It's Nice Up Here, Lord Doncic

“Let's look at the others,” Leon muttered.

Leon looked toward the second trait.

【Memory-Weaving Stringed Scepter: You can channel mental power into a priest's scepter in a specific rhythm, playing the Chant of Sacred Light. This slows down the movements of enemies within range, allowing you to peer into their surface thoughts and deep-seated obsessions. Furthermore, by changing the melody of the chant, you can silently influence the target's cognition and deep-seated obsessions.】

“Holy crap! Restricting enemy movement on a large scale, plus peering into and manipulating minds?!”

Isn't this just like Inception, directly entering the depths of someone's mind to change their thoughts?

And he could even do it silently and seamlessly!

Forcibly altering their obsessions without them noticing in the slightest!

“This is absolutely insane!”

Leon felt that this trait was absolutely insane in more ways than one!

He looked at the third trait.

【Lightless Dew: You can consume mental power to condense Lightless Dew. After an intelligent being consumes the dew, they can completely recover from all injuries within a short time. If the dew is poured onto magical plants, it can accelerate their growth and improve their quality. If the dew is injected into a magical beast, it can optimize its meat quality and improve the quality of the materials it produces.】

“What is this, the little green bottle...?”

Leon's lips twitched slightly. He felt a strong sense of déjà vu from this so-called Lightless Dew.

Its value was undoubtedly high, whether for healing injuries or cultivating magical plants and beasts.

However, for healing, he already had the Healing Art. As for cultivating magical plants and beasts...

Leon didn't have any Divine Arts for that.

But he had money.

Magical plants that only grew once every hundred years? Materials from powerful magical beasts deep within the Crystal Mountains?

He could just spend a bit more money to buy them...

“The little green bottle isn't of much use to me. As for True Vision... I have 【The Will of the Gondor Empire】. That Divine Art can bolster my mental defense, preventing me from easily falling into illusions...”

After weighing his options, Leon said:

“I choose 【Memory-Weaving Stringed Scepter】!”

With the trait finalized, chants poured into Leon's mind, along with various methods of weaving memories.

Leon closed his eyes to digest the information for a moment, then opened them.

He had mastered all the methods of using the Memory-Weaving Stringed Scepter!

Turning his head, Leon let his gaze drift over to Alicia, and an idea immediately popped into his head.

He placed his priest's scepter on the ground. His mental power materialized into glowing white strings, and his fingers gently plucked at them.

A light, cheerful chant echoed, catching Alicia's attention.

As Alicia listened to the chant, her eyelids slowly drooped, and her mind grew dazed. She looked like someone who had stayed awake for three days and three nights, whose lips had turned purple, yet who still insisted on running to work out.

Leon watched as Alicia's movements gradually slowed. As he continued to pluck the glowing white strings, he slowly began to hear voices from the melody played by the chant.

“Lollipops, so yummyლ(´ڡ`ლ)!”

“Only twelve orange-flavored lollipops left. I have to eat them slowly...”

“The old grandpa said I don't need to train to get stronger, but it seems like I'm growing a bit slowly...”

Hearing Alicia's inner thoughts, Leon was instantly taken aback.

On second thought, that made sense. Stuttering was just a physical speech impediment. It wasn't like there was something wrong with Alicia's brain...

Well, maybe there was a tiny issue, but not enough to make her thoughts disconnected and fragmented.

“These are just her surface thoughts. But what about her deep-seated obsessions?”

Leon switched the chant's melody. His fingertips plucked the strings again, and the light, cheerful tune instantly transformed into a solemn, echoing melody.

An obsession flowed along with the chanting into Leon's mind:

“Little Juliet is dead. Granny Taylor is dead. Must protect—”

Suddenly, some sort of force blocked Leon's probing, instantly silencing the solemn, echoing music.

Alicia snapped out of her daze instantly. Her eyes locked onto Leon, staring at him as if he had done something incredibly offensive.

It was the exact same look she had given him when she suspected Leon had dyed her hair pink.

Under Alicia's suspicious “you're up to no good” glare, Leon gave a sheepish smile and asked, pretending as if nothing had happened:

“Alicia, what's wrong?”

“Priest Leon! What... did you... do... to me?!” Alicia glared at Leon with an unfriendly look in her eyes.

Naturally, Leon played dumb. “I didn't do anything! What could I have possibly done?”

“You... are... feeling... guilty!” However, the “Alicia-brand sensor” was far too sharp. She instantly saw right through Leon's guilt.

In the end, Leon had to promise to buy Alicia a jumbo lollipop gift pack from the Coo Coo Merchant Association before he was finally forgiven.

Leon looked at the description of the Memory-Weaving Stringed Scepter again. How did this “genius” manage to detect him just from peering into her obsession?

He got up, walked outside, and played the chant again.

Ratahn's obsession: Protect... Young Master Leon... Michaela...

Another Falcon warrior's obsession: Next stop... Jellyfish Town's Tongue-Hunter Gourmet House...

Leon could hear everyone else's obsessions perfectly, and indeed, it was completely silent and seamless.

Only with Alicia did his attempt to listen to her obsession get noticed, resulting in her glaring right back at him.

“As expected of Alicia and her reincarnation. Truly terrifying...”

Leon speculated that this was likely related to Alicia's mysterious background and her reincarnation ability.

Having briefly tested the capabilities of the Memory-Weaving Stringed Scepter, Leon let the matter rest.

Afterward, he began testing the other abilities he had acquired upon advancing to the Gold rank.

The first was his enhanced recovery ability.

He borrowed Alicia's dagger—not the Blades of Hunger—to give himself a cut.

Only to find... he couldn't even break the skin.

After advancing to the Gold rank, his skin had become incredibly tough. Without using special techniques or immense strength, it was impossible to even scratch him.

Leon recalled the Mad Shark King, who was also of the Gold rank. His skin and skull had been relatively easy to smash open with the Hammer of Sacred Light...

Since it was difficult to test his healing ability on himself, Leon gave up on that for now.

He moved on to testing the second ability: flight!

For a priest to fly, they first had to master the Flying Divine Art.

Though it was called a Flying Divine Art, it wasn't strictly a Divine Art in the traditional sense. It was simply a special application of mental power by Gold-rank priests.

Leon condensed his mental power beneath his feet to counteract gravity, then altered his position by repelling against Ommisiah's geomagnetic fields.

After just a few brief attempts, he quickly mastered the Flying Divine Art, soaring into the high sky to look down upon the scenery below.

As the saying goes, “climb high to see far.” Leon was now literally flying high to see far!

“Who is that?!”

Right at that moment, a figure shot through the horizon at breakneck speed, fully primed for battle.

However, the moment he saw it was Leon, his eyes widened in instant shock, his face completely filled with astonishment.

“It's nice up here, Lord Doncic,” Leon said with a slight smile.