When the plot-skips players into the game world-Chapter 455 - 356 The Grimoire of Aiwass

However, upon a careful inspection, Aiwass discovered that one of the rituals in the book was actually complete.

It was the Ring of Ouroboros ritual.

Since Merlin was close by, Aiwass didn’t dare to look closely. He directly flipped the pages with his mind to the end of that chapter and noticed a grey mark there.

Aiwass recognized this mark. It was the pattern of "The Star" from the Phantom Cards. However, it was not colorful but grey.

——Was the occupied card slot The Star?

Aiwass tried to recall what type of card The Star usually was.

At first, he couldn’t quite remember and had to think hard before he could vaguely recall it.

The Star signified charity, purification, healing, blessing, and enhancement. It was usually a water-attribute card position, powered by water-attribute mana. Most commonly sealed were creatures from the Domain of Blood along the Path of Love, such as Blood Fiends, Sirens, and other such Phantom Demons... For example, abilities that granted lifedrain like "Vampire’s Touch," or continuous group healing like "Siren’s Song," or "Regeneration of Water," which could instantly restore a substantial amount of health to oneself or an ally.

Typically, players at "The Star card position" would bring an instant heal.

——Perhaps because Aiwass, as a healing player, was quite skilled, the Great Sin Scholars, who played as DPS roles, hardly got the chance to use The Star card. Perhaps they just burned it. Good thing this card slot wasn’t very useful.

Even though The Grimoire of Aiwass had four effects, its first effect, "Burn Card," was actually fairly common — or at least, players needed to grind for a grimoire with the burn card affix to consider their gear complete. Those affixes that increase card effects or reduce costs might be useful, but definitely not as handy as burning a card.

Therefore, Aiwass knew how to use it without doing any experiments as soon as he acquired it.

This effect was known among players as "Burn Card."

The general idea was to exchange the uses of one card for another card that was on cooldown. However, only Phantom Cards could be reset, not Sin Cards. Because some card slots were useless in certain fights, it was better to swap them for damage or enhancement. This action was called "burning" the card.

A fully-equipped, max-level Great Sin Scholar could burn six times a day. That meant sacrificing six cards to forcibly cast one burst card seven times in a row — that was the confidence behind the Great Sin Scholar’s role as a burst damage dealer.

Without the burn card affix, one simply couldn’t qualify as a burst damage dealer, but their sustainability would definitely not match that of a true sustained damage dealer like a Blood Magus.

Stuck in between, you can say.

However, burning cards usually had a limit of three or four times, and only deep purple materials had a chance to grind for a full affix of six times. The Grimoire of Aiwass gave Aiwass a full set directly, which pleased him immensely — although at the moment he only had the Defiant Flame Butterfly and could only burn once. But at least he wouldn’t have to change equipment in the future.

As a new job class that would appear in the future, Aiwass truly didn’t know where to grind for equipment if he needed to.

In the game, equipment could indeed be grinded from ruins for the sake of gameplay and job class balance. But in reality, grinding a Grimoire of Sin from archaeology was about as likely as a villager sharing the secrets of nuclear fusion technology with you.

And this book, being one his grandfather left behind and possibly related to a Holy Entity... It endowed it with two extra divine affixes, making it more than just an ordinary deep purple piece of equipment.

Normally, a Grimoire of Sin would start with one attribute and gain a hidden effect after the full collection.

However, Aiwass’s book had four affixes... meaning he got two extra effects.

And they even had divine traits——

Are you about to become a gold-tier item?

But the last three affixes were currently locked. Aiwass couldn’t see the specific effects, but he guessed that at least one of them would be an affix that increased card effects.

Even so, this casting range was already impressive.

Generally, a purple-tier Grimoire of Sin would increase casting reach by twenty meters. Hence, Great Sin Scholars were a mid-range job class.

But The Grimoire was between thirty and sixty meters — sixty meters was unquestionably considered long-range for a job class.

