Chapter 31: Auntie, Are You Overthinking This?!

Chapter 31: Auntie, Are You Overthinking This?!

[Initially, Frankischko intended this Magic Mirror as her daughter’s dowry. Could this be considered a gift from the mother-in-law? You decide…]

[A. “I pay homage to you, Mother. Today, Ocris and I…” Bow, accept the dowry.

Reward: Ocris’s weak pleas and slapsN, Princess’s body1, Witch Queen’s challenge1, Final battle with the Evil Dragon of Dragon Nest City18775, Magic Mirror blueprint1]

[B. “Are you kidding me? What about Helen, Yingling, Lilith, Delphinia, Black Dragon MM, Sister Stia, and so on? What about the storybook readers and those strange shareholders?!”

Reward: Power to Command Wind and Rain1, Strange Shareholders’ Trust+1]

[C. Piously kneel on one knee: “Your Majesty Frankischko, I am sorry to disappoint you.” Declare X impotence/prefers men.

Reward: All Attributes+1]

Louis was shocked.

This Option A was downright shameless!

And, what’s with ‘mother-in-law’ and ‘Sister Stia’?!

Have you no bottom line?! Do you think I don’t know what ‘Power to Command Wind and Rain’ means? It’s probably the title of a Sea King!

Would I, for that slim chance, cast aside all shame and gamble?

Louis shook his head and finally knelt on one knee, mumbling a low prayer.

Stuart didn’t dare get too close to listen, and his Mind Reading couldn’t pick up the boss’s words. He was burning with curiosity and could only quietly prick up his ears — What was the boss doing? Was he praying after taking Her Majesty Frankischko’s mirror out of admiration for her?

“Your Majesty Frankischko, I am sorry to disappoint you! Stuart is X impotent, he prefers men!”

[All Attributes+1]

[???] Stuart was dumbfounded: [Sir? How did you know?!]

“???”

“!!!”

Louis looked at Stuart with disgust. “Get away from me! Damn eunuch!”

Then, he began to mutter quietly again.

Stuart used all his power, focusing his Mind Reading to listen carefully.

“I pay homage to you, Mother (!!!), today… Ocris and I (Holy crap! Holy crap, the boss really is the young lady’s admirer!)… it’s just me here by myself…”

Hearing this, Stuart was practically in tears.

[May Your Majesty rest in heaven! I, your old servant, did not entrust all this to the new master in vain… I know the boss’s character, I believe he will be utterly loyal to the princess, and… huh? Huh???]

Stuart, dumbfounded, pricked up his ears and heard the boss mutter over there.

“Since she’s not here, I won’t ‘kid around.’ Otherwise, what about Helen, Yingling, Lilith, Delphinia, Black Dragon MM, Sister Stia, and so on? What about the shareholders?”

Stuart: [???]

[!!!]

[Sister Stia smilingly handed you a bottle of ‘Nutrition Express.’]

“？？？”

“！！！”

Louis rubbed his face: ‘Auntie, you’re overthinking this, I really didn’t mean it that way.’

[Sir! How could you! Delphinia is the princess’s stepmother! She has a husband! And who is Sister Stia? A sister? Did I hear that right?!]

Louis gave him a very disdainful look — ‘You’re not right in the head.’

You’re the one not right in the head! Ah!

Louis ignored him and continued muttering. “Since I’m taking your Magic Mirror, I will take good care of your friends or descendants — this ‘care’ has no special symbols! It means ‘looking out for them’!!”

Stuart heaved a sigh of relief.

Louis also sighed with relief. “So I’ll accept your dowry.”

[…]

For a moment, the air in the hall became turbulent, with flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder.

Stuart, stunned, looked up at the clouds that had suddenly appeared on the ceiling.

The boss, with a clear conscience (and a sigh of relief), lifted his head to face the storm — as if he wasn’t afraid of being struck by lightning at all!

You’re accepting this mother-in-law’s dowry with unyielding integrity!

“A slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue.” Louis waved his sleeve at the sky, making the storm clouds recede, then said to Stuart, “Not ‘your dowry’ — hey, Stuart, I didn’t mean it that way. You know what I mean.”

[Sir, I know, I understand.]

Louis rolled his eyes, too lazy to explain anything more to him.

I, the unyielding and upright Louis, have a clear conscience, okay?

What kind of person I am, the readers of the Storybook will vouch for me, okay.

He walked over to the Magic Mirror and began to examine it.

Now, he understood the situation of this Magic Mirror perfectly and was confident he could repair it.

Stuart sidled up with a flattering look. [Sir, there are many famous legends in this world.]

[But the most famous ones include a Magician’s Box, a Painter’s Canvas, a Pumpkin…]

After listing a bunch of strange things, Stuart smiled and said, [But if we talk about the absolute most famous…]

Here, Stuart raised a hand, drew two circles above his head, and performed a noble’s bow — very much implying ‘your humble servant is not so talented.’

Without the guy even opening his mouth, Louis knew what he was getting at and couldn’t help showing a disappointed look on his face.

[Ahem, sir, don’t look at me like that… I can only rank second.]

Louis secretly wiped his sweat, relieved, and asked, “What about the absolute, absolute most famous one?”

Stuart took on a mysterious expression.

[The absolute, absolute most famous one~~] Stuart drew out the syllable, building suspense before saying:

[It is called the ‘Book of Fate.’ Rumor has it that its owner only needs to keep changing their own or others’ fate tracks, and the book can continuously gather energy to fulfill the owner’s wishes — however, this book has disappeared, so, well, this…]

Stuart smiled and performed another noble’s bow, again heavily implying ‘your humble servant is not so talented’ — obviously, this second-ranked Magic Mirror was now the unofficial king.

