Four Split Personalities

Sergei snorted coldly and then turned his head to look at Ji Xiaoge, who was pulling something out from her knapsack... a canister of eggs. He violently slapped through the air, "You don’t think I can’t handle you, little bird."

Ji Xiaoge felt her whole body shudder and then a strange pain came from her back. She turned her head in a daze, only to see that the feathers in the middle of her left wing were in disarray, with a bloody, flesh-blurred palm print on them.

Then she fell from midair, crashing heavily onto the ground. Although she tried hard to flap her other wing and barely avoided a lethal fall, this crash took away 40% of her health points. Together with the damage from Sergei’s palm strike, her blood level on the panel had dropped to thirty percent.

For Ji Xiaoge, with no proper combat class, low health, and weak defense, every attack from someone as strong as Sergei could potentially take her out.

Her stats on paper were too poor to even meet the requirements for most of the light and medium armor. In terms of survival abilities, let alone the current ’Orderly Good’ Mor, she was even inferior to ’Chaotic Neutral’ Tan Mo when he was around, barely on par with ’Hei Fan’ who would follow around with at least a couple hundred pounds of equipment (counting bodyguards).

[Am I... too weak?]

Ji Xiaoge gasped for breath as she propped up her body, only to find herself in a [Crippled] state from the fall. Her slender left arm dangled weakly at her side. Although it wasn’t as utterly useless as Motan’s arm, it was at least severely fractured.

But even so, she couldn’t do anything now.

Lacking the stamina and reflexes to buy time, lacking skills and items to turn the tide in a dire situation, and lacking the strategy to protect her companions and the innocent...

After Motan, Jadka, and Ya Ya were knocked down, Ji Xiaoge, left unsupported, fell into a state of helplessness and regret, questioning her approach to the game all this while.

What if she also had a main combat class and not just focused on culinary arts?

What if she learned battlefield engineering properly instead of just being interested in crafting cooking tools?

Would the outcome be different?

Even if she couldn’t turn the tide, might she have had the means to hold on until reinforcements arrived?

Frankly, the girl was being a bit too harsh on herself. After all, she had just managed to incapacitate an unnamed Thief using her fragrant and potent black Blindness paste with Ya Ya’s assistance, indirectly eliminating one of the biggest threats to the group—a considerable victory.

But perhaps because that unfortunate child died so lightly, it was hard for Ji Xiaoge to feel much about it. Besides, this girl was rather simple-hearted and prone to blame herself; in short, she fell into deep self-reproach.

Maybe Ji Xiaoge’s thoughts were a bit too extreme, but there was no doubt in her heart’s desire ’to become stronger’ and ’to be useful.’

[Is there really no way out?]

[What is he coming over here to do?]

[How long until Jadka’s support arrives?]

[What should I do?]

[Wait a moment...]

A thought struck Ji Xiaoge’s mind, and she suddenly thought of a method that might just work.

Using her mind, she opened her character panel and moved her gaze to the talent slot that had always given her trouble.

[Allure]

Unique Talent

Passive 1: A World Apart (Activated)

Effect: When you wear headgear, it greatly weakens the effect of [A Glance Can Captivate A City], reducing your presence.

Passive 2: A Glance Can Captivate A City

Effect: Forcefully suppress your civilization attribute: Charm to 99, causing all units that notice you to develop a great affection for you (regardless of gender, race, aesthetics), increase reputation acquisition speed by 300%, exempt from any reputation reduction and NPC hatred and other penalties under any circumstances, your sin value in others’ eyes remains at a constant 0, effect reduced by 95% when passive 1 is active.

Active: A Glance Can Captivate A Country

Effect ①: No longer suppress your Charm, and instead triple its effect.

Effect ②: ???

Effect ③: ???

Cooldown period 720 hours

[Note: Grit your teeth...]

It was unknown from when this Talent, which at the initial stage of the game had only a few simple passive names, has been mostly completed, and its specific effects were also plainly marked out by the system, except for [A Glance Can Captivate A Country]...

As mentioned before, Ji Xiaoge had always known she was pretty and did not avoid acknowledging this point. Although she often encountered being hit on, pursued, and confessed to, such treatment was not unique to her. In an era where an interesting soul is often far less appealing than a beautiful appearance, beauties and handsome men usually encounter similar situations, being favored and adored by the opposite sex (and occasionally the same sex) as commonplace. So, although occasionally troubled, Xiaoge had long since come to a clear understanding of ’herself as a beauty’.

Perhaps due to her nature, she didn’t feel superior to others, nor did she mind being the center of attention, and certainly would not manipulate the emotions of young men and women by exploiting her looks but lived realistically and naturally.

In fact, she was unaware that behind her ability to live freely, many people had put in a great deal of effort, such as her dad...

Of course, this doesn’t mean Ji Xiaoge’s dad would go to every boy’s house who tried to harass his daughter excessively, threatening and intimidating them to stay away, but rather he took some more supernatural and complicated measures to subtly ’embellish’ things—hmm, it’s better we talk less about this kind of digression.

In short, due to various factors, although Ji Xiaoge knew she was born beautiful, she did not have a clear notion of the extent of her beauty, nor could the people around her objectively view the girl for various reasons.

To be honest, it was lucky that was the case... otherwise, the trouble would have been great...

In any case, from what could be seen at the moment, the result was quite good. People who were not familiar with Ji Xiaoge did feel an affection for her, but it wasn’t to the extent of delirium, and those who were more acquainted or understood her shifted their focus from the girl’s looks to her cooking skills. When they heard the three words ’Ji Xiaoge’, their first reaction wasn’t ’Ah, my super beautiful friend’, but ’Damn, that woman who could send someone to the hospital with a plate of fried eggs’.

And just how beautiful was she?

To give a very inappropriate example, her charm was like the perfect perfume in the movie "Perfume" directed by Tom Tickway and adapted from the novel of the same name by Patrick Suskind. It wasn’t just about looks, but a kind of indescribable magic power, difficult to explain with theory and scientific evidence, although it wouldn’t drive people completely mad and lose their senses like that perfume. In terms of sheer power, however, it was even greater.

Of course, Ji Xiaoge herself would never know these things, including the fact that the game The Realm of Innocence perfectly replicated her concealed and embellished magic power, she knew none of it.

But the girl vaguely felt that the active effect with a cooldown of 720 hours might change the current situation, which was already beyond salvaging.

"A Glance Can Captivate A Country..."

She murmured softly, shrugging, "Even so, isn’t it a bit too exaggerated?"

Having said that, she directly activated the active Trait under the [Allure] Talent.

[Passive effect: Remaining Independent From the World is activated, ’The Beauty That Overthrows the Country’ activation failed]

The system notification sounded in Ji Xiaoge’s ears.

She blinked, then reached up to remove her hairband, and tried to activate it again...

[Using the active Trait [A Glance Can Captivate A Country], will cause extremely extreme and unpredictable consequences, please confirm again whether to use it.]

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[Using the active Trait [A Glance Can Captivate A Country], will cause extremely extreme and unpredictable consequences, please confirm again whether to use it.]

Chapter 492: The End.