novelraw Chapter 115: Eye Transplantation, Summoning of the Sanctum
Chapter 115: Eye Transplantation, Summoning of the Sanctum
[You use the Academy Basement Entrance Key to unlock the wooden door…]
[A downward staircase appears before you. You descend step by step and soon enter a brightly lit room.]
[It’s a massive laboratory, completely deserted…]
[You see many unfamiliar experimental instruments. Along the wall are several iron cages, beasts that had served as raw materials lie within, their eyes gouged out, now rotting and maggot-ridden.]
[On one side, a cabinet holds shattered glass jars, and withered, useless eyeballs are scattered across the floor.]
[In the corner of the lab stands a crude operating table, flanked by bloodstained surgical tools and several small bottles of medicine.]
The academy’s Dean isn’t here?
Lin Xun furrowed his brow and continued to explore.
[You step up to the operating table and pick up a messily scrawled manuscript from the floor.]
[You have obtained Surgical Report of the Dean of Dis Academy (Document)][The tools and bottles on the table seem usable. You pack them up together…]
[You have obtained Eye Socket Perforator (Special Item)]
[You have obtained Eyeball Extractor (Special Item)]
[You have obtained Neural Tissue Growth Solution *4 (Item)]
A fruitful harvest from the lab. Lin Xun immediately opened his inventory to inspect the items.
[Surgical Report of the Dean of Dis Academy (Document)]
[…The power contained in the sea monster’s eyeballs was too immense. I had no choice but to use the extremely rare Compatibility Stabilizing Fluid to perfectly bond with the pair of eyes.]
[Fortunately, with the stabilizing fluid, the transplant was a great success and the procedure itself was sublime beyond words…]
[I absorbed an immense flood of Knowledge and obtained terrifying strength. No one dares meet my gaze anymore.]
[I’ve decided to go to the Multivision School Association and, with this pair of eyes, earn a higher academic rank…]
Aside from Bennett’s Transplant Clinic, Lin Xun now learned of a new location: the Multivision School Association.
From the document, it appeared that the Dean had left the Academy and was now located at the Association.
[You have acquired Knowledge. Your Knowledge stat increased by 45! Current Knowledge: 185/600]
He examined the other three items:
[Eye Socket Perforator (Special Item): A surgical tool used to drill holes into flesh. The aperture size can be adjusted according to the eyeball’s dimensions. With this tool, you can perform simple Eye Socket Perforation surgeries on a Shell. Note: newly opened eye sockets lack neural connectivity and cannot receive an eyeball transplant by default.]
[Eyeball Extractor (Special Item): A surgical tool used to remove eyeballs intact without damage. With this tool, you can perform simple Eyeball Extraction surgeries on a Shell.]
[Neural Tissue Growth Solution *4 (Item): A cloudy yellow liquid in small glass vials. Upon closer inspection, you can see small creatures wriggling inside. Using this item allows neural tissue to grow in a freshly perforated eye socket, enabling connectivity to a transplanted eyeball.]
Lin Xun studied the descriptions of the three surgical tools. By using the Eye Socket Perforator along with the Neural Tissue Growth Solution, he could implant eyeballs. And with the Eyeball Extractor, he could remove them without damage.
He still had a pair of Common+ Unknown Creature’s Eyeballs in his inventory.
After thinking it over, he decided to implant them into Lir’s Shell to see if they could enhance her Knowledge amplification skill.
He clicked the Eye Socket Perforator.
[Please select the eyeballs to be implanted. The number and size of the openings will be adjusted accordingly.]
[You have selected Unknown Creature’s Eyeballs *2 (Common+ Item)]
[Please select the body part for perforation…]
The screen popped up a wide array of options, with many branching sub-options.
He could choose to open holes in the head, torso, limbs…
Each had further breakdowns. For instance, the head allowed choices like cheeks, forehead, or the back of the skull.
Some sub-options were… unsettling. Tongue, palm, even indescribable parts.
Feeling a chill, Lin Xun went with the relatively normal choice: forehead.
[Performing surgery…]
[…]
[Eye socket perforation successful!]
[You have used Neural Tissue Growth Solution *2]
[…]
[The newly created eye sockets have successfully grown neural tissue. Eyeballs can now be implanted.]
[You insert both eyeballs into the sockets on your forehead.]
[Your vision sharpens and expands. Colors become more vivid. The lab’s details come into sharp focus…]
[Your Shell skill Knowledge Extraction has been upgraded to Knowledge Harvest!]
[Knowledge Harvest (Common+): All beings possess an unending thirst for knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge is life’s only purpose. When this skill is active, your Knowledge gain is slightly increased.]
Lin Xun tested it by using a Book Containing Trace Knowledge.
[You open the Book Containing Trace Knowledge, reading through its contents and absorbing the knowledge within…]
[You have acquired Knowledge. Your Knowledge stat increased by 20! Current Knowledge: 205/600]
The Knowledge amplification skill had gone from +50% to +100%. A book that would supposed to only give 10 Knowledge now yielded 20.
He searched the lab again. No lootable items remained.
Having completed his exploration of the teaching building, Lin Xun exited the laboratory.
[You return to the first-floor hall of the teaching building. Ahead lies a heavy metal door. If you open it, you will leave the building…]
[Do you wish to leave the teaching building or continue exploring?]
Just as Lin Xun was about to click ‘Leave’, a new line of text suddenly appeared.
But it didn’t show up on his phone screen, it appeared directly in his real-world field of vision!
[The Lower-Tier Seat Pass for the Disciple Sanctum in your possession is summoning you…]
[You must teleport to the Disciple Sanctum within one hour!]
[Warning! You will be teleported in wandering soul form to the Disciple Sanctum!]
Lin Xun, fully engrossed in the game, was startled by the sudden text.
The only other time system text had directly appeared in his vision was when he encountered a dead Shell.
He hadn’t expected the Seat Pass to summon its members this way.
He recalled what the black stocking lady had explained about the infiltration procedure.
Lin Xun unequipped the relics from his Apostle Panel.
The game then showed his Ordinary Soul had changed to a Feeble Soul.
His Soul Strength dropped to 1/2 accordingly.
He made his way back to a lecture hall on the second floor and clicked on a Resting Page.
[3. Teleport: You may teleport to any previously resonated Resting Page, or return to the Library. Since you possess the Lower-Tier Seat Pass for the Disciple Sanctum, you may also teleport to the Disciple Sanctum.]
[Please select your teleport destination…]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes and then slammed the button for Disciple Sanctum!