Your Holy Water is Chaos

Ashley truly felt she had misjudged.

Are all talents in the Borderlands like this?

At first, seeing how human-like this guy looked, and how tasteful his clothes were, she had thought he was at least some kind of humanoid creature. But she hadn't expected him to be even more perverted than the last guy who ran around naked.

Now she understood why he had chosen pure white pants. If he peed himself, everyone would see it!

This was more twisted than running around naked.

Ashley tightly squeezed her legs together, biting her lip, her whole body slightly hunched like a shrimp. Only then did she manage to struggle out of the urge to pee.

She looked at Liszt resentfully, but he still had the same expression, still elegant and debonair. She was confused.

Why could Liszt endure it when they were hit by the same magic?

She couldn't understand.

Was her willpower inferior to Liszt's?

Or was Liszt's talent for using magic more subtle and refined than hers?

Why was this?

How could this be?

Ashley absolutely refused to accept it.

No matter the reason, Ashley wouldn't accept it. Her pride as a genius mage wouldn't allow her to be defeated.

She slowly straightened her back and took a deep breath.

I'll endure it.

As long as I can hold on for ten minutes of the exam, the Scales of Order won't judge him as having a perfect score.

-- she told herself in her heart.

Bring on whatever moves you have.

"Examinee Ashley, can you really hold on?"

Liszt calmly pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, a graceful smile on his lips and a tone of human concern in his voice. "Can you really last ten minutes without peeing?"

"If you can't, it's fine for me to let you have a few drops first."

Such humility, such gentleness, such respect for women, such noble consideration.

This was the Perfect Noble Spirit that Liszt had pursued his entire life. This was the Gentleman's Soul inherited by countless ancestors and celebrities of the Moon Family over thousands of years. And now, it had finally been passed down to Liszt.

Surely, the spirits of his ancestors in heaven would be proud of Liszt.

Damn it, you're the examinee!

I'm the examiner!

This guy was actually turning things upside down!

This perverted guy with glasses, when others spar, they say "I'll let you have a few moves first." But this perverted guy with glasses says "I'll let you have a few drops first" during a duel. It was the ultimate insult.

Ashley looked at Liszt as if she wanted to kill him. She gritted her teeth and said fiercely, "You barbarian from the Borderlands, bring on whatever moves you have."

I will hold on.

Liszt sighed with a hint of helplessness. He said calmly, "Then I shall offend you."

"Examiner Ashley, esteemed ancestors, please bear witness—"

Liszt declared loudly, "Please bear witness to my Resolve!"

Nezha Stirring the Sea Style, third move.

He raised his staff, and pale blue water elements gathered around him. The surrounding water vapor suddenly surged.

Brother Ansu had once told Liszt that Nezha was a young hero who stirred up the sea, and Liszt felt that he was now like that hero, stirring the sea and conquering the tides.

[Water Element Gathering] [Mid-tier Magic] [Attack Magic] [Mana Cost: Four] [Forms a tidal vortex that can attract surrounding water flow, and eventually forms a giant attacking water sphere. If too little water element is attracted, the activation fails.]

There was no water around.

Normal amounts of urine wouldn't be attracted by Water Element Gathering.

But they had drunk a full six bottles of Holy Water, which had been doubled by Flowing Water, reaching a total of twelve bottles. This was just enough to reach the threshold for Water Element Gathering.

But even so, it still shouldn't be possible.

Ashley couldn't understand it even more. Water Element Gathering was an attack magic. Unlike blessing magic like Flowing Water or detection magic like Water Surface Fluctuation, it couldn't be directly used on an enemy.

Against blessing and buffing magic, a person's magic resistance would be lower. Attack magic was the opposite.

Using Water Element Gathering to draw out the urine from Ashley's body?

This is impossible to do; whoever came up with this move clearly doesn't understand magic well enough.

Is that Liszt... actually a magic idiot?

As a side note, Flowing Water cannot affect the liquids inside a human body, meaning bodily fluids. It can't double your blood or pour water into your brain.

According to Druidic biology, bodily fluids make up 80% of a person's weight. These fluids are divided into extracellular and intracellular fluids, both protected by magic resistance.

Organs like the excretory and reproductive tracts, mouth, and nose are in direct contact with the outside world. The liquids within them are not considered bodily fluids – saliva, snot, urine, etc., are not bodily fluids and have very weak magic resistance.

Liszt had seized upon this very point, which is why he chose Flowing Water.

But why did he use Water Element Gathering?

Why choose this offensive water magic?

Ashley couldn't understand, not at all—

But in the next instant, her pupils contracted violently, as if struck by divine inspiration, she understood something.

Realizing the possibility, her shoulders trembled slightly.

She had fallen into a mental trap.

Following the logic of someone born in the Borderlands, if blessing magic is used on the enemy, then who should attack magic be used on?

The answer is: oneself.

Liszt, this demonic pervert with glasses, this terrifying monster, had abandoned his magic resistance and used Water Element Gathering on his own body. He was going to draw the urine from his bladder to create—

A giant attack urine bomb!!

And the target of this urine bomb was Ashley herself.

Her pupils trembled violently. Ashley couldn't imagine this outcome; just thinking about it gave her goosebumps all over.

This would be an ultimate humiliation, far worse than wetting herself. When that giant urine bomb landed on her face in front of everyone, all her dignity, all her pride would vanish. She couldn't imagine what a bleak future that would be.

Ashley realized another terrifying truth: it was precisely because she had used Flowing Water on Liszt that he had enough urine to use Water Element Gathering.

It was her own counter-attack, her own imitation, that had enabled Liszt's urine bomb.

Were her actions, her reactions, also part of the plan devised by that 'Brother Ansu' Liszt mentioned?

What a demonic intellect!

Couldn't he use that brain for something productive!

Ashley bit her lip fiercely, cold sweat trickling down her forehead.

Could she imitate him and counter-attack this time?

No.

She couldn't.

She lacked the courage, lacked the resolve.

The resolve to abandon herself like that.

She couldn't do it, she couldn't be like Liszt—

Because using Water Element Gathering on oneself was equivalent to peeing oneself in public!

Peeing oneself was social suicide, and being hit by a urine bomb was also social suicide. No matter which choice she made, Ashley had no chance of turning the tables.

There was only one way now, before Liszt's urine bomb was fully formed:

Choose to surrender.

Let Liszt—this Borderlands barbarian—get full marks.

Ashley clenched her fists, her fingernails digging deeply into her skin.

But her pride wouldn't allow it, wouldn't allow her to yield to a lower-class person!

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This chapter also incidentally explains the doubts of some readers from the previous chapter: since it's possible to use it on internal urine, why not on blood or brain matter?

In biology, excretory tracts, mouths, and noses are in direct contact with the outside and are not considered internal parts of the body. Urine is also not a bodily fluid. Blood, on the other hand, is a bodily fluid.