Louis ignored Stuart.

And was very disappointed.

This piece of junk?

However, that Magician’s Box, Canvas, Pumpkin, Infinite Cauldron, and a dozen or so other famous treasures seemed quite interesting.

I wonder if there will be chances to see them in the future.

He closed the Book of Fate (Storybook) floating in the Void and began the repair work.

He simply waved a hand towards the Magic Mirror, and it turned into ‘slices.’

Just like when he repaired Stuart before, Louis began repairing this Magic Mirror. During the process, Louis discovered that besides uses like ‘extending life’ and ‘magic immunity,’ this mirror had many other significant uses.

The absolute (two ‘absolute’s) most famous treasure — it wasn’t an exaggeration.

For example, the ‘Mirror World’. It had an independent Mirror World identical to this one, except everything inside was mirrored. And it was completely empty.

So through the Mirror World, one could travel anywhere — the exit being a mirror.

At the same time, the Mirror World was a dream world. Through the Nightmare Curse, anyone could be pulled into the Magic Mirror world.

If, within a dreamer’s Dream, the dream creators could still defeat the Nightmare, then in this Magic Mirror world, the Dream Creator was Stuart.

So in this Magic Mirror world, Stuart was an omnipotent god. As long as the mirror wasn’t broken, he was invincible — of course, if certain terrifying enemies were completely beyond Stuart’s imagination, that was another matter. Additionally, the Magic Mirror was also a super prophecy artifact. The master could use it to learn secrets — like asking who was the fairest or something.

But whether these questions had answers, and whether the answers were accurate, depended on the questioner’s Mana. The more powerful the questioner’s Mana, the higher the success rate.

But Louis felt that the accuracy of the answer, besides Mana, was also related to the questioner themselves — someone who thinks math is only useful for accounting would only get results related to accounting.

As for who was the fairest, Louis didn’t think it was necessarily accurate either.

Asking who was the biggest would be more like it.

Among the people he had met so far, the one who studied the best was definitely Helen. As for Ocris, she was a poor student — a C, just barely acceptable.

On his first day here, Louis had already seen her test papers, so it was accurate.

But the most memorable one was that ‘strange Wizard’ Yingling. She probably belonged to the type of poor student who desperately needed extra tutoring. But what grade this student specifically got was unclear… he hadn’t graded her homework yet.

He decided to try it out a little later.

The repair work soon neared completion.

Once fixed, those ‘slices’ began to move under Louis’s hands. They rotated and combined in mid-air like broken building blocks or a scrambled Rubik’s cube.

But the Magic Mirror’s Mana seemed empty. Louis began injecting Mana into it. Over a dozen points of Mana only restored a tiny bit, which surprised Louis.

But the Magic Mirror was now usable and was recovering, albeit extremely slowly.

Still, he used Energy Infusion, gradually filling the Magic Mirror’s Mana. Finally, Louis estimated he had injected over a thousand points of Magic Power, meaning this Magic Mirror’s Mana exceeded one hundred.

Louis also saw some shattered Crystal Arrays near the Magic Mirror. They all had Mana and originally floated around the mirror. They were like ‘attachments’ to the Magic Mirror, giving it more Mana.

Having such high Mana was partly for prophecy and the Mirror World, but mainly for resurrection.

Resurrection — quite a few forbidden Magic Spells could achieve this, and the Magic Mirror contained two such spells — ‘Summoning Angels’ and ‘Borrowing Life to Return Soul.’

Summoning Angels could allow a deceased person’s soul to return smoothly through the Mirror World, even if it had gone to hell. Borrowing Life borrowed the life of a sacrificer — resurrecting a newly deceased person without Mana wasn’t difficult. Those at the Witch Queen’s level could even do this without a spell and without harm.

But if the resurrected had Mana, then it was an unequal exchange. The sacrificer needed Mana ten times greater than the deceased. Borrow half a life, extend half a life.

But this Magic Mirror could achieve 1:1 resurrection. With Louis’s current Mana, the mirror could resurrect him without completely shattering, just letting him do a Corpse Run.

And this Magic Mirror had been used by a Witch Queen and directly shattered, meaning her Mana had already exceeded three digits!

It seemed the previous Witch Queen’s Mana was indeed terrifying. Spell power = Mana consumed Spell level Caster’s Mana coefficient. With three-digit Mana, even if she didn’t know much Magic, she could use Quick Refill to unleash a ‘Command Wind and Rain’ level effect.

She was the kind of super Wizard who, with a flick of her Wand and a tiny bit of Mana consumption, could blanket London in fog.

With Louis’s current Mana, he would need his fog Magic Spell to reach tier 5 to achieve such a ‘small force moves great weight’ effect.

So although this Witch Queen was a poor student and not great at studying, she could still have a showdown with the teacher.

But if this teacher’s Mana also reached that level…

After repairing the Magic Mirror, Louis stood before it for a long time. He rubbed his chin, deciding to test its prophecy ability.

“Stuart, how do you feel now?”

[Sir, I feel the power of the Magic Mirror.] Stuart was somewhat excited.

“Test it out,” Louis said.

He cleared his throat and stood before the Magic Mirror.

At this moment, both Stuart and Louis couldn’t help but adopt solemn, reverent expressions.

“Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, who is the biggest?”

[…]