novelraw Chapter 108-2: An Eerie New Chapter (2)
Chapter 108-2: An Eerie New Chapter (2)
He resumed exploring.
[Would you like to investigate the lectern at the front of the hall?]
He tapped yes.
[You move forward under the dim orange light…]
[Atop the wooden lectern sits a glass jar half the height of your arm, filled with murky yellowish fluid. Floating inside are several small, round objects.]
[Would you like to open the jar and retrieve the items?]
It was a safe zone, probably nothing dangerous, right?
And even if there was, he was using a trash-tier mentor Shell. Dying wouldn’t be a big deal.
Lin Xun tapped ‘Yes.’
[You open the jar. A wave of acrid preservative stench rushes into your nose as you reach in and retrieve the contents…][You obtained: Unknown Creature’s Eyeball x5 (Junk)]
[Unknown Creature’s Eyeball (Junk) – Harvested from an unidentified organism. Due to the low-quality preservation fluid, the eye has lost all vitality.]
A jar of eyeballs in a classroom? Reminded him of a cadaver lab in a medical lecture.
This chapter’s world was clearly centered around eyes.
[The door to the lecture hall is located beside the lectern…]
[Brave Apostle, will you open the door and seek the origin of the apocalypse?]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes and clicked ‘No.’
[Cautious by nature, you choose not to charge forward recklessly. Instead, you carefully search the lecture hall for anything useful.]
[Searching…]
[You found a writing instrument on a desk.]
[You obtained: Rotten Quill Pen (Junk)]
[Searching…]
[There are no other items left in the lecture hall.]
[Rotten Quill Pen (Junk) – The nib is sealed, but the pen shaft still contains undried black ink.]
Seeing that there was nothing else of value, Lin Xun opened his Shell Slots.
[You have possessed the Shell of the Corrupted Theater Dancer.]
The Dancer Shell also received a 60% strength boost.
Thanks to Visage of the Leader and its Shared Level effect, the Dancer’s temporary level was raised to 29, dramatically improving its power.
[You used Bloodshadow Step. With graceful steps, your Shell’s body gradually faded into invisibility.]
[Remaining in stealth, you slowly pushed open the lecture hall door…]
[The dim corridor beyond was spacious, lined with classrooms, each door flung wide open.]
[The hallway lighting was faint and gloomy. As you squinted into the darkness, you saw indistinct figures swaying ahead…]
[Would you like to approach and investigate?]
[You crept forward silently. Only when closer did you see clearly, the figures were academy students.]
[They wore black academic uniforms with three massive eyes sewn into their chests in a triangular arrangement.]
[Knowledge-Seeking Students of the Multivision School stared ahead with hollow sockets, their eyes long since gouged out. They wandered aimlessly like the walking dead.]
[Brave Apostle, what will you do?]
[1. Reveal yourself without fear, wield your Widowmaker – Hidden Blade, and slice through them like vegetables.]
[2. Stay hidden and sneak past them quietly to explore deeper down the corridor.]
[3. Use the special trait of Widowmaker – Hidden Blade to assassinate them one by one, clearing the corridor.]
Lin Xun stared at the choices without selecting any.
He wanted to test something: What would happen if he faced these students while using the mentor Shell?
[You have possessed the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Mentor of the Multivision School.]
[You put on a stern and authoritative expression befitting a mentor and harshly scolded the unmotivated students, ordering them back to class.]
[Dozens of Knowledge-Seeking Students of the Multivision School turned toward you in unison!]
[Their empty eye sockets locked onto the two remaining gray pupils on your face. On their pale, monstrous faces, an expression of longing emerged.]
[The students surged toward you like a tidal wave…]
“Come on! I’m your mentor!”
Before he could switch Shells, the game text appeared:
[Your gray pupils were gouged out by sharp claws. Your feeble body was dismembered by the ‘star students’…]
[You are dead!]
Lin Xun rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “Now that’s the cursed game flavor I remember.”
This hellish game never failed to deliver its signature brand of suffering.
[An ordinary wandering soul is reborn in the old lecture hall…]
This time, Lin Xun didn’t immediately switch to the Earth Giant’s Shell.
If he could handle things through stealth and assassination, there was no need to fight head-on, especially not when the game might pull some cursed nonsense again.
He possessed the Dancer Shell and used its stealth skill.
Once more, he left the lecture hall and returned to the corridor.
In front of him were dozens of students who definitely respected their teacher.
Presented again with the familiar three options, Lin Xun chose the third: assassinate.
[While remaining in stealth, thanks to the special effect of Iridescent Scaled Wing Boots, your movement speed increased.]
[In a flash, you reached the back of one student monster. A blade shot out from your gauntlet and plunged deep into its skull…]
[You have defeated a Knowledge-Seeking Student of the Multivision School. Experience slightly increased.]
[Due to the effect of the exclusive item Visage of the Leader, all gained experience is contributed to the ‘Leader’.]
[Your assassination was silent. With one monster eliminated, you moved quietly toward the next…]
[You have defeated a Knowledge-Seeking Student of the Multivision School. Experience slightly increased.]
[You have defeated a Knowledge-Seeking Student of the Multivision School. Experience slightly increased.]
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The level 29 Dancer was impressively powerful, not a single small monster could withstand even a fraction of it’s moves.
Apparently, even in a Hell-Difficulty chapter, small mobs were still pushovers.
Watching the Dancer rake in experience that was funneled into the Earth Giant through Visage of the Leader, Lin Xun once again tasted the joy of farming trash mobs.
Even Hell-level monsters had to kneel before him.
[You assassinate one student monster after another, making your way deeper into the corridor. You spot one remaining student.]
[This student stands out. She has a graceful figure and a pale, captivating face. Her four eyes are shut tightly as she stands silently by a faculty office door.]
[Your approach seems to alert her. She suddenly opens her eyes, four pitch-black pupils stare directly at you.]
[She sees through your stealth. With a shrill scream, she lunges at you…]