Four Split Personalities

[Premonition]

A growing passive talent

Effect: Produces a strong premonition under certain conditions for an additional 28 seconds.

[Note: Don’t mind it; after all, no one in this world can truly dominate themselves.]

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Due to the special nature of this talent, Motan had been paying a high degree of attention to it, to the point where it had almost risen to the level of an experimental subject.

Regrettably, apart from deducing two simple patterns, he had made no progress when under the state of any personality, and all attempts to make it controllable had ended in failure.

As for those two rules that were quickly deduced, the first was that whenever one of his characters triggered [Premonition] and was successfully logged out by character switch, the next time he logged in, the duration of the talent would increase by one second. To put it plainly, if the ’Hei Fan’ character’s Premonition could initially last for 10 seconds, then after it was triggered and ’Tan Mo’ or ’Mor’ took over, the next time he logged in with the Absolute Neutrality personality, his Premonition would last for 11 seconds.

The second pattern was that when he experienced ’fragmented character switching’, like playing and suddenly losing consciousness, and upon waking, realizing three hours had passed, [Premonition] would not trigger, regardless of which of the three personalities Motan was in before. Moreover, the next time he logged in, the previous duration would decrease by one second.

Since gaining this talent until now, the ’Hei Fan’ character had been conventionally switched out 32 times and fragmentarily switched out 7 times. Starting from an initial duration of 3 seconds, the current maximum duration was 28 seconds.

At this moment, Motan had only 27 seconds left.

Less than half a minute to extricate Yu Chen and those Knights who had been escorting her from danger, escaping to safety while perfectly achieving the set objectives?

Impossible!

The reason there were no detailed plans for the second phase was precisely because it was too unpredictable. Apart from Hei Fan’s real-time command, there was no plan or strategy that could ensure the smooth completion of the task if followed strictly. Be it the movements of the Mutants, the state of the princess’s guard, or the performance of Cordova and Xia Lian, everything was filled with randomness. Therefore, Motan could never formulate an infallible plan in advance. The only thing he could do was mobilize a large number of players, synthesize vast amounts of intelligence, and provide Yu Chen and the others with zero-delay, real-time guidance, continuously finding or creating paths of survival on the ever-changing battlefield.

All this was predicated on Motan sitting in this location, with seven or eight chat windows open, always keeping a close watch on the map and being able to contact Yu Chen at any moment.

There was no other way. Even if Yu Chen and the others had completed 90 percent of the entire plan and only a short distance remained before they could safely circumvent the area, a ten-minute journey to escape danger, if they lost Motan’s guidance at this crucial moment, no matter how close they were to success, it was almost impossible for them to escape a catastrophic ending.

[Just give me ten more minutes! Only ten minutes!]

Motan gritted his teeth as he propped himself up on the ground with both hands, then staggered to grab the armrest of the chair, trying to stand up, only to collapse back down onto the ground, chair and all.

Two messages from Eagle Eye Team Seven popped up, indicating that several players who were monitoring the riverbanks of Savah City at great risk had reported that the weak point Motan had created was about to close. If the princess’s guard did not act now, the gap they could use for their maneuver would be filled within thirty seconds.

[Thirty seconds, I don’t even have thirty seconds...]

While wretchedly retching on the ground, Motan tersely replied with an ’Understood’, and then began to laboriously re-edit the message that had been interrupted—

’Good, I’ve got my eyes on you again. Now we need to execute a high-speed reverse maneuver. Immediately concentrate three Advanced Stage Holy Knights on the left flank of the team, with Snow Mane as the arrowhead to make a right-angle turn to the left. You will directly collide with a group of Mutants recently encountered, numbering just over two hundred. Upon contact, do not hesitate and break through them. Then, move the three who were at the spearhead to the right side of the team and proceed east in parallel with the Mutants you just broke through. Hold for fifteen seconds, then make a second right-angle turn to the right. After that, except for Snow Mane, have the other two Holy Knights protect the right flank and rear of the team, with Snow Mane at the forefront as the spearhead, activating the Expedition Halo, and continue east.’

Motan struggled to send the message, which should have been split into three parts, to Yu Chen in one go. Then, he tried several times before he managed to stand up by clinging to the edge of the table.

His Physical Strength Value had been completely depleted, and coupled with the disorientation and alienation brought on by the [Premonition] talent, Motan felt dizzy and even his vision began to blur.

This was the first time he had been so ragged since he started playing The Realm of Innocence.

Even when cornered by Jiawen while under the ’Chaotic Neutrality’ personality, Motan had maintained his somewhat obnoxious composure and poise, but at this moment, he had reached the apex of dishevelment, with a hint of despair flickering faintly in his increasingly cloudy eyes.