“To achieve a body and will that can sway the maidens with your presence alone, this trial will test your alignment with the very essence of Host Mode, visual charm.” The kicked out monk, Marc said as he opens his eyes whilst bathing in the fall.

“Visual charm? That’s really crude words to use.” Reysha rebutted while knitting her brows.

“You don’t seem to understand what is Visual Charm. If you are thinking that it is ******* solely appearance, then you are sorely mistaken, Miss Reysha. I will show you…the way!” Marc said as he stood up and walks towards Reysha, dripping wet.

As soon as Marc stepped on a dry ground, he once again closed his eyes and breathes deeply. His drenched clothes made his muscular physique stands out. And with just that, something odd happened to Marc.

Or to be more accurate, something happened to Marc in the eyes of Reysha.

“What in the world…” Reysha gasped with goosebump dominating her whole back, from her neck to her lower back. Her cheek twitches and she felt a tightening grip on her body.

“Now then Miss Reysha, do you know now what I am talking about?” Marc asked as he poses like a lady killer in front of Reysha.

Pink and flowery, a sudden change in the background around Marc occurs. His whole surrounding glitters like stars fill the air, a torrent of charm waves down from the sky and his presence overflows like a perfume.

Or that’s how Reysha perceives it.

“If I weren’t a man previously, I would have fallen head over heels for this baldy! I do remember that they have this kind of feels to them but to think it is actually learnable.” Reysha anguished over it with complicated countenance.

Marc then halted his pose and everything around him returned to normal. Reysha’s expression softens as the effect of Marc’s presence wore off.

“Have you felt the almighty power of Host Mode?” Marc asked Reysha while retreating back to the water.

“Verily…to be honest, rather than attraction…it was quite terrifying.” She replied, clearly tired and flabbergasted by the weird phenomena. She never experienced something so disgusting and eerie that it literally filled her back with goosebumps.

“Well, then Miss Reysha, would you like to ******* learn the secrets of Host Mode’s essence?” Marc asked as he once again returned to his meditation.

“No.” She flatly replied.

“Well then, start meditating with me under this fall and feel the flow of life throughout your body.” Marc replied nonchalantly.

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“Where did my consent went? Also, you want me to bath in that cold falls wearing this?” Reysha emphasizes that she is wearing her casual clothes.

“Strong mind doesn’t falter to a situation. If you want, I’ll get naked with you.” Marc suggested with unchanging countenance.

“As if.” Reysha only replied with a flat tone and proceeded to meditate under the fall without removing anything. She bathed wearing her casual clothes. She let the fall flow throughout her body with penetrating chill that made her shiver.

“First, concentrate on your surroundings and think of everything as falling stars, except, you are also a star. You, as a star yourself, struggles to climb back up to the vast sky. The feeling of elevation will also give you a rise in presence.” Marc explained deftly.

“Unlock your senses to the vast surrounding and think of it as a garden of a flower. In which, you are also a flower. Among all the flowers in the field, you are one of those commonly seen. You want to change, so you have to blow your presence out. Even if you are a common flower or even weed, you will stand out.” Marc gave another weird explanation.

“Let me ask you this you baldy, do you even know what you are talking about?” Reysha asked with one eye open as she glances over Marc.

“No, I don’t. What in the ******* world am I even saying?” Marc admitted with unfaltering voice.

“Goddamn…” Reysha muttered as she stood up and left her place.

“Well at the very least, I got your attention. Did my words stand out for you even though it was purely nonsensical? That’s how you activate Host Mode in hindsight. You make yourself stood out among everyone pointlessly. The charm will follow afterward as soon as you got everyone’s attention.” Marc gave a brief lecture.

“I see, well then, I’m off.” Reysha walks away without even looking back.

“The next trial is located at the tree of promise. There, you will find the last man who will give you the final judgment. May good karma ******* bless you.” Marc’s last word.

Reysha never looked back and walks straight out of the place, dripping wet and cold. She has an enlightened face that was severely painted with an illumination of truth.

“Yes…I didn’t even understand anything.” She said in a weak and almost inaudible voice. “May you stub your toe into something hard.” Reysha prayed.

She once again set out on a short journey to master the Host Mode, begrudgingly. She doesn’t even know the point of anything anymore and she just played along with Falikh. Somewhere in her heart, she started regretting her decisions today.

Hell, Marc didn’t even make any sense for her. Zirk was a little overbearing with his attitude but he was less nonsensical, however, Zirk is visibly a wack.

“Achiie!” She sneezes all of the sudden.

“Wha---?! Impossible! Me, getting a cold?! Of all the people…me?!” Reysha suddenly exclaimed as her face pales.

Being a health conscious, Reysha always does her best to be in the best condition. She is clean and mindful of her appearance that she may be called a borderline clean freak. Such behavior was adapted from her previous life, living as a surgeon.

“No, no, no! This is definitely just a chill. Nothing more…” Reysha told herself.

“I’ll just finish this farce quickly and return so I can rest or whatever. In the first place, I can just bail on this stupidity once and for all…” Reysha said as she continues her walk inside the forest with seemingly no intention to go back despite what she is saying right now.

She walks without minding anything. She continued lifting her feet and moving forward. However, at that very moment, Reysha misstep and she fell down.

THUD

“Ugh…how sloppy of me…” She muttered.

At that moment, her vision started becoming hazy and her whole body seems so heavy, refuses to stand up. She can feel her eyes forcefully closing by themselves and her mind starting to blacken.

“Impossible…this…shouldn’t happen…to me…” Reysha’s last words trailed off as her consciousness fades.