(Bonus chapter 3/5 for "Crow_13")
"These little players are pretty good! They actually figured out the secrets of the Silver rank on their own. I was just wondering whether I should post an official guide to give them a hint."
In Shadow Valley, Murphy had just watched the People's Army's nighttime training. Deeply satisfied, he had also inadvertently caught wind of the secret of Silver that Orchid had discovered through the daily monitoring of the Orb of Calculation.
The vampire governor marveled at the sharpness of the usually low-key Great Traveler. He had planned to make the Silver Trial available as an activity in "the next version," but he hadn't expected Orchid to reach the threshold for triggering it all on her own.
Murphy had only triggered his own Silver Trial a few days ago, but he already knew quite a lot about it.
Unlike the Iron Trial, which simply released the body's strength and potential, the Silver Trial focused more on unlocking one's combat style and the potential of one's bloodline. In the current power system of the continent, Silver and Iron both sat in the middle-to-lower tiers. Their main purpose was to forge a perfect body, with all its potential released and enhanced, for the ultimate Golden Trial.
As Triss put it, the key to Iron and Silver was to seek power within, while at the Golden rank, one should seek to draw strength from without. This system, designed by the elves, was remarkably ingenious. It almost perfectly summed up the growth of a powerful warrior.
But Murphy knew that the secret of Silver Orchid had discovered was incomplete, and even had significant flaws.
The Great Traveler had indeed uncovered her first Ancestral Power by repeatedly practicing the Nords' racial skills. But Murphy's own situation showed that Ancestral