Increase Difficulty

"Me?" Lan Xiaoke looked around the training room in confusion, still clutching a game controller in her hand.

She was currently wearing a baggy white T-shirt, her chubby thighs exposed.

"H-how did I end up here? I was just fighting a boss in the living room, I was so close to clearing the game!"

"You've transmigrated," Ye Chuan said.

Lan Xiaoke: "?"

Wasn't this the training room? Did she transmigrate to the training room?

Ye Chuan was just about to tease her when his head suddenly felt heavy, his temples throbbing with pain.

"Ugh, what's going on?" He frowned and rubbed his swollen temples. His mind felt entirely empty, as if more than half of his mental energy had been forcibly extracted. Even his thoughts were spinning half a beat slower.

It was just a casual Spirit Speech summon just now, combined with testing his self-created magic for a while earlier, yet the depletion was actually this severe.

Even though the Holy Grail was continuously replenishing his mana, the exhaustion of having his soul hollowed out in his mind didn't diminish in the slightest. Instead, there was a faint, needle-like piercing pain.

"The consumption from Spirit Speech can't be replenished by the Holy Grail?" Ye Chuan finally realized what was happening and clicked his tongue.

If that was the case, there really was nothing he could do.

Otherwise, his combat power would truly be a bit too overpowered.

Source Magic and Spirit Speech played with the origin of rules, consuming mental energy at the soul level, whereas the Holy Grail could only replenish mana.

Furthermore, he had only just grasped the threshold of Source Magic, so his mental capacity to bear this power was already low. Earlier, he had created air currents, played around with flying, transformed into a chicken, and finally summoned a person across space. He had long exceeded his current load limit.

He steadied his mind and tried to use Spirit Speech again, but the moment the thought arose, the piercing pain in his head instantly intensified, and his vision went dark in patches.

"Looks like I really can't mess around with this." Ye Chuan gave up on trying. The more complex the magic, the more absurd the consumption of mental energy.

With his current beginner level, he couldn't control overly complex rules at all. Forcing it would only result in damaging his own soul.

Ye Chuan took out a pill that restored mental energy and popped it into his mouth. Soon, a refreshing sensation filled his brain, causing the exhaustion to gradually fade away.

Although he couldn't rely on the Holy Grail, Ye Chuan still had the ability to pop pills.

And not only that, Ye Chuan also used a magic spell to restore mental energy, allowing him to slowly recover as well.

However, even with this limitation, this power was absolutely a top-tier asset, after all, he could create magic as he pleased.

His words became law. This point alone was enough to crush everyone.

However, this was considered Lilith's ability. Lilith herself didn't have any magic, but she could completely achieve the state where her words became reality.

Beside him, Lan Xiaoke finally recovered from her confusion. She leaned in on her tiptoes and touched Ye Chuan's forehead with her small hand.

"Ye Chuan, why is your face so pale? Are you feeling unwell?"

"I'm fine, I just drained a bit of mental energy playing with new magic." Ye Chuan slowly exhaled. After recovering a bit, his gaze also fell upon Lan Xiaoke.

"What is it?" Lan Xiaoke tilted her head.

"Nothing," Ye Chuan shook his head.

...

After leaving the training room with Lan Xiaoke, the two of them sat down on the sofa.

There was no one else at home today. Although Lan Xiaoke was a bit silly, it was impossible for her to believe she had actually transmigrated.

Therefore, she simply sat down.

"Heave-ho, Ye Chuan, if you're tired, let's play a game for a while. I'll carry you through the boss," Lan Xiaoke said, looking back at Ye Chuan.

"Sure." Ye Chuan took the controller. After getting settled, he watched his character moving in and out of the boss room's entrance.

Lan Xiaoke was experienced, after all. Upon entering the boss room, she immediately controlled her character to start jumping and dodging, while Ye Chuan quietly watched her play.

Sitting behind Lan Xiaoke, Ye Chuan rarely did nothing, just silently watching everything happening on the screen.

"Whoa!" Lan Xiaoke seemed to get into the zone, intensely focused on her character fighting the boss. It wasn't her first time tackling it, after all, and her skills were indeed quite impressive.

Moreover, at this rate, Lan Xiaoke would be able to take down the boss very soon.

Hmm?

Right at this moment, Ye Chuan seemed to think of something, wondering if the power of Spirit Speech could be used here.

"Increase difficulty." With a thought from Ye Chuan, Lan Xiaoke quickly noticed that something was wrong!

The boss's strength had actually increased!!!!

"Huh?!" Lan Xiaoke was stunned, especially when the enemy reduced her to a sliver of health in just a few hits. She remembered the boss not being this fierce!

"How is it?" Seeing Lan Xiaoke too afraid to move recklessly, Ye Chuan couldn't help but smile. After all, the character she was controlling was just one hit away from having to start all over again.

"This isn't right, this isn't right at all." Lan Xiaoke felt her brain spinning. She turned to look at Ye Chuan. "Ye Chuan, why did the boss suddenly get so strong?"

Of course, Ye Chuan couldn't possibly say that he had used the power of Spirit Speech to do this. He simply said, "It didn't get stronger, you just got weaker."

"Impossible!" Lan Xiaoke immediately denied this claim. She controlled her character to leave the room and then began to check the boss's stats.

Looking at the ferocious-looking boss, Lan Xiaoke finally realized that its stats had been comprehensively boosted!

"S-so scary..." Lan Xiaoke was dumbfounded.

"Too scared?" Ye Chuan asked.

After all, defeating a high-difficulty boss was the only way to feel a sense of accomplishment.

"I, I..." Lan Xiaoke seemed to realize that Ye Chuan had done something to it. She was getting a bit heated, but for the sake of clearing the game, she re-entered the room anyway.

"Phew..." After taking a deep breath, Lan Xiaoke tried to clear the stage in her own way.

But very quickly, facing the numerically enhanced boss, she went down in an instant.

"Don't get worked up, just take your time," Ye Chuan couldn't help but chuckle upon seeing this.

"No way, let's go again!" Lan Xiaoke controlled her character to jump up and down to dodge damage, but the boss's attack range was simply too wide, leaving her absolutely no room to evade, compressing her space to the extreme!

"Ugh, again!" Having her health bar emptied once more actually ignited Lan Xiaoke's fighting spirit. The enemy attacked time and time again, pushing her potential to the absolute limit!

"Again!"

"Again!"

Lan Xiaoke truly lived up to her reputation as a veteran player. Even though Ye Chuan had intentionally raised the stats, Lan Xiaoke ultimately took it down relying on pure skill!

"Hahaha..." Seeing the boss's demonic blood fill the room before it limply collapsed, Lan Xiaoke finally began to giggle.

"I won!"

"Dying over a dozen times, that's still pretty good." Seeing Lan Xiaoke throwing her hands up in the air, Ye Chuan couldn't help but shake his head.

"Do you want me to increase the difficulty a bit more?"