Chapter 94: Moonlight Powder

Chapter 94: Chapter 94: Moonlight Powder

After packing everything away, the little girl suddenly seemed to remember something and began rummaging through her cloth bag.

"Oh, right. A welcome gift for our new partnership..."

She pulled out a small bag of faintly glowing powder.

"This is Moonlight Powder. If you add a little when you’re drawing runes, you might create a new kind of rune. You can’t buy this stuff on the market, you know. Besides you, the only other person I’ve given it to was a Pharmacist!"

Seraphina Sinclair accepted the unexpected gift, slightly surprised. It seemed this partnership was more valuable than she had anticipated.

Once the trade was complete, the little girl shouldered her cloth bag and walked toward the door. Before leaving, she looked back and said, "I’ll come find you again next week. You’d better stay alive. I don’t want our contract to go to waste."

After saying this, she pushed open the wooden door. Upon seeing the filth at the entrance, she couldn’t help but frown again. She turned her head and said, "Friend, I hope your doorstep is clean the next time I come."

’She didn’t have to tell me.’

Seraphina hoped for the same. An experience like that was enough to have just once.

The little girl nimbly hopped over the filth at the entrance. The moment she stepped into the black fog, her figure vanished.

Seraphina Sinclair watched for a moment. Outside, the black fog roiled, and the island had also disappeared.

She shook her head, got up to close the wooden door, and only then returned to her mobile cabin. Sitting down, she took out the attribute fruits she had just acquired.

Before using them, Seraphina Sinclair first opened her panel to take a look.

[Name]: Seraphina Sinclair

[Zone]: Drakonia, Third Major Zone, Zone 888

[Intelligence]: 15

[Strength]: 14

[Constitution]: 18

[Speed]: 16

[Evaluation]: Your growth rate is astonishing. Your base attributes far exceed the ordinary person’s, and with the boost from your special equipment, you truly stand out among the survivors!

Seraphina Sinclair noticed her Constitution had increased by another point.

She hadn’t stopped training recently, and she had been eating fish continuously, but no matter what, an increase in attribute points was a good thing.

Seraphina Sinclair took a deep breath and pulled an attribute fruit from the box.

The fruit was cool to the touch, its surface smooth and delicate like the finest jade, yet it possessed a strange, life-filled elasticity.

The entire fruit was semi-translucent. Inside, hazy, aquamarine patterns of light seemed to flow and swirl. One glance was enough to know this was a magical item.

Without further hesitation, Seraphina Sinclair placed the fruit in her mouth.

The moment her teeth gently touched it, the skin split open on its own. It was neither tough nor juicy as she might have imagined. The fruit felt as if it wasn’t solid at all, instead dissolving into a cool, sweet nectar the instant it entered her mouth and sliding down her throat.

The very next second after she swallowed.

A distinct, cool sensation suddenly erupted from her stomach. It wasn’t cold, but a feeling of intense alertness and clarity, like a sudden epiphany.

This cool current didn’t flow through her veins. Instead, it seemed to ignore physical barriers, shooting straight up and instantly surging into her brain.

Seraphina Sinclair closed her eyes involuntarily.

She had chosen [Intelligence].

This was the process of increasing Intelligence.

Seraphina Sinclair felt as if her consciousness were submerged in a cool spring. The speed of her thoughts suddenly increased. Hazy fragments of past memories became crystal clear, and she suddenly gained new insight into several subtle, previously elusive aspects of rune drawing.

The enhancement wasn’t violent at all. It was gentle yet unstoppable, like a stream flowing over a dry riverbed, naturally filling every corner.

The process lasted for just over ten seconds before the cool sensation gradually subsided, settled, and merged completely into her being.

Seraphina Sinclair opened her eyes and immediately looked at her Attributes panel.

[Intelligence]: 20

’Nice!’

Seraphina Sinclair ate the remaining three attribute fruits. She allocated two points to Strength and one to Speed, choosing not to use any on Constitution.

Her Strength was now at 24, and her Speed reached 21.

The reason she hadn’t chosen Constitution was simple: it was already increasing on its own, improving naturally through her daily activities.

Her other three attributes, however, did not improve in the same way.

Therefore, giving up five potential points in Constitution to gain five points in Strength was still a decent choice.

Seraphina Sinclair felt the surging power course through her. It was as if her entire body had been re-tempered. The contradictory sensations of lightness and resilience coexisted in perfect harmony.

She clenched her fist, her knuckles letting out a soft, cracking sound.

Seraphina Sinclair’s gaze shifted to the pouch of Moonlight Powder shimmering with a soft glow.

The little girl’s words echoed in her mind.

’A new rune...’

’The temptation is too great.’

In this world, fraught with peril, another tool in her arsenal meant a greater guarantee of survival.

Seraphina Sinclair carefully took a small pinch of the Moonlight Powder, about a fifth of the bag’s contents.

The powder was incredibly fine and cool to the touch, as if she were pinching solidified moonlight. It exuded a tranquil and mysterious aura.

She mixed it evenly into the gasoline she had prepared.

’If I’m going to upgrade something, of course it has to be the Fire Drawing Rune!’

The moment the Moonlight Powder dissolved, the dark gasoline seemed to come alive. Tiny specks of light began to flow through the liquid, as if the starry night sky itself had been poured into it.

Seraphina Sinclair stared at the concoction for a moment before spreading out a sheet of rune paper.

She took a deep breath and lifted her rune pen.

The mental clarity that came with her Intelligence reaching 20 points was especially pronounced now. The junctures in the rune drawing process that had previously required painstaking deliberation and meticulous control were now perfectly clear in her mind.

Seraphina Sinclair cleared her mind of all distractions, dipped the tip of her pen until it was saturated with the star-flecked gasoline, and set it to the paper.

Her strokes were fluid and confident. The gasoline flowed smoothly from the tip, merging perfectly with the blank rune paper.

She followed the structure of the Fire Drawing Rune from memory, but the material she used was the gasoline infused with Moonlight Powder. As for what it would create...

Seraphina herself was full of anticipation.

This drawing process was exceptionally smooth, far more so than any of her previous attempts.

Her Perception seemed to extend to the very tip of the pen, allowing her to clearly see how the gasoline bonded with the rune paper and how the faint glow guided it to form a more stable and profound rune structure.

The final stroke was drawn.

The entire rune suddenly lit up with a soft, moon-white radiance, which lasted for several seconds before slowly receding back into the paper.

Within the lines on the rune paper, the specks of light flickered intermittently, as if breathing. One look was all it took to know this was no ordinary rune.

A panel appeared before Seraphina Sinclair.

[Unknown Rune Successfully Created (Requires Naming)]

[Effect: Ignites a special fuel infused with the essence of Moonlight to create a stable, peculiar "Cold Flame." This flame is remarkably effective at suppressing and scorching negative-energy Malevolence like The Undead and other phantasms (its suppressive effect far surpasses that of a standard Fire Drawing Rune). The flame itself has an extremely low temperature and will not ignite ordinary matter, but it continuously drains the target’s baleful energy. The duration has been extended to 30 minutes.]