...Although Aiwass didn’t currently possess any purely damage-oriented Phantom Cards, being able to summon the Defiant Flame Butterfly and Earthbound Spirit directly to a distant location sixty meters away was quite an enhancement.

The Defiant Flame Butterfly, a turret-like Phantom Demon, was indeed a bit dangerous to stand with Aiwass. It was likely to attract the enemy’s area spells to smash down on both of them together — but the most useful was air-dropping the Earthbound Spirit.

Originally, the Earthbound Spirit had a casting range of about fifteen meters. Now with an additional sixty meters, that was over seventy meters.

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A control skill that originally had to be cast at close range now had such an extended range... Aiwass was already imagining the various applications in his mind.

"Is this book the equipment you were looking for?"

Sherlock looked at it frowning, "But it doesn’t seem to have anything special."

He didn’t hear the voice of the Holy Entity from before, nor did he see a vision of Aiwass. As far as he could tell, a purple gemstone simply floated over and then turned into a book in front of Aiwass.

Out of politeness, he didn’t try to peek deliberately at the contents of Aiwass’s book. But even a cursory glance with his peripheral vision allowed him to generally discern that it contained knowledge about rituals.

...Was it a ritual grimoire?

But it seemed to lack the "ritual space" found in ordinary ritual grimoires.

Sherlock remembered that the grimoires used by ritualists acted like a personal space. They could hide some ritual materials within, so that during rituals, the materials didn’t need to be laid out, effectively achieving "casting without materials" in some sense.

Then was it a contract grimoire used by Demon Scholars?

Smaller contract grimoires could store a few familiars, and larger ones could carry one’s own contracted demons. But it didn’t quite look like that either.

...Could it be the grimoire used by Cursing Sorcerers?

Sherlock really didn’t know what kind of grimoire Cursing Sorcerers used.

"This is my exclusive weapon."

Aiwass closed the book with a smile, pleasantly saying, "You don’t need to worry about this. It’s quite handy anyway."

—After all, cards have to be collected into a card deck to really come into their own!

He raised his right hand, and three Tarot cards that Aiwass had modified—along with a pure red card resembling a dark red ruby with a butterfly mark—appeared from between Aiwass’s fingers.

"The Hanged Man" belonging to "Death," "Blade of Shadows" belonging to "The Moon," "Thunder Javelin" belonging to "Wheel of Destiny."

As well as "Great Sin: Defiant Flame Butterfly," which held both "The Sun" and "The Hanged Man" entries.

A total of five card positions.

As for the Shadow Cloak, Aiwass planned to keep it separate. Its main use was for debuffing Aiwass and Little Butterfly, not so much for increasing casting distance.

On the other hand, the Blade of Shadows, which had been largely useless, immediately gained tactical significance once its casting distance was increased.

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They turned into streaks of light and entered into the Book of Law.

The count for "The Grimoire of Aiwass" immediately rose to (5/21). And with the entry of Defiant Flame Butterfly, the number of available Burn Card uses went from 0 to 1, giving Aiwass the ability to Burn Card once a day.

Subsequently, a white essence infused the star on the cover once more, turning into some kind of dilute liquid. The amount was not much, only filling up about one-quarter of the star. As Aiwass shook the book, the white liquid within the purple crystal was slightly agitated.

—This was liquefied attribute-less mana!

But at that moment, Aiwass paused slightly.

For immediately after, he acquired some additional knowledge in his mind.

It was the related knowledge of five ritual spells—

Aiwass opened the Book of Law, flipping to the chapter corresponding to "Death."

He discovered that the latter half of "Resurrection of the Dead," originally written there, had been completed.

—So that’s how it’s used!

A shine appeared in Aiwass’s eyes.

You’re giving away more than twenty ritual spells, huh? Grandpa really knows how to make a deal! Generous!

His eyes glanced at the unlocked second entry "5/7," and he became eager.

He was now a bit curious. If the first entry allowed for a Burn Card... what could the remaining three be?

Aiwass already had five cards. He should be able to gather seven cards rather quickly.

If things go smoothly, he might get them all before heading to the Holy Nation!