Above the gray mist, inside the majestic palace like the abode of giants.

Crane sat in the Fool's high-backed chair, looking at the crimson star corresponding to "Temperance" in the gray mist with a slightly curious gaze.

Concerned about Valeera's promotion status, he had just spread his spirituality, and in response to his prayers, he touched the crimson star that was still shining.

Naturally, he saw Valera standing in front of the ice altar in prayer.

However, because the picture is quite ambiguous, Crane can't tell whether Valera is in good or bad condition even if he looks closely.

The reason why his gaze was new was because of another thing-

In the crimson star corresponding to Valeera, Crane saw his own figure not far away.

It was the first time he had seen his body in the real world from a perspective similar to that of observing a party member, above the gray fog.

Out of curiosity, he took a paper figure from the corner behind the "Fool" seat, used the small remnants of the power of the previous ritual to absorb the ash mist, and also shook it off into a paper angel with the blessing of the "witch" card contained in his own spirit, and threw it towards his body.

At the same time, he synchronously returned to reality.

This is an attempt by him to experience the feeling of "angelic protection", which can be regarded as inspiration and accumulation of experience for playing the "world".

He wasn't worried about the attempt at all, because he had nothing to lose anyway.

Returning to his body, Crane opened his eyes and saw the boundless gray mist that filled his eyes, and saw a majestic angel enveloping himself with gray-white wings layer after layer.

It turned out that the little "sun" and the "magician" lady saw such a scene at that time, which was really shocking and impactful...... Crane nodded smugly, feeling that the evil god "Fool" he played was indeed very godly.

……

A few steps away, in a makeshift igloo.

Disturbed by the murmurs and whispers, the signs of loss of control on Valeera's body became more and more obvious.

She is slipping step by step into the abyss that is truly out of control!

Valilla struggled to hold on, but her condition did not improve.

Gradually, the texture of her facial skin began to faintly appear in the mysterious pattern of black oil paint...... This means that her state is about to cross that irretrievable boundary!

At that moment, Valeera suddenly opened her closed eyes.

Her eyes were pitch black and her gaze was cold!

The signs of loss of control on Valeera's body quickly improved, the mysterious patterns in her skin disappeared, and the snake's hair drooped and thinned......

After a while, her condition was basically back to normal, except for the fact that her hair had become longer, there was no obvious change.

During this time, Crane was busy experiencing the embrace of the paper angel and did not notice this brief magical change.

In Valeera's consciousness, she has been trying hard to support, hoping to survive the short violent shock after taking the potion as soon as possible, and enter the subsequent stage of adaptation and acceptance.

But the whispers and whispers that suddenly appeared in her ears prolonged the most difficult stage of the beginning indefinitely in her consciousness...... She felt like she had persevered for a long, long time, longer than the whole process of promotion sequence 6 "Joy", but the impact phase was still not over.

In the long period of perseverance, she inevitably felt tired.

Valeera certainly won't give up.

She has always mustered up her will, always kept herself awake to a certain extent, and believed that as long as she continued to persevere, she would definitely usher in a turnaround.

Indeed, she waited for a turnaround.

It was a different kind of babbling, clearer than the previous murmuring, and seemed to have a unique rhyme similar to that of an aria...... Valera could only tell so much.

The previous muttering and the subsequent babbling made Valeera feel much better, and soon afterward, she survived the initial shock of taking the potion and regained her full sanity.

Thump!

Awakened, Valeera's legs went limp, and she fell directly to the ice beneath her feet.

She found herself quite weak, with slightly different aches everywhere in her body, her head aching, her eyes aching, her throat dry, her stomach cramping, her lungs tingling, her lower abdomen slumping, and her legs weak......

She struggled to look at the swollen and throbbing pain in her brow, and saw her dark, translucent skin, and the blood vessels and bones in the deep muscles......

Apparently, she was still in the process of adapting to it, and she was not able to fully shake off the residual effects of the potion.

Valera didn't dare to waste any more time, so she quickly closed her eyes again and began her first meditation after her promotion...... In her mind's eye, the dynamic diagram demonstrating the structure of the hypercube quickly came to mind in its entirety.

As on the previous occasions, Valilla once again felt a sense of sublimation in her body and mind, and her vision was infinitely raised, until she once again entered the quiet void with slight cracks.

Shattered at the edges, floating in the void on a massive stone floor, Varina's male form manifests.

This secluded void seemed to allow him to temporarily escape the effects of potions and return to his true form.

Varina instinctively looked at the ground, at the two dark shadows that his body projected onto the ground in front of him.

They're still one long and one short.

However, as with the previous one, the length of the short shadow has increased a bit on the basis of the previous one.

This seems to confirm Varina's speculation -

The short black shadow represents his sequence rank, symbolizing his person.

Because the last time he tried to walk in the void, he was forced to quit immediately, and this time he didn't move his feet at first, turned his head and carefully observed the void around him.

Nothing special to find.

In addition to the secluded void itself, all that could be seen was the massive stone floor with shattered edges, and the cracks of varying sizes, distances, and heights......

Unfortunately, Varina was not able to find any pattern in the distribution of the rifts.

Alas, then he had to try to step on his right foot again - last time he stepped on his left foot first.

For!

He stepped forward, but his position remained the same as last time.

The next moment, a flower in front of his eyes once again retreated from his meditative state.

Although Valeera's first meditation after each promotion is bound to enter the void, it doesn't seem to affect the effect of the meditation-

After inexplicably exiting the void again, her mental state still recovered a lot, and the feeling of swelling and throbbing in her eyebrows was also relieved to a great extent, leaving only a faint feeling of swelling.

Valilla closed her eyes and found that most of the "pain" potion in her body had been digested.

This made her stunned.

With her almost "melt-in-the-mouth" condition for the "Pain" potion, this promotion is still so difficult!

Maybe...... Her previous thinking was a little radical?

Valera thought about it for a few seconds, then rejected the idea.

Unless she is willing to relax the bottom line, or give up on promotion, no matter how long she prepares, as long as she is still forcibly promoted, the difficulty will not drop too much...... The most she can do is to find the two main potions of Sequence 5 and promote them with pure potions.

Thinking of this, Valeera's expression suddenly changed slightly.

She closed her eyes again, felt carefully, and finally determined one of the reasons why she was difficult to be promoted this time-

In this promotion, she absorbed two more copies of the "Joy" trait!