carrier who had been standing there had already completely dissipated.

Only a few extremely faint motes of light remained in the air, slowly fading away.

"Lance Lot."

A final, faint ripple transmitted directly into Lance’s mind.

"Please, be careful... of the people from the Lot Clan..."

"Because no one can tell whether it was the Mad King who created that clan, or that clan that ultimately created the Mad King."

As these words faded,

all the strange phenomena in the Soul Space vanished instantly.

Lance’s consciousness was pushed out by a gentle force, snapping him back to reality.

He was still lying on the soft, large bed in the inn.

But this level-up had finally allowed him to completely absorb and digest all the gains he had accumulated in the Underground City.

Lance immediately pulled up his panel to check his final rewards.

The Heroic Spirit Specialization extracted from the Star Spirit Base finally revealed its complete attributes.

[Yin and Yang Dual Phase (Heroic Spirit Specialization)]

The core ability of this Specialty was that from now on, the Ether Energy circulating within Lance’s body was imbued with the extremely rare [Ether Phase Change] ability.

In battle,

he could change the nature of his [Ash Dragon Breath] Energy at any time, anywhere, and without any delay.

Thus...

Curious, Lance sat up in bed.

He extended his right hand, aiming at a round table about three meters away from the bed.

A glass of water was sitting on the table.

He silently activated his Ether Energy in his mind.

SWOOSH!

The glass, along with the water inside it, seemed to be violently grabbed by a large, invisible hand.

It instantly crossed the three-meter distance and flew steadily into Lance’s open palm.

Not even a single drop of water spilled.

Then,

without making any throwing motion with his arm,

Lance just shifted his thoughts.

The Ether Energy in his palm instantly switched to the [Repulsive Force] phase.

BANG!

The glass of water shot backward from Lance’s hand.

The glass slammed violently against the stone wall opposite him.

With a crisp shattering sound, the glass instantly pulverized into dust, and the water splashed all over the floor.

"Incredible!"

Lance looked at his palm, his eyes filled with joy.

He now finally possessed the same monstrous ability as the Bronze Dragon King from the vision—direct control over Gravity and Repulsive Force!

Moreover, the panel’s description was very clear.

Just like the damage calculation for [Ash Dragon Breath], the range and maximum intensity of this Gravity and Repulsive Force were directly influenced by the user’s two core attributes: Constitution and Spirit.

The higher the attributes, the more terrifying the destructive power of the Gravity and Repulsive Force!

’Holy shit. If I used this for Seser, I wouldn’t even need my hands.’

Just as Lance was excitedly about to play around more with his powerful new ability,

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.

A rhythmic knocking suddenly sounded from outside the door.

’It must be that Cat Girl bringing the stew. I’m getting hungry anyway.’

Lance wiped the excited look off his face and straightened his slightly messy clothes.

He walked to the door, grabbed the brass handle, and opened it.

But the one he saw was not the shy, Sub-human girl with the Golden Acorn Bell tied to her.

What greeted him was a wide, dark, hooded cloak, the hood pulled so low it almost completely hid the person’s face in shadow.

But beneath the cloak, the exquisite hem of a black pleated skirt was faintly visible, as were a pair of long legs in sheer black stockings that shimmered faintly, the tops squeezing the flesh of her thighs into a soft curve.

"...Yvette?"

She was still dressed like a Literary Girl, her two braids tied neatly, but her pupils were no longer their usual azure blue. Instead, they were shaped like pink hearts.

Lance was very familiar with that color, but only from his dreams!

Although desire was boiling within him, who said the emotions that came with it were always positive?

Yvette’s current mood felt very wrong to Lance.

"Finally... I’ve caught you."

Before Lance could react, she strode into the room on her long, stocking-clad legs.

CLICK.

She locked the door tightly behind her back.

She wore a sweet smile the entire time, but Lance felt a sense of panic.

"Yvette, let me explain."

Yvette took another step forward, closing the distance until she was just inches from Lance. She truly had a unique fragrance that no one else possessed; that sweet scent existed both in his dreams and in reality.

"You’re really something else. Willing to throw your own life away just to be a Hero for the common folk, right?"

Yvette reached out a finger, poked Lance’s shoulder, and pushed him backward step by step.

’I can’t believe Yvette knows I did it to protect the evacuees,’ Lance thought.

’Did the survivors from the Underground City spread the word?’

"Have you forgotten? You and I are the only Symbionts."

"Do you even understand what that word, ’Symbiont,’ means?!"

"Why don’t you explain it to me properly?!"

Step by step, word by word, her upturned smile slowly flattened, and finally, with her small lips pouting aggrievedly, she pushed Lance down onto the soft, large bed.

Before he could even sit up, Yvette had already climbed onto the bed with practiced ease and compliance.

Her well-proportioned, elastic legs, wrapped in sheer black stockings, straddled his chest with extreme naturalness.

She casually ripped off her cloak, revealing the violet school uniform underneath that accentuated her graceful waist and full curves.

She was extremely agitated, her chest heaving.

"Without my permission, you are never to do something so dangerous again! And if that old hag, the Netherworld Witch, hadn’t fished you out from before the Gate of the Land of Death, you’d really be dead!"

Tears dripped one by one onto Lance’s clothes, even though her eyes were still flashing with pink hearts.

But her sorrow at that moment was overflowing.

’Looks like the Netherworld Witch didn’t tell her what really happened. Instead, she took all the credit.’

"Promise me, okay?"

Yvette now had a unique, fragile quality about her that softened Lance’s heart.

"Okay."

Hearing Lance say that, she broke into a smile through her tears. With that smile, the whole room seemed to brighten.

It seemed a little cunning.

For a moment, Lance had the distinct feeling he’d been tricked.

Sitting on Lance’s chest, she took off her glasses, then slowly and deliberately undid her two braids, strand by strand.

Her hair fell over her shoulders like a waterfall.

Yvette caressed Lance’s Adam’s apple with her hand.

"You have to compensate me."

Although she didn’t know why, she had complete faith in Lance’s promise. But she had come here with another purpose in mind.

Of course she knew Lance wasn’t dead, but her sorrow wasn’t entirely fake either. It had accumulated drop by drop during the time he was missing.

To avoid suffering like that again,

she planned to establish an even stronger connection.

[Hermes Red Mercury Secret Alliance]

It was a Secret Technique of the Witch Race. Through this Technique, if Lance ever lied to her, betrayed her, or tried to approach another Witch, he would be forcibly dragged into a Nightmare.

From then on, his body and soul would belong to her and her alone.

And at this thought, Yvette couldn’t help but feel a little excited.

Lance sensed something was wrong. He glanced down at his chest where Yvette was sitting, then looked up at her pink, heart-shaped eyes, which were practically dripping with lust.

HSSS~

Soaked~